Memorial of Joseph and Lucy Clark Allen (Northborough, Mass

254 Pages·2009·5.47 MB·English

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JOSEPH AND LUCY CLARK ALLEN
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George H. Ellis, Printer, 141 Franklin Street

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PREFACE.
r-I*• one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Joseph Allen,August 15, 1890, brought to­
gether a family gathering at his old home in North-
borough, at which were read sketches of his life
prepared chiefly for the grandchildren. With some
changes, these form the earlier and the concluding
portions of this volume. With letters and other
memoranda of our father and mother the record is
continued to the end.
It is seldom that two lives pass on in such an
unbroken course together for so many years ;for,
though many changes came, their home remained
the centre still for all the scattered family. By a
succession of circumstances or perhaps by a special
adaptation in themselves, ithad also been the home,
from first to last, of more than two hundred persons
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in many varieties of relations, and for periods of
months or years, for such they wished to make it
to all who entered its doors.
To select that which should give the best picture
of the varied life in the quiet town has been our
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aim;and our hope is that to their old friends this
record of our parents' lives may prove a pleasant
reminder of the days that are gone.
c. w.a.
Northborough, Massachusetts,
January I,1891.
CONTENTS.
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I. Joseph Allen, i

11. Lucy Clark Ware, 29

111. Family Life, 49

IV. The Home School, 87

V. Autumn Days 120

VI. The Last Years, 169

VII. Memories, 200