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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 VOLUME XXV 
 
 CONTAINING LIFE SKETCHES OF LEADING CITIZENS OF 
 
 NORFOLK COUNTY 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 "Biography is tlie home aspect of history" 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 Biographical Review Publishing Company 
 
 1898
 
 ATLANTIC STATES SERIES OF BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS. 
 
 The volumes issued in this series up to date are the following: 
 
 I. Otseijo County, New York. 
 
 II. Madison County, New York. 
 
 III. Broo.me County, New York. 
 
 IV. CoLU.MBiA County, New York. 
 V. Cayuoa County, New York. 
 
 VI. Delaware County, New York. 
 
 VII. Livingston and Wyoming Counties, 
 New York. 
 
 VIII. Clinton and Essex Counties, New York. 
 
 IX. Hampden County, Massachusetts. 
 
 X. Franklin County, Massachusetts. 
 
 XI. Hampshire County, Massachusetts. 
 
 XII. Litchfield County, Connecticut. 
 
 XIII. York County, Maine. 
 
 XIV. Cumberland County, Maine. 
 
 XV. Oxford and Franklin Counties, 
 Maine. 
 
 XVI. Cumberland County, New Jersey. 
 XVII. Rockingham County, New Hampshire. 
 XVIII. Plymouth County, -Massachusetts. 
 XIX. Camden and Burlington Counties, 
 New Jersey. 
 XX. Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, and 
 Waldo Counties, Maine. 
 XXI. Strafford and Belknap Counties, 
 
 New Hampshire. 
 XXII. Sullivan and Merrimack Counties, 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 XXIII. Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties, 
 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 XXIV. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 XXV. Norfolk County, Massachusetts. 
 
 Note. — .'Vll the biographical sketches published in this volume were submitted to their respective subjects or to the sub- 
 scribers, from wliom the facts were primarily obtained, for their approval or correction before going to press ; and a reasonable 
 time was allowed in each case for the return of the typewritten copies. Most of them were returned to us within the time allotted, 
 or before the work was printed, after being corrected or revised ; and these may therefore be regarded as reasonably accurate. 
 
 A few, however, were not returned to us ; and, as we have no means of knowing whether they contain errors or not, we 
 cannot vouch for their accuracy. In justice to our readers, and to render this work more valuable for reference purposes, we have 
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 PREFACE. 
 
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 of Norfolk, Massachusetts, having met witli favor, being cordially seconded by 
 a goodly array of Norfolk worthies, we have pushed forward the work to its 
 completion, with what success will appear on examination of these printed pages. 
 
 The last quarter of the century now drawing to its close has been notably, from 
 the Centennial Exhibition of 1S76 to the recent celebration of the one hundredth 
 anniversary of the Bultinch State House, an "age of retrospection," a period of com- 
 memoration of the founders and the preservers of nation and Commonwealth. This 
 fact, together with the concurrent rise of the historic-patriotic orders and the growing 
 interest in the study of family history and genealogy, marks a taste and need of the 
 times which the writer of up-to-date biographies cannot afford to ignore. Moreover, 
 in view of the transmission of personal qualities from one generation to another in 
 unending succession, the setting forth of long lines of ancestry, besides "extending the 
 perspective of individual lives and by its revelation of kinship widening the realm 
 of sympathy," has come to be recognized as having a scientific bearing of no little 
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 previous issues, devoted considerable space to copious extracts from family registers 
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 February, 189S. 
 
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 GEORGE L. GILL.
 
 BIOGRAPHIGAL. 
 
 'KORGK LKWIS GILL, for 
 more than half a century one 
 of the most esteemed and 
 trusted citizens of Quincy, 
 Norfolk County, Mass., 
 noted for his strict integ- 
 rity, benevolence of spirit, 
 and unobtrusive deeds of 
 human helpfulness, v/as a 
 native of Hingham, Plym- 
 outh County, this State. Born December 20, 
 1823, son of Caleb Gill and the descendant of 
 early settlers of that place, he died on Decem- 
 ber 16, 1895, when he had nearly completed 
 his seventy-second year. 
 
 Thomas Gill, the emigrant ancestor of the 
 Gill family of Hingham, was born in the 
 county of Devonshire, England, probably in 
 the town of Barnstable, about 1616. He 
 must have been young when he crossed the 
 ocean, as the early records sliovv that Thomas 
 Gill received a grant of five acres of land in 
 Hingham in 1635. ^'o'' several years he 
 served as one of the Selectmen chosen "to 
 order the prudential affairs of the new town." 
 He met his death by drowning, February 
 24, 1704-5, while sailing toward Boston. 
 His wife, Hannah Otis, was a daughter of 
 John Otis, who was born in Barnstable, 
 Devonshire, England, in 1581, and was the 
 founder of the family to which the noted pa- 
 triot and orator, James Otis, belonged. John 
 Otis died in Weymouth, May 31, 1657, leav- 
 ing to his daughter, Hannah Otis Gill, "two 
 feather bolsters, one rugg, a cotton blanket, 
 and his biggest brass kettle"; and to his 
 grandson, Thomas Gill, Jr., one of the eleven 
 children of Thomas and Hannah, a musket. 
 
 Thomas Gill, Jr., was born in Hingham, 
 March 8, 1648-9, and died in that town, Sep- 
 tember 3, 1725. He was Selectman for sev- 
 
 eral years. His wife, Susanna Wilson, was 
 born in Hingham, where on December 31, 
 1673, they were married; and she died there 
 December 2g, 1725. They had six chikhcn. 
 Nathaniel, their first-born, the ne.xt in line of 
 I descent, spent his entire life in Hingham, the 
 j date of his birth being Dcceml^er 31, 1674, 
 and that of his death, April 4, 1734. He- 
 served in various ofificial capacities. On Au- 
 gust 15, 1705, he marrietl Abigail, daughter 
 of John and Mary (Russell) Jacobs. She was 
 born in Hingham, November 13, 1683, and 
 died April 30, 1749, having borne her hus- 
 band five children. 
 
 Nathaniel Gill, second son of Natlianicl 
 and Abigail, born November i, 17 10, died 
 February 12, 1762. He married December 
 23, 1 73 1, Hannah, daughter of Caleb and 
 Ruth (Hersey) Beal, and reared nine children, 
 Nathaniel, third, being the fifth in this line. 
 He was bm-n January 3, 1742-3, and li\-ed in 
 Hingham until his demise, /Xugust 22, 1 8 1 S, 
 a few weeks after the death of his wife, which 
 occurred July 13, 1818. Her niaitlcn name 
 was Sarah Beal. She was born A])ril 14, 
 1743, a daughter of John and Deliverance 
 (Porter) Beal, and was married November 26, 
 1767. They had three sons and three daugh- 
 ters, Caleb, their second son, being the 
 grandfather of George Lewis Gill. 
 
 Caleb Gill was born in Hingham, August 
 14, 1774, and married October 21, 179S, Caty 
 Beal, who was born in Hingham, October 17, 
 1779, and died there May 12, 1859. Her par- 
 ents were Elijah and Caty (Lewis) Beal, both 
 of English origin, her father having been a 
 great-great-grandson of John Beal, who came 
 from the parish of Hingham, England, to 
 Hingham, Mass., in 1638, and died there in 
 1688, aged one hundred years: while her 
 mother, Caty Lewis, was a descendant in the
 
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 fourth generation of George Lewis, who emi- 
 grated from East Greenwich, county of Kent, 
 England, to I^lymouth, about 1633. Caleb 
 Gill was a silversmith by trade, and was quite 
 influential in public affairs, serving as Se- 
 lectman and in other offices. He died July i, 
 1855, leaving three sons, the eldest being 
 Caleb, Jr., the father of George Lewis. 
 
 Caleb Gill, Jr., was born in Hingham, Au- 
 gust 23, 1799, and on December 8, 1822, mar- 
 ried Charlotte Howard, who was born in West 
 Cambridge, Mass., January i, 1S02, daughter 
 of I^eter and Betsey (Davis) Howard. He 
 held many positions of trust in his native 
 town during the earlier years of his life, living 
 in Hingham until 1838, when he removed to 
 Ouincy, where he made his home eight years. 
 In 1846 he settled in Boston; but he subse- 
 quently returned to Hingham, and lived there 
 until his death, July 22, 1869. His wife and 
 two sons — George Lewis and Edwin Howard 
 — -survived him. Mrs. Gill, whose last years 
 were spent with her elder son, died in Ouincy, 
 February 10, 1888. Edwin Howard Gill, the 
 younger son, who was born in Hingham, July 
 26, 1825, resides in Boston. He married on 
 October i, 1848, Miss Sarah J. Roulston. 
 They have one son, Arthur E. , of West New- 
 ton. 
 
 George Lewis Gill completed his education 
 at the Derby Academy, where he was a class- 
 mate of Horace B. .Spear, with whom he was 
 afterward closely associated both in business 
 and social life. In 1838 he cam.e with his 
 parents to Ouincy, and, entering into business 
 with his father, assisted him in the book- 
 bindery and also in the book and stationery 
 store, and the circulating library, which the 
 father had established. When the father re- 
 moved to Boston, the bindery, being no longer 
 profitable, was abandoned; but the store was 
 continued by Mr. Gill, who added quite a 
 stock of merchandise, continuing the business 
 until 1868. He then entered the National 
 Granite Bank and the Ouincy Savings Bank as 
 an assistant to Mr. Horace B. Spear, who was 
 then conducting both institutions in the build- 
 ing at the corner of Saville and Hancock 
 Streets. In 1871 the banks were separated, 
 and Mr. Gill was elected treasurer of the 
 Quincy Savings Bank, a position which he 
 
 filled most creditably to himself and to the 
 satisfaction of all concerned, until his death, 
 a period of nearly twenty-five years. During 
 his connection with the bank it was ever in a 
 prosperous condition; and its deposits were 
 increased from half a million dollars to up- 
 ward of two millions, a notable record. 
 
 Mr. Gill was elected Town Clerk, March 4, 
 1850, and with the exception of four years, 
 from 1856 until i860, served in the same po- 
 sition until the inauguration of the city gov- 
 ernment in i88g, when he was urgently re- 
 quested by the new Mayor to continue as City 
 Clerk, but felt obliged to decline. Although 
 he was a stanch Republican in his political 
 affiliations, the confidence of all parties in his 
 integrity and ability was such that he received 
 the majority of votes of each organization in 
 the annual elections for clerk of the town. 
 He was a member of the School Committee in 
 1855; but, finding that he had not time to at- 
 tend to the duties of that office as he would 
 like to do, he refused a re-election the follow- 
 ing year. He was one of the managers of the 
 Woodward Fund from 1869 to 1894 and of 
 the public burial-places from 1874 till 1895. 
 He took great interest in Mount Wollaston 
 Cemetery, contributing much time and thought 
 to the improvement of that beautiful resting- 
 place of the dead: but his body was not in- 
 terred there, he having made arrangements 
 earlier in life to be buried beside his ances- 
 tors in Hingham. 
 
 Mr. Gill was a Representative to the .State 
 legislature in 1856 and again in 1867. He 
 was appointed Postmaster of Quincy by Presi- 
 dent Lincoln in 1861, and served until re- 
 moved by the succeeding President, Andrew 
 Johnson, in 1866. Appointed Justice of the 
 Peace in 1859 by Governor Banks, and in 
 1885 made Notary Public by Governor Robin- 
 son, he held both offices until his demise. 
 He was likewise at the time of his death a di- 
 rector of the Ouincy Mutual Fire Insurance 
 Company. He was made a Mason in Rural 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., in 1850, and was for a 
 number of years treasurer of Mount Wollaston 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F., which he joined many 
 years ago, and was one of its trustees until his 
 decease. 
 
 On October 11, 1846, Mr, Gill married
 
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 II 
 
 Lucretia Ann liurrcU, who was born in 
 Ouincy, Mass., December ii, 1S19, a daugh- 
 ter of Jo.sei)h and Lucretia (Marsli) Burreil. 
 Her mother was a daughter of Wilson and 
 Susanna (Savil) Marsh, and a direct descend- 
 ant of Alexander Marsh, who emigrated from 
 England to this country, settled in Ouincy in 
 1650, and died here March 7, 1697 or 1698. 
 He became an extensive land-owner, his 
 large farm including what is now Hall Cem- 
 etery and much of the adjoining land. 
 Alexander Marsh married Mary Belcher, 
 daughter of Gregory Belcher, who on Septem- 
 ber 17, 1639, was one of six persons to sign 
 the covenant for a church at Mount Wollaston, 
 the first church of Ouincy, an organization 
 with which the family of Mrs. Gill has been 
 ever since connected. Mr. Gill was a con- 
 stant attendant of this church and an active 
 worker in the Sunday-school. The house 
 now occupied by Mrs. Gill was erected by Mr. 
 Gill soon after their marriage; and here were 
 born their three children, two of whom died 
 "while life and love were new." Walter 
 George, their third child, born December 25, 
 1852, died February 28, 1879. 
 
 [^ATHANIEL SMITH, a civil engineer, 
 living on Maple Place in Dedham, is 
 
 Us V probably the oldest man in his pro- 
 
 fession in Norfolk County, and one 
 of the best known in the Commonwealth. He 
 was born in Dedham, February 27, 1S27, 
 being the third native of the town in continu- 
 ous descent to bear this name. His paternal 
 grandfather, the first of the three Nathaniels, 
 although not the earliest Nathaniel Smith in 
 ]3edham, succeeded to the occupation in which 
 he was reared, becoming one of the well-to-do 
 farmers of the town. 
 
 Nathaniel Smith, second son of the above 
 named, was one of a large family of children, 
 and with his brothers and sisters grew to ma- 
 ture years on the old homestead. He acquired 
 a good education, and in the earlier part of his 
 mature life he taught school several years. 
 He subsequently settled on the old family 
 homestead near the village of Dedham, where 
 he was engaged in tilling the soil until his 
 death at the age of seventy-three years. He 
 
 married, May 6, 182 1, Betsey Foord, a daugh- 
 ter of James Foord, and one of a family of 
 fourteen children. Mr. Foord was born in 
 Milton, Mass., but sjjent a large part of his 
 life in Dedham, where about 1800 he was 
 appointed Registrar of Deeds for Norfolk 
 County, being the second to hold that office. 
 He held the position until his death, and was 
 then succeeded by his son, luios Foord, an 
 uncle of Mr. Smith, the subject of this sketch. 
 Enos Foord was, in turn, succeeded at his 
 death by his son, James Foord, a cousin of 
 Mr. Smith; and, on the resignation of James 
 Foord in 1870, John H. Burdakin, Mr. 
 Smith's son-in-law, was ai)pointed to the 
 office, which he still retains. Three children 
 were born to Nathaniel and Betsey (Foord) 
 -Smith, and two of them are still living, 
 namely: Nathaniel, third; and Emily S. — 
 both residents of Dedham. The father and 
 mother were of the liberal type of Christians, 
 affiliating with the Unitarian church. 
 
 Nathaniel Smith, third, was reared on the 
 home farm, obtaining a practical education in 
 the common schools of his native town. He 
 began his life work as an assistant to other 
 civil engineers, being occupied in this manner 
 for some years; and, when he found himself 
 familiar with the profession, in 1849 he started 
 in business for himself. From that time until 
 the present he has been actively engaged, a 
 period covering nearly a half-century, and has 
 done much of the surveying in the neighboring 
 towns, becoming probably better acquainted 
 with the face of Norfolk County and of this 
 part of the State than any other person. He 
 was engaged with the late Henry F. Walling 
 in State and county surveys; and he has also 
 done much other work, such as the surveying 
 of farms and laying out highways in this 
 region. From surveys that he made in 1850, 
 he published the first map of Dedham, issuing 
 a large number of copies; and he has since 
 assisted in the making of a large number of 
 county and town maps. 
 
 Mr. Smith was married in August, 1S49, 
 to Miss Mary E. Phillips, who was born in 
 Dedham, a daughter of Nathan Phillips, a 
 well-known carpenter and builder. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Smith have four children ; namely, Ella 
 Louise, Mary L., Carrie M., Frederick P.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Ella Louise, now the wife of John H. Burda- 
 kin, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in 
 this volume, has two children — Leslie and 
 Lillian. Mary L., wife of Francis L. Wil- 
 lard, who is engaged in the pipe and plumber 
 supply business in Boston, has also two chil- 
 dren — Grace and Muriel. Carrie M., for- 
 merly cashier in the Register of Deeds ofifice, 
 married Edward S. Adams, and lives in Fall 
 River, Mass., where he is well known. Fred- 
 erick Phillips, who lives with his parents, is 
 in the lumber business in Boston. 
 
 Mr. Smith is a public-spirited man, devoted 
 to the best interests of his town, and has done 
 his part toward assisting in its advancement 
 and prosperity by serving with fidelity as Se- 
 lectman, Overseer of the Poor, Assessor, Road 
 Commissioner, and Superintendent of the 
 Streets for many years. In politics he is an 
 active and stanch Republican. He is a valu- 
 able member of the Unitarian church, in which 
 he has been a Deacon for twenty-nine years 
 and a trustee for a number of years, besides 
 serving for a long time as a teacher in the 
 Sunday-school. 
 
 IDWARD RUTLEDGE EAGER, who 
 has been a prominent resident of Can- 
 ton for many years, is a descendant 
 of one of the old New England families, as 
 noted by Savage in his "Early New England 
 Names." His first ancestor in this country 
 was William Eager, who came to Plymouth, 
 Mass., in the thirties of the seventeenth cen- 
 tury. In 1654 William married Ruth Hill, of 
 Maiden, Mass.; and in 1684 he removed with 
 his family to Marlboro, Middlese.x County, 
 Mass., where he bcame one of the proprietors 
 of the Ockoocangansett plantation, purchased 
 from King Philip, and which was afterward 
 the homestead of the family. Zerubbabel, son 
 of William and Ruth (Hill) Eager, born June 
 8, 1672, married on March 23, 1698, Hannah 
 Kerley. Their son Uriah, born April 4, 
 1700, married Sarah Bingham, March 14, 
 1727. Their son Uriah, born February 5, 
 1740, married March 29, 1764, Tryphosa 
 Bush. Their son Moses, born October 30, 
 1772, married Sarah Stratton, December 29, 
 1793, Their son Moses Edward, born No- 
 
 vember 16, 1797, married March 25, 1827, 
 Harriet Durant, and by her became the father 
 of the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Edward Rutledge Eager was born Novem- 
 ber 9, 1830, in Cambridgeport, Mass., where 
 the earlier years of his life were spent. In 
 1850 he. came to Canton, accepting a subordi- 
 nate position with the Kinsley Iron and Ma- 
 chine Company. Having won the confidence 
 of his employers by his trustworthiness, in 
 the short space of five years he was made 
 treasurer of the company, and afterward 
 served the firm as manager and treasurer for 
 forty consecutive years, resigning in the fall 
 of 1895. He has since removed to ]5oston, 
 where he is a director of the Everett Na- 
 tional Bank and of the Hollingsworth & 
 Whitney Paper Company, and a trustee of the 
 Whitney estate. While in Canton Mr. P^ager 
 took an active part in local affairs, serving as 
 Selectman for a number of years, and for two 
 years representing the town in the State legis- 
 lature. He is a prominent member of the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, having taken the thirty-sec- 
 ond degree, and being the oldest Past Master 
 of the Blue Hill Lodge of Canton, of which 
 he was the second Master. He is a member 
 of the Congregational Church of Canton, in 
 which he was formerly a zealous worker and 
 for many years the superintendent of its Sun- 
 day-school. 
 
