Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Catherine Augusta, born February 6, 1830;Merrick Dodge (see forward) ; Sarah Frances, bornOctober. 1835, died October 9, 1836; Ann Maria(twin) born July 23, 1840; Jane Sophia (twin),born July 23, 1840. Lowell White, father of thesechildren, died February 12, 1875. (VIII) Merrick Dodge White, second child ofLowell VVhite and father of Fred W. White, was born 1in Northbridge, Massachusetts, September 16, i834.||He attended the Northbridge p
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Catherine Augusta, born February 6, 1830;Merrick Dodge (see forward) ; Sarah Frances, bornOctober. 1835, died October 9, 1836; Ann Maria(twin) born July 23, 1840; Jane Sophia (twin),born July 23, 1840. Lowell White, father of thesechildren, died February 12, 1875. (VIII) Merrick Dodge White, second child ofLowell VVhite and father of Fred W. White, was born 1in Northbridge, Massachusetts, September 16, i834.||He attended the Northbridge public schools until ?he was thirteen years of age and helped his fathermake shoes. When the family moved to Grafton . in October, 1847, he went to work in the shoe factoryof Captain John W. Slocumb. He worked thereuntil December 25, 1858, when he took a positionas cutter in the shoe shop of John Hayes, at Dover,New Hampshire. He returned in 1861 and workedfor a year in Worcester for J. W. Brigham, South-bridge street; and for two years at South Framing-ham in the Charles Prentice shop; and for a yearin the shops of Augustus Forbush and H. C. Green-. I WORCESTER COUNTY z87 rood, in Grafton. He was clerk in the Shermaniouse, Natick, two years and a half, and later wasngaged in the restaurant business in Westboro andirafton, conducting a business in the last namedown on his own account. After more experience inhe hotel business he returned to shoe making forI. H. Tilton, Ashland, where he worked for fiveears. In 1889 he began work for his brother-in-iw, Samuel A. Prescott, in the manufacture ofhoddy. He was in this business for eleven yearsfhen he lost his arm in an accident and had to re-ire. He is at present living with his sister, Mrs.^rescott. In politics he is a Democrat, and whilen Natick was delegate to various party conven-iens. He attends the Congregational church. Heerved five years in the Grafton jNlilitary Company,ie married Emma Adelaide Wendell (mtentionslated August
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