Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Volume I-II

This database is a biographical dictionary of over 1,800 people from Worcester County, Massachusetts that has been compiled from genealogical and family memoirs. In the introduction the publishers comment on their goal of preserving this historical information. They state: "It is believed that the present work will prove a real addition to the mass of literature concerning the families of historic old Worcester county and that, without it, much valuable information contained therein would be inaccessible to the general reader, or irretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of many custodians of family records, and the consequent disappearance of material in their possession". Published in 1907, this work also includes information about historic homes and institutions as well as a history of the Worcester Society of Antiquity.

Worcester County is located in central Massachusetts and was created in 1731 from two parent counties, Middlesex and Suffolk. Towns that are, today, part of Worcester County include: Ashburnham, Athol, Auburn, Barre, Berlin, Blackstone, Bolton, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Dana, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Fitchburg, Gardner, Grafton, Hardwick, Harvard, Holden, Hopedale, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leicester, Leominster, Lunenburg, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northborough, Northbridge, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Petersham, Phillipston, Prescott, Princeton, Royalston, Rutland, Shewsbury, Southborough, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Sutton, Templeton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield, Westborough, Westminster, Winchendon, and Worcester.