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HORACE CORBETT ADAMS BORN IN MENDON ON AUGUST 18, 1848 IN MENDON / DIED IN MENDON ON JANUARY 6, 1913. TOWN CLERK FROM MARCH 3, 1890 UNTIL HIS DEATH. HIS FATHER, DAVID ADAMS, WAS TOWN CLERK FROM MARCH 5, 1855 TO MARCH 3, 1890. LIVED AT “ADAMS HOUSE” ON HASTINGS STREET, HELPING HIS FATHER RUN IT AS A HOSTELRY AND LATER OWNED THE HOUSE AT THE CORNER OF HASTINGS AND WASHINGTON STREET.
LEONARD T GASKILL 1843-1928 TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES FOR THE TOWN OF MENDON 1903-1921 CIVIL WAR VETERAN.
NATHAN R. GEORGE JR. SON OF NATHAN R. SR. AND MELISSA (BLANCHARD) GEORGE. BORN IN MENDON (?) GRADUATED FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY 1890, MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTOR AT MIT. NEVER MARRIED.
ROSANNA (TAFT) GEORGE FIRST WIFE OF NATHAN R. GEORGE TAFT (MOTHER OF ROSA F. TAFT)
JOHNSON PARKMAN BORN APRIL 12, 1800 IN MILFORD / MARRIED LUCY ROGERS IN BOSTON ON JULY 30, 1835 / DIED JULY 27, 1872 IN MENDON. SETTLED FOLLOWING MARRIAGE IN SOUTH MILFORD (MENDON) HOMESTEAD.
CALEB SOUTHWICK TAFT CHESTNUT HILL, A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE MENDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN 1896
ROBERT TAFT FIRST SON OF EDWARD & JOANNA (BENNET) TAFT . BORN 1853 / DIED 1863 AGED 10 YEARS.
BENJAMIN WHEELOCK OF MENDON. RESIDED AT CROMB’S PLACE, MILVILLE ST.
HILL WILLIAMS SON OF GUSTAVUS B. AND BERNETTE WILLIAMS. BORN OCT 19, 1862/ DIED SEPTEMBER 25, 1898. ATTENDED MENDON SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. PRINCIPAL OF MENDON HIGH SCHOOL IN 1888. MASTER OF GRANGE IN 1887.
MRS. SAMUEL BENNET
WILLIAM METCALF BROTHER OF JOHN METCALF. BORN 1806 / DIED 1874. MARRIED SARAH ANN PAYSON 1836.
HENRY GASKILL BORN 1867 / DIED 1938
SISTER CATHERINE SEABURY
MISS ANNA PON / MISS DNIELS / MISS SNOW
DR. JOHN G METCALF CIRCA 1890
EDWARD DIXON “UNCLE DICK” AUNT CARRIE ALDRICH DIXON’S HUSBAND. LIVED ON ELM STREET AND WASHINGTON STREET. TAUGHT AT MENDON AND BLACKSTONE SCHOOLS, SUPERINTENDENT 1886-1891
JULIUS A GEORGE WAS BORN IN MENDON ON JUNE 30, 1841 AND DIED IN MENDON ON JANUARY 30, 1917. RAN THE BOOTSHOP ON THE POST OFFICE BLOCK LAND AT ONE TIME AND LIVED IN THE BIG HOUSE OFF MAPLE ST. FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE MENDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE HOME NATIONAL BANK IN MILFORD.
FLORENCE BENNET (GRADUATION PICTURE “CLASS OF 1900”) DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND EMILY (DARLING) BENNET. BORN AUGUST 1882 / DIED MAY 15 1964 AGED 82 YEARS. RESIDENT OF NORTH AVENUE IN MENDON.
ABBIE MARION DARLING EARLY 1900S DAUGHTER OF GEORGE H. AND AMI R. DARLING OF NORTH AVENUE, MENDON.
NATHAN R. GEORGE JR. SON OF NATHAN R. SR. AND MELISSA (BLANCHARD) GEORGE. BORN IN MENDON (?) GRADUATED FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY 1890, MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTOR AT MIT. NEVER MARRIED. (OLDER AGE IN PHOTO)
MELISSA B. GEORGE DAUGHTER OF NATHAN RICHARD GEORGE OF MENDON. COMPLETED ART EDUCATION WITH 3 YEARS IN BERLIN, GERMANY. TAUGHT AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE AND DE PAUW UNIVERSITY, INDIANA. DIED AGE 34, IN MENDON 1901.
