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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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-
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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^'-
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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"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<jn of his charactei' and an account of his
labors, spoke of Dr. Codman as one whose
"course e.xhibitetl a bright ixUtern of jiastoral
fidelity in the services of the pulpit, the lect-
ure-room, the prayer-meeting, at the bedside of
the sick and dying, in the cottage of the poor
and the mansion of the opulent. . . . (_)f his
private charities no account is kept in human
records, for e\'en his right hand knew not what
his left hand did; but, that they were abundant
and full, ten thousand witnesses on earth can
testify, and the opened books of heaven will
hereafter declare. . . . His sermons, sometimes
very forcible, alwa\'s well arranged and perspi-
cuous, were at times delivered in a st\de of re-
markable i)athos and eloquence. ... It is prob-
able that his usefulness as a minister was much
increased by a prominent trait of his character
which greatly endeared him to his friends.
We mean his ardent social feelings, his ready
sympathy, the warmth and benignity of his
heart, the true unaffected interest he took in
the welfare of others."
The degree of Doctor of Divinit)' was con-
ferred on him by Princeton College in 1822.
He was united in marriage January ig, 1813,
with Mary Wheelwright, daughter of Ebenezer
Wheelwright, of Newburyport, and a grand-
daughter of William Coombs, an eminent mer-
chant of that city. Dr. Codman had six chil-
dren, as follows: Captain John Codman, who
died April 6, igoo; William C. Codman, now
a merchant in Boston ; Robert Codman, a Bos-
ton lawyer and financiei', who died suddenly at
his home, 17 Brimmer .Street, January 20,
igoi ; MaryM., wife of Otto W. Pollitz, now
deceased; Margaret Russell, wife of the Rev.
W. A. Peabody, now deceased ; and Elizabeth,
who is the widow of Charles K. Cobb.
Robert Codman, above mentioned, was born
in Dorchester, Mass., March 8, 1823. He
prepared for college at Dummer Academy,
Byfield, and in 1840 entered Harvard, where
he pursued the entire academic course, inter-
rupted only near the end of his first year by a
foui' months' suspension for an alleged partici-
])ation in kindling a bonfire. He distinguished
himself in Latin, Greek, and political econ-
omy, and was assigned the I,;itin uration at
Commencement in 1844, when he recei\ed the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1848 he took
the degree of Master of Arts in course. While
in college he was a member of the Institute of
1770 and of the Hasty Pudding Club. Among
his classmates were P'rancis Parkman, the his-
torian ; George Merritt Brooks, Judge of Pro-
bate of Middlesex Count}'; George .Silsbee
Hale, of the B(.)ston bar; William Harris
Hunt, the noted artist; Benjamin Apthor|)
Gould; and Dr. Edward Augustus Wilde, an
eminent physician of Brookl}'n and surgeon of
artillery in the Turkish army during the Cri-
mean War. In 1844 I\Ii'. , Codman entered
Harvard Law .School, wdiere he was graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws two years
later. His legal studies were subsequently
continued in the office of I'rancis B. Hayes, of
I-ioston, and in 1S48 he formed a partnership
with Henry A. Johnson under the style of
Codman & Johnson, which was continued for
over thirty years. Plis adaptability to the
legal profession was soon made manifest. He
rapidly gained a high standing at the bar, and
acquired an extensixe practice. His advice
was based u|)on a sound and comprehensive
knowledge of the law both as laid down in the
statutes and as established by inecedeut, and
his wisdom as a counsellor was equalled by his
succe.ss as an advocate, IJuring the last ten
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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; Th<imas,'
who ni. h'lizabeth ]5ent ; Mary; Elizabeth, =
who m. David Hersey ; Abigail, Mvho m. Jo-
seph Lapham ; Seth,- who m. Rachel .Sherman;
and ]5athsheba,' who ni. I'^henezer Mahuirin,
Thomas- and his wife IClizabeth had fine son,
John, 3 and two or three daughters. John,^ b.
in 1702, m. ALarch, 172S-29, Aiiigail I-'ord.
Their children were: yAbinh,-" who m. in 1749
Thomas Lapham; John,' whom, in 1756 h'aith
Stebbiiis; Nathaniel. ' b. in 1742, whom. Jan-
uary 18, 1764, Elizabeth Curtis, of Scituate,
and had two children — Abigail' and Samuel';
and Abigail, ^ who m. in 1770 Mark Hatch.
Samuel,' b. December 25, 1767, m. at Marsh-
field, November 16, 179L Elizabeth Platch
Oakman. Si.x children were the fruit of this
union, nameh' : Samuel/' wlio m. Elsie Sher-
man ; Elizabeth,'' who m. in i 8 i S James Keith
(probably James Keith, of Marshfield, who was
a son of George-* Keith and his wife, Elizabeth
h'ord. both of Bridge water, and a lineal de-
scendant of the Rev. Jan-ies' Keith) ; Esther,
whom, in 1S23 Nathan Sherman ; Nathaniel,^'
b. in 1799, who m. Nancv Shern-ian ; Albert,''
b. in 1801 ; and Oakman,''' b. May 7, 1804,
above mentioned as the father of the City Clerk
of Medford.
Oakman Joyce for some time after removing
to Medford was engaged as a contractor and
builder, and built mai-iy of the public buildings
of Medford. Afterward lie uas in the lumber
business for a while, and later he was a ship
carpenter, and with his brother, Samuel Joyce,
was in the coal business. He served the town
as Highway Surve^'or and as a member of the
School Committee. He m. September 11,
1 83 1, Mahala Sherman. She was b. Novem-
ber 17, 1 8 13, daughter of Amos Shern-ian, a
Marshfield farmer, and his wife Nanc}' Holmes,
widow of Hewett Joyce.
Amos Shern-ian, maternal grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, was b. in 1783; and he
d. August 22, 1S47. He was a descendant in
the si.xth generation of William Sherman, the
founder of the Marshfield family of this sur-
name, the line being: Willian-|,'-- Ebenezer,'
William,^ Joseph,' Amos'". William,' the im-
migrant, was at Plymouth in 1632. He m.
Prudence Hill in January, 1638-39, removed
to Marshfield in 1642, and d. there in 1679.
His children were : John, William,' and Han-
nah. William^ m. in 1667 Desire Doty, daugh-
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ter of Edward and Faith (Clark) Doty. Her
father, it is well known, was one nf the "May-
flower " Pilgrims. He d. at Yarmouth in
1655. William' Sherman served in King
Philip's War; and, being disabled for a time
in consequence of exposure and hardships in
1675, relief was afforded him by the Colony to
the amount of twenty pounds. His children
were: Hannah, who m. William Ring; Eliza-
beth; William,' who m. Mercy, daughter of
Peregrine White; Patience; Experience, who
m. Myles' Stand ish, grandson of Captain
Myles' Standish; and Ebenezer,' b. in 16S0.
Ebenezer' Sherman m. in 1702 Margaret,
daughter of \'alentine Decrow. She d. in
March, 1726; and he m. in 1730 Bathsheba
P"ord. ]5y his first wife he had ten children,
namely: Eleazer, who d. in 1723; Rachel,
whom. Seth Joyce; William, b. in 1704, who
m. Elizabeth Lapham ; Elizabeth, whom. Jo-
seph Wetherell; Joseph, who d. in 1732; Abi-
gail, who m. a Mr. Carrier; Caleb; Elisha;
Robert, who m. Mary Eames; and Ehenezer,
who m. Elizabeth Wormall. Bathsheba, his
daughter by his second wife, m. Isaiah Walker.
William^ and Elizabeth (Lapham) Sherman
had seven children — Joseph, Eleazer, BetS)',
Lydia, Hannah, Abigail, and Desire. Joseph, '
b. in 1732, m. Alice Shurtleff, of Marshfield,
and was the father of Alice, Samuel, Huldah,
Joseph, William, and Amos,^ above named.
