Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . in the partymanagement and has been a familiar figure at Re-publican conventions in Worcester county for the pastforty years. Mr. Smith built a very charming homeat 10 Regent street, Worcester, a few years ago, andrem-vcd from his old home in Cherry Valley. The children of Albert Edward and AnjeanetteCKennev) Smith are: Channing. born at GenevaMills. North Providence. Rhode Island, June 15,1868: Edith Kennev. (VII) Edith Kenney Smith, dau
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . in the partymanagement and has been a familiar figure at Re-publican conventions in Worcester county for the pastforty years. Mr. Smith built a very charming homeat 10 Regent street, Worcester, a few years ago, andrem-vcd from his old home in Cherry Valley. The children of Albert Edward and AnjeanetteCKennev) Smith are: Channing. born at GenevaMills. North Providence. Rhode Island, June 15,1868: Edith Kennev. (VII) Edith Kenney Smith, daughter of AlbertEdward Smith (7), was born at Cherry Valley, De-cember 20, 1871. She married Guy C. Whidden,of Worcester, at Cherrv Valley, Leicester, Massachu-setts. June 3. 1806. Mr. Whidden is a newspaperwriter who was for ten years on the rcportorial staffof the iVorccstcr Telegram. Since 1897 he has beenengaged in newspaper work in Philadelphia, and atpresent is on the staff of the North American. Mrs. Whidden have two children: Rendol Whid-den. born July 20, 1897: Albert Smith Whidden,born February 13, 1902, at Philadelphia. WORCESTER COUNTY 409 CHANNING SMITH (VII), son of Albert Ed-ward Smith (6), was born 1868, at North Providence,Rhode Island. He attended the pidjlic schools atCherry Valley, and in 1884-85 studied at PhillipsExeter Academy. He started in the business as hisfather and grandfather had done to learn it fromthe bottom to the top. He entered the ValleyWoolen mills at Cherry Valley, then the propertyof his father, as a boy in the picker house. Fromone department to another he learned the businessthoroughly. He studied the methods and operatedthe machmes with the other hands. The dye houseof the woolen mill holds the secret of his success,and it is as an expert dyer that Channing Smith hasevinced his hereditary skill and commanded successin business. The Hannels made by the Valley millsare favorably known to the trade. They have be-come
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