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 WADE. WADE. 619 He was married in Charlestown, Octo- ber 10, 1849, to Mary A., daughter of Jacob B. and Mary A. (Sprague) Marsh. They have no children. Mr. Wade is president of the National Association of Factory Inspectors of North America ; was secretary and treas- RUFUS R. WADE. urer of the Middlesex county Republican committee for ten years ; was one of the founders, and the first secretary of the Middlesex Club. Mis residence is Somer- ville. WAhfi, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Mar shall Sumner and Elizabeth (Hunt) Wade, was born in Wrentham, Norfolk county, February 21, 1 S40. He was educated in the common schools of Wrentham and at Day's Academy, with a term ai Comer's Commercial College, Boston. His first connection in business was in the counting-room of the " Boston Traveller ; ' he then obtained a situation as 1 lerk in the store of W. I). Cotton & Co., North Attleborough, which position he held until April 1, 1859. He was then book-keeper for Freeman & Brother till the spring of 1861, when he enlisted in company I, 7th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, being promoted through various offices till he was mustered out in June, 1864, as 1st lieutenant. He returned to the army a few months later as commissary clerk, and after the war began the grocery business in Bur- lington, Iowa. He was in Texas for nearly three years, and tried farming in Minnesota from 1868 to '70, when he again came East and entered the employ of Hayward & Briggs, Attleborough, as book-keeper. He resigned in 1876 to start the firm of Wade, Davis & Co., who began in August of that year the manufacture of jewelry at Plain- ville Mr. Wade still continues at the head of that firm. On the 15th of June, t88i, at Plainville, Mr. Wade married Elizabeth Nichols, daughter of George B. and Sarah J. (Gif- ford) Sherman. He has held many town offices in Wren- tham. He is a prominent and popular Mason, a member of the G. A. R., and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen ; has been a charter member, commander, and prominent officer of two G. A. R. Posts ; an active member of the Universalist so- ciety of Attleborough, a trustee and secre- WILLIAM H WADE tary of the Attleborough Farmers' & Me- chanics' Association, and is now a director of the Attleborough Agricultural Associ- ation, the North Attleborough National Bank, a director and trustee of the Plain- ville Savings & Eoan Association, a di- rector and treasurer of the High Rock