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178 Jonathan,5  born 1772, son of Jonathan4 and his wife Anna, married Sally DeWolf, of Lyme, Conn., doubtless a descendant of Balthasar De Wolf, an early settler of the town. Jonathan Grout, known as Master Grout, long a successful teacher of district schools, was also a book-binder and bookseller, and publisher of several small devotional books.

His son Edwin,6 born in 1812, died in 1846. He married in 1836 Lydia P. Barton. Their daughter, Lydia Ann (now Mrs. Wellington), whose birth date is given above, was educated at the Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass. On September 18, 1866, she was married to General Arthur Augustus Goodell, of Worcester, a veteran of the Civil War. She became the mother of four children: Harry Barton, born August 13, 1867; Edwin Wilder, born March 15, 1869, who died February 4, 1890; Alice May, born May 1, 1871; and Edwin Howe, born February 8, 1873, who died in infancy. General Goodell died June 30, 1882, on the forty-third anniversary of his birth. The following is his military record: "Sergeant Major, Third Battalion Rifles, M. V. M., April 19, 1861; Adjutant, July 1, 1861; Captain Company C, Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, August 16, 1862; Major, January 29, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel, July 31, 1863, commanding regiment from that date until October 10, 1863, when severely wounded at Blue Springs, Tenn.; returned to regiment April 1, 1864; resigned May 5 in consequence of disability resulting from wounds. Brevetted Brigadier-general, United States Volunteers, for 'gallant and meritorious conduct in the field during the war.'"

On September 4, 1883, Mrs. Goodell became the wife of Fred Williams Wellington, who in former years had been connected in business with General Goodell. Mr. Wellington was born in Shirley, Mass., May 31, 1851, son of Timothy W. and Augusta (Fiske) Wellington and a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of Roger Wellington, one of the early proprietors of Watertown, Mass. He was educated in the public schools of Worcester (his parents having removed to that city in 1855) and in schools in Germany and France, where he spent two years. One year after his return from Europe he was clerk in the First National Bank, Worcester, and later he was in his father's coal office. The year 1871 he passed in California. He embarked in the coal business in 1872, anil is still in the trade, having been since 1889 president and general manager of the Austin C. Wellington Coal Company. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1882, he was successively promoted to First Lieutenant, Captain, and Assistant Inspector-general on the staff of Governor Ames, with rank of Colonel. He served on the staff of Governors Greenhalge, Wolcott, and Crane, and is now (1903) on the staff of Governor Bates with rank of Brigadier-general.

Greatly interested in the welfare of the Civil War veterans, comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, Mrs. Wellington has long been an earnest worker in the Ladies' Aid Society of the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea. She is also an active and esteemed member of the Woman's Club of Worcester.

NN MARIA MILES SPRAGUE, educator and philanthropist, is a sister of General Nelson A. Miles and a descendant of the Rev. John Myles, who came to New England about the year 1663 from Swansea, Wales, and settled in Swansea, Mass., so named at the incorporation of the town a few years later. His death is thus recorded: "Mr. John Myles, pastor of the church in Swanzy, deceased February 3, 1682-3." His son, John Myles, Jr., who also resided in Swansea, Mass., was elected to the office of Town Clerk in May, 1670. Nathaniel, son of John Myles, Jr., was born, as recorded in the Swansea town register, 26th day, 8 mo., 1671; and James, son of John the younger and Mary, his wife, in April, 1674. Daniel Miles, a native of Pomfret, Conn., thought to have been of the fourth generation of this family, and son of a Samuel Miles, removed to Petersham, Mass., where he died early in 1777, his will being probated April 9. His son, Joab Miles, died in Petersham in 1835 at the age of ninety-one years. Joab married Elizabeth Fitch, a descendant, it is said, of John Fitch, who