Nancy, wife of Amos Sherman, was the daugh-
ter of John and Bathsheba (Walker) Holmes,
of Marshfield. She was the mother of nine
children, of whom the following is a record :
Nancy, b. June 16, 1804, m. first Nathan
Jo)'ce and second Benjamin Keene ; Elsie, b.
March 12, 1806, m. .Samuel Joyce; Amos, b.
November 7, 1807, m. Almira Curtis ; Lavinia,
b. Se|)tember 29, 1809, d. in 1829; William,
b. July 4, 1811, m. Marietta Sherman; Ma-
hala, 1). November 17, 1813, m. Sejitember 11,
1 83 1, Oakman Joyce; Eveline, b. October 24,
1816, m. Nathaniel Church; Japhet, b. Febru-
ary 26, 1818, m. Sarah N. Baker; and Calvin,
b. January 13, 1821, m. Elizabeth Crosby.
Seven children were b. to Oakman and Mahala
(Sherman) Joyce. The four now living are:
Alonzo, Lsabella h'rances, Winslow, and All-
ston Porter. Ak)n/o, b. y\ugust 22, 1834,
learned the trade of a ship-joiner, and is now
engaged in business as a carpenter in Boston.
He m. September 14, 1859, Mary Jane 'Pay
(now deceased), daughter of Nathaniel Tay, of
Medford. Isabella F., h. September 14, 1S35,
was m. June i, 1S59, to Daniel Bailey Wool-
ley, of Vermont, a dry-goods dealer. They
reside in Medford. Winslow, also a resident
of Medford, b. February 6, 1844, a carpenter
by trade, m. Elizabeth Jane Orr, daughter of
rienry S. and Margaret J. Orr.
Allston Porter Joyce was born Se].)tember 6,
1853, and is the yoimgest of the family. He
was educated in the public schot)ls of Medford,
receiving his diploma from the high school in
1870. He began active life as book-keeper for
C. H. Cummings& Co., 44 Commercial Street,
Boston, continuing thus engaged eight years.
The next year he carried on a grocery business
in East Boston; the succeeding four years he
spent in Chicago as book-keeper for a firm in
the coal business; in the eight )'ears following-
he was with the Boston Rubber Shoe Company;
and the year after, 1892, he was salesman for
C. H. Cummings & Co. Elected as first City
Clerk of Aledford in 1893, he has since held
that position by annual unanimous re-elections.
He is also a Justice of the Peace and a Notary
Public. He attends the Universalist church,
and holds the office of State treasurer of the
Young People's Christian Union. He belongs
to the Masonic P'raternity, being connecte<l
with Mount Hermon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of
Medford. He is a member and Past Chancel-
lor of Cradock Lodge, No. 104, K. of P., also
Deputy Grand Chancellor; a member of the
Society of "Mayflower" Descendants and of
the Medford Historical .Society and the P'ire-
men's Veteran Association ; and honorary mem-
ber of the Lawrence Light Guards. Mr. Joyce
was married February 17, 1875, to Grace Jane
Dearborn, of Medford. She was born at War-
ren, Me., August 28, 1854, daughter of Jere-
miah Smith and Clara Amanda (Jones) Dear-
born.
Jeremiah S. Dearborn, father of Mrs. Joyce,
was a son of Daniel and Jane (lilanchard) Dear-
born, and a descendant in the seventh genera-
tion of Godfrey' Dearborn, of Exeter and
Hampton, N.H., who is said to have come to
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35
this countr}' from Exeter, Devonshire, Kni,'iand.
The line was: Godfrey," Thomas,-' Jonathan,-'
Shiibael,-' Nathaniel,' Daniel," Jeremiah'. God-
frey' Dearborn was one of the thirty-five men
who in 1639 signetl the coniliination for the
government of Exeter, N.II. In 1648 he was
a Selectman. After about ten years' residence
at Exeter he removed to Hampton, N.H.,
where in 1650 seats in church were assij;iied to
him and his wife; and in 1653, 1663, antl 1671
he was Selectman. Mis first wife, whose name
is not known, d. at Hampton ; and he m. in
1662 his second wife, Dorothy, widow of Phile-
mon' Dalton, and mother of Samuel Dalton, of
Hampton. Godfrey Dearborn's children — all
by his first wife — were: Henry, Thomas, Es-
ther, John, and Sarah. Thomas, = who was b.
in England in 1634, d. in 1710. He was Dea-
con of the Hampton church, and he served
three years as Selectman. He m. in 1665
Hannah Colcord, daughter of Edward Colcord.
Their children were: Samuel, Ebenezer,
Thomas, and Jonathan, who bore the military
title of Cornet. Jonathan-' Dearborn, born in
1686, was twice m., and by his first wife,
Mary, was father of seven children — Jonathan,
Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Daniel, Shubael, Abra-
ham, and Wary. Shubael, ^ b. in 1719, m. in
1750 Sarah Fogg, daughter of James Fogg, Jr.,
who was a grandson of Samuel' Fogg and his
second wife, Mary Fage. ShubaeF Dearborn
about the year 1770 removed to Northfield,
N.H., where he d. in 1796. He was one of
the volunteers under Sir William Pepperell in
1745 in the expedition against Louisburg; and
he brought home from this victorious campaign
a French musket, which was used by his son in
the War of the Revolution, and by Benjamin
Glines in the War of 1S12. The children of
ShubaeF and his wife Sarah were: Nathaniel, '
b. in 175 I, who m. Hannah Godfrey, and d. in
1S18; Shubael, b. March 12, 1752, m. Ruth
Leavitt ; John, b. October 31, 1755, ni. Molly
Keazer; Elizabeth, b. October 16, 1758, m.
David Keniston; Abraham, b. March 10, 1761,
m. Nancy Sanborn ; ]\fercy, b. April 26, 1766,
m. John Bt)hannon ; Sarah, b. August 8, 1768,
m. John Clay; and Mary, b. May 22, 1774, m.
Job Glines. The children of Nathaniel' and
Hannah (Godfrey) Dearborn were : Hannah,
who m. Aaron Cnllins; .Annie, who m. Jona-
than Arlin; James, who ni. Betsy Carlin ;
Daniel, "who m. Jane Blanchard ; Cornelia, who
m. Thomas Glover; lluldab; and Nathan,
who d. in the War oi 181.
Daniel'' and his
wife Jane had twelve children, namely: Jane,
b. in 1804, who m. Amos Whitney; Webster,
who m. Abbie Dinsmore; Daniel, who m.
Elizabeth English; Ebenezer, whom. Abigail
Collins; Narcissa, who m. Nelson Green;
Tristram, who m. I\Iyra Glo\'er; Elizabeth,
whii ni. Joseph Bell; Jeremiah," the father of
Mrs. j(i\ce; Abigail, who m. George Nason ;
Almira, who m. John Johnson; Charlotte, who
m. William Colvin ; Samuel; and Grace, who
m. John H. T. Collins.
Mr. and Mrs. Joyce have three children.
The eldest, William Allston, born August 26,
1876, was educated in the public schools. He
is now a civil engineer and draughtsman with the
Boston Iron and Steel Compan\', and resides in
Medford. October 31, igoo, he married Maud
Isabelle Dyke, daughter of Oscar F. and Ellen
F. (Berry) Dyke. The second, Fred Gurdjian,
born December 10, 1880, was educated in the
public schools of Medford, including the high
school, and is now with the Brown & Sharpe
Manufacturing Company, Providence, R.I.
The third and youngest, Herbert Perkins, born
December 12, 1885, is now in the high
school.
ENRV EDWARD WAITE was
born at North Brookfield, Mass.,
January 20, 1845, .son of Otis and
Polly (Johnson) Waite. Entering
the high school of his native town at thirteen
years of age, he giadnated with high standing
in his class, was appointed to a position in the
custom-house at l-ioston, and the following
year became book-keeper in the wholesale
house of Burr I^rothers S: Co., of Boston,
where he remained until 1869, then going
South as treasurer of the Alabama & Chatta-
nooga Railroad Company. In 1877 he began
the development and introduction of the pres-
ent successful postal machines, and for the
past twelve years has been treasurer of The
American Postal Machines Company at Boston.
