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Templeton, Massachusetts, USA - The White Sewing Machine Company was a sewing machine company founded in 1858 in Templeton, Massachusetts, by Thomas H. White and based in Cleveland,

Templeton, Worcester, MA

Established as "Templetown" March 6,
1762, from the plantation called "Narragansett
Number Six." Part set off to Gardner June 27, 1785,and part included in new town of Gerry (Phillipston) Oct. 20, 1786. templetonma.gov

Templeton includes: Baldwinsville, Brooks Village, Otter River and Partridgeville.
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The White Sewing Machine Company was a sewing machine company founded in 1858 in Templeton, Massachusetts, by Thomas H. White and based in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1866. Founded as the White Manufacturing Company it took the White Sewing Machine Company name when it was incorporated in 1876. wikipedia
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  • 1751 - Templeton is settled

    Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  • 1762 - Templeton is incorporated

    Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  • 1839 - Templeton
    Templeton, Massachusetts
    Worcester county. Several streams, affording good mill seats, water this town, and pass to the Connecticut, by Miller's and Chickopee rivers. The surface of the town is uneven, but not mountainous; the elevated parts afford good pasturage, and the valleys, excellent crops of grain and hay. The manufactures consist of woolen goods, boots, shoes, leather, iron castings, shovels, hoes, spades, forks, palm-leaf hats, chairs, carriages, and cabinet, tin and wooden wares: value, the year ending April 1, 1837, $145,400. The village is very plesantly located, and presents some beautiful landscapes.

    This town lies 60 miles W.N.W. from Boston and 26 N.N.W. from Worcester. Incorporated in 1762. Population, 1837, 1,690.
    The New England Gazetteer containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England: also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands and fashionable resorts within that territory. Alphabetically arranged. By John Hayward, author of the Columbian Traveller, Religious Creeds, &c. &c. Boston: John Hayward. Boyd & White, Concord, N.H. 1839
  • 1845 - TEMPLETON. [Pop. 1,776. Inc. 1762.]
    This town was granted to some of the heroes of Philip's War, in compensation for their services.

    It was probably named in honor of the Temple family, to which Gov. Winthrop was related, and it originally contained Phillipston, and part of Gardner.

    It is watered by sources of Miller's, Swift, and Ware rivers, on which are a factory and many saw-mills. Boots, shoes, cabinet ware, and palm-leaf hats are the chief articles manufactured.

    Distance from Worcester, 24 miles; from Boston, 58.
    An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
  • 1848 - Templeton
    This town was an original grant to certain persons who did service in King Philip’s war, or to their heirs, and was known by the name of Narragansett No. 6 until its incorporation, in 1762, when the name of Templeton was given to it. The first meeting of the proprietors of this tract was held at Concord, in 1733.

    Its settlement was greatly retarded through danger from the Indians, hut after the close of the French wars inhabitants moved in and the settlement rapidly improved. The first church was gathered here in 1755, and Rev. Daniel Pond was ordained pastor. He was dismissed in 1759, and succeeded by Rev. Ebenezer Sparhawk in 1761. The next minister, Rev. Charles Wellington, was ordained in 1807. Rev. Lemuel P. Bates was installed pastor of the second church in 1833. He was succeeded by Rev. Lewis Sabin in 1837.

    This is a pleasant town, of uneven surface, hut contains much good land. It is watered by branches of Miller’s and Chicopee rivers, and has many excellent mill-sites.... Read MORE...

  • 1854 - Templeton
    Templeton, a post-township in Worcester co., Massachusetts, 55 miles TV. by N. from Boston. The Vermont and Massachusetts railroad crosses the N. E. part of the town ship. Population, 2173.
    A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  • Templeton Massachusetts, 1890
    Templeton is a pleasant agricultural and manufacturing town of 2,627 inhabitants in the northerly part of Worcester County, 69 miles northwest of Boston, and bounded on the north by Royalston and Winchendon, on the northeast by the latter and Gardner, on the southeast by Hubbardston, and on the southwest and west by Phillipston. The assessed area is 18,026 acres. The Fitchburg Railroad has stations at Otter River in the northeast and Baldwinsville in the north, and the Ware River Branch of the Boston and Albany at Templeton (centre) and Baldwinsville. These and East Templeton are the post-offices, and other villages are Brooks', Partridgeville and South Templeton.

    The surface of the town is broken and picturesque. Rounded hills, fertile valleys, romantic glens and verdant meadows, all conspire to beautify the town. Crow Hill, in the northwesterly section, is a conspicuous elevation; and Mine Hill, in the southeasterly part, is noted for an old excavation, disclosed in 1824. The... Read MORE...

  • 1895 - Templeton
    Templeton, a post-village in Templeton township, Worcester co., Mass., 3 mile from Templeton Station of the Ware River Railroad, and 10 miles S. of Winchendon. It has a savings-bank, a hotel, 6 churches, and manufactures of chairs, furniture, tin-ware, woollen goods, and boots and shoes. Pop. 2764. The township also contains East Templeton, Baldwinsville, and Otter River.
    Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  • 1906
    Templeton, a post-village in Templeton township (town), Worcester CO., Mass., on the Boston and Albany R., 10 miles S. of Winchendon. It has manufactures of furniture, tin-ware, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3489.
    Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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female ancestorSophia RICE (10 March 1765, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River) - 18 April 1845, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA)
female ancestorBetsey (Betty) HOLMAN (2 March 1770, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River) - 12 December 1831, Truro, Massachusetts, USA)
male ancestorAmos Kimball WHITNEY (1775, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River) - 28 March 1854, Warwick, Massachusetts, USA)
female ancestorBulah WALKUP (1781, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River) - 28 September 1852, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (North Amherst) (South Amherst))
male ancestorJonathan BUSH (18 January 1790, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River) - 9 July 1854, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
male ancestorSimeon W SMITH (1806, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River) - 23 June 1868, Dana, Massachusetts, USA*)
female ancestorPhebe Pye FAIRFIELD (1810, , Germany (German States) (German Empire) - 28 April 1879, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River))
female ancestorAngelique Julia ROBERT dite LAFONTAINE (27 September 1814, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Olivier) - 10 July 1888, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River))
female ancestorEliza C. STODDARD (1819, Templeton, Massachusetts, USA (Baldwinville) (East Templeton) (Otter River) - December 1871, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA (South Deerfield))

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male ancestorAdonijah HORTON (19 December 1755 - 24 February 1852) and female ancestorOlive RUGG (6 April 1760 - 29 February 1828) married 25 February 1788
male ancestorJason AYERS (16 March 1761 - 29 July 1838) and female ancestorBetsey (Betty) HOLMAN (2 March 1770 - 12 December 1831) married 9 June 1791
male ancestorJoseph WORKEMAN (WALKINGMAN) (1852 - ) and female ancestorCaroline F REYOUM (1849 - 15 February 1900) married 6 July 1874
photo of Frederick Lyman POPPLE Frederick Lyman POPPLE (February 1866 - 29 December 1943) and female ancestorCora A SNOW (1865 - ) married 16 September 1889
male ancestorWendell Herbert WALTON (26 September 1899 - 28 August 1992) and female ancestorDorothy Mildred ROLLINS (29 October 1901 - 15 August 1993) married 24 November 1921
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