~ JOHN CHIPMAN HOUSE ~ John Chipman and Ann Howe House - built 1838 by Amory Maynard
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Picture taken by John Buczek - 2000John Chipman House - early 1900's
John Chipman House
From Ella Bigelow's Book
The fine old mansion a little way up the street [Chipman now Stevens] on Chipman's Corner is doubly plastered and built for John Chipman by Amory Maynard. The death of "Uncle John" as was called this one of the best known, influential and public spirited citizens of our town, was deeply deplored.
In early life he was identified with the shoe business but later withdrew and joined his brother Dea. George Chipman in the carpet business in Boston. He possessed a high order of intelligence and great mental activity, was authority on historical subjects and had a marvelous memory. In his latter days darkened by the total loss of sight, he could repeat with scarcely a verbal error, page after page of Milton and other great minds. No man had more warmly attached friends. He was known under the name of "Guilford" in his retrospection's of the past, quotations from which we have not hesitated to use.
In the pretty Chipman Cemetery just beyond the Homestead his body was laid to rest. One of the evidences of his public spiritedness and devotion to the interests of his native town was his enthusiastic advocacy and earnest support of the project of building the Marlboro branch railroad; the difficulties, discouragement's and financial embarrassments of which he shared with Messrs. Mark Fay, Lambert Bigelow and others, whom he has now gone to join in the silent majority. John married in 1839 Ann Howe, by whom he had Mary, Adelia, Mary Adelia and Anna. After her death, ten years later he married Harriet Gibbs of Framingham, by whom he had John and Henry Ward Chiprnan, who married Sarah E. Knight.
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