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He married Ellen Ingcrsoll Broughton,
daughter of Captain Nicholson and Nancy
Harris (Hooper) Broughton, of Marblehead ;
and for more than thirty years has resided in
West Newton, Mass., employing his leisure
moments in historical pursuits.
Painstaking genealogical research in printed
histories and other records has disclosed a line
of descent reaching back from this family, the
present generation of Waites, to such ancient
historical personages as Pharamond, first king
of the Franks (d. 427) ; Theodomir, king of
the Ostro Goths (d. 475); Merove, king of
the Franks and ancestor of the Merovingian
kings of France (d. 456) ; the famous Charles
Martel, who, by his great victory over the Sar-
acens in 732, forever arrested their further
progress in Western Europe; his celebrated
grandson Charlemagne, from whom descent is
traced by more than one line; Louis I. (le
debonnaire), king of France; Egbert, first
king of England (d. S38) ; King Alfred the
Great, of England (d. 901); and many other
worth)' or illustrious ]XJtentates of the Old
World. Among the earliest American ances-
tors of Henry Edward Waite were William
Brewster, whom Savage calls "the most glori-
ous of the 'Mayflower' passengers," and
Roger Williams, "the first legislator in the
world that provided for and established an
absolute liberty of conscience."
The first direct progenitor of this branch of
the Waite family in America was Richard'
Waite, of Watertown, b. 1608, d. 1669, a
proprietor in if>37 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-
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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
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"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<Si2; captured by the
British and im)5risoned at Dartmoor; afterward
master of vessels sailing frnni Marblehead to
foreign countries. Norman, b. 1794, was lost
at sea in 1S25. Glover, b. in 1796, was with
his brother John a ]")rivateer, and imijrisoned at
Dartmoor; was in later life Town Clerk of
Marblehead; d. 1869. (See sketch of the
Broughton family, Xi-w liiti^laud Historical and
Genealogical Register for July, 18S3; also
"Origin of the American Navy.")
The following shows Mrs. W'aite's Sprague
line of ancestry, alluded to above: Ralph
.S|3rague, son of Edward,' m. Joan, daughter of
Richard Warren, of Fordington, County Dor-
set, England ; was Constable, Ca]itain, Repre-
sentative; d. 1650. His son John,' b. in
England, of Maiden 1653, m. 1651 I^ydia,
daughter of Edmund Goffe, of Cambridge; d.
1692; Representative and Captain. Their
daughter Deborah m. Samuel Bucknam, of
Maiden, and was mother of Deborah Bucknam,
b. at Maiden 1714, who m. William-^ Waite
(Samuel,''"' John,- Samuel,' of Wethersfield,
County Esse.x, England), b. at Maiden 1712,
removed to Marblehead. \\'illiam' and Debo-
rah (Bucknam) Waite were parents of Deborah
Waite, m. 1769 Captain NatlianicT' Leach
(Richard, 5 Samuel, < John,' Richai"d,- Law-
rence,' of .Salem 1629), commander of schooner
■'Polly," a privateer, who was lost at sea .Seji-
tembcr, 1776. They were paients of Poll}-,
who 111. 1793 Nathaniel' Pfooper (Robert,-' Na-
thaniel,' Plenry,- Roliert, ' of Marblehead), a
merchant of Marblehead, b. 1770, Mrs.
Waite's maternal grandfather.
The children of Henry Edward and Ellen
Ingerscll (Broughton) Waite are as follows:
Henry Ingersoll, born September 27, i86(S;
Pildward Broughton, born August 7, 1S71;
Amory Hooper, born P'ebruary 3, 1S73; Rob-
ert Nicholson, born April 23, 1874, died Jan-
uary 25, 1889; Elise Otis, born January- 3,
1877, died September 12, 1877; Eleanor John-
son, born September 25, 1879.
Plenr)' Ingersoll, educated in the public
schools of Newton and at PLirvard University;
one year in class of 1S93; an invalid. Ed-
ward Broughton, educated in the Newton
schools and Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, class of 1894; assistant at the Har-
vard College Observatory for several years;
instructor at the American School of Corre-
spondence. Amor)' Ploojier, educated in the
Newton schools, then with the American Loan
and Trust Company, Boston. He married
August 29, 1899, Alice P^rances, daughter of
Charles PI. Wade, of Maiden, Mass., and Chi-
cago, 111. Eleanor Johnson, educated in the
Newton schools and Lasell Seminar}'.
(P'or Glover, Hooper, and Leach ancestry,
and other ancestral lines referred to in this
sketch, see the chart entitled "P'ifty Genera-
tions, ..\.ix 420 to A. D. 1880," etc., published
by Rockwell & Churchill Press, Boston, 18S0,
in library of the New England Historic-Gene-
akigical .Society. )
HL SHEARER FAMILY. The early
history of this family in New England
is identified with that of the town of
Palmer, Plampden County, Mass. The first
person of this name on the records was James
Shearer, who in 1732 was one of the fifty-
se\'en petitioners to the General Court of the
Province for a grant of land for such considera-
tion as the court should judge reasonable, in
the Elbow Tract (as Palmer was then known),
where they were already settled. The com-
mittee's favorable report was accepted by the
Council in June, 1733, concurred in by the
Representatives, and consented to by Gov-
ernor Belcher. To James Shearer was granted
b)' virtue of this enactment "a hundred-acre
lot, including his improvements, to bound
northerly on the sawmill lot, and extend south-
erly so far as to include his improvements, and
other ways to make up his complement in
regular form." (See Temple's Plistory of
Palmer, especially chapters on "The Elbow
Tract Settlement, 1716-28"; and "The
Elbow Tract — a Plantation, 1726, 1752."
James Shearer was b. in 1687 in County
Antrim, Ireland, and was of Scottish and Irish
anccstr). He emigrated in 1720, and took up
his abode temporarily at L'nion, Tolland
County, Conn., whence in 1726 he came to the
lilbow Tract with the Nevins settlers. His
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farm was near the centre of the phmtation,
lying south of Deacon Sedgwick's and east of
Cedar Swamp Brook. His house was a large
one, and, being centrally located, was much
used for the business meetings of the proprie-
tors, and also for religious services before the
building of a house of worship. It was ap-
pointed, March 20, 1733-34, ^^ the place for
ordaining the Rev. John Harvey to the office
of minister, "unless," as the record sa}s, "the
Reverend Elders called to officiate in that work
shall see cause (if the weather permit) to do it
abroad or elsewhere." The history states that
the ordination was performed June 5, 1734, by
the delegates of the Reverend I'resb)'tery of
Lcndonderry upon a scaffold made up under a
great white oak-tree standing on the plain in
the east side of Cedar Swamp Meadow.
James' Shearer was a successful farmer, and
was active in political, social, and jcligious
affairs of the community. He d. in 1745 at
sixty-seven years of age. His wife, a native
of Ireland, d. in 1750 at the age of sevent)'-
five. The}- had three sons — John,-' James,
Jr.,- and W'illianr'.
John' .Shearer came with his parents to
Palmer. He settled on land in that part of
Brimfield near Palmer known as Three River
Village, which later became a part of the town
of Palmer. He was admitted an inhabitant in
1734 on Abel Curtis's right. He was active
in town affairs; and, though well along in
years at the time of the Revolution, he was one
of Captain Sjiear's minute-men who marched
from Palmer at the time of the Lexington
Alarm, April 19, 1775. On September 26,
1777, he became a Corporal of Lieutenant
Joshua Shaw's compan\- in Colonel Llisha
Porter's regiment from Palmer, which served
under General Gates. He took pait in the
battle of Saratoga, which led to the surrender
of General Burgoyne. He was m. and had ten
children — Joseph, John, Jr., William, Thomas,
David, Jonathan, Noah, Daniel, Jane, and
Betsey. He d. January 12, 1802, aged ninety-
two years.
