Part 2: Biographical Stories of Wilmington Residents and Families

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Adams, Cyrus, Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson (pump maker for his brother Sanford, ran a factory, inventor of air brakes)

Adams, Sanford, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (inventor, holds patents for seed separator, wooden water pump, coal sifter)

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Bailey, Abner, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (head of family at the crooked bend of Chestnut Street)

Bailey, George, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson, Town Crier by Larz Neilson (casualty of the Civil War, from family on Chestnut Street)

Bailey, Hannah Mears, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (head of family at "Bailey Row" section of Chestnut Street)

Ball, John, Town Crier, Larz F. Neilson, (Tewksbury Resident, died in Wilmington whose grandsons wanted to give credit for the original Baldwin Apple)

Barrows, Herb C , Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson, (Ran the North Wilmington Nurseries, farmed on Lowell/Woburn St., Fin. Comt.)

Bartley, Mary D,  Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (teacher helped recover the South School from apathy in 1870s, got hardship bonus pay)

Black residents (people of color), Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson

Blanchard, Walter, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Blanchard, William, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Bond, Arthur T, Town Crier, by Paul D Emmons, Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson (cracker salesman, advertising business, and aspiring historian), 1905 Art 15

Brigham, Caroline Louisa, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (teacher at the South School in the 1860s)

Brown, Dr. Jabez, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (first physician in town, children grew to be influential)

Brown, Dr. Silas, Town Crier, and Town Crier, Town Crier,by Larz F. Neilson, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (Doctor, hops grower, State Rep.)

Brown, Silas Jr, TownCrier, by Larz F. Neilson (musician, son of Dr. Silas Brown who owned the Harnden Tavern) Town Crier, 1973

Buck, Abby Clark, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Buck, Arthur Otis, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Buck, Herbert, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Buck, Myron Edwin, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Buck, Otis Clark, Middlesex County, Vol 3

Butter, William, Town Crier, (freed indentured servant, first resident down at Chestnut Street area)

Butters, Eldad, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (farm laborer at Butters Row)

Butters, Fanny, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (resided at Almshouse most of her life)

Butters, Jimmy, 225th Anniv, (farmer, owner of the Baldwin Apple tree, a Minuteman and Revolutionary soldier, traded oxen for another man's wife)

Butters, Lucelia, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (a teacher at the South School, sister of Theodore)

Butters, Samuel, Burlington Historical Commission, (early mill owner/operator at the Baldwin/Butters/Clapp Mill on Wood Hill)

Butters, Simeon, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (farmer along Butters Row)

Butters, Theodore, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson, Town Crier by Larz Neilson,  (casualty of the Civil War, from Butters Row)

Buzzell, Daniel T, Town Crier, by Larz F. Neilson, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town Doctor)

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Cain, Fred F., Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Carter, William Henry One, Town Crier, TownCrierOld (a Postmaster and Town Clerk, Selectman, School Committee)

Carter, Bill Hen Two, TownCrierOLD1, TownCrierOLD2, TownCrierOld3 by Capt. Larz Neilson (road surveyor)

Carter, Ebenezer, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (married Will Butter's daughter Lydia, and took residence in the old home)

Carter, Eldad, The New England Farmer, by S. Brown (a capable hops farmer)

Carter, Ella L, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Carter, Jonathan 2nd, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Carter, Thomas, Genealogy-a-go-go, by Susan Doran (first minister of Woburn)

Chandler, Adaliza Burrows, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (first High School teacher, fully public funded, 1871-1874)

Clapp, Noah, Burlington Historical Commission, (Mill Owner/operator along the Burlington border, on Wood Hill)

Coburn, Titus, Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson, and Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson

Cornielle, Pierre, TownCrier, by Larz F Neilson (early colonial French settler, ran a tavern where Shawsheen Elementary School is now)

Currier, Ralph R, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

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Dummer, Samuel, 225th Anniv (early settler with 300 acres in the land of Nod, northeast of Woburn and Salem street corner, first town moderator), Town Crier 1959, Town Crier and Town Crier2 by Larz F. Neilson, Town Crier, Gould.

Durgin, John M, Town Crier, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (Postmaster, Minister of Free Will Baptist Church, and teacher at South School, State Rep.)