 Mr. Eager has been twice married. His 
 first wife, in maidenhood Miss Sophia L. 
 Jenkins, to whom he was united in 1856, died 
 in 1857, leaving one child, Charles H. Eager, 
 now of Canton, born December 28, 1856. By 
 his second marriage, which was contracted Oc- 
 tober 16, 1862, with Miss Mary H. Talbot, of 
 East Machias, Me., there are two children, 
 namely: Jones Talbot Eager, born November 
 16, 1863, who is the cashier of the Everett 
 National Bank of Boston; and Caroline D. , 
 now the wife of William M. Chase, of Brook- 
 line, Mass. Charles H. Eager applied him- 
 self to his studies in the public schools of 
 Brookline until sixteen years old, when he en- 
 tered the crockery store of Abram French & 
 Co., of Boston, with whom he remained until 
 1876. He then entered the office of the 
 Kinsley Iron and Machine Company, of 
 which his father was the manager and treas-
 
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 13 
 
 urer at that time, and has since remained in 
 their employment. He is a Republican in 
 politics, and for some years has been Town 
 Auditor. He was made a Mason in Blue Hill 
 Lodge of Canton, in which he is Worshipful 
 Master. He is now a member of Mount Zion 
 Chapter, R. A. M., of which he is Excellent 
 King; the Master of Ceremonies of Hyde 
 Park Council of Royal and Select Masters for 
 some time; a member of Cyprus Commandery, 
 K. T. ; of Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine, of 
 Boston; and of the Society of Sons of the 
 American Revolution. 
 
 -J^ ENJAMIN BOYDEN, for many years 
 ^""N one of the leading grocers of Ded- 
 
 \r^ i ham, his place of business being lo- 
 cated at Boyden Square, was born in 
 W'est Dedham, February 2, 1807, son of Ben- 
 jamin and Roxa Boyden, and died June 20, 
 1888, at the home now occupied by his widow 
 and son. 
 
 The immigrant progenitor of the New Eng- 
 land family of Boydens was Thomas Boyden, 
 who came over from England in the "Francis " 
 in 1634, lived for a while in Scituate, Mass., 
 and finally settled in Medfield, Norfolk 
 County. 
 
 Benjamin Boyden, the subject of this sketch, 
 was probably seventh in lineal descent from 
 the first American ancestor. He was brought 
 up on a farm until sixteen years of age, obtain- 
 ing his education at the winter terms of the 
 district school. He then entered the store of 
 Dr. VVheaton, with whom he remained five 
 years, serving a long apprenticeship, and 
 having no holidajs with the exception of the 
 annual Fourth of July and Thanksgiving Day. 
 The first four years he received fifty cents a 
 week, and during the last year of his service 
 this sum was doubled. On attaining his ma- 
 jority he started in business for himself, being 
 obliged to borrow the capital, and beginning 
 in a small way. A man of thrift and enter- 
 prise, industrious and methodical, possessing 
 great business ability, he met with success, 
 and found his trade constantly increasing. In 
 1836, being in need of more commodious quar- 
 ters, he erected the building which he after- 
 ward occupied, allowing five large Using 
 
 rooms, and three commodious rooms for busi- 
 ness purposes, subsequently adding to these 
 as occasion demanded. Commencing with a 
 small assortment of groceries, he gradually 
 enlarged his stock, occasionally putting in an 
 entirely new line, and long before his death 
 carried the fullest and most complete stock of 
 staple and fancy groceries of any merchant in 
 the town. He took advantage of every new 
 means and opportunity to improve his business, 
 and was the first to introduce the delivery 
 wagon system in this section. He was identi- 
 fied with the grocery trade for sixty-four con- 
 secutive years, fifty-nine years of the time 
 being in business for himself, and at his 
 demise was the oldest grocer in Dedham and 
 without doubt the oldest in Norfolk County. 
 
 Mr. Boyden was a typical representative of 
 the self-made men of the country, the record of 
 his useful life furnishing a forcible illustration 
 of the success that may be attained by honest 
 industry, push, and steadfastness of purpose. 
 He was identified with the Whigs in his 
 earlier years, but was later a sound Republi- 
 can, taking an active interest in local affairs, 
 although he never held any public office. 
 
 Mr. Boyden was twice married. His first 
 wife, Elizabeth Boyden, died leaving no chil- 
 dren. On January 10, 1871, Mr. Boyden mar- 
 ried Mrs. Lucy B. Strong Bailey. She was 
 born in Orford, N. H., a daughter of Ebenezer 
 N. Strong. Mr. Strong was one of the most 
 prosperous farmers of that town, where he was 
 a lifelong resident. His wife, Myra Bailey, 
 was born in Newbury, Vt. She was a grand- 
 daughter of General Jacob Bailey, of Revolu- 
 tionary fame. Mr. Strong died at the age of 
 eighty-six years; and Mrs. Strong, when 
 seventy-three years old. Of their six chil- 
 dren Mrs. Boyden is the only survivor. She 
 lived with her parents until her first marriage 
 in 1853, uniting her with Jerome B. Bailey. 
 Mr. Bailey was born in Canada in 1810. He 
 moved with his parents to F'airlee, Vt. , and 
 was there engaged as a merchant during his 
 years of active life, his death occurring in 
 1 868. By this marriage there was one son, 
 George W. Bailey. In 1871 Mrs. Bailey be- 
 came Mrs. Boyden, as before mentioned. She 
 is an active member of the Congregational 
 church, to which Mr. Boyden also belonged.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 and toward the support of which he generously 
 contributed. He was well known throughout 
 the whole town, and the little village of Boy- 
 den Square was named in his honor. 
 
 jLARKNCE BURGIN, a prominent and 
 able young business man of Ouincy, 
 Mass., and the treasurer of the 
 Ouincy Savings Bank, was born 
 October 27, 1865, in Rutland, Vt. He is 
 the son of Mr. Thomas Burgin and Mrs. Jane 
 Scudder Burgin, both of London, England. 
 In 1870 the family moved from Rutland to 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Clarence Burgin received an excellent edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Springfield, 
 Mass., and at his graduation at the high school 
 of that city in the class of 1882 had the dis- 
 tinction of being the youngest member 
 awarded a diploma. He had fitted himself for 
 a business life by taking a special course in 
 engineering; and soon after his graduation he 
 began work in the office of Charles Sidney, an 
 architect and engineer. In October, 1883, he 
 obtained a situation with John Lyman Faxon, 
 a noted architect of Boston; but three months 
 later, January i, 1884, he was offered the posi- 
 tion of draughtsman and book-keeper for Fred- 
 erick & Field, of Ouincy, and at once availed 
 himself of the larger opportunity given him 
 to make use of his talents. He remained with 
 that firm until March i, 1889, when, in com- 
 pany with R. D. Gordon, he established him- 
 self in the jewelry business in Boston, becom- 
 ing junior member of the firm thus formed. 
 On September i, 1894, he gave up that busi- 
 ness to accept the office of City Treasurer of 
 Ouincy under Mayor Hodges, a position which 
 he resigned the first of February, 1S96, to 
 become treasurer of the Ouincy Savings Bank, 
 to which he had been elected the previous 
 month and which he has since ably and faith- 
 fully filled. 
 
 Mr. Burgin has also been elected to numer- 
 ous other offices requiring good financial 
 knowledge and administrative ability, and is 
 now serving as a director of the National 
 Granite Bank, of the Quincy Quarry Company, 
 as director and treasurer of the Lyons Granite 
 Company, as one of the directorate of the Brain- 
 
 tree Street Railway Company, as a director of 
 the Quincy Shoe Com[jany, and also as one of 
 the managers of the Woodward Fund and Prop- 
 erty. Fraternally, he is a member of Rural 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of St. Stephen's Chapter, 
 R. A. M. ; and of the South Shore Command- 
 ery of Knight Templars. He is an Indepen- 
 dent in politics, but not an office-seeker. He 
 attends and supports the Episco]xil church. 
 
 fs^OSEPH S. BIGELOW, of Cohas.set, 
 president of the Atlas National l^ank of 
 Boston, was born in Boston, October 
 28,1848. He is a son of the late Ho- 
 ratio and Annie (Smith) Bigclow. His great- 
 grandfather, Abraham Biglow, Esq. (Har- 
 vard College, 1782), was for many years clerk 
 at Cambridge of the Supreme Judicial Court 
 and Common Pleas for Middlesex County, and 
 also held the office of Justice of the Peace. 
 He served a number of years as Warden of 
 Christ Church, Cambridge. His son, Hora- 
 tio, Sr. , grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch, was the first editor of the Boston Daily 
 Advertiser, which dates from March, 1813. 
 
 Horatio Bigelow, the younger, was born in 
 Boston, Mass. He was a pioneer stockholder 
 in the copper mines of Lake Superior, and 
 held interests there for a great many years. 
 PI is wife, who was a native of the State of 
 Maine, was a daughter of the Hon. Albert 
 Smith, Congressman in Van Buren's adminis- 
 tration. Mrs. Bigelow died August 27, 1897, 
 having survived her husband a number of years. 
 Joseph S. Bigelow acquired his earlj- educa- 
 tion in the Boston public schools, proceeding 
 from the Phillips Grammar School to the 
 Latin School. He was graduated at Harvard 
 in 1869, and then spent about a year and a 
 half travelling in Europe. On his return he 
 entered his father's office in Boston, and for a 
 number of years he was identified with impor- 
 tant trusts of different kinds. On February 
 12, 1896, he was made a director of the Atlas 
 National Bank, and on January 12, 1897, he 
 was elected president. Mr. Bigelow is a 
 shrewd and conservative business man, and has 
 the confidence and esteem of all who know 
 him. 
 
 He was married April 27, 1877, to Mary
 
 JOSEPH S. DIGELOW.
 
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 C. , daughter of Dr. Henry Bryant of Boston 
 (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Bigclow have si.\ 
 children. 
 
 In politics Mr. Bigelow is indejiendent, 
 favoring the Republican side. lie has served 
 for a number of years on the School Committee 
 of Cohasset, is now in his third year as Select- 
 man, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, and 
 is a member of the Board of Health. He is 
 a communicant of the Episcopal Church of 
 Cohasset. Mr. Bigelow is a man of the world, 
 with a broad knowledge of men and things. 
 He has made several trips abroad, and also has 
 travelled extensively in this country. A jxirt 
 of the year 1870 he spent in California. 
 
 LONZO GOULD DURGIN, a phar- 
 macist of Quincy, was born August 24, 
 1854, in Natick, Mass., son of 
 Hiram P. and Laura B. (Gould) 
 Durgin. The father, who was born August 
 28, 181 8, in New Durham, N.H., obtained 
 his elementary education in the pioneer schools 
 of the district, and learned the shoemaker's 
 trade when but a youth. Coming then to 
 Massachusetts, he worked as a journeyman in 
 Natick for a few years. Subsequently, in 
 company with his brother-in-law, Lyman How- 
 ard, he established the first e.xpress line be- 
 tween Natick and J5oston, and had carried it 
 on prosperously for several years when they 
 sold out to the present owners, Howe & Co. 
 He next formed a partnership with a Mr. 
 Hayes, becoming senior member of the firm of 
 Durgin & Hayes, shoe manufacturers and 
 dealers, and prior to the war did an extensive 
 and lucrative business in that line. After 
 giving that up he was engaged in various 
 enterprises of a mercantile nature, continuing 
 until his death, which occurred March 25, 
 1894. A steadfast Republican in politics, he 
 took much interest in local affairs, but was 
 never an aspirant for official honors. He was 
 a member and P. G. of the lodge of Odd Fel- 
 lows in Natick. His wife, Laura, a daughter 
 of Nathaniel Gould, of Natick, who was a 
 native of Mont Vernon, Me., had seven chil- 
 dren, six of whom grew to maturity. These 
 were: Viola A., the wife of Ellery C. Cool- 
 idge, of New Ha\-en, Conn. ; Ada E., who 
 
 married William H. Jone.s, of Natick; Alonzo 
 Gould, the subject of this sketch; Hiram 
 Herbert, of Pittsfield, Mass. ; Charles Eugene, 
 who died in 1873; and I-'rederick R., of 
 Brattlebcno, Vt. The mother was for many 
 years a member of the (Jrthodox Church of 
 Natick. 
 
 Alonzo G. Durgin completed his education 
 in the Natick High School. At the age of 
 thirteen years he began learning the drug- 
 gist's business in the store of Frank E. Cum- 
 mings, with whom he remained eight years. 
 On F'ebruary 7, 1876, he started in business 
 on his own account, locating in Quincy, on 
 what is now Chestnut Street, opposite the 
 Congregational church. When the Robertson 
 House was finished, he became its first tenant, 
 moving his stock and fixtures there October 26, 
 1876. He remained in that locality until the 
 completion of the Durgin & Merrill Block, 
 when he removed to his present commodious 
 and convenient quarters, taking possession 
 April 2, 1887. He has a very large patron- 
 age, being the leading druggist of the city, 
 and the oldest established. Also he has large 
 real estate interests, owning considerable land, 
 most of it being in Quincy; and he is the 
 treasurer and manager of the Quincy Real 
 Estate Trust. In politics he is independent, 
 voting irrespective of party prejudice. He is 
 a Mason of Rural Lodge, St. Stephen's Chap- 
 ter, and South Shore Commandery; and he 
 belongs to the Ancient and Honorable Artil- 
 lery Company, which he accompanied to 
 London in 1896. 
 
 On May 16, 1883, Mr. Durgin married 
 Alice Dell, a daughter of Caldwell De Wint 
 Churchill, of Fishkill, N. Y. Caldwell De 
 Wint Churchill was born in December, 1836, 
 in Matteawan, N.Y., and was early fitted for 
 college, it having been his intention to enter 
 one of the learned professions. His plans, 
 however, were changed, owing to his early 
 marriage; and he has since been engaged in 
 book-keeping. F'or many years he was em- 
 ployed thereat in the carpet works of A. T. 
 Stewart. He has always taken an active part 
 in i^olitics, hut has never sought office. He is 
 a Mason of high rank, having taken the thirty- 
 second degree, and is also a prominent member 
 of the organization of Odd F'ellows. In 1856,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ere attaining his majority, he married Mary 
 II Ferguson, a daughter of Lewis B. Fergu- 
 son, born in Matteavvan, N.Y., in 1840. 
 They became the parents of six children, of 
 whom four are now living, namely: Henry L. , 
 of Brooklyn, N. V. ; Alice Dell, now Mrs. 
 I^urgin ; Louise ()., the widow of Charles 
 L\)uits, late of New Yori< City; and Frank T., 
 of Fishkill. Mr. and Mrs. Churchill are 
 members of the Dutch Reformed church. 
 Mrs. Durgin's grandfather, Henry Churchill, 
 was born in Matteavvan, N. Y., in 1796, where 
 for many years of his life he was a prosper- 
 ous agricultuiist and a wealthy land-owner. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Helen 
 Mott, was born in 1799. She was a cousin of 
 the celebrated Dr. Valentine Mott; and her 
 father was the founder of Albany, N.Y., 
 which was then called l-'ort Orange. The 
 Mott family are of French descent, and many 
 of its members have attained distinction since 
 the settlement of its first ancestor on Ameri- 
 can soil. Of Mr. Durgin's children, Ellen 
 Churchill, Charles Flugcne, and Mary Gould 
 are livintr. 
 
 ILLIAM P. BARKER, a native of 
 /SV Quincy, carries on an extensive 
 business in Lanesville, Mass. 
 Horn June 3, 1843, son of Henry Barker, he 
 conies of ancestors who have been loyal and 
 useful citizens of Massachusetts for many gen- 
 erations. Asa Barker, Sr., his great-grand- 
 father, who was born in Methuen, Mass., in 
 1745, married Lydia Pierce, who was born in 
 1751. .She was a sister of Governor Ben- 
 jamin IMerce, the father of Franklin Pierce, 
 wild was President of the United States. Asa 
 Barker, Jr., also a native of Methuen, born 
 August 27, 1772, was an e.xpert blacksmith 
 :uid stone-cutter. His second wife, Nancy 
 Jones l^arker, was the mother of Henry 
 Barker. 
 
 Henry Barker was born Sejitember 16, 181 i, 
 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Mass., and 
 there received a common-school education. 
 He learned the trades of blacksmith and 
 stone-cutter uniler the instruction of his 
 father. In early manhood he worked in Bos- 
 ton as a journeyman stone-cutter, and after- 
 
 ward pursued the same occupation in Quincy, 
 whither he came about the year 1837. Later 
 he beci^me a contractor, commencing in a 
 small wrv. One of his first contracts of any 
 importai e was for the columns in front of the 
 okl cou c-house in Boston. Shortly after 
 forming 1 partnership with Abel Wright, his 
 brothers, Charles and George, were taken into 
 the firm, the style of which then became 
 Barker, Wright & Co. In 1861 Mr. Wright 
 withdrew, after which the business was suc- 
 cessfully conducted for several years under the 
 name of H. Barker & Brothers. Subsequently 
 this firm dissolved, and two new ones were 
 formed, that of H. Barker & Brothers, of 
 Quincy and Philadelphia, and Barker Brothers, 
 of Quincy and Lanesville, Mass., H. Barker 
 being at the head of both. Charles Barker as- 
 sumed the management of the Philadelphia 
 yard, while George Barker had charge of the 
 quarry and business at Lanesville, which they 
 had purchased in 185 i. For some years the 
 work consisted mainly in the quarrying and 
 sale of rough granite. Later, having begun 
 to build, the)- furnished and set the granite 
 for the new Masonic Temple in Philadelphia, 
 a large contract; took one equally as large for 
 the Ridgeway Library Building; and were 
 awarded the contracts for several large busi- 
 ness buildings in Philadelphia, including the 
 Pennsylvania Railway offices and the Pennsyl- 
 vania Bank. In 1867 Henry Barker, together 
 with his sons — Henry F., George A., and 
 William P. — formed the firm of Henry Barker 
 & Sons. The eldest son died March 2, 1878; 
 Henry Barker, the head of the firm, passed 
 away July 1 1, i88g; and on October 16, 1889, 
 George A. Barker died. When the estate was 
 settled, William P. Barker, the sole survivor 
 of the original firm, took the business in his 
 own name, and has since carried it on with 
 eminent success. The quarry in Lanesville 
 yields a very fine granite; and, when business 
 is good, from fifty to sixty men are there em- 
 ployed in cutting pavement blocks. 
 
 Henry Barker was a Mason of Rural Lodge. 
 In politics he was a stanch Republican, and 
 for several terms represented Quincy in the 
 State legislature. He was also a member of 
 the School Committee for a number of years, 
 and one of the trustees of the Thomas Crane
 
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 WILLIAM CARTER.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 2t 
 
 Public Library from the time of its organiza- 
 tion until the formation of the city govern- 
 ment. While broad in his religious opinions, 
 he and his entire family attended and sup- 
 ported the Adams Temple Unitarian Church. 
 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Amos 
 Smith, of VVaterford, Me., and became the 
 father of the three sons already named. 
 
 After completing his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Quincy, William P. Barker be- 
 came a clerk in the Mount Wollaston Bank. 
 Two years later he accepted a position in the 
 National Exchange Bank of Boston, where he 
 was employed from 1863 till 1867. Then, as 
 above stated, he became a member of the firm 
 of Henry Barker & Sons. Mr. Barker takes 
 great interest in yachting, and is a member of 
 the Ouincy Yacht Club. In imlitics he is a 
 consistent Republican. 
 
 BR AH AM H. TOWER, president of 
 the Cohasset Savings Bank, was born 
 in this town, April i, 1829, son of 
 Abraham tL and Charlotte (Bates) 
 Tower. The founder of the family in Amer- 
 ica was John Tower, an Englishman, who be- 
 came a resident of Hingham, Mass., in 1637, 
 what is now Cohasset then being included in 
 that settlement. Abraham Tower, grandfather 
 of the subject of this sketch, was an active 
 member of the famous Boston Tea Party, De- 
 cember 16, 1773, and lived to take part in 
 the War of 1812. 
 
