Individual Details
Herbert William Prouty
(7 May 1874 - )
as his mother died he was "taken for adoption by George W. Estabrook."
Herbert William Estabrook, son of William Brainard Prouty, was born May 9, 1874. He was adopted in infancy on the death of his mother, by a friend of the family, George Drury Estabrook of Natick and Paxton, Massachusetts, who married Frances Stratton, a native of Montpelier, Vermont, daughter of Samuel E. Stratton, of Paxton. Massachusetts. Daniel Estabrook, father of George Drury Estabrook, was a boot and shoe manufacturer and farmer. (See Estabrook family.) Herbert W. Estabrook spent his youth in Natick, Massachusetts, attending the public schools of that town and graduating from the high school in 1892. After a post-graduate course in the high school he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leaving at the end of a year to engage in the dry goods business in Fall River, in the store of Charles T. Sherer. When Mr. Sherer bought the Hamilton store and began business in Worcester. April 13, 1901, Mr. Estabrook came to Worcester and filled an important and responsible position in the management of the house. After the business was incorporated Mr. Estabrook and his brother-in-law, Joseph F. Sherer, became the principal owners and managers, Charles T. Sherer, the father, devoting his time to other business interests and to his farm at Enfield. Massachusetts. The Sherer store has achieved a rather remarkable success in Worcester. By judicious and wholesale advertising, by appealing to the common people and seeking their patronage, this department store was soon placed on a secure foundation and has prospered since. The store occupies one large five story building on Front street opposite the Common; one-half of an adjoining eight story and a seven story building in the rear on Commercial street. It is second in size of the four department stores of Worcester. Mr. Estabrook is a member of Spencer Lodge of Free Masons, of which his grandfather and uncle were past masters.
He is a Republican in politics and an Episcopalian in religion. He married. January 17, 1900, at Fall River, Alice Miriam Sherer, born January 30, 1870. They have one child, Miriam Wesson, born April 8, 1907.
Herbert William Estabrook, son of William Brainard Prouty, was born May 9, 1874. He was adopted in infancy on the death of his mother, by a friend of the family, George Drury Estabrook of Natick and Paxton, Massachusetts, who married Frances Stratton, a native of Montpelier, Vermont, daughter of Samuel E. Stratton, of Paxton. Massachusetts. Daniel Estabrook, father of George Drury Estabrook, was a boot and shoe manufacturer and farmer. (See Estabrook family.) Herbert W. Estabrook spent his youth in Natick, Massachusetts, attending the public schools of that town and graduating from the high school in 1892. After a post-graduate course in the high school he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leaving at the end of a year to engage in the dry goods business in Fall River, in the store of Charles T. Sherer. When Mr. Sherer bought the Hamilton store and began business in Worcester. April 13, 1901, Mr. Estabrook came to Worcester and filled an important and responsible position in the management of the house. After the business was incorporated Mr. Estabrook and his brother-in-law, Joseph F. Sherer, became the principal owners and managers, Charles T. Sherer, the father, devoting his time to other business interests and to his farm at Enfield. Massachusetts. The Sherer store has achieved a rather remarkable success in Worcester. By judicious and wholesale advertising, by appealing to the common people and seeking their patronage, this department store was soon placed on a secure foundation and has prospered since. The store occupies one large five story building on Front street opposite the Common; one-half of an adjoining eight story and a seven story building in the rear on Commercial street. It is second in size of the four department stores of Worcester. Mr. Estabrook is a member of Spencer Lodge of Free Masons, of which his grandfather and uncle were past masters.
He is a Republican in politics and an Episcopalian in religion. He married. January 17, 1900, at Fall River, Alice Miriam Sherer, born January 30, 1870. They have one child, Miriam Wesson, born April 8, 1907.
Events
| Birth | 7 May 1874 |  | |||
| Adoption | 12 Oct 1875 | Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |  | | |
| Alt name | Herbert William Estabrook |
Families
| Father | William Brainard Prouty (1833 - 1908) |
| Mother | Sarah Barnes Allen (1839 - 1875) |
| Sibling | Sarah Lenora Prouty (1861 - ) |
| Sibling | Harriet Isabel Prouty (1863 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Frank J. Prouty (1862 - ) |
| Sibling | Walter A. Prouty (1866 - ) |
Notes
Adoption
Original Name - Herbert William Prouty, Name Decreed - Herbert William EstabrookEndnotes
1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.).
2. , by Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State, List of persons whose names have been changed in Massachusetts. 1780-1883 (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Company, state printers, 1885), 214; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books : accessed 29 December 2009.