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Felch Oliver Amandus
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  • Birth  17 Nov 1836  Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 08:26:01 GMT-5 
    Person ID  I4455  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Felch Oliver,   b. 27 Dec 1805, Felchville, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Mar 1898 
    Mother  Fuller Hannah Washburn,   b. 01 Mar 1808 
    Married  10 Nov 1833 
    Family ID  F1814  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Gleason Martha White,   b. 07 Aug 1843,   d. 05 Nov 1898 
    Married  10 Jun 1862  Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Felch Sarah,   b. 30 Apr 1870, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jul 1872
     2. Felch Anna Isabelle,   b. 09 Jul 1873, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1896
     3. Felch Frederick Oliver,   b. 09 Nov 1874, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jan 1880
     4. Felch John Edwin,   b. 23 Jun 1876, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Apr 1897
     5. Felch Albert Amandus,   b. 27 Oct 1878, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Felch Charles Henry,   b. 12 Jul 1882, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 03 Apr 1885
    Family ID  F1815  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • (VIII) Oliver Amandus Felch, son of Oliver (7), and Hannah Washburn (Fuller) Felch, was born on the old homestead at North Natick in the town of Natick, November 17, 1836. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. During his boyhood, like most boys of Natick at that time, he learned how to make shoes and helped his father. At the age of twenty he began to- manufacture onhis own account, buying one roll of leather at .a time. His business was interrupted during the Civil war, but in 1864 the large factory on North Main street, known; for a full generation as Felch Brothers' shop, was built and the firm of Felch Brothers began business there. The original firm consisted of John F. Felch and Oliver A. Felch. In 1873 Harrington Felch, another brother, was admitted. The firm of Felch Brothers was one of the most prosperous and continuously successful concerns in the business of shoe manufacturing in Natick. Oliver A. Felch retired from the Ifirm in 1903, when thebusiness was sold to his nephew, Walter L. Felch, son of John F. Felch.

      He is a member of Meridian Lodge of Free Masons of Natick; of Parker Royal Arch Chapter, Natick; of Natick Commandery, Knights Templar, Natick; and of the various bodies of Scottish Rite Masonry to the thirty- second degree in Boston. He is a member of Takawambait Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Natick Encampment, Natick. In politics he is a Republican. He is president of the board of trustees of the Fiske Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Natick. He is a trustee of the Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, and for a period of twenty years was a director of the Natick National Bank. He is a trustee and president of the North Cemetery Association, and has held many other positions of public and private trust. No man is more generally known and esteemed in the town. Enterprising in business, popular in clubs and social life, influential in party and town affairs, he is counted among the foremost citizens of the town. His influence has always been on the right side, and he has been a source of strength, especially to the temperance cause in a community where public sentiment is nearly evenly divided. He has been for many years a leader in the church, generous in supporting its benevolences, liberal also in private charity. His house is on the site of Ebenezer Felch's (4) homestead. Oliver A. Felch married, at Worcester, Massachusetts, June 10, 1862, Martha White Gleason, who was born August 7, 1843, and died November 5, 1898, daughter of Phineas Merrill and Sallie (White) Gleason. Children, born in Natick: i. Sarah Alice, born April 30, 1870, died July 30, 1872. 2. Anna Isabella, born July 9, 1873, died June 16, 1896. 3. Frederick Oliver, born November 9, 1874, died January 24, 1880. 4. John Edwin, born June 23, 1876, died April II, 1897. 5. Albert Amandus, born October 27, 1878, mentioned below. 6. Charles Henry, born July 12, 1882, died April 3, 1885.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S230] Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908;), 411 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S230] Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908;), 412 (Reliability: 3).

  

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