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MASS., ae FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1955. Worthington Proud Of Medical Facilities Now Available To H ill Towners tae | || i Re Lyceum known asas building known s building WORTHINCTON—The ee . Pe Hall—f ee ee eee now the Lyceum Hall—formerly the Worthington Elementary School—is of this hill town to serve their people the for people the by run organization Health Assn.a non-profit > : uington art of the building was first leased by the association in 1950, when plans for the clinic were > lirst first made. year made. This s year, : . ildi to lease entire building toA the Health Center for 99 years An extensive program of expansion and renovation was eas the e entir cently, and the completed work will be on yiew Sunday from 3 to 6 when the association holds open house. _ RR “her to closé her géfieral practice est{4 5and Support . for reasons of health, the compart of F the home of g “ Bei ae ea votex Skee o ae ant EaS or manifested dhe town tow the were ihe To "contre ith" justly secommnenna Open House Sunday: Afternoon _| misliv'wss Worthington the serious situation. The townspeo- yyation "of the town « poxtion of Lee To Show Renovated, Expanded toon'the'serviees (of ns." Pot from teh Health C ea — t 1 enter To I Area By LOIS ASHE BROWN olk s leaned urgent need in the town. then s for more roy H. Rida, Fayette R. Stevens, and Dr. Lawrence N. Durgin. Dr. Leighton A. Kneller, physiDr. director; medical and cian E. Richard Post, optometrist; Dr, Kramer, William Florence L. es ) comprise t medical } service Mrs. Bates then brought before the people the idea of a health center, a project that had been the staff of the Ate many pa individuals and Health Association th heavily WORTHINGTON—The Worthington Health Assn. on Buffington Hill Rd. will bold an open house on Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. to in the mind of Dr. Snook before show to its members and to the public the results of its latest renova- she had been obliged to give up The formation of The Worthington Health Assn. is a her practice. tion and expansion program, such a health center was urged hill this of people the for people the by run non-profit organization physicians, also by twe interim It was born in 1950 in re- Dr. Zimdahl and Dr. Perkins. town area to serve their medical needs. No action was taken, however, sponse to a grave need and has grown and prospered since under exin meeting pert leadership and much volunteer help together with a responsive until at a citizens’committee ‘con1950, a and enthusiastic membership. It is supported wholly by member- February sisting of Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Josships and gifts. eph Sena, Henry Cheetham, Carl Present officers of the association are: Carl S. Joslyn, president; Leslie L. Porter, vice pres-| ident; Clarence A. G. Pease, secretary, and Merwin F. Packard, treasurer. Directors in addition to Joseph Mrs. are: officers the Sena. Mrs. Florence L. Bates, Le- the ina fia meal be Wek ge Tne ee ahceachaciN ple 6 on : eeceros -‘ all 70 < leasing ae. GoeMibeeon Ce a fe : mentary School and was ideally Jocated for such a health center. on, rapid that moment From strides were made. Atty. Walter L. Stevens had been consulted and with his legal guidance, the Worthington incorporated ganization Jaws and on came known Health was Assn. Health oras a nonprofit under Massachusetts Sept. 29, 1950, it beas the Worthington Association, Inc. In the beginning Dr. Eaton E. Freeman of Florence came as the phvsician in charge, holding office hours at the Health Center /three days a week and being on eal’ at all times, but continuing Dr. in Florence. |his residence S. Joslyn, Leroy H. Rida, Clarence A. G. Pease, Fayette R. SteMr. and Mrs. DeWitt C. Mark- vens and Merwin F. Packard was adjoins the appointed to investigate the poshome /ham, whose a resident | Health Center property, will open sibility of obtaining tea will be doctor and to report at a future i#arold where home, ‘their A. Stone, much beloved open to the his meeting. By September 1950, that retired dentist, volunteered to visitors served . committee, after visiting other services for the care of the teeth | house at the Health Center rural communities, had some- of the school children free of thing definite to report and rec- |charge, with the children paying History of Association | only for association the uealth For some years. prior to 1948, ommend. The committee had satisfied it- |materials used —— meaning only been had Snook P. Mary ‘Dr. inter- about 25 cents per operation for| ' Worthington’s resident physician self that enough financial | Center. ‘ ees and : but when it became necessary for js dentist, R.N., Bates, -each : child. Ec �The challenge posed by the loss [room was in too close proximity the steadily growing services. seemed that At burden of that the Upon ment point, Freeman’s assign- The and tal fund chase capital an operating is used fund fund. to pur- improvenecessary finance to ments in the Health Center. The into this fund is paid all income from: membership dues, sale of drugs, and doctor’s rentals. Equipment—Much of the furni- meant given rapidly real that growing challenge the running prac- since townspeople ture it did % directors by initial various Center and equipment was individuals Out of the P-™. what people venetian her a i blinds—is to enable the public to see one small town the medical in its area. has done to needs of the ; and capital fund a Ritter dental x-ray machine was purchased to replace an older model and a combination fluoroscope and x-ray mMa- = chine was also bought. An old byt adequate storeroom was converted into an x-ray room at{ Assn. decided that the moderate expense. | thing to do was the best ; The already cramped labora- careful of Health hardest thing every * and Health organizations. not have a doctor who felt that the medical needs of the people in the Worthington area had first claim on his time. After the and drapes and Meet equipment additional tices made it impossible for them to give as much time to local practice as had Dr. Freeman, hence the association was faced a an August operating fund is used to meet the month-by-month expenses of with plant to replace be installed in Centex by supported is Assn. Health. Rogers agreed to continue his of‘fice hours at the Health Center, /together with Dr. Donald Sprecker, also of Northampton, and Dr. Russell Christopher of Hinsdale, their heating membership dues and gifts. Mon- 2°W complete and in order for for scheduled éy held by the association is di- the open house Nov. 6, from 3 to 6 vided into two categories: a capi- Sunday, by two carried to active military duty, Dr. but impera- became it that a central old an and Space _ heater ap- = scheduling calls, telephone Stov e. All this work-—beregs pointments for patients, cleaning | initiative, Dr.. Donald of Northampton was and joined the staff of Dr. _n addition, of| “ve equipment to Dr. on entirely by one) Thanks the Health 1952, laboratory for 2nd supplies. — answering | Should besides nurse Center to | capacity the in them office Health the serving needed un early this year and including up after the doctor’s visits and seeing that the Health Center is fresh paint throughout, floor coyjeting of asphalt tile, a new desk kept in an orderly condition, Worthington | 4nd chair for the doctor, new Finances — The work should be shared doctors instead of being Freeman's B. Rogers introduced assist doc-| the a doctor's tors by employed been has She of the work. ly in all phases as it for Mrs. Florence L. Bates had been ‘Considerable discomfort to the light working tireless-, Patient; and additional space was a guiding i i Span a demand it impossi- a As Dr. Freeman’s practice in -~Worthington expanded appreciably, he increased his office hours, a step amply justified by making SA yy Wednesday. of cases Ta Late in 1951, a need for an optometrist was felt, and Dr. E. Richard Post of Amherst joined _the staff of the Health Center, holding office hours every other types with ble for the doctor and nurse to a baby daughter, Cynthia Leigh, |} move freely around the examinail was in readiness for them. ing table; the x-ray room was so Through all the vicissitudes of small that pictures of fracture the Worthington Health Assn.,'cases could not be taken without| a dentist. Ay a anata for htm need consideration, the the Worthington a the to the doctors office to allow | complete privacy during consulta| tions; the examining room was too small for the proper examination and treatment of certain ne ing se sanitaieslbeiosimincn | a rasan pa eit, to Dr. Stone’s work Dt ™n addition for the children, Dr. Robert J. of Dr. Freeman had been success: Golonka, Dr Frecerick S. Foster, |fully met. Thereupon, the direcboth of Adams; Dr. Bernard | tors put forth considerable effort Auge of Dalton, and now Dr. to find for Dr. and Mrs. Kneller William Cramer ot Amherst have| a suitably located house for their held office hours at the Health residence sc that when they arCenter one day a week, thus fill-| rived the following Sept. 1 to do—namely, to make \tory was made to “extend” itself| possible effort to obtain the to accomn.odate the necessary to enlist the services |developing tank and to provide| of |the dark room required for x-ray| arate decided et services of a resident physician. As a provisional measure, it was physicians located in nearby | film work. More cupboards were| areas: who were willing to come | built and various nooks and cor-| here on a part-time basis and | ners yielded additional space as. while this plan was notably suc- jit was needed. cessful, it was at best only a/| Four used hospital beds were temporary arrangement. )procured fror. the Springfield Every possible effort was made, {Municipal }Moved into Hospital when its new quarters New Jersey and PennsylThe administrative head of /each hospital was jand residents on asked to give | copies of the letter to all interns jexpected | following ' Replies ‘ing in to finish June. were and _the many not were his staff training long the in com: numerous. able candidates who Of consid- ered, the choice finally narrowed j}down to one who it was felt really wanted to practice in a rural community and would give /medical service of the high qual- ‘ity to which they had been accustomed. The man in question |was Dr. Leightor A. Kneller of ‘Worcester City Hospital, right here in Massachusetts. | Early in February 1954, the directors invited Dr. Kneller to become resident physician and | medical director of the Health Center and he accepted the invi- tation. Se, = sernmsticeatamsintesitphdamistis hinting tr the modest sum of $25 and they are available to people in the | Worthington area at the nominal charge of a dollar a month. A | Steel filing cabinet with lock and | key was purchased for the safe| Keeping of patients’ histories and negatives. * | At the * * annual meeting this' program was the work al| aiaasidinitieeicttil peay | year, an expansion jary 1954, 1,000 copies of a letter {outlined telling of ‘telling what Worthington had to |ready accomplished ‘offer were sent to hospitals jmaining tc be done throughout New Engiand, New \the facilities of the York, yania. it for and that rein order that Health Center imight be more than doubled. The directors had asked the town of Worthington for a long-term lease on the entire Lyceum building and at a special town meet: ing, it was voted that the selectmen be authorized to lease to the Worthington Health Assn. the entire premises known as the Lyceum building ~for a period of 99 years. This move gave the health association legal authori- ty to proceed with plans, The directors its expansion were confronted with such problems as these as) they planned for the needed ex- | pansion: the hall and doorways through which stretcher cases had to be carried were too narrow for a level clearance so that’ the stretcher up-ended to had get the examining to be tilted the patient room; or into the waiting niin eon accordingly, to get in touch with a doctor who would be willing to come here to live. First attempts were discouraging. The directors were told, and were soon convineced, that the man they were jlooking for was “one in a thou|sand.” Jf they were to find him, |it would be necessary to canvass ‘at least a thousand of the young , doctors who were about to finish ‘their medical training. | Plans were made and in Janu- WORTHINGTON—A combination fluoroscope and X-ray chine was purchased recently by the association and placed converted old storeroom in Lyceum Hall. The center also chased a Ritter dental X-ray machine. A developing tank dark room were installed in the building's main a purand �WORTHINGTON—Miss Florence L. Bates, R. N., one of the guiding lights behind the organization of the association, works in several capacities at the home. In addition to her duties as office nurse for the doctors, she serves as a sort of secretary—answering telephone calls, scheduling appointments and seeing that the center is kept in orderly fashion. A’ dentist’s chair stands next to the examination table pictured. Visiting dentists have weekly office hours to take care of local needs. WORTHINGTON—Resident physician and director of the health center is Dr. Leighton A. interviewing Mrs, Harold I. Brown, Gazette correspondent, who is a “patient” for the of this picture. Dr. Kneller, his wife and daughter came to Worthington in 1954, A Worcester, he was selected from many interns who answered 1.000 copies of a letter sent tals throughout had to offer. New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, telling what Kneller, purposes native of to hospi- the town �1 Gifts Presented. To Medical Center; Reception 200 At | WORTHINGTON WORTHINGTON Years’ Service Town Again Pays Tribute | To Its Nurse, Mrs. Bates Worthington, Nov. 7—Tribute'continued to combine private Was paid to Mrs. Harry L. Bates, nursing with public health nursFlorence ing. former R. N., the Barry, on the occasion of her Born in North Abington, Mrs. Bates went to Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, to train and following graduation, in 1917, stayed on as a_ supervisor for two years. As a student nurse, she had dreamed of making her career jn executive it seemed nursing and} that she would fulfill! that desire when ed to what she was then was attract- a very new| field—industrial nursing. In 1917, she went to work the Prophylactic Brush Co. Florence for in} as a health and welfare nurse and during the next 10 years, became interested and active in the New England Industrial Nurses’ Association, becoming zation treasurer and rising of in that it to organi- serve} }/as president for two years. Lucky Friday Tt was after 10 years at the Prophylactic Brush Co, that she accepted the position as rural public health nurse for the Amer# ican Red Cross which was the heginning of her life in Worthings ey ton. MRS. HARRY L, BATES Twenty-five years ago, when Mrs. Bates came to town, she 25th anniversary as a nurse in hired the jovial and popular Tom this town during an open house Mahoney, late of Florence, to Party of the Worthington Health truck her belongings. It was aj Center Sunday afternoon. raw rainy day, Mrs. Bates reGiven Purse, Scroll calls, and as she and Tom sat In behalf of the townspeople, eating lunch in the chilly kitchen Mrs. Clarence L. Carey present- of the parsonage, he said, ‘'You ed, Mrs. Bates a purse and scroll know, Miss Barry, not one womjin appreciation of her years of an in a thousand would move up oe and duty in Worthing- here today.’ on, Twenty-five years ago, Florence Barry came to’ Worthington as rural public health nurse for the American Red Cross to cov- er the towns of Goshen, Plainfield, Cummington, Chesterfield and Worthington. _ Miss Barry rented the Congre- “Now why is that, Tom?’ she asked. Tom replied, ‘‘Friday, you) know—always bad luck to move on Friday!” Looking back over the years, Mrs. Bates feels that her moving to Worthington has been good fortune all the way. In 1950, Mrs. Bates realized the fulfillment of one 6f her fondest desires in the founding of the Worthington Health Association. Tt was she who had aroused the townspeople to the need for such a medical center and she has labored tirelessly ever since in its gational parsonage which was then temporarily vacant because the minister had married a_local woman and nioved to her home. For 14 months during the depression, Miss Barry did Red Cross nursing. Then the Town of Worthington decided to subsidize her as town nurse and she turned cause, Two years ago, Mrs. Bates was the parsonage into a nursing home which she operated until presented a shiny, black Plym1936 when she became the wife outh sedan by a group of local /of Harry L. Bates of this town. folks in appreciation of her de- Shortly after her marriage, she votion to the health needs of the closed her nursing home, took community. The tribute paid Sunthree patients with her and day is further indication of the moved to Mr. Bates’ home on affection held for her by resiBuffington Hill Rd., where she ‘dents of town. | Mrs. Harry Bates, Nurse Honored On Anniversary Mrs. Harry L. Bates, RN, the former Florence Berry of Florence, was honored Sunday afternoon at the open house party at the Worthington Health Center on the occasion of her 25th anniversary aS a nurse in. this town. Mrs. Clarence L. Carey presented Mrs. Bates with a purse and a scroll in recognition and appreciation of her years of devoted service to the people of Worthington. Florence Berry, RN, came to Worthington 25 years ago as rural public health nurse for the November and as Mrs. Bates and Tom sat eating their lunch in the chilly kitchen of the parsonage, he said, “You know, Miss Berry, not one woman in a_ thousand would move up here today.” “Now, why is that, Tom?” she asked, and Tom replied, “Friday, you know—always bad luck to move on Friday!” As Mrs. Bates looked back over the years since she came to Worthington, she feels that on the contrary, it has been good fortune for her all the Way. One of Mrs. Bates’ fondest Red Cross to serve the dreams was realized in 1950 in Cummington, Plainfield, | the founding of the Worthington Chesterfield and Wor- Health Assn. for it was she who She rented the Congrearoused the townspeople to the parsonage which hap- need for such a health service be vacant because the and she has worked tirelessly in minister had married a local lady | its cause. and moved to. her home. Miss| Mrs. Bates was presented with Berry did Red Cross nursing for a shiny sedan two years ago by 14 months; then the town of a group of local folks in appreWorthington voted to subsidize ciation of her untiring devotion her as town nurse and she turned to the health needs of the comthe parsonage into a_ nursing! munity and the tribute paid to Bates during the open home which she operated until| Mrs. house party at the Health Center 1936 when she became the wife further is. of Harry L. Bates of this town. | on Sunday afternoon testimony of the affection held | Shortly after her marriage, she Worof people for her by the closed her nursing home and thington. taking three patients with her, American towns of Goshen, thington. gational pened to she moved to Mr. Bates’ home on Buffington Hill Rd. and continued to combine private nursing with public health nursing, Mrs. Bates was born in North WORTHINGTON — More 200 attended the open Sunday afternoon at the of Center than house held the Health Worthington Abington and came to Cooley} Health Assn. on Buffington Hill Dickinson Hospital to train for a Rd. President Carl S. Joslyn and nursing career. Following ~ her) Vice Presidnet Leslie L. Porter | graduation in the class of 1917,)} of Cummington greeted the visishe remained at the hospital as a) tors and were assisted by Mrs. Mrs. R. N., and supervisor for two years. In} John: Stevens, ‘1913 she went to work for the Lewis White, R. N. both of Cum: as guides. Prophylactic Brush Co. in Flor-| mington, who acted ence as a health and welfare! Mrs. Leighton A. Kneller was in ‘nurse, nursing During the then field the ten being of industrial} charge very new. |} of the guest book. Special gifts to the Health Cen- fol-) ter for the occasion included $580 a interested and| given by a group of friends; years that lowed, she became active in the New England Industrial Nurses’ Assn., becoming treasurer of -that organization modern desk for the doctor's office given by Dr. E. Richard Post, Amherst; of staff optometrist 'and-rising in it to serve as its two Governor Bradford Windsor president for two_ years. doctor’s office the for chairs After ten years in the employ given by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence jof the Prophylactic Brush Co., A. G. Pease; a guest book for the she accepted the position as ru-| waiting room given by Dr. and ral public health nurse for the | Mrs. Leighton A. Kneller; and American Red Cross which was| the redecoration of the waiting the beginning of her life in Wor- lroom, a gift by Dr. and Mrs. thington. This change marked the. end of her life as an industrial nurse and the a career in public | ing. When Mrs. Bates beginning of health nurs- came to town | 25 years ago, she hired the popu- lar and jovial Tom Mahoney, , late of Florence, to move her belongings. It was a bleak day in Lawrence L. Durgin. During the afternoon, Mrs. Harry L. Bates, staff nurse, was presented with a purse and a scroll in recognition and = appreciation of her 25 years of service to this community. Mrs. Clarence L. Carey made the presentation. Tea was served throughout the afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt C. Markham, which adjoins the Health Center property. Mrs. Carl S, Joslyn and Mrs. Leslie L. Porter, wives of the president and vica president respectively, poured and Mrs. Markham was assisted in serving by Mrs. George Tor- rey, Mrs. C, Kenneth Osgood, and Mrs. Philip Gurney of Cumming: ton. eRe 25 �OCTOBER 15, 1955 Historic Papers Presented To Deerfield Academy Among Deerfield, Oct. 14 — Deerfield Academy has announced the re-| cent gift of a group of historic] 1 WORTHINGTON ee President, stationary of the Supreme Court to Dean Robbins Newport, POR R. I., eek, 7 a ea signed James ADeeD. ee ee K.! ee ofDevine, the Cathedral of St. John the|P@tionality of the May ship 29, Docile1841,o: signed W. H, Taft New Bedford, 5. docu-|the and Johnson, The ship orders of Hoppet mane signed of Thomas evens ———— 455 oe MISS | FAY Worthington, |been received Worthington, NEIL spending , the summers of her the Corners by Mr. and At the fine old much Mrs. presently Jay owned) C. Gangel.| turn of the century, this} hoiie was the scene of | entertaining, Some of Miss} Neil's contemporaries well member the parties there, tennis court on the site! of the present day blackberry patch, the bowling green and the big white balls, and other outdoor games that were popular in that day. | Miss Neil loved flowers and her! active gardening up to the time of| her last illness was remarkable. |, She leaves several nieces and | iephews. j | Herbert 76, Tower, L. of signed Daniel John Tyler, Webster, President, secretary and of Church leaves his Mabel ter; and two brothers, Cullen B and Walter, Tower of Agawam of Worthington. The funeral will be held at the} | Dickinson-Streeter funeral home Wednesday afternoon at 1. Dr David BE. Weinland will officiate.| Burial will be in North Cemetery, | Worthington. The family wall receive friends at the funeral home today from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9. ode sant Re eS arch Raa Auch to Jones, Today’s Chuckle the both of Spring« plot Burial will be at North in Cemetery. Experience: What you have left when ROTC everything else is gone. Units at UM in Review the EDWARD JONES RITES Worthington, Nov. 21—Funeral services for Edward Jones, who ‘died early Sunday morning at | Cooley Dickinson ‘Hospital in | Northampton, will be held at | First Congregational Church at ‘2 on Tuesday with Rev. Allen \Gates of Chesterfield officiating ‘and Arthur G. Capen at the or-| 'gan. Bearers will be Merwin F. |Packard, Eben L. Shaw, John T. Ames and Arthur H. Pomeroy with burial to be in the Jones} ‘family plot in the North Ceme-; tery. | F. Allen Keith, ZJr., and Mrs. both of Springfield; four grandchildren and a great-granddaughTower married | whom with Tower, (Sawyer) 50th weda ‘celebrated he in 1954; two anniversary ding daughters, Mrs, Ralph C. Kerley, H. the winter. WORTHINGTON tik [9K 4 its Men’s wife he and no Yo ub Club, Hampden Lodge of Masons, was past patron of Adelphi Chapter, Order of Eastern Star and a member of the Advisory Board ' of the Rainbow. He was 1894 family of Faith Congreand In ficiating. 72 Before his retirement 11 years ago Mr, Tower had been an auditor 38 years for Massachusetts He! Mutual Life Insurance Co. a member 16. The orders of command nationality of the ship Crisis of New York signed James Monroe, President, and John Quincy Adams, secretary of state, 1821. 17. The appointment, of John Hatterscheidt as consul of the U. S. at Moscow dated July 26, 1861, signed Abraham Lincoln, President. field. The funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at tiie First Congregationa] Church with Rev. Allen Gates of Chesterfield of- and Cynthia (Allen) Tower, and had lived in Springfield 56 years. gational to spend in, Arthur Sorrento. St., died at his home Monday afternoon. He was born in Worthington, son of Henry L. was Chesterfield former Miss Julia Griffin of Holyoke. They went to live in the house at the Corners where Mr. Jones has lived for more than 60 years. It was in this house that Mr. and Mrs, Jones conducted a boarding house for a number of years. One child born to them died at birth and Mrs, Jones died in November of 1931. Mr, Jones is remembered as an ardent baseball player in his youth. He leaves a niece, Mrs. Eliza beth (Mann) Higgins and a cous rethe Herbert U . Tole Long an Auditor 20—Edward Mr. Jones was born in the town of Washington, the only child of Ira D, and Sophronie (Tucker) Jones,\ and came as a small boy with his parents to live on the farm presently owned by Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Fowler. earlicr years at the home of her| grandparents, the late Mr. and} Mrs. Dwight Stone in the house! at Nov, Jones, 85, died early Sunday morning at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, where he had been a patient for the past few days. He recently left his home in this town and gone to the Hampshire Hills House in Nov. $—Word has of the death of| | Miss Fay Neil, 83, in a nursing) |home in Columbus, O., on Oct. 130. Miss Neil was the last one of seven children and had come to) Worthington for 80 summers,| fee Andrew ments that will be on exhibition Jefferson, President, July 11,|S!te10. A letter from John Hay) are the following: 1801 : | Pennsyl-| dated July, 1869. in land to deed A 6. of} IV Henry 1. a letter from letters, documents, and _ signatures to the Hilson Gallery. These} France—1553-1610 : .|vania sold by William Penn and} 11. A letter of command to 2. a letter from Louis XIV of! signed by same, dated March 16,;James Hunt sailing the ship original documents were presented by Mrs. Howard C. Robbins of} France to his cousin dated 10-1683) 1681 Betsy from New Haven to JaFriary I Hill, Heath. They are ; 3. The appointment of Wingate Wook: diploma of the Society of| maica, signed 1801, John Adams, important and very interesting|Hayes as attorney for the dis- Cincinnati to Thomas Doyle,! President, \John Marshall, secre-| pieces of history and will be of|trict of Rhode Island, signed An- Esq., signed George Washington,! tary of state. real help in bringing the past| drew Johnson, January 15, 1866, Presifent, 1785. 12. A letter from Goethe, signed) alive for the students of the! President of U.S. Also a ticket} 8. The appointment of Edwin Weimar, June 14, 1802. school. of admission to the Impeachment Wiibur as Collector of Customs, 13. An autographed photo of| Grover Cleveland, Dec. 31, 1897. 14. A quartermaster order of) Jan. 1, 1813, signed Andrew Jackson, major general. 15. A letter to the sheriff of Newport County, R. I, signed Stephen Hopkins, governor, Dec. EDWARD JONES 12, 1758. ani | these papers of lea ib RE The Armor and Air Force ROTC units of the University of Massachusetfs staged their annual fall review yesterday with more than 1000 cadets participating in the colorful ceremony. New ranks and duty assignments were announced and the group above is having new epaulets pinned on by Miss Jacqueline Bourbonnais, right, of Granby, candidate for honorary cadet colonel. Left to right are: Warren C, Packard, Worthington, major; Mark W. Rand, Northampton, major; Wesley I. Mowry, Northampton, colonel, and Miss Bourbonnais. �bones “Most of the fellows are average guys, who work in industrial plants, own their own homes and drive to work,’’ he said. ‘‘They don’t mind driving back and forth to Pittsfield. The big event around here about now is the an- “DECEMBER 18, 1955 ook Noteb Reporter's By FRANK B, MURRAY nual Like the horse and buggy, the old country store, with its cracker! | barrel and pot-bellied stove, evidently has become a thing of the'| past in Western Massachusetts. Yet, like the old general stores, the modern markets are still the nerve center of small towns. | Up in Worthington, for example, At one time clerks served custhere is a store that dates back tomers from behind. _ ancient to Civil War days but it nowy wooden counters, and it Was con-| bears only a faint resemblance to sidered a minor crime if a shoplits original form. per went behind the counter to. pick out what was wanted. Mr. Postmaster Merwin F. Packard, who operated the store for 28 Packard put a stop to that. He years before turning it over to the threw out the counters and now, present owners—his son, Cullen except for the meat department, the store is now a self-service Packard, and Charles Eddy—recalls the vast changes that took basis. Shoppers just walk in, get of those little carts and place not only in the physical ap- one pearance of the store but in mer- choose whatever they want, directly from the shelves. chandising methods. When he first took over, about 30 years ago, the store carried a complete line of horse blankets, harness, Jiniment and other such items, but as the years rolled on and the automobile replaced the horse in transportation and farm work, the demand for such equipment naturally declined, to the point where Mr. Packard stopped selling it altogether. ae * * The store is now equippéd with a modern electrical system. Originally it was lighted by kerosene Jamps. Formerly there were no means of refrigeration, so the store carried no fresh meats or vegetables, Mr. Packard eventually installed a generator system which provided electric lights. Today residents of Worthington can not only get fresh meats at the store but frozen foods also. The store once was heated by the traditional pot-bellied stove, but this presented a the stove would protested, Now the have to go. The but the womenfolk stove don’t store always * has had just about noon, * * ‘the General Assembly. Later he and Maj. Selah Barnard of Deere | 'field became sole proprietors. The ‘colonel donated 1200 acres of aj when housewives came in to shop and pick up their mail and news- papers. The school children just like those in the city, stream in after schoo] hours for candy and soda. Another rush shortly after 5, when Rod Elsie V. Bartlett; Col. John Worthington and four others bought the township in 1762 from Today the store is still the nerve center of the town. Cullen Packard said that the busiest is of the You ought to come * a common meeting ground for the townspeople, Because it was located on the stage coach route from Boston to Albany, it had what is believed to be the first post office in the hill towns. period dinner Club. ‘The town of Worthington is historically connected with Springfield, According to a handbook compiled in recent years by vital role in the town’s history, as develops workers land and induced settlers to come to Worthington by erecting a church and grist mill. In honor of Col. Worthington’s contribu- ‘tions, the town him, field was named after Worthington St. in Springis also named for him. The wame booklet reveals other interesting facts about the town. Lafayette, enroute from Albany to Boston to take part in the laying of the cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monument, spent the night in Noah Pearce’s tavern at Worthington Corners in 1825, One native son who tired of his menial job of shoemaker in Clark and Bardwell’s tannery, tore off his apron one day and said he was out for better things. He was Gideon Lee, who went to New] York City, developed a flourish-!' ing leather business, became mayor of the City of New York): and ended up with a fortune of $300,000. from the General Electric plant in Pittsfield stop to buy someAnother native son, Russell H.!~ thing or to see what’s new about Conwell, founded Temple Unitown. | versity and the Good Samaritan During the deer hunting season, Hospital. the store served ing problem.| Rod Ali the men in the village would gather around this stove to ‘‘chew the rag.”’ As a result, the women didn’t care to go there for shopping. They avoided the place. Mrs. Packard finally decided that ‘Imen ‘}went. The * venison and Gun up.” station & Gun as a deer check- for the Club. Worthington The first kill reported was a spike-horned buck, shot by Winnie Donovan, boy. ‘ a school The town can hoast of having a general as a native son, too. He was James Clay Rice, who was appointed a general by President Lincoln after the Bat- But the store also serves anoth-| tle of Gettysburg. er vital role in the is the town’s When someone the store. fire has a community. alarm It} Still center. ‘rose fire, he calls Either Mr, Packard the another native son who to fame in our times was late Elisha H. Brewster, ap- or} pointed judge of the Federal Dis- Mr. Eddy will in turn place calls 'trict Court in Boston by President to a few key men, such as Fire | Harding in 1922 and who served % me % Chief Ken Osgood, who in turn until his retirement in 1942. Probably the only reminder of, will alert the rest of the 40 volunSo you can see why the resithe past is the old-fashioned cof- Niteers and then head for the fire dents of Worthington take such fee grinder, which is still in use. station where two modern trucks pride in their town and its history. There still are some kerosene await action. They dont get many Jamp chimneys in stock, but Mr. calls, but when they do it can |Eddy says that about the only mean a hot barn fire, or just a {hesitate to enter the store. demand nearby for these summer comes camps. from _| Aside from these old touches, *|the store is just as modern as any city market and probably offers a wider selection of goods. Besides food, you can find a good hardware department, clothing, a wide selection of top-grade paint, sporting equipment small toyland. and even a telephone pole ablaze in a remote corner of the * town. x * Mr. Packard said that the town was once peopled by many wealthy ané persons a look from around out of town the pleasant community will reveal some beautiful homes. Now, according to Mr. Packard, the town has changed somewhat. FH. BURR,80 DIES: CLERK, TREASURER IN WORTHINGTON Office Holder 46 Years Planned to Run Again Next Month Worthington, Dec. 31—Franklin H, Burr, 80, town clerk and treasurer of Worthington for the past 46 years and a candidate for re- election, next month, died sudden-| ly at today due to his home on Glidden at.1.15.p. m, Death a heart condition. dropped dead in his pitching hay. Second of Five Mr, 1875, born Rd.1 was He barn while Sons Burr was born Dec, 21, the second of five sons) to (Crosier) Clement F. Burr. He and Ella died at E.| the same home in which he was born, He-had lived on Glidden Rd. throughout his life with the exception of 12 years when he operated a store in the center of Worthington, The Burr family is one of the oldest and best known ington and had al land grants Mr, Burr was well Academy later emy attended in married G, in Worth- one of the originin the town. educated at Con- Williston Acad- in Worthington Easthampton, in May, Streeter of 1903, Adams, He and was to Susan who died in 1907. On Sept. 25, 1909, he was married to Helen M. Gilmore of Springfield, who survives him, There are two children by the second marriage, Franklin G, and Mrs, Mary Burr Hitchcock, both of Worthington, He also leaves four brothers, Roy C. of Oxford, N, Y., Joseph A. of Huntington,| Dr, Walter G. of Blandford and} Frederick H. of Westhampton, and four grandchildren. Farmer, Store Owner Mr. Burr was a farmer all his life except for the 12 years that he had a store, He was also insurance agent and funeral rector for several years. an! di- He was first elected town clerk and treasurer in 1909 and held the office continuously until his death, He also served as tax collector for two years. He was a charter member of Worthington Grange, No. 90, Royal Arcanum, Town Clerk’s Association, Town Treasurers’ Association, Worthington Historical Society, and was president of the Frederick Sargent Huntington Library: Association for 28 years, The funeral will be held Monday at 2.30 at First Congregational Church, Rev. Robert O. Barber will officiate. Burial will be in the Burr lot in Center Ceme tery, The Bisbee funeral home in Chesterfield is in charge of ar- rangements. | �DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1955. Story, Pillars Added To Boridsone Worthington Home i j i | a Originally this handsome, _ pillared, three-story house on Buffington Hill Rd. in Worthington vas a simple two-story structure without columns. Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt C. Markham, the present owners and occupants, live in a house with two Early American top fioors — replete with wide boards and hand wrought hardware —- and a Victorian first floor because her ancestors wanted wall space for hanging _ portraits and a mirror The pillars aunt — the were added by her late Mrs P¥% S. Hea- Presbyterian minister N. Y., purchased the in Buffalo, two-story starkness ‘house after his death to be near for a re- her sister, the late Mrs. Adele the house Hewitt. as Mrs. Including the Markham’s son, a_ child | DeWitt of Haddonfield, N. J., and articles, many of which were collected by his children, who spend summers her grandparents when they in his old home: there have been lived and traveled abroad. seven generations of Mrs. MarkGrandmother Mrs. Grosvenor ham’s family living in the tiny Heeroelk, whaeea hucshond was a _ hill town. cock — to relieve the of the facade. Except cently purchased lamp, is furnished exactly Markham knew it as with choice ancestral This portrait of Mrs, Mark- Grandmother , Heacock ham’s wall| the since has hung here space became available with the| The building of the first floor. pewter coffee pot belonged to a great grandmother, Mrs. Markham doesn’t know of the twin pots ER aes entire room is rR with | his| church and history volumes, one| of which dates to 1635! } An antique cradle — now a hallway book repository — has | served four generations bies, starting with Mrs. ham’s mother, and origin by the Markhams’ which have been in this exact | Dorothy Potter. spot as long as she can remem.ber. The cherub tiles: above the fireplace were purchased in Italy by Dr. Heacock. The walls of an the a are lined was of ba: | Mark-| last used | children.—-By | \ �AGES Wits fh Gf BES Cast for Senior Play Will Entertain Christmas Day ae Alfred H. Chapins to Have Family Together There will be a large family gathering at the home of Mr., and Mrs. Alfred H. Chapin of Longhill St., on Christmas Day. Present will be Mr. and Mrs. Neil Chapin of this city, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Chapin and children, Sandy, Scott and Dale, of Longmeadow, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Chapin, Jr. and Kay Chapin, all; of New York City, Edward Whit-| ing Chapin, a student at the Uni-} versity of Pennsylvania. Also Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Mot-) rill of Great Barrington, Joseph Morrill, Jr., of Middlesex School, Miss Joan Morrill of Cincinnati, O., Edward Broges of Schenectady, N. Y., Miss Florence D. Chapin of Cambridge and Mr. and Mrs. John S. Chapin and chil- dren, field. Candace and Clare Milnes and James Drumgeol. early in The play will be offered December, Jan. 20 — Rev. will preach on “Winter and eternity’ at the 11 o’clock service in First Congregational Church Sunday. Miss Hilda Landa will lead the junior worship service in the Sunday School also at 11. The Hylanders basketball team will play at 3 p. #The m. a on Junior team in Sunday. Crusaders Blandford iH of First ‘Congregational Church will sponsor a program in Town Hall Sunday at 7.30 when Dr. and Mrs. Harold A. Stone will show colored slides of their European trip. >Dr. Newcomb Honored “~ “ At the recent annual meeting of the historic First Congregational Church of Kittery Point, Me., Rev. Edward H. Newcomb of this town was unanimously elected pastor emeritus. Mr. Newcomb served for 15 years in this parish prior to his retire|ment in 1947, Rev. and Mrs. Newcomb, who recently celebrated their 63d wedding anniversary, make their home with their son‘in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1955 Tea O. Barber Mabel C, Sweet of Chris- tian Hollow has resigned from the GOP Town Committee after serving on it for nearly 30 years. During much of that time, she served as committee chairman} and has attended all but one state convention and was vicechairman of the state convention / Attend Recent Worthington, Robert iMrs. W. W. Rausch on anne |ton Hill Rd. —< Worthington Grange ‘will meet Tuesday at 8 in Town Hall when a program will be presented by the Graces. ‘The program also will include a food sale. Among those in the cast of “Time Out for Ginger,” annual play of the senior class at Greenfield High School, are these students, shown left to right: Judy Bartlett, Jennet Roberts, Polly Piper, Dana of Suf- WORTHINGTON once. at AIC Local Girl Joins WACs Miss Jane Davis, who joined the Women’s Army Corps, has arrived at Fort McClellan, Ala., for her basic training. Miss Dajvis, who graduated from Smith |Schoo] of Northampton in 1954, ‘made her_home with Mrs. Ward aa eee oe Se Arnold in Christian Hollow for the past year has been ployed in Sprinefield. Elementary education students at American International College recently sponsored a tea for instructors with whom tkey worked this fall during practice teaching and the supervising principal of each senool. Shows above, attending the tea, are left to academic dean at AIC; Miss O’Malley, principal of the Dorman right: Dr. and Morris Albert S. Anthony, School; Miss Esther Roy, principal of the Talmadge School; Miss Mary O. Pottenger, retired principal and former head of the elementary education department at AIC; Francis Lohan, princi pal at Sixteen Acres School; and Miss Helen O’Connell, Frederick Harris School principal. Miss Marion L, Bartlett, Memorial School principal, is pouring. eta na and em- �MISS BARTLETT TO RETIRE FROM for & SCHOOL SYSTEM, Memorial Building Principal to End 42Year Career Miss Marion L, Bartlett, 195 bo Retiring ‘Memorial School Principal prin-j cipal of Memorial School, an-| nounced yesterday te Supt, Wil-! liam J, Sanders she will retire at the close of the school year. She has been connected with the} Springfield public school system! for 42 years as a teacher and principal. Miss Bartlett plans to return to her home in Worthington. “Tt will be with a deep sense of personal loss that I shall see Miss Bartlett leave the public school system,” said Dr. Sanders. “I have been mueh impressed ever since coming to Springfield with the magnificient spirit found in the schools she has headed.” Dr. Sanders praised Miss Bartlett particularly for her ‘‘very able work’’ in organizing the new Memorial School. ‘‘Each room in the school reflects her for- ward looking and dynamic leadership,”” he commented. Miss Bartlett, a native of graduating after Worthington, State Teachers Westfield from in teacher a became College remembers She Montgomery. she had nine pupils in the school “‘taught about 11 grades.’ and She received $9 a week. Miss Bartlett next taught at}, East Freetown, near New Bed-| ford, for a year. “Two of us wanted to try our wings,’’ she commented, ‘‘so we went down there, I remember I kept writing home for money so my family suggested I come nearer home, I next took a position in South Deerfield.” Here in 1914 From. South Deerfield, Miss Bartlett came to’ Springfield in 1914 and taught first at Barrows School, since torn down. There were two large tubular silo-like fire escapes on each side of the old schoo] and during fire drills pupils would slide down a pole | and be assisted by teachers standing at the foot. “The pu|pils used to be delighted when (we lett had fire recalled, Miss drills,’ Bartlett then Miss Bart-' went to Frederick Harris School where she was acting principal for two months, She next went to Ke old portable school at Sixteen | Acres and then became acting} principal at -old Worthington School, In 1939 Miss Bartlett went to | Carew Street School as princinal| and in 1942 she became principal} of Howard Street School. In 1953 she was transferred to the new |Memorial School, Miss Bartlett recalled that history is repeating itself today with crowded school ‘buildings, as when she began at Barrows School, she had a class in the assembly hall. Children today, Miss Bartlett feels, are.much better nourished than they were during World War I daYs. Today safeguards have been set up by the community, Miss Bartlett thinks children: have much better understanding today than formerly. Television, moving pictures, more travel and other factors tend to make them more alert, she believes, Miss Marion nounced her school year. L. Bartlett, principal retirement yesterday Miss of Memorial School, who effective at the end of Bartlett, a native of Worthington, return to that town. Teacher Will End| 42 Years’ Service } Miss Marion L. Bartlett, pal of Memorial princi-| School, will re-| tire at the end of the school year, | closing out 42 years of service in} the Springfield public schools. A native of Worthington, she is a graduate of Westfield State! Teachers College and taught in| Montgomery, East Freetown and South Deerfield before coming) here in 1914, She first taught at) the old Barrows School, then be-| came acting principal of the} Frederick Harris School, was at} the Sixteen Acres portable school and acting principal of the old Worthington Street School. She became principal of the Carew St. School in 1939 and principal of Howard St. School in 1942, She was transferred to the principal- |ship of the new Memorial School |in 1953. She will make her home fn Worthington upon retirement.| plans anthe to �_| hree Principals Retire a ste a Batts Nat Miss Marion L. Bartlett of Memorial ities will Jose system school Springfield The in June, principals, “by «retirement three whose careers exemplify that happy blending of professional capacity and personality that makes teaching a high aceomplishment and learning a discovery for the children who We refer to come under heir influence. School, Miss Rosa M. Bowker of Washington School and Miss Sadie E, Flagg of White Street ag School. Their length of tenure alone is great; ‘the quality of their work would have made even brief careers memorable in the annals of the Departmental offioials School Department. ah Fofp Dd, 173© agree that in their retirement the system enna Entertains pe Principal Miss Marion L, Bartlett, prin-| cipal of Memorial School, Surrey | Rd., was hostess at her home in Worthington, Wednesday afternoon, to 28 principals and supervisors of the Springfield School System, for a Washington’s Birthday and pizza party. For dessert the guests enjoyed home-made ice cream served from a large hand-operated freezer. Miss Bartlett was assisted by her sis-} ter, Miss Elsie V. Bartlett, and} Mr. and Mrs. C. Raymond Magar-! Nae, “SPRINGFIELD, MASS, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1956 is losing three women who have been valuable factors in expounding the point of view which is uniquely developed in the Springfield schools, ‘ Individuals differ, and the three women APRIL 19, 1956 are different in some respects. Intimates characterize Miss Bowker as vital, warm and outgoing, with the love of people marking her Retiring Principal Honored nature; @ pable Miss of Bartlett, taking as enthuSiastic, emergencies in stride, ca- able ‘to ereate a school atmosphere that reflects her own Flagg, happiness as gentle, a sympathetic and zest for/life; and Miss kindly, and understanding endowed and with great love for children that brings out the best in them. All»however, share that special genius for successful human relations which is the hall- mark of great teachers and administrators in our public schools. They have a signal talent for translating arid pedagogy into vital edu- eation, Each has the ability. which, ‘in the jong run, perhaps is the most important and most nearly indispensable asset of the teach- er—the ability to shape the characters of her pupils, not obtrusively; but through the. slow, consistent. cultivation of the soil of intellect, emdétions and morals. Through the unflag- ging exercise of that ability, Miss Bartlett, Miss Bowker and Miss Flagg have had a pervasive effect on their community. The controlling belief of all in the practice of their profession, say those who know them well, is that each child has a personality Marian in East L. Bartlett, Forest principal Park, who of will Surrey retire Rd., in June Memorial after 49 years as an educator, was honored’ last night with a surprise party given by her staff at the Homestead in Ludlow. Presenting Miss Bartlett a corsage of money donated by the faculty and other coworkers at the school is Cosmo Avyato, a teacher. After her retirement, Miss Bartlett her home will return town. to Chesterfield, oughly grounded learning. s in the fundamentals : of The principals also recognized the importance of the relationship between parents and the schools. Their efforts over the years constituted a significant. contribution to the progress of the Parent-Teacher Association movement in Springfield, dating baek to the early beginnings of the organization. Springfield owes a debt of gratitude and a full measure of honor to these three women as they enter into deserved retirement. Each had the inspiration and the ‘force to give that extra, indefinable something to the task of teaching and guiding children that raises the profession to the plane of art. Entice School sania Miss est capabilities, if the teacher is to prove that she has done her job well. Their educational programs were built around the idea of developing the child’s personality, while not forgetting that a well adjusted child. is thor- tise of his own that must be developed to his high- �THE SPRINGFIELD Hdltown UNION, SPRINGFIELD, MAS wi 100-Year-Old Landmark Centennial Worthington Town Hall Erected 100 Years Ago Imposing Structure Is of Classic Greek Architecture; Centennial Meeting Next Monday Worthington, Feb. 1—When Fieldstone the Fireplace — The Town Hall is of classic|, citizens of Worthington gather next Monday for the annual town Greek architecture, its main enmeeting, they will mark the cen- trance flanked by Doric pillars. With two small rooms at either tennial of the first town meetside of the entrance and an audiing held in the present Town the building remained Hall. It was at a town meeting torium, in April of 1854 that E. H. Brew- | unchanged until 1933 when extenster, C. B. Tower, James Bisbee, | Sive alterations were made under Progress AdminstraRufus Cottrell, A. P. Drury, Cal- a Works vin Robinson and Marcus’ A. tion project. In 1933 and 1934, constructed at Bates were appointed a com- an addition was mittee to build a new Town Hall, the rear of the hall. Excavation and they were authorized to lo- under this addition allowed. for cate it on or near the site of the |a basement and the installation original one which then stood on | of a hot air furnace as well as ground to the south of the church. | toilet rooms. Prior to this, the hall was heated by a stove at Land Cost $25 the rear of the room with a stoveIn November of that year they pipe extending the length of the decided to build on land across the road and opposite the church. (That church, of colonial architecture, burned in 1887 and was replaced by the present one on the same site). William Coit, who was sold the constable at that time, the land, for the new Town ail to the town for $25 and im- posed the stipulation that the town should build and maintain a good fence around this land four feet, four inches high and further dictated that it should be so located on the plot as to not cut off-the view of the church from his resi- dence on Chesterfield Rd. auditorium to the chimney up the back of the building. The stage At a town meeting held early in 1856, it was voted to raise $600 ‘“‘to sink the debt to pay the interest on the new Town Hall.’’ Then, in compliance with Mr. Coit’s requirement that a good fence be built around the property, Jonathan Randall, Sidney Brewster, Alden B. Curtis, I. Adams, and Franklin Burr (the grandfather of the late Franklin H. Burr) were chosen “‘to build a fence and level the ground around the new Town Hall.” These gentlemen built the substantial stone wall which stands today on three sides of the Town Hall. Time has taken its toll and in the settled 100 and years, spread the out wall has so that it is now hard to find a place where it exceeds a height of more than three feet. ac a A is the picturesque Town Hall in Worthington which was 100 years ago and which again will be the scene of the an- next Monday. meeting town nual WORTHINGTON -- j was pushed back into this addition and a handsome fieldstone fireplace was built at the rear of | Appointments Are One of the nicest things about Worthington town meetings nowadays is the crackling fire in this fireplace and the smell of wood smoke, Town officials here are often roasted in more ways than one as they sit in their places on the platform with their backs to the open fire. Above the stage. a room was finished off as a town for closets and room officers’ storage was provided. More recently, pine paneling has been installed in this area and the hall Worthington, Feb. 8 — Since .|Monday’s town meeting, Moder.