First you need to know how to pronounce Leominster

LemonSta or LemonStir

Named after Leominster, England and they say it LemSta

Leominster is located in the north central part of Massachusetts and northern Worcester County. Leominster is about 20 miles north of Worcester; about 50 miles west of Boston; 20 miles south of the New Hampshire border and is located on Route 2 and Route 190.  Leominster is the pioneer plastic city of the world and the birthplace of John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed.  Leominster has a rich heritage of English, Irish, French, Italian, Canadian and Hispanic.  Many people immigrated to Leominster for its employment opportunities.

Hope you find something of interest on my Leominster page and am always open to suggestions.
Sue Gardner - SueG476@aol.com
Leominster, MA

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These pages are my own personal creations and are in no official way connected to the City of Leominster.

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Current Leominster News of a Historical Nature

Leominster grieves the loss of author Robert E. Cormier, November 2, 2000.  
Mr. Cormier was the author of best-selling novels "The Chocolate War" and "I Am the Cheese."

A new book project by the Leominster Historical Commission.  
We, the people of Leominster, will be compiling data of the last 100 years to capture in text and pictures,
how we became the Leominster of today.
Anyone who would like to share memories, pictures or other information, is invited to participate in this project.  Expected availability of the book is 2005.  Visit the History web page for more information.
Leominster Book Committee Web Page

Nashaway Genealogical Society

The meetings are the 1st Wednesday of each month except January, July and August.

They are held at the Leominster Historical Society, 17 School St., Downtown Leominster
Hope to see you at one of our meeting.  
For more information on this Genealogical Society, send an email to Sandy - sbrickey.balboni@verizon.net
or Sue - SueG476@aol.com or call the Leominster Historical Society at (978) 537-5424.  
Web page - Nashaway Genealogical Society

Sholan Farms Events

Check out Sholan's web page

Boston Weekly Journal - Genealogy items relating to Leominster area - added May 31, 1999

Leominster is surrounded by the following cities and town:
 Fitchburg    Lunenburg    Lancaster    Sterling   Princeton   Westminster

Leominster was established June 23, 1740 from a part of Lancaster and became a city in 1915.

NOTE - there are 2 sets of vital records here

Leominster Vital Records AFTER 1850 (1873; 1887 - 1914)

Leominster Vital Records TO 1850

Leominster Vital Records to 1850

Thanks to Steve Perkins and Christopher Brooks for helping with the Vital Records project.  
It may just get finished yet.

I have put this project on for hold now to put the VR from 1888 - 1914 on instead.  See above.  The Leominster VR to 1850 is now available on the Worcester County VR CD. 

I have started adding all the records from the VR book.  May take me a lifetime but hope to do complete book.  All help welcome.    Sue - July 19, 1999

Births - before 1850

Marriages - before 1850

Deaths - before 1850

Leominster, MA Vital Records AFTER 1850

In the Leominster Report Books, the Town Clerk included the births, marriages and deaths.  These books have Vital Records for 1873; 1887 through 1914.  They are in date order and I am alphbetizing them and will be putting them on here as time allows.  I will put the VR to 1850 on hold for now as the Leominster VR to 1850 are now available on CD and concentrate on these harder to find VR.    Sue

Births - after 1850

Marriages - after 1850

Deaths - after 1850

Johnny Appleseed born John Chapman

John Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed" and often called "The Patron Saint of the American Apple Orchards," was born in Leominster on September 26, 1774.  He was the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Symonds) Chapman.  They lived on what is now Johnny Appleseed Lane, about an eighth of a mile south of Mechanic Street.  Nathaniel Chapman was one of the Minute Men who marched on the Lexington alarm.  He enlisted in the Continental Army and gave varied service throughout the war.  John's mother died in 1776, while his father was serving.  Nathaniel married a second wife, Lucy Cooley of East Longmeadow, Massachusettts, in 1780.  The family moved to East Longmeadow where John spent his boyhood years.

In his early twenties, John Chapman migrated to western Pennsylvania and first settled in Warren near Pittsburgh.  Later he traveled west into the Ohio Valley and finally to Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Johnny was not a scatterer of appleseeds as many have supposed.  He was a practical nurseryman -- he planted seeds, set out orchards, and sold or gave trees to the pioneers.  Deeply religious, he became a self-appointed missionary and preacher of the Swedenborgian Christian faith.  He died in Fort Wayne on March 18, 1845.
                                                                               by Evelyn B. Hachey - Historian (Leominster)

Links to other sites about Johnny Appleseed:

"We Got Johnny" - the award winning short film, co-starring the creator of these pages, Leominster's own Sue Gardner.  Hope to have a showing in Leominster in the near future.

