The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

224 THE EARLE FAMILY [Seventh
(Fry) Earle, b. May 3, 1800, in Leicester, Mass. ; m.
1st, Nov. 11, 1824, George Earle [884-3] ; 2d, May 5,
1829, John (/;. Aug. 2, 1778; d. 1848), son of Ebenezer
and Mary (Bullard) Mann, of Leicester. In the spring
of 1846 she removed to Worcester, and d. May 27, 187 1.
The children of Narcissa Earle were :
1941-1. George Earle, b. 1826; d. Sept. 25, 1826.
1942-2. George E. Mann, b. March 21, 1830; m. May 18, 18S2,
Mrs. Lavinia (Sibley) Peabody, of Winchendon, Mass.,
and lives in Worcester.
1943-3. Mary Eliza Mann, b. Aug. 13, 1832; m. June 10,
1863, John G. Lawrence (d. April 22, 1S78), of Newburgh,
N. Y., and lives in Worcester.
1944-4. Sarah F. Mann, b. Oct. 28, 1834; living, unm., in
Worcester.
1945-5. Ellen M. Mann, b. Nov. 7, 1839; nv ' n ?' unm., in
Worcester.
[9*7-9] • Timothy 7 Keese Earle (Henry, 6 Robert,*
Robert,* Ralph,* William, 2 1 Ralph ), son of Henry and
Ruth (Keese) (Earle) Earle, b. Jan. 11, 1823, in Leices-
ter, Mass. ; m. 1st, Sept. 12, 1849, Nancy S. (b. Sept.
26, 1829, in Salem, Mass.; d. Jan. 24, 1864), dau. of
William E. and Nancy (Shove) Hacker, of Philadelphia
issue, 6 ch. ; 2d, Oct. 10, 1867, Caroline C, dau. of
Daniel and Caroline (Cartland) Osborne, of Dover, N.
H. ; issue, 3 ch. He lived in Worcester, Mass., and d.
Oct. 1, 1881.
His education was obtained at a common school and the Academy
in Leicester, and at the Friends' school in Providence, R. I. He
lived with his parents and, when not at school, assisted upon the farm
until after the decease of his uncle Silas Earle [357-3] when, as
already stated in our notice of that uncle, he purchased, in company
with Reuben Randall, the card-setting machines which had contrib-
uted very largely to the growth of the estate left by Silas. The sev-
eral changes of ownership of Randall's interest which followed that
purchase, until the final formation of the firm " T. K. Earle & Co.,"
with Timothy K. and his elder half-brother Edward Earle [927-3] as
the sole copartners, together with the removal of the business to