Artemas Howe

DAR Ancestor A058221

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https://books.google.com/books?id=6yoWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA256

Historical Reminiscences of the Early Times in Marlborough, Massachusetts ... By Ella A. Bigelow

THE OLD STEPHEN HOWE HOMESTEAD.

Returning to early days, to Jonathan " Ensign" son of Thomas Brigham 2d and Mary (Rice) Brigham, we read of the former marrying his cousin, Mary Brigham, daughter of John and Mary (Fay) Brigham; and settling on a part of his father's homestead. Among their children was Ruth, born in 1704, who married Joseph Howe, she being his second wife. Among their large family of children was Artemus who married in 1767, Mary Bigelow, sister of lieutenant Ivory Bigelow. Artemus and his brothers Joseph, Thaddeus and Phineas, had an aggregate of 39 children who lived to the aggregate age of 301 years, and their wives to the aggregate of 3:52 years, a rare instance of fruitfulness and longevity. Among the children of Artemus Howe and Mary Bigelow, was Lydia, who married Isaac Maynard, (whose son Amory became the father of the town of Maynard, where he was the founder of the well known woolen mills, and the town was named in his honor), and Stephen, who married in 1809, Susanna, or Sukey Brigham,daughter of Lewis Brigham. Stephen and Sukey lived here until their death. Their son, Elbridge, married Sabra Holman Howe and built the Stedman Wheeler house, which was the birthplace of their four children, Emily, the late vice-regent of the D. A. R. Chapter of Marlborough; Sabra, who married W. C. Hazeltine, a retired jeweller: (they have one son, Holman, and daughter Ethel by first wife.) Stephen, a prosperous merchant in New Haven, Conn., whose death was deplored by countless friends. ( He married Anna Wilder and had two sons, [. Wilder and Elbridge;) and the late George A. Howe, Marlborough's second Mayor, and the youngest member of John A. Rawlins Post 43, G. A. R., a man of high moral and social standing who married Emma Whittemore of Springfield. (They have three children. Evalita, Frances and Hester.) Elbridge Howe was for twenty years 'selectman, a member of the investigating board of Marlborough's Savings Bank and for ten years was its president, also president of the People's Bank until his death. He was an active member of the second parish, a man of integrity and decided conviction, believing that a man's word should be as good as his bond, and his son George (whose death was a sorrow to Marlborough) inherited his father's strong convictions; honest and conscientious to a high degree. Bowman, while she—the little Lucy, of long years ago, exhibited with pride the blue and white cup, " To a Good Girl," given her for throwing corn and dropping the seeds one by one which later on were to spring up to give sustenance to the whole family. "I also," laughed old lady, Mrs. Abel Rice, "had to throw corn, but I didn't have a mug or any other present given to me." And we can well fancy that in that Gershom Bigelow little home of seventeen children there was not much to spare in the way of making gifts.

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