Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . on the board of select-men and finally declined a re-election. He is amember of the Grange and of the Unitarian married, March 25, 1857, Miranda Hill, daughterof Erastus Hill, of Mendon. Their children: E., born 185S, married Emma Holbrook;three children. 2. Walter A., born 1861 ; marriedHarriet Bates; three children. 3. Miloa, born inMendon. 1863. married Ethel Cook; two Bcctha. born 1866: married Horace Col
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . on the board of select-men and finally declined a re-election. He is amember of the Grange and of the Unitarian married, March 25, 1857, Miranda Hill, daughterof Erastus Hill, of Mendon. Their children: E., born 185S, married Emma Holbrook;three children. 2. Walter A., born 1861 ; marriedHarriet Bates; three children. 3. Miloa, born inMendon. 1863. married Ethel Cook; two Bcctha. born 1866: married Horace Coleman;three children. 5. Peter O., bom 1868; marriedCaroline R. Ford; one child. 6. Moses W., boriv1869: married Sadie Billings. (IX) Albion A. Gaskill, son of Micajah CollinsGaskill (8). was bom in Mendon, Massachusetts,.•\ugust 18. 1864. He was educated there in thepublic schools. He remained at home on the farmfor a few years, then went to work for the DraperManufacturing Company as case hardener. He re-turned to the farm and has been successful as afarmer. Mr. Gaskill is a Renublican . in politics,and a Unitarian in religion. He married, in WORCESTER COUNTY 347 Abbie daughter of Joseph Hicks, of Sutton,Massachusetts. They have one child: Ralph, bornJune. 1892, now a student in the high school. GARFIELD FAMILY. Edward Garfield (i),the immigrant ancestor of the Millbury branch ofthe Garfield family, as well in fact of all othersof the name in this country, including ex-PresidentGarfield, was of English birth and ancestry. Hislineage cannot be traced with certainty, though it iscertain that he belonged to the Garfield family ofNorthampton. William P. VV. Phillmore, of Lon-don, who has investigated the English records,thinks that the line may be descended from ThomasGarfield, of Ashby, St. Leger, who lived in thinks the Garfields. who were progenitors ofEdward of New England, lived in Kilsby and Ashby,St. Leger, in Northampton county, where they set-tled ear
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