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28, 1841, died Jan. 14, 1844; Eliza Chaloner
was bom Jan. 31, 1845; Walter Sherwood,,
born Aug. 4, 1847, died Aug. 20, 1848; Mary
Hannah, born Jan. 17, 1849, died Sept. 16,
1853; Caroline Clinton, born July 22, 1852,
married Edward 0. Stanley, of New York;
Jane Farquar, born April 13, 1855, died in
February, 1871; Winthrop Carver was born
April 23, 1858; Annie Marvel, Jjorn June 6,
1860, married David F. Slade ; Harriet Alden
was born April 4, 1863; Randall Nelson was
born Oct. 13, 1867; Margaret Russell, born
Nov. 3, 1871, married Rev. J. E. Johnson, of'"
Nahant, Mass., now deceased, and they had
three children, Frances, Lawrence and Mar-
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owes to the community and country in which
he lives. In his early manhood he was appointed
lieutenant in a volunteer company,
10th Regiment, Rhode Island militia, being on
active duty in the Dorr rebellion, and ordered
to Newport to protect persons and property.
Twice he was representative to the Rhode
Island Legislature, and, as such, chairman of
the committee on Convict Petitions, and member
of the committee which drafted the protest
against the action of South Carolina in
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"imprisoning negro sailors while in port. He
served as alderman of Fall River four years;
as assessor in the years 1870-71, and was at
one time fire ward. He was interested in
garet.
We quote in part from an article in the Fall
River News announcing the death of Walter
C. Durfee: "His education was very good
and he found his first business situation as
assistant in Mr. Ainsworth's private commercial
school. Later he entered the counting
house of Mr. Charles Potter, a Providence
commission merchant by Vhose influence and
connection with the Globe Print Works of
Fall River he secured, at the age of nineteen,
the position of bookkeeper in that concern, and
has since then resided continuously in this
city. During the winter of 1836 he opened
and conducted a private evening school. Four
years later he became manager of the Globe
Print Works, having served as its bookkeeper
until that time with the exception of a few
months in the office of the Fall River Iron
Works. At the end of three years this connection
was severed, owing to poor business
conditions. After a year of office work with
N. B. Borden & Co., wholesale grocers, he
entered into copartnership with Daniel Brown,
as wholesale dealers in provisions and ship
stores, which lasted xmtil 1859.
"In Augxist, 1862, he became collector of
internal revenue for the First district of
Massachusetts by appointment of President
Lincoln, and held this office until 1866. From
.this time he was engaged in business pursuits
until 1871, when he became treasurer of the
Wampanoag Mills, serving twenty-one years,
and finally retiring from active life in 1892.
He was a trustee of the Border City Manufacturing
Co., in 1879 and 1880, president
and director of the Metacomet National Bank,
president and trustee of the Fall River Five
Cents Savings bank, director of the Wampanoag
Mills, and in the Fall River Mutual
Insurance Co. He was deeply interested in
all that concerned the public welfare, and had
a keen sense of the duty which every citizen
all charities
"In 1862 he received a commission as justice
of the peace, from the first war governor
of Massachusetts, John A. Andrew. He held
this office continuously and the commission in
effect at his death was signed by the latest
war governor, Roger Wolcott.
"His earliest religious associations, through
his mother, were with the Friends, and he
kept them ever in warm regard. But he was
attracted, while still in his youth, to the Episcopal
Church, and as a member of the parish
of the Church of the Ascension his name may
be found in the list of 115 active members of
the year 1841, when he was elected a vestryman.
For nearly sixty years he was delegate
to the Diocesan convention. For a long period
he was superintendent of the Sunday school.
He was forty-five years treasurer of the parish,
and senior warden until his death.
"In personal intercourse he had a ready wit
and a sunny humor which freshened the life
of others and gave a charm to companionship.
With the increase of years he clearly recognized
the uncertainty of life and its duration
as necessarily brief. He fully realized his human
imperfections, but he was conscious of
integrity and committed himself to One whose
grace and mercy had been his support for
many years. His end was peace, and his memory
blessed."
(VI) Winthrop Carver Durfee, son of Walter
Chaloner, was born in Fall River April 23,
1858, and educated in the public and high
schools of his birthplace. He was graduated
from Brown University in 1878 with the degree
of Ph. B. In 1883 he took up the profession
of chemistry, locating in Boston, where
for the past twenty-eight years he has been a
maniifacturing chemist. He is also_ an importer
of chemicals, and is a consulting chemist
for the textile industry.
Mr. Durfee is interested in literature and