 Abraham H. Tower, first, father of Abra- 
 ham H., subject of this sketch, was a lifelong 
 resident of Cohasset, and for many years was 
 engaged in the mackerel fishing industry. He 
 died in June, 1881. Charlotte Bates, his 
 wife, was also a native of this town. Five of 
 her children survive, namely: Abraham H., 
 the subject of this sketch; Henry C. ; Char- 
 lotte M. B., widow of the late Edward E. 
 Tower; Newcomb B., a member of the present 
 Board of Selectmen; and Daniel N., superin- 
 tendent of the water-works, all of whom reside 
 in Cohasset. 
 
 Abraham H. Tower was educated in the 
 public schools; and, entering the counting- 
 room of the Revere Copper Company, Boston, 
 he remained with that "concern for twelve 
 
 years. In 1858 he established himself in gen- 
 eral mercantile business at Cohasset Harbor; 
 and in 1866 he aihnittcd his brother, New- 
 comb B., to partnership, and added to his 
 stock in trade coal, lumber, and all kinds of 
 building materials. He has since continued 
 at the head of the firm, which is now known 
 as Tower J^rotiiers & Co., and carries on a 
 large business. Mr. Tower has been a direc- 
 tor of the Hingham National Bank for the 
 past twenty-five years, was formerly vice- 
 president and is now president of the Cohasset 
 Savings Bank. He is also a director of the 
 Cohasset Fire Insurance Company and local 
 agent for the Hingliani I'irc Insurance 
 Company. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican, and has 
 served as Town Treasurer and Collector for 
 the past thirty years. He is always ready to 
 aitl in the promotion of imiirovements ; and, as 
 an enterprising business man and public- 
 spirited citizen, he fully merits the high esti- 
 mation accorded him by his fellow-townsmen. 
 In his religious views he is a Unitarian, and 
 for several years has performed the duties of 
 clerk of that church. He is connected with 
 the Independent Order of Odd ^'ellows. 
 
 Mr. Tower married for his first wife Mary 
 L. Browne, who bore him two children, 
 namely: Mary H., wife of the Rev. E. O. S. 
 Osgood, of Brattleboro, Vt. ; and Abraham 
 H., Jr., of Stoughton, Mass. Mr. Tower's 
 present wife was before marriage Frances 
 Hi neks. .She is a native of York, England. 
 
 ILLIAM CARTER, a prominent 
 resident of Needham, Mass., head 
 of the manufacturing firm of Will- 
 iam Carter & Co., was born in Alfreton, 
 Derbyshire, England, in 1830, and was edu- 
 cated in the schools of his native town. 
 Crossing the Atlantic in 1857, he landed in 
 New York City; and coming immediately to 
 Norfolk County, Massachusetts, he entered the 
 employ of Samuel Sutton, of Brookiine, who 
 was engaged in knitting infants' clothing. 
 He remained with him three years, and then 
 came to Needham to work for John and Mark 
 Lee in the same line of industry. After stay- 
 ing with them si.\ years, he started in business
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 for himself, forming a partnership with the 
 Lee brothers, under the firm name of Lee, 
 Carter & Co. Ten years later, when the firm 
 failed, Mr. Carter took the business in his own 
 hand.s. He is now carrying it on under the 
 name of William Carter & Co., manufacturing 
 knit underwear for ladies and children, 
 hosiery and fancy knit goods of all kinds, and 
 selling his product to jobbers of Boston, New 
 York, Philadelphia, and other large cities. 
 About one hundred employees are actively en- 
 gasfed most of the time, and the annual value 
 of the output is one hundred thousand dollars. 
 Besides the knit goods he manufactures a pat- 
 ent self-computing scale, of which he owns a 
 half interest. Mr. Carter's fine factory, thor- 
 oughly equipped with modern machinery for 
 successfully carrying on the business, is val- 
 ued at forty thousand dollars; and it is the 
 fruit of his own, labor and economy. 
 
 Since taking up his residence in Needham, 
 Mr. Carter has been much interested in local 
 public affairs. He was Selectman of the town 
 for four years, and served upon the School 
 Committee for twelve years. In 1895 he 
 served as Representative to the General Court 
 of Massachusetts, and was on the Committee 
 upon Drainage. Mr. Carter has done a great 
 deal to promote the growth of Highlandville, 
 planting shade trees, laying out and improving 
 new streets. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 He is a member of the Norfolk Lodge, F. 
 & A. M.; of the Newton Chapter, R. A. M. ; 
 of the Nehoiden Lodge, Sons of Temperance; 
 and of the Home Market Club of Boston. He 
 is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church of Highlandville, was on the Build- 
 ing Committee, and has been one of the trus- 
 tees since the church was built. He is very 
 much interested in all church work, and has 
 been superintendent of the Sunday-school for 
 a number of years. Mr. Carter joined the 
 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of 
 Boston in 1893, and went with the company to 
 England on their famous trip in the summer 
 of 1896, when he revisited the place of his 
 birth. 
 
 He has been married three times. His 
 first wife, Hannah Truman, to whom he was 
 married in England in 1S54, died in 1862. 
 She left one son, Frarik C, who is now mar- 
 
 rietl and at work in his father's factory. He 
 was educated in the public schools and at 
 Comer's Commercial College. Mr. Carter's 
 second wife was Martha, a daughter of Mark 
 Lee, and a sister of Mr. Carter's former part- 
 ner. She died leaving four children — -Will- 
 iam H., Elizabeth, John J., and Horace A. — 
 of whom the oldest and youngest were edu- 
 cated in the common schools, high school, 
 and commercial schools, one at Comer's and 
 one at Bryant & Stratton's, and are now mar- 
 ried and at work in their father's factory; and 
 the other son, John J., is also married, and a 
 carpenter by trade. The daughter was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Needham. She 
 married C. W. Jones, and is living in High- 
 landville. Mr. Carter and his third wife, 
 Jennie G., a daughter of Jonathan Avery, of 
 Needham, have two children: Lucie Avery, 
 now in VVellesley College in the class of 
 1900; and Roscoe Arnold, now in the Need- 
 ham High School. The present Mrs. Carter, 
 who was educated in Newton, is a woman of 
 literary taste and accomplishments, and an 
 author of some reputation. Among her books 
 maybe named "Bound Brook," "Amy Rush- 
 ton's Mission," and "The Old Distillery," 
 which has had an extensive sale for over 
 twenty-five years. 
 
 ;^AMES TIRRELL, of South Weymouth, 
 for many years a successful hide and 
 leather merchant of Boston, and now 
 largely interested in real estate, having 
 an office at 1 5 1 Pearl Street, in that city, was 
 born December 6, 1829, upon the estate in 
 Weymouth first settled by Gideon Tirrell, his 
 direct ancestor, who came here some two cen- 
 turies ago. From the Report of the Record 
 Commissioners of the city of Boston, No. 9, 
 we learn that William Therrell (Tirrell) and 
 Rebecca Simpkins, daughter of Captain Nich- 
 olas Simpkins, were married January 29, 
 1655, by Governor Bellingham, and that their 
 son Gideon was born in Boston, July 16, 1664. 
 William Tirrell and his family later removed 
 to Weymouth. 
 
 James Tirrell, Sr., grandfathci' of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was born in Weymouth, 
 where he resided aM his life; and his son,
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 23 
 
 James, Jr., was long a boot and slioe manu- 
 facturer of this place. Aftervvartl, until a 
 short time previous to his death, which oc- 
 curred in 1865, the second James Tirrell en- 
 gaged in the hide and leather business. He 
 married Uetsey VVhitemarsh, of East Wey- 
 mouth, and had several children. The sur- 
 vivors are: the son James, third of the name; 
 and two daughters, as follows: Mary J., 
 widow of the late Colonel James L. Bates, 
 who succeeded Colonel I-^letcher Webster in 
 the command of the Twelfth Regiment, Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry; and Tirzah, wife 
 of Moses T. Durrell, of Boston. The father was 
 a Whig and afterward a Democrat in politics. 
 He was for many years Overseer of the Poor 
 in the town. He was a member of the Union 
 Congregational Church of South Weymouth. 
 
 James Tirrell, third, after taking his ele- 
 mentary course in the public schools of South 
 Weymouth, attended the Pinkerton Academy 
 at Derry, N. H. At the age of eighteen years, 
 in company with E. S. Wright, he opened a 
 country store in Independence Square at South 
 Weymouth. The firm existed six years, Mr. 
 Tirrell resigning to join his father in the hide 
 and leather business in Boston. He spent 
 three years as clerk, and then bought a finan- 
 cial interest in the business. After the death 
 of his father he carried on the business for 
 seven years in partnership with an uncle, Al- 
 bert Tirrell, under the firm name of J. and A. 
 Tirrell & Co. In 1S72 Mr. Albert Tirrell re- 
 tired from the firm, and Mr. Alfred Tirrell 
 took his place. Some years later Mr. James 
 Tirrell sold his interest in the concern, and 
 became engaged in real estate transactions. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell married Helen Sprague, daugh- 
 ter of the late Jesse H. Sprague, of South 
 Weymouth. Three children were born to 
 them. The two now surviving are: James, of 
 South Weymouth; and Helen P., wife of 
 I-'leeniing Brook, of the same place. 
 
 /T^IIARLES H. PRATT, formerly a 
 I Ky well-known manufacturer of shoe- 
 ^Is maker's stock in East Weymouth, 
 was born here, December 26, 1830, 
 son of Bela L. and Nabby (Tirrell) Pratt, who 
 were also natives of We^iouth. His father, 
 
 who was a local preacher of repute in this 
 neighborhood, died when the subject of this 
 sketch was in his boyhood. At an early age 
 young Charles began to learn the .shoemaker's 
 trade, working mornings and evenings while 
 attending school. At the age of fifteen he be- 
 came foreman of a force of workmen engaged 
 in manufacturing shoes. Afterward he had 
 charge of Canterbury & Haskell's factory for a 
 considerable length of time. Early in the 
 eighties he engaged in the manufacture of cut 
 calf stock for fine foot-wear, and carried it on 
 successfully for the rest of his life. In this 
 locality he was the pioneer in that particular 
 branch of the leather trade, and he was the 
 first to apply steam-power to shoe manufactur- 
 ing in East Weymouth. Highly esteemed by 
 the shoe and leather dealers of Boston and vi- 
 cinity, he was frequently called by the Massa- 
 chusetts Board of Arbitration to suggest 
 means and otherwise assist in the settlement 
 of labor troubles; and his constant desire to 
 deal justly with the contending parties was 
 highly appreciated by all concerned. He was 
 an upright, conscientious man and a public- 
 spirited citizen, who was in sympathy with all 
 measures relative to town improvements. His 
 death, which occurred in East Weymouth, No- 
 vember 9, 1896, when he was nearly si.\ty-si.\ 
 years old, was sincerely regretted by all who 
 knew him. 
 
 On October 16, 1850, Mr. Pratt was united 
 in marriage with Elzira N. Rice. She was 
 born in Weymouth, daughter of Captain Will- 
 iam and Margaret N. (Pratt) Rice, the former 
 of whom served in the War of 1812, and was 
 for many years a ship-master. Mr. Pratt left 
 one son, William H., who is a resident of 
 East Weymouth. In Masonry Mr. Pratt had 
 reached the thirty-second degree, and was 
 serving as Prelate of the Commandery in East 
 Weymouth at the time of his decease. For 
 fifty years he was an active member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church, serving it in 
 various official positions, including that of 
 choir leader. His services as director, trus- 
 tee, and member of the Investment Commit- 
 tee of the East Weymouth Savings Bank 
 covered a period of several years, and were ex- 
 ceedingly beneficial to the interests of that in- 
 stitution. In politics he was a Republican.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ILLIAM H. TUCKER was a prom- 
 inent business man of Avon and a 
 member of the Massachusetts legis- 
 lature. He was born Januar)' 1 1, 1823, in 
 Milton, Mass., son of Nathan and Catherine 
 Tucker, both of whom were natives of Milton, 
 the father having been a prosperous farmer. 
 He was educated in the common schools of 
 Milton, and remained at home until he was 
 eighteen years old. He then went to East 
 Stoughton, Mass., where he was for a time 
 employed in the shoe factory of his brother 
 Ebenezer, who subsequently received him into 
 partnership. The firm of Tucker Brothers 
 continued in business for a number of years. 
 Then William H. became associated with 
 another brother, Nathan Tucker; and still 
 later he was engaged in the manufacture of 
 boots with George and Ephraim Littlefield. 
 After his retirement from the shoe business, 
 he became a broker. He was also a director 
 of the Home National Bank of Brockton from 
 the time of its incorporation until his death, 
 which occurred August 19, i8g6, in his 
 seventy-fourth year. Mr. Tucker acquired 
 success through his own personal efforts, and 
 by his honorable methods gained the esteem 
 and confidence of his fellow-townsmen. He 
 served as a Selectman in Stoughton, was espe- 
 cially active upon the School Board, and he 
 represented his district in the legislature dur- 
 ing the session of 1859. For some years he 
 acted as a trustee of the Avon cemetery, and 
 was particularly interested in the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, whicli he aided financially 
 when needed. 
 
 Mr. Tucker married for his first wife Eliza- 
 beth Davenport, of Dorchester. By this 
 union there is one daughter, Ellen E., now 
 the wife of George W. Porter, of Avon. For 
 his second wife he wedded Achsa B. Bur- 
 gess, a daughter of Covill and Lurana (Swift) 
 Burgess, of Sandwich, Mass., the former of 
 whom served as a soldier in the War of 1812. 
 The late Mr. Tucker was an energetic and 
 public-spirited citizen, did much toward de- 
 veloping the town, and took a deep interest 
 in all public institutions. It was frequently 
 said that his word was as good as his bond. 
 He was a member of the Masonic order. Mrs. 
 Tucker, who still occupies the homestead, is a 
 
 lady of much intelligence and worth, and is 
 highly esteemed. 
 
 /TAOLONEL HENRY ANDREW 
 I V^ THOMAS, Postmaster of Boston, and 
 ^Is one of the leading public men of 
 
 the State of Massachusetts, is a na- 
 tive and resident of South Weymouth, Norfolk 
 County, the home of his ancestors for several 
 generations. He was born July 29, 1856, son 
 of Henry and Betsy (Chaffin) Thomas, and is 
 a lineal descendant of Captain John Thomas, 
 a native of Wales, who commanded the vessel 
 that conveyed William of Orange to England 
 in 1688, and who subsequently immigrated to 
 America, settling in Braintree, Mass., where 
 he died "ye 4th October, 1714." 
 
 John Thomas, second, son of Captain 
 Thomas, born in Braintree in 17 10, was the 
 father of John, third, the first of the family to 
 settle in South Weymouth. The latter was 
 the father of Andrew, better known as Captain 
 Andrew Thomas, who was an extensive land- 
 owner and a lifelong resident of South Wey- 
 mouth. Captain Andrew Thomas was three 
 times married, and reared eleven sons and one 
 daughter, among whom was Henry, father of 
 the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Henry Thomas was reared and educated in 
 his native town, and, when a young man, en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of shoes, which busi- 
 ness he successfully conducted for many years. 
 He is still a resident of South Weymouth. 
 He and his wife, Betsy, reared four children. 
 
 Henry A. Thomas was educated in the 
 public schools of South Weymouth, being 
 graduated from the high school in the class of 
 1873. A few months after his graduation he 
 entered the civil service as a messenger boy in 
 the Boston post office, where he remained 
 until 1893, rising through the different grades 
 to the position of superintendent of mails. 
 In the year mentioned he retired from the 
 postal service, and took an active part in the 
 State political campaign of that summer and 
 autumn, which resulted in the election to the 
 chief magistracy of Mr. Frederic T. Green- 
 halge, who forthwith appointed him as his 
 private secretary. He retained this position 
 until the Governor'^fteath in February, 1895;
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 27 
 
 and subsequent to that event and until the 
 following January he served Governor VVolcott 
 in a similar capacity, being appointed during 
 this period a member of the Governor's staff, 
 with the title of Colonel. Colonel Thomas 
 received the appointment of Postmaster of 
 Boston in May, 1897; and he assumed charge 
 of the office on the ist of the following June. 
 
 He married in 1880 Miss Addie C. Tir- 
 rell, daughter of Cyrus Tirrell. They have 
 one daughter, Mildred. 
 
 Colonel Thomas takes an active interest in 
 the affairs of his native town, and is ever 
 ready to aid in promoting any practical meas- 
 ure having for its object the moral or material 
 advancement of the community. He is par- 
 ticularly interested in educational matters, and 
 served the town for some years as a member of 
 the School Board. He was one of the organ- 
 izers of the Weymouth Improvement Society 
 and also of the Wednesday Night Club, a de- 
 bating society which flourished for a number 
 of years, with practical benefit to its mem- 
 bers. He also helped to organize the Norfolk 
 Club, of which he is now president. He be- 
 longs to the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows. The Colonel is a pleasant and effective 
 public speaker, and, while secretary to Gov- 
 ernor Greenhalge, capably represented him on 
 many occasions at public gatherings. He has 
 participated in the various campaigns in this 
 State since he became of age, and has rendered 
 valuable party service. The high social posi- 
 tion he holds is due not only to his public 
 record, but also to his character as a man. 
 
 fHADDEUS H. NEWCOMB, a retired 
 business man of Quincy and its pres- 
 ent Representative in the State legis- 
 lature, was born in this town, March 15, 1826, 
 son of the late James Newcomb. He comes of 
 Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Bryant 
 Newcomb, having been a patriot of the Revo- 
 lution. The latter was captured by the Brit- 
 ish and confined for some time in Dartmoor 
 Prison, England. He was an extensive farmer 
 of Ouincy, and likewise carried on a large 
 granite business. 
 
 James Newcomb, born and educated in 
 Quincy, during his early manhood was en- 
 
 gaged in freighting granite on sloops to Bos- 
 ton for some years. He was afterward en- 
 gaged in quarrying granite on his own ac- 
 count, being one of the leaders in that 
 industry, and continuing at it until his death. 
 Well informed and highly respected, and hav- 
 ing the town's welfare at heart, he was chosen 
 to fill many of the town offices, including that 
 of -Selectman, in which he served for several 
 terms. He also represented the town in the 
 General Court for a time. In ])olitics he was 
 a Whig; ami he was a member of the First 
 Unitarian Church, which he served in the ca- 
 pacity of Deacon for a number of years. He 
 married Lucy Baxter, a daughter of Jonathan 
 Ba.xter, of Quincy. Of their ten children, 
 eight grew to maturity; namely, Lucy, James, 
 Bryant B. , George, Oliver T., .Susanna, Thad- 
 deus H., and Peter W. The two last named 
 are the only survivors now. Susanna was the 
 wife of the late John W. Shaw. 
 
 Thaddeus H. Newcomb obtained a good 
 education in the public and private schools of 
 Quincy. As soon as he was capable, he 
 began quarrying under his father's instruction, 
 acquiring a practical knowledge of that indus- 
 try. On the death of his father he formed a 
 partnership with his brother, the late Oliver 
 T. Newcomb, and carried on a very successful 
 business under the firm name of Oliver T. 
 Newcomb until the outbreak of the Rebell- 
 ion. Mr. Newcomb then enlisted in Com.- 
 pany G, Forty-second Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, as a private. Later he 
 was promoted to the rank of F"irst Lieutenant. 
 With his regiment he was sent to the Depart- 
 ment of the South-west, and at the battle of 
 Galveston was taken prisoner, and was subse- 
 quently held by the Confederates for nineteen 
 months, suffering untold privations. In Sep- 
 tember, 1864, he was released; and, his term 
 of enlistment having expired, he was at once 
 discharged from the Union service. Return- 
 ing home after this, he accepted a position as 
 quarry superintendent, in which capacity he 
 had the sole charge of the quarries of Messrs. 
 Churchill and Hitchcock from 1875 until 1895. 
 
