James Atherton was an early settler and one of the founders of Lancaster, Massachusetts. He emigrated to the New England Colonies from the parish of Wigan, Lancashire, England, in 1635.
Uriah Atherton Boyden was an American civil and mechanical engineer and inventor from Foxborough, Massachusetts best known for the development of a water turbine, that later became known as the Boyden
James Atherton (settler)
…Seth Boyden (1788–1870), inventor Uriah Atherton Boyden (1804–1879), inventor from Foxborough, Massachusetts best known for the development of the Boyden Turbine Henry Atherton Frost (1883–1952), an architect…