LUCY ROGERS PARKMAN BORN LITTLETON OCTOBER 11, 1795 / MARRIED JOHNSON PARMAN IN BOSTON JULY 30, 1835 / DIED SOUTH MILFORD ON MAY 3, 1880.
HANNAH TAFT (WARFIELD HOWARD) WIFE OF PUTNAM TAFT. DAUGHTER OF NEWELL W. AND SALLY WARFIELD HOWARD. BORN APRIL 1823 / DIED APRIL 1893. LIVED ON NORTHBRIDGE STREET MENDON.
CHARLIE WILLIAMS AND LEON PADDOCK AT THE FOUR CORNERS, FOUNDERS PARK MONUMENT IN BACKGROUND. 1907 TOWN REPORT.
MR & MRS RAY AND FLORENCE BARROWS
MRS. GEORGE (ANNIE) DARLING
SAMUEL A. BENNET
MRS. CUMMINGS
DORA TAFT
MISS REGINA SEABURY
BASKETBALL TEAM MENDON 1913/1914.
FRONT LEFT TO RIGHT: FORREST LOWELL, GEORGE ALDRICH, ERNEST WOOD,
BACK LEFT TO RIGHT: DONALD GOODNOW, GUNVALD HALSING, CECILE LEITH.
MRS. JOHN G. METCALF 1826
MR. JOHN GEORGE METCALF LIVED ON HASTINGS STREET, MENDON.
GEORGE F. VERRY MENDON, MA 1826 – 1883 LAWYER, MAYOR OF WORCESTER
DAVID WOOD BENNET GRANDFATHER OF FLORENCE BENNET, AND MRS. FRANK ALDRICH’S GREAT UNCLE. RESIDENT OF NORTH AVENUE IN MENDON (NEXT HOUSE ABOVE ALDRICH HOUSE)
REVERAND GEORGE F. CLARK MINISTER OF THE UNITARIAN CHURCH, MENDON 1871 TO 1880’S. REV. CLARK WAS THE FIRST LIBRARIAN FOR THE TAFT PUBLIC LIBRARY IN 1881.
NATHAN R. GEORGE SR. BORN 1837/ DIED 1914. FATHER OF HERBERT, NANCY, NATHAN, ROSA, AND MELISSA. BOOT MANUFACTURER, FARMER, AND FOUNDER OF THE MISCOE SPRING WATER, CO.
J. R. NEWTON
JONATHAN RUSSELL (PHOTO FROM OLD OIL PAINTING) BORN 1771 IN PROVIDENCE, RI / DIED 1832 MILFORD, MA. LIVED IN MENDON BETWEEN 1818 AND 1825.
PUTNUM WILLIAM TAFT OF WORCESTER, MA. GRANDSON OF EBENEZER AND MARY TAFT. HALF-BROTHER OF SUSAN LEE HOUSTON WHO DONATED THE MONEY TO THE TAFT PUBLIC LIBRARY IN HIS MEMORY. THE LIBRARY WAS NAMED FOR HIM.
FANNIE USHER & SPARE RIBS ACTRESS AT THE SUMMER THEATRE AT LAKE NIPMUC IN THE EARLY 1900S. A JOINT ACT WITH HER BROTHER CLAUD AND THEIR DOG SPARE RIBS.
CALEB ELLERY TAFT SON OF CALEB SOUTHWICK TAFT, BROTHER OF FRANKLIN GRANT TAFT.
MRS. DAVID (ABBY) W. BENNETT
UNKNOWN
MARY DUDLEY
DORA TAFT (?)
SISTER CATHERINE SEABURY
BASEBALL TEAM MENDON
FRONT ROW: GLENN FISKI , DONALD GASKILL , WALTER “BUDDY” BUTLER, RALPH BROWN, ERIC SWANSON, WES SHELBERT, GLEN WRIGHT
BACK ROW: ROLAND KINSLEY, DONALD OPPEWAL, CHARLIE WOOD, MIKE MAGLIOCCA, LENNY PERRON
JOHN G. METCALF 1826
ROSA F. GEORGE OF MENDON, DAUGHTER OF NATHAN RICHARD GEORGE AND HIS FIRST WIFE, ROSANNA TAFT GEORGE. EDUCATED IN THE MENDON SCHOOLS AND WAS ON THE HIGH SCHOOL HONOR IN 1877. ATTENDED FRAMINGHAM NORMAL SCHOOL AND WELLESLEY COLLEGE. MARRIED ARTHUR R. TAFT OF UXBRIDGE IN MAY 1889 AS HIS SECOND WIFE. TAUGHT PRIMARY GRADES IN MENDON IN 1880 AND 1881.
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