Editing Lancaster, Massachusetts (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Herman Vandenburg Ames]], dean of the [[University of Pennsylvania]] graduate school
* [[James Atherton (early settler to Massachusetts)|James Atherton]], pioneer and the namesake of [[Atherton Bridge]]
* [[Frank Bancroft]], Baseball manager
* [[Luther Burbank]], botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science
* [[Ezra Butler]], [[United States Representative]] from [[Vermont]]
* [[James C. Carter]], New York City lawyer
* [[Charles F. Chandler]], chemist
* [[Horace Cleveland]], landscape architect
* [[Francis B. Fay]], merchant and politician
* [[Hannah Flagg Gould]], poet
* Timothy Harrington, Lancaster clergyman<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Harrington, Timothy|year=1892}}</ref>
* Abraham Haskell, physician<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Haskell, Abraham|year=1892}}</ref>
* [[Stephen N. Haskell]], clergyman and pioneering leader of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, founded South Lancaster Academy
* [[Caroline Lee Hentz]], novelist
* [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]], astronomer who discovered the relation between the [[luminosity]] and the period of [[Cepheid variable|Cepheid variable stars]]
* [[Charles W. Moors]], Wisconsin politician
* George Parker, President of the [[Lancaster Railroad]]
* Harold Parker, First Chairman of the Massachusetts State Forest Commission, namesake of the [[Harold Parker State Forest]]
* Cornelia C. Parker, donated 58 acres of forest to the New England Forestry Foundation creating the Parker Family Woods
*[[Herbert Parker (Massachusetts politician)]], Republican politician, Massachusetts Attorney General from 1902–1906
* John Prescott, pioneer, founder of Lancaster
* [[Mary Rowlandson]], colonial Indian captive and [[A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson|author of one of America's first best selling books]]
* [[Jared Sparks]], historian, [[Harvard University]] president (taught at a private school in Lancaster 1815–1817)
* [[John Thayer (ornithologist)|John Thayer]], ornithologist
* [[Nathaniel Thayer]], Unitarian congregational minister
* [[Nathaniel Thayer Jr.|Nathaniel Thayer]] (Jr.), financier and philanthropist
* John Whitcomb, soldier in the Continental Army<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Whitcomb, John|year=1889}}</ref>
* Henry Whiting, soldier in the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Whiting, Henry|year=1889}}</ref>
* Abijah Willard, Loyalist soldier in the American Revolution<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Willard, Abijah|year=1889}}</ref>
* [[Dr. Samuel Willard]], representative to the Massachusetts ratification of the [[United States Constitution]]