 A zealous Republican in politics, Mr. New- 
 comb takes an active part in local affairs. On 
 the incorporation of Ouincy as a city, he was 
 elected to the Common Council, in which he
 
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 served four consecutive years, being on the 
 Committee on Streets, Drainage, and Sewer- 
 age. In 1895 he was elected to the State 
 legislature, and served on the Committee on 
 the Liquor Law. Re-elected to the legislat- 
 ure in 1896, he was made chairman of the 
 same committee. Fraternally, Mr. Newcomb 
 is a member of Paul Revere Post, No. 88, 
 G. A. R.; is connected with the Society of 
 the Union Prisoners of War; and is a member 
 of Delphi Lodge, No. 15, K. of P., of which 
 he is Past Commander. On December 12, 
 1847, he married Eliza A., daughter of Al- 
 bert Hersey, of Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. New- 
 comb are members of the Washington Street 
 Congregational Church, of which he has been 
 Deacon the past twenty years. 
 
 §ACOB S. DYER, a venerable resident 
 of Braintree, was born here, February 
 5, 181 8, son of Jacob and Mary (Deals) 
 Dyer. His grandfather, Peter Dyer, 
 was a soldier of the Revolution, and drove a 
 baggage team during that war. Peter died in 
 the ninety-fifth year of his age. Jacob, a son 
 of Peter, spent his life in Braintree, where he 
 dealt in meats and poultry, and owned and 
 carried on a farm. He married Mary Beals, 
 of Randolph, Mass., and had thirteen chil- 
 dren, of whom Jacob S. is the only survivor. 
 
 Jacob S. Dyer was educated in the public 
 schools of his native place, and assisted his 
 father in his business until he was twenty-one 
 years of age. Then he engaged in farming, 
 and began dealing in meats and poukry, 
 which he sold at the Ouincy Market in Boston. 
 Subsequently he manufactured boots and shoes 
 in South Braintree for a number of years, after 
 which he again took up farming, which he has 
 since followed in South Braintree. 
 
 On October 10, 1841, Mr. Dyer married 
 Ann M. T. Holbrook, a native of Randolph, 
 and a daughter of Peter and Eliza (Sawing) 
 Holbrook. The Holbrooks belong to an old 
 family of Randolph. Mrs. Dyer's great- 
 grandfather was a Major in the Revolutionary 
 army. Of her ten children, Adnniram J., 
 Jacob A., .Simeon D., jabez S. , Nathan T., 
 George S., ancl Brainard T. are living. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Dyer are members of the South 
 
 Congregational Church. Mr. Dyer has been 
 a Deacon of the society for many years. In 
 politics he is a Republican, and he has been 
 Road Surveyor in the district where he lives. 
 In the ante-bellum days he was a strong anti- 
 slavery man. One of the two sons of his 
 who fought in the war of the Rebellion died 
 from the effects of the hardship and exposure 
 of army life. Mr. Dyer is a public-spirited 
 man, and has always aided movements for the 
 benefit of the town. 
 
 Ji 
 
 AVIS D. RANDALL, a prominent 
 resident of East Weymouth, is a na- 
 tive of Braintree. He was born 
 February 20, 1831, son of Dean and 
 Abigail B. W. (Walker) Randall, natives re- 
 spectively of Easton and Marshfield, Mass. 
 Dean Randall, who came of English origin, 
 and was reared in Easton, was afterward until 
 his death engaged in the manufacture of 
 tacks, brads, and nails in Braintree and sub- 
 sequently in East Weymouth, to which he re- 
 moved some time in the thirties. He was one 
 of the founders and a director of the Wey- 
 mouth Iron Works. Four of his children sur- 
 vive him, namely: Davis D., the subject of 
 this sketch; Otis H., a resident of Brockton; 
 Andrew J., of East Weymouth; and Mrs. 
 J. A. Welch, of Hingham. He was a self- 
 made man, and at the time of his death was 
 considered one of the wealthiest men in the 
 town. He was an old-time Whig. Public- 
 spirited to a high degree, he favored any 
 movement to improve the town. He was a 
 prime mover in securing the South Shore Road 
 extension through Weymouth, and contributed 
 of his own means to this result. 
 
 Davis D. Randall, who came to Weymouth 
 with his parents when a child, grew up in the 
 town. His general education was received in 
 the common schools and in the academies at 
 South Braintree and Bridgewater. Subse- 
 quently he graduated from Comer's Commer- 
 cial College at Boston. Upon the death of 
 his father he began business life for himself, 
 taking charge of the tack factory, and running 
 that for a time in order to close out the busi- 
 ness. He has been twice married, and is the 
 father of three children — Davis D., Jr.,
 
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 THOMAS J. XASH.
 
 BIOGRA PI I ICAI, R KVIf;W 
 
 3' 
 
 Lottie E., and Bessie S. The son is a clerk 
 in an insurance business in Boston. For a 
 number of years Mr. Randall, Sr. , has been a 
 trustee of East Weymouth Savings Hank. In 
 political principles he is a Republican. An 
 esteemed Mason, he is a member of the Royal 
 Arch Chapter and of South Shore Com- 
 mandery. 
 
 6 1 HOMAS J. NASH, an esteemed resi- 
 ' I dent of Nash's Corner, Weymouth, was 
 born there, November 22, 1820, son of 
 Thomas and Phoebe (Binney) Nash. The 
 father, a son of Joshua Nash, served as Select- 
 man and Town Treasurer of Weymouth for 
 twenty years, and died February 6, 1S82. 
 His uncle. Captain Thomas Nash, was a 
 soldier of the Revolution. Jacob Nash, who 
 was an officer in the Revolutionary army, and 
 Solomon Nash, who also fought in that 
 struggle, were family connections. Of the 
 children of Thomas, Thomas J., Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth V. White, and Clinton are living. 
 Nash's Corner was so named in honor of the 
 Nash family, its earliest settlers; and the 
 post-office is now known as Nash. 
 
 Thomas J. Nash resides on the old Nash 
 homestead, which has been owned and occu- 
 pied by his ancestors for two hundred and fifty 
 years. On this estate stands the original 
 "Vinson" pear-tree, more than two hundred 
 years old, under the branches of which nine 
 generations have gathered and eaten of its 
 fruit. On October 9, 1804, the main part of 
 the top of the tree was blown off during a 
 hurricane. The tree still stands and bears 
 fruit, and is one of the landmarks of Wey- 
 mouth. Near it is a spring of clear water 
 which for many years supplied the families in 
 the vicinity, and to this day is used by the 
 Nash descendants for drinking purposes. 
 Close by, for many years, stood the wigwam 
 of an Indian. Here the subject ot this sketch 
 passed his boyhood, attending the district 
 schools, and occupying his leisure time by 
 working on the farm. He married August 21, 
 1877, Alice A. Ager, the widow of Wilbur F. 
 Ager, of Weymouth, Mass., and a daughter of 
 Samuel and Helen (McKay) Hollis. Her 
 father was a native of Randolph, Born of the 
 
 union were nine children; namely, Joshua L., 
 Thomas V., Harold 11 (deceased), Helen !■;. 
 (deceased), A. Mildred, H. Reginald, Ken- 
 neth L., Arthur li., and Clayton VV. Mr. 
 Nash is a member of the Union Congrega- 
 tional Church at South Weymouth. He and 
 Joseph Dyer are the only surviving incorpora- 
 tors of the South Weymouth Savings Bank, 
 and he was a trustee of the institution until 
 recently. In politics he is a Republican, has 
 been much interested in the welfare of the 
 town, and has filled many of its responsible 
 public offices. Throughout his life he has 
 kept well informed on the topics of the day. 
 
 DWARD B. SOUTHER, of Quincy, a 
 dealer in newspapers, periodicals, fancy 
 articles and cutlery, was born in this 
 town, January 29, 1827. A son of John 
 Souther, he is a lineal descendant in the 
 seventh generation of Joseph Souther (first), 
 a cooper by occupation, who was married in 
 Boston, October 22, 1657, by Governor Endi- 
 cott, to Elizabeth Fairfielde. She was a 
 daughter of Daniel Fairfielde, who was a 
 member of Pastor John Robinson's church 
 in Lcyden. Born in Boston in 1640, she died 
 in that city, October 14, 1730. Joseph 
 Souther (second), born in Hingham, Mass., 
 August 20, 1658, married Hannah, daughter of 
 Christopher and Ann Holland, and, as appears 
 from his father's will, died before December 
 14, 1696. Joseph Souther (third), who was 
 born February 27, 1685, spent his active years 
 occupied in the calling of a shipwright. On 
 April 22, 1708, he married Content Tower, 
 who died December 17, 1730. Joseph 
 Souther (fourth), a native of Cohasset, born 
 November 20, 1721, married Abigail Kent, 
 October 10, 1744; and both died in 180S. 
 Their son, John Souther, the grandfather of 
 Edward B., born in Hingham, Mass., Febru- 
 ary 15, 1755, married on December 21, 1780, 
 Deborah Leavitt. 
 
 John Souther (second), the father of Ed- 
 ward B., was born September 13, 1781, in the 
 part of Cohasset that was then known as 
 Beechwood Swamp. When he was a lad he 
 removed with his parents to Hingham, where 
 he attended the district school and then the
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Derby Academy. Afterward he worked at 
 ship-building with his father, whom he suc- 
 ceeded in business, carrying it on alone from 
 the time of his father's death until 1815. 
 Coming then to Norfolk- County, he bought a 
 large tract of land situated about half-way be- 
 tween Ouincy and Ouincy Point, and which 
 was afterward known as Souther's Hill. Here 
 he had carried on ship-building for some years 
 when, in 1835, he retired in favor of his eldest 
 son, John I.. Souther. For some years he was 
 a stockholder of the Mount Wollaston Bank. 
 He was a Whig in politics; and, besides serv- 
 ing as Selectman for a long period, he repre- 
 sented the town in the State legislature several 
 terms. He was quite prominent in local 
 matters, taking great interest in all beneficial 
 enterprises, and was one of the building com- 
 mittee of the town hall and of Adams 
 Temple, the Unitarian church. On January 
 20, 1805, he married Lydia Lincoln, a daugh- 
 ter of Jonathan and I.ydia (Nichols) Lincoln, 
 of Hingham, and by her became the father of 
 ten children. These were: John, born Feb- 
 ruary 2, 1806, who died October 18, i8gi ; 
 William, born March 7, 1808, who died July 8, 
 1867; Henry, born May 6, 18 10, who died 
 May 9, 1892; George, born March 21, 1813, 
 who died October 19, 1837; Frederick, born 
 April II, 181 5, who resides in Quincy; Lydia 
 L., born March 6, 181 7, who on August 30, 
 1838, married the late T. W. Averill, and 
 died March i, 1891 ; Charles Nichols, born 
 May II, 1 8 19, who is a resident of Napa City, 
 Cal. ; Hannah Lincoln, born July 27, 1821, 
 who is the wife of Emery Souther; Catherine 
 C. , born January 20, 1824, who married 
 William Appleton, now of Westboro, Mass. ; 
 and Edward B. , the subject of this biography. 
 Both parents were active members of the Uni- 
 tarian church. The father's death occurred in 
 March, 1878. 
 
 Edward B. Souther attended the public 
 schools of Ouincy and a private school in 
 Northboro. He afterward became a clerk in 
 the grain store of his brother Henry. Later 
 he bought out his brother, and carried on 
 the business alone for the ensuing tv/o years. 
 In 1850 he went across the Isthmus to Feather 
 River, California, where he met a family party, 
 consisting of his brothers, Henry and Fred- 
 
 erick, Henry's son Henry, and his brother-in- 
 law, William Appleton, who had made the 
 journey by way of the Cape. They all went 
 directly to the mines; but Mr. .Souther stayed 
 but a year, preferring life in Massachusetts. 
 On October 21, 1851, .shortly after his return 
 home, he went on a gunning excursion, and 
 was so unfortunate as to shoot off his right 
 hand while loading his gun. In the following 
 January he took charge of the grist-mill on the 
 property his father had purchased when he first 
 came to this town, and operated it until 1858. 
 On March 29, 1869, he bought his present 
 business, which was then very small, handling 
 but one edition of one paper each day. He 
 has since greatly enlarged his operations, re- 
 ceiving four editions of the Boston Globe and 
 three of the other daily papers. He has also 
 a large trade in the leading magazines, and in 
 fancy articles, tobacco, and cutlery, carrying 
 the best line of the latter to be found outside 
 of Boston. 
 
 Mr. .Souther is a Past Grand of Mount Wol- 
 laston Lodge, and treasurer of Manet Encamp- 
 ment, I. O. O. F. , and a member of Shawmut 
 Canton, Patriarchs Militant. On February 
 26, 1846, he was first married to Sarah H., 
 daughter of Josiah Adams, of Quincy. Of 
 his six children, four are now living, namely: 
 Sarah Adelaide, the wife of Tilson A. Mead, 
 who is the principal of the Chapman School, 
 I'2ast Boston, Mass. ; Edward W. and Henrj' 
 Lincoln, both of Boston; and Elizabeth 
 Adams, the wife of Dr. Frederick Illsley, of 
 Chelsea, Mass. The mother, who was an 
 active member of the Unitarian church, to 
 which Mr. Souther also belongs, died October 
 29, 1868. Since then he married Mary E. , 
 daughter of Perez Chubbuck, of Ouincy. Of 
 the two children of this marriage, Mary Adams 
 is living. 
 
 OHN HENRY DINEGAN, a real es- 
 tate dealer and note broker, is a well- 
 known business man of Ouincy and 
 one of its most active citizens, and 
 was born in Ouincy, September 3, 1856, son 
 of the late Daniel and Mary Ann (Ward) 
 Dinegan. The father, who was a native of 
 County Longford, Ireland, went to England
 
 J. VARNUM ABBOTT.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 .^5 
 
 when a small boy, and resided there until a 
 short time after his marriage. Coming then 
 to the United States, he settled in Quincy, 
 where he followed the trade of a boot-maker, 
 which he had learned in the old country, 
 until the breaking out of the Rebellion. He 
 then enlisted for service in the war with a 
 company of nine months' men. At the end ot 
 that time he re-enlisted in Company G, Forty- 
 second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer In- 
 fantry, in which he served until taken prisoner 
 by the Confederates. After spending several 
 months in the rebel prison at Galveston, he 
 was released; and, his term of enlistment hav- 
 ing expired, he was honorably discharged from 
 the Union army. Returning to Uuincy then, 
 he was engaged in the work of a tanner and 
 currier until he received a stroke of apople.xy, 
 from which he never fully recovered. Two 
 years later he suffered a third stroke, causing 
 his death in iSSi. His wife, Mary Ann, a 
 daughter of John Ward, of Staffordshire, Eng- 
 land, had nine chiklren born, of whom si.x are 
 now living. Her daughter Alice married 
 Maurice Keohan, of Weymouth, Mass. ; Mar- 
 garet is the wife of Andrew McPherson, of 
 Quincy; and Emily married John O. McDon- 
 nell. The others are: Mary Ellen, Daniel 
 Wanl, and John Henry. 
 
 John Henry Dinegan received his education 
 in Quincy, being graduated from the Quincy 
 High School with the class of 1872. At once 
 he began life for himself, entering a grocery 
 store as a clerk, a capacit)- in which he con- 
 tinued five years. Then he purchased his em- 
 ployer's interest in the store, and afterward 
 profitably conducted it until 1891. In that 
 year he made a change in his occupation, be- 
 coming an operator in realty and notes. His 
 executive and financial ability is acknowl- 
 edged, and he often fills offices requiring expe- 
 rience and shrewdness. He is also one of the 
 directors of the Quincy Co-operative Bank. 
 
 On October 5, 1882, Mr. Dinegan married 
 Hannah M., daughter of William and Hannah 
 Webb, of Quincy. They have had six chil- 
 dren, of whom Mary Webb, Alice, and Emily 
 are living. Mr. Dinegan is a member and 
 the sexton of St. John's Catholic Church. In 
 politics he takes an independent course, vot- 
 ing for the best men and measures regardless 
 
 of parly. l'"or a time he was the chairman of 
 the Board of Health, and he has served lor 
 three years on the Board of Assessors. He is 
 the Treasurer of the Royal Society of Good 
 Fellows; has membership in Monticello 
 Lodge, No. 13, A. O. U. W., of Charles- 
 town, Mass.; and is Chief Ranger of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Catholic Order of P'oresters. 
 
 VARNUM ABBOTT, president of the 
 J. V. Abbott Manufacturing Company 
 of I'2ast Dedham, Mass., manufacturers 
 of loom pickers, strappings, and other 
 leather goods, was born June 7, 1836, in An- 
 dover, Mass., a son of Moody B. Abbott. 
 
 The Abbot, or Abbott, family is one of the 
 oldest in Andover. The founder of the 
 branch to which the subject of this sketch be- 
 longs was "George Abbot, of Rowley," so 
 called to distinguish him from others of the 
 name who came from England to Massachu- 
 setts more than two hundred and fifty years 
 ago, and died at his home in Rowley in 1647. 
 His son, George,- who came with him, settled 
 in Andover in 1655, and there married, in 
 1658, Sarah Farnum. The line is thus con- 
 tinued: Nehemiah,' born in 1667, who was 
 Deacon of the .South Church in Andover 
 thirty years; his son, Nehemiah,-* who settled 
 in Lexington, and was Town Treasurer; Will- 
 iam,' a farmer who lived in Andover; and 
 Jeduthan,'" of Andover, who was the father of 
 Jeduthan,' grandfather of i\Ir. Abbott, of Ded- 
 ham. (An interesting account of descendants 
 of George Abbot, of Rowley, is contained in 
 the Essex Antiquariaji for July, 1897 (edited 
 by Sidney Perley, and published in Salem), to 
 which we are indebted for some of the facts 
 here given.) 
 
 Jeduthan Abbott, second of the name, was 
 a prosperous farmer in Andover. He was 
 exceedingly fond of horses, always keeping 
 fine stock, and was prominent in military cir- 
 cles, in the War of 181 2 serving as Captain 
 of a company of .State militia. He married 
 Betsy Bridges, of Andover, also the descend- 
 ant of an old Colonial family; and they 
 reared two children, Moody B. being the 
 younger. Both he and his wife lived to be 
 seventy-four years old.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Moody B. Abbott was born and reared on 
 the homestead in Andover, and in that beauti- 
 ful hill town spent his sixty-nine years of 
 life, engaged the larger part of the time in 
 agricultural pursuits. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Hannah V. Noyes, was also 
 born in Andover, a daughter of Frederick 
 Noyes, a well-to-do farmer, who reared a fam- 
 ily of ten children. She was a bright and 
 active woman of eighty-five years, when she 
 died April 9, 1897. Of her seven children 
 four survive, namely: Charles M,, of Califor- 
 nia; J. Varnum; Sarah M. ; and M. Elizabeth, 
 wife of Richard A. Ward. Both parents united 
 with the West Congregational Church in their 
 younger days. The father was a man of some 
 prominence, and took an active part in local 
 affairs, serving in many of the town offices. 
 
 J. Varnum Abbott completed his education 
 at Phillips Academy in Andover, pursuing his 
 studies there three years. He began his busi- 
 ness life as clerk in a country store, where he 
 had an experience in selling various kinds of 
 merchandise, including grain, groceries, light 
 and heavy hardware, and dry goods. After 
 three years in that position he went to Boston, 
 and was employed eighteen months as clerk in 
 a large wholesale and retail dry-goods house. 
 In 1857 he began learning the trade of a ma- 
 chinist at North Andover, entering the ma- 
 chine shops of Davis & Furber, manufacturers 
 of woollen machinery, staying there until after 
 the breaking out of the late Civil War. 
 
