rF -yOC Sc.) . K^: civ? fA3....HAh. J . i ..' 7^:WJi FROM The BATES FUND 3^ NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF GENEALOC AND PERSONAL HISTORY THIS VOLUME OF THE NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY CONTAINS GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF THE Commonwealth of Massachusetts Compiled under the editorial supervision of Charles Edwin Hurd, Literary Editor of the Boston Trntiscript. VVho among men art thou, and thy years how many, good friend f " — Xenophanes. BOSTON: NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1902. i- \v A /v ,■■ o V ^ o ^ l^ p r^ PREFACE. IN presenting the Massachusetts volume of " The New England Genealogy and Personal History " to the public, a word or tv o o.i the p. the publishers may not be deemed inappropriate. The plun h|)on which work was based was primarily to give personal sketches of the lead'ng representat; of prominent Massachusetts families, accompanied by brief genealogies. The pt sonal matter was furnished chiedy by the families themselves; but the responsibilit of collecting the genealogical material, putting it into shape, and verifying -it, has rested almost entirely with the publishers. No pains have- been spared to make th' feature accurate and reliable. The publishers would take tliis opportn'.-/,l> t.^ .eturn their tlianks to thelibraria of the Historic-Genealogical Society, the Athenj;um, the Massachusetts State Librar and the Massarhvisetts Historical Society cov favors received; also, to those of patrons who have personally assisted us by furnishing genealogical data ERRATA. On" page 403, second column, eighth line (sketch of George D. Eustis), for October 28 read October 23. In the following line for Francis read Frances, and for December 21, 1872, read December 21, 1882. PUBLIC JOHN FISKK. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY. fJOUN 1-ISKE, LiTT. D., LL. D., at the opening of the twentieth century the foremost of living American historians, eminent, too, as an expounder of the doc- trine of evolution and as an orig- inal interprets'!' of nature, died sudden ])■ on July 4, I go I, at Gloucester, Mass., whither he had gone a few days previously from his home in Cambridge, debilitated by the excessive heat of the early summer. Professor l'"iske, as he was gener- all}' known, deriving his title from the chair he held at Washington University, St. Louis, that of American history, was born at Hart- ford, Conn., March 30, 1842, only child of Edmund Brewster and Mary Fiskc (Bound) Green. He was given the double name of Ed- mund Fiske, compounded from the personal names of his father and mother, and until he was thirteen years of age was known as Ed- mund h'iske Green. In 1S55, three years after the death of his fathci', which occurred July I I, 1S52, at Panama, his name was changed to its present form, John P'iske, formerly borne by his mother's maternal grandfather, who died at Middlctowu, Conn., P'ebruary 15, 1S47. Edmund ]5rewster Green, father of Professor I-'iske, was a native of Smyrna, Del., b. in 1815, son of Humjihreys Green and his sec- ond wife, Hannah Heaton. He was educated at W'ilbraham Academy, Mass., and at W'es- leyan Universit}-, Middletown, Conn., class of 1S37. In the forties he was editorially con- nected for a while as an associate of John G. W'hittier with a Plartford pajier. Afterward he had charge of the short-lived Saturday Review of New York, and still later was private secre- tar)- to Henry Cla}'. After her husband's death Mis. Green m. the Hon. Edwin Wallace Stoughton, of New York City, who was United States Minister to Russia, 1877-79, resigning then on account of ill health and dying in New York in 1882. Professor P'iske's mother was b. at Middle- town, Conn., June 21, 1S21. Her parents, John and I\Iary (I-'iske) Bound, were m. in 1 8 17. John Bound d. in Montgomery, Ala., July 18, 1835. His wife, Mary, b. in 1795, was the second child of John and Polly (Mer- rills) Fiske. Her mother was a native of Kil- lingvvorth, Conn. Her father, who may be designated as John' Fiske, being of the seventh generation of his family in New I-Ingland, was the fifth John in direct line of descent from Phinehas' Fiske, an early settler of Wenham, formerly a part of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. The P'nglish ancestry has been traced back to Symond I-^iske, who as earl_\- as 1422, it is said, was lord of the manor of Stadhaugh, ]3ar- ish of Laxfield, Suffolk, England, where he d. in 1464. Thomas Fiske, of Laxfield par- ish, son of Robert and descendant of Symond of Stadhaugh Manor, was the father of Phine- has above named, the immigrant progenitor of the particular branch (jf the P'iske family in New England now being considered. Interest- ing information in regard to the early Fiskes I of Laxfield and Stadhaugh Manor, their heredi- ; tary seat for a number of generations, or till 1675, are contained in the P'iske Genealogy by Mr. F. C. Peirce. Phinehas Fiske, son of Thomas Fiske and his wife, Margery, was m. at Laxfield, Eng- land, in 163S. His wife, Sarah, d. at Wen- ham in 1659, and he m. in 1660 Elizabeth NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Easterick. He \vai:> niaile freeman at W'eiihani in 1642. He served as Captain of tlie militia, as Constable, and as Representative to the General Court, and was ajspointed to tr}' small cases. His son John,' who came with him from England, was admitted freeman at Wen- ham in 1649. He served as Constable, Select- man, Representative, and as a Deacon of the church. Dying in 1683, he was survi\'cd by his wife. Remember, and si.x children. John^ Fiske, b. in 1654, was a ]iractising physician and surgeon at W'enham, Mass., and later at Milford, Conn. He m. in 16S2 Han- nah, daughter of John antl Mar)- (Howen) Baldwin, of Milford, Conn., whither he re- mox'ed in 1694. John,-" b. in 1693, son of iJr. John and Hannah (Baldwin) Fiske, settled before 171 5 at Haddam, Conn. He served as Representative in 1742, and before 1749 re- moved to Middletown, where he d. in 1761. He was commissioned Captain in the .State militia in 1 735. John,' b. at Haddam in 171S, son of Captain John-" Fiske and his first wife, Hannah, settled in Middlesex County, Connecticut, residing successively at Middletown and at Chatham. His second wife was Ann Tyler. II is sun, Bezaleel'' Fiske, b. at Middletown in 1743, m. in 1768 Margaret Rockwell. She d. January' 6, 1810, and he ni. in August following Abi- gail Dobson. For a long teini of years he served as Town Clerk of Middletown, also holding other offices. In 1 79S he iemo\'ed to Holland Patent in New York .State. John' Fiske, son of BezaleeT' and Maigaret, was Town Clerk of Middletown fifty years, was also treasurer and clerk of the county and Supreme Court. His first wife, I'olh- Mcnill, d. in 1837. His second wife, C)li\c Cnne, sur\'i\'ing him, d. in 1868. His secniid child, Mary"* (or i'olly) Fiske, ni. in 1817 John Bound, and was the mother ui Mary h'iske'' Bound, who became the wife of luhnund B. Green and mother of Edmund l'"iske"' (now John), the subject of the present sketch. John l-"iske, of the tenth generation of his maternal grandmother's family and si.xth of the name in the line of descent, passed his boyhood at Middletown, Comi., jnu'suing his prei^aratory studies under different teachers. Entering the Sophomore Class at Har\-ard Col- lege in i860, he was graduated in 1863. Sub- sequently studying law, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S64, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the Harvard Law School in 1865. \\'hatever may have been his original intention, he nevei- practised law. The natural bent, of his youthful mind and his dawning ability to grapple with ques- tions ta.xing mature intellects were shown in an article from his pen on "Mr. Buckle's ]'"allacies " in the .Ycitiaiii/ Oz/irrhr/j' J\!r7'ic7i.'. From that time to the close of his life he was a frequent contributor to American and British periodicals, both literar}' and scientific. Pro- fessor F'"iske won his earl\' laurels as a disciple (if Darwin and Spencer, a lucid expositor of the theory of evolution, and, moreover, a val- uable contributor to the bod)' of doctrine which goes under that name, he being tlie first to point out the momentous significance of the prolonged period of infancy, its importance in the development of the himian race. At Harvard Uni\'ersity in 1869-71 he was lecturer of ]3hiloso].ih)', in 1870 instructor in history, 1S72-79 assistant librarian, aiul 1879- 91 a member of the l^oard of Overseers. At Washington University, .St. Louis, beginning in 1S81, he delivered annually a course of lect- ures on American history, and from 1884 held, as already noted, the professorship of American history. He lectured on the subject in 1879 at University College, London, and in iSSoat the Ro)-al Institution of Great Britain. Nor were his discourses confined to stuilents and learned societies. He delivered many hun- dreds of lectures, chiefly upon our country's histor)', in the principal cities v{ the L'nited States and Great Britain. Applying the evo- lutional v principle to history, he attained dis- tinction as a "po]uilaiizer of useful knowl- edge. In 1894 I'rofessor Fiske received from the L'ni\eisit)' of Pennsyh'ania the degree of Doc- tor of Letters and from FLarvard University the degree of Doctor of Laws. Fie was a fel- low of the American Academy of Sciences, a mcmbei- of the American Oriental Society, of the British F'olk-lore Society, the Essex In- stitute, the Ameiican Geographical Society, GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY American Antiquarian Society, the histnrical societies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina, Minnesota, Oregon, Nantucket, \'ir- ginia, Missouri, Calitnrnia. and Oneida County, (New York), and the Military Historical So- ciety of Massachusetts; also foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of l^razil. He was ]3resident of the Boylston Club (of singers) in Boston, 1S77-82. He was the author of the following named books: "Tobacco and Alco- hol," New Y'ork, 1868: "Myths and Myth Makers, ' ' Boston, i S72 ; "The Unseen World, ' ' 1876; "Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, based on the Doctrine of Evolution, " two volumes, London, 1874 (republished in Boston); "Dar- winism and Other Essays," London, 1879; "I'lxcursions of an Evolutionist," Boston, 1S83; "The Destiny of Man \ iewed in the Light of his Origin," Boston, 1S84; "The Idea of God, as affected by ^Modern Knowl- edge," Boston, 1S85; "American Political Ideas viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History," New York, 1885; "Critical Period of American History," 188S; "Beginnings of New England," iSSg; "Civil Government in the United States, " i8go; ".American Revolu- tion," two volumes, 1S91 ; "The Discovery of America," two volumes, 1892; History of the United States for Schools, 1894; Memoirs of Edward Livingston Youmans, 1894; "Old \'irginia and her Neighbors," 1S97; "The Dutch and Quaker Colonies, " 1899; "Through Nature to God," 1899; "A Centur\- of Sci- ence," 1899; "The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War," igoo; "Life Jiverlasting, " in press for early fall jjublication, the fourth and completing volume of the series beginning with "The Destiny of Man, " and his latest work, "New France and New England." Professor Fiske was married September 6, 1864, to Abby Morgan Brooks. They had si.\ children, namely: Maud, born at Jamaica Plain, July 21, 1865; Harold Brooks, born at Cambridge, May 13, 1867; Clarence Stough- ton, born i\Iay 10, 1869; Ralph l^rowning, who was born November 16, 1870, and died June 15, 1898; Ethel, born at Cambridge, July 22, 1S72; and Herbert Hu.xley. born August 20, 1S77. Mrs. Fiske was born Au- gust 4, 1S39, a daughter of Aaron and Martha .Amelia (Willson) Brooks. She is now living in Cambridge. Maud Fiske was married December 1 2, 1896, to Grover Flint, son of the late Major General Cuvier Grover, U.S.A., and his wife, Susan Flint. After General Grover's death his son lived with his maternal grandparents, and, in accordance with their wishes, his name was changed by act of Legislature to Flint. Mr. and Mrs. Flint have one son, Cuvier Grover Flint, born April 5, 1900. Grover Flint was a war correspondent in 1896, and is the author of a book, "Marching with Gomez," published with a historical introduction by John Fiske and illustrations b}' the writer in i8g8. Clarence Stoughton Fiske married in New York Cit}', June i, 1S95, Margaret Gracie Higginson, daughter of James Jackson and Margaret (Gracie) Higginson and niece of Henry Lee Higginson, of l^oston. They have three children: Margaret Gracie, born March 9, 1896; Barbara, born September 7, 1S97; and John, born September 17, 1900. AMES MACMASTER CODMAN. The Codmans of Charlestown and Bos- ton are descendants of Robert Codman, who was at Salem in 1637, received land at Salisbury in 164 i, removed to Hartford a few years later, and afterward to Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where there is a spring called Codman's -Spring. He d. at Edgartown i in 167S. The line of descent from Robert to James Macmaster is: Robert,' Stephen, ' John, ''^'5 Charles Russell,'' James Macmaster." Stephen,- son of Robert, came to Charles- town about 1680 with his wife and two chil- dren — Stephen and Pllizabeth. He d. in 1706, when he was fifty-five years old. His wife, Elizabeth Randall, b. 1654, daughter of Stephen and Susanna (Barron) Randall, of Watertown, d. April i, 1708. Her paternal grandparents were Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Morton) Randall, the latter of whom d. in 1672, at the age of eighty years. Her ma- ternal grandparents were Ellis and Grace Bar- ron. Ellis Barron came from England to Watertown in 1641 ; served as Selectman; d. NEW KNGLAND I,1BKAR\' OF October 30, 1676. The childien of Stephen and Elizabeth Codman were eight in number, all of whom except John, the youngest born, d. before their father. John' Codman, b. October 4, 1696, was left an orphan at the age of twelve years. Me married in Charlcstown, 1718, Parnell l-'oster (b. August 25, 1696; d. September 15, 1752). It is said of him that he was a remarkably up- right man both in person and character, and was greatly respecteil. In 1744 he was Cap- tain in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Compan)'. lie owned land and buildings in Charlestown. He tl. in 1755, poisoned by his slaves Mark, Phyllis, and Phcebe, two of whom were executed, and one transported to the West Indies. Mis wife I'arnell was a tlaughter of Captain Richartl and I'arnell (Winslow) Fos- ter. Her paternal grandparents were Captain William ami Anne (Krackenbury) Poster, of Charlestown, the latter a daughter of William and Alice Brackenbur}'. John and Parnell Codman had eleven children between 1719 and 1739, of whom but two left issue — John and Richard. The others were: Stephen, Benja- min, Parnell, PLlizabeth, Mary, Ann, Benja- min (second), Isaac, and Katherine. John^ Codman, b. 1719-20, m. in 1754 Abigail Asbury, widow, daughter of John aiul Dorcas (Coffin) Sole)'. He ilied in Boston at 42 Washington Street (which estate is still in the family) in 1792. He was for several years a Selectman of Charlestown. He was one of the Committee of Inspection, in 1770, as to the new importation of I^ritish goods. In 1773, with man}' other Whigs, he petitioned for a town meeting on the subject of the tea which was soon to be imijorted, and was placed on the committee appointed to consider what measures should be adopted. As a result of their deliberations, the tea already imported was confiscated and burned in the Market Square. lohn and Abigail Codman had seven children, three of whom left issue; namely, John, Ste[jhen, and William. Mrs. Abigail Codman was a grand-daughter of Cajitain John and Abigail (Shute) Soley, of Charlestown. Abigail Shute was daughter of William and Ho])estill (\'iall) .Shute, her mother being a daughter of Jolin and Mary V'iall, of England, who were settled in Boston in 1629. Mrs. Codman's mother, Uorcas Coffin (b. July 22, 1693, d. May 8, 1778), was daughter of Na- thaniel and Damaris (Gayer) Coffin, who were m. October 17, 1692. Xathanicl Coffin, of Nantucket, was son of James and Maiy (.Se\'er- ance) Coffin, the fornier b. in England, August 12, 1640, the latter b. August 5, 1645, a daughter of John and Abigail Severance, who came from England and were settled in Salis- bury, Mass., in i'')37. James Coffin was a son of Tristram and Dionis (Ste\ens) Coffin. 'J'ristram Coffin was b. at I'l}'mouth, Pjigland, in 1609, and came in 1642 to Salisbury, Mass. He was son of Peter and Joanna ( Ihurber) Coi'fin, of Devonshire, pjigland. His wife Dionis was a daughter of Robert Stevens. The Plon. John^ Coilman, b. in Charles- town, January 17, 1755, married July 15, 1 78 1, Margaret Russell, daughter of the Hon. James and Katherine (Graves) Russell. She was a woman higlih' thought of and greatly lo\'ed and admired for her man)' noble quali- ties. Their children were: John, b. 1782 (Harvard College, 1S02, D. D. ; d. Dorchester, 1847); and Chailes'' Russell, further men- tioned below. Margaret Russell Codman d. in March, 1789, at the early age of thirt)'-two years; and the Hon. [ohn Codman m. for his secoml wife, in 1791. Catherine Amory, daughter of John and Catherine (Greene) Amory. Of this second union there were six children — Geoige, Catherine Margaret, Will- iam Amory, l-"rancis, I^lizabeth, and Mary /Ynne. h'our (jf these died unmarried; Mary Anne m. William Ropes; and Catherine Mar- garet m. John R. Plurd, of New 'N'ork. The Hon. John' (^'odnian receix'ed his earl)' education in Dummer Academy, Byfield. He was brought up to business in the counting- room of Isaac Smith, Ivsq. , and subsequentl)' became a member of the firm of Codman is: Smith. Later he conducted business alone, and actpiired a large estate. I"or a few years his brother Richard was associated with him as partner. He was a member of Brattle .Street Chuich, then under the care of Dr. Thacher. A man of great abilities, he filled man)- im- portant stations in puldic life, and was a mem- ber of the Massachirsettts Senate. He died, GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HIS'^OR^' 13 after a shdrt illness, May 17, 1803, at the ai^e of forty-eiglit years. His death caused a shock to the community, and was the subject of an eloquent obituary in which a glowing trib- ute was paid to his personal character, and deep regret expressed that a career giving so much promise of future eminence and useful- ness shoultl have been cut prematurely short. His first wife, Margaret Russell, was a grand- daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Chambers) Russell, Daniel (b. 1685) being a son of the lion. James Russell, by his fourth wnfe, Abi- gail Curwen, widow of K. Hawthorne, of Salem, and daughter of George and I'llizabeth (Herbert) Curwen, who came from Cumberland County, England, to Salem, Mass., in 1638. The Hon. James Russell's parents were the Hon. Richard and Maud (Pitt) Russell, who came from Bristol, England, to Charlestown, ALass. . in 1640. Rebecca Chambers (b. 1691) was a daughter of the Hon. Cliarles and Rebecca (Patefield) Chambers, of Charlestown, the former of whom was from Eineolnshire, Eng- land. Rebecca Patefield (b. 1657) was a daughter of John and Amy Patefield, early residents of Charlestown. Charles'' Russell Codman, b. in Boston, Mass., December ig, 17S4, was bred a mer- chant. When he was nineteen years of age. his father died ; and he inherited some of the real estate in Kilby and Lindall Streets, Bos- ton, also the Lincoln estate at Lincoln, Mass., the original owner of which w-as Judge Cha.";; bers Russell, who built the hou c and named the town from Lincoln, England, the iiome of his ancestors. After retaining this property for a few years, Mr. Codman sold it; and it was repurchased by his son Ogden many years later. In 1809 Mr. Codman went to Europe, and was engaged to some extent in mercantile adventures there. He passed a year at Tours, where he acquired an excellent knowledge of P'rench. He had opportunities of seeing Na- poleon and other celebrities of the day. After travelling on the Continent and in England, he returned to America in 18 12, and again took up mercantile pursuits. He was executor and trustee of several family estates. He pur- chased the house 29 Chestnut Street, Boston, in 1817. On October 20, 1S25, he m. in New York Anne Macmastcr, who was b. in London, England, July, 1798, daughter of Captain James and Ann (Van Buskirk) Mac- master. He had two daughters, Frances and Ann, who both d. about the same time in 1828. The parents went to Europe in April, 1829. Two sons, Charles R. and James M., were b. in Paris, where Mrs. Codman d. April 22, 1831. Her monument is at Pere-la- Chaise. Mr. Codman returned to Boston in September, 1831. In 1S36 he m. Sarah Ogden, of New Ynrk, who d. in 184-, leaving three children — Frances Anne, Ogden, an Richard. Mr. Codman was senior warden . Old Trinity Church. I^oston, for many yea rs. PI is house on Chestnut Stiect was noted for its elegant appointments, furniture, library, and pictures, many of which were from his 1 .nclf Richard's i:)urchase in Paris during the Hevo- lution, the original invoice of which, by Le- Brun, is in the jjossession of Mr. Co-Jman' son, James Macmaster Codman, 'vhose namf. appears at the head of this sketch, 'f'he col- lection of pictures was divide 1 after his death between his four sons. He was a gentleman of f the old school, of ]Dolished anrl courteous manners and of a refined and culti^ ated taste. The journal of Mr. and Mrs. Codman's travels in Europe, 1829-31, has been pnrserved, and forms a most interesting narration. Mr. Cod- man died in Boston, at his e. idence, 29 Chestnut Street, July 16, 185.-, "t the age of sixty-eight years. PI is portrait, pa'nted by Stuart, is now owned by J. M. Cix man. Of his children the foUowmg is a brief record : — 1. Charles R. , m. Lucy L. P. Sturgis. Issue: Mary, d. unmarried; Charles R. , Jr., d. unmarried; Russell, m. Crafts; Anne, m. H. Cabot; Su.san W'elbs, m. Reddington P'iske; John; Julian, m. M. Chadwick. 2. James Macmaster. See special mention to follow. 3. Frances Ann, m. Jonn R. Stvirgis, brother of Lucy Sturgis. Issue : Gertrude, m. Francis Hunnewell, d. iS-; Frances Ann; Mabel Russell; Maud Russcil; John H. ; Evelyn; Charles R. 4. Ogden, m. Sarah Bradlee. Issue: Ogden, Alice, Thomas N., Hugh, and Dorothea. 14 NEW ENGLAN]) LIBRARY OF 5. Richard, m. Susan Sargent. Issue : Lucy, Susan, Richard, Alfred, and Margaret. The ancestry of Anne Macmaster, Charles Russell Codman's first wife, was as follows: Anne Macmaster, daughter of James and Ann (Van Buskirk) Macmaster, the father of Scotcli descent, captain of a merchantman sailing from London (m. October g, 1794, at Shelburne, N. S. ), d. at Malta. Ann \'aii Buskirk (b. De- cember 22, 1773, d. in London, England, Feb- ruarv 27, 1800) was daughter of Colonel \braham Van Buskirk, a medical practitioner f Woodbridge, Bergen County, N.J. (b. in ., ew Jersey in 1735), who before the Revolu- tio n was surgeon of the Bergen County (New Jeri'-ey) militia. He joined the Third Battal- ion, New Jersey Volunteers, of the British arnn and was one of the Loyalists in 17N3. Acco.npanied by his wife and children, he set- tled at ShelLiurne, N.S. , where he was made Mayor of the town. He was one of those who n.-mainL-d in .Shelburne after the decline of the town aiT. the general e.xodus, and in 17S5 he bought a tract of land there which he called Woodchu' -h Farm. He d. there in June, 1799. h ."L wife had d. ten years before, and his children had mostly married and dis- persed to different localities. Twice married, he had by b.is first wife two children — .Sarah and Jacob; and by his second (Jane Dey), Maria and Anne. His wife, lane De\', whom he m. A|. 5, 1770, was b. in New York, Marcn 5, 1750, and d. m Nova Scotia, February 25, 17S9. .She was a daughter of Theunis and Hester (.Schuyler) Dey, both of Dutch ances- try, Thounis being a son of Colonel Theunis Dircksen Sleeken Dey (whose wife was .\n- neken .Schouten, b. March 17, i666), and grandson of Dirck Janse and Jannetje (Theunis) Dey, emigrants frun; Holland, who were m. in New Amsterdam, December 28, 1641. Theu- nis Dey was Colonel of the Bergen Count}- Regiment in 1776, his son Dirck being Major. The Dey house at I'reaknes.s, N.J., was for three months in 1780 the headquarters of General Washington. Hester Schuvler, abo"e mentioned, was a daughter of I'hillipus anc' Hester (Kingsland) Schuyler (l'hilli|>us, baptized at Albany, Sc])- tember 11, 16S7, m. about 1713); Phillipus, a son of Aient (b. June 25, 1662) and Jannetje (Teller) Schuyler; Arent, a son of Philip, progenitor of the family, and Margaretta (Van Slichtenhorst) .Schuyler, who were m. 1650. .She (Margaretta), b. 1628, was a daughter of Brant Arent \'an Slichtenhorst, from Ny- lert, Gelderlancl. Jannetje Teller was a daughter of William and Mary (X'arlaith) Teller, emigrants from llollaiul, \C'^g, to Albany, and after to New York. Hester Kingsland was a daiighter of Isaac and P'lizabeth Kingsland, who lived at I-iarba- does Neck, east siile of the Passaic Ri\er, three miles above Newark, N.J. James Macmaster Codman was born at the Hotel Hiillande, Rue de la Paix, Paris, France, .Apiil 17, 1S31. He attended succes- siveK the scliool of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall in Bulfinch Street, Boston, that of Forbes and Cushing (under Park Street Church), the Bos- ton Latin School, and St. Paid's College, I'lushing, Long Island, N.\'., subsequently recei\ing instruction from a jirivate tutor, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1851. After lea\-ing college, he engaged in the Luist India iraile, making a \-oyage to India. He was connected with the business for some seven years. .Spending two years, 1855-56, in tra\'elling abioad, he visited the Crimea 'uring the war. In 1857 he returned to Bos- , ami retired from active business pursuits. . . was mai.ied October 8, 1858, to Miss Hen- rietta Gray Sargent, daughter of Ignatius and Henrietta {Gra\) .Sargent, of Boston. (See Sargent pamphlet.) Mr. and Mrs. Codman are the jiarents of five children. I-'rancis, who was engaged in farming, died unmarried. James M, ^ .nan, Jr., is an attorney of Bos- ton and a- -lelectmaii in the town of Brookline. Henry S. and Philip, who both died unmarried, were prominent lanilsca])e architects. Their jMofessional library was presented by their fathei- and mother to the Boston Public Li- brary. Cora IS the wife of William 1^1_\', of Pro\adence, R. 1. Mr. Codman, like his ancestors, has served as Selectman of his town (Brookline) and also as tiustce of tlie public librar\'. He is presi- GRNEAT.OGY AND TERSONAL HJS'I'ORY »5 dent i)f the American Guernsey Cattle Club, president of the Canaveral Shooting Club of Florida, and a member of the Union and St. l^otolph Clubs of ]3().ston. He is a member of the Episcopal church. Politically, he is in- dependent. He has been an extensive travel- ler and a sportsman, both in this and foreign countries. ON. LEVKRI'TT SALTONSTALL, A.M., Collector of the Port of Bos- ton from December, 1885, to Febru- ary, 1890, was a native of Salem, and a representative of an old and influential New England family, long distinguished for public services, being a descendant in the eighth generation of Sir Richard Saltonstall, first associate of the Massachusetts Bay Col- ony and one of the patentees of Connecticut. His parents were the Hon. Leverett and Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Saltonstall; and his ances- tral line, beginning with the first of the name in America, included five Harvard graduates, as thus shown: Sir Richard," Richard,' Na- thaniel' (Harvard College, 1659), Richard' (1695), Richard' (1722), Nathaniel^ (1766), Leverett' (1802). Sir Richard Saltonstall, son of Samuel and grandson of Gilbert Saltonstall, baptized April 4, 1586, at Halifa.x, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where the Saltonstalls had been inhabitants for centuries, came over witli G-^ ernor Winthrop in the "Arbella " in lu and was one of the founders of Watertowh. Three sons and two daughters accompanied him to these shores ; and one son and the daughters returned with him to England, where he d. about 1658. He has left a good name. Pres- ident Quincy, in his "History of ^"'■vard Uni- versity," says of him, "Second ' to Har- vard and Winthrop in order of time, amount of benefactions, and value of services, stands Sir Richard Saltonstall, that 'excellent Knight,' as he is called by Mather." He is elsewhere spoken of as "a man of singular liberality in religion for a Puritan of the age in which he lived." "I hope you do not assume to 3'our- selves infallibility of judgment," he wrote to Mr. Cotton and Mr. Wilson, ]ireachers to the church in Boston, "when the most learned of the Apostles confesseth he knew but in part and saw through a glass darkly." Richard,' a "fellow-conmioner " of ICmman- uel College, Cambridge, England, who came over with his father, returning to England, m. there in June, 1633, Muriel Gurdon, daughter of Brampton and Muriel (Sedley) Gurdon, and, coming again to New England, settled at Ips- wich, Mass. He served the Colony as Dep- uty to the General Court, 1635-37, and a num- ber of years as assistant. Nathaniel,^ b. in Ipswich, m. Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Ward, of Haverhill, Mass., and grand- daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, of Ips- wich, author of "The Simple Cobbler of Aga- wani. " Richard,' b. in 1672 at Haverhill, m. Mehitabel, daughter of Captain Simon Wain- wright. He was a Representative to the Gen- eral Court in 1699, and later on held the mili tary rank of Colonel. Richard,' b. in 1 7r in Haverhill, was a Judge of the Super' Court of Judicature, and for a number of yr Representative from Haverhill. His t' wife was Mary, daughter of Elisha, Jr.. Jane (Middlecott) Cooke, grand-daughi" Richard and Sarah (Winslow) MicKlleco' great-grand-daughter of John and Mar^ ton) \\'inslow, all of Boston, John V being a brother of Governor Edward V Elisha Cooke, Jr., father of Mary C the son of Elisha, Sr. , and Elizabf ctt) , Cooke, and grandson of Gove ett. Dr. Nathanier Saltonstall, practising physician of Ha\'erhil otic citizen, b. in 1746, m. Anr Samuel White, a descendant of '•' of Ipswich and Haverhill. ^^ Leverett Saltonstall, LL' Nathaniel, of Haverhill, wa.'-/' yer and statesman, servinj- Speakcr of the Massachusett sentatives, as President of first Mayor of Salem, ant gress. He was presiden the Essex Agricultural Society, Fellow of th^ member of the Massa' ety and of the Board College. He m. I^'- i6 NKW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (I'Tkiiis) Sanders, of Salem. He had five children. The eldest of these, Anne Elizabeth, b. in 1812, d. in iSSi; Caroline, b. in 1815, d. in 1883; Richard G. d. in infancy; Lucy San- ders, b. in 1S22, m. John F. Tuckerman, M. D., and d. in 1S90; and Leverett, the youngest, b. March 16, 1825, d. April 15, 1895. Leverett Saltonstall, second, direct subject of the present sketch, was fitted for college at the Latin School in Salem, taught by Oliver Carleton, and was graduated at Hai'vard in the class of 1844, numbering many famous names, as witnessed by its history, wi'itten by Edward Wheelwright, secretary. At college he won distinction for his attainments in Greek, and was assigned a part at Commencement, a dis- quisition on Clarendon as a statesman. He was a member of the Institute of 1770, of the Hasty Pudding Club, tlie Porcellian Club, and 'le Pierian Sodality, and was First Marshal of s Tlass at Commencement. His graduation s shortly followed b)' a delightful visit of months at the home of his classmate, Dab- \t Fayal, whence he went to England, but uddenly recalled to his native land by the if his father in the spring of 1S45. He _' the degrees of Master of Art and Bach- l,Lws from Har\'ard Uiiiversity in 1847, I't two years travelling in Europe and and, returning to Boston in the au- 849, continued his legal studies in )f Sohier & Welch. Admitted to S50, he practised his profession in e years, and then retired from its 'le culture, active sympathy, and gave much time to j^hilan- hI other forms of public ser- ief Marshal of Harvard Uni- guration of President Eliot rshal of the Alumni at Com- 1 and 1872. As Vice-Presi- ai President in 1892, he ' mi dinner; and at Com- rt'hen his youngest son onded to a toast to the ?. In 1854 he was on shburn, with the rank h1 in 1S76 he served as Commissioner of Massachusetts to the Cen- tennial Exposition in Philadelphia. P\]r nearly twenty years he was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. He was a member of the Massachusetts His- torical Society, of the New Pjigland Historic- Genealogical Society, and of the Bostonian Society; one of the board of trustees of the old Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, of the Perkins Institute and Mas- sachusetts School for the Blind, and of the Massachusetts School .for Feeble-minded ; and for two years president of the L'nitarian Club of Boston. Appointed in December, 1885, by President Cleveland, Collector of the Port of Boston, he retained the office, efficiently dis- charging its duties till his resignation in Feb- ruary, 1S90. A public dinner tendered him at that time by the leading mercliants of the city, irrespective of party, he declined; but at the request of two hundred of their number he con- sented to the painting cif his portrait by D. Huntington, to be hung on the walls of the Custom House in Boston. Mr. Saltonstall married at Salem in Octo- ber, 1854, Rose S., daughter of John Clarke Lee and his wife Harriet Paine Rose. Mr. Lee was founder with George Higginson of the well-known l^anking house of Lee & Higgin- son of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Saltonstall had si.x children, namel)- : Leverett, third, born November 3, 1855; Richard Middlecott, l)orn October 29, 1859; Rose Lee, born June 17, 1861 ; Mary Elizabeth, born October 17, 1862; Philip Leverett, born May 4, 1867; and Endi- cott Peabody, born December 25, 1872. Lev- erett, third, died P'ebruary 14, 1863; and Rose Lee, who married George Webb West, died P>bruary 28, 1891, leaving two children. Richard Middlecott (Harvard College, 18S0), member of the -Suffolk Bar, marrietl Eleanor, daughter of Peter C. Brooks, of West Medford. Mary Elizabeth married a .son of Quincy A. and Pauline (Agassiz) Shaw — namely, Louis Agassiz .Shaw — who died July 3, 1891, leav- ing two children. Philip Leverett (Harvard College, 1889) married Frances A. F. Sher- wood, and has five children. Endicott Peabody (Harvard College, 1894) married P^lizabeth Dupee, and has one child. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 17 The Hon. L.everctt Saltonstall died at Chest- nut Hill, Newton, April 15, 1895, in the sevent}'-first year of his age. He had com- pleted but a short time before the preparation for the press of a valuable genealogical work, which under the supervision of his son, Rich- ard M., was [irintcd in 1897 for private distri- bution, under the title "Ancestry and Descend- ants of Sir Richard Saltonstall." To this book we arc indebted for most of the facts em- bodied in tlie forcgoinc; sketch. ^& f:> "ENRV LEE, A.iM., one of the most eminent and worthy citizens of Bos- ig I ton in the nineteenth century, of which lie did not live to see the close, his death occurring November 24, iSgS, eleven months after his retirement from the business house of Lee, Higginson & Co., was the elder son of Henry, Sr. , and Mary (Jack- son) Lee, and was born in Boston, September 2, 1817. Holding the rank of Colonel on Governoi Andrew's staff in the sixties, he came to be generally known under that title. He was of the si.xth generation in descent from Thomas Lee, a merchant of Boston, who d. in this city in June, 1766, in the ninety- third year of his age. Of this ancestor Colo- nel Lee wrote in a letter published in the "Salisbury Eamily Histories and Genealo- gies," volume HI. : "My grandfather's grand- father, Thomas Lee, was an honest, indus- trious, prosperous North End citizen, intrusted with many duties by town and church : his mother, Mart' a Mellowes, her father John, grandfather Oliver, great-grandfather Abraham, all respectable. Who Thomas Lee's father was I know not, only that he died when his son was very young. " Thomas Lee's mother also died, "leaving him in the care of his grandmother, who became Martha Winthrop, wife of Dean Winthrop." Thomas Lee above named m. in 1700 Deborah Flint, daughter of Ensign Edward Flint, of Salem. Their son, Thomas Lee, Jr.j^a graduate of Harvard College, 1722, and later a merchant in Boston, removed in 1733 to Salem. He represented Salem in the General Court in I '39 and 1740, and in 1747, the year of his death. By his first wife, Elizabeth Charnock, daughter of Captain John Charnock, of Boston, he had two daughters — Martha and Elizabeth. His second wife, Lois Orne, of Salem, who was b. in 1712, d. in 1790. She was the daughter of Captain Timothy and I..ois (Pick- ering) Orne. Her father, one of the early Salem merchants, previously a mariner, was the son of Joseph Orne, and grandson of John Home (or Orne), of Salem. Her mother, Lois, was a daughter of John' Pickering, of Salem, and his wife Sarah, whf) was a daughter of John and Lois (Ivory) Burrill, and grand- daughter of George' Burrill, "one nf the rich- est planters of Lynn. " Lieutenant Jf)hn^ Pickering, son of John,' the founder of the family in Salem, and grand- father of Lois Pickering, was in Captain Mose- ley's Company in the fight at Bloody I?rook, September 18, 16S5. His wife was Alice, daughter of William Flint and niece of Thomas F"lint, who both settled at Salem, probably before 1640. Colonel Timothy Pickering, pa- triot and statesman, who was a member of Washington's cabinet, was a scion of this notable family, being a grandson of John anti Lois (Orne) Pickering. Joseph' Lee, b. in Salem in 17.+4, son of Thomas, Jr.,' and Lois (Pickering) Lee, brought up by his widowcu mother, went to ,?ea as a boy of thirteen, became captain of a vessel, and later a merchant and ship-owner in Beverly, in Salem, and in Boston, whither he removed in 1S07, and where he d. in 1831. He was a man of wealth and liberality. Among the objects of his beneficence was the Massachusetts General Hospital, to which he gave twenty thousand dollars. His first wife was Elizabeth Cabot, sister of his partner, the Hon. George Cabot, and daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Higginson) Cabot. His sec- ond wife^vas her cousin Deborah, daughter of Francis Higginson, and w'idow of Stephen Cabot. Joseph Cabot, father of Elizabeth, was the youngest son of John Cabot, a native of the Isle of Jersey (son of Francis and Suzanne (Gruch)-) Cabot), who came to Salem with his brother George about the year 1700, m. Anne Orne, of Salem, and was the founder of the Esse.x County family of Cabot. Elizabeth i8 NEW ENGLAND IJRRARV f)!-" Higginson, wife of Joseph Cabot, was a de- scendant in the sixth generation of the Rev. Francis Higginson, first minister of the First Church in Salem, the ancestral line being: the Rev. Francis,' the Rev. John,^ John,^ John,-" John, 5 John^ Higginson, grandfather of Elizabeth,* married in 1672 Sarah Savage, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary (Symmes) Savage, of l^oston, and grand-daugh- ter of the ]\e\-. Zechariah Symmes, of Charles- town. Henry Lee, Sr. , b. in Beverly in 1782, son of Josejih and Elizabeth (Cabot) Lee, and ninth in a family of twelve children, was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover. He became a merchant of the firm of Bui lard & Lee, and engaged in the East India and South American trade. He was interested in political econ- omy, and was a friend and correspondent of Home Tooke and Richard Cobden. He d. February 6, 1867. He m. Mary, daughter of the Hon. Jonathan and Hannah (Tracy) Jack- son. The children of Henry and Mary (Jack- son) Lee were: Mary Cabot, who d. young; Mary Cabot, second, who m. George Higgin- son; Francis L., who m. Sarah M. A. Wilson; Colci-i-el Henry, the special subject of this sketch; Eli-abeth Cabot, who m. Dr. Charles E. Ware; and Harriet Jackson, b. in 1826, who m. Samuel Torrey Morse. Colonel Henry Lee was graduated at Har- vard College in 1836, and shortly began busi- ness life as a clerk in his father's counting- room. In 1 85 1 he joined the firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., brokers (founded in 1840 1 ^• his cousin John C. Lee and his brother-in- law George Higginson), of which he subse- quently became the head, and as such the promoter of large and important enterprises. It was his sagacious forethought that origi- nated the Union Safety Deposit Vaults, of which he was the manager. He was president of the Provident Institution for .Savings, a director of the Bunker Hill Association, for thirty years a member of the Board of Over- seers of Harvard University, treasurer of the Building Fund of Harvard Memorial Associa- tion and of the Association for Preserving the Old South Meeting-house. "His public spirit," it has been well said, "had no narrow limitations. Whate\-er concerned the well- being of his city, his State, or his country, was of profound interest for him, and promptly engaged the services of his helping hand, the counsel of his sagacious mind, and the enthu- siasm of his ready sympathies. He loved literature and the fine arts. He was a valued contributor to the former, and a liberal patron of both." He was a member of the New England His- toric-Genealogical Society and of the Massa- chusetts Historical .Society. At the meeting of the latter in December, iSg8, a few weeks after his death, J. Elliot Cabot was ap|3ointed to write a memoir of his life for publication. President Eliot, of Harvard, on that occasion, in a tribute to the character and worth of Colo- nel Lee, alluded to his service as Chief Mar- shal on Commemoration Day, 1856, and in the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversar)- of the college in 1886; spoke of him as a man who in his business dealings loved honor and hated baseness, scorned pretence, and thoroughly detested eminent mental capac- ity used for selfish or harmful ends, one who had a "real delight in every human capacity for love and righteousness, and in every right- eous capacity for human ser\'ice " ; noted his interest in the preservation of ancient land- marks and historical sites and buildings, and in commemorating heroic persons, good deeds, and great events; the fact that "family love with him included generations earlier and later than his own," and that he was "an habitual attendant at church, an admirer of good preaching, and a believer in the social and political efficiency of religious teaching." Henr)' Lee and Elizabeth Perkins Cabot were married October 20, 1845. They became the parents of eight children, nameh': Eliza- beth Perkins, born in 1846, who manied in 1876 Frederick C. Shattuck ; Henry, born in 1848, who died in 1872; Clara, who was born in 1850 and died in 1S72; Elliot Cabot, born in 1854; George, born in 1856; Margaret, born in 1858, who died in 1879; Joseph, born in 1862; .Susan Mary, born in 1864, who died in 1872. Mrs. Lee is now living at the family resi- dence in Brookliiie. .She was born in 1823, GENIiALOGV AND PERSONAL HISTORY '9 daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Perkins) Cabot, of Boston. (THN CODMAN, D. D., first pastor of the Second Church and Society in Dor- chestei', was born in Boston, August 3, 1782. He was the son of the Hon. John and Margaret (Russell) Codman, sixth in line of descent from Robert Codman of Salem and Edgartown, Mass., and fifth from Robert's son Stejjhen, who was of Charlestown in 1680. His father was grandson of Captain John Cod- man, whose wife, Parnel, was a daughter of Captain Richard and Parnel (Winslow) Foster, Parnel Winslow being a daughter of Isaac Winslow, grand-daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow, and great-grand-daughter of Governor Edward Winslow of Plymouth Colony. It is thus shown that Dr. Codman was a "Mayflower" descendant of the eighth generation. His maternal grandmother, Kath- erine Graves, wife of the Hon. James Russell, Jr., was a great-grand-daughter of Rear Ad- miral Thomas Graves, of Charlestown. The Hon. John Codman was an enterprising and prosperous merchant of Boston and a use- ful and highly respected citizen. At the time of his death in 1803, at the age of forty-eight years, he was a member of the Massachusetts .Senate. He was survived by his second wife, Catherine Aniory, and several children. Dr. Codman was fitted for college at the acad- emy at Andover and imder the instruction of the Rev. Henry Ware, of Hingham, and was grad- uated with honor at Harvard in the class of 1802. He shortly began the study of law in the office of his kinsman, John Lowell, but was diverted fr<.)m it by the sudden death of his father and attendant circumstances, particu- larly by the wish intimated by his father that he should devote himself to the ministry of the gospel. In 1803 he began under his early teacher, the Rev. Henry Ware, the study of theology, which in the following year he con- tinued at Cambridge and later on in Edin- burgh, Scotland, going abroad for that purpose in 1805, sailing from Boston for Liverpool in the brig ".Superb " on July 30. Among his congenial associates in Cambridge were "sev- eral students and preachers of evangelical sen- timents, with one of whom, William Allen (afterward Doctor of Divinity and the writer of a memoir of Dr. Codman), he entered into a peculiar and strong friendship, which lasted during his subsequent life." With Dr. Chan- ning also he early became acquainted; and it is said that, although in after years "their views of Christian doctrine placed them in widely different relations, yet their mutual friendship and regard were never interrupted." Of the Kappa Delta .Society, formed by theo- logical students and preachers at Cambridge, Mr. Codman was the secretary. He was an active friend also of the Saturday Evening Religious .Society, said to have been useful in "keeiiing ali\'e, in a time of degeneracy, a spirit of piety. " With the so-called "liberal" theology of that day, and with the new opinions that in the minds of many began to take the ])lace of Cal- vinistic doctrines, Mr. Codman had no sympa- thy. "Neither the pride of the world nor the accomplishments of life nor the love of friends nor any or all the combined and powerful influ- ences which were brought to bear upon his mind could shake his high and holy resolu- tion" to enlist all his powers to promote "what lie believed to be the Gospel of the Son of God." Leaving Edinburgh in the spring of 1S07, Mr. Codman obtained at Bristol, Eng- land, in April, a license to preach, and shortly accepted a call to the pulpit of a .Scotch church in London, wheie he continued his labors for about a year. Returning to Boston in May, 1 80S, in August he preached his first sermon to the -Second Church in Dorchester, whose new meeting-house had been dedicated in Oc- tober, 1806. He was ordained as pastor of the church December 7, 1808, Dr. Channing preaching the sermon, which was on the im- portance of a zealous and affectionate perform- ance of ministerial duties, and was earnest and eloquent. In quietude and with great success the new jiastor labored for about a year. Then followed a period of anxiety, controversy, and trouble. His biographer points to this expe- rience as "precisely the discipline which he needed for the ]3erfecting of his virtues and the improvement of his character," saying that he NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF "waged a weary battle of three years, but he fought wisely, manfully, and prayerfully, and achieved a very important triumph." The Rev. Dr. Storrs, in his funeral discourse, said of him, "It was to win souls to Christ and jnepare them for the heavenly city, to the ex- clusion of every personal consideration and private interest, that he hazarded reputation, endured reviling, and emulated in fortitude the mart)'r.s at the stake." The disaffected ones at length retired from the ])arish, and early in 1813 organized the Third Religious .Society in Dorchester. I'rom this time the .Second Church under Dr. Codman was growing and harmonious, his long ministry successful and happy. He preached from its pulpit for the last time on October 18, 1S47, and he assisted in the communion service on December 5. He ' died December 23, 1S47. His friend, the Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Brain- tree, in his funeral discoin-se, giving a delinea- ti r. ■'^ ^^^'v^A.-///- OENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 23 years of his life he devoted his time to the management of the ninny large estates that were confided to his care, among the more im- portant heing that of Peter B. l^righam, a charitable trust fund of which he became exec- utor in 1S77, and which now amounts to nearly four million dollars. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Codman served as Alderman from his ward in 1856, but other- wise took no active part in ]iolitical affairs bcvond casting his vote. fn 1895 he succeeded William Rlinot as piesidcut of the Ma.ssachu- setts Mosjiital Life Insurance Company, of which he hatl been |)reviou.slv for several years vice-president. At the time of his death he was a director of the Fitchburg Railroad and of the New England Trust Company of Boston ; president of the House of the Good Samaritan, Boston; jiresident of the Wheelwright Scien- tific .School of Newburyporl, Mass. ; president of the Trustees of Donations of the Protestant EiMscopal Church; presiilent of the Episcopal Charitable .Society and of the .Standing Com- mittee of the Eijiscopal Club of Massachusetts; and .Senior Warden of the parish of the Church of the Advent, Boston. lie was a life mem- ber of the New I'jigland Historic-Genealogi- cal -Society. In his chLuch he was a zealous and earnest worker ; in the State a citizen of high intcgril}', courage, and public spirit, faithful to his clients and trusted and respected by all who knew him. Mr. Codman was manicd Xnvcniber 16, 1854, in Luiiversity Place Church, New York, to Catherine C. Hnrd, daughter of John Rus- sell and Catherine M. (Codman) Hurd. Mrs. Codman died in 1S92, leaving fi\-e children: Catherine Amor}-, Robert, jr., Archibald, Edmund Dwight, and .Stei^hen Russell Llurd. Robert Codman, jr., was graduated at Harvard in 1882, and in the year 1900 was appointed Anglican Bishoji of Maine. Archibald, who was graduated at Trinity College in 1885, was rector of the Church of Our .Saviour, Roslin- dale. He died May 4, 1891. Edmund Dwight was graduated at Har\'ard in 1886, and was president of the P'itchburg Railroad Com- pany until the lease of that company to the Boston & Maine Railroad Company. He mar- ried Annie Hasbrouck in June, 1S98. .Stephen Russell Hurd was graduated at Llarvard in 1888, and is now an architect in Boston. Brown RS. ELIZABETH GARBRANCE BRIGHT, of Waltham, Mass., was born in New \'ork City, September 27, 1828, daughter of Jonathan Bright and his w^ife, Mary Huguenin Garbrance. She comes of lung lines of hon- orable American ancestry, on her father's side of English and on her mother's of Dutch origin. Her husband, the late William Ellery Bright, who was her own cousin, died March 12, 1S82. The surname Bright is an old Sa.xon one (Beorght) of excellent character, freciuently found in early English records. To Thomas Bright, Jr., of the parish of St. James, Bury St. Edmund's, England, was confirmed in 161 5 a coat of arms of which the distinguishing feature was a dragon's head vomiting flames. The coat of arms having escallops, it is supposed to have been adopted in the time of the Crusades. That the family was a long-established one of the better class may be inferred from the family portraits at Netherhall, one being represented in armor. John Bright, a maltster, was living in the parish of .St. Mary, Bury St. Edmund's, in the time of Henry \TI. He is thought to have been the father of Walter with whom begin the authentic records of the Bur\' St. Edmund's branch of the family, from which Mrs. Bright of Waltham is descended. The related branches — the Netherhall and the Talmach Hall — be- came extinct in the male line in the eighteenth century. Of the Bury St. Edmund's branch a genealogist writing fifty years ago said, " No male descendant is known in England." Walter Bright, the first known ancestor of this branch, died in 1 5 50, lea\'ing bet|uests to his wife and children, to the poor, and to St. Mar\''s Church, of which he was a parishioner. He is said to have been twice married. His second wife (probably not the mother of his children), whom he married in 1545, was Mar- garet Elwolde. To his son John he left by will "a harness for a man with half a sheaf of arrows." Thomas Bright, son of Walter and next in the line of descent now being considered, was NF.VV ENGLAND LIBRARY OF buried September i, 15S7. The date of his birth is not known. He was a draper, a wealthy man, and a benefactor to his town. His por- trait, procured by the corporation of Bury St. Edmund's, hangs in the Guild Hall. He owned several manors, besides numerous lands and tenements in Bury St. Edmund's and elsewhere. He was an alderman (then a more important office than in the present day), as were also his son Thomas and grandson John in succession. His wife, whom he married in 1554, was Mar- garet Jervis. In her will, dated November 20, 1599, she leaves one hundreil pounds each to her sons Robert, Henry, and Jasper, and her daughters Anne Reed, Catherine Barker, Joan Houghton, and Susan Barker, also bequests to the poor. Henry Bright, son of Thomas and Margaret, and father of Henrie, the American immigrant, was baptized at St. James's Church, Bury St. Edmund's, December 20, 1560. He inherited from his father lands and property in Bury St. Edmund's, Great Barton, and other villages. His history is not well known. It is thought that he left Bury St. Edmund's about the year 16 10 with his family, and removed to one of the estates in the neighborhood which formerly be- longed to his father, and [lerhaps died there. But, the books of record between 1612 and 1630 having been lost, this conjecture cannot be veri- fied. It is possible that he died while on a visit to his son Robert in London, and was buried there. That son in his will, in 161 8, speaks of his mother, whose Christian name was Marie, as then the wife of William Cole. By the death of his sons except Henrie the male line seems to have become extinct in England. Deacon Henrie" (or Henr)') Bright was b. in Suffolk County, England, and baptized Decem- ber 29, 1602. With him begins the Ameri- can branch of the Bright family. He is sup- posed, upon good evidence, to have come over in 1630 with Governor Winthrop. His name is the fort)'-eighth on the list of members of the First Church of Boston, which was organized in Charlestown. He was admitted freeman at Watertown, Mass., Ma\- 6, 1635. There was another Henry ]5right in Watertown among the early settlers, who d. in 1673, aged one hundred and nine )-ears, having for some years previous been supported by the town. For a long time it was supposed that this Henry was the father of Deacon Henrie Bright, but this supposition was clearly disproved by the researches in Eng- land of H. G. Somerby, Esq. (Bond's Water- town.) Deacon Henrie Bright was many times Selectman of Watertown between 1640 and 1667. He was a juror on the Court of Assist- ants July 22, 1684, at the age of eighty-two years. He d. October 9, 1686, from injuries received from carrying home in a cart, or wagon, chairs and other articles used at the ordination of the Rev. William Bailey. He m., probably in 1634, Anna Gouldstone, (Goldstone or Gouldson), daughter of Henry and Anna Gouldstone. Her father, baptized in Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England, July 17, I 591, was son of the Rev. William (iouldstone, vicar of Bedington, Suffolk, and his wife, Mar- garet. Henry Gouldstone, aged forty-three, and wife Anna, aged forty-fi\'e, their daughter Anna, eighteen, and daughter Mary, fifteen, sailed from Ipswich, England, in 1634, in the " b^lizabeth," and, after landing in America, settled in Water- town. Henry Gouldstone was buried July 25, 1638, aged forty-six. His widow m. for her second husband, John George, whom she sur- vived over thirty years, d_\'ing in Watertown in April, 1670. Deacon Henrie Bright's descend- ants were said, a few decades ago, to be much more numerous in the female than in the male line. Deacon Flenrie Bright left certain prop- erty in Watertown to his eldest son, John, which, in case of John dying without issue (as happened, 1691), was to go to his (John's) wife. The latter, under the terms of the will, in case she married again, was to forfeit this propert)', which, in that case, was to go to the Deacon's second son, Nathaniel. He, therefore, probably came into possession of it uixm her second mar- riage, to Mr. Parker. Deacon Henrie Bright and his wife Anna had eight children, namely : Anna, who d. when about four )-ears old ; Abigail ; Mar)- ; John ; Anna; Elizabeth; Nathaniel; and Beriah — the last named, the youngest, b. in 165 i. Abigail m. Elisha Odlin, of Boston. Mar\' m. Nathaniel Coolidge in 1657. J^hn m. Mar)' Barsham, of Watertown, in 1675. Anna, second, became the second wife of Captain Nathaniel Ruggles, of GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 25 Roxbury, in 1670. Elizabeth became the second wife of Deacon Walter Hastings, of Cambridge, in 1674. Beriah m. Isaac Fowle, of Charlestown, in 1671. Nathanie? Bright, the seventh child of Deacon Henric, b., probabl)' at W'atcrtown, March 5, 1647, d. at Watertown, lMa\- i 1, 1726. His oc- ciijiation was that of lanncr. He lived upon a part of his father's estate below the former resi- dence of J. P. Cushing, ]\sq. In 1719 he gave by deed to his son Nathaniel certain land and a tan-)ard near the latter's residence, which prop- erty was still owned by the family in 1S52. His name appears in a record book ut the expenses of Massachusetts Colony in King Philip's War, 1675, and also that of his brothei' John, with the sums paid to each ; but, whether for supplies furnished, or for services rendered as soldiers, does not appear. The homestead that he in- herited on the marriage of his brother John's widow, as already related, went by will at his death, in 1726, to his brother Henry. He was m. July 26, 1 68 1, to Mary Coolidge, who was b. December 11, 1660, and d. December i, 171 7. She was a daughter nf Samuel Coolidge by his first wife, Hannah Barron, who was the daughter ••*-^ of Ellis Barron, of Watertown! 'The children of Nathaniel and Mary (Coolidge) Bright were: Mary, Henr}-, Nathaniel, John, Joseph, Hannah, Abigail, Mere}', and ]3enjamin — the eldest, Mary, b. October, 1682, and the youngest, Ben- jamin, 1698. Mary m. Deacon Thomas Liver- more, of Waltham, i 704. ITenr\' ni. Margaret Jackson, of Newton. John m. Rebecca Train. Joseph m. Elizabeth 1-^lliot. Hannah became the wife of Jonas Bond. Abigail was wife of John Brown. Mere}- m. John Coolidge, 1725-6, Nathaniel' Bright was b. in Watertown, De- cember 28, 1686, and tl. December 14, 1737. He resided in the northern part of Watertown, where he built a tan-)ard, probably an addition to the property he had received by deed from his father, as already mentioned. This propert)' continued in the famil)- for many )ears. Na- thaniel' Bright m. Anna Bowman, daughter of Captain Nathaniel and Ann (Barnard) Bow- man. They had six children, briefly recorded as follows: Anne, b. I'ebruar)-, 171 5-6, m. Daniel Brown, of Lexington, 1736; Nathaniel, b. June 22, 1718, further mentioned below; Hannah, b. April, 1720, d. in infancy; Han- nah, b. January 15, 172 1-2, m. first Amos Bond, of Watertown, second a Mr. W'heeler, of Concord ; Sarah, b. December, 1726, m. Thomas Clarke; Mary, b. April, 1731, m. David Bemis. Nathaniel* Bright d. October 21, 1754, at the comparatively early age of thirty-six years. Little is known of his history except that he resided upon the estate above mentioned, which came to him, doubtless, as only son ; and it is to be presumed that he carried on the tannery, as his father had done. His wife, Sibil, a daughter of Captain Samuel and Abigail (Reed) Stone, of Sudbury, and a descendant of Deacon Greg- or}-' Stone, of Cambridge, was b. September 20, 172S, and d. of old age in Watertown, May 21, 1809. After the death of her first husband, Nathaniel Bright, she m., 1757. Samuel White, by whom she had seven children. John' Bright, son of NathanieP and Sibil Bright, was b. in Watertown, February 5, 1754, d. in W'altham, Mass., December 31, 1840. He was both a tanner and a fai-mer. His youth was probably passed in the house where he was b,, with his step-father, Samuel White. After- ward the step-father removed to another local- ity, and Nathaniel came into possession of the Bright homestead. About a year or more before his marriage John' Bright bought a small house in \\'altham on Beaver Brook, and in 1777 he removed to that town. Ill health alone had prevented him from recei\'ing a collegiate educa- tion. From 1780 to 1S19 he held various town offices, among them those of Selectman, Justice of the Peace, Tything-man, Highway Surveyor, Hay W'ard, Fence Viewer, Sealer of Leather, and School Committee. At his death he left no will. He was m. by the Rev. Jacob Cushing, of Wal- tham, September 24, 1778,10 Elizabeth Brown, a native of Waltham, b. Jul}' 6, 1757, daughter of Jonathan and Esther (Mason) Brown. She d. m Waltham, January 30, 1 82 1, aged sixty-three }ears. She was a descendant on her father's side of Abraham and Lydia Brown, early settlers of Watertown ; and, on her mother's, of Captain Hugh' Mason, of that place. This branch of the Brown family came originally from Hawke- don, County Suffolk, England. The following is a record of the children of John' and Eliza- beth : John b. September, 1779, d. October, NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF 1858, unmarried ; Charles, b. August, 17S1, d. at Loango on the African coast, August, 1823 ; Mary, b. June, 17S3, d. May, 178S ; Francis, b. 1784, d. June, 1804; Anna, b. July, 1786, d. May, 1788; Josiah, b. March, 1789, m. Eulalie Mary Anne Sanguinet, of St. Louis, and after her death m. Angelique the widow of Pierre Tesson, and for his third wife, Elsie Le Blanc; he d. July, 1822, at St. Louis, Mo.; Anne, b. April, 1 79 1, d. April, 181 8; Henry, b. August, 1793, m. first in 18 17 Abigail Fisk, of Waltham, and at Mobile in 1835, second, Emeline M. Finney, of Simsbury, Conn. ; Mary, b. Septem- ber, 1796, d. May, 1879; Jonathan I-irown, b. April 1800, father of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Bright, d. December 17, 1879. Jonathan Brown^ Bright lived with his parents at the Waltham homestead until sixteen years old, attending the district public school and laboring on the farm and in the tan-)ard, with the exception of one school term in the summer of 1 8 14 at Westford Academy and one in 1816 at Framingham Academy. In 1S17 he accom- panied his brother Josiah on his return to St. Louis, the latter, who had previousl)' settled there, having just made a visit home. The jour- ney as far as New Orleans was made in the brig " Louisiana." Thence they ascended the Mis- sissippi River to St. Louis, where they arrived June I. Jonathan remained there until 1821, being most of the time in the employ of the house in which his brother was a partner, that of Sanguinet & l^right. One winter, howe\'er, was spent in New Orleans and Alabama. From St. Louis he went to St. Stephens, Ala., where his brother Henry resided. In the spring of 1822 he removed to Selma, that State, and kept a store till the spring of 1824, his brother being interested with him in business. The place being unhealthy, he was severely stricken with fever, and on his recovery he left the South, sailing from Mobile to New York, where he became clerk in the cotton broker's office of James Blackstock on Pine Street. Three years later, in 1827, he became Mr. Blackstock's part- ner, and in that year also he m. Subsequently several changes took place in the personnel of the firm. The concern was burned out in the great fire of 1835. In the succeeding year Mr. Blackstock retired, and the firm — then Merle & Bright — removed to Hanover Street, and Mr. Gourlie was later admitted. In the spring of 1849 Mr. Bright retired, and returned to his early home at Waltham, Mass., where he lived thirty years, dying as above mentioned, in the house now occupied by his daughter, Elizabeth Garbrance. A man of high char- acter, fine personal appearance, and courteous manners, he was greatly respected, and his death was sincerely mourned by his fellow-townsmen. Soon after hisretuin to his early home he began the compilation of a history, or genealogical record, of the Bright famil)- with its connections, which he long continued, and to which we are indebted for most of the facts here gi\-en. This work, containing many carefull}' prepared gen- ealogical charts with corresponding biographical data, is now the proiserty of his daughter Elizabeth. Jonathan Brown Bright was m. in New York City, Novembei- 2, 1827, b)- the Rev. James Mat- thews, to Mary Huguenin Garbrance, a nati\'e of Alban)', N.Y., b. September 6, 1S05, daughter of Peter' and Jane (Van Buskirk) Garbrance. She d. at Red Hook, Dutchess County, N.Y., 1830, at the early age of twenty-four years, and was binied in the graveyard of the Dutch Church at U])per Red Hook. The only fruit of this marriage was the daughter Elizabeth Garbrance, whose name begins this sketch, and who was b. in New York City, September 27, 1828, and baptized by the Rev. James Matthews in the \estry of (harden .Street South Dutch Reformed Church. Both parents of Mai)' Huguenin Garbrance were of Dutch extraction. On her father's side she was descended from Harperd Gerrebrants, of whom little is known save that he was father of Pieter,^ who was born in Be]le\ille, N.J., and baptized at Hackensack, that State, January 31, 1725. Pieter^ Gerrebrants removed to the city of New "\'ork, where he died. He marrieil in 1753 Catherine Turk, daughter of Ahasuerus and Hilpah (Cooper) Turk, of New York. The Turk family came from the Lower Palatinate, settling in Albany antl New \'ork. A Dr. Turk, nephew of Catherine above mentioned, was at one time in the early part of the nine- teenth centur\- the oldest surgeon in the United States navy. I'ieter' (jerrebrants (b. in New GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 27 York, 1754; d. Albany, 1S14) anglicized the family name by spelling it Garbrance. He mar- ried jane Van Buskirk, a daughter of Lawrence and Jane (Van Buskirk) Van Buskirk, and doubtless of Dutch origin. There was a tracli- tidii ill the family of three brothers who came from Molland and settled near the boundary line between New York and New Jersey, not far from Ramapo or Saddle River ; but, like similar traditions in other families, little reliance can be ])laced on it. The family records, however, show certainly that the Van Buskirks were de- scended from early settlers in that \'icinit3'. Lawrence Van Buskirk, above mentioned, served in the British army during the Revo- lutionary War, and subsequently fleeing to Nova Scotia with the loyalists, was there granted lands by the British government in recognition of his services for the Crown. Others of the family were loyalists during the war, and subsequently refugees, among them Colonel Abraham Van Buskirk, who served under Arnold, in his expe- dition to New London, as Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers. The Garbrances, also, were loyalists, and in con- sequence suffered the confiscation of their prop- ert}'. In this connection a pleasant story is told of General Washington. It happened that he was ]3resent when a body of the Continental troops took possession of the Van Buskirk home- stead ; and, noticing little Jane, he patted her on the head, saying to one of his officers, " You must leave them a cow, as there are little children here." An heirloom of the Turk family is a glass decanter brought from Hol- land, which was used at the wedding of Mrs. Hright's great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother, also at her own and at that of her daughter. Other interesting possessions are an antique iron pot and a sun dial made in 1790. Elizabeth Garbrance Bright was but nineteen months old when her mother died. She was educated in New York and Boston, her early \ears being spent in New York, where she re- mained till 1843, when she came to Boston. She was married February 28, 1861, to Will- iam Kllery Bright, a member of the well-known mercantile house of Torrey, Bright & Capen, dealers in carpetings, Washington Street, Bos- ton. He was born in Mobile, Ala. , September, 183 1, a son of Henry'' Bright by his first wife. His father has already been mentioned as the eighth child of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Bright. His mother, whose maiden name was Abigail Fiske, was b. in Waltham, November 13, 1794, and d. in Mobile, Ala., November 26, 1 833, at the age of thirty-nine years. In 1S52-53 William Ellery Bright made a voyage to Cali- fornia as a seaman on board the ship " Flying Fish." He became a member of the firm of Torrey, Bright & Capen in 1855, not long after his return, and continued successfully engaged in business till his death, March 12, 1882. He is survived by Mrs. Bright and three children : Mary Hugenin ; William Ellery, second ; and Ber- tha Tyrell. Mary Hugenin, born May 7, 1862, married December 19, 1893, Henry Haynie, journalist, who was for some time the Paris cor- respondent of the Boston Hcrnld, Chicago Her- ald, New Orleans Picayune, and the San P>an- cisco Chronicle. They now reside in Newton, and have two children: Hylda, b. May 14, 1895 ; and Helen, b. February 22, 1898. Will- iam Ellery, born October 6, 1 864, married Jo- sephine Boerum Jackson, of New York, October 8, 1889, and has three children: Elizabeth Gar- brance, b. January 14, 1891 ; William Filer)', Jr., b. April 10, 1892 ; and Jackson \'aii Rens- selaer, born October 7, 1899. Bertha Tyrell, born January 28, 1871, resides with her mother at the family home, a handsome residence on Main Street, Waltham. Mrs. Bright has seen not a little of foreign lands, having three times visited luirope. AMUEL CLARK is an esteemed citizen of Medford, Middlesex County, Mass., where he has been a resident since 1834. For a num- ber of years he was identified \vith ship-build- ing, and he is now (September, 1901) the only survivor of the old-time Medford ship-builders. His birthplace was in Plymouth County, the home of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims and other early settlers on American soil. Born in the town of Hanover, September 7, 18 17, son of Zebulon and Christiana (Josselyn) Clark, he is a descendant of Thomas Clark (said to have 28 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY Ol" been son or grandson of Thomas, mate of the "Mayflower"), who went from Plymouth to Scitnate in 1674, and m. in 1676 Martha Curtis, daughter of Richard and Lydia (Hol- let) Curtis. Thomas,' of Scituate, was folhjwed in the male line by Thomas, Jr.,Mvhom. September 14, 1705, Alice Rogers; John,- a shijnvright, who ni. Abigail Tolman, of Scituate; and Bel- cher,' who m. as his first wife, Jime 27, 1771, Ann Wade, she being the mother of Zebulon^ Clark, and grandmother of Samuel Clark, of Medford. Belcher' Claik, who was a ship- builder in Hanover, was a soldier of the Revo- lution, serving" as Sergeant about eight months in Rhode Island and elsewhere. His first wife, Ann, d. in 17S1; and he m. in 17S3 Mrs. Sarah Perry, a widow, daughter of Na- thaniel Jossel}'n, of Pembroke. Belcher' Clark d. October 17, 1826, aged eighty-four years. Zebulon? Clark, also engaged in ship- building, was b. August 4, 1780, d. June 14, 1857. Hem. in 1S12 Christiana Josselyn, b. i'ebruary 12, 1790, daughter of Isaac and Pris- cilla (Bourne) Josselyn. She d. April 10, 1883. Her father, Isaac, was b. August 15, 176S, son of Abraham, 5 b. in 171 7, and Mary (Soule) Jossel)'n, who were m. December 16, 1741. The preceding Jossel3'n ancestors were : Thomas,' who came to New England in 1635, was at Hingham in 1637, and in 1654 was at Lancaster, where he d. in i66o~6i; Abra- ham,' who came over after his father and set- tled at Lancaster; Henry,' who settled at Scit- uate in 1669, and m. November 4, 1676, Abigail Stockbridge (d. October 30, 1730) ; and Nathaniel,' who m. Frances Yellings De- cember 27, 171 [. Mary Soule was a daughter of Isaac-" and Agatha (Perry) Soule, of Pem- broke, Mass., and a descendant of George' Soule, one of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims. (icorge' Soule settled at Duxbury. It is known that he m. before 1627, that his wife's name was Mary, and that he d. before Febru- ary, 1680. His son John,-' b. about 1632, m. in [655 Rebecca Simmons, his first wife, and d. at Duxbury in 1707. Moses' m. about 1701 Mercy Southworth, daughter of lulward ;md Mary (Pabodic) Southworth. Kdward Southworth was the son of Constant and Eliza- beth (Collier) Southworth, who were m. No- vember 2, 1637. Constant Southworth was the son of Constant Southworth, Sr. (a direct descendant of Sir Gilbert Southworth, of Southwoith Hall, in the county of Lancaster, Kent), who d. in F2nglancl, and his wife Alice Carpenter, who in 1623, being then a widow, came over in the "Ann," and was m. to Gov- ernor ]?radford. Mary Pabodie, wife of Edward Southwoith, was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie, and grand-daugh- ter of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. The foregoing shows that Mr. Samuel Clark is a descendant in the ninth generation of John Alden and his Nvife Priscilla. The following names with figures prefixed show the line: i, John Alden; 2, Elizabeth Alden; 3, Mary Pa- bodie; 4, Mercy Southworth ; 5, Isaac Soule; 6, Mary Soule; 7, Isaac Josselyn; S, Chris- tiana josselyn; 9, Samuel Clark. Having received a public school education in his native town, Samuel Clark in 1S34, in his seventeenth 3'ear, came to Medford to learn the trade of ship-joiner. After working as an aj)prentice and later as a journeyman for a number of years, he engaged in the business for himself. He retired about thirty-five years ago. He has been a member for many years of the Second Congregational Church of Med- ford. Mr. Claik was married Januarys, 1845, to Lydia Stetson Flells, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Stetson) Eells. Her parents were mar- ried October 31, 1805. Her father, Edward Eells, ship-builder in Hanover and Medford, and Selectman in Hanover in iSog-io, was son of Captain Robert' Lenthal and Ruth (Copeland) Eells, and grandson of .Samuel' and Hannah (Witherell) Eells. Samuel,' b. September 23, 1706, was son of the Rev. Na- thaniel' Eells, a prominent clergyman of Scitu- ate, whose father, .SamueP Eells, major in King Philiji's War, was for many years a resident of Milford, Conn., and afterward of Hingham, Mass. The father of Samuel- was John' Eells, who sold his house and land at Dorches- ter in 1640. Captain Robert Lenthal I^ells was commander of the South Company in Han- over, which marched April 20, 1775, in re- sponse to the alarm of April 19, to Marshfield ; service, three da)-s. He was one of the Com- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HLSTORY 29 mittee of Correspondence and Safety in Man- over in 1775 and later years in the Revolution. He was a patriotic, benevolent, and public- spirited citizen and an extensive landholder. Mrs. Clark's mother, who was b. November 23, 1783, and d. July 30, 1864, was the daugh- ter of Micah' and Sarah (Copeland) Stetson, of Scituate. Micah' Stetson, Mrs. Clark's ma- ternal ^grandfather, was a descendant in the fifth ,i;eMeration of Cornet Robert Stetson, the line being: Robert,' b. 1613; Samuel, "^ b. 1646; Jonah,' b. 1691; Jonah,-' b. 1721; Micah,* b. No\'ember 21, 1754. Robert' Stetson was Cornet of the first troojj of horse raised in Plymouth County in 1658 or 1659. Probably a native of County Kent, England, he came to this country prior to 1634, and in that year re- ceived a grant of land in Scituate on North River. ¥ov seventeen years from 1654, he was a deputy to the General Court of Plym- outh. Several years he was a County Commis- sioner. In 1668 he was commissioned to pur- chase of the Indian Sachem Josias Chickatabat the land now comprising the towns of Hanover and Abington. In King Philip's War he ren- dered valuable service. He d. in February, 1702-3, aged ninety years. Samuel' held the military rank of Sergeant. The frequent recur- rence of his name on the church records shows that he was active in religious matters. He had six children by his wife, Lydia, whose sur- name is unknown. Jonah' m., May 31, 1720, Mercy Turner, of Scituate. Jonah-* m. Decem- ber 19, 1 75 1, Elizabeth Hatch. Micahs was Representative of Scituate in the State Legis- lature in 1815 and 1816. He d. January 27, 1838. He ni. March 23, 1783, Sarah Cope- land, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Tol- man) Copeland, and sister of Ruth, above named. Joseph Copeland was the son of Will- iam and Mary (15ass) Copeland, and grandson of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass, Ruth Alden being a daughter of John and Priscilla (Mul- lins) Alden, and grand-daughter of William and Alice MuUins — four ancestors who came over in the "Mayflower" in 1620. Mrs. Lydia Eel Is Clark died April 22, 1897, leaving two daughters — Mary Smith and Sarah Louisa. The Misses Clark live with their father at the Clark home in Mcd- ford. They are members of the Society of "Mayflower" Descendants and of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. AMES WILKINSON CLAIM', M.D., drug merchant, of Boston, was born in this city, September 27, 1847, son of Otis and Mar\- (Hadley) Clapp. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of Roger Clai")p, who came to New Eng- land in the ship " Mar)' and John " in 1630, ar- ri\-ing at Nantasket on the thirtieth da)- of May, and settling at Dorchester in Jin-ie. The line is : Roger,' Preserved,' San-iuel,^-' Timothy,' Elisha Bascom,* Otis,' James Wilkinson*. Roger Clapp was b. in Salcombe-Regis, Dev- onshire, England, in 1609. He served a num- ber of terms as Selectman of Dorchester, sev- eral terms as Deputy to the General Court, and for twenty-one years, dating from August, 1665, as captain of the Castle (now P'ort Independence) in Boston Harbor. After leaving the Castle he resided at the South End, Boston. He was one of the founders of the church at Dorchester. He was m. in 1633 to Johanna Ford, who came over with him and her fathei-, Thomas Ford, in the "Mary and John." Preserved- Clapp, b. in 1643, removed when about twenty }'ears of age to Northam]5ton, where he became an influential citizen, active in civil, militar\', and religious affairs, serving as Representative to the General Court, as Captain of the militia, and as Ruling Elder in the church. He n-i. in 166S Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Newbur)'. Samuel, ^ b. in 1677, m. first Sarah Bartlett, secondly Thank- ful King, and thirdly Mary -Sheldon. Sam- uel,-* his third child and eldest by his third wife, was b. in 171 i. He ni. in 1732 Mindwell Strong, daughter of Waitstill and Mindwell (Bartlett) Strong, of Northampton. Waitstill,^ her father, was son of Thomas' and Rachel (Holton) Strong and grandson of Elder John' and Abigail (Ford) .Strong, of Northampton, whose posterit)- includes a long array of dis- tinguished names. Samuel-* Clapp, some years after his marriage, removed to Southampton. Timothy, 5 b. in 1740, m. in 1761 Rachel, daughter of Jonathan Bascon-i. Elisha Bas- com'' Clapp, b. in 1779, ni. Sally Hale, a sister 3° NF.VV KNGLAXn LIBRARY OF of Nathan Hale, the fatlicr of the Rev. Dr. Edward hA-erett Male. Otis' Clapji, b. at W'esthampton, March 3, 1806, came t(,) Boston in 1N23, and was em- ployed by his uncle, Xathan Hale, as clerk in the counting-room of the Daily Advertiser. In I 831 he became associated with Charles Stimp- son, under the firm name of Stimpson & Clapp, booksellers antl publishers, Mr. Hale being a silent partner. -A scries of volumes, entitled "The American Libiar\- of Useful Knowledge," was published b)' them. They also issued an- nually the Boston Director)-. The partnership was dissolved in 1832, and Mr. Clapp ne.xt en- gaged in publishing New Church literature, in- cluding the writings of Swedenborg, the Xcw Jcriisalcni Magazine (1833-58), and the Cliil- dnn's Ncio Cliiirch Magazine (1843-58). In 1856 he established a homceopathic pharmacy in the Albion ]3uilding on Beacon Street, but had pieviousl}- been engaged in the sale of JionKco- pathic medicines since 1840. He was ap- pointed by I'resident Lincoln in 1S63 Assessoi' of Internal Re\'cnue, which position he lilled until the constilidation of the intei'nal revenue districts, when he was appointed Collector of the fourth district, where he serveil until 1875. He served also in \arious municipal offices, as member of tlie City Council, of the Board ol -Aldermen, tlic Board of Land Commissioners, and Board of Assessors, antl as Re]iresentative to the State Legislature. He was also on the boards of x'arious charitable associations and foi' man}' \-cars president of the W'ashingtonian Home for Inebriates in Boston, and was ac- ti\el\- interested in the Home for Little Wan- derers. He was one of the originators and managers of the Clapp Family Memorial Gath- erings, held in 1 S70 and \'^'/ },, and one of the Committee of Publication of the Record of the Ckqjp I'amily in ^Xmerica, issued in 1876. He d. (Jctober 19, 1886. Otis Clapp m. hrsl, in 1833, Ann W'ithington Kmery I'orter, daughter of S_\'lvanus I'oitei', ol Boston, She d. October 27, 1843, and he m. October 2, 1844, Mary Iladlc)', tlaughter of Deacon Moses and Rebecca (de Carteret) Had- ley, of Boston. She d. December 10, 1871. Two chijdicn, Henr_\' Otis and Joseph, 1). of his first marriage, gi'cw to maturit\'. Hcin\' Otis, b. -September 17, 1835, m. Rose, daughter of the Rev. Da\'id Nelson, of Ouincy, III., and d. August 1, 1866. Joseph, b. August ij, 1839, enlisted in the Kighth Regiment, Illinois Ca\-- alr}', in the Civil War, and rose to be Captain, serving under General F'arnsworth. He m. in 1864 l^lmira J. Jackson, of Syracuse, N.\'. The children of Otis Clapp by his second wife were: Mar\' Webb, b. in 1845, '^^''"'o ■''''■ October 2, 1866, Charles M. Fuller, and became the mother of three children (Charles Otis Fuller, b. No\ember ii, 1868, tl. September 27, 1882; Alice de Carteret F'uller, b. No\'ember 22, 1872; Ernest Fuller, b. May g, 1875, d. Sep- tember 5, 1875) ; James Wilkinson, whose name begins this sketch and whose personal his- tor\' is given below ; and Rebecca H., b. Juh' James Wilkinson Clapp was educated in Bos- ton. Me attended successively the Phillips jiublic school and the Chapman Hall School ke|it by Amos Baker in a building the site of which is now included in that of the Parker House. His first knowledge of drugs and his first experience in business he gained while }'et a ])o\' in his lather's drug store at 3 Beacon Sti'eet, where at an earl\' age he began to make himself useful. Received into partnership by his lather on Januar)' i, 1874, he subsequently pursued his professional course of study at the Boston Univcrsit)' School of Aledicine, and was graduated with tlie degi-ce of Doctor of Medi- cine in 1877. He continued to devote his ener- gies to the drug business long before estab- lished by his father, and when his father died, and the entire contiol of the business fell to him, he was thoroughly qualihetl to carr)' it on and keep up the good name of tlie fii'm of Otis Clapp & Son, while pursuing a jutlicious polic)' of expan- sion. The stoi'c at :o Park Square was o]3ened August I, 1887. The firm has another estab- lishment at 8.A Beacon Street, Boston, and a thii'd in Piovidence, R. I. The business, which is both wholesale ami retail, from a small begin- ning has become one (jf the largest of its kind in tlie countr)'. The goods include homc.eo- p.ilhic products. Mr. Clapp's son, Lowell Tuckerman, has been a ]iaitner in tlie business since P"ebruar_\- i, 1901. Ml'. Clajip was mairied (Jctober 20, 1868, to GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HIS'lOKV 31 Eliza Tuckcrman, daughter of John and Cath- erine (Tuttle) Tuciverman. of l^oston. Tiic third child born to Mr. and Mis. Clap]) died in infancy. The tliree .sur\'iving children are ; (iertrude, born September 19. 1870; Am\-, born February 11, 1873; and Lowell Tuckcr- man. born April 9, 1879. Gertrude was mar- ried October 20, 1897, to Edward H. Angier, of Ouincy, and now has one child, Otis Clapp Anyier, born December 10, 1899. Lowell Tuckerman Clapp, after receivini;- his i;'encral education in the Brookline public schools, in- cluding the high school, pursued a three \ears' course of study at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and was graduated there in 1S99, re- ceiving the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. While not an anti-imperialist, Mr. Clapp takes an independent course in politics within the Re- publican party. