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 454 PADDOCK. PAIGE. of Oliver and Susannah (Howland) Leach. Of this union are two children : Clinton Francis and Clara Washburn Packard. Mr. Packard was one of the committee of citizens appointed by the town of Brock- ton to prepare and obtain a city char- ter. In 1 88 1 he was elected town clerk, in 1882, city clerk, which office he has held to the present time, without interruption, having been re-elected each year by unan- imous vote. He was one of the enu- merators of the United States census in 18S0 ; was one of the trustees of the pub- lic library from 1876 to '88, and a member of the school board from 1879 to '83. He has held a commission as justice of the peace since 1S75, and was appointed by the governor a commissioner to qualify civil officers in 1884, which office he now holds. Though not now in any way connected with the press, he was formerly a con- tributor and correspondent to the Boston '"Journal," " Post," "Saturday Evening Ga- zette," " New England Farmer," "Massa- chusetts Ploughman," and " Moore's Rural New Yorker," and for a time, in the early days of that journal, a reporter for the " Brockton Gazette." Mr. Packard was a skilled workman, when a mere boy, in the trade of shoe- making, and inspired with love for books, industriously conned his Latin while peg- ging shoes. His father was one of the first, if not the first, to manufacture "con- gress" shoes in North Bridgewater. PADDOCK, Benjamin Henry, son of the Rev. Seth Birdsey and Emily (Flagg) Paddock, was born in Norwich, New Lon- don count)', Conn., February 29, 1828. His early education was received at pri- vate schools in Norwich. Entering Trin- ity College, Hartford, Conn., he graduated in the year 1848, when he taught one year at the Connecticut Episcopal Academy, Cheshire. In 1 S49 he entered the Ceneral Theological Seminary, New York City, graduating therefrom in 1852. His alma mater subsequently conferred upon him the hi 'in irary degree of S. T. 1). He was assistant minister in Epiphany church, New York City, for one year; rector of Trinity church, Norwich, Conn., until i860 ; rector of Christ church, De- troit, Mich., until 1869 ; rector of Grace church, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., until 1873 ! an d on September 17, 1873, he was consecrated bishop of Massachusetts, hold- ing that office at the present time, his resi- dence being in the city of Boston. On the 19th of May, 1853, Bishop Pad- dock was married to Caroline H. Cooke, of Wallingford, Conn., who died in 1S60: In 1863 he was again married, to Anna L., daughter of Henry K. and Caro- line (Prentiss) Sanger, of Detroit, Mich. Their children are : Lewis H., Emily S., and Anna G. Paddock. Bishop Paddock has filled the high and responsible office to which he has been called, to the great acceptance of the church of which he has so long been an honored representative member. PAIGE, Calvin Ammidoun, son of Timothy and Cynthia Ammidoun Paige, was born in Southbridge, Worcester county, June 7, 1820. He received his early education in the common schools and academy. At the age of thirteen he was employed as clerk in a country store, and when twenty-three years of age, commenced in a cotton man- ufactory as clerk and superintendent, and afterwards as agent and treasurer of the CALVIN A. PAIGE. Dresser Manufacturing Company, and con- tinued twenty-five years, until 1870, at which time the mill was destroyed by fire. He was elected as a representative to the Legislature in 1863. He has held many of the town offices, covering a period of more than twenty-five years, among them, selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor (which office he now holds), and much of