This Day in Norwood History-July 3, 1947-Mrs. Emma Shattuck Passes Away At 93

Mrs. Emma Louise (Morrill) Shattuck died Sunday night at her home, 124 Winter Street, at the age of 93 years. She was the widow of the late Edmund James Shattuck.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from her home at 4 00 p.m and were conducted by the Rev William F. English of the First Congregational Church. Burial was private.

In the death of Mrs. Shattuck, the last of the well-known George H. Morrill family passes from Norwood history Mrs. Shattuck was born Emma Louise Morrill, oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. George H Morrill. Her birthplace was Norwood and she grew up within the town. Samuel Morrill was her grandfather. He and George Morrill founded the Morrill Ink Company on Dean Street. South Norwood. The corporation, one of America’s oldest ink plants, grew to be one of the largest in America. It specialized in printer’s ink.

From her girlhood days, Mrs Shattuck was one of the most popular women in this community. Although she has been a member of many Congregational Church and civic organizations, her basic interest has always been her home and her children. Here centered her life and here her many friends and relatives came to visit her.

Mrs. Shattuck s public service and that of her husband, Edmund Shattuck, a partner of the Morrill Ink interests, were brightest in those 20 years at the opening of the twentieth century. It was then that Norwood’s civic spirit blazed in a phenomenal growth. Into this growth, Mrs. Shattuck put her interest, time, and money, A list of her activities at that time would be long and interesting because the general public had no definite knowledge of all the good deeds she did for the town. One of them however, stands today where all may see it — the lovely little Shattuck Park on Winter and Nichols Street. As the town builds up rapidly in that section, Shattuck Park is increasingly appreciated by its neighbors. It was presented to the town of Norwood by. Mrs. Shattuck.

She was one of a group of women who established the first kindergarten in the old Congregational vestry which stood on Washington Street opposite the present Norwood Press. This occurred about 1877.

When the “Corner House” of the Norwood Civic Association was organized and become the germ from which the later Civic grew, Mrs. Shattuck was a prime mover and worker in the project.

During the long illness which preceded her passing. Mrs. Shattuck’s daughter Maude A. Shattuck gave her mother an unselfish and loving devotion.

The immediate relatives which Mrs. Shattuck leaves are the following children Mrs. Harry F Allen. Miss Maude A. Shattuck, Edmund J Shattuck, and Mrs. Philip L. Reed. She also leaves nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

(All articles were originally published in the Norwood Messenger unless otherwise noted)