 In May, 1861, Mr. Abbott was made First 
 Sergeant of a company of Volunteer Infantry 
 that was formed in North Andover to aid in 
 putting down the Rebellion; but, before the 
 company could be mustered into the United 
 States service, word came from the office of 
 the Adjutant-general that no more troops were 
 then needed by the government. The com- 
 pany was accordingly disbanded, and Mr. Ab- 
 bott resumed his former occupation. In 1862 
 Mr. Abbott again offered his services to his 
 country, enlisting in Company A, Thirty-third 
 Massachusetts Regiment, as a private. A 
 short time after his enlistment he was seri- 
 ously injured, and, not being able to do active 
 duty, was placed in the office of the military 
 governor. General Slough, of Ohio, at Alex- 
 andria, Va., as a clerk, a position which he 
 
 filled until receiving his honorable discharge 
 in December, 1862. 
 
 Returning at once to North Andover, he re- 
 sumed his former work in the machine shop, 
 continuing there until 1864. From that time 
 until 1874 he was employed in the shops of 
 the Grover &• Baker Sewing Machine Com- 
 pany. Coming then to Dedham to establish 
 himself in business on his own account, he 
 began the manufacture of his present line of 
 goods on a modest scale, being the pioneer of 
 this industry. His trade rapidly increased; 
 and he was making fine progress when, in 
 1883, his buildings and tools were completely 
 destroyed by fire. At this time he had a large 
 force of men at work, Charles E. Luce, his 
 son-in-law, being a partner. The plant was 
 rebuilt and newly equipped, and in 1885 the 
 company was formed and incorporated under 
 its present name. The business has steadily 
 increased, new orders constantly coming in 
 from all parts of the country, so that even in 
 the recent time of financial depression new 
 hands had to be hired to complete the work, 
 and the buildings have had to be enlarged 
 from twenty-two feet by thirty feet, to twenty 
 two feet by seventy-five feet. One secret of the 
 great success of this enterprising firm is that 
 none but the best material and tools are used. 
 
 Previous to Mr. Abbott's engaging in the 
 manufacture of loom pickers, the work was 
 done wholly by hand. Machines invented by 
 Mr. Abbott and his son-in-law, Mr. Luce, 
 when introduced completely revolutionized 
 the business, their labor-saving qualities 
 enabling the company to produce better goods 
 at less cost than the hand-made. All the 
 goods placed on the market by this company 
 are now made by machinery of Mr. Abbott's 
 and Mr. Luce's invention. Some of these 
 machines have been patented, and rights to use 
 them have been sold to other manufacturers at 
 remunerative prices. 
 
 Mr. Abbott has been thrice married. In 
 1857 he married Mary F. Frye, a daughter of 
 Stephen Frye, of Andover. She died at the 
 age of twenty years of consumption, a disease 
 which carried off many of her family. Mr. 
 Abbott's second wife was Mary J. Sutcliffe. 
 She was the mother of one child, a daughter, 
 Jennie E. The maiden name of the present
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVFKW 
 
 37 
 
 Mrs. Abbott was Lucy J. Rogers. She was 
 born in Danvers, Mass., a daughter of L. C. 
 Rogers. The two children born of the third 
 marriage are: Helen F. and Florence R. 
 Jennie E., the eldest daughter, is the wife of 
 Charles E. Luce, D. M.D. , who was engaged 
 in business with Mr. Abbott until 1890. In 
 that year he was graduated from the Harvard 
 Dental College, and then went to Frankfort- 
 on-the-Main, Germany, and later to .Stuttgart, 
 where he is successfully engaged in the prac- 
 tice of his profession, being the only Ameri- 
 can dentist in the place. Mr. and Mrs. Luce 
 have two children — Elmer V. and Marguerite. 
 Helen F. Abbott, Mr. Abbott's second daugh- 
 ter, is an accomplished musician, having stud- 
 ied two years in Germany, completing her ed- 
 ucation at the Boston Conservatory of Music. 
 She is now supervisor of music in the schools 
 of Bristol, R.I. Her sister, Florence R. Ab- 
 bott, a graduate of the Bridgewater Normal 
 School and of the Cambridge Kindergarten, 
 is a teacher in the Endicott School. 
 
 Mr. Abbott is an unswerving Republican in 
 politics, and has been a member of the Re- 
 publican Town Committee. He has been re- 
 peatedly urged to accept public office, but has 
 persistently declined. He is prominent in 
 the order of Odd Fellows, being a charter 
 member of Samuel Dexter Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
 and a member of Monterey Encampment, No. 
 60, Hyde Park; he is a member of the Royal 
 Arcanum and R. S. G. F., in which he 
 has filled all the chairs; he i.s also a mem- 
 ber of the Home Circle, of which he has 
 been Grand Vice-Leader two years and Grand 
 Leader the same length of time; and is now 
 an instructor in the Supreme Council. He is 
 an active member of the Charles W. Carroll 
 Post, No. 144, G. A. R., of which he has 
 been Commander; and he belongs to the 
 Fisher Ames Club of Dedham. He is a regu- 
 lar attendant of the Episcopal church, of 
 which his wife and children are members. 
 
 TgTENRY A. BELCHER, of Randolph, 
 j-^-l the present Representative of the 
 Jjs I Seventh Norfolk District in the 
 General Court, was born in Ran- 
 dolph on August 6, 1844. A son of Henry 
 
 and Harriet Belcher, both natives of this 
 town, he comes of ICnglish origin, and traces 
 his ancestry back to a Belcher who settled in 
 Braintree, Mass., in 1639. ^^ grew to man- 
 hood in his native town, attending the public 
 schools and later the Stetson High -School. 
 When thirteen years old he entered the cm- 
 ploy of Francis Townseml, who kept a general 
 merchandise store in Randolph, and remained 
 with him for several years. In his twentieth 
 year he went to Boston, where he became a 
 salesman in the great dry-goods establishnTcnt 
 of Jordan, Marsh & Co. In 1873 he became a 
 buyer, and the manager of their dress-goods 
 department. Three years later he entered the 
 firm of R. H. White & Co, a connection that 
 lasted until January i, i8g6, when he with- 
 drew. In that period of twenty years he 
 shared and, in a large degree, was instrumen- 
 tal in securing the business success which the 
 firm of R. H. White & Co. is known to have 
 achieved. Mr. Belcher is a financier of un- 
 usual ability, and his judgment and. advice 
 have been earnestly sought by numerous so- 
 cieties and corporations having large financial 
 interests. He is now a director of the Boyls- 
 ton National Bank of Boston, and is a trustee 
 in the Turner Library at Randolph. He is a 
 member and Past Master of Norfolk Union 
 Lodge, F. & A. M.; and he is Deputy Grand 
 Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Mr. Belcher married Hannah 15. Nye. a 
 daughter of Stephen and Mary A. Nye, of 
 Sandwich, Mass. He is a Republican in ])ol- 
 itics, and he was elected to his present office 
 as Representative on the Republican ticket. 
 He is identified with the LJnitarian church, 
 and is a liberal supporter of its various enter- 
 prises. Mr. Belcher is the owner of one of 
 the most beautiful and attractive homes to be 
 found in Norfolk Comity. The spacious and 
 elegant mansion is surrounded by lawns and 
 shrubbery in harmony with its architecture. 
 Mr. Belcher's career as a business man needs 
 no eulogy. To his marked natural abilities 
 as a business manager, his good judgment 
 and sound sense, he united push, honesty, and 
 a determination to succeed; and as a result he 
 rose from the position of clerk to that of 
 partner in one of the foremost mercantile con-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 cerns in the United States, the possessor of a 
 handsome fortune. His life stands forth as a 
 brilliant example for younger men, and will 
 undoubtedly be an inspiration for many years 
 to the youth of his native town. 
 
 r3RGE F. HUSSEY, the well-known 
 superintendent of the Jenkins Manu- 
 facturing Company's works at East 
 Braintree, is a native of Albion, Me. Born 
 in June, 1846, he is a son of Benjamin and 
 Elizabeth E. Hussey, both also natives of the 
 State of Maine. He remained at home until 
 si.xteen years of age, attending the public 
 schools. When President Lincoln issued the 
 first call for nine-months troops, Mr, Hussey, 
 then a mere lad, responded by enlisting in 
 Company G of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regi- 
 ment. He served for nearly a year, doing duty 
 around Fort Hudson, La., sharing in General 
 Banks's Red River campaign, and fighting in 
 the siege of Fort Hudson, at Irish Bend, and 
 in other minor engagements. He subsequently 
 enlisted in Company H of the Second Maine 
 Cavalry, which was attached to the Ninteenth 
 Army Corps, and took part in sundry cavalry 
 raids, principally made in Louisiana and 
 Florida. Having spent more than two years 
 in the cavalry service, he was discharged. 
 Then he returned to Maine, and for a short 
 time attended the academy at Freedom. 
 Afterward he learned the trade of machinist, 
 and worked for several years as journeyman. 
 In 1880 he came to East Braintree for the pur- 
 pose of building some special machinery for 
 the plant of which he is now the superintend- 
 ent. He had worked here as machinist for 
 about a year when he was made foreman, or as- 
 sistant superintendent. This position he held 
 until May i, 1889, when he was appointed to 
 the post of superintendent left vacant by the 
 death of S. F. Jenkins, the former superin- 
 tendent. The Jenkins Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, of which he is the official representa- 
 tive, manufactures boot and shoe laces, wetting 
 cords, and braids. The plant is located on 
 the Monatiquot River at East Braintree, and 
 is run by water-power and by steam. It em- 
 ploys on an average forty operatives, and is 
 carrying on a highly successful business, 
 
 Mr. Hussey is a self-made man, and enjoys 
 universal confidence and esteem. In politics 
 he is a Republican, and he favors every move- 
 ment for the public good. He is a member of 
 General Sylvanus Thayer Post, No. 87, 
 G. A. R., at South Braintree; and of Ncpon- 
 set Lodge, No. 84, I. O. O. F., at Neponset. 
 Mr. Hussey's wife was formerly Mary M. 
 Dike, of Sebago, Me. 
 
 ENRY F. BICKNELL, one of the 
 prominent merchants of East Wey- 
 mouth, was born in this town, 
 March 26, 1824, son of James and 
 Nancy (Wilder) Bicknell. His father was a 
 native of Weymouth; and his mother was born 
 in Hingham, Mass. The Bicknell family is 
 one of the best known in this locality. (A 
 more extended account of its ancestry will be 
 found in the biography of Zachariah L. Bick- 
 nell.) James Bicknell, who was a shoemaker, 
 and followed that trade in Weymouth and 
 Hingham, died in 185 i. He was an industri- 
 ous man and an esteemed member of the com- 
 munity. Of the several children reared by 
 him, Henry F. is the only survivor. 
 
 Henry F. Bicknell was reared and educated 
 in East Weymouth. At the age of ten years 
 he began to learn the shoemaker's trade, and 
 he followed it afterward as a journeyman for 
 about twenty -seven years. Then he engaged 
 in manufacturing, in company with Q. L. 
 Bicknell and E. G. Gardner, under the firm 
 name of Bicknell, Gardner & Co. A year 
 later he became the sole proprietor of the 
 business, and thereafter carried it on alone 
 until 1885, when he relinquished it to enter 
 the grocery business, which he has since fol- 
 lowed. His prosperity began at the start; 
 and his ability and regularity have gained the 
 confidence of his business associates and the 
 public generally, who give him a liberal share 
 of their patronage. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican, and is in favor of all movements 
 relative to increasing the prosperity of the 
 town. He was one of the incorporators of the 
 East Weymouth Savings Bank, which he 
 serves in the capacities of trustee and a mem- 
 ber of its Investment Committee. He is a 
 Master Mason, a member of South Shore
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 39 
 
 Commandery, Knights Teni])lar, antl an Odd 
 I'Y'llow. 
 
 Mr. liickncdl married Iktscy C. Our, of 
 Hingliam, and lias liad tliree children. Of 
 these the only one living is Clara K., the 
 wife of Peter W. French, of this town. IVIr. 
 and Mrs. Bicknell attend the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 RANK WALLACE BRETT, M.D., a 
 representative physician of South 
 Braintree, was born in Hingham, 
 Mass., May 14, 1S61, eldest son of Mersena 
 and Ann S. (Loring) Brett. His father, a na- 
 tive of Duxbury, a mason by trade, is now re- 
 tired from active business, and resides in Bos- 
 ton. The Doctor's mother was a descendant 
 of Thomas Loring, one of the earliest settlers 
 of Hingham, where he drew a house lot in 
 September, 1635. 
 
 Frank W. Brett was educated in the public 
 schools of Hingham, graduating from the high 
 school ; and from his thirteenth to his eigh- 
 teenth year he worked more or less at his 
 father's trade. Entering the Bridgewater 
 State Normal School at the age of eighteen to 
 prepare for teaching, he was graduated in 
 1880, and first taught school in Norwell, 
 Mass. Two years later he became preceptor 
 of the Hanover Academy at Hanover, Mass., 
 where he remained six years, resigning to 
 become the principal of a grammar school in 
 Needham, Mass. In 1891 he came to Brain- 
 tree as principal of the Monatiquot School, 
 and he remained in that capacity here for 
 four years. He had developed a strong taste 
 for chemistry and kindred branches of sci- 
 ence, and he frequently lectured upon these 
 subjects. During his years of teaching in 
 Braintree he attended lectures at the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston; 
 and in 1894, immediately after receiving his 
 degree, he was appointed professor of bacte- 
 riology there. In the fall of 1895 Dr. Brett 
 began the active practice of his profession in 
 South Braintree. He now commands the pa- 
 tronage of a steadily increasing number of the 
 residents of the town, and enjoys the confi- 
 dence and esteem of the public at large. 
 
 Dr. Brett married August 2, 18S5, Annie J. 
 
 Cuming, of Hingham. They have two sons 
 — Afley L. and Roy C. The Doctor is a 
 valued member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society and of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation. He is also well known in the best 
 fraternities of the vicinity, being identified 
 with Rural Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at 
 Ouincy, with the I. O. O. F. at South 
 Braintree, and the United Order of the 
 Golden Cross at Hanover, Mass., being one of 
 the charter members of Fraternal Command- 
 ery, No. 260. He holds a prominent position 
 in the town, and is serving at the present time 
 on the School Board of Braintree. 
 
 RKDERICK BARNICOAT, a skilful 
 granite sculptor of Ouincy, was born 
 in Penryn, Cornwall, England, April 
 7, 1857, son of Thomas P. and Emma (Cur- 
 dew) Barnicoat. The father, also a native of 
 Penryn, was there for many years a contracting 
 mason, having a large business and employ- 
 ing many men. His wife, Emma, likewise a 
 native of Penryn, bore him nine children. 
 These are: Elizabeth, the wife of James 
 Coles, of Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Emma, 
 the wife of James Hogg, also of Leeds; Mary 
 Hannah, the wife of Henry Worsdell, of 
 Ouincy, Mass. ; Charlotte, a school teacher in 
 Birmingham, England; John, of Providence, 
 R.I.; lidwin, of Mylor, Cornwall, England; 
 Frederick, the subject of this sketch; S. 
 Henry, of Ouincy, Mass.; and Charles, of 
 Providence, R.I. 
 
 Frederick Barnicoat was educated, and 
 learned the trade of a granite cutter in 
 Penryn, England, living there until twenty- 
 four years old. Emigrating then to America, 
 he settled in Westerly, R.L Here he fol- 
 lowed his trade for five years, and subse- 
 quently in Boston for six months. After com- 
 ing to Ouincy in 1886, he had been employed 
 as a carver and statue cutter for two years, 
 when he started in business for himself, 
 being the only person in the city making a 
 specialty of statue cutting. Since then, by re- 
 markably artistic work, he has achieved a 
 wide reputation, and now receives orders from 
 all parts of the Union. He has done much 
 work for soldiers' monuments. In the last
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 year he cut and shipped thirty -three figures, 
 employing as assistants about twenty-two men. 
 He tai<e.s great interest in anything connected 
 with the development of the granite industry, 
 and is one of the directors of the T. W. 
 Smith & Co. Granite Turning Company. 
 
 Mr. Barnicoat is a member of the Sons of 
 St. George. He married Mary M. Lawry, 
 who was born in Penryn, England, daughter of 
 Ale.xantler Lawry. They have seven children 
 living; namely, Charles, Gertrude, Stanley, 
 Nelson, Minnie, lunnia, and Frederick, Jr. 
 
 LISHA HAVVES, a retired contractor 
 and builder of North Stoughton, was 
 born in this town, April ig, 1814, 
 son of John and Eunice (Worthington) Hawes. 
 His father was born in Stoughton in 1785, 
 and his mcjthcr in Canton, Mass., in 1790. 
 His paternal grandparents, Elisha and Sarah 
 (Wentworth) Hawes, of Canton, had a family 
 of six children; namely, Samuel, Elijah, 
 l{nos, John, Ruth, and Rebecca. Grand- 
 father Hawes followed agricultural pursuits 
 until his death, which occurred in 1796, and 
 was caused by an accident. 
 
 John Hawes, son of the elder Elisha, was 
 engaged in farming and teaming during his ac- 
 tive period, and was an able and industrious 
 man. He died December 10, 1877, at the ad- 
 vanced age of ninety-two years; and his wife, 
 who lived to the age of ninety years, died 
 December 14, 1880. Both were members of 
 the Baptist church. They reared seven chil- 
 dren, as follows: Alpheus, William, Elisha, 
 Mather !■;., Abigail, Elijah, and Emery. 
 Alpheus Hawes, who is no longer living, mar- 
 ried for his first wife Lucy J. Stephenson, of 
 Ohio, and for his second, Jane Tucker, of 
 Canton, Mass. William, who was a shoe man- 
 ufacturer, married Charlotte Hawes, of .Stough- 
 ton, the two being now deceased. Mather E., 
 who married Laura Bond, of Vermont, was 
 originally a shoe manufacturer, was afterward a 
 schoolmaster, still later a Universalist min- 
 ister, and for a time was engaged in the real 
 estate business in I'ioston. For several years 
 he was connected with the Boston post-office, 
 and he is now residing in that city. Abigail 
 is the widow of Charles Upham, late of Can- 
 
 ton, and is now residing in Los Angeles, Cal. 
 Elijah, who married Jane Wadsworth, of Ver- 
 mont, was formerly a shoe manufacturer, 
 and went to California. Emery, who was in 
 early life engaged in shoe manufacturing, is 
 now a merchant and Postmaster at North 
 Stoughton. His first wife was Lucy A. 
 Wentworth, of Canton ; and his present wife 
 was formerly Mrs. Emeline Packard Snell, of 
 Brockton. 
 
 Elisha Hawes was educated in the common 
 schools of Stoughton; and at the age of eigh- 
 teen he went lo Roxbury, where he learned the 
 carpenter's trade. Four years later he re- 
 turned to his native town, and, starting upon 
 his own account as a contractor and builder, 
 was actively engaged in that business for sixty 
 years, during which time he erected many 
 dwelling-houses and other buildings in this 
 village. He retired in 1896, but is still a 
 strong and active man, possessing the agility 
 of a much younger person. 
 
 Mr. Hawes has been three times married. 
 His first wife, with whom he was united on 
 January 24, 1837, was Hannah A. Tucker, of 
 Roxbury, who died December 25, 1853. His 
 second wife, Mrs. Eunice P. Glover, widow of 
 Elijah Glover, of Stoughton, died March 26, 
 1891 ; and on November 12 of the same year 
 he married Mrs. Susan H. Bailey, a daughter 
 of Daniel and Susan (Fowler) Herring. Her 
 father was born in Dedham ; and her mother 
 was born in Dorchester, Mass. Daniel Her- 
 ring resided in Dedham, and followed the 
 trade of mason in connection with farming. 
 His wife died in 1851, and he died in 1S53. 
 Mrs. Hawes's first husband, Calvin C. Bailey, 
 a native of Vermont, who was engaged in the 
 express business, died February 15, 1876. 
 