|ator Carl S, Joslyn has announced the following committees: finance, Donald I. Thompson, Lawrence Mason, Leroy H. Rida, Ralph A. Moran and Harold Mac-: Hugh; town dump, Donald TI. Thompson, Roy W. McCann, and the Listed by Board platform. Mr, Coit lived in the house presently owned by Mr. and Mrs. Zack Donovan and there are those still living in town who can remember when that view of has been equipped for basketball : the church from Mr, Coit’s house | games. was unobstructed by trees as it Besides town meetings, public is today. : ‘functions of every description are! In April 1855, the citizens voted held in this hall including the to authorize "the town treasurer Catholic mass on Sunday morn-| to borrow money as needed to ings in the summer and frequent; { defray the expenses of the new ‘wedding receptions. Town Hall. It seems that there was no such thing as estimated costs, appropriations, or invitations, to bidders, but deep trust was placed in the town officers. Construction on the new Town Hall was finally commenced in the summer of 1855 and was ready for use by the end of that year. This built Clarence A. G. Pease; f‘street names, Miss Elsie Eben L, Shaw, and Burr. § wood. and V. Bartlett, Franklin G, Ernest W. Robinson with 152 ‘| votes defeated Arthur Ducharme, -|Sr., who hadj 106 votes for the office of constable. It was inadvert_Jently stated earlier that Ducharme had won the contest. Appointed fence viewers were Stanley Mason, Lawrence Mason, ‘and David Tyler. Surveyors of lumber are Daniel R. Porter and Lawrence Dingmond. Field drivers are William F. Sanderson, Kenneth Pease, and Theo-. dore Tatro. Almoners of the Whiting Street Fund are Mrs. George Torrey, Mrs. Eben L, Shaw and Clarence A. G. Pease. Rural Worthington mai] route Briefs patrons are reminded that snow must be removed from in front of mailboxes or mail will not be delivered. Mrs. Harry W. Mollison was hostess to the Home Demonstration group on Tuesday when Miss Elizabeth Thayer spoke on ‘‘Making clothes comfortable for children.” This subject will be continued at a second meeting in this series, Feb. 14 also at the home of Mrs. Mollison. The public is invited. The new School Board met with Superintendent L. A. Merritt at) ‘\the Russell H. Conwell School ‘|Tuesday afternoon and elected Mrs. C. Raymond Magargal, chairman, and Mrs. Philip Arcouette clerk. It was voted to make Mrs. Richard Hathaway manager of the school lunch program. Ss a sh Se se Mo ea ae teeta �i wet Tree ATS ROYAL CLOSEUP i966 Fab 0 : = . And the Springfield Union yesterday carried items from Worthington and Sunderland stating that small amounts of maple syrup had already been made jin those two communities. We like the good news, | Charlemont-on-the-Deerfield, February 15, 1956. (Associated | | _ ; Press Wirephoto) Queen Elizabeth I of Eng- | land, who soon is to visit Nigeria, poses for Cecil Beaton in the tapestry room of Buckingham Palace in London., She is wearing an embroidered satin dress with a diamond and, pearl tiara, diamond necklace mond and | By BUDDY MARCEAU |streams, better forestration, soil “Reservations and payment of conservation, right of ways to tickets for the first annual ponds, roadside parks, and many Sportsman’s Memorial Dinner other projects. must be in by tomorrow night,” The small number of reservasays A. C. Goulet chairman of tions made by sportsmen’s clubs the committee. The dinner, which of this area, of which he was a this year honors the late Harold member or worked so hard for is P. Worthington dissapointing to the comof Agawam, very take’s place Feb. 14 at. DeMar- mittee. In Boston and Washco’s Restaurant, at legislative hearings, (formerly The ington Chalet or Edelweiss) represented more West Worthinton Springfield. Returns are to be than 20,000 members of organized clubs-and as great a number of » |Sportsmen who hunt and fish. More than 75 rod and gun and sportsmen’s organizations were sent tickets, but to date only a few have responded. Paul V. Hayden, vice-president of the Connecticut Light and Power Co., Hartford, an execu-; tive of the Connecticut River | Watershed Council, wil] introduce Dr. Paul B. Sears, professor of | conservation’ at Yale, guest} speaker, Dr: Sears is president of the American Association for! the Advancement of Science and the author of several books. He has worked with conservationists in this area on watershed development, Several. Pe | HAROLD dia- earrings. Craft Potato Storage Warehouse In Worthington Is Destroyed By Fire At $30,000 Loss WORTHINGTON—An early | morning fire destroyed a large otato storage warehouse at ickory Hill Farm owned by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Sena. The fire, high on the brow of Buffing- ton Hill, could be seen for miles,| the village. By the time Mr. Sena could fire The get to the department fire was so warehouse was well the arriving. advanced, however, *hat efforts to remove a truck loaded with potatoes in the main doorway were futile. residents reported. | Within an hour, the large buildIt is believed to have started ing was leveled, leaving twisted} on the back side of the building machinery and equipment smol-; and to have gained considerable dering in a pile of hot baked po: | headway before it was detected. It was first seen by Mrs. Henry H. Snyder from her home in the center of the village, approximately one mile from the burning building. When she first observed the flames, near midnight, it appeared like a high-powered light, she said. As she watched, it seemed to throw off sparks. She reported sponded fire the blaze and the Later, the department immediately. The Sena family were asleep their home nearby aware of the fire Packard telephoned in and was ununtil Cullen them The loss, estimated at $30,000,| is partially covered by insur:} ance and includes, besides the| building, a truck, potato grader, | deep-well pump, water storage) tanks, a heating plant, scales and| 3,000. 100-pound from bags plus miscellaneous small equipment. Cause of the fire re-| investigation by Cummington fire department was called as a precautionary meas- ure, tatoes. members P. WORTHINGTON sent today and tomorrow to A. C. Goulet, 270 Worthington St; Springfield. Telephone reservations: Goulet, daytime RE 7-0231, nights RE 2-5869. Reservations also by calling the following committee members: Dr. Edward Baldwin, RE 3-9614: Howard E. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956— volunteer 1956 Outdoor Sportsman’s Guide Sugar Season Opens Worthington, Feb, 13—Following the groundhog’s forecast of an early spring, Guy F. Bartlett tapped some nearby trees and already has a quantity of syrup made. Mr. Bartlett takes great pleasure in his small sugaring operation and each year is one of the first sugar makers to open the season,_ Bh §& Mr. of potatoes.| supplies and is still under | Sena and) of the fire department. The Sena family is temporarily | without water because of the fire| which destroyed the water sys:| tem located in the barn. The} nearby sheep barn escaped with: | out damage. RE 3-8276; Judge Norman L. Snow LO 71-5577; Franklin W. McCray RE 3-9054; Howard Peylin RE 6-7980; Charles H. Pevlin, RE 6-8761. Last fall Massachusetts lost a unique, eloquent scholar, sportsman and outstanding conservationist when, Mr. Worthington crossed for the last time ‘the big stream.” Few men knew the pattern of eulture of Western and Central Massachusetts as he did. He in-, sisted that Massachusettse and the nation could survive only if the natural resources were guarded from exploitation and saved and used as necessities, Harold Worthington loved and knew this area’s hills, fields, Streams and forests. Believing they are essential to the welfare of the people, he gave his tre-| mendous knowledge and percep-| tion to their service as a mem:| er of ‘many sportsmen’s clubs and watershed associations. He was hard at work for the sportsmen of this. area when stricken at the Eastern States ExPosition booth and was taken to a hospital from which he never returned to our ranks. For more than 40 years he devoted every Spare moment, money and energy in the interest of sportsmanShip education and conservation of natural resources, Thorughout Western and Central Massachusetts there are “living miemeorials,’’ which will remind us of his great work in pollution construction of pilot abatement, plants for the development trout members of the -New! England Outdoor Writers Asso-} ciation will attend. Among them, Henry Moore, Boston Herald; Pat Harty, Boston Globe; Frank Woolner, Worcester Gazette; Henry Guidi of Agawam. The Division of Fisheries and Game will be represented by two members of the board, James W. Cesan of Feeding Hills and Matthew Coyne of Millbury, Allen Kennedy of Boston will represent} Director Charles McGloughlin. Al] interested in hunting and’ fishing and conservation of natural resources, men and women, have been extended invitations to this dinner, Social hour at 6 p. m., dinner at 6.45, preceded by memorial service by Rev. Frederick F,. Driftmier. Entertainment and dancing will follow the speaking and awarding of the Harold P. Worthington Memoria] Trophy, certificates of merit and honorable mention. / Make your reservation’s today so as to be certain arrangements will be made for you. The number is limited. �et tel}! , JISb ~ WORTHINGTON Three in Rade . Town Posts Are For Place On Filled by Board Worthington, Feb. 10 — The Board of Selectmen met in the town hal] Wednesday evening and organized. Chairman is Henry H. Snyder and clerk, C. Kenneth Osgood. Franklin G, Burr will serve as chairman of the Board of Welfare and C. Kenneth Osgood is chairman of the Board of Health. The chairman of the Board of Selectmen is automatically chief of police. Eben L. Shaw was re-appointed road superintendent and Charles C. Eddy was re-appointed director of civilian defense. Arthur Ducharme, Sr. was _ appointed: sealer of weights and measures, dog officer, and special police officer. Osgood was re-appointed fire chief, and Harry L. Bates Was re-appointed forest fire warden. Custodian of the town hall and of the disposal area is Emerson J. Davis. Inspector of Animals and Slaughtering is David Tyler. The selectmen will meet at the town TOWN COSTS RISE INMASSACHUSETTS WORTHINGTON ee oa x hall on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30. Bid invitations are ready and will be issued shortly for a four-. wheel drive truck with a 4-yard dump’ body, 9-foot blade plow with hoist attachments and a nine-foot sander-spreader body for the town highway department. Worthington, candidates for on the a School Jan. one Board have filed = Schools took the major share of the budget money appropriated by the towns, The Hampshire County town of Worthington, where $81,440.64 was appro-|' J. Keough, who resigned, Paul B. Fowler of Christian Hollow and .|Ralph A. Mrs. this the Moran Arcouette, town of the a Center. resident for the past 10 years wife of Philip an employee in Pittsfield. F. priated, $41,203 was earmarked for education, Schools will receive $26,445 of the $50,681 approved in Hheath, in. Franklin County. of is Arcouette, at General Electric She is a graduate of Hoosick Falls High School and Albany Business College. Prior to her marriage, she worked in the secretarial and accounting fields, She has one daughter, Susan, a third grade pupil‘at the man Ss, Russell H. Conwell School. Mr. Fowler has lived here for the past seven years with his wife and children, Susan and Jeffrey, both pupils at the local| school. Mr. Fowler is a graduate of Huntington High School and Northeastern University. He is an employee of Texon, Inc. in South Hadley Falls. Mr. Moran and family have lived here for four years. ‘Two| children, Allen and Catherine,| are pupils at that school. Mr.| Moran is a graduate of Dart-| mouth College. He operates a trucking and transportation busi‘ness in this town. He served on the school building committee when the addition was built in the School years, hag 5b 12—Three year term their papers. They are Mrs. Philip F. Arcouette of West Worthington who is serving out the unexpired term of Mrs. John 1953. Arthur G. Capen, WORTHINGTON Budgets Up in Western Part of State—Schools Take the Major Share School Board a member Board for the past announced that he of 24 is not a candidate for re-election.| When the school addition was built in 1953 he was chairman of the building committee. Two Will Seek Assessor Post Worthington, Jan. 13 — The office of assessor, presently held by Carl S. Joslyn who is not a candidate for re-election, is being sought by C. Raymond Magargal and David Tyler. Mr. Magargal, a native of this town and a graduate of Dalton High School, is associated in the contracting business with his father, Wells W. Magargal. He is a member of the town Planning Board, Mr. Tyler, who has lived here for the past five years, owns and operates the old Eager Farm on Chesterfield Rd. He was educated at Putney School and Marlboro College in Vermont, He has served on the town Finance Board and as inspector of slaughtering and animals. WORTHINGTON é Osgood Renamed As Fire Chief Worthington, Jan. 11—The Volunteer Firemen met at the firehouse Monday and re-elected C.}: Kenneth Osgood chief for another term, Others elected were: as-|! sistant chief, Lawrence C. Ma-|) son; first lieutenant, Harold E. Brown; second lieutenant, Zack Donovan; treasurer, Cuilen S. Packard; and secretary, Arthur Ducharme, Sr. A Ladies Night was planned for Feb. 13 which will include a dinner followed by entertainment, Fenn. Muss hevraa There'll be no TY fight in our house tonight was the opinion expressed by two members of a Worthington household shown surveying ice and wind storm damage to the TV antenna and the chimney to which it had been affixed. The above scene was typical of scores in’ Chesterfield, Worthington and Cummington. y �eP 6, 1956. ‘MISS BOWKER ISRETIRING AS SCHOOL HEAD Mando7 IITG Principal 36 at Washington Years to End day is Education Career Miss Rosa M. Bowker, pal of Washington School, notified Sanders Supt. princiyester- William J. of her intention to retire Views Departure With Regret “It is with the greatest regret that I see Miss Bowker Springfield school system years. leave the after 39 “She was not only principal of the largest elementary school but so great has been her skill as a supervisor and teacher that she has been selected to train pros- pective principals. Many other teachers who have served under her because of her example in teaching have become supervisors or administrators. “Miss Bowker has over the lyears been much beloved chairman of the Council for MRS. To Washington lunch High by the} in school, It has a cluding Miss two Cub Bowker ing | | packs. has been a will in be School the “I cafeteria, Am 8 An preced- American in the Technical school High home economics class pupils under the director of Beatrice D. Miller will serve the dinner, The public may attend the auditorium celebration, City Women Stranded 16 Hours OnRte. 20 ThegFriday | blizzard marooned proach the highway to clear it, Miss Evans said. Miss Evans attempted to place a telephone call to her mother in automobile on Route 20. Stranded in Oxford Longmeadow, but the only tele: within walking distance Dr. Ruth Evans and Dr. Elena phone M. Sliepcevich of Springfield Col- was out of order. “We were pretty much out of lege and Ann M._ Anderson, Miss Evans - said. supervisor of physical education patience,’ sat there all trough the in the Springfield public schools, “We “were stranded in Oxford in Miss night and then promptly at 8 Evans’ car from 4 p. m. Friday o’clock in the morning state poto 8.35 a. m. Saturday. lice came, turned us around, and They were attending a physi- routed us through Southbridge cal education conference in Na- so we could get home. tick. Friday when the storm Exhaust Pipes Checked loomed. Deciding to forego the “Tt seems they could have afternoon session because of the done that several hours before weather, they left Natick at 2.30 they did.” p. m, The police inspector checked At 4 in Oxford, they were exhaust pipes, Miss Evans said, halted by police because Route 20 to make sure none was blocked was clogged with cars. A few by snow, minutes later they were permit“Twice during the night he ted to advance about a mile— came by to see if we were all and there they spent the next 16 right,’’ she said. three prominent en more than of, active of Schools Wioneh 16) 456 °39 membership director Public department, Night’ at auditorium, | In June, 1939, she was named principal of Washington School. During her term as principal a} strong parent-teacher organiza-! tion has been established at the) |more than 700. It sponsors a num-) ‘ber of Scout organizations in-) CAMPBELL charge of the dinner at which new citizens will be honored by the Adult Education Council and other organizations on the 13th at Technical in November, School ©, Campbell, the Springfield \Club, 1917, to teach at Jefferson Ave-| nue School. She taught there until June, 1920, when she was named a principal. She served first as principal of the old Alden Street School. She was_ transferred to the old William Street School in 1924, In 1930 she went to Carew Street School as principal. MARY » Mrs. ‘children, by parents and by the teachers. “Her zest for life and love of people have kept the spirits of those who . >rk with her aglow.” Miss Bowker came to Spring- field from Norwood We 1956 | To Run Dinner Work at South CongregaChurch. Wheelock Graduate of alumna an is | She and Boston, College, | Wheelock Columbia at studied \has ColCollege, Harvard Teachers lege and University of California. spent a year of travel in the E British Isles. Miss Bowker will continue to make her home in Springfield} and to participate in community organizations. She spends her| summers at West ‘Gouldsboro, on| Frenchman’s Bay, Me, Her home| is at 161 High St. She had successful teaching eareers in Fairhaven and Norwood before coming to this city. She is a member of Delta Kap-| pa Gamma, honorary educational society, and the Appalachian |Youth tional at the end of the school year. Miss Bowker has been with the Springfield public school system for 39 years. She has spent 36 years as a principal, High praise was given Miss Bowker by Dr. Sanders, He said: | Man ek community and in professional a been has She organizations. member of the Board of Examiners of the School Department, Community the of a member Council, and is a corporator of and} t Club Girls the Springfield the South End Community Cen- |1 ter. 1 She has been active in affairs! of the Child Guidance Clinic and is a director of the Massachusetts of Prevention the for 'Society Cruelty to Children. Miss Bowker hours. Springfield wom16 hours in an Traffic jammed solidly snow plows the road could not guess that part of it did us good,’’ she remarked. Miss Evans’ car had a full tank of gasoline, permitting the women to keep the motor—and the heater—running all night. “No matter how comfortable a ear is,” Miss Evans observed, ‘it gets mighty uncomfortable after awhile.” The women passed the time listening to their plight on the radio. “One thing made us _ laugh,” said Miss Evans, ‘“‘We'd hear that traffic on Route 20 was moving at-a snail’s pace—when it wasn’t moving an inch.’’ When their car was turned and headed toward Southbridge’ the women had little difficulty reaching home, Miss Evans said, | although they crawled through a) mammoth traffic tieup in South-| bridge. all “T Miss Evans finally arrived, No one offered food or shelter home at 11.15 a. m. Saturday— women weren’t worried almost 21 hours after leaving, so but the, ap- about that, Miss Evans said. Natick, MISS ROSA M. BOWKER —_—— a normal 24-hour drive. \ \ ‘TUESDAY, MARCH �oe THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, SPRINGFIELD, MASS., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1956 Engrossed in Hobby More Than 300 Bells Are In Collector ’s Assortment Mrs. LeDuc of Chesterfield, Retired Music Supervisor, Has History for Each Chesterfield, March 20—Mrs. Lester C, LeDuc has been hearing the tinkle of bells for the past 28 years—she collects them as a hobby. Catalogued Her assortment of more than 300 individual kinds includes those from 22 different countries: Each of the bells, from the smallest to the largest, is numbered and catalogued in a book together with a brief written history, Mrs. LeDuc, for 12 years prior to her marriage to the man who has been highway superintendent in Chesterfield for’ more than 25 Among the treasures Mrs, LeDuc has~“in her collection are a} rain bell, a candlestick bell, and a-tiny bell moulded from metal contained in the bell of the First Congregationa] Church in Northampton which was damaged in a fire many years ago, The rain bell is a unique object. Its purpose is for sounding an alarm when rain is coming through an open window. The bell is set upon a window still with a piece of specially treated paper to hold it taut. If a drop of water hits the paper it dissolves, releasing the spring which rings the bell. The candlestick bell is just years, served as a music superthe name implies: a canvisor in the \Cummington, Ches- what terfield and Worthington schools. | dlestick with a bell attached. It is more novel than practical. She made the trips to. the Bells once attached to anischools in the spring and _ fall mals also make up a large part with a horse and wagon and in of Mrs, LeDuc’s collection. They the winter by horse-drawn sleigh. include those used on the Java She was foreed to retire when cow, French goat, camel, Mon- she developed a back ailment from riding over rough dirt roads while traveling between schools. “One morning,’”’ said Mrs. LeDuc, ‘I told my husband I had decided to take up a_ hobby. Everybody needs a hobby, but I didn’t know what I wanted. One evening I went to a meeting where a woman gave a talk on bells so I decided to collect them. I spread the word: around and people began collecting them for me. Boys in the service sent them to me and some brought them from overseas.”’ golian horse and Argentina cow. Mrs. LeDuc also has a bell taken from the neck of a cow. that wads killed during the invasion of Anzio during World War II. There are mission bells from California, tea bells from Japan and China and dinner bells from Mexico, also a bell that was used; by a retired New Hampshire! school teacher for 50 years. Mrs. LeDuc polishes the pieces five or six times a year taking about three hours to complete the arduous task. Her interest in-the collection is devoted mostly to the history. Unable to put a price tag on the collection, she has been urged to! insure it by her sister, Miss Mar-} ion Bartlett, principal of the Me-. morial Schoo] in Springfield, who: will retire in June. Because of illness, Mrs. LeDuc is unable to travel in pursuit of |her hobby, Her wish is add a bell from a ship and several from England, Ireland and Scotland. She still has the sleigh bells that! were worn by the horse _ that! transported her in her daily! rounds as music supervisor in the| schools, | ok | Mrs. Lester C. LeDuc of Chesterfield is shown here with some of her more than 300 individual bells. which she has been collecting for 28 years. She is holding a candlestick and a Mexican dinner bell. The sleigh bells, far left, were worn by a horse that transported Mrs. LeDue to schools in Cummington and Worthington where she at one time was supervisor of music. [95& special Betty Judy Bartlett Wins Special Award At GHS Judy Bartlett, daughter Crocker award at Greenfield High School, Prin. Arthur N. Watt announced today. | She and girls took given several part in an nationally other GHS! examination| and she will) compete now for a state scholarship. She was highest among the of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Bartlett of 23 Brookside Avenue, has won a GHS girls in the test. She is senior class vice - president, Student Council vice - presi- dent and a member of the Student Council her third and fourth years. She is also} a member of the Forum, Pep Club, Junior and Senior Singers, the variety show cast, a member of the senior play cast and has played intramural basketball. She also serv- ed as a member of the town student government day committee and mittee. JUDY amin BARTLETT the senior dance com- �NORTHAMPTON, MASS., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956— Town To Build Hous e To Keep Teacher "Teachers Elect Club Officers Miss Goodhines Is Head of Springfield Group Miss Marjorie E, was elected president Goodhines of Spring- field Teachers Club, Inc., at the _ennual tea and business meeting yesterday afternoon at the Muse- ‘um Miss of Fine Harriet Arts, president-elect She M. succeeds Stevens, is Miss Helen The B. LaRose, Other officers on the accepted ‘slate. are: first vice-president, ‘Miss Anna M, Martin; second vice-president, Miss Charlotte Carman; treasurer, Miss Marie T. MeWilliams; recording secre- tary, Miss Lucy T. Vecchiarelli; corresponding secretary, Miss Amy J. Bartlett; financial secretary, Miss Gladys A. Midura. Directors are Miss Nina L. Lee, ‘Mrs. Ann M,. Klingsporn, Margaret J. Mitchel] and - Stevens. Miss Miss] The nominating committee con- sisted of chairman; Miss Miss Beatrice Anne Miller, M. Foley, Mrs. Lucille B. Hoar, Miss Louisa Piergiovanni and Miss Fern L. Zipse, Hostesses were members of the Mary O. Pottenger School admin- { { { | igtration and faculty and included Miss Stevens, Miss Margaret J. Davison, principal of the school; Miss Genevieve Clark, Mrs. Ger- trude N, Birchard, Miss Lina J. Caravatti, Miss Marguerite A. "While this country community| Worthington Solves Housing ls fortunate of excellent in having group of help his _. him family, children. When cussed met build a house which the some with idea here includes was ‘first weeks:ago, it ways both in the the community. school R. Hallowell, is The popular pleting his principal of teacher who and now in com- st te School. of Mr. the from The éulmihation of ter of town promptly the and immediately was. a local businessman volunteered to dig of the the cellar hole, while another pledged all his spare time until the project is Pledges for building, completed. all phases including work and the heating, right on of grading and the ; electrical plumbing up to the landscaping and point are following annualdinner for boys’ ! ay here as} H and girls’ basketball teams of the | school, which — Mr. Hallowell.’ H. Con-} Hallowell University to the former Jane Kozik iby Mrs. Robert T. Bartlett. tn they are both natives of | “Mrs. Robert J. Lucey,. a mem: Greenfield, As the parents of five |ber of the school board, was in’ small children, housing is bound | charge of arrangements and sheto be a problem, , was assisted by Mrs. Lewis Zarr, ; Worthingion, with a population 'Mrs, William “P. Barton, ~ Mrs.!* of 515, has Jess than 10 rental Carl S. Joslyn, Mr. and Mrs.; units of any. description in the C. Raymond Magargal, Mr. and} whole town and suitable rental Mrs. Herbert N. Haskell, Mrs.| housing for a ‘family with five Raymond Dunlevy, Mrs. Robert. youngsters is simply not availT, Bartlett and Mrs. George} able at any price. Inasmuch as Torrey. the house Mr. Hallowell’s family House plans are now being { is presently living in will not be still coming in and no one wants available aiter the close of the considered and it is hoped that | iground may be broken in the} to be left out. current school year, he was. faced ‘near future. Those helping proEven the women folks wanit to with making a change either in mote the project said today that). be included and have volunteered |finding another house or eise in they anticipate further offers of| to help in many ways-to assure ‘finding another position. Neither _volunteer assistance in the wake| the completion of this unique change would be simple with five ‘of the surprise oes project. eee non-parents | children. _ alike recognize the need for keeping a teacher here who has demonstrated his worth in so many Mary S. Presiding at the tea table were Miss Marion L. Bartlett, princi-| pal of Memorial Kosa M. Bowker, Washington School; School; Miss principal of Miss Hettie W. Craighead, pupil adjustment teacher; and Miss Sadie E. Flagg, principal of White Street School. the plan. sides. A building lot near the cen- fand donated and Mrs. ‘eame lastnight atthe’ town hall, | ° tt all! ried enthusiasm lian J. Shapiro Tower. eee t is: a ‘coaches. It, took the form of a). ofa eee party in. honor Of Mr. ‘and Mrs. Hallowell, who observed+ | Massachusetts, where he is now ‘their eighth «anniversary~ this} evening) courses toward week. A large cake in the form af *dis- taking was his master’s degree. He is mar-! a house waS made-and decorate bs for) well five} graduate Miss Thelma L, Parker, Mrs. Lil- \and a few parents,. sensing -the! is Norman third year the Russell was| sephine E. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Mary T. Hegarty, Miss Anmarie M. Kennedy, Mrs. Corinne P. Kulik, {Situation in Mr. Hallowell’s case, | By Unique Concerted Action er.yore WORTHINGTON—A it _ pointed. out, the fear. of losing) one.-of them is always present} Problem For School Principal. Worthington parents, faced with the possibility of losing one of its ' valuable teachers chiefly because suitable rental housing is not available, has sparked a move to a faculty| teachers, Deitner, Mrs. Dorothy C. Drown, Miss Madeline Ferriter, Miss Jo- pocorn mena" Sta WORTHINGTON—A siunning surprise was given’ Norman R. Hatlowell,. principal:of the Russell H. Conwell School, this:town’s orly one, at the town hall last’ night, when” he and’ Mrs. Hallowell were ‘offered a home to be built with volunteer labor on a*denaied lot: near the ceniérof!town—the move being made to keep the popular principal and athletic coath here by solving his honsifig problem. The house he, is wile and five children now occupy will be not be. available after this term,. Shown at ‘revelation of the surprise are. left to right, €, Raymond Magargal, Mrs: Witham’ P:: Barton. Mrs. Hallowell. Mrs. Lewis Zarr, Mr. Hallowell, Mrs, Carl S$: Joslyn and Robert-J. Lucey.” Cake in the form of a house was to mark the Hallowell’s eighth, wedding anniversary, which they observed this week. | fast night. % ts �PTA, The new presidents of the Surrey Rd. Memorial School Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marion pose with Miss Marion Bartlett (center) retiring principal of the school, at the annual meeting Other officers elected, of the PTA last night at the school. who ‘were installed by Mrs. Carroll Bryant of the PTA Council include Mr. and Mrs. James Houghton, vice-presidents; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Whitehead, second vice-president; Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Egan, treasurers. secretaries and Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hawley, The program was arranged by Miss Bartlett and A hy uf Donald Kramer. : / 7 : } 7 : — 2 & » Springfield Teachers Take Advantage of ‘Airlift? Memorial School faculty was well represented this morning when Eastern Airlines Educator Airlift flights began to take off from Bradley Field. Virtually all of the Springfield parochial and public schools sent delegations to take part in the 22-minute flights over ‘the Springfield area. It was all done to give teacher an opportunity to catch up with her already air-minded pupils, on flight savvy. Above Memorial teachers appear amazed as they look up at the thread story high yertical rudder of the two-engine plane that will soon take them up about 10 000 to 15,000 feet. In the group are Marion L. Bartlett, Memorial principal, third from the right and 3 a group including: Ann Marie Smyth, Mary Dryden, Margaret MacKenzie, Claire Connor, Helen Waite, Claudette M. Houle, Jean Cobleigh, all Memorial teachers. Also in the group eine Mary. Ellen et ms Pea thencs tae om Shea, of Glenwood School, and Barbara Fison, and Bessie May, both teachers at Van Junior High School, re stud tna Sickle �1 ieee eae _ FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1956 | 1000 JOIN FETE TO PRINCIPAL OF MEMORIAL ! | || | | = C of C Women’s Division to Honor Retiring Principal Receives Gifts Four Principals Planning nard jsuest Miss Marion L. Bartlett, Sheraton-Kimball, re- ing contributions School parents Markarian and was of it Miss Sadie E. Flagg, White St. School. be was Paul Revere silyer bowl and principal a check. Memorial pupils. given a presi- presentations ‘by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ‘incoming copresidents. were Marion. SPRINGFIELD, Si tee | MASS., WEDNESD ————- 1; MAY 16, 1956 Women of Chaniber-Honor Retiring Educators WOMEN'S DIV. OF CHAMBER | PAYS TRIBUTE Four Retiring Educators Are| Honored at Luncheon Meeting Today The Women's Chamber of Division Commerce of the paid! tribute to approximately 175) combined years of service to the) Springfield public school system, | honoring ihree retiring principals; and an English department head.| The tribute was extended to! Miss Rosa Bowker, principa] of Washington School; Miss Marion Bartlett, principal of Memorial School; Miss Sadie E, Flagg, principal of White St, School! and Miss Asenath Tarr, head of| the English department of Trade High School. The tribute took place at a luncheon at the Hotel SheratonKimball and awards were yviven} to the teachers,. all of whom Saw more than 45 years service, by Robert Samble, president of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce and Tom. Fitzgerald, general manager of the Chamber, the) luncheon an- Three principals of Springfield public scheol system and an English department head, who retire at the end of the present school term were honored this noon by the Women’s Division of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Sheraton-Kimball. Playing major roles in the proceedings were from left to right: President of the division Grace J. Frecburn, Miss Rosa M. Bowker, principal of Washington -School; Miss Marion L. Bartlett, principal of Memorial School; Miss Sadie E. Flagg, principal of White St. School, and department of Trade of Mr. Maynard, who has been; Planning Board Engineer for the city since 1929, will speak on “Expressways and Other Related Problems.” Miss Marion L. Bartlett, who will retire in June as Memorial School principal after 42 years as a teacher and principal here, was honored yesterday at a PTA picnic on the school grounds. Robert E. Markarian, retiring PTA copresident, presented her a dent’s pin and Mrs. Markarian, copresident with her husband during the year, was presented ;a plant. The will the ‘School; Miss Marion L. Bartlett, Principal of Memorial School and a teacher! Dr. Sanders said Miss Bartlett gave the school ‘‘a_ distinctive}: personality.’’ The mayor said he wished ‘‘Miss Bartlett were just starting in the school system.” Robert E. Markarian, retiring PTA copresident, presented Miss Bartlett a Paul Revere silver bowl on behalf of the PTA. In the bowl was a check, represent- at nounced today. At the Meeting four retiring school principals will be honored by the women’s group. They are Miss Rosa Bowker, principal of Washington School: Miss Asenath Tarr, head of the English Department at Trade High ‘was honored yesterday afternoon| : by about 1000 parents, teachers and pupils at the annual PTA|: picnic on the school grounds. Mayor . Brunton and _ School Supt. William J. Sanders lauded |: Miss Bartlett’s contribution to}: the city and the schools during as speaker Engineer May-| ber of Commerce to be held Wednesday noon in the Hotel School principal, | : her 42 years here ‘and principal. Board Saunders meeting of the Women’s Division | jot the Greater Springfield Cham- Miss Bartlett Is Honored : At PTA Picnic; to Retire After 42 Years tiring Memorial O. Miss High Asenath School. ee Tarr, ee head of the English �195¢ Retiring Washington School Principal ROSA BOWKER 1S GIVEN GIFTS Hexored Sy Retiring Principal Re- ceives TV Set, Pearls Miss Rosa M. Bowker, who will retire next month after 17 years as Washington School principal, was guest of honor of the Washington PTA last night. She was presented a string of pearls at a dinner at the Mountain Laurel, Enfield, preceding |the installation meeting of the PTA at the school. John E. Swan, retiring PTA president, presented the pearis on behalf of the officers, committee chairmen and past presidents | who attended the dinner. At the close of the meeting, Miss Bowker was presented a television set from the PTA. A large cake, with icing spelling: out the tribute ‘We'll miss you, Miss Bowker,’ was cut during the dinner. A take-off on the television tion’? ture, was show an ‘$64,000 entertainment Ques- Thirty six of Miss Bowker’s named principal of School sistant school Street and Eastern superintendent Avenue Schools; and in charge of elementary Miss Alice B. Beal, 39 |years in the Springfield public school system have been as a principal. Participating jn the skit were: Swan, who was installed as PTA miember at large; Murray Underi wood, seated as first vice-presicent; Dr. John §S, Coughlan, treasurer; Miss Marion E. Pla:t, | Lewis R. Pendergrass and George LeRoy, Washington School | E. |teachers; Allen Erdman and Dr, \Harry Smith, past presidents, | Winfield Holland and Mra. Wil, fred Belcher of the PTA. | Others installed by Mrs. Ralph} Miss Rosa M. Bowker, extreme right, retiring Washington School principal, was honored by the Washington PTA last night during a dinner at the Mountain Laurel, Enfield, and at the regular’ meeting at the school. A large decorated cake was one of her gifts. Guests included, left to right: Miss Mary O. Pottenger, retired supervisor of elementary education of the Springfield public schools; Miss Claire L. Scannell, assistant to the Washington School principal who recently was fea- as- education. |B, Rice, Springfield PTA Council| | president-elect: president, Irving |S. Kimball; second vice-president, Mrs. Jean B. Sisitsky; secretary, | Miss Ida Pollin. avy f aetiniaaadaad biden 5 anoaieaiiene TE Di Mehl Rel THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL Fo an ae The Mountain Laurel, in Thompsonville, Conn., on Route 5, serving Springfield and Northern Connecticut for the past 17 years. It is our guests and their continuous patronage throughout the years whohave given us the impetus in preparing and serving good food and beverages. We are open week days 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays: 12:00 to,8.p.m. Closed Mondays. �SPRINGFIELD, MASS., MONDAY, MAY 21, 1956_ \ pay, a _ Plaque Bonen Late Sportsman | = =a = Plaque Unveiled — As ‘Memorial’ to H. P. Worthington Agawam, May 20—Representatives of sportsmen’s clubs of Hampden County met this afternoon at the Agawam Center Cemetery to dedicate a plaque honoring the memory of Harold P.. Worthington, who died last ‘year. Also present were members jof the First Baptist Church, iwhich Mr. Worthington was active member many years. : 3 : Mr. and of an officer for Conservation Supporter Worthington, a former president of the Hampden, County |}Council of Sportsmen’s many years was an Clubs, ardent for sup- porter of wildlife conservation and improved programs of sportsmen’s organizations. He appeared many times in support of legislation for conservation projects. He was one of those ‘who inaugurated legislation which established the five-man board of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Division. Matthew Coyne, chair- man of that board, was the speaker at today’s exercises. He spoke - | a Barbara and Agawam Center Worthington, Cemetery above, which honors unveil their the plague grandfather, in | the | late Harold P. Worthington, noted sportsman and conservationist, The plaque | Betty men was of which given Mr. by-the Hampden Worthington was held County Council was a member. yesterday. ee - Worthington | unveiled , ae of Sports- The 5 very briefly simply outlining the many acts of service of Mr.} Worthington and his connection with the betterment of conservation. Twin granddaughters of Mr. |Worthington, Betty and Barbara Worthington, daughters of E. B. ceremony : : ance ‘ ees TO BE HONORED Tea Si; to 1956 : 3 sez ee Event at Armory School Honors Principal... _A farewell tea honoring Miss Telen M.' Fletcher, principal of: Armory Street School, will be held at the school on Monday ~after90n from 1 to 3 o’clock. Miss! “‘letcher has recently been trans- ‘erred te Memorial School and! will take up her new duties in’ Jeptember. | All. parents and friends of Armory Street School are cordially invited to attend. Mrs, Carlton!Shattuck is chair- @ MISS . Who HELEN M. FLETCHER Meee : : will’ be honored at a tea Monday afternoon in the Armory} Street School, man two and she will be assisted by cochairmen, Mrs. Dudley {Page and Mrs. Philip Gootzit.) ‘|Members of the executive board) now working on plans for the tea jare Mrs. Dickran Yemenijian, | Mrs. Everett Zakarian, Mrs. John. Shonak, Mrs. So] Silverman, Mrs.| ohn Wallace, Mrs, Joseph J.} Aberdale, Mrs. Wycliffe Nash-' lo ain Bey a = 2 The eee inscription -\Hampden County.” N. J., tablet, oe bens ‘In Memor- George Urban acted as master ‘of ceremonies in the absence of Dauphinais, Benjamin T. who was Lockhard ill. of the First Baptist Church gave the pan es pronounced the benediction. Dudley K. Bodurtha, Be Given For Miss Fletcher plaque. iam; Harold P. Worthington for unselfish and devoted service to the Council of Sportsmen’s Clubs, ‘Rev. s of Demarest, following |Emil MAY the president of the council, placed a memorial wreath upon the grave. ie Ee �AUGUST 25, 1956 , MAY 24, 1956© FUTURE BRIDE Charl es Bartlett Will Take Bride | Barbara Ann Love Becomes Bride of Charles Bartlett Worthington Man to Wed Barbara A. Love Mr. and Mrs. Love of Goshen, the engagement ter, Barbara Goshen (N. Y.) Girl Weds Worthington Resident in Episcopal Church Richard Brooks N. Y., announce of their daugh- Ann to Charles *In St. James Episcopal Church, Mosher Bartlett, son of Guy Frankin Bartlett of Worthington and the late Mrs. Bartlett. The wedding will take place in August. Miss Love was graduated from Pine Manor Junior College in Goshen, N, Y., Miss Ann Love, daughter of society at the Yuletide Ball in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1953. She is the granddaughter of Dr. Cornelius Ruxton Love of Brooklyn. Mr. Bartlett was graduated from North Adams State Teachers College, and has done graduate work at Bates College and the University of Maine. He is o'clock. Rev. Douglas pool performed the Wellesley head and of the athletic Woods Ne and x Ys was history director School in presented the Oyster Mrs. Richard Brooks Love of The Farm, East Bay,| Goshen, N. Y., became the bfide of Charles Mosher Bartlett, son of Guy Franklin Bartlett of Worthington, to department, at Barbara Mr. and Bartlett, and on and a the Yuletide the late Saturday reception Mrs. at 4.30 M. Glassceremony, followed in the home of the bride’s parents. Mrs, Bartlett was graduated from Pine Manor Junior College. She was presented to society at N.°Y., ; daughter Love a of of Dr. MISS BARBARA A. in and Brooklyn, is the grand- Cornelius Brooklyn, Mrs. Love. Kindergarten ; Ball in 1953, and Ruxton the late She is the assistant teacher at East- woods School in Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. LOVE ‘Mr. Of Goshen, N. Y., whose engagement to Charles M. Bartlett of Worthington is announced Bartlett from was graduated Massachusetts State Teach- ers College, North Adams, and did graduate work at Bates College and the Unviersity of Maine. He is head of the history depart- ment and is athletic director at the Eastwoods School, Oyster Worthington Man’s Bride Bay. Given in marriage by her fa-! ther, the bride wore a princess-) Style gown of white taffeta, fashioned with deeply rounded neck- line, brief shirred Mrs. Otis Sherman sleeves and bouffant tiered skirt. Her fingertip veil of illusion was arranged) to a crown headpiece, and she carried a cascade of lily of the valley and white baby orchids. |! Attending her were her sister, Page, Jr., as matron of honor, and Miss Ruth Houston of Goshen, N, Y., and Miss Barbara Sullivan of Huntington, N. Y. as_ bridesmaids. Their gowns of taffeta were designed like that of the bride, with the matron of honor attired in scarlet, and the bridesmaids, in, turquoise. Each wore a. floral! hat, and carried a bouquet of) pale yellow roses and pompons, accented by blossoms matching her gown. For her daughter’s wedding, Mrs, Love chose a dress cf beige lace with mauve accessories and a white orchid corsage. Lt. Nicholas Ratiani of Bedford Air Force Base served the bride- groom as best man, Ushers were Robert Brownell, Frank Andrews, Franklin Bartlett, the bridegroom’s brother, and Talbot A. Love and Cornelius R. Love, 3d, brothers Among Miss of the guests Katherine F, bride. attending were Bartlett, Mrs. Mary H. Drexler and Mrs. Nicholas Ratiani, all of Deerfield; Miss Marion Bartlett of Springfield; Mr. lett, Jett, and Mrs. Horace H. F, Bart- Mr, and Mrs. George BartMr. and Mrs. Robert T. Bartlett and MRS. CHARLES MOSHER SFT ee eel and C, children, Raymond and Mr. Magargal, all of Worthington; Mr. and Mrs. Morris E. Lilly of Williamstown, ( Bachrach Photo) BARTLETT Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Bell of Augusta, Hardy, Y., Whose marriage took place Saturday afternoon in Goshen, N. was Miss Barbara Ann Love of Goshen, SI Mrs, pe sala ae Me., and Mrs, Albert Jr., of Buffalo, N. Y¥. �MAY30, 1956 r. Sanders Named to Conn. Post Dr. Sanders’ characterized Springfield School Super- intendent to Become State Commissioner of Education (Special to The Union) qualifications were as ‘‘outstanding”’ by a board member, * * * : Dr. Sanders gave the following statement last night: “T am greatly honored to be ielected to the position of commissioner of education for the state of Connecticut. ’ “However, it is with real regret that I will leave Springfield. The Springfield school system. is Hartford, Conn., May 29— Dr. William J. Sanders, superintendent of schools in outstanding in the success of its| Springfield, Mass., was elect- graduates jin college, commerce} ed commissioner of education and industry, and the support which it receives in the commuof the state of Connecticut nity. by the State Board of Edu“IT have thoroughly enjoyed cation today. He will suc-j working with those public-spiritmembers of the School Com-} ceed Dr. Finis E. Engleman,| ed mittee now serving and those who has resigned effective) who have served in the past as Sept. 14 to become executive, well as with other city officials. “Tt has been a particularly secretary of the American experience to work wit Association of Superintend- wonderful the staff of .the school system ents of Schools at Washing- whose professiona] abilities are unexcelled by any ‘other staff ton, D. C. Memorial Principal Honored —* and equalled by very few. “T am proud to have been superintendent of schools in Springfield.” To Submit Resignation Dr. Sanders said he expects to submit his resignation at the next meeting of the School Com$12,- mittee, which will be June 7, miniJohn T. McDonough, chairman of the School Committee, expressed keen regret that Dr, Sanders is leaving, “T feel deep regret at Dr, Sanders’ decision,’’ he said. ‘‘How| ever, I realize the post to which he has been elected is one of great honor and _ responsibility. | His loss is a stunning blow to the ‘| community, The School Committee will have great difficulty to find a person to replace him who possesses in the same degree the high attributes he has.” Dr, Sanders has had excellent relations with the committees un| der which he has served except for this year when he has under/gone criticism from the Democratic member from Ward 6, Vincent DiMonaco. Unanimous Vote Dr. Sanders received the unanimous vote of the board. He notified Mrs. Marion Hutton of Somers, Conn., chairman of the |board, by telegram of his ac| ceptance, | The 000 to position $16,800. pays but a from new Dr. Sanders came here from| the presidency of Fitchburg State| Teachers College more than six} years ago. He is a graduate of| Yale University, class of 1928, DR. WILLIAM J. SANDERS and received his doctorate from mum and maximum salary! Yale in 1935. He was a professchedule is being recommended.| sor at New Haven, Conn., State It is understood that Engleman Teachers College and at De Paul has recommended that it be from University in Chicago before go$20,000 to $25,000. Whether the board will go along with this is ing to Fitchburg. not known but Dr. Sanders He is married and has four stands eventually to receive conchildren, | He has had several other at-) siderably more than he is gettractive offers in the past which ting in Springfield where his sal‘lary is $16,000. he has refused, Dr, Sanders sent the following} telegram to Mrs. Hutton: j “Happy to accept election by! jstate board to the position of commissioner of education for Connecticut, Will do utmost to fulfill responsibilities of this very important post of educational) leadership.” 