Who in the World is Nathan C. Aldrich?

A descendent of George Aldrich, one of the founding fathers of Mendon, Nathan C. Aldrich was a Quaker born in N. Smithfield, RI in 1799. In 1821 he purchased 140 acres from his brother, Luke Jr., and set out to reputedly build "the biggest stone house in Worcester County". He employed highly skilled Quaker stone masons to construct the dressed granite house with stone from local quarries. In 1824, the house was completed, along with it's enormous dairy barn, and he began farming the land. He married his wife, Dianna, in 1825 and they had one child, Elizabeth, born in 1830. Nathan died of cholera in 1867, and left his large granite house to his wife and daughter.