Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . nety-two years, and whose wi-fe, Cath-erine Frost, died November 2, 1843, the same yearwith her husband, at the age of eighty-six were the parents of Abel Warner Rugg, bornMarch 17, 1797. He married Hannah Jones, andthey were the parents of eight children. Gilbert Jones Rugg, son of Abel Warner andHannjb (Jones) Rugg, was born in Lancaster,Massachusetts, iNIarch 27, 1836. He was reared uponthe parental farm, and was early habit
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . nety-two years, and whose wi-fe, Cath-erine Frost, died November 2, 1843, the same yearwith her husband, at the age of eighty-six were the parents of Abel Warner Rugg, bornMarch 17, 1797. He married Hannah Jones, andthey were the parents of eight children. Gilbert Jones Rugg, son of Abel Warner andHannjb (Jones) Rugg, was born in Lancaster,Massachusetts, iNIarch 27, 1836. He was reared uponthe parental farm, and was early habituated to in-dustry, frugality and perseverance—traits whichwere the strongest characteristics of the sturdypeople of that day. He received a practical educa-tion in the neighborhood schools, common and pri-vate, his school studies concluding with his seven-teenth year, when he went to Worcester to pro-cure employment and learn a trade, purposes whichhe pursued with all the ardor of youth and the wisejudgment of mature years, not only laboring indus-triously to master his chosen calling, but at the sametime improving his mind through carefully chosen. WORCESTER COUNTY III looks and intercourse witli persons of broadknowledge and wide experience. At the early age ofseventeen he became an apprentice in the niacliineshops of Willard Williams & Co., with wliom heremained after the expiration of his term of service,eight years in all, and only leaving his employers toaccept the foremanship of the Ball & Williams man-ufactory of planers and other wood-working ma-chinery, a position for which he was eminentlyqualified. With well established reputation for skillas a mechanic and business qualifications of a highorder, in i86a. he entered into partnership with LukeB. Witherby and Seneca Merrill Richardson for themanufacture of wood-working machinery, and an establishment which for a third of a cen-tury has been one of the conspicuous industrial insti-tutions of the city of Wo
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