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts Homoeopathic Medical Societ)', and had been its corresponding secretary for fifteen years when he resigned that office in 1897. lie has written for medical periodicals upon sundr\- tojiics concerning pharmacy. He is the secretary of the Committee on Pharmacopoeia of the American Institute of Homoeopatliy and one of the associate editors of the Phanita- copivia of tlic American histitiitc. I.L.STOX POI-iTER JOYCE, first City Clerk of MecUUrd, is a son of Oakman Joyce, who removeil from ALarshfield to Medford in 1831. and died heie Jul}- 21, 1899. His mother, whose maiden name was Mahala Sherman, is now (May, 1901) li\-ing in Medford, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. Mr. Joyce belongs to the seventh generation of the New England family founded by Walter Joyce, who appeared at Marshfield aljout the year 1668, and m. a few years later Elizabeth Low, daughter of John and Eliza- beth (Howland) Low. John Low was killed by the Indians at Rehoboth in 1676. His wife was a daughter of Arthur' Howland, who m. the widow Margaret Reed. The children of Walter Joyce were: Lu- cinda,= who m. Samuel Sylvester; Th37 and jirogenitor for several generations of a race of prosperous farmers (see History, North l^rookfield, pp. 431, 762). By his wife, Mary, he was the father of Thomas,- b. 1641, d. 1723, m. Sarah, daugh- ter of James Cutler. He was ancestor (through Thomas,' Richai'tl,-' Remick,' and Henry Mat- son'") of the Hon. Mori'ison R. Waite,' Chief Justice of the Lhiited States. Joseph,' of Watertown, son of Tliomas,= b. 1683, a soldier in the Indian wars, d. at Worcester 1753. Wife, Sarah Merriam. Their son John,' of Watertown, b. 1 70S, d. at Brookfield, 1761, a soldiei' himself, and leaving seven sons, whose military record in the History of North Brook- field is rarely exceeded by any one family. He m. in 172S Anna, daughter of John Well- ington, of Watertown. Their son John,-^ b. at Sudbury, 1730, of Rogers's Rangers in the French and Indian War and a Captain in the Revolution, d. at Brookfield,' 1809, m. 1752 .Martha, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Wol- cott, of Brookfield. Their son, Nathaniel" Waite, of North Brookfield, b. 1761, a soldier in the Revolution, d. 1834, m. 1782 Mercy Jenks, a native of Providence, R.I., b. 1762. Their son, Otis' Waite, of North Brookfield, b. 1790, a soldier of the War of i8i2, d. 1869, m. 1825 Polly Johnson, of North Brookfield, b. 1802, daughter of Uriah W}-man and Han- nah (Totman) Johnson. The)' were the par- ents of Henry Edward,^ as mentioned above. The Roger Williams connection is traced through Mercy Jenks as follows: Her jiarents were Jonathan and Freelove (Winsor) Jenks. Freelove Winsor, b. at Providence, 1720, was daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Harding) Win- sor. Samuel, b. at Providence, 1677, minister of the First Baptist Church, was son of Samuel Winsor, of Providence, a preacher and Deputy of the General Court, wlio m. Mercy Williams, b. at- Providence, 1640, daughter of Roger \Villiams. Jonathan-i Jenks, father of Mercy, was son of William' and Patience (Sprague) Jenks, grandson of Joseph" and Esther (Bal- lard) Jenks, and great-gi'andson of Joseph' Jenks (wife Elizabeth), b. 1602, of Hounslow, Middlesex Count)', lingland, d. at Lynn, Mass., 1683, "a man of great genius." He made the dies for coining the first money, also made the first fire-engine in the United States, and received in 1646 tlie first ])atent for inven- tions issued in America. Patience Sprague, grandmother of Mercy Jenks, 'was daughter of Jonathan Sprague, of Providence, b. at Hingham 1648 (son of Will- iani), d. at Providence 1741, and his wife, Mehitable, b. at Scituate, daughter of William Holbrook. William .Sprague, b. i^io, ol Salem 162S, m. at Charlestown, 1635, Milli- cent, daughter of Anthony Eames, d. at Hing- ham 1675, was Selectman, Constable, and agent of the town. He was son of luhvard' Sprague, a fuller, of Count)' Dorset, England, by wife. Christian. As will be noted farther on, the wife of Henry Pxlward Waite is de- GENEALOG\' AND PERSONAL HISTORY 37 scendcd fidiii Ivalph Sprague, of Chnrlc.stuwii 1629, another son of Edwaid. Uriah' Wj'maii Johnson, Mr. Waitc's ma- ternal grandfatlier, was a native of Woodstock, Conn., and a son of Uriah'' Jolmson and his wife, l,uc\". The following is a record of the ancestral line: John' Johnson, of Koxbury ifi-^o; Deputy to the first General Court, 1634, and subsequently for man)' 3-ears ; Surveyor- general of all "ye arms" of the colony for eighteen \ears; wife, Margery. Isaac,- Cap- tain of militia, also of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Com|iany, Deputy to the Gen- eral Court, was killed in the Indian fight at Narragansett, 1675; m. Elizabeth Porter, 1637. Nathaniel,' b. 1647, m. Marie, daugh- ter of Lawrence .Smith, of Dorchester. .Smith, ' b. at Roxbury 1672, m. Sarah Miller. Smith, ^ b. at Woodstock, Conn., 1703, m. F'xperience Parker, of Roxbury. Uriah,'' b. 1730, m. Lucy Davenport, a descendant of Ricliard Davenport, of .Salem 1628 (Richard," John,- Richard,' Nathaniel, • Lucy'). Richard Dav- enport was commander of the Castle in Boston Harbor, now I'ort Independence. It was he who cut the cross from the English flag b\- order of Governor Endicott. Through Hannah Totman, wife of Uriah W}'man Johnson and mother of Polly, is traced the line from William Brewster, as f(.il- lows : William'; Jonathan-'; Mar\-, ' who m. John Turner; Beniamin^ Turner, who m. L21izabeth Hawkins; Hawkins' Tuiner, who m. Luc}- .Starr, of Groton, Conn. ; Grace'' Turner, wlio m. I-lbenezer Totmaii, they being the parents of Hannah Totman. Another line of descent from William Brewster is through Jonathan'; Hannah,' who m. .Samuel Starr; Jonathan,' who m. Elizabeth Morgan, and was father of Lucy .Starr, above mentioned. It is through Ebcnezer Totman, father of Hannah, that the line is traced connecting this family with the illustrious historical person- ages mentioned above. Ebenezer Totman 's mother was Lucretia Rose, whose mother was Hannah Ford, whose mother was Abigail .Snow, whose mother was Abigail Warren (wife of Anthon)' .Snow, of Phniouth 163S), whose father was Richard Warren, the "May- flower'' Pilgrim. According to printed his- tories, Richard was a descendant in the thir- teenth generation of John, eighth and last Earl of Warren and Surrey, b. 1286, d. 1347, titles and estates alienated to the king, whose father was William de Warren, killed in a tourna- ment in 1286, whose father was John, seventh Earl of Warren, etc., b. 1234, d. 1304. John's wife was Alice, daughter of Hugh le Brun, Count of the Marches of Aquitainc, whose wife was Isabella, relict of King John of ling- land and a descendant of some of the kings of l*"rance, and through them related t(j all the celebrities already mentioned and man}' others. The father of John, seventh Earl of Warren, was William Plantagenet, whose mother, Isa- bclle, m. first William de Blois, son of King -Stephen. Tlie wife nf William (the sixth Earl of Warren) was Maud (d. 1236), daugh- ter of William, Earl of Pembroke, and a de- scendant, through her grandmother Eva, of Brian Boru, king of Munster, monarch of Ire- land, d. 1039. Through the Earls of Pembroke is traced the line from Egbert, first king of England, and from Alfred the Great through Godiva, Lady of Coventry of Tennyson's poems, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who d. in 1057. Nicholson-" Broughton, father of Ellen Inger- soll Broughton (Mrs. Waite), was b. at Mar- blehead in 1790, and d. at West Newton in 1873. He was a sea captain, vessel owner, and merchant, and was captured by the British in 1815. He was twice ni., both wives being daughters of the Hon. Nathaniel Hooper, of Marblehead. Nancy Harris Hooper, whom he wedded in 1822, was b. in 1S02. Nicholson' Broughton was a descendant of John' Broughton, of Marblehead 1720, a n-ier- chant and sea captain, who, it is thought, came from the south of England or the Channel Islands. Captain John' Broughton was pro- genitor of a race "who seemed like descend- ants of the ancient sea kings." Throujrh four generations, for over one hundred years, every n-iale member of the family was master of a vessel, and every female member the wife of a sea captain. His family arms, traiismitted by his son Nicholson' to a grand-daughter, were "Argent a Chevron between three Mullets Gules." These arms are found in Fuller's 38 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF "Worthies," published at London in 1662, borne by John de Broughton, Sheriff of Bed- ford and Bucks 48th and 50th Edward IIL ; John Broughton, Sheriff of Bedford ant! liSucks 13th Henry VL and Sheriff of Cumberland 14th and 25th Henry VL ; Nicholas Broughton, Sheriff of Devonshire 24th Henry VI. ; John Broughton, Sheriff of Bedford and Bucks 3Sth Henry VI. ami 5th Edward IV. Captain John' Broughton m. December 3, 17 iS, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Maverick) Nor- man, grand-daughter of Lieutenant Richard Norman (who in 1683, while swimming ashore from his vessel, was drowned, thus originating the name of "Norman's Woe " off the Glouces- ter coast) and on the maternal side of Moses Maverick, one of the proprietors of the town, and his wife. Remember, daughter of Isaac Allerton, both "Mayflower" Pilgrims. The\' had five childi'en — Anne, Sarah, John and Nicholson (twins), and Norman. Anne m., 1736, Captain )onas Dennis, Jr. Sarah m., 1 74 1, Captain Richard Webber. John d. in infancy. Norman d. young. Nicholson- Broughton, baptized at Marble- head, September 13, 1724, became a skilful and intrepid ship-master before he was thirty years of age. He was one of the leaders of the Revolutionary movement at Marblehead in 1774, and the next 3'ear was chosen Captain in the famous marine regiment commanded by Colonel John Glover. At Cambridge, Mass., September 2, 1775, he was directed by Wash- ington to e.xecute the first naval commission. » Three days later, with a detachment of the army in the schooner "Hannah," fitted out at the Continental expense, he sailed from Bev- erly, and on the 7th inst. captured the British ship "Unity," laden with supplies for the ministerial arni\-. He also received the sec- ond naval commission October 16 of the same year by special order of Congress, and on the 20th inst. sailed from Beverly in the schooner "Lynch" as commodore, with seventy men, and Captain John .Selman in the schooner "Eranklin" with sixty-five men, for the river .St. Lawrence, to intercept two English trans- jiints with su])plies for Quebec. They misseil the transports, but captured ten other vessels, and also the British recruiting officers at the Island of .St. John's. Returning in December, they were reproved by Washington for exceed- ing the letter of their instructions, and felt the — to them unjust — reproof so keenly that when requested to take their command again in the Marblehead regiment they replied that the\' would not. Captain Nicholson' Broughton may be re- garded as the first commodore of the American navy, notwithstanding the fact that that rank was not officially recognized by Congress till r862. In February, 1776, he was commis- sioned by the Provincial Congress at Boston as second Major of the b^ifth Regiment of Essex County militia, under Colonel Jonathan Glover. He was a prominent and active mem- ber of the I'irst Church of Marblehead. Until 1775 he wrote his given name "Nicholas" and afterward "Nicholas-son." His son in [797 wrote it "Nicholason" and afterward "Nicholson " ; and his grandson's signature in 1S25 was Nicholson Broughton. He m. .September 26, 1749, Sarah, daughter of Jo- seph and .Sarah (Martin) Pedrick. His chil- dren were: .Sarah, b. 1752, m. Captain Dan- iel Lisbrel ; Mary, b. 1755, m. Captain John Devereux ; Nicholson, b. 1757, d. young; Anne, b. 1759, m. Captain Joseph Proctor; Eleanor, b. 1762, m. first Captain Thomas Williams and second Captain .Samuel Horton ; Nicholson,' b. at Marblehead, October 29, 1764. Nicholson* Broughton m. April 17, 17S8, Susannah, daughter of General John and Han- nah (Gale) Glover, of Marblehead, d. at Island of Martinique, June 21, 1804. lie served in the Revolutionary War, enlisting as a soldier at the age of thirteen. He early cotnmanded one of his father's vessels, and afterward en- gaged in the West India trade. In 1797 and 1799 he suffered from the depredations of French and British cruisers; and his claims for reimbursement were subsequently taken for collection by the United States government, being included in the famous "b'rench .Spolia- tion Claims." He was a man of education, energy, and influence; and his record, both during the war and subseqiiently, leflected credit upon his native town. His four sons — Nicholson,' John, Norman, and Glover — were GEiVEALOGV AND PERSONAL HISTORY 3.9 all sea captains. John, b. 1792, was a pri- vateer in the War of i Boston, he was engaged upon several public enterprises, among them being a survey of Bunker's Hill in Charlestown for a monimient. Later he surveyed the line of the old Grand Junction Railroad that partly encircled Boston on the iirighton, Cambridge, and Somcrville sides. For a number of years he was employed by the l^oston & Worcester Railroad Comjian)'. He left their employ to build the Orange & Alex- andria Railroad of \'irginia and the Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad from Waterville to l^an- gor, Maine. Afterward he helped construct the Dubque, Western & Marion Railroad of Iowa. His first marriage was to Miss Adeline Augusta Mullett, daughter of Benjamin F. and Annie C. Mullett, of New Braintree, Mass. She d. Januar}' 31, 1848, in Ware. On De- cember 18, 1848, he was m. to Miss Mary Landnn Hamilti>n, of Ware, by whom he had two children — Mar)' Eliza V'irginiaand Charles Harris. Mr. John H. Shearer d. at Cam- bridge, January 25, 1S62. His wife is still living, and resides at Andovei', Mass. Mary Landon Hamilton was b. in Palmer, Mass., September 6, 18 18, daughter of Joshua and Miner\'a (Reeves) Hamilton. Her father was b. in 1775, and was the youngest son of John and Joanna (Wolcott) Hamilton, and a lineal descendant of "John Hamilton, of Con- cord, Mass.," who in November, 1701, re- ceived a grant of land at Brookfield, and, sub- sequently taking up his residence in that town, d. there in 1747. John, Jr., son of "John llamilton. of Concord," and his wife PLm- nah, was b. in Concord in August, 1699. He m. in 1725 Mary Wheeler, and was the father i:)f John, third, b. in 1728, who m. Joanna Wolcott, as abo\'e noted, and removed to Palmer. "John Hamilton, of Concord," was evident]}' the "John, son of John Hamilton and Christian, his wife, born i March, '6y, '68," — /.(■., in March, 1667-68, — as recorded in Book L of the Concord Registers. Mar}' Eliza Virginia Shearer, who was b. in Culpeper, \'a. , June 7, 1S50, was educated at the Abbot Acadeniv in Andover, Mass., and at Boston LTniversity. She became the wife of Pialfour H. Van Vlcck, instructor at the l^oston Society of Natural History, October 17, 1883. She d. February 28, 1893. Charles Harris Shearer was b. in Petersburg, Va., March 11, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of Andover, Mass., and has resided in this State a great part of his lifetime. He was m. to Miss Elva Thornberry at Chicago, HI., Oc- tober 31, 1887. Daniel Lyman Shearer, another son of John Shearer, third, was b. in Palmer, November 5, 1820. He was educated in the public schools of Ware and at Yale College, which he entered in 1838, and where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1842. He shortly became interested with his brother in the furniture business in Bostoii, and for 42 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF many years was the travelling representative of the firm in the South, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. , and at New Orleans, La. He was in New Orleans through the Civil War, and was at one time drafted as a soldier in the Confederate army. The timely arrival of Gen- eral Butler, who took possession of the city, fortunately relieved him ivom service. He remained in business in New Orleans until 1S70, when he retired permanently, in order to return to Boston to look after his real estate and other interests. He has never married. Since his return he has resided with his sis- ter, Mrs. John Shearer Paine, in Cambridge. Eliza Ann Shearer, daughter of John Shearer, third, was b. in Ware, Mass., July 27, 1830. She came to Boston with her brothers about 1840, and attended the public schools of this city, becoming a teacher upon the completion of her course of study. She was m. to John Shearer Paine April 11, 1854, soon after they removed to Cambridge. She was deeply interested in the religious and missionary work of the day, and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Cambridge. She d. January 4, igoi. She left three children, namely: Katherine Eliza, b. Au- gust 24, 1S59, now the wife of Edgar R. Champlin, an attorney of Boston and an e.\- Mayor of Cambridge; Anna Lyman, b. July 6, 1871; and James Leonard, b. April 25, 1857, who is now interested in the Paine Furniture Company as treasurer. James Leonard Paine ni. Mary Woolson, May 21, 1885. They have three children: John Adams, b. January 6, 1887; Margaret Woolson, b. May 4, 1893; and Anna Woolson, b. March 29, 1901. 'A^. ^/1-:RN0N EATON CARPENTER, a \ip retired boot and shoe merchant, resid- '^ ing in West Newton, is a worthy rep- resentative of an old New FIngland familv, and a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of Massachusetts Bay and the neighboring colo- nies. His first American progenitor on the pater- nal side was William Carpentei', b. in l^ng- laiid in 1605, whose father, John Carpenter, established a school in England that has been continued d(nvn to the present day. William came to this country in the "I^e\'is. " He was made a freeman in Weymouth, May 13, 1640; was Representative from VVe}-mouth in 1641 and 1643, and from Rehoboth in 1645, h'-' having settled in that town in the same year. He d. in Rehoboth, February 7, 1659. His wife, Abigail, d. February 22, 1687, having suivi\'ed her husbantl twenty-eight years. William Carpenter had a cousin, Alice Car- penter, who became the wife of Governor Brad- ford of the Pl)-mouth colony. l"he line of descent from William to \'ernon ]'2aton Car- penter is William," .Samuel,^ .Solomon,' Dan- iel,-' Daniel, 5 Richard,'' X'ernon F'aton '. Samuel - Carpenter, the 3'oungest son of William,' b. probably in 1(^44, and who d. F'ebruary 20, 1682 or 1683. m. Sarah Reada- wa)', of I-lehoboth, I\[a\- 25, 1660. His son, Solomon,^ b. December 23, 1677, was made a freeman at South Kingston, R.I., in i6g6, and in the same year m. J'llizabeth Tefft, daughter of Samuel Tefft. Solomon d. in South Kingston in 1750. Daniel, ■• .Solomon's son, b. December 28, 1712, m. Renewed Smith, April 29, 1733, and resided in South Kingston in 1738. His son, Daniel, Mj. Sep- tember 8, 1744, m. Ruth Cornel. Richard "^ Carpenter, the father of \'ernon ]{., was b. June 5, 1787. He was a farmer of 'I'hompson, Conn. It is quite probable that he served in the War of 1S12, with the com- pany of Peter Loid. On Ma)' 24, 1812, he m. Cynthia Walker; and they became the par- ents of a large faniil)', consisting of si.\ sons and four daughters, the resjiective dates of whose nativity ranged between 181 3 and 1839. The order of their birth was as follows: Sally, Abby, William W. , Mary W. , Ephraim Walker, John, Adeline, Samuel, Vernon Eaton, and lulward .S. The mother d. on January ^, 1852, and the father in November, 1863. ' By two lines Vernon h'.. Carpenter traces his descent to early Colonial ancestors through his mother, Cynthia. Born July 31, 1791, she was the fifth of the eight children of William'^ and Cynthia (Ho|)pin) Walker, of Thompson, Conn. Her father, h. januar)- 11, 1759, and GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 43 who d. December 13, 1843, m. Cynthia Hop- ])iii, October 19, 1782 (Providence records). 'I'he latter, b. July 18, 1758, d. October 21, 1839. William Walker was a carpenter by trade. Being a man of sound judgment, he bad considerable influence in the town. He wa.s one of the founders and ]3illars of the Mclhoilist church in Thompson. Under Cap- tain Knowlton, he served as a private in a company of minute-men that marched from the town of Ashland on the Lexington alarm. He was a pensioner in 1832, with residence at Thompson, Windham Count)', Conn. His name appears in the census of 1840, where his age is given as eighty-two years. He was son of Ephraims Walker of Pro\idence, R.L, b. March 8, 1735-6, d. March 29, 181 5, at the age of fifty years. Ephraim went to Provi- dence from Rehoboth as early as 1755. He was by trade a "housewright " ; and he built and afterward resided in a house at the corner of Walker and W'estminster Streets, the former of which took its name from him. He m. Priscilla Rawson, of Windham, Conn., who was b. May 22, 1740, a daughter of Thomas and Anna (Waldron) Rawson, and who d. August 22, I 81 3. She was descended from a highly reputable family of exemplary piety, and eminent for their public services. Her grandfather, Wilson Rawson, b. in June, 1692, was a grandson of Edward Rawson (the secre- tary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), who was b. in Gillingham, Dorsetshire, England, April 15, 1615, and who m. in luigland Rachel Perne, a grand-daughter of John Harker and his wife, the latter being a sister of an arch- bishop of Canterbury who flourished during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Edward Raw- son came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1637. He was elected secretary, ac- cording to the Massachusetts records, in 165 I ; and lie was annually re-elected until the usurjja- tioii of the government by Sir Edmund Andros. The father of Ephraim ' W'alker was Nathan- iel,' of Rehoboth, b. Januar)- 31, '1703-4, who d. April 20, 1783. In his father's will lie is called "best-beloved soji. ' He held the office of Deacon in the church, and in 1750 antl I 751 he was a Representative to the Gen- eral Court. His marriage with his wife, Anna, took place May 11, 1727. Nathaniel < Walker was a son of Philip ' of Rehoboth, who, b. March, 166 1-2, d. P\'bruary 17, 1739-40. Philip first m., in 1689, Mary Bowen, who was buried May 22, 1694. His second wife, .Sarah, d. Februar)' 6, 1739; and he d. eleven days after. He was son of Philip,^ who was a son of "Widow Walker," of Rehoboth, and a brother of James Walker, of Taunton. The earliest mention of Philip'' is made in a deed dated 1653. He was by trade a weaver, but followed farming after settling in Rehoboth. From what part of England the family came is not now known. The time of their arrival must have been as early as 1640. Philip^ m. Jane Metcalf in 1654. In 1669 he was a Deputy to Plymouth. He was also a Deacon of the church. At his death, which occurred in August, 1679, '""c was one of the wealthiest men in Rehoboth, where there were eighty- three estates. Vernon Eaton Carpenter was born in Thomp- son, Conn., May 15, 1833. He was educated in the schools of his native town, which he attended until reaching the age of seventeen. Then he went to 0.\ford to learn the trade of shoe manufacturing, and remained there thus occupied for three years. He then spent two years in Sturbridge as an employee of the shoe manufacturing concern, Sessions, Bates & Co. In June, 1S55, having determined to start in business on his own account, and after looking over the ground in order to find a desirable location, he selected Toronto, Canada, as a place affording a good opening. Here, in the following August, with a small capital, he suc- cessfully started a retail boot and shoe busi- ness under the firm name of Carpenter & Co. Sessions, Bates & Co. were associated with Iiim in the enterprise. In 1S56 the retail busi- ness was abandoned for a wholesale business, which was conducted under the firm name of Sessions, Carpenter & Co. Under capable management the firm flourished and built up a large and profitable business. In 1S67 Mr. Carpenter, feeling the need of rest, sold his interest to Mr. Sessions and moved to West Newton, Mass. On the latter's death, how- ever, which took place not long after, the care 44 NEW ENGLAND LIBKARV OF of his large estate was placed (b)' the will of Mr. Sessions) into the hands of Mr. Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter was married Janiiar)' 21, 1862, to Martha J. Ballard, a native of Thomp- son, Conn., who was born January 21, 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter were the parents of si.x children — Fanny Ballard, Myra A., Alice Margaret, Vernon E., Josephine Cook, and Clara Louise. Myra D. and \'ernon E. died in infancy. Fanny B. was born in Toronto, Canada, December i, 1863. Alice Margaret, born in Toronto, March 16, 1867, who mar- ried, August 23, 1892, William J. Clark, resides in Chicago, and has two children- — William Jerome, born November 11, 1893, and Cynthia Carpenter, born March 24, 1897. Josephine C. was born in West Newton, Mass., May 5, 1873; and Clara Louise was born in West Newton, July 7, 1879. Mrs. Martha J. Carpenter died May 7, 1897. UY CARLETON EMERSON, civil engineer. Deputy Superintendent of Streets, city of Boston, was born in the town of Orland, Hancock County, Me., May 12, 1867, son of Captain Arthur Walter and Sophia (Newman) Emerson. On the pa- ternal side he is a descendant in the eighth generation of Michael Emerson, who settled at Haverhill, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1656. The line is: Michael,' Joshua, = Josiah,^ Timo- thy, ■• Ca])tain Phineas, ' Aaron I'arkcr,' Arthui- Walter,^ Guy Carleton\ Michael' Emerson ni. in 1657 Mannah, daughter of John and ]\Liry (Shatswell) Web- ster, and had fifteen childreii. Joshua' m. in 1706 Mary Clark. Josiah,' b. in 1710, ni. Abigail Messer, and Timothy^ m. Mercy Cole. Captain I'hineas^ Emerson m. Mehitable Parker, daughter of I'ree Groves and .Susanna (ILudy) Parker. Her father, b. in 1755, was of the sixth generation of the family founded by Abraham Parker, who m. Rose Whitlock in 1644, and settled at Woburn, a few years later removing to Chelmsford. The Hon. Aaron Parker Emerson, grand- father of the subject of the present sketch, was b. in liucksport. Me., August 13, 1805. He settled at Orland, Me., and engaged in Inisi- ness as a ship buiUlei", lumber dealei', ice dealer, and general meichant. He ser\ed as Town Clerk seventeen years, Representati\e to the Legislature four years, as Presidential elector in 185G, a meniLier of the Go\'ernor's Council in 1867, and for fi\e \'ears, 1865-69, as a trustee of the Maine State Refnrni .School. He m. in 1833, Julia A., daughter of Dr. Nathan and Mary (Carleton) Teimey. linth her parents belonged to old Esse.x County (iMassachusetts) families. The Tenne)' ances- tral line is: Thomas,' whose wife was Ann; Jolin,^ who ni. Mercy Parratt, daughter of brands Parratt; .Samuel,-' who m. .Sarah Boyn- tim ; Pliilii.i,^ who rn. Jane Hale; William,^ b. in 1740, who resided at Bradford, and m. Re- becca Fames: Dr. Nathan," above nametl : and Jidia A.- Rebecca, wife of William Tenney and mother of Nathan, was the daughter of Nathan' and Mary (Burpee) Fames and grand-daugh- ter of Jeremiah^ and Rebecca (Jewett) Burjjee. Nathan' Fames was a son of Joseph and grand- son of Robert' I'.ames, of Bo,\fiird, the immi- grant progcnitoi' nl the family. Jeremiah' Burpee was son of Thomas,^ Jr., and grandson of Thomas' l^urpee, .Sr. Rebecca Jewett, his wife, was a daughter ol Josejih- Jewett, son ol Deacon Maximilian' Jewett, one of the first settlers of I'lowdey, Mass., 1639. Maximilian' was the second son of Fklward and Mary (Tay- lor) Jewett, of l?radford, Yoikshire, luigland. Mary Carletim, wife of Dr. Nathan 'Penney, was the daughter of .Alajor David and Mary (Cogswell) Carleton and a member of the seventh generatinn ni the family of this sur- name in New JCngland. Edward' Carleton, its foinider, b. in England in 1605, son ol Erasmus Carleton, mercer of St. Bartholomew's Parish, London, F^^ngland, was an inhabitant nl Rowley, Massachusetts ]5ay Colon)-, in 1639, and was a nien)ber of the General Court lour years. He returned to pjighuul in 1650-51. John,^ son of luhvard, m. Hannah Jewett, da-ughter of Joseph and Mai\- (Malinson) Jew- ett, and settled in Haverhill in 1661. His son Edward' m. l^lizabeth, ilaughter of IV'uja- min and Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball, anil was the father of Benjamin^ Carleton, b. in 1693, who settled in IJradford. Dudle\'' C^arlelon, b. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 45 in 1721, son of l^enjamin^ and his wile Abi- gail, m. Abigail, daiigiUcr of Joseph and Re- becca (Kimball) Wilson. Major David, son of Dudley and Abigail Carleton, m. Mary Cogswell, and was the fatiier of Mrs. Tenne)', as noted above. Mary Cogswell was the daughter of Adam^ and .Sarah (Burnham) Cogswell, the Cogswell line being: John,' who with wife, Alice, came in the ship "Angel Gabriel" and settled at Ipswich in 1635; William,^ who m. in 1694 .Su.sanna Hawkes ; Adam,^ of Ipswich, whose wife was Abigail; Caleb,-' who m. in 1728 Mary Tyler and resided at Littleton, Mass. ; Adam, 5 b. in 1733, who removed from New- buryport to Sedgwick, Me. Among other ancestors of Mr. Emerson through the Parker, Eames, and Tenney fami- lies may be named Humphrey Bradstreet, George Blake, Thomas Palmer. John Pearson, Richard Swan, and Richard Hutchinson. Jo- siah Emerson, third in the ancestral line, served five days in April, 1775, as a private in Captain Timothy Eaton's company. His son Timothy was a private in CajDtain Nathaniel Gage's company. He enlisted December 20, 1777, and served three months and sixteen days, guarding General Burgoyne'^S troops at Bunker Hill; and his name apj^ears on roll dated Bradford, as private, Captain John Per- kins's company, Colonel Cyprian Howe's regiment, 1780, July 25, October 30. Free Groves Parker appears as P"ree Parker, private, on the roll of Captain Gage's comiiany, May '^' '775. '"■'cl ''t Bunker Hill, and marched to Cambridge April ig. Arthur Walter, son of Aaron P. and Julia A. (Tenney) Emerson, b. SeiJtembcr 14, 183S, was the second in a family of six children, and one of four sons that grew to maturity. His brothers were Theodore Holbrook, William Tenney, and George A. In his boyhood he was a sailor in the merchant service. In the Civil War he was Acting Ensign in the navy, and after the war he again entered the mer- cantile marine, commanding a vessel many years. His home was at Orland, Me. Cap- tain Emerson m. in February, 1865, Sophia Thomson Newman, daughter of P3noch and Dorinda (Gott) Newman, of Orland. He d. in 1S90, and is survived by Mrs. Emerson and two children: Guy Carleton, civil engineer; and Julia Tenney, an artist, b. January 23, 1876. Mrs. Emerson and her daughter reside in Boston. Guy Carleton Emerson was educated at the Chauncy Hall .Scliool, Boston, and the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been continuously engaged in the duties of his profession in the city of Boston, his first em- ploy being in connection with the metropolitan sewerage system till 1895, when he was en- gaged on the Subway. In February, 1900, he was made Deput)- .Superintendent of Streets, sewer division, Boston. For five years he was a member of the First Corps of Cadets. ILLIAM HENRY WINSHIP, a resident of Maiden, engaged in business in Boston, was born in Maiden, Mass., September 20, 1867, a son of William Wallace Winship. He comes from Colonial stock of exceptional worth, on the paternal side being a direct descendant of Lieutenant Edward Winship, who settled in Cambridge in 1635, and a great-grandson of John Winship, one of the fifty or sixty minute- men that faced the British soldiers on Lexing- ton Common, April 19, 1775. Among others of his distinguished ancestors may be men- tioned the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth and Joseph Hills, both early settlers of Maiden, the latter undoubtedly giving the town its present name. His line of descent from the founder of the Winship family is as follows: Pldward, ' Samuel," Samuel, ' Samuel,-' John, 5 Stephen,'' William Wallace,^ William Henryl Edward' Winship, b. March 13, 161 2, sailed for America froni Harwich, England, in Au- gust, 1635, and settled in Cambridge, Mass., in October, 1635. For many years he was one of the most active and energetic inhabi- tants of the place, and became a large land- holder, owning land in Cambridge and Lexing- ton. He was a member of the artillery com- pany since known as the Ancient and Honora- ble in 1638; was Selectman of Cambridge for fourteen years, between 1637 and 1684. Pie was a Representative to the General Court in 46 NEW ENGLAND LIIJRARV OI'' 1663, 1664, 1 68 1, and 1686, and also served as Lieutenant in the militia. lie d. Decem- ber 2, 1 688. He was twice m., tlie line of descent being continued through his second wife, Elizabeth Parks, who d. September 19, i6go. Samuel-' Winship, b. in Le.xington, Mass., October 24, 1658, passed his life in that town. He was a .subscriber for the meeting-house in 1692 and later for the purch;ise of the common. He served a number of terms as Selectman. On A])ril 12, 1687, he m. Mary Poulter, who was b. in Bolton, Mass., May 9, 1665. Her father, John Poulter, who d. in Medford, Sep- tember 18, 1676, m. December 29, 1662, Rachel Eliot, who was b. October 26, 1643, daughter of P^'ancis and Mary (Saunders) Eliot. Samuel' Winship, a lifelong resident of Lexington, was b. January 8, 1688, and d. P'ebruary 13, 1776. He served as High Sheriff of Middlesex County. On January 10, 1712, he m. Jane Fessenden, who was b. April 22, 1688, and d. January 12, 1771. Pier father, Nicholas Fessenden, who was b. in P2ngland in 1650, d. Februar)' 24, 1719. His wife, Margaret Cheney, b. November 26, 1656, d. December 10, 1717. She was a daughter of Thomas Cheney, who m. at Roxbury, in 1655, Jane Atkinson, and d. in 1678. Samuel-' Winship was b. in Lexington, Mass., September 25, 171 2, and died P'ebruary 16, 1780. On May 5, 174S, he m. Abigail Crosby, of Billerica, who was born June 5, 1 71 7. She was a daughter of Lieutenant Simon Crosby and grand-daughter of Simon Crosby, Jr. Simon Crosby, Sr. , her great- grandfather, was b. in August, 1637, and d. January 22, 1725. Pie served in the militia in 1675 and 1676, and was Deputy to the (len- eral Court in 1690 and 1691. He m. Rachel l^rackett, who was b. November 3, 1639, and d. April 3, 1735. She was a daughter of Deacon Richard and Alice Brackett, the for- mer of whom was b. in 161 i, and d. March 5, 1691. Simon Crosby, Ji. , b. in 1663, m. Hannah Shcdd, and spent his entire life in l^illerica. Lieutenant Simon Crosby, b. in Billerica, August 23, 1689, d. P'ebruary 2, 1771. He served in the old French and Ind- ian War, being at Crown Point and Lake Champlain in 175S and 1759. On June 9, 1714, he m. Abigail Kidder, who was b. De- cember 16, 1694, and d. November 7, 1748. She was a daughter of Enoch Kiddei'. Her paternal grandfather, James Kidder, b. in Sus- | sex, England, in 1626, emigrated to Massachu- '■' setts, settling in Billerica, where his death oc- curred April 16, 1676. He served as an Ensign in Captain Danforth's company, and his house was used as a garrison in 1675. The maiden name of his wife was Anna Moore. Enoch Kidder, of Billerica, was b. .September 16, 1664, and d. December i, 1752. Plis wife, Mary Hayward, whom he m. in 1691, was a daughter of John and Rebecca (Atkinson) PIa)ward, of Concord. John'- Winship, b. in Lexington, May 12, 1754, d. at West Cambridge, October 9, 1822. Pie was a member of Captain John Parker's company of minute-men that fought the Ijritish on Lexington Common ; and he also served in the Continental Aim)- in New York from Jan- uary I, 1777, until April 3, 1778. Pie m. Deliverance Munroe, who was b. July 22, 1755, and d. P'ebruary 16, 1838. She was a daughter of Marrett Munroe, of Lexington, and a descendant in the fourth generation of Will- iam," the ancestor of all the Munroes of Lex- ington and vicinity. Born in Scotland in 1625, William Munroe emigrated to New Eng- land in 1652, was m. in 1665, and d. January -7> ^7W- John- Munrne, b. in Lexington, March 10, 1666, d. September 14, 1753. He m. Hannah Marrett, who was b. August 17, 1 668, and d. Ajiril 14, 17 16. Her paternal grandfather, Thomas Marrett, who with his wife, Susan, emigrated to Massachusetts from P'ngland, d. June 30, 1664. Their son John, father of PIani-iah Marrett, was b. in England, and there m. Abigail PZddeson, a native of Cheshire. Pie d. in i6g6. Marrett' Munroe, b. in Lexington, December 6, 1713, d. in that town, March 26, 179S. He m. April 17, 1737, Deliverance Parker, who was b. May 28, I 72 I, and d. August 9, 1799. She was a sister of Ca]3tain John Parker, above named, a daughter of Lieutenant Josiah Parker, and a descendant in the fifth genera- tion of Thomas' Parker, who settled in Lynn GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 47 in 1637, and cl. in 16S3. Lieutenant Hanna- niah' Parker, b. in L^'nn in 163CS, d. in 1724. He m. September 30, 1663, Elizabeth Browne, who d. in 1698. She was b. in Reading, Mass., daughter of Nicholas Browne, who was b. in England in 1601, and d. in Reading, Mass., in 1673. John' Parker, b. in Reading, August 3, 1664, d. at Lexington, June 22, 1 74 1. In 1689 he m. Deliverance Dodge, who d. March 10, 1718. Lieutenant Josiah-" Parker, b. in Reading, April 11, 1694, d. in Lexington, whither his parents removed when he was a child, October 9, 1756. On Decem- ber 8, 1718, he m. Anna Stone, who was b. November 27, 1694, daughter of John and Rachel (Shepard) Stone, of Concord. Her father was b. May 12, 1663, and d. February 3, 1 71 3. Her paternal grandfather, Samuel Stone, who was b. in 1635, and d. in 171 5, m. Sarah Stearns, who was b. in 1635, and d. in 1700. She was a daughter of Isaac' Stearns, who settled in Watertown in 1630. Samuel Stone was a son of Deacon Gregory' and Lydia Stone, the former of whom was b. in England in 1590, settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1635, and d. November 30, 1672. Stephen''' \Vinshi]3, b. July 15, 17S2, d. in Maiden, Mass., March 21, 1861. About 181 5 he settled in Boston, taking up his residence at the West End, and engaging in business as a provision dealer at Faneuil Hall Market. He subsequently lived a few years in Berlin, Mass., then removed to Maiden, where he spent his last days. He m. November 5, 1815, Elizabeth Williams Pollard, daughter of Colonel Moses Pollard and a descendant in the sixth generation of William Pollard, the immigrant. William' Pollard was a native of Coventry, England, where he m. Mary Farmer. Thomas- Pollard, b. in England, d. in Billerica, Mass., April 4, 1724. On November 26, 1692, he m. Sarah Farmer, of Billerica, daughter of Edward and Mary Farmer. Her father d. May 27, 1727, and her mother in 1719. William' Pollard, b. August 3, 169S, was a soldier in King Philip's War, serving under Major Sav- age in 1675 and 1676. He m. November 23, 1726, Experience Wheeler, of Lancaster, who was b. November 28, 170S. She was a daugh- ter of Josiah and Experience Wheeler, the for- mer of whom was b. in 1674, and d. December 8, 1738. Corporal John^ Pollard, b. in Lan- caster, Mass., April 20, 1729, d. May 10, 1814. He was engaged in military service under command of Captain Josiah Willard in 174S, and he marched to the relief of Fort William Henry in 1758, the same year being in the expedition to Lake George. His wife, Elizabeth Williams, of Groton, b. December 5, 1736, was a daughter of John Williams and grand-daughter of Thomas and Mary (Holdcn) Williams. Colonel Moses' Pollard, who was b. June 12, 1770, in l^oston, resided several years in Lancaster. He sailed from New York with his own crew for the Hoi)' Land, intending to write a religious history of the country, but he was last heard from at Genoa. The manner of his death and what became of the men or vessel was never known. On July 22, 1793, he m. Mary (or Polly) Crosby, who was b. at Shrewsbury, Mass., August 10, 1769. Her father, Elisha, was a son of Samuel Crosby and grandson of Simon and Hannah (Shedd) Crosb)', mentioned above. Samuel Crosby, b. in Billerica, October 4, 1698, d. January 23, 1749. He m. December 29, 1729, Dorothy Brown, b. Januarv 1, 1704. She was a daughter of George Brown and grand-daughter of William Brown, who m. April 16, 1655, Elizabeth Ruggles, daughter of George Ruggles, of ]^raintree. George Brown, b. April 5, 1668, d. September 28, 1738. His wife, Sarah Kidder, who d. Feb- ruary 27, 1 71 7, was a daughter of James and Anna (Moore) Kidder, before mentioned. William Wallace^ Winship, son of Stephen'' and Elizabeth Williams'' (Pollard) Winship, was b. in Jiioston, January 2, 1832. He is engaged in the trunk and bag business on Summer Street, Boston. He m. October ig, 1864, in Charlestown, Charlotte Josephine Edmands, who was b. in Charlestown, May 15, 1 84 1. She is a daughter of the late George Edwin Edmands and a descendant in the eighth generation of Walter Edmands, the first of the name to settle in America, the line being: Walter,' John,' John,' David, ■* David,' David, '' George Edwin,' Charlotte J."* Walter' Edmands emigrated from England 48 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF to Massachusetts in 1635, settling in Concord in 1639. His wife, Dorothy, ci. July 13, 1667. John- Edmands, b. in Concord in 1640, d. in 1677. He m. Octoljcr 4, 1667, Hannah Dodge. John> Edmands, b. August 21, 1671, d. in Charlestown, August 12, 1755. On November i, 1693, he m. Sarah Blaney, who d. June 20, 1713. Her father, John HIanev, m. June 26, 1672, Sarah Powell, whose death occurred October 18, 1694. David-i Edmands, b. in Charlestown, April 20, 1712, ni. NoN'ember 18, 1736, Hannah Hatch, who d. July I, 1785. Davids Edmands, a life- long resident of Charlestown, was b. January 31, 1741, and d. December 9, 1S23. On Oc- tober 13, 1767, he m. Sarah Manning, who was b. December 7, 1745. Her father, Thomas Manning, was a son of John Manning, who was b. August 30, 1666, m. Sarah Man- ning, and d. Eebruar\' 23, 1718. Her great- grandfathei", Samuel I\Ianning, who was b. July 21, 1644, m. AjDril 13, 1664, Elizabeth Stearns, and d. Eebruary 22, 17 10. David'' lulmands, born in Charlestown, No- vember 15, 1768, d. July 16, 1821. He ni. June 27, 1793, Mercy Burditt, who was b. April 22, 1769, a daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Burditt and a descendant of Kobert' J^urditt, who was living in Maiden in 1653, marrying, in November of that year, LLannah Winter, and dying June 16, 1667. Thomas' Hurditt, b. in Maiden in September, 1655, d. January 20, 1729. His wife, Elizabeth, d, January 26, 1717, aged sixty-five years. Lieu- tenant Thomas' Burditt, b in Maiden, Januai'y 13, 1683, d. October 15, 1758. On Septem- ber 28, 1705, he m. Mary .Sargent, who was b. in Maiden, July 4, 1686, and d. October 27, 1761. Her father, Joseph .Sargent, was b. in Maiden in 1663, and d. .September 27, 1717. He was a son of John and Deborah (Hilliartl) •Sargent, the former of whom was b. about 1640, and d. .Seiitember 9, 17 16; while the litter was b. at Yarmouth, October 30, 1643, and d. in 1669. John .Sargent was a son of the Rev. William and .Sarah .Sargent, who moved in 1639 from Charlestown to Ijarnstable. Josejjh .Sargent m. Mary Green, who was b. iii Charlestown in December, 1668, and d. April 9. '759- ■'~'li'-' ^^'•^^ '^ daughtei' of Deacon John Green and a grand-daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Green. Thomas-i Burditt, b. Decem- ber 14, 1705, d. March 8, 1763. His wife, .Sarah Newhall, b. in Maiden, November 27, 1711, was a daughter of David New-hall and a descendant of Thomas Newhall, an early settler of Lynn. Lieutenant .Samuel' Burditt, b. in Maiden, September 12, 1735, d. April 2, 1 S09. He m. April 21, 1758, Esther Pratt, who was b. in i\Ialden, November 10, ^737- -"^h^' was a daughter of David and Mercy Upham Pratt, who were m. April iS, 1734. Mercy Upham, who was b. November 20, 171 I, was a daughter of James-' Upham and a descendant in the fifth generation of John L'pham, the immigrant, the line being: John,' Lieutenant Phineas,-' Deacon Phineas,' James, ■• Mercy'. John' Upham, b. in 1597, d. P^ebru- ary 25, 1681. He m. Elizabeth Webb. Lieu- tenant Phineas'' Upham, b. in 1636, d. in 1676. He m. April 14, 1658, Ruth Wood, who was b. in 1636. Deacon Phineas' LTpham, b. Afay 22, 1659, m. Mary Mellins in 1682, and d. in Maiden, October 19, 1720. James-" Upham, i). in Maiden, August 8, 1687, m. June 2, 1709, Doroth}' Wigglesworth, b. in Maiden, h'ebruar}- 22, 1686. .She was a daughter of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth and grand-daughter of Edward Wigglesworth. Her father was for many years pastor of the Maiden church. He d. June 10, 1705. His wife, Martha, d. SeiDtember 4, 1690, when but twenty-eight years old. George Edwin" Pxlmands, the father of Mrs. Winshijj, was b. in Charlestown, July 7, i 8 i 2, and cl. December 14, 1875. He m. Charlotte Adams l^owen, who was b. November 21, 18 12, and d. P'ebiuary 17, 1849. She was a daughter of John Bowen, who m., September 12, iSii, ■Sarah Hoj-)pin, daughter of Thomas Ho])pin, Jr. Her grandfather, Thomas Hoppin, .Sr., was a .son of Williani and Abigail (Johnson) Hoppin, who were m. September 25, 1722. Lsaac Johnson, father of Abigail, was a son of William Johnson, who was living in Charles- town in 1634. Isaac m. November 22, 1671, l\hn-y .Stone, who d. August 31, 171 i. Thomas Hoppin, .Sr. , of Charlestown, b. June 30, 1738, served as a private in Colonel Gardner's regi- ment in the comjjany of Captain Harris. He GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY SI m. October 22, 1761, Abigail Froth inghani, who was b. Novcml)er 8, 1741, and d. July II, 1762. Her father, Thomas I'"rothiiigham, who was in his Majesty's service, April 7, 1748, under command of Captain Thomas Jenner, was b. April 17, 1713, and d. December 25, 1776. On April 21, 1737, he m. Abigail Miller, who was b. April 20, 1714, and d. April i, 1777. Fler father, James Miller, who was b. Febru- ary 1, 1 68 1, and d. September 20, 1752, m. July 8, 1708, Abigail Frost, who d. January 22, 1765. He was a son of Richard Miller, who settled in W'atertown in 1637. Thomas Hoppin, Jr., b. in Charlestown, July 11, 1762, d. December 21, 1831. In 1780, at the age of eighteen years, he enlisted in the Continental Army, serving for six months. He m. Octo- ber 6, 1785, Dorcas Cluley, of Medford, b. August 7, 1761. She was a daughter of Isaac Cluley and grand-daughter of Joseph and Eliz- abeth Cluley, who w'ere in. in 1721 or 1722. Isaac Cluley, b. in Boston, December 15, 1729, m. January 10, 1755, -Sarah Burditt, who was b. in Maiden, May 21, 1738, and d. June 6, 1766. She was a daughter of Thomas-* Burditt, mentioned above, who m. a daughter of Da\-id Newhall. Thomas Newhall, the grandfather of David Newhall, was b. in Lynn in 1630. He m. Elizabeth Potter, and d. in 1687. Their son. Lieutenant Thomas New- hall, b. November 18, 1653, in L\'nn, d. July 13, 1728. In 1674 he m. Rebecca Green, of Charlestown, who was b. in 1654, and d. May 25, 1726. -She was a daughter of Captain Thomas Green, of Charlestown. and grand- daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Green, the former of whom d. in 1667, and the latter in 1658. Captain Green d. in 1671. He m. Re- becca Hills, who d. June 6, 1674. .She was a daughter of Josej^h Hills, who was b. in Mai- den in 1602, and d. in 1685 in Newburyport. David Newhall d. l-'ebruary 3, 1760. On Jan- uary 8, 1706, he m. -Sarah Fosclick, who was b. June II, 1687, and d. December 12, 1763. -She was a daughter of Sergeant John Fosdick, who m. Elizabeth Betts, and lived to the age of ninety years, dying September 17, 1716. His father, -Stephen Fosdick, w^ho was living in Charlestown in 1635, d. there in 1664. William Wallace and Charlotte Josephine (Edmands) Winship are the parents of seven children, namely: Nellie Sprague, b. in Mai- den, November 24, 1865; William Henry, the special subject of this sketch ; George Ed- mands, b. in Charlestown, August 7, i S69, d. May 19, 1878; Stephen Edwin, b. in Charles- town, September ig, 1S71 ; Charlotte Eliza- beth, b. in Charlestown, October 24, 1S73; Albert W^nllace, b. in Maiden, October 4, iSSo: and Walter Whyte, b. in Maiden, May 21, 18S3. William Henry \\'inship was graduated from the Maiden Centre Grammar School in 1883 and from the Maiden High School in 18S7. He was Second Lieutenant of the High School Cadets in 1885, Captain in 1886, and in 1887 the First Major of the High School Battalion. On leaving school he entered the trunk, bag, and military business with his uncle, H. A. Winship, of Boston, with whom he has since been connected. Mr. \A'inship is identified with many fratei- nal organizations, and in i Sg8 and iSgg was Captain of the Thirt}--third C'omiianv of Infan- try, Massachusetts I'ro\isional Militia. He belongs to the Maiden High -School Alumni Association, of which he was president in 1895; is a director of the Kernwood Club; a member of Converse Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of the Massachusetts Republican Club; the Bou- quet Club; and the Beverly Yacht Club. In right of descent from tvvent}'-si.\ ancestors who served in the Colonial wars, he is a member of the society bearing that name; and he is like- wise a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, claiming eligibility to this organ- ization through ten of his immediate ances- tors who activel)' assisted in the struggle foi- American independence. WVRRKN riAP( publisher of " Hai)"ood Fan APGOOD, compiler and The Genealogy of the pgood family, 1656- 1898," is a well-known resident of the Back Bay Dis- trict, Boston, a man who has hajjpily utilized in travel, in writing, in field sports, and in works of bene\'olence the leisure earned by a long and honorable business career. He is a 52 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF native of the town of Harvard, Mass., and comes of old Colonial stock lonij,' rooted in Middlesex and Worcester Counties. Born October 14, 1816, son of Joel and Sally (Fair- bank) Hapyood, he is a descendant in the sixth generation of .Shadrach Habt;ood, who left Eng- land in the ship "Speedwell, " Captain Lock, May 30, and arrived in Boston, July, 1656, a lad of fourteen years. The lineage is: Shad- rach,' Deacon Nathaniel,- Lieutenant Shad- rach,' Shadrach, -> Joel,^ Warren". {In the parish register of St. Mary's Church, Andover, England, this surname is found in three forms — Habgood, Hapgood, and Hopgood.) Shadrach' Habgood lived for some years with his uncle, Peter Noyes, in Sudbury. October 21, 1664, he was m. to L^lizabeth Treadway, daughter of Nathaniel and Sufferance (Howe) Treadway, and grand-daughter of Elder Edward Howe, of Watertown. In 1670 he had a grant of land at Pomposetticut, on the south side of the Assabet River, included in 1683 in the town of Stow. On August 2, 1675, he was treacherously slain, with eight others, by the Nipmuck Indians at Brookfield, Mass., whither he had gone as one of a party of twenty-five to hold a peace conference with them. His widow m. March 23, 1677, Joseph Hayward, of Concord, Mass. Deacon Nathaniel' Hapgood, eldest of the five children of Shadrach,' received a double portion of his father's estate, and acquired more land from time to time, his home farm alone at Stow being little, if any, short of seven hundred acres. He served fourteen years as Selectman of'Stow, two years as Town Treasurer, and in 1711-1712 as Grand Jury- man. He m. September 6, 1695, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Howe) Ward, and grand-daughter of William Ward and John Howe, both of Marlboro. Six children were born of this union, and all were married. Lieutenant Shadrach,' b. November 6, 1704, received from his father and others about three hundred and fifty acres of land in the north- westerly part of Stow, known as "Stow Leg," which fell into the town of Harvard at the time of its incorporation in 1732. Abcmt 1727 he built the large mansion house in Colonial style still standing in the northerly ])art of Harvard. Lie was commissioned as Lieutenant by Gover- nor William Shirley in 1742. As a private in Captain Thomas Gates's Company, he marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, service nine days. He was Selectman six years, and d. Octobers, 1782. His wife, Elizabeth Wether- bee, d. November 30, 1803, having had ten children. Shadrach,' b. October 4, 1747, m. July 23, 1770, Elizabeth, daughter of Jabez Keep, and grand-daughter of Ensign Samuel Keep, of Springfield, Mass. He succeeded his father as owner of the large estate in Harvard. In 1777 he was a private in Captain Samuel Hill's Company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's Regi- ment, which marched from Llarvard on the Bennington alarm, and was in service six days, August 19-25, and later, under Lieutenant Colonel Sawyer, served twenty-four days, Oc- tober 2-26. He was one of the Committee of Correspondence and Safety in 1781, Selectman 1791-92, and d. June 20, 1818. His wife d. August 30, 1826. Joel,^ the youngest of a family of seven children, settled on the home farm in a house that he built previous to his marriage, as an annex to the original dwelling, while his father was yet living. He m. first, November 12, 18 1 2, Sally Fairbank, who was b. September 23, 1792, and d. January 19, 1820. She was a daughter of Jonathan" and Hannah (Llale) Fairbank, of Stow, grand-daughter of Captain Joseph' and Abigail (Tarbell) Fairbank, great- grand-daughter of Deacon Jose])h-' and Mary (Brown) Fairbank, great-great-grand-daughter of Jabez' and Mary (Wilder) Fairbank, great- great-great-grand-daughter of Jonas-' and Lydia (Prescott) Fairbank, and great-great-great- great-grand-daughter of Jonathan and Grace (Lee) Fairbank, who came from Yorkshire, FLngland, to Boston in 1633, and settled in Dedham, 1636. Jonas-' P'airbank, who was one of the original proprietors of Lancaster, was slain with his son Joshua by the Indians at the burning of the town in February, 1676. His wife Lydia was a daughter of John Pres- cott, who came from Sowerby, England, and was the founder of the family in New Iingland. JoeP Ha[)good m. second, January 30, 1822, Charlotte, daughter of Jason and Silence GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY S3 Mead, b. December 22, 1791 — a woman of energ)' and intelligence, cheerful and kindly in disposition, and an affectionate and faithful mother to his three children, she having none of her own. He d. September 28, 1S55, and she July i ", 1S84. Jonathan Fairbank" llapgood, eldest son of Joel, was b. January 15, 1814, reared on the homestead farm, and in his early manhood worked in a tannery in Ashburnham. He in. first, December 25, 1839, Susan Wetherbee, of Harvard, who d. 1842, leaving one child, Al- fred Warren. On April 9, 1843, he m. sec- ond Dolly Mosman, b. in Westminster, Sep- tember 29, 1S22. In 1844 he purchased a farm in Harvard, and worked it till 1849, when the gold fever took him to California, where he worked two years in the mines, returning in November, 185 1, with the intention of taking his family thither, but was by his father per- suaded to abandon that project and take the farm under certain conditions, which were faithfully performed. In 1854 he built the large barn, and from time to time greatly improved the farm. He was blessed with twelve children, and d. of indurated cancer in the pylorus August 29, 1876. His widow d. in Marlboro, January 4, 1894. Hannah'' Hapgood, only daughter of Joel, b. May 14, 1S15, m. first, April 14, 1836, Hiram, son of Thomas and Polly (Whitney) Houghton, b. in Harvard, April 16, 1S14. He was a farmer, and d. January 2, 1853. She m. second, March 4, 1856, Amasa Davis Gamage, a business man of Boston, brother to Mrs. Warren Hapgood, and at the time of his death in 1881 a member of the well-known firm of John G. Hall & Co. His widow now re- sides in Jamaica Plain. Warren Hapgood," the youngest and only surviving son of Joel,^ passed his boyhood at the ancestral homestead in Harvard, attending the di.strict school in term time, making good progress in his studies and cherishing a desire for a college education. Active and sprightly, but never robust, he was disinclined to adopt the hereditary occupation of farming; and as an alternative, in the spring of 1S34, in his eighteenth year, he was placed in a store in Fitchburs to leara something n{ mercantile business. His employer soon failed, and he reluctantly returned to the homestead. That summer was his last on the farm. Thanks to his excellent stepmother, who knew that he was better adapted to a business life than farm work, the way was opened for him to go into a general merchandise store on Charlestown Neck kept by Archibald Babcock. He re- ceived a salary of twenty- five dollars the first year, with a present of five dollars, and boarded with Mr. Babcock 's family. The second year his salary was doubled; but before it ended Mr. Babcock sold out, and he found employ- ment as book-keeper's assistant in Boston. He practised economy, and yearly saved some of his earnings, even from the first. From assist- ant he was promoted to head book-keeper and manager of the business. His evenings at this period were largely devoted to study and to meetings of literary societies which he had joined. He bought books, and also made glad use of the libraries that were then accessible to him. He took lessons in book-keeping, French, and other branches of learning. His health suffering from too close application and his e)es being weakened, he passed the winter of 1S43-44 at the old home in Harvard. After his return to Boston in 1S44, he was employed as book-keeper in a dry-goods store, ancl later in a wool and domestic goods com- mission house. The confinement did not agree with him; and by the advice of the late Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, then a practising physician in Boston, he arranged with his firm to be out more, and was sent as their agent through the Western States, and the ne.xt year he was sent on a similar mission to the South- ern States, spending part of the winter of 1845- 46 in New Orleans. On his return he was for a time employed in New England and New York. Much improved in health by the active out-of-doors life, he decided to abandon office work for the more active duties of business. He had, however, during the past three years followed the doctor's advice, and seized every opportunity to indulge in field sports, not only for health, but for pleasure as well. In Au- gust, 1847, he embarked in the cloth and clothing business, forming a copartnership with Samuel B. Appleton, who was thoroughly 54 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF conversant with that business, under the name of Hapgood & Appleton, at i8 Dock Square, Boston. At the end of the first year the firm was dissolved ; and Mr. Hapgood assumed the business and its responsibilities, removing in 1855 to the large store, 50 Washington Street. In 1872 he removed to 48 Washington Street, and in 1S74 to chambers, 383 Washington Street. In February, 1878, finding chambers not available for his business, he removed to 17 Court Street, where he remained till Feb- ruary I, 18S7, when he transferred his business to Messrs. Richardson & Swett, who had long been in his employ. For forty 3'ears Mr. Hapgood had been suc- cessfully in business for himself, had never borrowed money or asked for a discount, and had always paid one hundred cents on the dollar. Being; in business for himself, he felt at lib- erty to devote more time afield than when he was an employee; and, as he advanced in life, his health improved, and he became physically in good condition. 1^'or more than thirty years, at suitable seasons of the year, he was a con- stant visitor at the old homestead, and with his brother Jonathan traversed the towns in that vicinity, and beat the coverts for game; nor were the trout streams in that section neglected during the proper season. His brother Jona- than was an expert fisherman, and knew all the lurking-places of the wily trout; and it was of great advantage to have so generous and intel- ligent a friend at court. He was also a most excellent shot, knew all the coverts, took care of the dogs and guns, and wa.s always ready to lend a hand to help out the da)''s sport. Not a large man, but tough as a whip, and full of energy, and a cheerful and agreeable comjianion for such excursions. All these rambles tended to l)uild up and improve his physical condition, and he has often said he did not regret any day or dollar spent in that way He now rather rejoices that he had the courage to seize and appropriate such happ)' occasions to prolong life. To him that was "the golden age." He has taken trout from the Merced and Yellow- stone Rivers, the Adirondacks, the Rangeleys, and other lakes and rivers, shot fowl and game birds in many of the States without a serious accident; and for all these joys and lilesbings he is truly grateful. In 1S62 he organized the Monomoy Branting Club, and for thirty-four years was its presi- dent and manager. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association since 1878, is a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society, and Boston Art Club, the American Unitarian Association, Young Men's Christian Union, is a member of Dr. Edward Everett Hale's church, served on the Boston School Committee Board, 1866. He gave to Harvard a town clock and a handsome sum to complete the public library, and deliv- ered an address at its dedication, June 22, 1887. He is a keen observer of the habits of birds and animals, and has a collection of ornithological specimens, including most of the shore birds as well as game birds of New England. "To be a sportsman," he says in an introductory page to the genealogy, "one should be a heart}' admirer of Nature and her stupendous and wonderful works, lofty moun- tains, noble forests, running brooks, precipice and prairie, and the ways anil habits of their multitudinous inhabitants. If all these do not bring joy to his heart and elevate his soul, he is no sportsman, and had better let his faculties drift into some other field." He has contributed numerous articles for publication, principally on sporting matters, notably "History of Brant." "Game Birds of New England," Range and Rotary Movements of Shore Birds," "A Transcontinental Trip," "Brant Shooting at Cape Cod," etc. In 1894, as a compliment to his fellow- townsmen, he published the history of his native town. Harvard, no copy of which was ever sold; and in 1898 he wrote and published a genealogy of the Hapgood family, 1656-1898, a work of about six hundred pages, with simi lar results. Mr. Hapgood was married January 14, 1852, to Julia Adelaide Gamage, a lad}' of congenial tastes, born in Boston, July 28, 1821, a daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Saiah (Cowdin) Gamage, educated in public and private schools in her native cit\'. Her father was a son of William Gamage, M.D., of Cambridge, by his second GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 55 wife, Lucy Watson. Dr. Gainni;e was the son of William, St., and Abigail Gamage, of Cam- bridge, and grandson of Joshua and Deborah (Wyeth) Gamage, of Cambridge, Jcshua being the immigrant progenitor of the family in New England. Mrs. Hapgood's mother was the daughter of Daniel and Zelnah (Davis) Cow- din, and grand-daughter of General Amasa and Sarah (Whitney) Davis; .Sarah Whitney, a daughter of William and Mary (Pierce) Whit- ney, of Weston, and grand-daughter of John and Elinor Whitney, of Watertown. Nathan- iel Gamage was a merchant of Boston. He died in January, 1823, survived In' his wife, Sarah, who died March 2, 1867. Mrs. Hapgood in earlier life took an active interest in Sunday-school work, more particu- larly the Warren Street Chapel and Children's Mission. She is a life member of the Chil- dren's Mission to the Children of the Desti- tute and of the American Unitarian Associa- tion. Having no children, Mr. and Mrs. Hapgood took into their family in 1871 a nephew of Mr. Hapgood's, Theodore Gold- smith Hapgood, a promising lad of nearly eleven years, a son of Jonathan F. Hapgood, to educate him for mercantile or professional life, as he should choose. For seven years he studied at the Dwight Grammar School, where his conduct was always "excellent," his schol- arship above the average, he Ijeing sometimes "head boy." Two years more were spent in the Roxbury High School, and then in Septem- ber, 1879, he entered a store to learn the leather business. In the winter of 1881-82 he attended evening class at Comer's Commer- cial College, where he took a severe cold, which developed into serious lung trouble. Various changes of climate were tried, among them the Adirondack forests, but all proved unavailing. He died at Duane, N. Y. , March 10, 1S83, and was interred in the family lot in Harvard. He had early become attached to the Rev. Dr. Hale's Sunday-school, and was baptized by him on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1874. His Sunday-school teacher wrote of him as follows: "In running back over my memory of our being together in the Sunday- school, I have only one thought of him, a manly, true-hearted }'oung man. His bearing in the class was as nearly perfect as it was possible to be, setting a high tone and example to the others, always loyal, earnest, and faith- ful in all he did. I had some earnest talks with him, and I know that his aims were high and that the standard he set for himself was one only to be reached by a truly religious consecration. " 1 84 1 , ENJAMIN HINCKLEY, senior mem- ber of the firm of Hinckley & Co., ]3roduce dealers, Boston, was born in Charlestown, Mass., .Se]3tember 22. son of Benjamin and 01i\'e (Rich) Hinckley. His father was a native of Truro, Barnstable County, and was the third Benjamin Hinckley in direct line of descent born in that town, being a son of Deacon Benjamin and Mercy (Collins) Hinckley and grandson of Benjamin, Sr. , who d. at Truro in 1824, aged eighty-one years, and whose wife, Dinah .Sweet, a native of Wellfleet, d. in November following, in her seventy-fourth year. The family is one of the oldest on the Cape, its founder, Samuel' Hinckley, having come from Sandwich, Eng- land, with his wife, Sarah, and four children in the "Heicules" in 1635, settling at Barn- .stable in 1640. Samuel Hinckley d. in Octo- ber, 1662. His will mentions wife Bridget (second), four daughters, and three sons — Thomas, Samuel, and John. These sons all married and had families. Thomas' Hinckley was the last Governor of Plymouth Colony. He d. in 1705. His son John,^ b. in 1667, was the father of James, ■• b. in 1704, who re- moved to Falmouth. Of James^ Hinckley Mr. Amos Otis, in his "Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families" (\'ol. ii. p. 43), says, "The Hinckle\'s at Truro I think are his de- scendants. " On page 40 Mr. Otis says of Josiah-" Hinckley, another grandson of Gov ernor Thoma.s,-' b. in .March, 1694-5, "He was a blacksmith and lived at Truro, married Lydia Paine. " Benjamin Hinckley, second, of Truro, who held the oflfice of Deacon in the Congregational church, was by occupation a contractor and builder. He and his wife, Mercy, reared one S6 NEVN- ENGLAND LIBRARY OF son and four daughters; namely, Benjamin, Dorcas, Hannah, Mercy, and Delia. Benjamin Hinckley, third, father of the present Benjamin Hinckley, learned the trade of carpenter, which, however, he did not follow for many years, but came to Boston to engage in the produce business, forming a partnership with a Mr. Lowell, under the firm name of Hinckley & Lowell. The two continued to- gether for a number of years, their store being situated near the Worcester depot. After Mr. Lowell's death Mr. Hinckley became a mem- ber of the firm of S. Walker & Co., of Faneuil Hall Square. Previous to the Civil War Mr. Hinckley went to New Orleans, where he re- mained, and soon after the commencement of the war he entered into the service of the United States in the commissary department. Failing health at length compelling him to relinquish his position and come home, he died on June i8, 1S62, but a few days after his return. His wife, Olive Rich Hinckley, d. March 18, 1S73. She was a native of Charles- town, Mass., b. October 10, 1S15, daughter of Robert and Achsah Rich. Her father, a son of John Rich, was one of the pioneer fish dealers in J^oston. In 1S15 he purchased an estate in Charlestown of the Union Bank. He d. January 10, 1859, at the advanced age of ninety-five years, his wife, Achsah, having passed away eleven years before, on September •S, 1847. Benjamin Hinckley, third, was the father of three children, of whom tw(j, Benja- min and James Gates, are now living. Benjamin Hinckley, fourth, the present bearer of the name, was educated in the public schools of Charlestown, and at the age of nine- teen entered the employ of Chamberlain, Kim- ball & Doe, of Faneuil Hall Market, with whom he remained for three or four years. He then worked one year for the firm of Davis & Dyer. In 1S65 he formed a iwrtnership with George C. Nichols in the commission l^roduce business, whicli they carried on to- gether in Faneuil Hall Market for five years. Then Eli Ayers was admitted to the firm, the style becoming Hinckley, Ayers & Co. In 1897 Mr. Ayers withdrew, and the business was continued by Benjamin and James G. Hinckley, under the name of Hinckley & Co., at 2,3 South Market and 19 Chatham Streets. Mr. Hinckle)- is a director of the First Na- tional Bank of Woburn and president of the Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank. He is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, of which he was formerly vice-president, and is now one of the trustees of real estate. He was made a Free Mason in Henry Price Lodge, Charlestown, and is now a member of St. An- drew's Chapter, R. A. M. A Republican in politics, he cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Though he has been several times solicited to allow his name to go before the public as a candidate for office, he has in\'ariably declined, preferring to devote his whole time to his private business, which has kept him fully occupied. Mr. Hinckley was first married June 4, 1867, to Mercy Eliza Byam, of Chelmsford, Mass., a daughter of William and Mercy (Parker) Byam and a descendant of George Byam, who was in Wenham, Mass., in 1640, and settled in Chelmsford in 1653. The line of descent is: George,' Abraham,-' Isaac, •* John,' Will- iam,-^ Ezekiel,'' William,' Mercy Eliza.^ Eze- kieP' Byam established the match business so long continued by Byam & Carlton. Mrs. Mercy li. Hinckley died in Charlestown May 10, 1871 ; and Mr. Hinckley married for his second wife, Se]3tember 8, 1874, Ellen Wol- cott Stearns, who was born in Weymouth, Mass., a daughter of Eckley and Hannah L. Stearns. Mr. Hinckley has one child by his first wife, Mercy Adeline, a graduate of Smith College. Of his second union there are two children: Benjamin Stearns, who is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Olive Loring, who is a student in the high school. Mrs. Hinckley is a member of the Congregational church. Jame.s G.ates Hinckley, junior member of the firm of Hinckley & Co., produce dealers, Boston, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Au- gust 21, 1 85 1, son of Benjamin and Olive (Rich) Hinckley. His ancestral history is contained in the sketch of his brother Benja- min, preceding this. He was educated in the ]:)ublic schools of Charlestown, ant! at the age of fifteen years entered the employ of Burr GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 57 Brothers & Co. (the leading dealers in Boston at that time in fancy small wares), and re- mained with them till he was twenty years of age. He then went to work for Chamherlain & Co., of Faneuil Hall Market, with whom he remained nntil he resigned in order to enter as a partner the fii^m of Hinckley & Co., with which he has since been connected. He was married in February, 18S2, to Sarah Ella McKay, a native of Charlestown, daughter of George and Jane McKay. Mr. and Mrs. James G. Hinckle)' have two children — James P. and George W. 'ON. WILLIAM PELEG ELLISON, of Newton, was born in Duxbury, US I Mass., October 30, 1835, son of William and Almeda (]\artridge) Ellison. His paternal ancestry is as follows, Joseph, ' William,- James, ' William,' and in- cludes by intermarriages representatives of many well-known families of Boston and vicin- ity. Joseph' Ellison, b. in luigland in i6g6, emigrated to America when well advanced in years, but prior to 1768, and d. in Boston, Mass., in 1771, leaving two children. Will- iam' Ellison, b. in England, emigrated to Boston, and d. in this city May 15, 1S16. In 1762 he m. Mary Bishop, who wash, in Dor- chester, Mass., April 25, 1740, and d. I-'ebru- ary 2^, 1817. She was a daughter of James and Sarah (Snow) Bishop. James' Ellison, b. January 17, 1778, d. October 30, 1S20. For many years he was connected with a Boston bank, and resided on South Street. Mr. Clapp in his records of the Boston stage says, in speaking of the Philo Dramatic Society: "The first idea originated with James Ellison. He was a remarkable lover of the drama, and his able criticisms can be found in the ISoston Gazette of that day. He was the author of a number of successful dramatic pieces, and he furnished us almost every night we played with an original prologue or epilogue." James El- lison m. December 12, 1802, Charlotte Hick- ling, who was b. in Boston, January 2, 1780, being a daughtei- of William and Elizabeth (Hodson) Hickling and grand-daughter of William and Sarah (Sale) Hickling. Sarah Sale was a daughter of John and Anne (Town- send) Sale, grand-daughter of Penn and Sarah (Addington) Sale, and great-grand-daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Foster) Sale. Mary P'os- ter was a daughter of Captain Hopestill and Mary (Bates) Foster, of Dorchester. Eight children were b. of the union of James and Charlotte (Hickling) Ellison, four of whom grew to years of maturity, namely: James, who settled in Waltham ; \Villiam, who settled in Du.xbury ; Edward, in Bangor, Me.; and Sarah R. , who lives in Waltham. William-* Ellison was b. in Boston, August 13, 18 1 2, and d. in Du.xbury, Mass., January 31, 185S. Hem. Almeda Partridge, who was b. in Duxbury in January, 181 5, a daughter of Ralph and Hannah (Sprague) Partridge. She was a descendant in the sixth generation of George' Partridge, who emigrated from County Kent, England, to Duxbury, Mass., in 1636, m. Sarah Tracy in November, 1638, and d. about 1695. John- Partridge, b. November 29, 1657, son of George,' m. first, December 24, 1684, Hannah Seabury, and second. May 23, 1700, Mrs. Mary Brewster, widow of Wrestling Brewster. Isaac^ Partridge, who was b. March 2, 1705, son of John- and his wife Mary, and d. January 26, 1794, m. March 10, 1730, Grace Sylvester. Their .son, Colonel Calvin^ Partridge, b. May 29, 1739, d. November 27, 181 5. In the early part of the Revolutionary War he was given charge of the military com- panies of the town of Duxbury, and served in the Rhode Island campaigns. He was after- ward promoted to the rank of Colonel of the regiment. He m. October 24, 1779, Mrs. Mary Wakefield Alden, widow cjf Colonel Icha- bod Alden. Ralph' Partridge, b. of this union in Duxbury, November 13, 1783, m. Hannah Sprague, and was the father of Almeda,'' above named, b. in 181 5, who m. William Ellison. Hannah Spragye was a daughter of the Hon. Seth' and Deborah (Sampson) Sprague, of Duxbury. Her mother was a daughter of Abner^ Sampson and grand-daughter of Na- thaniel' Sampson, of Duxbury. Her grand- father Nathaniel was a son of Abraham' Samp- son by his wife Lorah, daughter of Alexander- and Sarah (Alden) Standish and grand-daugh- S8 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF ter of Captain Myles' Stand ish and of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. William Peleg^ Ellison was educated in the public schools of Duxbury, which he attended until about seventeen years old. Coming" then to Boston, he entered the employ of Howes & Crowell, shipping- merchants, a firm with which he was subsequently connected for nearl}' twenty-eight years. At present he is practi- cally retired from business pursuits, although his time is fully occupied with the manage- ment of trust estates. Since 1S65 he has been a resident of Newton, and has taken an intelli- gent interest in all things pertaining to the city's growth and progress. For several years he was president of the Newton Water Board. He was a member of the City Council in 1S78 and 1879, one of the Board of Aldermen in 1880 and 1 88 1, and the ensuing two years was Mayor of the city. He is a member of the Eliot Church and of its Prudential Committee, and for nineteen years has been a member of the Prudential Committee of the A. 11 C. F. M. of the Congregational cluuch. Mr. Ellison was one of the incorporators of the Newton Hospital, and has been one of the trustees of the hospital since its incorporation ; also vice-president for a number of years, or since 1892. He is one of the managers of the Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society, having been on the board since 1876, and vice-presi- dent since 1886. He is a trustee of the New- ton Savings Bank and a director in the New- ton and Watertown Gas Light Compan)-. A Republican in politics, Mr. l^llison has been a stanch friend of the party, and his record as Mayor was that of an efficient and trustworthy official. On April 23, 1S62, Mr. Ellison married Mary Elizabeth Richardson, who was born in Boston, August 6, 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Elli- son have four children. A brief record fol- lows: Mary Almeda, who married I'^rank Ash- ley Day, of the firm nf R. L. Day & Co., ]?oston, has two children — P'rank Ashley, Jr., and Ellison Goddard. Eben Howes married Grace M. Jones, by whom he has two children — Eben Howes, Ji., and Harriet Rice. Will- iam, uninairied, is a shoe manufactnicr in Brockton. Caidton Lincoln was graduated Har\'ard University with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts in the class of igoi. ILIJAM JAMES ROLFE, A.M., Lrrr. D. , teacher and author, has been a resident of Cambridge since 1862. He is a native of Newburyport, Mass., that city and the old town of Newbury having been the home of almost if not all of his ances- tors in New P^ngland. Born December 10, 1827, son of John and Lydia Davis (Moulton) Rolfe, he is a direct descendant in the male line, ninth generation, of Henry Rolfe, one of the early settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His lineage is: Henry,' John,' Benjamin,^ Samuel, ■• .Samuel,' Jacob," Samuel,' John,'"* William James''. Henry Rolfe came from England with his wife, Honour, and their only son, fohn. Whether or not he was a near kinsman of John Rolfe, of \'irginia, who m. the Indian prin- cess Pocahontas, is a question which some future genealogist by diligent research in Eng- land may be able to solve. Benjamin^ Rolfe, of Newbur}', b. in 1640, son of John,-' by occupation a weaxer, m. in 1659 Apphia PLale. She was b. in 1642, daughter of Thomas Hale, who, with his wife Thcnnasine and son Thomas, Jr., had settled in Newbury in 1635. SamueP Rolfe, b. in January, 1672-3, third son of Benjamin and Ajiphia, m. .Sarah Jepson, and had three children — Martha, Samuel, s and Dorothy. Samuel,' b. August 16, 1703, m. in 1726 Judith Top])an, daughter of John and Judith (Moody) Topjaan. John Topjxm was the third son of Lieutenant Jacob and Hannah (.Sewall) To]3pan and grandson of Abraham Tojjpan, who came to New England in 1637, and was the founder of the Toppan (or Tappan) faniih' of Newbur)'. Hannah Sewall, wife of Jacob To]3pan and mother of John, was the daughter of Henry and Jane (Dummer) Sewall and sis- ter of Samuel Sewall, the renowned Chief Jus- tice of early Colonial days, known as Judge -Sewall, the diarist. Judith Moody, wife of John Toppan and mother of Judith Toppan (Mrs. .Samuel' Rolfe), was probably the Judith b. August 6, 1699, daughter of Thomas and GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 59 Judith (Hale) Moody, of Newbury. Thomas Moody was a son of Caleb' and Judith (Brad- bury) Moody and grandson of William' Moody, saddler, an early settler of Newbury. Judith Hale, b. at Newbury in 1670, was the daughter of John^ and Sarah (Somerby) Hale and grand-daughter of Thomas Hale above mentioned. Sarah Somerby was the daughter of Henry' and Judith (Greenleaf) Somerby, of Newbury, and grand-daughter of Captain Ed- mund' Greenleaf. Jacob"' Kolfc was b. between the years 1731 and 1740. Mc m. Mary Noyes, who also was of an old Newbury family. Samuel' Rolfe, b. in 1765, their eldest son, was twice m., his first wife being Sarah Davis, his second Mary Tucker, whom he wedded May 6, 1795. John'' Rolfe, b. May 12, 1807, son of Samuel' and Mary, d. h'ebruary 10, 1849. Hem. Lydia ])avis, daughter of William and Jane Moulton. .She was b. June 10, 1S06, and d. October 13, 1887. Her fathei', William Moulton, was a seaman on the sloop of war "Wasp " in the \\'ar of 1812. The children of John and Lydia D. (Moulton) Rolfe were: William James, the special subject of this sketch ; Samuel, b. Au- gust 17, 1830, wlio d. January 10, i860, one of the victims of the fall of the Pemberton Mills, Lawrence; and John Henry, b. August 20, 1836, d. May 4, 1854. William James Rolfe pursued his prepara- tory studies at the Lowell High School and his academic course at Amherst College, in the class of 1849, among his classmates being two who subsequently became members of the fac- ulty of Amherst; namely, the late president, Julius H. Seelye, and Professor Edward Hitchcock. Leaving college in 1848, after some months spent in teaching in Kirkwood Academy, Maryland, Mr. Rolfe became prin- cipal of Day's Academy at Wrentham, Mass., where he remained till December, 1852. h'lom that date till the summer of 1857 he was master of the Dorchester High School. The ne.xt four years he was at the head of the high school in Lawrence, whence in 1S61 he went to Salem. As already mentioned, he took up his residence in Cambridge in 1862, when he became master of the high school. That posi- tion he resigned in 1868. Since that time he has devoted himself to editorial and literary work. From 1869 to 1893 he was one of the editors of the Popular Science Xcios (formerly the V>os\.oi-\ Journal of Chemistry), and for fifteen years past has had charge of the department of ".Shakespeariana " in The Literary World :i\\<^ The Critic, besides contributing to the Xortl; American Reviciu, Arena, Poet-Lore, and other literary and scien- tific periodicals. In 1865 he published, in conjunction with J. H. Hanson, A.M., of Waterville, Me., a "Handbook of Latin Poetr)-. " In 1867 he published an edition of Craik's "English of Shakespeare." Between 1867 and 1869, in connection with J. A. Gillet, he brought out the "Cambridge Course of Physics" in si.x volumes. In 1870 he prepared a school edi- tion of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," following it up with editions of "The Tem- pest," "Julius Csesar, " and "Henry \'III." Other of the plays were called for, both by students and the general reading public, and the edition was completed in forty volumes. Dr. Rolfe has also edited a volume of selec- tions from Gray's poems, and others from Goldsmith's and Wordsworth's; also the minor poems of Milton, Scott's "Lady of the Lake," "Marmion, " and "La\- of the Last Minstrel " ; the complete poems of Scott; Tennyson's "Princess," "In Memoriam," "Idylls of the King"; also three volumes of selections from that poet; an eWition dc luxe of Tennyson's works in twelve volumes, and another (the "Cambridge" edition) in one volume; Byron's "Childe Harold"; two volumes of selections from Browning; and Mrs. Browning's "Son- nets from the Portuguese." He is also the author of "Shakespeare the Boy" (with sketches of the home and school life, the games and sports, the manners, customs, and folk-lore of the time) ; the "Satchel Guide to Europe" (published anonymously for twenty- seven years); and a small book on "The Ele- mentary Study of English." With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., professor of Latin in the Michigan State University, he has edited Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome." More recently he has begun a series of elementary "English Classics." six volumes of which have 6o NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF already (1899) appeared. He is joint author with Professor Edward Hitchcoci< of a history of the class of 1849, Amherst College, with which he was enrolled, although he did not complete his fourth year at Amherst. He re- ceived the degree of Master of Arts from Har- vard in 1859 and from Amherst in 1865, and the degree of Doctor of Letters from Amherst in 1S87. He was president of the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute from 1882 to 1888. At present (1901) he is assisting in the pro- duction of the "Twentieth Century Shaks- pere, " an edition dc Inxc in twenty-four vol- umes, to which he contributes an introduction and a Life of Shakspere (Vol. XXII.), besides editing five other volumes and portions of the rest. Dr. Rolfe was married, July 30, 1856, to Eliza Jane Carew, daughter of Joseph Carew, the well-known sculptor of Boston. Their children are: John Carew, born October 15, 1859; George William, born February 10, 1864; and Charles Josepli, born June 32, 1867 — all graduates of Harvard College. John Carew Rolfe, Ph.D., professor of Latin at Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, mar- ried first, January 3, 1883, Nina Seavey. He married secondly, August 29, 1900, Alice Griffith Bailey. George William married, February 28, 18S8, Mabel Parker, daughter of Colonel P'rancis W. Parker, and has one daugh- ter, Dorothy Stuart, born February 26, 1898. Charles Joseph was married June 29, 1896, to Josephine Jefferson, daughter of Charles B. Jefferson and grand-daughter of Joseph Jeffer- son, the actor, and lias one daughter, Josephine Jefferson Rolfe, born December 10, 1S98. OLOMON LINCOLN, A.M., presi- dent of the trustees of the Public Library of the city of Boston, worthily bears an honored patron)'mic, a name second only to that of Washington in our coun- try's history. A native of Hingham, Mass., born August 14, 1838, son of the Hon. Sol- omon and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln, he comes from that vigorous, early-rooted colonial stock, a scion of which, several times trans- planted, produced a Leader — the nation's " Mar- tyr Chief" — to sa\'e the Union. To be more explicit, he is a descendant in the seventh gen- eration of Samuel Lincoln,' Hingham, 1637, the immigrant progenitor of the most distinguished branch of the Lincoln family in America, the line being continued through .Samuel,- wiio mar- ried Deborah Mersey ; Jedidiah,' wliose first wife was Bertha Wliiton; William,' who m. Mary Otis; Solomon,' who m. Lydia Bates; and -Solomon,^ the father above named, who m. Mehitable Lincoln. His descent on the ma- ternal side from Sergeant Daniel Lincoln," Hingham, 1644-45, is through Daniel, = who m. first Sarah Nichols ; Moses,-' who m. for his second wife Mehitable Townsend ; Wel- come,^ who m. Sarah Gill; Welcome, Jr. ,5 who m. Susanna Gill, and was the father of Mehit- able,'' the wife of Solomon Lincohi.'' Tiie subject of this sketch numbers also among his remote ancestors other earl)- planters of Hingham and its \'icinit)', of whom may here be named : Stephen Lincoln, who came from England on the "Diligent "in 1638, and settled at Hingham ; Thomas Lincoln, the husbandman, who came to Plingham from Wymondham, Nor- folk County, England, in 1638 ; Richard Warren, who came to Plymouth in the " Mayflower " in 1620; Robert Bartlett ami Nathaniel Morton, who both came in the "Ann" in 1623; Will- iam Herse)', Clement Bates, and John C)tis, who all came to Hingham in 1635 ; James Whiton, a native of England, who was at Pling- ham in 1647 ; John Beal, 1638 ; Thomas Barnes ; George Lewis, who immigrated about 1633 ; Thomas Chubbuck, Hingiiam, 1634; Thomas A]l)'n, a pioneer settler of Barnstable ; Matthew Hawke, who came in the "Diligent" in 1638, and settled at Hingham ; and Thomas Gill. The line of descent from Richard' Warren is through his daughter Mary, who m. Robert Bartlett ; their daughter Elizabeth Bartlett, wJio m. An- thony Sprague ; Sarah Si3rague, wlio m. Caleb I-iates ; their son Caleb, Jr., who m. Lydia llobart ; Jesse Bates, wlio m. Abigail Barnes, and was the father of Lydia, the wife of Solomon Lincoln, first, and grandmothei- of Solomon Lincoln, third. The line from .Stephen Lincoln' is through Stephen,- who m. P21izabeth Hawke (daughter of Matthew Hawke'); their daughter, Mary GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY Lincoln,^ who m. Enoch Whiten,' and was the mother of Bethia W'hiton, the wife of Jedidiah Lincohi above mentioned. Enoch Whiten, = father of Bethia, was a son of James" and Mar_\- (Beal) Whiton and grandson of John Beal'. The Hne from Thomas Lincoln,' the husband- man, is : Thomas' ; Thomas,^ who m. Sarah Lewis (daughter of James and Sarah (Lane) Lewis, and grand-daughter of George and Sarah (Jenkins) Lewis ; libenezer,' who m. Hannah AUyn, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Otis) Allyn ; Elizabeth O. Lincoln, ■• who m. Cornelius Barnes ; Abigail Ifornes,' who m. Jesse Bates, as noted above. The line of descent from William Hersey' is traced through his son Will- iam,'' who m. Rebecca Chubbuck (daughter of Thomas Chubbuck), and Deborah Hersey,' who m. Samuel Lincoln, and was the mother of Jedidiah Lincoln. From Clement Bates' the line is through his son Joseph,^ who m. Esther Hilliard ; Caleb,-' who m. Sarah Sprague (mentioned above) ; Caleb,-* who m. Lydia Hobart ; Jesse,* who m. Abigail l^arnes, and was father of Lydia and the wife of Solomon Lincoln*. The line from Thomas Barnes' is through his son Peter,^ who m. Anna Cantcrbur}' ; John,^ who m. Elizabeth \'inton ; Cornelius,-' who m. Elizabeth Otis Lincoln ; and Abigail,' who m. Jesse Bates. I-"rom Thomas Chubbuck the line is through his daughter I^ebecca, who m, William Hersey ; from John Otis' is through his daughter Han- nah,' who m. Thomas Gill ; from Thomas Allyn,' through Hannah,' who m. Ebenezer' Lincoln, grandson of Thomas'. Descent from Thomas Gill is traced also through his son Thomas,' who m. Susanna Wilson' ; Nathaniel,' who m. Abigail Jacob ; Thomas, •• who m. Sarah Hawke ; Sarah,* who, m. Welcome Lincoln, Sr., great-grandson of Sergeant Daniel Lincoln'. Sarah Hawke, it may be added, was a daughter of James' and Mary (Gill) Hawke, and grand- daughter of James' (Matthew") and Sarah (Jacob) Hawke. The line from Edmund Hobart' and his wife Margaret Dewey is through Edmund' and his wife Elizabeth ; Samuel,' who m. Han- nah Gold ; James,-* who m. Hannah Leavitt, and was the father of Lydia Hobart, wife of Caleb Bates, Jr., whose grand-daughter, L\-dia Bates, m. Solomon Lincoln, first. Three ancestors of Mr. Lincoln — Jesse Bates, Welcome Lincoln, and Nathaniel Gill (father of Susanna) — were soldiers of the Revolution. Prcsidttit Lincoln, it may be mentioned, was a descendant in the seventh generation of Sam- uel Lincoln, of Hingham, the line being: Samuel,' Mordecai,' Mordecai,' John,-' Abra- ham,* Thomas,'' Abraham'. The Hon. Levi Lincoln, Lieutenant Governor, and his son Levi, Governor of Massachusetts, were de- scendants of Samuel' through his son Samuel,' Jedediah,' and Enoch,-* father of Levis. (See History of Hingham, Vol. H., Genealogical, published 1893. ) The Hon. Solomon Lincoln,'' b. in 1804, was graduated at Brown University in 1822. A lawyer by profession, he was master in chan- cery, 1842-43; bank commissioner, 1849; cash- ier of the Webster National Bank, Boston, 1853-69, and president of the same, 1869-76. He served as Representatix'e from Hingham to the General Court in 1829 and 1S41 ; State Senator, 1 8 30-31; L^nited States Marshal, 1841-44. He was a member of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society and of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society ; presi- dent of the Hingham Agricultural and Horti- cultural Society, and of the Hingham Cemetery Corporation. He wrote a History of Hingham, which was published in 1827. His wife, Me- hitable Lincoln, was b. in 1 808, and d. in 1873. They had three sons : Solomon,' whose personal history is outlined below ; Arthur, born in 1842 (Harvard College, 1863), a lawyer, who is married and living in Boston ; and Francis Henry, a real estate broker, born in 1846 (Harvard College, 1867), ^^'ho is married and resides on Main Street, Hingham. Solomon Liiicoln, third of the name in direct line and special subject of this sketch, was fitted for college at Derby Academy, Hingham, and in the Park Latin School, Boston, under Profes- sor \\. W. Gurney. Entering the Sophomore Class at Harvard in 1854, he excelled as a stu- dent in the classics and mathematics, and was graduated as valedictorian in 1857. In 1858 he became tutor at Harvard of Greek and Latin, and later tutor of mathematics. While thus engaged in teaching, he also studied law. In 1S63 he visited Europe. He received his NFAV ENGLAND LIBRARY OF degree of Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1864. In the autumn of that year he was admitted to the bar, and, becoming- law- partner of Stephen B. Ives, of Salem, continued in practice with him till 18S1, the firm being at first Ives & Lincoln, and afterwards Ives, Lin- coln & Huntress, with an office in Boston. Since 1896 Mr. Lincoln has had associated with him Walter I. Badger, the firm being Lincoln & Badger. Mr. Lincoln has long been recognized as one of the leading lawyers of this city. For two years he was president of the Boston Bar Association. Clear-headed, well balanced, and well equipped in the lore of his profession, a wise counsellor and conx'incing advocate, he ex- cels particularly in his mastery of law as relat- ing to railroads and other corporations and trust companies. He has ser\-ed as counsel for the Boston & Maine and other railroads, and since 1888 as solicitor of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of which he is one of the directors. Public-spirited and progressive, Mr. Lincoln is a Republican in politics, but has never held or sought political office. In 1874 and 1S79 he was a member of the Governor's staff. He is now, 1900, serving his second year as president of the trustees of the Boston Public Library. Since 1882 he has been one of the overseers of Harvard University, and since 1890 president of the Board. He is president of the Lhiion and St. Botolph Clubs of Boston, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New Lngland Historic- Genealogical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Bostonian Societ)', and the Bunker Hill Monument Association. He is a member of the South Congregational Church, and counts it a pri\'ilege to have sat for many years under the pulpit teachings of the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, author of " The Man without a Country," and of the Wadsworth mottoes, whose spirit he so well cxenijilifies : — •' Look up, not down : Look forward, not liack : Look out, not in, and Lend a hand." Mr. Lincoln was married l-'ebruary 15, 1865, to Miss Ellen Brown Hayden, daughter of Joel and Isabella (Weir) Hayden, of IIa)den\-illc. Her father was Lieutenant Governor of Massa- chusetts from 1863-65. Mrs. Lincoln died March 18, 1S97, leaving one daughter, Bessie, who has since married Professor Murray A. Potter. ETH CARLO CHANDLER, astron- omer, of Cambridge, was born in Boston, Mass., September 16, 1846, son of Seth Carlo and Mary Jane (Cheever) Chandler. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of \\'il]iam' Chandler, who, with his wife Annis antl four children, came from England and settled in Ro.xbury, Mass., in 1637. The maiden surname of Mrs. Annis Chandler is not now known ; but it is supposed that she was a sister of Deacon George Alcock, of Ro.xbur}-. William' Chandler was a very religious man, strong in faith, and with an exalted idea of God's mer- cies. Although poor, he never suffered want, being succored when in need by his neighbors (jf like belief, who held him in high esteem. At his death, which took place in 1641, he left, it was said, "a sweet memory and savor behind him." Lie was a member, as was also his wife, of the Eliot Church in Roxbury. They were the ]3arents of five children. Deacon John- Chandler, the succeeding an- cestor in this line, moved from Roxbury, Mass., to New Roxbury (W'oodstock, Conn.), in 1686. In 1693-94 he was first Selectman; and he was one of the Deacons of the church in Woodstock, Conn., imder the pastoral care of the Rev. Josiah D wight. His death occurred April 15, 1703. Lie was m. February 16, 1658, to Lllizabeth Douglas, daughter of Will- iam and Anna (Mattle) Douglas. She d. at New London, Conn., July 23, 1705. They had eight children — John, Lllizabeth, John, Joseph, ILinnah, Mehitable, Sarah, and Joseph. CajUain Joseph' Chandler, b. June 4, 1683, was admitted to the church in Pomfret, Conn., April 20, 1719. He was Collector of Taxes in I 716. He d. in Pomfret, January 5, 1749- 50. His wife, in maidenhood Susannah Per- rin, of Roxbiu-y, d. January 22, 1755, in the sixty-eighth year of her age. They were the parents of twelve children. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 6S Joseph^ Chandlef, son of Captain Joseph Chandler, was b. in Pomfrct, June i6, 1710. He was a saddler by trade, but had a large farm in Pomfret, where he resided. He was Tax Collector in 1754. His death took place July 4, 17S0, when he was seventy years old. He m. December 24, 1734, Elizabeth Sumner, daughter of General Sumner. She survived her husband nearly seventeen years, dying Jan-' uary 29, 1797. They had five children. Captain Seth^ Chandler, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Sumner) Chandler, was b. May 8, 1738. He m. June 5, 1760, Eunice Durkee, who was b. May 21, I74t, and baptized in Woodstock July 12 of that year. She was a daughter of Andrew Durkee by his wife Mary. After their marriage they settled on a farm on the Sharp hills in the north-east part of Muddy Brook. He was Collector of Taxes in 1770, a Lister and Surveyor of Highways in 1774 in North Woodstock, Selectman in 1789-91, and Moderator of town meeting the same year. He was First Sergeant in the Eleventh Regiment, Sixth Company, numbering twenty-two men, under Lieutenant Stephen Tucker, who received the pay for the company September 13, 1776. He d. March 3, 1S18, in Woodstock, when in his eightieth year. His wife d. Decem- ber II, 1824. They had a family of eleven children. Cyril Chandler,'' b. July 16, 1776, was by trade a tanner, and worked many years in Pomfret, Conn., as a journeyman. He subse- quently settled in that part of Strafford, Vt. , called "The City. " He married at Hanover, in the year iSoo, Abigail Carpenter of that place, who was b. August 15, 1781, daughter of Nathaniel and Alfreda (Dresser) Carpenter. She d. April 16, 1849. After his wife's death, Cyril Chandler lived with his sons Seth C. and John G. in Boston till his death, which occurred November 9, 1862. He had ten chil- dren. Seth Carlo Chandler, Sr. , father of the pres- ent bearer of the name, was b. at Strafford, Vt., July 26, 1807. He d. April 24, 1888. Coming to Boston, he engaged in mercantile business in this city, being a member of the firm of Roby & Co., Causeway Street, dealers in hay, coal, etc. He m. first, September 29, 1837, Mary Jane Cheever, of Derry, N.H., who was b. I'ebruary 8, 18 16, a daugh- ter of Osgood Cheever, of Marblehead, and d. July II, 1862, having borne her husband six children. He m. for his second wife, Febru- ary 7, 1867, Caroline Safford Edwards, who was b. January 3, 1823, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Dodge) Edwards, of Newbury- port, Mass. Of this union there were no chil- dren. Seth Carlo Chandler, son of the above named, was educated in the Boston High School, and in early manhood became an assist- ant to Dr. Benjamin A. Gould, the founder of the Astronomical Journal, with whom he re- mained from 1863 to 1866. In the year last named he was appointed to a position on the coast survey, and was thus emjjloyed for about three years, during the latter part of which l^eriod he also did astronomical work on his own account. In 1869 he went to New York, and was actuary of the Continental Life Insur- ance Company from that time until 1S76. He then came to Boston, and resumed astronomical work, being connected with Harvard Univer- sity in the capacity of astronomer from 1880 to 1S85. He has since continued his scientific pursuits independently, and has achieved a high reputation in his difficult and exacting profession, having paid much attention to the study of variable stars and comets and the de- velopment of the laws of the motion of the earth's pole. He is editor of the Astronomical Journal of Boston, which he has carried on since the death of Dr. Gould. In 1894 Mr. Chandler received the Watson medal from the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1896 a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical So- ciety of London, both being bestowed for high services in the field of astronomical research. He is a member of the Colonial Society of Bos- ton ; since 1880 has been a member of the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Sciences ; since 1888 of the National Academy of .Sciences; and since 1S89 a foreign associate of the Royal Astro- nomical Society of London. He was married October 20, 1870, to Car- rie Margaret Herman, who was born June 2, 1850, daughter of Leopold and Margaret D. (Edwards) Herman. She is a niece of his 66 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OE steji-mother, Caroline Safford Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have resided in Cambridge since 1 88 1. They are the ]iarents of seven children: Margaret Herman, born August 27, 1871; Caroline Plerman, born November 4, 1873; Elizabeth, born March 25, 1880; Abbie, born July 16, 1883; Eunice, born December 30, 1888; and Helen Osgood, born Ajiril 13, 1893. Mary Cheever, born September 7, 1876, died February, 1883. -jC^UFUS ROBBINS WADE, Chief of the I ^-^ Massachusetts District Police, was born |b\ July 10, 1828, in the town of Rrain- ^*~^ tree, about ten miles from Boston. His parents, Abraham and Johanna ( Robbins) Wade, both came of old Plymouth Colon}' stock, and he numbers among his ancestors in different lines several of the Mayflower Pilgrims. Judg- ing from statements made in Deane's History of Scituate and Mitchell's J^ridgewater con- cerning the early generations of the family in New England, the male line of descent, begin- ning with Nicholas Wade, of Scituate, i.s : Nicholas," Nicholas,- Nicholas,' Amasa,-" Lot,^ Abraham,' Rufus R.' Stuart C. Wade, compiler of the Wade Gen- ealogy, of which only parts one and two, re- lating to English Wades, were published in 1900, states in the preface to part one that " as early as 1630 came Nathaniel, Nicholas, and Jonathan Wade, solid yeomen of the English County of Norfolk, and settled around Boston," Nicholas' Wade, it is elsewhere said, came from Denver, County Norfolk, England, in the ship " Falcon " in 1635. Settling at Scituate, he took the oath of ficlelit)' in 1638, and married, probably about 1657 or 1658, Elizabeth Ensign, daughter of Thomas Ensign, of Scituate, and his wife, Eliza- beth Wilder, of Hingham, who were married in 1638-9. Nicholas- came into possession of the Scituate homestead in 1683, on the death of his father. He married, and left a famil)'. Nicholas,' b. in 1696, m. in 1715 Anne Latham, daughter of James' and Deliverance Latham, and settled at East Bridgewater. James Latham, father of Anne, was a son of Robert and Susanna (Winslow) Latham, his mother, Susanna, being a daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow. John Winslow came over in the " P'ortune," the second forefather ship, in 1 62 1. He was a brother of Governor Edward Winslow. His wife came in the " May- flower " in 1620 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Chilton, who died in December of the same )'ear. .Amasa-' Wade, b. in 1723, son of Nicholas' Wade, m. Jul)' 24, 1755, Sarah, daugh- ter of P'rancis, Jr., and Onncr (Prince) Loud. Sarah Loud was b. January 19, 1729, and d. in 1790. Pier father, P^rancis Loud, Jr., b. at Ipswich in 1700, d. at Weymouth in 1774. He m. in 1722 Onner (move correctl)- Honor), daughter of Lsaac and Mary (Turner) Piince. Isaac Prince, b. in 1654, was a son of John' Prince, who was at Watertown in 1633, there m. Mrs. Alice Plonor, and in 1644 settled at Hull, where he d. in 1676. Pie was known as P'lder John Prince, being for many years Ruling Polder of the church at Hull. Mary Turner, wife of Isaac Prince and mother oi Onner (or Plonor), was the daughter of John, Sr., and Mary (Brewster) Turner, of Scituate, grand-daughter of Jonathan' and Lucretia (Oldham) Brewster, and great- grand-daughter of Pllder \^'illiam Brewster, one of the signers of the compact on board the " Mayflower " and one of the leaders of the Plym- outh Colony. Amasa^ Wade d. at his home in Weymouth, May 15, 1804. His son, Lot,^ was m. March 4, 1 791, at Braintree, to Naomi Thayer. Abraham'' W^ade, b. in Braintree, June 5, 1800, son of Lot and Naomi, was m. C^ctober 24, 1824, b)' the Rev. Thomas 13aldwin, of Boston, to Johanna (or Joan) Robbins, of Plym- outh. They had eight children ; namely, Mar\- Atwood, P'rances P^., Rufus R., Edwin F., Susie A., Ella L. , Thomas PL, and Sophronia E. Abraham Wade removed to Boston in 1830. Pie d. in Chicago, September 5, i860. Mrs. Joan Robbins Wade, his wife, d. Jidy 14, 1864. She was a daughter of Lemuel and Mary (At- wood) Robbins, of Ppniouth, who were m. in 1779. Lemuel Robbins, her father, was b. at Plymouth in 1758, being a son of Rufus Rob- bins, b. in 1729, who m. Bathshebajoy (Davis's Plymouth, revised edition, appendi.x), and a de- scendant in the sixth generation of Nicholas Robbins, the founder of this branch of the fam- ih' in Massachusetts. The line was : Nicholas," GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 67 John," Jeduthaii,'-' Rufus,' Lemuel.'' Nicholas" Robbins, coniins^ from England in 1635, settled first at Cambridge. In 1638, having sold his Cambridge property, he removed to Duxbury, and bought the home of Thomas Burgess. Two years later he bought land at North Hill and at Namasakeeset, now Pembroke. His son John," by his wife, Ann, m. in 1665 Jehosabeth Jour- daine (or Jordan); and their son Jeduthan' m. January i i, 1693-4, Hannah Pratt, and resided at Pl)-mouth. Jeduthan,^ b. in 1694, had by wife, Rebecca, nine children, the si.xth being Rufus, above named, b. in 1729. Lemuel'' Robbins was a soldier of the Revolu- tion. In the records at the State House, Lem- uel Robbins appears with rank of private on muster-roll of Captain Mayhew's company. Colonel Cotton's regiment, dated August i, 1775, enlisted IMa)' i, 1775, town of Plymouth, time of service three months, eight days ; also on return of same company, dated October 7, 1775, coat rolls, eight months' service; also on roll of Captain l^enjamin Rider's company. Colonel Lothrop's regiment, for service in Rhode Island, December, 1776, service ten days, marched from Plymouth ; also roll of Captain Jesse Sturtevant's company. Colonel Titcomb's regiment, marched to Rhode Island, April, 1777, service at Rhode Island two months, fi\'e days ; with rank of Corporal, Captain Will- iam Cotton's company, Colonel Josiah Whit- ney's regiment, 1778, enlisted July 29, dis- charged September i 3. Rufus Robbins Wade was educated in the Boston public schools, completing his course of study at the Eliot Grammar School. On attain- ing his majority, he began business life as a manufacturer of blank books, being thus en- gaged for a number of years. At a subsequent period in his early manhood for eleven years he served as officer in various penal institutions, among them being the Middlesex County House of Correction and the State Prison at Charles- town. After that, for a while, he was special agent of the United States Post-ofifice Depart- ment at Washington, D.C., and later on he was chief of the Secret Service Department for New England. From 1872 to 1879 1''^ ^^''^^ post- master of Cambridge. He was first appointed chief of the Massachusetts District Police b\' Governor Talbot in 1879. Reajipointed by Governor Long on the reorganization of the State police, he has continued to hold the office of chief and discharges efficiently the duties thereof, well exemplifying the paternal spirit of the government of the Commonwealth. One of these duties is the enforcement of laws relating to labor, another the inspection of boilers and the examination of engineers for stationary engines. Among the good results of this work ma}' be noted the fact that, whereas in former times children of eight years worked in factories, now none are employed under the age of four- teen years. The examination in the last five years by the district police of four thousand boilers may be noted in connection with the infrequency of boiler explosions in these later times as standing in the relation of cause to effect. The district police have the oversight of public buildings in cities, towns, and villages, even of country school-houses, in regard to heat, ventilation, fire escapes, and of factories as to sanitary arrangements and means for preventing accidents to employees from machinery. For the manufacture of clothing in dwellings as a business, the anti-sweating law renders necessary a license from the district police. Another de- partment of their work is the detective. Eight rooms in the basement of the State House con- stitute the chief's headquarters. In one room are filed plans of all the public buildings and factories in the State. Needless to say. Chief Wade is a man of broad sympathies and a strong sense of justice, and takes a hearty interest in his work. His influence has been effectively exerted in behalf of the labor laws. At the Paris Exjiosition of 1899 his plans for a factory took the grand prize, and his plan for the heat- ing and ventilation of public buildings was awarded the bronze medal, the highest prize offered. P'or eight years Mr. Wade was presi- dent of the National Association of Factory Inspectors of North America. This position he resigned five or six years ago. For ten years he was secretary and treasurer of the Middlesex County Repubfican Committee, and he was one of the founders of the Middlesex Club and its first secretary. Mr. Wade resides in Somer- ville. He was married October 10, 1849, '" Charlcstown, to Mary Ann Marsh, daughter of 68 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Jacob and Mary A. Marsh, of Hingham. She died March 23, 1S95. OSHUA GOODALE GOOCH, who ^-J I has been a resident of Cambridge since i,^J 1S67, and is now (1901) serving his nineteenth year as principal Assessor of that city, is a descendant in tlie eightli genera- tion of John Gooch, the immigrant progenitor of the family in New England, the line being: John,' James, -■■'■■'"5 John,'' Samuel,' Joshua G.'*. John' Gooch, originally from Slymbridge, Gloucestershire, England, coming to New England at an early date in the Colonial pe- riod, took up his abode at Newbury, and after- ward removed to Maine. In 1652, when living on his farm at York, he ga\'e up his allegiance to the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts. From 1653 till his death in 1667 he was an inhabitant of Wells, where he was one of the first .Selectmen, and in 1662 was chosen Constable. James- Gooch, son of John,' held the office of Selectman of Wells for a number of years. On a Sunday in 1667, as he was returning from churcli on liorseback, his wife riding behind him on a pillion, he was attacked and killed by Indians. His son, James,' a merchant and sea captain, came to Boston early in 1692 on board a sloop commanded by Sam- uel .Stover. He was m. three times. His first wife, Hannah, d. March 15, 1694. He m. his second wife, Elizabeth Peck, August 15, 1695. Shed. April i, 1702; and he m., third, Sarah Tuttle, No\-ember 12, 1702. James, ■• eldest child of James' and his first wife, Hannah, I3. at Wells in 1693, m. in 1715 Elizabeth Hobby, eldest child ni Sir Charles Hobby, of Boston ; and after her death he m., about 1729, a widow, Hester Plaisted. In 1761, when in his sixty-eighth year, he m. his third wife, Elizabeth Craister. He had nine children. James,' b. in 1719, his eldest son, m. in 1739 Mary .Sherburne, daughter of Joseph .Sherburne, of Portsmouth, N.H., a member of an old Colonial family. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. John,'' son of James' and Mary, b. in 1749, was a ])rominent merchant at Portsmouth. He m. November 2S, 1782, Mary, daughter of Michael and Mary Whidden, of Portsmouth, N. H. She bore him four children. He d. March 20, 1824, and iiis wife d. March 24, 1830, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. Samuel' Gooch, younger son of John and Mary, was b. July 22, 1791. In the War of 1812 he was drafted to serve in the navy, and for nineteen months was purser's steward on the United .States brig "Enterprise. " After the close of the war he settled in Boston, and up to 1822 carried on business at the head of the Middlesex Canal as a cooper, having learned the trade in his youth, and engaging also in pork and fish packing. From 1822 to 1829 he resided at Jonesport, Me. Returning then to Boston, he was connected with city missionary work up to the time of his death, January 28, 1837. He m. November 10, 181S, Hannah Goodale. She was b. September 13, 1790, at .Salem, Mass., being the daughter of Joshua and Mary (Henfield) Goodale. She d. De- cember 26, 1856, in Brighton. Seven chil- dren were b. to .Samuel and Hannah (Goodale) Gooch. The eldest, .Samuel Henfield, d. Jan- uary, 1896. The three now living are : Joshua G. , who is further mentioned below; Maria Millard, wife of (leorge H. Stone, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ; and Nathan Goodale, of Cambridge, whose personal history is outjinetl in an accom- panying sketch. Joshua Goodale Gooch is a native of Maine, having been born August 19, 1S22, during the temi)orary residence of his parents at Jones- port, Washington County, that .State. They returned to Boston when he was about six years uUl, and he was educated in the public schools of this city. In 1834, on completing the course of stud)- at the I'ranklin Grammar .School, he was one of the pupils who recei\'ed the P'ranklin medal. He afterward attended the English High .School. His initiation into business life dates from 1836, when he entered upon a si.x years' clerkship in a store in Bos- ton, 6 Central Wharf, in the employ of Samuel Goodridge & Co. and Tenney & Rice, ship- chandlers. E\idently his time was well spent in obtaining a knowledge of business methods and acquiring habits of application. Energetic and self-reliant, in 1843, '^^ twenty-one years of age, he established himself in the lumber GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL H1ST0R^■ 69 business at Brighton, which he carried on suc- cessfully for forty years, dealing largely in lumber and other building material. In 18S3 he was elected principal Assessor of Cam- bridge; and, selling out his lumber business, he has since devoted his attention to the duties of that office. His residence, 2 Mount Auburn Street, was built by him in 1867. While living at Watertown previous to that date, he was Selectman for seven years and for five years of that time chairman of the board. Since his removal to Cambridge Mr. Gooch has served in the Common Council for two years and also in the Board of Aldermen for a like term. Mr. Gooch was married April 9, 1850, to Sarah Gates Coolidge, daughter of Josiah and Mary (Hastings) Coolidge, of Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. Gooch have two children — Frank Austin and Annie Goodale, both born at Water- town. Frank A. Gooch, Harvard graduate class of 1S72, Doctor of Philosophy 1877, has been for the past fifteen years professor of chemistry at Yale College. He married Sarah E. Wyman, daughter of John Palmer Wyman, of Arlington, Mass., antl has one daughter, Meredyth. Annie G. is the widow of the late Samuel Edwin Wyman, I\LD., son of John P. Wyman, above named. At the time of his death, I\Lay 8, 1S96, Dr. Wyman was fast becoming eminent in his profession. Mr. and Mrs. Gooch have been members of the Ba]3tist Church of Old Cambridge from the date of its organization in 1844. In politics he is a Republican, having been before the formation of that ]5artv an enthusiastic VVhitr. lATHAN GOODALE GOOCH, coal merchant, with business ofifice in Bos- ton and residence at Watertown, was born in Boston, April 23, 1835, being the youngest son of Samuel and Hannah (Good- ale) Gooch. (For paternal ancestry see sketch of Joshua G. Gooch, of Cambridge, on another page.) Left a widow by the death of her hus- band early in 1837, Mrs. Hannah Goodale Gooch continued to live with her family in Bos- ton till 1S43, when she remo\'ed to Brighton, going thence a year or two later to Watertown, and finally from there to Cambridge. After at- tending the public schools of Brighton and Water- town and a pri\ate school in Cambridge, Nathan G. Gooch completed his educational course at the Llopkins Classical School in Cambridge. From 1857 to 1882 he was in partnership with his brother, Joshua G., under the name of J. G. & X. G. Gooch, in the lumber business at Brighton. In March, 1865, lie established himself in his present business, as wholesale dealer in coal, his office being on Doanc Street and later at 70 Kilby Street. As one who commands the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens, Mr. Gooch has been called to fill various public offices of trust and responsibility. For four years he was a member of the Common Council of Cambridge, and for three years one of the Board of Aldermen. Politicall}-, he is a Republican. For many )-ears he was a trustee of the Cambridge Savings Bank. He was long connected by membership with the Masonic fraternity and with the Cam- bridge Club. He is a member and a Deacon of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, and for fif- teen years was superintendent of the Sunday- school. From 1858 to October, 1900, Mr. Gooch resided at 3 Fayerweather Street, Cambridge. He then removed with his family to Watertown. Mr. Gooch was married June 14, i860, to Ellen Coolidge Dana, daughter of John B. and Ann (Coolidge) Dana, of Cam- bridge. Her father was for thirty years cashier of Charles River National Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Gooch ha\c two children, W'illiam Dana and Ellen M. William Dana Gooch has been en- gaged in the banking business in Boston. He married Mary A. P. Pease, of Ouinc\-, 111., and has two children — Margaret and Dana Apple- ton. Ellen M. Gooch married Rev. George F. Rouillard, of Cambridge, and has one child, a son, Robert. N.H. HARLES APPLETON HUBBARD, of Newton Centre, Mass., treasurer of the United Fruit Company of Bos- ton, was born in the town of Troy, June 7, 1857, son of Appleton Burn- ham and Betsey Louisa (Clark) Hubbard. He 7° NEW ENCLAXI) LIDRARV OF comes of old Colonial stock of English origin. The genealogical volume entitled "One Thou- sand Years of Hubbard History " shows him to be lineally descended from John- Hubbard ("supposed to be eldest son of George' and Mary ") through Jonathan,' Thomas, ■• Nathan,' Hezekiah,'' Harry,' and A])iileton Burnham^. George' Hubbard emigratetl tn this coimtry with his wife, Mary Bishop, and became one of the early settlers of W'cthersfield, Conn. After living there about three years and serv- ing as Representative to the Colonial General Court, he went to Milford, whence before 1650 he removed to Guilford, Conn., where he was admitted to the church on October 6, 1650. In 1666-67 he was a member of the Assembly. He had eight or nine children. John- Hubbard, b. in England about 1630, removed from Wethersfield to Hadley, Mass. He d. in Hatfield, Mass., in 1702. His wife, Mary, is thought to have been Mary Merriam, of Concord, Mass. Jonathan' Hubbard, h. in Wethersfield, Conn., January 3, 1658-9, re- moved to Concord, Mass., as early as 16S0, and settled on a farm bequeathed him by his uncle. Deacon Robert Merriam. He d. tlieie Juh' 17, 17JS. The maiden name of his wife was Hannah Jvice. Tliomas' Hublxard, b. in 1696, m. Mary h'letcher. Xathan' llubbartl m. at Groton, April 21, 1745, Mary Patterson. In 1772, with his wife and two sons, Nathan and Hezekiah, he settled in Rindge, N.II. Hezekiah'' Hubbard, b. in Groton, Mass., Jan- uary 19, 1755, d. very suddenly Ajiril 22, 1822. About the year I 783, after his marriage with Rebecca Hutchinson, of ]3illerica, Mass., he settled on Hubbard's Hill in Rindge. He was a highly respected citizen, and for man)' years served as Deacon of the Congregational church. Harry' Hubbard, b. July 8, 1795, d. in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1872. On June 8, 1823, he m. Clarissa Fa\', who d. a lew )'ears later, leaving two chikhcn — Henr\- B. and Applcton Burnham Hubbard. He m. second, December 6, 1832, Dorcas \\'hilnev, of Rindge, N. II. Appleton Burnham'' Hubbard, b. May 29, 1829, d. .September 29, 1862. He m. Se])- temljer 19, 1854, Ik^tsey Louisa Clark, who was b. in .Swrnize\', N.II., .Se]iU'mber 19, 1830, a daughter of Howard and Dolly (Bemis) Clark. .She was a great-granddaughter of Thomas Clark, .Sr. , who removed in 1779 from Wrentham, Mass., to that part of ]*'itzwilliam, N.II., now included within the limits of the town of Tro}'. He d. in 1S18. Thomas Clark, Jr., son of Thomas, grandfather of Bet- sey L. Clark, d. October 14, 1S56. During the Revolutionary War he is said to have served as a ]irivate in the company of Captain Lemuel Kollock, which marched to Warwick, R. I., Decembei- 8, 1776. In 1801 he m. Rowena Phillips, who d. June 7, 1S57. How- ard Clark, b. January 14, 1803, d. in Troy, N.II., April 16, 1874. In early manhood he settled at Bethlehem, N.II., going from there in 1830 to .Swanzey, N.II., where he lived until 1841, when lie removed to Troy, N. H. On December 2^-,, 1827, he m. Doll)' J5emis, daughter of Jonathan and Delilah (Rhodes) Bemis, b. Jiuie 13, i S05. Jonathan I^eniis was a descendant in the sixth generation of Joseph lieniis, the emi- grant ancestor, the line being : Joseph, ' John, - John,' John,' Timoth)',' Jonathan''. Joseph' liemis was 1). in P'nglruul in August, 1619. Coming to America when a young man, he settled ill Wateilown, Mass., as carh' as 1640, and lived there until his death, August 7, 1684. He was .Selectman in 1648, 1672, and 1675. John' Bemis, b. in August, 1659, d. October 24, 1732. John' Bemis, b. October 6, 1686, son of John- and his first wife, Mary Harrington, m. Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitney) Warren. John' Bemis, b. I'ebruary 11, 1711-2, ni. I"eb- ruar)' 16, 1731-2, Hannah Warren, daugh- ter of Captain Daniel and Hannah (Bige- low) Warren. Timothy' Bemis, the second child of his parents, was b. in V\'estoii, Mass., March 6, 1734-5. About the year 1776 he removed to Marlboro, N.II. He was killed in 1806 by falling from a load of corn stalks. On January 10, 1756, he m. Martha Wesson. Jonathan'' Bemis, h. in Weston in 1769, settled on a farm in Marl- boro, N.H. He d. January 31, 1835. His wife, iJclilah, daughter of I'',hcnezer Rhodes, d. October 23, 1856. Charh's A. Ilubbaid, the direct subject ol GENEAI.nOV AND PERSONAL HISTORY 71 this sketcli, was educated in the luihlic scliools of Troy, N. H., including the higli school, and at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, located at Hanover, wliere he was graduated in the class of 1877. The next few j'ears he was em]ilo\-ed in the country store of E. P. Kimhall & Sons, of Troy. In 1882 he came to Boston and entered the accounting department of the Union Pa- cific Railroad, remaining there till the reor- ganization of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Comjiany, when he was appointed comptroller. In this capacity he served till June, 1899. Upon the organization at that date of the United Fruit Company he was appointed to his present position of treasurer. He married October 15, 1SS4, Maryanna .Stearns, who was born in Rindge, N. IT., daughter of Julius Augustus and Mar)' Ann (Wood) Stearns. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have two children, namely: Harry Aiiplcton, born May 5, 1895; and Maiion, born February 20, igoo. Mrs. Hubbard is of early Colonial ancestry, being a direct descendant in the eighth genera- tion from Charles Stearns, the immigrant pro- genitor of one branch of the family. The line is: Charles,' John,- Captain John,' |ntliani, ' Bartholomew,' Captain l-"reeborn,'' Jnlins Au- gustus, ' Maryanna"^. In Bond's W'atertown, in connection with the Stearns genealogy, is a cut representing the .Stearns coat of arms. Charles' .Stearns was admitted a freeman in \\'atertown. May 6, 1646. His first wife, Hannah, d. in 1651; and he m. June 22, 1654, Rebecca Gibson, daughter of John Gib- son, of Cambridge. Isaac' .Stearns, of W'ater- town, in his will, dated June 14, 1671, men- tions Charles .Sternes as his kinsman. John- Stearns, b. January 24, 1656-7, d. at Lexing- ton, February 22, 1722. PI is first wife, the mother of his thirteen children, was Judith Lawrence. Captain John' .Stearns, his sixth child, m. in 1715 Deliverance Bigelow, of W'atertown, and as early as 1722 removed to Worcester, Mass. In 1748 he was Captain of a company of Rangers that was sent out against the Indians. Jotham' .Stearns, bap- tized June 22, 1718, m. Mary I'^lagg, and re- sided in Worcester. Bartholomew^ .Stearns, nrniied for his maternal giandfathci', was a member of the company of James Davis in Colonel Doolittle's regiment, which marched to Lexington on the morning of April 19, 1775; and on August 19, 1777, under Cap- tain James Davis in the regiment of Colonel Benjamin Flagg, he was again in active ser- vice as a Revolutionar)' soldier. He m. Mary Raymond, and settled in Winchendon, Mass. Captain I'reeborn'' Stearns, b. in Winchendon, Mass., November 24, 1784, settled at Rindge, and d. November 22, 1869. Pie was com- mander of a militia company in Rindge. On February 14, 1809, he m. Clarissa Demary, daughter of Ezekiel Demar)-. Julius Augus- tus-' Stearns (father of Mrs. Plubbard) was b. in Rindge, N. H., August 27, 1S32. He m. July 29, 1857, Mary Ann Wood, daugh- ter of Elbridge Wood. P'or many years he was chorister of the Rindge Congregational Church. KNRY WINCHICSTER CUNNING- HAM, the only son of James Henry ,9 I ami Lucinda -Stearns (Winchester) Cunningham, was born on March 26, 1 MOo, ill the town u\ Winchester, Middlesex County, Mass. Here he li\ed till 1869, when his parents mo\ed to Boston. He attended the Rice Grammar School on Dartmouth Street from 1869 to 1873, when he was graduated, and entered the Boston Latin School ; but after a few months he left that school, and went to the Roxbury Latin School. He here fitted for col- lege, and in 1S78 entered Harvard with honors in classics. In Plarvard he was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding Club, and the Natural History Society, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon his gradua- tion in 1S82. On the death of the first class secretary, in 1890, he was elected to this posi- tion, which he still holds. The summer and fall of 1882 he spent in travelling through Pluropc, and on his return to Boston became a clerk in the ofifice of the Con- tinental Sugar Refinery, where he continued till 1S8S, when the business was absorbed and extinguished by the American Sugar Refining Companw Since then he has given a part of his time to the care of se\'eral small private 72 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF trusts, and devoted much of the remainder to the study of genealogy and New England his- tory. He has been librarian, member of the council, and corresponding secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, besides servmg on many committees. He is the author and compiler of a " Genealogy of the Descendants of Andrew Cunningham of Boston," which was published in volume fifty-five (1901) of the New England Historic Genealog- ical Register. He was one of the founders, in 1892, of "The Colonial Society of Massachu- setts," and has been its recording secretary since the beginning. He is the treasurer of "The Prince Society," and was for a few years a member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Rev- olution. For over twenty years he has lived at Man- chester, Mass., in summer and in Boston in winter. He was one of the founders of the Esse.x County Club at Manchester and for sev- eral years its secretary and treasurer. He was married in Boston on October 30, 1889, to Miss Mary May Hayward, only daugh- ter of Isaac Davenport Hayward, of Milton and Boston, and his second wife, Mar)' Bartlett Vose, daughter of Elijah Vose, of Boston. Henry W. Cunningham is a descendant in the seventh generation fiom Andrew' Cunning- ham, a Scotchman who came to Boston about 1680, and lived on the present Washington Street, near the corner of Essex Street, where in later years stood the Globe Theatre. This and some adjoining estates have remained in possession of his descendants to the present time. Andrew' Cunningham held some minoi" town offices, and was a prominent member of the Scots Charitable Societ)-. He married about 16S5 Sarah, the daughter of William Gibson, another Scotchman, who had come to Boston some thirty years before. They had ten children, of whom William and Andrew, Jr., left many descendants, though the surname has become extinct among the posterity of the latter son. William^ Cunningham, of the second genera- tion, married Elizabeth, daughter of William Wheeler, of Boston, and had ten children, the eldest of those who lived to mature years being James, who was born in 1721. James' Cunningham was a prominent citizen of Boston, taking part in the patriotic actions of the half-centur)' before the Revolution, but in his later life became a resident of Dedham, where he died in 1795. He married in 1742 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter l^oylston, a mem- ber of that well-known family from which so many New luigland people are descended. They had eight children, the eldest, William, being a Selectman of Boston in 1785 and 1786, but later remo\'ing to Lunenburg, Mass. The youngest son, Andrew,-* was born in 1760, and died in 1829. He was a merchant in Boston and for thirty years secretary of the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Both his father and he were conmianders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married in 1783 Polly, daughter of Joseph Lewis, of Dedham, by whom he had ten chil- dren ; and after her death he married Abigail Leonard, widow of David West. His second son, Andrew,^ born in 1786, was one of the old Boston merchants and ship owners, forming with his brother Charles the firm of A. & C. Cunningham, and carrying on an extensive foreign trade, principally with the Mediterranean countries. Lie was a man of sterling character and an energetic and honored merchant. In later life he took two of his sons into business with him, the firm becoming A. Cunningham & Sons. Lie married in 18 16 Abigail Leonard, only daughter of David West, the book publisher, of Boston, and had eleven children, six of whom lived to mature years. The third son of Andrew' was James Henry,^ born in 1825, who was partner with his father in the foreign shipping business. After the decline of this industry, during the Civil War, he became interested in the Continental Sugar Refinery of Boston, and in later years was the treasurer of this corporation. He married in 1854 Lucinda S., daughter of .Stei^hen Win- chester, and had one daughter, who died in in- fancy, and one son, Henry Winchester, the subject of this sketch. He died in 189 1. The members of this branch of the Cunning- ham family have almost all been merchants, bearing honorable names, but never seeking or t,iu)ia,L A. M.\Kia..\. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 75 entering public life. In their religious faith thev have for several generations been Unita- rians, and attended the West Church on Cam- bridge Street under the ministries of the Re\'. Dr. Charles Lowell and the Rev. Dr. C. A. Bar- tol; and in later years some of them have wor- shipped at the Arlington Street Church. Sev- eral are graduates of Harvard Universit}-. Henry W. Cunningham's maternal grand- father, Stephen \\'inchester, was the si.xth in descent from John Winchester, who came to this country in 1635, living for a time at Hingham, then moving to Muddy River, now better known as Brookline, and occupying a large farm at the base of the present Corey Hill. He and his descendants took a prominent part in the affairs of this rural community, John Winchester, Jr., being the first Representative to the General Court from this town. Stephen, the grandson of the first settler, moved further into the wil- derness, and bought a farm in Newton, near the upper falls in the Charles River. Edmund, the grandson of this Stephen, was born in 1772. In early life he went to Boston, and started the business which developed into the well-known firm of E. , A. & W. Winchester, associating with him his brother Amasa and later his sons William and Stephen. He was an honored and successful merchant, and held many positions of trust in the community. He died in 1S39, leav- ing sons — William P., Stephen, and Edmund — all merchants in Boston. The town of Winches- ter was named in honor of William P., who was generally called Colonel \\'illiam P. Winchester, because he commanded the First Corps of Cadets. (See brief Genealogical Record of John Winchester and one of his lines. B}' George R. Presson. 1S97.) "ON. GliORGE AUGUSTUS MAR- DEN, of Lowell, the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Boston, has been more or less prom- inent in Massachusetts since his first election to the State Legislature for 1S73. First chosen Clerk of the House in 1874, an event chiefl)' due to the friendliness with which he had ins[Mred his fellow-members of the preced- ing year, he was regularly elected to that ofifice afterward to 1S83. Then he decided to seek election to the House again, with the purpose of becoming a candidate for the Speakership. Having obtained both desires, he was first elected Speaker for 18S3. He was again elected Representative and the Speaker for 1884. Although new to the ga\-el in 1883, when the session was the longest held before or since then, mainly owing to Governor But- ler's frequent intervention in legislative af- fairs, he made an c.xceptiunalh' creditable rec- ord in the chair. In 18S5 he was a member of the State Senate. After being defeated in his candidacy for the Senate of the following year, he was appointed by Governor Ames a trustee of the Agricultural College at Amherst. Be- ginning in 1 888, he was annually elected Treasurer and Receiver-general of the Com- monwealth for five consecutive years, thereby exhausting the period for which the office can be constitutionally held by the same individual uninterruptedly, and winning general commen- dation by his administration of the State's finances. In company with George S. Bout- well, e.x-Secretary of the United States Treas- ury, he represented the Seventh Congressional District in the National Republican Conven- tion of 1880, held in Chicago, where both ar- dently supported the nomination of General Grant, thereby earning their right to member- ship in the "Old Guard, " and to their "306- medals, " which they have treasured to this da}'. He has filled his present office since April, 1899, when he was ap]3ointed thereto for four years by President McKinle}'. Born August 9, 1839, '" ^^e little hill town of Mont \^ernon, N. H., Mr. Marden is a son of Iknjamin Franklin and Betsey (Buss) Mar- den. On the father's side he is descended from Richard Marden, who took the oath of fidelity at New Haven, Conn., in 1646, and who is supposed to have come from lingland, where the name is said to have been originally "Maes-y-dwr-din " (old British, signifying "Field of the Water Camp"), and by con- traction to have been superseded by "Mar- wardin " and "Marden." Mr. Marden's pa- ternal great-great-grandfather, David Alarden, who was b. in Rye, N. H., d. in Bradford, Mass. David's second son, Lemuel, the pa- 76 NE\\' ENGLANJ) LIBRARY OF tcrnal j;ieat-,L;ranclfatlier, b. in l^radford, Au- gust 30, 1745, in 1769 m. Hannali Green- ough, of Bradford (whose immigrant ancestor, Robert Greenough, was in Rowley in 16S5), and removed to New Boston, N.H., in 1785. Nathan Marden, of New Boston, the grand- father of George A., m. Susanna Stevens, a daughter of Calvin Stevens, and a descendant of Colonel Thomas Stevens, of Devonshire, England, who was a signer of instructions to Governor Endicott, contributed fifty pounds to the Massachusetts Company, and sent three sons and one daughter to the Massa- chusetts Ba)' Colony. The Stevens family with its affiliations by marriage includes several of the original founders and proprietors of this colony, name])': Major Simon Willard, of Con- cord; Edmund Rice, of Sudbury; Gregory Stone, of Cambridge; Richard Hildreth, Rob- ert Proctor, and Thomas Chamberlin, of Chelmsford; William Chamberlin, of Billerica, who was one of the "Shawshin Petitioners " of 1654; and William Nichols and l^ray Wilkins, of Salem. Cah'in Ste\'ens's wife, I'',sllier, daughter of Timothy Wilkins, Jr., ami grand- daughter of Timothy Wilkins, Sr., was a de- scendant nf l!ra\' Wilkins. Both her father and grandfather were members nf Connnittecs of Safety in the Revolutionar)- period, and per- formed active service in the war. Her hus- band, Calvin Stevens, fought at Concord and Bunker Hill. He enlisted April 23, 1775, as a private in Captain Abisha Brown's Company, Colonel John Ni.xon's Regiment, and served until August of the same year. Subsecpiently he served as a Sergeant in Captain Adam Wheeler's Company, Colonel Thomas Nixon's Regiment, from September r, 1776, to March, \TJ7- Nathan and Susanna Marden had a son, I^enjamin Franklin Marden, above mentioneil as the father of the subject of this sketch. The mother of George A. Marden was a daughter of Stephen Buss, who was a grandson of John and Eunice l^uss, of Lunenburg, Mass. Her mother, in maidenhood Sarah Abbot, was a descendant in the seventh generation from George Abbot, one of the first settlers and original projirietors of /Xndover, Mass., in 1643. From George the ancestral line comes through four succcssix'c John vMibots, of whom the last was commissioned a Caiitain in the P'rench and Indian War; was chosen a member of the Committee of Safety of Andover, No- vember 14, 1774; and held a Captain's com- mission o\'er an "alarm " company in the pe- riod immediately preceding the Revolutionary War. Other ancestral lines of Mr. Marden, formed by persons bearing the names Barker, Lovejoy, Livermore, Keyes, Chandler, and Plarndin, go back to other early colonists. Mr. Marden's preparatory education was obtained at the Appleton Academy in Mont \'ernon, now the McCollom Institute, of whose trustees he is the president. In this periotl he was also taught the shoemaker's trade by his father, who was both a tanner and shoemaker; and he worked thereat after attaining the age of tweh'e, in intervals occurring while he was fitting for college, and suhsetiuentl}- during some of the college vacations. Having en- tered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1857, he was graduated in Jul)', 1861, being the eleventh membei' in rank in a class of fifty- eight. In 1875 he was tlie Commencement poet of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in 1877 ho deli\'ei'ed the Commencement pneni helorc the Daitmoulh .Assnciated vMunnii. ( )f each 111 these sucieties hi' was the ])resideiU fur two )-ears. Among his classmates in iJart- mouth was the Rev. William J. Tucker, who is now the president of the college. With his patriotism deeply stirred by the outbreak of the Rebellion, Mr. Marden en- listed as a private in Company G, Second Regi- ment Berdan's United States Sharpshooters, in November, 1S61 ; and at the organization of the company on December 12, 1861, he was mus- tered into the United States service, receiving a warrant as Second Sergeant. Transferred to the P'irst Regiment of Sharpshooters in April, 1862, he was with it during the Peninsular Campaign under McClellan, from Yorktown to Harrison's Eanding. On July 10 of the same )'ear he was made h^irst Lieutenant and Regi- mental Quartermaster, and subsecpientl)' served in that capacity imtil January i, 1S63, when he was ordered on staff dut)' as Acting Assist- ant Adjutant-general of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps. After serving in this piisition until tlu- hill (i[ 18^13, having GENEALOGY AND PIsRSONAL HISTORY 77 been in the Ijattlcs of Chnncellorsville, Gettys- burg;, and W'apping Heights, lie was ordered to Riker's Island, N.Y. , on detached service. Soon after, at his own request, he was sent back to his regiment, witli which he remained until he was mustered out in Seiitomber, 1S64. Having returned to New Hampshire, Mr. Marden entered the law office of Minot & Mugridge at Concord, N.H., where he en- gaged in the study of law and also wrote for the Concord Daily Monitor. In November, 1865, he remo\-cd to Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va. , and [uirchased a weekly paper, TIic Kanaivha Republican. This he edited until April, 1866, when he disposed of it and returned to New Hampshire. Then he worked for Adjutant-general Natt Head, of New Hampshire, compiling and editing a history of each of the State's military organizations dur- ing the Civil War. In the mean time, still pursuing journalism, he wrote for the Concord Monitor, and was the Concord correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, having obtained this post in July, 1866. He acce])ted, January i, 1867, the position of assistant editor of the I^oston Aflvertiser, and discharged its duties until the first of Se]Heniber following. Then, conjointly with his classmate. Major 1-',. T. Rowell, he purchased the Lowell Daily Cou- rier and the Lowell Weekly Journal, both of which he has since conducted. On .September I, 1892, the partnership of Messrs. Marden and Rowell, which had lasted just twenty-five years, was superseded by a stock corporation, styled the Lowell Courier Publishing Com- pany, the two proprietors retaining their re- spective interests in the enterprise. Since Januar)' i, 1892, the Courier Compan}' has been united with the Citizen Company under the name of the Courier-Citizen Company, the Citizen being made a one-cent morning paper, and Mr. Marden remaining in editorial charge of both ]3apcrs. Mr. Marden's first vote in a Presidential election was cast for Abraham Lincoln. Since 1867 there has been no election, State or na- tional, when he did not seive his party on the stump. The most notable rif these was the Presidential cam]iaign of i S96, when, in com- ]iany with Major-general O. (). Howard, Major-general Daniel K. Sickles, General Russell A. Alger, General Thomas J. Stewart, Corporal James Tanner, Major J. W. Burst, and Colonel George H. Hopkins, he stumped the Middle West on a platform car, travelling over eight thousand miles in fifteen States and addressing more than a million people. As a speaker, he has also been in much request for Memorial Day and Jubilee anniversaries gener- ally. In April, 1893, he delivered a memora- ble address at the reunion of the "Old Guard," held in celebration of General Grant's birth- day. He also spoke at the banquets of the New England Society held in New Vork on Forefathers' Day of 1889 and 1892, the invita- tions to which he regards as the greatest honor of his life. July 4, 1891, he read the poem at the Annual Encampment of the Society of the Arm}- of the Potomac at Buffalo. Married at Nashua, N. H., on December 10, 1867, to Mary Porter Fiske, daughter of Dea- con David Fiske, of Nashua, he has two sons : Philip Sanford, born at Lowell, January 12, 1874, who was graduated at Dartmouth Col- lege in 1894 and at the Harvard Law School in 1898; and Rol^ert P'iske, born at Lowell. June 14, 1S76, who was giatluatcd at Dart- mouth in i8g8. He was the first commander of l^enjamin F. Butler Post, No. 42, G. A. R. ; and he is a companion of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion. Since Sep- tember, 1867, he has been a resident of Low- ell. The following facts as to Mrs. Marden's ancestr}' are gathered from the Fiske and Fisk Family Record, compiled by I'rederick Clifton Pierce, and published in 1896. Symond Fiske was lord of the manor of Stadnaugh, parish of La.xfield, County Suffolk, F^ngland, in the reigns of Henry W . and \'I. (1399-1422). Then follow lineally William; Simon; Simon: Robert, "who fled for relig- ion's sake in the days of Queen Mary to Geneva"; William; John, who m. Anne Lantersee, and d. in England in 1633; and his son William, the first of this line in America. William Fiske, who was b. in I{ngland about 1613, sailed for New England with his mother in 1637. He m. at Salem in 1643 Bridget Muskett ; was made a freeman in 1642, and a memlier of the .Salem church in 1641. 78 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Soon after he removed to W'enham, where he was the first Town Clerk, Rei)resentative to the General Court by annual election from 1647 to 1652, and d. suddenly in 1654. His son, Deacon William I-'iske, lived in Wenham, and was a Lieutenant. Deacon Ebenezer Fiske, Deacon William's sixth son, m. Elizabeth Fuller. He held various local offices, and was Deacon from 1739 to 1758. He d. September 30, 1771, at the age of ninety-three. His son William, who was b. in Wenham, November 30, 1726, in 1749 m. Susannah Batchelder, and in 1774 removed to Amherst, N.H., where he bought a tract of heavily timbered land and cleared a farm. William Fiske, of Amherst, d. in 1777 in his eighty-second year. David I<"iske, Sr. , his third son, b. in Wenham, June 25, 1757, en- listed in the War of the Revolution at the age of eighteen for one year. In 1786 he ni. Edith Tav, of Chelsea, and settled in Merri- mack, N.H. In 1801 he removed to Amherst, N. H., where he d. at the age of eighty-si.x. His son. Deacon David Fiske, Jr., was b. September 20, 1792, and d. August 22, 1S72, in Nashua, to which city he had removed from Amherst in 1859. He was Deacon of the Con- gregational church in Amherst from 1836 till he left the town. In January, 1S23, he m. Abigail Nourse, a daughter of Deacon Benja- min Nourse, of Merrimack; and after her death he m. in 1828 her sister Harriet. One of the children of the second marriage was Mary Porter (Mrs. Marden). Her maternal ancestry is traced back to Francis Nurse, who was b. in England, and who was more or less prominent in Salem Village (now Danvers), the name being spelled "Nurse." The sev- eral lineal descendants down to Harriet, mother of Mar)' Porter F"iske, were Samuel, -Samuel, Francis, Benjamin, and Benjamin. Francis Nurse's wife was the Rebecca Nurse who was hanged as a witch in the days of New England's shameful delusion. A singular coincidence in the history of the ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Marden is found in Upham's "Salem Witchcraft," \'ol. I. p. 214. In a chapter devoted to the educational conditions of the time, Upham says: "Of course there was a great lack of elementary edu- cation. For a considerable time it was re- duced to a very low point, and there were heads of families — men who had good farms and ]30ssessed the confidence and respect of their neighbors — who appear not to have been able to write. It is difficult, however, to come to a definite conclusion on this subject, as the singular fact is discovered that some persons who could write occasionally preferred to 'make their mark.' Ann Putnam, in execut- ing her will, made her mark; but her confes- sion with her own projDer written signature is spread out in the church book. hYancis Nurse very frecjuently used his peculiar mark, repre- senting, perhaps, some implement of his origi- nal mechanical trade; but on other occasions he wrote out his name in a good round hand. The same was the case with Bray Wilkins. " Now Bray Wilkins, in a direct line, was the ancestor eight generations back of George A. Marden ; and P'rancis Nurse, seven generations back, was the lineal ancestor of Mary Porter P'iske. The two names thus meet in this one [paragraph of Upham's history. Another coincidence is that the foreman of the jury that tried Rebecca Nurse for witch- craft, and first aquitted, but afterwards, on instructions of the court, pronounced her guilty, was Thomas I'iske, a grandson of Rob- ert, who was one of the lineal ancestors of Mary Porter Fiske. HOMAS S?*IITH HOWLAND, of Cambridge, secretar)' of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, was born in Dartmouth, Mass., February 13, 1S44. A son (if the late William Howland, he be- longs to one of the oldest families in the counti"}'. The family was founded b)' Henry Howland, of whom the first mention in New Iingland records, made in reference to an allot- ment of cattle to the different families in Plymouth, occurs uiuler the )'ear 1634, where he is represented as the ownei' of "the black cow. Henry' Howland, accortling to the records, became a freeman in 1633. He was Surveyor of Highways in the town of Du.xbury for sev- eral years. His wile, whose maiden name was GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 79 Mary Ncwlantl, bore liini eight children. He d. January 17, 1671 ; and her death occurred at the old Duxbury homestead on June 17, 1674. Their second child and second son was Zoar Howland, who, according to Friends' recoids at Newport, R. I. , was m. in the tenth niiinth of the year 1656. In the same records is the following entry of his death: "Zoar llovvland was killed by Indians at Pocasset, the twenty-first day of the first month of 1676." In 1657, at Duxbury, he took the oath required from freemen. Five years after he removed to Dartmouth. He and his wife were the parents of nine children. Nicholas^ Howland, the ninth child of Zoar Howland and his wife, Abigail, m., twenty- sixth day, tenth month, 1697, Hannah, daugh- ter of Lieutenant John Woodman, of Little Compton, R.I. He owned a good deal of real estate, and seems to have carried on a tannery. In the period 1 702-171 3 he served the town in a number of official capacities. His death occurred before the seventh day, fifth month, 1722, the date on which his will was probated. He was the father of eleven children. The will of his wife, unrler date ninth day, third month, 1734, names ten of the children, as follows: Samuel, Nicholas, Daniel, Job, Ben- jamin, Edith, Abigail Russell, Mary Tucker, Rebecca Sanford, and Hannah Wood. In this document the testatrix calls her deceased hus- ijand a farmer, while the inventory accom])any- ing it valued her estate at "^1701." Samuel Howland, the fourth child and first son of Nicholas and Hannah Howland, was b. in Dartmouth, February 20. 1704, and resided there throughout his life. The first of his two marriages was contracted September 11, 1723, with -Sarah, daughter of William .Sowle, of Dartmouth. .She bene him eight children. His second wife, Ruth Davol, of Dartmouth, gave birtli to five children. His first-born, Nicholas Howland, whose birth occurred first day, first month, 1725, m. Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Sisson, of Westport, on .April II, 1751. Nicholas and his family lived in Westport, where he owned a farm, situated (in the east bank of the Westport River, below the village. He was the father of eight chil- dren. William, his sixth child and third son, also a native of Dartmouth, b. January 2, 1772. m. Diana Smith, of Dartmouth, in July, 1795. They became residents of Sara- toga, N. Y. , where William subsequently car- ried on the business of hatter until his death, which hajjpened in 1S32. He had learned the trade in Westport, and had followed it for some time at Smith Mills, Dartmnuth. He was the father of nine children. W'illiam" Howland, the fifth child and fourth son of William and Diana Howland, was the father of the subject of this sketch. Boin Feb- ruary II, 1808, he passed his early days on his father's farm. From the age of tw-elve years to that of eighteen he attended the district school, being employed in his father's factory in the winter season, during which school did not keep. Afterward he attended an academy at White Creek, N.Y. Then he was a clerk for some time in Northumberland, .Saratoga County, N.Y. In 1832 at Smith Mills, Dart- mouth, he became clerk for John Cummings. This position he left after a while for one in a -South Dartmouth store. I. H. Bartlett, of New Bedford, in 1S36 engaged him as super- cargo for a voyage to the Kennebec River in Maine; and it is stated that in the same )'ear he commanded a coaster for a time. Having returned to Dartmouth in 1S37, he re-entered the employment of Mr. Cummings. Five years later he became the partner of his em- ]iloyer in a general merchandise business, which included dry-goods, groceries, hardware, and crockery. This connection had lasted twenty-five }Tars when he retired, and settled on an estate then known as the William Pot- ter homestead, where he resided for several years. He then sold the farm, and removed to New Ikdford, where he d. He was twice m. His first marriage was contracted July 15, 1840, with Louisa Packard, daughter of Ga- maliel and Susan (Joy) Packard, of Bridgewater, Mass. Born September 28, 181 7, she d. Au- gust 4, 1S45. The second marriage, which took place November 2, 1852, united him with Mary Ann Potter, daughter of William and Anna (Aiken) Potter, of Dartmouth. .She was b. August iS, 18 15, and her death oc- curred on April 6, 1SS3. Besides his son, Thomas .Smith, whose per.sonal history is 8o NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF outlined below, he had a daughter, Maria I'ackard. Having received his general educaliun in the public schools of Dartmouth and at a pri- vate school in New Bedford, Mass., Thomas Smith Howland was graduated at the liridge- water Normal School in Jul)', 1862. On Au- gust 5, in the same year, he enlisted in the Thirty -third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantr}'. Subsequently he served in General Sherman's "march to the sea," and took part in the Grand Review at Washington after the surrender of the Southern commanders. He was mustered out of the service with the rank of Lieutenant on July II, 1865. After his return to civil life he prepared himself for the profession of civil engineer at the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge, where he was duly giaduated. Later he entered the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, making his headquarters for a time at Burlington, la. He was elected secretary of the corporation in 1S84, and has filled that office ever since, being located in Boston. On October 3, 1871, in l^urlington, la., Mr. Howland married Eliza Semple Harbach. He has become the father of five children, as follows: Abraham Harbach, born September 28, 1872; Maria Louisa, born October 25, 1873, who died in 1S74; Mary Potter, born I'ebruary 23, 1877; Elizabeth Llarbach, born October 2, 1878; and Ruth Almy, born Octo- ber 16, 1881. Mr. I-Iowland and his family have been residents of Cambridge since 1892. Abraham H. is a graduate of Harvard, class of i8g6, and lives in Kansas City. Mary Potter is a graduate of Radcliffe College, class of 1899. Ruth Almy is a student of Radcliffe. IIARLES FREDERIC LYMAN, jDresident of the Red Star Towing and Wrecking Company, is a Bostonian by birth and breeding. He was born November 23, 1871. He received his preparatory education in Boston, and was grad- uated from Harvard University with the degree of 13achelor of Science in the class of 1896. Son of the late Charles h'rederic Lyman, .Si., he is a descendant in the ninth generation of Richard L3'man, the immigrant, the lineage being: Richard,' Lieutenant John,- iMcjses, ' Captain Moses,' the Re\'. Isaac," Theodore,'' Charles," Charles V.,^ Charles h'rederic'. Richard' Lyman, the progenitor of this branch of the Lyman famil}', emigrated from England to America at an early day, bringing with him his wife, Sarah Osborne, and five children. Lieutenant John- Lyman was b. at High Oiigar, Esse.x County, England, in Sep- tember, 1623, and came over with his parents. After his marriage with Dorcas Plumb, of Branford, Conn., he settled in Northam]iton, Mass., where he became active in militaiy affairs, having command of the Northampton company of soldiers in the famous "1^'alls h'ight,'' just above Deerfiekl, on May 18, 1676. He d. August 20, i6go. Moses' Ly- man, a lifelong resident of Northampton, was b. h'ebruary 20, 1662, antl d. l^Y'bruaiy 25, 1701. He had bv his wife, Ann, eight chil- dren, only three ot whom attained adult age. Captain Moses' Lyman, b. h'ebruary 2y, 16S9, m. December 13, 1712, Mindwell Sheldcjn, and d. March 24, 1762. The Rev. Isaac^ Lyman, b. in Noi'thampton, h'cbruary 25, 1725, the si.xth in a family of ten childi'en, was graduated at Yale College in 1747, and two years later, in 1749, was settled over the pai'ish of York, Me., where he resided until his death, March 12, 18 10, aged eighty-five years. On April 24, 1750, he m. Ruth Plummer, of Gloucester, Mass. Theodore'" Lyman, his eldest son, b. June 8, 1755, d. at his c(Hmtry-seat at W'altham, Mass., i\Iay 24, 1839. He was a man of strongly mai'ked char- acter and a merchant of prominence, being very largely interested in the north-western fur trade and the coast and China ti"ade. Pie m. first, November 21, 1776, Sarah Emerson, who d. a few years later. Pie m. second, January 24, 1786, Lydia Williams, of Marlboro, Mass., by whom he h:id fi\'e children. Charles' Ly- man, b. 1800, d. April 6, iSSi. Pie m. Susan Powell W:nren, daughter of Dr. John Collins Warren, of Boston. Pier father was son of Dr. John \\'arren and nephew of General Joseph Warren, the distinguished Revolution- ary patriot. Charles l''rederick~^ Lyman (first) was b. October 21, 1833, in Boston, and d. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY at Newport, R.I., July 19, 18S0. lie m. Anna Mason Grant, (laughter of Patrick Grant, of Boston. She was b. in Boston about 1840, and d. in this city May 30, 1S76. Charles ]-"rederic'' Lyman, the sjiecial sub- ject of this sketch, married February 10, 1899, Isabella Ogden Reed i\Iacomber, daugh- ter of I'^rank Gair and Clara Elizabeth (Robi- son) Macoinber. They have two children : Charles Frederic, Jr., born December 9, 1899; and ]ilizabeth born September 14, 1901. Through her maternal grandmother, whose maiden name was Isabella Ogden Reed, Airs. Lyman is a descendant of John Ogden, who came over from England, and in 1641 was at Stamford, Conn., removed from there in com- pany with others in 1644 to Mempstead, L. I., and thence to Southampton, L. L At a later date he was one of the founders of the town of Elizabeth, N.J. He there became influential in the management of public affairs, being ap- pointed in November, 1665, one of the Gov- ernor's Council, and in 1668 ser\'ing as one of the burgesses. Hem., first, Jane Bond, and secondly, in 1640, Jemima Plumb, of Newark, N.J. David' Ogden, son of John, m. in 1676 Mrs. Elizabeth Swayne Ward, widow of Josiah W'ard and daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Swayne, who d. in 1681. He d. in 1696. His son, David-i Ogden, b. in 1677, was called Captain David, although he was a lawyer by profession, practising in Newark, N.J. In the [jorch of Trinity Church in New- ark, N.J. , is a memorial tablet bearing this inscription: "Herelieth interred the Body of Capt. David Ogden, who died July ye nth, .\.i). 1734, aged 56 years. " Jacob' Ogden, b. November 10, 1749, grandson of Captain David, m. Jerusha Rockwell. For many years he was very successfully engaged in mercan- tile business at Hartford, Conn., amassing quite a fortune, and was one of two persons to build the State House at Hartford. He d. March 30, 1S25, in New Flaven, Conn. Jacob'' Ogden, Jr., b. April 2, 1782, d. at sea in March, 1S12, while on a voyage from Carthagena, South America, to Havana. He m. Miss Harding, of Boston. Saiah V.' Ogden, b. in New Haven, Conn., m. in Ajiril, 1829, at the resi''*'nce. of her uncle in Stow, Ohio, Dr. Silas Reed, a nati\-e of Deerfield, Ohio. Dr. Silas Reed was a son of Charles Reed and a lineal descendant, it is said, of John Read, b. in England in 1598, who came over with W'inthrop's fleet in 1630. In 1637 John' Read was an inhabitant of W'eynnnith, and in 1643 lis settled in Rehoboth, where his death occurred .September 7, 1685. His gravestone may still be seen in the old burying-ground at Seekonk, being inscribed "J. R. , aged 87, D. S. 1685." "Josiah Read, probably elder son of John, of Rehoboth," migrated from Massachusetts to Connecticut, his name being on the records of New London in 165 1. Jo- siah, Jr., son of Josiah, m. Grace Holloway, of Marshfield, Mass., in 1666, and settled at Norwich, Conn. Josiah Read, third, b. in AjDril, 1668, at Norwich, son of Josiah and Grace, was m. in Marlboro, Mass., in 1697, to Elizabeth Amsden, daughter of Isaac Ams- den, of that town. (See Reed Genealogy, pp. 529, 517, also p. 551, for the further record following.) The line of descent was continued through their son, Jacob Reed, b. at Norwich, Conn., in 1702, and his third wife, Mrs. Lydia Long- bottom, to whom he was m. January 30, 1750. Silas Reed, b. October 21, 1752, son of Jacob, m. Mary Wallace, settled at Ellington, Conn., and was the father of eight children, his son Charles being nc.\t in this line. Charles Reed, b. at Ellington, Conn., May i, 1783, removed in 1804 to Rootstown, Ohio. He enlisted as a soldier in the War of 1812, and started for the headquarters of General Hull, but, being disabled by illness, he hired a sub- stitute, and went home. He m. at Deerfield, Ohio, Rejoice Diver, a native of Blanford, daughter of Daniel Diver. Dr. Silas Reed, son of Charles, was b. at Deerfield, Ohio, May 29, 1807. Going to Cincinnati in 1827, he pursued the study of medicine at the Ohio Medical College. During the years 1833 and 1834 he edited and published the IVcstctii Medical Gazette. In the sjiring of 1S37, shortly after the death of his wife, he removed to St. Louis, and in 1841 was appointed, by the President of the LInited States, Surveyor- general of the public lands of Illinois and 82 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Missouri. This office lie held till 1845. Dr. Reed m. in April, 1829, as stated above, Sarah F. Ogden, daughter of Jacob Ogden. Their daughter, Isabella Ogden Reed, b. in 1834, ni. in 1856 Joseph Robinson, of Du- buque. Clara Elizabeth Robinson, b. in No- vember, 1858, m. Frank Gair Macomber. Isa- bella Ogden Reed Macomber m. February 10, i8gg, Charles Frederic Lyman. JSAAC HOMER SWICETSER, lawyer of Boston, is the eldest of the three survi\'- ing children of the late Isaac Sweetser, who for thirty-five years was president of the Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Company of this cit}'. Isaac Sweetser died at his summer home in L)'iui, August 15, 1887. His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Seaver Soule Sweetser, removed in iSgo, with her son, Isaac Flomer, whose name heads the present sketch, and her daughter, Ida Elizabeth, from Charlestown, where her wedded life had been passed, to 256 Marlboro Street, Boston, where she died April 3, 1S95. Her younger son, Frank Eliot Sweetser, resides in Brookline. Probably few families can look back upon a longer period of continuous residence in Charlestown, sometimes called tiic Bunker Hill district of Boston, than the Sweetsers, whose emigrant ancestor, Seth Sweetser, from Tring, Hertfordshire, lingland, became an in- habitant of that peninsula in 1637. Born Sep- tember 3, 1846, Isaac Homer Sweetser is a descendant of that early Colonist in the eighth generation, the line being: Seth,' Benjamin,' Seth,'"-* Henry Phillips,' Colonel John,'" Isaac,' Isaac Homer\ .Seth' .Sweetser's first wife was named Bethiah. He m. for his second wife Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes. He had four daugli- ters, Benjamin' being his only son. Abigail, wife of Benjamin,' is conjectured to have been the sister of the Rev. Michael VVigglesworth, of Maiden. Seth' .Sweetser ni. .Sarah Clark ; and his son, Seth,-* b. in 1703, m. Hannah Bradish. Henry Phillips' Sweetser was a goldsmith. He ni. in 1765 Sarah Kettell, wlio d. in 1786. He m. in 1787 Phebe Hatch. Colonel John," b. in 1781, m. January ig, i8og, Elizabeth, daughter of William Addi- Scott, of Medford. The several geirerations of the .Sweetser name in the town of Charlestown were all of them respectable and useful citi- zens, tiie most conspicuous among them for his IKiblic services being .Seth,-" mentioned above, an account of whom may be found in volume two of the Memorial History of Boston, ]3age 321. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1722; was elected schoolmaster of tlie town of Charlestown in 1724; and with the excep- tion of about two years, I74g to 1751, served the tovi'n in that capacity as long as he lived. He was also Town Clerk from 1755 until his decease in 177S. "To his watchful care we doubtless owe the preservation of the town archives from destruction in func, 1775." "He was universal!}' respected for liis e.xalted character, his great learning, and his varied and unremitting public services." Isaac .Sweetser, son of Colonel John and Elizabeth (.Scott) .Sweetser and father of Isaac Homer, was b. .September ig, iSi3. He was a lifelong resident of Charlestown and a vet- eran in the insurance business. With the Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Coni- ])any of Boston and its predecessor, the Wash- ington Insurance Companv, he was connected at first as secretary and later as president for a continuous period of more than fifty years. He was very eminent as an underwriter, and suc- cessful in his conduct of the affairs of his com- pany. He was for several years just prior to his decease the president of the Board of Ma- rine Underwriters of Boston. He was a Dea- con of the Har\-ard Church (Unitarian) in Charlestown. Isaac .Sweetser was m. Clctober 24, 1839, to lilizabeth .Seaver .Soule, daughtei' of Captain Richard and Prudence (Luring) .Soule, of Du.\- bury. She was b. at Du.xbury, April 6, 18 18. Her father, who was b. in 1786, was a descend- ant in the sixth generation of George .Soule, who came over in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and was one of the first settlers of Du.xbury. b'rom George' and his wife, Mary Becket, the line was continued through his son John,' who was twice m., and at his death was survived by his second wife, Esther; Joshua,' b. in 1681, who m. Joanna .Stuilley; Jose]3h,-' b. in 1722, will) m. in 1742 Mercy l*'ullert(jn, daughter of GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY SS John and Ruth ( Sniiipsnii ) l-'ullcrlon ; to jaincs,' b. in 1746, who ni. in 1773 a widow, Mrs. Abigail Seaver Bosvvorth, and was father of Captain I'vichard'' and grandfather of Mrs. Swectscr. Ruth Sampson, wife of John Ful- lerton and mother of Mercy, wife of Joseph-' Soule, was I5. in 1684, a daughter of George'^ Sampson and his wife I'ilizabeth, and grand- daugiiter of Abraham' Sampson, of Duxbury, who was the founder of this branch of the Sanijison family. Through hei" mother, I'liidence Loring, who was b. in 1789, daughter of Samuel and Pi'u- dence (Chapman) Loring, of Du.xbury, and who m. Captain Richard Soule, June 24, iSio, Mrs. Sweetser is descended from Deacon Thomas' Loring, who came to New England in 1634 and settled at Hingham in September, 1635; from Ralph Chapman, ship-carpenter, who was at Duxbur}' as early as 1640; also from John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, whose story brightens for all time the pages that portray the strenuous life of the "May- flower" Pilgrims. The Loring line is from Deacon Thomas' thiough Thomas,^ b. in Eng- land in 1629, who m., at Hingham, Hannah Jacob; Lieutenant Thomas,-' b. in 1667, who m. Hannah Cushing, and settled at Duxbury; Benjamin,' who m. in 1739 Anna Alden; and their son Samuel,' b. in 1747, who m. Prudence Ciiapman and was father of Prudence Loring. .Samuel-^ Loiing, Mrs. Svveetser's grandfather, served as a Lieutenant in the war of the Revo- lution. Anna Alden, wife of Benjamin-* Loring, was b. in 1716, daughter of Captain John^ and Hannah (Briggs) Alden. Her father was a son of Ca]-)tain Jonathan'' Alden, who inherited the Duxbury homestead of his father, John' Alden, and who m. Abigail Hal- lett, daughter of Andrew Ilallett, of Yarmouth or Barnstable. Ralph Chapman m. Lydia Wills in 1642. Their son Ralph- was the father of John,-' who m. in June, 1730, Sarah Booth. Ralph' Chapman, son of John^ and Sarah, m. Prudence Coleman ; and their daugh- ter, Prudence Chapman, m., as above noted, Samuel Loring. Brief memorials of the Alden, Soule, Loring, and Chapman families are contained in Mr. Justin \Vinsank Eliot, b. March 31, 1S50; and Ida Elizabeth, b. August 17, 1855. P'rank Eliot .Sweetser m. October 20, 1S80, Susan Jameson Antlerson, daughter of General Samuel J. and Jane (Dow) Ander- son. They have five children, namely: P'rank E. .Sweetser, Jr., b. November 24, 1881 ; Eliz- abeth Soule Sweetser, b. September 10, 1884; John Anderson Sweetser, b. September 16, 1889; Susan Jameson Sweetser, b. March 22, 1S91 ; and Homer Loring Sweetser, b. June 7, 1894. Isaac Homer .Sweetser, the subject of this sketch, was fitted for college at the Charles- town High School, which he attended after leaving the Harvard Grammar School. Enter- ing Harvard College in 1S64, he was gradu- ated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1 868. The next two years he spent at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to practice at the Suffolk bar in September, 1871. P'rom June, 1876, till January, 1890, he was associated with John D. Bryant, Esq., in legal work and practice, especially in insur- ance cases. Mr. Sweetser is a member of the Boston Bar Association, the Bostonian .Society, the Lfniversity Club of Boston, and the Har- vard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa .Society. In politics he has alway.s been Republican. ON. TILLY HAYNES, late resident proprietor of the United States Hotel, l^oston, and a hotel manager of in- ternational fame, was also a man prominent in political life, one who rendered eminent public service to his adopted city. His death, which occurred August 10, 1901, is felt as a loss to the community, as well as to a large circle of friends. Mr. Haynes was born at Sudbury, Mass., Februar\' 13, 1828. He was the eldest son of L)'man and Caroline (Hunt) Haynes and a descendant in the eighth genera- tion of Weaker Haynes (or Playne, as the name was sometimes spelled}, a linen weaver b}' trade, 86 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY 01' who came to this country in 1638 at the age of fift}'-fi\'e years, in the ship " Confidence," landing- in Boston. The family is an old one in England. It is worthy of mention here that a coat of arms was granted in the year 1606 to Walter Ha)ne, not the above named, which grant was confirmed in 1607 to Thomas Hayne, of Fryer Waddon, County Dorset, by Sir William Segar, Garter, in the fifth year of the reign of James L It is thus described : " He beareth gold on a red band, with three silver plates in chief, a blue grey- hound running," with the motto, " Lahore ct Hoitorc." The line of descent from Walter, the immigrant, to the subject of this sketch is : Walter," Josiah,-'^"^ Joshua,' [ohn,'' I.,\'man,' Tillys. Walter' Haynes was b. 15S3 in the parish of Sutton Mandeville, Count\' of Wilts, England. He was accompanied to America b)' his wife, I{lizabeth, their sons, Thomas, John, and Josiah, daughters, Suffrance and Mary, and three male servants. (New England Historical and Gene- alogical Register, vol. ii.) He appears to have been a man of some education and considerable force of character, for he served several years as Representative to the General Court, and was chosen to fill many other offices of trust, re- sponsibility, and honor, among them that of Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of which famous organization he was one of the original members. He was one of the founders of the town of Sudbury, where he settled December 22, 1639, and where he d. h'ebruary 14, 1664-5 aged eighty-two years. Josiah^ Haynes b. 1623, m. November 13, 1654, Elizabeth Noyes Freeman, widow of John I'ree- man and daughter of Peter Noyes, who was a fellow-passenger in the " Confidence " in 1638. They had a family of foui- sons and four daugh- ters. Their son Josiah,' b. April 27, 1655, m. about 16S5 Abigail .Stark, by whom he had several children. He m. second, March 3, 1693, Elizabeth Lambert, of Groton, Conn., of which union there were si.\ children. Josiah,' b. 1695, son of Josiah,' m. March 11, 1730, Mary Avery, of Groton, Conn. They had three children. Josiah-" was father of Joshua, ' who was b. in Groton, Conn., December 31, 1731, and d. December 29, 1814. The latter m. Susan- nah Puffer, of Sutlbur)', and they had seven children. His son John'' was b. in Sudbury .September 10, 1762, and d. November 21, 1829. John'^ Haynes m. October 27, I 785, Sally P'orbush. She was b. January- 12, 1765, and d. March 3, 1826. They had seven children, namely: Sally, b. November 21, 1786; Till}-, b. Januar)- 17, 1788; Reuben, b. April 2, 17S9; Stephen, b. Januar)' 6, i 792 ; John, b. November 29. 1793; David, b. January 22, 1798; and Lyman, b. October 13, 1803, Joshua Haynes, brother of John'' Haynes, above mentioned, was a nieniber of the Sudbury company. Captain Aaron LIa)'nes, Colonel Jonathan Brewer's regi- nient, and was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. L)nian' Ha)-nes was b. in Sudbury, Mass., October 13, 1803. After a residence in that town of nearly thirty years he removed in 1832 to Billerica, and became proprietor of the Old Stage Tavern on the road from Boston to Lowell. He d. in Billerica, December 21, 1869. He was m. in Sudbury, May 28, 1S26, to Caro- line Hunt, a natix'c of that place, b. June 9, 1808, daughter of William' and Thankful (Wheeler) Hunt. She was desceiicled from William' Hunt, who came from Yorkshire, Eng- I.ukI, in 1635, and was one of the founders of the town of Concord, Mass. \\'illiam' Hunt rcmox'ed to Marlboro, where he d. in October, 1667. Lie was a large land-owner, and left con- siderable [Ji^operty to his sons. His first wife and the mother of his children was Elizabeth Best, who cl. at Conconl, h'ebruary 27, 1661. The children were: Neheniiah, b. 163 i ; Samuel, 1633 ; '^''"^1 Isaac, [647. Isaac- LIunt, b. 1647, m. 1667 Mary, daughter of John" Stone, who was son of Deacon Gregory' Stone, of Cambridge. Isaac' LIunt, b. 1675 at Coi-icord, m. Mai')- Willard, grand-daughter of Major Sinion Willard, a distinguished leader in the settlement of Concord, Mass. Isaac,-* of Sudbury, m. 1721, Martha Goodnow. Willian-i,' of Sudbury, b. 1726, m. Mary Wheeler. WiH- iam," b. 1753, m. Marv, daughter of Thomas Plympton, of Sudbur)', a soldier in the Revolu- tionary Wai'. WillianiM lunt, of .Sudbur)-, son of William'' and Mar)' (Plympton) Hunt and father of Mrs. L)'man Haynes, was b. Oc- tober 7, 1775, and lived in .Sutlbury all his life. GENEAT.OGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 87 acquiring a large property. He d. November 16, 1S51. By his first wife, Thankful Wheeler, above named, he had Aaron, b. 1797; William, b. 1800; Cyrus, h. i8oi; Asahel, b. 1803; Abel, b. 1S05; and Caroline (Mrs. Haynes), 1). 1808. His second wife, Esther Brigham, bore him nine children — Harriet, Mary, Abel, An- drew, IClizabeth, Thomas, Asaliel and Abigail (twins), and George. Lyman Haynes antl his wife, Caroline, were the parents of nine children, as follows : Tilly, whose name begins this article, and of whom separate mention is made below ; Theodore, b. April 2, 1830, at Sudbury, who m. first, at Cam- bridge, February 28, 1865, Jennie Lewis, and second, at Belchertown, October 15, 1868, Mrs. Laura Holland, his first wife having d. at Biller- ica June 3, 1867; Cyrus, b. July 8, 1S33, at Billerica, who m. Harriet Brown, May 25, 1856; Charles Robbins, b. April 17, 1836, at Billerica; William Hunt, b. April 21, 1838, at Billerica; Caroline, b. at Billerica, January 26, 1841, who m. thei"e November 25, 1S63, Henry M. Jenkins. The latter died at Panama, July 12, 1S66; Lucy Ann, b. at Billerica, December i, 1843, <^'- September 21, 1845; Adeline, b. at 15illerica, May 28, 1849, m. James G. Hickey at South Boston, July 13, 1885 ; John, b. at Billerica, September 18, 1S46. Mrs. Caroline Hunt Haynes d. at Boston, June 5, 1882, hav- ing survived her husband twelve years. Tilly Ha3nes when a boy of fourteen went to North Reading, where he worked in a cnuntr\' store, receiving twenty dollars for the first year. The second )'ear his employer, Edwin I-^oster, who was a native of Billerica, doubled his salary and sent him to market to purchase goods. At the clo.'