Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . t, and re-elected in 1854. He gave freely to charitable ob-jects and was the largest contributor in the townto religious institutions. He left a legacy to theOxford Congregational Church. He is described asa large, florid, handsome man, jovial and hearty inhis manner and very attractive personally. He mar-ried, June 5, 1820, Mary Makepeace, of Franklin,Massachusetts. He died January 13, 1879; she diedApril 6, 1887, at the age of eighty-ni
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . t, and re-elected in 1854. He gave freely to charitable ob-jects and was the largest contributor in the townto religious institutions. He left a legacy to theOxford Congregational Church. He is described asa large, florid, handsome man, jovial and hearty inhis manner and very attractive personally. He mar-ried, June 5, 1820, Mary Makepeace, of Franklin,Massachusetts. He died January 13, 1879; she diedApril 6, 1887, at the age of eighty-nine. They hadno children, but adopted the children of his sister,Naiicv (De Witt) Smith. (VIII) Alexander De Witt, son of Horace DeWitt (7), was born at Pepperell, Massachusetts,March 7, 1854. He received his education in thepublic schools at Sutton, Oxford, and LeicesterAcademy, and in 1871 came to Worcester to_ began his business career in the office of Kinni-cutt & Co., hardware merchants. Main street. Thefirm was composed of F. H. Kinnicutt, SamuelWoodward and L. N. Kinnicutt. He remainedwith this firm until 1881. He was then associated.
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