The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ociety,and was many years active in the association. His fine residence, which helong occupied on Main street, near Piedmont, is to-day one of the moststately mansions in the city, and he also maintained a large farm estatefarther south. Of his children the only survivor is Nellie ]\I., the wife of ReverendGeorge H. Gould, D. D. John William Grout, the son, who gallantly fellat Balls Bluff, was Worcesters first martyr in the War for the Union, andhis lamented death has been the subject of eulogy and song. Obadiah Brown Hadw
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ociety,and was many years active in the association. His fine residence, which helong occupied on Main street, near Piedmont, is to-day one of the moststately mansions in the city, and he also maintained a large farm estatefarther south. Of his children the only survivor is Nellie ]\I., the wife of ReverendGeorge H. Gould, D. D. John William Grout, the son, who gallantly fellat Balls Bluff, was Worcesters first martyr in the War for the Union, andhis lamented death has been the subject of eulogy and song. Obadiah Brown Hadwen, son of Charles and Amy Sherman (Brownwell)Hadwen, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, August 2, 1824. On hisfathers side he comes from sturdy English stock, descending from JohnHadwen, who early came from Rochdale in England and settled in great-aunt was the wife of Obadiah Brown, prominent as a pioneer inthe cotton-spinning industry in this country. Charles Hadwen, a Providencemerchant and manufacturer, abandoned those callings to become a OBADIAH B. HADWEN. The Worcester of 1S98. 641 and in 1S35 he moved to Worcester, having purchased the Wing Kelley farmnear Tatnuck. Here the subject of this sketch passed his youth, anddeveloped those tastes which have in him through his later life manifestedthemselves so strongly. Obadiah Hadwen spent four years at the Friends School in Providencebefore he came to Worcester, and afterwards four winters at the ClintonGrove Institute at Ware, New Hampshire. He also received one termsinstruction at the Worcester County Manual Labor School. In 1844, beforereaching his majority, he came into the possession of a portion of the farmhe now occupies, and in course of time erected buildings and greatly improved
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