^e of the third year he entered the em- ploy of Josiah Crosby in what was the first and for some years the only store in the then new city of Lawrence. After three years there Mr. Haynes went to Boston, and within four weeks was sent to Springfield to settle the estate of a bankrupt. This was in April, 1849, and marked the beginning of a long and successful business career in Springfield. Starting in a small store where the Springfield Institution of Savings now stands, Mr. Haynes took within two years the two adjoining stores, and built up a large business in men's goods. He was one of the original stockholders in the Ward Mills at Ind- ian Orchard, and, ha\'ing a fanc)- for mechan- ics, at one time ran a small button factory in Market Street, built flax machines at Mill River, and sewing machines at Chicopee. He built se\eral business blocks and stores, and also the first Music Hall in Sjaringfield. The Music Hall being fitted up for theatrical representations, the insurance demanded was very heavy, and Mr. Haynes determined to take the risk on the thea- tre himself. He accordingl)' fitted up rooms for his famil\- in the building, but the great fire of 1864, which burned the adjoining building, com- municated with I\Iusic Hall and destroyed it, leav- ing Mr. Haynes without income and without insurance. Soon afterward he received a liberal offer from his friend, P. T. Barnum, the famous showman, to take charge of the latter's New York prop- erty. But before accepting this proposition, to which he was sti'ongly inclined, he received another offer of assistance from Mr. Ben Day, president of the old Springfield Sa\'ings Institu- tion, who (on behalf of the bank), together with Henry I'uller, agreed to supply him with one hundred thousand dollars, with which to make a new start. \Vith this capital Mr. Haynes began the present Music Hall and the Haynes Hotel on the opposite corner. The hotel Mr. Haynes expected to lease, but he found no one willing to undertake so hazardous an ex- ]3eriment as the opening of a large house down town, all other attempts in that direction having been signal failures. Mr. Ha)-nes was therefore obliged to undertake it himself, with the lesult of a most gratifying success. After conducting it for ten years he relinquished it on the death of his wife in 1876, at the same time retiring tem- porarily from business. But an aimless life had no charms for him, and, when in 1880 he re- ceived an offer from the directors of the United States Hotel in Boston to assume the manage- ment of that property, he accepted it, although the task was considered an almost hf)]ieless one. After having control of the jjroperty for two 3'ears Mr. Ha\'nes took a lease for ten years, and in that time made a phenomenal success of the undertaking, doubling the value of the property and quadrupling its business. This hotel was built by a corporation comprising some members 88 NEW ENGLAND IJBRARV OF of the South Co\e Company, organized in 1 82 5, the lot owned b)' the corporation being then one hundred and fifty by one hundied feet. The erection of tlie main building a few years later was one of the great events of the times. It was before the days of the elevator, and land was cheap, so the new hotel was built on the ground instead of in the air, being only four stories high. The building, including later additions, now covers an entire square of nearly two acres, with large open courts letting air and sunlight into every room, while the con- x'enience and safety of the guests are further pro- vitled for in the broad halls, numerous stairways, and grand old parlors and public rooms ; which show the wisdom of the founders. Mr. Haynes's success in putting this naturally fine property on a paying basis after it had been allowed in a large measure to lose its old-time popularity in- duced Messrs. Higgins, the owners of the Great Broadway Central Hotel in New York Cit)-, to secure him for the management of that property, then also in deplorable condition, and there he again showed his mastery of the situation b\' repeating previous successes. Mr. Haynes was married Jul)' 16, 1852, at Billerica, Rlass., to Martha C. Eaton, daughter of Archelaus and Elizabeth (Hackett) Eaton, of Salisbur)', Mass. Mrs. Haynes was a valuable helpmeet, aiding her husband materially in his business affairs. She died at Springfield, March 16, 1876, leaving no children. Politically identified at first with the old Whig party and later with the Republican part)-, Mr. Haynes devoted a considerable portion of his time to the public ser\'ice. He was a member of the first city gc)\-ei-nment of Springfield ; was in the lower branch of the Legislature in 1868 and 1869 ; in the Senate in 1876 and 1877 ; and two terms, 1878 and 1879, on the Governor's Council. He was also on the Board of Aldermen of the City of Boston. Perhaps his most use- ful public service was in connection with the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission of the .State, of which he was appointed the first member in 1889 by Governor Oliver Ames, an old personal friend. As a member of this board his general business exjjerience and sound judgment proved of inestimable \'aluc, and he ser\'ed the Commis- sion most faithfull)' from the date of his appoint- ment up to the close of his life. In his last )'ears Mr. Ha)'nes graduall)' gave up the details of both the New York and Boston hotels. The management of the United States has devolved upon his brother-in-law, Mr, James Hickc)', who for several yeais has assumed the active duties. Mr. Webb, another brother-in- law, has had the management of the Broadway Central, so that the business of these two hotels will continue uninterruptedly as heretofore. i\Ir. Haynes was a member of the Home Mai'- ket Club and the Massachusetts Republican Club. He was widely known as one of the pub- lic-spirited citizens of Massachusetts and a man whose absolute integrity, united with splendid abilit)-, fairly entitled him to his ancestral motto, '• Labor and Honor." EN MARSHALL JOHNSON, of Boston, was born in this city May 4, 1S65, sun of Marshall and Julia Ann Redgate (Johnson) Johnson. He is a descendant in the seventh generation of John Johnson, of Rehojjoth, Mass., first mentioned in the vital records of that ancient town as the father of I{lizabeth, b. in 1673. The line is: John; Jonathan, b. 1682; Jonathan, Jr., b. 1723; Joseph, b. 1776; I'rancis, b. 1802; Marshall, b. 1840; Ben Marshall, whose birth date is above given. According to Lewis's llistor)' of Esse.x Count)' (p. 14 1 2), John Johnson, of Rehoboth, was b. in 1653, son of HumiJhre)' and Ellen (Cheney) Johnson, of Scituate and Hingham, Humj^hrey being the son of John Johnson, im- migrant, who, with his wife, Margery, settled at Roxbiir)-, Mass. But the History of Hing- ham (volume ii., Genealogical) states that John, b. in 1653, son of Hum]ihrev Johnson, was drowned in 1674. The parentage and birthplace, then, of Jnhn Johnson of Reho both remain subjects for further investigation. Jonathan Johnson, of Relu)both, came to Lynn in 1706. He m. Sarah Mansfieltl in 1710, and they had two sons, Edward and Jon- athan, and four daughters. Jonathan Johnson, Jr., was m. three times. His third wife was Ann Alley, widow of Thomas Williams and GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 89 chui.<;hter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Hood) Allc\'. Her father was a giandson of Hugh Alley, an earl)' settler of Lynn, her mother a descendant of Richard' Hood, Sr. , of Lynn. In 175S Jonathan Johnson, Jr., bought the Nahant property of Jeremiah Gray, and later with his wife, Ann, there took up his abode. Three sons — Benjamin, Joseph, and Caleb — were b. to them in Nahant at the homestead, afterward occupied successively by his son Caleb and his grandson Hervc}'. Having been sold a few years since, the commodious dwell- ing, long one of the old landmarks of Nahant, was torn down to make way for the handsome summer residence now occupying its site. Josej^h Johnson, b. February 12, 1776, d. June S, 1S54, having spent most of his life at Nahant. He was first m. May 7, 1797, to Mary Co.x, daughter of Francis Co.x, of Salem. His second wife was Bets\-, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Buxton) Graves, of Reading, North Parish. His first wife d. November 19, 181 S, leaving eight children — Joseph, Jr., Jonathan, I-'rancis, Eliza, Pamelia, W^ashingtoa H., Dolly M., and Walter — all now deceased. His second wife d. March 25, 1S74, leaving five sons: Daniel Alfred, Edward Kirk, and Frederic Henry (all now deceased) ; P'ranklin E. , now living at Winchester; and Edmund B. , of Nahant. Joseph Johnson was a public- spirited, influential, and highly respected citi- zen. Me was one of the founders, a trustee, and Deacon of the Methodist Church of Na- hant. Francis Johnson, third son of Joseph and Mary (Co.n) Johnson, was b. at Nahant, then a part of Lynn, July 3, 1802, and d. in June, 1 89 1. He was the pioneer wholesale lobster merchant of ]3oston, establishing his place of business on Warren Bridge, in Charlestown, in 1846. On November 14, 1S27, he m. Sally Coleman Rice, daughter of Jesse Rice. Ten children were b. of their union, and seven are now living; nameh', Jesse Rice, Samuel Mar- tin, I'rancis Henry, .Sydney Coleman, George I'orter, Sarah, and Alice Elizabeth. Marshall Johnson was b. at Nahant, then Lynn, June 22, 1S40. After completing his education at an academy in Barre, \'t. , he entered the employ of Mr. Codman, a wine merchant on Kilb)' Street, J5oston, but after- ward went to \'irginia to look up the oil busi- ness. At a later period he established a whole- sale fisli business on Atlantic Avenue, Boston, and continued in that line of trade until his death. He was drowned by the capsizing of a sail-boat off High Head, Harpswell, Me., No- vember S, 1898. Hem. November 15, 1863, Julia Ann Redgate Johnson, daughter of Jona- than and .Sophia (Letournia) Johnson, of Harpswell, Me., the latter of whom was of l'"rench ami Dutch descent. They had si.x children. The four now living are: Ben M., the subject of this sketch ; Letournia Melvin ; .Sally Rice; and Richard Croswell. Ben M. Johnson received his early education in Cambridge and at Allen's English and Classical -School, West Newton. On leaving school he worked two years for his father, and after that he spent three years in the West, working on sheep and cattle ranches. On one trip he drove five thousand head of sheep from New Me.xico to Northern Kansas, which dis- tance was covered on foot. Returning East, he was in Boston a short time, then went to Brunswick, Me., where he followed farming fi\-e years. In November, 1S94, he became connected in business with his father; and in 1897 the firm of Marshall Johnson & Son was established at Dock Square, he being the junior member. Since the death of his father he has carried on the entire business alone, meeting with e.xcellent success, his market being known as one of the best of its kind in Boston. On June 10, 1895, Mr. Johnson married Florence Gertrude Emery, daughter of Charles D. Emery, of Bath, Me., the ceremony being performed in the famous stone house originally built as a hunting lodge for English sportsmen, afterward owned by General William King, the first Governor of the .State of Maine. Mrs. Johnson's grandfather, Benjamin F. Emery, was b. in Fairfield, Me., April 2, 1799. At the age of foin-feen years he walked to Gardiner, Me., where he served a seven years' apprenticeship at the wool-pulling and tanning trade. He subsequently settled in Bath, Me., where he engaged in the wool and wool-pulling business alone for many years, 9° NEW ENGLAND LUiRARY OF finally taking in as [partner his brother, John A. Emery, the firm name being B. V. & J. A. Emery, continuing until his death in 1874. An old-time \\'hig, he joined the ranks of the Republican party on its formation. In his re- ligious belief he was a Universalist. He m. Lucinda Noyes, who was b. in Unity, Me. , daughter of Joseph Noyes, a farmer. Charles I). Emer)', Mrs. Johnson's father, was b. in Bath, Me., .September 1, 1843. After receiv- ing a common-school education he was away from home several months on a sea voyage. He subsequently learned the tanning and wool- pulling business, in which he is now engaged, having succeeded his father and imcle at the stand established bv his father seventy years ago. He has added to the business, being now engaged also in buying hides, wool, sheep and calf skins. On December 3, 1867, he m. P'annie Maude Coombs, daughter of De.xter B. and Sarah Coombs and a native of Bath, Me. Four children were b. of their union, namely : Maude EUinora; Florence Gertrude, the wife of Mr. Johnson; Edward De.xter; and l^renda Frances. OHN GERARD CHANDLER, a highly esteemed citizen of Maiden, is carrying on a successful catering business in Bos- ton, being proprietor of the old and well- known Durgin & Park restaurant, on North Market Street. He was born .September 26, 1846, in Chesterfield, N.H., son of Horatio Nelson and Louisa M. (Gilson) Chandler, and is a direct descendant in the ninth generation of William Chandler, the line being: William,' John,^ John,3 John,^ John,' John,'' Clark,' Horatio Nelson," John Gerard"*. William' Chandler, with his wife, Annis, and four children, came to this countr)- in 1637, '"^'i'' located in Ro.xbury, where a fifth child (Sarah) was born. John= Chandler m. February 16, 1658, Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of William' and Anna (Mattle) Douglas and a grand-daughter of Thomas Mattle, of Northamptonshire, Eng- land. William Douglas, after coming to New England, lived successively at Ipswich and Bos- ton and at New London, Conn. John' Chandler and his wife, Elizabeth, were admitted to the church in Roxbury in 1665. In 1686 he re- moved with his family to New Roxbury (now Woodstock, Conn.). He there ser\x'd as Select- man and as Deacon of the church. John^ Chandler, b. April 16, 1665, the third in a famil}- of eight children, d. August 10, 1743, at Woodstock, then a part of Massachusetts ( recei\'ed into Connecticut in 1749). He was a Representative to the General Court in Boston in 171 I and in several later years. He was the first Judge of Probate of Worcester Count)-, and fii'st Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, and Colonel in the militia. On November 10, 1692, he m. Mar\' Ra)'mond, who was b. in New London, Conn., March 12, 1671, being the fifth child of Deacon Joshua and p;iizabeth (Smith) Raymond. Her maternal grandfather, Nebemiah .Smith, m. Ann Bourn, daughter of Thomas ]5ourn, who removed to Norwich, Conn., from New Haven in 1660. Hon. John* Chandler, the first child in a family of ten children, was b. in New London, Conn., October 18, 1693, and d. at Worcester, August 7, 1762. When he was about six years (lid his parents remo\'ed tn Woodstock, where he attained his niajoritw and for a few years was land surveyor. Mo\-ing to Worcester, Mass., when the county of that name was formed, he served frequently as moderator at town meet- ings, a number of years as Selectman, and from 1 74 1 to 1752 as Town Treasurer. He repre- sented Woodstock in the Massachusetts Legis- lature, and the town of Worcester from 1732 until 1735, and again in 1738, 1739, 1752, and i 753. He was the first clerk of Worcester County courts, serving till 1754; was .sheriff from 1751 till 1754; was also Registrar of Probate till 1754 and Registrar of Deeds to 1762; and in May, 1757, was appointed Chief Justice. Joining the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Compau)' of Boston in 1734, he servetl as its commander in ^737- O'l October 23, 1716, he m. Hannah Gardiner, of Worcester. She was b. December II, ir399, and d. January 5, 173S-9. .She was the eldest daughter of John and Mar)' (King) (iardiner, of Gardiner's Islantl, antl a descendant in the fourth generation of Lion Gardiner, the immigrant ancestor. Lion Gardiner, a native of England, was engaged in military service in Holland before coming to America, being an GENEALOGY- AND PERSONAL HISTORY 91 engineer and master of works of fortihcation. Accompanied by his wife, Mary Wilemson, he sailed from London in the " Batchelor," arriving in New England in 1635. The Hon. John' Chandler was b. Februar\' 26, 1 720-1, at New London, Conn. Settling in Worcester, Mass., at an carl\- period, he be- came one of the leading men of his da\', taking an important part in public affairs. He was Town Treasurer from 1753 to 1760, Town Clerk from 1764 to 176S, County Treasurer from 1762 to 1775, Sheriff of Worcester Count\- from 175 I to 1762, and Judge of lYobate from 1762 to 1774. In August, 1757, he marched to the relief of Fort William Menr)' as Colonel of a regiment. A few years later the Boston -Arri'.r Letter, dated October 16, 1760, contained the following item : " We hear from Worcester that on the evening of the 9th inst. the house of Mr. Sheriff Chandler and others of that town were beautifully illuminated on the account of the success of his Majesty's arms in America." The success was the taking, September 8, i 760, of Montreal by Amherst. As a " refugee " dur- ing the Revolution, he sacrificed large posses- sions, appraised by the county commissioners at thirty-si.K thousand one hundred and ninety pounds and one shilling. He was one of the six inhabitants of Worcester included in the Act of Banishment. Four of the others were his sons, Rufus and William, his brother-in-law, James Putnam, and his nephew, Dr. William Paine. The Act of Banishment required that any per- son returning to the State, after being ordered to lea\'e it, should be again ordered to depart at once, and said that if found within its jurisdic- tion a second time the penalty of death should be enforced. William Chandler and Dr. Will- iam Paine, however, had permission to return, and did so. The Hon. John' Chandler d. at London, England, September 26, iSoo, and was buried at Islington. He left a large estate for that day. He m. first, Maixh 4, i 740-1, Doro- th)' Paine, of Worcester, daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Paine, of Bristol, R.I., who m. Sarah Clark, daughter of Timothy Clark, of Boston. She died in early life, having borne him four children. He m. second, June 11, 1746, Mary Cliurch, daughter of Colonel Charles Church, Sheriff of Bristol County. She d. September II, 17S3, having borne her husband thirteen children, John, the ne.xt in line of descent, being the eldest of his seventeen children. John' Chandler, b. in Worcester, March 3, 1 742, was for many )ears a successful merchant of Petersham, Mass., where he d. in 1794. On April 4, 1766, he m. Lydia Ward, of Petersham, who was b. in 1732, and d. July 30, 1794. She was a daughter of Nahum Ward, Jr., and a descendant of Deacon William' Ward, who emi- grated from England with his second wife, Elizabeth, and settled fiist in Sudbury, Mass., removing from there to Marlboro, where he d. at the age of eighty-seven years. William^ Ward, b. in Sudbury in 1640, m. Llannah, daughter of Solomon Johnson and widow of Gershom Ames. Colonel Nahum' Ward, of Shrewsbury, Mass., b. in 1684, m. in 17 14 Martha, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Kerbv) How. Nahum^ Ward, Jr., of Shrewsburx', ni. Lydia Stearns. He was a merchant and d. in the island of Ja- maica, leaving two children, one being Lydia, above named, who m. John'^ Chandler, and be- came the mother of five children, Clark being the second son. Clark" Chandler, b. April 19, 1770, d. P'eb- ruary 2"]. 1S24. He is described as being a man of fine proportions, six feet in height, full and corpulent, with a clear skin, full, dark eyes, and of a florid complexion. For many years he was a resident of Colerain, Mass., where he was manager of the branch house of John Chandler & Bros., extensive merchants. From 1 792 until 181 7 he was Town Clerk, and as such recorded with his own hand the birth of his twenty chil- dren. He m. July 14, 1791, Nancy Lyon, daughter of David and Abigail ( Draper) Lyon, who had removed to Coleiain from Roxbury. She was b. August 17, 1775, and d. June 5, 1832. Eight of their children died in infancy, includ- ing John, the first-lDorn (b. February 8, 1792). Those who attained maturity were as follows : John (second), b. 1793, m. first Margaret Cun- ningham, m. second Emma A. Ballon. Nancy, b. 1796, m. Isaac Barber. Eliza Green, b. 1800, m. William Whitne}' Draper. Maria Augusta, b. 1 80 1, d. 1S48, m. Benjamin Lyon. Horatio Nelson (second), b. 1804, m. Louisa M. Gilson. Rufus, b. 1805, m. first L)-dia Louisa Dennison, 92 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF m. second Mary King. Pamelia, b. 1 8ofi, m. George S. Root, of Chesterfield, N.H. Lydia Head, b. 1810, m. Ur. Harvey Carpenter. Clark, b. 1812, m. Harriet B. Holt, Lucretia Alcesta, b. 18 14, m., in Brattlebor(j, Cjeorge S. Root. Alexander, b. i8i6,m. Lydia Herrick. Francis Blake, b. 181 6, m. Mary Sophia Jcssup. Horatio Nelson^^ Chandler, b. April 12, 1804, d. October 3, 1873. He was engaged in mer- cantile pursuits, having learned the details of the trade in the store of his brother-in-law, George S. Root, a merchant in Chesterfield. On August 18, 1836, he m. Louisa M. Gilson, of Chesterfield, N.H„ daughter of Calvin and Me- hitable (Partridge) (iilson. l-'ive children were the fruit of their union : Henry Horatio, b. July 25, 1837, m. November 27, 1S62, Sarah Ade- laide Knight, of Charlestown ; Amelia Maria, b. March 30, 1839, ''■''■ Uecember 6, 1866, Elbridge G. Park ; George Washington, b. April 7, 1840, m. in 1862 Hannah I,illis, of Brattleboro, Vt ; Helen Augusta, b. October 20, 1843; and John Gerard,'' born September 26, 1846. John Gerard'' Chandler married first, May 6, 1873, Josephine Durgin, daughter of John Wig- gin and idizabeth (Fisher) Lurgin. She died April 14, 1876, leaving two children — Ernest Lyon, born in Charlestown, Mass., August 3, 1S74; and Josephine lieatrice, born April 2, 1876, also in Charlestown. On June 8, 1S80, Mr. Chandler married second Mary Elizabeth Durgin, a sister of his first wife. B\- this union there were no children. John W'iggin Durgin, the father of Mr. Chandler's wi\'es, was a son of Joseph Durgin and grandson of David Durgin, who, it is sup- posed, was a descendant of Joseph" Durgin, who came from England to America in colonial times, being accompanied on the voyage by two of his biothers. Joseph Durgin, tlie father of John W'., was b. in Northwood, N.H., in 1788, and d. at Stratham, N.H. He m. a Miss Wig- gin, b)' whom he had si.\ children — John, Jo- seph, Samuel, Obadiah, Elizabeth, and Mary. John Wiggin Durgin was b. at Durham, N.H., in 1809, and d. in November, 1866. In 1S34, at Portsmouth, N.PL, he m. Pllizabeth I-'isher, who was b. in the Provinces in 1816, and d. in 1870. Her father, John P'isher, commander of a vessel, was di'owin-d in Portsmouth Harlior, at the age of seventy-four years. Seven children were born of their union, of whom but two are living, namely: Martha E. , wife of N. C. Gar- land, of Manchester, N.H.; and Arianna, un- mariied. Those deceased are : Mary Elizabeth ; John Edward ; Sophia S. ; Josephine, the first wife of Mr. Chandler ; and Mary I']., Mr. Chan- dler's secontl wife, who clied P'ebruar\' 10, 1901. AMES WARREN HAVWARD, of Cambridge, a retired tea merchant, was born in Boston, Februarv 2, 1833. He is a descendant of Thomas 1 lavward, who came to America from lingland in the same vessel with John Ames, and settled at Du.xbury before 1638. The line is: Thomas,' Nathaniel,' Nathaniel,^ Josiah,-' Nathan,-' Na- than,'' James Thacher, ' James Warren^. Thomas Ha_\-ward was an oiiginal proprietor in 1645, and one of the earliest and eldest settlers of Bridgewater. Flis death occurred in 1681. He had seven children. NathanieL Hayward m. Hannah, daughter of Deacon John Willis, and had at least seven children. Nathaniel,' the eldest of these, b. in 1664, d. in 1734. He resided at P'ast Bridgewater, Mass. l!y his wife, Elizabeth, he became the father of eleven chilchen. Jo- siah ■• Hayward, eldest child of Nathaniel-' and Elizabeth, was b. in 1668, and d. in 1764. He m. first, in 171 5, Sarah, daughter of Sam- uel Kinsley. He m. for his second wife Mrs. Sarah Moore, widow of Theodosius Moore and daughter of John IVior. Born of his first marriage there were five children and of the second one child. Nathan' Hayward, b. in 1720, second child of Josiah, ■• il. in 1794. lie ni. Susanna, daughter of Charles Latham, about 1748; and the)' had eight chilchen. Dr. Nathan'' Hay- ward, the seventh child of Nathan ^ and Susanna Flay ward, was b. at Bridgewater, Mass., in 1763; and he d. in 1858. Fie was graduated at Flarvard College witii the degree of Bachelor of y\rts in 1785, receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1819. He practised medicine at Plymouth, Mass. ; and he served as a surgeon in the Indian Wai' of 1793 and 1794 undei- Anthon\' \\'a\nr. After settling GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 93 in Phniouth, he was Migli Sheriff of that county. He ni. Joanna, daughter of Pelham Winslow, Esq. They had five children, of whom one, George P., who m. I^lizabetli Winslow \\'illiams, is now living. James " Thacher Hayward, b. at Plymouth, Mass., February 19, 1802, who d. March 12, 1886, was a successful merchant in Boston, being a member of the firm of Dane, Dana & Co. He was also connected with the Boston Sugar Refinery Company, serving as its treas- urer for many years. He m., September 2, 1828, Sarah Appleton Dawes, daughter of ludge Thomas Dawes, of Boston, in which cit)' (on Purchase Street) she was b. Novem- ber, 1798. She d. .September 27, 1S78. They had four children — Nathan, James Warren, Maiy Chilton, and Margaret Greenleaf. Nathan, b. January 6, 1830, served as surgeon in the Twentieth Massachusetts during the four years of the Civil War, and d. August 16, 1866. Mary Chilton, b. December 21, 1834, is the wife of Henry Mitchell, of New York, N. Y. He had previously m. her sister, Mar- garet, who d. I'ebruary 19, 1875, leaving one child. Mar)' Hayward, who is now the wife of John F. Havemeyer, of New \'ork, and the mother of one child, Helen. James Warren Hayward was educated in the Thayer School, Boston, and at Plymouth, Mass. He gained his first industrial experi- ence a.s clerk in the house of Crocker & War- ren, of New "\'ork, engaged in the East India trade. Subsequenth', for forty years, he was a ]3artner with his uncle, George P. Hayward, in the firm of George P. Hayward & Co., which imported and dealt in teas and other East Indian products. Mr. Hayward has made his home in Cambridge since 1891. He is a mem- ber of the Colonial Club of that city. He attends the Unitarian church. In politics he is a Republican. On December 25, 1S66, at Springfield, Mass., Mr. Hayward mari'ied Sarah Bancroft Howard, one of the eight children of Charles and Elizabeth ]5uckminster (Dvvight) Howard. Mrs. Ha\'ward's ancestors were prominent in the early history of Massachusetts. One of them, tlie Rev. ISazaliel Howard, was a gradu- ate of Harvard Universit)'. Another, her grandfather, the Hon. Thomas Dwight, a brother-in-law of the Hon. Fisher Ames, was a member of Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Hay- ward have had four children : Emily Howard, born August 30, 1867; Margaret Greenleaf, born October 7, 1869; Nathan, born August 27, 1872; and Dwight, born May 29, 1874. The three eldest are still living. Dwight died May 7, 1876. Margaret married Edward A. Andrews, of Cambridge, June 8, 1901. AMES IRISH WINGATE, of the firm of James I. Wingate & Son, of Boston, painters and decorators, was born in Gorham, Cumberland County, Me., June 4, 1837, son of John and Sophronia (Irish) Wingate. The surname W'ingate was of very early origin, being found in England and Scotland long previous to the year 1200. Various ac- counts are given as to the exact manner in which it originated, but they are so conflicting that little reliance can be placed upon any of them. It is not improbable that it may have had separate and diverse beginnings in different localities. The origin of the name, however, is of less consequence than the deeds and char- acter generally of those who have borne it, both in its early home in the Old Woild and in America. Though the connection between the English and American Wingates cannot be satisfacto- rily traced, there being links wanting to com- ]5lete the genealogical chain, there seems to be little doubt that he whose name begins this sketch is a descendant of Hemyng de Wyngate (that is, Hemying of Wyngate), who was lord of Wyngate' s Manor (to-day known as the Manor of Grove), in the parish of Ellesbor- ough, Buckinghamshire, England, about the reign of King Henry II. Another branch of the family was then set- tled at Sharpenhoe, in the parish of Streatley, county of Bedford, having existed there for several generations. These two branches were doubtless closely connected, as John, son of Hemyng above mentioned, m. Agnes, sole heir of the family of Beleurgc, or Bele\erge, pos- sessors of the estate of Sharpenhoes, county 94 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF of Bedford, who brought him that estate. He appears then to have changed his residence to Sharpenhoe, as the family was afterwards called of that place. By some lines the descendants of John and Agnes Wingate have been traced for twelve generations. Among them were: Edward, for thirty-three years Clerk of the Cheque to Queen Elizabeth, who d. in 1597; another Edward was "Serjeant to the ]?ear Garden" to the same queen. Edmund Win- gate, of Bedford, of the eighth generation fmm John and Agnes, a man of "various learning, great industry, valor, and the refinements and accomplisinnents incident to a place at court," the author of a table of logarithms and mathe- matical works, also works highly esteemed in his day on the Common Law and the Statutes of Magna Charta, deserted (probably from high principle) his king and patron, Charles L, in order to assume active service with the Parliamentarians. He became an influential member of Parliament, and a friend and sup- porter of Cromwell, when I^rotector. Mary Wingate, daughter of Ralph, and of the tenth generation from Hemyng first mentioned, m. Sir Jerome Smithson, and became ancestress of the present Duke of Northumberland. Sir Francis Wingate under the linglish law of May 16, 1664, against conventicles, relieved the community over which he presided as a justice of a "perverse and noisy" itinerant preacher by imprisonment for life, "and thus secured to the Christian world from the pen of that same preacher, John Runyan, the immortal allegory of the 'Pilgrim's Progress.' " His son John, tradition says, was appointed to the command of the fleet in the Mediterranean ; but, being laid up with a fit of the gout, which he ilid not survive, the command was transferred to Ad- miral Byng, the political sacrifice of the day. Thus it will be seen that in the strenuous times long ])ast, when tlic battle for constitu- tional liberty was being fought out in England, the Wingates, like many other influential families, were divitled in sentiment, some sup- )3orting the crown in its efforts to extend and firmly establisli the kinglv prerogatix'e, while others fought for the liberties of the subject and the upholding of the laws of the realm against the royal encroachments. The Wingates of America, all those at least who have been long settled here and whose presence caiuiot be accounted for by compara- tively recent immigrations, can be traced to one man, who emigrated to this country about the middle of the seventeenth century — John ' Wingate, a native of l^ngland, who came to New Hampshire when a young man without a family. Two others bearing the same surname came to Virginia in the early Colonial period, Charles Wyngate (aged twenty-two) in 1635 and John Wyngatt in 1679; but it is probable that these two either did not long remain or that their lines soon became extinct. The family name has been variously sjielled or misspelled, the variations being due doubtless in many cases to tiie carelessness of recording cierks. John ' Wingate came to Dover, N.H. (then called Hilton's Head), in the service of Thomas Layton ; and in 165.S a lot of twenty acres was granted him by iiis master and con- veyed to him by the Selectmen, whereupon he became a planter. The records show that he had other lands also, ten acres laid out in 1669 being granted him by the inhabitants of Dover Neck. Here he established a homestead, which has remained in [lossessiun of the Win- gate family ever since, a perioti of two hundred and twenty-five years. It is now a beautiful farm of nearly one hLuidred acres, very near the city. A tlescrijition by a sister of the present occujiant thus reads: "The magnificent elms which now stand before the house were planted by the late William P. M. Wingate (b. 1789) in 1801. An apple-tree planted with his own hand b)' John, the first American an- cestor, survived in good condition until the great storm of 1S45. It was over sixteen feet in circumference. Pieces of that tree are now in possession of the family. We can drink from the same spring where our forefathers have drunk for two hundred and twenty-five years, and also from a glass one hundred and twenty-five years old. The old house is full of relics. We have a flint-gun carried by Moses ■• (b. 1744) in the Revolutionary War; and, as Grandfather Wingate handed down his firearms for the stalwart sons, so his wife passed down her britlal robes to the daughters. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 95 The present house was built in 1S03." John' Wingate in 1683 was one of the principal land- holders in Dover. He served as juryman, and was Selectman in 1674, 1686, and 1687, being chairman in the year last named. He also performed active military service in 1675, cl"''" ing King Philip's War. In 1683 he was con- cerned with the leading citizens in opposition to Edward Cranfield and Robert T. Mason, the latter of whom under color of ancestral claims had mortgaged the whole province to Cranfield and i^rocured the latter's appointment as Lieu- tenant Governor. Their claims, conflicting with those of the settlers who had held posses- sion of the land for over fifty .years, gave rise to troubles that lasted several years, and were finally ended by the settlers being left in quiet possession. John ' Wingate was twice married. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Hatevil Nutter. His second wife, whom he m. about 1676, was Sarah, widow of Tliomas Canney. In maiden- hood Sarah Taylor, she was a daughter of An- thony and Phillippa Taylor. Her father, who came to Hampton about 1640, d. in 1687, at the age of eighty years. His wife d. in 1683. The father of Mary Nutter Wingate, Hatevil Nutter, was "one of the most enterprising, use- ful, and respectable planters on the Piscat- aqua, " and doubtless, as his name would indicate, of genuine Puritan parentage. He was an occasional preacher as well as elder. Born in England about 1603, he came to America probably in 1635 with Captain Wig- gins. His will was proved June 29, 1675. His son Anthony also was a man of note, serving as Selectman and Representative to the General Court. Anthony was one of those engaged in the controversy with Cranfield. He is described as a "big, tall man " ; and, as a specimen of his free and easy manners, it is said, in the account of his visit with a certain Wiggin to Ma.son, that the latter got "his wig turned and his teeth knocked out, and met with several other similar accidents." John' Wingate d. December q, 1687. In his will the family name is spelled "Windiett. " He had seven children, four sons and three daugh- ters, b. between 1667 and 1687, a detailed account of whom may be found in The History of the Wingate T^amily (by Charles E. L. Wingate, jntb. J. D. P. Wingate, Exeter, N.H., 18S6). The line of descent from John' to James Irish Wingate is: John,''= Simon, ^ Sncll,-* John, 5 James Irish. '' John^ Wingate, eldest son of John,' was b. July 13, 1670. He inherited the homestead, where he resided all his life. He commanded a company in the expedition to Port Royal. He d. in 1715, having made his will in De- cember of the preceding )-car. Of his wife we know nothing, except that her Christian name was Ann, and that ten years after his death she m. Captain John Heard (b. 1667). John ^ Wingate had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters, b. between 1691 and 171 3. These children, as the records show, afterward maintained the high standing in the community of Dover that their father had attained. Simon ^ Wingate, youngest child of John,- was b. September 2, 171 3. He moved to Biddeford, Me., was admitted to the First Church of that town October 17, 1742, and subsequently became a Deacon. He m. Lydia Hill, daughter of Ebenezer Hill, and wife of Abiel (Snell) Hill. She was admitted to the First Church, November 25, 1744. It is prob- able that she m. a second time, September 29, 1774, Captain Daniel Stover. Simon ^ and Lydia had twelve children, whose birth dates are not all given in the Wingate history. Snell •• Wingate, fourth child of Simon,' was bajitized February 3, 1744. He m. first, De- cember I, 1768, Margaret Pinery, of Biddeford, Me. (d. November 29, 1783) ; second, June, 178S, Mehitable Crocker, of Dunstable, Mass., widow of Elijah Crocker, a sea captain, and sister of Solicitor-general Daniel Davis. Mehitable Crocker had by her first husband a daughter, who m. October 30, 1796, Edward Woodman, of Searsmont, Me. Descendants now living in Cambridge, Mass. Snell ^ Win- gate settled in Buxton, Me., in that part uf the town now known as Buxton Centre. He was Selectman for eleven years. He had five chil- dren by his first wife and si.\ by his second — eight sons and three daughters. John ' Wingate, son of Snell and father of James I. Wingate, was b. in Buxton, Me., April 28, 1799, '"'"' ^- September 21, 1858. 96 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF He resided successi\'ely in Jiu.xton and Gor- haiii, Me, where he followed the combined occuijations of farmer, tanner, and shoemaker. He was a man of sterling character. Without the advantages of an education beyond that afforded by the town schools of his time, he was yet able through reading, and with the help of a remarkably retentive memor\', to call to mind at once the time and place of public events and the uttterances of public men, and his knowledge of public affairs made him a strong character in the humble community in which he lived. Original!)' a Democrat, he early became a most bitter opponent of slavery, and cast his fortunes anil his vote with the first Abolitionists and F"ree soilers. Later he iden- tified himself with the Republican party. He was a man of most positive ideas, fearless in his advocac}' of reforms, and called things by their right names to a degree that often made his opponents feel uncomfortable. By jarecei^t find e.xample he was a strictly temperate man, unusually so considering the times in which he lived; and "liquor" nex-er passed his lips or his door. A constant attendant at church, he was liberal and independent in matters of religion. He maintained throughout his life the respect of his fellow -citizens, and filled for some years the offices of .Selectman and Town Clerk. He d. in the fift\-ninth )ear of his age, September 21, 1858. John' Wingate m. first, January 22, 1821, Salome Small, of Bu.x- ton. Me., b. December 10, 1802. His chil- dren by her were as follows: Ansel D. , b. May 31, 1822, m. Septemljer i, 1848, Almira Scani- nion ; Sarah P., b. November 22, 1S23, m. October 8, 1847, Edward A. Scammon ; and Maria J. H., b. November 7, 1825, m. Novem- ber 3, 1848, Leander Stevens. John' Wingate m. second, September 22, 1829, Mrs. Sophro- nia Frost, a widow. She was a native of Gor- ham, Me., b. Sejitember 5, 1799, a daughter of General James' Irish b}' his first wife, Rebecca Chadbourne Irish. General Irish, who merits more than a pass- ing mention, was b. in Gorliam Me., August 18, 177^5, just si.\ weeks after the birth of this nation. His grandfather, James Irish, had emigrated from h'.ngland about the \'ear 171 I, and settled in h'almoulh, now rortland, Me., whence he removed with his family, in 173S, to what is now the town of Gorham, but which was then an almost unbroken wilderness. James = Irish, Jr. (father of General James Irish), b. at Falmouth in i73r), m. in 1756 Mary Gorham Phinney, who was the first white child born in Gorham (b. August 24, 1736). She was a daughter of CajJtain John " (John ^"^"') and Martha Coleman Phinney (John ' Phinney was of Plymouth, 1638). Captain John Phin- ney was a direct descendant of Mary Rogers, grand-daughter of Thomas Rogers, the "May- flower " Pilgrim. These jiioneer families numbered among their members men of the most dauntless courage and skill in Indian warfare, than whom none had a wider fame than Captain Phinney, the first settler of the town of Gorham (1736). In 1777 General Irish's father was summoned to service in the Revolutionary War, and during his absence the mother, the Alary Gorham of earlier times, supported the large family of children by spin- ning and weaving cotton cloth — in exchanging the manufactured for the raw material, riding to and from P^almouth, fourteen miles distant, over the roughest and most primitive roads. In 1780, during a great scarcity of pro\isions, the General's mother allowanced the members of her own family, so that she might administer to the wants of her neighbors. General James Irish had but limited oppor- tunities for securing an education. He re- ceived some elementary instruction in the primitive schools of the community, and in addition to the "three R's " studied the art of singing. At the age of fifteen years he had already attained the size and muscular devel- opment of a man. At the request of his par- ents he then took upon himself the entire management of the farm. Profusions were scarce, and family misfortunes added laigely to his burdens. For some years he continued farming and lumbering, and, having purchased books, set about the task of improving his edu- cation, with the view of becoming a teacher, his farm work, though involving severe toil, bringing but small returns. His first effort at teaching was at Buxton, and his pay five dollars per month. Though a small beginning, it was the first step toward more lucrative em- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 97 ploynieiit. For seven months, in 1796, he was clerk in a store in his native town. In the following year his father was severely injured by an accident. At the age of twenty-one he was appointed Orderly Sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Warren's Company of militia, which was his first military appointment. His regu- lai' business was now farming in summer and teaching school in autumn and winter. In 179S he m. Rebecca Chadbourne, a daughter of Silas Chadbourne, of Berwick, Me., and in the same year he and his wife united with the Congregational church. In the year iSoo he embraced the opportunity to learn the art of navigation fiom an old sailor whom he had hired to work on the farm; and this led to his study of geometry, trigonometr\-, and the kin- dred branches of mathematical science. He soon became a [practical surveyor, and was em- ployed in his own and neighboring towns to run lines and survey lands. In 1804 and 1805 he added to his landed estate by the purchase of one hundred and forty acres of land, mostly in the town of Standish. In 1S06 he contrib- uted to the building fund of the Gorham Acad- emy, which was then constructed, and surveyed the one-half township of land which had been granted to the academy by the legislature of Massachusetts. In 1807 he suffered pioneer hardships while surveying in Aroostook County. In the following year he was commissioned as Major in the Third Regiment of militia, and also was a Justice of the Peace. In iSiO, hav- ing a large and growing family to support, he sold the old homestead and purchased a larger farm, to which he moved his family on the first of May. The approaching war with England now increased the burden of his public duties. As soon as war was declared, he took an active part in the drilling and reviewing of troops, bringing those under his command into such a high state of efificiency as to receive universal applause and promotion to the rank of Briga- dier-general. In September, 18 14, upon a threatened invasion of Portland by the British he obeyed a hasty call from the Committee of Safety, like General Putnam leaving his work in the field upon the arrival of the messenger. The parting words of his aged mother were: "Don't be a coward, James — don't be a coward. Do your duty like a man. " The march of his brigade of twenty-five hundred men through the streets of Portland called forth the liveliest enthusiasm. The invasion, however, failed of realization ; and the troops were soon dismissed. After the termination of the war, General Irish received so many calls to the discharge of duties of a public nature that he gave up the business of teaching, which had occupied a por- tion of his time yearly for twenty years. In 1S18 he was appointed Surveyor of Public Lands under Colonel Lothrop Lewis. In 1819 he representetl Cumberland County in the Sen- ate of Massachusetts. It was at this session that the act was passed providing for the sepa- ration of the province of Maine from the State of Massachusetts. In his capacity of Public Surveyor General Irish performed much diffi- cult and hazardous work in the wilds of Aroos- took County, and took an active and patriotic part in the troubles arising out of the north- eastern boundary dispute with Great Britain. In order to keej3 his famil)' together, he estab- lished manfacturing industries in Gorham, giv- ing the management to his sons, and showed at all times an enterprise that did much to develop the resources and increase the pros- perity of the town. In his later years he suf- fered affliction in the loss of some of those near and dear to him, his mother, wife, son James, and a favorite daughter-in-law being snatched away by the hand of Death, and also through financial embarrassment, resulting from the causes that led to the great panic of 1837. These things caused a depression of spirit, from which he never fully recovered. His services as surveyor were called into requisi- tion upon the projection of the ^'ork and Cum- berland Railroad, and he received the appoint- ment of Clerk of the Board of Directors. At the termination of his services for the railroad company in 1849, when he had reached the age of seventy-three years, he retired from active business pursuits. His life was extended to June 30, 1863. During the ]3rogress of the War of the Rebellion he was much disturbed by the occasional reverses to the loyal arms. A few months before his death he .said to his minister, the Rev. Mr. Strong, "I have no strong desire for a c(jntinuance of life," but NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF added, with much earnestness, "I do want to live to see the close of this dreadful war." His patriotic instincts forsook him only at the end of life. In politics General Irish in ear- lier manhood was a Democrat. He joined the Whigs in 1S40, and soon after became a mem- ber of the political party that opposed the e.\- tensioii of slavery. Upon the organization of the Republican party he entered its ranks. He was in the fullest sense a public-spirited citizen. In the early days of its Statehood no citizen of Maine was more largely instrumental in impressing its citizens with an adequate conception of the value of its timberlancls and the importance of protecting them from spulia- tion. After giving up business pursuits, he spent much of his time in the several families of his children, between whom and himself there existed a strong attachment founded in earlier years. Endowed with good powers of mind and a plentiful measure of common sense, he had largely made up for his lack of earlv educational advantages, and by his strength of intellect and force of will qualified himself to fill many important and lesponsible public positions with honor to himself and usefulness to the public. (For further information see "A Sketch of the Life of General James Irish," by Lyndon Oak, Lee & Shepard, Bos- ton, 1898.) General Irish was twice married. His first wife, Rebecca Chadbourne, has been already mentioned. His second wife, whom he m. October 15, 1S32, was Louisa Mason, a native of Massachusetts, b. August 5, 1789, d. Octo- ber 3, 1S81. He had in all thirteen children, of whom the eUlcst was Sophronia, b. Septem- ber 5, 1799. She m. in 1821 Henry Frost, who d. July 13, 1S27. She m. second, Sep- tember 23, 1829, John 5 Wingate, by whom she became the mother of James I. Wingate, whose name begins this artitle. By the first husband she had two children, and by her second eight. They were as follows : — Elizabeth, b. (lorham, August 4, 1822, d. May 6, 184S, m. February 25, 1S45, The- ophilus Waterhouse, of Standish, Me.; Caroline C., b. Gorham, August 17, 1S24; Rebecca I., b. October 30, 1830, d. August 14, 1853; Salome S. , b. March 4, 1833, m. first, July I, 1852, George J. Prentiss, who d. June 25, 1864, m. second, January 6, 1S77, George W. Newbegin ; Henry F. (twin), b. February 28, 1835, d. in Nevada, November 28, 1865; James I. (twin brother of Henrv F. ), d. February 21, 1836; James I. (of whom separate mention is made in this sketch) ; Mary Gorham, b. March 13, 1840; Flllen S. , b. April 2, 1843; John Phinney, b. March 7, 1846, d. August 15, 1849. Mrs. Sophronia (Irish) Wingate d. March 31, 1886. James Irish Wingate was educated in the public schools and at Gorham Academy in his native town. He acquired a knowledge of his trade in Gorham and Portland, and subse- quently worked at it in Boston, coming here at the age of seventeen. In i860 he laid the foundation of the present house of James I. Wingate & Son, the son becoming a partner in 1893. In i8g6 they added a new department to their business, that of furniture and interior decorations. The firm is one of the best known and its business one of the most exten- sive of its kind in the country. Mr. Wingate is a charter member, and in 1891-93 was presi- dent of the Master Builders' Association of Boston. He is a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Riechanics' Association, the Ma- sonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, the Pine Tree State Club of Boston, the Republican Club of Massachusetts, and the Society of Sons of the Revolution. In politics, as ma)- be in- ferred, he is a Republican. In 1900 Mr. Win- gate, after repeated solicitation, allowed his name to be put out by his friends as a candi- date for the General Court, and was duly elected for the session of 1901 as Representative of the Twenty-fifth District of Boston (Brigh- ton). His nomination for this office called forth many sjiontaneous e.xpressions of approval both frrim the press and from private individ- uals. A local journal well said, "His candi- dacy meets the approval of the large number, irrespective of party, who favor representation from this type of our substantial citizens." Mr. Wingate was married in Boston, May i, 1870, to Helen I^>ances (Snow) F.dgecomb, who was born November 8, 1S38, a daughter of Eli N. and Dorcas Snow. He has one child, b'rank Elmer, born Januaiy 3, 1872. CHAKLKS H. TAYLOR. GENEAT.OGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 99 Frank Elmer VVingate married, January 25, 1893, Helen May Buckner, a native of lioston, b(jrn September 12, 1871, a daughter of James and Helen F. Ruckner. He has three chil- dren: Muriel, born April 23, 1S94; Marjorie, born June 17, 1895; and James Donald, born December 21, 1900. lAKLES HENRY TAYLOR, editor and manager of the I^oston Globe, widely known as one of the most en- terprising and successful newspaper men of New England, is a native of the Bunker Hill district of Boston and unquestionably a well-grounded patriot, as befits one brought uji under the shadow of the monument. A veteran of the Civil War, he still carries the bullet with which he was wounded while fighting for the Union. General Taylor, as he is usually designated, from his rank as a member of the staff of Governor Russell, was born July 14, 1846, the second child and eldest son of John [ngallsand Abigail Russell (Hapgood) Taylor. His father, the late John Ingalls Taylor, was b. at Salem, Mass., May 21, 1816, being the son of John and Olive Tajdor, of that cit)-. He d. at Haverhill, Mass., March 31, 1S90, He was m. May 21, 1842, to Abigail Russell Hap- good, b. in Marlboro, Mass., April 28, 1819. She d. at Roslindale, Mass., March 9, 1SS8. Colonel Taylor's maternal grandparents were David' and Lydia (Stearns) Hapgood, of Marl- boro. His descent from Shadrach' Hajsgood (or Habgood), who came over in the "Speed- well " in 1656 at fourteen years of age, m. at Dedham in 1664 Elizabeth Treadway, and was the founder of the New b'.ngland family of this surname, is through Thomas,' John,' [ona- than,-' David, 5 Abigail Russell''. (See Hap- good Genealogy, also sketch of Warren Hap- good on another j^age of this volume.) Thomas' Hapgood, son of Shadrach' and I'llizabeth, wash, at Sudbury, Mass., in 1669. He settled in the locality that is now the north-eastern part of Marlboro. ]3eside his homestead property of between five hundred and seven hundred acres, he owned other lands, including some in Shrewsbury. In 1690, while engaged in military service, he was | wounded in a skirmish with the Indians near (Jyster River, N.H., his right hand being much shot and his left arm broken, so that for some time he was unable to labor. He m. Judith, daughter of John and Judith (Sy- monds) Barker, of Concord, Mass. He d. Oc- tober 4, 1764, in the ninet}'-fifth year of his age. He had nine children. In his lifetime he gave a farm to each of his three sons. lohn' Hapgood, h'ebruary, 1 706-7, settled at !\Iarlboro in 1735, on a part of the home farm that he received as a gift from his father. He served five years as Selectman, and in 1757 was on the alarm list attached to Cap- tain Weeks's company of militia. He m. in 1 73 1 Abigail, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Stow) Morse, of Marlboro. Seven children, five daughters and two sons, b. of this union, grew to maturit}', and were m. Deacon Jonathan, < the youngest child, b. in 1759, m. in 1783 Jerusha Gibbs. She d. in 1842, and he in 1849. David' Hapgood, b. in 1783, was the eldest of a family of ten chil- dren, eight of whom li\'ed to adult age and m. His first wife, Abigail Russell, cl. five months after their marriage. He m. in December, 1806, L)'dia Stearns, of Leominster. They had eleven children, all b. in Marlboro, the eighth being Abigail Russell, who was named for his first wife, and is mentioned above as wife of John Ingalls Ta\lor and grandmother of the subject of this sketch. Jonathan Morse, father of Abigail, wife of John^ Hapgood, was a son of Joseph' and Susanna (Shattuck) Morse, grandson of Joseph- and Hester (Pierce) Morse, of Watertown, and great-grandson of Joseph' Morse, who arrived at Ipswich, Mass., in 1635 or 1636. Mary Stow, wife of Jonathan Morse, was b. in 1685, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Stow, of Marlboro. Charles Henry Taylor acquired his early education in the Charles|own public schools. In his fifteenth year he began to learn type- setting in a printing-office in Boston where the Massachusetts l''loiiglniiaii and the Christian Rci^-istcr were set up. In 1861 he was em- ployed in the establishment of the Boston Traveller, working at different times in the composing-room, the press-room, and the mailing-room. In the summer of 1862 he NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF enlisted in Company F, Tiiirty-eiglitli Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, which was organized under the call issued July i for three hundred thousand men for three years, and which under Colonel Timothy Ingraham formed a part of General Banks's command, Department of the Gulf. Private Taylor was wounded at Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, and was honorably discharged on the eighteenth of December following. After his return to Bos- ton he again went to work on the Traveller. His connection with that paper lasted several years, during which time he mastered the art of shorthand writing, and became a steno- graphic reporter, doing some notable work in that line. He also gained a reputation as cor- respondent for the New York Ti ibune and the Cincinnati Times, his pen yielding him in his twenty-first year an income of four thousand dollars. His abilities became known outside of newspaper circles, and he made the acquaint- ance of leading politicians. He was appointed private secretary to Go\'ernor Claflin, January I, 1869, and continued to hold that position and discharge its duties for three years, with- out withdrawing himself, however, from jour- nalism, his function as a newspaper correspond- ent being still kept up. iJuring this period he was a member of Governor Claflin's mili- tary staff with the title of Colonel, and in 1891 he was appointed (jn Governor Russell's staff with the rank of General. In 1872 he served as Representative from the Fourth Mid- dlesex District in the State Legislature, and in January, 1873, was elected to succeed Will- iam S. Robinson ("Warrington") as clerk of the House. In August, 1873, he became man- ager of the Boston Globe, then in the second year of its existence as a daily news sheet, and with a circulation of twelve thousand. After maintaining the Globe in a precarious exist- ence on the original plan nearly five years, he boldly ventured on a radical change of base and operations, reducing the price from three cents to two, and making the paper thoroughly democratic. This was in March, 1878, its new birthday being the seventh of the month. The appreciation of the public was shown in a most gratifying wa}'. The daily circulation of the paper increased till in 1889 it reached one hundred and fifty thousand, thus breaking the New England record. The following year showed an increase of over fi\'e thousand in the daily issue, the Sunday circulation being one hundred and forty-three thousand, seven hun- dred and seven. The gain steadily increased and in 1901 the circulation of the Daily Globe reached two hundred thousand and the Sun- day Globe two hundred fifty thousand. Gen- eral Taylor is a member of the Algonquin, Coun- try, Boston Art, and Eastern Yacht Clubs. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1897. He was married February 7, 1866, to Geor- gianna Olivia Davis, who was born in Charles- town, Mass., April 12, 1847, daughter of George \V. and Lovilla (Simonds) lJa\'is. They have five children, three sons and two daughters. Charles H. Taylor, Jr., the eldest, born October 2, 1867, in Charlestown, Mass., married December 2, i8go. Marguerite b'alck, daughter of Eugene C. and Mary (Munn) Falck. They ha\'e two children: Doris, born October 25, 1893; and Charles H., third, born November 19, 1896. William O. Taylor, born January 8, 1871, at Nashua, N.H., mar- ried March 28, 1894, Mary Moseley, daughter of Edward C. and Ellen Slade (Wheeler) Moseley. They have three children : Moseley, born January 30, 1895; lunma, born December 20, 1897; and Margaret, born September 3, 1900. Elizabeth Taylor, born April -"^o, 1873, married Horace D. Pillsbiu'y, and has one child, Olivia, born March 27, 1899. John Irving, the younger son, born January 14, 1875, niarried October 12, 1896, Helen C. Burnap, daughter of l^ C. and Harriet (Moore) Burnap, and has one daughter, Matle- line, born August 13, 1900. Grace, born May 30, 1876, the youngest child, is at home with her parents. The three sons are associ- ated with their father in business. RANK LEWIS WEAVER, of Lowell, was born in the cit\' of Boston, July 15, 1854. His father, Samuel Hunt Weavei', was b. at Middlesex Village (then a part of the town of Chelmsford), now a ])art of Lowell. l-'rancis Weax'ei', the i-rantltathei (jI GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY l'"ranl< L. , a native of Germany, was b. on the banks of the ]\hine, and there grew to man- hood. When a young man he was forced as a conscript into Napoleon's army, and this not- withstanding the fact that lie was a widow's only son. After serving under the great com- mander seven years he came to America, and settled at Middlesex \^illage, where he found employment as a glass mixer in the pioneer glass factory of America. Pie was a devout Christian, and at one time preached in the Methodist church in Lowell. He m. Naomi Hunt, the daughter of .Samuel Hunt, a cabinet- maker, said to have been the first one on what is now the site of the city of Lowell, near Paw- tucket P'alls. .Samuel IL Weaver in 1854 was a piano polisher, an employee of the Chickering Piano Comjiany. In 1S57 he engaged in the manufacture of waterproof horse covers, and also in the house painting business. In 1871 he established the roofing business now carried on by the firm of .S. H. Weaver & Son, taking his son, b'rank L. , into jiartnership in 1874. The old firm name is still retaini.'d, though Mr. .Samuel H. Weaver d. in 1890. L'rank L. \\'ea\"er was educated in tlie pub- lic schools of Chelmsford and at the Lowell Commercial College. In 18S2 he married Harriet Eliza ALansur, who was born in Lowell, Mass., a daughter of .Stephen C. and Ellen (lioyden) Mansur antl a grand-daughter of the Hon. .Ste]5hen Man.sur, who was Mayor of Low- ell in 1S57. Mrs. Weaver died in April, 1900, aged forty-four years, leaving two chil- dren — Ellen Mansur and Alvah Hunt. Mr. Weaver early in life became identified with the Masonic I'rateniity, affiliating witli Kil- winning Lodge, of Lowell, of which he was Master three }ears. He is a Past Iligh Piiest of Mount Horeb, R. A. Chapter; Past Deputy Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts; Past Commander of Pilgrim Conmiandery of Knights Templar; and a life member of the Grand Commandery of Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island. Also a life mem- ber of Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree. He gave freely of his time and en- ergy to the work of the order, being in office sixteen consecuti\'e years. Politically a Republican, he served on the City Committee of that party nine years, being vice-chairman in 1890. He has been a mem- ber of the Eifth District RepuJDlican Congres- sional Committee ten years, and is now its chairman. For six years he has been a mem- ber of the board of Water Commissioners of the city of Lowell, antl four years its chair- man, w-hich office he still holds. During the years 1S95, 1896, and 1897 he was president of the Builders' Exxhange of Lowell, and al- ways an active member. He was one of the original members of the Highland Clul), and is an original member also of the Vesper Coun- try Club. He has resided in Lowell all his life with the exception of the first thice }'ears, and is well and favorably known there. TEPHEN O'MEARA, the publisher and editor of the Boston Journal, born in Charlottetown, Prince Ed- ward Island, July 26, 1S54, is a son of Stephen O'Meara, Sr. , a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America in 1832, at sixteen years of ago. His mother was born in New- foundland. The family came to Massachu- setts when he was ten years old. Having at- tended the Charlestown public schools for the ensuing eight years, he graduated from the high school in 1872. Yielding, no doubt, to a natural tendency, Mr. O'Meara's connection with journalism began on the day following that of his graduation, when he became a re- porter for the Boston Gloln-, then in the first year of its existence. In December, 1874, he left the Globe for \.\\t Journal, upon the staff of which he was offered a better position. At the end of five years spent in news, law, leg- islative, and City Hall reporting for the _/<'«/■- nal, he had so impressed his emplo\xrs with his ability that he was made city editor. Two years later he was promoted to the post of news editor; and in June, 1891, when the late Colo- nel William W. Clapp retired from the duties of managing head of the paper, Mr. O'Meara became the editor and general manager. On January i, 1896, with friends, he bought the paper; and he has since been its publisher as well as its responsible head. In his individ- ual capacity he acquired a controlling interest I02 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF in the proprietorship in 1899. The Journal \s regarded as the leading Republican newspaper in the State. Since it came into Mr. O'Meara's hands, it has been improved in many ways. Its Sunday issue, while presenting full news columns, also realizes the idea of an en- tertaining weekly magazine. For five years Mr. O'Meara was a member of the executive committee and the treasurer of the New England Associated Press, and for the ensuing four years he was a director and the first vice-president of the national organ- ization, The Associated Press. He is now a director and a member of the executive com- mittee of that organization. Soon after its formation, he was elected president of the Bos- ton Press Club, and subsequently held the oflfice for three years; and he was the president of the Charlestown High School Association for a like period. He is also a member of the Exchange, Algonquin, St. Botolph, and Union Clubs of Boston. Since 1890 he has been a trustee of the State Library. In 1888, Dart- mouth College honored him with the degree of Master of Arts. A journalist of the first class and the master of a style at once trenchant and polished, Mr. O'Meara has proved that he can be an impres- sive public speaker. In igoo, by invitation of Mayor Hart, he was the Boston P'ourth of July orator. On August 5, 1878, Mr. O'Meara was married to Isabella Mary Squire, a native of Cambridge, Mass. They have three children : Frances, born July 30, 1879; Alice, born April 12, 1887; and Lucy, born April 16, i8go. JB ARIUS RICHARD EMERSON, for many years a well-known retail mer- chant of Boston, was born in Wearc, N.H., November 8, 1823, and died at his home in Newton, Mass., May 28, 1900. Son of Samuel Emerson, he was a lineal descendant in the sixth generation of Robert Emerson, the immigrant progenitor of one branch of the Emerson family in America. Robert Emerson was a pioneer settler of Essex County, Massachusetts, living in Row- ley as early as 1655. He removed to Haver- hill, where he was made a freeman in 166S, and where he d. June 25, 1694. A recent genealogical writer thinks it somewhat probable that he was the Robert Emerson, eldest son of Thomas' and Elizabeth PZmerson, who was baptized at .St. Michael's Church, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, May 24, 1612; m. there first, October 22, 1635, Eliza- beth Grave, who was buried at Bishop's Stort- ford, June 22, 1636; m., second, l^'rances ; and (if it was the same Robert) m. thirdly, at Rowley, November 4, 1658, Ann Grant. The will of Robert Emerson, of Haverhill, was proved July 23, 1694.. His children were: Elizabeth, b. in 1637; Thomas, probably he who was killed with wife and children by the Indians, March 15, 1697; Joseph, who was at Haverhill in 1674; Ephraim ; Stephen, who removed to Pennacook (now Concord) in 1720; Benjamin; and Lydia. (See "The Ipswich Emersons, " by Benjamin K. Emerson, page 21.) Thomas Emerson, of Bishop's Stort- ford, it should be added, has been identified with Thomas Emerson, one of the early settlers of Ipswich and founder of the Ipswich family of Emerson, the family to which Ralph Waldo Emerson belonged. Stephen lunerson, first, b. in 1674, son of Robert, m. December 27, 1698, Elizabeth Dustin, and moved to Pennacook, now Con- cord, N. H., in 1720. Their son, Stephen, second, b. in Haverhill in 1701, was one of the signers of a petition to Governor Went- worth for the incorporation of Hampstead, N.H. About 1762, accompanied by his wife, .Susan, and their four children — James, Ste- phen, Marden, and Sarah — he removed from Hampstead to Weare, N.H. Stephen Emer- son, third, who served in the Ivevolution and was known as Ensign, was b. at Hampstead in 1743, and d. at Weare in 1823. After the ^death of his first wife, Sarah, in 1777, he m. Judith Little. Shed, in 1798. .Samuel Emerson, b. in Weare in 1785, son of Stephen and Judith, was a farmer, and also carried on an extensive business from 18 10 until 1836 as a cabinet-maker, employing a number of workmen. In 1844 he removed to Manchester, N.H., where he d. June 3, 1847. II is wjfe, formerly a Miss McAffec, of Bed- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY I OS ford, N. H., d. at Candia, N.IL, June 22, 1S53. (History of Weare, N.H.) They had nine children that lived to adult age. Of these the following is a brief record: Catherine Little, b. in 18 10, m. Samuel P. Morse, and d. in 1839; Mary A. m. Alexan- der Gilchrist, and d. in 1856; Hiram M. m. Florence Huntington; Rodney S. m. Caroline Slater, and d. in 1S49; Sarah Jane m. Benaiah Ellsworth, and d. in 1S4S; Samuel, b. in 1822, went to sea, and never returned. Darius Richard, whose name begins this sketch, and whose personal history is given below, was the ne.xt younger child. After him came Perry R., b. in 1826, m. Julia R. Ayer, and d. in New Orleans in 1883; and Walter H., b. in 1830, d. in 1852. Darius Richard Emerson engaged in the mercantile business when a young man, and after coming to Boston established a retail store, which he managed with such success that he became one of the most prominent retail merchants of the city. .Since his death the store has been conducted by his elder son, Charles Walter. Mr. Emerson was twice married. His first wife, Hannah C. Gay, died in early life, leaving no children. On May i, 1851, he married Henrietta Louisa Dearborn, who was born in Nashua, N.H., a daughter of Dr. Ebene;cer and Hannah (Dyson) Dearborn. She died in Newton, Mass., May 7, 1900, three weeks prior to the death of her husband, leaving three children, as follows: Mary Dearborn, wife of Julian A. Mead, M. D. , of Watertown, Mass. ; Charles Walter, who is unmarried; and Frederick Weare, living at Tupper Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N. Y. Mrs. Emerson was a descendant on her father's side of Godfrey Dearborn, said to have been a native of Exeter, Devonshire, England, who in 1639, shortly after his arrival in New England, went to New Hampshire, and was one of the founders of the town of E.xeter, the settlement being made under the leadership of the Rev. John Wheelwright. After residing at Exeter (in the locality that is now Stratham) about ten years, serving as Selectman in 1648, Godfrey Dearborn settled in Hampton, N. H., where he d. February 4, 1686. The name of his first wife the mother of all his children. is unknown. His second wife was Dorothy Dalton. Deacon Thomas^ Dearborn, son of Godfrey, b. in England in 1634, m. December 28, 1665, Hannah Colcord, and d. April 14, 1710. Lieutenant Ebenezer' Dearborn, his second son, b. October 3, 1679, d. March 15, 1772. He m. Abigail Sanborn, and subsequently re- moved from that part of Hampton called Drake- side, where he was b. and reared, to the town of Chester, of which he was a grantee, taking with him his family, which included five sons. He was moderator of the Chester town meet- ing in March, 1729-30, and was chosen one of the Selectmen. In 1734 he was Deacon of the church. His eldest son, Lieutenant Ebenezer'' Dearborn, b. January 27, 1705, d. January 10, 1790. His first wife, whom he m. on January 13. i/j'. was Huldah Nason. His second wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Swain Hills, widow of Samuel Hills. Jonathan' Dearborn, b. in 1746, who was the seventh child of Lieu- tenant Ebenezer, < m. Delia, daughter of John Robie. Ebenezer" Dearborn, b. of this union at the Chester homestead, July 30, 1793, studied medicine two years with his brother Edward and a year and a half with Di-. Thomas Kit- tredge, of North Andover, Mass. He subse- quently attended medical lectures in Boston and at Dartmouth College, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1821. Settling in Nashua, N.H., in 1S16, he continued in active practice there forty-five years, after which he lived retired until his death. In 1826 he m. Hannah Dyson, of Bev- erly, Mass. One of the children b. of their union was Henrietta Louisa, who became the wife of Darius R. Emerson. Charles Walter Emerson, the successor to the business of his father, was born in Newton, Mass., P^bruary 9, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of Newton, the private school of Miss Speare in Newton, and the E. -S. Dixwell private school in Boylston Place, Boston. After leaving school he entered the store of his father, where he has since remained, being now the proprietor of a large and pros- perous business house, which has become one of the landmarks of Boston. Mr. Emerson is io6 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF a member of the Country Club, the Oakley Country Club, and the lioston Athletic Club. He is independent in politics. "GRACE DUDLEY HALL, retired ]5oston merchant, is a resident of the neighboring city of IVIedford, his birthplace and the home of his fam- ily for six previous generations. He was born September 15, 1831, son of Dudley and Hepsa Jones (Fitch) Hall, and is the youngest of the four children that grew to maturity in the pa- rental home, si.x having died in infancy. The first male representative in New Eng- land of the Halls of Aledford was John,' b. in the mother country in 1627, who d. in Medford in 1701. I-'rom John' this line de- scended through John,- Andrew,' Iknjamin,^ benjamin, Jr.,> Dudley,- Horace Dudley'. The widow Mary Hall, mother of John," is mentioned in the proprietors' records of Cam- bridge as owner of a house and two acres of land in 1662. John' Hall took the oath of fidelity in Middlesex County in 1652, and re- ceived a grant of land at Billerica. He re- sided successively at Concord and Cambridge, and, removing to Medford in 1675, ^^I'e passed his remaining years, the last quarter of the seventeenth century and a year of the eigh- teenth. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Perci- val and Ellen Green, who came over in 1635 and settled at Cambridge. John- Hall, b. in 1660 at Concord, one of a family of eleven children, m. Jemima, daughter of Captain Joseph Sill (or Syll) and his wife Jemima, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Danforth) Belcher. Captain Sill was a prominent officer in King Philip's War, serving almost cf)ntinually from its beginning to its close. Andrew' Hall, b. at Medford, 1698, m. Abigail, daughter of Timothy* and Elizabeth (P"owle; Walker, of Woburn. The Walker line of ancestry was; Richard,' who settled at Lynn in 1630; Captain Samuel,- who removed to Woburn; Deacon Samuel,' who m. Sarah Reed, daughter of William Reed, of Woburn, and was the father of Timothy' above men- tioned. Benjamin' Hall, b. in 1731, was the first merchant in Medford, and a citizen of influ- ence in public affairs. He was a Justice of the Peace, two years Representative to the General Court, delegate to the Provincial Congress of 1774. 177s. ^7l(>, also delegate to the Consti- tutional Congress of 17S0. He m. in 1752 Hepzibah, daughter of Eiihraini, Jr., and I\Iary (Hayward) Jones, of Concord. He had five children, the eldest, Benjamin, Jr. ,5 b. in 1754- Benjamin^ Hall, Jr., resided in Medford. He ni. in 1777 Lucy, daughter nf Dr. .Simon, Jr.,* and Lucy (Dudley) Tufts, of Medford. Her father. Dr. Simon Tufts, Jr., b. in 1727, was a son of Dr. Simon' Tufts, b. in 1700 (Harvard College, 1724), and his wife Abi- gail, who was sister to the I\ev. William Smith, of Weymouth. Simon' was son of Captain Peter- Tufts (son of Peter,' said to have immigrated about 163S or 1640), who m. in 1684 Mercy Cotton, daughter of the Rev. Seaborn and Dorothy (Bradstreet) Cotton. The Rev. .Seaborn Cotton was the eldest son of the Rev. John' Cotton, and was b. on ship- board when his parents were crossing the At- lantic, coming from Ikiston, England, to Bos- ton, Massachusetts Bay, in 1633. Dorothy Bradstreet, his first wife, whom he ni. in 1654, was a daughter of Governor Simon and Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, and grand-daughter of Governor Thomas LJudley. Lucy Dudley, wife of Dr. Simon Tufts, Jr., and mother of I^ucy, wife of Benjamin Hall, Jr., grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of the Hon. William' and Elizabeth (Davenport) Dudley. Her father was a son of Governor Josei)h' Dudley, and grandson of Governor I'homas' Dudley, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. \\'illiam' Dudley, like his father and grandfather, was influential in public affairs, serx'ing several years as Lligh Sheriff of Suffolk County, as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, as King's Counsel, as Representati\'e to the General Court and as Speaker of the House, also as Colonel' of the first Suffolk County regiment, comniissionetl in 17 10. Dudley" Hall, b. in 17S0, was an enterpris- ing and successful merchant of Medford, deal- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 107 ing largclv in West India goods and farmers' produce. He was interested also in cotton mills at I.nwell, Dover, and Great Falls, and in the Middlesex Canal. In the absence of savings-banks, he was often asked by poor women and others of moderate financial ability to keep their money for them. A man of the stanchest integrity, he enjoyed universal confi- dence and esteem. His first wife, Mary H. Fitch, b. in 1793, d. in 1S20. His second wife was her elder sister, Hepsa Jones Fitch, b. June 21, 1790. They were daughters of John Brown Fitch and his wife Hepzibah Hall, daughter of Benjamin^. John Brown I-Ttch was the son of Timothy Fitch, sometime Boston merchant, originally, it is thought, from Maine, whose second wife, mother of John Brown, was Eunice Brown. Four chil- dren of Dudley Hall grew to maturity, namely: Dudley Cotton, b. September 29, 18 18, and d. June 8, 1S99; Hepsa, b. in 1821; George Dudley, b. in 1826 and d. in 1899; and Hor- ace Dudley, the special subject of this sketch. Dudley Cotton Hall m. in 1S4S Harriet Wins- low King. Hepsa Hall m. Henry Bradlee, son of Josiah Bradlee, the wealthy merchant of Boston. George Dudley m. Kate Mary Wheeler, both now deceased. They had eight children, five of whom are now living. Horace Dudley Hall was educated at a school in Boston, at Mrs. Ripley's School in Concord, and the school of the Rev. Dr. John O. Choules, Newport, R. I. During two years of his later youth he was in the employ of Daniel Sharp, Jr., & Co., Boston merchants engaged in the Mediterranean trade, and was sent by them to Malta and Smyrna to examine the different kinds of tobacco needed for those ports. The next two years he was book-keeper for William Tucker, who was in the West India trade with an office on Central Wharf. In 1S53 Mr. Hall went into partnership with Robert B. Williams, under the firm name of Williams & Hall,' East India trade, importers of teas principally. This copartnership con- tinued for twenty years, and Mr. Hall then retired. Mr. Hall has been Clerk of the Episcopal church in Medford for many years. He is one of the original members of the Medford Histori- cal Society. Politically, he was an old Web- ster Whig, and has since been a Democrat. Mr. Hail was married, November 16, 1S53, to Abbie Allen, of Medford, born December i, 1834, daughter of Kingsley and Abigail (Ful- ler) Allen. She died July 5, 18.S5. Five children were born to Mr. and .Mrs. Hall. Four — namely, Elizabeth Tracy, \'ernon How- land, Horace, and Ralph Linzee — are now living. The second child, Lucy Dudle}-, born March 13, 1856, died May 8, 1859. Eliza- beth Tracy, born November 12, 1854, married Dudley H. Bradlee, who was formerly in the heavy hardware business in Boston, in the firm of Bradlee, Hastings & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Bradlee reside in Medford. They have four children — Horace Hall, Dudley Hall, Ruth, and Reginald. Ruth Bradlee married Lombard Williams. Vernon Howland Hall, born Octo- ber 30, 1859, was educated in Hopkinson's School. He is now the head of the firm of V. H. Hall & Co., Pearl Street, Bo.ston. Horace Hall, son of Horace Dudley Hall, born March i, 1S58, was educated in the Med- ford schools, and now resides in Medford. He is single. Ralph Linzee, born March 30, 1870, educated in Hopkinson's School, Boston, is now with the bankers, Stackpole & Gay, on State Street, Boston. He married Mary A. Snow, of Boston, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Pecker) Snow, and has two children — Vernon H. and Barbara. January Crane's ON. OLIVER iiebi-:r DURRELL, one of the founders of the firm of Brown, Durrell & Co., merchants of Boston, at the time of his death, 31, 1900, a member of Governor Council, was a native and lifelonsf resident of Cambridge, Mass. The date of his birth was Sep'tember 11, 1S47. His [larents, Oliver Bourne and Betsy Gooch (Peabody) Durrell, both natives of Kennebunk, Me., were m. in Cambridge, November 26, 1846. His father was b. November 24, 1S21, and d. in Cambridge, August 21, [856; and his mother was b. November 25, 1S27. The Durrell family is of P'rcnch origin. The founder of the New England branch was io8 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Philip Durrell, who came from Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, and settled in Kenne- bunk, Me., about two hundred years ago. From Philip' the Durrell line was continued through Benjamin,- b. in Kennebunk in 1710, d. in 1784; Benjamin, Jr.,' b. in 1748, d. in 1836; Thomas,-' b. in 1783, d. in 1852; Oliver Bourne, 5 the father of Oliver Hebcr, who was of the sixth generation in this coun- try. In 1703 Philip Durrell's family were carried away by the Indians; and he left Ken- nebunk, returning, however, in 17 14. In 1726 his wife was killed by the Indians, and in that year Philip and his son, Philip, Jr., became proprietors of the town of Arundel, Me., now Kennebunkport. Benjamin Durrell was chosen Captain of militia in May, 1775. During the years 1774, 1776, 177S, and 1779 he was one of the Committee of Correspond- ence, Inspection, and Safety at Arundel, and in 1776 a member of the Massachusetts Gen- eral Court from that town. Benjamin Durrell m. Judith Parker, and their son, Benjamin, Jr., m. Hannah Kimball. Thomas Durrell, grandfather of Oliver Heber, m. Esther Towne, daughter of Jacob'' and Sarah (Lewis) Towne. Her father was b. in 1758 at Wells, Me., and was son of Joseph' and Rebecca (Crediford) Towne, both natives of that place. Jesse^ Towne, father of Joseph, was b. in Topsfield, Mass. He was a descend- ant in the fourth generation of William' Towne, who was m. March 25, 1620, in the Church of .St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, England, to Joanna Blessing, and who, with his wife and si.K children, came to New England and re- ceived a grant of land at .Salem in 1640, some years later removing to Topsfield. Edmund' Towne, son of William,' m. Mary Browning; and their son Joseph,' b. at Topsfield in 1661, m. Amy Smith, and was the father of Jesse-* above named, who was b. in 1697. Through his mother, a daughter of John'' and Elvira (Wentworth) Peabody, the late Mr. Durrell of Cambridge, was descended from early settlers of Topsfield, Mass., I'rancis' Peabody, the immigrant progenitor of the family of this name, having become a resident there about 165 1. The following is a brief record of the Peabody line of ancestry: F"ran- cis, ' b. at .St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, England, in 1614, m. Mary P'oster. His son Isaac, - b. in 1648 in Hampton, N. H., m. Sarah Estes, and d. in Topsfield in 1726. Matthew,-' b. at Topsfield in 1699, m. in 1743 Sarah Dorman, and d. there in 1777. .Seth,-' b. in Topsfield in 1744, m. Abigail, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Goodwin) Kimball, and d. in Canaan, Me., in 1S28. James, ^ b. in Al- fred, Me., in 1772, m. in 1794, in Kennebunk, Meriam Mitchell. John,'' above named, b. at Kennebunk in 1798, d. there March 4, 1878. lilvira Wentworth, who on February 22, 1824, became the wife of John'' Peabody, and was the mother of Betsy Gooch Peabody, was b. at Kennebunk in 1S03, and d. there Feb- ruary 2, 1893. She was the daughter of Ben- jamin and Olive (Cousins) Wentworth. Her father, Benjamin,' was a representative of the fifth generation of the notable Colonial family founded by Elder William Wentworth, a prom- inent planter of Dover, N. H. The line was: William,' Benjamin,- ' Bartholomew,-* Benja- min. ' \\'illiam' Wentworth, b. in England in 1616, came to this country in his early 1-1-ianhood. On July 4, 1639, he signed the "combination" for a government at E.xeter, N.H. In 1642 he removed with the Rev. John Wheelwright to Wells, Me., and about three years later settled at Dover, N.H., where he was active in public affairs, serving a number of years as Selectman. He was Elder of the P'irst Church of Dover, and for several years he preached at Exeter and other places. In 1689, as related in Dr. Belki-iap's History, Elder Wentworth was instrumental in saving Heard's garrison from the Indians. Awakened by the bark of a dog just as the Indians were entering, he ])ushed them out, and, falling on his back, set his feet against the gate, and held it till he had alarmed the people. Two balls were fired through it, but both n-iissed him. He d. at Rollinsford in 1697. Captain Benjamin- Wentworth, his son by 1-iis second wife, m. Sarah Allen, who is thought to have come from Salisbury, Mass. Their son. Lieutenant Ben- jamin,' b. at Rollinsford, N.H., in 1703, m. Deborah Stimpson. Her father, Bartholomew Stimpson (or Stevenson), was killed by the Indiai-is. ]?artholonieW Wentworth, b. in 1737, JOHN i;arili-:tt. GENEAl.OGV AND PERSONAL HISTOKY 111. Ruth Hall, daughter of John and Sarah (Stackpole) Hall and a descendant of Deacon [ohn' Hall, who was an inhabitant of Dover, N.H., as early as 1650. Oliver Heber Durrell was left fatherless be- fore reaching the eighth anniversary of his birth. He was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, completing his studies in the high school, and in his later youth went to work in a hoopskirt factory, where he earned one dollar and fifty cents per week. After some time spent in that line of industry he became clerk in the emplo)' of Brown, Dutton & Co., of Boston, wholesale dealers in dry goods, with whom he remained until the great fire of November, 1872. The firm was then dissolved and two new ones were formed — namely, Houghton & Dutton and that of Brown, Durrell & Co. (Joseph A. Brown, 0]i\'er H. Durrell, and Thomas B. Fitzpat- rick), having a store at 105 Chauncy Street. Of this latter firm Mr. Durrell remained a member until his death. Mr. Durrell was an active and valued member of the Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church, prominent in religious and educational work. He was president of the Board of Missions of Boston; four years, 1893-97, president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cambridge and a trustee of Boston University. He was a director of the .Shoe and Leather National l^ank of Boston and of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company; vice-president of the Cambridgeport .Savings Bank ; a trustee and member of the F"inance Committee of the Mas- sachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, Boston; and director of the Avon Home for Children, of Cambridge. A Republican in politics, he served one year as a member of the Common Council of Cambridge. Elected in November, 1899, to a seat in the Governor's Council, he took the oath of office in January, 1900, but, owing to failing health, was unable to serve. He was a member of the .Society of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the American Revo- lution. Mr. Durrell was married October i8, 1871, to .Sophia Gertrude Eaton, of Greene, Me., daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Goodwin and Mehitable Farnham (Barker) Eaton. Mrs. Eaton was the daughter of Jonathan and Lucy (Maxwell) Barker. The Rev. Ebenezer G. Eaton was son of Forest and Lois (Goodwin) Eaton and grandson of Joshua Eaton, of Maine. Mr. Durrell is survi\'ed by his wife, Sophia, and three children, namely: Maude, born April 7, 1S74, who is married to James H. Grover, of Lynn; Ralph Oliver, born Septem- ber II, 1878; and Harold Clarke, born De- cember 3, 1882. OHN BARTLETT, author and pub- lisher, now retired from active business life, was born at Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820, son of William and Susan (Thacher) Bartlett. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of Robert Bartlett, b. in 1603, who landed at Plymouth from the "Ann" in July, 1623, and who m. about 1629 Mary, daughter of Richard Warren, one of the "Mayfiower" pilgrims. From Roliert' Bart- lett the line of descent is through Benjamin, - Samuel,-' Samuel,-' Samuel, ^ Joseph,'' and William^ to John'*. According to the genea- logical chart of W. P. Barttelot, M. P. , of England, the original progenitor there of the Bartlett family was Adam Barttelot, who in- vaded England with William the Conqueror, made his seat at Farring, County Sussex, and was buried at Stopham, a.d. iioo. Benjamin' Bartlett, b. in 1638, in 1656 m. Sarah Brewster (daughter of Love Brewster and grand-daughter of Elder William Brews- ter), and d. in 1691. Samuel' m. in 1683 Hannah Peabodie, daughter of William Pea- bodie and grand-daughter of John and Priscilla Alden. Samuel,^ b. in 16S8, m. Hannah Churchill in 1725. Their son, Samuel, ^ m. first Betsey Moore, of North Carolina, and secondly, in 1766, Elizabeth Jackson, of Plym- outh. Joseph'' Bartlett, b. in 1762, son of Samuels and Betsey (Moore) Bartlett, m. Rebecca Churchill in 17S4 and Lucy Dyer in 1821. When in his sixteenth year he shipped for ser- vice on board a privateer. Following the fort- unes of a privateersman for some time, he experienced many vicissitudes, including his capture six times by the enemy in as many NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF different vessels. Subsequent!)' he settled at Plymouth, and, becoming a wealthy ship-owner, built in 1807 in the Colonial style, the town's first three-story brick house, a house which is yet standing. He d. in 1S35, at the age of seventy-three years. His children by his first wife, Rebecca, were: William, Joseph, John, Benjamin, Rebecca, Susan (b. in 1795), Au- gustus, Samuel, and Elizabeth Ann (who m. Albert Goodwin). William' Bartlett was b. at Plymouth in 1786. Going to sea at an early age, he used such diligence to master his calling that at the age of nineteen he was the owner and the cap- tain of a ship, the same vessel in which he made his first trip to England. His seafaring life lasted many years, and was very success- ful. A well-remembered incident of this period was his visit to the spot where fell the English general, Sir John IVIoore, during the siege of Corunna, in Spain, in 1809. When he retired from seafaring, he settled in Plymouth, where he spent his latter years; and he d. there in 1863. His wife, Susan, whom he m. in 18 14, was b. in 1795, daughter of Dr. James and Susannah (Haywood) Thacher. Her immi- grant ancestor, Anthony Thacher, who landed at Ipswich in July, 1636, was wrecked a month later on the shore of the island, near Salem, which bears his name to this day, he and his wife having been the only survivors of the disaster. Her father, Dr. James Thacher, of the fifth generation of the family, b. in 1754, d. in 1S44, having served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War, written the history of the war and a history of Plymouth, also several professional treatises, including one on hydro- phobia that anticipated Pasteur's theory by eighty years or more. Her paternal grand- mother was a grand-daughter of William Cod- dington, the first Governor of Aquidneck, or Rhode Island. William and .Susan Bartlett had five children, namely; Susan Louisa, b. in 181 5, who m. Charles O. Boutelle; Betsey Thacher, b. in 1818; John, the subject of this sketch, and the only child now living; Eliza, h. in 1825; and Mary, b. in 1S27. John Bartlett ac(|uired his elementary educa- tion in the schools of his native town. