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Title: History of Worcester and its people
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nutt, Charles, 1868-1918
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- History Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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June 18,1853, Her father was a veteran of the Civil War, serving in Company H. Fifty-thirdMassachusetts Regiment; he also w-as a mechanic and mill operator. Mr. and Mrs.White had one son, William Dexter White, born August 24, 1876, who is associatedwith his father in business. He married, September 16, 1902, Edith G. Bliss, of Wor-cester, daughter of George R. Bliss. Mr, White is descended from Thomas White (i), Thomas (2), Thomas (3),John (4), Thomas (s), Thomas (6). Joseph (7), and Windsor Newton White (8),his father. Windsor Newton White (8), after being employed by his father for atime, became interested in the manufacture of cotton fabrics at Oakdale, Massachu-setts, the firm being known as the West Boylston Manufacturing Company; in 1861he sold his controlling interest here, and moved t6 Winchendon. where he enteredinto partnership with his brothers. Nelson D. and Francis W. White, in the cottonmanufacture, retiring in three years because of his poor health. Deacon Joseph White
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0HUxJm<-^-^ AND ITS PEOPLE 877 (7), grandfather of William W. White, had unusual mechanical powers and businessqualities ; at the age of eighteen he set up in West Boylston a factory for the manu-facture of wire, employing eighteen hands ; two years later, 1812, he started the manu-facture of cotton yarns, and later cott(.in wares, being among the earliest in the countryto manufacture cotton goods, an industry which became his life-work; he was verysuccessful in his business life. HENRY MILTON SHAUGHNESSY. Since 1885. when he came to Worcester,Massachusetts, a country boy reared on the home farm. Henry M. Shaughnessy hasbeen a resident of that city, now being a practical plumber with store and shop at No.15 .\ustin street. He is a son of William Shaugluiessy. born in Galway, Ireland, whocame to the United States, a stone mason by trade, settled at Boston, Massachusetts,became a farmer, and there died in 1880. aged sixty-hve years. He married, in Con-cord, Massachusetts, in 1843. Ma

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