 By his first marriage Mr. Hawes became 
 the father of seven children; namely, Lucy 
 Ann, Marsena B., Ellen Mary, Alvah T., 
 Hannah A., Allah, and Elisha S. Lucy Ann 
 Hawes married John T. Farrington, of Mil- 
 ton, and is now residing in Iowa, where her 
 husband is a prosperous farmer. She has six 
 children — John M., Lucy E^lla, Lizzie Lee, 
 Marsena, Elisha, and Charles H. Marsena B. 
 Hawes died July 7, 1864, while serving in 
 the Civil War. Ellen Mary is the wife of 
 Charles W. Cook, formerly of Milton, and
 
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 ELISHA HAWES.
 
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 43 
 
 now a farmer in Berkley, Mass. Her chil- 
 dren are: Arthur B., Charles, Beulah, Lizzie 
 A., and Samuel H. Alvah T. is a carpenter 
 in Boston. He married Alice Davenport, and 
 she died leaving two children — Silas G. and 
 Jennie. Hannah A. married J. Henry Far- 
 rington, a farmer of Milton, and her children 
 are: Emily, Fred M., Mary A., Frank H., 
 Lucy A., Ellen R., Dora, and Evelyn. Allah 
 Hawes died November i, 1852. Elisha S., 
 who is following the carpenter's trade in 
 North Stoughton, married Hattie Lothrop, of 
 Avon, Mass., and has four children — George 
 M., Mildred, Bertha, and an infant deceased. 
 By his second union Mr. Hawes had one child, 
 Alia, who married H. Addison, of Nova 
 Scotia, and died November 20, 1884. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Hawes is a Republican, 
 but has never sought for or held office. He is 
 connected with Rising Star Lodge, F". & 
 A. M., and the Sons of Temperance. He is 
 a member of the Universalist church, and 
 served upon the Parish Committee for several 
 years. 
 
 6Thoi 
 
 HOMAS LADNER WILLIAMS, a 
 ^1 jeweller, optician, and engraver, of 
 Quincy, was born at Penzance, County 
 Cornwall, England, December 8, 1850, son of 
 William James Williams. The great-grand- 
 father, James Williams, Sr. , was a lifelong 
 resident of England and for many years a 
 blacksmith at one of the mines in Devonshire. 
 The following incident related of him shows 
 the high regard in which he was held by his 
 workmen. During the progress of some war, 
 probably that of the American Revolution, 
 when there was a great demand for men, he 
 was forcibly seized by the press gang, and 
 taken to Plymouth. The miners became so 
 incensed at this outrage that they marched in 
 a body to that town, and, arriving at the phy- 
 sician's office just as James Williams was 
 undergoing an examination, walked in unan- 
 nounced, their leader saying, "There is a 
 little man here we want." Without further 
 formalities, they picked up the said James 
 Williams, and, placing him upon their shoul- 
 ders, carried him home, a distance of fifteen 
 miles. 
 
 William James Williams, a son of James 
 Williams, Jr., who was also a well-known 
 blacksmith of Devonshire, was born in Tavi- 
 stock, Devonshire, England, April i, 1825, 
 and was there educated. He learned the 
 stone-cutter's trade, which he followed 
 throughout a large part of his life. In 1872 
 he came to America, and, after working as a 
 stone-cutter in Maine for two years, returned 
 to his native land. Subsequently, in the ca- 
 pacity of contractor under the English govern- 
 ment, he was engaged in building bridges and 
 a railroad in Central Africa for about two and 
 one-half years. He married Mary Hosking, 
 who had four children. These are: Sarah 
 Ann, the widow of William Berryman, late of 
 Penzance, England; Elizabeth, the wife of 
 Professor James Hicks, a teacher of swim- 
 ming in Penzance; William James, a resident 
 of Wales; and Thomas L., the subject of this 
 sketch. The father died in 1884. Both par- 
 ents were attendants of the Protestant Meth- 
 odist church. 
 
 Thomas L. Williams left school when 
 eleven years old. Three years later he began 
 working at the stone-cutter's trade, which he 
 followed for about twelve years. On reaching 
 man's estate he emigrated to the United 
 States, and settled first at Dix Island, Me., 
 where he assisted in cutting the granite for 
 the New York post-office. In 1873 he went 
 to Hurricane Island in Kno.x County, Maine, 
 and there worked on the granite destined for 
 use in the erection of the St. Louis post- 
 office. During the four years he spent here, 
 his evenings and the rest of his leisure time 
 were employed in watch repairing. That he 
 had a propensity for this occupation from his 
 early years is easily recalled to him by his 
 vivid recollection of a thrashing he received in 
 that period for fooling with an American clock 
 that his father had just brought home. In 
 1877 he removed to Tenant's Harbor, in the 
 same county, and established himself as a 
 jeweller and country merchant, later deal- 
 ing in gentlemen's furnishing goods. With 
 characteristic enterprise, in order to advertise 
 the business, he started a small sheet called 
 Toivn Talk, the only paper in the town, and 
 soon had a list of five hundred subscribers in 
 the place, the population of which was three
 
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 JilOGkAl'HlCAL REVIEW 
 
 thousand souls. In 1887 Mr. Williams dis- 
 posed of this store, and came to West Quincy. 
 Here he embarked in the jewelry business, 
 and also started a paper known as the West 
 Quincy Enterprise, which he had conducted 
 for about six months, when he sold out. His 
 present jewelry store, which he opened in 
 i8g6 in the city proper, is one of the largest 
 establishments of the kind in Norfolk County. 
 I'ersistent study during the last few years, 
 supplemented by practical lessons obtained in 
 lioston, has made him a skilful optician. 
 
 While in politics he is a sound Republican, 
 he is popular with both parties. In West 
 Ouincy, which usually goes Democratic by 
 three to one, he came within twenty votes of 
 election to the Council, without any effort on 
 his part. He is a member of the Sons of St. 
 George. The first of his three marriages was 
 contracted with Annie Cook, of St. George, 
 Me., who died leaving one child, Annie. His 
 second marriage was made with Mary J. Rich- 
 ards, a native of England, who became a resi- 
 dent of Hurricane Island. Of his children by 
 her, Lauretta E. is living. His present wife, 
 born in Burlington, Vt., whose maiden name 
 was I'2va B. Sullivan, has borne him one 
 child, Thomas Lindall. 
 
 LISHA THAYER, a prominent business 
 man of 15raintree, was born November 
 5, 1825, in East Randolph (now 
 Holbrook). A son of Elisha and Annie 
 (Reed) Thayer, he is descended from John 
 Thayer, a pioneer settler of l^raintree. His 
 father, who was an agriculturist by occupa- 
 tion, in early life kept the toll-gate at East 
 Hraintree for a time. Of his parents" other 
 chiUlren, two survive, namely: Charles, who 
 lives in South Braintree; and I{!liza A. Capen, 
 of Stoughton, Mass. 
 
 Mr. Thayer spent his early youth in Hol- 
 brook, Mass. At the age of si.xteen years he 
 was apprenticed to L. G. Horton, of Ouincy, 
 to learn the baker's trade. Subsequently, for 
 a time, he followed this calling in Milton and 
 South Weymouth, and then engaged in the ex- 
 press and grocery business at South Braintree, 
 under the firm name of Cook & Thayer. Sub- 
 sequently the partial loss of health induced 
 
 him to remove to Wentworth, N.H., where he 
 was engaged in farming and the lumber busi- 
 ness for two years. At the end of that time, 
 his health being improved, he resumed the 
 grocery business at the old stand. His next 
 venture was in the manufacture of carpet 
 slippers; anil for several years, in partnership 
 with Edward Potter, he carried on the Boston 
 Carpet Slipper Company, afterward establish- 
 ing the same business alone in Boston. He 
 was for three years the president of the Hing- 
 ham Steamboat Company. When the inter- 
 ests of this company were sold to another con- 
 cern, Mr. Thayer engaged more or less in 
 real estate. During the administration of 
 President Buchanan he was Postmaster of 
 South Braintree, and for the past fourteen 
 years he has served as Justice of the Peace. 
 He married Celia A. M. Bates, of Hanover, 
 Mass., whose children by him are: Mrs. S. A. 
 Willis, of Worcester, Mass; and Mrs. Charles 
 H. Sprague, of Braintree. Mr. and Mrs. 
 S. A. Willis have four children — Mabel, 
 Nettie, Lila, and Samuel T. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sprague have one daughter, PZthel B. 
 
 Mr. Thayer is identified with the Knights 
 of Honor at South Braintree, Mass. He has 
 spent two winters in Florida. Several years 
 ago, with one of the well-known Raymond 
 parties, he spent four weeks in Mexico, going 
 as far South as the tropics, and making a two 
 weeks' stay in the city of Mexico, where he 
 was an interested spectator of a genuine bull 
 fight. On the same excursion he visited San 
 Francisco and other parts of California, be- 
 sides spending some time at Salt Lake City. 
 
 r^ATHAN TUCKER, one of the promi- 
 nent business men of Avon, was born 
 
 in Milton, Mass., April 2, 1820, 
 son of Nathan and Kate (Tucker) 
 Tucker. The Tuckers, who come of English 
 origin, are one of the old families of Milton. 
 Amariah Tucker, Mr. Tucker's grandfather, 
 resided here for a number of years. Nathan 
 Tucker, Sr., who was a farmer, and his wife 
 were born in Milton. 
 
 The subject of this sketch grew to manhood 
 on his father's farm, receiving his education 
 in the public schools and at the Milton Acad-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 47 
 
 cmy. He remained under the parental roof- 
 . tree until he was eighteen years old. After 
 attaining his majority, he was engaged for six 
 years in the retail shoe business in Cincin- 
 nati. Returning to the East, he then came to 
 Avon, and engaged in the manufacture of 
 boots and shoes. Two of iiis brothers were at 
 first associated with him, under the firm name 
 of E. Tucker & Co. He was afterward in 
 business with one brother, the firm name 
 being Tucker & Brother. Later he retired 
 from the shoe business, and was afterward for 
 a number of years in the retail coal trade in 
 East Stoughton. He is now the sole proiirie- 
 tor of a large retail ice business in ]5rockton. 
 
 On December 27, 1853, Mr. Tucker was 
 married to Miss Almira Brett, a native of 
 Rochester, Mass., who died in 1S91. She 
 left one daughter, Ilattie L. , who is now the 
 wife of Elmer C. Packard, of Brockton, Mass., 
 and has two children, Nathan E. and Emerson 
 H. In politics Mr. Tucker is a Republican. 
 He was a member of the first committee 
 called to promote the project of building the 
 Avon Water Works, and of the first Board of 
 Commissioners. He is still a member of the 
 latter body, and he has served as its treasurer 
 and superintendent since its organization. 
 Mr. Tucker represented this district in the 
 legislature in 1865, when Avon was still a 
 part of the town of Stoughton. For two years 
 he served as Selectman of the original town 
 of Stoughton. Mr. Tucker is a member of 
 the Boston branch of the American Legion of 
 Honor. 
 
 "irA ANH^L N. TOWER, a civil en- 
 
 I 1 gineer and superintendent of the 
 
 ^_ X^y Gohasset Water Works, was born in 
 Cohasset, Mass., February 28, 
 1846, son of Abraham H. and Charlotte 
 (Bates) Tower. His parents were natives of 
 this town ; and a more complete account of his 
 ancestry may be found in a sketch of his 
 brother, Abraham H. Tower, which appears 
 upon another page of the Revif.w. The sub- 
 ject of this sketch was educated in the public 
 schools, and also made a special study of civil 
 engineering. He remained at home for some 
 time, assisting his father, who carried on a 
 
 large dairy farm. After the death of the elder 
 Tower he went to National City, Southern 
 California, where for two years he was en- 
 gaged in mercantile business with Martin 
 Sanders, under the firm name of .Sanders & 
 Tower. Subsequently, selling out his inter- 
 est in the concern, he returned to Cohasset, 
 and in 1886 was appointed superintendent of 
 the water-works. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can. He is connected by membership with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 Mr. Tower married Miss Almatia Josephine 
 .Smith, daughter of Captain Joseph Smith, late 
 of this town, and has two children — Bessie 
 L. and (iilbert S. 
 
 .AI'OLblON B. FURNALD, a Con- 
 stable and Justice of the Peace of 
 Oiiincy, was born in this town, 
 August 24, 1828, son of Lemuel 
 1^'urnald. The grandfather, Thomas Furnald, 
 was a farmer in Nottingham, N.H., his native 
 town. 
 
 Lemuel Furnald, who was born and reared 
 in Nottingham, assisted in the management of 
 the parental homestead until after his mar- 
 riage. Then, coming to Massachusetts, he 
 was engaged in farming during the period of 
 the War of 18 12 on Thompson's Island in 
 Boston Harbor. Subsequently he removed to 
 Hough's Neck, and there continued his chosen 
 occupation for some years. In 1837 he gave 
 u]j farming, and was thereafter engaged in the 
 trade of stone-mason, making his home in 
 Ouincy. He attended the Unitarian church, 
 and, considering his means, was a liberal con- 
 tributor toward its support. His wife, in 
 maidenhood Mary Wiggin Evans, a native of 
 Lee, N. H., and a daughter of Edmund Evans, 
 had ten children, of whom two died young. 
 The others were: Mary W. , born October 10, 
 1806, who is the widow of Benjamin Freeman, 
 late of Sumner, Me.; Caroline W., born Oc- 
 tober 18, 1S08, who is the widow of Jonathan 
 Merritt, late of Ouincy, Mass. : Eliza W., 
 born December 6, 18 10, who was the wife of 
 Joshua Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., and died 
 March 8, 1S96; Harriet W., who married 
 Aaron Ouimby, of Lyndon, Vt. ; Dolly E., 
 born June 29, 1815, who died at the age of fif-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 teen years; Ann M., living in Ouincy, who 
 successively married William T. Meade and 
 the late William Everson ; Bryant N., born 
 May 27, 1823, who died in 1894; and Napo- 
 leon B., the subject of this biography. The 
 father died June 4, 1850. 
 
 Withdrawn from school at the age of twelve, 
 Napoleon B. Furnald worked at various em- 
 ployments until 1854. Beginning in that 
 year, he dealt in and repaired furniture for 
 nearly a score of years. On July 5, 1872, he 
 was appointed by the Governor to the State 
 constabulary force, on which he served until 
 1875, when that branch of service was abol- 
 ished. For many years thereafter he was en- 
 gaged in detective work, also serving as Con- 
 stable of Quincy. In the capacity of detec- 
 tive he had charge of many notable cases. 
 One of the more important was the Langmaid 
 case, in which he discovered and arrested the 
 murderer, and subsequently, by finding the 
 knife with which the miscreant had severed 
 his victim's head from her body, and procur- 
 ing other evidence, had him convicted. He 
 was the leader in the capture and conviction of 
 James Henry Costley for the murder of Julia 
 Hawk, a case which Judge Devens pronounced 
 one of the most interesting murder cases in 
 the history of the country. It was also en- 
 tirely through his efforts that James MacKen- 
 ney was convicted and sentenced for life, for 
 the murder of William McCormick at Brain- 
 tree. The State officers had given up this 
 case, the medical examiner had given alcohol- 
 ism as the cause of death, and the body had 
 been buried a week when Mr. Furnald began 
 his labors, with the result stated above. He 
 has been in the detective business more or less 
 for the past quarter of a century, and for more 
 than a score of years he has held the commis- 
 sion of Justice of the Peace. In addition, he 
 does an extensive collecting business, giving 
 a good deal of attention to delinquent tax- 
 payers. 
 
 Mr. I-'"urnald belongs to Mount Wollaston 
 Lodge and Manet P^ncampment of the 
 I. O. O. F. ; to Amana Lodge, Daughters of 
 Rebecca; to Mahantom Tribe, I. O. R. M. ; 
 to the Knights of Honor; and to the Knights 
 and Ladies of Honor. In 1850 he married 
 Elizabeth Fowles Dodge, a daughter of Ben- 
 
 jamin Dodge, of Beverly, Mass. They have 
 three children — Thomas E. , Mary Lizzie, 
 and Henry Plumer. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fur- 
 nald are members of the First Unitarian 
 Church of Ouincy. 
 
 /^STeORGE E. REED, treasurer of the 
 y [5 I South Weymouth Savings Bank, was 
 ^ — born in this town, August 2, 1852, 
 son of George and Maria H. (Vinal) Reed. 
 The Reed family has long been identified 
 with the town of Weymouth, which was the 
 birthplace of George E. Reed's father, his 
 mother being a native of Scituate. Several 
 members of the family have been able and suc- 
 cessful businessmen here; and Josiah Reed, 
 an uncle of the subject of this sketch, was for 
 several years president of the Savings Bank. 
 
 George E. Reed was educated in his native 
 town, and in his youth learned the art of 
 telegraphy. For some time he was employed 
 by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
 road Company as a station operator in Michi- 
 gan, Ohio, and Indiana, successively; and he 
 was later employed by the Eastern Railway 
 Company in the same capacity at Amesbury, 
 Mass., and at Saco, Me. Returning to South 
 Weymouth in 1887, he became book-keeper 
 for H. B. Reed & Co., shoe manufacturers, 
 with whom he remained until July i, 1895, 
 when he was appointed to his present position 
 of treasurer of the Savings Bank. He is also 
 a member of the Board of Trustees. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican, and is now serving as 
 Town Auditor. 
 
 Mr. Reed married Clara A. Lowell, of Ken- 
 nebunk. Me. ; and he and his wife are the par- 
 ents of two daughters — Mary G. and Clara L. 
 Mr. Reed is a Deacon of the Union Congrega- 
 tional Church and treasurer of that society. 
 He joined the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows in Saco, Me., and is still a member of 
 the lodge in that city. 
 
 -OHN PRESCOTT BIGELOW, of 
 
 Ouincy, the secretary of Park County 
 Gold Mining Company, with an office 
 in Boston, was born June 17, 1848, in 
 the house he now occupies. A son of Captain
 
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 49 
 
 Jabez Bigelow, the fifth in the line of succes- 
 sion bearing the name of Jabez, he is a de- 
 scendant of an old Colonial family. His 
 grandfather, Jabez Bigelow (fourth), was a 
 farmer and shoemaker by occupation, and at 
 one time was the proprietor of a hotel in 
 Westminster, Mass., where he took a promi- 
 nent part in town affairs, and served in the 
 more important public offices. 
 
 Captain Bigelow was born in Charlestown, 
 Sullivan County, N.H., in 1801. He learned 
 the boot-maker's trade, which he followed in 
 Charlestown until 1830. In that year he 
 came to Quincy, where he established himself 
 as a manufacturer of shoes, and for many years 
 after carried on a flourishing business, being 
 one of the foremost manufacturers of his time. 
 He was a strong Whig in his political affilia- 
 tions, and he served on the Quincy School 
 Board for a number of terms. For years he 
 was Captain of the Quincy Light Infantry; and 
 he was a member of Mount Wollaston Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F. By his wife, Eliza, who was a 
 daughter of Ebenezer Green, of Quincy, he be- 
 came the father of ten children, si.\ of whom 
 attained maturity. The latter were : Amanda, 
 who married Dr. William G. Dawes, of Mai- 
 den, Mass. ; Adelaide, who married Augustus 
 Peabody, of Danvers, Mass. ; Josephine, the 
 wife of Ira P. Goodale, also of Danvers; Lor- 
 ing, who served in the Civil War, and was 
 killed at the second battle of Bull Run; John 
 Prescott, the subject of this biography; and 
 Annie Maria, the wife of William Mason, of 
 Binghamton, N.Y. The Captain and his wife 
 were both members of the Adams Temple 
 Unitarian Church. 
 
