Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . d his son Lyman wasappointed administrator May 27, 1833. Rufus Put-nam was the guardian of his children after thedeath of their grandmother, Lydia Rice, in 1825,until he resigned April 8, 1836. The children were: Mary, born September 25,1803, died at Worcester August 11, 1852; John, bornAugust 27, 180S, died at West Rutland, aged sixty-seven years, seven months and thirteen days; Eliza,born August i, 1807, died July 11, 1836; Lyman,born N
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . d his son Lyman wasappointed administrator May 27, 1833. Rufus Put-nam was the guardian of his children after thedeath of their grandmother, Lydia Rice, in 1825,until he resigned April 8, 1836. The children were: Mary, born September 25,1803, died at Worcester August 11, 1852; John, bornAugust 27, 180S, died at West Rutland, aged sixty-seven years, seven months and thirteen days; Eliza,born August i, 1807, died July 11, 1836; Lyman,born November 28, 1809, died June 29, 1834;Lucy, born September 24, 1811, died Jan-uary 14, 1878; married Jeduthan Dadmun,who died September 21, 1884, mentioned above;Hiram, born August 27, 1813, died December 20,1814; Hiram, born January 4, 1815, died November6, 1846; James, born September 8, 1817, died AprilQ, i860; Sarah, born June 8, 1818, died February 10,1905; Charles, born February 22, 1820, killed in civilwar; George, born September 12, 1823, killed incivil war, (VI) William Slocomb Dadmun, son of Jedu-than (5), was born at Holliston, Massachusetts,. ^^^^-.^.^ yi-c WORCESTER COUNTY 167 August 20, 1S4S. At the age of five years he movedwith his parents to Lunenburg, where they livtdfor some time, removing thence to Grafton, wherehe received his education in the common left the high school before graduating and re-moved with his father to Sprmgfield, where forseveral months he worked in his fathers grocerystore. He worked a year in the dry goods- storeof L. J. Holt, and then went to Worcester, Massa-chusetts, to work in the store of Simeon Clapp laterClapp & Haven, and later died and Mr. C. Havenbought the store and Mr. Dadmun remained withthe new proprietor for years. He left this con-cern to start in business for himself. In partnershipwith James H. Howland, he was the senior mem-ber of the firm of Dadmun & Howland, dealers inshoes, etc. At the end of two y
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