Dustan, Lucy Marsh, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (Select School teacher during 1856-1859 before full public funding)

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Eames, Aldis Gould, Chelsea Telegraph and Pioneer (a journalist sent to the Phillipines by the Boston Journal)

Eames, Daniel, 225th Anniv (partner of Cadwallader Ford, husband of Abigail Harnden Nurse)

Eames, Edgar Newton, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874, printer)

Eames, Edward Nelson, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Eames, Florence S, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Eames, Leonard, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (a townie, 100 West Street)

Eames, Lemuel Cobb, TownCrier, Town Crier, (Town Clerk, School Committee, later the State Legislature)

Eames, Rebecca, Town Crier, Historical Commission (very effective school teacher at the East School in the 1860s/1870s)

Eames, Samuel, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Eames, Warren, Historical Commission, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson  (butcher, civic-minded man, patron at the Library, State Rep.)

Edmunds, James, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson, Town Crier by Larz Neilson (casualty of the Civil War, from family on Chestnut Street)

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Fagan, Dr. Gerald, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor, mid 1900s)

Ford, Cadwallader, 225th Anniv (Irish emigrant, businessman and land speculator, founding member of Church of Christ in Wilmington in 1733)

Ford, Cadwallader II, 225th Anniv (Captain of a company of Wilmington Minutemen, representative in General court, Town Moderator, Town Clerk)

Foster, Deacon Benjamin Historical Comm1, and Historical Comm2, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (Farmer on Chestnut Street, first superintendent of the Almshouse and Town Farm, State Rep.)

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Gould, Dr. Levi, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson, Gould, (town doctor, early 1800s)

Gowing, Cynthia, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson.

Gowing, James, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Gowing, Mary A, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Gowing, Otis, Town Crier, (the last of the Gowing name in Wilmington, youngest recruit for Civil War from W., a bachelor farmer)

Gowing, William E, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson, Town Crier, by Paul Emmons (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

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Harnden-Nurse-Eames, Abigail, 225th Anniv, (heroine of Harnden Massacre of 1706, first mother-in-law had been convicted in Salem Witch trials)

Harnden, Capt. John, Town Crier, Town Crier, Larz F Neilson (lieutenant in the Wilmington Minutemen at Battle of Concord and Lexington, State Rep.)

Harnden, Lizzie J, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Harnden, Richard, Town Crier, Larz F Neilson (first resident of Wilmington in the Reading portion)

Harriman, Caleb, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (step-son of F.W. Perry, and took over operations at the Tannery in N. Wilmington)

Hiller, France B., Town Crier, TownCrier83, by Larz F Neilson, Wilmington Library, written by Ann Berghaus and edited by Carolyn Harris (eccentric philanthropist, "the Casket Lady"), Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson

Hopkins, Jesse, Historical Commission, by Paul L Chalifour and Joseph A Jackson (early settler)

Hosmer, Dr Miriam, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor, mid 1900s)

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Indians (see Native Americans)

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Jaques, James, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Jaques, Samuel, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Jaquith, Abraham, Historical Commission, by Paul L Chalifour, and Town Crier, by Larz F. Neilson

Jaquith, James, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Jaquith, Nathan, Historical Commission, by Paul L Chalifour and Joseph A Jackson (early settler)

Johnson, Solon, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson, Historical Commission by Joseph Jackson  (lived at corner Mill Road and Chestnut, Will Butter's family house lot)

Jones, Jonathan, 250th Anniv, by Adele C Passmore (near Foster's Pond, family served in colonial armies)

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Kelley, James E, Town Crier, by Capt Larz Neilson (Town Clerk, published the Vital Records book)

Kelman, Dr. Morris, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor, mid 1900s)

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Lepore, Dr. Ralph, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor, late 1900s)

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MacDougall, Dr. Ernest Chandler, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (Town doctor mid 1900s)

Marshall, Dr. John, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor mid 1900s)

McIntosh, George (stories), Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson

McIntosh, Schamiel, Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson (Blacksmith shop burned down, location of Church St. hardware)

Miceli, Jim, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Minute Men, Frank Curley Book

Mobbs, Col. Robert F, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor, late 1900s)

Morrill, Rev. Isaac, 225th Anniv, (pastor of Church of Christ in Wilmington from 1741-1793, 1737 graduate of Harvard, French & Indian War, respected), example sermon from 1755 (link) and 1780 (link, from here)

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Native Americans, Town Crier, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (Chief Passaconaway, then Wonalancet, his son of Wamesit Village- Tewksbury)

Neilson, Capt. Larz,  Town Crier, Town Crier, (Publisher of the Town Crier, Town Historian)

Neutrals, the French, 225th Anniv, (1755 relocation of the Acadians, Wilmington's assigned family was the Jean Labodeur, his wife and children, leaky home)

Nichols, Annie Francis, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874)

Nichols, Brewster, Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson (story of the "haunted house")

Nichols, Edward M, Town Crier, transcription, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (Town Clerk, Selectman, Weigher, Undertaker, State Rep. etc.)