73 Candidates Dr. Sanders was picked a field of 73, which was from nar- rowed to five. The fire were Dr. Commissioner Deputy Sanders; ‘of Education of Connecticut, William Flaherty; Frank Stover, assistant commissioner in New Jersey; and Supt, of Schools Harold -Munson of Newburgh, N. ry | | | | { ' 2 Honored recently at a ceremony held at the Memorial School on Surrey Rd. was Miss Marion L. Bartlett who will retire this month as principal following 42-years’ service in the Springfield Public School System. Shown presenting a plaque to Miss Bartlett in recognition of her work as principal of Memorial School since 1953 is James Makol, president of the student council, who made the award on behaif of the students. �THE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN RETIREMENT A parade of past presidents @ SPRINGFIELD, MASS. @ JUNE PARTY 10, 1956 of the Washington School PTA, officials of the Springfield Public School Department, and members of the PTA at the school through the years, recently joined forces to pay homage to Miss RosaM. Bowker, principal of the Washington School, who is retiring from school de- partment service in Sept. The gala retirement party was held at the school where PTA members, many of whom have children and grandchildren under Miss Bowker's supervision, joined to fete her and to recall incidents of her 34 years of service to the Springfield Public School System, 17 of which have been spent as principal of the Washington School. Climax of the evening came when guests presented the dearly beloved educator with a silver pitcher and tray, a generous purse, and a register signed by her many friends. Rotophotos by Paul Krause iE HAPPY OR wt Lk. GIFT om | \ if PRINCIPAL Miss Bowker enjoyed many moments of sheer happiness as she chatted with little groups of old friends during the evening. Left to right here are: Miss Mary O., Pottenger, retired supervisor of elementary education; Mrs. Victor Hurd, Miss Mary Bowker, sister of the feted principal; Miss Bowker and Mrs. John Tierney. Nay Ws REGISTER Guests signed a handsome gift register which was later presented to Miss Bowker. In this groupare George LeRoy, Barbara Costello, Mrs, Max Karp, Miss Rebecca Johnson and Mrs. Martin Saykin, ANTICIPATION Mrs. William Cruess, chairman of the testimonial party, (left) opened gift package for Miss Bowker who was overwhelmed by the excitement of the event. Gifts SURPRISE PACKAGES came as complete surprise to Miss Bowker who is shown as gaily wrapped packages were presented to her by Mrs. Victor Hurd. �aia \\ si THE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN @ SPRINGBIELD, MASS. ® JUNE 10, 1956 IN LIMELIGHT Miss Bowker (center) was on verge of tears as Dr. William J. Sanders, superintendent of the Springfield Public School Department, paid her a warm verbal tribute. Seated beside her are Mrs. William Cruess, party chairman, and Mrs. Victor Hurd, co-chairman. OL.D FRIENDS Hundreds of friends of the beloved principal gathcred in the school foyer to partake of a generous refreshment smorgasbord, �: Poe Sr er i lee é Bh ert ree M ee, \ ¥ *‘ GF So many friends INTENT e AUDIENCE of Miss Bowker showed up at the testimonial that room partitions had to be opened to accommodate PTA president, A, John Willis, is shown addressing part of the crowd. HONORED GUEST Old friends of the retiring principal sat beside her as program of sincere tributes was begun. In foreground, left to right, are: Miss Bowker, Miss Mary L. Bowker, Miss Alice B. Beal, Miss Mary O. Pottenger, Mrs. Daniel B. Brunton, Mrs. Ira Purdy and Mrs. Victor Hurd. a ee ES the throng. Here, past �~~ PITCHER A handsome sterling silver pitcher was one of the gifts showered on Miss Bowker at the party. Here, she's shown making speech of acceptance while Mrs. Victor Hurd and Murray Satell look on. LINE = ~ eS Pees. tm ah e toa L eve ET RECEIVING At the party's conclusion, friends of the retiring principal wished her many years of happiness as they passed through receiving line. �~ _pedy 21 f° 1956 | sUter 1 1958. Conwell Author Feted 50th Class Reunion ee at Westlicld Among those present at the Westfield High School Class of 1906 50-year reunion at Sheraton Inn, Westfield, Saturday night, were those shown above. They are, left to right—former Mayor Arthur B. Long of Westfield, J. Earle Boyle of Westfield, class president, Mrs. George Cushing, 86, of New Hampshire, senior class homeroom teacher when the class graduated, George R. Wholean of West Springfield vice-president, and Clarence A. G. Pease of Springfield, treasurer. A coming-out party for new author, Miss Jane Conwell Tuttle, left, at South Worthington, enlivened this hamlet yesterday when friends from the area flocked to her house to celebrate publication of her first book, “Life With Grandfather Conwell.” Miss Tuttle and Mrs. Lois E. Brown, right, here inspect a copy of the paper-bound edition. Miss Tuttle’s grandfather, Rus-| Perhaps that’s héw it was for lsell H. Conwell, was a noted| Conwell, except that he didn’t orator at the end of the 19th make mistakes. He knew where century and the beginning of the the diamonds were—in his voice 20th. His lectures earned him|| and his head. The riches were in enough money to permit him to’ his backyard. And when he found them he} found Temple University and gave them away. Samaritan Hospital in Philadel-| Conway was a foreign corres-| phia. pondent for the New York Tri-| In his life Conwell gave away bune and the Boston Traveler in} $11,000,000. the 1870's. | Most of it came from-his talks,| He triedslaw, too, but a pen-} including a speech titled ‘‘Acres chant for taking eases for the} of Diamonds.» He gave that! poor without taking their money } lecture 6000 to 7000 times. He -and perhaps a superfluity of| delivered around 10,000 alto- lawyers in legal-minded Boston| gether. where he practiced—left him with} Left Penniless little income. Conwell was born Feb. 15, 1843, First Writing Effort | at South Worthington. He died Now he has been frozen into; Dec. 6, 1925. His fabulous phil-| type by his granddaughter, Miss anthropy left him almost pen- Tuttle. This is her first plunge} niless, into writing, but her work among} In a : way, , his life was under “lother arts has been varied 1 something that might be called She hoped for a career in op- a lucky Civil War, minor spell. Wounded in hard, the) era worked he was arrested on a) cert technicality. and tours Canada, in the and made United She won con- States a job with Fearing that his record might) an opera company just before be blemished, he went to Presi-| worlq War I, but when hostilities dent e Lincoln, who ordered that) menaced, she abandoned singing Conwell be given an honorable|.44q went to Philadelphia to keep discharge. Conwell was 21 at the house for her grandfather. time, and a lieutenant colonel. Vhen the war began she underHe turned to the ministry after took volunteer service activitie: the war, built a new church at eventually joining an overseas Lexington when he found his theater troupe which presented }sermons attracted large crowds,| shows two and three times a day land he was on his way. | for soldiers, | His ‘‘Acres of Diamonds’’ was| Miss Tuttle now directs the jan allegorical fable about an an-| choir of the Congregational |cient Persian who went out into} Church and paints. She is a past | the world to find riches, only to president of the local Palette and | have the man who bought his Trowel Club. property discover diamonds in the She lives in a small white cot| Persian’s old backyard. tage with her yellow dog, Bambi, across the street from the turesque Methodist Church long ago by Grandfather well when he came to town. pic- used Con- Fes if fe a ll phe d es AN INN OF COLONIAL CHARM and Hotel Northampton have been noted Wiggins Old Tavern since 1786 for their excellent preparation of delicious food from old New England recipes. After enjoying the meal of your dreams and relaxing in an atmosphere of quaint charm,a visit to our Weaving House, Antique Shops, and Coach and Wagon Sheds will surely make your visit to Wiggins Old Tavern a delightful experience you'll long remember. �eee aA ee, LU VME Worthington Girl ~ In Church Bridal, Miss ‘Marcia Lane Dr. Frank Feakes Weds ~ Worthington, June 17 — Miss Marcia Lane, daughter of Mrs. Robert Phelps Lane of Worthing- ton, formerly of Westfield, and the late Mr. Lane, was married Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock to Dr, Frank Feakes of Brookline and Perth, Australia, son of Mrs. Frank Feakes of Perth, and the late Mr. Feakes. The ceremony took place in the Congregational Church of Worth‘ington, performed by Rev. E. Pomeroy Cutler of Richmond, and a reception followed in the ‘home of the bride’s mother. The bride was given in marriage by her grandfather, William L. Cummings of Montclair, N. J., and wore a floor-length dress of silk organdy over pink taffeta, with appliques of Argenta lace. Her finger-tip veil was of nylon tulle, and her bouquet of lily of the valley and stephano‘tis, Her maid of honor was Miss Sara Elizabeth Lane of Westfield, her niece, who wore blue silk or- gandy and carried a bouquet of yellow marguerites, and attending as flower girls were Linda and Lee Lane of Westfield, also nieces.. For -her daughter’s wedding, Mrs. Lane was attired in pale green linen with white accessor- les, William bridge ushers H. served were Ceckler as best Thomas of W. man Cam- Mix and of Cambridge and William C, Lane of Westfield, brother of the bride. . The bride is a graduate of Wellesley College and received her master’s degree in public health North Mr. from from Carolina, Feakes the the University was University of of graduated Western Australia, and after coming to this country on Fulbright and Robert Gledden grants, received his doctorate’s degree in chemical engineering from Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, is currently at the institute as He a research associate in chemical engineering. Mr. Feakes is a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and Sigma Xi. : The on, couple will reside in Bos- MRS. FRANK (Bradford FEAKES Bachrach Photo) �THE YANKEE PEDLAR INN Here you will find facilities in the Colonial manner for lunc heon, dinner or parties for festive occasions. In any of the attractive dining rooms, the meal of your choice will be an experience in good living --- superbly prepared, generously portioned and graciously served. Spas ipetaee Ca ELT “a sitet oie ae THE LOG We! CABIN --- FAMOUS u Mine FOR ue ‘ nad ITS CUISINE cet Aan Ge: eeneta, > AND CHARM Hitue Spacious gardens, warm with the bright glow of old-fashioned flowers, terraced lawns, and a magnificent view of the Berkshires are part of the charm of The Log Cabin, Easthampton Road, Holyoke. Here, in air-conditioned surroundings, you will enjoy the finest foods and delightful cocktails, concocted to please your personal taste. We're open daily from 12 noon to midnight. �Veteran School Official, 69, Dies! Northampton, Sept. Morse & Haynes President 26—Lucius A. Merritt of North St., Williamsburg, superintendent of School Union -55, which includes the} towns of Chesterfield, Southampton, Westhampton, Worthington and Williamsburg, died suddenly this morning at Cooley Dickinson} Hospital in this Windsor, Conn., city. He was born in April, 1888, in. son of Lucius A. College of | and Jennie W. Merritt, and was} graduated from Windsor High, School Hartford. and Trinity Following graduation from Trinity, he served as coach! of football matics at of and teacher of mathe-| Windham High School Willimantic, was school principal Conn., of the at Easthampton and later|! grammar| for eight! years before accepting the super-| intendent’s position which he held until the time of his death. Mr, Merritt was superintendent of schools in Chesterfield, Worthington and Williamsburg from 1920 until 1953 when the school | systems of Southampton and Westhampton were added to the union. He held the longest record in service as state superin-' tendent of a school union,, Mr. most church ter of Masons ber of Church fices Clerk, Merritt had been active of his life in civic and work and was past masthe Hampshire Ledge of of Haydenville; a memthe First Congregational in which he held the of-| of as deacon, well as director | Started 60-Year Career As Errand Boy Eugene B. Ward of 6 Plateau Ave., Wast Springfield, president of Morse & Haynes Co., Inc., shoe merchants, died today in Springfield Hospital. A native of Chester, he came ito this city at an early age, and started with the shoe company as an errand boy in 1895. He was associated with the company for 60 years, seeing it grow from a small retail outlet to a successful chain operation with outlets in other cities and |what may have been the largest special order department in the country at one time. The growth of the store was credited in no small way to the | contribution of Mr —aT@p=wvho as well as being a business manager was a resourceful designer and innovator. ‘‘Articulator”’ arch supports, several patents, to the general local outlet and on which he held were introduced trade from the later were used by other companies in their nationally-distributed products. | After years of studies of foot} troubles, Mr. Ward put his spe-| | Grange. the and! superintendent Funeral will be held Saturday of Worthington, died pve a son, Philip W. of South Deerfield; a brother, Leland P. ‘Cole of Scotia, N. ¥.; and two sisters, Mrs. George E. Torrey and Miss Oliver E, Cole of Worth- ington. The funeral will be held| Saturday afternoon at 2 in First} |Congregational Church with Dr. Hollis W. Huston officiating. Burial will be in North Cemetery. Omission of flowers is requested iby the family. There will be no ‘calling hours, cocci Worthington, ton Grange, 90, TOae Sept. 9—Worthingwill meet Tues- day evening at 8.30 in the Town Hall when officers for the coming year will be elected. The Mad from Hatter last program month postponed will be carried out at this meeting with prizes for the best hats. Refreshments will be served by Mrs. Russell Borst. Mrs. Ernest W. Robinson ang John Jarvis. The Parent-Teachers Organiza- of the Russel] H. Conwell “Funeral services for Waldo Chapman Cole, who died sudden- ly in Greenfield Wednesday, were), kKeld Saturday at 2 in First Congregational Church with Dr. Hollis W. Huston _ officiating. EUGENE B. Bearers were Leland P. Cole, Jr., WARD i cialized knowledge to work in the design of corrective footwear. Among the many persons for whom he once created special shoes were crippled children at the Shriners’ Hospital here. Mr. Ward was president of the {store at the time that it occu| pied space in the old Lyman | Building /in 1938 |tion of on Main to allow for Woolworth St. demolished the construc- Store. The shoe store then took up new |quarters at 1285 Main St. He was a member of the Mittineague Congregational Church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Anna (Balod) Ward; a son, Raynor of Springfield and a daughter, Mrs. Leonard Austin of Ashfield. The funeral will be held at Byron’s funeral home Monday at 1.30 p. m. with Rev. Charles King, pastor of Mittineague Congregational Church, officiating. Visiting hours are Saturday and ‘Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 .m. The family asks that flow-7 ers be omitted and that any _cou-) tributions go to the Cancer Fund. and Richard Bartlett of Scotia, N. Y., homas Bates of Williamsburg, and Ashley Cole of Wor- thington. Burial was in the North |Cemetery. ————_——— Ni Worthington, Sept. 10—At the annual meeting of the Women’s Benevolent Society, Mrs. Leroy LH. Rida was re-elected president. Other officers are: vice-president, Mrs. Ralph Kerley, Jr.; secretary, Mrs. Harlan Creelman; treasurer, Mrs, Arthur RolJland; five directors, Mrs. Dana J. Lowd, Mrs. \ William Kronenberger, Mrs. Franklin H. Burr, Mrs. Malcolm I. Fairman, and Mrs. Robert P. Lane. Carl S. Joslyn, president of the Worthington Health Association, reports that an autoclave has been purchased and installed at the Health Center for sterilizing. This purchase, amounting to! $419.76, was made from the capital fund and leaves a balance of $1086.76. Four hundred _ sixtyseven memberships have « been purchased to date toward a goal of six hundred members. The Fayette R. Stevens memorial fund which was established at the annual meeting in August has received contributions amounting to $250. There will be a special business meeting at the First Congregational Church Thursday at 8 to consider the proposed sale of the parsonage and_ appointment of Dr. Harold A. Stone to the Sunday school planning committee as a member-at-large. Following the morning service on Sunday, the Friendship Guild sponsored a coffee hour in the church vestry as a farewell party for Dr. and Mrs. Hollis W. Huston, who left shortly afterwards for Ohio Wesleyan University where Dr. Huston will teach. WORTHINGTON?” that Dr. N. Deming Hoyt, recent- Besides his wife, Mrs. Sarah (Hyde) Merritt, he leaves his at 2 in First Congregational Church with Rev. Arthur A. Rouner, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in Village Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the Mansfield funeral home, Haydenville, Thursday and Friday from 2 to » and 7 to 9. Schools in Haydenville and Williamsburg will be closed Friday and high school students will attend the funeral Saturday in a bady. 54, suddenly late Wednesday in Greenfield. He was born in Worthington, son of the late Mr. | and Mrs, Horace S, Cole, and attended the Jocal schools. He was a carpenter by trade. Mr. Cole ly appointed school adjustment counsellor, will be guest speaker. Dr. Hoyt was formerly a professor of psychology at Smith College. His work for the schools of Wiiliamsburg, Westhampton and Worthington is tegarded as a pioneer project and its aim will be the total adjustment of every child. ices Williamsburg mother, Mrs. Jennie Merritt; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Warrington ‘and Mrs, Jennie White, all of Windsor; two brothers, Alfred W. of Windsor and C. William of Hartford; four sons, Richard H. of Farmington, Conn., Robert C. of Williamsburg, G. William of Campbell, Cal., and Lucius A., Jr., of Columbus, S. C.; four daughters, Mrs. Helen Sten of Tilton, N. H., Mrs. Jean L. Corbiers of Woodmont, Conn., Miss Ruth Frances of Pordenone, Italy, and Mrs. Edith M. Anderson of Kittery, Me., and 22 grandchildren. Cole, C. School will hold the first meeting of the current school year on Wednesday evening at 8 in the school. Mrs. Robert J. Lucey, program chairman, announces perintendents Association, the Hampden County Superintendent’s Association the Williamsburg Rotary Club and a former member of Joel Hayden Chapter, and WALDO C. COLE Worthington, Sept. 6—Waldo tion of the Sunday school; a member of the Hampshire-Franklin Su- OES, | Sty Lucius Merritt, " WORTHINGTON WORTHINGTON = { Worthington, Sept. 27—Russell| H. Conwell School will be closed} Friday out of respect to Lucius A. Merritt, school superinendent,| who died Wednesday in Cooley} Dickinson Hospital. The teachers) and members of the Schoo]*Com-} mittee will attend thé funeral ‘Saturday at 2 in the First Coneregational Church of Williams-| burg, | Dr. Otto F. Kraushaar, presi-| ident of Goucher College who} jpought the Dr. Ernest Hussar} home here last August for a sum-| mer home, is quoted in the cur-| rent issue of the Reader’s Digest in relation to the early admissions program of the Ford Foundation. : ——______—_—— The Womens’ Benevolent SoTojety held its annual dinner; | Wednesday evening in Goshen | with 40 attending including Miss special a Kilbourne, |Bernice ; guest. ————_—_—— |" The Rod and Gun Club will |hold the second turkey shoot of this year’s series Sunday after- | noon at 2 at the club grounds ou | Christian Hollow. Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Eddy |} White} the in vacationing are. sister,| Eddy’s_ Mr. Mountains. | Mrs. Gilbert A. Barnhart field is | absence. keeping house of West-| in gees acne SHOE CONCERN HEAD,IS DEAD in linc ls ale ats EUGENE WARD, BET ._ 2, 1956 sin , NOVEMBER Ir �(9p& Artist Honored | Worthington, May 28 — Fred Nagler, prominent Western MasSachusetts artist and a member of the local Palette and Trowel Club, was honored at the annual ceremonial of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Nagler, who ; Long Illness Fatal to Tax is a summer resident of Huntington, was one of six American artists selected for grants of $1000 each Collector at 58 Age Worthington, June by the National Institute of Arts 28—Fayette . and Reid Stevens, 58, Worthington tax collector since 1947, died this morning in Cooley Dickinson Hosattended local schools ; His and : - Health it was ees organized oe |sisters, Mrs. in oT F be Conn., and Miss of Northampton; officiating. in the Mr. on Cemetery drive. Mrs. chaseade L Carey Jr., Walter Mollison, Mrs. mond, Mrs. Raymond levy, Mrs. C, Kenneth “eRe te Ae Franklin Rd, Ec R. Hal- next to house argal, K. DunOsgood, s ae ne the a paras re ’ . . Bartlett, and r, : delegate ‘ aa i, iucnar Eales ee Mrs. Milton Parish, Mrs. Arthur | hold office hours at the Health ‘Mrs, Herbert N. Haskell and Mrs.| the holiday but he will be here officially ning appointments which may Rolland, Mrs, Bertram B, Leroy Warren. opened on H. The June Rida Center on Wednesday because drive| irecital on June 19 First Congregational this town, 2 WCharles M. at & in Church the | Mr. of| Bartlett of Oyster ar having called joined by daughter’s her home, husband Pines here at her| Hanes ie . at Rindge, N. H. i a Boston June 4—John & Albany ), MASS, THURSDAY, MAY ae L, | { Rail- sons, Harold, who is at Westover Field, stationed ; : | R. Hallowell home has been dug without any. of the fanfare and jeceremony planned. While Mr Hallowell and C. R. Magargal were staking out the house Moning, Zack Donovan day Sue esas is stationed at and George, the who Naval Hos- : pital in Oakland, Cal. Both boys were called home for the funeral in West Springfield on Saturday morning and have been guests| ae passed by. oS aie ee his way ee Pie earch th ing them a ‘a: Re noe e aon here of Mr, and Mrs. Merwin F. dig Packard, Worthington Briefs Warren C. Packard, son of Mr and : Mrs.adbatedMerwinhoor. hiversityand Sunday of ition with sition with ae a has ¢ an in re Philadelphia. married to the , ee _ ae F 0 Pa sched kard, of Rites ee Uivomice ee pee iehe n s Massachusetts accepted a fir firm Packard is : former Florence 1ey they the et ae oe iris oe 2 es announces her home on Buffington Hill Rd., been Naval of Monday morning on <s’ cross-country mo- twin brother, of Air Corps He expects George and ric sa Vin Rae See ten Sa i . cS ai ta Robert a iS Soe nea ease SP i Sel I Christian on Aug. 8 and he the larid has en- Univer eee | E teats iokow. and Mr.| at aianeick “Bnest G.-P haven has rehienaed to his home on River Road from Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Miss Patricia Anne Hillman of Canaan, Conn., a junior at erick J. Hillman of See AGS 2r 8 ey OO and and and a Sencste Smith College, is a guest of her grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. Fred- er ain ate: Mus: and . Frank of Springfield Wie. New . Sunday ke A Hallihan INavy rolled in Northeastern BIBY. ot rere opm 5 Briefs The re ele, Richavaomairs june <3, (Geanduarents to the from Torrey. asad of a daughter, Pamela Beth, horn at Cooley Dickinson Hospital on has re-enlisted. discharge the man of Ringville are the parents ae (Barnes his of ee Worthington He SAMUEL “Not since salom ‘stole the the isv —b € time that Ab-/ hearts of the! men of Israel’ from his father, | David, were people promised so much and given so little by irresponsible leaders,’’ declared the millionaire senator from Okla- é homa. 5 a George E. : leet caer, ‘air base in Orlando. George will receive because Nir. nadine for the re- to be assigned Mrs. Ce Cal.,| oe peney discharge from postponed H. Conwell School on Thursday evening at.8 in the town hall. Music will be under the direction they will pick up Harold’s | turn fat ceive is will Graduation Epa Dia- hospital in Oakland, Osgood vaccine Dr. Fred G. Bratton of Springfield Colles Wi bBo theo dora field: College speaker wi ecb jmencement ate , the graduation exercises of the Russell a. te Gnas. Fla., to ane where Program Kenneth polio future at a time to be announced. are Ameri- pa Eectiak Board and have reean Ses o their Re first re centlyBaptishcompleted term of service in India. They left C. ad into pe house after children and pregnant women will receive their vaccine in the near will be the guest speak- slides ‘the Mia iocal measle epidemic. Pre-school ly of Omaha, Nebraska, and now vacationing at Mountain Rest in John Vaccine and three: school. The polio vaccination had |and Mrs. W. R. Hodges, former- mond a thr Mire ead be given to. children attending school whose parents signed consent slips on Thursday at the Thursday evening at 8 when Mr. ers.is Mr. -and 7 ae ies under the eee Selectman 19s will show colored India “Harold Bergin and buathesec Avthucs dren of Leeds will ie former Cederholm Worthington, July 30 — Mrs. DeWitt C. Markham will. be hostess: to the Friendship Guild at Goshen Ono Hdwatd orb ee eos siness there from P1Ss~ Hatoe sBCAlIcN Nip.f Cader divs Ses WORTHINGTON So iF Peapsiiy 4 b iolm who moved his business and family to Bastrop, Texas, last December, is in town for several 3 SES. TITRY WORTHINGTON — ieI July 1. Mr.and Mire Meer, F. Packefa "and Tistahi and George. Bergin wera. in. Amherst ion then - a1 Fe inctan > dune Worthington, June Benen 5—Henry Fh Snyder, Inc., has purchased ro hee e paneer the Car edernoim te Sea ei ae ee d iewill a move¥ Mr, ine foundation Pavchnia. on po- ing’ accounting the there. } 4 WORTHINGTON | The cellarhole for the Norman| road conductor, formerly of this town, died in Springfield at age 67 on May 30. He leaves ‘twin Mrs. C, Kenneth Osgood, and Mrs. C. Raymond Magargal were chaperones for a party of 38 HyJanders and Junior Crusaders on|. a trip to the Cathedral in the Llewelyn Rees is re-| her home in Denver 1 been St St. ues /AVorthingto n, July 9—Mr. . Mrs. Joseph W. Sena, Mr. Mrs. Leroy H. Rida, Mr. at her home on Clark Hill several weeks ago by the illness of her mother, Mrs. Archer W. FitzGerald who is now improved, | Mrs. Holt Secor is in Waipole for a week where she will be oa tear ~ WORTHINGTON Mrs. Bertram B, Warten’s class in Antique Decorating will meet Tuesday morning from °9 Col. ‘vill of Rockville, home on Capen ra A. Love of Goshen, New York, have arrived at the Spruces to spend a week lente Gant s a with Mr.-Bart- Mrs. R. furning to be ee ee ete sete ota Dal ‘ turned to Hanae fa a Veterans Hospi "Ol wee .. D Bay, N, Y. and his fiancee, Miss Barba a of on June 6 for afternoon and eve- 1 and) Bergin, the will start : -——_ JOHN J. aunen Worthington, a building lot ter on June 16, C, Raymond Mag- John Dia- J of the to the state convention in Worces- Mrs. ie continue through this month.| Clifton L. Sears of Cumming- | /ton will present his Worthington |piano and accordion pupils in a} , i Chesterfield the pa wag arga. 2. RECT UY eet ae Charles C. Eddy; treasurer, John Nelson: registration, Fayette R. They will be assisted by Donovan, : oo until town hall and elected the following Bddes officers:ate chairman, : : Charles . noey Se ee - sexe sore dint rte‘ etir-| John eres tee met Friday pe Worthington, June 8&—Carl S. Joslyn : id nt of the Worthine , Health. Center, ie a Meu, on GOF Commitios Organizes The Republ Ci t WORTHINGTON ——- ee upon Teacher’s House and Mus. Norman tion on the new within the week. - loeintad eee be acted and it is expected that construc. no calling hours. sees ats - fosth new Souse built tast tell by Weds W. Magargal and Son. A. E. Alrien nee Delt ince of Deine oon a ee them with the deed to this lo jand will be private. There will be 2 he lowell have chosen Burial North sido Resigns ‘resignation pe ce ee Funeral will be Saturday at 2 in First Congregational Church, with Rev. Allen H. Gates of Chesterfield is ut won't Northampton. will were at the morning worship service at First Congregational Church Sunday. Mr, Barber's resigna- and a brother, Walter L. Stevens of of fr yes he St Raymon y of Farmington, Laura Seaeene canvasses 5 Rev. Robert O. Barner was read and Gun Club and the Volunteer Fire Department, and was a director and secretary of the since four Z etterPastor A‘ He was a member of the Rod Worthington in- ‘And Oneyy Withvay a Rope,” ‘Mother wae ” and Child,” nt” “Last Supper,” and eBewiderme hres eae to cethe nl former incaMaude was married Henderson of f Tenafly, Tenafly, N. J., , who moos program most significant religious artists today. the Stevens homestead in Stevens- ville, ae The four ed hispaintings standingwhich as demonstrat. one of the Mr. Stevens, who was born in ov o Letters. cluded an exhibition of the work ‘of the artists honored with grants. Mr. Nagler was represented by ee piof Mie tag health. eh Betas‘ period declining ay $$ WORTHINGTON “ F.R. STEVENS, - WORTHINGTON OFFICIAL, DIES |. WORTHING) y 31, 1956 �Mrs, Rosa M.-Cole | Rosa M, Cole, 88, of 37) ton St., widow of Ethan} 1. Cole died at Springfield Hos-|-pital Sunday afternoon, She was} born Dee, 17, 1867, in Worthing- | ton, the daughter of John E. and| Mary Isabella (Martyn) Wither-| ell, and had lived in Springfield! for the past 60 years. She was a! former member of Memorial} Church and recently a member | of Hope Congregational Church.| HONORED bi, JFIFT¢ Minister Resigns At First Church: Budget Boosted Worthington, June 6 — Mrs. Harry LL.’ Bates presided as moderator at the annual business meeting of First Congregational Clerch Tuesday evening with 44 in attendance. Pastor’s Salary Raised She Gladys made to cepted, 7 following officers were the Church Committee made: moderator, Mrs. was Harry elected after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Mrs.-Bates from L. Bates;) trustees for three years, Lawrence Mason and /Raymond Magargal: trustee |one year, Mrs. Malcolm C. for I. Fair- jman; clerk, Arthur G,. Capen; ; deacon, Clarence A. G. Pease; treasurer, Mrs. C. Kenneth Osgood; benevolence treasurer, Mrs. Charles C. Eddy; auditor, Mrs. Harry W. Mollison; Sunday school superintendent, Mrs. H. Franklin Bartlett; missionary committee, Mrs. Harold E, Brown, Mrs. Lewis Zarr, Mrs, Stanley Mason and Mrs. George H. Bartlett; church committed, Mrs. Harry L. Bates and Mrs. Joseph W. Sena; resolutions committee, Mrs Harry W. Mollison and Mrs. Harlan Creelman; laymen‘s committee, Robert- Bam- forth and Charles GC. Eddy. Musie committee, Miss Jane Tuttle, Mrs. Frank Smith - and Mrs. Ernest W. Robinson; nominating committee, Mrs: Lewis Zarr, Mrs. A. Leland Smith and Mrs - Robert Bamforth; flower committee, Mrs. Franklyn Hitchcock, Mrs. Joseph Landa, Mrs. Harold A. Stone and Mrs. Lawrence Mason; solicitors for the Every Member Canvass, Mrs. Ralph W. Smith, Mrs.. Harold E. Brown, Mrs. Richard G. Hathaway, Bradford Fisk, Herbert N. Haskell, Miss Patricia Magargal, Mrs. Howard W. Mollison, Mrs. Raymond Sears, Mrs. Clifford Tinker, Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Smith, Mrs. Lawrence Dingmond, Mrs. Chester W. Wronski, and Robert, George and Franklin Bartlett. It was voted that the church eommittee should act as a pas- tcral supply . committee, plus these four additiorial members: Mrs. Stanley Mason, Mrs. C. /Raymond Magargal, Mrs. Rich- lard G. | Bamforth. Hathaway and Robert son, Miss| she) Ashley| lude at 3. Rev, Alison Ray Heaps} of Rockville, Conn., former pas-| A letter of resignation from Rev. Robert O. Barber was ac- “fhe a whom PAUL Paul 8, 8, tor of Memorial Church, will of-| ficiate. Burial will be in the Hill-| crest Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 3-5 and 7-9 p. m, TOMPKINS Tompkins, a junior at Berkshire School in Sheffield, has been presented a eup for making the “greatest improvement in track” this year at the school. The Edward McClure Peters, JUNE | Jr., Cup was awarded at the school’s 49th commencement exercises this week . end. Tompkins scored 25 points in the mile and half-mile, including three firsts. Last season, his first year on the track team, psints at all. of Mr. and Tompkins he scored He is Mrs. of “Happy way hit | will star ducers’ 24, 1956. Birthday,’’ comedy by Betty Field Showcase” the the son Allerton Worthington way on Grange last card current series Mr. and Mrs. | 90 in will: the Rd. on Fri- at 8 when the will be awarded refreshments The eighth | at the home of George H. Ridg-| Huntington day evening grand prizes party two and Boys playing. Proceeds from this dance will help to de. fray the expenses of their class trip to Boston which is scheduled for May 4, 5 and 6. Mr, and Mrs. George H. Bartlett and daughter, Caroline, were in Westfield on Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Baritlett’s fa| ther, Jesse E. Kenyon who passed away Friday. Burial will be in the Pine Hill Cemetery in Chest: er at a later date. The third teacher training program for Sunday School] teachers| will be held in Williamsburg this evening at 8 instead of last eve-| ning as previously scheduled, “Creative Activities’ will be the subject of this week's session. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gustafson | and three children of Manchesier, Conn., Mrs. were Warren ton Hill Rd. Miss panied Bartlett State guests Rausch over Marian her and of Mr. L. Bartlett niece, a party Teachers’ and/ of Buffing: | the weekend. Miss | accom- | Caroline| of Westfield| College mates to New York City sightseeing and shopping during the vacation week. class-| on a| trip | frrr4 2H -19E| | Hammerstein. starred in the role Miss Field will play “Happy Birthday” tells the whimsical story of a meek librarian who is smitten with a bank clerk almost totally unaware of her existence. She decides to frequent a bar he visits ‘in hope of seeing him. Liquid ‘refreshment relaxes the young woman sufficiently to rid her of several will be served. grade of the Rus- sell H., Conwell School will sponsor a spring dance Saturday evening at the town hall with the Westfield Loss, on ‘Protomorrow ute program. He also produced and directed ‘‘Bloomer Girl’ and “Dodsworth.” : “Happy Birthday,” was first presented on Oct. 31,.1946, at the Broadhurst Theater in New York no WORTHINGTON Worthington Broad- (NBC-TV, 8-9.30 p. m., Channel 30). Alex Segal will be guest producer-director of the 90-min- by Rodgers and Helen Hayes was hold the Anita life-long inhibitions. Enid Markey will resume the role she created in the stage production. Other stage and TV actors in the show will include Harry Bellaver, Miss Parker McCormick and Harold Vermilyea. SeRuEDEEEicieceee ne I up with A it home; daughter, \ brining her a Cole, ( salary, W, E, Cole of Wethersfield, Conn. 3] a sister, Mrs. Charles Brewster, and a brother, Arthur Witherel, | both of Worthington, The funeral wil be held at the DickinsonStreeter funeral home, Tuesday at 3.30 p, m., with an organ pre- The proposed church budget of $4560 was amended to $4860 to {include a $300 increase in the | pastor's leaves �a OCTOBER 4, a ences ‘ os aman » seeeee —- e ree as | ~ WORTHINGTON, i Ey aEe Harry J. Dame Worthington, Oct. 14 — Mrs. Hilda Esther Landa of this town and Harry Joseph Dame of Hinsdale were married Sunday afternoon jin First Congregational Church with Rev, Allen H. Gates of Chesterfield officiating. Arthur G. Capen was organist. The bride’s sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Brown of Springfield, were attendants. A small reception followed at |the Yankee Pedlar in Holyoke. Mrs. Dame has been employed ‘for nearly four years at the ,| Strathmore Paper Co. in West Springfield and Mr. Dame is in ,|}business in Hinsdale. Following ,|a trip to Florida, they ‘vill be at home after Nov, 1 on South St. -|in Hinsdale. “!be Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Thayer of River Rd. West Worthington, are receiving the congratulations on the occasion of their 64th wedding anniversary which they observed Sept. 28. They were married in 1892 af celebrated their 59th anniversary by going to the dance at the town hall, ‘not only going, but dancing all evening.” The Thayers are the parents of three daughters; Mrs. Eben L. years. Mr. Ketchen, who at that Shaw and Mrs. Raymond Britt, time served both the. Methodist who share the big rambling homeChurch in South Worthington and stead on River Rd. and Deborah West Worthington, performed the Annie, who died at the age of ceremony and Mrs. Leon Conwell nine, They have two granddaughM. Conwell, who now lives in ters and two great-granddaughWakefield played the wedding ters and one great-grandson. The march. arrival of the latter, little Douglas As a dairy farmer, Mr. Thayer Fisk in the spring of this year, was not too busy to take an active was the first boy born into the, part in both town and church af- family in 88 years, Mr. Thayer fairs and has held various offices himself being the last one and he in both through the years. Mrs. was an only child. Thayer, the former Delena Jones, Within the lifetime of Mr. and! was a school teacher prior to her Mrs. Thayer, six generations of | marriage, teaching in Chester- both sides of their family have field. Active in the town too, she lived in their house and in the| has been a trustee of the First house down the road where Mrs. Congregational Church for 25 Thayer was born and from which years and Sunday School superin- she married the boy next door. tendent also for 25 years. Both On their 64th wedding anniversahave always enjoyed dancing and ry, Mr. Thayer at 88 and his wife regularly attended the Saturday at 82, enjoy good health and are night dances up until Mr. Thayer keenly alert to all that is going was 83 and he relates that they on at home and abroad. the home of the bride. Mr. Thayer recalls that it was the last day of Cummington Fair which he missed that one time for the only time in a period of more than 50 Home Mrs. C. hostess Group Meeting Kenneth Osgood to the Home 23 and in and Middlefield family on at the | Mrs. Helen Bretzner of Huntlington Rd. will be in Northamp|ton this week serving on the |Traverse Jury and Mrs. C. Kenjneth Osgood will be there to lserve | on the Grand Jury. teres See | Worthington, Oct, 22—Mr. and | Mrs, Howard Mollison have re-| celved official notification ‘that they have been selected as the | Grange couple of the year for Massachusetts and that their| names have heen entered in the} national competition. The state Grange has awarded | them a set of encyclopedias. Th first were nominated i the foeet | Grange as the couple who most | exemplified the ideal Grangers, | On the Pomona Grange level, | they were required to subm paper telling of their family, it a| their| farm, and of their activ ities in} the community. From that paper ee : mee neh ict, fina inated Y winn winni i ng from the will Oct. 25 from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. is asked to call Mrs. Harry W. Mollison. Worthington Briefs Miss Hilda Landa is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chester W. Wronski for two weeks while her mother is in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Glass of Lynn are spending several days with Mr. and. Mrs. Harry W. 'Mollison | Center. Wife State Grange, Couple for 1956 | oe 1950 RE-ELECTS forthington, Oct. 15 —At t | nual meeting of the Worthingans Golf Club Saturday evening at the clubhouse, A, Verne Flint Was re-elected president, Merwi n| F, Packard and A. V. Sturtevant! j are to be vice-president and sec-| retar y-treasurer Elected jthe directors officers in are: respectively. addition H. Snyder Stone, and n Dp Rausch, a os Henry rear A, — SS Mrs, Leroy H. Rida, president Be the Women’s Benevolent Soclety, reports that more than 220 Persons were served at the annual harvest supper in the Town | Hall Saturday evening, giving the Socie (the ty a net profit of parsonage building the School. $160 for fund, + Mrs. John N. Diamond, president of the Friendship Guild, announces that the home mission Project this year is to be a collection of articles for} the Savery Library of Talladega Colle ge, an Interracial school in Alabama. She requests that members and friends of the Guild contribute |’ children’s books, pictures, records, crayons, toys, puzzles, games and dolls tobe used in the teacher-training program of These items should Bob Baldwin of |Northampton, and Arthur charme, Jr., Jim Corbett, Granger and Zack Donovan town. The next shoot will be py obet 21 at 2 in Christia n ei a io| G. Gas-| jton, Dana J. Dowd, Cecil Roy W. Ma. Cann, W. Warre | of Williamsburg, a - FLINT Nov ne i a the next meeting Nov. 1 at the home P arlan Creelman. ace imners in the Rod and G turkey shoot Sunday at es i | cluded Tony Coputo and C. Week el this state Demon- .|stvation Group Wednesday eves|ning at 7.30 at her home on .|Chesterfield Rd. Miss Betty Thayer of the Northampton office will lead the meeting on the jsubject, “Meat in your meals.” Anyone interested in attending ‘la leadership training class on “making entertainment easy’ to ‘lbe conducted in Williamsburg on Oct. ee Worthington Man, | Mrs. Landa Weds Dee DuK of held Hol- | ee �Ra, bait nw Cee.dy te \U- a [a4 1 i, 195° & a a t ccermencernemee �Rowe. - Fite Le $-fritie, a) ia poke rhe Orr 1 195%. �FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1956 New Principal Welcomed Miss Helen M. Fletcher, new Memorial School principal, was welcomed by the PTA last night at a reception at the school. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marion are copresidents of the parentteachers’ group. Miss Fletcher formerly was Armory School principal. “Sir heceaun Amberst” "Welcomed by Washington PTA for Mrs. Chase Le | PTA Jelfery | , | | Mrs. Rose H. Chase, new Armory Street School principal, center, Was honored by the PTA at a reception last night at the school. Mrs. Philip Gootzit, left, is PTA president. Chairman of the reception was Mrs. John Shonak. Transferred to Armory Street School as of September, Mrs. Chase formerly was principal of Eastern Avenue and School Street Schools, School, principal of Washington Miss Eleanor Sutcliffe, new was honored by the school PTA Monday. More than 250 people attended and presented Miss Sutcliffe a “welcome” cake. left, co-ordinator of R. Smith, Looking on are Dr. Rolland mathematics in Springfield publie schools. and Murray Underwood, president of the PTA. �THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, SPRINGFI Bergs Have Music Wherever They Go Springfield is losing a “real cool combo” when the famity of le and Mrs. a in the near future. Mr. Berg has resigned as music director of pumaetiold ae vols ilar position in Yonkers, N. Y. The family musical group, led by ep Berg, oi right, | Robert, Mrs. Mrs. six; Herman Julia A. Kris, 12; W. Kuralt Charles, (Cyphar) Kuralt, jof 40 Clifton Ave. died at her ‘ior Thursday night. Born in) Litchfield, Conn., she had lived jin Springfield for the past 60 | years. She attended First | Congregational Church, Court Square. Besides her husband, |Herman W. Kuralt, she leaves |t{wo daughters, Mrs. Bertha A. |Macdonald of Springfield and | Mrs. Doris Lowe of Whippany, |N. J.; a brother, Harry L. of Worcester; and three grandchildren and four great-grandchil- jdren. The funeral will he held at | Byron’s funeral home Monday at |1.30 p. m. Rey. Herbert E. Loom- lis will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home to-| | day [ot and Sunday from 2 to 4 9 pom Fay, 9.1957 | 14; Stephen, 10. and of the group. Diana, eight. Mrs. Berg ae; oS a He 2 . ine z oe is the �Dae. 20. 18> S Observe a JANUARY 21, 1957 BRIDE-TO-BE Patricia Magargal Golden. Anniversary Engaged to Wed | “ Plans Spring Marriage to James J. Hoey Mr. and Mrs. Wells W. Magar. gal of Worthington announce the engagement of their daughter, Patricia Ann, to James J. Hoey lof Woronoco, son of Mrs. Catherine Hoey of Armory St., Springfield. | Miss Magargal is a graduate | of Huntington High School, class |of 1950 and is employed as a stenographer-typist in the missile and ordnance systems «department of General Electric —Co., Pittsfield. Mr. Hoey, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John F., Doyle of Woronoco, is also a graduate of Huntington High School and has served with the Armed Forces, He is employed by Strathmore Paper Co, in Woronoco. A spring wedding (Kanter is planned.| Photo) MISS PATRICIA MAGARGAL Of Worthington, gagement whose to James announced, J, Hoey en- is Safer Driving His Dream Mr. and Mrs. Arthur anniversary Thursday H. Pomeroy observed their golden wedding at their home on Chesterfield Rd, Worth- ington. Mrs. Pomeroy was the former Luella May Cooley of Belchertown and they were married on December 27, 1906, in the Baptist parsonage in Agawam by Rey. Daniel Lyman. They lived Mr. Pameroy tres in that peddled 8 town milk where]keeps é and en busy in season with his and a i 2 eir seven children, Mrs. Ar- raised tobacco until 192L when] o.. Haskell of Pittsfield. Harold they bought the Jones Farm on| of Woronoco, Mrs. Holton Shaw Christian Hollow Rd. There they!of Ludlow, Fred D. of Hinsdale, ran a dairy farm and carried on{and’ Mrs. Philip Tetreault, Mrs. a large maple sugar and syrup} Michael Connors and Karl, all of operation until 1952 when they re-: Springfield will honor their partired, selling the farm to Mr. andjents at a reception to which the Mrs. Paul B. Fowler. Thereupon,|townspeople are invited on Sunthey built a cottage near the cen-|day afternoon from 2 until 5 in ter of town where they enjoy the! Worthington Town Hall. Besides ‘goings and comings of their! their seven children, they have 11 jneighbors and where Mr. Pom-!grandchildren and three great| eroy, whois an expert gardener, grandchildren. 195 | WORTHINGTON ’s the Truth Worthington, Dec. 13 — Betsy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn W. Hitchcock, voiced the feelings of many folks recently when she said, “Goodness, mother, Christmas is almost here and there’s no place to put if.’ Es | | With ton, The car, safer driving as his dream, George above, deicer which snow displays his invention consists of a switch, when flipped sends and sleet sticking the Humphrey Humphrey of Worthing- E-Z Deicer. attached to the dashboard of a an electric current that melts to the windshield wiper. �{797 WORTHINGTON. 23 — The Jan. Worthington, Worthington basketball team will the play a Cummington team in school gym of that town on Thurs day evening at 7.45. Dale Hitchcock reports that the Sonny Beavers all boy 4-H_ cook-; at the! ine club met this week d| home of co-leader, Mrs. Donal | T, Thompson on Witt Road and and) bread corn demonstrated SIX: were There -aisin muffins. | : 1embers present. n} o The cover of the Worthingto bears aj this year town report n} picture of the local fire statio |; in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Volunteer Fire De-|' |? partment. The picture was taken by Miss Elsie V. Bartlett. The d | town reports are being printe ard will be ready for distribution |' : shortly. SEL WORTHINGTON 2 | 195 & Worthington, Jan, 6—Mr. and} |Mrs, John T. Ames will leave on] | Tuesda y to spend the winter in} \Florida, stopping overnight | . 2 a r | the way in/ Haddonfield, N, lwith Miss Margaret Vaughn. Worthington, Nov. 11—Mr. and \Mrs. Norman R. Hallowell invite jall who are helping to make their on J., Mr.} a reality to Inew home evening Monday ithem |Maurice Laurin of Pittsfield, a8 iAmes is retiring after being] learetaker for Miss Vaughn at her| lhome here on Old North Rd. for} lthe past 15 years. Mr. and Mrs.} 2 front son-| in-law and daughter of Mr. andj iMrs. Ames, will move here today} |to take over caretaking} Pew: 7 a 3 a, % 2ev. and Mrs. Edward H. Newcomb will observe their 64th we }ding anniversary on Jan, 12 at \t the. home of the * son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, lren Rausch of IBuff iRd. |hold Mr. open and Mrs. house in. R W. WatrHill will th honor lon that day. = Benevolent Women’s | The lciety will meet on Wednesday at \11 at the home of Mrs. Clarence \A. G, Pease on Old Norta Rd. | The Parent Teacher Organizations of the R Conwell \School will n 1ee > school | Wednesday eveni | Mrs, pathes Hollow crest The Ernest to her Fairman homie following Hospital Spicy in has surgery at Pittsfield. Beavers } Christian} in 4-H Hill-} Club| | met at the home of Mrs. Herbert| {Hoag-in West Worthington on Fri- |day aiternoon and made brownies| |which they served with chocolate} panics | 195 (p WORTHINGTON | Worthington, Dec, 30—The hall was the scene Friday ning of the Hylanders’ town| eve- Sno-Ball| which was well attended. The srand march was led by Hylandcr president Robert Speiss and Miss Judith Diamond and Dick Duda’s orchestra played. | igh for a pie from it of the \ at the Chesterfield Rd. celebrate the closing-in the building. jom at with dusk house stage to of �| 5 ee, Curtis, 77, of 112 at his home. He was born in Worthington, July 21, 1879 the son of Alden B. and Emily (Noble) Curtis and lived in this city since 1911. Mr. Curtis was a graduate} of Williston Academy in the class! of 1896 and attended Amherst! College for two terms, -He was employed by Baker Ex- tract Co. for 35 years until his} retirement in 1951. He was a| member of Hope Congregational, Church and a former member of! Memorial Church. Besides his wife, Mrs. Florence (Damon) Curtis, he leaves a brother, Alden Noble Curtis. of} East Longmeadow, and cousins. The funeral will at Dickinson-Streeter home, Tuesday several| be held funeral at 1:30 p. m. with @n organ prelude at 1. Dr. neth Clinton, pastor of Hope KenCon- gregational Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Springfield achievement the .Massachu-| ing this week. Mr. Albert was ac- companied to Worcester by his wile, Joseph W. Sena who is the aistrict supervisor of soil conservation, and Mrs, Sena. Rev. Bruce Dahtherg of Smith Ci llege will preach the sermon jat the First Congregational | Church Sunday at 11 and the church school classes will also meet at that hour. | Mrs. Zack Donovan will be |hestess to the Home Demonstraticn group at her home on Chesterfield Road Wednesday evening, at 8 when Mrs, David Arnold, assogiate home demonstration agent for the Hampshire Ccunty extension service will be present to discuss ‘‘Non-eleciricai | equipment.’’ All homemakers are invited Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. In lieu of flowers, by setts Department of Agriculture The presentation was made at the Worcester Agricultural meet- to attend these meetings which are held on the third Wednesday evening of each menth in the various homes, The Womens’ Benevolent Society will serve the dinner at memorial contributions may be mailed to the Massachusetts Heart Fund, 26 Vernon St, /iown Their meeting on February 4. recent gift to the Sunday school has been used to purchase ae ny! q | classroom table. A word has been received of the ‘|\ceath 7 Se WORTHINGTON Worthington, Dec, 29 TownsPeople are invited to meet: at the Corners Christmas Eve at 7 for the annual community carol sing for shut-ins. More than 25 years ago carolling was organized’ here | by the late Mrs, Guy F. Bart lett hee’ fs at that time chairman}. oreommitie the Gran e, ge g communi unity service ic he Lazy at the home Beavers 4-H club of their ide : ne Charles P: of Christmas candies which they will send to the patients at the Northampton State Hospital. Mr. and Mrs, Charles M, Bart- C. Eddy, and demonstrated lett, of arrived on Thursday severa] kinds Oyster Bay, New York, at The Spruces. on Wednesday and left on Thursday accompanied by Mr, Bartlett's ; father, Guy F, Bartlett, for Augusta, Me., to visit the Horace E. Bell family. They will return on Christmas Eve for the holiday which will include besides the traditional dinner at noon, a buf- fet on Christmas night for 40 members of the Bartlett family; with Miss Marian L. Bartlett as hostess. , Funeral services for Arthur FE, | Lane, father of Mrs. Robert T. Bartlett of this town, who died suddenly Thursday in Northamp‘ton was held at the R. D. Newell and Son funeral home in that city Saturday at 2 with an organ prelude at 1.30. Rev. David Coleman, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiated and burial ‘was in Spring Grove Cemetery ‘there, of Dr, William R. Lyman in Dowagiac, Michigan. Dr. Lyman practiced medicine :n this iown from 1906 until 1918 when ne moved to Chester. He is survived by ‘his wife and two scns, Alan and William. While he lived here, he was active in town affairs and together with the late Horace Cole and the Rev. John D. Willard organized the Worthington Fire District. |! gr CUMMINGTON ae CHARLES 1956 0. WILLIAMS Cummington, Dee, 30—Charles O. Williams, 84, died this morning at a nursing home jn Chesterfield after a long illness. He was born in Bedford N. ¥. September 24, 1892, son of Isaac D. and Sara Waterbury Williams. For several years he lived in Long: ridge, Conn., moving to Cummington in 1906, He was a member of Bashjpn Hill Council Royal Arcanum and was a memper of Worthington Grange for | 29 years. He was also a mem| ber of the Worthington Congre|gational Church. He leaves his ‘wife, the former Florence M. Brown; one daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Torter of . Westfield; four grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in the Worthington Congregational Church Wednesday afternoon at 2 with Rev. Allen Gates of Chesterfield officiating. Burial will be in Dawes Ceme: tery, Cummington, There will be no Visiting hours. Worthington, Jan. 4 — The morning worship service at First Congregational Church Sunday at 11 will include the ordinance of communion with Rev. Bruce Dahlberg of’ Smith College officiating. Church School classes will meet also at 11. The annual reports of all town officials must be turned in to the clerk of the Board of Selectmen, C. Kenneth Osgood. no later than Jan. 12. All articles to go 'on the warrant for consideration at town meeting on February 4 must be in the hands of the selectmen ‘by January 15, but to be printed in the town report, such articles must reach the selectmen by Jan,. 12. The last opportunity for new}. voters to register before town meeting will be on Jan. 15 from noon until 10 p. m. at the home}, of nee clerk Wells W. Magar| his daughter, Mrs. Anthony and three Porter Drake, widow Pa- grand- of ‘the late Year’s Day. WORTHINGTON Beebe Is Named ' By Rod, Gun Club | | Worthington, Jan, 8—At a meet-| ing of the Rod and Gun Club the following officers were electBeebe;| \ Howard president, ed: Liimatain-| Reino vice-president, en; secretary, Robert T. Bartlett, | Farber. and treasurer, Harman The club will purchase 1000 sixinch brook trout which will be matched by the state for stockElections| streams, local ing henceforth will be held in Novem-| ber, the officers taking office in January, Rd. She Joel Chapter, lia attended schoo] in what is now the Grange Hall, then a comparatively new building. Dec. 6, 1887, she married Sidney F, Packard of Goshen, a farmer, and went to that town to live. In 1920 the family moved to Williamsburg, where Mr. Packard owned ‘and operated a meat market for several years. Since his death in August, 1936, ishe spent much of her time with her children as long as her health permitted, She was a member of the First Congregational Church and the Woman’s Union and, as Jong as she was able, assisted at its weekly sewing meetings, She was also a member of Hayden OES, Mrs. Packard had six children. One son, Earl, of Westfield died in 1952, She leaves one daughter, Mrs, Murray Graves of South St.; four sons, Harold K. of Nash St., Merwin F.. of Worthington, Roy H. '|day at 2, Rey. Arthur A. Rouner, Jr., officiating and burial will be in Village Hill Cemetery. Arrangements are in charge of R. D. Newel! & Son of Northampton and friends may call at the funeral home Monday and Tuesday| from 7 to 9. Contributions may be sent to Mrs. Car} Rustemeyer for the First Congregational Church Memorial Building Fund. Anson Drake of Highland St., was held in the Ringville Ceme- tery here on New Chesterfield of Westfield, and Leslie H. of Goshen; one brother, Walter For\lsyth of West Springfield; 13 *|)grandchildren, 20 great-grandchil‘|}dren and several nieces and nephews. ‘| Funeral will be in the First ‘Congregational Church Wednes- sons of Westfield. Burial followed in the Dawes Cemetery in Cummington, mney The interment service for Mrs. Katie lag Aas dat town died Sunday night in a nursing home in Northampton, where she had been for the past two years. A native of this town, she was born on Feb. 24, 1868, daughter. of Andrew H. and Aurelia (Upton) Forsyth, who lived on ecki of Harvey Road. . : The funeral service for Charles O. Williams was held at the First Congregational Church Wednesday with the Rev. Allen H. Gates of Chesterfield officiating. ._Bearers were Gurney W. Skelton easly se Williamsburg, Nov, 26 — Mrs. Harriet (Forsyth) Packard of this gal. Worthington Grange will meet Tuesday evening at 8 in the town hall when Edward L. Raab of the Genera] Electric Company in Pittsfield will speak on ‘No insulation, no toast.’’ Mr.-and Mrs. Walter Mollison. and Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Clapp are in charge of refreshments. High score prizes for the series of card parties just ended went to Russell Borst and Mrs. Vera Parish. The latter’s prize was donated by the Haskell Insurance Agency of town. Then he shaved it all off on | the coldest day of the year! That is what Emerson J. Davis, custodian of the town hall did to the luxuriant beard which he- has been grooming since back in October. Mrs. Leighton A. Kneller who has been at New England Center Hospital for observation has returned to her home. ‘ Eli Dagenais who has been a patient at Cooley Dickinson Hose pital for the past severe? weeks has returned to the home of ha, esc WORTHINGTON, yin Noble Worthington, Jan. 11—Bernard | M. Albert of Huntington Rd., loca’ potato grower, has won the Hampshire County soi] conservaticn award for this year given m recognition e@f excellence in agricultural practices and i tt Elmer Dorset St. died Sunday afternoon WORTHINGTON I] ~ WILLIAMSBURG HARRIET PACKARD, WILLIAMSBURG, DIES R bod bale ahs cote! hits FA pte mt Worked 35 Years | For Extract Firm H- 14579 A tetk ElmerN. Curtis : , oo [Sev now, 19: 145% . �igre Meyner to Wed Helen Stevenson, Educator’s Daughter, in January | i By EDITH EVANS ASBURY ? TRENTON, Nov. 8—Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey and Miss Helen Stevenson, a daughter of the president of Oberlin College, today revealed plans to get married “some time in January.’ The hand-? some, 48-year-old Governor and blue-eyed, brunette Miss Stevenson, who is 28, held a’ press conference in Mr. Meyner’s bachelor suite at the} Hildebrecht Hotel. A few} hours earlier, Miss Stevenson’s| parents, Dr. and Mrs. William E. Stevenson, had announced the engagement at Oberlin, | Ohio. | The young couple sat side by jside on a sofa. Miss Siveeean.| a distant cousin of Adlai E. Ste-| venson, did most of the talking. The Governor beamed with admiration as she parried ques-| tions. Miss Stevenson revealed that! they became engaged during the’ Democratic National Convention in Chicago last August. Both have been too busy campaigning for the Democrats, she said, to make an announcement. Since last November, Miss Stevenson has been working with Volunteers for Stevenson in New York, where she lives, They found time to go to Oberlin for a week-end during which Governor Meyner asked her father for her hand, Miss Stevenson said. And three weeks} ago she wrote Adlai Stevenson, informing him of the engage-| ment. | “He was pleased,’ she re-| ported, adding that he “will cer-| tainly be invited” to the wed-) ding. | | Her father has been mentioned jas a possible ‘Harold W. successor Dodds, retire as president a classmate of is Dr. to of Princeton| University next year. alumnus of Princeton, jwas to who He is an) where he Adlai Stev- /enson. After their marriage, Governor Meyner and his bride will live at Princeton, an the estate late given Gov. wkere to the Walter E. Morven,! state Edge, Stevenson, who was born York, is a graduate Gov. Robert B. Meyner and Miss Helen Stevepson in Trenton yesterday as they told of engagement. Miss Stevenson is a relative of Adial FE. Stevenson. is Princeton Theological Seminary. | Miss Associated Press Wirephoto IN JANUARY? by| being made ready as the Governor’s mansion. i Miss Stevenson is no stranger’ to Morven. As a little girl, she) visited there when it was occu-| jpied by her grandparents. Her| father’s father, the late J. Ross| Stevenson, was then president of’ in New TO WED of| Colorado College. She served with the Red Cross in Korea. A small church wedding in |Oberlin is planned. Gov. Meyner, Miss Stevenson to Wed Trenton, N. J., Nov. 8 (INS)— Helen Stevenson and Gov. Robert Meyner of New Jersey announced their engagement said they and today said it has been delayed because they were “too busy campaigning” for her cousin, Adlai Stevenson. Meyner, 48, and his bride-to-be met newsmen in a suite at the they where Hildebrecht Hotel planned to be married attractive The her cousin, Adlai, said brunette will be invited “some ito the | either College time January.” in ceremony, in the or at which chapel the First at will be Oberlin Congrega- | tional Church, Oberlin,.O. Her fa- Stevenson, E. William ither, |president of the college. is �spon pld Met e cle Drought Worst/®77 ‘GiantFrom’ MaOldrks totheCy New Texas WORTHINGTON In Century Osgood Renamed Dust Bowl Area As Fire Chief elected as C. Kenneth Osgood chief for the eleventh year, Other officers elected are: assistant chief, Harold E. Brown; eaptain, H. Franklin Bartlett; first Neutenant, Edward Porter; second lieutenant, Howard Pease; secretary, Arthur Ducharme Sr.; and_ treasurer, Cullen S. Packard. Refreshments were served by Arthur Ducharme Jr. and Kenneth Granger. | Frigid temperatures were re‘ported from all over town Tuesday ranging all the way to a low of 34 degrees below at Walter Mollison’s on Huntington Rd, It was somewhat warmer on the high lands, temperatures had ‘|of and around at 4, ' has Word and now at Mrs. their ’round ‘Both ‘boys’ in Florida NE into Beach. Among received Ernest August moved |Miami been home last 1270 here and from Hussar_who on to Ridge live year that they have their 158th new home St. in North the articles on the war extending Rd. much confusion Among name, are suggested “vale Rd. from have over the changes other John to return to its original name Se ...... Blizabeth Taylor Bick Benedict + Rock Hudson Jett Rink ....... ». James Dean Vashti Snythe .. Jane Withers Uncle Bawley .. - Chill Wills Luz Benedict ... Mercedes McCambridge Luz: Benedict IT ........ Carroll Baker Jordan Benedict III ... Dennis Hopper Mrs, Horace Lynnton ... Judith Evelyn Dr. Horace Lynnton ...... Paul Pix Bob Dace G9 09. b8 viene b'@ Bary Pinky Snythe ....)...... Old - Polo Angel Obregon IIT Judy Benedict aan WAitoside 1.0 vies acne Robert of | These crises are not in them-| selves of the stuff of tragedy, but’ of common their experience spectacular taking on differences| from the accident of sudden! wealth—such as the splurgy open- ing of Rink’s hotel and his drunk- en inability to make the dedication speech at the banquet. Through the changing tides of Holliman Nichols » Scourby ‘ Sal Mineo Kran Bennett Charles Watts moves the towering Rock Hudson, a man of simple tastes, faithful ‘to his trust as husband, father) By LOUISE MACE and a son of Texas. It is a Moviegoers who never got natural, full-blooded portrait of around to Edna Ferber’s novel, a man of few complexities and “Giant,” are not likely to feel stout loyalties. Elizabeth Taylor less well acquainted than readers as his wife is first the lively, imTUANA .. 0... sr ecevecesesee Lacey 45 five-year | averaged their Lynnton Hla Cardenas ........