Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . d inRichmond and used his teams in returning therefugees to their homes, leaving Richmond everyMonday morning with sixty wagons and twentyambulances loaded with refugees and their usually took a week to make a trip and Mr. Wellshad many sad as well as laughable experiences. Hewas discharged in 1865 with his regiment. Soonafter his discharge he entered the railroad service,became a locomotive engineer, and continued till1887. He i
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . d inRichmond and used his teams in returning therefugees to their homes, leaving Richmond everyMonday morning with sixty wagons and twentyambulances loaded with refugees and their usually took a week to make a trip and Mr. Wellshad many sad as well as laughable experiences. Hewas discharged in 1865 with his regiment. Soonafter his discharge he entered the railroad service,became a locomotive engineer, and continued till1887. He is now living retired at 9 Arbor Vitaestreet, Worcester. Mr. Wells is a Free Mason and a member ofthe order of Elks. He belongs to the Frohsinns, asocial club, the George H. Ward Post, No. 10, R., of Worcester, Worcester Driving Club andthe Cottage Club and Improvement Society of Fal-mouth, Massachusetts, where he has a summerresidence. He is a Congregationalist in religiouspreferences and Republican in politics. He married (first) Emily Harris, daughter ofC. M. and Emily (Dean) Harris. She was bornDecember 6, 1846, died March, 1891, in WORCESTER COUNTY 279 He married (second), March 12, l8g6, Eva IreneBruso, daughter of Charles and Emily J. Bruso, ofWorcester. She was horn there November 3, was educated in the Worcester schools, and is agraduate of the Worcester high school. The only:hild of Mr. Wells was by the first marriage: RayDean, born in Worcester, April 29, 1890. He is atpresent a student in the Worcester high school. ALEXANDER COLE MUNROE, one of themost prominent citizens of Worcester, Massachu-ietts, and who has been actively identified with thesteamship, railroad, insurance and musical inter-ests of that city, traces his descent to a family thatlas had a distinguished record ever since the daysjf the pioneer settlers of the state of Massachusetts. (I) William Munroe, one of the first settlersjf Lexington, Massachusetts, was the ancestor ofi
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