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in a book- store of Cambridge, and while in that position he made such good use of the opportunity it offered to improve his mind by study that he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1S71 from Harvard University. P^rom November, 1862, to July, 1863, he was a volunteer ])ay- master in the South Atlantic Squadron of the United States Navy. Mr. ISartlett first ap- peared as an author in 1855, being then thirty- four years old. His well-known compilation entitled "I^'amiliar Quotations," which has met with a large sale, was first published by him in 1S55, subsequent editions being issued by Little, Brown & Co. In 1876 he began work on a concordance of Shakespeare, and, with the able assistance of his wife, who shared his labors during the entire period of composi- tion and compilation, he finished it in 1S94, in which year it was also published and copy- righted. The Shakesjaeare Phrase Book, pre- pared by Mr. Bartlett and published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1882, has been eagerly I'eceived. P'or twenty-four years Mr. Bartlett was a part- ner in this publishing firm. Plis business and industrial career covered a jjeriod of fifty-two years. In 1S94 he was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pie is also a member of the Colonial Society of Boston and of the Sons of the Revolution. In his earlier years he belonged to many Boston clubs. Mr. Bartlett was married Juiie 4, 1S51, to Plannah Staniford Willard, a ckuighter of Pro- fessor -Sidney Willard and a grand-daughter of President Joseph Willard of Plarvard College. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett reside in Cambridge. They have no children. OSEl'll AUGUSTUS \\'ILLARD, the ^-J I clerk of the .Superior Court of .Suffolk y^-^J County, Massachusetts, was boin in Cambridge, September 29, 1816. Son of Sidney and IClizabeth Anne (Ancliews) Wil- lard, he traces his descent through ancestors of distinction from one of the ear]\- colonists of Massachusetts. This colonist was .Simon' Willaid, who was baptized at Horsmonden, England, -April 7, 1C05. Pie m. Mary .Sharpe, daugliter of GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 113 Monr\' and Jane (Fe)icle) Sharpe, of tlie afore- said Morsnionden. She was baptized October 16, 1614. In company with his wiie and child, Simon W'illard arrived in New England ill 1634. The records show that in the fol- lowin;^ year Governor Winthrop described him as a "merchant. " His business consisted in buying furs from the Indians of the interior and exporting them. .Soon after his arrival he became a resident of Cambridge. After a short stay here he removed to Concord, where he resided for twenty-four fir twenty-five }-ears, being an original settler. When the town was organized, he was chosen Clerk of the Writs, and he was afterward annual])- elected to that office fur nineteen years. In March, 1637, he was commissioned Lieutenant Com- mandant in the town's military force; and in 1642 the General Court appointed him ".Sur- veyor of Arms," also designating him "to exercise the military company at Concord." First elected a Deputy to the General Court in December, 1636 (the first election held in the town), he was afterward re-elected annually until 1654, excluding the years 1643, 1047, and i64c!*lE ^ws. c. (;kan\'ille WAV. PUBLIC GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 121 Andrew Lester, became a resident of East Haven, Conn., in 1720, and d. there in 1726. Ebenezer^ Way, son of Thomas and Ann Way, b. in New London, October 30, 1693, was a merchant and a shipper. During the Revolutionary War some of his vessels were captured and destroyed by the British. On November 9, 17 14, he m. Mary Harris, who, b. at New London, May 10, 1696, was a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Harris. She d. August iS, 1777. His death occurred at New London in July, 1787, when he had attained the venerable age of ninety-three years and eight months. Captain John' Way, of Lempster, N.H., son of Ebenezer and Mary Way, was b. at New London, Conn., August 22, 1731. In his earlier years he followed the sea, and became a master mariner. Afterward he engaged in farming, and was one of the first settlers of Lempster. About the year 1760 he m. Grace Ann Daniels, who, b. at New London, Conn., in 1740, d. at Lempster, August 5, 1830. A daughter of James and Grace (Edgecomb) Daniels, she was a grand-daughter of Lord Edgecomb, of Plymouth, England. Captain Way d. at Lempster on January 2, 1802. He was commander of a militia company, and was in Fort Griswold, New London, Conn., when taken by Arnold in 17S1. Jasper,'' son of Captain John and Grace A. Way, b. at New London, May 20, 1772, a farmer by occupation, d. at Claremont, N.H., December 18, 1845. The first of his two mar- riages was contracted I'ebruary 7, 1793, with Betsy, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Odiorne, b. June 14, 1769. After her death, which occurred April 4, 1832, he m. widow Polly Sanborn. His son, Lorin' Way, of Lempster, was b. in that town June 30, 1796, passed his life at the old Way homestead, chiefly occu- pied in farming, and d. there August 16, 1857. Lorin entered the matrimonial state on Febru- ary 25, 1816, with Lettice Caldwell Alld, who, b. at Peterboro, N.H., in 1795, d. at Rochester, Vt. , August 23, 1887. She was a daughter of Saniuel and Martha (Swan) Alld. Samuel'' Alld Way (son of Lorin and Let- tice C. Way and the father of Charles Gran- ville Way), b. at Lempster, December 17, 1 8 16, d. in Boston, June 4, 1872. It was he who organized the first bank under the free banking laws of Massachusetts. At one time he was the president of the Bank of Metropo- lis, all the stock of which he subsequently purchased; and he was connected with the Maverick National Bank, now defunct. His investments in real estate entitled him to be classed among the largest holders of that kind of property. Way Street and Way Wharf in Boston are named after him. On August 11, 1836, he was m. to Sarah Ann Simpson, who, b. at Boston, January 15, 1821, d. in Paris, France, March 2, 1876. Her father, Daniel Simpson, b. at Winslow, Me., September 29, 1790, and who d. in South Boston, July 28, 1886, was the keeper in his day of the famous old Green Dragon Tavern, said to have been the headquarters of the Revolution. The chil- dren of Samuel A. and Sarah A. Way were : Francis Clarence, b. at Boston, November 11, 1837, who d. at Naples, Italy, on March 16, 1866; Charles Granville, the subject of this sketch; and Daniel Simpson, b. in Boston, October 22, 1844, who d. at Roxbury, Mass., August 6, 1847. Born in Boston, January 13, 1841, Charles Granville Way received his education in the Boston public schools and at a boarding-school at Jamaica Plain and at Grafton, Mass., in the suburbs of Boston. Going to Europe in 1863, he pursued the study of art at Paris under the instruction of Emile Lambinet and Emile Dardoize, and at Le Jardin des Plantes under the direction of Barrye. He exhibited in the Vienna Centennial Exhibition in 1S73 and the United States Centennial in 1876. He was obliged to return to the United States in order to settle his father's estate. The settlement of his mother's estate also fell to him. Both trusts proved arduous undertakings, and they monopolized the greater part of his time until he was forty-five years old, when he deemed it too late to resume his brush. Mr. Way has been in the real estate business practically since 1876. His most remarkable experience throughout that period has been the taking from him, by the Boston Terminal Company, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road Company, and the Boston Elevated Street NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Railway Company, under the law of "eminent domain," of thirty estates, the same being more than these corporations have taken from any other real estate owner. In consequence of deeming himself insufficiently compensated for this property, he has entered several suits at law against the corporations mentioned, in- volving interests amounting to from three to five hundred thousand dollars. Among his present possessions may be mentioned his per- manent residence in Brookline, Mass., his summer residence at Bass Rock, Gloucester, Mass., said to have the finest situation of any along the North Shore, and the office and apartment buildings 830 and 832 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., where, besides his own offices and those of other tenants, are the offices of the Saturday Evenmg Gazette. In addition to the management of his own prop- erty, he has the management of several other estates in the capacity of trustee. Although so constantly occupied with his real estate interests, Mr. Way has been at work for twenty-five years on a history of the Way family. In 1887 he published the pam- phlet, "George Way and his Descendants," being a historical and genealogical account of a brother of Henry, the Puritan, and of the said brother's posterity. Awaiting a little leisure to make it ready for the press, he has also on hand a history of the American colony of artists at Pont-Aven, France, of which he and Robert Wiley were pioneers. On November 29, 1866, in Paris, Mr. Way was married to Charlotte Elizabeth P"obes, who was born at Roxbury, Mass., August 15, 1845, daughter of Edwin and Charlotte Sophia (Far- rington) Fobes. Her father, a native of Oak- ham, Mass., b. September 9, 1814, d. in Bos- ton, May 23, 1879; and her mother, b. at Salem, Mass., May 24, 181 8, d. in Brookline. Mr. and Mrs. Way have three children — Marie Eloise, Charles Arthur, and Helen Granville. Marie Eloise married Charles Por- ter Smith, in Brookline, on June 14, 1900, and now has one child, Marie Way, born February 3, 1901. Charles Arthur Way is now at the Harvard Law School. In religion a Unitarian, in politics Mr. Way is independent. In 1900 he was appointed one of the honorary vice-presidents for the South Carolina Interstate and West India E.xposition to be held in 1902. The organizations of whicli he is a member include the New Eng- land Historic-Genealogical Society, the Bos- tonian Society, the South Carolina Historical Society, the Boston Art Club, and the Long- wood Club of Brookline. He is the donor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts of the valu- able Egyptian antiquities known as the "Way Collection." Mr. Way is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Eleusis Lodge, F. &. A. M., and a member of the Mas- sachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree. OHN SHEARER PAINE, of Cam- bridge, though a "self-made man," so far as that term may be taken to denote one who has achieved success in life through his own efforts, is by no means of obscure or doubtful antecedents, his ancestors for six generations having been residents of New England, and the more or less complete record of their births, marriages, and deaths, with the chief events of their lives, having been preserved in the annals of the different localities in which they lived. The first progenitor of the Paine family in America was Stephen Paine, Sr., who in 1638, accompanied by his wife and three children and four servants, came to New England on the ship "Diligent," which vessel also carried a large comisany of emigrants from the neigh- borhood of Hingham, England. He, however, was from Great Ellingham, Norfolk County, where he had followed the occupation of miller. He settled first in Hingham, Mass., but about 1643 removed to Rehoboth, of which town he was one of the founders and first proprietors. He possessed large estates in that and adjoin- ing towns, and was prominent in the affairs of the church and colony. He was Representa- tive to the General Court for many successive years until his death, which took place in August, 1679. His wife, "Nellie," died at Rehoboth, January 20, 1660; and he subse- quently married Alice, widow of William Parker, of Taunton. She died December 5, GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 123 16S2. His will and the inventory of his estate are on file in the State House at Boston. The line of descent from Stephen I'aine, Sr. , to the subject of this sketch is as follows: — Stephen Paine, Jr., eldest son of the Stephen above mentioned, was born in England about 1629, and accompanied his parents to this country. He was admitted as freeman in 1657. He served against the Indians in King Philip's War, to the cost of which he also contributed liberally of his private means. He owned much land in Rehoboth, Swanzey, Attleboro, and other towns. His death oc- curred in Rehoboth in 1679, a few months before that of his father. He married Ann Chickering, daughter of francis Chickering, of Dedham, and they had five sons and four daughters. Samuel Paine, born at Rehoboth, May 12, 1662, removed about 1703 to Woodstock, Conn., of which town he was one of the origi- nal settlers. He served with credit in various offices, and died May 11, 1735. He was twice married — first, on December 16, 1685, to Ann Peck, of Rehoboth. His second wife was Abigail Frissell, of Woodstock, Conn. Of the first union there were eight children, and of the second two, of whom the younger was Ebenezer, ne.\t in line of descent. Ebenezer Paine was born in Woodstock, Conn., October 15, 171 1. His banns of mar- riage with Mary Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Conn., were published August 23, 1735. She died at West Woodstock, May 23, 1758, at the age of forty-three years. She was the daughter of Leicester Grosvenor and Mary Hubbard, who was baptized in Ro.\bury, Mass., b}' John Eliot, P"ebruary 11, 1686. Leicester Grosvenor was the son of John Grosvenor, who came from England to Roxbury, Mass., previous to 16S6, and who was in direct line from the Grosvenors, Earls of Chester, England. Ebenezer Paine died in the same town over thirty years later, March 29, 1789, aged seventy-seven years, five months, and fourteen days. They were the parents of si.x children. Lester Paine was born at West Woodstock, Conn., May 11, 1742, and baptized on July 25 of the same year. About 1780 he removed to Uxbridge, Mass., where he married Mary l^lizabeth Draper, daughter of David Draper, and built a large house in 1780 that is now well known as the Paine homestead. On De- cember 8, 1787, the house of David Draper was destroyed by fire, on which sad occasion Mr. Draper, then aged eighty years, and his wife, aged eighty-two, with two grand-chil- dren, were burned to death, David Draper, Jr., and his wife escaping. Lester Paine died July 7, 1821, at the age of seventy-nine years; and his wife on November 6, 1830, aged eighty. They had three children, one son and two daughters. David Draper Paine, eldest child of Lester and Mary E. Paine, and father of John Shearer Paine, was born at Uxbridge, Mass., July 26, 1 78S. He was at first, when a young man, a successful school-teacher, but subsequently followed the trade of farmer. For thirty or forty years he was one of the prominent citi- zens of Uxbridge, holding at different times many town offices. He was chairman of the Board of Selectmen and Assessor for many years, and took an active part in town meet- ings, especially in the debates. He was Deacon of the Baptist church for many years, and was respected as a man of influence in the town. He died November 18, 1854, aged sixty-six years. He married Jemima French, of Uxbridge, who was born in the year 1800, and died April 23, 1859. They had eight chil- dren, of whom three are now living: John Shearer, Nathaniel, and George ¥. D. Na- thaniel married Amanda Hewitt, of Sutton, Mass., and has five children. George married Mary Inman, of Uxbridge, but has no children. John Shearer Paine, born in Uxbridge, Mass., November 19, 1S23, acquired his education partly in the public schools of his native town and partly at Uxbridge Academy, where he graduated. After leaving school he worked in a country store for about three years. Then, at the age of twenty-two, he came to Boston and entered the employ of L. B. Shearer, a furniture manufacturer and dealer, under whom he acquired a thorough knowledge of the cabinet-maker's trade. At the end of about two and a half years his employer, struck by the intelligence and ability that he displayed and the conscientious manner in 124 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF which he performed his duties, offered him a position as travelling salesman, which he ac- cepted and held for three years, in which time he visited and made customers in nearly all the cities and large towns in the Western and Southern States. His success as salesman led to his becoming a partner in the firm, the style of which was changed to Shearer & Paine, their office and warerooms being on Blackstone and Canal Streets. The business was thus continued for twenty years (or until the death of Mr. Shearer), during which period they established branch houses in New York, Chi- cago, and New Orleans. On the death of his partner Mr. Paine closed out the business in the three cities last named, retaining, however, the store in Boston, which he continued to carry on with marked success, selling goods in every State of the Union. In 1870, being pressed for larger accommodations, he resigned, and built the present f:ne block of stores on Canal Street; and here he continued to carry on his ever-increasing business until 1894, in which year he retired. The business was then incorporated, with his brother, George F. D. Paine, as president, his nephew, VV. L. Shearer, vice-president, and his son, James L. Paine, treasurer. Mr. Paine's activities and successes have been by no means confined to the circumscribed arena of business life. He has taken a promi- nent and useful part in church and Sunday- school work, being formerly for fourteen years superintendent of the Broadway Baptist .Sun- day-school of Cambridge, numbering five to si.x hundred, and for twelve years of the First Baptist Sunday-school, numbering nine hun- dred to a thousand, and for the past sixteen years superintendent of the Cambridge l-Joys' and Girls' Christian Band, numbering between fifteen hundred and twenty-five hundred, occu- pying the largest hall for their Saturday morn- ing Bible meetings and their Monday evening illustrated lectures. In the winter of i860, by a visit to Cuba, opening what has ]3roved to be an e.Ntensive trade and acquaintance with that island, he began an extended series of vacation travels in foreign lands — namely, Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, ]3arbadoes, Trinidad, San Domingo, St. Thomas, Martinique, Mexico, Ireland, Scotland, England, I'rance, Switzerland, Ger- man}', Austria, Finland, Poland, Sweden, Nor- way, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, India, Ceylon, China, Japan — accompanied by Mrs. Paine and one or more of the children, his main object being to get information, not only for his own family but for others, by taking photographs and notes of the manners and cus- toms of the people, which he has used exten- sively at home and abroad in his illustrated lectures. These journe}'s formed the subjects of his many interesting and highly-instructive lect- ures delis'erecl by him without pecuniary rec- ompense, an almost unique example of thought- fulness for the welfare of others in turning a series of vacation tours to account in the moral and intellectual benefit of those with more limited oi^portunities foi' recreation and self-improvement. In the evening of life Mr. Paine can look back upon his past career with few regrets and much satisfaction, not in a spirit of false pride cr self-glorification, but in the consciousness that he has, so far as lay in his power, improved the talents intrusted to his care by his Divine Master, and made them bring good increase. Obeying from a youth the scriptural injunction to "be diligent in business," he has avoided the common mistake of disregarding its important correlative, "serv- ing the Lord," and, as he has risen in the world, so has he sought to lift up others, less by material assistance (though that has not been wanting when required) than by wise counsel and moral assistance in the upbuilding of character, the key that unlocks the door of success. As a Christian worker he has found his best inspiration in being helpful to others. Ill politics Mr. Paine is a Republican. His secret society affiliations are with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, which he joined many years ago. I*"or many years he was a director and a leading spirit in the manage- ment of the Blackstone National Bank of Bos- ton, Mercantile Library Association, Massa- chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Merchants' Exchange, Boston Young Men's GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 125 Christian Association, Musical Educational Society, Baptist Social Union, and was a mem- ber of the Algonquin and Boston Art Clubs. On April ii, 1854, Mr. Paine was united in marriage with Eliza Ann Shearer, a daugh- ter of John and Chloe (Baker) Shearer, of Palmer, Mass. Mrs. I^aine's mother was a daughter of Benjamin Baker, an early settler of Palmer, and a Revolutionary soldier who served in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Brewer, Captain Jona- than Danforth's company, 1775. Mr. Paine's mother was a daughter of Benjamin French, a soldier of the War of 1S12. Mr. and Mrs. Paine are the parents of three children — James L. , Katherine E., and Anna L. James L. Paine, who was born in Boston, graduated at Harvard in the class of 1881, and is now a prominent business man, treasurer of the Paine Furniture Company, as above men- tioned. He married Mary Woolson, of Cam- bridge, Mass., and has two children — -John A. and Margaret W. Katherine E., born in Cam- bridge, Mass., is the wife of Edgar R. Cham- plin, the present mayor of Cambridge. Anna L. , born in Cambridge, is unmarried, and re- sides with her parents. For the first twenty years of his business life he was devoted to it early and late. For the following thirty years he gave nearly one- third of his time and income to religious, phil- anthropical, and charitable purposes; one-third of his time and income to his family and travel ; and one-third to an active and successful busi- ness, never contending at law on his own ac- count, submitting to a wrong rather than seeking to do one, and now, in his seventy- seventh year, is seeking out and devising new ]5lans of usefulness. jHARLES FRANCIS CHOATE, of Boston, a prominent member of the Suffolk bar and long president of the Old Colony Railroad, was born in Salem, Mass., May 16, 182S, son of George and Margaret Manning (Hodges) Choate. He comes of Itnglish Colonial stock, being a de- scendant in the seventh generation of John' Choate, the immigrant ancestor of the family, who came to New England in 1643, the line being: John,' Thomas,^ Francis,^ William,-' George, 5 Dr. George,'' Charles I-'.' John,' above referred to, is supposed to have been the John Choate (son of Robert and Sarah Choate) who was baptized June 6, 1624, in Groton, Boxford, Colchester, England (see "Choates in America," by E. O. Jameson, published 1896). He settled in 1645 at Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Esse.x County, Mass., where he d. in [695. He was a thrifty farmer, and appar- ently had at heart the welfare of his children, for he gave one of his sons, Benjamin, a col- lege education. His wife, Anne, survived him many years, d}'ing in 1727. They had a family of eight children. Thomas' Choate, son of Joim,' was b. 1671. He was three times m., first in 1690 to Mary Varney, second in 1734 to Mrs. Mary Calef, and third in 1745 to Mrs. Hannah Burnham. Francis' Choate, b. 1701, son of Thomas- by his first wife, m. in 1727 Hannah Perkins, a native of Boston and daughter of Isaac and Mary (Pike) Perkins. They resided in Che- bacco, Ipswich (now Essex). Esquire Fran- cis, as he was called, was Ruling Elder in the church. He was a blacksmith by trade. His wife was a descendant of John Perkins, who came over in 1631 on the same vessel with Roger Williams. William-' Choate, b. in 1730, was a mariner, and at the age of twenty-five years captain of a ship in which he sailed to Southern ports dur- ing the winters, spending his time in the sum- mer engaged in farming. He also taught school on Hog Island, where he resided. He instructed his four sons in the art of naviga- tion. His family Bible, with records of his marriage and the births of his nine children, has been preserved by his descendants, being now in the possession of the Hon. Joseph H. Choate. His wife, to whom he was m. in 1756, was Mary, daughter of Job and Marga- ret (Low) Giddings. Georges Choate, b. 1762, the third son of William that grew to maturity, m. Susanna, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Low) Choate. P^our of their children lived to adult age. George,'' b. 1796, d. June 4, 1880. He was graduated at Harvard College in 18 18, studied 1 26 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF medicine, and in 1S22 received his medical degree and began practice in Salem. He took high rank in his profession, was president of the Essex South District Medical Society, and of the Salem Athenaeum for many years. He also took an active part in public affairs. A Free Mason, he belonged to Esse.x Lodge, of which he was Master in 1828 and 1829. In religion he was a Unitarian, and was closely attached to his church. His health becoming impaired, he removed to Cambridge, where he d. June 4, 1880, at the age of eighty-three years. He m. in 1825 Margaret Manning, a native of Salem, b. January 25, 1805, daughter of Gamaliel^ and Sarah (Williams) Hodges. Their children were as follows : George Cheyne Shattuck, b. March 31, 1827, who m. Susan O. Kittredge; Charles Francis, b. May 16, 1828, whose name begins this sketch; Sarah Elizabeth, who d. May i, i860; William Gardner, b. 1S30, who m. Mary Lyman At- water; Joseph Hodges, b. January 24, 1832, whom. October 16, 1S61, Caroline D. Sterling, and is now United States Ambassador to Eng- land ; Caroline, b. 1834, who m. in 1S60 Bruno de Gersdorff, and d. November 4, i88g. The mother of these children d. October 5, 1887. She was a descendant of George- Hodges, whose name first appears on the records of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1662. He is thought to have been of the second gen- eration of his branch of the family in America, but whose son he was or whence he came is not known. He m. first in 1665 Mary Fludson. She d. in 1665, and he m. in 1669 Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Dorcas (Wood) Phip- pen, of Salem. Her father, Joseph, was eldest son of David Phippen, who came to Hingham in 1635, and removed to Boston in 1 64 1. David was second son of Robert Phip- pen, or Fitz Pen, of Dorsetshire, England. Gamaliel' Hodges, b. in 1685, son of George' and -Sarah, d. August 27, 1765. He m. Jan- uary 7, 1 710-1, Sarah, daughter of John' and Sarah (Manning) Williams, grand-daughter of John' and Elizabeth (Skerry) Williams, and great-grand-daughter of George' W'illiams, of Salem, made freeman 1634, an officer of the custom-house. Her mother, Sarah Manning, was daughter of Richard' and Austiss (Calley) Manning. Richard' did not come here, but his widow and five children came in 1679. Captain John-* Hodges, a mariner, b. Febru- ary, 1723-4, at Salem, d. in 1799. He m. Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Lambert) Manning. Gamaliel' Hodges, b. at Salem in 1766, a sea captain and machinist, m. in 178S Sarah, daughter of William and Abigail (Brown) Williams. Her mother was a great-grand- daughter of Philip PCnglish, or Philippe L'An- glais, whose father, Jean L'Anglais (baptized 1651 in the Isle of Jersey), came to Salem in 1670, and m. Mary, daughter of \\'illiam and Elinor (Story) Hollingsworth. Charles Francis Choate acquired his ele- mentary education in the public schools of Salem, and fitted for college at the Salem Latin School. He was graduated from Har- vard College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1849, and then entered the Harvard Law School, where he studied from 1 85 I to the summer of 1854, at the same time being a tutor in mathematics in the college. During this period he also pursued the study of law in the office of P'rancis B. Hayes, of Bos- ton. Admitted to the bar of Suffolk County in 1 8 54, he at once began practice in Boston. l-~rom that time until 1877 he was actively engaged in professional work, largely as coun- sel for railroad corporations, among them the Boston & Maine and the Old Colony. He became regular counsel for the Old Colony in 1864, was elected a director of the company in 1872 and president in 1877, in which latter position he has since continued through annual elections. He was also president of the Old Colony Steamboat Company from 1877 to 1894. During his presidency of the Old Col- ony Railroad Company the policy of consoli- dating under one control the railroads of south-eastern Massachusetts was successfully carried out, and the consolidated property was leased May 1, 1S93, to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. Of this corporation Mr. Choate has since become a director. During his presidency of the Old Colony .Steamboat Company, which in connec- tion with the Old Colony Railroatl Comjjany forms the P'all River Line between Boston and GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 129 New York, the company built the fleet of steamboats which are unequalled for beauty and convenience, and which have given to the Fall River Line a world-wide fame. Mr. Choate is also a director and vice-president of the New England Trust Company. He was elected actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company on June 15, 1893, and resigned that office February 11, 1901, to take the presidency, which he still holds. He has served in the General Court, a member from Cambridge in 1863, and was a member of the Cambridge city government in 1864-65. Mr. Choate married November 7, 1855, Elizabeth Waterman Carlile, a native of Providence, R. I., born August 8, 1S34, daugh- ter of Edward and Hannah (Thompson) Car- lile. They have had five children; Edward Carlile, born March 9, 1857; Sarah Carlile, born May 5, 1858, who married September 18, 1877, Joshua Montgomery Sears; Margaret Manning, born November 18, 1861, who mar- ried June 12, 1890, Nathaniel I. Bowditch ; Helen T. , born May 8, 1863, who died January 18, 1884; and Charles Francis, Jr., born Oc- tober 23, 1866, who married June 15, 1892, Louise Burnett, daughter of the Hon. Joseph and Josephine (Cutler) Burnett, of Southboro. Charles F. Choate, Jr., was graduated at Har- vard College in 1888. He studied at the Har- vard Law School, was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and is now one of the successful young lawyers in Boston. (s^fEROME JONES, president of the Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Company, china and glass merchants, Boston, is one of the oldest as well as most extensive dealers in this line of trade in the United States, having served in youth and early man- hood an apprenticeship beginning in the fifties of last century, and having been engaged in it as a working factor and as principal for forty- eight years, his age at present writing lacking some months of being sixty-four. Mr. Jones was born at Athol, Worcester County, Mass., October 13, 1837, being the seventh and youngest son of Theodore and Marcia (Estabrook) Jones. While on the Jones side his complete line of descent has not been absolutely determined, it is thought to be as follows: Lewis' Jones, of Watertown, d. 1684; Captain and Deacon Josiah- Jones, of Weston, d. 1714, m. Lydia Treading; James-' Jones, b. 1679, ^^- Sarah Moore, of East Sud- bury; James-* (brother of Captain Aaron), m. 1728 Abigail Garfield; Jonathan, s b. 1739, m. Lydia Jones, daughter of Cajitairi Aaron" Jones; Theodore,'^ b. 1780, m. Marcia Esta- brook. Mr. Jones's mother was a descendant in the sixth generation of the Rev. Joseph' Estabrook, of Concord, Mass., the line contin- uing through Joseph,'-'' Benjamin, " Joseph, s to Marcia,'' his own place being in the seventh generation. Joseph' Estabrook came to these shores from England in 1660, before complet- ing his education. He was graduated at Har- vard College in 1664, and three years later was settled as colleague with the Rev. Edward Bulkeley at Concord, Mass., where he d. in 171 I. He m. in 1668 Mary, daughter of Captain Hugh Mason, of Watertown. His son Joseph,' who was b. in 1669 and d. in 1733, was one of the leading citizens of Lexington in that early day. He was a Deacon of the church, Captain of the military company, sur- veyor and schoolmaster; and he held various town offices. He m. first in December, 1689, Melicent Woods. Joseph' Estabrook (1690-1740) succeeded his father as Captain and as Deacon, and in his turn was an office holder and man of influ- ence in the community. He m. in 1719 his second wife, Hannah Bowman. Benjamin" Estabrook, who was b. in 1729, and d. in 1803, resided in Lexington, and for many years held the offices of Coroner and Justice of the Peace. Li 1775-76 he served as private in the campaign of Ticonderoga. He m. May g, 1757, Hannah Hubbard, of Concord. Joseph, 5 b. March 4, 1758, son of Benjamin" and Hannah Estabrook, fought at the battle of Lexington a few weeks after his seventeenth birthday and not long before he entered Har- vard College. He received the degree of Bach- elor of Arts in 1782, subsequently pursued his theological studies with the Rev. Jonas Clark, and was ordained as pastor of the church at '3° NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Athol on November 12, 17S7. He m. Sep- tember 3, 1788, Lucy Gushing, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Turner) Gushing, of Pembrolie, who were m. September 24, 1761. The Rev. Joseph' Estabrook d. at Athol in April, 1S30, having continued his pastoral labors nearly forty-three years. His children were: Turner, Lucy Gushing, Nathaniel C., Joseph Hubbard, Marcia (Mrs. Theodore Jones), Fidelia, and Benjamin. Theodore Jones, father of the subject of this sketch, was b. at Templeton, Worcester County, August 24, 1780. He d. at Athol of apople.xy, January 5, 1S63, aged eighty-three years, four months, and eleven days. While a young man in the employ of John Ghandler, a general merchant doing business at Petersham, he had supervision of his store. For a number of years after he went to Athol to reside, he was in partnership with Mr. Ghandler. At length, about the year 1823, he bought out the business, and for forty years, or until his death as above noted, he was prosperously engaged in trade. His courteous and pleasing manners were but the natural expression of his kindness and good will. He encouraged children and others to form habits of industry and thrift by serving as a savings-bank, receiving to be placed on interest small sums, giving his note therefor, which notes were always paid on de- mand. His judgment in town affairs was con- sidered of great value. He served a number of terms as Selectman; eleven years, 1818-29, as Town Glerk; 1840 to 1850 as Town Treasurer; in 1840, 1843, and 1845 as Representative in the Legislature; and for the last fifteen years of his life was the Trial Justice of the town. For many years he was a Deacon of .the First Unitarian Ghurch of Athol. He m. August 29, i8ig, Marcia Estabrook, b. May 8, 1799, daughter of the Rev. Joseph and Lucy (Gushing) Estabrook. Nine children were the fruit of this union, namely: Joseph Estabrook, b. No- vember II, 1820; Theodore Turner, b. Septem- ber 30, 1822, d. April 18, 1895; Gharles Gush- ing, b. July 27, 1824, d. September 24, 1889; Frederick Eugene, b. February 15, 1828; Na- thaniel Hubbard, b. March 15, 1830; Ellen Adelia, b. October 23, 1832; Benjamin Or- ville, b. May 3, 1835; Jerome, the subject of this sketch ; and Marcia, b. March 22, 1843. The mother d. January 14, 1888. Inheriting an aptitude for business and bred in a commercial atmosphere, Jerome Jones, having mastered the lessons taught at the village school, left the parental roof in Athol and went to work in the general mer- chandise store of Goddard & Ward in the neighboring town of Orange. In June, 1853, he entered the employ of Otis Norcross & Go., one of the largest importers of crockery and glassware in the United .States. Here he applied himself diligently to serve the inter- ests of his employers and to learn the business. Discharging his duties promptly and well, he was promoted again and again to higher and more responsible positions with increase of salary. In 1861, when not twenty-four years old, Mr. Jones having ]3roved himself in every way competent as a business manager, was admitted as a partner. In 1865 for the first time he went to Europe as foreign buyer. Mr. Norcross retiring from the firm in i S67 to ac- cept the office of Mayor of Boston, Mr. Jones, with Mr. Howlaiid, under the style of Howland & Jones, carried on the business at 23 South Market Street until Mr. Howland's death in I 87 I. In 1874 Mr. Jones, with Lewis P. Mc- Duffee and Solomon P. Stratton, formed the firm of Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, recently merged into the Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Gompany, and located at the corner of Federal and Franklin Streets, in a store built for them by Gardner Brewer on the site of the old Ved- eral Street theatre. Among the many interesting features of their extensive stock of art pottery and glassware may be mentioned a series of blue china plates bearing historic scenes, designs, and mottoes, this idea having been originated by Mr. Jones. These are executed in a highly artistic style, and great pains have been taken to have each scene as historically accurate as possible. Among them are: Landing of the Pilgrims; the Boston Tea Party; Boston in 1768; the Battle of Lexington Gonimon ; Faneuil Hall; the Return of the "Mayflower"; the Birth of the American Flag; Independence Hall, Phil- adelphia; the John Hancock House, Boston; Mount Vernon, the Home of Washington; Old GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '3' South Church and Old North Church, Boston ; Signing of the Declaration of Independence; Washington Crossing the Delaware; the Spirit of 'j^; Longfellow's House; the White House and the Capitol, Washington ; and others. Each view is bordered by a rich and appropriate floral design. The series has attracted attention of art lovers and of all those interested in fine crockery. Politically a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, Mr. Jones was one of the early members of the Tariff Reform League. For two years, 1S98-99, he was a member of Mayor Quincy's advisory board appointed by the Board of Trade. He is a director in the Merchants' Association, has served as president of the Commercial Club and as president of the Asso- ciated Board of Trade and of the Earthenware Association, and at the present time (1901) is vice-president of the Home Savings Bank. He is a director of the Third National Bank and of the Massachusetts Loan and Trust Com- pany, and a tru.stee of Mount Auburn Ceme- tery. For some time he was president of the Worcester and North-west Agricultural Society at Athol. Advised by his physician twenty- five years ago for the improvement of his health to take up his residence in some high location, he built a substantial and commodious dwelling on Corey Hill, Brookline. He takes an inter- est in the affairs of the town, is one of the Sinking Fund Commissioners, and has filled various local offices of trust. He attends the First Parish Unitarian Church of Brookline, and belongs to the Unitarian Club. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Beethoven Lodge, F. & A. M., of Brook- line. He is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Bunker Hill Monument As- sociation, the Brookline Thursday Club, and the Union Club. Mr. Jones was married February 11, 1864, to Miss Elizabeth Reed Wait, daughter of Thomas and Louisa (Denio) Wait, of Green- field, Mass. She died July 10, 1878, leaving four children, namely: Theodore, born March 17, 1S66; Elizabeth Wait, November 6, 1S71; Marcia Estabrook, July 5, 1S75; 3'''<^1 Ellen Reed, July i, 1878. Theodore Jones is asso- ciated with his father in business, being a di- rector in the corporation. He married Ade- laide Zocbisch, and has two children : Rosalie, born P'ebruary 5, 1899; and Theodore, Jr., born February 9, 1900. Elizabeth Wait Jones is the wife of Alfred Palmer Sherman, treasurer of the Gregory Shaw Company, of F"ramingham. Mr. Jones was married February 16, 1881, to Mrs. Elizabeth Dutton, daughter of Henry A. Gane and widow of William Henry Dutton, of the Boston Transcript Company. ICHARD LOMBARD MAYO, treas- urer of the National Fish Company of ij \ Boston, was born February 6, 1S28, in Truro, Barnstable County, Mass. His parents were John" and Elmira (Shedd) Mayo, his immigrant progenitor in the direct male line being the Rev. John Mayo, who was the first minister of the Second, or Old North, Church of Boston. From John' the descent is through John,- who m. Hannah Lacroft (or Reycroft) ; Thomas,' b. in 1672; Noah, ■• who m. in 1742-3 Mary Gushing; Noah,' b. in 1743-4, m. in 1764 Hope Rich; John," b. in 1776, who m. in 1798 Hannah Rich; John,^ above named; to Richard Lombard, who is of the eighth generation of the family in America. The Rev. John Mayo was educated in Eng- land. Coming to this country about 1638 or 1639, in 1640 he was invested with the office of teaching elder of the church at Barnstable, being a colleague with the Rev. John Lothrop. In 1646 he removed to Nausct (now Eastharn), where he continued to preach the gospel for some years. In November, 1655, he was in- stalled as minister of the Second Church of Boston, whose house of worship (then standing at the head of North Square) was called the Old Nnrth. (It was pulled down for fuel in January, 1776, by order of the British com- mander. General Howe.) Here Increase Mather in 1664 was ordained as teacher of the church. The Artillery Election sermon in June, 1658, was preached by the Rev. Mr. Mayo. In 1672, on account of failing health, he was relieved from the burden of supplying the pulpit, and in 1673 he removed to Cape Cod. He d. in \'armouth at the home of his 132 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF daughter, Mrs. Joshua Howes, in 1676. His sons, John' and Nathaniel, settled at Eastham. John' Mayo, son of John'' and Hannah (Rich) Mayo, was b. at Truro, January i, iSoo, and was a lifelong resident of that town. For some years he followed the sea as a fisher- man. Afterward he engaged in mercantile business at Truro, keeping a country store until the time of his death in 1851. He m., first, Elmira Shedd, of Truro, daughter of Jed- ediah Shedd and his wife, Jemima Lombard (perhaps the Jemima baptized at Truro in 1784, recorded as a daughter of Simeon 1-om- bard). Mrs. Elmira Shedd Mayo d. in 1837; her husband m., secondly, Mary Abigail Nye. Outliving his second wife also, he m. a third, whose given name was Abby. He had ten chil- dren, five of whom lived to adult age, namely: Richard L. , of whom more below; John, who m. Catherine Baker, and d. in Chicago in 1896; Samuel N., who ni. Louise Malloy, and resides in Medford ; Timothy D. , of East Boston; and Abbie Elmira, who m. Charles Burnham, of East Boston, and has one child, Ida. Richard Lombard Mayo was educated in the public schools of Truro. For about fifteen years in his youth and early manhood he was engaged in deep sea fishing. In 1848, before completing his twenty-first year, he became master of the fishing schooner "Solon." At length abandoning the fishing industry, he commanded different vessels engaged in freighting, sailing from Boston to coast towns and the West Indies. Since 1871 he has been in the fish business in Boston; and he is now, as mentioned above, treasurer of the National Fish Company, whose office is on T Wharf, Boston. He resides in Winchester. Mr. Mayo was married November 25, 1850, to Deborah Gross Smith, of Truro, Mass., daughter of James and Betsy M. (Higgins) Smith. James Smith, of Truro, and Betsy Milney Higgins wei'e m. in 1824, Betsy being the daughter of Eleazer' (Enoch,'' Eleazer, ' Benjamin, ■•"'"' Richard') and Lurania (Gross) Higgins, who were m. at Truro in 1785. (Rich's History of Truro. ) Richard ' Higgins, the immigrant from whom Mrs. Mayo is a de- scendant in the ninth generation, was at Plym- outh, New ICngland, in 1633, and at Eastham, on the Cape, in 1634. He served three years as Selectman and three years as Deputy to the General Court. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mayo, namely : James Herbert, May 16, 1853; Dora Melanie, July 27, 1861; and Richard 01 in, September 29, 1867, who died in infancy. James Herbert Mayo went to sea with Captain Atkins Rich, and was lost off Georges Banks, the vessel being never heard from. Dora Melanie Mayo, who was educated at Lasell Seminary, West Newton, Mass., is married to Henry C. Nickersou, of Boston. They reside in Winchester, Mass., and have one child, a daughter, Carol Mayo Nickerson. ENRY MACY UPHAM, of the firm of Damrell & Upham, proprietors of the "Old Corner Bookstore," situ- ated at the junction of Washington and School Streets, Boston, was born March 23, 1844, at Nantucket, third child of Will- iam'^ and Margaret Gardner (Folger) Upham. P'rom William'^ the line of descent is traced back through David,' Jonathan,'' Jonathan, ^ Jonathan, ■• Phineas,' and Phineas' to John'. John Upham's descendants embrace over five hundred heads of families, and have reached to the tenth generation. He was b. in Eng- land, probably in Somersetshire, and came to Weymouth with the Hull colony in 1635, when he was thirty-five years old. With him came his wife, Elizabeth, then thirty-two years old; Sarah Upham, aged twenty-six, who is believed to have been his sister; John Upham, Jr., aged seven years; Nathaniel, aged five years; and Elizabeth, aged three years. The maiden name of his wife is supposed to have been Webb. On September 2, 1635, '^^ was ad- mitted a freeman at Weymouth. He took a prominent part in the colony's affairs, was a Representative to the General Court in 1636, for the two terms in 1637, and for the first term held in Newton in 1638. As shown by records in Boston, his son John was buried at Weymouth " sd. 4m. 1640." In 1642 he was one of the si.x- colonists commissioned to treat with the Indians for the lands of Weymouth, and who obtained the title thereto. He was GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '33 Selectman in 1643, '645, 1646, and 1647. In 1644, with two other persons, he received from the General Court authority to "end small causes at Weymouth. " He removed to Maiden between 1648 and 1650, probably in 164S. The records show that he was a Selectman of Maiden in 1651 and 1655. In 1657, 1659, 1 66 1, and 1662 the Supreme Court appointed him a commissioner "for ending small causes in Maiden. He was also a Deacon of the church, and presided at town meetings as moderator in 1678, 1679, srid 1680. He was interested in the settlement of Worcester in 1678. His first wife d. after December 2, 1670; and in August, 1671, he m. Katherine Holland, she having come to the country with the Hull col- onists. His own death took place February 25, i68i, and his gravestone is still to be seen in the old burying-ground at Maiden. He was evidently a man of character and energy, and much respected by the community. His will was not found. Phineas'' Upham was b. probably in 1635. He was appointed Lieutenant before 1675, served with that rank in King Philip's War, and was known as Lieutenant Phineas Upham. He received a grant of land in Worcester, July 8, 1673, "in consideration of his labor, travel, and activity ... in furthering, advancing, and encouraging the settlement of Worcester, the plantation." By his wife, Ruth Wood, to whom he was m. April 14, 1658, he had seven children, namely: Phineas, b. May 22, 1659; Nathaniel, b. 1661 ; Ruth, b. 1664, d. De- cember S, 1676; John, b. December 9, 1666, who m. Abigail Hayward or Howard ; Eliza- beth, who m. Samuel Green, October 28, 1691 ; Thomas, b. 1668; and Richard, b. 1675. Worcester, then called Quinsigamond and sometimes Lydbury, owes its foundation in no small degree to Lieutenant Phineas Lfpham. He d. in October, 1676. His wife, Ruth, d. January 18, 1696-7, aged sixty years. Phineas^ Upham, b. in Maiden, May 22, 1659, eldest son of Phineas,^ m. Mary Mellins in 1682 or 1683. He was Selectman of Mai- den from 1692 to 1696, inclusive; Town Treasurer from 1697 to 1701, inclusive, dur- ing which period he was employed in settling several estates ; Representative to the General Court from Maiden in 1701 ; also Selectman in 1709 and 1 7 10. At this time he was called Deacon. He was moderator of town meeting for 171 1, 1714, and 171 5; Representative again in 1716 and 1718; and moderator and Selectman again in 171 7. He d. in 1720, and was buried in the old burying-ground in Mai- den, as evidenced by the gravestone. His wife survived him for some time. Their children were: Phineas, b. June 10, 1682; Mary, b. 1685, d. August 20, 1687; James, b. 1687; Mary, b. 1689, m. May 28, 1713, John Griffin, of Charlestown, and moved to Middletown, Conn. ; Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth Blanchard, October 10, 171 7; Jonathan, b. 1694, who became a resident of Nantucket; William, b. October 30, 1697; Elizabeth, b. in 1699 or 1700, m. Jonathan Dowse, Jr., May ig, 1726, and d. in Charlestown, June 19, 1730. Jonathan^ Upham, sixth child of Phineas^ and a native of Maiden, m. Ruth Pease, daugh- ter of Stephen Pease, of Edgartown. He m., second, Mrs. Ruth Coffin (widow of George, who d. in 1727), daughter of John Swain, Jr. Jonathan' d. May 16, 1750. He had one child, Jonathan, 5 b. June 8, 1723, in Nantucket. Jonathan^ Upham m. in 1746 Lydia Coleman. She was b. June 13, 1730, and d. August 25, 1800. He d. May 8, 1797. They had Jona- than,'' b. November 13, 1753, at Nantucket. Jonathan'' Upham and his wife Anna, who was b. July 8, 1755, were m. September 26, 1773. He d. July 26, 1S22. Their children were: Ruth, b. September 29, 1774, who m. in 1793 P'rancis Cofifin, of Marblehead ; David, b. October 31, 1776, resided in Nantucket, but d. in Ohio; Susanna, b. October 4, 1778, d. August 22, 1859; John, b. October 25, 1781, a sea captain, d. at the home of one of his children in Maine in 1861 ; Anna, b. Septem- ber 8, 1784, in. Joseph Parker, June 12, 1832; Timothy, b. January 9, 1797, m. Rebecca Fol- ger, and resided at Nantucket; Lydia, b. Feb- ruary 14, 1792, d. I'"ebruary 25, 1795; Phebe, b. April 30, 1795. David' Upham, the date of whose birth is given above, m. in 1800 Elizabeth Gardner. They lived together for many years, and she survived her husband but a few months, his 134 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF death occurring November i6, 1854, at Roots- town, Portage County, Ohio, and hers March 18, 1855, also at Rootstown. The following is a brief record of their children : Lydia, b. September 17, 1800, d. May 10, 1806. David, b. May i, 1806, a sea captain, m. Alniira Orpin, April 26, 1829. He d. of yellow fever in New Orleans, September 4, 1849, leaving no children. His widow m. Captain Charles Rawson. William,'* b. October 2, 1808, in Nantucket (see separate mention in following paragraph). Lydia, b. April 25, 181 2, d. August 23, 18 14. Charles, b. October 22, 1814, d. July 13, 1889. Nancy, b. Septem- ber 6, 1816, d. June 18, 1829. Charles, b. April 14, 1818, d. July 13, 1819. Joseph, b. April 16, 1820, a sea captain, d. at sea April 22, 185 1, unmarried. Eliza B. , b. July 28, 1822, d. in July, 1900. She m. John M. P'olger, June 12, 1841, and had no children. VVillianv^ Upham, b. October 2, 1808, as mentioned above, m. Margaret Gardner Folger. In 1852, as captain of the ship "Gazelle," he sailed for the South Pacific Ocean, having with him his wife and son Henry. From this voy- age he never returned, dying of consumption at the Marquesas Islands, March 12, 1855. His children were : Delia Maria, b. Septem- ber 29, 1835, at Nantucket, who resides in Boston; William Folger, b. October 26, 1839, at Nantucket, who d. April 14, 1850; and Henry Macy, the subject of this sketch. Henry Macy Upham 's early days were spent in Nantucket. He was but eight years old when he accompanied his parents on the voyage to the South Pacific Ocean. After his father's death at the Marquesas Islands, as related, he and his mother, enduring much hardship and escaping many ]3erils, made the return journey by way of San P'rancisco and the Panama route, reaching Nantucket, June 27, 1855. The ne.\t four years were spent at school. Having a strong liking for books, he then went to Clare- mont, N. PL , where he was apprenticed to the book and stationery business. He had been there three years when his application for the increase of his salary from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars per year was refused, and he therefore left. This refusal [iro\ed a fortunate thing, for had his request been granted he would have remained content in his employment. The firm failed a few years after. The kind- ness shown him at Claremont by one of his employers is remembered by him with feelings of sincere gratitude to this day. In May, 1864, he came to Boston. In October of the same year he entered the United States Navy as an acting master's mate, and afterward served on the "Savannah," "Suwannee," "Massachusetts," "Mercidita," "Muscoota, " and "Clematis," being in the Gulf Squadron for most of the time. He was honorably dis- charged August 31, 1866, "with thanks of the department," in accordance with his own wish to return to civil life and to his loved books. On this occasion he voluntarily surrendered a salary of one thousand dollars a year to take one of five dollars per week as a clerk in the book-store of E. P. Dutton & Co., afterward A. Williams & Co., Boston. In 1S72 Mr. Ale.x- ander Williams took Mr. Upham into partner- ship. The firm then included, beside Mr. Williams and Mr. Upham, Charles L. Dam- rell and J. G. Cupples. Mr. Williams selling his interest to his partners in 1883, the firm name became Cupples, Upham & Co. In 1887 Mr. Cupples sold his interest to his two part- ners, who continued the business under the style of Damrell & Upham. After the death of Mr. Damrell, March 28, 1896, Mr. Upham purchased his interest in the business, and be- came sole proprietor, though retaining the last firm name. On July i, 1899, Mr. Upham dis- posed of a part of his interest to Mr. George A. Moore, who is now a member of the firm of Damrell & Upham. Mr. Upham has been identified with this celebrated store since 1866. Probably built in 1712 for a dwelling-house, and having a small shop, the structure had served several purposes before it became "The Old Corner Bookstore," the Mecca for literary celebrities for tbree or four generations. Here Mr. Up- ham has conversed with Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Phillips Brooks, and met Dickens, Matthew Arnold, and the Duke of Argyle — all gone now. The fact that so many of his customers bearing illustrious names are dead recalls to him the pathetic lines of Lowell, written on his sixty-eighth birthday: — GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '35 " As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new ; and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend.'' The store is prosperous, not merely because it is attractive in its appearance, but because it has not failed to meet the demands of the cus- tomers for so long a period of time, and has not turned aside from book-selling to engage in any other venture. Mr. Upham has been rigorously opposed to the firm's engaging in the publishing business, and the policy has been amply vindicated by the history of Boston pub- li.shing firms for the past fifteen or twenty years. On February 24, 1870, Mr. Upham married Grace Le Baron, daughter of John G. and Jane E. (Starkweather) Locke. Mr. Up- ham is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars; the United States Navy Veteran Asso- ciation; the G. A. R., E. W. Kinsley Post, No. 113; and is treasurer of the Episcopalian Club of Massachusetts. In politics he is in- dependent. and AMES BRADLEY THAYER, LL.D., Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Uni- \'ersity, was born January 15, 1831, at Haverhill, Mass., son of Abijah Wyman Susan (Bradley) Thayer. His descent from Thomas' Thayer, an early settler at Brain- tree, admitted freeman in 1647, is through Shadrach,^ who m. at Braintree, in 1654, Mary I^arrett, and after her death, in 1658, m. Deliver- ance Priest ; Ephraim,^ b. in 1669, who m. in 1692 Sarah Bass, and secondly, when he was eighty-four )-ears old, m. Mrs. Mar)' Kingman ; Christopher, •* b. in 1703, who m. Mary Morse and settled at Braintree ; Christopher, * b. in 1 74 1, who m. Bethiah, daughter of Ebenezer and l^ethiah (Adams) Hunt, of Weymouth, and settled at Peterboro, N.H. ; William,'' b. in 1767, who m. in 1792, Abigail, daughter of Captain Abijah Wyman, of Ashby, Mass. ; and Abijah Wyman' Thayer, above named, b. January 5, 1796, at Peterboro, N.H., who m. November 9, I 824, Susan, daughter of Jonathan Bradley, Esq., of Andover, Mass. Thomas Tha}'er (or Tayer, as his name was written), came to this country with his wife and three sons — Thomas, Ferdinando, and Shadrach — from the parish of Thornbury, Gloucester- shire, England, where, as the records show, he was m. to Margerie Wheeller, April 13, 1618, and Shadrach, his third son, was baptized May 10, 1629. Sarah Bass, first wife of Ephraim Thayer and mother of all his children, was a daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass, of Braintree, and, on her mother's side, grand- daughter of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Bethiah Adams, wife of Ebenezer Hunt, of Weymouth, was a daughter of Joseph^ and Han- nah (Bass) Adams. Her father was son of Joseph, Sr. ,^ and Abigail (Ba.xter) Adams and grandson of Henry' Adams, Sr., of ISraintree, founder of the family to which two Presidents of the United States belonged. Hannah Bass was a daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass and sister of Sarah, the wife of Ephraim Thayer. Abijah Wyman, above named, maternal grand- father of Abijah Wyman Thayer, was b. at Lancaster, Mass., in 1745. His military service began in 1758, when he was drummer in the expedition against Fort William Henry, and was long continued, he being repeatedly called to take up arms. As Captain of the Ashby com- pany in Colonel Prescott's regiment, he fought at Bunker Hill. He was afterward a leading citizen and Selectman of Ashby, where he d. in 1S04. He was the son of Abijah, Sr., and his wife, Abigail (evidently Abigail Smith, of Newbury, as their marriage intentions were pub- lished in Jul)-, 1744, Lancaster records), grand- son of Benjamin^ and Elizabeth (Hancock) Wy- man, and great-grandson of Francis' Wyman, early settler of Woburn, Mass. Abijah Wyman Thayer learned the printer's trade in Boston. For a short time in his early manhood he worked as a printer at Andover, Mass. Later for many years he edited papers in different places where he resided, as in Port- land, Me., Haverhill, Mass., Philadelphia, Pa., and Northampton, Mass. The Essex Gazette of Haverhill, of which he was editor and proprietor — with the exception of six months in 1830 — from P^ebruary, 1827, to July, 1835, was the first political newspaper and the second of any kind in the world to ad\-ocate total abstinence, a cause so unpopular that its advocacy caused the 136 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF loss of four hundred subscribers. Mr. Thayer, while in Haverhill, was a Justice of the Peace, and doubtless sat in judgment on not a few "liquor cases." VVhittier, then a young man, was a frequent contributor to the Gazette, and while attending the Haverhill Academy he " boarded in the family of Mr. Thayer, who proved to be a valuable friend and adviser not only at that time but in later years. In a letter to Mr. Thayer's son (Professor Thayer), written in 1877, he says, 'I never think of thy mother without feelings of love and gratitude. She and thy father were my best friends in the hard struggle of my schooldays.' " (Pickard's Life of VVhittier.) Seven children were b. to Abijah W. and Susan B. Thayer, and two of them are now living, namely: Professor Thayer, of Cam- bridge ; and his sister, Sarah Smith Thayer, b. October 6, 1827, also residing at Cambridge. In 1840 Abijah ^\^ Thayer and his family- removed from Philadelphia to Amherst, Mass., and thence in 1841 to Northampton. He d. in Northampton, April 24, 1864. Susan Bradley, wife of Abijah W. Thayer, was descended from Daniel Bradley who came from England in 1635 and settled at Haverhill, Mass., where he was killed by the Indians in 1689. For about four )'ears James Bradley Thayer attended the public schools of Northampton, and in 1848, having completed, mostly by study at home without a teacher, his preparation for college, he entered Harvard, where his elder brother, William Sidney, was then a Junior. He was the ninth scholar of his class, 1852, and was class orator ; also one of the orators of the Hasty Pudding Club. After his graduation he taught school two years at Milton (not his first ex- perience in that calling) and also read law. The next two years were spent at the Law School in Cambridge, where in 1856 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His essay on the " Law of Eminent Domain " was awarded the first prize of his class in 1856, and was printed in the Law Reporter. Admitted to the Suffolk County bar in December, 1856, he became in March, 1857, the law partner of Hon. William J. Hubbard, of Boston. In November, 1864, shortly afte)- the death of Mr. Hubbard, he was appointed to succeed him as a master in chan- cery for Suffolk County. In the spring of 1865 was formed the law partnership of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer (Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, George O. Shattuck, and James B. Thayer), which after the retirement of Mr. Shattuck in February, 1870, became Chandler, Thayer & Hudson (John E.), continuing thus until after the appointment of Mr. Thayer, in December, 1873, as Royall Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. In September, 1874, he removed from Milton, where he had resided since 1861, to Cambridge, and in October entered upon his duties at the Law School. A contributor in former years to the New York Evening Post, the Boston Advertiser, and the Nation, Profes- sor Thayer has written also for the Nortli Auieriean Review, the American La-w Review, the Harvard Laiv Review, and other periodi- cals. He is the author of " Letters of Chauncey Wright," "A Western Journey with Mr. Emer- son," "The Origin and Scope of American Con- stitutional Law," "The Teaching of English Law in Universities," "A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence," "Cases on E\idence," " Cases on Constitutional Law," and Life of Chief Justice Marshall in the Riverside Biographical Series. Professor Thayer received the degree of LL.D. from Iowa State University in 189 1, from Harvard University in 1894, and from Yale University at the bi-centennial celebration of 1 90 1. Professor Thayer married April, 24, 1861, Sophia Bradford Ripley, daughter of the Rev. Samuel and Sarah Alden (Jiradford) Ripley. Mrs. Thayer's father was b. in 1783 at Concord, Mass. (Harvard College, 1804) ; for many years was minister at Waltham, later at Lincoln ; d. at Concord in 1S47. He was a son of the cele- brated Concord divine. Dr. Ezra Ripley, and a descendant in the seventh generation of William Ripley, who came from Hingham, Plngland, in 1638, with his wife and four children, and set- tled at Hingham, on the south shore of Massa- chusetts Bay. The line was : William," John,' Peteri^"-* Noah, 5 Ezra,"^ Samuel'. William Ripley, was made freeman at Hingham in 1642. John Ri]:)le}', his eldest son, m. in 1655 Elizabeth Hobart, daughter of the Rev. Peter Hobart, first pastor of the First Church at Hingham, and grand-daughter of lulmund' Hobart, an early GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 139 settler there. Peter' Ripley, b. in 1668, son of John, m. Sarah Lasell and settled at Hingham. Their son Peter,-* b. in 1695, m. Silence Lincoln, daughter of Caleb and Rachel (l^ate) Lincoln, of Hingham, and grand-daughter (jf Thomas' Lincoln, the husbandman, so called to distinguish him from other early settlers bearing this name. Noah^ Ripley, b. in 1721, son of Peter,* m. in 1743 Lydia Kent, by whom he had nineteen children. He removed from Hingham to Woodstock, Conn., and thence to Barre, Mass. Dying at the age of sixty-seven, he was followed to the grave by fifteen children. His widow d. at the age of ninety-one, in 18 16, leaving thirteen children, one hundred and six grandchildren, and ninety-six great-grandchil- dren. Ezra Ripley, D.D., b. at Woodstock, Conn., May i, 1751 (O. S.), the fifth child in this remarkable family, was graduated at Har- vard College in i Jj6 ; was ordained minister of Concord, Mass., November 7, 1778, and d. there September 21, 1841. He m. November 6, 1780, Mrs. Phoebe Bliss Emerson (daughter of the Rev. Daniel Bliss), widow of the Rev. Will- iam Emerson, of Concord, and grandmother of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mrs. Thayer's mother, whose maiden name, as noted above, was Sarah Alden Bradford, was b. in 1 793, being the eldest daughter of Colonel Gamaliel* and Elizabeth (Hickling) Bradford, of Boston. Her father was a son of Gamaliel' and Sarah (Alden) Bradford, of Duxbury, and grand- son of Gamaliel* and Abigail (Bartlett) Bradford. The descent of Gamaliel-' from Governor Brad- ford of the " Mayflower " and Pl)-mouth Colony was through his son William,' whose first wife, Alice Richards, was mother of Samuel,' who m. Hannah Rogers, and was the father of Gamaliel-*. Sarah Alden, wife of Gamaliel,' was a daughter of Captain Samuel' Alden, grand-daughter of David,^ and great-grand-daughter of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Gamaliel* and his father, Gamaliel,' both served as officers in the Re\'olutionary Army. Professor and Mrs. Thayer are the parents of four children : William Sidney, b. June 23, 1864; Ezra Ripley, b. Eebruary 21, 1866; Theodora Willard, \i. June 2, 1868; and Sarah Riple)', b. March 31, 1874, now the wife of John Worthington Ames, of Cambridge, and mother of John W. Ames, Jr., and William Thayer Ames. Ezra Ripley Thayer m. Ethel Clark, daughter of the late Randolph M. Clark and grand-daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Alexan- der Hamilton Vinton ; and his one child, who was born May 13, 1899, ^^'^^ named for his grandfather, James Bradley. William Sidney Thayer m. September 3, 1900, Susan C. Read, daughter of Benjamin Huger Read, of Charles- ton, S.C. HARLES ARMSTRONG SNOW, .awyer, of Boston, who was born in Boston, September 23 1S62, is a son of Franklin and Anna Elizabeth (Armstrong) Snow. By his father, now de- ceased, who was a well-known Boston business man of a generation ago, and who came in early life from Cape Cod, he has the blood of eleven "Mayflower" passengers; and by his mother he has the blood of four others of these passen- gers. In many cases the same Mayflower an- cestors are reached in several distinct lines. The ancestral lines showing these facts fol- low : — (i) William' Mullens and wife, both of the "Mayflower"; John- Alden and Priscilla^ Mullens, his wife, both of the "Mayflower " ; Ruth 3 Alden; Mary* Bass; Sarah' Webb; Sarah* Arnold; Adam ^ Hunt; John' Hunt; Mary ''Hunt; Anna '° E. Armstiong; Charles" A. Snow. (2) Same as last through Ruth ' Alden ; Samuel "I Bass; Samuel' Bass; Christian* Bass; Major Samuel' Armstrong; Washing- ton* Armstrong; Anna' E. Armstrong; C. '° A. Snow. (3) Same as last through Samuel-* Bass; Ann' Bass; Ann* Torrey ; Nancy' Allen; Washington ** Armstrong; Anna'^ E. Arm- strong; C.'° A. Snow. (4) Elder William ' Brewster and wife Mary, both of the ' ' Mayflower ' ' ; Patience ' Brewster ; Hannah ' Prince ; Nathaniel * Mayo ; Hannah' Mayo; Abigail* Higgins; Jedidah' Smith; Gideon' Snow; Barna'' Snow; Franklin "^ Snow ; C. " A. Snow. (5) Same as last through Patience' Brews- ter; Mercy ' Prince; Mercy * Freeman ; Colonel r4o NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Samuel ' Knowles, Jr. ; Seth * Knovvles ; Chloe ^ Knowles; Barna '^ Snow ; Franklin " Snow ; C. '° A. Snow. (6) Same as last through Mercys Prince; Nathaniel * Freeman ; Nathaniel ^ Freeman, Jr. ; Ruth '' Freeman; Chloe" Knowles; Barna '' Snow; Franklin '' Snow ; C.'"A. Snow. (7) Stephen ' Hopkins of the "Mayflower " ; Constance^ Hopkins of the "Mayflower " ; Ste- phen 5 Snow ; Micajah * Snow ; Stephen ' Snow ; Heman'' Snow; Gideon' Snow; Barna '* Snow; F"ranklin ' Snow ; C. '"A. Snow. (8) Same as last through Stephen^ Snow; Bethiah^ Snow; John' Smith, Jr.; Phebe '' Smith; William? Myrick; Lydia'* Myrick ; Franklin '^ Snow; C.'°A. Snow. (9) Same as last through Stephen ^ .Snow ; Micajah ■• Snow ; Phebe'Snow; Phebe' Smith; William ' Myrick ; Lydia •'' Myrick ; P"ranklin '' Snow ; C. '" A. Snow. (10) Stephen' Hopkins of the "May- flower"; Giles- Hopkins of the "May- flower"; Abigail 5 Hopkins; Nathaniel'' My- rick; William 5 Myrick; William'^ Myrick; William ' Myrick ; Lydia ^ Myrick ; Franklin'' Snow; C. '° A. Snow. (11) Thomas ' Rogers of the "Mayflower " ; Lieutenant Joseph" Rogers of the "May- flower"; Elizabeth^ Rogers; Ichabod ■• H ig- gins; Jonathan 5 Higgins; Abigail' Higgins; Jedidah ^ Smith ; Gideon ^ Snow; Barna'J Snow; Franklin'" Snow; C. " A. Snow. (12) John ' Tilley and Bridget ' \'an de Velde, his wife, both of the "Mayflower"; P^liza- beth - Tilley and John Howland, her husband, both of the "Mayflower"; Deborah ^ How- land; John-" Smith; John ^ Smith; John* Smith; Phebe' Smith; William'' Myrick; Lydia'' Myrick; Franklin'" Snow; C." A. Snow. Among the other lines that go back to early Colonial ancestors of Mr. Snow are the follow- ing:— (1) The Rev. John 'Eliot (Apostle Eliot); the Rev. John ^ Eliot, Jr.; Sarah ^ Eliot, who married Elder John Bowles, Jr., November 16 168 1 ; Major John-* Bowles; John^ Bowles; William ' Bowles ; Elizabeth' Bowles; Mary ^ Hunt; Anna 9 E. Armstrong; C. '° A. Snow. (2) Elder John ' Bowles, who was of Rox- bury, 1639, died September 21 1680, in 1649 married Elizabeth Heath, daughter of Elder Isaac Heath, son of William Heath, of Rox- bury, was Magistrate in 1639 for ]-!oston and Roxbury ; Elder John- Bowles, Jr., who mar- ried Sarah Eliot as above, graduated Harvard in 1671, was Speaker of Massachusetts House of Representatives, and died March 30 1691 ; Major John 3 Bowles, born March 15 1685, died March 28 1737, graduated Harvard in 1702, received the degree of A.M. from Har- vard, first married September 10 1706, Lydia Checkley, of Boston ; continues same as last. (3) John ' Checkley, born 1608, died Janu- ary I 1684-85, married Ann Ayers (Eyres), daughter Simon Ayers, first Clerk of Writs, Watertown ; Colonel Samuel - Checkley, born October 14 1653, died December 27 1738, Justice Superior Court Common Pleas for Suf- folk, 1725; Lydia^ Checkley; continues same as last. (4) Captain Joshua- Scottow (son of widow Thomasyne ' Scottow, who joined First Church 1639), born 1614, died January 20 1697-98, was one of the founders of the Old South Church in 1669, one of the grantees of the Old South property from Madam Norton, and Cap- tain of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany. His gravestone, with two others, in 1884 was inserted in wall of entrance to Old South Church on Boylston Street, memorial services having been held on the occasion (see Old South Memorial, 1884); Mary ^ Scottow, who married Colonel Samuel Checkley above referred to; Lydia ■* Checkley ; continues same as last. (5) Enoch' Hunt, one of early settlers of Weymouth, freeman 1638; Captain Ephra- im - Hunt, born in England, 1610, died Febru- ary 22 1686-87, freeman 1671, Representa- tive; married Anna Richards, daughter of Thomas Richards, of Weymouth, and Wealth- ean Loring, of Hull; Captain John ^ Himt, born 1646, died March iS 1724, married Oc- tober 19 16S6, Rutli Ouincy; Benjamin' Hunt, born June 20 1698, will probated Au- gust 27 1762, married January i 1740, Sarah Arnold; Adam ' Hunt; John'" Hunt; Mary' Hunt; Anna^E. Armstrong; C. ' A. Snow. (6) Edmund ' Ouincy, born England, 1602, GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 141 died 1635, of l^oston, 1633; Colonel Edmund = Ouinc)', baptized March 25 1627-28, died January 7 1697-9S, married first wife July 26 1648, Joanna Hoar, sister of President Hoar of Harvard, and daughter of Joanna (Hickman) Hoar, who came about 1642 with three sons and two daughters; Ruth^ Ouincy, born Octo- ber 29 1658, married Captain John Hunt as above; continues same as last. (7) Joseph ' Arnold married Rebecca Curtis; Ephraim - Arnold; Samuel' Arnold; Sarah ■• Arnold, who married Benjamin •• Hunt, as above. (8) Christopher ' Webb, born England, April 15 '599. came 1626; Ensign Christopher' Webb, born 1630, died March 30 1694, mar- ried Hannah Scott, was Town Clerk of Brain- tree; Christo]iher 3 Webb, married Mary Bass; Sarah ■* Webb, married .Samuel Arnold above referred to. (9) Robert' Stetson, of Scituate, 1634, born in England 161 3, died February i 1702-03, cornet of first body of horse in Plymouth Col- ony, Representative 1654-62; Joseph^ Stetson, born June, 1639, inventory of estate May 8 1724; Robert 3 Stetson, born December 9 1670, married Mary Collamore, of Scituate, daughter of Anthony Collamore and Sarah Chittenden (daughter of Isaac Chittenden and Mary Vinall, married April, 1646); Gideon'' Stetson, born July 19 1709, died 1761, mar- ried second wife, Mary Paine, of Braintree, August 18 1740; Hannah 5 Stetson, born No- vember 23 1747, married March 29 1770, Adam Hunt; John' Hunt; Mary" Hunt; Anna^'E. Armstrong; C.''A. Snow. (10) Thomas' Fa.xon, born in England, 1601, died November 2^ 1680, settled in Dedliam before 1647; Thomas' Faxon, Jr., born in England, 1628-29, died May 25 1662, of Braintree, married April 11 1653, Deborah Thayer, daughter of Richard Thayer, of Bos- ton, 1640; Rebecca^ Faxon, born June 25 1657, married July 30 1678, Samuel Bass; Samuel * Bass, born March 26 1684, will pro- bated October 4 1762, married April 9 171 7, Christian Turell ; Christian ' Bass, born De- cember 19 1722, died October 7 1805, mar- ried January 4 1747, Colonel John Armstrong; Major Samuel ' Armstrong ; Washington ' Arm- strong; Anna ' E. Armstrong; C. " A. Snow. (11) Deacon Anthony' Stoddard, born in England, died 16S6-7, came from London and settled in Boston, 1639, I^ecorder of Boston, Selectman many years. Representative nineteen year.s, admitted to First Church, 1639, ^^^ later Deacon at Old South, one of the opulent merchants of Boston; Lydia - Stoddard, daugh- ter by his third wife, born March 27 1660, married Captain Samuel Turell; Christian ' Turell, born December 16 1688, married .Sam- uel Bass; continues same as last. (12) Captain Daniel ' Turell, born in Eng- land, died December 23 1699, settled in Bos- ton; Captain SamueP Turell, born June 14 1659, died 1738, married Lydia Stoddard; Christian 3 Turell; continues same as last. (13) George" Allen, born in England, died May 2 1648; Samuel- Allen, born in Eng- land, died August 5 1669, married second wife Mrs. Margaret Lamb, settled in Boston among early settlers, freeman of Braintree 1635; Joseph ' Allen, born May 15 1650, died March, 1727, married January 30 1670-71, Rebecca Leader, of Dorchester; Joseph'' Allen, Jr., born January 3 1671-72, married August 14 1701, Abigail Savell; Abijah ^ Allen, born August 22 1704, married June 3 1725, Joanna Bolter, daughter of Thomas Bolter, of Weymouth; Major Josiah ' Allen, born No- vember 26 1736, Major under his relative, Colonel Ethan Allen, married Ann Torrey ; Nancy' Allen, born September 21 1765, died Apiil II 1829, married Major Samuel Arm- strong; Washington ** Armstrong; Anna'^E. Armstrong; C. '°A. Snow. (14) William' Savell, settled in Braintree 1640; Samuel^ Savell, born October 30 1643, died December 14 1700, married April 10 1673, Hannah Adams; Abigail ^ Savell, born February 14 1678, married August 14 1701, Joseph Allen, Jr.; Abijah •• Allen; continues same as last. (15) Henry' Adams, ancestor of the Adams family of Ouincy, came from Braintree, Eng- land, and settled in Braintree, Mass., 1634, died October 6 1646; Joseph^ Adams, born in 1626, died December 6 1694, married, No- vember 2 1650, Abigail Baxter (daughter of Gregory Baxter, of Roxbury, 1630, and Mar- garet Paddy). They were the ancestors of 142 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Presidents John Adams and John Ouincy Adams, and of the Hon. Samuel Adams, the patriot; Hannah' Adams, born November 13 1652, married April 10 1673, Samuel Sax'ell ; continues same as last. (16) Richard' Thayer, of Braintreeand Bos- ton, 1640; Richard' Thayer born August 31 1655, died September 11 1720, married Jul)' 16 1679, Rebecca Mycall, daughter of James Mycall ; Rebecca' Thayer, born August 16 16S0, married February 12 1701-02, Thomas Bolter, of Weymouth; Joanna'' Bolter, married Abijah Allen; Major Josiah ' Allen; Nancy'' Allen, married Major Samuel Armstrong; Washington' Armstrong; Anna"" E. Arm- strong; C.'A. Snow. (17) Captain William ' Torrey (son of Philip Torrey, who was son of William Torrey), born in England, 1608, died in Weymouth, June 10 1690, came from Combe St. Nicholas, England, and settled in Weymouth 1640, freeman 1642, Representative 1642, Clerk House of Representatives 1650; William - Tor- rey, brother of the Rev. Samuel Torrey, of Weymouth, born 1638, England, died January- 11 1718, freeman, Weymouth, 1672, married Deborah Green, daughter of John Green ; John ' Torrey, of Weymouth, born June 23 1673, died 1730; Josiah* Torrey, of Boston, will proved June 29 1789, married April 3 1735, Ann Bass; Ann '^ Torrey, born January 20 1739, married Major Josiah Allen; Nancy "^ Allen, married Major Samuel Armstrong; Washington' Armstrong; Anna"* E. Arm- strong ; C' A. Snow. (18) Governor Thomas ' Prince, Governor of Plymouth Colony 1634-35, 1638-39, and 1657-73, came in the " Fortune, " 1621, born 1600, died March 29 1673, married August 5 1624, Patience Brewster, daughter of Elder William Brewster; Mercy' Prince (see Mercy Prince, s!t/>ia). Governor Thomas' Prince; Hannah' Prince (see Hannah Prince, si//>ra). (19) Mistress Alice (Southworth) Bradford, wife of Governor William Bradford, came in the "Ann" 1623; Constant' Southworth; Mercy ■* Southworth ; Constant ■• l""reeman ; Alice 5 F"reeman ; William '' Myrick ; William ' Myrick; William^ Myrick; Lydia'' Myrick; Franklin '" .Snow ; C. "A. .Snow. Nicholas ' Snow, the first paternal ancestor of Mr. Snow to arris'e in Ameiica, was born in England, and died in Eastham, November 16 1676. He was one of the "first comers," having arrived in the "Ann" in 1623. He married Constance Hoj^kins, of the "May- flower," daughter of .Stejihen Hopkins, also of the "Mayflower." He had a .share at the di\-ision of lands in Plymouth in 1G24. With Goxernor Prince and five others he settled Eastham in 1644, and was the first Town Clerk of Eastham, serving in that capacity for sixteen years, and one of the original Select- men chosen in 1663, and serving for seven years. In 165 1 and 1653 he was Deputy to the Old Colony Court at Plymouth. Several others of Mr. Snow's direct paternal ancestors were prominent in the affairs of the Plymouth Colony. William Myrick (Merrick), of Du.xbur)' and Eastham, who was born in Wales in 1603, and died in 1688, and who settled in Eastham, 1646, served the colony as a Lieutenant. Ga- briel Wheildon, of Yarmouth, whose daughter Katherine married on October 9 1639, Giles Hopkins of the " ^Layfiower " (son of Stephen Hopkins of the "Mayflower), was a surveyor. General Constant Southworth, who married Elizabeth Collier November 2 1637, was Governor's Assistant in 1672-78 and command- ing General in King IMiilip's War. Stephen Deane, who came in the "Fortune" in 1621, married Elizabeth Ring, daughter of Mary Ring, who died July 15 1631, and whose will was the first will probated in Plymouth Colony. John Yoimg, who married Abigail Howland, on December 13 1648, at Plymouth, was also prominent. Daniel Cole, who, born in Eng- land in 1 61 4, married Ruth Chandler (daugh- ter of Palmund Chandler, of Scituate, who came from England in 1627 and ilied in 1662), and died December 20 1694, was a Deputy in 1654 and a Selectman of Eastham in 1668. Nathaniel Mayo, on February 13 1649, hecame the husband of Hannah Prince, daughter of Governor Thomas Prince. Major John Freeman, born in England in 1622, came in the "Abigail " in 1635, first settled in Barn- stable, and removed to Eastham in 1650, mar- ried Merc^' Prince, another daughter of Gov- GfiNEAT.OGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 143 ernor Prince on l-'ebruaiy 13 1649, and died on October 28 1719; was Assistant in 1666, 1678, 1682, 1686; Judge Superior Court Com- mon Pleas, 1692-95; Captain in 1675, and ac- tively engaged in King Philip's War; chosen Major in Barnstable County June, 1685; Sheriff of Barnstable under Andros ; and Dea- con and Selectman for ten years. Edmund Freeman (the father of Major John Freeman), of Sandwich, born in England in 1590, who came in the "Abigail " in 1635, and died in 1682, was Assistant in 1640-46. William Collier was Assistant in 1635, 1637, 1639, 1651, 1654, 1656, 1658, and 1665. Mr. Snow's genealogical lines through his mother, practically all of which are traceable to earliest settlers of Boston, include a number of ancestors whi) rendered distinguished ser- vices in the Revolution. Of these were his great-great-grandfather, Colonel John Arm- strong, and his great-grandfather, Major Sam- uel Armstrong. Two of the Major's brothers also served as officers. Colonel John Arm- strong, who resided in Boston, was married to Christian Bass on January 4 1747, by the Rev. Joseph Sewall, D. D., at Boston (see Vol. 28, Boston Rec. Comm. 236), and not at Portland, as stated in Hamilton A. Hill's article on Gov- ernor Samuel T. Armstrong, in Vol. 44, p. 137, of New tingland Historic-Genealogical Regis- ter. While serving as an officer in the war, he was killed on the battlefield. In 1776, with three sons, he marched to Long Island, N. Y. , and the four were engaged in the battles there. The sons, after his death, remained in the army till the end of the war. One of them. Major Samuel Armstrong, was first secretary of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. One of Colonel John's grandsons was the Hon. Samuel T. Armstrong, Governor of Massachu- setts and Mayor of Boston. It may be stated here that th6 ancestry of Colonel John Arm- strong has not yet been fully cleared up. It is reasonably certain that his father was not the John Armstrong referred to in the above article, who was one of the founders of the ^'irst Church in Portland, established March 8 1726-27. It is probable that he was the son of John Armstrong and Rebecca Thomas, whose marriage intentions appear in the Boston records under date of July 28 1724 (Vol. 28, Boston Rec. Comm. 160.) Prior to this date the line of Armstrong ancestry has missing links, but the family is doubtless descended from the Armstrongs of the "debatable land " on the Scotch border. The Armstrong tomlj is in the Granary Burial-ground, where two markers of the Sons of the American Revolution are placed to com- memorate the above Colonel John Armstrong and Major Samuel Armstrong. Between these markers is a Grand Army of the Republic flag, in memory of Mr. Snow's uncle, Charles Arm- strong, who was killed at Fredericksburg. The preliminary education of Charles Arm- strong Snow, which was received in the Bos- ton public schools, ended in 1878, when he graduated at the Boston Latin School. He then entered Harvard at the age of fifteen, and graduated therefrom in 1882. He next spent two years in the study of law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1885. He has since been actively en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Bos- ton. He is in partnership with Everett W. Burdett, Esq., under the firm name of Burdett & .Snow, with offices in the Ames Building. The firm has been prominently identified with the legal affairs of electric lighting corpora- tions since the inception of that industry', the practice of the firm being largely concerned with corporation law. Mr. Snow is the author of a legal treatise prepared with the assistance of his partner in 1892, and forming the Massa- chusetts section (pp. 857-1096) of the "Law of Incorporated Companies operating under Municipal Franchises " (2 vols., Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 1892, Foote and Everett, general editors). In 1899 Mr. Snow was married to Mrs. F'an- nie Devens Wallace, born Sherburne, whose mother was first cousin of the late General Charles Devens, justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. She is descended from Brigadier General Richard Devens, who as- sisted Paul Revere in his famous ride and was Commissary General of the Continental Army. By way of recreation, Mr. Snow has devoted considerable attention to matters of local his- tory and to genealogy. He is a member of 144 NKVV KNGLAM; J.IBRAR\' OF various societies in Boston, including the Co- lonial Society of Massachusetts and the New lingland Historic-Genealogical Societ\'. ;:g7X ^-l'"^^^^-' KIDDHK, of Cambridge, in common with tlie Kidder family in America, is descended from English ancestors who fur several centuries were settled as land-owners at Maresfield, in Sussex. The earliest mention of the name, which is said to have become extinct in Eng- land, occurs in a deed of Edward II., assign- ing certain privileges in Ashdown I-'orest to the rector of Maresfield in the year 1320. A continuous record of lineage begins with Rich- ard Kidder,' who was living in that parish in 1492. I<'ollovving him, came his son Richard,' of Maresfield, who d. in 1549; Richard,' of Maresfield, son of Richard, 'who d. in 1563; John,-" of Maresfield, third son of Richard,' who d. in 1599; John,' of Maresfield, eldest son of John,-* who lived 1561-1616; James,'' of Maresfield and East Griiistead, si.xth son of John,' who was baptized in 1595; and James,' the emigrant son of James,'' who ends the Eng- lish part of the ancestral line. Richard,' by his wife Margarett, who d. in 1545, became the father of seven children, of whom the eldest son, Richard, who d. in 1595, was the ancestor of Richard, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1691-1703. Bishop Kidder, who was the most distinguished member of the fam- ily in England, b. at East Grinstead in 1633, was killed, together with his wife, by the fall of a chimney in the gale of November 26, 1703. Through his daughter Susanna, who m. Sir Richard Everard, Bart., Governor of North Carolina, he had American descendants of other names in the South. Margaret Nor- man Kidder, who was the wife of John, ^ and who resided in Little Horsted before her mar- riage, d. in 1569, having been the mother of five children; and Joan Burgh Kidder, the wife of John,'^ d. in 1610, having been the mother of fifteen children. James" Kidder had become a resident of East Grinstead, Sussex, before his son James' was b. James' Kidder (James" of the English an- cestors), b. at East Grinstead, England, in 1626, came to New England before 1650. Having occupied for some time a large farm north of Ercsh Toncl, he moved to Shawshine, now ]5illciicLi, where he was a considerable land-owner antl for many years Selectman and officer in the militia. April 16, 1676, in the course of King Philip's War, while in com- mand of a garrison -house at Wameset, now part of Lowell, he was killed, it is thcnight, in an Indian attack made on that day. He m., probably in 1649, Anna Moore, daughter of Ekier Erancis Moore, of Cambridge. They had nine sons and three daughters. Descend- ants of six of the sons, all of whom left male issue, are living at the present time, and it is probable that all jjersons born to the name in this country are descendants of these ances- tors. These six sons of James' Kidder were: James, of ]5illerica (1654-1732), wliose wife, Elizabeth J^rown Kidder, m. in 1678, d. in 1691, having borne him four sons and two daughters; John, of Chelmsford, Mass., b. at Cambridge in 1656, who m. Lydia Parker in 16S4, and had eight sons and four daughters ; Ephraim, of Billerica (1660- 1724), whose wife, Rachel Crosby Kidder, m. in 1685, d. in 1721, having had five sons and four daugh- ters; Stephen, of Charlestown (1662- 1748), whose wife, Mary Johnson Kidder, d. in 1722, having had six sons and nine daughters; Enoch, of Billerica (1664-1752), who m. Mary Howard, and had four sons and three daughters; and Samuel, the youngest of the six. Samuel' I'Cidder, b. January 7, i666, at Bil- lerica, li\'ed in Cambriilge, where in 1689, he esj3()used Sarah Griggs. He was a Deacon of the church and for four years Selectman of Cambridge. He d. in his house, which stood near the corner of Main Street and Kidder's Lane, now Spruce Street, July 4, 1724. His children were: Sarah, b. in 1690, who m. Samuel Cooper in 1720; P'rancis, b. in 1692; Samuel, who lived 1694-1718; James, who lived 1696-1714; 'I'humas (ancestor (jf Henry P. Kidder), who m. widow Lydia Pientice Cooper in 1725, and had eleven children; John, unmarried, who lived 1700-35; Nathaniel, who lived 1702-89, m. in 1741 Deborah Bowman, and had three children; Joseph, who GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 145 lived 1705-25; Mary, b. in 1707, wiio m. in 1731 Benjamin (joddard, of Grafton; and Hannah), b. in 1709. Francis' Kidder, of Cambridge, eldest son of Samuel and Saiah Kidder, nf Cambridge, d. January 21, 1724. He m. in 1718 Mary Prentice, by whom he had four children — Mary, Samuel, James, and Francis. Samuel^ Kidder, of Medford, eldest son of Francis and ALary Kidder, b. in Cambridge in 1720, d. in Medford, March 6, 1777. His first marriage was contracted in 1744 with Mary Thompson, who d. at forty-two in 1766, leaving tw^o chil- dren : Samuel, b. in 1746; and Elizabeth, b. in 1750. His second wife, Joanna, who lived 1740-1819, bore him four children: Joanna, who lived 1770-1811, unmarried; Rebecca, b. in 1772, whom, in 1795 Abija Usher; Mary, b. in 1774; and James, b. in 1776. Samuel' Kidder, of Medford, eldest son of Samuel and Mary Kidder, b. September 17, 1746, d. December 16, 1821. He m. in 1778 Mary Greenleaf (1752-18 19), daughter of Gardiner Greenleaf. Their children were: Mary, b. April i, 1779, who m. Benjamin Abbot, of Andover; Samuel, b. September 4, 1781, who m. Hannah P. Rogers; William, b. December 10, 17S4, who m. Charlotte Adams; Thompson, b. April 17, 1788, whom. A. Cannell; l-'rancis, b. July 16, 1789, who m. E. Blanchard; Joseph, b. April 30, 1791; and James, who lived 1793-1837, unmarried. Joseph'' Kidder, of Medford and Boston, fifth son of Samuel,' b. April 30, 1791, d. August 16, 1867. He m. October 14, 1S24, Nancy J. Homer (1799-1879), daughter of William Homer, of Boston. Their children were: Anne, b. in 1S29, who m. Joseph W. Eewis, of Philadelphia; Katherine, b. in 1831, who d. March 24, 1900, and who m. H. H. Staf- ford, of Marquette, Mich. ; Mary, b. in 1833, who has remained unmarried; Joseph, b. in 1835, who is unmarried; Walter, b. in 1837, who is also unmarried; and Alfred, born in 1 840. Alfred^ Kidder, of Cambridge and iVIarquette, who is the youngest son of Joseph and Nancy Kidder, and whose genealogy is here presented, was born in Boston, August 16, 1840. He married December 11, 1S71, Kate Dalliba, who was born in 1S52, daughter of James Edward (1821-94) and Achsah Dakin (.Swift) Dalliba (1826-91). The children of Alfred and Kate Kidder, all being of the fourteenth generation descended from Richard' Kidder, of England, and of the eighth American generation, are: Florence, born December 31, 1872, who died March 4, 1873; Flomer Huntington, born Feb- ruary 20, 1874; Maud, born November 23, 1875, who died August 18, 1876; Howard White, born September 5, 1877, who died De- cember 6, 1899; and Alfred Vincent, born Oc- tober 29, 1S85. WOODWORTH, of Cam- iDridge, .Mass., lawyer, was born at Tomales, Cal., son of Abijah and Abby (Hall) Woodworth. He comes of Colonial ancestry, of English origin, being a direct descendant in the ninth genera- tion of Walter Woodworth, one of the early settlers of Scituate, Mass. His lineage is: Walter,' Thomas,' Hezekiah,^ Benjamin,-" Peleg, 5 James,'' Parmenas Newton," Abijah, ** Ralph.'' \Valter' Woodworth, the first of the name in this country, received a grant of land at Scitu- ate, then a part of Ph-mouth Colony, in 1635, and was made freeman in 1640. He came probably from Kent, England. Incidental records show that he had the following-named children: Benjamin, who was killed in King Philip's War; Walter; Thomas; Joseph; Mary; Martha; and Mehitabel. Thomas- Wood worth was b. prior to 1650, probably in Massachusetts. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1665 he was appointed by the court "to tend the wolf traps and baite them." P^ebruary 8, 1666, he m. Deborah Damon, who bore him nine children ; namely, Deborah, Hezekiah, Ebenezer, Mary, John, Hannah, Jerusha, Ebenezer, and Katherine. Hezekiah' \\'oodworth, eldest son of Thomas,' b. at Scituate, February 5, 1670, "m. Hannah Clap in 1697, and removed probably to Little Compton, R.I." Thus Deane in History of Scituate. Mr. William Atwater \\'oodworth, however, compiler of the genea- logical records entitled "Descendants of Wal- 146 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF ter VVoodworth, " to which we are indebted for most of the names and dates here given, states in regard to Hezekiah' that "the name of his wife is not known." He had two sons, Eze- kiel and Benjamin. Benjamin^ Woodworth, b. about 1704, settled at Lebanon, Conn., where he d. in 1747. He m. Mary Simmons, who was b. in Rhode Island in 17 10. Peleg* Woodworth, a farmer, b. at Lebanon, Conn., October 21, 1730, d. in iSiO. He served in the French and Indian War. In August, 1753. he m. Mary Tyrrell, a daughter of Colonel Tyrrell, who removed from New Jersey to Connecti- cut and afterward to Hadley, Mass., where he built the first mills. James** Woodworth was b. at Coventry, Conn., July 8, 1766. After learning the trade of a mason and surve}'or he removed first to Bolton, Warren County, N.Y. , and fourteen years later to Painesville, Ohio, making his way there with his wife and children on a sled. He d. at Painesville, Ohio, in i860. He m. Lucretia Catlin, who was b. at Hadley, Mass., October 4, 1771. She was a daughter of Sam- uel and Mary (Alvord) Catlin and a grand- daughter of Samuel Catlin, Sr. Her grand- father Catlin was b. in Litchfield, Conn., but removed to Hadley, Mass. On May 30, 1735, he m. Mary Crow, who was b. February 12, I 71 5. She was a daughter of Samuel Crow, Jr., grand-daughter of Samuel Crow, Sr. , and great-grand-daughter of John Crow, who emi- grated to New England in 1635. John Crow located himself first at Hartford, Conn., after- ward being one of the original settlers of Had- ley, Mass., where he was admitted a freeman in 1666. Returning to Hartford in 1676, he d. there January 16, 1686. He m. Elizabeth, only child of William Goodwin. Samuel Crow, Sr. , who was slain at Falls Fight, May 18, 1676, m. Hannah, daughter of Captain William Lewis, of Farmington, Conn. Sam- uel Crow, Jr., father of Mary Crow, d. Febru- ary 13, 1761, aged eighty-si.x years. He m. January 11, 1710, Rebecca Smith, who d. February 26, 171 5. Parmenas Newton' Woodworth, son of James, was b. at Bolton, Warren County, N. Y. , June 30, 1806, and d. at Stony Point, Cal., June 28, 1878. Hem. Marilla McDonald, a daugh- ter of James McDonald. She was b. in Ash- tabula, Ohio, January 20, 1807, and d. at Stony Point, Cal., March 21, 1883. Abijah'^ Woodworth was b. at Ashtabula, Ohio, January 10, 1837. He m. Abby Hall, who was b. in New York, January 5, 1842, at Thunder Hill. She was a daughter of John C. Hall, and a descendant in the fourth generation from John Hall, who was b., without doubt, in Connecticut, served in the Revolutionary War, and d. on the prison -ship in New York Bay during the Revolution. The maiden name of John Hall's wife is not known, but she d. on Mutton Hill, near Neversink, N.Y. John Hall., Jr., the grandfather of Abby Hall, was b. in Litchfield County, Connecticut, between 1766 and 1770, and d. at Neversink, N. Y. , between 1836 and 1S40. He m. Molly Con- verse, who was b. , probably, in Connecticut, and d. at Neversink, N.Y. , about 1800. John C. Hall, a lifelong resident of Neversink, was b. in 1797, and d. August 27, 1851. Hem. Maria Reynolds, who was b. at Thunder Hill, N.Y., November 2, 1806, and d. at Stony Point, Cal., August 27, 1893. She was a daughter of Daniel Reynolds, a grand-daughter of Henr)' Re)nolds, and great-grand-daughter of James Reynolds, who was the hero of a thrilling adventure. James Reynolds sailed from England for America on a ship that was captured by Captain Kidd, all on board except- ing himself being killed by pirates. He made his escape, and settled in New York, where he m. Betsey Penoyer. Theii' son, Henry Reynolds, was b. in New York in 1743, and d. in 1828. P'or many years he was a very prominent citizen of Never- sink, N.Y. , serving as first Supervisor of the town, an office to which he was elected in 1798. He was also a member for several terms of the State Legislature of New York. He m. Mary Fowler, daughter of Rculjen and Mar)' (Valen- tine) Fowler, of Westchester, N. Y. , mater- nal grand -daughter of John and Jane (Reash) Valentine, also of Westchester, and great- grand-daughter of Henry Reash. Daniel Rey- nolds, son of Henry and Mary, and the father of Maria Reynolds, was b. in Orange County, New York, May 2, 1781, and d. August 19, GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HIS'I'ORV '47 1868. Mis wife, Rebecca French, who was b. in 1781, d. May 20, 1822. Her father, Jo- seph French, Jr., was b. at Dunstable, N. H., in 1739, '^"<^' '^'- August 14, 1S09. He m. Sybil Richardson, who was b. in 1742, and d. September 15, 1820. Joscijh French, Sr., the grandfather of Rebecca, was b. at Dun- stable, N.H., prior to 17 19, and d. before 17S2. The name of his wife is unknown, but she d. August 20, 1800. Ralph'' Woodworth is a graduate of Har\'ard College and of J-farvard Law School. His law office is in Boston, his residence in Cambridge. He married Mabel Campbell Goodwin, of Bos- ton, daughter of James Martin and Clementine Adelaide (Cassidy) Campbell. Children : Marion C, Laura M. , James Goodwin, and Janet. Mrs. Woodworth is a grand-daughter of Horace Campbell, a veteran of War of 1S12. Peter C. Cami^bell, father of Horace, went from Mansfield, Conn., in the year 1800, after the death of his wife, Mary Babcock, to Middle- bury, \'t. , taking Horace, then a boy of twelve, with him. Later Peter C. Campbell went to Painted Post, N. Y. , and returned probably to Mansfield, Conn., where he ended his days. Horace Campbell m. Sally Martin, daughter of Thomas Brown Martin. Her father was a veteran of War of 1812 and canteen boy of the Revolution, serving with his father, George Martin, who served in the I^e.xington alarm in Captain James Stedinan's company, and later for a period of three years in Colonel John Durkie's regiment. George Martin was b. in Windham, Conn., in 1742. He m. Dorothy Brown, of Wells, Me., June 7, 1765, and d. in 1827 at Rochester, Vt., where he had settled in 1786. In Bailey's "Early Connecticut Marriages " appears the record : George Martin and Sarah Durkee, May 12, 1737, at Windham, Conn. It is not improbable that they were the parents of the George Martin who m. Dorothy Brown. In the same work Dorothy Brown is said to have been of Leominster, and her marriage to have taken place in 1764. Thomas Brown Martin, who was b. at Wind- ham, Conn., March 16, 1767, m. Nancy Wood, daughter of Captain John Wood, of Massachu- setts, who went to Jamaica, where he was killed in an uprising of the slaves. The maiden name of the wife of Captain Wood was Nancy Lord. She was b. in New York. After her husband's death she went with her one child from Jamaica to New York, and subsequently to Orwell, Vt., where she d. James Martin Campbell was b. in Rochester, Vt., in December, 1833. He m. Clementine Cassidy, who was b. December 29, 1835, at Hancock, \'t. Her father was b. January 4, 1 800, and his wife, whose maiden name was Laura Taylor, was b. June 13, 1802. She was daughter of Leonard Taylor, who was b. in Groton, Mass., October 20, 1735, a son of Abraham and Lydia Taylor, early settlers of Groton. Leonard Taylor enlisted in the Rev- olution in Colonel Prescott's regiment, Cap- tain Moor's company, from Groton, Mass., April 24, 1775. Leonard Taylor m. Eunice Parker, who was b. at West Windsor, Vt. LISHA WILEY COBB, a prominent business man of Boston, residing in Melrose, was bcjrn in Truro, Mass., December 20, 1856, son of Captain ElLsha Wiley and Mehitable (Smith) Cobb. He is undoubtedly a descendant in the seventh gen- eration of Richard Cobb, the line continuing through Thomas, -"■'"■''5 to his father, Captain Elisha Wiley''. Richard, the immigrant, was living in Hingham, Mass., about the year 1692. Thomas' Cobb, b. in 1693, who m. Merc\- P'reeman about 171 7, evidently removed from Hingham, where his daughter Mercy was bap- tized in 1 718, to Truro, Mass., as Thomas, Jr., Richard, and Tamazin, children of Thomas Cobb, were baptized there July 25, 1725; Freeman, son of Thomas, in 1728; Elisha, son of Thomas, in 1730; and at a later date two daughters, Sarah and Betty. Thomas- Cobb's wife, Mercy, d. in 1759, in her sixty-seventh year; and his son Freeman d. in 1758, in his thirtieth year. (Xoh: — -The names Richard, Freeman, and Mercy in the above record are strong confirmatory evidence that Thomas' Cobb was a son of Richard,' of Hingham, as above stated. ) Thomas' Cobb (b. about 1718, 1719, or 1720), the Thomas, Jr., mentioned above, >4S NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF was probably older than his brother Richard, and followed the sea as a master mariner. That he was m. prior to December, 1743, is evident from the records at Truro of the death of John, son of Thomas and Ruth Cobb, in 1757, in his thirteenth year, and of the follow- ing baptisms of the children of Thomas Cobb, Jr.: Elizabeth, December, 1743; John, July, 1746; Mercy, 1747; Asa, 1749; Ruth, 1752; Betsey, 1755; Thomas, 1756. Thomas^ Cobb, baptized in 1756, was a resi- dent of South Truro, and, like his father, was a sea captain, niakng voyages to foreign ports. By his wife, Lpen & Endicott. During the twenty-eight years prior to his death he was cashier in the ofifice uf the .State Treasurer in Boston. He m. first, April 22, 1 84 1 , Bet- sey Barr Holman, who d. April 9, 1854. On May 22, 1856, he m., second, Eunice Louise Daniels, who was b. April 7, 1828, daughter of David Daniels, of South Danvers. Edward Augustus Phippen was the second child born of this last union. He wa.s edu- cated in the schools of his native city. On leaving school in 1S79, he began his business career as a clerk in the banking house of Downer & Co., of Boston. In January, 1883, he became the paying teller of the Interna- tiona] Trust Company i>f Boston. Here he remained until Jul)', 1S90, when, upon the organization of the Old Colony Trust Com- l^any, he accepted the iiosition of ]5a)'ing teller in their em])loyment, which he held until pro- moted to his ])resent position. On October 8, 1884, he married Mary Louise Darling, daughter of Elijah S. and Abby (Loud) Dar- ling. Mr. and Mrs. Phippen have four chil- dren, namely : Clement Lowell, born October 14, 1885; Hardy, born April 14, 1888; Ed- ward Willard, born April 4, 1891 ; and Mil- dred Darling, born June 7, i8g6. HARLES KNOWLES BOLTON writer and librarian, was born at Cleveland, Ohio, November 14, 1867. William- Bolton, the first of the family known to have lived in America, was at Reading in the spring of 1719, when his intended marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah White, of Ando\er, was published "May )'e 16." He leased a house of Mr. Nicholas NichoLs, of Andover, and on January 5, 1719-20, the Rev. Samuel Phil- lips, the eminent Colonial clergyman, of whose church Elizabeth was a member, married them. She was born April 8, 1688. Two months after the wedding the landlord died, and the execu- tor, wishing to settle Mr. Nichols's estate, of- fered to pay Mr. Bolton for the surrender of his lease. He made his home in the North Palish of Reading, where his two children, William- and John, were born. John became a soldier in the army at Cape Breton, and d. in the service early in 1746. Mr. William Bol- ton, having been m. less than si.\ years, d. in Reading, September 10, 1725. His widow became the wife of Timothy Dorman, of Box- ford, January 5, 1739. William- Bolton was b. October 25, 1721, and was baptized soon after the organization of a church in the North Parish. He, with his wife, Mary, who.se famil)' name has not been found, lived upon a farm in Reading at the meeting of the Lynnfield line and the highway. He served for several years as a tithing-man, contributed toward the minister's support, as shown on the records, and lived a )-eoman's life. Ma}' 28, 1773, he followed his son William^ to Shirley, and settled on a farm later known as the "Peter Tarbell place." Here he d. April 30, 1804. His second wife, Sarah, d. in 1822, at the age of one hundred years, lacking two months. Of his sons the oldest, William,' an officer in the Revolution, and a New P^ngland slaveholder, had a son, a GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY mill-owner and postmaster, who gave his name to Boltonville, Vt. The senior line is repre- sented by W. J. Bolton, a ph3sician and sur- geon of Bernardston, Mass. Ebenezer, an- other son of William,' left descendants in Westminster; and his brother Aaron' was a militia captain there, a Selectman, and one of the founders of the local Baptist church. Cap- tain Aaron' left no sons; but through his daughters he became the ancestor of several prominent men, including Colonel Melvin O. Adams and I vers W. Adams, both of Boston. Timothy' J^olton, a son of William,' was b. at Reading, May 5, 1759, and went as a child to Shirley. When scarcely sixteen years of age he joined the army besieging Boston. He was in the battle of Long Island in 1776, at Saratoga and the battle of Whitemarsh in 1777, and spent the memorable winter of 1777- 78 at Valley Forge. He returned home in the spring, and was m. May 14, 1778, to Sybil, daughter of Moses Bennett of Shirley and niece of Captain James Bennett, of Ashby. Her mother was a descendant of Major Simon Willard. Mr. Bolton, after further service on the Hudson in the autumn, returned to live on his father's farm. He held minor town offices, and, like many otheis in Groton and Shirley, was in sympathy with Captain Shays and his "rebellion," although he took no active part in it. In 1804 he sold the farm to James Parker, Esf|., with whose family the Boltons have for a century had associations. Timothy Bolton, after the death of his wife, S\bil, March 20, 1807, went to Jamaica, Vt. , and d. in 1S26. He received a pension for his ser- vice in the Continental army. His son, Moses Bennett-* Bolton, was b. at Shirley, August 26, 17S8, and went in earl)- life to Wilbraham, where he became a farmer. He m. there August 14, 181 i, Sarah Ro.xana, daughter of Obed Bliss, Esq., who, with his brother. Major Jeremy Bliss and uncle, the Rev. John Bliss (Yale, 1761), were members of a well-known Connecticut valley family. Her mother, also a Bliss, was a descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin, in whose memory Saint-Gaudens made the statue sometimes called "The Puritan." Mr. Bolton d. in South Hadley Falls, June 2, 1878. His wife d. September 17, r855. He was a man of great kindliness and an omnivorous reader. James King' Bolton, their oldest son, was b. at Wilbraham, March 31, 1813. He was em- ployed b)^ the company which constructed the first railroad between Worcester and Spring- fiekl. Later he held a part interest in a paper- mill, and became a maker of fine writing paper at South Hadle)' Falls, where he also owned a farm. As the town grew, he erected houses upon the farm, and withdrew from business. He m. October 24, 1837, Marilla Sophia, daughter of Mr. John Ingram, of Amherst. Her brother, Harrison Ingram, was president of the North Amherst Library Association; and her cousin, the Rev. S. B. Ingram, was for a time instructor at the college. Her mother was descended from the Connecticut Wolcotts and Pitkins. Mrs. Bolton d. October 28, 1 888. Mr. Bolton d. March 21, 1897. Bol- ton Street marks that part of the town in which he lived. Charles Edward*" Bolton, his oldest sur\'iv- ing son, was b. at South Hadley Falls, May 16, 1 84 1, and graduated from Amherst Col- lege in 1865. While still a college student, he was on the battlefield of Petersburg, Va. , in 1864, as a delegate of the United States Christian Commission. He was a delegate to the World's Young Men's Christian Associa- tion convention in London, and also to the Sunda)'-school centenary, a speaker at the Rev. Dr. Newman Hall's church in London at the services in memory of Garfield, and the origi- nator of a plan for the improvement of the working classes, described in the Century Magazinciox ]'&x\Vi2.x)', 1SS5. Amherst College in 1882 conferred upon him the degree of Mas- ter of Arts for his philanthropic work and economic writings. \Vhile manager of a large manufacturing company, he patented several inventions, and travelled widely. On the lect- ure platform he was popular and successful. An active interest in politics led him to serve a term (1899-1901) as Mayor of East Cleve- land, Ohio, the residence part of the "For- est City"; and he received strong sup- port in more than one Republican Congres- sional convention of his district. He did much for the improvement of Cleveland and NEW EiMGLAND LIBRARY OF East Cleveland, and wrote for various periodicals (the Review of Rcvieivs, the Century Magazine, etc.) upon municipal affairs. Two books grew out of these articles, "A Few Civic I'roblems of Greater Cleveland " and "A Model Village of Homes, and Other Papers." He d. at East Cleveland, October 23, 1901. The Cleveland Leader of October 24, 1901, referred to Mr. Bolton as "one of the best-known men in Northern Ohio, who won friends cver)'where, both in this country- and abroad; a man of fine appearance and bearing, and agreeable i)res- ence, ... of the highest personal character and worth, a scliolar, author, lecturer, and deep student of municipal problems — a man of great energy, of wide information, and of fine public spirit." 'the ruling purpose of his life was to be hel[)ful to others. Mr. Bolton m. at Milwaukee, October 16, 1866, Sarah, daughter of John Segar Knovvles, Esq., of Farmington, Conn., and a descendant of Colonel John Allyn and Colonel William I'ynchon, both literary men of the earl)' Colo- nial days. Mrs. Bolton studied at the semi- nary established by Catherine Beecher, and met at the home of her uncle, Colonel Henry L. Miller, of Hartford, the literary people of the day, Mrs. Sigourney and others. Through her grandmother, Tucy Stanle)', she heard much of that brilliant group, distantly akin to her and then passing away — Juhn Trumbull, the poet, Jonathan Edwards and his son Pierre- l^ont, Joseph Buckminster, the clergyman, Aaron ]?urr, the statesman, and her unfortu- nate cousin, known as Eliza Wharton in "The Coquette," a novel famous half a century ago. Mrs. Bolton became for a time, with Miss Willard, assistant corresponding secretary of the Natiojial Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and later has interested herself in soci- eties to protect and care for animals. She is a vice-president of the American Humane YA- ucation Society. Mrs. Bolton has written a book entitled "Our Devoted i-'riend, the Dog " ; another on the higher education of women and the working classes of Europe, entitled "Social .Studies in England " ; two volumes of poems; some songs which lia\'e been set to music; two \'olumcs of short stories; and a series of jinpular biographies, beginning with "Poor Boys who became Famous." These have had a wide reading. She was for several years associate editor of the Congregatioii- alist. Charles Knowles' Bolton, their son, graduated at Harvard in 1890, and became an assistant in the college library. He was librarian of the Brookline Public Library from 1894 to the spring of 189S, when he became librarian of the Boston Athenreum. Mr. Bolton is a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Asso- ciation, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, a corresponding member of the Maine Histori- cal Society, and has been connected with the direction of the library and the "Register" of the New I^ngland Historic-Genealogical Society. He has written upon library admin- istration and upon historical subjects, includ- ing "The Wooing of Martha Pitkin," "The Dove Story of Ursula Wolcott," "Saskia, the wife of Rembrandt," "l^rookline, the History of a Favored Town," and "The Private Sol- dier under Washington." He marrieil at Bos- ton, June 23, 1897, Ethel, daughter of Ed- ward Stanwood, Eitt. D., editor of the Youth's Companion and formerly editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, a graduate and an overseer of Bowdoin College. Mr. Stan wood's father was the first city clerk of Augusta, Me. His wife is the daughter of Samuel Topliff, proprietor of the Merchants' Reading-room in lioston many years ago and an alderman in the time of Mayor Quincy. Mrs. Bolton is a graduate of Wellesley College in 1894 and the author of "A History of the Stanwood P'amily in America." Mr. and Mrs. Bolton live at l^rook- line and in summer at "Pound Hill," Shir- ley, once the home of Captain James Parker, Jr. Their children are: Stanwood Knowles Bolton, born November 10, i8gS, in l^rook- line; and Geoffrey ]5olton, born August 4, 1 90 1, in Shirley. AMUEE BILLINGS CAPEN, A.M., LL. D. , founder of the Municipal League of Boston, widely kmnvn as one of tlie leading laymen of the Congi'cgational church and as a public-spirited SAMUEL i;. CAI'EN. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '55 citizen sechiiousl}- scciOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '57 DW'ARD ASA HOOPER, of Cam- bridge, the head of the firm of Hooper & McDonald, manufacturers of |3arlor luinitiue, was born in Augusta, RIc. , August 17, 1838. A son of Jacob Hooper, he comes of English stock, being a descendant in the sixth generation of William Hoo]oer, by the following line: William," William,' Jacob, ^ Joseph, ■" Jacob,* and Edward Asa/ William' Hooper was b. and reared in Eng- land. A few years after his marriage with Abigail Gale, accompanied by his wife and son William, he emigrated to America, settling at once in Manchester, Mass., where he spent his remaining years, dying there in 1678. William ' Hooper was b. in England in 1675. Coming with his parents to Manchester, Mass., when but a child, he lived there until his death, which occurred in 1755. He m. Abigail Allen, who, b. in 1681, d. in 1768. Jacob ^ Hooper, b. at Manchester in 1722, in 1747 m. Anna Lee, a direct descendant of Thomas Lee, of Manchester, who was b. in 1694, and d. in 1775. She d. P^ebruary 17, 1801, aged seventy-nine years. Joseph^ Hooper, the youngest of a family of six cliildren, b. in Manchester in 1761, d October 22, 1794. He was a farmer by occu- pation. At the beginning of the Revolution he was scarce old enough to go to war; but one of his brothers, Thomas Hooper, was killed at the battle of Bennington. August 18, 17S5, he m. Nabby Crafts, a native of Manchester, b. November 12, 1767, who d. April 29, 1845. Of their four children, Jacob* was the third in the succession of births. Born in Manchester, January 2, 1790, he d. there March 8, 1846. He was a hatter by trade; and he followed the occupation in Salem, Marblehead, and Augusta, Me. On retiring from business, he returned to Manchester, the place of his birth. He m. Deliverance Hoopei', a daughter of Asa and Deliverance (Knight) Hooper, who, though bearing the same surname, was not a near relative. She was b. in Marlslehead, Mass., September 21, 1796; and she d. in 1882. Of the eight children born of their union, two are now liv- ing — Edward A. and Mary I-Cimball. Edward A.*" Hooper was educated in the public schools of Manchester. Afterward he learned the upholstery trade in liuffalo, N.Y. , within the space of three years. Having then returned to Manchester, he worked at uphol- stering there for two years. P'rom 1858 to 1865 he followed the sea. On his first voy- age, sailing from Boston to California, he served before the mast. When on his last voyage, in 1864, he was shipwrecked in the centre of the Pacific Ocean, at Baker's Island, but had the good fortune to be rescued from a watery grave. Returning then to Bos- ton, Mr. Hooper followed his old trade for three years in this city. Then he removed to Dubuc[ue, la., where he continued as an uphol- sterer for two years, l^'rom Dubuque he went to China, having accepted a position with a large importing house. After a while he came back to New England, and was subsequently foreman in the upholstering department of a large furniture store in Portland, Me., for twelve years. In 1882 he established himself in Boston as a manufacture of parlor furniture. After carrying on the business alone until 1897, he received Mr. MacDonald as a copart- ner, thereby forming tlie present firm of Hooper & McDonald. On December 25, 1873, Mr. IIoo[ier married hlllen Maria Estes, who was born in Gorham, Me., June 14, 1849. A daughter of Joseph and Maria (lidwards) Pistes, she is a descend- ant in the seventh generation of Richard Estes, her immigrant ancestor, the line being as fol- lows : Richard," Benjamin,' Henry,' Samuel,* Robert,* Joseph,* and Ellen Maria'. Richard ' Estes, a son of Robert and Dorothy Pistes, was b(.)rn in Dover, England, in March, 1647. Leaving his native land in 1684, he airived in Boston on November 27 of that year. A few days later he went to Great Island, now Portsmouth, N.H., where his brother Matthew had been living for two years. In 1693 he was a resident of Salem, Mass. ; and in 1694 he bought a farm in Lynn, Mass. He subse- c[uently made a number of land purchases and sales both in Lynn and Salem. By trade he was a maker of weavers' reeds. He was a very prominent member of the Society of P'riends. In December, 1772, he willed "to the people 'S'"^ NEW ENGLAND LIHRARV OK of God, called Quakers," in Lynn, "24 poles of land for a burial ground and the site of a meeting house." According to the Friends' records of Lynn, Richard lived in ICngland until the eleventh day of the seventh month of 1684, and b\' a certificate from "ye people of God in Newington, East Kent, England," was m. at Dover, N.H., the twenty-third day of the fourth month, 1687, to Elizabeth Heck, of Great Island. Eleven children were born of the union, the se\'enth child being the nc.\t in the line of descent. Benjamin^ Estes was h. in Lynn, Mass., July 10, i6g8, and he d. in 1775. In 1726 or 1727, from his father and mother, he bought one-fourth of an acre of land, a house and barn. In 1743 he was living in lierwick, Me. and in that town, with Joshua 15uffuni, he pur- chased one himdred and twenty-five acres of land. In 1759 he resided in Wells, Me. Ad- ministration on the estate of Benjamin Estes, millwright, late of Berwick, Me., was granted to his son Benjamin, of Wells, February 23, 1775. His wife, Elizabeth, bore him si.x children, Henry being the second in the order of birth. Henrys I^^stes, b. in Berwick, Me., was a miller by trade, and an active member of the Society of Friends. He m. first, April 17, 1745, Mary Varney, of Dover, N. H., who d. leaving nine children. On October 31, 1763, he m. for his second wife Sarah (Peasley) Allen, widow of Jedediah Allen, of Berwick ; and of this union eight children were born. He d. Jul)' 28, 1792. Samuel-' Estes, b. in Berwick, December 8, 1751, d. in May, 1818. Hem. Eunice Cobb, who was b. in 1756, and who d. May 6, 1833. They had nine children, of whom Robert was the second child. Rob- ert = Estes, b. in Windham, Me., April 27, ^m> ^- J'lly 16, 1S72, in Gorham, Me., where he had settled in 1835. On l-"ebruary 20, 1803, he m. Dorcas Chestley, of Windham, who d. November 17, 1S67, having borne him ten children. Joseph'^ Estes, the .second child of Robert and Dorcas Estes, was b. in Windham, h'eb- ruary 3, 1805. During the "Aroostook War " he commanded a company of infantry. He m., July 10, 1S34, Maria, daughter of Samuel Edwards, of Gorham. They had eight chil- dren, as follows: Martha M., who m. William H. Jones, of I-'o.xboro, Mass. ; Albert S., who was a member of Company A, Thirteenth Massachusetts \"oluntcer Infantry, during the Civil War, and was killed at the battle of Manassas, August 29, 1862; Dana, who was a private in the same comijany, was wounded in battle on August 31, 1S62, and in 1872 was at the head of the jniblishing firm of Estes & Lauriat, Boston; Abbie Alfreda, b. in 1S42, who d. July 16, 1862; Mary H., who m. lidward 1'. Pennell; George H., who d. in infancy; Ellen M., who is the wife of Edward A. Hooper; and Harriet A., who is the wife of Albion P. A_\er, of Gorham. Mr. and Mrs. Hooper have two children : James Kimball, born in Portland, Me. ; and lulward A., born in Cambridge, Mass. The family has resided in Cambridge for the past twelve }'ears. Mr. Hooper is a regular attend- ant of St. James's P^piscoiial Church of that city. In politics lie is a Republican. A Mason of thirty years' standing, he is affiliated with Charity Lodge, V. & A. M., of Cam- bridge, and with Cambridge Cha|3ter, R. A., and Cambridge Connnandery, K. T. OHN HP:XRy NORCROSS, formerly a prosperous dry-gootls merchant of Bos- ton, and now li\ing in retirement at IMedford, Mass., was born October 29, 1841, a son of John and lileanor ( Plstabrook) Norcross. On the father's side he is descentled from Henry Norcross of luigland, who in 1573 was inducted into the ))arsonage of Ribchester by the Bishoj) of Chester, and afterward dis- charged the duties of that [position until he re- signed it in 1616. Henry's son Thomas, who was a London merchant, ha\-ing spent his entii^e life in I^ngland, d. there in 1603. Thomas m. Mary, a daughter of Alice Burtlell, and grand- daughter of William Burdell. The children of this marriage were born between the vears 1590 and 1603. Jeremiah' N(.)rcross, the second son of Thomas, was the founder of the Norcross family in America. Having arrived in Salem about the year 1638, he had become a land-owner in Watertown in 1639. He rendered military ser- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 159 vice in King I'hilip's War. hy his marriage with Adrean Smith he became the father of three children — Nathaniel, Richard, and Sarah. Richard/ who was b. in 162 1 in luigland, first m. Mary Brooks, on June 24, 1650. She bore him seven children, of whom the following is a brief record: Mary, b. August 27, 1652, d. in 1 66 1. Jeremiah, b. March 3, 1655, d. unmarried in 17 I 7. Sarah, b. December 28, 1657, m. Jo- seph Child, Jr., on September 23, 16S0. Richard, Jr., b. August 4, 1660, first m. Rose Woodward. They had three children : Richard, b. Decem- ber 30, 1687; Samuel, b. October 4, 1689; and Abagail, b. July 11, 1692. He m. second Han- nahSaunders, and she bore him eight children: John, b. December 28, 1696, d. 1740; Hannah, b. February 16, 1699; Joseph, b. July i, 1701, d. 1789; Jeremiah, b. July 2, 1703 ; George, b. August, 1705, d. 1746; Rose, b. 1708; Peter, b. September 28, 1710, d. 1777; William, b. March 14, 1715, d. 1770. Mary, b. July 10, 1663, became the second wife of John Stevens on April 2, 171 3. Nathaniel, b. December 18, 1665. Samuel, b. May 4, 167 1, died unmarried The mother d. in 1672 ; and the death of Richard' occurred in Watertovvn in 1709, he having sur- vived his second wife, Susanna Shattuck (widow of William Shattuck), who d. December 11, 1 686. Nathaniel' Norcross, son of Richard' and Mary Norcross, first m. Mehitabel Hagar on June 20, 1637 ; and, after her death, April 5, 1691, he m. second Susanna Shattuck, daughter of Dr. Philip Shattuck, on August 5, 1691. The chil- dren of his first marriage were : Mehitabel, b. in 1689, who d. young ; and Mehitabel, b. February 4, 1 69 1, who m. Daniel Li\ermore. He had four children by his second marriage, as follows : Nathaniel, b. December 20, 1695, who m. Je- mima Abbott on December 12, 1717, and be- came the father of thirteen children ; Phili|5, b. March 6, 1698, who m, Sarah Jackson, of New- ton ; Susanna, b. February 26, 1701, who m. Jonathan Benjamin on February i, 1720, and d. in 1735 ; and Thankful, b. at Sudbury, Janu- ary 17, 1709. NathanieP Norcross, Jr., son of Nathaniel and Susanna Norcross, represents the fourth genera- tion of the family in America. The fifth is represented by liis son Josiah, who fought in both the F"rench and Indian War and the War of Independence, and was present at the battle of Lexington. Born at Watertown in 1734, he m. Elizabeth Child on June 6, 1767; and he d. in 1801. Josiah 's wife, who had borne him nine children, d. on July 30 of the same year. His son John,* b. May 27, 1770, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, bore the reputation of being the most athletic man in Brighton. He wedded Margaret Everett, of Cambridge, by whom he became the father of four children. His first two children died in in- fancy. The others were : John, b. September 28, 1803; and Anna Margaret, b. in 1805, who m. John English, of Brighton. The mother, who survived the father twenty years, d. in 1843. The ancestral line of John Henry Norcross on the maternal side has been carried back to the year 1640. His mother, Eleanor, who re- sided in West Cambridge, now Arlington, be- fore her marriage, was a daughter of Eliakim and Hannah (Cook) Estabrook. Her par- ents were married September 7, 1793. Hannah Estabrook, in maidenhood Hannah Crosby Cook, was one of the seven children of Ephraim and Hannah Cook, of West Cambridge. Elia- kim, b. in Lexington, October 18, 1773, was a son of Nehcmiah and Elizabeth ( Winship) Esta- brook, who were married March i, 1759. Eliza- beth was b. October g, 1740, daughter of Sam- uel and Hannah Winship. Nehemiah served in the French War in 1755. In 1777 he removed from Lexington to Lunenburg, whence he subse- quently went to West Cambridge. His death occurred in Hopkinton, N.H., October 16, 1S12. Born at Lexington on March 2, 1735, he was a son of John and Prudence (Harrington) Esta- brook, who were married October 27, 1720. After John's death, June 19, 1742, his widow married Benjamin Monroe, of Weston. He served the community in the capacity of Con- stable. Born July 28, 1694, he was a son of Josej^h and Meliccnt (Brooks) Estabrook, who were married December 31, 1689, at Cambridge Farms. Melicent was a daugh- ter of Henry W. Brooks, of Connecticut. Joseph, who was a man of more than ordinary ability and education, commanded a military company, served in nearly all the town offices in i6o NEW ENGLAND LIHRARY OI Concord, and as a Representative in the Gen- eral Court. Born in Concord, May 6, 1669, he was a st)n of the Rev. Joseph and Mary (Mason) Kstabrook, who were married in 1668. Mary was a daughter of Captain Hugh and Esther Mason. He was the pastor of the Congrega- tional church from 1696 until 171 1. For the three years immediately preceding that period, he was the colleague of the Rev. Edward Bulk- ley in the pastorate of Concord, having been duly ordained for service in that capacity. In 1664 he was graduated at Harvard College, which he had been able to enter after his ar- rival in the country in 1660, because of pre- vious preparation in England. His earlier life was spent in Middlesex, England, where he was b. in 1640. John' Norcross, father of John Henry, was a native of Brighton, Mass. For many years he followed the occupation of farmer in Weston. Later in life, he became the railroad station agent at East Lexington. An esteemed mem- ber of the liaptist church, he was quite active in its affairs. He d. August 15, 18S5. His marriage with l"21eanor Estabrook took place on April 22, 1826. l^esides John Henry, they had three other children, namely: Eleanor Mar- garet, b. January 13, 1827; Eliza Judson, b. July 27, 1830; and Samuel Townsend, b. September 5, 1834, who was murdered at Altoona, Penn., Januar)' 15, 1857. Eleanor Margaret's first marriage was contracted De- cember 14, 1 84S, with James Prentiss, who d. in Arlington in 1855. A second marriage united her, in 1866, with Warren Marsh, of Waltham, where she resided until her death, November 30, 1900. Eliza Judson on Sep- tember 15, 1856, m. Leroy Chappell, of Forestville, N.C. , of which place they are now residents. Mrs. Eleanor Kstabrook Norcross d. February 7, 1873. After finishing his education in the high school of Lexington, John Henry Norcross obtained a subordinate position in the dry-goods store of J. H. A. Heakl, in that town. Having spent a year there, he worked for Thomas W. Savage, of Medford, dry-goods merchant, in the capacities of salesman and book-keeper for two years. The next two years were sj^ent in Portsmouth, N.H., in the same business, as salesman for W'. B. Trask. In 1863 he came to Boston as salesman for Lewis Coleman & Co. ; and five years later he became a member of the firm, which, howe\'er, retained the same name. This connection had lasted fifteen )'ears, in which period the firm had done a large and profitable business, when on Jan- uar)' I, 18S3, he retired. In that year he in- dulged himself with a trip abroad, during which he visited England, Scotland, Ireland, and the continent of Europe, going as far as Russia. In 18S4 he entered the retail dry-goods busi- ness in Boston, as a member of the firm of Brine & Norcross. Besides a number of stores in Boston, the firm conducted stores in Springfield, Mass., and Manchester, N. H. After seven years the copartnership was dis- solved. Mr. Norcros.s, however, continued in the business on his own account until 1897, when he finally retired. In the same year he was appointed by Piesident McKinley Post- master of Medford. Previous to this appoint- ment, Mr. Norcross had served the town of Medford in the offices of Selectman, Overseer of the Poor, Assessor, for twenty-one years was on the Sinking Fund Commission, Highway Sur- veyor, and Auditor. In 1888 and 1889 he was elected without opposition to the Legislature, where he served on the Finance Committee. For many years he has been a member and a trus- tee of the Mt. Herman Lodge, F. A. M. , of Med- ford, having membership in the Mystic Royal Arch Chapter, Medford Council, R. S. M., and Boston Commandery, K. T. He is a thirty- second degree Mason, ha\'ing taken all the degrees of the Scottish Rite. He has been a director of the Medford Savings Bank for twenty-five years. He was one of the organ- izers and is the \ ice-president of the Medford Co-operative Bank, and he was one of the organ- izers and is a member of the Medford Club. On June 6, 1866, Mr. Norcross was married to Cynthia Josephine White, daughter of Cap- tain John Thomas and Mary (Chadbourne) White, of Medford. Their children are : Charles Merrill, born March 21, 1867; lulith Gertrude, born April 7, 1870; I^leanor Josephine, born October 4, 1874; and Theodore White, born June 25, 1883. Charles Merrill, who was edu- cated in Medfortl and is now engaged in the GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 163 advertising business in Boston, married Louisa G. Markliam, of Boston, on September 15, 1899. I'^dith Gertrude, who was education in the Med- ford schools and at the Bradford Academy, Massachusetts, is confidential secretary for J. W. Baer, the general secretary of the National Christian Lndeavor Society. Eleanor Josephine, who was a pupil of the Medford schools and of a private school in Boston, married on Decem- ber 9, 1896, Philip Josiah Teel, of Medford. They have one son, Norcross Teel, born November 7, 1897. Theodore White, hav- ing jjassed through the high school of Med- ford, is now a student of Tufts College, class of 1904. ENJAMIN CHAMPNEY, artist, 1 •N \ ^^'"'O-'''^ paintings were exhibited at i'--^ i the Paris Salon as early as 1844, is now, in liis eighty-fourth year, still working at his easel with unabated enthusiasm, deftly using his pen, too, within the last dec- ade, to jot down for publication "Sixty Years' Memories of Art and Artists," a book that takes the leader back to Washington Allston, then a living, gracious presence, since whom, it says, has arisen in our country no one who has equalled him in all the qualities that go to make up a great painter. Mr. Champney thus stands as a connecting link between colorists of a considerably remote past and the younger generation of American artists. It is the purpose of the following sketch to notice some of his antecedents and present a brief outline of his career. Mr. Champney is a native of New Ipswich, N. H., but almost if not all his early ancestors in New England were of the Massachusetts ]^ay Colony. Born November 20, 181 7, son of Benjamin, Sr. , and Rebecca (Brooks) Champ- ney, he is a descendant in the seventh genera- tion of Richard Champney, who came to New England from Lancashire in 1635, and settled at Cambridge. The following records show the Champney line of ancestry: Richard' was Ruling Elder of the Cambridge church; Dan- iel,' b. in 1644, m. Dorcas Bridge; Daniel, Jr.,' m. ]?ethiah Phipps; Solomon, ■* b. in 1702, m. Elizabeth Cunningham, served as a soldier at Castle William, Boston Harbor, and d. in 1760; Ebenezer, 5 b. in 1744, was gradu- ated at Harvard College in 1762, m. at Groton, Mass., in 1764, Abigail Trowbridge, and was the father of Benjamin, Sr. ," mentioned above. Dorcas ]3ridge, the wife of Daniel Champney, was a grand-daughter of Deacon John' Bridge, whose services to the Bay Colony are com- memorated by a bronze statue on the Cam- bridge Common. Bethiah, wife of Daniel Champney, Jr., was the daughter of Solo- mon and Mary (Danforth) Phipps and grand- daughter of the Hon. Thomas Danforth, of Cambridge, who was ten years Deputy Gov- ernor of the Colony and nineteen years treas- urer of Harvard College, and who held other public offices. The Hon. Ebenezer Champney, grandfather of the artist, prepared for the ministry, preached for two years, then studied law, was admitted to the bar at Portsmouth, and in 1768 settled at New Ipswich, N. H. Removing to Groton, Mass., in 1783, he served as Repre- sentative to the General Court in 1784, and was commissioned Justice of Peace by Gov- ernor Hancock. In 1789, he returned to New Ipswich, and in 1795 was made Judge of Pro- bate for Hillsborough County, New Hamp- shire. He d. in 1810. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Abigail Trowbridge, he had seven children, three of whom d. in infancy; and by his second wife, Abigail Parker, he had four children. His third wife was Susan Wyman. Mr. Champney's paternal grandmother, the first of the three wives, was a daughter of the Rev. Caleb and Hannah (Walter) Trowbridge. The Rev. Caleb Trowbridge (Harvard College, 1710) d. at Groton in 1760, in the sixty-ninth year of his age and the forty-sixth of his min- istry. He was the fourteenth and youngest child of Deacon James Trowbridge, of New- ton, and grandson of Thomas' Trowbridge, who came from Taunton, England, sojourned for a few years at Dorchester, Mass., and in 1 64 I removed to New Haven. Deacon James Trowbridge m. a daughter of Deacon John Jackson, of Newton. Hannah Walter, second wife of the Rev. Caleb Trowbridge and great- grandmother to Mr. Champney, was a daughter 164 NKVV KNGLANI) I.IHRAR\' OF of the Rev. Nehemiah and Sarah (Mather) Walter, of Roxbury. Her father, a nati\'e of YoLighall, Irelanil, was graduated at Harvard College in 1684, and ordained in 1688 as a colleague with the Rev. John Eliot at Ro.\- bury, Mass. Mrs. Walter was a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Increase Mather and his first wife, Maria, daughter of the Rev. John Cot- ton, of Boston. She was the fifth in a faniil)' of ten children, of whom the famous Cotton Mather was the eldest. Dr. Increase Mather was pastor of the Second Church, Boston, for- merly known as the North Church, from May 27, 1664, till his death in 1723, and president of Harvard College 16S4-1701. His father, the Rev. Richard Mather, the founder of the Mather family in New England, was a native of Lowton, Winwick Parish, Lancashire. He landed in Boston in August, 1635, became pastor of the church at Dorchester, and d. there in 1669. Benjamin Champney, Sr. , b. in 1764, son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Trowbridge) Champ- ney, studied law in his father's office after the removal to Groton, and subsequently engaged in [practice in th.it town, returning, however, in 1792 to New I|)swich. ]-"or twenty years he was the president of the Hillsborough County bar. He was one of the original proprietors in I S04 of the first cotton factory of New Ips- wich. Esquire Champney, as he was known, was well read in English literature and in his profession. Uniformly coiu-teous and kindly, he was a public-spirited citizen and much re- spected. For a number of years he was post- master of New Ipswich, succeeding his father in charge of the office. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, and was connected with the State militia. For years he led the choir of the Congregational church at New Ipswich. He d. in May, 1826, at about sixty-three years of age. His first wife, Mercy Parker, d. in '795. leaving one son, his namesake, who tl. in 18 1 3, and one daughter, Sarah, who d. in 1864. His second wife, Rebecca Brooks, whom he m. in October, 1809, d. in Au- gust, 1849. She was the daughter of Solomon Brooks, of Lincoln, Mass. Seven children were b. to Benjamin and Rebecca B. Champ- ney, namely ; Edward Walter and George Mather, both deceased; Maria Louisa, who m. Francis K. Craigin; Ellen Douglas, who m. John Clough; Benjamin, the artist; Mar)' Jane, who d. in the eighteenth year of her age; and Henry Trowljridge, of New York City. l{squire Champney having been unfortunate in business, Mrs. Rebecca Champney at his death was left with but slender means for the support of her famil)-. Bra\-e and diligent, she brought up her children, gi\'ing them a fair education and training them to be useful. When Benjamin was ten years old, he went to Lebanon, eighty miles away, to live with an aunt, Mrs. Bugbee, and her husband, who had already ado])ted his yoimger sister, Mary Jane. At Lebanon he was soon set to work in a cot-, ton-mill owned by his uncle. For twelve weeks in the winter season he attended the tlistrict school, whose methods of teaching, as he recollects, were conducive to indejiendence of thought and character. His sister Mary Jane, like himself, had a natural taste for drawing, and together they passed many happy hours with "stubs of jiencils and scraps of pa]3er, " in this form of art giving expression to their ideas. Two of his boy friends at Leb- anon, older than himself, became cadets at West Point, and for two or three years it was his great ambition to follow their example. Returning to New Is[)\vich when he was four- teen, he fitted himself by attending the acad- emy there, but failed to receive the desired a])pointment. About this time, 1834, II. L. Daggett, shoe dealer of Boston, was in need of a shop boy; and Benjamin Champnc)', coming to the city by stage-coach, went to work for him in that capacity. Attracted to a neighboring litho- graphic establishment, he made frienils with a sujierior draughtsman, Robert Cooke, who encouraged him to draw and gave him helpful instruction; and after a while he left the shoe store and was admitted an apprentice to Moore in the lithographic business. To this he de- voted a year after the close of his ap[irent ice- ship, and then began his real life work, taking a studio with Cooke, who became a successful portrait painter. Among the few artists at that time in Boston were Alvan I-'isher, GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 165 George L. Brown, Joseph Ames, and Henry Willard, "all struggling )()ung men, experi- menting as they could in colors and looking up to Washington Allstnn as the great master, as indeed he was. " Saving their earnings, Mr. Champney and his friend Cooke were enabled to carry out in 1 84 1 their long-cherished plan, approved by Allston, of going to Paris. Received with kindness by the prosperous Healcy, they began their studies in the Boudiii atelier, working there mornings from si.x o'clock till eleven, and then going to the Louvre. Here Mr. Cham])ney made copies from Claude Lorraine, Joseph Vernet, and Ruysdael ; and these, together with an original painting, he sent to his brothers to be disposed of in Boston. The acceptance of three pictures, Normandy studies, that he sent to the Salon in 1844, was a great joy to the young artist. Another year he "sent two pictures, and was very well placed." In company with an artist friend, John F. Kensett, in 1845 lie visited Switzer- land and Italy, spending six weeks in Rome and its x'icinit}', sketching and painting. In the fall of 1S46 he returned to Boston and took a studio in Tremont Temijic. A year or two later he again went abioad to make sketches for a panorama of the Rhine, which, with the help of Charles Hugo and others, he painted in Paris. This picture was ex- hibited in Boston in the winter of 1848-49, and was admired by the best judges, but was not a success here or afterward in New York from a money point of view. It was finally burned in the Crystal Palace, New York, in 1853- In 1850, in company with Kensett, Mr. Champney made his first visit to North Con- wa)', N. H., then almost unknown, but shortl)- to become a favorite resort of landscaiie artists. Delighted with the scenery and returning thither again and again, in 1S53, the year of his marriage, he bought a house, which lie first occupied with his wife in the summer of 1854. In the autumn of 1855 the spacious studio, a transformed carpenter's shop belonging to the place, was dedicated to its new use by a re- union of friends and a speech by Deacon Greeley, of Boston. With the exception of the period of his third visit to Europe, 1865-66, Mr. Champney has spent a large part of every year (usually May to November) in the North Conway summer home, rendered picturesque and charming by the stately growth of trees of his own jilanting and a rich jjrofusion of flowers and vines. As for the surrounding country, as he fond]}' says, every sketch of view is dear to him. Few, if any, know it more familiarly or have given more earnest, loving diligence, with pencil or brush in hand, as attested by many glowing canvases, both landscapes and flower paintings, to what he calls the "struggle of solving Nature's mys- teries of life and color." With one of his early paintings of that region, a sunset view, Starr King was so much pleased that his pa- rishioners ]3nrchased it for him. Mr. Champney is one of the original mem- bers, and was the second president, of the Bos- ton Art Club, which was founded in 1855. His book of "Memories," with its interesting autobiographic detail and valuable notes on American and foreign art and artists, bears the stamji of sincerity and of high-minded jjatriotism. It is attractively illustrated with portraits and landscajies. Mr. Champney is a resident of Woburn, but has his winter studio in Boston on Bromfield Street. He was married July 6, 1853, to Miss Mary Caroline Brooks, a distant kinswoman, who was born at Mount Pleasant, Ind. , and was a daughter of Daniel and Miriam Brooks. Mrs. Mary Brooks Champney died in 1876. She was the mother of four children, namely: Kensett, born December 15, 1854; Grace, born in 1856, who died at the age of six and a half years; Edith, born in 1859, and died in 1861 ; and Alice, born December 14, 1869. June 26, 1879, Mr. Ciiampney married Mrs. Marga- ret Stevenson, a native of Scotland. She died in November, 1895. Kensett, Mr. Champ- ney's only son, is a coffee planter in Guate- mala, Central America. Alice Chamjjney was married in 1896 to Arthur C. Wyer, of Woburn. Mr. and Mrs. Wyer make their home with Mr. Champney in Woburn, pass- ing the summer season at North Conway. They have one child, Alice Brooks, born July 27, 1898. i66 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF SCAR CLOUGH LOUGEE, a resi- dent of Cambridge, was born Febru- ary 27, 1850, son of Parker Morgan and Mercy Elizabeth (Clough) Lou- gee. He is a descendant in the sixth genera- tion of John' Lougee, a native of the Isle of Jersey, by trade a knitter, who came to New England during Queen Anne's War, he being then eighteen years old. He settled at P~xeter, N.H. In 1 710 he was captured by Indians and taken to Canada and thence, as stated in the History of Exeter, to England. Five or six years later he returned to Exeter. "At a town meeting held April 12, 1725, it was voted that John Lougee be granted 30 acres of land, but to wait 10 years. " He d. in Exe- ter at the age of seventy-seven years. He m., about 1720, Mary, daughter of Colonel Moses Gilman, of New Market, N.H. Their chil- dren were: John, Joseph, Moses, Edmund, Gilman, Shuah, Anna, and Joanna. Toward the close of the eighteenth century the following named members of the Lougee family of New Hampshire — Josiah, Jona- than, William, Hannah, Josiah, Jr., Dolly, Betsey, Lydia or Cynthia, Betty, and Mercy — Joined the Shaker community at East Canter- bury. From John' Lougee the line of descent to Oscar C. Lougee is through Edmund,-' Jona- than, ^'■' and Parker Morgan'. Edmund' Lou- gee (b. in 1 73 1, d. June 3, 1807) m. Hannah Fletcher, who was b. in 1735, and d. in 1790. Of their children the only record at hand is that of Jonathan,^ b. May 23, 1757, d. July 19, 1817. Jonathan' Lougee m. Elizabeth Fletcher (b. September 16, 1759, d. April 10, 1805), and their children were: Jonathan, ^ David, John, Joseph, Betsey, and Nancy, the eldest b. in 1782 and the youngest in 1805. Jonathan^ Lougee (b. April 29, 1782, d. March 19, 1863) was twice m., his first wife being Hannah Barnard (b. December 15, 1786, d. August II, 1816). Their children were: John M., b. July 25, 18 10, d. March 19, 1S59; and Asa, b. May 9, 181 3, d. December 5, 1835. For his second wife he m. Mrs. Betsey Morgan Hewitt (b. January 18, 1789, d. Sep- tember 26, 1877), daughter of Parker-* and Betsey (Sanborn) Morgan and widow of Gil- bert Hewitt. She was probably a descendant of an early settler of Exeter, bearing the name Morgan, who, it is thought, came over about the year 1670. "Dixon on Surnames" (Boston, 1857) thus translates Morgan: "(Welsh) By Sea, or By the Sea," and in supplement (1858) adds that "Big Head is the better interjaretation. " Others attribute its origin to the Anglo-Saxon word Morgen or Morgan, meaning morning. Morgan, a monk of Bangor, Wales, whose name was Latinized as Pelagius, was the author of the Pelagian heresy, about a. n. 360. There were princes and petty kings of the name in Wales several centuries prior to the Norman Conquest, and to one of these kings, Morgan of Glamorgan, is accredited the invention, or at least the adoption, in about the year 725, of trials by jury, which he called the Apostolic Law. In the Registry of Deeds at Exeter, N.H., may be found the record of a conveyance of one hundred acres of land from Richard Morgan to Peter Coffin, dated May, 1690, said land con- taining a mill known as the Morgan mill. It is reasonable, therefore, to suppose that the Richard Morgan above mentioned was the emi- grant, and that he settled permanently in that part of E.xeter now known as Brei-itwood. "Jan. 31, 1 68 1, Richard Morgan was granted 60 acres of land in the town of Exeter." "Feb. 21, 1698, Richard Morgan, Sr. , was granted 100 acres, and Richard Morgan, Jr., 50 acres." "Aug. 3 to 31, 1696, Richard Morgan, Jr., with 9 others, served in the garri- son at Oyster River, and Richard, Sr. , from Oct. 26 to Nov. 9. " John- Morgan, of Brentwood, probably a son of Richard,' m. a Powell, and had three sons, of whom two, John' and .Simeon, grew to man- hood. John' Morgan was a lifelong resident of Brentwood. But two weeks intervened be- tween his death (in 1786) and that of his brother Simeon. He was a prosperous farmer, and acquired considerable local distinction for agricultural proficiency and the superior neat- ness of his premises. He m. Abigail Go\e, of Salisbury, Mass. Their children were: Joanna, b. in 1752, d. in 1839, m. John Bryer; David, b. in 1755, settled in Hallo- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAI, HISTORY 167 well, Mc. , m., and renred a family; Parker, a Revolutionary soldier, further mentioned below; Judith, b. in 1761, ni. Barzillai Beedy, and lived in Vermont; Elizabeth, b. in 1764, m. Benjamin Smith, and lived in Bridgewater, N. H. ; and Abigail, who m., and also lived in Bridgewater. Mrs. Abigail Gove Morgan d. at the home of her daughter Abigail in 1822. Parker-' Morgan was b. in Brentwood, De- cember 12, 1757. In his youth he served an ap]3renticeship to the twofold trade of car- penter and cabinet-maker with Ebenezer Clif- ford in Kensington, N. H. In 1776 he en- listed at Winter Hill, Mass., as a private in Caiitain W'inborn Adams's company, Colonel Enoch Poor's regiment. New Hampshire Vol- unteers, for one year's service in the Revolu- tionary War, in which he proved himself a brave soldier, and participated in the cam- paign under General Gates, which resulted in the surrender of General Burgoyne. While his regiment was occup}'iiig an e.xposed position in the field at Stillwater on October 7, 1777, he was struck in tlie chin by a grapeshot from one of the enemy's field-pieces. Although the wound bled profusely, he persisted in remain- ing at his post until his twenty-four rounds of ammunition were exhausted ; and, when the order was given for his regiment to charge, he pressed forward with his comrades, capturing the gun which had so nearly caused his death, and at the point of the bayonet compelling the enemy to surrender after they had been driven into their fort. After his discharge from the army he shipped on board the American pri- vateer "General Mififlin," commanded by Cap- tain McMae; and during a cruise, which ex- tended east to the Bay of Biscay and north to the coast of Greenland, they captured thirteen British jirizes, including a man-of-war. Aban- doning the sea, he followed his trade in Ken- sington, P-xeter, Portsmouth, and other places. P'rom 1783 to 1800 he owned and occuiiied a homestead in Kensington, whence lie removed to Gilmanton, where for the next twenty-four years he divided his time between the pursuit of his trade and the cultivation of a farm. In 1S24 he leased his projierty and took u]5 his residence at Meredith Bridge, N.PI. His death at the last-?iamed place, October 24, 1824, was caused b)' pulmonary disease of long standing. Pie was temperate in all his habits and highly respected as an upright, conscientious, and religious man, being a mem- ber of tiic Congregational church. The following conununication will prove in- teresting to the descendants of Parker Morgan, as it substantiates his war record beyond all question : — IJr.r.\RTMi:.\T of thi; Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington. D.C, January 28, 1899. " Sn; — In response to your recent commu- nication you are advised that Parker Morgan made an application for pension on April 23, 1818, at which time he was fift\-nine years of age and residing at Gilmanton, N. H. ; and his pension was allowed for one year's actual ser- vice as a private in the New Hampshire troops, Revolutionary War. He enlisted at Winter Hill, Mass., and served under Captain Win- born Adams and Colonel Poor. "His widow, Betsey, made application and received a pension for the service of her hus- band as above set forth. "Very respectfully, "H. Clay Evans, Cojiniiissionci: On June 7, 1781, Parker Morgan m. Betsey Sanborn (b. P'ebrunry 28, 1763, d. September 30, 183S), daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Sanborn, of Kensington. She was a descend- ant in the fifth generation of John' Sanborn, who is said to have come to New PIngland with his maternal grandfather, the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, and his brothers, William and Ste- phen, in 1632. They were sons of "an Eng- lish Samborne, " then deceased ("j^robably William of Brimpton," says the famih' gene- alogist, others naming him as "John Sam- borne "), and his wife, Ann Bachiler. Lieutenant John' Sanborn, who was b. in England in 1620, settled at Hampton, N.H., where he owned a house lot as early as 1644. He was a Lieutenant in the militia. His first wife, Mary, daughter of Robert Tuck, of Hamp- ton, d. in 1668. In 1671 he m. widow Mar- garet Moulton, daughter of Robert Page, of i68 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Hampton. Nathaniel' Sanborn, who was b. in Hampton, N.H., January 27, 1666, m. Re- becca Prescott for his first wife and Sarah Nason for his second. Richard' Sanborn, b. in Kensington, February 27, 1693, d. Septem- ber 14, 1773, m. January 21, 1713, Elizabeth Batchelder, who d. January 20, 1753; m., second, July 13, 1753, Judith, daughter of Eben- ezer Gove, of Hampton, ant! widow of Captain Jonathan Prescott. His son, Richard-" Sanborn, b. in Kensington, February 23, 1737, d. May 5, 1S17. On June 24, 1762, he m. Mrs. Eliza- beth Tilton Prescott, widow of John I'rescott. She was b. November 20, 1735, daughter of Sherburn and Anna (Hilliard) Tilton. She d. (anuary 10, 1805. The children of Richard-* and PZlizabeth Sanborn were; Betsey, who m. Parker Morgan, as previously mentioned; Hil- liard (b. March 15, 1765, d. in Kensington, May 20, 1836), m. March 14, 1791, Sarah Tilton, of Hampton Falls; Anne (b. January 22, 1768, d. March 15, 1S52), m. first Thomas Cook and second John Potter, both of Ken- sington; and Jeremiah (b. April 29, 1772, d. June 3, 1854), m. Tabitha Tuck, of Kensing- ton, September 16, 1796. Parker and Betsey Morgan were the jiarents of eight children (b. 1782-1805) ; namely, John, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, Tappan, Nancy, Charles, Fanny, and John Tappan. Elizabeth m. for her second husband Jonathan Lougee, as before mentioned. Mrs. 1-ietsey Morgan, the mother of these children, spent her declining years at the home of her son Charles, and her death occurred in Moultonboro, N.H. She was one of those noble, self-sacrificing women who suffered patiently the hardships made necessary by the national struggle for independence, and was especially distinguished among her neigh- bors for her benevolence and piety. F^lizabeth Morgan m. for her first husband Gilbert Hewitt (b. June 4, 1783, d. Septem- ber 26, I Si 1), by whom she had two children, namely: Alfred G., b. December 12, 1S08, d. March 26, 1S23; and Elizabeth A., b. Oc- tober 7, iSio, d. September 10, 1846. Of her union with Jonathan^ Lougee, which took place in November, 1816, there were three children, namely; Charles T. , b. June 15, 1819, d. February 26, 1872; Parker Morgan Lougee, b. January 18, 1S24; and Nancy M., b. January 10, 1826. Parker Morgan' Lougee, Oscar C. Lougee's father, resides in Newburyport. On March 5, 1849, he m. Mercy Elizabeth Clough, who was b. in Gilmanton, October 3, 1827, and d. Au- gust 9, 1899. She was a daughter of Stephen Sanborn and Betsey Marston (Heath) Clough, the latter a native of Malone, N. Y. Mercy Elizabeth Clough was a descendant in the eighth generation of John' Clough (Thomas,- Samuel, ^"-t-s Stephen," Stephen San- born,' and Mercy E.*). John' Clough, house carpenter, who was b. in F2ngland about the year 1613, probably came over in the "Eliza- beth " in 1635. Settling in Salisbury, Mass., he shared in the first distribution of land (1638-39), and also received another grant in 1640. He d. July 26, 1691. His first wife, Jane, d. January 16, 1680; and on January 15, 1686, he m. for his second wife Martha Cilley (or Sibley). She was li\'ing in 1692. His children, all by his first wife, were: PHizabeth, b. 1642, who m. a Mr. Llorne; Mary, who d. young; Sarah, m. Daniel Merrill; John, who ni. Mercy Page; Thon-ias,- the next in line of descent; Martha, whom. Cornelius Page; and Samuel, b. P'ebruary, 1656-7, who m. Eliza- beth ]-5rown. Thomas- Clough (b. May 29, 165 1) m. for his first wife, March 10, 1680, Hannah Gile, who d. January 22, 16S3, leav- ing two sons — Samuel and Thomas. In 1687 he m. for his second wife Ruth Connor, and their children were: Jeremiah, libenezer (d. young), Ebenezer (second), Zaccheus, Isaac, Rebecca, Hannah, Judith, Martha, Jethro, and Tabitha, the youngest b. in 1707. SamueP Clough, b. December 5, 1680, d. before 1728. He was survived by his wife, Sarah, and eight children ; namely, Theophi- lus (b. 1703), Anna, Abigail, Samuel, Daniel, Sarah, Mehitable, and Miriam. A son Elipha- let d. 1706. Samuel* Clough, b. April 15, 1 7 14, m. Sarah , and was the father of eleven children, b. 1735-58; namely, Sam- uel, Mehitable, Samuel (second), Miriam, Abner, Sarah, Jonathan, Isaiah, Daniel, Anna, and Abel. SamueP Clough (b. March 10, 1740) went from Salisbury to Gilmanton, N.H., in 1768, and was subsequently followed GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 17' by his brothers, Daniel, Lsaiah, and Abner. All were pioneers in that section, and their farms adjoined. Samuel' m. Mehitable Dudley, who was b. in Exeter in 1752, daughter of Stephen' and Hannah (Sanborn) Dudley. She was a de- scendant in the sixth generation of Thomas' Dudley, who came to Massachusetts in 1630 as Deputy Governor, was made Governor in 1634, 1640, 1645, and 1650, and d. in 1652. He is said to have been b. in Northampton, England, about 1576, son of Captain Roger Dudley. The Rev. Samuel- Dudley, son of Governor Thomas, settled in Exeter, N.H., in 1650, and d. there in 1683, aged seventy-seven years. By his first wife, Mary, daughter of Governor Winthrop, he had five children; by his second wife, Mary Byley, five; and by his third wife, Elizabeth, he had eight, one of them being Stephen, Mvho was b. at E.xeter, N.H. Ste- phen' Dudley m. December 24, 1684, Sarah, daughter of the Hon. John Gilman. Of this union there were eleven children — Samuel, Stephen, James, John, Nicholas, Joanna, True- worthy, Joseph, Abigail, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Stephen'' Dudley m. Sarah Davison, and their children were: Samuel, Stephen, Davidson, Margaret, Sarah, Joanna, and Abigail. Dea- con Stephen' Dudley, b. October 14, 1724, re- moved to Gilmanton in 1764. He m. in 1745 Hannah Sanborn, daughter of John Sanborn, of North Hampton, N.H. Of this union there were eight children; namely, Nicholas, John, Samuel, Mehitable, Daniel, Stephen, Sarah, and Peter. The children of Samuel' and Mehitable (Dudley) Clough were b. in Gilmanton. Their son, Stephen'' Clough, m. Mercy San- born, a daughter of Richard Sanborn, and had five children, namely; Sarah and Mehitable, who d. in infancy; Samuel, who d. aged twenty-one years ; Stephen Sanborn; and Abi- gail. Stephen .Sanborn- Clough m. Betsey Marston Heath, and their children were: Mercy Elizabeth,'' who m. Parker M. Lougee, as stated above; and Martha Grace, who m. Sylvester L. Brown, of Seabrook, N.H. Parker M. and Mercy E. Lougee were the parents of three children : Oscar Clough, who will be again referred to; Thesta Grace, who wash. March 13, 1852, and d. July 12, 1854; and Cora Belle, who was b. March 4, i860. Oscar Clough'' Lougee married for his first wife, March 16, 1872, Martha A. Howe, daughter of John B. Howe, of Rochester, N.IL His second wife, whom he married January 12, 1 88 1, was Helen M. Creasey, daughter of Encjch and Eliza Creasey, of New- buryport, Mass. She died January 30, 1890. Of this union there is one son — Chester Ar- thur Lougee, born November 16, 1881. His present wife, in maidenhood Carrie E. Leach, whom he married October 24, 1893, is a native of Lawrence. Mass., and a daughter of William H. and Annie Leach. She is the mother of one son — William Parker Lougee, born May 10, 1896. Mr. O. C. Lougee was a member of the City Council of Newburyport in 18S7. A Free Mason, he belongs to St. Mark's Lodge, F. & A. M., of Newburyport; King Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M. ; and Newburyport Commandery, K. T. Lie is also a prominent member of the L O. O. F. , being District Deputy Grand Master of District Four of Massachusetts and of Crusader Commandery, Knights of Malta, iif Cambridge. A Republican in politics, Mr. Lougee served thirteen years in the Massa- chusetts \'oluntecr Militia, during which time he was twice commissioned Cajitain. Lie was honorably discharged, March, 1S86. ^ATHANIKL JOHNSON RUST, who occupies a place in the front rank of is V Boston's representative business men, is a nati\'e of the Pine Tree State, having been born in Gorham, Cumber- land County, November 28, 1833, a son of Meshach and Martha (Frost) Rust. He is of pure New England ancestry, dating back seven generations to Henry' Rust, the immigrant progenitor of the family, who, about 1633 or 1635, came from Hingham, Norfolkshire, Eng- land, and settled at Hingham, Mass. Of this early ancestor of Mr. Rust's but little is known. His son Nathaniel," who was bap- tized in 'Hingham, Mass., February 2, 1639- 40, removed in early life to Ipswich, where he engaged in the manufacture of gloves, and I?: NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF was known as "Nathaniel, the Glover." He d. December 23, 17 13- His wife, Mary VVardell, who was b. in 1644 in Boston, and who was a daughter of William Wardell, sur- vived him six years or more, her death occur- ring in 1720. Their son. Lieutenant Nathaniel' Rust, next in line of descent, was b. March 16, 1667, and cl. September g, 171 i. He m. February 22, 1684, Joanna, daughter of Quartermaster Rob- ert Kinsman, her father being a son of Robert and Mary (Boreman) Kinsman. She was b. April 25, 1665, and d. January 28, 1733. Their son, the ]\.ev. Henrys Rust, was b. in Ipswich, Mass., in 16S6, was graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1707, and in April, 171S, was settled as the first minister at Stratham, N. H., where he remained for thirty-seven years. His wife, Anna, whom he m. about 1719, was a daughter of Colonel Richard and Eleanor (Vaughan) Waldron. She was b. August 2"] , 1698, and d. May 20, 1733. His death took place Marcli 20, 1749. Colonel Henry' Rust, son of the Rev. Henry, was b. in Stratham, N.H., January 22, 1726. He was the only one among the original pro- prietors of Wolfboro, N.H., to make a perma- nent home in that place. In 1773 he was appointed Judge of I'robate under the Crown. His death occurred i\Iarch 17, 1807. His wife, Ann Harvey, who was from Portsmouth, N.H., followed him to the grax'e within a few weeks, dying June 1 1 of the same year. They were the parents of William,'' b. at Portsmouth, N.H., August 7, 1765, who was grandfatlier of the subject of this sketch. William'' Rust, by occupation a farmer, was thrice m. : first, on December 3, 17S7, to Han- nah Marble, who was b. January 15, 1760, a daughter of .Samuel Marble, of .Stratham, N. H., antl d. at Wolfboro, August 4, 1802; second, to Siisannah Rollins Melvin, a widow, who was b. December 25, 1768, and d. October 8, 1815; and third, on March 3, 1819, to Mrs. Nancy Wedgewood, daughter of Joshua Haley and widow of Lot Wedgewood, of Parsonfield, Me. .She was b. .September 2, 1780, and d. August 4, 1845. William Rust's children were: William, Jr., I>. June 1, 17SS; Nathaniel, b. .September 9, 1790; Sarah, b. December 15, 1793; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, triplets, b. August 20, 1796; and Hannah, b, l'"ebruary 28, 1801. Shadrach Rust d. h'ebruary 2, 1797. The father of these children d. .September 5, 1851, and William, Jr., d. .September 25, 1848. Abednego Rust m. Hannah Meyhew. Meshach Rust, the date of whose nati\'ity has been given above, was a tailor. He m. for his first wife Novembei' 25, 1821, Martha Frost, of Gorham, Me. She was b. L'ebruary 12, 1803, a daughter of Nathaniel and Content (Hamblin) ]""rost. .She bore her husband five children, namely: William A]Dpleton, b. June 22, 1823, now a resident of Boston; Martha Ann, b. November 3, 1825, w!io d. August 5, 1832; Sarah Jane, b. January 21, 1S2S; Susan Maria, b. March 15, 1830, who d. September 15, 1832; and Nathaniel Johnson, the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Martha Frost Rust d. March 25, 1835. . Mr. Rust m. for his second wife, July ij , 1S36, Sally Waterhouse. The children of this marriage were: Charles Oli- ver, b. April 21, 1837, who d. January 19, 1843; and George Waterhouse, b. l-'ebruary 17, 1842. Meshach Rust, the father, d. at Gorham, Me., in 1874. At the age of sixteen Nathaniel J. Rust, equipped with a practical education acquired in the public schools and academy of his native town, began business life as assistant in an apothecary store at South Paris, Me., where he remained for about two years. Com- ing to Boston in 1851, he devoted his energies to the same line of industr)'. In 1853 he en- tered the employ of Weeks & Potter, the well- kntnvn Boston firm of wholesale druggists, with whom he continvied till i860. In 1859 failing health causetl him to make a trip to luuope. In i860 he went to New York City, where he became connected with the drug house of Demas Barnes & Co. During the spring of 1861 he was in Charleston, .S. C. , and was a spectator of the bombardment and surrender of I-'ort Sumter, the opening event of the great Civil War. Returning to Boston in 1862, he engaged in Ijusiness for himself as a member of the wholesale drug house of Car- ter, Rust & Co., which, after four successful years of business life, was reorganized under GENEAL0C;^' AND PERSONAL HISTORY 173 the title of Rust IJrothers & Bird. Under this latter style it was continued till June, i8go, when the Rust & Richardson Drug Company was established, in which Mr. Rust is a di- rector. Mr. Rust's marked business ability, together with his unimpeachable integrity, has led nat- urally to his connection with other business enterprises and financial institutions. For three years he served as president of the North End Savings JiSank. This position he lesigned in 1885 to accept the presidency of the Lincoln National 15ank, b. in 1751, son of lileazer and Mary, m. in 1776 Lois Carroll. Eleazer,'' the ne.xt in this line, b. on December 5, 1777, m. in 1799 Alice Peabody. He d. in 183S. She d. October 9, 1867. They were the parents of Asa Whitney, who was of the seventh generation, and grandparents of Mrs. Brooks, who is of the eighth. Asa Whit- ney m., first, I'atty Rice, who d. January 6, 1S50; and he m., in October following, Mary Long Childs, b. April 17, 1810. She was educated in the academy at Ipswich, Mass., anil before her marriage was a teacher for seven years in Montgomery, Ala., and in Hen- niker, N.IL, and .Sunderland, Mass. Her |.iarents were Solomon'' and Mary (Long) Childs. Solomon'' Childs, b. in 1782, was a son of Solomon,' Sr. , and Martha (Rice) Childs, who were m. in 1767. Solomon, .Sr. , b. in 1744, at Grafton, Mass., was a son of Jonathan^ and Abigail (Parker) Childs. Jona- than^ was b. in 1696, second son of Jolin' and Hannah (h'rench) Child, of Watertown and Waltham. John' was the son of John- and Mary (Warren) Child and grandson of Will- iam' Child, who probably came to New Eng- land in 1630 with his brother Ephraim and Governor Winthmp. William,' the progeni- tor of the Watertown branch of the family of Child (or Childs), had three sons, the second being Richard, who was b. at Watertets, establishing a business of that kind in Medway, Mass., soon after the conclu- sion of the War of 18 12-14. Alexander later went to Lowell as agent of the Lowell Manu- facturing Com]iany, manufacturers of carpets, and was accompanied by his two brothers. Duncan Wright finally retired to a country place at Tewksbury, Mass., where he died at the age of sixty years. His wife, whom he married in 1796, was in maidenhood Janet Wilson, a daughter of Alex- ander and Katherine (Brown) Wilson (m. 1776). She was a half-sister of Alexander Wilson, the American ornithologist, he being a son of Alexander Wilson by his first wife, Mary McNab. Janet had also two half-sisters, Mary and Jane. Katherine Brown was daugh- ter of David and Janet (Wilson) Brown. Da- vid Brown was son of John Brown, of Niel- ston, Renfrewshire, and Katherine Renfrew. The said John Brown is buried under the pul- pit of Nielston Church. Alexander Wilson, father of Janet, was a son of James and Mar- garet (Campbell) Wilson, James being a miller in I,orn, afterward in Seedhills. The father of James was Alexander Wilson, of Muirhead, El- derslie, a Jacobite, who fled to Ireland about the year 1700. The children of Alexander and Katherine (Brown) Wilson were four in num- ber, besides Janet there being another daughter, Margaret, and two sons, David and James. Besides the three sons of Duncan and Janet (Wilson) Wright already mentioned — Peter, Alexander, and John — there was a daughter, Katherine. John Wright, son of Duncan and father of John Gordon Wright, followed the occupation of chemist and colorist, and also engaged in the manufacture of worsted at South Lancaster, Mass. His death occurred in 1870. He was a member of the L O. O. K. His wife, Janet, d. in 1886, at the age of eighty-four years. She was a daughter of Glaud, afterward called Don Claudio Wilson, a manufacturer and weaver, of Paisley, Scotland, who was engaged to come to this country by Alexander Wright to assist in establishing the Lowell Carpet Company. He was not only a skilled work- man, but was also possessed of considerable inventive talent, and assisted in the manufact- ure of the looms. When about sixty years old he was engaged by the firm of Howland & Aspinwall to establish a cotton mill for them in Durango, Mexico, where he remnined for six years. At the end of that time he returned to the LInited .States and settled on a farm in Clyde, Whiteside County, 111., which he had purchased before going to Mexico. Here he died at the advanced age of eighty-five years. Ills wife, Margaret Downey, who joined her husband in Illinois, d. there at the age of eighty-four. John Gordon Wright was educated in the schools of Clinton and Lancaster, Mass. I^'or three years, from the time he was twelve until he was fifteen )'ears old, he was employed in the office of the Bigelow Carpet Company at Clinton, after which he resumed his studies, attending an academy. After his school days were over he came to Boston and entered the store of Patterson, Eager & Co., Milk Street, where he remained as an employee for one year. He then became paymaster for the Clin- ton Company, being at this time but sixteen years of age. Subsequently he was for four years in the office of the Lowell Machine Shop. This he left in order to go to New York City to enter the business house of Sam- uel Lawrence, wool merchant, whose represen- tative he was when he came to Boston for the second time in 1865. From that time up to 1884 he was engaged in business in this city as a partner in several different concerns, all connected with the wool business. In the year last named Mr. Wright established him- self in business at his present quarters, 620 Atlantic Avenue, as an importer of and dealer in Australian and other foreign wools; and he NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF has since thus continued, having been quite successful. He is a director in several busi- ness corporations, and is known as a good mer- chant and a far-sighted and enterprising man, with sufficient conservatism to keep out of rash and unprofitable speculations. He is a mem- ber of the Boston Art Club, of the Country Cluii, and of the Boston Merchants' Association. Mr. Wright was married February 13, 1866, to Miss Mary Ann Bigelow Fenno, a daughter of Henry W. and Rebecca Hill (Darracott) Fenno, of Chelsea, Mass. Mrs. Wright is a grand-daughter of George Darracott, the founder of the Boston Gas Light Company, who was later a well-known manufacturer of gas meters. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have one child — Lila Darracott, born July 4, 1869, who is now the wife of Andrew Adie and the mother of two children : Andrea Wright, born August 17, 1899; and Mary Rosamond, Ijorn July 19, 1 90 1. The following record of births, marriages, and deaths is copied from the old family Bible of the Darracotts, and may be said to give a ijird's-eye view of Mrs. Wright's ancestry and family connections: — William Darracott, the purchaser of this Bible, was the son of William Darracott, who was the son of Sir Darracott, of Biddeford, England. The father of the owner of this book emigrated to this country about the year 1742, and m. Sarah Earl, of Boston, by whom he had two children, one of whom d. in infancy ; the other, the owner of this Bible, is a house carpenter, and built himself a mansion in Charles Street, to which he moved September 26, 1796. lie d. i6th of October, t8o5. BIRTHS. William Darracott, son of William and Rachel Darracott, b. February 4, 1781. George Darracott, son of William and Mary Dar- racott, b. October 6, 1784. Rebecca Hill Darracott, first child of George and Sally Darracott, b. Monday, January 18, 1808. Elizabeth Clark Darracott, second child of George and Sally Darracott, was b. Saturday, Sep- tember 9, 1809. George Darracott, first son of George and Sally Darracott, 1). Thursday, November 8, 18 10. William Earlc Darracott, second son of George and Sally Darracott, was b. .Saturday, December 12, 1812. Sarah Clark Darracott and Mary Lowell Darra- cott, twin children of George and Sally Darracott, were b. \\'e(hiesday, 25th, and Thursday, 26th days of May, 1814. Sarah Clark, seventh child of George and Sally Darracott, b. November 13, 1S15. Frances Mehitable Darracott, eightii child of George and Sally Darracott, b. February 5, 1817. William Earle Darracott, third son of George and Sally Darracott, b. June 15, 1818 (ninth child). Franklin Darracott, fourth son of George and Sally Darracott, b. September 24, 1820 (tenth child). Risdon Darracott, sixth son of George and Sally Darracott, b. December 23, 1823, Tuesday. James Risdon Darracott, seventh son of George and .Sally Darracott, b. Friday, January 13, 1826. Lowell Blake Darracott, eighth son, b. Sunday, February i, 1829. Frances Mehitable Darracott, daughter of George and Sally Darracott, b. March 5, 1832. MARRIAGES. William Darracott was m. to Rachel Brown, June 19, 1780. William Darracott was m. to Mary Barnard, widow of Captain John Barnard, whose maiden name was Lowell, December 25, 17S3. William Darracott was m. to Deborah (Corter or Carter), November 11, 1787. All of Boston. George Darracott was ni. to Sally Clark, the daughter of James Clark, ship-builder, January 18, 1807. Sally Clark was b. August 27, 1787. Rebecca Hill Darracott, eldest daughter of George and Sally Darracott, was b. January 18, 1S08 ; was m. to Henry Williams Fenno, son of Deacon John F"enno, November 20, 1828. Elizabeth Clark Darracott, second daughter of George and Sally Darracott, was m. to Benjamin Henderson Green, son of Captain F'rancis Green, of Boston, December 9, 1S30. George Darracott, Jr., was m. to Ann M. Clark, December 3, 1835. Sarah C. Darracott in. to Joseph Nason, |uly 8, 1844. Franklin Darracott m. Julia Maria Marland, daughter of Abraham Marland, of Andover, Septem- ber 24, 1840. James Risdon Darracott m. Catlierine Janet Wright, of Lowell, April, 1851. ALiry Lowell Darracott m. Rev. Henry ¥. Edes, March i6, 1853. Frances Mehitable Darracott, youngest daughter of George and Sally Darracott, m. to Martin Lincoln Bowles, of Roxbury, August 27, 1857. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY ■83 DEATHS. Rachel Darracott, wife of William Darracott, d. April 7, I 782. Mary Darracott, wife of William, d. June 24, •7S5- William Darracott, Jr., son of William and Rachel Darracott, d. December 23, 1803. William Darracott, Sen., d. October 16, 1806. Sarah Furbur, the mother of William Darracott, d. December 3, 1807. She was the daughter of Mr. Earl, of Boston. William Earle Darracott, second son of George and Sally Darracott, d. September 20, 1813, aged 9 months. Sarah Clark Darracott, twin daughter of George and Sally Darracott, d. October 12, 1814, aged 4^ months. Frances Mehitable Darracott d. Monday, August 2, i8:g, aged 2 years, 5 months, 28 days. James Clark Darracott d. March 6, 1S25. Risdon Darracott d. March 3, 1825. They were buried the same day. Lowell Darracott d. December 23, 1829, aged 10 months, 22 days. William Earle Darracott, third son of George and Sally Darracott, d. August 23, 1837, aged 19 years, 3 months. Sarah Darracott, wife of George Darracott, d. June 16, 1859, aged 71 years, 9 months, 19 days. George Darracott, son of William and Mary Dar- racott, d. July 13, 1865, aged 80 years, 9 months. James Risdon Darracott d. August 29, 1862. Henry Williams Fenno, b November 25, 1806, d. July 14, 1862. Rebecca Hill Darracott Fenno. b. January 18, 1808, d. December 24, 1893. Henry Fenno and Rebecca Darracott m. in Boston, November 20, 1828. Rebecca Fenno was the daughter of George and Sally (Clark) Darracott. jHARLES FI^EEMAN SMALL, re- tired business man of Boston, resid- ing in the city of Maiden, is a native of Liniington, York County, Me., where his grandfather, Henry Small, was a pioneer settler, removing from Scarboro, Me., in 1787. Mr. Small's parents were Francis and Dorothy (Libb)-) Small, natives of Scarboro. On the paternal side Mr. .Small is a lineal descendant of Francis- Small, the immigrant progenitor of the Maine family of this surname, who is considered to have been a son of cither lidward' Small, who was liv- ing at Piscataqua as early as 1640, or of John' Small, who was one of the founders of Easthani, Cape Cod. The line of descent fiom Francis,' b. about 1620, to F'rancis, ^ 1785, the father above named, is through Samuel, 'b. 1666; Samuel, ■* 1700; John,' 1722; and I-^enry,'" b. i 757. A pamphlet on "The .Small Family in America," by Lauriston W. Small of the Maine Historical Society, contains a partial genealogy of the Maine branch, and vividly portrays the life and character of conspicuous representatives of different generations. To this pamphlet we are indebted for t-he follow- ing further particulars concerning the first Francis Small and some of his descendants in Maine. The author designates him as Fran- cis,' and says he was named for his kinsman, Captain l-^rancis Champernoune. P'rancis- Small was living at Dover, N.H., in 1648, later at Falmouth, Me., and in 1668 at Kittery. On November 28, that year, he received from Sundy, a friendly Indian chief, a deed of a tract of land twenty miles square, known as Ossipee. The original deed was recorded in 1773. I'Vancis- Small at the time of the Indian wars removed to Cape Cod, where he d. about 1 71 3. In 171 1 he deeded Ossipee (Os- sipee pro]5er, the part that he had retained of his purchase, "was divided into the towns of Limington, Limerick, Newfield, Parsonsfield, and Cornish ") to his son Samuel'. Samuel* Small, son of Samuel' and his wife Elizabeth Heard, m. in Kittery, at a youthful age, Anna Hatch, and shortly removed to Scar- boro, where for si.xty-three years his was the most conspicuous name on the record. He was a Deacon of the church, for fifty-two years Town Clerk, and for many years Moderator of town meetings. So enthusiastic a jiatriot was he that he copied entire into the town record- book the Declaration of Independence. In 1778 he was at the head of the town's Com- mittee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety. He lived to be past ninety years of age- Major John5 Small, son of Deacon Samuel,* i84 NEW ENGLAND LIHKAR\' OF was a land surveyor and an officer in the Eng- lish army. In 1762, while making a survey for a military road, he was killed by a shot meant for a bear. At Falmouth, October 12, 1752, he m. as his second wife Mary McKen- ney, spoken of as the "fairy-born Mary, light, graceful, and bewitching, the most beautiful girl ever seen by her townspeople." Somewhat lacking, perhaps, in good judgment and pru- dent thrift, as in her hands the property left by the Major appears to have been scatttered before his children (two by the first wife and si.\' by the second) were settled in life. Henry'' Small, son of Major John and Mary, hurried off to join the Revolutionary army when he heard the news at Scarboro of the battle of Lexington, and served as a private nearly three years. He m. at Scarboro, June 16, 177S, Elizabeth Dam; and in April, 1787, he migrated with his wife and four children to Ossipee, settling in that part which is now Limington, whither his uncles, Samuel' and Joshua, 5 had preceded him. Building a log- house in the woods, he entered vigorously upon the work of clearing and cultivating a farm about a mile west of the present village of Limington. Industry and integrity were his leading characteristics. Mentally, his wife, a "large-brained, large-hearted, queenly dame, " was his superior. He d. in 1826, and she on June 13, 1841. They had twelve children: Abigail, Mary, John, Francis,' Humphrey, Elizabeth, Fanny, Sally, Dora, Henry, Theo- dosia, and Josejjh. F"rancis' Small, father of Charles Freeman, was b. May 2, 1785. He m. November 29, 1 8 10, Dorothy Libby. .She was b. June 28, 1791, daughter of Philemon and Martha (Small) Libby. Her father, I'hilemon, a lineal descendant of John' Libby, b. in England about 1602, who, coming to this country as a young man, was in the employ of Robert Trelawney, manager of a trading post on Rich- mond's Island, off the coast of Maine. Proba- bly in 1640 John Libby sent for his wife to come from England, and with her took up his abode on the main land in what is now Scar- boro. Their son Henry,- b. in 1647, '"'''• Honor Flinkson, daughter of Peter Hinkson. Fleeing from Scarboro after the surrender of the fort to the Indians in 1690, he lived for some years at Lynn, Mass., but eventually returned to Scarboro. John' Libby, son of Henry and Honor, b. probably about 1701, m. first Mary Goodwin, and, after her death, m. in 173S Anne Fogg He was a surgeon, and held important town offices in Scarboro. He was Lieutenant in Captain George I^erry's Company in 1745, and later was known as Captain Libby. Philemon, ■" father of Doro- thy, b. May 29, 1749, was his eighth child by his second wife. Philemon Libby's wife was a grand-daughter of Deacon Samuel-' and Anna (Hatch) Small, above named. P'rancis' and Dorothy (Libby) Small had ten children, all b. at Limington but the youngest, Amanda, who was b. in Windham, Me. The record is: Sophronia, b. November 8, 181 i; David Otis, Septeml^er 29, 1813; Martha L., September 10, 1815, all deceased; Abigail Dam, b. September 2, 1S17, d. January 8, 1841; Lydia, b. December 24, 1819, d. No- vember 18, 1S94; William Francis, b. May 2, 1822, d. February 20, 1889; Mary Ann, b. August 20, 1824, d. May, 1900; Louisa Otis, b. November 19, 1826; Charles F'ree- man, of Maiden, b. June 10, 1830; and Amanda, b. October 12, 1S34. Mr. Small's father was a mason, and worked at his trade in Limington, Me., many years, and was also a farmer, giving much attention to his farm. In the War of 1S12 he was a soldier, serving a sh(jrt time in camp. He d. July 17, 1865. His wife Dorothy d. March 11, 1879. Charles F'reeman'"^ Small, youngest son of I-'rancis, ' was educated at Windham, Me. Ambitious and energetic, knowing that he must make his own way in the world, he came to I^oston in 1848 at eighteen years of age, and was employed for several years as clerk in the grocery store of his brother, William F'. Pie then started in the grocery trade for him- self in Boston on Concord Street; and in 1855 he removed to Pinckney Street, West End, and there for over forty years prospered in the ]3rovision business. Selling out in 1895, he retired from active pursuits. l-'or the last twenty-eight years, or since 1873, he has made his home in Maiden. Mr. Small and his fam- ily attend the Universalist church. In poli- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '8S tics he is a Reinililicaii, iiis fatlier and grand- father having l)cen respectively Federal and Whig. He was married July 29, 1858, to Mar)- I.ivermore Glover, daughter of Ejihraini Terry and Mary Webster (Sleeper) Glover. She wa.s born in Manchester, N.H., August 6, 1S37, being the eldest of a family of three children. Her sister, Martha Sleeper Glover, who was h. at Manchester, November 7, 1838, m. Stephen C. Drew, resides at Boston and I'l^niouth, Mass., as his summer home. They have four children — Lillian Curtis, Thomas Livermore, Alden Glover, and Charles Henry. Mr. Drew is a descendant of John and Priscilla (Mullens) Alden. Mrs. Small's brother, Thomas Liver- more Glover, b. July 10, 1841, was brought up in the family of his step-grandfather, Thomas Livermore, of Boston. In May, 1S61, before he was twenty years of age, he enlisted in the First Regiment, Massachustts Volun- teers, for service in the Civil War. He was wounded in the spine at the battle near Wash- ington, August 29, 1862, and was carried to the Seminary Hos]3ital, where he d. September 5, 1862. His grave is in the Soldiers' Home burial-ground near Washington. E]3hraim Terry Glover, Mrs. Small's father, was b. May 7, 18 12, at Harvard, Mass. He m. September 17, 1836, Mary Web.ster Sleeper, of Chester, N.H., b. January 29, 1816. He d. November, 1857; and she d. at Goff's Falls, Manchester, N.H., in 1S41. Fphraim Terry Glover was a representative of the seventh generation of that branch of the Glover family in New England founded by Henry' Glover, the date of whose arrival in this country appears to have been about 1640. Henry' Glover, b. in 1603, was the third son of Thomas and Margery (Deane) Glover, of Rainhill Parish, town of Prescott, Lancashire, England, originally. He d. 1655, in Med- field, a part of Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His elder brother, John Glover, came to New England in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, and was the founder of another and numerous branch of the family. Henry Glover,- son of Henry,' b. probably at Ded- ham in 1642, was living in Boston as early as 1660. A few years later he removed to Mil- ton, where he d. in 17 14. Edward,' son of Henry' and his wife Llannah, wash, in Milton in 1681, d. in 1745. His first wife Sarah Gill, the mother of his children, si.\ in num- ber, d. in 1740. His son John,-! who was b. at Milton in 1726, and d. in 1759, served as a soldier in the P'rench and Indian War, 1755- 57. He m. Abigail Holmes in 1751, and was the father of four children. John- Glover, b. in 1753, .son of John and Abigail, m. in 1776 Rachel Littleficld, of Stoughton, Mass., daughter of Moses Littlefield. They lived at Milton till after the birth of four children, and then removed to Lunenburg, Mass., where six children were born. About 1790 he migrated to Grafton, Vt., and there his wife d. in July, 1799. Later he returned to Milton, but event- ually settled at Randolph, and d. there on July 22, 1829. Benjamin'' Glover, b. at Lu- nenburg in 1788, son of John^ and his wife Rachel, went with his parents to Grafton, Vt. After returning to Massachusetts, he lived for a few years at Harvard. He m. July 16, 1810, Polly Terry of that town. Enlisting in the United States army in 18 12, he served through the second war with Great Britain, and after its close was drowned while crossing a bridge on his return. His wife Polly was left a widow with one .son, Ephraim Terry Glover, then three years of age. Charles Freeman and Mary L. (Glover) .Small have two children: Louise Marrett, born in Boston, November 29, i860; and Charles Thomas, born in Boston, April 17, 1862. Louise Marrett married, April 3, 1884, Everett Lovejoy Fuller, of Maiden, son of ex-Mayor Loren Lovejoy Fuller, and has two children : Loring Lovejoy, born June 22, 1888; and Everett Small, born September 12, 1894. Charles Thomas Small married April 3, 1884, Inez \'ellett Yale, daughter of Rufus Mitchel Yale, of Maiden, and has one child — Charles Wilder, born October 11, 1886. WILLIAM THO engineer of tl Commission, i OMAS PIERCE, chief :he Metropolitan Park is a native of Leomin- ster, Worcester County, Mass. Born Novem- [86 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF ber 12, 1854, son of John 0. A. and Elizabeth Childs (Whittakei) Pierce, he is a descendant in the ninth generation of John Pierce (or Pers), an early settler of Watertown, Mass., the line being: John,' Anthony,- Joseph,' Francis,-" William, ^ Jonathan,'' Ezekiel,' John Q. A.,'' William Thomas''. (See "Record of the Posterity of John Pers," by Frederick C. Pierce, 1S80.) John' Pierce (or Pers) was a grantee of a lot of land at Watertown and purchaser of three lots before 1644. He d. in 1661. He had eight children, all b. in England. Anthony,-' who came over before his father, was made a freeman at Watertown in 1634. He and his wife, Anne, had nine children, the seventh being Joseph'. Francis, ^ b. in 1671, son of Joseph^ and his first wife, Martha, was one of the original members of the church at Weston. Hem. in 1697 Hannah, daughter of John John- son, of Cambridge. William,' b. at Weston in 1708, m. in 1729 Sarah Whitney, and re- sided successively in .Southboro, Hopkinton, and Sutton. Jonathan,'' b. in 1736, was a sol- dier of the Revolution. He enlisted in Cap- tain lulmund Brigham's comjjany. Colonel Job Cushing's regiment, September i, 1777, and was discharged November 29, 1777; and in 1778 he enlisted in Captain Andrew Elliot's company for nine months for the town of Sut- ton. In 1757, being then of Hopkinton, Mass., and also at later periods, he bought land in Sutton. His wife, Mary Goodale, was sister to the mother of Robert B. Thomas, the founder of the "Old Farmer's Almanac." Ezekiel,' b. November i, 1787, son of Jona- than and Mary Pierce, was the youngest of thirteen children. He was a much respected citizen of West Boylston and by occupation a farmer. He m. in iSii Ruth, daughter of Moses and Hannah Perry and grand-daughter of Abner and Mary Perry, who were from Hopkinton, Mass. Ezekiel' had four children — Estes, Emily, John O. A., and Harriet. John Q. A.'^ Pierce was b. at West Boylston in 1817. Removing to Leominster in 1844, he resided there about twenty-three years, keeping a general merchandise store. In 1867 he came to Boston, and engaged in the boot and shoe business, being one of the firm of Pierce & Barrell on Pearl Street, later Pierce & Fuller, and still later Pierce & Son, of F'ed- eral Street, afterward on Summer Street. For twenty years or more he was a resident of Watertown, where he d. December 14, 1891. In 1S62 he served as Representative from Leominster in the State Legislature, six years he was Selectman, and five years he was United States Assessor for the towns of Leom- inster and .Sterling. He was first m. April g, 1840, to Delia Phelps Bliss. She d. May 24, 1848. His second wife, Elizabeth Childs Whittaker, whom he wedded March 8, 1849, d. in 1862. His third wife, Caroline S. Bur- dett, d. in 1874. He is survived by his fourth wife, Abbie Francis (b. Tarlton), whom he m. October 19, 1876, and by three sons: Charles Ouincy, of Watertown; Henry Bliss, of New York; and William T., the subject of this sketch. Another son, Myron E., formerly of Boston, is now deceased. William Thomas Pierce received a public- school education, partly at Leominster and partly at Watertown, whither his father re- moved about 1 868, and where he was graduated in the high school class of 1872. In the autumn of that year he entered the office of Ernest W. Bowditch, Boston, civil engineer and landscape gardener, where he gained ten years' experience in engineering. In 1881 and 1882 he was emijloyed by the Mexican Central Railroad, the following three years being engaged on railroads in Canada. P'rom that time on till 1892 he gave his attention to special work in the office of Mr. Bowditch, after which he established an office of his own, and in 1894 was apjiointed to his present jjosi- tion of chief engineer of the Metropolitan Park Commission. Mr. Pierce is a member of both the American .Society of Civil luigineers and the Boston .Society, also of the American Park and Outdoor Association, and of the American P'orestry Association. For nearly three years, 1891-93, he was Town Engineer and .Superin- tendent of Sewers for the town of Watertown, where he remains a resident. He was married June 6, 1883, to Almira Putnam Goss, daugh- ter of Ezekiel and Almira (Hatch) Goss. She was born in Salem, Mass., August 10, 1859. Mr. and Mrg. Pierce have one child, a daugh- GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 187 ter, Elizabeth Childs, who was born October 23, 18S5, and is now a student in the public schools of Watertown. ^ETrANCIS AUGUSTUS OSBORN, r^ president of the Eastern Banking Com- pany of Boston, was born September 22, 1833, in that part of Danvers, Mass., now included within the limits of the town of I^ea- body. His parents were Augustus K. and Mary (Shove) Osborn. Through various lines of ancestry he comes of Essex County Colonial stock. The immigrant jjrogenitor of the fam- ily of which he is a representative in the seventh generation was William Osborn, who, on coming to New England, took iij) his abode in the locality then known as Salem \'illage (afterward Uanvers, and now Peabody). The line of descent is: William,' Samuel,^ Jo- seph,^"'' Sylvester,? Augustus Kendall,'' Fran- cis Augustus'. William Osborn' was b. in 1645, and d. in January, 1728-9. His wife, Hannah, daugh- ter of John Burton, was b. in 1640, and d. after 1721. Their son SamueP was b. in 1675, and lived to be over eighty years of age. His wife, Eleanor, daughter of Daniel' and Esther (Boyce) Southwick, d. in October, 1702. Her father was a son of Lawrence' and Cassan- dra Southwick, who were severely persecuted for being Quakers. Joseph' Osborn, b. in October, 1702, m. Rachel Foster, daughter of David' and Hannah (Buxton) Foster. Her father was a son of John' Foster, Sr. , founder of the Salem branch of Fosters, whose name appears on the Salem records of 1657; and her mother was a daughter of Anthony and Eliza- beth Buxton, of Salem. Joseph-* Osborn, b. in August, 1726, d. in July, 1804. His wife, Mary Proctor, b. in December, 1733, d. in January, 1791. She was a daughter of Cap- tain John and Lydia (Waters) Proctor, of Salem, and grand-daughter of Benjamin Proc- tor, b. in 1659. son of John' Proctor, of Salem (John,' of Ipswich). (New England Genea- logical Register, vol. li.) Sylvester,' b. No- vember 10, 175S, d. October 2, 1845. Asa youth of sixteen, he was in the battle of Lex- ington. His second wife was Elizabeth Poole. She was b. April 30, 1770, and d. October 18, 1827. Augustus Kendall Osborn, b. July 7, 1800, d. March 18, 1849. He m. January 3, 1833, Mary Shove, daughter of Squiers and Esther (Marble) Shove. She was b. April 23, 1803, and d. March 30, 1842. Francis A. Osborn attended the public schools of Danvers and later a boarding school in Marlboro kept by O. W. Albee. In 1845 he came to Boston, and in i S49 was graduated from the Boston Latin School, having com- pleted the five years' course in four years. His first connection with business was in the capacity of clerk to William Ropes & Co., of Lewis Wharf, Boston, who were engaged ex- clusively in commerce with Russia. He was with Ropes & Co. fi\e years, and subsequently was engaged in the ship-chandlery business for three or four years. When the Civil War broke out, in April, 1861, he was an officer of a company in the New England Guards, was appointed Captain on April 19, and with the battalion of two companies, comprising the guards, did garrison duty for a month, begin- ning April 25, at P'ort Independence in Boston Harbor, under the command of Major (after- ward General) Thomas G. Stevenson. When the Guards returned to Boston, both the Major and Captain offered their services for the war to Governor John A. Andrew. The offer was accepted; and Captain Osborn on August 31, 1861, was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts \'olunteers, under command of Colonel Stevenson. On Decem- ber 28, 1S62, he was made Colonel. With his regiment he served in the North Carolina ex- pedition under General Burnside in the De- partment of the South and in the Army of the James. He took part in the siege of Fort Sum- ter and the assault on Fort Wagner. He com- manded the regiment when it won renown by taking the rifle-pits in front of F"ort Wagner, capturing nearly the whole force of the enemy that had held the pits against three previous attacks by other regiments, and had completely checked the advance of the Federal engineering work. He was mustered out November 14, 1864, was made Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865. His first business occupation after returning 1 88 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF to civil life was that of cashier for one year to Blake Brothers & Co., bankers of Boston. He was naval officer for the districts of Boston and Charlestown from March 19, 1867, to June 8, 1869. In partnership with Hubbard Brothers & Co., he then followed the business of stock broker for five years, having been pre- viously elected a member of the Boston Stock Exchange. On January i, 1874, he was elected treasurer of the Corbin Banking Com- pany of New York and Boston. The firm having abandoned its New England business, he sold out his interest in May, 1883, and in the following June resigned the treasurership. In November of the same year he organized the Eastern Banking Company, which began busi- ness under his presidency upon a paid-up capital of one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, and was incorporated in 1887. The General has been the president of the company ever since its organization. In the meantime he has had other business relations. He was the original treasurer of the New England Mortgage Security Company, having been elected thereto in 1875. He resigned this office June 14, 1879, but was afterward a director for several years. He was elected director of the Tremont National Bank, Janu- ary II, 1S76, and annually re-elected there- after until the bank went into voluntary liquidation, December 6, 1898. On March 9, 1891, he was elected president of the Real Estate E.xchange and Auction Board. In 1892 he declined re-election, and was then elected one of its vice-presidents. Politically, General Osborn i.'^ an indepen- dent Republican. He served in the Common Council of Boston in 1867, 1S68, and 1869; was appointed chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, June 23, 18S6; declined reappointment in June, 1889, for the reason of a great increase of work in his busi- ness caused by the death of an associate. He was one of the organizers oi the Citizens' Asso- ciation of Boston, and was its presiilent in the years 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891. In March, 1868, he was elected Commander of the Mas- sachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. On January 20, 1S69, he was elected Grand Com- mander of the Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R. He married first, September 5, 1867, Mary M. Mears, daughter of Granville and Susan V. (Moore) Mears, of Boston. She was horn in Boston, June 18, 1840, and died July 20, 1875. She was the mother of two children, one of whom — namely, Esther, born h'ebruary 16, 1869 — is living. The other died in infancy. Mr. Osborn married, secondly, June 17, 1879, Emily Tracy Bouve, daughter '/n.BUR HOWARD POWERS, a well-known resident of Hyde Park, Norfolk County, Mass., was born in Croydon, N. H., January 22, 1849, the fifth child of Elias and Emeline (White) Powers. On the paternal side he is directly descended from Walter Power, the immigrant ancestor, the line being: Walter,' William,- William,' Lieutenant Lemuel, ^ Ezekiel,' Major Abijah,'" Elias, 7 Wilbur Howard'*. Walter' Power, born in 1639, d. March 11, 1708. On March 11, 1661, he m. Trial Shep- ard, and immediately settled in that part of Concord, Mass., now included in the town of Littleton. Willianr Powers, a lifelong resi- dent of Littleton, d. there March 16, 17 10. He was the first schoolmaster of that town, l^eing a surx'cyor also, he was ajjpointed to run the boundary line between the towns of f-ittleton anil Acton. He m. Mary, daughter of John Bank, of Chelmsford, Mass. William^ Powers, their second child, b. in i69[, was a cordwainer by trade. He settled in Grafton, Mass., which was the birthplace of all his chil- dren. On March 16, 17 14, he m. Lydia Per- ham, who removed from Grafton, Mass., after GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '97 his death to Cioydon, N.H., making her home thereafter witii her children. Lieutenant Lemuel^ Powers was b. in 1714, and he d. in 1792. On January 14, 1742, he m. Thankful Leland. The line of descent continued through Lieu- tenant Towers's second child, Ezekiel^ Powers, who, b. March 27, 1745, d. November 11, 1808. He probably served in the Revolution- ary War, as a family tradition says that he was jjresent at the surrender of Burgoyne. His grave, as that of a patriot, is annually deco- rated. On January 28, 1765, he m. Hannah Hall. Major Abijah'' Powers, the fifth child of this union, was b. May 7, 1781, and d. July 16, 1855. He was an officer in the War of 1812, serving as Major of his regiment. He m. first, April 29, 1801, Olive Melendy. After her death he m. for his second wife Charlotte Rogers. Elias^ Powers, son of Abi- jah and Olive (Melendy) Powers, was b. in Croydon, N. PL , May 1, 180S. On March 3, 1834, he m. ICmeline White, daughter of Cap- tain James and Tirzah (Taylor) White, of Claremont, N.H. Prior to the Revolution Captain White was an Indian fighter, and served as Lieutenant in the Colonial army. During the P'rench and Indian War he was taken prisoner; but he made his escape near Montreal, found his way to his home in Clare- mont, and immediately rejoined his company. He served also in the Revolution, entering the army as Lieutenant of his compan}', being pro- moted to the rank of Captain, afterward becom- ing aide-de-camp, and continuing in service until the close of the war. Wilbur Ploward"* Powers was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1875 and from the l^oston University School of Law in the class of 1S78, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He at once entered on his ]jrofession in Boston, w-here he is still in active practice. He has resided in Hyde Park since July 3, 1881. A man of recognized ability, he has become identified with the best interests of the place, and has rendered e.xcellent service in public affairs. In 1888 and 1889 Mr. Powers was Town Solicitor, and in 1890, 1891, and 1892 he was a Representative to the State Legislature. He has been one of the Park Commissioners since 1S93. At present he is a member of the Hyde Park School Board and the chairman of the committee erecting the new high school building. On May 1, 1S80, Mr. Powers married Miss homily Owen, who was born in Hanover, a daughter of P'rederick L. and Rebecca (Chand- ler) Owen. Mr. and Mrs. Powers have two children: Walter, born August 3, 1885; and Myra, born May 22, 1889. EORGE HENRY HOWARD, of the well-known manufacturing and mer- cantile firm of William L. Lockhart , Staniford Street, Boston, was born in Cambridge, Mass., November 13, 1838, son of Thomas and Hannah Pllizabcth (Wright) Howard. His earliest paternal ancestor in New England of whom there is record was Thomas' Howard, his great-great-grandfather. The children of this Thomas' were: Thomas, second, Benjamin, Joseph, and Mary. Of these it is known that Joseph m. and had two children — Joseph and Thomas. Thomas- Howard, the first-born child of Thomas,' was b. probably in Boston in the year 1749. It is supposed that when he first a]5peared in Hingham, Mass., being then about six years old, he went there from Boston. After living for some time with a family named McCoon, where, it is stated, he was overworked, he learned the cooper's trade, which became his occupation. Hingham con- tinued to be his place of residence for the rest of his life. On November 14, 1776, he m. Sarah Mansfield, who was b. in Hingham, October 9, 1754, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Waters) Mansfield. Shed. August 19, 1817; and he d. eleven years later, August 29, 1S28. Their children were: Sarah Mansfield, Thomas, Benjamin, Polly, I-^dward, Pldward, Charles, Edmund, and Waters, all natives of Hingham. Thomas' Howard, the first son and second child of Thomas and Sarah (Mansfield) How- ard, was b. in Hingham, September 30, 1779. He became a resident of Ashburnham, Mass., where he d. November 3, 1S61. He was a member of the Congregational church. On January 7, 1807, he m. Hannah Wilder, daugh- 198 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF ter of Samuel and Hannah (Lasell) Wilder. Their children (all now deceased) were as fol- lows; Hannah, b. March 26, 1808; Thomas, b. October 28, 1809; Samuel Wilder, b. August 23, 1813; Lewis, b. December 1, 1 8 16; George, b. September 11, 181 8; Mary Wilder, December 7, 1S20; and Lucy Mayo, February 19, 1828. The mother d. November 14, 1870. Thomas, ■* the first son and sec- ond child of Thomas^ and Hannah Howard, d. at Ashburnham, November 17, 1850. His wife, Hannah Elizabeth, was a daughter of Joel S. Wright, Town Clerk of Acton, Mass., and a grand-daughter of Captain David Brown, Captain of (jne of the companies of minutc-nicn at the North Bridge, Concord, Mass., Aj.iril '9. '775- They had three children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the only surs'ivor. The eldest child, Francis Edson, b. in Cam- bridge, March 12, 1S37, d. January 14, 1863; and the youngest, Thomas Melville, b. No- vember 26, 1844, who m. Mary Iilizabeth Martell, and resided at liast Cambridge, d. in Somerville, October 12, 1900. Having received his education in the public schools of Pepperell and of Cambridge, George Henry Howard entered on his business career as apprentice in the New England Glass Works, where he remained until the breaking out of the Civil War. He then enlisted in the Cambridge company, afterward assigned as Company A to the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, April, 1861, and was mustered into the service as Second Lieutenant. He served under General Wool at Fortress Monroe, was afterward under the command of General McClellan, and in the fall of 1S61 was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant of Company C of Groton, Mass., and ordered to Baltimore to protect the pas- sage of troojjs through that city. His regiment was then transfened to Fortress Monroe, under General Wool, where it did picket duty until April, 1S62. While there he was a spectator of the famous battle between the "Merrimac " and "Monitor." From Fortress Monroe he was ordered to Norfolk, Va., and was afterward in the Army of the Potomac and a participant in the battles of Seven Pines and in all the engagements of the army from that time until the Second Bull Run, when he was obliged to return home. His elder brother was dying, and, his younger brother having enlisted in the service, it devolved upon him to take up the support of the family. He first obtained a position in the glass works at Portland, Me., and here for four years he had charge of the mould department. He then resigned in order to take charge of the mould department of the new glass works at Montreal. After a year and a half spent in that city he returned to Cambridge and took a special course of instruction at Bryant & Stratton's Business College. He ne.xt went on the State police force as constable under Major Jones, in which capacity he continued to ser\'e till 1871. He then commenced work for Mr. Lockhart, manufacturer and wholesale dealer in caskets and coffins and undertakers' furnishing goods, with whom he was admitted to partnership in 1893. Mr. Howard was made a Mason in Portland Lodge, No. I, 1'. & A. M. Upun removing to Cambridge in 1871, he became a member of Putnam Lodge of that city, joined the Chap- ter, R. A. M., in 1882, and is a charter mem- ber of Cambridge Commandery, K. T. He is a member also of New England Lodge, I. O. O. F. , No. 4; P. Stearns Davis Encamp- ment, G. A. R., Post No. 57; and the Cam- bridge Club. Of Post No. 57 he was Commander for si.\ different terms, until obliged to decline another election. Me also belongs to the Knights of Honor, the Knights and Ladies of Honor, and is a charter member of the New Flngland Order of Protection, in which he has held every chair. A Republican politicall)', Mr. Howard has been called upon a number of times to serve his fellow-citizens in public office. He was a member of the Common Council in Cambriilge in 1S73, 1874, 1881, 1882, 1883, and 1884, being presiilent of the board the last three years. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen in Cambridge in 1875 and 1876, has been one of the Commis- sioners of the Sinking I'"und of Cambridge since 1887, and has been a member of the Water Board since 1888. He is a trustee of the Wildey Savings Bank, and was for some time a director of the P-ast Cambridge Savings Bank. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY '99 A Baptist in religious faith, Mr. Howard was superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Second Baj^tist Church of Cambridge for twenty- five years, or up to 1896, and has served on various committees of the society since. lie was also a director of the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Association. A]5ril 28, 1 86 1, Mr. Howard married Char- lotte Bruce Wickens, a daughter of Joseph and Isabella Wickens, born June 24, 1840, at Shel- hurne, N. S. They have two children: Lottie l^vangeline, born March 14, 1862; and Lillic Belle, born March 10, 1865. The latter is now the wife of Hubert W. Pierce, of Newton, Mass., and mother of two children : Earl How ard, born February 3, 1888; and Ruth Evan- geline, born January 2, 189S. -OHN ANDREW HENSHAW, a widely- known and respected resident of Cam- bridge, is a leading representative of an old Massachusetts family, being a de- scendant in the sixth generation fif Joshua' Henshaw, b. in England in 1643, ^^ho came to America in 1653, and m. in 1670 Elizabeth Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass. Joshua Hen- shaw d. in England in 1719, and his wife d. in Milton, Mass., in 1728. He was a son of William Henshaw, of To.xeter Park, a native of Lancashire, England, b. about 1610, who was killed at the battle of Edgehill, between the Royalist and Parliamentary forces, in 1642. William m. in 1627 Catherine A. Houghton, daughter of Evan Houghton. Shed, in 1651. Commencing with the immigrant progenitor, the line of descent to John Andrew Henshaw of the present day is: Joshua,' Joshua,' Dan- iel,^ David, ^ John, 5 John Andrew". Joshua' Henshaw, b. in 1672, m. in 1700 Mary Webster. They both d. in 1747. Daniel' Henshaw, b. in Boston, December 30, 1701, moved to Leicester in 1748, d. 1781. He m. Elizabeth Bass, daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass, her mother being a daughter of John and Priscilla (Mull ins) Alden, of the Plymouth Colony. The roman- tic story of the two latter has been handed down by tradition, and well told by Long- fellow, but will bear repetition. Mrs. Rose Standish, consort of the redoubtable Captain Myles Standish, departed this life on January 29, 1 62 1, and not long after her decease the Captain began to think that if he could obtain the hand of Miss Priscilla Mullins, daughter of Mr. William Mullins, the breach in his family would be happily repaired. Instead of going himself to Miss Mullins, he sent as his representative his young friend and associate, John Alden, who faithfully communicated to her the Captain's wishes. "Miss Mullins," says the account, "listened with respectful attention, and at last, after a considerable pause, fixing her eyes upon him, with an open and pleasant countenance, said, 'Prithee, John, why dost thou not speak for thyself.''' He blushed, bowed, and took his leave, but with a look that indicated more than his posi- tion as another's representative would allow him to express. What report he made to Cap- tain Standish is not known, but he soon re- newed his visit to Miss Mullins, and it was not long before their nuptials were celebrated in due form. " David-" Henshaw, youngest son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bass) Henshaw, was b. in Bos- ton, Mass., August 19, 1744, and at the age of four years removed with his parents to Leicester. His school education, however, was principally acquired in Boston. In Sep- tember, 1776, he was commissioned as Captain in Colonel Craft's regiment of artillery in the Continental service. The regiment was chiefly employed in the vicinity of Boston; but more than once portions of it were ordered to Rhode Island, and took part on one occasion, under General Spencer, in an encounter with the enemy at Tiverton. Captain Henshaw re- mained in the service three years, when he resigned and retired to his farm. He was for many years an active magistrate in the county. He was a man of strong and vigorous mind, resolute will, and independent judgment. He d. in Leicester, May 22, 1808, at the age of sixty-four years. David Henshaw m. February '7. 1773. Marys Sargent, who was b. August 27, 1755, a daughter of Nathan-* and Mary (Sar- gent) Sargent. One of their children, David, Jr., was collector of the port of Boston and Secretary of the United States Navy. NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF Nathan' SarL;eiu, lather of INIr.s. Davitl Hen- shaw, was b. AiiL;ii.st J/, 171S. He m. June 24, 1742, Mary Sai<^cnt, (.laujj;htei- of Joseph Sargent. She was b. November ilS, 1721, anil d. May 2.S, 1750. Nathan' Sari^ent ni., sec- ond, Februar)' 12, 1751, Mary iJenny, b. A])ril 22, 1727. The)' resided in Leicester, where he d. June 15, 1799. Mis secontl wife, who was a daughter of Daniel Denny, died Au- gust 8, 1822. Nathan' Saisjent was s(}n ol Ion- athan, ' b. in Maiden, Mass., April 17, 1677, who rn. I\Luch 13, 1699-1700, Mary L\nde (b. Jul)' 5, 167S, daughter of John, d. Novem- ber 19, 1716). Jonathan' ni., .second, Nu\em- ber 26, \7\7, Mar)' Spiague (b. May 26, 1695, d. Marcli 14, 1787). During his residence in Maiden he was Selectman for three )'ears anil Re])resentative tn the General Court .se\en years. Me subsei|ueiitly lemox'cd t(] Mans- field, Conn,, wheie he d. October 27, 1754- He was son of John- Sargent, b. in Charles- town (Mystic Side), December, 1639, who was admitted an inhabitant of l^arnstable between 1662 and 1666, retuined to A'lalden about 1669, was Selectman there si.\ years, and was made freeman March 22, 1689. John was son of William Sargent,' the hrst |)rogenitor of this branch of the Sargent family in America, who came from I'jigland in 163S, was admitted a member of the church in Charlestown, Mass., March 10, 1639, his wife, Sarah, being admitted the lollnwiiig Sinulay. He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts l^ay Colony in the same \ear. lie resided with his famil)' at M)'stic Side (now Maiden), where he was a la)' preacher from 1648 tn 1650. Me was made freeman of Plymouth Colunv in 165S, ha\'ing moxed, probably in 1657, to lianistable, where he il. Decendier 16, 1682, and his wife January 12, i6,S8 i> John^ Henshaw, son of Da\id and father of John Andrew Henshaw, was h. at Leicester, RLass. , Januar)' 9, 1798, and d. at Cambridge, ]\Liss. , Decembei- 27, i85<). Me was engaged in the wholesale drug business in Huston as a member of the firm of llenshaw, Ward ^: Co., from which he retireil previous to his death. He m. November 3, 1823, RLiry Ann Lewis, who was b. at ILillowell, Me., July 29, 1806, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Shaw) Lewis. She d. fifteen years before her husband, Janu- ar)' 18, 1S44. Her mother, Lucy Shaw, was a daughter of Ichabod and l^riscilla (Atwood) Shaw, Ichabod being son of Samuel and Desire (Southworth) Shaw. Desire Southworth was daughter of Nathaniel and Desire (Gray) South- worth ; Desire Gray, daughter of Edward and Mary (Winslow) Gray; and Mary Winslow, daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow. John Andrew'' Henshaw, after accpiiring his prejiaratory education in the schools of Boston, became a student at Harvard College, where he was graduated in the class of 1847. He was subsequently associated in business for some years with his father, Init is now retired. He has been a resident of Cambridge since 1842. He attends the First Parish (Unitarian) Church. In politics he is indeiiendent. October 4, 1854, Mr. llenshaw married Carcdine blastings, wlio was bcjrn in Cam- bridge, Mass., April 9, 1833, daughter of Oli- ver' and Fli/.a (Bemis) Hastings. Her par- ents were m. September 10, 1824. They had fi\'e children, of whom Caroline was the fourth in order of birth. Her mother was daughter of Amos and Susan (Fiske) Pemis, of Lincoln. Her father, Olix'er'' Hastings, wdio was en- gaired in the lumber business in Cambriilije, was 1). Ma)- 16, 1791, and d. February 18, 1879. He m. for his second wife, Septem- ber 28, 1843, in Cambridge, Mrs. lluldah Holmes Tribou, daughter of Howland and llulda Holmes, of Pridgewater, Mass. Of this union there were two children. Oliver was son of Major Samuel^ Hastings, b. Jul)- II, 1757, who m. ()ctober 1, 1 77S, L)-dia Nelson, of LiiKoln, b. 1758. She was the only daughter of Thomas' and Lydia (Scott) Nelson, of Lincoln. Thomas,' h. 1721, was son of Thomas^ Nelson, b. in Row- ley, 1685, who with Tabitha, his wife, settled in Lexington. Thomas' was son of Thomas,' b. in Rowle)', 1661, ami his wife, Hannah; Thomas,-' was son of Thomas," b. in iMigland, and wife, Anna Laiiibert, and giandson of Thomas' and Joanna Nelson, who arrived from Fngland in 163S, settled in Rowle)-, I^sse.x County, Mass., and was a freeman, i'')39. Thomas Nelson \-isited I'jigland in iT^.S, and d. in London. JAMKS \V. \'OSK (;knm':ai,o(;v anm) i'kr.sonal history -°3 Major Samuel'^ Hastings was on Lexington Common on April 19, 1775. Volunteering for service in the American cause, he became one of General Lee's life-guards, and was taken prisoner with him at Long Island. At the time of the capture a British officer wounded him in the neck with a sword, and he would doubtless have been slain, but for his queue, which broke the force of the blow. Me was paroled, but not exchanged, much to his regret. He was chosen Major of the Lexington artillery. He was a man of fine personal a]i]3earance, of a commanding figure, and with a voice so clear and strong that it is said he could be heard half a mile when he gave the word of command to his company. He settled in Lincoln, where he d. January 8, 1834, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife d. April 5, 1829, aged seventy-one. Both rest with their ancestors in the old graveyard at Lexington. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom their son Oliver, already mentioned, was seventh in order of birth. The father of Major .Samuel'^ Hastings was Samuel^ Hastings, b. March 30, 1721, who m. January 16, 1755, Lydia Tidd, b. July 6, 1732, daughter of Daniel and Hephzibah (Reed) Tidd, of Lexington. He settled in tlie south-west part of Lexington, and was among the men gathered on Lexington Com- mon, April 19, 1775, to resist the British. He was with the army at Cambridge in July, when Washington took command. He d. at Lexington, February 8, 1820, at the venerable age of ninety-nine years. His wife d. No- vember 10, 1802, aged seventy-one. They had seven children, of whom Samuel^ wa.s the second-born. The Samuel^ above mentioned was the fiist- born child of Samuel' Hastings, b. at \\'ater- town in 1695, who m. in Mcdfnrd, May 29, 1719, ]?ethia Holloway, of Maiden. The date of his death is not known. He and his wife had eight children. Samuel' was the sixth son of John^ Hast- ings, b. in Watertown, March 4, 1654, who m. June 18, 1679, Abigail, daughter of Lieu- tenant John and Abigail Hammond, also of Watertown. She was b. June 21, 1656. In 1690 her father's assessment was the largest in the town. John' Hastings d. March 28, 1717-8, at the age of sixty-four years. His wife sur\'ived him ten days, passing away April 7 of the same year. They were the parents of eight children. John' was son of Deacon Tliomas' Hastings, who on April 10, 1634, at the age of twenty- nine, with his wife .Susannah, aged thirty-four, embarked at Ipswich, England, in the "Lliza- beth," William Anderson master, for New Knglaiid, and who, on arriving in this country, settled at Watertown, Mass., then known as "The Massachusetts Bay Colon)'." He was admitted freeman May 6, 1635; was Select- man from 163S to 1643, 3nd again from 1650 to 1671; Town Clerk 1671, 1677, and 16S0; Representative, 1673; and long held the office of Deacon of the church. His wife, Susannah, d. February 2, 1650; and he m. in April, 1651, Margaret Chene}', daughter of William and Martha Cheney, of Roxbury, Mass. She was the mother of all his children, eight in number, John being the second-born. Deacon Thomas Hastings d. in 1685, at the age of eighty years. AMES WHITING VOSE, a well-known piano manufacturer, the head of the firm of Yose & Sons, Boston, was born in Milton, Mass., October 21, 1 818, el- dest son of Whiting and Mary (Gooch) Vose. His ancestry has been traced iDack to Robert' \'ose, who came to this country from lingland prior to i6f4, the line of descent being: Rob- ert,' Edward,- Nathaniel,' Nathaniel, Jr. ,■• Oliver,^ John," Whiting, =" and James \Vhiting''. ■Robert \'ose, the immigrant jirogenitor of the Vose family in America, was b. about 1599 in Lancashire, England. He was in Milton, Mass., on July 13, 1654. He bought from John Glover, of Milton, one hundred and seventy-four acres of land, the house being at what is now the junction of Brooks Road and Canton Avenue. Ten years later, in 1664, he conveyed to the town eight acres of land on Centre Street for a meeting-house, and in 1673 he laid out a tract of land, two rods in width anil of considerable length, for public travel, which was named Vosc's Lane. After two bun- 204 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF dred and fifty years a puition of the original land owned by him is still in possession of his descendants. He d. October 15, 1683, at the advanced age of eight)'-four years, having sur- vived his wife, Jane, whose death had occurred in October, 1675. He had three sons — lul- ward, Thomas, and Ileniy — and two daughters — Elizabeth and Martha. Edward" Vose, the first child of ivobert and Jane Vose, b. i6j6, d. January 29, 1716. Me ni. before coming to Milton./ Nathaniel' Vose, b. November 17, 1672, in Milton, Mass., son of lulward' above ]iamed, d. October 10, 1753. He was a Puritan in faith and practice, a man of great self-denial, educating his chil- dren in the most rigid manner of his sect. On account of his great familiarity with the Scriptures, from which he was fond of quoting, he was sometimes called "the walking ]5ible. '' He was so successful in tilling the snil that his name has been handed down as "Farmer Vose." He m. December 16, 1696, I\Iar)' Belcher, by whom he had six children. Nathaniel^ Vose, Jr., b. March 31, 1699, son of Nathaniel and Maiy (Belcher) \'ose, d. December 18, 1751. He m. February 8, 1722, Rachel 15ent. Their son Oliver,' who was b. February 10, 1735, m. first, in 1755, Elizabeth Babcock, and for his second wife Keziah Draper. Oliver \'osc served in the Revolutionary War, hokling the rank of Caji- tain in Colonel Robinson's regiment (see .State Archives). The company marched to Ro.\- bury after the fight at Concortl, anti there served before the compjletion of the standing army. John,'' the eldest son of Oliver anil J'lliza- beth (Babcock) Vose, was b. May 21, 1756, in Milton, Mass. He ni. Melatiah Dave]iport, by whom he had several children. Alter re- siding for a time at Milton, he removed to Roxbury. Thence between 17S0 and 1783 he went to Washington, N.H., and settled mi the south-easterl)' slope of Lovell's Mountain, where he built a log house and clearefl a farm. Four years later he erected, a few rods east oi his log house, a frame house, the cellar of which can be seen at the [iresent time. An enter]:rising farmer, he was also a good citizen and a religious man, being a Deacon in the Congregational church. He served in the Revolutionary War, his name appearing in the State Archives as that of a fifer in Oliver Vose's com]3any. Colonel Robinson's regiment, already mentioned ; also as that >^ HESTER SPKAGUE, of Watertown. j \y Mass., was born December 26, 1850, V=|[s in Dedham, Mass., a son of Samuel ^ and Mary (Kingsbury) Sprague and a descendant in the seventh generation of the immigrant ancestor, William Sprague, the founder of this family of .Spragues. William' S]5rague, according to tradition, arrived at .Salem, Mass., in 1629, was an in- habitant of Charlestown in January, 1635-6, remoxcii to Ilingham the ne.xt sunmier or autumn, and there served as Selectman in 1645. He m. in 1635 Milicent, daughter of Anthony Fames. Anthony- .Sprague, their eldest son, named for his maternal grand- father, was ba|5tized in Charlestown, May 23, 1636. He d. September 3, ijig. During King Philip's War his house was burned by the Indians. In 1664 he m. Elizabeth Bartlett, daughter of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bart- lett and grand-daughter of Richard W'arren, who came in the "Ma\-flower, " and settled at Plymouth in 1620. Jeremiah' Sprague. b. July 24, 1682, son of Anthony' and his wife, Elizabeth, d. in March, I75g. He m. Priscilla Knight; and their son, Jeremiah^ SiJrague, b. in Hingham, De- cember 18, 1714, m. December ig, I73g. Elizabeth Whiton. Myles Standish^ Sprague, son of this couple, b. in Hingham in P'ebruary, 1762, removed when a young man to Worces- ter, Mass., subsequently settling permanently in Watertown. He was what one might term a "learned shoemaker." being well-read in 2o6 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF many lines of study. On September 29, 1793, he m. Peggy Lincoln, daughter of John and Lydia (Jacob) Lincoln, of Hingham. Her father, John-' Lincoln, was a descendant in the fourth generatioji of Samuel' Lincoln, who settled at Hingham in 1637. The line was: Samuel, '■'■^ John^ The descent of President Abraham Lincoln from Samuel' was through his fourth-born son, Mordecai,- brother of Samuel,' above named. Samuel'" .Sj^rague, son of Myles and Peggy, was b. in Worcester, Mass., but was reared in Watertown, whither his parents removed when he was but two years old. He m. Mary Kingsbury, who was b. on an island in the Charles River, and was a daughter of Jonathan Kingsbury, a native of Needham, Mass. Seven children were the fruit of their union; namely, Ellen Frances, Mary Elizabeth, Theodore S. , Chester, Charles, Franklin, and Margaret. Ellen Frances Sprague, b. in Uedham, Mass., in 1834, was graduated at the h'raming- ham State Normal School when but eighteen years of age, and was ap[x>inted at once prin- cipal of the model department of that school. In 1856 she became a teacher in the public schools of Indianapolis, Ind., but was soon induced to resign her position to become an instructor in the Methodist College of that city. She subsequently spent one year in the public schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, and three years in Hamilton, Ohio. Returning to Mas- sachusetts, she taught for a time in the high school in Canton. Going then to Brooklyn, N. Y. , she remained there as one of the faculty of Packer College until her marriage, being an active member of Plymouth Church, Henry Ward Beecher pastor, and also a member of the choir of that church. On October i, 1868, Miss Sprague m. Sylvanus J. Upton. He d. August 8, 1895, leaving her with two sons, namely: Ernest, b. October 10, 1869, who is unmarried and resides with her in Chelsea; and Julian Sprague, a contiactor and builder, now in business at North Falmouth, Mass. Mary Elizabeth Sprague is the widow of the late PZmulus Godding, a soldier in the Civil War, who d. leaving her with two children — Herbert and Harry. Theodore S. Sjjrague, a member of the Third Maine Cavalry, d. in the Civil War. Charles Sprague, a resident of Watertown, Mass., m. Susan Ford, and they have three children, namely: Lester and Will- iam, who are both in the United States navy; and Albert, who is attending the public schools of Watertown. Chester' Sprague was but four years old when his parents moved to Chesterville, Me., where he recei\ed the rudiments of his educa- tion, which was completed in the schools of Canton, Mass. Subsequently learning the carpenter's trade, he worked fur a few years as a journeyman in New England. Giving up his trade for a while, he went West to seek his fortune, and for five years followed ranch life in Kansas, at the end of that time being glad to retuin home, no worse off financially than when lie left. Taking up his residence in Watertown, he established himself as a car- penter, and (luring the ensuing years carried on very extensive building operations, erecting nearly one-third of the newer dwelling-houses in the town. In 1893 he embarked in the retail lumber business, in which he is conduct- ing an extensive and profitable trade. He is one of the trustees of the Methodist Ejnscopal Church of Watertown. On June 16, 1876, Mr. Sprague married IClvira Albertina Da\'is, who was born in Wakefield, N. II., a daughter of John Dax'is. Mr. and Mrs. Sprague have three children, namely: lulna Lincoln, who is the wife of William Harris, of Taunton, Mass., and the mother of one child, Hilda; Percy, who was graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1900; and Helen Richardson, a pupil in the public schools of Watertown. /^TeORGI': 1-T)X tucker, Ph.D., \ '•) I law^'er and author, of Barrister's Hall, Pemheiton Square, Boston, is a native of New Bedford, Bristol County, Mass., and rejjresentatix'e of a family that settled at Dartmouth, of which New Bedford was for- merly a part, as long ago as 1660, has contin- ued its residence in that vicinity, and has been prominent from the beginning in the .Society of Friends. According to the Tucker Genealogy by Ephraim Tuckei' (a member of the Worcester GENEALOGY AND I'ERSONAL HISTORV 207 Society of Antiquity), jxihlislicd in I'SijS, Henry' 'riicker, of Dartnioiitli. 1). in 1619, in Devonshire, was probably a cousin of Robert' Tucker, of Milton, Mass. I lenry Tucker was at Milton in i<')63; he bought land at iJart- niOLith in 1669, and d. there in 1694. lie ni. his wife Martha in 1652, N. S. ; and their son |ohn,- h. in 1656, ni. in 168.S ]\utli W'ool- Ic)', daughter of Emmanuel and Elizabeth Woolk')-, ol Shrewslnn)', N.J., formerly of Newjjort, R.I. John' Tucker was for more than fifty years an approved and influential minister of the Friends. llccl. in 1751, aged ninety-five years ; and his wife d. in 1759, at the age of ninety-six. Their son Josejih, - b. in 1696, m. in 1720 Mary I lowland, daughter of Nicholas- (son of Zoeth' and grandson of Henry' the immigrant, who was at I'lymouth as early as 1633) and his wife, Hannah Wood- man. John' Tucker, son of Joseph- and Mary, m. in 1756 Lydia Wilbur, of Little Comjiton, R.I., and after her death m., in 1769, Rhoda Wing, daughter of J^enjaniin ^\ ing, of ])art- mouth, (llowland Genealogy.) Benjamin- Tucker, b. in 17S1, son of John' and his second wife, Rhoda, il. in 1861. He m., in 1X02, Lucretia, daughter of l-^lijali and Hannah (Bray ton) Russell, of Hartmouth. Benjamin- and Lucretia had three childien; namely, John, Rhoda, and Chailes ]-J.ussell. Charles RlisscIT' Tucker was for a long period one of the leading merchants of New Bedford, being actively engaged in business forty-five years. He and his father w-erc largely con- cerned in the early part of last ccntur)- in the founding and development of the whaling fish- ery of New Bedford. He was president of the Merchants' National ]3ank of New ]?cdford. He m. September 19, 1833, Dorcas l'"ry, daughter of John and Lydia (Earle) l-'ry, of Bolton. John Fry was a iirominent nieniber of the Society of ]*"riends at Bolton. Lydia Earle belonged to the old Worcester family of that name. Charles Russell and Dorcas (Fry) Tucker were the parents of eight children, namely: ]5enjamin Russell, b. in 1835, who il. in ICS36; l^enjamin, second, 1). in 1836; John Fry, b. in 1S39, d. in 1S1S6; Henry Rus- sell, b. in 1842, d. in 1872; Charles Russell, Jr., b. in 1S44, d. in 1S91; Robert Earle, b. in 1846, d. in 1873; lulward Tobey, b. Sep- tend^er 29, 1849; and (jeorge I-'o-x, the special subject of this biogra|ihical sketch, who was h. January 19, 1852. l-^lward Tobey, in ac- cordance with a time-honored custom of devot- ing one son in a family to the medical pro- fession, was educated as a physician (Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medicine, 1874), and is now engaged in jiractice in New ]!ed- foi'd. He m. .Anna ]■'.. Tope and has had foui' children. George Fo.\ 'Tuckei, whose name is signifi- cant of his birthright in the Friends' commun- ion, was eilucated at the Friends' Academy, New Bedford, the T'riends' J^oarding School, Frovitlence, R. f., and at lirown Univeisity, where he was graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1873. He then studied law in the office of (jeorge Marston and William W. Crapo, of New ]?edford, and at the Law .School of ]^oston University, and received the degree of Bache- lor of Law in 1875. Admitted to the I'nistol County bar in 1876, he theieupon began jirac- tice in New Ik-dfortl. Removing his office to Jioston in 1882, he became associatetl with his former preceptor, the Hon. George Marston, then attorney general of Massachusetts. In 1892 he was appointed repoiter of the deci- sions of the Supreme Judicial Court of this State. Mr. Tucker is the author of several legal ])ublications which have become widely and favorably known. The first of these, issued in 1884, is "A Manual of Wills," the Massachu- setts law- being accepted as authority; the sec- ond, a monograph on "The IMonioe Doctrine." In 1888 ai)peared a manual relating to the formation and management of mercantile and manufacturing corporations; antl in 1SS9 "Notes on the United .States Revised Stat- utes," prepared b\' him in association with John M. Gould. This volume has had a very large circulation. In 1891 Mr. Tucker pub- lished his first novel, "A Quaker Home," the scene of which is laid in New liedford ; in 1895, through Little, Brown & Co., another legal work, "Vour Will, How to Make It." Mr. Tucker continues a resident of New Bed- ford. He served on the .School Committee in 1 88 1, and represented the city in the lower NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF branch of the Legislature in 1890, 1891 and 1S92, serving on the Committees on Bills in the third reading, and on Rules and Consti- tutional Amendments. In 1S91, in recogni- tion of his literary work, he received from Brovifn_ University the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He is a member of the St. Bo- tolph, and was formerly of the University and the Press Clubs of Boston, and is now a mem- ber of the Wanisutta Club, of New Bedford. He is not married. He published in Sep- tember, 1901, in conjunction with George G. Wilson, Ph.D., of Brown University, a book on International Law. KYMAN BEECHER JORDAN, a prom- inent business man of Maiden, Pilass. , ^ was born at Durham, Me., June 16, 1849, son of Secomb and Jane (Hoyt) Jordan. He is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of the Rev. Robert Jor- dan, an English clergyman, who had charge of the Episcopal church at Richmond's Island, Me., as early as 1641. The name Jordan as here written e.Nists in England, Ireland, and Wales. There are also families who spell it Jordaine, Jardayne, Jor- den, Jordin, Jordon. The Jordon who first settled in Wales was of Anglo-Norman origin, one of the companions of Martine de Tours in the time of the Conquest. A Robert Jordan m. a Miss Cohers in Blandford, County of Dorset, and had a son Robert, who became a merchant in Melcomb, Dorsetshire, and who m., it is supposed, into the Fitzpen or Phip- pen family. Their coat of arms was nine daggers on a shield, with a lion rampant in the centre. The Dorsetshire and Somerset- shire families have on their shields a lion rampant, while the Wiltshire families have a bent arm holding a dagger. (.See Jordan Me- morial.) The line of descent from the Rev. Robert' Jordan continued through Samuel,' Samuel,' Noah,-* Secomb, 5 Apollos, '' Secomb,' to Ly- man Beech er^. It is probable that the Rev. Robert Jordan came to New England in 1639 from Dorset- shire or Devonshire. He m. at Richmond's Island Sarah, only child of John Winter, who d. in 1645, leaving a large and valuable estate, of which Mr. Jordan was made administrator. By his marriage with Sarah Winter he became a great land proprietor, and as such "failed not to e.xert his power and influence in favor of his church and politics." He subse- quently removed from the island to the main land, where he settled on that part of the Winter plantation called Spurwink, a name retained until the present day, it being a jjart of Falmouth, now called Cape Elizabeth. He there served as a judge for many years. Dur- ing the second Indian War he was compelled to flee hastily from .Spurwink, probably leav- ing all his papers in his house, which was in flames before he was out of sight. He went to Great Island in the Piscataqua River, the town being now New Castle, then a |)art of Portsmouth, N. H. Active, enterprising, and well educated, for more than thirty years the Rev. Robert Jordan was influential in the affairs of the town and province. He d. at Newcastle in 1679, in the si.xty-eighth year of his age. He left si.\ sons. SamueP Jordan, the fifth son, b. about 1660, at Spurwink in h^almouth, now Cape Eliza- beth, Me., d. at Kittery, Me., in 1720. He left Sinuwink with liis father in 1675, and never returned to the place of his birth, but settled permanently at Kittery. Samuel* Jor- dan, Jr., b. at Kittery about 1690, eldest child of Samuel,- was engaged in agricultural pursuits during his active life, living at Kit- tery and Falmouth. His first wife, Mary, d. in 1730, leaving one child, a son Nt)ali. His second wife, Frances Cranch, whom he m. on March 2, 1733, d. without issue. Noah-" Jordan, b. at Kittery, Me., August 17, 1722, d. at Cape Elizabeth, Me., October 7, 1804. On December 3, 174S, he m. Sarah Morrill, daughter of John Morrill. .She was b. December 25, 1729, and d. March 13, 181 3. Their children were: Samuel, Martha, Noah, Jr., Secomb, and Morrill — all b. at Cape Elizabeth. Secomb' Jordan, the fourth child, b. in 1764, d. August I, 1825, in Durham, Me. He was a farmer and a country store-keeper. He resided in different towns, settling first in GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 209 Durham, then in Lisbon, removing from there to ]5runs\vick, whence he returned to Durham, where he spent the remainder of iiis life. He was active in public affairs, serving at one time as Deputy Sheriff, was Selectman 1813- 20, and was a Representative to General Court in 1812 and 1821. His wife, Sarah Robin- son, whom he m. Jul)- 15, 17S7, d. in 1S27. They had eight children, three of whom — namely, A]5ollos, Rhoda, and Eleanor — grew to adult age and m. ApoUos" Jordan, b. December 24, 17S8, followed farming at Durham, Me., where his death occurred November 20, 1827, at the age of thirty-nine years. On November 29, 181 1, he m. Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Ann (Simonton) Miller, of Cape Elizabeth. She was b. in 1793, and d. at the age of ninety- three years. Six children were b. of their union, namely: Rufus; Sccomb; Elizabeth; Abigail M. ; Sarah Ann; and Albion K. P. Jordan, of Concord, Mass., who is the only one of the si.x now living. Secomb" Jordan, b. at Durham, Me., Ajiril 27, 1 8 14, d. May 21, 18S9. He m. first, December 31, 1S40, Jane Hoyt, who was b. April 27, 1 8 14, and d. March 29, i860. She was a daughter of John Hoyt, Jr., and grand- daughter of John Hoyt, Sr. Her grandfather, the son of an earlier John Hoyt, was b. at Scar- boro. Me., in the block-house in 1738. He was a mariner in early life, but was afterward engaged in farming, settling in Royalsboro as early as 1773, and dying there in Septem- ber, 1823. He m. January 17, 1765, Anna Hasty, who also was b. in the block-house in Scarboro, her birth occurring in 1744. She was a ilaughter of William Hasty. She d. in 1825, having borne her husband seven chil- dren, John, Jr., being the third child. John Hoyt, Jr., was b. December 25, 1774- On November 29, 1802, he m. Molly Gerrish, by whom he had seven children, Jane being the youngest. He m. second, October 18, 1862, Mary C. Hoyt, of Yarmouth, Me., who d. Jan- uary 4, 1886. No children were b. of the sec- ond union. By his first marriage there were five children, all b. in Durham, Me., Lyman Beecher being the fourth, l^lizabeth,'' the el- dest child, b. October 13, 1S41, m. September 6, 1863, the late Rufus York, son of Samuel York, of Farmington, Me. John Quincy,'* b. October 9, 1843, m- December 10, 1868, at Lewiston, Me., Mary Smith, daughter of George \V. and Sarah Jane Lane, of Skowhe- gan. Me. Ferdinand,'* b. V\ugust 24, 1845, m. October 10, 1872, Frankie P., daughter of Dudley Bean, of Jay, Me. Ada B.,"" the youngest child, b. December 23, 1853, d. in February, 1876. Lyman Beecher'^ Jordan received a practical education in the schools of his native town. Leaving home at the age of eighteen years, he went to Lewiston, Me., to learn the builder's trade with the late George Hanson. Coming to Massachusetts before attaining his majority, he settled in Maiden in 1S69, and started in business for himself as a contractor and builder in 1874. He has been very successful, doing more than any other one man toward adding to the architectural beauty of Maiden. He has erected many fine residences at the West End, selling them before they were completed, showing that houses of his construction are greatly in demand. Emj^loying a large num- ber of men, he enjoys their confidence to a marked degree, never having labor troubles of any kind. For more than twenty-one years Mr. Jordan had full charge of the entire jirop- erty of the late Thomas Dowling in Central Square, resigning the care of the same on account of the pressure of his own business two years after the death of Mr. Dowling. He is a director in the Maiden Co-operative Bank, a position he has held since its organization, and is one of the directorate of the Maiden Trust Company. A Republican in politics, in 1897 he represented Ward Three in the Com- mon Council. He is a member of the Kern- wood Club of Maiden. Mr. Jordan married December 24, 1874, at Maiden, Georgia Marsh, who was born in Dub- lin, Ireland, a daughter of Philip and Jane (Hurst) Marsh, of Manchester, England. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan have two children — Evelyn Georgia"* and Frederick Lyman,' both born in Maiden. These children have been edu- cated in the Maiden High School, and Fred- erick Lyman also attended Comer's Commercial College. NEW ENGI-AND LIBRARY OF V |srr of the ^— * Essex F.ORGK BROOKS, of l?rooklinc, head le firm of Brooks & Co., 135 Street, ]5oston, and treasurer of the Boston Fire ]5rick Company, was horn November 28, 1819, in Roxi)iiry, now Boston. His parents were Kendall and Mary (Pettee) Brooks. His descent from Henr)'' Brooks, who d. at Woburn, Ajiril 12, 16S3, and whose first wife, Susanna, d. there in 1681, is through John,' who m. at Woburn in 1649 Eunice Mousall, who tl. Januar)- i, 1^)84, daughter of Deacon John Mousall, one of the founders of Woburn (John Jiiooks d. in 1691 ); Jabez, ' b. at Woburn, July 17, 1673, who m. Hephzibeth Cutter, daughter of Richard' Cut- ter, of Cambridge; Benjamin, ^ b. April 14, 1717, whom. Susannah Kendall in 1740; Jo- sejjh,' b. December 28, 1759, who m. Rebecca Wyman ; Kendall" (the father above named), b. in Woburn, January 10, 1792. Kendall Brooks removed to Roxbury in his youth, and, having learned the trade of harness- making and chaise-making, engaged in that business as long as he li\ed. For many years he was a Deacon of the Dudle\' Street Ba])tist Church. He d. January 1, 1S72. By his first wife, Eunice Blackman, he had two children : John, who d. at the age of seventy-six years ; and Eunice, who m. Lewis I'hilbrick, and is now living (March, 1901 ), at the age of eighty- three years. His second wife, Mary Pettee, whom he m. November 22, 1818, at Dedham, d. November 23, 1870. She was a daughter of Simon'' and Mary (Newell) Pettee. Her [par- ents were m. May 12, 1796. Her father was a descendant of William Pettee, who, with his wife Mary, was at Weymouth, Mass., in 1638, and was a town officer in 1643. The line was: William'; Samuel,-' b. 1657; Simon,' sur- veyor at Stoughton in 1730, and constable in 1731 ; Ebenezer,^ b. in 1722; Ebenezer, '• Jr. , May 25, 1741; Simon," a native of Neeclham, Mass., who d. in 1806. Ebenezer' Pettee m. Mary Dean in 1740. He d. at the age of sixt)- years. His son, Ebenezer, Jr.,' m. Rebecca Hartshorn in 1765, and d. in 17S3, at the age of forty-two. 'Phe younger Ebenezer Pettee was a soldier ol the Revolution. The following is his war record, cojjied from the State aichivcs: I'Lbeneser Pettie apjiears with the rank of private on muster-roll ol Cajitain ( icorge Could's com- pan)'. Colonel Pane Sargent 's regiment, dated August I, 1775. Enlisted May 18, 1775. Time of service, two months, nineteen days. Residence, Dedham. (\'ol. 15, p. 10.) I'^beneser I'ette appears with lank of private on company retLirii of Captain Goukl's com- pany, Colonel .Sargent's regiment. Residence, Dedham. No date given, probably October, 1775. (\'ol. 56, ]). 187.) Ebeneser Pettee appears with rank of private on a ]ia)'-roll abstract of Captain Aaron Guild's company. Colonel Josiah Whit- ney's regiment, for service in the Colony army. Sworji to June 20, 1776. (Vol. 18, p. 32- } Ebeneser Pettee ap[)ears with the rank of private on muster and pa)' roll of Cajitain Aaron Guikl's company, CohiUel Josiah Whit- ney's regiment. pjilisted May 26, 1776. Discharged August 1, 1776. Time of ser- vice, two months, five days. Roll dated at camp at Hull. (V^ol. 19, p. 142.) libeneser Pettee apjiears with the rank of private on muster and pay roll of Captain Aaron Guild's company, Colonel Josiah Whit- ne)''s regiment. Enlisted August 1, 1776. Discharged November 1, 1776. Time of ser- vice, three months. Roll ilated at Hull. (Vol. 19, p. 140. ) P.beneser Pettee apjK-ars among a list of men's names signed to a petition for increase and payment of wages, dated camp at Hull, September 17, 1776. (\'ol. 55, p. 59, file N.) P^beneser Pette appears with the rank of private on muster and ]Kiy roll of Captain Luke Howell's company. Colonel Nathan 'Pyler's regiment, for service at Rhotle Island. Phi- listed August 29, 1779. 'Perm of service was two days. (Vol. 2, p. 114, N. ) Ebeneser Pett)' ajipears with the rank of private on muster and pay roll of Captain Luke Howell's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment, for service at Rhode Island, linlisted December 1, 1779. Discharged De- cember 31, 1779. Time of service, one month, three days. (Vol. 2, p. 114.) The above is dated Boston, .September 26, 1S96. Signed by W'illiam M. Olin, Secre- HKNKV K. COIilS. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 213 tary, and stamped willi the seal of the Com- monwealth. Kendall Brooks and his wile, Mary, had nine ehildren beside one that d. in infancy, namely: George, whose personal history is outlined below; the Rev. Kendall Brooks, D. D. , late President of Kalamazoo College, Michigan, who d. in 1897; I'^lizabeth (deceased), who m. John Baker; William, in the mercantile busi- ness, now living in Roxbury ; Mary, who m. Dr. George Jewett (both deceased) ; the Rev. Samuel, 1). D. , a professor at Kalamazoo Col- lege; Frances, of Roxbury, who has been a teacher for over forty years; Julia, wife of E. T. Cressey, of Sioux Falls, S. D. ; and Benjamin Heniy, architect, of Kansas City, Mo. After com]ilcting his course of study at the Roxbury Latin School in 1834, George Brooks in September of that year began business life as a clerk in the groceiy store of Caleb Parker at Roxbury. In 1S39 he entered the employ of Ste]ihen Williams, currier, anil (jn the day he was twenty-one, N(.)vember 28, 1S40, he became a ]5artner in the firm of Stephen Will- iams & Co. In 1845 Mr. Brooks went to l-'rance, where he spent a 3'ear in learning s[)ecial methods of leather manufacture, and in 1846 he engaged in manufacturing the leather known as French calf. In 1851 he, with Joseph A. Safford and J. D. .Sumner, founded the firm of .Safford, Brooks & Co., dealers in shoe manufacturing goods at 1 Blackstone Street, Boston. This prosperous business house, since known under the succes- sive styles of Brooks, Lane & Co., Brooks & Mecuen, Brooks & Young, is now Brooks & Co., including Mr. Hrooks and his two sons, George K. and Gardner C. Brooks. Mr. Brooks is a Deacon of the Baptist church in Brookline, and for seventeen years he was superintendent of the .Sunday-school. P"or twenty-one years he was a member of the ]5rookline .School Committee. Politically, he is a Re]3ublican. Mr. Brooks was married January i, 1S51, to Miss Eliza Corey, daughter of Timothy and Mary (Gardner) Corey, of Brookline. One child born of this union died in infancy, and three — Agnes B. , George Kendall, and Gard- ner Coiey — are now living. Agnes B. is the wife of E. P. X'ining, of .San L'rancisco. George Kendall, who is in business with his father, ni. Elizabeth Clark, and has three chil- dren — Agnes Elizabeth, Geoige Clark, and Mary Gardner. Gardner Corey is associated with his father and brothei' in business. He married Emily Janet Sea\'erns. Mrs. Eliza Corey Brooks died March 11, [ S99. Her father. Deacon Timothy Corey, was a son of Captain Timothy Corey,' Sr. , of the Revolu- tionary aimy, a native of Weston, Mass., who settled in Brookline when a young man, buy- ing an estate there in 1 // The father of Captain Timothy was Isaac Corey. Deacon Timothy Corey, son of Captain Timothy, Sr. , and Elizabeth (Griggs) Corey, d. in August, 1844, aged sixty-two years. His wife, Mary Gardner, was the daughter of Caleb and Mary (Jackson) Gardner and grand-daughter of Captain Benjamin Gardner. The Gardner family, founded by Thomas,' who d. in 1639, were large landholders in Brookline at an early date. From Thomas' the line continued through Thomas,- a native of England, who m. in 1 64 1 Lucy .Smith, and settled at Brook- line; Deacon Thomas,' who m. Mary Bowles, and was the father of Captain Benjamin Gard- ner above named. ON. HENRY EDDY COBB, M.A., of Newton, Mass., was born June 21, 1839, '" Hartford, Conn. He comes, however, of Massachusetts Colonial stock, his immigrant ancestors, pater- nal and maternal, having been early settlers of Plymouth and Barnstable Counties. Henry Cobb, b. at Reculvcr, England, in 1602, came to Plymouth in 1629, was at Scit- uate in 1633, and in 1634 settled at Barnstable, on the Cape. He was an Elder in the Barn- stable church, and he served a number of terms as Representative of that town to the General Court. His first wife, Patience, d. in 1648; and he m., second, Sarah, daugh- ter of Governor Thomas Hinckley, of the Plym- outh Colony. According to Deane (Hi.'story of Scituate), his children by his first wife were : John, James, Gershom, Eleazer, Mary, 2 14 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF and Patience; and by his second — Samuel, Jonatlian Henry, Mehitabel, Saraii. From Elder Henry' the Cobb line descended (perhaps) through John,- who m. in 1658 Martha, daughter of William Nelson; Eben- ezer,^ who m. in 1693 Mary Holmes ; Nathan,^ b. in 1707, whom. Joanna Bennett ; Timothy, ^b. 1742, who m. Deborah Churchill; Thomas,'' b. in 1782 at Carver, Plymouth County, who m. Hannah, daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Perkins) Barrows; and Andrew Barrows, b. at Carver, February 5, 181 2, who m. in 1836 Lydia Morton Eddy; to their son, Henry Eddy* Cobb, of Newton. Mr. Cobb's mother, whose maiden name, as mentioned above, was Lydia Morton Eddy, was b. August i, 1813. She was a daughter of Joshua'' Eddy, of Middleboro, and his wife, Lydia Morton. Her father, who was b. in 1779, was a descendant in the si.xth generation of Samuel' Eddy, the progenitor of the Middle- boro branch of the Eddy family. The lineage was: Samuel,' b. 1608; Obadiah,- b. 1645; Samuel, 5 b. 1675; Zachariah,-' b. 1701 or 1712; Joshua,^ b. 1748; Joshua,'' b. 1779, as above stated. Samuel' Eddy and his brother John, sons of the Rev. William Eddy, A.M., vicar of the church of St. Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, Eng- land, came to America in the ship "Haml- maid, " arriving at Plymouth, October 29, 1630, O. S. John Eddy settled at Watertown. Samuel in 163 1 boughtahou.se at Plymouth. Later he removed to Middleboro, being one of the original proprietors of the town and a large land-owner. Five children were b. to him and his wife, Elizabeth. Obadiah- m. a Ben- nett, and had seven children, the third being Samuel,' who m. Melatiah Pratt, and was the father of five children. Zachariah,^ who d. in 1777 at si.xty-si.x years of age, was a stanch Whig and friend of American independence. His sons, Zachariah, Jr., and Joshua, were in the army, Joshua being at the siege of Boston and the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth. The State records now jirinted show that Joshua Eddy was First Lieutenant in Captain Thomas Turner's comjjany early in the Revolutionary War, and afterward was Captain in Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's resriment. His name is on Continental army pay accounts for service from January i, 1777. to October 15, 1778. Partly on account of the death of his father, he then left the service, being "deranged," as the term was (that is, left out of the new arrangement) at his own request. Captain Joshua^ Eddy m. Lydia Paddock, of Middle- boro, and had ten children. Joshua,'' the el- dest of these, d. November 12, 1863. His wife, Lydia Morton, was b. September 11, 1779, and d. July 21, 1855. Andrew Barrows Cobb was for many years treasurer of the American Tool and Machine Company. After his removal to Newton in 1844 he served several years as an Assessor oi the town. He d. at Newton, March 3, 1878. His wife, Lydia Morton F^ddy, who was b. August I, 181 3, at Middleborn, d. b'ebruary 15, 1895, at Newton. They had three chil- dren: Henry Edd)',"" the eldest, b. in Hartford, as stated above; Kate Morton,"' b. May 25, 1842, in Bridgewater, Mass.; and Andrew Barrows,'' b. November 2, 1852, at Newton. Kate Morton-"^ Cobb was m. May 30, 1865, to Theodore Nickerson, ngland, il. in Medfield, January, 1683-4. Bethia* Whitney, who m. Thomas Jones, was daughter of Joshua' Whitney, b. at Sher- born in 16S7, m. at Medfield in 1709 Hannah Rock wood, b. at Medfield, August 24, 1 69 1. Hannah was the daughter of Josialr Rockwood, b. 1644, d. at Medway, y\ugust 27, 1727, m. May 9, 1677, at Medfield, Mary Twitchell, b. at Dorchester, March S, 1658-9, d. at Med- field, September 15, 1699. Mary Twitchell was the daughtei' of Benjamin' Twitchell and his wife, Mary Riggs. Josiah" Rockwood was son of Nicholas' Rockwood, who d. at Medfield, January 26, 1680- 1, and his first wife, Jane, who d. at Medfiekl, December 15, 1654. Benjamin- Whitney, father of Joshua,* was b. at Water- town, June 6, 1643, d. al .Sherborn, March 26, 1723. His wife, Jane, d. at .Sherborn, No- vember 14, 1690. Benjamin was a son of John' Whitney, b. in iMigland, 1589, came to America in 1633, d. at Watertown, June, 1673, and his wife, l^i- nor, b. in luigland, 1599, who d. at Water- town, May I I, 1659. William I'lben Stone married at Cambridge, Mass., June 22, 1871, Katherine Maria b~ay, daughter of Rev. Charles L'ay, D.I)., and grand-daughter of Judge Samuel V. V. h'ay of Cambridge, Mass. She was born at New Or- leans, La., July 6, 1846. Her mother, the wife of Rev. Charles Fay, was Charlotte Emily Ho[ikins, daughter of Rt. Rev. John Henry IIo]ikins, D. D., LL. D. , Bishop of Vermont. The children of William K. and Katherine Mai'ia (h'ay) Stone are: Pauline F"ay Stone born at Cambridge, August 22, 1874; Reginald Fay Stone, born at Cambridge, July 16, 1877, who died at Cambridge, January 24, I S92 ; Margaret Ciarrad Stone, born at Cambridge, July 19, 1886; and Amy F"ay Stone, born at Cambridge, July 13, 1888. REEMAN CLARKE COFFIN, civil and hydraulic engineer, having an ofifice in the Ivvchange Building, Boston, and residing at West Medforcl, was born in Boston, Mass., September 14, 1856, son of Alonzo King and Mary (Moreau) Coffin. He is a descendant in the tenth generation of Tristram Coffin, b. in the ]3arish of Brixton, town of Plymouth, 1 )e\'onshire, England, who in 1642 came to New England accompanied by his wife, Dionis Stevens, his mother, two sisters, arid five children, and settled in Salisbury, Mass. Tristram removed shortly to Haverhill, a few years later to Newbury, whence he returned to Salisbury, and in 1660 went to Nantucket, where he d. October 2, 1681. The line of descent is: Tristram,' James, - John, ' Elias,^ Prence,5 Zebulon,'' David New- ell Brown,' Alonzo King,"* L'reeman Clarke'. James- Coffin, b. in England, August 12, 1640, m. Mary, daughter of John and Abigail Severance, of Salisbury, d. in Nantucket, July 28, 1720. John,'b. 1669, m. Hope Gardner, lie d. July, 1747, nnd his wife in 1750. yi^l'mULl-701/^ GENEALOGY ANM) PERSONAL HISTORY 223 IClias,^ b. June iS, 1702, cl. in 1773. lie m. in 1728, Lcivc Coffin, b. Jniuinry 17, 1705, daughter of Ebcnezcr ami I'llcnnor Coffin. She cl. May 20, I 78 I. I'lencc'^ Coffin, son of ]{lias and Love Coffin, was b. in 1729. He m. Mary Arthur, daughter of Thomas and Mary Arthur, and removed from Nantucket to L')res- den, Me. Zebulon'' Coffin, h. in 1 7r)S, was a seaman, and d. at sea ol \ello\v fever when but twenty-seven years old. Mis wife in maidenhood was Betsy ]5rown. Their son, David Newell Brown" Coffin, who was b. on Swan Island at the moutli of the Kennebec River, May 15, 1795, m. June 13, 18 16, Han- nah IIa)ward, daughter of ICdmund and Susan (Matthews) Hay ward. -She was a descendant of Thomas Hayward, who scttlerl in Du.xbury, Plymouth Colony, before 1638, was made a freeman in 1646, and later was one of the orig- inal proprietors of J^ridgewater, where he d. in 1681. The line of descent was through Deacon Joseph- Hayward, son of Thomas' by his third wife, Hannah iMitchell; Thomas, ' b. 16S7, who m. Bethiah Waldo; lulmund,-" b. 1720, who m. Anna'Snell, daughter of Josiah' and Abigail (Fobes) Snell, anil grand-daugh- ter of Josiah, Sr.," and Anna (AUlen) Snell, and removed to Dresden, Me.; and lidmund,^ b. 1762, who went to Sidney, Me., and m., 1792, Susan Matthews, they being the |5arents of Hannah ILayward above mentionetl. ILmnah, wife of Jose]3h- Hayward, was a daughter of E.xperience Mitchell, who came over in the "Ann," the third forefather shiii, in 1823, and m. Jane Cooke, daughter of ]'"rancis Cooke, one of the "Mayfiower" pil- grims. ;\nna Alden, wife of Josiah' Snell, Sr. , was a daughtei" of Zechariah Alden, of Du.xbury, and grand-ilaughtcr of John' Alden and his wife I'liscilla. It may be mentioned here that the poet, William Cullen ]5r)'ant, was a descentlant of [osiah and Anna (Alden) Snell. Alonzo King"^ Coffin was b. in Sidney, Me., May 5, 1 82 1. He m. first, December 31, 1846, Katherine Dunham, of St. Da\ids, N. H. After her death, which occurred June 2"], 1847, he m. for his second wife. May 12, 1855, Mary Elizabeth Moreau, who was b. July 4, 1830, in Porto Rico. Jhey wcj'C the parents of Freeman Clarke'' Coffin, whose name begins this sketch, and who married in Boston, October 10, 1885, Janet Agnes Lighthall, a native of Durham, P.O. i\Ir. and Mrs. b'ree- man C. Coffin have four children ; Whitman King, born in Cohasset, July ig, 1886; .Schuyler, born in West Medford, June 18, 1890; John Riiskin, born in West Medford, F'ebruary 14, 1S95; and David Dnuw, born in West Medford, May 18, 1901. ( IC^TfORGE WASHINGTON ARM- \^\ STRONG, founder of the Arm- strong Transfer E.xpress Company, of 1-ioston, and proprietor of an extensive sys- tem of railway dining and news rooms, nt the close of the nineteenth century one of the best-known business men of New luigland and one of the most enterprising and useful, dietl at Centre Harbor, N.IL, Jime 30, 1901. Born in l^oston, August 11, 1836, son of David and Mahala (Lovering) Armstrong, on the paternal side he was of "far-off .Scotch descent," his earliest ancestors bearing this name in America, immigrants from the north of Ireland, belonging to a family that was an offshoot from the once powerful Armstrong clan of the border land of Scotland and F2ng- land, while through his mother he inherited I^nglish blood and traits, coming partly of Plymouth Colony stock, his maternal grand- mother having been a Winslow, descendant of a brother of Governor Edward Winslow. Robert' Armstrong, whose name appears on the charter of Londonderry, N.H., June 21, 1722, as one of the original proprietors of the town, is spoken of by Afr. Leonard A. Morri- son, genealogist and historian, as the father of Deacon John' Armstrong, b. in the north of Ireland in 1713, who came to New Hami^shirc in his boyhood, and in 1738 occupied the farm in Windham (then a part of Londonderry), on which in 1762 he built the house that was his home till his death, Afay 6, 1782, the house being still standing more than a hundred years later. Deacon John Armstrong's wife, Janet, d. in 1776. They had seven children, one a son, David, ^ of Windham, b. in 1747, who signed the As?i)riation Test in 1776. He m. >24 Nl'AV ENGLAND LIURARY OF in 1775 Elizabeth Hemphill, b\' whuin he iiad eleven chilcheii. Roljert,' the eldest son, b. in 1779, ni. Aliee, daughter of iXlexaiider and Saiah (Maxwell) Park, and lived S7- Priscilla Waterman was a daughter of bVeeman and Joanna (Thomson) Waterman, of Halifa.x, Mass., the maternal ancestry going back to h'rancis Cooke. hrom this "Ma}flower" Pilgrim the line descends through his daughter, Mary- Cooke, who m. John Thomson; their son Jacob,' who m. Alji- gail Wadsworth ; John' Thomson, who m. Joanna Adams; Joanna, ^ who ni. P'reeman Waterman; Priscilla'' Waterman, who m. Josiah Marshall; Emily Marshall," wife of William 1-'. Otis; to Mrs. limily Marshall Otis Eliot. OHN HENRY COLLIN, of Maiden, the jjrincipal of the well-known Boston firm, John H. Coffin & Co., was born Se]3tember 20, 1839, in Amesbury, Mass. A son of John and Abigail Currier (Wadleigh) Coffin, he belongs to the eighth generation of the family descended from the famous Tristram Coffin, of Nantucket. This Tristram' Coffin, son of Peter and Joanna Coffin, " probably b. at Brixton," Devonshire, Englanil, "about 1605," m. Dionis Stevens. In 1642, after the death of his father, he came to New England, bringing with him his mother and two sisters besides his wife and five children. lie first settled in Salisbui}'. Subsequently he lived in flaverhill and New- bury. In 1660 he removetl to Nantucket, settling upon the territory of tlie Salislnu)' company, which, in 1659, purchased about nine- tenths of the island. llis death occuired in 1681. Tristram, Jr.,- who lemained in New- bury after the removal of his father to Nan- tucket, was also a native of England, b. about 1632. lie followed the business of merchant tailor. On March 2, 1653, he ni. Judith Somerby, widow of Henry Somerby and tlaugh- ter of Captain Edmund Creenleaf. Theii' son, Stephen,' who, b. in Newijury, August iS, 1665, the eighth in a family of ten children, d. August 31, 1725. He m. Sarah, daughter of Jolm Atkinson, on October 8, 1685. Jo- seph,' the twelfth child of this union, b. in Newbury, December 26, 1706, was first m. to Elizabeth Collins. A second marriage united him with Olive L'owler on L'ebi ulu)' 13, 1750. lletl. November 23, 1758. John' Coffin, youngest chiUI of Joseph and Olis'e Coffin, and great-grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, was b. August 12, 1757, also in Newbury. 