¢ Carolyn Craig with the family of wealthy Texas cattleman Bick Benedict in plains that sprout oil wells than grass and trees, Hardy and Proud It petuous. bride, the gentle and thoughtful young mother and later the mature woman who manages life with dignity and wisdom. ‘It is a splendid performance which director Stevens coaxed \from her. is a vivid and faster dimensional The ‘sullen sereen late James Dean as Rink comes from as a young Man whose the the un- sureness of self is a heritage that neither wealth nor the years can successfully disguise. Instead, it jis translated into outer show and jarrogance. This gifted actor got picture of a hardy people diverted from their inherited means of livelihood when the roar of gushinto his role completely, Other ers drowns the thunder of hoofs. And so it is with Bick Benedict ‘players who stand out are Chill (possessor of 525,000 acres) who Wills as the mellow Uncle Bawley, Mercedes McCambridge in brings his Maryland born, highher few appearances as Bick’s {spirited bride to his vast and | gloomy family home, that stands ‘competent, leather-minded sister, and Jane Withers as the hearty a stark sentinel between dusty |earth and endless sky, to be car- jneighbor Vashti -who takes oil ried: through some 30 years dis- |blown profits with huge enjoyment, turbed, and sometimes angered, Director Stevens listened knowby big and little incidents. The big*one is continuous—the lingly to the heart of Texas and recorded its new and fabulous ‘\instinetive animosity between Bick and a young ranch hand, beat with feeling for the old Texas | Jett Rink, who covets Bick’s wife as well. During the three hours and 18 minutes it takes to tell and never conquers his jealousy and envy of Bick’s money and the story of ‘‘Giant,’’ audiences station in life. When land become to understand and like a) queathed Rink by Bick’s sister proud, indomitable family. | brings in oil, gusher after gusher, the |Bashan Hill Rd, and to exchange the signs presently located at the lower ends of Witt Rd, and Old ‘| Main Rd, which were placed in error, land { and their life on the gaunt Texas], | ‘Corners to the Chesterfield town line to Old Post Rd. Inasmuch as this road is no longer the main there has to Chesterfield, line keen grazing Benedict GAST George Stevens directed production, opening yesterday at the Capitol, is an inclusive account of three generations of Benedicts at town rant to be considered ‘meeting on Feb. 4 is one to see jif the voters will accept the report and recommendations of the committee which |street naming lwas appointed at the last town One important change imeeting. suggest is to will they | which | change the name of Old Chester- field Leslie THE Warner Bros. screen version. This girls’ teams will play Cummingiton teams in that town Friday jevening at 7.30. sold in Audiences Close to a Proud Family Green. ‘ernoon Rd. rainfall only 50 to 75 per cent of normally expected rainfall. The girls’ basketball team of the Russell -H. Conwell School will play a team at the Kittredge |School in Hinsdale Thursday aft- \Dr. below-normal the last 60 months. Throughout this same Edna Ferber’s Filmed Novel at the Capitol Brings “period, millions of acres of farm 25 below being reported in the village. The Off Notes will sponsor ane .other dance Saturday evening at the town hall for the benefit of the local Grange, . There will be a cash door prize. Last week's door prize was. given to Miss Dorothy | Washington, Jan. 11 (2)—Presi-} dent Eisenhower. will view the worst drought conditions in 100 years in some areas of his sixstate inspection trip, the Weather Bureau reported today. | The bureau issued a special edition of its weekly weather and crop bulletin analyzing the dust} bowl conditions in great portions of the country west of the Mississippi, River. The President’s plane-and-motor trip, starting Sunday and ending Tuesday night, will take ‘thim to Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona,| New Mexico, Kansas and Colo‘trado. Large areas in these states, the Weather Bureau said, have Worthington, Jan. 16—Meeting at the fire station Monday evening, the Volunteer Fire Depart- ment in | one ambition is realized, to avail | him little in inner satisfaction. | Adapters Fred Guiol and Ivan | Moffat have reached as far as it |is cinematically possible toward} |the core of Miss ;}one not equipped Ferber’s study |of the effect of sudden riches on | by nature or background to handle them wisely; on those whose already substantial wealth, while fattened, cannot dispossess them of intrinsic character. Bick and his wife stand true to themselves and their traditions, caught off balance only a little when their son marries a Mexican girl studying, as he is, medicine. And they accept their darkskinned grandson with growing af- | fection. They wait patiently and with rare wisdom for that mo-| ment when their older daughter| must experience the inevitable | disillusionment of her silly at-| tachment for the now ing money-laden Rink. swagger-! �pow 25, 1957 Second Potato Storage Owned By Sena Damaged In Worthington Blaze WORTHINGTONA fire in a po- ed to have started around the| tato warehouse Friday night at smoke pipe from a wood burning Hickory Hill Farm owned by Mr. stove used to heat the warehouse. and Mrs. Joseph W. Sena caused The building which was conseveral thousand dollars damage. structed last fall, replaced one deThe fire was discovered shortly af- stroyed by fire early last year. ter 8 by Mrs. Sena’s father, Hax- | About 3,000 100-pound bags of poold Clark, who lives nearly. He no- tatoes were in the warehouse and ticed flames shooting out of a damage to them is still undeter-. ventilator in the warehouse. mined. The volunteer fire department, Mr. and Mrs. Sena were away at under the direction of Chief C. Ken- the time, attending a meeting in neth Osgood, responded promptly Springfield. and was on the scene for several se meso hours .Water was furnished by the| fire department tank truck as there Was no appreciable supply on the premises. An insulation type of siding, used in the construction of the warehouse, helped to prevent the spread of the fire, which is believ- Kneis Vout Heirlooms Cane Armchair in America Was Made in New England By THOMAS ORMSBEE About 1700 an elaborate and very uncomfortable highback chair began to appear in the more opulent American homes along the Atlantic seaboard. Sometimes called a Restoration chair because it was one of the new furniture ideas brought from Holland by Charles II when he returned to England in 1660 after the unhappy Cromwellian dictatorship, the first Englishmade examples arrived here in|* the 1680s, Very Ornate imported chairs were of]. and often very ornate These walnut with their elaborately carved backs, front legs and stretchers. A new touch also was the use of cane for seat and panel of the high back. A product of the Ma- lay Islands, this stripped bark of rattan had been discovered and brought to Europe by Portuguese navigators a century and a half before, One of the imported chairs, still in existence, is known as the William Penn chair because reputed to have been brought from England in 1699 by this eminent Quaker on his second trip to his Pennsylvania colony. Its narrow cane back panel is framed earving by handsome openwork and surmounted by an openwork cresting of C-scrolls, such as one finds on mirror frames in the later Chippendale period. There is also a matching openwork carved front stretcher, A beautiful chair, more ‘for ornament than hard use, Ameriean cabinetmakers received a fair number of orders for one or more from wealthy colonists. As usual the. order included a request that the piece be in keeping with the social and economic station of its owner but somewhat plainer as to decorative detail. The result, in New England at least, was a chair much like the one illustrated. It followed the outlines of the Penn and other imported chairs but carv- ing was apt to be limited to the cresting above the caned panel and sometimes on the _ front Stretcher. Otherwise turnings prevailed with vase, baJuster and urn shapes the usual motifs. The The New England Cane armchair dates between 1700 and 1720 and is typical of the simpler type made in Ameriea during these years. Originally painted, wood is probably .maple or fruit wood. Note carved cresting of back and Flemish serolled front feet. arms were simple downward cyma curves, flaring slightly outward, like those on the chair shown here, This chair is one of the plainer American-made examples and dates about 1710. Back uprights. and cane framings are plain! with grooving. Front stretcher is turned as are the other parts. It is, in fact, similar to a maple chair of Massachusetts proynance, once owne dby John Hancock. The latter chair now has upholstery instead of the usual cane seat and back, a detail often occurring where material as perishable as cane was used, Plain or elaborate, only a limited number of these chairs were made between 1690 and 1720, the years in which they were in fa-; \ vor, They were expensive show pieces and were treated accordingly. That is why a few of them are still around and are still expensive. | { �T9ST. ® - We Text of President’s Inaugural Address Washington, Jan, 21 (P — Following is the prepared text of | President Eisenhower’s second inaugural address today: THE PRICE OF PEACE We meet again, as upon a like moment four “years ago, and }again you have witnessed my sol}emn oath of service to you. | I, too, am a witness, today testi- \fying in your name to the ciples and purposes to which }as a people, are pledged. Before all else, we seek, prinwe, upon) our common labor as a_ nation, the favor of almighty God, And ‘|the hopes in our hearts fashion '|the deepest prayers of our people. May we pursue the right—~ without self-righteousness. May we know unity—without conformity, May we grow in strength— without pride of self, May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America—in recognize and accept our] — _ So we voice our hope and — deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere. We are accordingly pledged to honor, and to strive to fortify, the authority of the United Nations. For in that ‘body rests the best hope of our ,age for the assertion of that law 'by which alj nations may live in The designs of that power, dark| i dignity. : And beyond this general rein purpose, are clear in practice.) solve, we are called to act a It strives to seal forever the fate) of those it has enslaved, responsible role in the world’s great concerns or conflicts— whether they touch upon the affairs of a vast regton, the fate of an island in the Pacific, or the use of a canal in the Middle East, Only in respecting the hopes and cultures of others will we practice the equality of alj nations. Only as we show willingness and wisdom in giving counsel—in receiving counsel It} strives to’ break the ties that unite| the free. And it strives to capture—to exploit for its own greater power—al] forces of change in | the world, especially the needs of the hungry and the hopes of the} oppressed. Yet the world of interna~ | tional communism has itself heen shaken bv a fierce and mighty force; the readiness of men who love freedom to pledge their lives to that love. Through the night of —and in sharing burdens, will we wisely perform the work ot peace. For one truth must rule all we think and al] we do.» No people ean live to itself alone. The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. The economic need of all nations—in.mutual dependence — makes. isolation an impossibility; not even America’s prosperity could long survive if other nations did not also. prosper. No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe, And any people, seeking such shelter for themselves, can now build only their prison, their bondage, the unconquerable will of heroes has struck with lightning, Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city; henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of man’s yearning to be free, Thus across al} the globe there) harshly blow the winds of change. And we—though fortunate be our lot—know that we can never turn the} our back to them. iit. We look upon this shaken earth, |) and we declare our firm and people in all this time of trial fixed purpose—the building of a peace with justice in a world through which we pass. where moral law prevails. i. Iv. The building of such a peace}) We live in a land of plenty, but Our pledge to these principles is a bold and solemn purpose., To rarely has this earth known such proclaim it is easy. To serve it is constant, because we believe| peril as today. in their rightness. \ +; In our nation work and wealth will be hard, And to attain it, we We do not fear this world of must be aware of its full mean‘jabound. Our population grows. change. America is no stranger | ing—and ready to pay its full -|Commerce erowds our rivers and j to much of its spirit. Everywhere | i}rails, our skies, harbors and price, We know clearly what we seek, | we see the seeds of the same} ‘|highways. Our soil is fertile, our growth that America itself has| _jagriculture productive, The, air and why. We seek peace, knowing—as all known. The American experiment| _|Yings with the song of our indusknown—that has, for generations, -fired the| try—rolling mills and blast fur- ages of man-have passion and the courage of mil | naces, dynamos, dams and as- peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we lions elsewhere seeking freedom, sembly lines—the chorus of Amerseek it because we have been equality and opportunity. And the ica the bountiful. American story of material progThis is our home—yet this is warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the ress has helped excite the longing | not the whole of our world. For of all needy peoples for some’ our world is where our full des- only climate possible for human life itself. satisfaction of their human wants, |tiny lies—with men, of all peoples Yet this peace we seek canThese hopes that we have helped and all nations, who are or would not be born of fear alone; it | to inspire, We can help to fulfill. be free. And for them—and so for must be rooted in the lives of | In this .confidente, we speak, us—this is no time of ease or} nations. There must be jusplainly to all peoples. rest. tice, sensed and shared by all We cherish our friendship with| In too much of the earth peoples, for, without justice all nations that are or would be there is want, discord, danthe world can know only a ger, New faces and new nafree. We respect, no less, their| tense an unstable truce. tions stir and strive across independence. And when, in time, There must be law, steadthe earth, with power to of want or peril, they ask our | ily invoked and respected by bring, by their fate, great help, they may honorably receive | all nations, for without law, g00d or great evil to the free ||it; for we no more seek to buy| the world promises only such world’s future. From the destheir sovereignty than we would! meager justice as the pity of erts of North Africa to the is;| Sell our own. Sovereignty is never| the strong upon the weak. lands of the South Pacific | bartered among free men. \ But the law of which we one third of all mankind has We honor the aspirations of | speak, comprehending the entered upon an _ historic those nations which, now captive, | values of freedom, affirms struggle for a new freedom; long for freedom. We seek neither| the equality of all nations, | freedom from grinding povtheir military alliance nor. any| great and small. | ,artificia] imitation of our society. | erty. Across all e¢ontinents, Splendid as can be the blessnearly a billion people seek, And they can know the warmth| ings of such a peace, high will Sometimes almost in desof the welcome that awaits them | be its cost; in toil patiently susperation, for the skills and when, as must be, they join again! tained, in help honorably given, knowledge and assistance by the ranks of freedom, in sacrifice calmly borne. which they may satisfy from We honor, no Jess in this divid-’ We are called to meet the price their own resources, the ma~ ed world than in a less tormented of this peace. terial wants common to all ‘time, the people of Russia. We To counter the threat of those mankind. do not dread, rather do we welNo nation, however old or who seek to rule by force, we come, their progress in educagreat, escapes thig tempest of must pay the costs of our own tion and industry. We wish them needed military strength, and change and turmoil. Some, imsuccess in their own laws, fuller help to build the security of othpoverished by the recent world enjoyment of. the rewards of their ers. { war, seek to restore their means toil. For as such things may We must use our skills andj own |of livelihood. In the heart of Eucome to pass, the more certain rope, Germany stil] stands trag- knowledge and, at times, our sub-- will be the coming of that day stance, to help others rise from ‘ically divided. So is the whole ‘when our peoples may freely |continent divided, And so, too, is misery, however far the scene of meet in friendship. suffering may be from our shores. all the world. The divisive force is interna- For wherever in the world a knows desperate . want, tional communism and the power| people there must appear at least the that it controls, spark of hope, the hope of progress—or there will surely rise at sight of all men of good will— prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a last the flames of conflict. |' our belief that we can help to heal this divided world, Thus may the nations cease to live in trembling before the menace of force. Thus may the weight of fear and the weight of arms be taken from the burdened shoulders of mankind, This, nothing less, is the labor to which we are called and our strength dedicated, And so the prayer of our people carries far beyond our own frontiers, to the wide world of our duty and our destiny. May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly—untiy at last the darkness is no more. May the turbulence of our age yield to a true time of peace, when men and nations shall share a life that honors the dignity of each, the brotherhood of all. �175] Parade Crasher Draws a Laugh ne (Associ | Ci presence. 3 in GettysPresident and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower cast their ballots | AP Wirefarm. d-fringe battlefiel their burg, Pa., a few miles from photo } NOVEMBER 7, 1956. Here’s What Ike Said At Victory Rally ;to Today that ; which j ested. area our And — that young are this means time — in most interthat it will Re cougest of cur voters, fod as such, as long as it remains sequently have- worked so hard true to the ideals and the aspiraa stenographic transcript of Presifor the re-election of that adminis- tions of America, it will continue dent Eisenhower’s remarks to a tration, my most grateful thanks. to increase in power and_ influThe only thing I can say to all ‘ence for decades to come. ‘It will Republican victory rally here early today: the people — all the Americans point the way to peace among Mr, Chairman, Mr. Vice Presi- who have voted that ticket which /nations, and to prosperity -- adhere at home dent, my very good friends in this puts us back into the same posi- vancing standards of responsibility -—- I can in which everybody will share, audience and everywhere in the tions regardless of any accident of powUnited States to whatever areas only say, it is our earnest prayer that nothing we can ever do — or er, of station, of race, religion, or my voice reaches: shall ever do — will betray that color. This is a solemn moment. The trust, And if we cling to these ideals, only thing I should like to say if we uphold them, if we fight for And now let me say something about this campaign is this: it 'them, then I say: Republicans deis a very heart-warming exper- that looks to the future: I think modern Republicanism has| serve, then, the vote of confidence ience to know -that your labors— ‘that friendly Demonow proved itself. And America that Republicans, your efforts—of four years have 'erats, and independents, have givhas approved of modern Republiachieved that level where they| len us this, day. are approved by the United States canism. My friends, I conclude with a And so, as we look ahead — as f America in a vote. |pledge: With whatever talents the Such a vote as that cannot be we look ahead to the & oblems in| God has given me, with let us remem@er that a good merely for an individual, it is for front, whatever strength there is within party deseves the apprinciples and ideals for which political me, I will continue — and so will only as it that individual and his associates} probation of Ameriva my associates —- to do just one have stood and have tried to ex- represents the ideals, the aspirato work for 168 million tions and the hopes of Americans. ithing: emplify. If it is anything less, it is merely Americans here at home—and for ’ To all the people of the United a conspiracy to seize power. And peace in_the \ world, States who have understood what the administration — the Repub-, the Republican party is not that! Modern Republicanism look has been trying to do} liean party in these past four years, and con- to the future. Which means it Jooks WASHINGTON # ~- Following is ated Press Wirephoto) dog joins Vice-President Nixon, right, gets a laugh as a stray reviewing stand in the inaugural parade and walks past the x Eisenhower President front of the White. House yesterday. of the dog’s looks the other way, however, apparently unaware | | �Salindny, jets 28, 145% Worthington Church — ep Assembled for Saturday's project, called the parsonage painting bee, are volunteer church workers, left to right, standing, Ray Bessey, Ralph Smith, Harold E. Brown and C. Kenneth Osgood; seated on the porch are Dr. Harold A. Stone and Robert T. Bartlett. Other church members (not shown) who spent the day face-lifting the parsonage are Walter Towe:, Howard Beebe, Harry Bates, Leroy Rida, H. Franklin Bartlett and William Kronenberger.. SaSS ae as i aaa anna ca Na The front of the parsonage is spruced up by a group of the volunteers working from different levels. At noon, the men took a well-earned break for a substantial dinner served to. them by the women in the Worthington town hall. In charge of repast were. Mrs. Henry H. Snyder and Mrs, Harold A. Sione. A blonde bride-doll caught the eyes of many of the younger ladies who strolled the village common Saturday afternoon. Also on sale were a variety of doll clothes, many of them hand-made. At the doll table are, left to right, Mrs. Leroy Rida, president of the Women’s Benevolent Society, and Mrs. Walter Tower, past president of the organization. Another eye-caicher was the array of hand-made aprons displayed by Mrs. Herbert L. Tower. ‘ | i i �Saturday was a busy day for members of the Worthingion Congregational Church. ‘While members of the Women’s Benevolent Society held their 62nd annual church fair on the village green, across the street, the men were painting the parsonage. A grilled luncheon, in charge of Mrs. Stanley S. Mason, opened the fair’s events. Proceeds from the variety of sales and activities, which this year exceeded $900, will be applied to the pa ce building fund. i al yo A large assortment of Friendship Guild Christmas cards are shown by ladies in’ charge sale, Left to right are Mrs. Ralph A. Moran, Miss Mrs. C. Raymond.Magargal. Dorothy Hewitt, Mrs, A. Leland ue their Smith Other sales included gifts, directed by Mrs. Dona J. Lowd: made knitted articles, in charge of Mrs. Thomas Speak; Mrs. Bertram B. Warren’s a cut flower and floral arrangement sale in charge of Mrs. Joseph W. Sena! and hand- attic sal e and �Shoppers were invited to partake of a variety of refreshments available at shaded tables on the lawn. The tables were occupied most of the afternoon as people sirolled back and forth between the various tables and activities. The cake walk, with music provided by the accordion of Clifton L. Sears of Cummington, Sandra Sena and her pony, and Mrs. H. Franklin Bartlett with her treasure laden 7 pocke'’s all 1 atiracted ‘ aitention. os 2° : Mrs. Ralph Kerley and her small daughter, Linda, decked out in bright clown costumes, sold balloons as their contribution ito the fund-raising affair. It was Linda’s first experience at selling, but she behaved like a trouper. Final reports from booth chairmen indicated a “sell-out” in all but a few cases. Cakes, ‘pies, jellies and breads were but a few of the delicacies baked and sold by members of the Women’s Benevolent Society. The table of home-baked goods was one of the most popular at the church sale, judging by the speedy disappearance of the wares. Shown holding some of the tempting dishes are Mrs. Harold A. Stone, Mrs. John Ames and Mrs, Carl S. Joslyn, Hungry shoppers were provided with popcorn by the local Grange 90, soft drinks and snacks. a ween? eee anes sara = � https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/78ca9ab83114eba79c031a7eecd6822f.pdf 335eaedd5ed876d6c4f2c8a1779a5dc1 PDF Text Text WORTHINGTON Architectural As pass you manv included lovely in available the to drive this or the information you this and the and BICENTENNIAL Historical Tour of Worthington along our highways and houses and cottages which itinerary owners needed. proud because could We owners not want for actual be to not per have facts reached extend to our introducing tour. $1.00 byways, copy you not were will been not provide apologies them on �No. house Located young shows on how Republic the the 1 most Cape period. Robert charming Cod No style longer Bartiett part of (Allen) West developed does the during roof of first floor windows. The person who built worthington's most prosperous era. had a good and what. happened there! No. 2 The Parson Street, line this view Huntington the this modest Federal reach house, of the the or tops during Center House Built cirea 1771, tirst known inhabitant was Rev. Jonathan Huntineton, also a physician. House features very earlv woodwork , moldings, plank window frames, and a bake oven in rear wall of fireplace. Unique chamber five feet in diameter built under chimney stack and openine into basement has passages up to and openings into four of the five fireplaces. In the attic one finds a smoke chamber for meat buijt into the old chimney, which was laid up with clav for mortar. it to its Never former a erand house, primitive owners are Cold Spring condition. No. 3) in the process of restoring Farin In 1764, John and James Kelly, accompanied by their mother and two sisters, settled the land known now as Cold Sprin g Farm. Their first house sat across the road to the east of the present one. Tn 1792. the present. house was built which incorporates nortions of still another house, the second built bv the Kellys, the frame of which constitutes the shed behind this house. Brick was made in the soring lot below the house and was used in this house and neighborine house s in the area. Indians, who passed through the town, occasionally camped in the springlot. No. 4 Metzger (Martin) Built in the late 1&th century by Jonathan Brewster. boasts raised paneling, sheathing, many fireplaces, and some of the original ricors. It is presently being renovated by the owner. During the 19th centurv. and possibly before, the house was noted for the white quartz wall built along its rand frontage. In the last decade of that century, Monroe Todd incorporated part of this wall stone into the chimney. The beautiful leaded fan window over the door is original to the house and added a bit of elegance to what must have been a rustic existence. No. Built approximately 5 lagerstrom 1803, this (Thompson) small house and red barn create a peaceful interlude on the Old Main Road. In the process of restoration, the house has wide board floors and two of its original fireplaces with their original mantels. The present owners are working diligently to return the house to its early appearance. �No. Opened in 1893 ity for students of side school hours. 6 Conwell Academy (See page 133 of as an experiment to limited means, work Bicentennial Booklet) provide educational opportunwas provided to students out- The austere and plain lines of this building, whose only decoration is a deeply-molded cornice and many-paned windows, define the type of education dealt out in the late 1800's. The first floor of the Academy, where classes were held, was divided into two large rooms (one an auditorium) that are entirely paneled with boards Victorians used for wainscoting. These are nished. The One walls of the arch most into and become delightful the ceiling. features of this Stacked in one the narrow, stained and wonderful beaded var- building is the original painting which constitutes the stage curtain--large enough to screen a stage which spans the width of the room. The scene, done in light, whimsical colors, depicts a mountain scene complete with lake and chalets! Certainly, this curtain, in nearly new condi- tion, saw torium dated are many a the serious drama! Windsor-like The present owner of 1895 announcing the listed as 75¢ per benches This farm month. first two is which houses the he was which corner the 7 Maplehurst portion settled built of were Nahum of log the sat. audi- an advertisement The tuition is Farm Plantation by of audience the Academy can produce fall term of that year. No. Worthington, on No. Eager (the 3, in secon later 1763 the or 1764. town of The d located 50 yards east of the present structure). Nahum represented Worth ingto n at the Provincial Congress at Cambridge on February 1, 1775. Jonat han Eager, Nahum's grandson, built this house in 1856. It is the fourth house to be built on the property. Nahum, his many wives, and some of his family some of are the buried loveliest in old Center No. an 8 This contemporary house uses isoteric design, and a setting wild juniper, and Cemetery--their graves gravestones. blueberries. marked by Wilke natural materials and of ledge outcroppings, The house, with wide finishes, birches, expanses of glass and unfinished siding, seems to merge with its environment-—the upward surge of the roof line catches and matches the thrust of the rock ledges from the mountainside. Truly pleasing, and a vivid contrast to the 18th and 19th century homes of the area. No. 9 Parade Rest - Hines Can you imagine a rag-tag group of hilltown militia rattling their muskets and practicing the intricacies of drill on this very spot? It is indeed the location of the first drill grounds for .Worthington's Revolutionary War militiamen! What a fitting Location for a planned retired the military unique man house you and his now wife--Col. see! and Mrs. Hines--who �Unique because the structure was once a carriage house for the adjacent Brewster estate. The present owners were imaginative enough to see its possibilities and produced this house from the original structure after it had been moved to the Old Parade Ground in the 19th century. No. 10 Denworth Farm Built during the latter part of the 18th century by one of the Leonard family--earliest settlers, represented on the first Board of Selectmen, and active in organizing the fledgling town. Originally a Cape Cod, the roof line was changed during the renovation to gambrel style, thus affording a more spacious second floor. The old paneling and fireplaces were restored and replaced, so that the interior now reflects the taste of an Nos. A pure example known as John and official, and of influential 11 & 12 American Adams Place. Mr. representative to family Joslyn Gothic of and the 18th century. Pease architecture Adams was a hardware General Court. built in merchant, 1840, town The yellow color enhances a style popular when ladies were ladies gentlemen, gentlemen, and everything was done in picture-book manner. Nearby stands the Pease House. This pure Victorian with its tower, gingerbread porch, and decorative shingle epitomizes again the splendor of the late 19th century. One can picture the parasolled ladies playing croquet (in a dignified and gracious way, of course) on the lovely lawns. No. 13 Hitchcock (Brewster) Built circa 1830-1842 for use as a general store--pictures on display at Conwell School. Judge Brewster held his law offices in rear of the store. The second town church stood on part of the backyard. Once had a boot and shoe factory operating on the grounds. The left wing was a one-room school house. During World War II rationing so curtailed business that store closed, and Franklyn Hitchcock transformed it into the pleasant home you see today. No. 14 Lucie Mollison This modest little cottage, that still retains a paneled chimney breast over its one remaining fireplace, must have been witness to the activities of a busy colonial settlement of the late 18th century --the period of its construction. On one side was the Parade Ground where the militia drilled, and nearby was the church, newly moved to this more central location from West Street. Certainly, the location was at that time the "heart" of fast-growing Worthington. No. 15 Long the home of illustrious this long line was Captain Elisha the late 1700's and established a Brewster Worthingtonians, the first of Brewster who came to town during tavern-inn in this building. �(Earlier a general Nos. 16 store located been had and on the was the militia parade grounds, from nt refreshme perty militiamen obtained the near The small building exists. still grandson of Captain Judge Flisha Brewster, (Frissell) Bartlett 17. & the on Nearby site.) adiacent Brewster proan old stone well which house is the office of Brewster. Reardon and (Porter) during Side-by-side two houses that follow styles established more and sit on a street that more the first years of our Republic the to addition In grew to be the center of the town's activities. and nearby a store had been established church and Parade Ground, The Bartlett House was built in home industries were springing up. gable shaped like the pediment-the manner of a Greek temple--the form popular to Federalists who dreamed of a new an architectural The Reardon House after that of ancient Greece. democracy patterned copied from reflects this same point in its columned doorway--again And so informs established by ancient. democracies. architectural habitants of this bustling hill] settlement--still without a public and the new nation's hopes expressing themselves road system--were through the homes they were building. No. 1955. contemporary This of The theories in the A owner, the concerning year of the (1806) in built was desirability is evident here since naturalized pardens and naturalized the stonework No. 19 Buffington two Georgian house this houses the in stonework The hillside. of the Zarr. lewis artisan, local relative same Hyde by designed Wright Lloyd house. Frank of relating house to its site stone of the house weds it to shruhs and a by cuted 18 gardens was exe- Corners and built House witnessed at the I afayette's arrival in Before its construca yellow coach drawn by white horses in 1825. at the Battle of Bennington were Hessian soldiers captured tion, The first marched to Boston via the old stage road that passed by. and tavern was located a short distance east of the present kennels, here the first town meeting was held and selectmen elected. No. 20 Wolff (Durgin) on the old stage This beautifully proportioned gambrel was built a centernally Origi y. centur 18th route in the last decades of the either on room (one plan floor l with the traditiona chimneyed house, the which in back the across room with a long side of the front door, reimes somet room, small a and big cooking fireplace was located, it has at one end of this big kitchen), ferred to as a "borning room" y. chimne the es replac been renovated and now a center hall No. 21 Heacock-Markham and portipillared The original portion of this magnificently Amaz-— floors. two only sed compri and coed mansion was built in 1842, third and second the now are fioors r those two earlie ingly enough, �floors--the first house was lifted so an addition could be made below it! Styles had changed and called for high ceilings and airy rooms, and this was the wav it could be achieved. The ambitious project was carri2?? -vt som-t+time vsrior to 1884, and hefore the 1900's the grand portico was added! Still sturdy 24 solid, i+ maintains its longtime dignity and has been a treasure house of priceless antiques from generation to generation. No. 22. Woodbridre House Built in 1306 by Jonathan Woodbridee. a lawyer. It is such a pure example of Georgian architecture that plans of the house have been recorded and preserved at the Library of Congress. The doorway is particularly important to students of architectural history. This house in its untouched condition still retains original elass, woodwork. paneling, mantels. staircase, firenlaces, and floors. William Cullen Bryant studied law here under the supervision of Judse Howe who took possession of the property after Woodbridge. No. 22 Snook_(Rice) 1896 Known as was in historv its as sister the Rice across Vonse. the this street. ter hall, beautifully proportioned stairwav witnessed the glorious visit of the Marcuis - undoubtedly Judge Howe and his student, Mr. wandered in for tea and legal discussions. No. 24 Tt. Georsian too, has was a hiilt in tovely cen- and many fireplaces. Tt de Lafayette in 182° and Bryant, occasionally What a marvelous history! Shepherd The salt-box home of Mr. and Mrs. Iawrence RB. Shepherd is a conv of the old Dav house in West Snrinefield. Built in 1957-1958, the inside is finished in pine, with wide board wainscoting and floors, adding to its look of age. A center chimnev takes care of tke large brick fireplace which burns four-foot logs. No. 25 Hebert, (Lane) route Known to as the Boston, Drury it lane retains House, much of built its in 1778, original Located Tndian on stage shutters, clapboards fastened with hand wroueht rails, gracetul doorway, traditional %-window fenestration on front of house, eight fireplaces, marble hinges, hearth etc. stones At one from time Vermont, the premises. An Indian ladder look-out on the roof. Much turned balustradeés. No. 26 Drury wide nine Casket flooring, Shop was and located latches, on is located in the attic and soes to paneling and the original stairways The Corners the a with Grocery Located at Worthington Four Corners where store has been kept since Revolutionary years. William Gove is believed to have been the first proprietor. The first post oftice between Northampton and Pittsfield was established here in 1796. Original store burned in �rebuilt by Horace Cole I whose familv owned and was promptly 1859 across the Double porches generations. three and operated it for ve distincti a it give structure story front of the two-and-a-half the from hangs literally floor second The appearance. store country ly extensive been has part ell The rods. iron great by roof supported busifeed and grain a housed y originall altered through the years and Town library kept in room on second floor for few years in ness. installed and telephone exchange first gasoline pump here: 1800's; late the family, Packard the by 1425 since Operated in back room in 1905. country old the of much with superette is a modern Grocery Corners In 1968 the store ranks with the town hall retained. store flavor as "The place where the is". action No. 27 Tower Although the old center Built in 1777 by Nehemiah Prouehty. 19th century, in the first half of the sometime chimney was removed heavy plank has house The and some paneling remain. old chair rails in the on indentati The slight walls--an earlv form of construction. a , structure first front lawn marks the spot where the Proughty's that is house An interesting feature of the present log cabin stood. faced house the y Originall the front of the house was once the back! an earlier road which passed to the north of it! Nos. In are the Stevens 28 & 29 Cole and Frew a turbulent this lovely valley beside remnants of a little settlement named buiit the big house you see here when waterpower from the mili (The stream. still and fast-fallinge stream. Mr. for Aaron Stevens. wath milt hoop a he ran stands.) Fowler 30 as a one- structure the entire a second story could built the smaller in 1846 story house which soon became inadequate, so that Stevens, Lafayette was raised by his son, Aaron however, Before this. be added underneath! house as a duplex for his two sons. No. Built (Pomeroy) Snuggled into the side of a mountain facing distant views down the valley past its weathered gray barn sits what may be one of "Indian Red" which researchPainted earliest houses. Worthington's ers find was the first exterior color in available hilltown houses, stone stack this house has five fireplaces positioned in a massive and and has hand-hewn beams whose foundation may be seen in basement chimThe stonework of the a meat-smoking oven. possibly a chamber. roof line with brick but. the at rebuilt and narrowed later was ney has its origThe big cooking fireplace is still intact. otherwise, woodwork, paneling. Some of the original at the side. inal bake oven and hardware are still in place. No. Built in 1853 by William acres passed to Ezra Brachett 1862. Although the proximity 31 Doherty (Day) a farmer, Bates, to finally, and, to a swift the the flowing house Capen stream and 100 family in suggests �home industry, all of the owners were farmers to have been established at the location. Since architecture was adjusting to a and no modern industry seems invention. i.e., the stove, during the early 19th century, no fireplaces were originally incorporated into the structure, and chimneys were built from second floors up to the roof line. In the 20th century, a native fieldstone fireplace and chimney were added. The stairway are four house has four rooms upstairs which are reached by an open from the center hall just inside the front door. Downstairs more rooms and a pantry. No. 32 McCann (Chapman) Eighteenth century house of traditional center ca. 1780 by Samuel Buck. Its brown weathered built chimney style siding was the common finish for houses in the early hill settlements where paint was rare and expendable. Restored by the present owners in the 1940's, no effort was spared to help the house regain its former for Worthington a landmark It has become atmosphere. 18th century and creates an image of the town's heritage. No. This joined more Cape, interesting, together, pleasing than and it the the eaves coming teresting story lies 33 early Downey (Vaughan) house may be just down to just steeply appears above its No. named style the The oldest Ward. It building. property be four roof line Nothing proportioned house boasts four such roof lines! work and sheathing, one wonders how behind to that. the With some the house development! %4 is window Cane Cods architecturally of an frame. early This of the original woodevolved and what in- Brookstone section of this house was built in 1790 by a farmer is believed to have been a center chimney Cape Cod In added 1820 the a tanner, impressive named Greek Watson, Revival who had acquired portion across the front of the origina] house. The style of this later addition reminiscent of the famous architect of that period, Benjamin. the south of the house and near the river foundation stones of the old tannery. No. Cape On Cod. old Parish The Road unknown 35 by you Weidenkeller a builder rushing chose still see the (Parish) stream the can is To site sits a marvelous well--an old unending source of water and fertile valley acres. The house, date also unknown, has very early proportions: a steeply-pitched roof that reaches down to the tops of the windows, a plain framed doorway with five small panes above to light the cramped, dark hallway inside, and a fat, handmade-brick (beautiful rosy, terra cotta color) chimney rising from the ridge. Awaiting restoration, it presents a pleasantly mellow and weathered face to the passer-by. �LEGENDS a= = DIRT-GRAVEL AOAD aun MARD SURFACED ROAD O WNumeereo rowrs OF INTEREST TOWN OF � https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/d3cb00971bf28b7c03864998e291a5b2.pdf 00d7f05c87fa210725fc1c6a80712e64 PDF Text Text 10 - Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass., Fri., July 9, 1971 Worthington Congregational Church To Observe Bicentennial July 11 ! THE PRESENT CHURCH, of unusual design for New England Congregational structures, faces Huntington Road. * \ . ‘ ea �WORTHINGTON — On July 11 the First Congregational Church of Worthington will celebrate its bicentennial. The town of Worthington was incorporated in 1768 but the church was not organized until 1771. The present church building is the fourth to be erected in town. The first church, built near the corner of Sam Hill Rd. and West St., which in earliest days was the center of populationg, was a primitive building, never completely: finished. Near is was the first cemetery, There were 30 original members of this church. Nearby. on West St.. the first pastor, the Rev. Jonathon Huntington. built his home. This is still standing-and has been restored by the present owner. Mrs. Jerilee Bunce. The early meetinghouse was used for about 20 vears until the growth of membership and the change of the town's center of population called for a change. At that time, this was church the material and torn down in a incorporated new church in the rear of the village store near the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Q. Smith. The church increased rapidly. The population of the town was between 1,100 and 1,200 people and in those days the majority of the inhabitants were church going. The meetinghouse was the center of religious, civic and social life. New Meetinghouse Early in 1818 plans for a new meetinghouse were started, but because of dissension as to the part of town in which it should be built, it was seven years before the question was settled. The argument between the north and south parts of town was bitter and it finally became clear that outside help would have to be called in to settle the argument. Three committees worked on the problem before it was THE PARSONAGE presently in use is this large house located on Huntington Rd. finally settled. Elaborate calculations were made as to the exact center of town in regard to population, territory, value, and mileage, and the committee recommended that the new meetinghouse be built on the spot where the present church stands. In 1825 construction was started on a colonial style church. This church was built with a high steeple that was a landmark for miles around, heated by two box stoves with pipes running back. The building was along the sides used destroyed by fire. Only to a single chimney at the until April 2, 1887 when it was the large Bible and a hymn book were saved. Parts of the bell were salvaged from the ruins and sold to help raise money for a new church. Fortunately the church had $7,000 insurance which was a help in rebuilding. The present church was dedicated in 1888 under the leadership.-of -the-Rev.» Frederick Sargent. Huntington, pastor. The new church was a copy of an English church, which caused some dismay as many preferred the old colonial style. The new church features rose windows in the gable ends of the sanctuary and memorial windows along the sides. Addition Built In 1960 a two-story, four-room addition was built at the back of the building. In 1961 the church, known as the First Congregational Church of Worthington, united with the United Churchiof Chrsit. At the present time there are 182 members with a town population of 768 year-round residents. The Rev. Jerome H. Wood is now pastor, but will leave this summer to enter the teaching field. Many years ago the Women’s Benevolent Society of the church was organized. This group had as its objectives the building of the present parsonage and its upkeep. This the women did entirely until a few years ago when they deeded the parsonage to the church. They still work toward its. upkeep. Other church organizations are the Friendship Guild and an active Youth Group. | On July bicentennial. 11 the There church will be will formally a morning observe service with its Dr. Warren Wright, a summer resident of Chesterfield and widely-known orator, as guest speaker. Those attending have been urged to take a picnic lunch and eat on the lawn afterwards. The afternoon program will consist of a ‘‘Conversation” or dramatic dialogue by several of the church people, giving a look at the folks of former days as they lived 200 years ago. Dr. Warren Wright, guest speaker for the morning service, is a member of the speech department at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. He has been a professional speaker and lay preacher for 20 years. He was interim pastor for the two Cummington churches for a year and has preached in various churches in New York State. : �“THE CHURCH Of Our Fathers,’ this sketch depicts either the first or second church in Worthington, nobody seems to know which since the structures were identical. This drawing is preserved by the church. �THE SITE of the first church at the corner of Sam Hill Rd. and West St. is marked with this stone today. os THE FIRST PARSONAGE, on West Stree t, has recently been restored as a Priva Mrs. Jerrilee Bunce. te home by � https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/c1b7e0863e15aa7426775da5f2f2628d.pdf efb3ab18c7ebc08e4d955b3afcd9480e PDF Text Text 10 — Daily Hampshire Gazette — Saturday, August 3, 1968 Home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bunce 2 & (GAR D EIN BY DICK FISH �Worthington’s Oldest BUNCE are restoring the oldest home in MR. AND MRS. KENNETH some believe to be what arly dated Worthington. Although the house is popul sted that sugge have at about 1771, visiting experts frame plank of style ral tectu archi because of the construction, the house is really much older. is Jonathan Worthington, for whom the town that lated specu is it and h churc first named, built the as a Worthington - the Bruce home was framed by time. some for - parsonage and not finished an | residence In elementary art April, since teacher house for a year before and lath herself, While Mrs. Pittsfield, in Bunce, studied the removing all of the plaster in the process a wall was discovered which carried the legend ‘Josiah Clarke worked just this day.’ the Keystone brickwork on the first floor holds the that nce evide is second floor hearthstone. There the on made was aces firepl l severa brick for the were Bunce property. Charcoal and pieces of brick discovered near the old barn. Original baseboards were stripped down to a thick black, gritty paint. Discussing this oddity with a visitor, the Bunces found that black baseboards were the custom of residents of Norwalk, Conn. during an » earlier period. Most of the woodwork was originally painted with a buttermilk and berry combination. Blueberry was the color for the front parlor. Red onion skins and laurel leaves were used in the first kitchen. may have been the The small front room which medical office of Jonathan Huntington a later owner, boasts very old shelves over the small fireplace. Experts feel these are another clue to the true age of the house. Mrs. Bunce is attempting to discover what the hole under the front stairs was used for - closet or cupboard - before restoration continues. Brick dust and buttermilk was found to be used for the color in Jonathan’s upstairs office. An inside window between the office and stairs indicated the size and style for the outside front windows. Mortise holes in the ‘plate’ directed the placement of the new window copies which are complete with the early wide muttons between the lights. A meat smoking oven in the attic the below is hooks iron wrought with twelve of portion the chimney which was rebuilt with the bricks and extra narrow strips of mortar. The only compromises with authenticity kitchen and bathroom; both are ultra-modern. original are the “Meat Smoking Oven �‘Linesey-Wooley’ Homespun es eo ] iV tor € ees Old Medical Office ' �Master Bedroom - Yellow And White � Book Bound document, typically consisting of 25 or more pages. Generally does not include stapled items. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book - Scrapbook Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 30.5 x 33 x 1.3 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-27 Description An account of the resource Red leather with gold lettering. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from 1956 and 1957. While the appearance and format are similar to scrapbooks prepared by Elsie V. Bartlett, this item appears to have been created by others. Some of the clippings duplicate those in Miss. Bartlett's scrapbooks. The scrapbook contains several items which are out of date range inserted loose between its covers. An item on the Worthington Bicentennial (1968) is scanned and included as a file: scr35a.pdf. A piece on an August 3, 1968 renovation of the Jonathan Huntington House by Mr. and Mr.s Kenneth Bunce is included as scr35c.pdf and a piece on the July 11, 1971 Church Bicentennial is included as scr35b.pdf Additional random newspaper clippings from undated and dated events through 1981 are not scanned. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 30.5 x 33 x 1.3 cm (12 x 13 x 0.5 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SCR35 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 16 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Frederick S Huntington Library Title A name given to the resource Scrapbook - Newspaper Cllppings Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1956/1957 Subject The topic of the resource Historic Event Physical Object Physical objects other than books, documents, photographs &c. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-27 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. ca. 1900 Description An account of the resource Oliver green and brown leather. 'The Use of Flowers by Mary Hewitt.' The frontispiece reads: 'God might have bade the earth bring forth/ enough for great and small/ the oak tree and the cedar tree without a flower at all./ We might have had enough, enough/ for every want of ours/ Her luxury medicine and toil/ and yet have had no flowers./ Then wherefore, wherefore were they made/ alll dyed with rainbow light/ all fashioned with supremost grace/ Up springing day and night/ springing in valleys green and low/ and on the mountains high/ and in the silent wilderness/ where no man passes by?/ Our outward life requires them not/ then wherefore had they birth?/ To minister delight to many/ to beautify the earth/ to comfort man, to whisper hope/ when e'er his faith is dim/ her who so careth for the flowers/ will care much more for him!' Scrapbook of pressed flowers in very dellicate condition, notations indicating botannical names. (It is possible that Mary Hewitt was the young lady berothed to Frederick Sargent Huntington.) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 27.9 x 21.6 x 5.1 cm (11 x 8.5 x 2 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SCR28 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 07 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Hewitt Title A name given to the resource Scrapbook - Pressed Flowers, Hewitt Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/2e80a6accf7e690854be45af2d367560.tif 7dd758e19a01cabbb54e459c83543159 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/4effb2004415941f086de2c9fcf2b26e.tif e50ac2ba79108adebad93176c7f5885d Physical Object Physical objects other than books, documents, photographs &c. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-27 Description An account of the resource This album is in bad condition. It has been repaired as best as possible with PVA glue. Brown leather with embossed design and brass clip. Pages have gilt edging. Contains early tintype (TT) of Will Wright, Elma Smith, Delia Crane, Nell Williams Beale, Clem (Addie) Williams, Charlie Williams, Laura Fay Hemenway, Mrs. Nathan Almon Wright, Sara and Ada Stowell, one unidentified couple. The rest of the images are photographs. The type of picture and style of dress suggest 1880's. