Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . cFalls, New York. In 1869, while a resident of AVindsor, Massachu-setts, their only child, Charles H., was born. Charles H. Crowell hasbeen employed for about fifteen years by the A. H. Rice Silk Companyof Pittsfield, serving now in the capacity of bookkeeper. He marriedJulia Phelps Van Rensselaer, daughter of Dr. Walter and Jane VanRensselaer, of Kingston, New York, and they are the parents of twochildren: Harvey and Merithew Crowell. They make their home at88 Bradford street, Pittsfield


Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . cFalls, New York. In 1869, while a resident of AVindsor, Massachu-setts, their only child, Charles H., was born. Charles H. Crowell hasbeen employed for about fifteen years by the A. H. Rice Silk Companyof Pittsfield, serving now in the capacity of bookkeeper. He marriedJulia Phelps Van Rensselaer, daughter of Dr. Walter and Jane VanRensselaer, of Kingston, New York, and they are the parents of twochildren: Harvey and Merithew Crowell. They make their home at88 Bradford street, Pittsfield, with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Crowell is not actively identified with any church; his wife is amember of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his son is an attendantat the Protestant Episcopal church. GEORGE H. COOPER. George H. Cooper, whose name forms the caption for the memoirsof an old Berkshire family with which he is allied by marriage, is oneof the substantial and progressive young merchants of Pittsfield, Massa-chusetts, a dealer in coal and wood. His excellent business training was. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 301 gained llunugh his employment at the Pbmeroy Mills, and subsequentlywith W. G. Morton, leading coal merchant of Albany, New York. Mr. Cooper was united in marriage to Etta Ayres, daughter ofPerry J. Ayers, whose great-grandfather was one of the early settlersof Shuteibury, Massachusetts, and whose grandfather, Jesse Ayres, wasa native of that town and became a prosperous farmer of Franklincounty. The father of Perry J. Ayres, Tyler Ayres, was born April 7,1804, resided in Franklin county until 1824, and subsequently settled invStephenson, New York, where he cultivated the soil and followed thetrade of tanner for twenty-five years. At the expiration of this periodof time he located at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he spent the remain-der of his long and useful career, and there died at the advanced age ofeighty years. He married, at Stephenson, Marian Jane


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