'Pliat this ancestor [ler- formed a patriot's jiart in the Revolution, the State records amply prove. On August 3, '775. being then eighteen years old, and si.v feet two inches in height, he enlisted in Ca|3- tain ]5enjamin Perkins's company in the regi- ment of Colonel Moses Little. He re-enlisted for three years on February 16, 1778; reported in General Washington's lifeguard; also pri- vate in Colonel William Washington's regi- ment of light dragoons; Continental army pay accounts for service January i, 1777, to De- cember 13, 1779. O'l November iS, 1781, he m. Mary Palmer. Llenry'' Coffin, the first child of John and Mary Coffin, m. Tabitha Bootman on February 23, 1783. He was one of the founders of the well-known Amesbury carriage building business. John' Coffin, who was a native of Newbury- port, b. in 1810, son of Henry and Tabitha, d. in 1863. His wife Abigail cl. in 1864. She was the second child of Eliphalet W. and Elizabeth (Curriei) Wadleigh, b. in 1815. Her mother, whose birth occurreil ikuing Wash- ington's first administration as President, d. in 1890, at the age of ninety-eight. During his educational period, John H. Coffin, the subject of this sketch, was a pupil of the public schools of Amesbuiy and the Putnam P'ree School of Newbur)'port. At the age of eighteen he obtained a |5osition in the emplo)iiient of Taylor & Co., of Boston. His connection with tiiis firm lasted until he en- gaged in business on his own account. Tliis he did by entering the firm of Kurtz, Swallow & Coffin. The story of his successful business career is briefly told by the statement that the style ot this firm was successively changed to that (]| i'lench & Cuffin, Page i<; ("offin, and GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY ^Zi John 11. CdlTin & Cn. , the Inst being thnt hy which it is now known. .Since 1H83 he hns been a resident of Maiden. Mr. Coffin's wife, in niaiilcnhoocl Maria Green Svvelt, was born in Wales, Me., dansh- ter of Ebenezer Swett. In her childhood her father removed with the family to J^runswielc, Me., where he afterward took a prominent jiait in town affairs for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Colfin have had four children, namely: Maiy y\hhy, who niaiiied James y\ustin l'')nes, aiul is the mother of one child, Pauline,'' now re- ceiving her education at a private school in New \'ork ; Mester Alice, who died unmanied at the age of thirt)-; Allison Kmcry, who mar- ried Florence E. Spofford, has one child, Austin Fynes, and is living with her family in Maiden; and John II. Coffin, Jr., who married l''li)rence Steers, has two children — Hester Blanche'' and Alice May,*" and also resides in Maiden. "ON. GEORGE von I.ENGERKI-: MEYER, United States Ambassador to Italy, appointed to succeed Gen- eral William ¥. Draper, resigned, is a Massachusetts man, and, needless to say, one in whose integrity and his ability to serve in high places of trust and honor the State rejjoses confidence. Born June 24, iSScS, in Boston, son of George Augustus and Grace Helen (Parker) Me)'er, he is of German de- scent on the paternal side, two generations re- moved from the fatherland. 1 lis grandfathei', George Augustus Meyer, .Sr. , who was born May 19, 1773, in Meinersen, iirovince of Han- over, son of Heinrich l^rnst I.udwig Me)cr, Oberamtman (governor) of Westen, settled in New York City in 1799, and d. there July ig, 1850. His grajidmother, Johanna Cathrina von Lengerke Meyer, was a daughter of Johann Heinrich von Lengerke, of Bremen. This re- mote ancestor, from whom yXmbassador Me}er derives his midtlle name, was b. June i, 1746. A great-uncle, Friedrich Ludwig Mc)er, Lieu- tenant Colonel of the Second Hussars, King's German Legion, fell at the battle of Waterloo in command of his regiment. George Augustus Meyer, Jr., son of George Augustus, Sr. , was b. in New York City in 1S24. Coming to Boston in 184S at twenty- four years of age, he established himself in business as an P^ast India commission mer- chant on India Wharf with George Linder, the firm being Linder & Meyer. The jiartnershi]) continued until the tleath of Mr. Meyer, which occurred Ma\' 2, 1.SS9, at his home, 194 Bea- con Street. He was m. .Se|)tember 22, iii\-crside Avenue, he con- tinued in business many years. l?oth mem- bers of this firm, in 1S42, when they had launched the bar(|uc "Altorf, " their sixty- sixth ship, retired from shipbuilding. On Ma\- 24, 1S49, Galen'' James, in company with Deacon Edward W. Lay, of Medford, issued the first number of a new religious weekly paper, 77/c CoHg)Ci^atioualist, risking a large sum of money, and for years receiving no pecuniary return. After the death of Deacon Fay, in 1855, i\Ir. James took in two other partners. Thereafter he gradually withdrew from the management of the paper, and in 1866 entirely relinquished all, of his financial inteiest therein. He was one of the founders of the l-'irst Tiinitarian Congregational Church of R'ledford, and for many years served as one of its deacons. He w^as active and influential in promoting the interests of the town, and, as an earnest advocate of the temperance move- 36 NKW ENGLAND IJl'.RARV OF mcnt, was one of the first to abolish whiskey in the shipyards. He served as Selectman of Medford, and was largely instrumental in establishing the High School, the building at the time of its completion being the second (jf the kind erected in the State. He died A]iril 14, 1879. Deacon James mariied I\Ia}' 26, 1S17, Mar)- Rand Turner, of Scituate, their intentions of marriage having been ]Kiblished A]iril 27, I Si 7. She, born in 1794, was a tlaughter of Colonel Charles and Harriet (Jacobs) Turner. Her death occurred December 13, 1S31. He married second 1\', in 1S33, Amanda Jacobs, of Scituate, an aunt of the distinguished states- man, Charles Sumner. She died February 23, 1S71. By his second wife he had no children. Of the eight children born of his first mar- riage, but twt) — namely, Horace and Matilda Turner — sinvived their mother. Horace'' James, born in Medfonl, M:\y 6, iSiS, died June 9, 1875. He was graduated at Yale College in the class of 1S40, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1842. He was first settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in Wrentham, Mass., later having charge of the Old South Church in Worcester, Mass. In 1861 he joined the Army of the Potomac as Cliaplain of the Twenty-fifth Mas- sachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in which were many of his Sinulay-school pupils. After serving three years he remained, with tlie rank of Captain, in the employ of the government, being engaged in educational work in the South. He married Helen Leavitt, of Wes- t(jn, Mass., and liad a large family of childi'en. Of these the only survivor is Corinna, the wife of Homer Lane, of Medfortl, Mass. Matilila Turner' James was born in Med- ford, December 4, 1822. ( )n August 13, 185 I, she became the secontl wife of William Haskins, a ])rominent citizen of Medfortl. Mr. Haskins was born March 18, 1813, in .Scituate, where he was a'cared and educated, l.^eing largely self taught. He was a ship calker by trade, vvorking duiing his earlier life in the Medford yards. .Subseijuently he embarked in the lumber business, buying and shipping hmiber from the .South for shipbuilding jiur- poses. The town was served by him in \a rious capacities, inchKling those of Selectman and Overseer of the Poor. He attended the Congregational Church. His death occurred on May 19, 1871. Mrs. Haskins has no children. S^OHN CURTIS NICHOLS, a retired cabinet maiuifactiner residing in the city of Woburn, Mass., was born l'"eb- ruary 29, 1828, in the ailjuining town of Stoneham. His parents were Tracy Collins and Louisa R. (Kindwll) Nichols. tlis father was b. in 1803 in Milford, N.ll., being the son of Penjaniin and Llrnira (Hlanchard) Nich- ols. The parentage and time and place of birth of his grandfather Jienjamin and of his grandmother b'.lmira, who died when her son Tracy was a young child, are unknown to the present writer. The family tradition is that the father and nicither of Benjamin Nichols, with his elder brothers and sisters, came to this country from Scotland before the Revolu- tionar)' War, that their son Benjamin was b. in Massachusetts and removed thence to that liart of Amherst, N.H., which is now Milford. The gra\'e of Llrnira, wife of Benjamin Nich- ols, is in the I'"lm Street Cemetery at Milford, N.H. As recordeil in the history of Amherst, N.H., Benjamin Nichols was m. November 5, 1809, to his second wife, Comfort Tay. She was the widow of Jesse Ta)-, a sea captain, to whiini she, as Comfort Tidd, was m. in Wo- buiii in 1791. -She was a descendant of John Tidd, an early settler of Woburn. By her first marriage she had two daLighters and a son Jesse, Jr. Captain Tay d. at Bedford, N.H., in I7<)7. Benjamin Nichols spent his last years on a farm in Bedford, N.H. In 183 1 he was one of the subscribers to the fund for building a new Presbyterian meeting-house at Bedford. He was made a Lieutenant in the militia in I-'ebruary, 1825, Caiitain, March 1, 1828, and tlischarged from the service April 17, 1830, probably being then bc^yond the age when luil itary duty was retpiired. II is children, beside Tiac)- C'ollins abo\e named, were : Blanch- ard, Benjamin, Stephen, IClnath.m, Nancy Co- nant, Kel)ecca, Lucy Bjanchaid, ami J^etsy, GENEALOGY AND PERSONAT, HISTORY '37 Tracy Collins Nichols, son f)f ]5enjamin and father of John Curtis Nichols, left his New Hani|ishirc home in earl)' manhood, and, com- ing to Massachusetts, served an apprenticeship and learned the trade of tanner and currier, working at first in Danvers and later in \Vo- hurn, where he e\'eiUuall}' engaged in the tan- ning and currying Inrsincss on his own account. He d. I'"ebruary 2. 1.S81, ageil seventy-seven ye;irs, eight months, and twenty-three days. He was first m. at twenty-three years of age to Louisa I^. Kimball, daughter of Ezra' and Lydia R. (I-'owle) Kimball. ]'>,ra Kimball, her father, was a descendant in the seventh generation of Richard' Kimball, who came to America in 1634, was at Watertown a few years, tlien settled in I|iswich, Mass. ]-"iom Richard' the line was cnntinued ihiough his son Richard,- b. in luiglaiul in 1623, who settled at Wenhani ; Samuel,' who m. Mar}' Witt; Deacon Jonathan, ' of Wcniiam, who was m. in Boston b)' tlie Rev. Cotton Mather, July 28, 1709, to Hannah Hopkins; Jonathan,'' b. in ]5oston, 1710, who m. Martha Ober, of Beverly, and resided at Wenham ; Ezra,'' b. in 1744, who m. in 1768 Sally Holmes, and was father of Ezra' above mentioned, who was b. in Ipswich, Mass., in 1771, and d. on April 30, 1845- ICzra'' Kimball, grandfather of Louisa R., wife of Tracy C. Nichols, was a I-ievolutionary soldier and pensioner. He enlisted March i, ^777> for three years, in Captain White's com- |)any, Colonel Putnam's regiment, Massachu- setts line, and was Sergeant. Discharged February 19, 17S0. He ser\'etl also at three other times. Lydia R. h'owle, who was m. to Ezra' Kim- ball in 1802, was b. l''ebruary 4, 1781, daugh- ter of John and Lois ]'"owle, of Wobnrn. John Fowje, third, and Lois Richardson were m. at Woburn, October iS, 1780. I'>,ra and Lydia Kimball had nine children, namel}' ; Jere Holmes, b. June 16, 1802; Clarissa 15., b. September, 1804; Louisa R., Ajiril, 1806; Francis Fowie, May 4, 1S07; Mary Gipson, ?'ebruary 9, iSog; Ezra Curtis, December 21, 1811; Thomas Waterman, /August, 1814; and Alfred and Lydia, twins, July, 18 19. It is thought that Louisa R. was 1). at New Ipswich, N. H., where her father was some time a resi- dent. She d. at Woburn, Ajiril 20, 1837, aged thirty-one years. Tracy C. Nichols m. fur his second wife, April 1, 1S38, Mrs. Lydia Stratton Richard- son. His children by his first wife were: George Collins, John Curtis, Stillman, and Mary Louisa; by his second, Martha y\nn, Charles Albert, .Sarah Maria, and Frank Cah'in. /^JlORGI-: WHEATLAND, of Boston, \ •! I dealer in real estate, is a native of — Salem, J'lssex County, formerly a thriving seaport, now the quiet seat of wealth and culture. The notable family to which he belongs was severed not many generations back fiom the paient stock in I-^ngland. Captain Richard' Wheatland, the immigrant progeni- toi-, a prosperous Salem merchant in the first quarter of the nineteenth centiuy, was b. at Waieham, England, in 1762, son of Peter and Bridget (l<"o.\croft) Wheatland. In 1783, after thiee years of service in the English navy, he came to Salem, Mass., and during the Jie.xt seventeen years he led a seafaring life, being successively sailor, subordinate officer, and captain of fiast India shi])s. Retiring from the sea about the year 1800, he devoted him- self to mercantile pursuits. His first wife, Margaret Silvei', d. in 1789, leaving no chil- dren. He m. October 29, 1796, Martha Good- hue, daughter of Stephen' and Martha (Pres- cott) Goodhue, of Danvers. She was b. in 1770, and d. in 1826. Stephen Goodhue, her father, was a son of ]5enjamin^ and Martha (Hardy) Goodhue, of Salem, and grandson of Willianv Goodhue, b. in 1666, who m. Mary Lowden, and lived at Ipswich. The preceding ancestors were: Jo- seph- Goodhue and his first wife, Sarah Whipple, daughter of ]{lder John Whipjile, of Ipswich; and Joseph's father, William' Good- hue, b. in Juigland in 161 2- 13, who m. Margery Watson, of Kent, and came to New England in 1635-36. William' Goodhue was promi- nent among the first settlers of Ipswich, serv- ing as Deacon of the chinch, as moderator of town meetings, as Selectman, and as ]\cpre- sentativc to the General Court, ^38 NEW ki\(;land librarv of Martha Prescott, wife of Stephen Goodhue, was b. in Salem in 1744, i^eing the second child of Benjamin' and Rebecca (Minot) Pres- cott. Her elder sister, Rebecca, m. Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration (if Inile- pendence, and was the mother of Sarali Sher- man, who was the wife of the Hon. Samuel Hoar and the mother of the Hon. George h'ris- bie Hoar, of Worcester. l^enjamin' Prescott (Harvard College, 1736), a .Salem merchant, was b. in 171 7, son of the Rev. Benjamin^ and Elizabeth (Higginson) Prescott. The line of descent from John' Prescott, who landed at Boston in 1640, and a few years later was one of the founders of the town of Lancaster, is through Captain Jonathan- Prescott antl his second wife, I^lizabeth Ilnar, the Rev. lienja- min,' above named, b. in 1687, being their si.Kth child. He was graduated at Harvard in 1709, and was ordained and settled in 1713 as minister of the Second Precinct of .Salem, now Peabody. Mis first wife, P^lizabeth, mothei- (jf his son Benjamin^ Prescott, was b. in .Salem in 1696, daughter of John' and Hannah ((iaicl- ner) Higginson. Her father, John Higginsim, was a descendant in the fourth generation of the Rev. I'rancis Higginson, the first minister of the P'irst Church in .Salem, the line continuing from P'rancis' and his wife, Ann, through the Rev. (ohn- antl .Sarah (Whitfield) Iligginson; and (ohn,' a .Salem merchant, whose first wife, .Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Symmes) .Savage, was the nK)ther of John' Higginson and grandmother of Mrs. Elizabeth Higginson Prescott. ]\ebecca Minot, wife of Benjamin' Prescott, was b. in Concord, Mass., in 1720, daughter of the Hon. James' and Martha (Eane) IMinot. Her father was son of Dr. lames' and Rebecca (Wheeler) Minot, of Con- cord, grandson of Captain John' Minot, of Dorchester, and great-grandson of George Minot, who was one of the first settlers of Dorchester and for tliiit)' years Ruling holder of the church. Captain Richard Wheatland d. March 18, 1830. His wife, Martha (ioodhue, d. August 13, 1S26. Their children were: .Stephen, Richard (joodhue, fienjamin, George, Martha, and Henr}'. .Stephen, the eldest-born, who was graduated at Harvard in 1816, il. at sea unmarried in 1818. Richard G. (Harvard College, I Si 8), ship-owner and shipmaster, m. Mary B. Richardson, and d. in 1S34. Benja- min (Harvard College, 1819), business man, m. Mary ]{. Bemis, and d. at .Salem in 1864. Martha m. Robeit K. Ikmis, for man)' years agent of mills at Chicopee. Henr)', b. in 1812 (Harvard, Bachelor of Arts 1832, Doc- tor of Medicine 1837), the late Dr. Wheatland, of Salem, president of the I^sse.x Institute, d. in 1893. His wife, Mary C. Mack, d. in 1862. George Wheatland, .Si'., b. in 1804 (Harvard College, 1S24), studied law in the office of the Hon. I.everett .Saltonstall, and was admitted to the Esse.x bar in 1828. He settled in .Salem, and ilevoted himself to the i)ractice of his pro- fession, taking an active interest also in public affairs. He was a member of the Common Council of .Salem in 1841 and Alderman in 1842 and 1843. He served three years as Representative in the Legislature and two }ears, 1S45 and 1846, as .Senator. He was a trustee of the .Salem L)'ceLnn and of the Asiatic National Bank of that city and president of the Harmony Grove Cemetery Association. He d. in 1893. He m. h'ebruary 3, 1833, Hannah Bemis, daughter of John'' and Hannah (Bemis) Richardson. She was b. in 181 1, and d. at .Salem, March 15, 1840, lea\'ing one child — George, born October 21, 1S39, whose name begins this sketch, and whose personal histor\' is outlined below. John'' Richardson, Mr. Wheatland's maternal grandfather, who d. in Newton in 1837. was a son of ]{tlward^ and Abigail (Chener)') Richardson and a descentl- ant in the sixth generation of Ezekiel' Rich- aidson, who was one of the founders in 1641 of the town of Woburn. The line was: ]'~ze- kiel'; Theo|ihilLrs,- who m. Mary Champney; Ezekiel,' who m. l']lizabeth .Swan; Theophi- liis,-" who m. Ruth .Swan, and was the father of Jul ward \ George Wheatland, son of George, .Sr. , above named, received an education in the public schools of .Salem fitting him for college. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, was giaduated Bachelor of Laws in i860, and was subseiiuentl)' aclmittetl to the .Suffolk bar Ironi the office of Judge Horace Gra}'. In gp:nka],oc.v am I'I'.KSONAL HIS TORY 239 1862 lie cnli.stetl f(ii- service in the C ivil War, being imistered in Seiitemlier 19 ns Cap- tain of Ci)mpany K, I"(irl\ eighth Ivcginieiit, Massachusetts X'olunteers. I'lcjiimted to Major on December 8, same year, he was on Cieneral Auger's staff, and was with ("leneral Banks nt Baton ]\ouge, Ijeing I'rovost Judge. lie was mustered out Sejitember 3, i86j. Mr. Wlieat- land has been engaged in the real estate busi- ness since 1865, o]ierating largel\' in the Hack Hay, his offices being at 24 C'nnj;ress .Street, Boston. lie is a well-preserved and vigorous man. In politics he is a RcpLibli- cni. lie is a member of the .Someiset Club, iif ]5oston, antl the Nahant Club. At Trinity Church, Boston, jul\ 20, 1864, I\Ir. Wheatland was 111. {>> l-'lorence cle .Sau- nierez Uumaresq, who was born in Boston, June 24, 1843, daughter of Captain rhili|)" and Margarita (I)eblois) Uumaresq. Captain Philip" Uumaresq, b. in 1804. son of James'" and .Sarah (I'"arwell) Dumarcsq, of .Swan Island, was educated at Gardiner, Me., and, entering the merchant marine service, had command of a fine ship when he was onl)' twenty _\'ears of age. l'"or man\' }eai"s he was the leading shijamaster sailing from the poit of Boston. James'" was a son of I'hilip,' a loyalist of ]3oston, Ilalifa.x, and iXassau, and grandson of I'hilip" l)uniaresq, who came to Boston from the Isle of Jersey, and m. in 1716 .Susan, daughter of Captain Henri I'"err)-, for- merly of Havre de Grace. .Se\en preceding generations of the family had lived in the Isle of Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Wheatland have three chil- dren — riiili|i Dumaresq, h'lorence .Saumerez Dumares(|, and George. |r. I'hilip hinnaiesq Wheatlaiul, born in .Salem, ,\|iiil (), 1865, married June 2, 1887, Alice ]';ilert(jn I'latt, daughter of luKvard lillerton aiul Miiiani l-'us- ter (Clioate) Pratt and grand-daughter of the Hon. Rufus Choate. He resides in .San h'raii- cisco, Cal. Florence Saumerez Dnniaiesq Wheatland, burn April ig, 1870, mariied No- vember 30, i88g, Jacob Crowninshield Rogers Peabody, son of Francis and Helen (Blooil- good) Peabody. George, third of the name, known as George Wheatland, Jr., l;orn in Bos- ton, A]3ril 12, 1873, married October 1;, i8g6, Rebecca Rogers, daughter of Arthur .Saltonstall and Annie Rodman (Nichols) Rogers, of .Salem. He is in business on .State Street with his father, and resides in .Salem. CAY^LTFR KFITH SHAW, a resident s\l lit Concord, who is in business in Boston as a cotton broker, was boin March 13, 1868, in Abington, Mass. Son of Flijah Anderson antl P'rances Plmnia (Dyer) Shaw, he is a descendant in the ninth genera- tion of Abraham' Shaw, an eail)' settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. .Abraham Shaw m. in luigland on June 24, 1616, Bridget ]]est, daughter of Henry Best, of Ovenden, Ilalifa.x, A'orkshiic. Coming to this country about 1635, 'ic became an inhabitant of Watertown. In October, 1636, his house was burned, and he afterward removed to Dedham. His death probably occurretl in 1638, as the inventory of his estate was dated that year. He left two sons, — Joseph antl John, and two daughters. His son John,' b. in lingland in 1630, m. Alice Phillips, daughter of Nicholas. Their eldest son, John Shaw, Jr.,' was b. in Wey- mouth before the lecords began to be kept. By his wife Hannah he was the father of Joseph,'' also of Weymouth, whose second wife was Mar)' lilanchard. Joseph, Jr. ,? b. in March, 171 1, eldest son of Joseph' and Mary, m. Ruth Dorby (or Derby). Their son, Elijah" Shaw, a lifelong resilient of Abington, b. August 26, 1745, d. in July or Jinie, 1823. He m. Hannah Smith, Janu- ary 12, 1769. Melvin" .Shaw, b. of this union January 22. 1791, d. March 17, 1836. He m. first lietsey Shaw, b. June 2/. 1797, d. Sep- tember 13, 1819. He m., secondh', Dorinda Shaw, 1.1. May 21, 1803, d. January 30, 18S7. Both of his v\ives were daughters of Brackley and Betsey (Porter) .Shaw. Their mother was a ilaughter (if iviicah and Mary (.Stockbridge) Porter, of Weymouth, antl grand-daughter of Richard^ and Ruth (Whitman) Porter. Rich- ard^ Porter was son of John,' whose father, John,- was son of Richard' Porter, who settled at We_\niouth in 1635. lilijah Anilers()ii'' .Shaw, son of Melvin and Dorind.i .Shaw, wfis b. P'ebruary 1^, 1S33, 240 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF He 111. Frances Emma Dyer, wlio was b. in Cliaiiestown, Mass., December 2S, 1837, a daughter of John and Louisa (Chamberlain) Dyer, and a descendant in the si.xth genera- tion of Christopher Dyer, of Abington, said to have been son of a William Dyer, an early settler of that town. William Dyer, of iniknown i-iarentage, was one of three young men who, it is said, with their wives, between the )'ears 1670 antl i6^'o, made the first settlement in the south part of Abington. ChristO[iher D)'er, according to liis gravestone still standing in South Abington, il. August II, 17.S6. 1!)' his wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Nash, he had se\'en children, all b. prior to 1743. Their son, Christopher, Jr., whose gra\e is in the same cemetery, d. October 31, 1777, in the forty- seventh year of his age. l^arly in 1776 the younger Christopher Dyer was sei\'ing as .Sec- ond Lieutenant in Captain Nathan .Swan's Company of the Third I'l)'niouth County l\egi- ment, his name ap|ieariiig in the list of officers chosen b)' the several compauies, as returned by Edward Mitchell and Eliphalet Car\-, field officers, March 23, 1776. He was subse- quently commissioned Lieutenant in the cimi- pany of Captain Nathan Swan under Colonel Edward Mitchell, whose regiment formed a part of General Cushing's brigade. He served for two weeks, having also command of the compan)' that marched December 9, 1776, to l^ristol, R.L He had si.x children. Asa Dyer, b. in Abington, July 27, 1773, son of Christopher, Jr., m. .September 10, 1780, Mehitablc Chamberlain, and in November, 1S17, removed to Skowhegan, Me. Jnhn Dyer, b. in Abington, Mass., December 31, 1.S05, son of Asa ami Mehitable, m. in lioston. May 7, 1833, his cousin, Louisa Chamberlain, who was b. in Plympton, Mass., July 3, 1S08, a daughter of I-lzra Chamberlain. Their ilaugh- ter, Frances l{mnia' Dyer, ni. L'.lijali Ander- son'* Shaw. Walter Keith' .Shaw received his etlucation in the schools of Le.vington, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Techncd- ogy with the degree of Hachelor of .Science. After a year in a cotton mill stud)ing manu- facturing, he commenced work with his father in the cotton brokerage business in Boston. In this business he is now engaged, having suc- ceeded his father, who retired in 1897. He married Noveml^er 4, 1897, Mary Groom Hutchins, who was born at Buffalo, N.Y., daughter of the Rev. Charles L. and Mary (Groom) Hutchins, of Concord, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have one child — Walter Keith'" Shaw, Jr., born February 4, 1900. "TJ^ATIIANIEL GUSHING NASH, for I — 7 man)' years coiinecteil with the firm of |l9 I Nash, -Spaulding & Co., commis- sion merchants, Boston, t)f which he was the senior member, was born at Scituate, Mass., April 6, 1804. He died at his resi- dence in Arlington, August 31, 1880. Mr. Nash was a son of John and Deborah (Gushing) Nash, and was of the seventh generation of the family founded by James' Nash, emigrant settler of Weymouth, Mass. The line was: James,' Joseph,- Joseph, Jr.,' John,-* Noah,-^ John,'' Na- thaniel Gushing'. [allies' Nash was made a freeman at Wey- mouth in 1645. He subsecpiently became owner of jiropert)' in l^oston, and took up his residence there on the south-east corner of HanoN'er Street and Mill Creek. In the Book of Possessions, p. 45, is this record: "7 (4) 1648, John Miloni of Boston granted unto James Nash of Weymouth, a certain parcel of marsh in Boston forty feet in breadth at the front, bounded with the Mill Creek south-west, the highway north-west, Mr. William Ting north- east and south-east as far as low water mark, and this was by a deed dated and sealed before William Aspinwall, Notary Public." Robert Nash, brother of James, became an owner of real estate in Boston in 1650, and he resided there until his death in 1661. lames Nash about the year 1650 returneti to Wey- mouth, having sohl his Boston |iropert)' to Joshua Scottow, who impioved it b\' "wharfing out" at the north-east end of Mil! Hi idge. James Nash served several years as Represent- ati\'e to the Colony Court from We)'mouth. No record of his wife is known to e.vist. lie had three sons — Joseph, James, and Jacob. Joseph-' Nash resided successively at Scituate NATHAN I 1-:L C. NASI I. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HLSTORY 'M3 and \\'e\-mouth, and was in l^oston in and after 167.S. He ni. I'llizahetli llolijrouk, of Wey- mouth. Joseph, Jr,' h. in J^oston in 167S, settled at Scituatc in 1699, and there made his home till his death in 1732. He m. in 1700 Hannah Curtis. 'i'heir children were : Josei)li, jr./ b. ill 1701; jnhn, 1703; Hannah, 1705; James, 1708; hllizabeth, 1709: David, 1712, who was killed at Ticondcrn.i^a in 1759; Mar\, h. in 1713; Kiihraim, 1715; Mar\-, 171X1 Sim- eon, 1720, also killed at Ticonderoga ; J'Jisha, 1722; and i\lary, 1724. John,' h. in 1703, was a lifelong resident of .Scituate. He m. Hannah liuck, and liad seven children, nanieh : I'riscilla, b. in 1729; John, Jr., 1731; Joseph, 1732; Noah, 1734; Zaccheus, 1736; Seth, 1738; and Thomas, 1740. Noah,' b. Januarv 23, 1734, respomled to the Lexington alarm of April, 1775, as did also his brother Zaccheus. The home of Noah' Nash was in Scituate. lie d. in the winter at Ro.xbury during the siege of Boston in 1775, buried in old Ko.xburv bury- ing-ground, but tombstone in Scituate. He was m. in 1756 to I{lizabeth Cudvvorth. They had six children. John" Nash, eldest son of Noah,' kept a general merchandise store at South Scituate, and ser\-ed as jjostmaster. He was interested in the building of vessels at the many shipyards along the North Ki\er, and was ]5art owner of a number of them. He was prominent in the affairs of Plymouth Countv, serving several terms as Count)- Commissioner and three years as Selectman of Scituatc. He d. ] December 23, 1856. He was m. in Octo- ber, 1796, to Deborah Cushing. His children were: Deborah, b. in 1797; Jnhn, )r. , 1799; John King, b. in 1800; Nathaniel Cushing, b. in 1804; Henry, 1806; Eliza, 1808; and Is- rael, iSi I. Nathaniel Cushing Nash, the special subject of this sketch, came to ]5oston in his \-outh and entered the employ of Joshua Sears, a wholesale grocer on State Street. In 1827 he began business in company with Mr. Henry Hitchcock, the firm being Hitchcock & Nash, dealers in West India goods. Long Wharf, ]5oston. In 1841 Hitchcock, Nash & Co. were on Pearl Street. In 1S50-51 the firm was Nash, Callender & Co., later Israel Nash & Co. In J862 Nathaniel C. Nash became asso- ciated with John P. and IVIahlon D. Spaulding, the firm being Nash, Spaulding & Co., long in successful business as commission merchants on Broad Street and for \ears interested in sugar refining. In the later years of his life Nathaniel C. Nash left the business manage- ment to his junior partners, Mahlon D. Spauld- ing, who died in 18S9, and John P. Spaulding, who died in 1896. Nathaniel C. Nash was an ardent supporter of Theodore Parker and one of the most ])rogressi\e men of the time. He was acti\'elv interested in politics, was one of tlie earliest members of the short-lived P'ree Soil Party and a strong Republican from the beginning of that party. P'or man\- years he was a resident of Boston. As earlv as 1856 he advocated the opening of the Public Library on Sunday. In 1850 he wrote articles for publication in the pa]iers urging the importance of the levelling of j-'ort Hill and developing that part of Boston as a business centre. In 1S56 he was a member of the Common Coun- cil, where he labored efficieiith' in behalf of numiciiial prosperity. In 1864, 1866, and 1867 he was one of the Board of Aldermen and chairman of that body; and in 1858, 1868, and 1869 he ser\ed as a Representative to the (leneral Court, and was chairman of the Com- mittee on Mercantile Affairs, for which he was eminently qualified. He was opposed to mo- nopolies (if e\ery kind and to de]ireciated silver currenc). He alwa\s .stood for what was pure and right in pnlitics. Kven in his last illness, which was of long duration, he kept up his interest in the leading questions of the da}-. Strongly individual and self- reliant, his many good qualities as a man and a citizen won liim man\' friends. He was married i\Iay 31, 1849, to Lucy Turner Briggs, born January 23, 1830, daughter of Henry and ]?etsy (Ruggles) Briggs. Nathaniel Cushing Nash (second), born in Boston. April 4, 1862, received his early edu- cation in Mr. David Mack's private school at Belmont; was fitted for college at Mr. Noble's school, BdSton ; was gradtiated at Harvard with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1S84, and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1892, after a special course of study at Harvard. He is now president of the Cambridge Trust Com- 244 NKW ENG1,ANI) LIIJKAKY OF pany. He is a l\L|)ublii.aii in politics. Mr. Nash wa.s married June 26, 1884, to Nellie Mimroe, daughter of Nehemiah M. and Mary Elizabeth (]'"iske) ]-~es.seiulen, of iXrlington. The}' liave had two children. The eldest, Na- thaniel Cashing, born in Cambridge, June [(), 1SS5, is the third of this name, and is now known as Nathaniel CLishing Nash, Jr. An- other son, ICdward I^'essenden, born March 14, i8y2, dietl at Marbleheatl Neck, .August 19, I S94. ;s)/;Y UGUSTU.S rol'i; MAKRl-.TT, of Cam - 1)1 itlge, was horn in that cit}' I\Ia\ 14, 1859, the s(in 111 Dane A)-pleton and Mliza A. (l.iicke) Marrett. He is n diiect descendant in the eighth generatiun from Thomas M;nrett, the immigrant, the line being: Thomas,' John,' Edward,' Amos,^ Amos,' Daniel,' Dime Appleton, ' Augustus P."* Thomas' Marrett, who was b. in England about the 3'ear 1389, emigrated to America with his wife, .Susanna, and their five children — Susanna, John, Abigail, Thomas, and Han- nah. Locating in Cambridge, Mass., he first owned land on the northerl)' side (jf Harvard Street, extending noith tn (iore Hall, a tract known for many _\'ears as "h'ellows' Oichard. " In 163S he purchased the estate at the north- east corner of Dunster antl Mount Auburn Streets. He was a .Selectman from 1639 till 1647, and one of the first Deacons of She[jartls' Church, which was organized in 1656. IK d. June 30, 1664, aged seventy-five years. Johir Marrett, from 1682 until his death in 1695, li\'ed a few rotls westerly fioni the Craigie Ibnise, in the mansion ])reviously owned b\' Deacon John liridge. On June 20, 1654, he m. Abigail K icliardsun, who siu- vived him, dying in March, 1721 2. I'^leven children were b. of their union, namely : Thomas, John, Amos, Susanna, John, John, Abigail, Hannah, Edward, Mary, and Lytlia. Edward' Marrett, who, b. August 2, 1670, d. April II, 1754, ni. Mrs. Hannah iiradish Stanhope, daughter of Jose])h Biailish, and widow of Joseph Stanhope. He occupied the old homestead on l^rattle .Street. His chil- dren were: Amos, Hannah, Susanna, Abigail, Amos, Mar\', John, and Edward. Amos^ Mar- rett, b. September 5, 1703, d. November 14, 1747. He dealt largely in real estate, accu- mulating consideiable wealth. On .September 21, 1732, he m. Mary Dimster. daughter of Henry Diuister, grand-daughter of Jonathan Dunster and great-grand-daughter of Henry Dimster, who was president of Harvard College from August, 1640, until October, 1654. They became the jjarents of si.\ children — Abigail, Ruth, Amos, Amos, Mary, and John. Amos' Marrett, b. at Cambritlge, l'"ebruary 8, 1738-9, d. March 2j , 1805. On December 4, 1760, he m. Abigail Tidd, uf Lexington, b\- whom he had five children — .Abigail, Amos, Abigail, Daniel, and Ruth. Daniel'' Marrett was b. |id\' 18, 17^17. He was graduated from lhu\'ard College in 1790, and for thirty-three \ears was pastor of one church. He died April 14, 1836. On Octo- ber 8, iSio, he m. Dorcas Hastings, daughter of Major Samuel Hastings, of Lexington. The children b. of this union were: Leander, Lorenzo, Isabelle Annette, Aveiy William, Dane Apjileton and Sanniel Hastings, Helen Maria, and l^'rancis Crenville. Of these, Dane Appleton is the (Hily one now living. He and Samuel Hastings, who weie twins, ni. twin sisters, Eliza Ann Locke and {'"ranees Augusta Locke, daughters of Major Jonathan Locke, of Lancaster, KLiss. The marriage ceremony for both couples was performeil June 7, 1848, by the I^ev. Dr. (ieorge Hartol, who is now living in Lancaster. Dane Ap])leton' Maiiett was b. in Cam- biitlge, Januar)' 12, 1822. During UKiny \'eais (if his acti\'e life he was eng:iged in mer- cantile business in Ik)Ston. On June 7, 1848, he m. Eliza Ann Locke as abo\'e stated. Horn in Lancaster, Mass., June 16, 1823, she was a descendant in the sixth generation from Deacon William' Locke, the immigrant, who was b. in ]{ngland in 1628. This ancestor, alter coming to M;iss;ichusetts, m. in I ('15 5, Mary Clarke, daughtei' of William antl Margery Clarke, of Wi J:uiu Locke, b. in 1677, 1700, .Sarah, daughter of Richard Cutter. Jonathan' Locke, 1). in 1717, m, in 174''), Pliebe Pierce, of Wobuni. Jonathan' Locke, who was b. in 1749, m. in 1775, Mary P'ri^st, and GENEALOGY AND PF.RSONAI, HISTORY Z4S lived in Cliarlcstown until 1813, when lie re- moved to Lancaster. Major Jonathan^ Locke, an onI\- son, w.is h, in 1778 in Charlestovvn, but subse(|uent ly took up his residence in Lan- caster, Mass. ()n May 7, 1801, he ni. Mary Tufts, a daughter of Hutchinson Tufts. Au£i;ustus Pope'' Marrett, who has resideil in Caniliridge ever since his biitli, married on November 2H, 1888, luta RLiy Adams, daugh- ter of Reuben Atkins and Caroline I\Iatilda (Wiley) j\ilams, of Cambridge. I lis cbiUiren are: Julward Hastings Marrett, born I\Liy 2 3, 1S92; and Helen Marrett, burn March 26, 1894. itJV/ UAAAM COOMHS COIJMAN, the Js\/ second son of the Kev. l)v. John Codman, of Dorchester, Mass., and brother ot the late Cajitain John Codman and Robert Cotlman, Ivsq., was born in Dorchester, Noxember 3, i8ji. He was graduated from Dummer Acadeni)', ]?vfield, in tlie class of 1836, and then entered the count ing-house of Messrs. William ]5. Reynolds & Co., one of the oldest and best known shipjiing-houses of ]?oston at the time. From 1840 to 1846 he was em|)loyed as cleik and afterwards as su])crcargo in the East India and China trade, making several voyages to Canton, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and Manila. Retiring from the sea, he established himself as a merchant in Boston (office at Central Wharf), and engaged in the chartering of ships and the inii.iorting of East India merchandise from Calcutta. IMr. Codman was chosen a director of the 1^1 iot Bank when it was incor]iorated in 1853, retir- ing after ten years' service. He is now (1901) the sole sur\i\()r of the original board of di- rectors. In 1870 be was elected president of the Lawrence hire Insurance Compaii)' of Bos- ton, a compau}- which had a short (but success- ful career), as it was one of the twenty-two out of the twent)' Imn insurance companies in Bos- ton obliged to succumb from losses in the memorable hie of November 9, 1872. He was appointed by the Court one of the receivcis of the com|iany, which subsc.iuently was highly complimented b)' the insniance commissioner f(jr being the first nl the insohent companies to wind U]) its affairs. Mr. Codman was a di- rector in the Commonwealth Insurance Com- I'an}', formed soon aftci' the gieat conflagration. He is a member of the Bostonian Society, one of the directois of the \'eteran Corps of Cadets, and a formei' niemlier of the Somerset and Ex- change Clubs. June 23, 1858, he married Eli/.abeth, daughter of John R. and Catharine (Codman) llurd, of New \'(irk. Mrs. Codman died in Boston, ( )ctober 3, 1 8g6, leaving three sons and one daughter — Annie Geitrude, born in Dorchester, May i, 1859; William Coombs. Jr , bi}rn at Cohasset. August 6, 1S60; John, boin in ]5oston, January iC, 1863; and Ernest Amor)-, burn in Boston, December 30, I 869. William (,'oombs ( cjtlman, Jr., was crradu- ated in 1879 at I'iiillips E.xeter Academy, and after receiving a meicantile education in the office of H. W. I'eabody & Co., he formed a copartnership with Mr. Henry G. Hall. Later the him was incor]3orated under the style of The Ciichiian & Hall Co., Wine Merchants and Importers. Mi'. Codman was the founder of the E.xchange Club, one of the most prosperous of the Boston clubs. He is also a member of the Countr\- and several other clubs, and an honorar\- n:embei- of the Boston Cadets. He marrietl November 16, 18S7, Miss Sophia Miniroe, daughter of Dr. Iloiatio Southgate Smith, of Brook l\-n. Their chiklren are: William C. Codman, third, born December 19, i888; Constance Codman, liorn I-\>bruar)' 7, 1891 ; Horatio Southgate, born July, 1894, dietl March 2, 1895; and John Codman, born November 3, i 898. Jrjhii C'jdman, second, the second son of William C. Codman, was born in Boston, January 16, 1S63, and prepared at Phillijjs E.xe- ter Academy for Harvard College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885, holding the office of president of the class. "He took an active part in the college life, and entered full} into all work and sport. He was a mem- ber of the Institute, Dickey, II. P. C, St. Paul's Society, and associate mcmbei' of Pierian, and of the Glee Club. After sjiending some months abroad, on his leturn to Boston he en- tered the real estate business with his father, and became a member of the firm of C(idnian 246 NEW ENGLAND LIISRARY OF & Freeman in 1886, later chanf^ed tu that nf Codnian & Codnian, and was so conducted until the time of his death. In addition to the active duties of his business, he set himself the task of studying law, and in s]5ite of much dis- couragement ])assed the examinations and was admitted a member of the Suffolk ]5ar in June, I 8g6. During the last )'enr or two of his life he spent a great deal of time in the preparation of an historical work, whicli he left nearl\' completed in manuscript, entitled '/Xrnold's I^xpedition to Oiiebec, ' which is shortly to be published from the press of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. On April 4, 1894, he mariied in .St. Louis Miss Caroline Morton Hriggs, daugh- ter of iJr. Lxlward (.'. and Rebecca liriggs, of St. Louis. lie had two children: Rosamond, born Februaiy 13, i8cj5, and Ruth Russell, born August i 8, 1896. In the winter of 1897 he was taken seriously ill with heart trouble, from which he never rallied. His pluck and his strong constitution made the struggle a long and painful one until the end, which came on August 31, 1S97. '■ I^rnest Amory Codman, M.I)., the thiitl son of William C. ("odnian, was born in Boston, December 30, 1869. He prepared for college at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass., entered Harvard in October, 18S7, was graduated fr(jni the academic dejiartment in lanuary, 1891, and from the Medical School in June, 1895. He served as surgical house officer at the Massa- chusetts General Hospital from June, 1894, to December, 1895, and then began private prac- tice in Boston. He was appointed surgeon to out patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in January, 1900. He was married at Jamaica Plain, November 16, 1899, to Miss Katharine Putnam, daughter of Charles P. l^owditch, Escp, of Jamaica Plain. [Lor Codman genealogy, see sketch of the Rev. Dr. John Codman on another ]iage of this volume. J ( 3^K()RGL LAMBL:RT GOULD, of \pT Maiden, Middlesex County, Mass., was born in Wobuin, same count)' and State, l'"ebiuaiv C>. 1852, the son of John Averell (JouKi and I'di/.abeth Cheever Leach Gould. The line of ancestry extends back to Zaccheus' Goukl, who came from luigland about 1638, and was practically the founder of the town of Topsfield, Mass., and its largest real estate owner. His wife was Phtebe Dea- con; and their onh' son was Captain John- Gould, a noted man, imprisoned for outspoken "disloyalty " to the Andros government. He m. Sarah Baker, daughter of John and liliza- beth Baker. Their son, iMisign John' Gould, m. I'hcebe L'lench, daughter of John and Phcebe French, and was the father of luisign .Solo- mon-' Gould, who m. Flizabeth Robinson, daughter of Jacob Robinson and his wife, Flizabeth Cummings, daughter of John Cum- mings. The next in line of descent was John' Gould, a Revolutionary soldier, whose wife was Bethiah (iiddings, daughter of Deacon .Solo- mon Giddings and Sarah Biunham. Their son, John'' Gould, ni. Mar)-, tlaughter of ]{lijah Averell, and was the father of John AverelL Gould, above nameil, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch. John .A\'erelK Goidd was b. in 'L with the Rev. Joseph Glo\er (sometimes spelled Jose or Joses), who d. on the trip; and it is probable that it was through this compan- ionship, or possible relationship, that her son shouUl bear the singular name of Joses, which has been carried down through seven or more generations. Dr. L^du'ard Bucknam Moore wash, in Lancaster, N.IL, Januar)' 12, 1801. He was well known lor over a quarter of a century at the North L^nd of Boston, having a large practice as a physician, a graduate of the Medical .Scliool ot Bowiloin College in the class of i>S2,S. He was a Coroner of Sufftjlk County, a member (jf the J5oston School Com- mittee, and a thii t^'-third degree Mason. He d. in Chelsea, September I 1874, respected by all as a man of strong individuality, clear head, and upright li\'ing. CofTin Moore's father was Dr. Coflin Moore, b. in .Stratham, N.H., 1739, "i- Comfort Weeks, daughter of John Weeks and Martha Wingate, daughter nf Major Joshua Wingate, of Llampton, X.H. Dr. Coffin RToore's ]Darents were William Moore, of .Stratham, N. H. (son of William Moore and grandson of Colonel Jcniathan Moore, a i"etired ]5iitish officer), and iXbigail (jilman, daughter of Colonel John Oilman, of I'^xeter, N.H., and ]'-lizabeth Coffin, daughter of the I Ion. I'eter Coffin. Colonel John (Oilman's father was the Hon. John Gilman (who m. Elizabeth 'I'le- worgye, daughterof James 'rieworg)e and Cath- erine .Shapleigli, whose father was Alexander •Shapleigh). The ILni. Beter Coffin's father was Tristram' Coffin, son of Bcter Coffin, of England; and his niothei' was Dionis .Stevens, daughter (}f Robert .Stevens. His wife was Abigail Slarbuck, daughter of Edwaul .Star- buck, of Dover, N.H., who, with Tristram Coffin, helpjed to settled Nantucket during the middle of the seventeenth century. Dr. John Weeks's parents were Captain Jushua Weeks, of Cireenlancl, son of the original Leonard' Weeks antl Mary Haines, daughter of Deacon -Samuel Haines, who came o\'er in the "Angel (labriel " with William h'uiber in 1635. Captain Joshua Weeks's wife was Comfort Hubbard, daughter of Kichard llubbaril and Aiartha Allen, wluise parents were William Allen ;uul Ann Goodale, daughtei- of Richard' (ioodale antl his wife Doroth)', who settled in Newbur)', IMass. , in i'')37, anil went to Salisbiu)' in i'>39 01 1640. Major Joshua Wingate, ol Hampton, was the son of John Wingate, of Do\'er, and witlow .Sarah Tayloj- Canne)', tlauglitei" of Anthon)' Ta)lor. Major Wingate's wife was iMarv l.unt, daughter of Henry Lunt. Mrs. Goidd's grantlniother, Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence Moore (b. Ma)' 15, 1 8 1 0, d. l''ebru- ar\- 5, 1895), was the tlaiightei' of .Samuel Law- rence, nf J'Ipping, N.H., whose wife was Bet- se)' Tlniig, daughter (if Lieutenant Dudley l'h)'ng, antl his wife, Apphia Rowe. Robert Rowe, formerl)' of Kingston, N.H., was a Ca])tain of militia, antl at one time had ten of his own s(ins in the same company. His son, Deacon R"bert l^tiwe, of Brentwood, m. Abigail Tilton, antl the)' were the parents of Apphia Riiwe. Lieutenant Dudley Thyng was the son ol Josiah Thvng, son of .Samuel 'I'liyng, of E.xeter, antl giaiulson of Jonathan Thyng and Johannah, his wife. Josiah Thyng's mothei' was Abigail (jilman, tlaughter of the Hon. John Gilman and I'^.lizaheth Trewtjrgye. His wife was Hannah Dutlley, tlaughter of .Samuel Dutlle\' antl ILmnali ColcortI, antl grand-tlaughter cf .Ste])lien Dutlley, son of the Rev. .Samuel Dutlle\', of h^xeler (whose father, Thomas Dutlley, was (josernor t)f Massachu- setts), antl .Sarah Gilman, tlaughter of the Htm. Jtjhn Gilm.in and Elizabeth Treworgye. Hannah Colcoid's p.iients weie Etlwarcl' Col- ctird, the inimigranl, who tl. in Hami)ton, Eebruar)' 10, i()82, anil Awn Page, his wife. Samuel Lawience's molhei" was L)tlia Sias, daughter of Joseph .Sias, tjf Lee, N.IL, ami Rulh Malht'^, his wile. His lalher was GENEAI,OGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 25' David Lawrence, ol l^ppini;-, N. IL, sdii of David Lawrence, Sr. , and .Annie Gordim, iiis wife. The lioiise built in i764bytlie second David Lawrence on the Nottinijham Road, Red Oak Mill, Lpping, and foi' a time owned by Mrs. Gould, is still standing; in a most ex- cellent state of picsei\ation. Since i S67, on leaving the Chelsea High Sciiool, Mr. Gould has been idenlitied with the [laint, oil, and wirnish Inisiness, and loi' the last twelve years has been president of G'juld & Cutler Curporat ion, liuated at 69- 71 and 75 Union Street, ]5oslnn. lie has served as president of the Paint and ()il Club of New I'^ngland, and has been vice piesident of the National Taint, CJil, and X'aniish Asso- ciation, besides ha\'ing seived toi- six \eais as delegate to the lioston Associated Hoard of Trade and other organizations. Mr. (jould has served the city of Maiden as Water Commissioner, Commissioner of .Sinking L'unds, and was also one of a commit- tee of fifteen citizens appointed b\- the town in 18.S0 to frame a city charter. .Since I.S,S7 he has been continually identified with the Mai- den Co-operative Bank, serving as director, vice-]3resident, and president, resigning the latter office in the spring of 1901 on account of his health. He is a member of the .Society of Colonial Wars and .Sons of the American Revolution, and, besides being a member of fraternal organizations, is vice-president of the Maiden Historical .Societ\' and a member of the Topslield Historical Society. He was also a member of the committee on the cele- Ijration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniver- sary of the founding of Maiden, observed in 1899; and has been a life member of the New Lngland Historic-Genealogical .Soci- ety since 1897, ha\'ing joined the societx' in I 896. Mr. and Mrs. Gould have had si.\ children, as follows: Warren J'urLicr Gould, bom June 28, 1S76; George Lawrence Gould, born Au- gust 23, 1877, and died the same day; Mac- Laurin Cooke Gould, born January 25. 1S80, died November 8, 1887; Bertram Cheever Gould, born March 17, 1881; Miriam Gould, born November ig, 1882; and Rosamond (iould, born Jul)- 24, 1887. Warren l'"uiber Gould is engaged in business with his father at 73 Union .Street, and Bertram Cheever Gould is in the employ of the Corona Kid Company, 95 .South .Street, J^oston. With an ancestry and associations so closely identified with Essex County, it is not to be wondered at that Mr. Gould shouUl seek out the beautifully located town of Tojisfield, settled by the first Gould, as a place for his summer residence. On the cdd ancestral acres, now known as " rinelaiids, " he built in 1895 a beautiful house, in which is to be fnund many old-fashioned jiieces of furniture and utensils. He also retains tiie old barn, origi- nally built in 1749, bv one of his early ances- tors, and remodelled and modernized by him. Li various ways he has clone much to benefit the town. He was one of the executive com- mittee of twenty-five appointed by the citizens to celebrate on August 16, 1900, the two hun- dred and fiftieth anniversar)' of the founding of the town. .At this celebration Governor Crane, Lieutenant-Governor Bates, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Congressman William H. Moody, and man\- other distinguished guests were present. Mr. Gould removed from Woburn to Chelsea in 1863, but for the last twenty-tive years has been identified with Mai- den interests. In i S99 he removed from the Maplewood district to his new residence at the West liud of Maiden, 24 Alpine .Street, where he resides with liis entire family. ~CjmT:r' V MARTIN MAYO, now living r^ in retirement at Watertown, Mass., was ""^"^ I ^ foinierly a well-known merchant of Boston. .Son of Martin and Tabitha (.Stratton) i\Iayhew, born March 8, 1834, in Framingham, iVIass. , he traces his descent through four gen- erations from John Mayo, the founder of the family in New Lngland. The line is: John,' Thomas,^ John,' John,' Martin,^ Lmcry Mar- tin''. John Mayo was the son of Thomas and lilizabeth Ma)d. He was b. in Lngland, and was but an infant when his fath.cr died. His mother m. again, and came with her second husiiand, Rc)bert Gamjjril, Jr., and her child to this country. Having .sailed on the "Will- iam and l-'rancis, " tiie family airived here 252 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF May 20, 1632, and suliscciucntly scttlctl in Ro\- bury, Mass. Jciliii Mayo,' wlio sometimes spelled his name " i\Ta)h(i, " 111. Hannah Graves. The public recoids show that his will was probated June 11, 1691. His fifth child, Thomas,- h. December 12, 1676, became a lesident of Fra- niingliam, i\Iass. lie m. I-llizabeth |)a\is on May 4, 1699, and d. Ma)' 26, 1750. John,' the fifth child of Thomas and Elizabeth Mayo, was b. September [7, 1709. His \'ersion of the family's surname was "Ma\diew," which the most of his descendants subsec|uentl)' re- tained. After havinn li\'ed in .Shrewsbur)', Southboro, and l'"ramini^ham, he was a resident of Hopkinton, where he il. in May, 1776. ( )n Februar)' 21, 1743, he m. Hannah l\ui;i;-, who was a daughter of Jonathan Kugg. John' Mayhew, the seconil child of John aiul Hann.ah Ma)'hew, was b. in Southboro, Mass., April 28, 1747. Ha\'ing marched t(_) Concord on the Lexington alarm as a private in the company of Captain Micajah Gleason, this ancestor was one of the men to whom belongs the honor of beginning the Kevoluticjnary War. He also served the cause of American independence under Captain Jesse Fames in the l'"ifth Regiment, commanded b\' Colonel Bullarcl. In 1780 both he and his wife, wdiose maiden name was Abigail Clo)'es, were re- ceiveil into the church in iMamingham. His death occurred on Februar)' 2"] , 1832. Of his five children, the youngest, Martin, b. in l-^-a- mingham, March 17, 1795, was the father of the subject of this sketch. In October, 1821, Martin Ma)'hew m. Tabitha Stratton, of Hol- den, Mass. ]'"ive children were the fiuit of this union, namely: George I'"retlcrick, who was b. in 1823 and tl. in 1S80; John and FTizabcth (twins), b. in 1826; luiieiy i\hntin, the fourth child, whose birth is giii-en above; and I.uc)', who was b. in 1836. 'i'he father d. September 14, 1S57; and the mother's tleatii occuired on October 26, 1S61, when she was si.xty-one yeais old. The education (jf bjner)' Martin M.no, who has returned to the original orthograph\' ot his surname, was received in the [)ublic schools of l'"iamingham. In y\pril, 1S61, he remo\'ed to Watertown. A few )'ears latei' he became a member of the I loll is Dressed Meat & Wool Com]iany, of Hoston, wholesale dealers in mut- ton, lamb, and veal. While maintaining this connection he ser\ed for a time as general man- ager of the business. He retired upon a goodly competence in 1896. Mr. Mayo was fust married Jnnuar)' i, 1856, to Julia Ftta Hrown, daughter of Lucius T. and lilizabeth Hrown. .She was born in 'Lownseivl, Vt., jLine 24, 1834; and she ilied .September 5, 1867. His second marriage was October 28, 1868, to vMice Adelaide Thomp- son, born in Newburyport, September 9, 1848, daughtei- of Richard Moore and Christiana (luiierson) Thompson. Her mother was a daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Reed) I^mer- son. The children ol Mi". Mayo's first mar- riage were : Charles l-jiiery, who, born March 8, 1857, died August 24, 1859; I'Tederick Hrown, born ( )ctober 18, i860, now a resident of Huffalo, N. \'. ; and Heibert Edward, born December 4, 1863. I'hose of the second mar- riage were: Harry (^)tis, born A]5ril 28, 1872; Alice Christine, born March 9, 1875, who died h'ebruar)' 26, 1879; and luiiery Clifton, born January 26, 18S0, who died May 12, 1885.' Hy his hrst mairiage, wliich was contracted with Hcttie I^'arrah, of Newport, Ky., F'reder- ick H. Ma)0 became the father of three chil- dren - — Flsie Mar)', I'\innie Ftta, and Alice Adelaitlc. His second wife, whose maiden name was Alice Newton, hati one child — )^m- er)' Newton. Herbert IC. Mayo, who resides in Wateitown, marrietl Kittie A. Lester on M;i\' 5, 1880, and has one child — Walter Les- ter, born I'"ebiuary 12, 1888. Harry Otis Ma\'o ii\'es with liis father in Watertown. AMl'b.l. SIOk.MS HOLUillTON, late of the hi in (jf Ibuighton, Dut- ^~ — ' ton & C'o. , and for many years an enteipiising and successful dry- goods inei\h;int ol Hoston, was born .Seiitember 10, 1824, in till' town of Fairlee, Orange Count\', \'t. His parents were I'eter and Nancy Ann (Storms) Houghton. Tlie history of his ancestors in America is to be looked tor ill the lecords ol Worcester and Miikllese.x SAMl'lill. STORMS llDLCinON. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAI, HISTORY 255 Counties, IMassnchusetts. His lallicr, I'utcr Houghton, who il. at I-"aiiicc, Vt., August 15, icS55, wash. January 25, 1768, at l.cnniinstcr, Mass., being tlie youngest son of Aliiatiiar and Millicent (Carter) Houghton. A (ieishom Houghton is said to lia\e been tiie first settler, 1725, in wliat is now the south ])art of Leoniinster. riershnni Hougii- ton and IClizaJK-th Kngg were ni. at Lancaster, I-'eliruary 23, 1724-5; antl .Ahiathar, son of Gerslioni and I'dizaheth, was h. in Januar}', 1725-6. Theie can be no doubt that this Abiatliar was the father of I'eter and grand- fatlier of the late Samuel Storms Ilougliton. Searching for the origin of this family in New I'jiglaud, we IccUii that about ihe niidille of the seventeenth century two lldughton im- migrants, namely, bilin and his wile, JJealri.N, and Ralph antl his wile, Jane, settled at Lan- caster, Mass. Ralph' remo\-ed to Milton, and d. there in 1705, and John' d. at Lancaster, April 2(). i6,S4. 'I'he sons of J'lhn' were: John, Jr.,' b. in 1650; Robeit,-' h. in 165S'; Jonas, b. in 1660 ; and Iknjamin, b. in 1668. The History of the Town of Berlin, Worcester County, by the Rev. William A. Houghton, states that John, Sr. , d. in 1684 on the old common, where he .settled after the massacre, and that on the division of his lands his son John retained the homestead and gave land for the meeting house there. Robert settled in Clinton, Jonas in ]5olton, and Benjamin on a plain south of ]^olton depot, all these i)laces then being included in Lancaster. A Gershom Houghton, son of Joseph Hnugh- ton, was b. at Lancaster in 1691. Uf him we know nothing further. It seems likely that Cershom. the father of Abiatliar, was the one mentioned in this church lecord ol Lan- caster under date of August 3, [718; "dcr- shom, f-Cleazer, and ICbenezer Houghton, sons of Robert Houghton, owned the co\'enant and were baptized." Robert Houghton, .Sr. . was one of the Selectmen of Lancaster in March, 1 71 3-4. (Annals of Lancaster, .Supplement by Henry .S. Nourse, 1900.) He il. Novem- ber 7, 1723, in the si.xty-fifth year of his age. His widow, I'lsther Houghton, d. January 13, 1 740- 1, in her eighty-second year. In May, 1716, Deborah Houghton, wife ot Robert Houghton. Jr., was admitted to the First Church of Lancaster. Abiatliar Houghton and Millicent Carter were m. at Lancaster, July 3, 1730, by Josiah Converse, I-Lscp Millicent was the eldest child of .Samuel' and Jemima (Houghton) Carter. Her father was a descendant in the fourth geneiation of the Re\'. Thomas Carter, A.M., the fust minister of Woburn, Mass. The line of descent from Thomas' was contin- ued through his son, the Kcv. Samuel, -' b. in 1640 (Harvard College, 1660); Samuel,' b. at Woburn in 1677; to .Samuel,' b. in 1703, d. at Lancaster in 1761. 'Ihomas' Carter was educated at Cambridge Uni\'ersity, l^ngland. He came to this country in iC>},s. '^\'as ordained antl settled as minister at Woburn, No\'ember 22, 1642, ami d. there in 1684. SamueL Carter m. lumice Brooks, ilaughter of John and lumice (Mousall) Brooks, of Woburn. In 1685 and 1686 he was teacher of a grammar school at Woburn, and in 1690 he was Town Clerk. -At the time of his death, autumn of 1693, he was the settled minister of Groton. His son .Samuel,' who d. at Lancaster in 1738, ni. in 1 70 1 Doroth)- Wilder, daughter of Na- thaniel and Mary (Sawyer) Wilder. I'eter Houghton and Nancy Ann Storms, who were m. in iSoi, at Stillwater, N. Y., settled at h'airlee, Vt. They hatl twelve chil- dren, Samuel Storms being the eleventh. Of his brothers and sisters the following is a brief record; Da\'id, b. June 17, 1804, d. in 1846; Abiatliar, b. March 9. 1806, left home in 1S26, and never . was heard from; William Isaac, b. December 25, 180S. m. at Wiscasset, Me., Sophia Lambert, and d. at Braintree in 1872; George Washington, b. April 23, 181 i, ni. lulina A. Coolidge, of Cambridge, Mass., and d. in I-'ebruar)-, 1900; Llenry, b. ( )ctober 18, 181 3, (1. \'ery young; Pamelia Ann, b. lanuary 4, 1815, m. Ldien luiton, of Boston, anil d. in 1900, Alonzo (twin), b. March 11, 1817, m. Mrs. Lucy Ann Hobart, of Salem, Mass., and d. in Chelsea, Mass., December 16, 1843; Alansing (twin), b. March 11, 1S17, m. Laura Kendrick, of Lyme, N. H., and d. in October, 1868; Louisa, b. May 4, 1S20, m. R. II. Macy, of New York City, and d. in January, 1S88; Elizabeth, b. in 1822, d. in 2S6 NF.VV ENGLAND LI^,R.\R^' OF infancy; Mar)' l^llcii, b. June iS, IlS26, m. John Clark, ot W'illiamsliuri;, N.V., and d. in April, 1893. The early years uf Samuel Sturms Ilt.iinhton were passed at the parental home in I'airlee, Vt., where he received such education as was afforded b)' the district schools. Coming to JJoston at the age of fourteen years to live with his brother George, who was engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business, he attended school two }'ears, and after that was eni|)lo)'ed as a clerk in his brother's store. He first went into business for himself as a retail dealei- in fancy goods on Washington Street, remaining there five years, and then lenKuing to Tremcjnt Street, 0[Di)Osite the Tremont Mouse. lie was associated with Mr. George ISrooks for a shpines, he believes in giving them at once "the high- est degree of self-government consistent with their welfare and our own duty," and cherishes the hope that this will lead to "ultimate ab- solute self-government." As a delegate to the Republican Con\ention of 1888 in Chi- cago, he made an eloc|uent speech, seconding the nomination of General Gresham to the Presidency, that first called public attention to his pleasing ]-iowers as an orator, now widely recognized. At the recent Centennial Cele- bration (September 25, 1901) at Dartmouth College of the graduation of Daniel Webster, Mr. McCall gave the principal address, an elo- cpieiit appreciation and eminently worthy the occasion. He received from Dartmouth on that day the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Mr. McCall has been a writer as well as IHihlic siieaker. Among his various contribu- tions to the literature of the country may be mentioned the biography of Thaddeus Stevens in the American Statesmen Series. His most imjjortant committee a.ssignments in Congress were on the Ways and Means, the Judiciar\', and as chairman of one of the Conimittees on Elections. Mr. McCall was married May 23, 18S1, to PLlla I'^sther, daughter of Sumner Shaw and Harriet Stark (Wiley) Thompson. lie has five children : Sumner Thompson, born May 30, 1882, now in Harvard, class of 1903; I\uth, I.. Al. HAXiXLM. GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY 263 born Jan. 19, 1S85, now in Mrs. Somer's .school in VVasiiington, U. C. ; Henry, born Au^n.st 24, 1.SS6, now in .St. Marii'.s School, Soutiilioro, Mns.s. ; Katiiciine, horn August 10, 1889; and Mar-arct, horn July 20, 1892. Mrs. iMcCall's father, Sumner Sliaw 'rhomp- .son, wa.s a son of Jacnh and l-^sthcr (.Shaw) Thompson. lie was h. at Ilalifn.x, Mass., in 1823, and he d. in 18S9 at b"rani93; Snnuicl,* b. August 20, 1 716, wlicj ni. I'hebe Sawyei', September 14, 1738; Sanniel,' h. Novcmlier iS, 1765, who 11). December 28, 1786. Susanna Richardson; Marshall,'' b. Alarcli 14, 1 S04 : and Marshall Martin.' Sanuicl^ Tidd, grandfather ol Marshall M., was a shcieniakcr by trade, and a lifelong resi- dent of Woburn. Ills wife Susanna was also a native of Woburn, b. Januar\- i, 1763, a daughter of J5artholoniew and .Saiah (Con\erse) Richardson. .She tl. in 1S52, having n.-ared fi\'e children — Samuel, l.uke, .Susan, jnhn, and Marshall. Marshall'' Tidd in his youth learned the tiade of shoemaker, which he followed for the greater part of his life. lie was a man of .xsthetic tastes, and a great lover of flowers, delighting to culti\-ate them for the sake of their beauty and fragrance, in which respect he set the first example in Woburn. That he was not unprogressive in the more practical things of life is shown in the fact that his famil}^ was the first in the town to make use of coal as fuel in the cooking-stove. Me d. April 22, 185 1. His wife, .Sarah Ann Mar- tin, whom he m. .Seiitember 2],, 1826, was b. in Gloucester, Mass., Jid\' 5, 1808, and sur- vived her husband man\- years, dying l*~ebruary 21, 1896. She was a daughter of Captain William Dagget Martin, a natix'e of the .Shen- andoah VallcN'. b. in Lancaster County, \'ir- ginia. Left an orphan at an early age, Will- iam Daggett was brought up by an aunt, who, when he was but eight years old, bound him as apprentice to a sea-captain. Not being well treated he ran away a }'ear later, and, taking- service on board another vessel, continued to follow a seafaring life. He was shipwrecked at the age of eighteen near Lisbon, and the American Consul there secured passage for him in a vessel hound to Gloucester, Mass. -Subsequently he again went to sea, and gradu- ally rose in the service from the [)osition of cabin boy to that of master mariner, sailing from Hoston for a number of years. In 1823, ha\ing acquired a competency, he ga\'e up his profession, and, coming to Woburn, bought a farm which he carried on for several years. He finally sold it, however, and purchased an estate, wdiere he resided for several )ears, and a part of which is now occupied by the public library. He d. at the home of his daughter in the house known as the "Ober House," Ar- lington Road, December 23, 1849, at the age of si.\t\-si.\ 3'ears. He m. Alice Challis, who was b. in Gloucester, Mass., a daughter of Gideon and Lucy Challis. She d. August 12, 1846, at the age of si.\ty-two )-ears. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Tidd learcd thiee children — Marshall Martin, .Sai'ah Ann, and John lidgell. .Sarah Ann, b. April 29, 1829, m. George C. Nichols, who il. in 1886, and a sketch of whose brother John ap|3ears else- where in this volume. .She survives her hus- band, and has one child — Trac_\' Warren, b. December 21, 1S52, who is now engaged in business as a currier at llallston .Spa, N. Y. John Edgell Tidd is a resident of Woburn. He m. Ann lUilfinch, daughter of Amos and Hannah Bulfinch. She was b. IVLiy 2, 1833, and d. December 13, 1900. Marshall Martin Tidd obtained his element- ary education in the jniblic schools of Woburn. He then ]5ursued more advanced studies in the Warren Academy, and subsequent 1\- spent one year at Rr^ant & Stratton's Business College in Hoston. Having culti\'ated a natural talent for drawing, he went to Lawrence at the age of nineteen to assist in draughting plans for the first dam across the Merrimac River at that place. He improved every opportunit}' for self advancement, and b)' observation, study, and practice became in course of time a civil engineer of wide repute. He assisted in re- building the docks in h'.ast Hoston, and later built docks at the bjie ]5asin, Brooklyn, N.Y. Activel}' engaged in the practice of his pro- fession for a number of years, he practised it in later life as consulting engineer. In 1864 he settled on the estate extending from Main Street to Warren Avenue, Woburn, where he spent the remainder of his life. The location of this property is an ideal one, the house, which Mr. Tidd rebuilt and enlarged, being situated on the side of a hill copiniri'iding an extensive vje\v, j66 NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF The grounds were also improved and beau- tified by him. He married October 9, 1853, Abb\- Snow Cole, of Orleans, Mass., daughter of Cap- tain Isaiah and Sarah (Mayo) Cole, her ]3arents being of early American ancestry. Mr. Tidd died August 20, 1895, his wife ha\ ing i^assed away two years jireviously, July 22, 1893. They reared one child, a daughter, Alice Stanwuud, born Ajiril 16, 1855, who was educated in the private schools of Woburn, and who still occupies the homestead. Mr. Tidd was a member of the Massachusetts Hor- ticultural St)ciety, of the American Society of Civil Kngineers, and oi the Huston .Society of Ci\'il I'.ngineers. Iiefore he was two years old, he lost the use of his right arm by l^aralysis, and, in spite of this, he became an expert penman and a celebrated daughtsman. Of domestic tastes, devoted to his home, he was beloved h\ his family and respected b}' all who knew him. OSES KICKER, of Watertown, was 5orn in Acton, Me., December 20, 1843. Son of the late Ebenezer Ricker, he is a lineal descendant in tlie seventh generation from Maturin Ricker, an early settler of Dover, N.H. The line is: Maturin,' Maturin,' Jr., Moses,' Eb- enezer,-' Moses, ^ Ebenezer,'' Moses". The fam- ily name is sujiposed by some to be derived from the b'rench name "Richart," and by others from the German "Riccord." Maturin' Ricker and his older brothei' (ieorge emigrated from England to Dover, N.H., where George paid ta.xes in 1672. On June 4, 1706, they were both killed by the Indians. Maturin's' son Noah, who was cajitured at that time, was carried to Canacki, there educated, became a Catholic jjriest, and never returned to his home. Maturin- Ricker, Jr., son of Maturin,' m. I.ucy Walliiigford. Their son, Moses' Ricker, settled at North Berwick, Me., where he ser\'ed as Selectman in 1772. His will was proN'ed June 26, 1797. He m., first, Dorcas Ricker, a daughter of his father's cousin, Maturin,^ who was a .son of the emi- grant George' Kicker, libciwzcr' Kicker m. Mary Butler. Moses* Ricker, b. at Berwick, Me., m. Keziah Hodgdcm, and settled in Lebanon, Me. Ebenezer'' Kicker was b. in Lebanon, Me., September 6, 1819, and d. in Acton, Me., June 29, 1887. On March i, 1843, he m. Liivisa L. (irant, who was b. in Acton, May i, 1816. .She was a daughter of Jonathan Grant, who settled in Acton in 1800, m. Mary Clark No\-ember 27, 1800, and d. there 1-^ebruar)' 12, 1840. Her mother d. b'eb- ruary 2, 1852. Moses Kicker spent his hnyhood in Acton, attending the district school, and working on the home farm during the Imig vacations. Coming to Bcjston in i>^f>},, he sdon entered upon a business career which |)ro\cd success- ful, being for many years a member and the general manager of the Boston ]-"resh Tripe Company, of which Hemy C. Derby was the treasurer. Since 1868 he has been a resident of Watertown. In October, 1868, Mr. Ricker married Harriet Thompson W'entworth, who was born in Letete, N. B. , Ai)ri] 10, 1849, daughter of John and Mary (Kelley) W'ent- worth. .Mr. and Mrs. Ricker have fi\x' chil- dren, namely: Annie May and Ida A., both living at home; Carrie M., a teacher in the ]Dublic schools the immigrant progenitor of Abraham Linc(dn, the descent of the latter being through .Samuel Lincoln's son Morclecai,- brother of .Samuel, Jr. , and uncle of I'llisha. At the time of the Revolution Le\i Hates, then living in Cohasset, held the lank nf Lieu- tenant in the State Militia. Me was called out with Captain Ikal's company in I\Iarch, April, and June, 1776, and with Captain Peter Cushing's coni]iaiiy in December. The Rev. Lewis H. l^ates beg.iii his life Work at the age , and he ni. in 1798 I'hcbe, daui;hti.'r of I-'.zra' and Mehit- able ((roodell) L'ptun. b'./ia' Lfptim, h. in 173(S, was sun nl i'aul" Uptun (William,' John') and his wife I'liebe, b. in 1710, who was the dau_L;hter of .Samuel- (ioodell. Robert' (ioodcll, grandfather of Samuel,' came to New I'jigland in 1(^34, and settled in West I'eabody, Mass., tlien a pail of .S;ilcm. Daniel rutni New York. Mr. and Mrs, Pickard have four children, namely; Julia Maria ^vho re- sides with her jiarents), Charles l)ix, George Plummer, and ICdwarcl L., Jr. Charles Dix Pickard, who resides in Auburndale, married Nora G. Temple, and has two chiklren — I'M- ward T. and Julia. George Plummer Pickard, who is living in .Auburntlale, married Marie Altier, and they have one child, Norman. Edward L. Pickard, Jr., married Gertrude L. Gould, and resides in W'estboro. OSEPH STONK, who is engaged in business at 53 State Street, iioston, is a prominent reiaresentative of an old New England family founded in Amer- ica by Simon' Stone, a native of Much I?rom- ley (now Great Bromley), near Colchester, Essex County, England. The records of the family in England begin with Simon Stone, of Much Hromley, who d. in 1510, wife Elizabeth. His son Havid was father of Simon, b. there in 1506, whose wife was Agnes. David, son of Simon and Agnes Stone, by his wife Lh'sula, whom he m. Au- gust 23, 1585, was father of Simon' Stone, the immigrant already mentioned. Simon' Stone, b. at Much Bromley in 1585, m. Joan Clark, August 5, 1616. He came to America, April, 1635, in the ship "Increase," and settled in Watertown, Mass. Simon' Stone, b. at Much Bromley, 1631, m. Mary \Vhipple, of Ipswich, Mass., d. P"eb- ruary zj, 170S, at Watertown. Simon,' b. at Watertown. Mass., -September 8, 1656, ni. Sarah Earnsworth, of Groton, d. at Groton, Mass., December 20, 1741. Joseph,-' b. at Groton, Mass., March 8, 1702, m. May 9, 172S, Mary Prescott, of Groton, d. at Groton, Sei:itember 10, 1777. Silas, 5 b. at Groton, P'ebruary 11, 1742, lived also at Templeton, 1768-80, m. January 20, 1767, Eunice Eairbank, d. at Harvard, Mass., July 31, 1827. Phinehas'' Stone, b. at Templeton, Mass., July 3, 1775, m. May 3, 180S, Hannah Jones, of Londonderry, X.H., d. at Charlestown, Mass., January 9, 1852. Phinehas Jones" Stone, b. at Weare, N. H., May 23, 1810, m. in Charlestown, Mass., June 28o NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY OF 20, 1841, Ann Maria Lindsay, of Charlestown, daiigliter of Icliabod Lindsay, d. in Boston, August 12, 1891. Josepii* Stone, b. at Ciiarlestown, January 4, 1848, m. February 10, 1880, Minnie Harris, of Boston, daughter of Horatio Harris. Marion'' Stone, b. at Lawrence, Mass. , Oc- tober 14, 1882. Phinehas Jones Stone was b. in Weare, N. H. , May 23, 1 8 10, and moved to Charlestown in 1824, where he resided until his death. He early became interested in real estate, which business he managed with great success. He was Selectman of Charle.stown in 1839 and 1840, member of the House of Representatives in 1840, 1856, 1862, antl 1863, and was in- spector of the State Prison from 1S56 to 1859. He was Mayor of Charlestown in 1862, 1863, and 1S64, and was instrumental in raising and forming several companies for the defence of the country during the Rebellion. He was United .States Assessor, Si.xth Massachusetts District, from 1867 to 1873. In 1852 he organized the Mystic River Corporation, which imjjroved with wharf and docks about one hun- dred acres of flats lying between the north and south channels of My.stic River. This has be- come the water terminal of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and is now valued at more than one million dollars. In 1854 Mr. Stone organized the Charles- town Five Cents Savings Bank, and became its president, which position he held up to the time of his death, when deposits amounted to four million five hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars. He became a director in the Charlestown Gas Company, and also in the Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company. He was a man of commanding presence and sterling integrity of character, loyal to his country in the hour of its peril, upright and honorable in all his dealings with his brother man, and with sympathy and help for the distressed, his hand being ever open to re- lieve the suffering without ostentation or publicity. On June 20, 1841, he ni. Ann Maria Lind- sey, of Charlestown, daughter of Ichabod Lind- say, whose ancestry is given below, He d. at Charlestown, August 12, iSgr. November 26, 1801, Charlestown, Mass., b. in Charlestown, LINDSAY, SOMKTIMI-:S LINDSEY. Thomas Lindsay, Lindsay of Forfarshire, Scotland, probable ancestor. Andrew' Lindsay came from Scotland, sailed for America from Londonderry, Ireland, settled in Pembroke, Mass., m. April 5, 1733, Jane Earle, of Pembroke. Ephraim- Lindsay, b. in Pembroke, Mass., March 26, 1738, m. Ann Bonney, December I, 1 77 1, il. at White Plains, N.Y. , while serv- ing in the Revolutionary army. Alfred' Lindsay, b. in Pembroke, June 24, 1772. IchaboiP Lindse)', b. m. Ann Smith, d. in September, 1S57. Ann RTaria' Lindsey, November 14, 1823, m. Phinehas Jones Stone, d. in Charlestown, September 6, 1851. Phinehas Jones' and Ann Maria Stone had four sons — George, Charles, Phinehas Jones, Jr., and Joseph. George and Charles d. in infancy. Phinehas Jones" .Stone, Jr., b. at Charles- town, Mass., January 28, 1842, entered the navy in 1863 as Acting Assistant Paymaster, and served through the war on the Mississippi River. His health was there broken down. For many years an invalid, he d. August 18, 1889. Joseph"" Stone, b. at Charlestown, Mass. , January 4, 1848, is a graduate of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, with degree of Bachelor of Science, 1868, a civil engineer. P>om 1868 to 1873 he was engaged in building and remodelling te.\tile mills, from 1873 to 1880 was agent of the Manchester Mills at Manchester, N.H., and from 1880 to 1887 similarly in charge of the Lower Pacific Mills at Lawrence, Mass. In 1887 he retired from active business, became a resident of Roxbury, Mass., and began to devote his time to his real estate interests, which have since occupied practically his entire attention. He is trustee of several estates, vice-president of the Charles- town Five Cents Savings Bank, a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the University Club and Technology Club of Boston, and the Reform Club and Wool Clul) GENEAT,OGV AND PRRSONAT, HISTORY 2S1 of New York. On February 10, 1S80, he m. Miss Minnie Harris, daughter of Horatio Harris, and they have one daughter, Marion. The following is Mrs. Stone's ancestral his- tory : — HARRIS. Robert' Harris from Gloucestershire, Eng- land, sailed by ship "Primrose," July 27, 1635, to Virginia. Later came to West Rox- bury, and became freeman 1650, m. Elizabeth Houghey at Ro.xbury, June 8, 1647, d. 1702. Timothy,^ b. at Ro.xbur)', July 9, 1650, m. Abigail Morey, daughter of Thomas Morey, d. September 27, 1730. Joseph,' b. at Brookline, February 15, 171 1, m. Rebecca Adams, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca Adams, of Roxbury, d. at Mansfield in I""ebruary, 1763. Thomas,'' b. at Norton, now Mansfield, Mass., December 2, 1737, m. Elizabeth Adams, of Newton. He d. June 21, 1803. Joseph, 5 b. at Brattleboro, Vt. , January zj, 1 77 1, m. Anne Coffin, of Vermont. Joseph,'' b. in Dorchester, January 19, 1792, m. Sallie Smith, daughter of Jonathan .Smith, of Lexington. Horatio, 7 b. in Boston, February 12, 1821, m. April 2, 1846, Eunice Elizabeth Crehore, daughter of Edward Crehore and Mary Preston, of Dorchester, d. February 29, 1S76. Minnie,'* b. in Roxbury, August 25, 1854, m. Joseph Stone, February 10, 1880. CREHORE. Teague' Crehore, b. in 1640, was the first of the family to arrive in this country. He m. Mary Spurr, d. at Milton, Mass., January 22, 1695. Timothy' Crehore, b. at Milton, October 18, 1 666, m. Ruth Royal, of Milton, February 10, 1688, d. at Milton, August 15, 1739. Timothy' Crehore, b. at Milton, December 3 or 26, i68g, m. first Mary Triscoll, second Mary Billings, mother of William Crehore, d. in Milton, December 26, 1755. William'* Crehore, b. in Milton, January i, 1730, m. Ann Bowen, January 2, 1752, d. in JVIilton, July 9, 1803 or 1S04. Thomas^ Crehore, b. in Milton, 1769, m. Eunice Houghton, 1792, d. in Boston, De- cember 31, 1846. Edward'' Crehore, b. Milton, April 13, 1800, m. first Mary Preston, September 4, 1822, second Sarah Minns Tileston, July 20, 1843, d. in Boston, April 27, \?>^- Eunice Elizabeth' Crehore, b. in Dorches- ter, September 2, 1825, m. Horatio Harris, Dorchester, d. Roxbury, March 22, 1873. Horatio Harris was b. in Boston, February 12, 1821. He early entered the counting-room of Mr. Thomas W. Sears, commission mer- chant and auctioneer, was made a partner when he reached the age of twenty-one, and on the death of the other partners became the head of the firm, and carried on a very successful busi- ness. Later in life he became interested in sugar refining, being associated therein with Mr. Thomas Oxnard, and having large interests in the Oxnard and Continental Sugar Refin- eries. On the death of Mr. Joshua Sears in 1857 Mr. Harris, together with Mr. Hugh Montgomery and Mr. Alpheus Hardy, became one of the trustees of his estate, and at once began the erection of ornamental business buildings, a novelty in those days of plain structures, which proved very successful; and the estate rapidly grew to an immense size. In 1S56 Mr. Harris purchased some twenty- five acres of land in Roxbury on Walnut Ave- nue, upon which he constructed one of the finest houses about Boston, laying out the grounds as a beautiful park, and allowing it to be open daily to the public. Mr. Harris was a natural musician, a devoted admirer of the best music, and possessed a quick ear and ready touch. Among his many charities was the assistance of scores of young persons of either sex who were helped by him to obtain their musical education. Mr. Harris was ever ready to further the commercial interests of his native city by aid- ing in the establishment of many of its most important manufacturing and mercantile proj- ects. He was a man of sterling integrity, of frank and honest manliness, and discriminating generosity, which, together with a great degree of ability and enterprise, combined to make him one of the best known, most public-spir- 282 NEW ENGLAND LII'.RAKY OK ited, and most poi^ular of the business men of Boston. He ne\'er sought, nor would he accept, any jniblic office, yet lie never failed to respond with substantial aid to an)' worthy political or charitable object. When the nation was strut;glinL; in civil war, no man contributed of his means more liberally, more readily, and more constantly than he of his counsel and of his example to save the national honor and to maintain the national security. On April 2, 1846, he m. Miss Eunice Eliza- beth Crehore, of Dorchester, daughter of Ed- ward Crehore. He cl. February 29, 1876, having" had children as follows: — Horatio Harris, Jr., b. in Boston, February 26, 1847, d. in Roxbury, Februar)' 12, 1871. At time of his death he was superintendent of the Continental Sugar Refinery. Edward Crehore Harris, b. in Bosttm, June 29, 1849, m. Florence E. Howe, of Boston, d. June 27, 1890, leaving one son, Horatio Harris. Minnie Harris, b. in Boston, August 25, 1854, m. Joseph Stone, February 10, 1880, has one daughter, Marion. Georgia Anna Harris, b. in Ivoxbury, June 27, 1S60, m. Dr. ?"rederick W. Kennedy, of Lawrence, Mass., d. at Lawrence, August 15, 1890, leaving one son, George Harris Ken- nedy. /^rirURC.b: WESTGATh: MH,LS, M.D., \ '5 I a |iiominent physician of Medford, — was born in this town September 26, 1852. Son of the late Caleb Mills and his wife, Sarah .Stickney Sleeper, he is of substan- tial .Scottish ancestry, being a descendant in the fifth generation of the immigrant, Thomas' Mills, who settled in New Ham])sliire about the middle of the eighteenth century. Thomas' Mills was b. in .Scotland in 1720. Immigrating to this country, he located first in Londonderry, X. H., iemo\'ing from there about 1751 to Dunbartoii, N.H., where he was a resident until his deatli, Januar)- zj, 1790. Hem. Elizabeth lloog, supposed to have been a daughter of John lloog. Nine children — namely, Sarah, John, Agnes, Thomas, Caleb, I"]lizabeth, Peter, J, ones, and .Samuel — were the fruit of their union. Sni'ah was the first white child b. in Dunbarton. Caleb- ^Llls, b. June 8, 1765, d. January 17, 1834. A farmer by occupation, he accumulated consitlerable wealth. His wife, whose maiden name was Tamar Cheney, d. b'ebiuary 20, 1S50. She bore him eight chiltlren — John, .Sarah, Joseph, Nanc)-, Polly, l^lizabeth, Caleb, and 'Pamar. Caleb, Jr., the youngest son, was graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1828, and afterward studied theology at Andover, Mass. Li 1833 he was invited to become first instructor of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., where he taught Latin and (jreek, retain- ing the position until his retirement at the age of seventy years. He was subsequently pro- fessor emeritus until his death, October 17, 1879. He was greatly interested in the cause of education, and was known as the father of public schools in Indiana. John' Mills, a life- long farmer of Dunbarton, was b. December 30, 1786, and d. August i, 1859. His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Baile)-, was b. l^'ebruary 13, 1784, and d. Tiiay 21, 1865. They were the parents of twehe children — William P., Sarah B. , Caleb, Catherine G., Nancy Elizabeth, Phebe B. , Mary, Bailey Thomas, Susan 'I'., )ohn Cavis, an infant boy not named, and Mathew S. Caleb-i Mills, the Doctor's father, son of John,' was b. in Dunbarton, N.II., June 16, 181 I, and d. December 18, 1899, in Medford, Mass. He followed agricultural pursuits in his native town until 1841, when he removed to Charlestown, Mass., where he emlxirked in the wood business. .Siibsec|uentl\-, lia\'ing learned the process of soap making, he built a factor\', which was burned as soon as com- pleted. .Settling in Medford about 1846, he engaged in snap making and general faiining, being at first the manager of the soap busi- ness of RTr. Wliittaker, and latei' joining with Mr. Rol)ert Mellen in inanufai turing soaps of all kinils. l'"rom 1857 until \?-<(f J'ilder Thomas Cushman, were members (jf the church in Plymouth. Their son Thomas,' b. in 1686, m. Jedidah Church- ill, daughter of l-lleazer Chinchill, and resitled at Manomet Ponds, Plymouth. His son Jona- than, ^ b. in 1718, m. .Sarah, daughter of Dea- con l';iisha Holmes, of Plymouth. Jonathan, Jr.,' h. 1746, at Manomet l^nuls, li\-ed at Plynuiuth and later at Middleboro. His wife Iktty, daughtei- of Deacon John Blackmer, of Pl)mouth, d. at .Mitldleboio, -September 9, 1S33. They had a nrmiber of chililren, and one of their sons was Branch Harlow, some time High Sheriff of l'l)'mouth Cormt)'. (See Har- low l<"aniily in New lingland Historical and Genealogical I'iegister, i860.) Stei)hen" Har- low, (jf Middleboro, .son of Jonathan' and ]5ett)' Harlow, ^\. March 24, 1853, aged si.\ty-three years, eight months. Mis. Patience Harlow d. Eebruar)- 11, 1859, aged seventy-si.x years, seven months, si.xteen days. [.State Records.] Jonathan Edwards^ Harlow, M.D. , born at Middleboro, Mass., May 2, 1824, son of Ste- phen'' and Patience (Ellis) Harlow, received his degree from Har\'ard Medical .School in 1848. He settled in llingham, Mass., and was for man\' years one of the leading physi- cians of the town. On October 29, 1851, at Hanson, Mass., he marrieil I'Tizabeth Frances Luther, daughter of Job Luther, of Ilanson. She died at Hingham, June i, 1861, in the thirty-second )'ear of her age. On April 22, 1863, he marrieil for his second wife .Sail)' Gill Thaxter. She died April 9, 1S71. Dr. Harlow died May 29, 1880, aged fift)'-six )ears, leax'ing three children, of whom the following is a brief record : Jonathan PLilwards'"' Harlow, Jr., born October 12, 1852, married in Providence, R.I., November 6, 1878, l{lla Hodges, daughter of Lewis Tiffan\' and i\Lary Alice (i\Iorse) Hodges. I'ilizabeth Luther Harlow, born in 1854, married Joseph L. P'os- tei', of l^rookline, by whom she has one child — Margaret Hailow Fo.ster, now attending .Smith College, Noi thampton, Mass. Lucy Allen Harlow, born in 1857, ni.nrietl Newton Crane, ol Newton, MaS4- His name first genp:alogy and pp:rsonal history 293 apjjears on the Tauntnn records in 1643. He was made a ficcnian June 5, 1651. lie was one 111 the ni jniiial st(ickhi)lders of the Taun- ton Iron Works, pa)'ing one hundred dollars for a whole share, and seems tn have been a man of considerable jiroperty. Henry- Hodges, b. in Taunton in 1652, d. there September 30, 1717. He was Captain of the local militaiy com|)any man\' \-ears, was a Selectman twenty- eight ycais, a Representative to the General Court five years, and served the church as Deacon and as I'residing JClder. He accpiired a large amount nf real estate. '^n December 17, 1674, he ni. ]'2sther Clallop, daughter of John and Hannah (Lake) Gallop. Their son, Joseph' Hodges, was b. about i6Sg in Taunton. He served four years as Assessor in Norton, was six )'ears a Selectman, Representative to the General Comt in 1737, and was elected Deacon of the church in 173''). He received his commission as Ensign in the militia in 1729, as Captain in 1737, and in 1745 was Major of the Hiistid County Regiment that took part in the cajiture of Louisburg. He cl. while returning from that e\|iedition. On March 11, 1712-3, he m. Ik'thiah Williams, who d. after (.)ctobei-, 1731. leaving among othei' children, a son named Isaac. He m. in 1731S Mary (Toogood) (Kent) I^arney. Isaac^ Hodges, b. in Norton, I'ebruary 4, 1728-g, d. in that part of Nortcrn called "Crooked Meadow," in i S07. He scrveil in the Rev- olutionar}' War, being Ca[)tain of the Second Compau)-, I-'ourth Bristol County Regiment, in 1776, and commissionetl Lieutenant-Colo- nel of that regiment June 10. 1779. On Jan- uary 31, 1750-1, he m. Mary, daughter of ]?enjamin ami Mar\- (Turner) I'latt. Their son, Isaac' Hodges, h. in Norton, August 25. 1757. d. in that town July 25, 1S40. He was a minuteman in Apiil, 1775, under Cap- tain Morey, and subset|uent ly serx'cd two terms of enlistment in the Revolutionary Army. He was ]irominent in church and town affairs, serv- ing ten years as y\ssessor, si.xteen years as Selectman, thiee years as moderator at town meetings, four years as a Representative to the (jeneral Court, thirty-two \-ears as Coroner, and for a number of terms as Justice (jf the Peace. On July 25, 17S2, at Attlehoro, Mass., he m. Chloe, daughter of Nathaniel and Ikthany (Eddy) Hishop. They had eight children, Charles,'' the third, l)eing b. in Norton, Janu- ary 2, 1787, d. in Jersey City, N.J., March 25, 1S70. When a young man, Charles'' Hodges entered upon a mercantile career, begimiing as a clerk in Providence, R.I., andgraduall)' work- ing his way upward until he became one of the leading dry-goods merchants of that city. Later he was in the coal trade. Accumulating a good pro]ierty, he retired from active business in 1865. He m. November 12, 1810, Julia Ann, daughter of I^zekiel and Lydia (Vates) Purr. Lewis Tiffany' Hodges, of Providence, R.I. , seventh child of Charles and Julia A. (Piur) Hodges, was b. July 24, 1822, and d. January 20, 1881. He was a manufacturing jeweller, carrying on business in both Provi- dence and New York City. He m. December 13, 1S48, Mary Alice Morse, a daughter of Nathan and Alice Sweet (Dana) Morse, of Providence. Two daughters were b. to them, namely: Kate, and Ella (now Mrs. Harlow). OSIAH 0. BENNETT, of Cambridge, Mass., is a son of the late Clark Ben- nett and grandson of Moses Bennett. He comes of Revolutionary stock, his great-grandfather. Deacon David Benn