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 15.2 x 12.7 x 5.1 cm (6 x 5 x 2 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PhA2 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 20 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Not recorded Title A name given to the resource Scrapbook - Starkweather Family Album Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880/1889 Subject The topic of the resource Photo Album https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/d40ed065f5791fc620b572ff96e8e1ca.tif ed6885dc014453704943eb4eb05d2360 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/e751edddfefc5f11d75ce488c0781c29.tif f093f37483b26626ce9b244acc14cede https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/ebdd2b0eff000598930a451fee1dcc94.tif 52ecd7a344fc415f727553a200903197 Physical Object Physical objects other than books, documents, photographs &c. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-27 Description An account of the resource 1882 to 1932 Ida S. Trow & Alfred W. Trow Golden Wedding, 8 March 1932' Contains signatures of guests, gift list, newspaper clippings, invitation. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 11 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 27-024 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 30c Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. George Bartlett Title A name given to the resource Scrapbook - Trow Golden Wedding Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1932-03-08 Subject The topic of the resource People Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Trow family Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Trow family Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Paper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Worthington - Worthington Corners Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. db/jd Physical Object Physical objects other than books, documents, photographs &c. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). summer 1999 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-27 Description An account of the resource Scrapbook of identified pictures of Grand Opening. Pictures should be scanned (identify diane brenner). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 29.2 x 25.4 x 5.7 cm (11.5 x 10 x 2.2 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 53-021 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 53a Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Robert Epperly Title A name given to the resource Scrapbook - WHS Grand Opening Type The nature or genre of the resource Papers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999 Physical Object Physical objects other than books, documents, photographs &c. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). September 2009 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2009-10-27 Description An account of the resource Scrapbook from 1950 through 1962 containing newspaper articles, reports, letters, photos and other memorabilia detailing the opening of the Worthington Health Center. Some names include Clarence Pease, Harold Stone, Florence Bates, Judith Magargal, Carl Joslyn, Fayette StevensEaton Freeman, Donald Rogers, Bernard Auge, Donald Striker, Cullen Packard, Russell Christopher, Donald Rogers, Donald Sprecker, Barbara Dunleavy, John ModestowKenneth MacArthur, Mrs. Cullen Packard, Mrs. Harry Bates plus much more. Last entry is from 1966. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 25.4 x 33 cm (10 x 13 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2009a-059 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 40 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Lois Ashe Brown materials Title A name given to the resource Scrapbook - Worthington Health Center, 1950-1962 Subject The topic of the resource Scrapbook Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950/1962 Physical Object Physical objects other than books, documents, photographs &c. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2007-03-27 Description An account of the resource Brown leather cover scrap book. Elsie Bartlett 1947 #22 newspaper clippings (Easter Parade, New York City) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 32.4 x 26 x 1.3 cm (12.8 x 10.2 x 0.5 in) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SCR22 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Box 12 Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Elsie Bartlett Title A name given to the resource Scrapbook, Elsie Bartlett, 1947 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947 https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/780a3d16d2a4dba0a97a3b6b9a3708d9.jpg f91a3598896604c64247c3f85531a826 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bartlett family materials Description An account of the resource Photographs and documents taken/collated by Helen Magargal, Elsie V. Bartlett and other members of the Bartlett depicting family life. Abstract A summary of the resource. Series of photographs taken, mainly in the 1940's to the 1960's depicting family life. Many photographs taken near Worthington Corners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen Magargal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Helen Magargal Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Worthington Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-1970 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2002 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Still Image - Black and White Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 8 x 8 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. CD 050714_1811 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 020930_032 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Helen Magargal Description An account of the resource Copied from scrapbook of Helen Magargal. Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. enl Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2005-07-15 Subject The topic of the resource Houses and Barns Title A name given to the resource SE Façade of Spruces In Summer https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/09954f2a2e821b5fec9950ea53dc9bcd.jpg 52b92d8326236a21729a659c2f75928a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bartlett family materials Description An account of the resource Photographs and documents taken/collated by Helen Magargal, Elsie V. Bartlett and other members of the Bartlett depicting family life. Abstract A summary of the resource. Series of photographs taken, mainly in the 1940's to the 1960's depicting family life. Many photographs taken near Worthington Corners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen Magargal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Helen Magargal Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Worthington Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-1970 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2002 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Still Image - Black and White Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 8 x 8 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. CD 050714_1811 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 020930_033 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Helen Magargal Description An account of the resource Copied from scrapbook of Helen Magargal. Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. enl Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2005-07-15 Subject The topic of the resource Houses and Barns Title A name given to the resource SE Façade of Spruces In Winter https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/eded9cbcf05b3870d746255a0f3f2692.jpg 4c5522f0252f774081168a0f6b71143a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bartlett family materials Description An account of the resource Photographs and documents taken/collated by Helen Magargal, Elsie V. Bartlett and other members of the Bartlett depicting family life. Abstract A summary of the resource. Series of photographs taken, mainly in the 1940's to the 1960's depicting family life. Many photographs taken near Worthington Corners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen Magargal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Helen Magargal Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Worthington Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-1970 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2002 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Still Image - Black and White Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 8 x 8 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. CD 050714_1811 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 020930_034 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Helen Magargal Description An account of the resource Copied from scrapbook of Helen Magargal. Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. enl Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2005-07-15 Subject The topic of the resource Houses and Barns Title A name given to the resource SE Façade of Spruces In Winter https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/c36c82c777eff9c8ef82e79154547d0d.jpg f7c696b612c6707f32eb3877858ee1af Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bartlett family materials Description An account of the resource Photographs and documents taken/collated by Helen Magargal, Elsie V. Bartlett and other members of the Bartlett depicting family life. Abstract A summary of the resource. Series of photographs taken, mainly in the 1940's to the 1960's depicting family life. Many photographs taken near Worthington Corners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen Magargal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Helen Magargal Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Worthington Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-1970 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2002 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Still Image - Black and White Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 8 x 8 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. CD 050714_1811 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 020930_035 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Helen Magargal Description An account of the resource Copied from scrapbook of Helen Magargal. Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. enl Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2005-07-15 Subject The topic of the resource Houses and Barns Title A name given to the resource SE Façade of Spruces In Winter https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/18c53b600dda09a0ddc417819e444467.jpg 7f6b1ae4976d764471256e447f9a0e84 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bartlett family materials Description An account of the resource Photographs and documents taken/collated by Helen Magargal, Elsie V. Bartlett and other members of the Bartlett depicting family life. Abstract A summary of the resource. Series of photographs taken, mainly in the 1940's to the 1960's depicting family life. Many photographs taken near Worthington Corners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen Magargal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Helen Magargal Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Worthington Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-1970 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2002 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Still Image - Color Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 8 x 8 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Has Part A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource. CD 050714_1811 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 020930_036 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Helen Magargal Description An account of the resource Copied from scrapbook of Helen Magargal. Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver. enl Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2005-07-15 Subject The topic of the resource Houses and Barns Title A name given to the resource SE Façade of Spruces In Winter https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/d73bb0a35792e5faaa5fcf247ea41250.jpg 2b437bf38da9836e6d93e23c319a1535 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bartlett family materials Description An account of the resource Photographs and documents taken/collated by Helen Magargal, Elsie V. Bartlett and other members of the Bartlett depicting family life. Abstract A summary of the resource. Series of photographs taken, mainly in the 1940's to the 1960's depicting family life. Many photographs taken near Worthington Corners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen Magargal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Helen Magargal Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Worthington Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-1970 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2002 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. 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Paper Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Title A name given to the resource Secretary's Book - Women's Benevolent Society 1959-1973 Subject The topic of the resource Churches https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/files/original/a204f644c39cdaf41cfe043218a01efc.pdf 56affe6be0219e4a9cc6aaa494c38241 PDF Text Text �LIBRARY OF THE "^ ^ MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SO ^ 74 - W93R5 — '\^ �0,KA.H^yH %. ����HISTORY OP THE Town of "Worthington, FBOM Its FIRST SETTLEMENT TO 1874. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.: CLARK W. BRYAN & COMPANY, PRINTERS 1874. �i7^ �SECULAR HISTORY Town of "Worthington, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO By JAMES "No liistory C. 1854. RICE. can present us with the whole truth; but those are the best histories, which whole."— Macaulay. exhibit such parts of the truth, as most nearly produce the effect of the ��TO THK OLD PEOPLE OF WORTHINGTON, THIS HI8TOKICAL PAMPHLET IS MOST BBSPEOTFULLY WITH EARNEST WISHES FOR THEIR HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY, BY THE AUTHOR. ��PREFACE Feeling that the unrecorded history of one's native town, like the unmarked graves of parents, evidences both of a proper respect and a following chapters, tives less filial gratitude, the want we commenced the more from a sense of duty than from mo- worthy of regard. To this sense of duty was soon added the virtue of necessity, which so often causes a person to hazard that before the public eye which no motives otherwise could have induced, and no ambition could have prompted. Taking advantage, therefore, of the recollection of the living and the records of the dead, we place before the people of Worthington a history of their town, asking imperfections, and its errors, that charity of criticism which a thoughtful consideration of the vantages under which Worthington, July it many was written, lO^A, 1853. for its brevity, its difficulties and disad- will naturally suggest. ��SECULAR HISTORY. CHAPTER L THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN. On the 2d of June, 1762, plantations of land were by order of the General Court, nine sold at public auction in Boston. These plantations embraced the townships of Cummington and Plainfield, Windsor, Partridgefield (now called Peru and Hinsdale) and Worthington, on the Green Mountains, together with ^ve other towns, situated in different parts of the " Plantation ]^o. 3," which extended at that time, on State. the east, as far as the north branch of the Westfield river, was purchased by Col. Worthington, of Springfield, and Maj. BarIn honor of the former nard, of Deerfield, for about Xl,500. gentleman, who liberally induced the early settlers to occupy the land, by the erection of a church and a grist-mill, at his own expense, together with a generous assignment of minisand school lots for the use of the town, the plantation was called Worthington. The larger part of the first inhabitants of the town came from Connecticut, and the middle and eastern counties of this State; among whom was I^athan Leonard, who resided where his grandson, Mr. Alonson Leonterial ard, now and Samuel Clapp, who resided in a log house, of ground now occupied by what is called the lives; near the lot Woodbridge place ; ]N'athaniel Daniels, who built the first frame house in town, nearly opposite to the dwelling of Mr. Tilson Bartlett; Nahum Eager, wdio resided near the place 2 �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 10 where Mr. Nathaniel Eager now lives, and who was the first town in the Provincial Congress, held at Cambridge; Doctor Moses Morse, whose house stood on a spot of ground between the dwellings of Mr. Ames Burr and Medad Ames, now marked by a butternut tree John Kinne, who lived on the place now owned by Mr. Jotham Clark; Ebenezer Leonard, who resided on the place now occupied by the dwelling-house of Mr. Ames Burr Thomas Clemmons, who lived where Mr. Jonathan Burr now resides; Benjamin Biglow, who resided in a house situated north and east ol what is now called the Jonah Brewster farm Thomas Kinne, who lived on the above named farm, and from whom the brook, near that place, took its name; John AYatts, who resided a few rods east of the first church that was built in town Ephraim Wheeler, who resided near the spot of ground now occupied by the house of Mr. Harrington Mr. Collamore, who lived nearly opposite to Mr. Wheeler's Alexander Miller, who resided on the " Bufiington place," and who was the first innholder in town Joseph Marsh, who lived on the place now owned by Mr. Franklin Burr; Amos Frink, whose house was situated on " Cold-street;" Abner Dwelly, whose residence was situated on the east side of the road which leads from Capt. Clark's to the church; Jeremiah Kinne, who resided where Mr. Calvin Tower now lives; Stephen and Davis Converse, who resided on the "Elijah Higgins place;" Phinehas Herrick, who resided near where Mr. Amasa Briggs now lives; Joseph Pettingell, and Joshua Phillips, who lived opposite to him, resided on the north side of the road, passing by Mr. John Colt's; Gersham Bandall, who resided where Mr. Jonarepresentative of the ; ; ; ; ; ; ; now resides Daniel Gates, who lived near the place of Abner Dwelly Asa Cotrell, who resided on the place now owned by Capt. Pandall Asa Burton, whose house stood where that of Mr. Dwight Perry now stands Zephaniah Hatch, who lived on the place now owned by Mr. I^oah Hatch i^athan Branch, who occupied the place where Mr. Morgan Hall resides; John Buck, whose house stood on the than Prentice ; ; ; ; ; occupied by that of Capt. Eing; Timothy Meech, Wm. Colt's place; Samuel Crosby, who lived where Col. Stone now lives; Daniel Morse and Daniel Morse, Jr., who resided on the faims_now owned by Mr. ground who lately resided on Mr. �; TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 11 Azariah Parsons and Mr. Silas Marble John Skiff, who lived on the spot of ground now occupied by the dwellinghouse of Mr. Horace Cole James Benjamin, who lived on the farm now owned by Mr. Ira Johnson Beriah Curtis, whose dwelling stood near the ground now occupied by the house of Mr. Alden Curtis Jonathan Prentice, who lived on the " Cushman place;" Samuel Morse, who resided near the ground now occupied by the dwelling of Capt. James Bisbee James Wybourn and Israel Iloton, who lived nearly opposite to each other, on the road which passes, on the north, the house of Mr. John Adams, near the plot of ground now called "The Vineyard;" Col. Ebenezer Webber, who owned the place now called the Widow Cole farm Samuel, Robert and Amos Ba}^ who resided on the spot of ground now occupied by the dwelling-house of Mr. Elijah Brury Joseph and Isaac Follett, who lived where Mr. Abraham Brake now resides Stephen Fitch, who resided nearly opposite to the dwelling now owned by Capt. Cyrus Robinson Ezra Cleaveland, who lived on the south side of the road in a house situated in an angle of a lot, north of the dwelling now occupied by Mr. Harvey Bewey Samuel Buck, who owned the farm, and erected the house in the year of 1T80, now occupied by Mr. Silas Robinson Edmund Pettingell, who resided on the farm now owned by Mr. Wm. Cole James and John Kelly, whose house was situated where that of Capt. Kelly now stands Isaac Her; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; rick, in who resided a short distance south of the school-house, Mr. Alden tridge, Curtis' district; Joseph Prentice, who lived on now owned by Mr. Alpheus Prentice John Parwhose house stood nearly one hundred rods north of the place Wm. ; Leonard's, on the west side of the road Seth Sylvester, who lived a short distance south of the dwelling-house lately owned by Capt. Ring Amos Leonard, who owned the Mr. ; ; farm now occupied by Mr. Amos Cole Elijah Gardner, whose house stood nearly west of Ring's factory; Joseph Bewey, who lived in a house west of the "Buffington Grove " (the land where it stood is now owned by Mr. Horace Cole) Luke Boney and Bavid Brunson, who lived in a house that formerly stood in Capt. Buck's orchard they were the first millers who came into town Asa Spaulding, who owned the farm now owned by Capt. Jeremiah Phillips Hezekiah Maheuren, ; ; — ; ; �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 12 now owned by Col. "Wm.Eice; John Howard, who occupied the place now owned by Mr. Merrick Cole; Thomas Hall, who lived west of Col. Oren Stone's, who resided east of a grove Wm. Meech on the farm formerly owned by Mr. ner, who resided opposite to the dwelling-house ; Joseph Gard- now occupied by Mr. Morris Parsons; Miner Oliver and Capt. Constant Webster, who lived near where Mr. Hiram Bartlett now lives ; Joseph Geer, who resided where the late Mr. William Parish lived Samuel Tower, whose house stood a few rods west of old church, by Mr. Watts' Nathaniel Collins, who resided the a short distance south of the house of Mr. Isaac Herrick, mentioned above Eeuben Adams, who owned the second sawmill and the second grist-mill built in town, which were situated near Pingville John Drury, who lived on what is now Mathew Finton, whose house stood called the Drury place a few rods east of the spot of ground now occupied by the dwelling-house of Mr. Granville B. Hall; James Bemis, who resided on the place now known as " The Widow Granger farm ;" Moses Buck, who resided with Mr. John Buck, spoken of before Thomas Buck, who lived on the farm now owned by Mr. John Coit; Samuel Petiugell, whose house stood on a lot now owned by Mr. William Cole, and nearly south-east of Mr. I^athaniel Eager's residence Noah Morse, who resided on the farm now owned by Mr. Milton Adams Nehemiah Proughty, whose house stood on the ground now occupied by that of Mr. Ezekiel Tower Seth Porter, who lived on the farm now owned by Mr. Jacob Porter Stephen Howard, whose house stood near the spot of ground now occupied by that of Mr. William H. Bates Mr. Hickbey, who lived in the south part of the town, near where the Methodist church now stands Elihu Tinker, who resided where the late Mr. John Tinker lived. In addition to the above-named persons, there were living in ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; town, at or near the time of viduals, certain its settlement, the following indi- whose places of residence we have been unable : Wm. Burr, Jonas Bellows, Jonathan Eames, Mr. WiLKiNS, Thomas Butler, Simeon Lee, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Clay, to as- �— TOWN OF WOKTHINGTON. 13 Mr. EiCE, Nathan Morgan, Mr.' Ford, Lewis Church, John Ross, James Tomson, Lewis Porter, Moses Porter, Samuel Wilcox, EuFus Stone, Moses Ashley, Joseph French, Samuel Converse, Joseph Lee, Alexander Chillson. , It seems, from the large number of the first that the settlement of the town was rapid from ment; and, from the town record, it its inhabitants, commence- also appears, that the population steadily increased for a number of years, so that, before the close of the last century, there were more persons living in town than at the present time. early inhabitants of Worthington were men whose charwere formed in that severe school of discipline, where the patient and cheerful endurance of hardships and trials was taught to be a virtue. Commencing their manhood at a time when the whole energy and valor of the New England Colonies were demanded to resist the encroachments of the French and their Indian allies, they became brave and resoWithout the privileges of schools and seminaries lute men. deprived of the advantages of an early education— possessing but the Bible and the spelling-book, they yet excelled the present generation in that practical learning which unites pruThey dence with resolution and wisdom with goodness. were men of strong minds, acute discernment and unerring judgment. When they arose to speak on any subject, in The acters church or town meeting, they expressed themselves with the Well acquainted with the greatest firmness and perspicuity. affairs of the colonies, they hesitated to act upon none of the various questions brought before the town. While they warned their town meetings, in his Majesty's name, they discussed our relations with Great Britain with unhesitating boldness. They voted that they would keep ''good regulations under his Majesty's reign," but at the same time they voted a supply of powder and balls for the use of political the town. In liberally raising money for defraying the exin the number of men they promptly penses of the army — �— SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 14 sent to the war, and cheerfully supported during paigns its cam- — in the amount of clothing with which they generously — supplied the wants of the soldiers they were unrivaled by any town on the mountains. Feeling a want of that educa- which circumstances had denied to them, they took the found schools, and to raise money to defray their expense. Believing in the doctrine of the same tion, earliest opportunity to religion, they, like their descendants, with nimity, always steadily commendable una- and zeal o,u sly supported the preaching Such are some of the peculiar traits that marked the characters of the first settlers of this town. Leav- of the gospel. ing a climate much milder than that of the mountains to which they had removed arriving here, as many of them did, — at the commeucement of one of our severe winters, with their wives and their children, after a journey of ten and twelve days on horseback, guided only by the marks on the trees was often the deprived of nearly all of those comcase, upon the ground forts and luxuries of life, in which their eastern homes had commenced to abound— procuring their food from the forest and their water from the brooks without chairs, without tables, without anything, save a small quantity of food, brought sleeping in log houses, hastily prepared, or, as — — — with them for their present subsistence did the first inhabitants of the town, eighty-nine years ago, commence the settlement of Worthington. CHAPTER II. INCORPOIIATION OF THE TOWN, ROADS, ETC. During the session of the Provincial Congress of Massawas passed for " creating the 'New chusetts, in 1768, a bill Plantation, called l^umber Three, in the county of Hamp- The limits town by the name of Worthington." of the town, as recognized by this bill, extended at that time from the Partridgefield line on the west to the north branch of the Westfield river on the east while the northern and southern boundaries were defined nearly the same as they reshire, into a ; �; TOWN OF WORTHTNGTON. main 15 In purscance of this act of Congress, the General Court to call a meeting of the inhabitants of this town, issued the following warrant: "These are, therefore, in his Majesty's name, to require you, ITathan Leonard, to notify and warn the inhabitants of Worthington, tbat they assemble together at the house of Alexander Miller, innholder in said town, on the first Monday in August next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, then and there in public meeting to choose all such officers, as towns within tb^s province are impowercd and enabled by law to choose in the month of March annually. Hereof, you Nathan may not fail. Given under my at the present day. lion. Israel Williams, hand and seal, at who had been empowered by Hatfield in Hampshire county, this eleventh day of July, in the eighth year of his Majestie's reign, anno Domini 1769.* IsEAEL "Williams, Jus. Pads.'' By virtue of the above warrant, the freeholders and other town met at the inn of Alexander Miller, on Monday, the first day of August, and chose Captain Nathan Leonard, Moderator Mr. Nahum Eager, Town Clerk Captain Nathaniel Daniels, Captain Nathan Leonard, and Mr. John Kinne, Selectmen; Mx. Benjamin Biglow and Mr. Thomas Kinne, Wardens; Mr. Thomas Clemmons, Constable and-Leather Sealer; Mr. Samuel Clapp and Dr. Moses Morse, Surveyors of Highways Mr. Nahum Eager and Mr. Ephraim Wheeler, Fence Viewers; Mr. John Watts, Tithingman. inhabitants of the ; ; chosen by the town. At a subseand Ebenezer Webber were choErink Amos sen Deer-reeves. The business of the town, for the first two These were the quent meeting, years after its first officers incorporation, consisted principally in survey- ing and laying out roads. Among the first of the roads that were thus surveyed by the town, was one which, in the fertile imaginations of the selectmen, was called " The direct road through Worthington to Boston and Albany." This road was laid out, so as to connect with the Chesterfield road, at the " Gate," and, running west, to lead by the farms now owned by Mr. Harrington and * This date is doubtless wrong, since the eiglitli year of liis Majesty's reign would have taken place in 1768, having commenced on the 25th of October, 1760. �; SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 16 reached the " Buffington place," where stood, From this place, it at that time, the inu of Alexander Miller. was laid out directly north, till it passed the house of Mr. Tilson Bartlett, and then it was continued north and west, passing through a part of Peru and Windsor, till it intersected a road which led more directly to Pittsfield. Subsequently this road was changed, so as to lead directly to the inn of Capt. This change was I^athaniel Daniels from '' The Corners." Mr. Drury, till it the town, so as to prevent any travel by the house of Alexander Miller, who favored the cause of Great Britain, and to secure the same to Capt. E'athaniel Daniels, who was a zealous patriot. In after years, " to make the road more straight and direct," the town laid it out over what is now called Snake The second road of importance which the town surHill. veyed led from Cummington to Chester. This road extended through Cold-street, and passed the inn of Captain Daniels and the Buffington place, till it intersected a road near where Mr. Alden Curtis now lives and from there crossed directly to Middle river, where it continued on the banks of that stream till it reached Chester. During these two years, the town laid out and surveyed twelve cross-roads, all of which, except two, have become obsolete, as it regards travel. On the 17th of April, 1770, the town voted to raise "£45 for repairing the highways, and to pay for men's labor on the road, 3s per day, for that of a yoke of oxen. Is and 6d, for use of a plow, 8d." Previous to the year 1768, there was scarcely a road in town all journeys, at that time, were performed over To go to trails, or paths marked by cut or girdled trees. Northampton and back, w^ithout infringing on the sacredness of either of the Sabbaths that bound the week, was considered by the farmers as a recommendation for the speed and endurA journey to Boston, or to Albany, ance of their horses. was prefaced by the prayers of the church, and the safe return of the individual who hazarded it, was the cause of thanksgiving and public rejoicing. Quilting, at that time, as now, was one of the practical amusements of the ladies in town but the preparations which preceded a quilting party were much more extensive than at present, on account of the distance from which the inhabitants lived from each other, and made by ; ; the almost impassable state of the roads or paths. To attend �: : TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 17 a " quilting " at the more distant parts of the town, as it was the practice then, was an absence from home of no less than three clays the first of which was spent in going, the second A in quilting, and the third was consumed in returning. mother, before starting on one of these expeditions, was obliged and if she to bake a sufl3.cient supply for the family at home was so fortunate, or unfortunate, as to have the care of an infant, she was under the necessity of putting it out with the ; ; neighbors, to be nursed, The town, through till she should return. commenced in 1769 to publish The following is copied from among its clerk, the bans of matrimony. the earliest recorded " These may certify to whom it may concern that the bands of matrimony have been published as the law directs between John Leonard of Preston in the Colony of Connecticut and County of New London and Sarah Pierce of Worthington. Nahum Eager, Attest Town WoRTHiNGTON April QtJi Clerk. 1770." Preceding the action which the town took in regard to the Revolutionary War, it chose a committee, in accordance with an act of the General Court, for the Massachusetts Bay, to prevent oppression and monopoly, in consequence of the effect of the non-importation act. This committee fixed the following prices to labor, and all the articles of merchandise bought and sold town in : £. Men's labor At in time of harvest and haying, per day, other seasons in the In the fall Women's summer, and winter, labor, Wheat, Rye, Indian Corn, " " 2 " " 2 per week, 3 per bush., " " " " 6 " Peas, s. 3 " 6 6 " " Oats, " " 1 Spanish potatoes, " " 1 Wool, per pound, " *' Grass fed beef, " " Stall Pork, 3 8 4 White beans, Flax, d. 3 8 2 1 " " 2-2 " " 3-2 " " 3-3 �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 18 £. 8 Stockings, good wool, Shoes, calf skin, 3 " 2-3 3 " " " 140 " English hay out of the field in summer, per ton, of the stack in winter, ' of the barn in spring, 1 " by the hogshead, 4 " " 110 " " 1 per 00 15 14 per bush., Salt, Rum 6 10 Horse keeping for twenty-four hours, N. E. " 6 per yard, Flannel, Out Out 2 4 Pork, barrels containing eleven score per bbl " " " twelve Beef, Ox 8 00 00 6 cloth, d. 50 " " Butter, Tow s. per pound Cheese, 00 4 10 gall., " single gallon, 5 " single quart, 1 60 60 West India rum, by hogshead, " " 7 8 by single gallon, Sugar, by hogshead, " by single pound, " " 8 6 per hundred, 3 4 90 CHAPTER III THE PART WHICH THE TOWN TOOK IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF 1812. Nearly a year before the first battles of the Eevolution at Lexington and Concord, the inhabitants of this tow^n were taking an earnest interest in regard to the political relations of the colonies with Great Britain. In the spring of 1774, the upon Massachusetts, which the payment of a duty upon British government, in a spirit of revenge and especially on Boston, for the determined spirit with the town had refused to submit to tea, passed a bill, by which the citizens of Boston were denied the privilege of landing or shipping goods. into effect, the To carry this bill government of Great Britain took possession The intelligence of these proceedings aroused the inhabitants of this town to the greatest degree of excitement, and called out the following preamble and warof the port of Boston. rant " Whereas a number of the inhabitants of Worthington �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 19 have desired a town meeting to be warned, for the purpose of taking into consideration the alarming circumstances of the times, in regard to the trade and commerce of the town of Boston, and the towns of America in general to the constable of the town of Worthington, greeting in his Majesty's name. You are hereby required forthwith to warn all the inhabitants of the town of Worthington, that they meet at the Meeting-house, in said town, on Tuesday the 28th day of June, 1774, at two of the clock in the afternoon, then and Firstly, to choose a there to act on the following articles moderator secondly, to hear the letters read sent from the committee of correspondence at Boston thirdly, to say in what, since you would be understood in favor of the inhabifourthly, to say if you will do anything for tants of Boston the relief or encouragement of the town of Boston." Pursuant to the above w^arrant, the town met, and chose Capt. Ebenezer Leonard as Chairman, and ]^athan Leonard, Nahum Eager, Nathaniel Daniels, Thomas Kinne and Moses Morse, a committee of correspondence. This committee of correspondence immediately communicated with the committee of safety at Boston, promising the zealous co-operation of the town for their encouragement, and all the means in their — : ; ; ; power for their relief. The threatening state of affairs, and the earnest correspondence of the committee of safety at Boston, caused the selectmen, a few weeks after the tioned meeting, to issue a warrant, calling upon habitants of the town who were soldiers, and above men- all of the in- all who were obliged to keep arms, to assemble at the meeting-house for the purpose of choosing military officers. On the opening of the campaign of 1777,* a number of the young men of the town, without arms or ammunition, offered The to join the army of Washington, at Morristown, N. J. town, thereupon, voted that " The selectmen shall be empowered to draw powder and arms, for any person or persons that shall apply for the same, and to send money to purchase the * The action of the inhabitants of the town, during the following years, from 1774 war, has no record. The probable reason for this omission, for so long a period, is the fact, that in the early campaigns, most of the soldiers from the mountain towns voluntarily joined the army and no record but that of to 1777, in regard to the ; town business, has been preserved. �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 20 same, agreeable to a resolve of the General Assembly of this State ;" at the same time, the town voted that a petition should be presented to the General Assembly, to have a store of blankets, to draw out of, when needed upon an emergency, In 1778, the want of shoes and clothing in the upon the sympathy and patriotism of the State Worthington generously reof Massachusetts, for its relief. sponded to a part of this demand, by raising X120 for the suffering soldiers. On the 3d of JSTovember, 1779, the town voted to raise £600, as a tax, to pay for twelve blankets, and bounfor the town. arni}^ called ties for The number the soldiers last raised. of soldiers that the town raised this year was twelve, six to serve six months, and the remainder twelve months. On the 3d of June, 1780, the town voted .£200 as a bounty to each soldier, and three pounds per month in addition, valuing the Continental money wheat at five shillings, rye at three shillings, and corn at two shillings and sixpence per bushel. In July, 1780, the town voted that each of the soldiers raised by the town should have X150 as bounty, to be paid to them in two months from During this year, the cavalry became so rethe above date. duced in the army, that Congress was obliged to call upon the in States for a supply of horses. The requisition of the State of Massachusetts, upon the town of Worthington, was for so great a number of horses, that the town was obliged to pass the following resolve: "Voted, that the town will give security on the town, if they can not provide the horses sent for, at the stated price." The wants of the army, at the close of the campaign of 1779, again aroused the sympathies of the country for its relief. Early in the spring of 1780, the General Assembly for the bill, requiring each town to by tax, a certain amount for the purchase of clothing for the army. In accordance with this act the town voted to raise £2,130 for supplying the army with the clothing required. State of Massachusetts passed a raise, During the same * Bills of credit millions of dollars. issued. By the were At first town raised £5,000,'^ to supply, in issued by Congress, in June, 1775, to the amount of two the expiration of eighteen months, twenty millions had been year 1780, the amount in circulation was two hundred millions. At bills began to depreciate, and continued was limited by Congress, in 1780. an early period, these culation year, the to do so till their cir- �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 21 part, the army with beef, as required by an act of the General Assembly, passed on the 25th of September, 1780. In May, 1781, a committee from Congress visited the army, and became more thoroughly acquainted with its distress and destitution. They reported to Congress, soon afterwards, the situation of the army, in the following words, viz mouths : " That the army was it seldom had more than six and was, on several occasions, for sundry successive days, without meat; that the medical department had neither sugar, tea, coflee, chocolate, wine nor spirituous liquors of any kind; and that every department of the army was without money, and had not even the shadow unpaid for iive ; that days' provisions in advance, of credit left." What eflect this report had on the inhabitants of this town, may be seen in their patriotic action. Daring this year, the town raised fifteen men to serve in the Continental army, for three years, granting each one forty shillings advance pay, and four pounds per month, and also sent four thousand weight of beef to supply, in part, the wants of the army. The trials and hardships which the majority of the families in town endured, during the war, will scarcely be credited by the present generation. Happy in the freedom which had been won, and joyful at the return of peace, too seldom did the mothers and sisters of the soldiers who went from this town recite their sufferings to their descendants, for us at the present day fully to understand, and appreciate their selfdenials and sacrifices. The females of man}^ families worked on the farms of their husbands and brothers, during the greater part of their absence in the war. Many ploughed their own lauds, sowed their grain, and planted and hoed their corn during the spring; in the summer and fall gathered their hay and harvests in the winter months fed and took care of the cattle in the barns, drove them to the brooks for water, and oftentimes yoked their oxen, and went to the woods to cut the fuel necessary for their use. So few of the male inhabitants, at this period, did patriotism leave in town, that at no time during the interval between the years of 1779 and 1782, were there above ten or twelve men, out of over seventy families living in town, who attended church on the Sabbath. At length, the destitution of the families of those persons who had ; �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 22 joined the army, became so great, that on the 10th of October,. 1777, the General Court of Massachusetts was obliged to pass a bill, by which each town was required " to appoint a committee to supply the families of the soldiers who were engaged Pursuin the Continental army with the necessaries of life." ant to this act, the town of Worthiugton appointed Jonathan Brewster, Moses Porter and William Burr, as a committee to take care of the families of the soldiers, while engaged in service. The following is a list of the names of those soldiers, as far who served in the RevoThat the list falls much below the actual number who joined the army, there can be but little doubt, since many persons sent their hired men to the war, whose names as it has been able to be ascertained, lutionary war. are not now known Samuel Dewey, Barnabas Clapp, Jeremiah Kinne, Samuel Cole, Lemuel Clapp, Daniel Goodman, Isaac Clapp, Gershom Brown, John Howard, David Woods, Samuel Follett,* Stephen Clapp, Gershom Randall, Samuel Buffington, Nathaniel Daniels, Jr., killed. Jonas Leonard, John Daniels, Samuel Daniels, Asa Dan. Daniels, Samuel Petingell, Ephraim Parish, Timothy Meech, Elisha Brewster,t Richard Briggs, do. Cottrell, Nicholas Cottrell, , who is still living in this town, was born on the 23d of Novemtown of Attleborough, Bristol county, Mass. He joined the army when he was in his eighteenth year, where he remained fifteen months, serving in the regiment commanded by Col. Reed at the battle of Bunker Hill. He came into this town before the close of the war, in 1781, where he has resided ever since. His first vote was cast for Gen. Washington, for President of the United States, when he was thirty-two years of age ; his last for Gen. Scott, when he was ninety* Samuel Follett, ber, 1757, in the six. t Elisha Brewster was born in Preston, Conn., on the 25th of February, 1755, where he resided until the commencement of the Revolutionary war. He early enlisted as a volunteer into a regiment of light dragoons, for and during the war, and served to its close, as an oflScer of the same, during the period of seven years and months. His regiment was exercised in cavalry tactics by Count Pulaski, the distinguished six �TOWN OF WOllTHINGTON. 23 Eoger Benjamin, Thomas Buck, Asa Benjamin, John Stone, I^ahum Eager, Asa Jackson, Lott Drake, Sylvanus Parsons, Jonathan Ring, Eufus Marsh, Joseph Marsh, Jr., Joshua Morse. Israel Burr, Moses Buck, Samuel Kingman, Alexander Kingman, Soldiers of 1812. Comviissioned Officers. William Ward, Non- Commissioned Thomas William Rice. Officers and Privates, James Hatch, Hall, Joseph Starkweather, N'ehemiah Tinker, Alfred Brown, John Cushing, Henry Warner, Timothy Parsons, David Parsons, Luther Bartlett, Ezekiel Tower, Barnabas An able, Perkins Fitch, Milton Brewster, William Brewster, Rufus Taylor, Obadiah Tower, Elijah Burr, Richard Briggs, Joseph Daily, Harvey Metcalf, Daniel Parish, Poland disciplinarian, who first introduced cavalry tactics in this country. After the close of the war, he served as Captain of cavalry and Brigade Quarter-master. At the time of Shay's Insurrection, he volunteered his services to General Shepard, at Springfield, and was appointed one of his aids, on that memorable occasion. Subsequently, he was employed by Government to take the oaths of the insurgents for their allegiance to the He Commonwealth. held various offices of trust in town, and was chosen to represent its interests Joined to the great exposure and suflTering which he experienced in the army, was a slender constitution, which, in the latter period of his life, so enfeebled his health, that he was unable to take an active part in in the General Court, in 1806. the affairs While of the town. in the army, he experienced many hard fought battles, always charging into the very midst of the contest, with an impetuosity and courage which no pru- dence could restrain. He was a fine looking officer, and in daring and horsemanAs a civilian, he retained that dignity and ship no one excelled him in the array. courtesy which so often mark the officers of the army, and always bore with him, in the intercourse with his fellow-men, that affiibility and gentlemanly feeling, which He died on so eminently characterized his younger brother, Mr. Jonah Brewster. the 25th of September, 1833. �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 24 CHAPTER lY. CHURCHES, PUBLIC LANDS, ETC. The original proprietors of the town, to encourage the rapid settlement of the plantation, erected a church, in the year of 1764, near the spot of ground occupied by the house of the late Mr. John Watts. The immediate district surrounding few the church, at this time, was an unbroken wiklerness. A years subsequent to the above date, the inhabitants of the town assembled together, and agreed, " that every male person living and upwards, should spend one day in cutting and clearing away the forest about the meeting-house." The church was but partially finished, internally, by Mr. Worthington, but it appears that the town worshiped in it, nevertheless, with all of its inconveniences, till the year of 1780, when it was remodeled, but not entirely Previous to the time stated above, the church had finished. no pulpit, but a temporary stage erected in its stead. The seats for the congregation were composed of benches, made from boards nailed to movable supports. The aged part of the congregation, brought chairs with them, for their own ease and comfort during the service. On the 29th of March, 1780, the town voted to build a pulpit, two deacons' seats, four seats on each side of the broad aisle, and also to lay the gallery fioor and stairs. The remaining pew locations were That the pews drawn by lot, on the following conditions " should be finished at a stated time, and that each one should finish the back, up to the gallery girt." In May, 1791, the unfinished state of the church, inside, aroused the public spirit, and called together the inhabitants of the town, when " Voted, to have the they passed the following resolutions Meeting-house taken down moved erected, and every way finished, by the 1st day of December, in the year 1792, and that the whole expense, accruing therefrom, shall be paid by the inhabitants of the town, by the first day of December, aforesaid, in the following articles, viz one-fourth part to be in the plantation, of sixteen years of age : : — — : paid in cash, and the remainder to be paid in good neat cattle, At a subor Indian corn, or rye, or flax, or beef, or pork." �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 25 sequent meeting, the town voted to have all the pews in the meeting-house, sold at public auction to the highest bidder. The amount which these pews sold, was .£601. 8s, lawful new church was built, those persons who for pews in the old church, were entitled to have the amount deducted which they had advanced, in purchasing the pews in the new building. This church occupied part of the ground now lying between the store of Messrs. Sidney Brewster & Son, and the dwelling-house of Mr. S. IT. Parmoney. had paid for When the ish. In the year of 1825, after a controversy too lengthy to be recorded, the town voted to build the church which is worshiped in at the present time. Churches of The Methodist the Methodist Societies. southern extremity of the town, in the year of 1828, erected a church by subscription, which was worshiped in for twenty years. In the year of 1848, society at the a plan was drawn of a small but neat and beautiful church, from which the model pews were sold to defray the expense of building. The new church accordingly was erected, and dedicated in the following year. In 1848, a new society of the Methodist denomination was formed in the west part of the town. By the liberality of a few individuals, the church in which religious service is now regularly performed was erected. The church was dedicated in the j^ear of 1849. Public Lands. purchase of this plantation. Col. Worthington made the town a donation of nearly 1200 acres of land. This land was divided into twelve sections, and was situated Six of these sections were in different parts of the town. The called ministerial lots, and the remainder school lots. object of this donation was to supply the town with the preaching of the gospel, and to defray the expenses of the town schools by the rent of these lands. However generous the gift, and noble the motives which prompted it, the town for a long time realized little or nothing from them, since they remained uncleared and uncultivated. Four of these Soon after the 4 �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 26 were leased a few years after the incorporation of the The remaining eight were rented in 1780. The following is a report of the committee appointed to dis- Jots town. pose of the lots WoRTHiNGTON, December We, the subscribers, being a committee, chosen 18th, 1780. by the town of Worthing- ton to dispose of the ministerial and school land belonging to said town, have given leases the terra of nine To to the following persons of the land hundred and ninetj-nine years, E. "Williams, the school lot viz above mentioned, for ; No. 125 for the sura of ten bushels and four-fifths of good wheat, yearly. £. To Daniel Chapman school lot " " To Joseph Marsh " To Joseph Brown " To Edmund Petingell Jun, Min'l " " To Timothy Meech To Samuel Buck east half " To Asham Fanning west half" " To Levi Flint " Taken " 160 No. 175 " 123 No. 190 100 No. lot 57 ", 75 " 18 " No. No. s. d. .57 No. 223 for 90 55 No. 18 " 55 No. 91 " 66 10 obligations of the above cited persons. JOHN KINNE, STEPHEN FITCH, JONATHAN BREWSTER, Common ) Town } Commit- ) tee. Schools. The subject of education early engaged the attention of the town, and received steadily the support and encouragement of the law. Considering the district school-house as an insurance building, where the morals and the virtue of the community were exempted from all hazard, by the corruption which arises from ignorance, the town at once, after its incorporation, paid its premiums from its scanty means, and received its policy, which will run out only with eternity. The pecuniary embarrassments experienced by the inhabitants of the town at its first settlement, and the active and liberal part which they took in the war with Great Britain soon after, furnishes them with a silent apology for the limited allowances which at first were granted for the maintenance of common schools. When we remember that, for the first four years, the expenses of the town, though amounting to only forty pounds, were obliged to be defrayed with borrowed money when we consider that ; �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 27 want of hard money, were obliged to be paid in produce when we contemplate the extreme low price of all kinds of labor, we are rather surprised at what the town done for the support of common schools, than at what, in their necessity, they were prevented from doing. On the 19th of March, 17T1, the town voted to raise ten pounds, silver money, for the support of common schools. After the close of the war, this sum was increased, at first to twenty till at lengtn, before the pounds, and afterwards to thirty close of the last century, it amounted to sixty pounds annually. At the present time, and for the last ten years, the town has appropriated a medial sum of over $1400, including teachers' board and fuel, for the support of common schools annually. In 1772, the town was divided into five districts. The limits of these districts, changing from time to time as the population increased, which, together with the addition of new ones, makes it difiicult to trace their boundaries with any accuracy. In the year of 1833, the town voted to choose a committee of ten persons, one from each district, to re-divide the town into districts. This committee reported an additional the State taxes, from the ; ; with some alterations in the limits of the old ones. district, The first school-house, composed of logs, was erected in 1773, now occupied by the dwelling house of Mr. At the present time, eighty years from the near the ground John Adams. above date, there are ten district school-houses in town. The Academy. Ilium fuit.