Reverend William Augustus Putnam Willard Sr.

1. ID: I25593
2. Name: William Augustus Putnam Willard 1
3. Sex: M
4. Birth: 27 NOV 1831 in Sterling, Worcester, MA
5. Death: 13 AUG 1910
6. Event: Title (Facts Pg) Reverend
7. Note: He was educated at Leicester Academy, the N. H. State Normal School, and Amherst College, A.B. in 1857, A.M. in 1863. He became a teacher at Brighton. Entered the Unitarian ministry and was past or successively at Warwick, Boston, Sudbury, Stow, Princeton and Hubbardston. He served a year in the U. S. Navy during the Civil War. Later was chaplain of Francis Gould Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Arlington. He also entered heartily into reform movements, befriending the slave and advocating the temperance movement. He was active in the Fraternal Life Insurance work and gained great popularity in that connection. He had a great many friends. He and Mrs. Willard celebrated their golden wedding amid the congratulations of their large family and circle of friends.

Father: William Putnam Willard b: 21 AUG 1804 in Sterling, Worcester, MA

Mother: Abigail Burpee Wilder

Marriage 1 Mary Ann Knapp b: 1838

   * Married: 28 DEC 1856

Children

  1. Has Children Charles Forster Willard b: 21 FEB 1858 in Sterling, Worcester, MA

2. Has No Children Emma Thompson Willard b: 3 JAN 1861
3. Has Children Nellie May Willard b: 10 JUN 1862
4. Has Children William A. P. Willard , Jr. b: 29 MAY 1864 in Cambridge, Middlesex, MA
5. Has Children Eugene Knapp Willard b: 18 JAN 1866 in Brighton, Suffolk, MA
6. Has No Children Arthur Wilder Willard b: 18 JUN 1868
7. Has No Children Mary Esther Willard b: 21 MAR 1872
8. Has No Children Sarah Ella Willard b: 20 MAY 1875
9. Has No Children Norman Rand Willard b: 21 MAR 1877 in Sudbury, Middlesex, MA
10. Has Children Lillian Randall Willard b: 6 AUG 1880
Sources:

  1. Title: WILLARD GENEALOGY, SEQUEL TO WILLARD MEMOIR

Author: Materials gathered by Joseph Willard and Charles Wilkes Walker, Edited and completed by Charles Henry Pope
Publication: Printed for the Willard Family Assn., Boston, MA, 1915, Murray and Emery, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, MA, Digital Edition 2001 by Richard Bingham, Oceanport, NJ
Repository:
Media: Electronic
http://www.willisancestry.com/getperson.php?personID=P2997578732&tr...