John, Jr.,' son oi John' Shearer and his
wife, Jane, was b. March 22, 1746. Tlie
local records show that at the annual meeting,
March 22, 1774, of the district of Palmer, as
the place was then known, he was chosen one
of the hog reeves, and at the March meetinji of
1775 he was again chosen to the office. Dr.
Jonathan Shearer, one of his \-ounger brothers,
was the father of Dr. Marcus Shearer, who was
considered a very able medical practitioner in
the years of his professional activity, or from
about 1S25 to 1850. John* Shearer, Jr., m.
Januar}- 30, 1774, Miss Jane White. The\-
had five children — Patrick, Betsey, John,
Sail}', and Daniel.
John-* Shearer, the third John in direct line,
was b. in Palmer, November 6, 1783. He m.
Miss Chloe Baker, of Belchertown, Mass., a
daughter of Benjamin Baker, who was an earl)'
settler of Palmer and a Revolutionar)- soldier.
With his famih' he removei! to Ware, Mass.,
in 1823, Lind resided there until his death,
which occurred March 6, 1840. He had eight
children, five of whom snrx'ived him; namely,
Leonard Baker, James White, John Harris,
Daniel Lyman, and Eliza Ann.
Leonard Baker' Shearer, son of John
Shearer, third, was b. in Palmer, Mass., Jul)'
28, 1808, and d. i]i Chicago, 111., August 6,
1864. He removed with his father from Palmer
to Ware, and after his father's death he came
to Boston, seeking larger opportunities for
business usefulness. He soon established
himself in a small retail furniture business on
Blackstone Street, whei'e he remained some
years. He was ver)- successful in this vent-
ure, gradually increasing the volume of his
trade, and later taking as partners his brother,
Daniel Lyman Shearer, and John .Shearer
Paine. He established branch stores in New
York with James C. Jones under the firm name
of Shearer & Jones, in Chicago with William
W. Strong under the firm name of .Shearer,
Paine 8: Strong, and also in New (.)rleans
under the name of D. L. Shearer. During the
latter part of his life he resided in North Cam-
bridge, and was an active member of the little
mission church on Arlington Street which
afterward was joined to the North Avenue
Congregational C'huich.
He was first m. December 3, 1844, liv the
Re\'. John Woodbridge, toAliss l)oroth\' I'helps
Dickinson, of Hadle)', Mass. J5y this union
he had three children — Dora Eliza, Helen
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4t
Louisa, and William Leonard. Ho was m. a
second time, Juno 3, I1S57, to Miss Corinna
Adelaide Fisher, of New York, who without
issue survived him but a few years. His eldest
daughter, Dora Eliza Shearer, was m. to John
H. Appleton, a lawyer of Boston, March 30,
1880. She d. June 6, 1S86, leaving one child,
lithcl Dura Appleton, b. December 5, 18S1.
11 is second daughter, Helen Louisa Shearer,
m. William H. Emerson, of Cambridge, De-
cember 28, 1871, and has six children. His
son, William Leonard Shearer, is a member
and vice-president of the I'aine Furniture Com-
pany. He m. Miss Ella Harding, of Cam-
bridge, December 8, 1875, and has three chil-
dren : William l^eonard, Jr., b. September 24,
1877; Julia Louisa, b. May 29, 1880; and
Alice, b. September 24, 1884.
James White Shearer, another son of John
Shearer, third, wash, in Palmer, Mass., Octo-
ber 5, 1S13, and d. in Cambridge, Mass., April
2, 1883. He was associated at various times
with his brother, Leonard Baker Shearer, in
the furniture business, and with his brother,
John Harris Shearer, in railroad construction.
During the latter part of his life he resided
with his sister, Mrs. John Shearer I-'aine, at 6
Dana Street, Cambridge. He was unmarried.
John Harris Shearer, third son of John
Shearer, third, b. in Palmer, Se]5tember 3,
1817, was educated in the ]niblic schools of
Ware. At an early age he developed a great
liking for mechanics; and, after leaving
school, he determined to become a civil engi-
neer. He accordingly fitted himself for the
profession; and, upon moving U> 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. "
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 \Vins<ir's History
of Duxbur}-.
Isaac and P21izabeth Seaver (Soule) .Sweetser
had five children. The record is: John Fred-
erick, b. April 15, 1843, d. October 14, 1844;
Emily Seaver, b. May 14, 1845, d. August 8,
1858; Isaac Homer, b. September 3, 1846,
further mentioned below; ]'>ank 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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 i64<S. By the General Court he was ap-
pointed a member of the commission empowered
to hold court in Concord iov the )'ears 1639,
1641, and 1652. In Rfay, 1646, he was chosen
Captain of Concord's military company; and
the General Court in June, 1653, elected him
.Sergeant Major of the comjian}'. He remo\'ed
about 1660 to Lancaster and in 1672 to Gro-
ton. At the time of the Indian wars he was a
Major in the militia. He d. at Charlestown,
Mass., in April, 1676. He was thrice m.,
and he had seventeen children, nine sons and
eight daughters. All of his sons and five
daughters attained maturity, m., and left
issue.
His son .Samuel,' b. at Concord, January 31,
1639-40, m. on August 8, 1664, Abigail
Sherman, who was b. March 12, 164", daugh-
ter of the Rev. John and Mary (Launce) Sher-
man. A second marriage, contracted about
the year 1679, united Samuel W'illard with
Eunice, daughter of Edward T)iig. He d. at
I^oston, .September 12, 1707.
John-' Willard, son of Samuel and Abigail
Willard, was b. at Groton, Mass., September
S, 1673, and was graeluated at Harvard Col-
lege in 1690. He became a merchant, and
was ver\' ]irosperous for man}' years, but subse-
quently he "suffered much from the ill man-
agement of his partner in trade." lie was
also engaged in na\'igation. In the course of
time he acquired a considerable estate in land.
The necessities of his business obliged him to
travel much abroad. In 1700 he took u]i his
residence at Port I'loyal, Jamaica, now Ivings-
ton, where he d. in 1733. He m. Frances
Sherburne, of Jamaica, in 1703 or 1704. It is
believed that she survi\-ed her husband at
least ten x'ears.
Samuel' W'illard, son of John and Frances
W'illard, was b. at Kingston, Jamaica, in .Sep-
tember, about the vear 1705. He was sent to
Loston by his father at the age of seven to
obtain a New England education and be at the
same lime under the super\ision <t( his uncle,
Josiah W'illarcl, the .Secretar}' of the Province.
He was fittetl for college at the ]?oston Latin
.School, was admitted to Har\ard, and in due
course was graduated there in 1723. After
leaving college he spent two years at the home
of his parents. Then, having declined a so-
licitation to take orders in the Episcopal
church, being virtuallv a Congregational min-
ister (there being no Congregational society in
the inland), he returned to New luigland.
Ilere he devoted the next few )-ears to stud)'ing
for the church and to school teaching. He was
ordained at Piddeford, ^fe., on .Seijfember 30,
1730, and afterward became a zealous and
effective preacher. On October 29, 1730, he
was joined in matrimony whh his second
cousin, y\bigail Wright, b. Februai)- 19,
1707-8, daughter of Captain Samuel and Mary
(.Stevens) Wright, of .Sudbury, afterward of
Rutland. They had seven children. He d.
at Kittery, Me., October 25, 1741.