* CHAPTER y. THE MINISTRY. The town, for the first seven years after its settlement, was supplied with the preaching of the Gospel by ministers from the neighboring towns, who were paid for their services by * When the Romans looked back with pride at one moment to the glory of Troy, and at the next with grief to its destruction by the Greeks, under the com- �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 28 voluntary contributions. On the 3d of April, 1771, the town voted " to have the Rev. Jonathan Huntington for their minister." At the same time, the town voted to raise forty pounds for his support in the ministry, and to raise four pounds each amounted to sixty pounds, which, after that time, him annually. Subsequently, the town voted to raise fifty pounds by subscription for Mr. Huntington, and to be paid in wheat at six sixty pounds for his yearly support year, was till it to be paid to ; rye at four shillings, corn at three shillings per shillings, bushel, and other necessaries of .life at their market value. having arisen in regard to the manner of maintaining Mr. Huntington, and a few individuals refusing to contribute for his support, the selectmen of the town issued, on the 31st of March, 1777, the following preamble and war''Whereas, when Mr. Huntington settled with us in rant: the ministry in this town, he told us he would have no straightning for rates, and would have no money, raised in and notwithstanding the town did unanimously that way Some dissatisfaction ; agree to support Mr. Huntington by tax, or liberality, as by the vote of said town, it will appear and sundry of the in; habitants refuse or neglect to pay their proportion of agree- — ment, or covenant, or contract These are therefore to warn of the inhabitants, who have a right to vote, by a late vote of this town, to meet together on Tuesday, the 8th day of April, next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, at the Meeting house in said town, then and there to act on the following all articles " In the town will shift their former method of supporting Mr. Huntington in the second place, if so voted, then, to consider what way or method to come into, upon consideration." To this dissatisfaction on the part of a few individuals, Mr. Huntington magnanimously replied to the town in the followfirst place, to see if the ; ing *' letter : Whereas, when I was mand settled, in this town, in the work of the ministry, of Nestor, Achilles, two Ajaxes, and other Grecian princes, they were — accustomed to exclaim, in the bitterness of their feelings, Ilium fuit Troy was. A commentator upon these words of Virgil remarks, that, " it was a custom among the Romans, when they would intimate the destruction of anything which reflected glory upon their nation, to say fuit, so asioshun sounds that were shocking , and accounted of bad omen. �; TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 29 on the 26th of June, in the year of our Lord 1771, I made known and sentiments to the people, when cipals the ministry my trary to ; and likewise before and my and principal ever since, support of the G-ospel to their made with me my power of that *' ter my ordination, that was con- it hand, to in that way and ; since Gos- has been it that the civil law has nothing to do with the still is, paying their proportion of the covenant, which they support in the Gospel way, because I have make it in the the town pay all of the arrearages and interest behind, and so, that they shall have more than their proportion to pay is for my for prin- and, whereas, there arises some uneasiness in some ; minds, with regard — after principals to ever have the civil law take place, to support the and that I would have no money raised pel, my accepted their call to the work of I which reason some refuse Therefore to remove my principals, if possible, of the church and people town, of to pay all diflBculties that — more lay in such minds, fully for the glory of ordained among them even to the present day heirs never will nor shall bring the ministry so long as thermore it is my God to minis- these are therefore to give a full discharge to the I might require of them by the all that and God, and the peace in ; civil law, since I have been and furthermore I nor any action against the town His providence shall continue for my my service in me here and ; fur- design and desire, that notwithstanding I give this lawful much holden to them to much holden to support me a discharge to the town, that I look upon myself as serve them as before and that the town is as Gospel way. Jonathan Huntington. To the Selectmen and town of Worthington The town, " at the next meeting, unanimously voted to sup- port the Rev. Jonathan Huntington by a free contribution of pounds a year, to be paid to him quarterly. the 20th of May, 1788, the Eev. Josiah Spaulding was invited by the town to settle with them in the work of the ministry. His salary, during the first year of his ministry, was one hundred pounds. The reply to this invitation of the town by Mr. Spaulding, has no record. On the 6th of August, 1794, the town voted unanimously to give the Rev. Jonathan L. Pomeroy a call to settle in the work of the ministry, and also voted to give him for the first year, as a salary, one hundred and eighty pounds, lawful money, and ever after that, as long as he should continue in the work of the ministry, one hundred and ten pounds, together with sixty On �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 30 thirty cords of fire is Mr. Pomeroy's reply : •*To the Church and people of Worthington, > } *' " The Brethren and Friends, which I have received from you call The following wood, to be paid annually. to settle in the work of the ministry in this town, I have attentively and prayfully considered, and have concluded to accept, — —The my advice of friends — the apparent harmony among this people a consideration of the division, which in the opinion of many of you, as it has been manifested -to me would probably take place, all these things have operated should you employ a number of candidates The liberality of the powerfully with me to bring me to this determination. — — town, considering the sums which have usually been paid to ministers in this part of the country, I readily acknowledge to be great and the generosity ; of individuals, I also recognize with gratitude as a testimony of esteem for me, and good wishes my brage my and should you. may —What um- occasion, I can- in the there this article. for be exhibited before it by any thing contained itual this society. considerable objections of knowledge, respecting minds of and happiness of any consequence hav^ come —No — Should be uneasiness your advantage, many — my continuance among you cannot be not determine. to for the peace unwillingness to comply with former customs —With it is too late, I shall not view myself in this answer, to make bound a permanent settlement with the warmest wishes for your lasting union and prosperity, spir- and temporal, I am Gentlemen unfeiguedly your friend and obedient serv't Jonathan Law. Pomeroy. Worthington, Oct. 14th, 1794," On the 5th of November, 1833, the town voted to give the Rev. Henry Adams a call to settle in the ministry with the Congregational Society of Worthington, and to offer him the sum of six hundred dollars made the following answer to the " To the Congregational Church and Society in Worthington, me : ) to settle Brethren and Friends, with you in the ministry, has been com- me by your committee. In answer no sufficient reasons, why I should not comply municated see invitation to town ) •' " Your Mr. Adams for his yearly salary. to voted myself to the spiritual benefit of my to I would say, that I it, with it. fellow men, — I have long de- and considering the �— I TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. why not I my feeling, manifested in favor of unanimity of 31 ^ remaining with you, I see not be as useful here in the cause, to which I have devoted may myself, as in any other field of labor. — I confess that my mind instinctively shrinks from the responsibilities of a Christian minister, and well my He any confidence, is will sustain me. doubt That sufficient for also which is — With me His will give in the invitation of the society, as a every reasonable purposes, and said in reference to the the prayer that it may, if I trust in God, that guidance, I answer your letter in the afiSrmative. spirit, be dissolved, coincides entirely with ject. He Relying upon Him, that and the comforting aid of His The sum mentioned But thing like self-confidence. Your servant means of support, no is therefore satisfactory. manner, in which our connection may my own God would is feelings in reference to the sub- bless my efibrts am your benefit I for in the ministry H. Adams." On his labors, ciety Adams, on account of some time obliged him to cease from addressed the following letter to the church and so- the 20tb of September, 1838, Mr. health, ill which had for : " To the Congregational Church and Society in Worthington, ) ) " Beloved Brethren and Friends, ** seemed It has my be to tion of the views, in duty, no longer to delay making a communica- which ray mind has been in reference to the prospect of your minister. —The fact my ought not to time, and now I cannot say that I think there shall be able to do — This to occupy me my my my my intention of rangements place. my ter that expec- till the present to hope, that I for to require, some other person which we hold to my each other. — As the circum- giving the six months' notice leaving, which was the basis of our connection, you are for obtaining as Hoping my Accordingly, I would hereby request you to join with place. in dissolving the relation, will therefor say that labors, any reason and make room stances of the case prevents the necessity of of is being the case, your interest seems station, fixed, labors, as any period of time not remote, have been continually diminishing since ceasing from it. my be concealed from you that tations of being able to preach within that I should retire from some time becoming for being able to resume again at liberty to soon as you may succeed, — proceed immediately to make ar- may be an in that individual, to supply you may soon find a man my af- God's own heart, and that you may enjoy uninterrupted temporal and spiritual prosperity. I remain most aflfectionately Yours, EIenry Adams." �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 32 On the 10th of November, 1838, the town voted to give the Rev. John H. Bisbee, the present pastor of the church, an invitation to settle over the Congregational Society as its minister; voted also, if he accepts, to give him six hundred dollars annually as his salary, so long as he shall continue to be minThe following is a copy of ister and pastor of said society. Mr. Bisbee's reply •' To the in Church and Society Worthington, > ( •' Brethren and Friends, " Having received from you, through your Committee, an invitation to settle with you in the work of the Gospel Ministry, I hereby inform you, that after invitation. able in due deliberation, and prayer, I consider it my duty to accept said I will therefore be in readiness to unite with you, making Wishing you the necessary arrangements, preparatory to grace, my when desir- installation. mercy and peace, I remain Yours &c., J. CHAPTER H. BiSBEE." YI. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT MEN WHO HAVE RESIDED IN THE TOWN. Doctor MosES Morse was educated bridge, in England, at the University of and subsequently practiced Cam- his profession, and surgeon, in the hospitals of Liverpool and London. From the commencement of the Eevolutionary war, he appears, by the town records, to have inclined in his prejudices towards the cause of Great Britain, and to have shown himself to have been as notorious as a tory as he was eminent as a physician. By shrewdness and tact, he influenced the town to pass a vote, in 1774, making the ^tsTon-importation act in regard to tea, which the town a few years before had covenanted to maintain, null and void. In 1777, his talents procured him a seat in the General Court, where he re- as physician �TOWN OF WORTHINQTON. 33 mained but a short time, having been recalled and censured, on account of his flagrant toryism, by the following resolution, passed by the town on the 14th of January, 1777 " Voted that Doctor Moses Morse, for his misconduct in refusing to act in behalf of the town, relative to a petition, and saying that he would oppose it with all of his might, directly contrary to the vote of this town, ought not, in justice to the cause for which we are now contending with Great Britain, sit any longer as a Representative in the General Court for this town." This petition was a request made by the town to the Massachusetts Legislature, to have its unimproved land taxed, to as: defraying the expenses of the war. In spite of the ill-will and prejudice which his conduct at this time occasioned, he subsequently was appointed by the sist in town to act on important committees, on account of his eminent talents and ability. In character, he appears to have been an antipathetic, dogmatical person, whose afiections and sympathies differed en- tirely from those of his neighbors, and whose desire always to be classed in the ranks of those who opposed their cause, robbed him of that respect and esteem which his abilities otherwise would have won. He died near the close of the last century, in His body was borne tionary soldiers, The a fit of apoplexy. grave on the shoulders of Revoluduring most of his life he had opposed. to the whom which he was carried burst open on the shoulders of his neighbors before they reached the grave, which was nearly a mile from his residence, causing the corpse to roll upon the ground, and manifesting, as one of the soldier bearers quaintly expressed it, that " habitual contrariness which was so characteristic of him." coffin in Ezra Starkwether, who was born on the 15th of Decemwas the eldest of nine sons, ber, 1754, in Stonington, Conn., four of whom early try, and the commencement enlisted in the service of their coun- lost their lives in the Revolutionary struggle. had just entered of the war, the subject of this notice, his profession as Near who physician in the town of Preston, Conn., abandoned his practice and immediately joined the army, which at that time was stationed at Crown 5 �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 34 At the expiration of six months his health failed him, and he was obliged to leave the army, for which he had so zealously and patriotically relinquished a lucrative practice. Upon leaving the army, he returned to Preston and resumed his profession, where he remained until near the year 1785, when he removed to this town. To the worth of Ezra Starkwether, his adopted town have borne ample testimony. He represented the town as a member of the Legislature during six years, and gained for himself Point. as a legislator that respect which. talent, joined with integrity, He was so often wins. a member of the Senate from 1803 to 1813, inclusive, and also in 1815-16 and 1817. was chosen by the town as a member In 1820, he of the State Convention, held at Boston, for the purpose of revising the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Although he was honored during so many successive years with the emoluments of office, yet his pacific and controlling character was felt, if possible, more in the church than in general society. He was the great pacificator in the difficulties of the church, and the great compromiser in the dissensions of the town. His words fell on the angry elements of discord as "oil upon troubled waters." He listened with attention and respect to the arguments and claims of both parties in controversy, and decided between the right and the wrong with a just and unprejudiced arbitration. He was position, easy and facetious in conversation, affable in his dis- and courteous in his manners. He died on the 27th of July, 1834. Jonathan Brewster, Jr., the subject of this notice, was born in IN'ovember, 1759, in the town of Preston, New London county. Conn. Starting in life at the close of one war, and at the commencement of a controversy which led to a second, he had the advantage of both of those periods of existence, when the fresh recollection of patriotic devotion and self-sacrifice in the past, and the hopes of usefulness and dis- tinction in the future, tend to human nature and produce characters. He had awaken men the better impulses of of firm and unchangeable the advantage, too, with a father ardently �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 35 inclined to the cause of the colonies, and an elder brother enin the war, of becoming familiar with all the details of gaged his country's dispute with which was to end Great Britain, and of the conflict it. How far a family interest in the struggle for our lN"ational Independence,^and in the twelve years' conflict of words which preceded it, how far a domestic sympathy in the wants and dangers of an army struggling for freedom, tended to produce and form a class of men of strong and resolute minds, let that difference answer which so plainly exists at this day between the present generation and the two that have preceded it. Of — this family hearth-stone interest in our political controversy with Great Britain, the subject of this sketch early partook. He read in the family newspaper with earnestness those eloquent debates in Congress which we now calmly peruse in history, and became, while a boy, thoroughly acquainted with all those details of a great political debate which necessarily imparts vigor and energy to the mind. Thus he became, in after life, an invaluable man to the town, representing its interests with a fearlessness and success which no other man at that time could have commanded. In the spring of 1777, when he was in his eighteenth year, he removed with his father, Deacon Jonathan Brewster, to this tical Soon after his age had entitled him to take a pracpart in the business of the town, he was chosen to fill town. the most important offices in its gift. Having a good com- mand of language, and being a sound reasoner, he was often appointed by the town to advocate their cause in differences with other towns. Before the Board of County Commissioners he presented the interests of the town seldom without success. In town meetings, as chairman, he presided with As a public speaker, though impuland sometimes passionate, he was never listened to without attention and respect. At seven different times he represented the town in the General Court, where he was respected for his ability, and often honored by being appointed as chairman upon important committees. He belonged to the Board of Selectmen during a number of years, and held important town trusts till confidence and dignity. sive, near the time of his death. �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 36 In character, he was firm and unchangeable. He expressed his opinions hastily, confidently, and perhaps sometimes dogmatically ; hut no man in town ever weighed a subject more manifold bearings more man of strong predjudices, when scrutinizingly, than he. once he had examined a subject and taken his position in regard to it, no motives could influence, no arguments perAs a husband, he was kind suade him to relinquish it. and affectionate as a father, he was a thorough disciplinarian He died in austere, yet mingling kindness, with austerity. February, 1841, loved by the poor for his kindness, and reaccurately, or viewed it in all of its A ; — spected by the rich for his integrity. AzARiAH Parsons was born in the town of Northampton, He removed to this town at a period of its The soldiers of history, the most cheerless and uninviting. the war, worn out with service, and without money, were returning to their families, who could welcome them with nothing but indigence and want. The treasury of the town, too, where the poor and destitute were authorized to find protecin the year 1761. tion against the sufferings of cold and hunger, had long been drained by the expenses of the war. At this time, 1782, most fortunately for the pecuniary interests of the town, AzariaK Parsons, the most charitable and individual history of He was a man who its humane man known in the early citizens, settled in this place. earnestly sympathized with the poor in and it was as natural for him to give to them There was a huthe half of his goods as it was for Zaccheus. manity in his nature, which was ever opening to the poor an avenue to his heart, and which was calling continually to the suffering and destitute to take shelter under the wings of his benevolence. Charity with him was considered a duty and the more cheerfully it was performed, the greater recompense he thought he should receive from that kind Being, who is a friend to the friendless. Thus he visited, during his whole life, the families of the poor in town, sought out their wants and promptly relieved them of their destitution. He died on the 25th of May, 1846, and received as a recompense for hia temporal charity the eternal benefaction of Him '^who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." their suffering, ; �TOWN or WORTHINGTON. 37 Closely following the early settlers of this town upon the life, was a generation of men who not only inherited stage of of that individual firmness and self-reliance, which so eminently characterized their fathers, but also added to their hereditary excellencies, that refinement of character, which is gained all by the privileges and opportunities of a more liberal educaAs the branches of the banyan tree, which bend to the tion. ground and take new root, grow up as strong as the parent stock, and whose timber, from the fineness of the grain, atthe same time is better adapted to the wants of man so the second generation of the inhabitants of this town grew up as strong in character as the first, yet with minds more refined, and with manners more polished. While the influences and the nature of the controversy which preceded it, of the war, exercised all of the intellectual faculties, and stimulated all of ; the energies of the soul, causing so many of the early settlers of the town to become valuable and controlling men, the tory of this war, told as it was around the his- fireside at evening, and the investigation of those elementary principles of society and government which grew out of it, formed a class of individuals to succeed them, no less useful or influential. What the long series of sufferings and trials which the new settlement endured, and the hardships of a protracted war accomplished in forming the resolute characters of such men as JSTathaniel Daniels, Nahum Eager, IsTathan Leonard and the elder Brewster, the history of the same and the practical knowledge derived from it, necessarily inspiring the noblest principles and awakening the highest energies, did to create that class of dignified men, of which the subject of this biographical sketch stood prominent. William Ward was born in the adjoining town of Cummington, on the eighteenth of May, 1781. His father dying when he was quite young, he removed to this town when he was but fourteen years of age, and entered the store of Mr. William Gove as clerk. His strict attention to business, and the faithful performance of his duties, won for him at an early At the age of age, the implicit confidence of his employer. seventeen, the entire business of the store was entrusted to his care; and it was at this time, while he was purchasing �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 38 goods for in Boston, that his ability him of such men Ames, Josiah Quincy, and other disit was his fortune to meet with, business called him to the city. as Fisher tinguished gentlemen, when and engaging manners gained a passport into the best society, and the acquaintance his whom In 1805, he formed a matrimonial connection with Miss Elizabeth Gove, of Connecticut, daughter of Mr. William Gove, of an ancient and respectable family of that State. This lady, of whose virtues and exemplary piety, it were impossible to speak in terms of exaggeration, was, for a period of little short of half a century the cherished and affectionate partner of his she robbed life. life of By her kindness and amiable disposition, many of its cares and perplexities, and strewed his path through this world with the proofs of tion. The companion of his youth and affec- manhood was comfort of his declining years, and to the close of the evidence of his warmest regard and affection. life the enjoyed To her vir- which signalize the and adorn with grace, and tues, she united those endearing qualities fulfillment of all the social duties, fill with enjoyment, the tender relations of domestic life. Soon after his marriage, he removed to "' The Corners," and commenced business in his own name, which he continued with little or no intermission until within a few years of his death. As trust a public man, he held during his and distinction. At life various offices of five different times, he represented the interests of the town, in the General Court of the Com- In 1826, he was chosen to fill a vacancy in the Senate, occasioned by the death of the Hon. Elihu Lyman. He accepted this office at the time of his election, but on account of his business, he did not take his seat in that body. Subsequently, he was chosen a member of the Senate for Hampshire county, which office he held during the years of 1836 and 1837. He also held, by the appointment of the State, a prominent place among that body of distinguished men, who were called to alter and amend the legislative enactments of the Commonwealth. As an officer of the United States Government, he was post-master for the town during eleven dif- monwealth. ferent administrations. In 1851, the town with a commendable gratitude for his �TOWN OF WORTH INGTON. 39 past services, and a unanimity of sentiment which will always be honored him with the highest office office, probably with more just pride than any honor which during his life had ever been conHe felt as if it was to be, as it proved, the ferred upon him. last public testimony borne by his towns-people to his character. No man ever left his neighbors and friends with a recollected with pleasure, He in its gift. accepted this deeper sense of gratitude, or a higher appreciation of their confidence, than Col. Ward did, after his election as rep- resentative in 1851. To the the pleasant recollection of this confidence, happy anticipations of company was added a retreat to Holyoke, where, in the of a beloved wife and affectionate daughter, he could whenever fatigued with the cares of legislative business. These fond anticipations never were realized. His wife was taken sick near the last of November, and died on the 14th of retire December following. He followed her corpse to his residence in this town, but his heart never left her. He died on Satur- day, the 20th of December, 1851. Ward was one of those men, whose death creates a vacancy, so impressive, that it robs language of all of its powers of eulogy, and renders panegyric tame and profitless to those who knew him well. With the turf scarcely green upon his grave to the young, who had the honor of his personal acquaintance, and in whose behalf he always manifested the warmest interest to the middle aged, who sought with confidence his advice, and to the old man, who looked upon him no commendation of his life and services, can be as a friend compared to that personal knowledge of his character, which was gained while he was in life but to those who know less of the character of Col. Ward than his neighbors and townsmen, and to those, who in aftertime, shall desire to look back with pride upon their native town, a record of some of his prominent qualities will not be entirely in vain. The character of CoL Ward was formed at an early period Leaving his home when he was only fourteen of his life. years of age, and entering soon after into the active and responsible duties of a mercantile business, he was taught before he had reached the threshold of manhood, that lesson of self reliance, which germinates and quickens to growth all Col. — — — ; �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 40 4 Having naturally a retentive memory, and a fondness for history, he commenced early in life to collect and treasure up in the storehouse of his mind, those facts and records of events, which in after life, became the sources of that unlimited information which he possessed. He had an ardent passion for the details of events, and those minute particulars ot affairs passing around, him, which other men scarcely notice and never retain. Thus he knew the name and age of every child the genealogy of nearly every family in town, and the individual history of its members. To this power of gathering and retaining the particulars of events, his mind joined the faculty of generalizing these deHence tails and arranging them into their respective classes. correctly upon any judging so subject of faculty arose his which was brought before him, and of giving advice so judithe latent energies of the mind. — ciously to those who sought it. was particularly interesting and instructHaving an inexhaustible fund of information, no subject ive. could be started, either in Church or State history, about which he could not relate something which would interest the most inattentive and phlegmatic listener. His literary taste was more refined than most men of his time and circumHe read with delight the gorgeous imagery, and stances. eloquent descriptions contained in the works of Burke, and perused with no less pleasure, the vigorous and terse letters of Junius. He was familiar with the writings of Shakspeare, and read with an appreciating sense the epic poems of Milton. As a public speaker he was indifferent, and it was seldom that he ventured to speak upon any subject before an audience but as a writer, some of his reports, made while he was a member of the Senate, bear the marks of great perspicuity in diction and vigor in style. He was conservative, as it regards his political opinions, but upon many subjects, the inquiring nature of his mind In conversation, he ; often betrayed his thinofs, often led radicalism. him to To know the cause of all examine new theories in science and relio-ion, and this habit of examination often caused him to view the exposition of any modern phenomena, whether physical or moral, with more leniency than he otherwise would have done. �: TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 41 As a citizen, he was entertaining and hospitable; as a neighbor, obliging and courteous; as a friend, he was especially kind to the young. The vacancy which his death occasioned, extended not only through the neighborhood where he resided, and the town in which he lived, but to the heart of every one who had had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and the honor of his friendship. The death of Col. Ward occasioned the following remarks, which were made in the Massachusetts Legislature, near the commencement of the session of 1852 : Mr. Hopkins, of Northampton, arose and said Mr. Speaker the death of : becomes It my painful duty to announce to this Hon. William Ward, of Worthington, a member House elect of this body. William Ward was born on the 18th of May, 1781, and died at his resi- dence, in Worthington, on the 20th of December, 1851, in the 71st year He of his age. was bred and continued through He was more life a merchant, with par- common man. He was an extensive reader, possessed of a retentive memory, and kept himself tial attention to farming interests. There were few men well informed of current events. knowledge of public affairs, With a mind well his. than a in the country of nations and governments, was whose superior to stored and cultivated beyond most others in like situations, he became a friend, associate, and desirable and honorable com- panion of many of the most distinguished men of his time in the western part of the State. The public have borne testimony to his worth. He first represented the in this House in the years 1816 and 1817, and afterThe county of Hampshire honored him wards in the years 1831 and 1835. town of Worthington with the trust of Senator in the years him by calling him 1836 and 1837. on the committee to serve The State honored for revising the statutes of the Commonwealth. For — forty-six years of his life he held the office of post-master tribute to his integrity, and a singular indication of the esteem was held by and He his all classes in a just which he parties. was a friend whose counsel and decision were extensively sought own and neighboring towns, and community which must long be His wife died but in life, left in a vacancy in the and lamented. commenced He its was then in health ; but ere work with the husband and were permitted, almost hand pass the valley of the shadow of death. 6 death has six days before him. she was laid in the grave, death They were united felt his in also. hand, to �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 42 But, sir, there is one circumstance wbich, more than the event in peculiar impressiveness to all others, gives a Had relation to us. its he been spared to take his seat here, the duty would have devolved on him of ing the its House But, organization. own welcome in and presiding over order, to that sir, hand which seemed destined you occupy, to the chair That voice which seemed destined Our is hushed is amid other scenes and in death. to offer the first official your is greeting to us We no more. There in other duties. to grasp cold in a snow-clad grave. lies friend, our senior, is call- through the preliminaries of it all, He are here. but a step between us and our friend, between our position and duties here, and our position and May duties there. This notice, friend, and due sir, the thought, sir, chasten and hallow I have felt was due to the also to us, that we should our all memory acts. of our departed properly note and improve the ad- monitions of Providence. Having thus announced Hon. William Ward, I move, the death of sir, what order the House should take that a committee be appointed to report thereon. Mr. Kellogg, of Pittsfield, in seconding the motion, spoke as follows Mr. Speaker Ward was almost : and I I second the motion, as well known Hampshire; and the public there add that Colonel desire to in Berkshire as in his will, am I own county of sure, cheerfully concur with the gentleman, in ascribing to the deceased the elevated character that have heard. His life He the region where he lived. rior natural possessed, as the gentleman has said, supe- endowments, a highly cultivated general ment unusually sound and discriminating the strictest integrity all of who knew him we was, indeed, one of great usefulness to the people of ; ; all his and he has been, through intelligence, a judg- conduct was directed by his whole life, hailed by or felt his influence, as a chief counselor in all the affairs life. I sincerely sympathize with his children and relatives under their sudden and severe bereavement ; and I sympathize, also, with the people of ington and the neighboring region, character ; and allow me to providence of God, Colonel who have lost so great Worth- and patriarchal a say, furthermore, that I deplore that, in the Ward could not join us in the public duties of the session, where he would certainly have commanded the same universal esteem from his associates that he used to eujoy amongst our predecessors, and where he would have amply justified, before our eyes, the eulogy that the gentleman from Northampton has paid to his character and services. The motion was adopted, and Messrs. Hopkins of Northampton, Kellogg of Pittsfield, Lincoln of Boston, Fay of �: TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 43 Southboro, and Allen of Tisbury, were appointed on the comand they reported the following mittee, Resolved, That the House of Representatives has learned with grief of the decease of the Hon. William Ward, a member elect of this body from the town of Worthington. Resolved, That the tegrity, House bears and the eminent public sible of the loss which it cordial testimony to the worth, the in- services of the deceased, and is deeply sen- has sustained in being thus deprived of his coun- sels. Resolved, That the House deeply sympathizes with the family and friends of the deceased in their bereavement. Resolved, That copies of the foregoing resolves be transmitted to the family and friends of the deceased, and to the selectmen of the town of Worthington. Resolved, That as a further testimony of respect for the deceased, the These memory of the House do now adjourn. resolutions were unanimously adopted, and accordingly the House adjourned. A list of the Representatives of the town of Worthington to the Congress, and to the General Court of the State of Provincial Massachusetts, with the year in ivhich they ivere chosen by the town, affixed to their respective names, Moses Mokse, Agent to Provincial Congress, 17T3. Moses Morse, Representative to General Court, 1777. Kahum Eager, Representative Provincial to Congress, 1774. J^AHUM Eager, Representative to General Court, 1781, 1783, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1796, 1797. E"athan Leonard, Representative to General Court, 1775. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Representative to General Court, 1778, 1779, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1793, 1795. Hon. Ezra Starkwether, Representative to General Court, 1788, 1798, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803. Mathew Warner, Representative to General Court, 1799. to General Court, Jonathan Woodbridge, Representative 1804, 1805, 1807. Elisha Brewster, Representative to General Court, 1806. Jonathan Brewster, Jr., Representative to General Court, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1813, 1819, 1831. �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 44 Samuel Howe, Eepresentative to General Court, 1812. JosiAH Mills, Eepresentative to General Court, 1814, 1815, 1822, 1829, 1835. Hon. Wm. Ward, Eepresentative General Court, 1816, to 1817, 1831, 1834, 1851. Trowbridge Ward, Representative to General Court, 1820, 1821. Jonah Brewster, Eepresentative to General Court, 1823, 1832, 1833. to General Court, 1836, Eansloe Daniels, Eepresentative 1845. Chancey B. Eising, Eepresentative to General Court, 1838, 1840. James Benton, Eepresentative to General Court, 1839. Ames Burr, Eepresentative to General Court, 1841, 1842. Ethan C. Eing, Eepresentative General Court, 1843, to 1844. Elisha H. Brewster, Eepresentative to General Court, 1847, 1852. Elbridge Hazen, Eepresentative to General Court, 1848. Ethan Barnes, Eepresentative to General Court, 1849, 1850. A list of the Selectmen of the town, from its incorporation to the present time, Ebenezer Leonard, Nathan Leonard, Nathaniel Daniels, John Kinne. 1769. Thomas Kinne, Moses Morse, Samuel Clapp. 1770. Nathan Leonard, Nathaniel Daniels, Nahum Eager. 1776. 1771. Joseph Marsh, 1779. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Moses Porter, 1768. John Kinne, Alexander Miller. 1772. Ebenezer Leonard, Joseph Marsh, Alexander Miller. 1773. Nathaniel Daniels, Nahum Eager, Thomas Kinne. 1774. Nahum Eager, Nathaniel Daniels, John Kinne. 1775. Nathaniel Daniels, Jonathan Prentice, Jeremiah Kinne. Thomas Kinne, 1777. Moses Morse. Nathan Leonard, Thomas Kinne, Joseph Marsh. 1778. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Timothy Meech, John Skiff. "Wilham Burr. 1780. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Moses Porter, Joshua Phillips, Nathaniel Daniels, Zephaniah Hatch. 1781. Nahum Eager, John Kinne, Jonathan Prentice. 1782. Nahum Eager, Samuel Woods, Stephen Fitch. 1783. John Watts, �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 1783. Stephen Fitch, 1808. Jonathan Brewster, Jr., Samuel Woods. Nahum 1784. Eager, Dea. Jonathan Brewster, John Kinne. Nahura Eager, Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Job Marsh. Nahum Eager, Dea. Jonathan Brewster, John Kinne. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Nathan Branch, Ezra Leonard. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, John Kinne, Ezra Leonard. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Mathew Warner, 1785. 1786. 1787. 1788. 1789, 1790. Thadeus Chapin. ' 1791, 1792. \ Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Mathew Warner, i ' Nathan Branch. 1793. Jonathan Woodbridge, Rufus Marsh, Israel Burr. 1794. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Nahum Eager, Mathew Warner. 1795. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Mathew Warner, Jonathan Woodbridge. 1796. Dea. Jonathan Brewster, Rufus Marsh, Nathan Branch. Rufus Marsh, 1797, 1798. ^ Elisha Brewster, 1 Samuel Cook. 1809 { ism' ^^^^' ^ ( 1811 1812, 1816. Cyprean Parish. 1817. Ezra Starkwether, Cyprean Parish, Azariah Parsons. 1818. Trowbridge Ward, Joseph Marsh, 1819, 1820. James Kelley. Jonah Brewster, Josiah Mills, Roger Benjamin. Jonah Brewster, Trowbridge Ward, William Eager. 1823. Jonah Brewster, William Eager, John Stone, Jr. Jonah Brewster, 1824, John Stone, Jr., 1825. Timothy Austin. 1826. Jonah Brewster, John Stone, Jr., Joseph Bardwell. Jonah Brewster, 1827 John Stone, Jr., 1821, 1822. 1828 :| 1830. Ezra Leonard. 1800. Ezra Leonard, Samuel Cook, Joseph Marsh. 1801. Samuel Cook, Jonathan Brewster, Gorham Cottrell. Ansel Burr, Lathrop Reed. Jonah Brewster, Ansel Burr, Jeremiah Phillips. 1831, Josiah Mills, Jr., Jr. Samuel Cook, Jonathan Brewster, Jr., Jonathan Woodbridge. 1808. Jonathan Brewster, Jr., Jonathan Woodbridge, Nathan Hazen. 1804. Jonathan Woodbridge, Roger Benjamin, 1802. 1805. Josiah Mills. Jonathan Brewster, Josiah Mills, 1829: William Coit, Samuel Cook, Adams, Trowbridge Ward, John Stone. Jonathan Brewster, John Stone, 1813 :! Roger Benjamin. 1814 Ezra Starkwether, Azariah Parsons, 1815; 1799. Elisha Brewster, Eliashib 45 Ansel Burr, Jeremiah Phillips. Clement Burr, 1832, Jeremiah Phillips, 1833. Luther Granger. 1834. Ransloe Daniels, Ames 1835 1836 ^1 Burr, Azariah Parsons. 1837. C. B. Rising, Elijah Curtis. Jeremiah Roger Benjamin, Ames Elijah Curtis, Azariah Parsons. 1806. Ezra Leonard, Cyrus Stowell, Trowbridge Ward. 1807. Ezra Leonard, Trowbridge Ward, John Stone. , Oren Stone. James Benton, Elkanah Ring, Phillips, Burr. 1838. Ransloe Daniels, Ames Burr, Elkanah Ring. 1839. Norman Allen, Luther Granger, James Bisbee. 1840. Ransloe Daniels, Elkanah Ring, Jr. Jr., �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 46 1840. Russell Bartlett. Daniels, ( Ransloe ^Q.^ {^;i' ^^^'^- Ames Burr, Russell Bartlett. 1843. Ransloe Daniels, } ( Elkanah Ring, Russell Bartlett, 1844. Russell Bartlett, John Adams, Elbridge Hazen. 1845. John Adams, Elbridge Hazen, 1846. A list 1847, 1848. 1849 1850 1851 Oren Stone. Russell Bartlett, Milton Brewster, Ethan Barnes. 1852. Elisha H. Brewster, Jotham Clark, James Bisbee. 1853, Jotham Clark, James Bisbee, Oren Stone. John Adams, of the Professional Elbridge Hazen, Tilson Bartlett. Elbridge Hazen, Azariah Parsons, William H. Bates. men who have Worthington, resided in the town of �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON, ox 47 ��ECCLESIASTICAL History of Worthington, FROM THE FIKST SETTLEMENT OF THE TO JULY By the rev. J. 1, 1853. H. BISBEE. TOWN ��DEDICATION. TO THE Congregational Clinrcli in Wortliington, THIS BRIEF RECORD OF THE PAST IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY WITH THE FERVENT PRATER THAT ALL ITS MEMBERS MAY BE RICH IN FAITH AND FRUITFUL IN aOOD WORKS, i5^V THE ^VUTHOR. ��: ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOET. The first settlers of Worthington had been reared under Like most I^ew Englanders, the influence of the gospel. they had been trained to " fear God and keep his commandments," and sacredly to regard Divine institutions and ordiTo these they were strongly attached, not only from principle, but by the force of education also. When they sought their home in the mountain wilderness, they took their religion with them, and not only made early and ample provision for the support of public worship, but as soon as practicable adopted measures for the full enjoyment of all gospel Like wise Christian men, they correctly judged ordinances. that both their temporal and eternal well-being demanded the institutions of religion, and that if they would lay a broad and firm foundation for the prosperity and true elevation of themnances. selves and their posterity to the latest generation, they must do it in Christianity, Though poor in the things of this world, they could not afford to live without the privileges of the gospel, by means of which they might become rich in faith. As soon, therefore, as a sufficient number of professors of religion had become permanently established in the place to warrant it, measures were taken to gather them into one body, or branch of the visible church of Christ. A church was organized April 1st, A. D. 1771, composed of the following individuals, viz Thomas Kinne, Ebenezer Leonard, Grace Buck, Sarah Pettengil, JSTathaniel Daniels, Sibil Holton, Thomas Clemans, Meribah Converse, Ephraim Wheeler, Sarah Huntington, �54 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE Jonathan Huntington, �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. was manifestly 55 aim to build a church " upon the foundaof the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself tion their being the chief corner-stone." Having organized a church, they immediately sought a pastor to labor among them, and be over them in the Lord. They correctly judged that their spiritual interests would be best promoted by a settled permanent ministry. Their first pastor was Eev. Jonathan Huntington, who was ordained to the work of the ministry and settled over them, June 26, A. D. 1771. He was a native of Windham, Conn., and belonged to one of the most distinguished families in that State. The names of his father and brothers stand high in the records of the How or where Mr. Huntington was educated, does known, however, that he first entered the medical profession, in which he evidently became somewhat eminent. For what particular reason he changed his profession is not now apparent. From what may now be past. not now appear. It is learned respecting him, very evident that he was by na- it is man of deep-toned piety, and irreproachable Christian character. As might naturally be expected of such a man, he won the confidence and secured the esteem and affection of the church and ture peculiarly mild and amiable, and by grace, a people. He was removed by the age of 48 years. As he death, March lived beloved 11, A. D. 1781, by all at who knew and devout men carried him to his was made over him. Under the ministry of Mr. Huntington, the church was gen- him, so, when he died, burial, great lamentation erally prosperous. The additions, however, for the years were few, and those mostly by letter. year of his And though life, fifty- three no record is first nine In 1780, the last were received into the church. of any special awakening, or left general outpouring of the Spirit, yet the increase of profes- shows that such a season was enjoyed. After the death of Mr. Huntington, the church remained several successive years without a pastor. Dififerent individuals sors plainly were employed to preach, some of whom were invited to settle, Under this course of procedure the church did not prosper, and religion evidently very much declined, as is frequently, if not usually the case where an unsettled and fluctuating ministry is employed. but declined the invitation. �ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE 56 The second pastor He was of the church was Eev. Josiah Spalding. a native of Plainfield, Conn., and was educated at Yale College. He had been previously settled at Uxbridge, Mass. Being dismissed from his charge there, he came to Worthington, where he was duly installed, August 21, A. D. Many became dissat1788. He remained but a short time. isfied with him, in consequence of which he was dismissed in He was subsequently settled in Buckland, Franklin 1794. county, where he remained until the time of his death. He was, evidently, somewhat eccentric, though a man of He published a valuable, and full ordinary powers of mind. somewhat popular octavo volume, entitled, " Universalism confounds and destroys itself." Some of his sermons also apThere was, evidently, great excitement peared in print. Several meetings of the church were held before any definite action was taken. At length a committee was appointed, and charges were preferred against The most important of these may be sumthe minister. A change of religious marily expressed as follows, viz doctrine; immorality in practice, and delinquency in duty. Either of these three charges, if sustained, would, according to Congregational principles and usages, have worked a for- respecting his dismission. : feiture of his ministerial standing. The charge of neglect, related to visiting the sick, and the people in general fraud ; ; was falsehood and that of immorality, but in what particular doctrine he was thought to have An changed, does not appear from the record. ecclesiastical council was at length called to investigate these charges, and give advice. tained. The The result was that not one of them was susand his council endorsed both his sentiments character, and bore honorable testimony in favor of his piety. They recommended him, as an example of meekness, fidelity We find no fault charity. Their language, further, is Mr. Spalding which should operate as a reason for the dissolution of his pastoral relation; nevertheless, there is such a large number of the church and town so dissatisfied with him and : " in as their minister, that it is him to continue here." Though several were not for the interest of religion for received to the church, under the ministry of Mr. Spalding, still the number was small, No �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 57 general religious interest appears to have been awakened, and no special season of revival enjoyed. The was Rev. Jonathan L. Pometown His father was a clergyman and pastor of Fairfield, Conn. of the church in that place, where he died in the meridian of life. Mr. Pomeroy was thus early in life left without a father; and for some reason, his mother, who had charge roy. third pastor of the church He was born in the parish of Greenfield, in the of his education, did not send him to college. He received and theological education under the instruction of Eev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., who was subsequently President of Yale College. Dr. Dwight was, at that time, pastor of the church, and- preceptor of an academy at G-reenfield. But, though without the advantages of a college, Mr. Pomeroy was still a ripe scholar, particularly in the languages. He read Latin and Greek fluently, and was almost as familiar with the French as with his mother tongue. