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 WELLMAN. WESTON. 041 was changed to A. A. Goodell & Co., J. S. Rogers retiring-, and in 1878 Colonel Wel- lington withdrew from this partnership and began the wholesale and retail coal business on his own account. The following year the two firms were merged in one under the name of Fred W. Wellington & Co. Colonel Wellington is now the sole owner of the present large and growing business. May 16, 1889, he was elected president of the Austin C. Wellington Coal Company (corporation), of Boston, and on the 24th of the following month was elected general manager. He retains his residence in Worcester, although the increasing cares of his growing interests in both cities nat- urally require a division of his time be- tween the two. He has been an active member of the state militia continuously since March 27, 1882, when he was commissioned 2d lieu- tenant of battery R, light artillery, 1st brigade Massachusetts volunteer militia. He was promoted to be 1st lieutenant, captain, and finally to be assistant inspec- tor-general on the staff of the commander- in-chief, Governor 'Oliver Ames, with rank of colonel, which position he now holds. He comes naturally by his military taste. Four of his brothers were in active service on the Union side during the civil war, two of whom gave their lives to the cause. Colonel Wellington was a member of the executive committee of the Republican state central committee 1887 and '88; chair- man of the 4th Republican senatorial dis- trict committee for the same years, and sec- retary of the 10th Republican congressional district committee from September, 1S86, to September, 1888. In the Masonic order he is a member of the 32d degree Massachu- setts Consistory, Scottish Rite, and Worces- ter County Commandery, Knights Templar. He was married September 4, 1883, to Lydia A., widow of General Arthur A. Goodell, formerly colonel of the 36th regi- ment, Massachusetts volunteers. WELLMAN, JOSHUA WYMAN, son of James Ripley and Phebe (Wyman) Well- man, was born in Cornish, Sullivan county, N. H., November 28, 1821. After attending the public schools in Cornish until he was fifteen years of age, he was fitted for college at the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., from which he was graduated in 1842, entering Dartmouth College that year and graduat- ing in 1846. Until 1849 he taught in the Kimball Union Academy a part of each year, and in 1847 was for two terms prin- cipal of the academy in Rochester, Mass. Entering the Andover Theological Semi- nary in 1847, he was graduated in 1850, and was then a resident licentiate in that seminary one year. He was ordained to the Christian min- istry and installed as pastor of the First church in Derry, N. H., on the 18th day of June, 1S51, in which position he re- mained for five years, on June n, 1856, becoming pastor of the Eliot church in Newton, Mass. This pastorate closed in 1S73. He was installed pastor of the First church in Maiden, March 25, 1874, remaining in that position till May, 1883, since which time he has not been settled over any church, but has continued preach- ing in various localities. On October 24, 1S54, in East Randolph (now Holbrook), he married Ellen M., daughter of Caleb Strong and Prudence (Durfee) Holbrook. Their children are : Arthur Holbrook, Edward Wyman, Ellen Holbrook, and Annie Durfee Wellman. He was elected a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1867, and manager of the Congregational Sunday-school and publishing society in 1870 ; was trustee of Phillips Academy and Andover Theolog- ical Seminary in 1870 ; he is also a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, a corporate member of the General Theological Library of Boston, and for many years has been a director of the American College and Educational Society, of which he is now vice-president. Olivet College in 1868, and Dartmouth College in 1S70, bestowed upon him the degree of doctor of divinity. WESTON, BYRON, son of Isaiah and Caroline (Curtis) Weston, was born in Dal- ton, Berkshire county, April 19, 1832. His early life was one of frequent changes. When he was four years old he was taken by his parents to Tremont, 111. When he was twelve years old, his father having died, he went to Madison, Wis., to live with an uncle, and attended school at Beloit. Five years afterward he returned to Dalton and a little later entered the Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, giv- ing his chief attention to mathematics, en- gineering, and book-keeping. Shortly after graduating, he entered his uncle's paper mills on the Hudson, and to perfect himself in the art of manufacturing the finest grades of paper, he afterward entered the mills at Ballston Springs and Lee, where he soon became foreman for Platner & Smith, the largest manufacturers of fine paper in the country. In 1856 Mr.