Joseiih' W'illard, son of the Rev. .Samuel
and Abigail Willard, b. at Piddeford, Decem-
ber 29, 173S, taught school for a period in
.Scarboro, Me., and assisted young seamen
in the study of navigation. .Subsequently he
prepared for college under the instruction of
Master MorIe\', of York, then entered Llar-
vard, and w'as graduated there in 1765. After
this he remained at Harvard as a resident grad-
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uate and a student of divinity. During his
divinity course he served in the capacity of
butler, and for six years in that of tutor, hav-
ing been elected to the office in 1766. In
November, 1772, he was ordained pastor of the
First Church in Beverly, Mass. An e.xem-
plary minister of the gospel, he was also a
patriotic American, and freely gave his ser-
vices on important committees connected with
the movement that culminated in the War of
Independence. He was one of the first sixty-
two members of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, which was incorporated in
17S0, its first corresponding secretary, one of
its earlier vice-presidents, and the contributor
of the first article in its memoirs. In 1781 he
was elected jjresident of Harvard College; and
he subsequently discharged the duties of that
office for twenty-three years, or till his death
in 1804, in a manner to reflect the highest
credit on the institution and to greatly advance
its interests. When the illustrious Washing-
ton in 1789, a few months after his first inau-
guration as Tresident of the United States,
made his second visit to Cambridge, the honor
of receiving him at Harvard fell to President
Willard. In 1774 he m. Mary .Sheafe, a
daughter of Jacob .Sheafe, of Portsmouth,
N. H., who is described as "a merchant of rare
sagacity and integrity."
-Sidney'' Willard, son of Josepli and Mary
Willard and the father of the subject of this
sketch, was Hancock Professor of Hebrew and
other Oriental languages at Harvard for twenty-
four years, and was second Mayor of Cam-
bridge.
The first of Professor Willard's two wives,
Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Asa and Joanna
(Heard) Andrews, of Ipswich, Mass., was the
mother of Joseph A. His second wife was
Hannah Staniford Heard, a native of I]3swich.
Their daughter, Hannah S., is the wife of
John Bartlett, of Cambridge, a sketch of
whose life also appears in this work.
Mary Sheafe, the wife of Mr. Joseph A.
Willard's i)aternal grandfather, was a daughter
of Jacob^ and Hannah (Seavey) .Sheafe, grand-
daughter of Sampson-' and Sarah (Walton)
Sheafe, and great-grand-daughter of .Sampson'
and Mehitable .Sheafe, Sampson' being a son
of Edmund- and Elizabeth (Cotton) Sheafe and
grandson of Edmund' and Elizabeth (Taylor)
Sheafe. Mr. Willard's maternal grandfather,
Asa' Andrews, was a son of Robert^ and Luc}'
(Bradstreet) Andrews, grandson of Robert' and
Deborah (Fry) Andrews, and great-grandson of
Thomas^ and Rebecca Andrews, Thomas- being
a son of Robert' and Grace Andrews. Luc)'
Bradstreet Andrews, the wife of his great-
grandfather, Robert^ y\ndrews, was a daughter
of Simon and Elizabeth (Capen) Bradstreet.
Her father was a son of John and .Sarah (Per-
kins) Bradstreet and grandson ot (Governor
Simon Bradstreet and his wife, Anne, daugh-
ter of Governor Thomas Dudley.
In his earlier years Mr. Willard was a ]nipi]
of Westford Academy. His education ended
with a period spent in a private school of Cam-
bridgeport, Mass., where one of his instructors
was Ralph Waldo Emerson, and another James
Freeman Clarke. At the age of fourteen he
went to sea in tlie capacity of a "hand before
the mast." During his first voyage, which
lasted from October to the following April,
he visited Jamaica, New Orleans, and .San
Domingo. Later he made many foreign
\'oyages. After eight years passed in sea-
faring he engaged in farming in Cambridge
(for his father who had resigned his professor-
ship at Harvard), and subsequently followed
that calling until 1845. In the following
year he was hired as a substitute for an absent
clerk in the clerks' offices of the Court of
Common Pleas in Boston. This engagement
was made for only one week, but he was re-
tained for nine years. In 1855 the Superior
Court for the County of Suffolk was created, to
which he was appointed assistant clerk. This
couit was abolished in 1S59 and the present
Superior Court created, to which he was ap-
pointed as clerk in 1865 on the death of his
predecessor; and he has since held that posi-
tion. For some time he has been the oldest
active official connected with the Court House,
and none other is held in higher esteem there.
Besides being a Free and Accepted Mason, he
has also membership in the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company.
Mr. Willard's wife, Penelope, wiiom he mar-
ried September 5, 1841, and who died June i,
GENEALOGY AND PERSONAL HISTORY
iiSgo, was a daughter of I'etcr and Penelope
(Mitchell) Cochran and a grand-daughter of
William and Mary (Morris) Cochran. Her
mother, lAirs. Penelope Mitchell Cochran, was
a daughter of Henry and Mary (13ethune)
Mitchell and grand-daughter, on the maternal
side, of George and Mary (Faneuil) Bethune.
Mary Faneuil was a daughter of Benjamin and
Mary (Cutler) Faneuil, and sister of Peter
Faneuil, of Faneuil Hall fame, they being
children of Benjamin and Anne (Bureau) Fan-
euil. Mrs. Cochran's maternal grandfather,
George Bethune, was a son of George Bethune,
Sr. , and his wife (whose maiden name was
Carey), and a grandson of David and Maigaret
(Wardlaw) Bethune.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard are the parents of si.x
children; namely, Elizabeth Ann, Edward
Augustus, Mary Mitchell, Penelope Frances,
Sidnc)' I-'aneuil, and Edith Gertrude. Eliza-
beth Ann, now deceased, married Henry F.
Coolidge, of Portland, Me. Edward A. mar-
ried Emma Harris, of Cambridge. Mary M.,
who died July lo, 1892, was the wife of Alvan
G. Clark, of Cambridge, the celebrated maker
of telescope lenses, and had four children —
Caroline, Alvan Willard, Elizabeth, and Mary
Theodora. Penelope I-'rances Willard married
Henry !•'. Coolidge after her sister's decease.
Caroline Clark is the wife of Charles R. East-
man. Elizabeth W. is the widow of the late
Richard Grogan, who was accidentally killed
by Mr. Eastman on Jul}' 4, 1900; and Mary
Theodora is the wife of Sumner R. Hollander.
■jt^dEAND OLMSTED LAMB, vice-
I ^^r president and secretary of the John
|b\ Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Boston, was born in Bev-
erly, December 20, 1850. He is the youngest
son of Samuel Tucker and Sarah Parkhurst
(Flagg) Lamb, his father a native of the town
of Charlton, Mass., and his mother of Beverly.
On both paternal and maternal sides he comes
of long lines of ancestry derived from early
settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
mainly of English origin, but with at least one
strain of Scottish blood.
Thomas Lamb, who arrived at Roxbury in
1630 and was made freeman in May, 1631,
was the founder of this branch of the Lamb
family in New England. His homestead was
situated between the meeting-house (the Rev.
John Eliot's) and Stony Brook. Thomas
Lamb was one of the si.x persons appointed in
1643 to collect the money pledged by the in-
habitants of the town as a perpetual charge
upon their estates for the support of a free
school, the Ro.xbury Latin School. These
rents were discontinued about a hundred years
later. Elizabeth, first wife of Thomas Lamb,
d. in 1639; and he m. in July, 1640, Dorothy
Harbittle, by whom he had one son, Caleb.
The descent of the subject of this sketch
from Thomas' Lamb is through his son
Abiel,- who m. and had several children;
Abiel, Jr.,' who m. Hannah Taylor, of Marl-
boro; Eben,^ who m. Anne Greene, of Leices-
ter; Ebeii, Jr. ,5 of Charlton, who m. Mary
White, and joined the Baptist church in 1776;
Dr. Dan,'" of Charlton, b. in 1779, who m.