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by Yale College. He was ordained, and settled over the church in Worthington, J^ovember 26, A. D. 1794, where he remained until 1832, a period of thirty-eight years. And though at the time of his settlement, a portion of the people were not satisfied with him, and even laid before the ordaining council a formal proboth his classical test against their procedure, still the conclusively shows that he length of his pastorate must have soon secured, and tained, the confidence of the people generally. was, at his own urgent re- In 1832, he request, honorably dismissed. He soon removed to Feeding Hills, a parish in West Springfield, where he lived mostly in retirement until his death, which ocHis age was sixty-seven years. curred June 4, 1836. He possessed a valuable property, most of which he bequeathed He published a volume of practical to benevolent societies. sermons, several of which were preached on special occasions. after Some other writings of his may also be found in print. He was a man of more than ordinary powers of mind. His perception was quick, his penetration keen, and his memory was uncommonly retentive. The man who met him in intel- found him with his armor on, and ready for use. On account of some bodily infirmities, real or imaginary, his habits of study, during some of the last years lectual contest, usually �58 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE his preaching was mainly extemlife, were not rigid and often rather desultory. From his personal appearance, the stranger would think him cold, distant and austere. But they who knew him best, and most frequently partook of his liberal hospitality, found him social, affable, and exceedingly warm-hearted. In religious sentiment, he was strictly evangelical, and dealt with error and errorists with great He regarded plainness, and sometimes with peculiar severity. himself as " set for the defence of the gospel," and would make no compromise with what he regarded as error, or with of his ; pore, who preached it. He possessed an uncommon share of He was not often, if ever, moral courage and firmness. known to shrink from what he honestly believed his duty. Under the ministry of Mr. Pomeroy, the church was genEevivals were erally prosperous, and religion flourishing. frequent, and some of them extensive and powerful. Some of these demand more than a passing notice. In 1798, a work of special grace commenced, which continued until the following year. As the fruit of this refreshing, fifty-four were admitted to the church some of whom still remain, thougl nearly all have long since ''fallen asleep." Another season of refreshing was enjoyed in 1808. God appears to have shaken the whole place at that time, and The power of the Holy Ghost seems to sifted the people. have been almost as signally displayed as on the memorable day of Pentecost. The following is an extract from an entry, made in the church records, at the time, by Mr. Pomeroy "Be it forever remembered to the glory of all conquering grace, that after a long, dark and stupid time, thirty-six persons having before made a public relation of their religious experience in the meeting-house, united with this church on the first day of May, 1808." These were, however, but the During that year, one hundred first-fruits of that revival. and thirteen were received to the church. In 1819 was another season of special mercy. In the langlorious season of the grace of guage of Mr. Pomeroy " God began here about the time of the State Fast." That work was also very general. All parts of the town, if not all One hundred individuals were admitfamilies shared in it. during that year. ted to the church those ; : : A �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. * 59 The church was blessed with another revival in the year This was neither so powerful nor so general as some of the preceding. Thirty-two were admitted to the church as the fruit of it. Besides these remarkable seasons of general religious interest, there were many others, the same in kind, though less 1827. in extent and power. Additions were made to the church Probably one-foarth or one-third nearly or quite every year. of all received into communion, were gathered in when there was no general awakening. This would indicate a healthy state of morals and religion generally. The preceding statement of facts is sufficient, and even more than sufficient, to correct one of the gross misrepresentations which has been made, and extensively circulated, in relation to Mr. Pomeroy. It has been said, and extensively published, and is believed by many, especially in some of the neighboring towns, to this day, that he was opposed to revivals of religion, and that few, if any, were enjoyed under his ministry. The records They show, to of the past set this matter in its true light. a demonstration, that the church, during his was peculiarly blessed with such seasons, probably far beyond that of any other church in the vicinity. And the entries, which he made upon the records at different times, clearly show that his whole heart was engaged in the work of promoting them. It is true that, in the latter part of his ministry, he did oppastorate, pose the introduction of certain novelties, technically called '''New Measures," for the promotion of revivals of religion. He regarded them as innovations, and pernicious in their In this opinion he was not alone. eflects. Probably a majority of the pastors of Congregational churches in Massachusetts, agreed with him then, and no doubt a still greater number would now, after having seen the results so clearly manifested. The fourth pastor of the church was Rev. He was settled December on account of the is 25, 1833, Henry Adams and was dismissed loss of his health. As he is still in 1838, living, it unnecessary to speak minutely of him. Suffice it to say, is a native of Worthington. He received his classical that he �ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE 60 education at Amherst College, and his theological at Andover Seminary. Since his removal from "VVorthington, he has regained his health, and resumed the labors of the ministry. He has been settled in Bolton and Berlin, in "Worcester county. During his pastorate, the church was in a state of general health and prosperity. Additions were made to it In 1837, more than usual religious interest was manThe Spirit descended like the gently refreshing dew, as the fruit of which, nineteen were received to the church yearly. ifested. by profession. Eev. John H. Bisbee, the present pastor of the church, was He was born in the town of settled in December, 1838. Chesterfield but his parents being members of the church in Worthington, he w^as baptized by Eev. Mr. Pomeroy, and brought up under his ministry. He was graduated at Union ; College, and received his theological education in part at Auburn, N. Y., and the remainder under the instruction of Rev. Mr. Chapin, then pastor of the church in Westhampton. Mr. Bisbee was first settled in the adjoining town of MidSince dlefield, where he labored in the ministry five years. been Additions have been made to it, by profession, every year except one. Special seasons of grace have also been enjoyed. In the fall of 1842, a revival of religion commenced, which continued through the following winter and spring as the result of which, forty-eight were rehis settlement in Worthington, the church has generally in a prosperous condition. ; Another similar season began about the commencement of 1850, which continued nearly through the whole year. The Spirit came not as the mighty rushing wind, but as the still small voice, speaking ceived into the church, by profession. in whispers to the soul. As the fruit of this revival, forty- nine were received into the church. Besides those gathered awakening, others, though in smaller numbers, have been added at other seasons. Under the ministry of the present pastor, including some few received by letter, more than two hundred have been admitted to the church. The whole number received since its organization, And yet, notwithstanding is not far from nine hundred. these numerous accessions, so frequent have been the removals by death and dismission, that only two hundred and in times of general �: TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. twenty-six members remain at 61 the present time, July 1st, 1853. The following persons have held the office of deacon in this church, viz Nathan Leonard, Joseph Marsh, Joshua Phillips, Eufus Marsh, Ebenezer Mies, Jonathan Brewster, Ezra Leonard, Asahel Prentice, Azariah Parsons, Charles Starkweather, Daniel Pierce, Normand Asa Marble, Lyman Allen, White, Schuyler R. Wilbur. Of the five pastors of this church, and of the fifteen deacons, only four. only two It may now survive supposed that an equally large proportion of the private bers of the church have *' fallen ; reasonably be asleep," as of its mem- officers. Thus " one generation passeth away, and another generation Cometh." There was but one church organization in the town of Worthington, and but one congregation of worshipers on the Sabbath, until 1828. During that year, a Methodist Episco- pal church was formed in the south-eastern part of the town. A congregation was gathered, composed of individuals resid- Worthington, Chesterfield, Norwich and Chester. Public worship was established, and a plain, substantial meeting in ing-house erected. They were, for several years, supplied with preachers from the Conference. More recently they have changed their organization and connection. The church They manage their own affairs, prois now called Wesleyan. cure and contract with their own ministers. Within a few years past, they have abandoned their first house of worship, as inadequate to their wants, and with commendable liberality, have erected a more beautiful, elegant and commodious one. God has often visited this church in precious seasons of revival have been enjoyed audit merc}^ is believed that many souls have been gathered into the fold ^ ; ; of Christ. In 1848, a Methodist Episcopal church was formed in the �ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE 62 north-western part of the town, and soon after a plain, comwas erected. This church is con- fortable house of worship nected with the Troy Conference, from which it is supported with preachers. Some seasons of special religious interest have also been enjoyed there. The congregation is gathered mainly from Worthington and Peru. The history of the past, though extending to a single town or church only, as well as that which embraces nations and empires, illustrates the providence and grace of God. He who reads it, and does not see the. Divine hand in the persons who have been raised up, in the events that have taken place, and the scenes which have been exhibited, must be blind to some of its most prominent and expressive features; and must hence lose more than half the benefit, if not an equal share of the pleasure, of its perusal. Emphatically it is true that "God is in history." In the brief narrative which has now been given. He is too manifest to be unseen, and the impress of His hand is too legibly inscribed on the record to be May the reader here see and acknowledge God, and erased. learn lessons of heavenly wisdom from the past. As he stands among the graves, and treads upon the dust of his ancestors, may he be incited, by the record of their actions and character, to emulate their virtues, and to perform similar deeds of patriotism, philanthropy, benevolence and religion. This brief history gives us impressive lessons of instruction life, the uncertainty of earthly world, and the rapidity with mutability of the the good, upon the shortness of human Yet, be it remembered, that the length of life should be measured, rather by the amount and " That character of its deeds, than by the number of its years. which its scenes change. end;" and that life is which runs to waste. A with the eagle among the stars, is more valuable life is long which answers short, however numerous short flight life's its great years, than a long race with the reptile in the dust. Happy he, who while passing through the changing scenes of earth, becomes by the power of Divine grace, thoroughly prepared for his own last great change, and fitted to awake from the slumbers of the grave in the likeness of God. �CONTIE"UATIO]^ Ecclesiastical History of Worthington, From 1853 BY REV. to 1874. J, H. BISBE3E. ��Continuation of the Ecclesiastical History. Rev. J. H, Bisbee remained pastor of the Congregational church until March 13, 1867, a period of more than twentyeight years, when, at his own request, he was dismissed. At the same time he received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the Second Congregational church in the neighboring town of Huntington, where he still remains (1874). During his ministry in Worthington, about three hundred persons were A received to the church. large majority of these were ad- mitted on profession of their faith. The ordinance of baptism was administered to two hundred and forty-eight adults and infants. Until the year 1865, the business of the Congregational society was done under the town warrant, as in the days of the were managed by the officers of the it was deemed advisable to bring about a separation. A meeting was accordingly called for that purpose, by due form of law, and a separate organization was formed in accordance with the Revised Statutes. In the Spring of 1867 the church and parish unitedly invited David He accepted the invitation, S. Morgan to settle with them. and was accordingly ordained and installed the 26th day of June following. When called to this place, he was residing at Andover, Mass. He received his classical and theological education at several different places. His name appears on fathers. town. All But its affairs at that time the catalogue of Union College, Schenectady, in the class of 1861, but he appears not to have graduated there. torate continued nearly two years, advisable, on the part of the church nection should be dissolved. May 26, 1869. Soon 9 after this He when and it His pas- was considered parish, that the con- was, therefore, dismissed he went West, where he has �ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE QQ since preached in several different places. worthy occurred during his pastorate. IS'othing note- Six individuals were baptized, and Rve were admitted to the church. During the year 1870, the interior of the church edifice, which had remained unaltered forty-five years, was completely reconstructed. Its original arrangement was seen to be antique and uncouth. It was neither as convenient nor comfortable, nor tasteful as the house of the Lord always ought to be. It was not in harmony with the spirit of the age. It was, hence, Avisely and judiciously transformed to modern style and good taste. This change was made at the expense of several thousand dollars a sum equal to about two-thirds the original The house was rededicated to the worcost of the building. ship of God, with appropriate religious exercises, August 3, Addresses were made by Eev. J. H. Bisbee former 1870. pastor, Eev. G. W. Heacock, D. D., of Buffalo, I^. Y., and Eev. E. Taylor, D. D., of Binghamton, ]^. Y. On the same day, Eev. Joseph F. Gaylord, who had supplied the pulpit nearly a year, and who had received and accepted a call to He was a native of ]^orfolk. settle, was installed pastor. Conn., and a graduate of Yale College, in the class of 1863. He took his theological course at Union Seminary, N. Y. general revival His pastorate, though brief, was successful. of religion was experienced in 1870-71, as the results of which The whole number forty-foar were received to the church. admitted during his pastorate, was sixty-four. Twenty-four persons were baptized. In 1873 he resigned his charge, and accepted a call to the Congregational church in Manistee, Mich., where he now is (1874). He was dismissed April 1, — A 1873. May 24, 1871, the church had its appropriate religious exercises. centennial celebration with A historical discourse was delivered by the pastor, followed by short addresses from several other clergymen present, after which the sacrament of the Lord's supper was administered. Previously to that time, no change had been made in the These documents articles of faith, or covenant of the church. had remained one hundred years unaltered. The foundation laid by the fathers was considered too firm to be moved. Since that time, the creed and covenant have both been re- �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 67 and a new church manual, has been adopted. This however, was not designed to introduce any change in fundamental doctrine, but the rather to express the truths set forth more briefly, and in more modern language. This church has thus manifestly been distinguished for its stability. It has not been blown about by every wind of doctrine. vised, revision, Though tolerant of others, it has still kept its own faith firmly. While other churches in the vicinity, have been disturbed by diverse and strange doctrines, and been rent by discord, this has remained united, and held on the even tenor of its way. It has had its seasons of prosperity, and its days of trial. But in all its various conditions it has continued one body, with " one Lord, one faith, and one baptism." God grant that it may thus continue, and that all its members from generation to generation may '' keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Jonathan Brewster was chosen deacon of this church September 15, 1867. He is a lineal descendant of one of the same name who held that oflice in the early history of the church. Lafayette Stevens was chosen deacon, December 28, 1870. Thus is the promise fulfilled to this church "instead of thy fathers shall be thy children." The church at South Worthington, after having retained connection with the Wesley an s for a series of years, has at length been reunited with the J^ew England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. It has, hence, for a few years past, been supplied with preachers from that body. The following ministers have recently been stationed there, its w^ho have acceptably performed the duties of their wit: Kev. Messrs. E. B. Morgan, L. A. Bosworth, don, H. Martin, Wm. Adams, W. office, to W. Gor- Since the return to the conference, this church has increased in numbers ]Sr. J. Cole. and general prosperity. Some seasons of religious interest have been enjoyed there. One of the most extensive and powerful of these, was in 1873, when a large number professedly commenced a new life. This church has proved a power for good in that section of the town. The social, moral, and religious character and interests of the people, have been greatly improved thereby. May this good influence continue until all shall go on unto perfection. �ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF WORTHINGTON. 68 lu conclusion it is proper to remark that in this town there has never been an}^ marked sectarian strife. Though there have always been diversities of religious views and practices, the prevailing sentiment has continually been that every one had a right to his own to the dictates of his opinion, and to worship own God according conscience, accountable alone to While each has claimed he has cheerfully conceded it to others. The result of this has been manifest harmony of feeling and May this unity of spirit be preaction throughout the town. served unto the end. him who is Lord of the conscience. this right for himself, �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE Town of Worthington From 1853 to 1874, WAR RECORD OF THE TOWN FROM 1861 TO 1865, AND OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF 1868. RECORD THE GIVING THE BY C. K. BK,E^SVSTER« ��DEDICATION Decoration Day, May, 1874. When the ISTation pays her heroes, when its floral tributes to the graves of silver-tongued raen throughout this fair land, echo their brave deeds, and review their history, I pay humble tribute. words. 'Tis a 'Tis not of flowers. frail hours from recorded facts. 'Tis not of eloquent wreath, woven in historic I inscribe my it to the my leisure memory of John Jay Bisbee, schoolmate, neighbor, friend, whose j^oung life went out upon his country's altar, and the brave soldiers who went forth honored dead criticism of from Worthington — and my commit it — never to the care, to return — the and charitable fellow towns-people. AUTHOR. ��PREFACE, " The age when Albany, is brance.* it Times change, and we change with them." was a great undertaking to a thing of the past To-day but a is it ; make a journey to Boston or a by-gone fact worthy of record and trifling to affair make such remem- a journey, and could the fathers of that day be told that a citizen of Worthington could start out upon a Monday morning, and witness the sunset from the " Golden City" of San Francisco, upon the following Saturday, with as time as then was used to go to Boston and return macy concocted in European capitols, this side of the Atlantic, within ; little effort and or that matters of diplo- would be analyzed and considered on twenty-four hours j or that the doings of our highest executive, legislative and judicial tribunals at our national capitol over this broad land upon the succeeding day, would be habitually read all they would look upon with incredulous astonishment. it by her constant changes has been making been So, while nature history, science has by no means idle. Nations agitated by civil war have been overturned and overturned until long-cherished principles and institutions derogatory to the best interests of humanity have been buried in the past. Millions of people bound ons of ignorance and superstition, worse than of iron bars, have been in pris- lifted into an atmosphere of freedom and progression, bringing forth new national hopes, and promising a much grander destiny. '^The battle of the giants," so called-in which Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, in 1858, so ably defended and expounded the princi- ples of the two political parties of che nation, the one clamoring for the perpetuation of slavery, with the government at his back and persistently denouncing it as a great ; the other boldly moral wrong, and a stumbling- block to our national prosperity, in which the principal features discussed were the "Missouri Compromise," "Squatter Sovereignty," "Kansas Lecompton Constitution," and " Bred Scott decision," was but the precursor of the greater battle of 1860, when the nation joined issue, and the two char- * See Eice's History. 10 �PREFACE. 74 acters political standard-bearers of the antagonistic par- mentioned were tbe A ties. political was the revolution The power result. of governmental machinery and patronage was changed from the pro-slavery to the anti-slavAll the ingenuity, sophistry and magnanimity that Lincoln and ery party. his compeers could conceive and spirit of appointed Ruin," that boomed forth Southern States. offer, was not "Southern Chivalry." sufficient to assuage the dis- The "watchword" " Rule or Sumter, was reverberated at Fort all through the Blood was up, and blood alone could quench the Four years burned with intensest fury. of national hope and promise which shook the nation from center ; chairs and soldiers' graves all over this land testify of the blood-tinged Grand Four clouds, lighting order from testify and hope broke asunder and peace from war. chaos, Democratic government received a new were achieved. results But they it. to cir- Vacant cumference, holding in fearful suspense the subjects of the land. not in vain, for at length the rainbow of peace that fire war overcast the sky of desolating million slaves were freed from a degrading bondage. birth. The nation again cemented with the best blood of the land upon broader principles of freedom In this great strife, Worthington would not have been true and humanity. to herself, or the history of her fathers, To make a record of the soldiers brave lives sacrificed in the cause been the principal incentive The first ; had she not acted well her who went ; the work of the Author. formal action by the town was taken 1861, when part. from among us the treasure freely handed forth, has to this brief the town voted "to forth at a town-meeting, May 20, authorize the Selectmen to borrow such as may be necessary to assist volunteers and their families when it is wanted, to any amount not exceeding two thousand dollars." x\t a town-meeting, the town voted 'Ho raise twelve August 4, 1862. sums of money — hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid to the ten volunteers called for from the town, being one hundred and twenty-five dollars each." — The town voted one hundred nine months' pay 1862. — The town voted "that September " to raise by tax a August 28, 1862. 1, to borrow hundred a sufficient sura to dollars, until sum sufficient to dollars each." volunteers, the the Treasurer be authorized pay each of the nine months' volunteers one such time as the tax money be collected." The town voted " to authorize the Treasurer to September 29, 1862. — borrow one thousand dollars to pay one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each of the three years' volunteers." ' September 28, 1863. —The town voted "to pay its proportion of the tax apportioned and assessed, to reimburse sums paid as bounties to volunteers, agreeable to the 9th Section of the 218th Chapter of the acts of the Legislature of 1863." September 12, 1864. —The town voted " to raise one hundred and twenty- �PKEFAOE. five dollars as bounty for each volunteer to 75 be obtained on the quota of the town, under the last call of the President." May 22, 1865. —The town voted " that the Treasurer be authorized and directed to borrow on the credit of the town, the and sixty-three dollars for the purpose of sum of sixty-five hundred refunding the several sums contrib- uted by individuals, or suras that were obtained in any other way which have been paid and applied for the purpose of the town of Worthington, agreeable April 25, 1865." to filling the several quotas of an act of the Legislature approved, ��OF SOLDIERS LIST WHO ENLISTED FROM WORTHINGTON TO SERVE IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, WITH THE COMPANY AND REGIMENT TO WHICH THEY BELONGED. Charles Adams, Company D, 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, May discharged 26, 1863, for disability Regiment Cavalry, and served Martin Sherman, Company 1, ; afterwards enlisted in the 4th until the close of the war. 15th Regiment, (deserted November, 1863.) Abel C. Kenney, Sergeant Company A, 27th Regiment, died date of death unknown. shire, Ga., while a prisoner in Black- ; W. Ward, William September 6, ] 862, Sergeant for disability ; Company A, 27th Regiment, discharged enlisted again as Sergeant in Company C, 5 2d Regiment, and served his term of enlistment. Edmund T. Drake, Corporal Company A, 27th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Frank Quinn, Corporal Company A, 27th Regiment, drowned January 1, 1862, atNewbern, N. C. Edgar C. Brewster, Company A, 27th Regiment, served his term of en- listment. Robert Canfield, Company A, 27th Regiment, died October 23, 1863, at Washington, D. C. Matthew C. Clair, Company A, 27th Regiment, served his term of enlist- ment. Samuel J. Dunning, Company A, 27th Regiment, at the battle of Brainard E. Taylor, at Danville, killed March 14, 1862, Newbern, N. C. Company A, 27th Regiment, died April 17, 1865, Ga. James F. Thayer, Company A, 27th Regiment, died July 23, 1864, Anderson ville, at Ga. William B. Watts, Company A, 27th Regiment, served his term of en- listment. Ansel Adams, Company K, 27th Regiment, discharged April 5, 1862, �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 78 for disability, afterwards enlisted in Company K, 46th Regiment, and served his term of enlistment. Edward P. Meacham, Company K, 27th Regiment, died October 20, 1864, at Millen, Ga. Company K, 27th Regiment, Miles G. Smith, discharged May 3, 1862, for disability. Company Isaac L. Percival, The only man F, 3 2d Regiment. He was from Worthington, that entered the service. drafted mustered in July 20, 1863, and served with his Regiment until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. George A. Robinson, Sergeant Company I, 34th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Company Russell Bartlett, term of 34th Regiment, served his I, enlist- ment. Edward Meacham, Corporal Company B, 34th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Sereno G. Gloyd, Company K, 34th Regiment, October died 1864, at 5, Winchester, Va. Company D, 34th Regiment, Franklin Myers, at died February 28, 1865, Annapolis, Md. Ezra P. Cowles, Sergeant Company D, 37th Regiment, killed April 9, 1865, at the battle of Sailor's Creek, Ya. Doras Company D, 37th Regiment, Collier, Downesville, died October 21, 1862, at Md. John J. Bisbee, Company H, 42d Regiment, died October 30, 1864, at Alexandria, Va. The only one in his company who did not survive the time of enlistment. Russell H. Conwell, Captain term of enlistment ; Company F, 46th Regiment, served his afterwards captain in the 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery. William C. Higgins, Corporal Company F, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Daniel N. Cole, in Company F, 46th Regiment, re-enlisted 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery, died July 29, 1865, Seth Cole, Company F, 46th Regiment, served Charles H. Conwell, May 30, 1868, at Smithville, N. C. his term of enlistment. Company F, 46th Regiment, served his term of en- listment. June 27, 1863, at Jotham Drake, Company F, 46th Regiment, died June 10, 1863, Newbern, N. C. at Isaac C. Drake, Company F, 46th Regiment, died Newbern, N. C. Edwin Dodge, Company F, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Jonathan S. Higgins, Company F, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. Elisha C. Tower, 1st Lieutenant Company K, 79 Regiment, served his 46tli term of enlistment. Charles D. Hollis, Sergeant Company K, 46tli Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Cyrus M. Parsons, Sergeant Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Alfred Kilbourn, Corporal Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Castanus Brown, Corporal Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Edwin N. Company K, 46th Regiment, re-enlisted jMay Heavy Artillery, (but never mustered in). Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlist- Carr, Corporal 30, 1863, in 2d Regiment Davis Bartlett, ment. Henry Benton, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Levi J. Olds, Company K, 46th Regiment, re-enlisted June 1, 1863, in 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery, and served until the close of the war. Levi Blackman, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlist- ment. Ezra M. Brackett, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlist- ment. Uriah Brown, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his Henry W. Burke, Company K, 46th Regiment, served term of enlistment. his term of enlist- ment. James K. Burr, Company K, 46th Regiment, March 15, 1863, died at Newborn, N. C. William Cody, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlistment. Emerson B. Cushman, Company K, 46th Regiment, discharged June 23, 1863, for disability. Timothy Donahue, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of en- listment. John M. Kelly, Company K, 46th Regiment, discharged May 80, 1863, for disability. John D. Pease, Company K, 46th Regiment, served term of his enlist- ment. Dwight L. Prentice, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of en- listment. Charles L. Randall, at Company K, 46th Regiment, died June 23, 1863, Newbern, N. C. Hiram Russell, Company K, 46th Regiment, died June 30, 1863, at Beaufort, N. C. Jerome Smith, Company K, 46th Regiment, discharged June 23, 1863, for disability. �SECULAR HISTORY OF WORTHINGTON. 80 James Starkweather, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of en- listment. ''^Anson F. Stevens, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of en- listment. George Thayer, Company K, 46th Regiment, served his term of enlist- ment. Lyman in J. Tower, Company K, 46th Regiment, re-enlisted June 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery, (but never mustered John Wright, Company K, 46th Regiment, served ]Siote.— The lOtli, IStli, 27tli, 32d, 34tli the war. The 42d Regiment 1, 1863, in). his term of enlistment. and 3Tth Regiments enlisted for three years or during hundred days. The 46th and 52d Regiments enlisted for one enlisted for nine months. *May 2, 1865.—Anson F. Stevens was commissioned by Gov. John A. Andrew, as First Lieutenant of the Company in Military-Company District No. 230, of the State Militia. He was subsequently promoted to a Captaincy, and commissioned June 4, 1867, by Gov. Alex. H. Bullock, as Captain of the 78th Unattached Company of Infantry, in the 1st Brigade and 1st Division of State Militia. �OF SOLDIERS LIST WHO WERE ACCREDITED TO OTHER WHOSE HOMES HAD BEEN IN WORTHINGTON, AND WHOSE REMAINS LIE BURIED IN OUR ENLISTED FEOM, AND PLACES, CEMETERIES. Clarance p. Hewitt, Company H, 27th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, served his term of enlistment, died July 22, 1865, from disease con- tracted in the army. John C. Adams, Quartermaster Sergeant, 86th Illinois Regiment, died at Nashville, Tenn., February 19, 1863. Wm. W. Adams, Company I, 61st Regiment New York Volunteers, died at Alexandria, Va., December 26, 1861. John Q. Ring, Company D, 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery, MassachuVolunteers, died March 13, 1864, at Beaufort, N. C. setts According to the report furnished eighty-six men Massachusetts in the made by for the civil the Selectmen in 1866, Gen. Schouler, war. war, says, ' ' Worthington Worthington in his filled its history of quota upon every call made by the President, and at the end of the war had a surplus of nine over and above dred and two men." demands it must have furnished about one hunThe discrepancy must occur in this way, that the all ; Selectmen counted those who actually entered the service the town — to the credit of the Adjutant General the enlistments, substitutes, re-enlistments, and those who were drafted and paid commutation money. The amount raised by the town, agreeable to vote of May 22, 1865, to pay the war expenses, was $6,563.00. The amount paid as State and 1865, was $4,398.42. 11 Aid during the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 �A LIST OF THE SELECTMEN AND PHYSICIANS OF THE TOWN FROM TO 1853 1874. SELECTMEN. 1854 —Jotham Clarke, Wra. H. Bates, Ethan C. Ring, James Bisbee.* 1855— Wm. H. Bates, Wm. Cole, John N. Benton. 1856— Wm. Cole, John N. Benton, E. C. Porter. 1857 —John N. 1858— A. 1859— A. D. Perry, A. B. Curtis, Wm. A. Bates. Wm. Starkweather. D. Perry, A. B. Curtis, Wm. Benton, John Adams, Starkweather. —Horace Wm. A. Bates, Russell 1861 — Horace Wm. A. Russell 1862 — John Adams, Charles F. Aaron 1863 — John Adams, Oren A. B. 1864 —John Adams, Oren A. B. 1865 — John Adams, Oren M. A. 1866 — John Adams, Oren M. A. 1867 — John Adams, Robinson, M. A. 1860 Cole, Bates, Cole, Cole, Stone, F. J. 1868— Wra. 1869— Wm. 1870— Wm. 1871— Wm. 1872 1873 — — Bartlctt. Bartlett. Stevens. Curtis. Stone, Curtis. Stone, Bates. Stone. Bates. Bates. Cole, F. J. Robinson, E. C. Porter. Cole, F. J. Robinson, E. C. Porter. Edwin S. Burr, Alfred Kilbourn. Edwin S. Burr, Alfred Kilbourn. A. D Perry, M. A. Bates, Jonathan Brewster. A. D. Perry, M. A. Bates, Jonathan Brewster. Cole, Cole, *At the annual town meeting, Marcli 6, 1854, Jotham Clarke was chosen first Selectman. 27th he died. James Bisbee was chosen to fill the vacancy at the adjourned meeting, April 3d, when the following resolution was unanimously adopted: " Eesolved, That in view of the recent and unexpected death of Capt. Jotham Clarke, the esteemed Chairman of our Board of Selectmen, the town hereby express their sense of the loss they have thereby sustained, and tender to his bereaved family their sincere sympathy." March �: TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 83 PHYSICIANS. Dr. Abner M. Dr. Erastus C. Coy, Smith, Dr. Chester M. Barton, Dr. Arthur G. Pierce, Dr. James D. Seymour. The Representatives to General Court, previous to 1857, were elected from the town under the provisions of the 12th Article of Amendments to the Constitution of the State, adopted in the year 1836. The following Representatives were chosen under said provisions Abner M. Smith 1853, in Granville B. Hall in 1854, John Adams In 1857 an number Amendment to 1856. in the Constitution was adopted, limiting the of Representatives in the State to two hundred and portioned to the several counties according to their relative by voters, the counties to be divided sentative districts. County Commissioners the be ap- of legal into repre- Worthington, with Cummington, Goshen, Plainfield and Middlefield, comprised Wm. forty, to number Hampshire County Representative H. Bates was chosen in 1857 Rev. J. H. Bisbee was chosen Marcus A. Bates was chosen in in No. 3. District to represent the District. 1863 1868 to represent the District. to represent the District. Since the formation of this District, the County has been redistricted, and this District established as No. 2, with the addition of the Elisha *^ Hampshire County Representative town of Chesterfield. H. Brewster was chosen in 1871 to the District State Senate from the Berkshire and Hampshire" Senatorial District. Elisha H. Brewster was chosen in 1873 to the Governor's Council from the 8th Councilor District, embracing the Counties of Hampshire, and Berkshire. Population of Worthington in 1850, 1134. Population of Worthington in 1855, 1112. Population of Worthington in 1860, 1046. Population of Worthington in 1865, 925. Population of Worthington in 1870, 860. Hampden �BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GETST. JA.M:ES C. James C. Rice was born RICE. in Worthington, in the year He 1828. was ed- During ucated at Yale College, where he graduated in the class of 1854. his college course he wrote a Secular History of Worthington, which he in- the town, scribed to the old people of Upon record and history. — work valuable a Natchez, Miss., giving such spare moments as he had at study of the law, having decided to make New York wick, Esq., in in the courts of the State of his profession when of the Union. He New York the Not long City. New after, was made first call He office of to practice there devoting himself to for volunteers to defend the flag immediately offered himself as a private in one of the regiments, but so rapidly were the ranks then filling up, that the regiment was found to have a surplus of men, and he was transferred known the 39th N. Y. S. V., as the " Garibaldi Guards." He commission as First Lieutenant, and was appointed Adjutant of splendid regiment. discipline did not began took The regiment was among this, then its friends. Insubordination soon the men, and on one occasion Lieutenant Rice such a determined and courageous stand, as to successfully quell a moted For his gallant to a captaincy. With of " Bull Run." battle this Y^'ork The Regiment. conduct on this occasion he was pro- regiment Captain Rice was engaged Soon Colonel by Governor Morgan of New to received a early in the field, but from lack of meet the expectation of to manifest itself formidable mutiny. first to the returned Theodore Sedg- he was admitted He was York. command this his profession. North the following year, and entered the to the as a matter of leaving college he took charge of a seminary at after, New he was in the appointed Lieutenant- York, and transferred to the 44th following reply to a speech attending a sword presentation soon after his appointment as Lieutenant-Colonel, will show the spirit with which he entered upon the active and earnest service which termi- nated with his life. '' In the sentiments which you have so eloquently and �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 85 feelingly expressed in regard to the war, I fully concur. I have long down from His confidently believed that God, looking and eternal throne of upon the American people from the formation of our Government, after a long and faithful trial, that justice and right would justice and despairing, down trodden ever be done to the by the North or the South, slave, either has taken their emancipation upon Himself. at last I believe that God's Divine purpose, having used the wrath of the South war, to cause that wrath to praise Him by is it commence to this And the freedom of every slave. I also confidently believe that this war, under his Providence, will be made ended by God just severe enough only when we and that it will be North and South, shall see and realize Be assured Divine object. this this object, to effect as individuals, both ' There ' Rough hew them is a Divinity that shapes our ends, Bearing no unkind or ungenerous time determined to defend my we as spirit will.' towards the South, but at the same country to the last, on this Divinity, in con- ducting the war to a happy and glorious peace, I alone rely." Soon after, he was promoted to the command through the fighting of the seven days' At campaign of 1862. and so gallantly and of the regiment, and led Richmond, battles before it the in the battle of Gettysburg he had charge of a brigade, skillfully led his command as to receive, upon the recom- mendation of Generals Meade, Hooker and Butterfield, a Brigadier-General's commission from President Lincoln, dating from the day of the battle of Gettysburg. mand After his appointment as General, he was assigned the com- of a brigade, and had a part in all the battles of the Potomac," till the desperate day's fight at Spottsylvania, Ya. gaged in in Army ^' of the fatal bullet closed his earthly career at the close of It is recorded that While twenty battles, always ready to lead where duty called. camp near Culpepper, Va., at a religious meeting of the addressed them in the following patriotic and stirring words : a he was en- soldiers, " he You have been told how the soldiers of the Union are thought of at the North, how they are cared for, loved, looked up You know how to. in your own homes a soldier of the Eevolution was reverenced, because he fought in the great battles which first gave us liberty, but enduring than theirs. When this your reward war is over, will be greater be received with shouts and hosannas and tears of joy and cherished as man never was before you and children's children, in ; you cestors many ; you think we if we will honored Your children, make it their proudest You will the greatest in the land will be proud to say, served in the great war," and of us must, do will be the world. to the latest generation, will boast that their fathers fought in this great and holy war. families in the land and more and you go home, you '' found My an- die on the field of battle, as shall be forgotten ? Ah, don't believe �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE S6 it When ! war the over, be sure every smallest ioeident of is every. be traced, will name history its be recorded, every brave deed will be will searched out, and for a century to come your your trials, sufferings, your constancy and bravery, will be a chosen theme of the most finished scholars, No and the greatest writers our country produces. the vigilance of that multitude of busy writers who act of ours will escape every State and will, in every town, search out our names and the story of our services, to known to the which will nation, call Ah, soldiers of a greater revolution. war Our reward ! will may and that our countrymen us, General Rice New York magnitude and present, City, of to the foe," Many " The scene before us beyond the bier of all speech. a true, brave, Adams, we needs no and the cause of who now ion. his lies Christian country. God and our patriot is solemn and sub- country is in Six years since, in this and of Christ partook this altar Upon eloquent the very the death is ; of this occa- devotion to the Who eloquent emblem and a Christian, than be walking His remains were conveyed Seymour to Albany. would of our nationality, a alive, a supporter of this wicked rebellion against the best government the world ever saw issued by Governor church, commun- and was married, The circumstances ; discharge Redeemer his that identical spot he Self-sacrifice is eloquent not rather be in that coffin, covered with the true It of faith in full an honored grave. sion in themselves are eloquent. cause of were the tribute then who died soldier, column, here confessed to was imposing It From interpreter. Eighteen months since he stood before now, on his way Madison Square at the extract these words going forth with only a sky of blue and gold. lies Turn have become historic in Solemn and sublime because we bend over of his duty, at the head of his he Tuesday, words, " last the hero of Fort Sumpter, Major General Dis, and Brigadier-General Hays. lime will love distinguished military officers among whom were General Anderson, uttered by the pastor, Rev. Dr. his troops, His in Virginia. which he was a member. character. God such lives that His funeral was attended song and biography. in a proud thing to fight in this live be proud of us." May 10, 1864, in the series of battles me over and let me die with my face Church, in is wounded while leading mortally fell it Let us be great. make them us fathers of a redeemed country, the ? " The following general order was : General Head-Quaeteks, State of New York, Albany, May I announce with pain the loss of Gen. 14, James C. Rice. 1864. ) f Young, brave, ardent, enthusiastic, he engaged in the support of the flag of his country, and in the suppression of the rebellion as a duty against the constitutional authorities demanding the devotion of body and soul and the willing sacrifice �— ; ;; ; ; TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. of Ever life. mand, and faithful to his trust, 87 he was the gallant leader of his com- upon the in the midst of a brilliant career, he fell battle-field, leaving to his companions in arms, to his friends and his country, a character As of unsullied Christian patriotism. mark a memory, of respect for his the National Flag will be displayed at half-mast on the Capitol, and the arsenals of the State, on Monday upon all the 16th inst. Horatio Seymour, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. J. I. Johnson, A. A. A. G. General Rice was buried at The body was borne from the by an imposing der command members Albany, Jilay 16, 1864, with military honors. State Capitol to the receiving vault, followed New York procession, consisting of the 25th Regiment, un- of Colonel Church, Governor Seymour and staff in uniform, Common of the Council, prominent citizens, and personal friends After the usual formalities attending a military burial, an of the deceased. impressive address was delivered, closing with the following lines written and pronounced by Rev. Dr. Palmer : — thy weary task done —thy country—thou hast served them well true glory — glory bravely won " Rest, soldier rest is ! Thy God Thine On is lips men unborn of thy name shall dwell. Kest, patriot- Christian! thou hast early died, But days are measured best by noble deeds Brief though thy course, thy To those of manly form Rest, Thy On ! ! repose, still Our Martyr Live whom name thou hast allied the world, admiring, reads. eternal love shall keep till breaks the final stays not here dawn —he knew no sleep live on Fame's bright scroll, heroic friend Thy memory, now, we to her record give To earth thy dust our thoughts to Heaven ; His was a live remember and conflicts sadly, he spoke of the —how his face told his gray hairs bespoke the Worthington his last visit to how ; '* ! Some who read singularly brilliant, active and useful. life of exposure, and the excitement of battle fearful scenes : ascend, Where, with the immortals, thou dost ever these pages will ; Death's dark shadow burst a cloudless morn. through which he passed; how earnestly, yet' war and its issues, as though the shadows of his des- tiny were then flitting across his vision. New York proudly claims him among her honored him with a just pride buried his ancestors dead. ; We, too, claim here he was born and reared ; here is ; here lie the work of his �; SECULAR HISTORY OF WORTHINGTON. 88 but his greatest work was his ; march was the march of a hero ; he hand, telling the history of our fathers country's ; his death a nation's loss has halted to rest, and bivouacked " Soldier, rest ! ; his for eternity. thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking Dream of battle-fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking." �WORTHINGTON CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, -A.TJGHJSX 20tli, 1868, The year 1868 brought round the the town's history. The citizens first began centennial cycle of to bestir themselves unanimity and enterprise to give the day a fitting Accordingly an organization was effected, committees appointed, money raised, and work commenced to accomplish the desired result. A corresponding committee sent invitations to the sons and daughters of Worthington, scattered all over the country, to gather and fraternize at this celebration. The work was entered upon with such heartiness and zeal that a most complete success was achieved. It was from the first determined to have everything free. This was no slight undertaking, for it was expected that several thousand persons would be in attendance, and to feed and provide for such a gathering was a task never before attempted in this region. Yet it was successfully accomplished, and all were satisfied, and the citizens of the town received from all present most hearty thanks and praises. The weather, however, was bad. During the morning, the clouds were of a threatening character; the people, notwithstanding, began to assemble, and from nine to eleven o'clock the roads in all directions were crowded with teams. The people gathered on the common, near the church, where it was estimated that from five to six thousand were assembled. The first exercise of the day was the appearance on the common of a four-horse wagon, carrying twelve young ladies, with celebration. dressed in white, 12 representing the twelve school districts �: SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 90 of the town. They bore banners inscribed, " Our native good as new." ''To the memory of our forefathers." Next came a company of "Rough and Ready," some on horses, and some on foot, bearing a banner inscribed, "Woman's rights one hundred years ago, ballot box and breeches." They halted in front of the Town Hall, where one of their number, Mr. Z. H. Hancock, sung the song entitled, " The good old days of Adam and Eve," which called forth three hearty cheers. There was considerable delay in organizing the procession, and it did not get under motion until an hour after the appointed time it first moved northward from the church across the common, then southward to the other end of the common, the "Florence Brass Band," and "Bryant's Martial Band," heading the procession, under the direction of Capt. Wm. Starkweather, chief marshal of the day, and his town, century a old, but as ; — assistants. The procession, a full half-mile in length, after completing the prescribed route, brought up under a spacious bower erected south of the church, where six long tables were spread, capable of seating seventeen hundred persons at once. These tables were loaded with the choicest provisions that the citizens of Worthington could bring, and presented a most tempting appearance. At this time the rain began to fall, and it was for some time uncertain whether it was best to proceed at once with the address, according to the programme, or to The latter course was eat the dinner and make sure of that. determined upon, partly because it was seen to be best, but more because it was seen to be useless to attempt to satisfy such a crowd with historical facts, when the more palatable collation, furnished by the good ladies of the tow^n, was so provokingly set before them. So, after the Divine blessing was invoked, by Rev. David S. Morgan, pastor of the CongregaThe tables furnished an tional church, the dinner was eaten. abundance, and no one had to go away hungry. The dinner " Old Hunover, the brass band gave some excellent music dred" was sung by the entire audience, under the lead of ; Rev. Mr. Gordon, pastor of the Methodist church at South Worthington, offered prayer; then E. H. Brewster, president of the day, pronounced the following ad- Professor Bartlett dress of welcome ; �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 91 ADDRESS OF WELCOME. The histories of towns, like the histories of nations, have marked eras. One hundred years ago, the citizens of their Worthington were living under a monarchial government, with a provincial congress to make their laws. To-day, we are living under a republican form of government, with the make our rule of acOne century has passed away since the town of Worthington was incorporated, and we have assembled here to-day to to wait upon the old century out, and the new century in The same period of time has link the past with the future. representatives of a sovereign people to tion. ; elapsed since our ancestors organized this town, and privilege at this time to commemorate their acts, and it is our to can- In the name, and in behalf of the citizens of the town of Worthington, we welcome you back to this your native town. Especially in behalf of the ladies of Worthington, we welcome you to our homes. We welcome you to these your native hills. We welcome you to the hospitalities of the town, and to the festivities of this occasion. We tender to you, one and all, our kind greetings and earnest salutations. We see around us here to-day, the emblem of our nationality. While we are canvassing the reminiscences of the past, let us not forget the flag of our country. That flag was baptized with the best blood of the soldiers of the army of the Revolution, and with the best blood of the soldiers of the war of the Rebellion. ITow if the present generation, and the generations that may come after us shall prove as true and faithful to that ensign of American liberty, as our ancestors were true and faithful to it, as our soldiers were true and faithful to it, then we may confidently hope that other centennial celebraMay the tions may be had down to the latest posterity. sown in the hearts of this of fraternal union be seeds people to-day, that may unite us in one common purpose, to build up a record of the town more enduring than marble monuments. vass its history. Contrary to the hopes of all, the rain increased, and it was deemed useless to proceed further with the outdoor exercises, and so an adjournment to the church was carried. The church, though the largest in this section of country, was in- �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 92 capable of accommodating but a small portion of the multiAfter filling it to its utmost capacity, the following tude. Historical Address, by Rev. J. H. Bisbee, of Huntington, for twenty-eight years pastor of the Congregational church at "Worthington, was delivered. HISTORICAL ADDRESS. and proper that we should sometimes pause in the career of life, and review the past. History is but the record of God's dealings with men, and their conduct under his government. This is true, not only of the world as a whole, but equally of each portion of it, however small as the whole is but the sum of all its parts. Hence the children of Israel were charged to remember all the way which the Lord their God had led them. We are called to-day to review, not the history of the world, but the record of a single township and It is fit ; ; here, not the history of Our tury. though our all may But narrow, and our range limited. circle is thus fiight past time, but that of a single cen- not be as lofty as our if field were it may still, for this hour, be as pleasant and profitable. The township of Worthington was originally called Planta- wider, tion No. On 3. the second day of June, 1762, auction in Boston, to quently it Aaron Willard, for it was sold X1860. at Subse- passed into the possession of Col. John Worthingand Major Barnard, of Deerfield. At ton, of Springfield, what date, or for what consideration, this transfer was made, does not now appear. At that time it was, in territory, much more extensive than at present. When it was incorporated as a town, it extended from what is now Cummington, on the north, to Murrayfield, Partridgefield, now now Chester, on the south, and from Peru, on the west, to the north branch of the Westfield river on the east, according to J. C. Rice's hisThis embraced a portion of the territory now called tory. When the present boundary on the east Chesterfield. West was formed, I have not been able to learn. In 1783, the town of Middlefield was incorporated. was composed of the corners of several other towns. This It em- braced the south-west corner of Worthington, the north-west corner of Murrayfield, the north-east corner of Becket, the �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 93 south side of Partridgefield, a part of Washington, and a piece of land called Prescott's Grant. originally extended to it cornered on Becket. what is One now Thus Worthington Middleiield Center, where or two lots, from the north-east corner of Chester, were at some time annexed to Worthington, which accounts for the projection which we find on the map below South Worthington. The reason for this annexation was that it was more convenient for the residents on this territory to attend church, and do business in Worthington, than in Chester. The records of the town do not inform us when the first was made here. It is evident, however, that a few families came as early as 1764. The first settlers were mainly from the central and eastern parts of Massachusetts, and from the State of Connecticut. Prominent among them were E"athan Leonard, N'athaniel Daniels, ^N'ahum Eager, Dr. Moses Morse, John Kinne, John Watts, Thomas Clemmons, James Bemis and others. (A more complete list may be found in .settlement Rice's History of Worthington, also in Holland's History of Western Massachusetts.) The first night which Nathaniel Daniels and family spent in town, they camped in the woods on the easterly slope of the hill, a little east of the present residence of Merrick Cole. One of the children said he thought the mosquitoes would devour him. The settlement of the town, immediately after its commencement, appears to have been rapid. The population continued to increase for the half-century. Since then it has gradually diminished. In 1768, this territory was incorporated into a town, and called Worthington, in honor of Col. John Worthington, of Springfield, one of its proprietors, whose liberality towards the in- first habitants was manifested by erecting for them, at his own expense, a meeting-house, and a grist-mill, and in assigning generous made lots of land for ministerial and school purposes. He the town a donation of twelve hundred acres of land. This was divided into twelve sections. One-half of these were called ministerial lots, the other half school lots. The object of the donor was to aid the town in the support of educational and religious institutions. The Act of Incorporation was passed June 30, 1768. The first town-meeting was held August 1, 1768, under the following warrant: �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 94 "Hampshire ss. To Kathan Leonard, of Wortliington, in Pursuant to an the county of Hampshire aforesaid, yeoman: act of this Province for erecting the new Plantation, called 'No. 3, in the county of tiampshire, into a town by the name of Worthiugton, and investing the inhabitants of said town with all the powers, and privileges, and immunities that other towns within the Province enjoy also empowering Israel ; Williams, Esq., to issue his w^arrant directed to some principal inhabitant of said town, requiring him to call a meeting of said inhabitants, in order to choose such officers, as by law, towns are empowered to choose, in the month of March annuThese are therefore in his Majesty's name, to require ally. you, the said E'athan, to notify and warn the inhabitants of Worthington, that they assemble together at the house of Alexander Miller, innholder in said town, on the first Mon- day in August next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, then and there in said meeting, to choose all such officers as towns within this Province are empowered and enabled by law to choose, in the month of March annually. Hereof, you nor they may not fail. Given under my hand and seal, at Hatfield, in said county, this eleventh day of July, in the