Appleseed Alley - Honoring the Memory of Johnny Appleseed, aka John Chapman

Johnny Appleseed Trail - Johnny Appleseed was born John Chapman in 1774 in Leominster, MA and died in 1845 in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Johnny Appleseed - a wonderful page created by Jim Tansey

Living Descendants of Some of the First Settlers

CARTER Descendants:

Jim Nagle - Samuel b. 1676/77, Josiah, Josiah, Joseph Warren, Abigail m. John Nourse - Jim's Home Page  Edwin James Nagle Genealogy

Post A Query

Have a query for Leominster or the surrounding cities & towns above, send me an email with surnames and other information and I will post them here.

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Leominster Contacts

Leominster Public Library-visit their web page
30 West St
Leominster, MA 01453
(978) 534-7522
Hours:  Mon.-Thu.  9am - 9pm;  Fri. 9am - 5pm
Saturday - Sept. - June - 9am - 5 pm; July & Aug. - 9am - 1pm
Sunday Sept. - May - 1pm - 5pm;
Jeannine T. Levesque, Historical & Genealogical Collections Coordinator
email - jlevesqu@cwmars.org

Leominster Historical Society, Inc.
17 School St  
Leominster, MA 01453  
(978) 537-5424
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday - 9 am - 12pm or by appointment

Leominster City Hall
25 West St
Leominster, MA 01453
(978) 534-7536 - City Clerk

Leominster Historical Commision
25 West St
Leominster, MA 01453
978-534-7519
Hours: Tuesday and Thursday - 9 am - 12 pm or by appointment

The Leominster Scouting Museum
Old May A. Gallagher Junior High Building
Church St
Leominster, MA 01453
978-537-4955
contact - Ron Theriault
email - ront@net1plus.com
Hours - Mondays 6 pm - 8 pm, Tuesday - 9 am - noon

Lookups

Genealogy of John Rogers of Boxford, Massachusetts  - E. M. R. Sheldon and Esther F. Dodge, (1907) - Robert L. Ward - rlward1@erols.com

Inscriptions from Burial Grounds of the Nashaway Towns - Leominster portion only - Esther K. Whitcomb, Editor, 1989 - Sue Gardner - SueG476@aol.com

Leominster Vital Records to 1850 - Sue Gardner - SueG476@aol.com

Leominster High School Yearbook Lookups and Reunions

Leominster High Alumni Class Pages  

Leominster High School Memories - "Relive those crisp Saturday afternoons at Doyle Field on the unofficial cybersite for all LHS alumni. Features 50 years of scores and team photos for LHS football and basketball teams, plus photos of present-day Leominster."

Classes of 1926, 1927 - Linda (Mahan) Pinder -  linda@pinderonline.com

Class of 1937 - Will do lookups and scan or photocopy from it.   Scott - scottcolson@pol.net

Class of 1946 - 1947 - 1948 - Dick Smith - rgsmith@moment.net (Richard G. Smith)

Class of 1950 - Last reunion - September 2000 - contact Midge(Hannigan)Bovenzi - midgehannigan@aol.com

Class of 1954 - Judi Rigopoulos - Judirig@aol.com

Class of 1956 - Linda (Mahan) Pinder -  linda@pinderonline.com

Class of 1958 - Jim Tansey - tanseyj@theriver.com  Want to see them 40 years later? - 40th Reunion of the Class of 1958

Class of 1964 - Sue Gardner - SueG476@aol.com - Reunion to be held in the fall of 2004

Class of 1969 - Nancy (Moore) Williams - cupcake@mcttelecom.com

Class of 1970 - Nancy (Moore) Williams - cupcake@mcttelecom.com

Links to Leominster Genealogy and History pages:  Do you have a page with Leominster genealogy or history?  Would love to add it here.  Please send me an email with your page address so I can link it.

Visit Sue's Genealogy Garden in New England  - this is my home page.
Biography of Thomas and Rebecca (____) Joslin
Mahan Family History - hosted by Linda (Mahan) Pinder of Leominster

Links to other Leominster pages.

City of Leominster Home Page - Leominster's Official Home Page
Leominster, Massachusetts - Paula may live in California but her heart belongs to Leominster.
Jim Tansey's Home Pages - former resident of Leominster now living in Sierra Vista, Arizona
Sentinel & Enterprise - the local newspaper
Capt. John Joslin Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution - Leominster
Monoosnoc Brook Greenway Project

Worcester County, MA GenWeb Project
Massachusetts GenWeb Project
USGenWeb Project

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