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Oct. 17, 1876, Sarah A. Gibbs, daughter of
Francis Bradford and Tirzah Swift (Morse)
Gibbs, of Middleboro, a descendant of one of
the oldest families of Barnstable county, and
as well a descendant of Revolutionary stock
through the Morse family. By
coming
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iness. In the latter year he went to Chelsea,
Mass., and there formed a partnership with H.
P. McManus, under the firm name of Atwood
& McManus, the father, Charles N. Atwood,
owning a third interest in the business. Here
a large plant was built, and the manufacture
of wooden boxes and packing cases was begun
on June 1, 1893, since which time they have
been kept busy with the increasing demand for
the product, now having one of the largest
factories of the kind in New England. On
Sept. 21, 1908, the plant was destroyed by
fire, after having escaped the great Chelsea fire
of but a few months before, and they met with
a heavy loss. However, they were not .dismayed,
and in place of the first structure they erected
fine brick buildings, fully equipped with up-todate
machinery, which was put into operation
committee; he was also chairman of the building
committee which had charge of the erection
of the present church edifice, which was built
in 1905-06.
In January, 1895, Mr. Atwood married
Maud L. Webster, of Chelsea, who died Sept.
there is one son, Ichabod F., born Feb. 28,
1883, who graduated from the Massachusetts
School of Technology in 1903, and is now
engaged in box manufacturing in Chelsea with
his brother; he is unmarried.
(VIII) Alton Baeeows Atwood, eldest
son of Charles N. and Rozilla (Barrows)
Atwood, was born at Rock, town of Middleboro,
Sept. 20, 1868. He attended the public and
high schools of Middleboro, graduating from
the latter in 1885. He then began to learn
the boxmaking business in his father's factory
at Rock, where he continued until 1893, be-
7, 1900. On April 17, 1907, he married (second)
Mabel E. Coan, of Everett, and they have
one child, Charles Nelson, 2d, bom May
1, 1909.
familiar with all branches of the bus-
Barrows. The Barrows family, to which
the late Mrs. Charles N. Atwood belonged, was
early settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
John Barrus (or Barrows, etc.), born in 1609,
in England, at the age of twenty-eight, left
Yarmouth, England, his wife Anne accompanying
him, and came to America, settling at
Salem, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He
and his wife received grants of land in Salem
in 1637, and were inhabitants of that town for
twenty-eight years, and all their children were
born there. They removed to Plymouth before
1665, and John, the immigrant, died there in
1692. His will shows that he left a second
wife, younger than himself, and four sons:
Robert; John; Benajah, who lived in Attleboro;
and Ebenezer, who lived in Cumberland,
R. I.; and two daughters, Mary and Deborah.
Robert Barrows, born in Salem, Massachusetts
Bay Colony, removed with his father to
Plymouth. He had by his first wife, Ruth
(Bonum), four children: John, born in 1667,
who died in Plymouth in 1720; George, born
in 1670; Samuel, who died in Middleboro in
1755; and Mehetabel, who married Adam
Wright. He married (second) Lydia Dunham
and had children : Robert, born in 1689, who
died in Mansfield, Conn., in 1779; Thankful,
born in 1692, who married Isaac King; Elisha,
who died in 1767 in Rochester, Mass. ; Thomas,
who died in Mansfield in 1779; Lydia, who
married Thomas Branch; and Capt. George.
Samuel Barrows, son of Robert, was bom in
1672. He settled in Middleboro, and in about
June 1, 1909. The firm owns timber tracts in
many parts of New England, from which the
supply of lumber is obtained, and also has
several sawmills in operation. Mr. Atwood is
a man of progressive ideas, and is farsighted
in his investments. He gives his entire time
and attention to the business he knows so thoroughly,
and his genial personality has made
him friends with the trade and with his employees
as well. In politics he is a stanch
Republican, but he takes no active part in
party work. Fraternally he is a member of
Robert Lash Lodge, A. P. & A. M., of Chelsea.
He is also identified with the financial
institutions of Chelsea, being vice president of
1700 built a garrison house which is still
standing and known as the old Barrows house.
He was elected deacon of the First Church
in 1725. He married (first) Mercy Coombs,
who died in 1718, and (second) Joanna Smith.
He died Dec. 30, 1755, aged eighty-three years.
There, too, was a Samuel Barrows, who is
the Chelsea Trust Company, and a trustee of judged by Weston, in his work on Middleboro,
the County Savings Bank. Mr. Atwood is a Mass.,
member of the First Congregational Church of
Chelsea, and has served as treasurer of the
church and as a member of the prudential
to be a son of the immigrant settler
John Barrows, who was an early settler of
Middleboro, and before the breaking out of
King Philip's war, 1675, had built a dam