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Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA* - Sturtevant Blower Works, Hyde Park, Mass.  The birth of the American fan industry had its origin in the mind of a Maine shoemaker, Benjamin Frankli

Hyde Park, Norfolk, MA

Alpheus Perley Blake is considered the founder of Hyde Park. He was the organizer in 1856 of the Fairmount Land Company and the Twenty Associates, which developed the Fairmount Hill on the western side of Brush Hill Road in Milton. This led to the establishment of a bridge over the Neponset River and a new station on the New York and New England Railroad, which is today's Fairmount Station. In addition to Blake, The Twenty Associates included William E. Abbot, Amos Angell, Ira L. Benton, Enoch Blake, John Newton Brown, George W. Currier, Hypolitus Fisk, John C. French, David Higgins, John S. Hobbs, Samuel Salmon Mooney, William Nightingale, J. Wentworth Payson, Dwight B. Rich, Alphonso Robinson, William H. Seavey, Daniel Warren, and John Williams. Within a few years, the two land companies had merged and growth in the area accelerated. By 1867, the settlements had grown to the point where there were 6 railroad stations in the area. A formal petition was made to the General Court of the Commonwealth and, after settling land and boundary disputes with Dedham and Milton, the Town of Hyde Park was incorporated on April 22, 1868 in Norfolk County from the settled land in Dorchester (Grew's Woods and the Hyde Park Land Company development), Milton (Fairmount) and Dedham (Readville). It remained a part of Norfolk County until 1912, when the town voted in favor of annexation to the City of Boston in Suffolk County. wikipedia

Hyde Park includes: Glenwood Ave., Stoney Brook Reservation, Sunnyside, Clarendon Hills, and Fairmount.
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Sturtevant Blower Works, Hyde Park, Mass.

"The birth of the American fan industry had its origin in the mind of a Maine shoemaker, Benjamin Franklin Sturtevant, an inventor and mechanical genius, who was born into a small farming family in Norridgewock, Maine on January 18, 1833...

[In 1860] he founded the B.F.Sturtevant Co..., opening a small shop at 72 Sudbury St..., employing 7 or 8 men making shoe peggers and pegs...

By 1866, the business had grown to the point where Sturtevant was employing nearly 50 men - all making fans...

The death of the founder in 1890 ushered in a new era for the company..." www.sturtevantfan.com

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Fairmount School, Hyde Park, Mass.

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female ancestorRuth LEATHARD (8 September 1819, , England (United Kingdom) - 12 January 1901, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA*)
male ancestorWilliam P MERRILL (1823, Windsor, Maine, USA - 14 April 1886, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA*)
male ancestorWilliam Henry INGERSOLL (8 April 1833, Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA (Annisquam) - 5 March 1884, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA*)
female ancestorSusan A LAWTON (21 December 1835, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point) - 12 July 1891, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA*)
male ancestorGeorge A INGERSOLL (28 April 1856, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA - 25 October 1899, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA*)
female ancestorCarrie B INGERSOLL (1859, , Massachusetts, USA - 31 October 1887, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA*)
female ancestorSarah E INGERSOLL (February 1872, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA* - , )
female ancestorMinnie Belle SISSON (16 July 1878, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA* - 1964, Grafton, Massachusetts, USA (Saundersville) (Fisherville))
male ancestorGerald F LOUGHILN (11 December 1880, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, USA* - , )

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male ancestorFrank Lincoln WISWELL (28 June 1864 - ) and female ancestorJosephine INGERSOLL (16 July 1862 - ) married 13 October 1887
male ancestorGeorge James BILLS (3 March 1887 - 26 November 1935) and female ancestorElizabeth "Lizzie" Ella MARKS (January 1889 - ) married 12 July 1906
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