Augusta Towne; and Samuel Tucker,' above
named, b. in July, 1S19, who m. in 1840
Sarah Parkhurst Flagg, of Beverly and Worces-
ter. Abiel Lamb was a soldier in King
Philip's War. As Corporal of a company
engaged in a scouring expedition in the fall of
1675, he had a narrow escape from being killed
by the Indians; and in December of that year,
as Lieutenant of Captain Johnson's Company,
he took part in the swamp fight at South
Kingston, R. I., in which Captain Johnson was
killed. Abiel Lamb, Jr., was one of thirty-
eight persons to whom the original Huguenot
settlers of Oxford, after repeated attacks from
the Indians, conveyed their twelve thousand
acres of land, comprising that township. In
1 72 1 Abiel Lamb, Jr., was dismissed from the
church at Framingham to form with others a
church at Oxford. Dr. Dan Lamb was for
many years a successful medical practitioner of
Charlton. He d. November 28, 1853, in the
seventy-fifth year of his age. His wife, Au-
gusta, was the daughter of General Salem and
Ruth (Moore) Towne, of Oxford, Mass. Her
father was a descendant in the sixth generation
of William Towne, who was living at Salem,
North F'ields, as early as 1640, removed
thence in 165 1 to Topsfield, and was the
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founder of tlie Essex County family of this
surname.
William Tuwne was m. in 1620, at the
church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, England,
to Johanna Blessing; and their six children,
born before they left England, were baptized in
that church. The line of descent of General
Salem Towne was : William,' the immigrant;
Jacob,' born in England, who m. Kate Sy-
monds, of Salem; Deacon John,' who m. Mary
Sn)ith, and settled at l-"raminghani, where he
was one of the first Selectmen, and afterward
removed to Oxford; Jonathan, ■• who in 1739
was chosen Deacon of the church at Oxford ;
Jacob, 5 who m. Mary, daughter of the Rev.
John and Esther (Whittle) Campbell, of Ox-
ford; Salem," b. November 23, 1746.
The Rev. John Campbell, a native of the
north of Scotland, came to New England in
171 7, and in 1721 was settled as pastor of the
church at Oxford, Mass. He d. May 25, 1761,
in the seventy-first year of his age. The in-
scription on his tombstone states that he was
"educated at Edinburgh and had the benefits of
honors of the University." For a long period
he was the most influential man in Oxford
in civil and social as well as religious affairs,
serving- often as legal adviser and as peace-
maker, as a physician and a judge. Of his
antecedents little is known. The visit paid to
him in 1768 by John Campbell, fourth Earl
of Eoudon, then governor of Virginia, and
journeying from New York to Boston, is con-
sidered a proof of their kinshi]?, which, it is
said. Lord Loudon declared on that occasion.
Some of his accomplishments indicated that he
was educated for the army. It is supposed that
he was a political refugee, and for that reason
never told his children about his early life.
A possible solution of the mystery is given in
a letter from Kilmarnock, Scotland, written in
1876 by a son of Colonel Campbell, then the
representative of the house of Loudoun, ex-
pressing the belief, with reasons therefor, that
the ]icv. John Campbell, of Oxford, was iden-
tical with Colonel John Campbell, of Shanks-
ton, Scotland, who disajjpeared from a family
history where the minutest details of all other
members are chronicled, jjolitical troubles
doubtless having caused him to flee the country.
The history of Oxford states that tlie Rev.
John Campbell of that town was m. P'ebruary
6, 1722, to Ester Whittle, of Boston, her name
in the record of publishment being Ester Whet-
ley. His daughter Mary, b. I'"ebruar\' 11,
1724, m. in 1743 Jacob Towne, a soldier in the
French War, who d. at Fort Edward in 1755.
Salem Towne, Sr. , son of Jacob and Mary
(Campbell) Towne, removed from Oxford to
Charlton shortly before the Revolution. On
April 20, 1775, responding to the alarm call,
he was on the way to Boston with the regiment
commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Leonard, of
Oxford. He was cjuartermaster, and thus
began his service in the Continental Army.
At the close of the war he was Major-general
of Massachusetts militia. He represented
the town in the State Legislature and in the
Constitutional Convention of 1780. He d.
July 22, 1825, at the age of seventy-nine
years. His wife was Ruth Moore, of Oxford.
Their children were: Pamelia; Elizabeth;
Ruth; Augusta, who m. Dr. Dan Lamb;
Salem, Jr. ; and Mercy.
Seven children were b. to Dr. Dan and Au-
gusta (Towne) Lamb; namely, Edward, Mary
A., Maria A., Sallie (who d. unmarried),
Samuel Tucker, Salem Towne, and William
Dan. Maria A., Samuel Tucker, and William
Dan are now living (1901). Edward m. Kate
Robinson, and had two children — Edward, Ji. ,
and William. Mar)' m. Colonel Samuel S[)urr,
and had a son Thomas Spurr, who was killed
at the battle of Antietam in 1864, and a daugh-
ter Louisa, who m. in 1S53 the H<jn. George
Frisbie Hoar, and d. leaving two children —
Mary and Rockwood. Maria A. Lamb ni.
Franklin Farnum, and had a daughter Louisa,
who m. George K. Dresser. Salem Towne
Lamb m. Elizabeth Whitney, of Boston, and
had three children — Henry, Augusta, and
Elizabeth. William Dan Lamb m. Caroline
Blanchard, and had two sons — William and
Fred.
Sarah Parkhurst Flagg, who m. in 1840
Samuel Tucker Lamb, was b. April 10, 1821,
daughter of Isaac, Jr., and Elizabeth (Wilson)
Flagg, and the youngest of a family of nine
children. Her father, Isaac Flagg, Jr.," was
a descendant in the sixth generation of Thomas
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117
Flagg, an inhabitant of W'atcitovvn, Massachu-
setts Bay Colony, as early as 1643, who was
the original American ancestor of the family.
He served as Selectman five years in the sev-
enties of that century, and d. in February,
1697-gS. The ancestral line was: Thomas';
John,- Constable and Tax Collector, b. 1643,
who m. Mary Gale; John, Jr.,^ who m. in
I 71 2 his second wife, Sarah Hager; Adonijah,-*
h. in 1 713, m. Mary Corey ; Isaac, ' of Weston,
b. 1749, m. in 1770 Sarah Parkhurst. Isaac,
Jr.,'" son of Isaac, 5 and the father of Sarah
Parkhurst Flagg, d. January 22, 1847. His
wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Wil-
son, d. May 8, 1864. She was b. in 1779,
being the eldest of five children of Thomas
Wilson by his second wife, Mary Hopkins, of
Reading, Mass. Thomas Wilson was b. at
Exeter, N. H., in 1744, son of Joshua^ and
Priscilla (Odlin) Wilson. Joshua, ■• b. in
1708, was a son of Deacon Thomas' and Mary
(Light) Wilson, grandson of Humphrey' and
Judith (Hersey) Wilson, and great-granclson of
Thomas' Wilson, who came from England in
1633 with his wife Ann and sons Humphrey,
Samuel, and Joshua, and settled at Roxbury,
where he was made freeman in May, 1634.
]5eing in sympathy with the Rev. John Wheel-
wright, who was banished for entertaining hete-
rodox opinions, he removed with him to Exe-
ter, N. H., where he was a signer of the Com-
bination or Compact for a government, and in
October, 1642, was elected Ruler or Chief of
the three magistrates.
Sarah Parkhurst, wife of Isaac Flagg, Sr. ,
was b. in September, 1747, daughter of Josiah'
Parkhurst, of Weston, who m. in 1735 Sarah,
daughter of Daniel and Sarah Carter. Josiah
Parkhurst was b. in February, 1706-7, son of
Deacon John^ and Abigail (Morse) Parkhurst,
of '"Watertown Farms," now Weston. Dea-
con John^ was a son of John,^ b. 1644, and his
wife Abigail Garfield, the preceding ancestors
being George, Jr.,' b. in England in 1618,
who m. first Sarah Browne and second, in
1650, May Pheza (or Veazie), and George'
Parkhurst, who came to this country with two
children, George, Jr., and Phebe, and m. in
Watertown. about 1645, Mrs. Susanna Simp-
son.
To Samuel Tucker and Sarah Parkhurst
Lamb were b. four sons : George B. ; Frank
H. ; Charles S. ; and Roland Olmsted, the sub-
ject of the present sketch.
