Description:
Slat-back Windsor side chair branded: "F.[rancis?] RAYMOND." and painted black over red. According to a pencil inscription under the seat, the chair, which was made in one of the leading factories in northern Worcester County, was part of the wedding outfit of Charles Fessenden (1812-1884) and and his first wife Martha Elizabeth Newton (1819-1851) of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who were married in Fitchburg in 1840. He was a carriage and harness maker for nearly fifty years, most of the time on Academy street. They had three children, including Judge Franklin Goodrich Fessenden (1849-1931) of Greenfield who was appointed to the Superior Court of Massachusetts in 1891, a post he held until his retirement from the court in 1922. The chair later became part of the collection of Greenfield antiquarian, Alice Judd.
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