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Passaconaway, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (Chief of Wamesit Indians during English settlement until 1665, died in 1669)

Pearson, Daniel, TownCrier (murderer caught by Lemuel Cobb Eames)

Pearson, Ella J, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (member of first public High School graduating class, 1874, a schoolteacher at the North School)

Perry, Franklin Waldo, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (tanner and courier of Winchester who set up the Tannery on Middlesex Ave)

Pierce, Daniel, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Preble, Edward P, Research Notes, by Joseph A Jackson

Pyne, Dr. John J, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor, late 1900s)

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Reynolds, "Priest" Freegrace, 225th Anniv, (m. daughter of Dr. Jabez Brown--the first physician in Wilmington, a "striding" preacher)

Richardson, David, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Robertson, Dave, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington in Massachusetts House of Representatives)

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Sargent, Henry Wilson, Town Crier, or Town Crier, or Town Crier (p6 & 9), (ran a turkey shoot, "Henny Penny" would repair bicycles for a penny per minute)

Sewall, Samuel (judge at Salem witch trials, land owner in Wilmington, established Nod Mill), Town Crier, by Larz F. Neilson

Sheldon, Asa G, Autobiography, 225th Anniv, Town Crier1, Town Crier2, HomeNewsHere, Town Crier, Notes, Larz F Neilson (teamster, contractor, self-made man, authored an auto-biography, State Rep.)

Sheldon, Deacon Harrison Allen, Wilmington Scrapbook, Town Crier, by Larz Neilson (representative of Wilmington as State Rep.)

Skilton, Deacon James,  Town Crier, by Paul D Emmons (godly and righteous pillar)

Solow, Harry, Town Crier, Capt Larz (Jewish immigrant, helped found the first Jewish Synagogue in North Wilmington in 1917)

Spanos, George, Town Crier, Larz F Neilson (Greek immigrant, ran restaurant, supporter of veterans, informal "Mayor of Wilmington")

Sullivan, Dr. John J, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (town doctor, late 1900s-- last of the "house doctors")

Swain, Carrie, Town Crier, Larz F Neilson (teacher)

Swain, Henrietta, Town Crier, Larz F Neilson (teacher)

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Taylor, Brazillia,  Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (teacher from Woburn who helped recover the South School from apathy in 1880s)

Thompson, Benjamin, Gould, ("Count Rumford" taught school in Wilmington, 1768-1769)

Tweed, James, Town Crier, Larz F Neilson (farmer in North Wilmington, "Land of Nod")

Toothaker, Samuel, Historical Commission, by Joseph Jackson (Doctor in mid-1800s)

Towne, Rebecca Eames and James Weld, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson.

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Varney, Rev. James, Town Crier, Larz F Neilson (First minister in Wilmington, left probably due to unpaid claims)

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Walker, Sears Cook, (astronomer/mathemetician), Popular Science, SpringerLink, Wikipedia, Smithsonian, Treatise on Astronomy

Walker, Timothy, Facebook,Town Crier, by Jamie Boudreau (Harvard Educated, then Cincinatti Lawyer, State Rep.)

Walker, Captain Timothy, Facebook, by Paul Chalifour (Commander of Wilmington Company in Col. Greene's Regiment on April 19, 1775)

Wonalancet, Historical Commission, by Joseph A Jackson (Chief of Wamesit Indians after Passaconaway retired as chief in 1665)

Wheatley, Phillis, NON-RESIDENT (updated! Historical Commission) WilmingtonApple, Lecture by Vincent Carretta (Enslaved in Boston, first African English-speaking author to publish poems in 1773)

Whitefield, Rev. George (of Elm Tree fame), Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson, 225th Anniv

Wilmington, Earl of (Spencer Compton), Town Crier, by Larz F Neilson

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