The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

228 THE EARLE FAMILY [Seventh
[362-8], and in the homestead which the latter had nearly completed
at the time of his death.
After his removal to Worcester, as already related, he and his
brother Thomas became associated as T. & O. K. Earle, in the lum-
ber trade. This business connection continued several years ; but, in
1857, ne united with Mr. Willard Jones, under the firm name of Earle
& Jones, in the establishment of an iron foundry. This proved a
successful enterprise and he was engaged in it until the time of his
decease.
He was for several years a member of the School Committee of
Worcester, and was on the Hoard of Aldermen at the time of the
establishment of the public water-works, by which water from the
Lynde reservoir, in Leicester, was brought into the City. He was
much interested in this sanitary provision, and devoted much time to
its promotion and completion.
The children of Oliver K. Earle were :
1 959-1. Alfred C. Earjlb, /. Feb. 7. 1857 i
d. Mav 3, [868.
*•• Emma T. Laycock.
1 961-3. Mourns Earle, b. Nov. in. 1
1962-4. Margaret C. Earle. />. March 31. 1S63.
1963-5. Walter B. Earle, 6. Nov. 13, 1865; d. Sept. 22, 1S66.
[9 2 7-3]- Edward 7 Earle (TimothyJ Robert? Robert?
Ralph? William.- Ralph 1
), son of Timothy and Ruth
(Keese) Earle, b. Feb. 10, 181 1, in Leicester, Mass.;
m. Oct. 1, 1835, ^nn B. (6. Dec. 22, 1815), dau. of
David and Susan A. (Barker) Buffum, of Middletown,
R. I. ; lived in Worcester, Mass., and d. May 25, 1877.
Edward Earle attended a district school and the Academy in
Leicester, and completed his education at the Friends' school in
Providence, R. I. He subsequently taught the school of the district
in which he lived. Soon after the attainment of the age of twenty-
one years, he went, in 1S32, to Worcester, and became engaged in
mercantile business, temporarily as clerk in the flour store of his
cousin, Robert Earle, and afterward in copartnership with General
Nathan Heard. Before his marriage, in 1S35, ne ^ia