Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Latham Ellis Latham lived in Brooklyn, New York. He was the head of the Latham Automatic Registering Company, which had offices in New York City and Boston. He was also the vice president of the Latham Machinery Company, a maker of bookbinding equipment headquartered in Chicago, where he hailed from. Ellis and his wife had a summer residence in Granville, Massachusetts, at Stow Farm, named for its original owners, Volney and Marshall Stow. Stow Farm had spanned across the original Wildcat Road (a section loosely called Stows Road) at the then-junction of the Westfield and Blandford-Granville roads in an area once known as the Stow District, complete with its own schoolhouse. (The Town of Granville established the Stow School District on April 3, 1815.) In addition to hundreds of acres of farmland and forest, the Stow homestead at one time included at least three homes and several outbuildings, mainly barns and sheds. The Stow family also owned a gristmill and a sawmi...

George Gasper was born in Hungary in April 1866. Seeking a better life, he decided to go to the Land of Opportunity. Arriving in America in 1884, he settled in Westfield, Massachusetts, before purchasing a farm in the Hillside section of neighboring Southwick around 1890. (His future wife, Caroline, came over in 1886. The pair wed in Westfield on November 22, 1889.) With Caroline becoming pregnant in 1890, the Gaspers needed extra help on their farm, so George enlisted the help of his mother, Anna, and stepfather, Andreas, to move from Hungary. But, with more and more children added to the Gasper household, George's aged parents could only do so much, so he hired a young farmhand named Andrew in the spring of 1902. (Between 1890 - 1900, the Gaspers had seven children. Sadly, one died at birth, and one died within two months of being born.) When Andrew fell ill that summer, Anna gave him her full attention while caring for him. After he recovered, Anna continued catering to him, eve...