eighth year of his Majesty's reign, Anno Domini, 176S. ISRAEL WILLIAMS, Justice of the Peace." In accordance with this warrant, the first town-meeting was held at the house of Alexander Miller, long known as the Buffington place, now owned and occupied by Levi Blackmeeting, Nahum Eager was chosen Town Leonard, Capt. JsTathaniel Daniels, and Kathan Clerk; Capt, Thomas Clemchosen Selectmen were Mr. John Kinne, Samuel Clapp, Dr. mons, Constable and Leather Sealer; Moses Morse, Surveyors of Highway Nahum Eager and Ephraim Wheeler, Fence Viewers, and John Watts, Tithingman. Several succeeding town-meetings were held at the same place. The first grist-mill in town, was on or near the spot where A. Stevens & Son, now manufacture sieve rims and plant proIt was built by the proprietors of the town, to induce tectors. As this was then an unbroken forest, settlers to come in. man. At that ; ; �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 95 men found their way from house to house by marked trees. Much of the business of the town, in its earliest years, conIn doing the grist-mill was one of the grand radiating points, and sisted in the laying of roads in different directions. this, In 1770, the town voted to raise <£45 and to pay for men's labor on the road three shillings per day for the labor of a yoke of oxen, one shilling and sixpence for use of a plow, eightpence. The lirst saw-mill in town was situated somewhere below was usually mentioned. for repairing the highways, ; ; Mr. Eager's meadow. a limited scale, Other machinery of different kinds, on was subsequently introduced. has always been the leading business of the town. Agriculture For many wool-growing was the main branch of this. Every pasture was filled with flocks. The owners counted them by hundreds, and sometimes by thousands. This was, however, at a comparatively recent date. The farmers have generally produced the necessaries of life, or their equivalent, for themselves, and a little surplus for others. In the early history of the town, flax and wool were considered essential products of every family. The cloth commonl}^ worn, both by males and years, females, was, in the literal sense of the term, domestic. family had the great and and the quilling-wheel. Each spinning-wheel, the hand-loom These were the household musical little instruments of that day, on which the mothers and daughters melodeon and piano. And though the sound thereof was not always as soft and smooth as more modern music, it was deemed quite as essential to domestic prosperity. Carding machines and clothiers' shops were early introduced. One of the first clothier's shops was on the small stream a little west of Mr. Hewett's present residence. The wives and daughters spun and wove the cloth. The plain linen was either bleached by them on the grass, or made up brown, and left for time and use to whiten, while a nicer fancy article constituted the beautiful aprons of blue and white, checked six by four, and worn by our grandmothers. The woolen, when woven, was sent to the clothier to be dressed or fulled, pressed and colored, unless it had been previously dyed. Brick were manufactured, on a limited scale, on or near the farm where John H. Coit lived and died. Mr. Buck, then living on that place, was engaged in this business. Tanneries practiced, instead of the �; SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 96 were located in different parts of tlie town. in liberal quantities. The manufacture Potash was made of hats, caps, nails, saddles, harnesses, chairs, cider brandy, curtains, children's wagons, cabs and sleds, joiners' tools, sleighs, boots, shoes, bedsteads, screws, sieve rims, plant protectors, and various other things " too numerous to mention," has at different times been carried on here. For many years, and until the days of railroads, the great thoroughfare from Boston to Albany, was There was a constant flow of travel through this town. Stages, private coaches, white-topped through the place. emigrant wagons and other vehicles were constantly passing. To accommodate the public, there were at one time five taverns in town, viz: One at the " Corners," one where J. H. Campbell now resides, one where Merrick Cole lives, one where E. H. Brewster resides, and one at West Worthington, on the place where James Benton lives. post-office was established here much earlier than in any of the neighboring towns. For many years it was the only one between Northampton and Pittsfield. All the towns in the vicinity came here for their mail. Col. William Ward, who it is thought was the first postmaster in the place, received his appointment in 1804, under the administration of Thomas Jefferson, and held the office nearly all the time for In civil, poforty-six years, when he was removed by death. A town presents a fair record yea, more. It presents a record of which its citizens may well be proud. In 1770, a meeting was called, as stated in the warrant, ''to see if the town will choose a man to represent them in the Great and General Court, to be held at Cambridge." Voted not to send. In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Boston port bill, '' by which the port of Boston was forbidden to land, discharge, load and ship goods, wares, and merchandise." "A second bill was soon after passed, litical, and military affairs, this essentially altering the charter of the Colony," together with other offensive Acts. When the news of this port bill reached Boston, a Committee of Correspondence, appointed for that purpose, sent letters to the various towns and plantations in the Commonwealth. In response to this letter, a town-meeting was forthwith called, which was held on the 28th day of June. A Committee of Correspondence was chosen, and �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 97 though the meeting adjourned from time to time, near this it was voted to raise £15, lawful money, to provide a town stock of powder, balls, flints, etc. Other appropriations were made from time to time, as deemed necessary. The same year a convention, composed of ninety men, met at Salem, thence adjourned to Concord, where John Hancock-was chosen President. After this they adjourned to Cambridge, where was drawn up a plan for the immediate defence of the province. This town was represented in that assembly, by l^ahum Eager, Esq., for which the town voted to pay him <£5, lawful money. About this time, those liable to bear arms were called together, and military ofiicers were chosen. The patriotic feeling of nearly all was aroused, and the most intense excitement prevailed. Though the action of the town in military matters has no record from 1774 to 1777, we learn from other sources, that Worthington and Ashfield raised seventyone minute men, who marched to Cambridge, on the Lexington alarm, under Capt. Ebenezer Webber, of Worthington, with Samuel Allen, and Samuel Bartlett, of Ashfield, as lieu" From this time throughout the war, Worthington tenants. was actually drained of its resources in men and means, in aid of the devolution. In 1780, a requisition, made upon the town for horses, found them without the requisite number. Even then they voted to give the security of the town for the price of the horses if they could be found elsewhere." The number of men furnished, and the amount of money raised for the war, clearly show that this town was one of the foremost in proportion to its means, in supporting the cause of the KevoluFor a more minute detail of their action, in that crisis, tion. and of the number and names of those who served in the war of date the Revolution, see Rice's History of the town. men were The' women and encouraged their husbands, brothers and sons, to defend their country, while they cheerfully took care of business affairs, both in-doors and out yet here, as well as elsewhere, was something of the Tory spirit. But the town was prompt and severe in rebuking it. When it was found that Doctor Morse, their representative, sided with Britain, it was promptly voted that he should not represent the town in General Court any longer. And when Alexander Miller,, the inn-keeper, was as well as the ; 13 fired with patriotic feelings, �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 98 found to be a Tory, they altered the road, so that the travel should not pass his house, and gave the custom to Captain Daniels, a loyal man, who lived near where Tillson Bartlett now does. In the war of 1812, this town, it is believed furnished its full share of men and means. Some few of those who were called to fight the battles of their country, in that feather-bed Governor Strong, greater portion have fallen asleep. under paign, still cam- remain, though the not necessary that I should speak in detail of the furnished, and of the amount of money exand save our nation, in the time of her peril defend pended to These things are too in the great rebellion, lately subdued. It is number of men fresh in the memory and awaken too no town, Massachusetts, probably suffered more in this to need recital here, many painful emotions. of size, in its war than In in civil men It is sufficient to say, that this. and political life, this town has never been wanting of intelligence, ability and influence. Among those, whose influence was felt in the counsels may be named Moses Morse, I^ahum Commonwealth, of the Eager, Nathan Leonard, Dea. Jonathan Brewster and Hon. Ezra Starkweather. Later on the list we find .Jonathan Woodbridge, Elisha Brewster, Jonathan Brew^ster, Jr., Samuel Howe, Josiah Mills, Hon. William Ward, Trowbridge Ward and Jonah Brewster. Still later are others whom it is not needful to name. Others might perhaps also be mentioned of equal ability, who were not made so prominent in public life. The subject of education early interested the minds of the They rightly judged as to the importance first settlers here. and youth. For this, therefore, they made children of this to In 1771, three suitable provision at the commencement. years after the incorporation of the town, it was voted to raise £10 for the support of schools. In 1772 the same amount was raised, the town was divided into ^ve districts, and the money was equally distributed among them. This sum may in its earlier history, appear to us small, yet considering the number of inhabitants, the scarcity of means, and the value of money at that day, it may be considered liberal. Here was laid the foundation for the education, and general intelligence of the town. �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. The sum annually appropriated 99 common for the support of schools has, since that day, been increased from time to time, it amounts to $1,800 or the income of funds, the remainder until at present (including board,) Some $1,900. is of this voluntarily raised. The districts. first located near where school has been the is The town is now divided into twelve school-house was built of logs, and was John Adams now lives. The common main home reliance for the education of the children and youth of this place. In 1837, however, an Seminary, was incorporated academy, called the Mountain where now stands the H. Cole & Son. This by tuition fees alone. But other seminaries, liberally endowed with funds, were soon after built, furnishing stronger attractions for the young, and the Mountain Seminary finally became extinct. Its first teachers were Alender O. Clapp, and Mary Strong. Subsequently T. A Hall, E. A. Hubbard, J. H. Temple, and others were successively at the head of the institution, assisted by such individuals as they needed. Though this academy was sustained but few years, it accomplished a great deal for the cause of education in this place, and in the adjacent towns. It introduced improvements in the methods of teaching, and by raising up a better qualified class of teachers, it elevated built near store of flourished for a few years, supported the standard of education in the pulse was thus given which believed will continue to be The first is common still felt felt for schools. in the town, many An im- and it is years yet to come. settlers of this town w^ere reared under the influ- ence of the gospel. They were trained to fear God and keep his Sabbaths, and reverence his sanctuary, and maintain divine institutions and ordinances. They were attached to these things from principle as well as by the influence of education. Hence, when they sought a home mountain in the wilderness, they brought their religion with them. was early made and the full enjoyment of provision for the all Liberal support of public worship, gospel ordinances. Thus they laid in Christianity a broad, firm foundation for the prosperity and true elevation of themselves and their posterity here and As an incident illustrating their regard for the Sabbath, there is a tradition respecting one man who was short of provision. His residence was on the their well-being hereafter. �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 100 hill above A. P. Drury's. One Sabbath morning a noble deer presented himself before the door of his hut. He was strongly tempted to shoot him to obtain a supply of provision, but he remembered the Sabbath day and let him The next morn- go. ing the animal appeared again in the same place, when the man killed him and thus obtained a supply of meat. He In 1769, the year trusted in the Lord, and verily he was fed. was passed, a meeting was called town would support preaching. Voted, to do it. Where their religious meetings were held at this early period does not distinctly appear. A church of thirty members was organized April 1st, 1771. They aimed to build this "on the foundation of the Apostles and the Prophets, Jesus Christ While in general himself being the chief corner stone." Westminster Confession they declared their approbation of the of Faith and Catechism, as for the substance of it, agreeable after the act of incorporation to see if the to their belief in the same time discarded ula or discipline. the Word of God doctrines of Christianity, they at the all servile Their is bondage to any human form- own language is : " We agree that a sufficient rule as well for the practice and discipline of the church as the doctrine of faith; and that human compositions on the subject of church discipline are to be used only as helps and means for the better underWithout casting any reflections standing of God's Word." upon other denominations or forms of church government and discipline, they very modestly said: "In general it is our opinion that what is called the Congregational form of church government and discipline is in the main agreeable to the Word of God." The creed adopted at that time has remained unaltered to the present day. The first meeting-house was located near where Lyman G. Granger's house now stands. The cemetery was in the rear of the church. When this house was erected does not appear from the town records. The obvious reason for this, no doubt, is that it was not built by the town. From the most reliable information on this point, it appears that the frame was put up and partially or wholly covered by the proprietors of the town to encourage a more rapid settlement of the place. According to Rice's History it was built four years before the incorporation of the town. Others have given it a later date. After the act of in- �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 101 corporation, one or more meetings were called to see if the town would clear a spot for it or around it. A town meeting was held in it, November, 1770. Probably it was not ready It remained in an unfor use much, if any, before that time. finished state for several years, though used for pubHc worship and the transaction of town business. The pulpit was but a temporary stage. The seats for the congregation were rude benches made of boards with the hard side up, and no cushThose wanting something more comfortable brought ions. their own chairs. In 1780 it was voted that the town build a pulpit, two deacons' seats, four seats on each side of the broad aisle, lay the gallery floor and build stairs, and " that the pew spots be drawn by the highest in the list, they being obliged to build the same by such time as shall be set by the town, and finish the back up to the gallery girt, each against his own pew." In 1788 the question of removing the meeting-house began to be agitated. Several meetings were held for the discussion of this subject. In 1791 it was voted to remove it to land then owned by Zachari Hanchett, just in rear of the present store of E. H. Brewster & Son. It was removed in 1792 and every way finished at the expense of the town. It was also voted that ISTahum Eager, John Watts and others, have the liberty to set up a steeple to the meeting-house. This liberty, however, they appear not to have used. Subsequently the pews were sold at auction to the highest bidder for ^601 85. This continued to be the only place of worship for nearly the whole town until 1825, when, after a conflict of almost unequalled severity, lasting some ten or twelve years, the present ediflce was erected. Over that conflict let the curtain fall. ''Let not the light shine upon it; let darkness stain it, and a cloud dwell upon it." was made for warming the old church until a it was abandoned. The people entered it on cold, stormy dsijs in Winter, brushed oft' the snow, and quietly took their seats for a sitting of one or two hours. The old ladies had foot-stoves for their comfort which were sometimes passed around the pew for the benefit of others. The frequent and loud knocking together of boots towards the close of a long sermon, sometimes gave unmistakable signs of a desire for a close. Still, when it was proposed to introduce N^o provision short time before �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 102 was decided opposition to the measure. It was regarded as an innovation on a time-honored practice. There was a report that the first Sabbath after the stoves were set up, though there was no fire in them, some of the congregation, not aware of the fact, imagined themselves so overcome with the intense heat that they fainted. Such magic power had stoves there cold iron stoves. At a later date a Methodist Episcopal church was formed at South Worthington, and in 1828 a house of worship was erected there. In 1849 this house .was abandoned and a more beautiful and commodious edifice erected, in which that church They have generally been supplied with now worship. preachers from the 'New England Conference, except a few years when they were connected with the true Wesleyans. In 1848 a Methodist Society was formed at West Worthington. This was connected with the Troy Conference, by which it was supplied with preachers. This organization was of short duration. Their house of worship has been abandoned for several years. On the third day of April, 1771, the town invited Rev. Jonathan Huntington, of Windham, Ct., to become their minister voted to maintain him by a tax; to give him <£40 the first year, and to increase it four pounds yearly until it reached the sum of sixty pounds, which is thereafter Mr. Huntington accepted the invitato be his stated salary. tion, and was ordained and installed accordingly, June 26th, 1771. His place of residence was where R. M. Wright now ; lives. As some method of question subsequently arose respecting the raising his salary, it was, after much discussion, voted in 1778 to do it by a free contribution once in eight months. In 1779 the town voted to give Mr. Huntington sixty pounds, to be paid in wheat at six shillings a bushel, rye at four shillings, corn at three shillings, and other necessaries of life, agreeable to said articles expressed. Mr. Huntington He was and belonged to one of the most Without the advantages distinguished families of that State. medicine and became collegiate education, he first studied of a somewhat distinguished as a physician. Why he changed his From what may now be profession is not now apparent. learned of him, it is evident that he was, by nature, peculiarly died March a native of 11th, 1781, in the 48th year of his age. Windham, Ct., �: TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 103 mild and amiable, and by grace, a man of deep-toned piety and irreproachable Christian character. Hence, as might be expected, he won the confidence and secured the esteem and After the death of Mr. afi^ection of the church and the town. Huntington the town was some time without a settled minister. In 1781 it was voted to Still they kept up public worship. employ Rev. Mr. Barker five Sabbaths, for which he was to receive six pounds hard money, and Mrs. Huntington was to receive two hard dollars a week for his board and house-keeping. Rev. Israel HoUey, Mr. Israel Day, a Mr. Warren and Enoch Whipple were successively invited to settle here in the ministry, but they severally gave a negative answer. In 1788 Rev. Josiah Spaulding, of Ilxbridge, Mass., received and accepted a call to settle here with XlOO settlement and £75 annual salary. He was a native of Plainfield, Ct., and was educated at Yale College. He was installed August 21st, 1788. His pasMany of the people became dissatisfied torate was short. in consequence of which he was dismissed in 1794. with him, He was subsequently settled in Buckland, Franklin county, where he remained until his death. He was evidently somewhat eccentric, though a man of full ordinary power of mind. This was admitted by his cotemporaries, and is fully shown by his published writings. There was evidently great excitement here respecting his dismission. Many meetings were held, and finally charges were preferred against him, which may be summarily expressed as follows, viz. a change in religious doctrine, immorality in practice, and delinquency in duty. Either of these charges, if sustained, would, according to Congregational usage, have worked a forfeiture of his office and ministerial standing. The matter was referred to an ecclesiastical council and the result was that not one of these charges was sustained. His sentiments and character and fidelity in duty, were fully endorsed by the council. They recommended him as an example of meekness, fidelity and charity. They said '' We find no fault in Mr. Spaulding which should operate as a reason for the dissolution of the pastoral relation." But such was the state of feeling among the people that they ad: vised his dismission. The same year cepted a 1794, Jonathan L. call to settle here, Pomeroy received and ac- with j£180 settlement, and .£110 and �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 104 He was the son of a clergythirty cords of wood annual salary. man, and was born in the parish of Greenfield, in the town of He had not a collegiFairfield, where his father was pastor. ate education, but received both his classical and theological instruction from Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., the successor of his father in the ministry, afterwards president of Yale ColHe read Latin lege. Still, Mr. Pomeroy was a ripe scholar. and Greek fiuently, and was almost as familiar with French He was settled here JS'ovember as with his mother tongue. There was, on the part of a portion of the people, 26, 1794. such opposition to his settlement, that a formal protest was laid before the ordaining council, He was cient to stop proceedings. who did not settled deem it suffi- and soon overcame that opposition, and secured the confidence of the people gen- In 1832, after a pastorate of thirty-eight years, he own urgent request, honorably dismissed. He subremoved to Feeding Hills, where he died June 4, sequently 1836, at the age of 67 years. His valuable property was mainly bequeathed to benevolent objects. He was a man of superior mental power, his perception was quick, his penetraHe published tion keen, and his memory peculiarly retentive. several sermons delivered on different occasions. erally. was, at his In 1833, Rev. Henry Adams was settled here in the minisand remained until 1838, when he was dismissed on ac- try, count of ill health. The same year Rev. mained at his H. Bisbee was until 1867, a little own request, he was ordained and named J. are still installed here more than twenty-eight and re- when Morgan years, was dismissed, and Rev. D. S. As the three last not necessary to speak minutely of installed as his successor. living, it is them. I have dwelt thus long on these ecclesiastical matters, from the fact that this is a part of the history of the town. From its incorporation to the year 1865, the business of the Congregational Society was done under the town warrant, and the In law officers of the town were the officers of the parish. the parish was the town in its parochial capacity. In 1865, a separation was effected, and the parish was organized in ac- cordance with the Revised Statutes. It is proper to say, for the honor of God, that this place has been signally blessed �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 105 Such seasons have been frequent, with revivals of religion. Among the most remarkable of these powerful, and extensive. may be named the years 1794-9, when fifty were united to the church, the year 1808, when one hundred and seasons, thirteen were received, 1819 to the church, when 1827 when when one hundred were admitted thirty-two were gathered in, 1842-3 forty-eight were received on profession, 1850 when forty- nine were received. Besides these powerful general revivals, there have been many seasons of gentle refreshing, when the There have also been sevSpirit has descended as the dew. eral such blessed seasons at South Worthington, in connection with the Methodist church, of nutely. which I cannot speak mi- A Sabbath school was gathered here, just ago. It was held at 5 o'clock Ames Burr's, and fifty years p. m., at the school-house near was conducted mainly by two young ladies of well-known piety and benevolence. The following persons have practiced law in this place, viz Joseph Lyman, Jonathan Woodbridge, Samuel Howe, Elisha Mack, Daniel Parish, and C. B. Rising. The medical men have been more numerous. It seems to have been a great place for doctors, as the following list will show. M. Morse, E. Starkweather, Marsh, Brewster, Porter, two Hollands, Case, Spear, E. Pierce, Meekins, D. Pierce, H. Starkweather, Bois, Wheeler, Colt, Brown, Church, Prevost, Lyman, Knowlton, Freeland, Smith, A. G. Pierce, Coy, and : some others. Among the educated professional men, born or bred here, be named, Azariah Clark, who graduated at Williams College in 1805. He settled in the ministry at Canaan, N. Y. Benjamin Mills graduated at Williams College in 1814. He studied law and practiced in Illinois. He died at Pittsfield, may Mass., in 1841. Henry Wilbur received tled in the ministry at a private education. He was Wendell, Mass., from 1817 to set- 1822. He prepared a reference Bible, and published some other books. In his later years, he taught and lectured on astron- omy. Joseph M. Brewster graduated He at Yale College in 1822. where he died in 1833. Williams College in 1822. Stud- settled in the ministry in Peru, Daniel Parish graduated at 14 �SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 106 iecl law, and practiced in Worthington, and other places. He has recently died. Jonathan E. Woodbridge graduated at Williams College, in 1822, was tutor in has been settled in several college, places in the ministry, and is now a teacher at Auburndale.- George Woodbridge graduated at West Point, was for a time in the army, afterwards entered the ministry, and preached at Richmond, Ya. John Starkweather graduated at Yale College in 1825, and entered the ministry. Orsamus Tinker graduated at Williams College in 182T. entered the ministry, and died at Ashby, Mass., in 1838. Consider Parish graduated at Williams College in 1828, and has been a teacher and preacher at the South. Alonzo Clark graduated at Williams College in 1828, and studied medicine. He is now professor of pathology and practical medicine, and resides in 'New York. J. H. Bisbee graduated at Union College in 1831, and is He now in the ministry. Daniel Branch graduated at Union College in 1832, and has been a teacher in Ohio and school commissioner in Illinois. A. Huntington Clapp graduated at Yale College, and is now secretary of the A. H. M. Society, ^ew York. Franklin D. Austin graduated at Union College in 1845, is now in the ministry. Henry A. Austin and Samuel and J. Austin graduated at Union College in 1847, and are both in the ministry. Corydon Higgins graduated at Williams College in 1849, and is now preaching. Charles H. Gardner was educated at Williams College, and is now New York. Williams College, and a teacher and preacher in James K. Mills graduated at is now a lawyer. W. Harmon Mies was educated under Professor Agassiz, of Cambridge. He Yale College in 1854. when he enlisted in the army, and for bravery and noble daring was raised to the office of Brigadier General, and was killed in the It was he who said, " Let me die battle of the Wilderness. James C. Rice graduated practiced law in E'ew York at until the late war, �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. with my face to the foe." He was 107 a noble specimea of a Christian soldier. Henry E. Daniels was educated law, and is now at Williams College, studied dead. To these might be added a long list of professional men, whose place of education I cannot state. Among these may be named Ira and Ebenezer Daniels, Dr. Tinker, Franklin Everett, Hon. Samuel A. Kingman, judge in the supreme court of Kansas, A. D. Kingman and two Marbles, who went to Kentucky, with others too numerous to mention. In addition to these, many business men might be named, who have been successful in their different departments, some of whom have risen to eminence in civil and political life, and have filled the mayor's chair in some of our great cities, or taken their seat in our national congress. Among these may be named Aaron Among Clark, Gideon Lee, A. P. Stone, and F. Kellog'S*. the fatal casualties of the place, the following may In 1806 William Adams was mortally wounded In 1817 a child was killed at Mr. Bardwell's by swallowing a bean. In 1820 Gains Kowe was killed in a well by the falling of a bucket on his head. It was nearly in front of the house where James Bisbee now lives. In 1821 Thomas a Corsican was killed by falling under the wheel of a loaded cart in front of E. H. Brewster's residence. In 1822 Dexter, aged nine years, a son of Daniel Branch, was killed by the kick of a horse. In 1830 Josiah Mills, Jr., was be mentioned : in a bark-mill. — — thrown from a horse and quence of which he died. was fractured, in conseIra Prentice was drowned in 1832 in attempting to cross the stream between his house and i^orth Chester in the night. Marcus Brown was killed in a barkmill in 184-. A boy by the name of Meacham was killed in 18 by the falling of a cart body. Chester Bartlett was killed by the caving in of a sand bank in 1853. A son of William Higgins accidentally shot himself in 1854. Amos Cole, a citizen of this town, was thrown from his sleigh and mortally wounded in 1864, while passing from Hinsdale to Dalton. Cornelia Brown, Mrs. Beals and Miss Beals were drowned in Spencer Parish's mill-pond in 1863. Wm. Tower was thrown from a wagon and instantly killed near Mr. Stevens' mill in — 1865. his skull �; SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 108 Of suicides: A traveler the old turnpike in hung himself many years ago near West Worthington, not far from the tan- nery formerly owned by Clark & Bardwell. April 14th, 1813, a Mr. Chamberlain, of Boston, shot himself at Mills' Hotel. He came in the stage the night previous. I have thus glanced at the record of some few of the prominent incidents in this place for the last century. Time will This brief review suggests nunot permit me to enlarge. and awakens many tender emotions. It reminds us of the brevity of human life and the transitory nature of its pleasures and pains, its hopes and fears. Our Where are they who first climbed fathers, where are they ? these rugged hills and felled the forests, and as pioneers in this mountain wilderness, laid the foundation for an intelligent, moral, Christian community? All have passed away. I can now seem to see some of these venerable men, dignified in form and mien and hardy in appearance, as in my boyhood I saw them walk these streets and take their seats in the old church with its square pews; or, as they gathered in groups under the shade of the old birch tree in front of the church during the intermission on the Sabbath, to give and receive merous reflections, friendly salutations. But they have passed away. May their mantle rest on their descendants to the latest generation. What great and marked changes One hundred years past have taken place during that time. Three generations have successively acted their part on the theatre of life. The Wilderness has become a fruitful field and we reap our daily bread from the dust of our ancestors. One hundred years ago town meetings in Massachusetts were called in the name of His Majesty. Our nation, then a colony of Great Britain, has since thrown off its yoke, asserted its independence, and taken rank with the most distinguished nations of the globe. And in crushing the late gigantic rebellion, which had plotted the overthrow of this best of human governments, at such immense expense of blood and treasure, our nation has shown its ability and its determination to maintain and defend civil liberty and human rights. It has expanded in territory until it is washed on both sides by the waves of the ocean. It has increased in population until, of a handful, we have become a great people. Kevolutions have been experienced in other countries also ! �TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 109 kingdoms and thrones have been shaken and overturned; kings and emperors have been crowned, deposed, exiled or slain statesmen have come and gone orators and poets have arisen and charmed the world with their eloquence and verse, and their tongues have been palsied and their music hushed. Wonderful improvements have been made in the arts and ; ; sciences, and in the application of scientific principles to the life. Modes of traveling and of the communicathought have been entirely revolutionized. Railroads, steamboats and telegraphs have been constructed and brought All these things show that the into use during this time. world moves, and some of them indicate that it moves fast. These changes in the past show what may be anticipated in business of tion of the future. we may In what has been, see, as in a glass, Change is indelibly written on to be. The next century will, undoubtedly, be as as the past. Who will then roam these all is these pleasant fields and gather here to of the second century ? They what things earthly. changes and cultivate fruitful in hills and hear the tale unborn. This vast tell are yet all have pillowed they leave behind them an influence for good, and thus, though dead, still speak for humanity, for truth, for righteousness and for God. assembly, gathered here to-day, will then May their heads in the grave. Following the Historical Address, the choir sung with fine following Centennial Ode, written and read by C. M. effect the Parsons, a citizen of the town. ODE. Come one and all, both great and small, Now let your hearts o'erflow, And joyous sing, with merry ring, " One hundred years ago." Chorus.—" One hundred So The let years," one hundred cheers, the cannon roar ; gala-day of earthly stay. High let our anthems soar. Welcome, ye friends ! from hills From city and from plain To meet us here, all hearts to and ; cheer. Thrice welcome back again. glens. �— ; SECULAR HISTORY OF WORTHINGTON. 110 Those valiant sires, whose altar fires, Burned first in Worthington Peace to their dust, let us be just, As every When faithful son. years have passed, and With those who we are classed are gone before, Children shall raise their tuneful lays, As Let it parents did of yore. be said of Who all the dead. graced this " festal throng," Long years to come, a century They sing sublimest song. done, Then followed speeches by William Cullen Bryant, the venknown poet, who for two years studied Rev. Mr. Woodlaw with Judge Howe in Worthington erable and world-wide ; bridge, of Boston, a son of Jonathan Woodbridge, a lawyer in Worthington; Dr. T. K. De Wolf, of Chester; W. W. Ward, of Greenfield and John Kice, of Milwaukee Rev. Mr. Bisbee responded to a sentiment in honor of General James C. Rice. The speeches were all appropriate and interesting, and happily received. In conclusion, Mr. Bisbee, in behalf of the guests and the people from the surrounding region who had shared the hospi; ; moved a vote of thanks for the feast proa hearty and unanimous aye. with vided, and it was carried If the programme of the committee had been carried out talities of the town, would have been more speaking, but the and not only disarranged and shortened the as arranged there rain interfered, literary exercises, but prevented a large portion of the multi- tude from listening to what was said. In the street in front of the church was erected a triumphal arch of evergreens bearing in large figures the years 1768 1868. A large brass field-piece, brought from Springfield, gave out during the day 100 guns, one for each year of the completed century. �— — ; - OF THE TOWN.] [THE FOLLOWING POEM WAS RECEIVED FROM A NATIVE AN HUNDRED YEARS AGO. BY PROF. FRANKLIN EVERETT, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. O, IS there not a dignity, Commanding and sublime, In the silent, onward march of years, Those chroniclers of time ! Big with the Of A men, fates of living nations, and of spheres part of God's immensity, Measured by earthly years The ; ! cycles of eternity. Transcend these minds of ours we count ; Its minutes are the years, Our centuries, its hours. Eternity's revolving course No human thought can span time ; Its little fractions are the A That's measured off to man. century is a portion, which ISIo human mind can A portion Is reach ; only of that time measured off to each. clock has struck a century, Conceive it ye who can The clock has struck a century The ; Of Worthington and man. No human recollection through That century can go, 'Tis lost ; or it is history; you know. Its history is the town you see. Where all seems growing old, Its latter part Or else, in wasting, sculptured lines, On crumbling marble told. �— ; SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 112 These marbles And of those tell acted in their day who Filled here their place in active And passed from life lived ; life, away. Come, go with me, and let ns trace The now closed century back, But how Our utmost stretch of mind Can span but half its track. We'll call on memory, where we can ! ; Let memory do its best. We've records, and we've monuments ; Tradition claims the rest. The grandsires of our grey-haired men Were then the yeomen bold. Our grey-haired men can recollect The tales their grandsires told So we've the means and let us take ; A retrospective view Head backward on the track of Time, And trace the century through. ; Through memory, tradition, and The tomes of history I've gone through time, a century back; Come, take your stand with me, On Bashan's swelling height That's Worthington A , I am ; jHBBt J /kt^! scarce unbroken forest spread. On every side below, Through which, with ever stealthy tread, The wolf or panther steals That little opening, wreathed in smoke, The settler's home reveals. Here he has pitched his future home, And begun to clear his lands And receding forests show the work Of strong and manly hands. ; ; Few are his thoughts, and few his And few his doubts and fears. His aspirations are joys — a home For his declining years, Content for simple life and bread, Along through life to plod And fearing but the Indian, and The anger of his God. ; Stern in his labor; stern in prayer, And stern to child and wife, ; �— —— ; ; ; TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. He, scarcely smiling, moves along His plodding course of life. He never chats, or romps, or plays, With wife, or girls, or boys His presence, as he nears the house, Hushes hilarious noise, ; For know — his Puritanic creed death on mirth and play Was Had made it the business To labor and to pray. Few ; life are the numbers, such as he, Who constitute A hardy few, And A of his the town ; with brawny arms. faces seared and brown ; noble few, of sturdy forms, Laboring and sincere, Are centered round the modest church. Far in the distance, there That church and its successor both ; Long since have passed away, And given place to the fairer one The town can boast to-day. Those men who broke the forest, where We proudly meet this year. Were the grandsires of the grey-haired men, Who now are gathered here. and they long have slept Their children, too, are dead They're sleeping and there's scarce a stone They're sleeping ; ; To mark ; — their final bed. 'Tis little of those ancient ones We're now allowed to know. But such was all of Worthington An hundred years ago. The town had then no history Its history then begun But Massachusetts had a name, Her status had been won. Her character was fixed and known, Her history centuries old Her virtues and her daring deeds. ; Old chronicles had Come, And 15 told. us step a century back, standing there we'll see let 113 �— — ; SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 114 The changes, be they good or ill, That mark her history. They'll plainly show that olden scenes And thoughts have passed away, That the Massachusetts of that time, Does not exist to-day. Her hills the same her streams the same The same her honest fame But little else remains unchanged Except her cherished name. And even the hills are not the same They lack the towering tree Her streams have dwindled and the name No more begins with " TAe." Her character, though noting still The stock from which it sprung, ; ; ; ; ; ; Is not the character she bore "When Worthington was young. But whether changed for good or ill, 'Tis not for bards to say Some proudly boast her wondrous growth Some mourn her sad decay. The judgment in the case will be When we the changes scan, Just as we deem the proper state v And destiny of Is't best that In man : he should spend his years all simplicity ? Or should he And live strive for fame and wealth in luxury ? Whether he most belongs to Time Or to Eternity, The Bard presumes not to decide Where wise ones disagree, 'Tis his to That all draw the picture the change may so see. In sketchy pictures will he strive Some little light to throw manners, customs, scenes and A century ago. On And first, we'll The home men look upon the house in years of old : 'Twas built as a protection from The storm and winter's cold, But more for shelter from the rain, Than either warmth or show ; — ; �; — ; TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 115 'Twas open to the searching winds, And to the driven snow. — They feared not these they lived 'mong woods, And knew the power of fire. As fiercer raged the howling storm. They piled the hearth-stone higher, 'Till all aglow, the crannied room : Was And, brilliant, light and warm circled 'round the fire, they bid Defiance to the storm. — Those kitchen fires my memory leads Back to an olden time. When the sturdy farmer's kitchen fire Was a thing almost sublime. An ample space — ten feet or more. Deep bayed, was on one side O'er which a spacious chimney rose An opening deep and wide Within was heaped a pile of wood ; The Ijalf a cord or more, For warmth, and light, and comfort to The family ranged before. Here, in one corner sat the sire, At the other sat the dame. The rest the half a circle made Around the genial flame. And still we speak of hearth and home, And the circle 'round the hearth, And make that hearth the emblem of The sweetest joys They had no stoves of earth. ; the house was cold. On the hearth they built their fires And 'round the hearth all loved ones sat ; There centered each desire. There sat the father and his boys, Their hard day's work was done Not so with mother and the girls :— They mended, knit, or spun. ; The father read his Bible, or " Saint's Rest," or " Baxter's Call," The boys conned 'Till o'er the they could say Catechism it all. The father spoke with solemn Of the Devil or of God, look, *^ �; ; ; — ; ; ; : SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 116 And ever kept within his reach The awe-inspiring rod, For you must know, the rule was then Maintained alone by fear And youthful ebullitions met A box upon the ear if 'twas Sunday, nought atoned Such disrespect to God, But the solemn application of Or, The ever-present rod. Parent was then an awful name. As well each child must know For children did not rule the house An hundred years ago. ; Life was a simple thing Who to those by Fancy and fashion did not rule Independence was their joy. They raised the grain on which they fed They made the cloth they wore They sought for comfort and they tried To add unto their store. They little knew of stock or trade Thought not of sudden gains But sought to reach their honest ends By labors and by pains. No foreign luxuries they knew. lived in years gone ; ; ; ; No foreign fashions sought. They dressed for comfort^ not display And made instead of bought. The matrons' and the maidens' pride Was But not silks from foreign lands. dyed and spun, flannel, carded, And woven by their hands. Four yards of that composed the dress Of the fairest of the town Each had her decent dress for home. And her newer Sunday gown. Guiltless of shoes, at home, abroad, The bright-eyed maiden trod Shoes were alone for winter months : And the sacred house of God. To make That these clothes, tho' few they were, all might neat appear, with the women in the house, The great work of the year. Was �; ; ; ; ; TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 117 In the winter, while the older boys Were working with The the axe, father bent his sturdy form To break and swingle flax. The mother spun the hackled flax, The daughter spun the tow Their finest clothes were made at home, And bleached as white as snow. The work on When flax must all be done the snows have disappeared ; For the work on wool is to commence Soon as the sheep are sheared. That was carded, and spun, and woven, and dyed. And fitted with needle and shears For a homespun race were the women and men Who lived in the far gone years. If simple their dress, as simple their A kitchen, — perhaps homes a spare room. In the kitchen were seen a couple of beds, A two wheels and a loom, and pots, a skillet and pan, A crane and its system of hooks. Some benches and stools, or home-made chairs, table, Some A kettles Bible and a couple of books. With these and content they had ample store, What cared they for cabinet ware ? They were things unknown in those simple homes, Those years of labor and care. They worked for a living they'd no money to spend ; On For a luxuries, fashion, or pride. living they trusted in And trusting in God they God and themselves. died. Now our pleasure and our boast Are our means of locomotion But of buggies, steam or flying cars, They had not the slightest notion. God gave them /ee«,— they prized their And prized their self-reliance feet. ; With these the maidens went to church The storm and wind's defiance. rains, and driving storms For them had no alarms, The mothers walked three miles to church, With their babies in their arms. For man and woman, maid and youth, They all knew how to walk Cold sleety ; �;; ! ; ! SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 118 That art they'd practiced, even before They first began to talk, And then it was their honest A pleasant rural sight When pride, had a horse, that horse If they the Sabbath None ever thought it to ride. was, morn had come to spend the ; day In idle rest at home. Their shoes had all been greased before. Breakfast and morning prayers were o'er, All had put on their best attire, They'd covered up the morning fire, The horse was saddled at the door, A sober horse was he; For well he knew his Sunday work. Was to carry two or three The pillion then was the woman's pride, For behind her lord she could cosily ride, And display, as she rode, her lovliest charm. Her love for her lord, and the babe on her arm. This, too, was the way the lover would ride, When A he carried the maiden he sought as his bride. few of you gray-beards remember the day, When the last of the pillions were passing away And how you have stood by the temple of God, And seen the grave horse deposit its load, The stout burly farmer, his fair buxom wife, Besides what he carried of juvenile horse, if they could one afibrd. They rode on a If not, they had A journey was From what life. which bless the Lord feet, for a difierent thing, to-day it is ; A toilsome, and soul-wearying drag, A tedious, lingering way, Two hundred How miles long that What triumph Who ! O way fearful thought will last man, had passed, to the daring o'er that space Such journey was a thing, a man Scarce ventured on again A noted Was era in his life. the year he went to Maine. With firm resolve, the time is The journey must be made, set, I �—— TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. The congregation ask H9 for them, Protecting care and aid, The neighbors meet, wish them God With many a fervent prayer, Our hero mounts his sturdy horse, speed, His wife the dappled mare. voice, they bid " good-bye," Start on their toilsome way And jog along, at gentle trot, With choking ; Full thirty miles a day. O, for the peaceful, good old times, Sighed for so oft in modern rhymes. Yet these show not the character, But feebly they portray The men who occupied the State, A century to-day. These show their simple style of life. And by them we are brought To see the change in outward things, A century has wrought. But there's an inner life, a thought Which concentrates the soul. Around which all those things revolve. Which make up life's great whole. Our fathers had their inner life; Religion in the soul, And all combined to render The center of the whole. With solemn step, and mien that sedate. Their daily round they trod. Because they An felt and realized. ever-present God. With them No to waver from penance could atone that thought, ; life's great business was to live For God, and God alone. This made them stern, stern to themselves, Their And stern at duty's call. Stern with heretic doubters, and Austere and stern to all. For them it seemed the darkening That closed the skies was riven, veil �;; ; SECULAR HISTORY OF THE 120 And before their ever-present sight Were God, and hell, and heaven. They saw Infinite The co-equal, struggling powers, good and evil blest incarnate And the unincarnate Devil. They looked beyond And felt this mortal life, 'twas theirs to dwell For eternal ages with Or They ; Son of God, their God, in surging flames of hell felt the human soul was All was corrupt within; vile, . That aught not linked with Christ or God, Was deep and damning sin That earthly joys, and earthly loves, Were but temptations, given To lure poor pilgrims from the road, The narrow road to heaven. What were to them the trifling things. Met with or suffered here ? They'd hell and heaven both full in view, And they worshiped God with fear Fear, for they felt they never knew Whether God would frown or smile. So sinful were their wicked hearts. And wicked thoughts the while Fear, lest when the eternal Judge, ; ; Should the Book of Life unroll. They should not be of those, who find Their names upon the scroll; That scroll, on which ere time began, The elect were all enrolled Fear, for their final doom, unknown While here on earth they stay; Doom, that can only be revealed At the great, the Judgment Day. Centering around that one great thought. Was inner and outer life ; To conquer Was self, and live for Christ, the daily, constant strife. This gave to them their measured step. And the countenance they wore ; This gave to them their firm resolve. And the characters they bore. Theirs was no religion, which Was by assent received ; �; ; TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. But the stern faith, that they professed, Their inmost souls believed. Then was the church a sacred Sunday a sacred day, And then and there all place, people met. In holy courts to pray. In pulpit stood their reverend guide, A sounding-board o'erhead ; He felt, while standing there, 'twas his To break to them the heavenly bread. The congregation in the pews Devoutly thought it so, For religion was a vital thing A century ago. The people met ; the lame, the old. All found an open door The body seats Were open and ; galleries to the poor. They met as sinners, standing in The presence of their Lord The rich and beggar, side by side. Were listening to the word. ; Their looks were solemn, and their step Was reverent and slow ; For and people all believed. hundred years ago. priest An No man of fashion or of state Was the reverend pastor then, He felt his was the holy work To guide the souls of men ; That in the wilderness of life, 'Twas his to smite the rock, And to the gushing fount of life To lead his fainting flock To guide them to the gardens, where The fruits immortal grow For the pastor was a guide and power, A century ago. With reverent He step, on Sabbath morn, trod the central aisle 16 ; 121 �— ; ' - ! SECULAR HISTOKY OF THE 122 None greeted, as he passed along, Their pastor with a smile. Hushed was each breath each look was awe ; As the sacred aisle he trod They followed with a reverent The holy man of God. ; look Ordained to point to joys divine, Or herald wrath and wo, To them he was God's messenger, An hundred years ago. Thus filled with solemn fear of God, Their souls subdued to awe. They bowed to God, and God alone, And reverenced his law. Humbly before His throne they stood. Through Jesus seeking aid That throne was veiled in wrath divine They trembled while they prayed. For, sinful, vile, in Adam ; cursed. They dared not there appear But, shielded by the Crucified, They humbly ventured near. With beating hearts, they prayed Would smile upon his Son ; that God ; And pardon for that Son's dear sake, The deeds that they had done. Depraved in body, mind, and soul ; Conceived and born in sin. They did not dare appeal to God, Or hope How his smile to win. They had no hope God could they dare ? From a wrathful, vengeful ; Their hope was mediatorial grace Was They In ; — Jesus, and his blood. they worshiped, and they prayed undoubting faith lived full, ; ; Faith was their guiding star in life. Their anchorage in death. Such was the inner life ; — the In years a century gone life ; New England's structure, —rising Had this for its corner-stone. But the Bard To the will come back,—fi-om friends of his youth, high,— antiquity, down and his dear native town �— TOWN OF WORTHINGTON. 123 — To the scenes of the present the gathering here, Where Worthington's sons and daughters appear, Each other And to greet — old loves to renew the scenes of their childhood again to review. A thousand fond memories are clustering round Each rock, each house, and each acre of ground But 'tis sad, when we think of the years that have How many, we loved, now sleep with the dead. But my greeting to all. A century more : Will find us all passed to Eternity's shore. When Eternity's clock tells the century done, May we stand, unabashed, by the Deity's throne. sped. �������� Book Bound document, typically consisting of 25 or more pages. Generally does not include stapled items. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Book - Bound Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1874 (1853) Description An account of the resource This book was written by James C. 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