 John P. Bigelow obtained his early educa- 
 tion in the Quincy schools. Afterward he 
 became the private secretary of Stephen Morse, 
 a broker, who in former years had been his 
 teacher. In 1868 he accepted the position of 
 head book-keeper in the establishment of John 
 H. Pray, Sons & Co., remaining with that 
 firm ten years. From 1878 until 1884 he was 
 employed as an expert accountant, and in the 
 ensuing ten years he was an accountant in the 
 Internal Revenue Department. In 1894 he 
 started in business as an accountant and broker 
 at 13 Exchange Street, Boston. Also, since 
 then, he has been the secretary of the Park 
 
 County Gold Mining Company, and he has be- 
 come a director and the vice-president of the 
 Alpha Tunnel Gold Mining Company. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow is a member of Merry Mount 
 Lodge, Knights of Honor. An ardent Repub- 
 lican in i^olitics, he is the vice-chairman of the 
 Republican City Committee. He was a mem- 
 ber of the City Council two years, but he re- 
 fused a nomination for Representative to the 
 State legislature. In July, 1867, he was mar- 
 ried to Sarah Gill Osborne, a daughter of 
 Henry Osborne, of Hingham, Mass. Three 
 of the children born to him have since died. 
 The others are: Grace Green, the wife of 
 Otis A. Edgarton, of Boston, Mass. ; John P. 
 Bigelow, Jr.; Martin S. ; Loring; Jabez; and 
 Celia Elizabeth. Both parents are members 
 of the Adams Temple Unitarian Church. 
 
 HARLES SIMMONS, the well-known 
 contractor and builder of East Wey- 
 mouth, was born September 3, 
 1832, in the part of Scituate now 
 called Norwell, son of Peleg and Lucy 
 (Damon) Simmons, both also natives of Scit- 
 uate. The Simmonses, like so many of the 
 old-families in this section, can trace their an- 
 cestry back to good old Pilgrim stock and to 
 the earliest settlers. The founder, Moses 
 Simmons, came to America on the ship "Fort- 
 une," and landed at Plymouth Rock in 1621. 
 One of the family's ancestors was a soldier of 
 the Revolution. Mr. Simmons's father was a 
 farmer by occupation and a lifelong resident 
 of Norwell, where he was much respected. 
 
 Beginning when he was eight years of age, 
 Charles Simmons worked out on farms for 
 eight years during the summer, and attended 
 the three months" term of school in the 
 winter. Living about a mile away from the 
 school-house, he was obliged to walk the dis- 
 tance even in the severe winter weather. At 
 the age of sixteen he went to Boston, and 
 began to learn the trade of carpenter and 
 joiner. After two yeais spent there, he came 
 in 1850 to East Weymouth, where he served 
 another year as an apprentice. Then he 
 worked as a journeyman until 1856, since 
 which time he has followed the business of 
 contractor and builder. He has built the
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ^£ 
 
 
 Masonic Hall in J<]a.st Weymouth, the Odd 
 Fellows Hall in South Weymouth, and a 
 number of public buildings, as well as many 
 residences, in Weymouth town. He has also 
 remodelled the Masonic Hall at Abington, 
 built a school-house in Hingham, and a num- 
 ber of summer cottages at Nantasket Beach. 
 
 Mr. Simmons married Esther M. Stoddard, 
 of Hingham, and has one daughter, Edith, 
 now the wife of Wallace Bicknell, of Wey- 
 mouth. He takes an earnest interest in the 
 affairs of the town, and is a loyal supporter of 
 the Republican party. He attends the Con- 
 gregational church, and is a member of the 
 Masons" and Odd Fellows' Lodges of East 
 Weymouth, both of which organizations he 
 has served in various capacities. 
 
 MOS CHURCHILL, a venerable and 
 honored citizen of Ouincy, Mass., 
 who, by persistent toil, frugality, 
 and judicious investments, acquired 
 a handsome property, is now spending the de- 
 clining years of his long and useful life in re- 
 tirement. He was born at West Bolton, 
 Canada West, December 31, 1816. A son of 
 Amos Churchill, Sr., he comes of the English 
 Churchills, one of the oldest families in Eng- 
 land, who stood high in royal favor, and many 
 of whom were knighted for deeds of valor 
 and other meritorious conduct. The Ameri- 
 can family began with Josiah Churchill, born 
 in England, probably about the year 1612, 
 who settled in Wethersfield, Conn., in i6ti6. 
 In 1638 he married l-llizabeth, daughter of 
 Nathaniel Foot. The children of this mar- 
 riage were: Elizabeth, born January 15, 1642, 
 who married Richard Buck; Hannah, born 
 July I, i''>44; Anne, born in 1647; Joseph, 
 the ne.xt in line of descent; Benjamin, born 
 February 16, 1652; and Sarah, born Decem- 
 ber 1 1, 1657. 
 
 Joseph Churchill, born February 3, 1649, 
 married Mary (surname unknown) on May 13, 
 1674. Their children were: Mary, born 
 April 6, 1675, who married David Edv/ards ; 
 Nathaniel, born July 9, 1677, who married 
 Mary Hulbert; Elizabeth, born in 1679, who 
 married Thomas Butler; Dinah, born in 
 1682, who became the wife of Thomas Wick- 
 
 ham; Samuel, born in 1688, who married 
 Martha Boardman ; Joseph, born in 1690, who 
 married Lydia Dickerman ; David and Jona- 
 than, twins, born in 1692; and Hannah, born 
 in 1696. The line was continued through 
 Jonathan, who was married, and reared three 
 children, namely: Jonathan and Dorcas, 
 twins, born in 1724; and William, born in 
 1727. The second Jonathan married Lydia 
 Smith, and they had ten children, namely: 
 Oliver, who died in infancy; Jonathan, born 
 November 25, 1749; Hezekiah, born Febru- 
 ^•■y 5> 1752; Josiah, born February 25, 1754; 
 Lydia, born July 5, 1756; Moses, born De- 
 cember I, 1759, who married Mary Crosby; 
 Oliver, born April 15, 1762, who married 
 Eunice Barnes; Rebecca, born July 20, 1764, 
 who married Solomon Ranney; Abigail, born 
 December 2, 1766, who died at the age of four 
 years; and Amos, the father of the subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 Amos Churchill, Sr., was born October 19, 
 1770, in Connecticut, where he learned the 
 trade of a tanner. He subsequently went to 
 Fairfax, Vt., and thence to Canada, where he 
 was for several years engaged as a shoe manu- 
 facturer and farmer in the town of West Bol- 
 ton. Eventually he returned to his former 
 home in Fairfax, Vt., where he spent the re- 
 mainder of his life, and died at the advanced 
 age of eighty-six years, a worthy and respected 
 citizen. On October 25, 1795, he married 
 Deborah Thornton, who was born in Rhode 
 Island, December 26, 1776. They became 
 the parents of ten children, born as follows: 
 Electa, December 14, 1796; Leman, May 6, 
 1798; Hiram, December 5, 1800; Constant, 
 November 2, 1802; Oliver, January 28, 1804; 
 Harriet, March 6, 1808; Otis, May 28, 1810; 
 Deborah, May 6, 1812; Harlow, August 12, 
 1814; and Amos, the subject of this biog- 
 raphy. 
 
 The early years of Amos Churchill were 
 chiefly employed in working on the home farm 
 and attending the district school during the 
 winter terms. After attaining his majority% 
 he came to Massachusetts, and learned stone- 
 cutting in Medford. Here he afterv.'ard 
 worked as a journeyman for three years. He 
 settled in Westford, Vt., after his marriage, 
 and was there engaged in general farming for
 
 FREDERICK TOWER.
 
 IMOCRAI'IIICAI, KF.VIKW 
 
 S3 
 
 two or more years. In 1845, desirous of re- 
 suming his trade, he came to Quincy, Mass., 
 where for twenty years he was employed in 
 stone-cuttin<;- for other people. During the 
 latter part of tiiis period he hail charge of the 
 granite works of Williams & Spellman. In 
 1865, having by this time saved some money, 
 he formed a partnership with Charles R. 
 Mitchell, and under the name of the Mitchell 
 Granite Works began to quarry and cut and 
 polish gi-anite. Four years later Mr. Church- 
 ill purchased his partner's interest, and there- 
 after conducted a very lucrative business until 
 his retirement from active work in April, 
 1892. The product of his establishment was 
 widely reputed for superior quality and finish, 
 and met with a ready sale in all parts of the 
 Union. 
 
 Mr. Churchill is a stanch Republican in 
 politics. Public-spirited and liberal, he takes 
 a deep interest in the welfare of the city. An 
 esteemed Mason, he belongs to Rural Lodge 
 of Ouincy and to the South Shore Command- 
 ery of East Weymouth. On September 27, 
 1842, he married Lucretia, the seventh child 
 and youngest daughter of Alexander Rowe, of 
 Campton, N.H. Mr. Rowe, who was born 
 in Moultonboro, N.H., February 17, 1780, 
 lived to the age of fourscore years. In 1805 
 he married Sally Bean, who was born at 
 Sandwich, N.H., April 9, 1787, and died at 
 Campton, July 28, 1840. Their daughter Lu- 
 cretia was born in Campton, N.H., January 4, 
 1824. Mr. and Mrs. Churchill have one 
 child, Ellen B., who married J. H. Emery, of 
 Quincy, Mass., and has two children — Alice 
 J. and Florence B. 
 
 DONIRAM J. WHITE, the well-known 
 wholesale and retail milk dealer of 
 Braintree, was born here, October 
 23, 1834, son of Livingston and 
 Maria (Capen) White. He is a direct de- 
 scendant of Captain Thomas White, who was 
 a Selectman and a prominent resident of Wey- 
 mouth in 1640. Michael White, his grand- 
 father, was First Lieutenant of a company in 
 the Revolutionary War; and an uncle, Captain 
 Calvin White, was a soldier in the War of 
 1812. 
 
 Livingston White, who was a native of 
 Randolph, early in life came to Braintree, 
 where he carried on the manufacture of boots 
 and shoes, and was also engaged in agricult- 
 ural pursuits. In the latter part of his life 
 his entire attention was given to the milk busi- 
 ness. During the forties he served as Se- 
 lectman of I^raintree. While an enterprising 
 business man, he was a member of the Baptist 
 church and a consistent Christian. Two of 
 his children survive — Adaline and Adoniram, 
 both residing in this town. 
 
 Adoniram J. White received a common- 
 school education in his native place. From 
 his youth he has been engaged in the milk 
 business, in which line he has been very suc- 
 cessful. Ill politics he is a Republican, and 
 he takes much interest in the welfare of the 
 town. Though often solicited to run for office, 
 he has never permitted the use of his name, 
 preferring the quietude of his home life. He 
 married Emma 1'. Chi Ids, a daughter of the 
 late Rev. Mr. Childs, of Gilmanton, N.H. 
 Mr. White is a member of the Baptist church, 
 and is familiarly known as Deacon White, 
 from his office in that church. 
 
 /^APTAIN FREDERICK TOWER, of 
 I Vj-^ Cohasset, superintendent in the 
 
 \^U^^ United States light-house .Service, 
 was born in Cohasset, October 31, 
 1820. His parents were Captain Nichols and 
 Anna (Bates) Tower. 
 
 Captain Nichols Tower was a seafaring man 
 and a vessel-owner, engaged for years in mack- 
 erel fishing. He was also for a long period 
 in the insurance business, acting as agent for 
 several companies. Active, capable, and ju- 
 dicious, he was highly respected, and was 
 elected to various public offices. He served 
 as Selectman and Overseer of the Poor in Co- 
 hasset, and for a number of terms represented 
 the town in the General Court. He had com- 
 mand of a company of militia, and served in 
 the War of 181 2. 
 
 Frederick Tower was reared and educated in 
 Cohasset. He naturally took to the sea, and 
 in 1 84 1, when he was twenty-one years old, 
 began to assist in putting down buoys. He 
 was occupied in this way also during a part of
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 the following year. A few years later, char- 
 tering his vessel, he assisted in building the 
 first light-house on Minot's Ledge. This 
 work kept him employed during a part of 
 1847, 1848, and 1849. In 1850 he signed a 
 contract with the government, agreeing to take 
 care of buoys and beacons for two years in 
 Ipswich, Boston, and Cape Cod Bays, the 
 north-eastern part of what is now the Second 
 Light-house District; and he gave bonds to 
 paint the buoys in accordance with the act of 
 Congress requiring red on the starboard and 
 black on the port side. His work was so sat- 
 isfactory to the collector of the port of Boston 
 that when his contract expired in 1852, just 
 after the Light-house Board had been estab- 
 lished, that gentleman gave him a letter 
 to Commodore Downs, United States Navy, 
 the first Light-house Inspector. Commodore 
 Downs hired Captain Tower to put down 
 buoys by the piece, the Captain furnishing 
 everything required. In March, 1853, the In- 
 spector bought the buoys, sinkers, etc., which 
 Captain Tower then had on hand, chartered 
 his vessel for a buoy tender, and engaged the 
 Captain to command her. Commodore Downs 
 was an old man, and shortly resigned his posi- 
 tion as Inspector; and Lieutenant Knox of the 
 United States Navy was appointed in his 
 place. In June, 1853, the new Inspector 
 bought at New Bedford a vessel of forty -seven 
 tons, which was taken to the navy-yard at 
 Charlestown, and fitted for a light-house 
 tender. She was the first government light- 
 house tender in the district. The name first 
 given her was "The Elizabeth," but on ac- 
 count of her speed she was afterward called 
 the "Active." In July, 1853, Captain Tower 
 was placed in charge of this vessel, and dur- 
 ing the war he was instructed to keep on the 
 lookout for strange vessels, and when he 
 sighted one to run for the nearest port, and 
 telegraph to Boston. In 1870 Inspector Com- 
 modore Blake, United States Navy, transferred 
 him to the district then in charge of General 
 James C. Duane, United States Army; and 
 the Captain went to Portland with his vessel 
 in July. In December of the same year he 
 was given a position in the light-house en- 
 gineer's office in Boston. He has now been 
 identified with the light-house service for 
 
 over half a century, and is one of the most 
 valued and trusted employees of the govern- 
 ment. From the establishment of the Light- 
 house Board in 1852 until the present time 
 (the fall of 1897), forty-five years, he has 
 had but one week's vacation. His services 
 are confined to the First and Second Light- 
 house Districts. With the exception of his 
 failing sight, CajUain Tower is still active 
 and in good health, though seventy - seven 
 years old. 
 
 In February, 1844, he was married to Eliz- 
 abeth P. Bates, who bore him four children, 
 of whom two are now living — Anna B. and 
 David B. Captain Tower was originally a 
 Whig, and has been affiliated with the Repub- 
 lican party since its birth. He belongs to 
 Mount Lebanon Lodge, F. & A. M., of Bos- 
 ton; the Consistory in the same city; and has 
 taken all but the last degree of the Scottish 
 Rites. He has a large circle of acquaint- 
 ances, and is highly esteemed wherever he is 
 known. 
 
 1849, 
 sided 
 
 OHN H. STETSON, cashier of the 
 First National Bank of South Wey- 
 mouth and Treasurer of the town, was 
 born in East Sumner, Me., October 28, 
 son of Solomon M. Stetson. He re- 
 in his native town until fourteen years 
 old, when he moved with his parents to Hart- 
 ford, Me., and his education was acquired in 
 the public schools, both common and high. 
 After teaching several terms of school in his 
 native State, in 1872 he came to Massachu- 
 setts, and settled in South Weymouth. He 
 was appointed assistant cashier of the First 
 National Bank in 1874, and since 1880 has 
 ably filled the position of cashier. He is 
 also a director and a member of the Invest- 
 ment Committee. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican, and has served as Town Treasurer since 
 1885. He is a member of the Board of 
 Water Commissioners and a trustee of the 
 John S. Fogg Fund. He is connected with 
 Orphans' Hope Lodge, F. & A. M. ; South 
 Shore Commandery, K. T. ; and is a charter 
 member of Wildey Lodge, I. O. O. F. Mr. 
 Stetson married Emily T. White, by whom he 
 has one daughter, Anna M. He is deeply in-
 
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 terested in the general welfare of the town 
 and the development of its business resources, 
 and is much esteemed for his persona! worth 
 and public spirit. 
 
 T^HARLES MONROE JENNESS, of 
 I v-^ Ouincy, a dealer in hardware and 
 ^^Hs artists' materials, was born March 
 
 2g, 1867, at North Hampton, Rock- 
 ingham County, N.H., a son of Richard Jen- 
 ness. Of English origin, this family for sev- 
 eral generations gave leading citizens to the 
 maritime part of New Hampshire, and at one 
 time owned a large portion of the town of 
 Rye. John Bean Jenness, the great-grand- 
 father of Charles M., died August 21, 1S40, 
 aged seventy-seven years. His son, Richard 
 Jenness, Sr., the next in line of descent, who 
 was a farmer in New Hampshire, died at Rye 
 Beach, February 28, 1S68, aged eighty-three 
 years. 
 
 Richard Jenness, Jr., born at Rye Beach in 
 1825, died in that place December 6, 1885. 
 He learned the carpenter's trade in early man- 
 hood, and, coming to Boston, worked as car- 
 penter and builder for some years, being known 
 as a superior workman. When his parents be- 
 came advanced in years, he returned to the 
 old homestead in Rye, and was thereafter en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits on the ances- 
 tral farm until his demise. A sound Demo- 
 crat in politics, he was very active in local 
 affairs, took a deep interest in educational 
 matters, and filled various town offices. He 
 married Sarah B., daughter of Stacy Page, of 
 North Hampton, N.H., and reared with her 
 two children — Charles Monroe and Ivan 
 Douglas. In religious belief he was a Uni- 
 versalist, and his wife was an Adventist. 
 
 Having received his elementary education 
 in the common schools, Charles Monroe Jen- 
 ness completed his studies at Comer's Com- 
 mercial College in Boston. Subsequently he 
 learned the carpenter's trade from his father, 
 and followed it for about three years, being 
 at Fort Meade, Fla., for one year. In 1889 
 he located in Ouincy, and for nearly a year 
 worked at carpentering in this town. Then 
 he purchased his present hardware store of 
 Samuel Spear. By systematic and progres- 
 
 sive methods he has since acquired a large 
 business, and made his establishment the 
 headquarters of the surrounding district for 
 the line of goods that he carries. 
 
 Mr. Jenness is one of the leading Republi- 
 cans of this section of the county, and has 
 been a delegate to both county and State con- 
 ventions of his party. He is a member of 
 Mount Wollaston Lodge and Manet Encamp- 
 ment, I. O. O. F. ; of Carrie E. Ruggles 
 Lodge, Rebecca Degree; of Grand Canton 
 Shawmut, of Boston; of Maple Lodge, 
 Knights and Ladies of Honor; of the Knights 
 of Malta, Boston Commandery; of the Phile- 
 dian Senate, K. A. E. O., of which he is Ex- 
 cellent Senator; and of the Princes of Kem, 
 of which he is Illustrious Khedive. 
 
 OHN A. RAYMOND, clerk and treas- 
 urer of the East Weymouth Savings 
 Bank and Town Clerk of Weymouth, 
 was born here, January 9, 1848, son of 
 Robert B. and Lavina P. (Nash) Raymond, 
 both parents natives of this town. 
 
