b. 1864 — Born Lowell, 3 May 1864 (Day Genealogy, 1916). Death not yet found.
Also recorded as: Charles Thomas Atherton.
Abel Atherton’s son, a young man of nineteen when the stone house was built, who carried the family’s machine business to Rhode Island.[source]
Attributed profile. Drawn mainly from a research compilation (2025) and secondary sources that we have not yet checked against the originals. Treat the detail as leads, not settled fact; the “Research leads” section says what needs confirming.
The Day family’s genealogy of 1916 is the only record read so far that names Abel Atherton’s son. Charles Thomas Atherton was born in Lowell on 3 May 1864 — so the house on Fairmount Street went up in his twentieth year — and in December 1888, a year after his parents sold it, he married Alice Rebecca Day at Haverhill. The genealogy calls him “a manufacturer of textile machinery”; his children were born at Pawtucket between 1890 and 1899 and at Providence in 1904, which is where the collectors’ accounts also put his father in his last years. The genealogy gives his mother as Mary Ann Conlow, not Georgiana: the Athertons of 1887 were a second marriage.
Georgiana Atherton, with her husband’s consent, conveys the estate "with the buildings thereon" to Arthur P. Bonney, lawyer and former city solicitor. The deed is subject to four mortgages. The state inventory still calls the property the Arthur Bonney Estate.[sources]
DocumentedAbel T. AthertonArthur Perkins Bonney
What is uncertain: A later compilation says Atherton’s business failed; the mortgages are consistent with financial pressure but do not prove it.
Clues gathered from the research compilation and from secondary sources. Published so that others can follow them; none has yet been confirmed against an original record.
Research notes: C-069.
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