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 640 WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON. Colonel Wellington was married in Cambridge, June 30, 1869, to Caroline L. Fisher, whose death occurred ten years later. November 29, 1887, he married her sister, Sarah C. Fisher. They were the daughters of George and Hannah C. (Teele) Fisher, of Cambridge. Colonel Wellington was made secretary of the Irving Literary Association, Cam- bridge, 186 1 He was a director in the Mercantile Library Association in 1871 — afterwards president. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1875 ant! '76, where he served on the committee on military affairs. AUSTIN C WELLINGTON. He was commander of Post 30, G. A. R., Cambridge, and later of Post 113, Boston ; trustee of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Home ; captain of the Boston Light In- fantry, 1870 ; afterwards major of the 4th battalion ; colonel of the 1st regiment Mas- sachusetts militia ; inspector-general G. A. R., department of Massachusetts; treasurer and general manager of the Austin C Wellington Coal Company ; chairman of the Boston Coal Exchange ; president of the Charles River Towing Company, and vice-president of the Central Club, Boston. He was a member of the Art Club and Cecilia Society of Boston, and the Shake- speare Club of Cambridge. The announcement of the death of Col- onel Wellington, one of the most popular of the members of the Massachusetts militia, was universally received with the deepest and most sincere expressions of sorrow. Every member of the 1st regi- ment of Massachusetts volunteers felt he had sustained a personal loss in the sudden decease of one who had brought that famous command into such a state of pro- ficiency as to elicit the unstinted praise of every military man who had witnessed their marching, soldierly bearing, and gen- tlemanly behavior. Notably on two occa- sions, at the funeral of General Grant in New York in 1885, and at Philadelphia in 1SS7 at the Constitutional celebration, ditl Massachusetts receive great credit by the brilliant record of this same regiment under the leadership of its talented and idolized colonel. Colonel Austin C. Wellington's military instinct was a family inheritance, dating back to his great grandfather, Captain Tim- othy Wellington, who, with his brother, Ben- jamin, was a member of Captain Parker's company at the battle of Lexington ; Ben- jamin being the first prisoner of the revo- lution, having been captured by the King's troops early on that eventful morning, but later rejoining his company. WELLINGTON, Fred Williams, son of the late Timothy W. Wellington, of Worcester, and the great grandson of Cap- tain Timothy Wellington of Lexington anil revolutionary fame, is the only representa- tive of this once large family now living in Worcester, and was born in Shirley, Mid- dlesex county, May 31, 1851. He began his education in the public schools of Worcester, to which place his father had removed in 1855, and with the exception of two years spent in the schools of Germany and France, and one year's absence in California, his life has been spent in that city. He began his business life at the age of seventeen years, as book-keeper in the First National Bank of Worcester, remaining from June, 1868, to October, 1869, when he entered his father's coal office. He went to California in 1871, but returned the next year to enter the firm of T. W. Wellington & Co. He withdrew from the firm in 1874, and became associated with J. S. Rogers & Co., in the retail coal trade for one year, and in 1875 formed a partnership with J. S. Rogers and A. A. Goodell, under the same firm name, conducting a strictly wholesale trade in coal. In 1876 the firm