Roland Olmsted Lamb, after receiving his
education in Beverly, was employed five years
as clerk in a manufacturing establishment in
Boston. In January, 1872, he entered the
office of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company as book-keeper. Promoted from
time to time, he has filled various positions of
trust in connection with this company, of
which he is now, as before mentioned, vice-
president and secretary. In politics he is a
Republican. He is an advanced Mason, be-
longing to Charity Lodge, F. & A. M. , of
Cambridge; St. Andrew's Chapter, R. A. M. ;
and De Molay Commandery, K. T. , of Boston.
Mr. Lamb and his family attend the Univer-
salist church. He has resided in Cambridge
since 1874.
Mr. Lamb was married December 17, 1874,
to Eliza A. James, daughter of Samuel and
Catherine A. B. (Shedd) James, of Cam-
bridge. Mrs. Lamb is a descendant of John'
James of Scituate, freeman in 1668, who mar-
ried in 1675 Lydia Turner, daughter of John
and Mary (Brewster)Turner, and grand-daughter
of Jonathan' and Lucretia (Oldham) Brewster.
Jonathan' Brewster came to New England
in the "Fortune" in 1621. He was the first-
born child of Elder William Brewster, who
came in the "Mayflower" in 1620. Jona-
than" was Deputy to the Plymouth General
Court five years. He removed from Plymouth
to Duxbury about 1630; and about 1649 ^^ 'C-
moved to Connecticut, settling where now is
located the thriving city of Norwich, and
dying there in 1659. He married in 1624 Lu-
cretia Oldham, of Darby, probably sister of
John Oldham, who came over in 1623. Mary
Brewster, his daughter, who was b. at Plym-
outh, April 16, 1627, married John Turner,
Sr. , in November, 1645.
John- James, b. in 1676, m. Eunice Stet-
son. Their son, Deacon John,' b. 1709, m.
in 1730 Rhoda King, daughter of George^
and Deborah (Briggs) King. Her father w-as
a son of Deacon Thomas' and Elizabeth
(Clapp) King, and grandson of Elder Thomas'
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King, of Scituate, 1634 or 1635. Deborah
]5riggs was a daughter of Captain John- Briggs,
and grand-daughter of Walter' Briggs, who
bought a farm in Scituate in 1651.
John-" James, born in 1731, son of John^ and
his wife Rhoda, was the third Deacon John.
He married Sarah Jacoljs in 1758; and their
children — born from 1759 to 1775 — were
Sarah, John, Hannah, George, Joseph' (next
in this line), and Charles. Joseph' James
m. Mary Robinson, daughter of Robert and
Lydia (Heath) Robinson, and resided in Ro,\-
bury, where their son Samuel'' (father of Mrs.
Lamb) was b. August 29, 1810.
Catherine Annerly Bangs Shedd, wife of
Samuel'' James, was b. September 2},, 1S23,
daughter of John and Catherine Annerly
Bangs. She was a grand-daughter of Caleb
Bangs, b. in 1761, anil his wife Catherine A.
Stone, b. in 1767.
Caleb was son of Nathaniel and Ruth (Lane)
liangs, and grandson of David Bangs, whose
wife was a Stone. Ruth Lane was b. at Hing-
ham in 1734, daughter of Jonathan-' and Abi-
gail (Andrews) Lane. Her descent from
William' Lane, who was a resident of Dor-
chester in 1635, was through Andrew- who
settled at Hingham in September, 1635, and
Andrew,' who married Elizabeth, daughter of
Mark Eames, and was the father of Jonathan, ^
b. 1685, who m. Abigail Andrews, above men-
tioned.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland O. Lamb have one
child, Augustus Clark Lamb, who was born at
Cambridge, December 16, 1875. He was ed-
ucated in the public schools of Cambridge and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where in 1897 he was graduated as chemical
engineer. He was married April 30, 1901, to
Efifie Brook Armstrong, daughter of Charles
Armstrong, of London, England, and his wife
Julia Brook Armstrong, of Ryde, Isle of
Wight, England.
ENRY BARRETT, late of the firm of
Barrett & Brother, of Somerville,
was a native and lifelong resident of
Maiden. He was the second and
for many years the eldest surviving son of
William and Mary Keizar (Hall) Barrett and
a descendant in the se\'enth generation of
Humphrey Barrett, who settled at Concord in
1640, and was the founder of the family in
New England. The line was: Humphrey,'
b. in England in 1592, d. at Concord in 1662;
Humphrey, Jr.,-b. in P2ngland in 1630, d. in
January, 1715-6; Benjamin,' b. in 16.S1 at
Concord, d. in 1728; Colonel James, ■* b. in
1 7 10, d. in 1779; Colonel Nathan,' b. in
1735, d. in 1791; William," b. in 1775, d.
in 1834; Henry,' b. October [9, 1S07, d. De-
cember 23, 1892.
Humphrey' Barrett came to this country
accompanied by his wife, Mary, and three
sons. Humphre}', Jr.,- m. for his first wife
Elizabeth Paine. His second wife, whom he
m. in March, 1674-5, ^^-^s Mary Potter,
daughter of Luke" and Mary (P^dmunds) Pot-
ter, of Concord. Benjamin' Barrett m. in
January, 1704-5, Lydia Minott, daughter of
James' and Rebecca (Wheeler) Minott, her
mother being the daughter of Captain Timothy
Wheeler. James' Minott was a son of Cap-
tain John- and Lydia (Butler) Minott and
grandson of George' and Martha Minott, of
Concord. The parents of Lydia Butler were
Nicholas Butler and his wife, Joice.
James-' Barrett, named doubtless for his
maternal grandfather, was a patriotic and influ-
ential citizen of Concord in the Revolution-
ary times. He was appointed to su]5erintend
the military stores at Concord and to aid in
their manufacture and collection. He was
commissioned Colonel, and was in command at
the North Bridge on A]iril 19, 1775; was
Representative to the General Court fron-i 1768
to 1777 ; was a delegate to a number of county
and State conventions and to each of the
Provincial Congresses. He served as muster
master of troojjs. He m. December 21, 1732,
Rebecca Hubbard, who was b. July 11, 1717,
at Concord, and d. October 18, 1806. She
was a daughter of Captain Joseph Hubbard and
his wife, Rebecca I^ulkeley, daughter of Cap-
tain Joseph and Rebecca (Jones Minott) Bulke-
ley. Her father was a son of Jonathan- Hub-
bard, who ni. in March, 1 68 1-2, Hannah,
(laughter of .Samuel and Elizabeth (King)
Rice. Jonathan- Hubbard was b. in 1659, son
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of loliii and Mary (Mcrriam) Hubbard, who
lived in Hartford, Conn. Captain Joseph
Ikilkeley was a descendant of the Rev. Peter'
Bulkeley, first minister of Concord. Colonel
Nathan Barrett, son of Colonel James, m. in
1760 Miriam Hunt, b. in 1741, daughter of
.Simon and Mary (Ra)^mond) Hunt.
William Barrett, son of Colonel Nathan and
his wife, Miriam, was the ninth in a family of
si.\teen children. He began his life work by
serving an apprenticeship for a term of years
with a clothier, Mr. Minot, of Billerica, learn-
ing the dyer's trade. Fie then engaged with
an Englishman named Thompson, the proprie-
tor of a small dyeing establishment in Charles-
town, and after gaining further experience he
bought an interest in the business. Mr.
I'hompson being a person of unsteady habits,
the connection proved an undesirable one; and
Mr. Barrett in 1S04 started for himself, es-
tablishing the dye works in Maiden long known
by his name. About the year 1808 he went
into partnership with Meshach -Shattuck, the
hrm name being Barrett & Shattuck. After
the death of Mr. Shattuck, in December, 181 i,
Mr. Barrett carried on the business alone.
His buildings, which were of wood, were all
burned in 18 16, and he immediately replaced
them by larger and more substantial ones of
brick. He was a pub!ics])irited man, and
lent willing aid to movements adapted to bene-
fit the town. He d. November 15, 1834.
