The Press., 1893-07-13
THE HISTORY OF UNION.

THE HISTORY OF UNION.
 It has been our pleasant task during the past few days, and will be a continual pleasure, so long as we may be allowed the privilege, to look over the advance pages of the new History of Union, which will bc issued August 1st. The book contains sos pages, with map of the town, and fine engrayings of many of it's nota- ble citizens of past and present genera tions. Perhaps it's scope can be best de- termined by reading the following table of contents
 INTRoDUoToRY.-A Sketch Of the Life aud LG6ors of ReU. Charles Hammond
 CHAPTER I.-Ihe Physica1 Features of Union. = Interesting Character; Size; Boundaries; Elevation; Bald Hill; 9th CT Hills; Mashapaug Lake; Celebrations Held Here; Summer Resorts; Water Sheds in Union; The Breakneck Region; Cat Rocks; Roads in Union; Forests :; Plants and Birds.
 CHAPTER H.-SettIement and Early His- togy of Union. Date of Settlement; Lead Mine; Boundary with Massachusetts 1; Name of Union Land of Content; Sale of Union Lands; Action of the Proprie- tors; Reservation for Public Uses; The Home Lots; First Settlers; The Scotch Irish; Puritan Families.
 CHAPTER III. - EcclesidsticGl History. I. Tue Congregational Chuach at Union. Connection with the History of the Town; Worship by the Early Settlers j; Petition for Incorporation; Act of Incor- poration; Order for the Tax; Conflict with the Proprietors; The Colonel Brown Controversy; Disagreement Concerning Minister; Memorial to the Assembly j; Rev. Samuel Terry; Call of Rev. Ebe- nezer Wyman; Organization of the Church Places of Early Worship; Build ing of the Meeting House; Death of Mr. Wyman; His Character; Rev. Caleb Hitchcock Rev. Ezra Horton; Difficult ties in the Church; Dismissal of MT. Hor- ton; Preachers who Followed Him; Low State of the Church; Rev. David Avery :; Formation of the Society; Rev. Nehemi- ah Beardsley; Revival of 1881; Building of the New Meeting House, Rev. s. l.. Curtiss; Temperance Reform; Remodel ing of the Church; Dismissal of MT. Cur tiss; Rev. J. P. Watson; Rev. George Curtiss; Rev. William Howard; Rev. I. P. Smith; Anniversary of the Organiza- tion; Deacons of the Church; Future Prospects; Funds of the Church; List of Members.
 II. Tue Methodist Episcopal Church at Mashapaug.-Old Methodist Church; Or ganization of the Present Church It's | Pastors; Causes which have made the Church Weak Prospects for the Future {; List of Members; List of Pastors. CHAPTER T. Military History of Uniom I. Union iat the Reuolutioaa. of Mi | nd Tn1 ;r;, Cases of Tory Discipline; Colonel Abiiah Willard; Timothy Holton; Battle of Lexington, Rally and March of Union Men; Enlistment of Soldiers; Lieutenant Sprague; Bunker Hill; Hardships of the Soldiers; Captain Lawson's Company Campaign against Burgoyne; Hardships at Home; Raising Taxes; List of Revo. lutionary Soldiers.
 II. Union in the War of .-Mer who went from Union. 1 III. I'he TrGinings.
 l ". Union ip tue Rebellion. Company |, Sixteenth Regiment; David Corbin's l Company c, Twenty-Second Regiment List of Union Soldiers; Soldiers who have Lived in Union since the War; The D. F. Corbin Post.
 1 CHAPTER V.-Btograp1stco5 Sketches.- Jessie Olney, A. M.; Dr. Shubael Ham, mond; Deacon Samuel Crawford; Judge I. w. Crawford; Eleazer Foster Eleaze1 K. Foster; Rev. s. I. Curtiss; Rev. George Curtiss; Prof. s. I. Curtiss; Cap. tain Chauncey Paul; Harvey Walker Hannah Moore; Mrs. Calista Holman G. Leonard; Jared D. Sessions; Joseph M Griggs; Sarah A. Paul; David P Corbin, AM. William M Corbin; Justus ovlo Isaac Booth, D. D.. Philip D. Armour Andrew W. Armour; Dwight Marcy Philip Corbin; M. A. Marcy; Joel H Reed.
 CHAPTER VI.-Lndustrial History cj Union. -I. Agriculture: Farming by the Early Settlers; Crops Raised; Mark cts; Wild Animals; Present Condition of Agriculture.
 II. Lumbering: Importance in Union The Saw-Mills in Town.
 III. The Store and Shoe Business Merrick Marcy; Business of His Sons Burning of the Block at Union; Int Business at Mashapaug: Moses White Harvey Walker; Jared Sessions; Will liam Corbin; Cessation of the Shoe Man ufacture; Other Industries at Mashapaug
 CHAPTER VII.-TAe Schools of Union. The Early Schools; The School Society Teachers; Present Condition of Schools The Select Schools of Union; Names O. Teachers; List of College Students iron Union.
 | CHAPTER III.-Ihe Cemeteries of UeSou The Old Cemetery; The North Gene tery; The New Cemetery; The Eas Cemetery.
 | CHAPTER K Genealogies ot the Fami T Ges.
 CHAPTER X.--List of Ioaom Oticers, etc l--Representatives in Legislature from thu Town of Union; Selectmen; Town Clerks and Treasurers; Population of the Town
 Upon it's title page is given the name O Rev. Harvey M. Lawson, Ph. B., as com piler. MT. Lawson undertook the worl of editing the mss. left by the late Prof
 Hammond, of Monson academy, and late
 worked upon by Rev. J. P. Watson. ant the sequel shows that the work has fallel ) into good hands. It has been a labor o
 the necessarily limited market for it's sal } making it impossible to expect that i
 will be profitable-,unlikely that it will b. 5, 8 paying-venture.
 luded to progress of work upon this his
 tory. It was a pet labor of Prof. Ham
 mond, who died just as he was about la
 down other work to perfect this one
 Then Mir. Watson took it up, and als
 died with it unfinished. on his hands
 Hon. Wm. M. Corbin, meanwhile, ha shown a most fatherly interest, and dul
 ing periods when the work was interrupt
 ed has had the material collected in hi
 Watson as most fitting successor to MI Hammond, and later turned it over to tn young divinity student, lately graduate
 at Yale, Harvey M. Lawson, for comple