William Barrett was m. February 12, 1804,
to Mary Keizar Hall, daughter of Moses and
Martha (Sprague) Hall. Moses Hall, her
father, was b. in 1750, son of John-" and Mary
(Keizar) Hall and a descendant of John' Hall,
the immigrant ancestor of the Medford family
of Hall. The line was John,'"'^-"-* Moses'.
John' Hall was b. in England in 1627, and d.
in Medford, Mass., in 1701. His mother was
the widow Mary Hall, of Cambridge. John
Hall m. in 1656 Elizabeth, daughter of Per-
cival and Ellen Green, of Cambridge. John-
Hall, b. in 1660 at Concord, where his father
lesided for a few years before removing to
Medford, m. Jemima, daughter of Captain Jo-
seph Sill. John' Hall, b. in i6go, m. Eliz-
abeth Walker, daughter of Timothy and Eliza-
beth (Eowle) Walker and grand-daughter of
Deacon Samuel' and Sarah (Read) Walker,
Deacon Samuel' being son of Captain Samuel
and grandson of Richard' Walker, who settled
at Lynn, Mass., in 1630. John Hall-" m. in
1746 Mary Keizar. He was a farmer in Med-
ford.
Twelve children were b. to \^'illiam and
Mary K. (Hall) Barrett. Two d. in infancy;
and one, the eldest son, William, Jr., d. in
his thirty-third year. The other nine, who
grew to maturity, were: Henry, the special
subject of this sketch, whose personal history
is outlined below; Caroline, b. in 1809, who
m. in 1833 Caleb S. Winslow; Simon Hall,
who m. in 1S36 Mary A. Pratt; Augustus
Ludlow, who m. in 1845 Hi^len M. Whit-
man; Aaron, who m. in 1841 Lucinda W.
Bean; Mary Hall, b. in 1816 who m. in 1S39
the Rev. John Greenleaf Adams, D. D., and d.
December 5, i860; Louisa B., who m. in
1841 Edwin H. Hall; Elizabeth, who m.
Charles Eastman; and Augusta M., b. Decem-
ber 28, 1823, who m. December 25, 1844,
William H. Richardson. The Rev. John
Coleman Adams, D. D. , of New York City,
it may be mentioned, is the son of the late
Rev. Dr. John G. and Mary H. (Barrett)
Adams.
Henry Barrett, after the death of his father,
continued to carry on the dyeing business at
Maiden in company with his brothers, Will-
iam, Jr., and Simon H., and Henry Jaques,
until the death of his brother William, about
four years later. The firm as then reorgan-
ized, consisting of Mr. Henry Barrett and his
brothers, Simon H., Augustus L. , and Aaron,
conducted the business till 1S44, when Simon
H. and Augustus L. relinquished their inter-
ests to Mr. Barrett and his brother Aaron,
who continued it till the death of Aaron in
1878, when Mr. Barrett was left in sole
charge. A few years later ho admitted his
son, Richard S. , to partnership, and eventu-
ally passed over to him the management of the
business. In 1882 the Barrett dye works were
removed from Maiden to their present location
in Somerville. Mr. Barrett was interested in
the welfare and advancement of the city of
Maiden, but held no political office. For sev-
eral years he was president of the Middlesex
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Savings Bank. He was first married in Sep-
tember, 1X35, to Miss Louisa Brown, daughter
of Nathan and Susanna (Barrett) Brown. She
died in July, 1S38. He married February
25, 1 84 1, Hannah Rebecca Hudson, who died
in 1S44. Slie was the mother of one son,
Henry Hudson, born in November, 1841, who
died December i, 1S43. Mr. Barrett was mar-
ried January 19, 1848, to his third wife, Lucy
Theodora Gellineau Stearns, who survives him.
She was born ]\Lay 27, 1824, daughter of Rich-
ard Sprague and Mary Ann Theresa (St.
Agnan) Stearns.
Mrs. Barrett's paternal grandmother, whose
name before maniagc was Sarah White
Sprague, was a daughter of Joseiiji and I-Lliza-
beth (White) Sprague and grand-daughter on
the maternal side of Colonel James and Sarah
(Bailey) White. She married, December 9,
17S1, Dr. William Stearns, who graduated at
Harvard in the class of 1776, and who studied
medicine with Joshua ]^rackett, M.I)., of
Portsmouth, N. LL Sarah Bailey, above men-
tioned, was a daughter M Dr. Joshua' and I^liz-
abeth (Johnson) Bailey. Her father was a son
of the Rev. Jamcs^ Bailey andgi'andson of John'
fiailey, Jr., whose father, John' Bailey, came
from Chippenham, England. John' ]5ailey was
shipwrecked at Pemaquid, now l^ristul. Me.,
August 15, 1635. He went to .Sali.sbur}', and
thence in 1650 to Newbury, where he dieil
November 2, 1651. Mrs. Lucy T. G. Barrett
was one of three children. She has one
brother now living, William St. Agnan
Stearns, b. in 1822, graduated at Harvard
College in 1841, now a lawyer of prominence
in ]3(iston.
h'ive children were born to Henry and Lucy
T. G. (Stearns) Barrett, and four are now
living; namely, Lilly St. Agnan, Harry
Hudson, Richard Stearns, and Caroline
Stearns. Lilly St. Agnan, born at Maiden,
December 21, 1848, married A]iril 16, 1874,
the Rev. George I'utnam Huntington, son of
Bishop Frederick D. and Hannah (Sargent)
Huntington. They have six children: Henry
Barrett, born January 17, 1875; Constant
Davis, born September 20, 1S76; James Lin-
coln, born March 30, 1880; Paul St. Agnan,
born August 26, 1882; Catherine Sargent,
born December, 1SS9; F'rederick Dan, born
in December, 1891. Harry Hudson ]5arrett,
born in Maiden, March 10, 185 1, was gradu-
ated at Harvard College in 1874, married
Alice Morse Wadell, daughter of Robert and
Mary Caroline (Simpson) Wadell. He has no
children. Richard Stearns Barrett was born in
Maiden, May 2, 1854. He married June 30,
1879, Ella ALirtha Devens, daughter of George
A. and Martha S. (Penniman) Devens. They
have three children: Richard Devens, born
September 26, iSSo; Theresa St. Agnan, born
July 29, 1885; Theodore Adams, born October
28, 1889. Caroline Stearns Barrett, born in
Maiden, July 24, i860, married November 9,
1899, Howard Elliott Littlefield, son of Oliver
l^arron and Helena (Storor) Littlefield, of Port-
land, Me. The)' ha\e no children.
IIARLES GRANVH.LE WAY, a
real estate dealer of ]5oston and a resi-
dent of Brookline, AL\ss. , is a de-
scendant in the ninth generation
Iroiu his Puritan progenitor in America,
llcni}' Way, who wrote his name "I'lenrie
Wa}e, " the form being that known in liwg-
land for six centuries before his time. Dur-
ing the si.xteenth century the name was borne
b)' many families in the counties of Devon,
Dorset, and .Somerset.
Henry' Way was b. in England in 1583.
In 1630, with his wife, Elizabeth, anil all of
their children, he came to this country on
board the ship "Mary and John." He was
one of the first settlers of Dorchester, Mass.,
where he d. in 1667, hax'ing sur\'ived his wife
about two years.
George' Way, son of Henry, the I'uiitan,
and also a native of England, resitled in lk)s-
ton for a time, and there owned property. A
follower of Roger Williams, though not of the
original twelve, he settled in Rhode Island in
the year 1657. After the burning of Provi-
dence he removed to Sa)-brook, Conn., where
he d. about the year 1690. His wife, Eliza-
beth, was a daughter of John and Johannah
Smith. Their son, Thomas' Way, of New
London, Conn., b. in Rhode Island, followed
the occupation of farmer, m. Ann, daughter of
>c!*lE ^ws.
c. (;kan\'ille WAV.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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: —
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'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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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-
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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
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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 