 The Raymond family came from Middle- 
 boro, the first in Weymouth being Alvah, a 
 shoe manufacturer, grandfather of Mr. John 
 A. He fought as a soldier in the War of 
 1 812, and was very influential as a citizen, 
 taking an active part in all public affairs, 
 holding the offices of Selectman and Overseer 
 of the Poor, and serving also as Representa- 
 tive to the legislature. A great-grandfather 
 of Mr. John A. Raymond, Robert Bates, was 
 a soldier of the Revolution. Robert B. Ray- 
 mond, above named, was a shoe cutter by trade 
 and a man of decided musical ability. He was 
 a prominent citizen, and universally esteemed. 
 
 Mr. John A. Raymond passed his boyhood 
 in his native town, and was educated in the 
 common schools. At the age of fifteen he 
 began his working life as clerk in the mercan- 
 tile business of Henry Loud, of East Wey- 
 mouth; and he remained in this business for a 
 quarter of a century. His trustworthiness 
 was fully demonstrated here, his painstaking 
 and exact business methods were recognized, 
 and in 1888 he was chosen clerk and treasurer 
 of the East Weymouth Savings Bank. This 
 responsible position he has filled to the present
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 time, commanding the entire confidence of the 
 public, and looked up to as a man of unques- 
 tioned honor. Mr. Raymond is likewise treas- 
 urer of the Congregational Society of East 
 Weymouth. In 1879 h<^ was elected Town 
 Clerk of Weymouth; and he has been re- 
 elected every year since, his long term of 
 office bearing testimony to the efficiency of 
 his service. 
 
 Mr. Raymond married Alberta Waldron, of 
 Augusta, Me., and is the father of si.x chil- 
 dren—Fred W., Emma VV., Alberta W., 
 Robert 11, Walter L. , and Marion. He is a 
 member of Orphans' Hope Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 of East Weymouth; of Crescent Lodge, 
 L O. O. F., of East Weymouth ; and trustee 
 of Pilgrim Lodge, K. of H. He is a qualified 
 Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, and 
 is one of the most progressive and energetic 
 citizens of the town. 
 
 /^2rK()RGH 11. HITCHCOCK, a wcU- 
 \ '•) I known dealer in granite, carrying on 
 an extensive business in Quincy, was 
 born in Boston, Mass., April 7, 1846, a son of 
 Jesse Hitchcock. He is a representative of 
 one of the earliest families of New England 
 and a direct descendant of one of the founders 
 of New Haven, Conn. It is supposed that the 
 Hitchcock family originated in Wiltshire, Eng- 
 land, where land was held in their name from 
 the time of William the Conqueror. Its 
 founder in this country, Matthias Hitchcock, 
 who was born in 1610, came from London, 
 England, to Boston on the bark "Sarah and 
 Ellen," in the spring of 1635. He was a res- 
 ident of Watertown, Mass., in 1636, receiving 
 in that year twenty-three acres of land in the 
 "Great Dividends." His name appears in 
 the records of New Haven, Conn., as one of 
 the original signers of the "foundamental 
 agreement made on the 4th of the fowereth 
 moneth, called June, 1639." He was also one 
 of the five purchasers of the "South End 
 Neck," now Flast Haven, Conn., where he, 
 with the other four owners, resided after 1651. 
 Nathaniel Hitchcock, son of Matthias, and 
 a native of New Haven, Conn., was there 
 married January 18, 1670, to Elizabeth Moss, 
 who was born in the town, October 3, 1652, 
 
 daughter of John Moss. The next in line of 
 descent was their son, John Hitchcock, first, 
 who was born in East Haven, January 28, 
 1685, and died there, October 14, 1753. He 
 was a member of the legislature during seven- 
 teen sessions, from 1739 until 1747, and was 
 a Deacon of the First Church of New Haven 
 from 1742 until his death. His first wife, 
 Mary, was a daughter of Stephen Thompson. 
 She was married to him March 4 of either 
 1707 or 1708, and died in the following year, 
 on February 27. His second wife was Abiah 
 Bassett Hitchcock. His only child by the 
 first wife, John Hitchcock (second), who was 
 born on January i of either 1708 or 1709, 
 married on March i, 1732 or 1733, Esther 
 Ford, a daughter of Matthew Ford. She died 
 in New Haven, Conn., July 11, 1749. The 
 second wife of John Hitchcock (second) was 
 the mother of John Hitchcock (third), and, 
 surviving her husband, who died in July, 
 1764, was married again. The third John 
 Hitchcock, born in New Haven, Conn., mar- 
 ried on May 2, 1774, Phebe Tyler, who was 
 born May 21, 1756, in Wallingford, Conn., 
 daughter of Colonel Ben Tyler. On May 16, 
 1768, he became one of the original settlers of 
 Claremont, N. H., where both he and his wife 
 spent their last years. Her death occurred 
 January 30, 1820, and his, July 19, 1835. 
 Their son, Jesse Hitchcock, the grandfather 
 of George H., was born in Claremont, January 
 7, 1794. He had worked at the trade of mill- 
 wright in Claremont for some time when, in 
 1842, he became a resident of Drewsville, in 
 the town of Walpole, N.H., where he re- 
 mained until his demise, March 26, 1865. 
 On July 9, 181 7, he married Chloe Grandy, 
 who was born September 7, 1796, daughter of 
 Colonel Benjamin Grandy, and who died 
 April 6, i860. 
 
 Jesse Hitchcock, Jr., who was born in 
 Claremont, N.H., February 13, 1818, re- 
 ceived his education in the common schools 
 and at an academy of his native town. On 
 attaining his majority, he located in Boston, 
 Mass., where he lived for some years. Then 
 he established himself in the mercantile busi- 
 ness in Vermont. Afterward he returned to 
 Boston, and kept a hotel and had a restaurant 
 business for some time. He retired from ac-
 
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 59 
 
 tive pursuits several years prior to liis death, 
 which occurred October 4, 1896. In 1843 he 
 married Susan K., daughter of Joseph Storey 
 Foster, of Essex, Mass. She died January 
 15, 1858, leaving these children, namely: 
 Charles E., born June 27, 1844, who lives in 
 Washington, D.C. ; George H., the special 
 subject of this sketch; Fanny V., born No- 
 vember 15, 1847, who died October 16, 1870; 
 Susan v., born December 2, 1849, who is the 
 wife of Albion C. Colby, now of Brockton, 
 Mass.; Lucy F., born October 2, 1852, who 
 married Samuel Williams, of Boston; and 
 Hiram A., born May 13, 1857, who at the 
 time of his death, January 27, 1895, was pro- 
 fessor of civil engineering at Dartmouth Col- 
 lege. Both parents were liberal in their re- 
 ligious beliefs, and attended the Universalist 
 church. 
 
 Having completed his education in the Bos- 
 ton public schools, George H. Hitchcock went 
 to work in a wholesale leather store of that 
 city, and was there employed until after the 
 Boston fire in November, 1872. Coming then 
 to Ouincy, he established his ]iresent busi- 
 ness. He does monumental work as well as 
 building, and has been ciuite successful. He 
 has one of the finest quarries in the State, the 
 ]iroduct of which is favorably known in New 
 York and New luigland. Among many large 
 and costly buildings for which he has fur- 
 nished the material may be mentioned the 
 Tribune Building and the Central Park Mu- 
 seum of Natural History in New York. He 
 is now serving as one of the directors of the 
 National Granite Bank of Quincy. 
 
 Mr. Hitchcock was married April 18, 1872, 
 to Ellen E., daughter of Thomas Baker, of 
 Marshfield, Mass. They have three children, 
 namely: Fanny V., the wife of J. Percival 
 Sears, of this city; Fay M. ; and Foster. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock attend the Congrega- 
 tional church. In politics Mr. Hitchcock is a 
 consistent Republican. 
 
 RADFORD HAWES, clerk of the 
 Board of Selectmen of Weymouth 
 IN-' J and a well-known citizen of Norfolk 
 County, was born in Weymouth, De- 
 cember 20, 1843, son of Captain Joseph and 
 
 Sarah (Pratt) Hawes, both natives of this 
 town, where his paternal grandfather, Joseph 
 Hawes, Sr., was a lifelong resident. Joseph 
 Hawes, the younger, better known as Cajitain 
 Joseph Hawes, was engaged in the fishery 
 business, trading principally in mackerel for 
 about forty years. He was master of different 
 schooners during that time, and sailed from 
 the port of Hingham, Mass. He served as a 
 Highway Surveyor of Weymouth, and took an 
 interest in building and repairing the roads of 
 the town. He was Republican in |)olitics. 
 
 Bradford Hawes was educated in the schools 
 in Weymouth. In November, 1861, at the 
 age of eighteen years, he enlisted in Company 
 K, First Massachusetts Cavalry, and was 
 attached to the army operating on the coast of 
 South Carolina and Florida, and at a later 
 period to the Army of the James. He was in 
 the battle of Olustee, Fla. , and when with 
 the cavalry along the James was more or less 
 under fire a great deal of the time. Much of 
 the last year of his service he was in the hos- 
 pital department of the Fourth Massachusetts 
 Cavalry as nurse and steward. Receiving his 
 honorable discharge, November 10, 1864, he 
 returned to Weymouth, and was employed in 
 the shoe business until the spring of 1893. 
 In that year he was elected a Selectman of the 
 town, and each succeeding year he has been 
 unanimously re-elected. During his first 
 year as .Selectman he was chairman of the 
 board. He is now clerk of the board, and is 
 also now serving his tenth year on the .School 
 Board, his entire time for the past four years 
 having been devoted to town business. In 
 politics he is a stanch Republican. 
 
 Mr. Hawes married Jeannette Fairbanks, 
 daughter of George Fairbanks, of Weymouth. 
 They have had seven children, as follows: Jo- 
 seph H., instructor in drawing in the New 
 Hampshire College of Agriculture and Indus- 
 trial Arts; Wilton L. ; Susan H.; Rachel 
 L. ; Catherine J.; Helen W. ; and Harold A. 
 Mr. Bradford Hawes is a man who has risen 
 by his own unaided efforts. He is public- 
 spirited, devoted to the best interests of the 
 town, and has served for many years on the 
 Republican Town Committee. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist church at Weymouth. He 
 is a Grand Army man, belonging to Reynolds
 
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 Post, No. 58, and is now officiating as Chap- 
 lain of the post, having previously served as 
 Adjutant. 
 
 lALPH HOUGHTON, a well-known 
 and esteemed citizen of Randolph, 
 was born in New York City, No- 
 vember 14, 1819. His father 
 Ralph Houghton, son of Jason, was a native 
 of Milton, Mass.; and his mother, Mary 
 Marsh Houghton, was a native of Boston. 
 Mr. Houghton is a lineal descendant of an 
 English-born Ralph Houghton, who came to 
 this country in 1647, first settling in Lancas- 
 ter, Mass., and later removing to Milton, 
 where he spent the rest of his life. One of 
 Mr. Houghton's great-grandfathers was Jo- 
 seph Wild, who was a commissioned officer in 
 the Continental army during the Revolution- 
 ary War. 
 
 Jason Houghton, the paternal grandfather 
 above named, was a lifelong resident of Mil- 
 ton. Jason's son Ralph, when a young man, 
 learned the trade of a baker in Hingham, 
 Mass. ; and during the War of 181 2 he and his 
 next older brother were stationed at one of 
 the forts in Boston Harbor. Some time after- 
 ward he engaged in business for himself in 
 New York City. He eventually returned to 
 Milton, and died there in 1822. 
 
 Ralph Houghton, the subject of this sketch, 
 resided with his grandfather Houghton in Mil- 
 ton from the time of his father's death till he 
 reached his fourteenth year. He then went 
 to New York City, where he attended school, 
 and was later employed in driving a baker's 
 wagon for his uncle, George W. Houghton, 
 who had succeeded to the business formerly 
 carried on by his father. In 1837 he returned 
 to Milton; and in 1843, after learning the 
 cabinet-maker's trade, he established himself 
 in business in Randolph. For a long time 
 Mr. Houghton made a specialty of manufactur- 
 ing coffins, but for several years past he has 
 given his entire attention to the business of 
 an undertaker and director of funerals. He 
 stands high in the estimation of his fellow- 
 townsmen, has served as Constable, and was at 
 one time a Coroner. In politics he is inde- 
 pendent. He has occupied important chairs 
 
 in Norfolk Union Lodge, F. & A. M.; and 
 Rising Star Lodge, No. ^6, I. O. O. F. 
 
 In 1842 Mr. Houghton was joined in mar- 
 riage with Martha M. Bennett, a native of 
 Bridgton, Me. She became the mother of 
 five children, three of whom are living, 
 namely: Mary F. ; Martha R., now Mrs. Cart- 
 wright, a widow; and Helen M. Houghton. 
 Mrs. Houghton died in June, 1887. 
 
 LBERT J. NEWELL, an enterprising 
 farmer of South Franklin, Mass., and 
 
 /j|^\ a son of Arnold J. and Eliza (Frost) 
 ^■^ Newell, was born in Franklin, May 
 '7. 1839. His grandfather was Dexter New- 
 ell, of Cumberland, R.I., who married Syl- 
 vania Brown, of Cumberland. Their son Ar- 
 nold moved to Franklin about the year 1837, 
 and there worked at his trade of boat-builder 
 for many years, besides carrying on his farm. 
 In his later years he devoted himself wholly 
 to farming. He died in 1887, and his wife is 
 now living in Franklin with her son Allen. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Newell had twelve chil- 
 dren, namely: Amelia, who married Frank 
 Boyden, of East Walpole, Mass.; Allen, who 
 is a carpenter; Miranda, who married Harry 
 Bryant, a show man in Boston ; Sarah and 
 Harriet, both deceased; Albert, the subject 
 of this sketch; Mary, the widow .of William 
 Green, of Vermont ; Evelyn, deceased, who 
 was the wife of Alfred Clarke, of Franklin; 
 Henry, also dead; Anna, who married Daniel 
 Corbin, of Franklin; Shady, deceased; and 
 Reed, who married Marion Watson, of Frank- 
 lin. 
 
 Albert J. Newell was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Franklin and at Walpole. He 
 left home when he was but thirteen years old, 
 and went to work for Colonel P. B. Clark, of 
 Franklin, with whom he remained for about 
 fifteen years, working on the farm. Then he 
 worked in a straw shop for twenty years. In 
 1862 he enlisted in Company K of the 
 Twenty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infan- 
 try, under Captain Hart, and subsequently in 
 the Civil War took part in the engagements 
 at Newbury, White Hall, Hilton Head, and 
 Spottsylvania, besides many skirmishes, com- 
 ing out of all without a wound. When his
 
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 term of enlistment expired, he returned to 
 Franklin, and there worked on a farm for the 
 ensuing five years. Then he was employed in 
 a straw shop again for two years. After that 
 he went to Lawrence, Mass., and engaged in 
 the shoe business for a while. In 1882 he 
 settled on the old Colonel P. B. Clark place 
 in South Franklin, where he has lived since, 
 occupied in general farming, but making a 
 specialty of the milk business. Besides the 
 one hundred acres of land in his farm proper, 
 he owns several lots elsewhere. The measure 
 of prosperity he now enjoys has been well 
 earned by hard work. He is a member of the 
 G. A. R. of Franklin, and he attends the Con- 
 gregational church. 
 
 Mr. Newell was married December 28, 
 1864, to Betsey W. Clark, of Franklin. Her 
 father, Colonel Paul B. Clark, was a school- 
 master for twenty years, teaching in Frank- 
 lin, Medway, VVrentham, Canton, Randoljih, 
 Bellingham, Braintree, Walpole, and Frank- 
 lin. He was on the School Committee of 
 Franklin for a number of years; and he was 
 Overseer of the Poor, Tax Collector, and Rep- 
 resentative to the State legislature in 1849. 
 Colonel Clark was a member of the Congrega- 
 tional churches in Franklin and South Frank- 
 lin for over sixty years, and he was one of the 
 Jiiost efficient church workers. His death oc- 
 curred August I, 1894, and that of his wife, 
 \n maidenhood Abigail Ann Wheeler, of 
 Millis, Mass., on March 13, 1882. They had 
 four children, of whom Mrs. Newell and Mercy 
 are living. The latter is the wife of Henry 
 Clarke, of Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Newell 
 have had six children: Abbie Ella and Eliza 
 Harding, living at home; Henry C, dead; 
 Arthur John, living at home; and two who 
 died in infancy. 
 
 LIAS ANDREWS PERKINS, who is 
 living in retirement in Quincy, this 
 county, enjoying the fruits of his 
 early years of industry, was born July 28, 
 1822, in Alexandria, N.H., son of Elias Per- 
 kins. He is a lineal descendant of John 
 Perkins, who was born in Newentj Gloucester 
 shire, England, in 1590. This ancestor, on 
 December 1, 1630, came to America with his 
 
 wife and five children. He left England in the 
 ship "Lion," on which Roger Williams was 
 also a passenger. For two years after his 
 arrival he lived in Boston. Then he removed 
 to Ipswich, where he was engaged in farming 
 until his death, in 1654. He was a De])uty 
 to the General Court held in Bostcm, May 25, 
 1636, and served on the (jrand Jury in 1648 
 and 1652. 
 
 John Perkins, Jr., born in England in 1614, 
 came to Massachusetts with his parents in 
 163 1. He went to Ipswich in 1633, and 
 there resided until his death, December 14, 
 1686. He opened the first public house in 
 that town, was (Juartermaster of the first mil- 
 itary organization of the territory and one of 
 the largest landholders of that part of Essex 
 County. His wife, Elizabeth, whose last 
 name is unknown, and whom he married in 
 1635, died September 27, 1684. Their son 
 Isaac, who was born in Ipswich in 1650, mar- 
 ried in 1669 Hannah, daughter of Alexander 
 Knight. Isaac Perkins, Jr., born in Ipswich, 
 May 23, 1676, was master of a ship for man)' 
 years, and was well known as Captain Isaac 
 Perkins in Boston, where he resided for some 
 time. The first of his two marriages was con- 
 tracted June 3, 1703, with Mary Pike, or 
 Picket, who died in 1720. The second, on 
 October 10, 1723, united him to Mrs. Lydia 
 Vifian, the widow of John Vifian. He died 
 June 14, 1725. His children were all born of 
 his first marriage. 
 
 Jacob Perkins, son of Captain Perkins and 
 great-grandfather of Elias A., was born in 
 Chebacco parish, Ipswich, in 1717. In his 
 early years he worked at shoemaking. Later 
 in life he was engaged in farming. On Au- 
 gust 30, 1743, he married Elizabeth Strong. 
 Jacob Perkins, Jr., born in Chebacco parish, 
 Ipswich, June 27, 1748, was there reared to 
 agricultural pursuits. In 1783 he purchased 
 wild land in Hebron, N.H. From this he 
 cleared a farm, which he made his home for 
 the remainder of his life, and died May 21, 
 1S23. He was an honest, God-fearing man, 
 eminently devout and strict in all things. On 
 July 28, 1774, he married Hannah Andrews, 
 who was born April 26, 1753, and died De- 
 cember 21, 1845. 
 
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 born on the homestead in Hebron, N. H., 
 March i8, 1794- He received such education 
 as the limited opportunities of those days 
 afforded. When a young man he spent a few 
 years engaged in farming near Boston, Mass. 
 Subsequently he returned to New Hampshire, 
 and, buying a farm in the town of Alexandria, 
 was afterward engaged in its management 
 until his death in 1863. He was among the 
 leading agriculturists of the county in which 
 he resided, making the raising of cattle his 
 especial business. Prominent in local affairs, 
 he represented the town in the State legislat- 
 ure, was Selectman for several years, and a 
 Justice of the Peace for a long period. In 
 connection with the last-named office he had 
 the guardianship of a number of children at 
 different times, and transacted a good deal of 
 probate business. He was known and re- 
 spected as a just and honest man. He en- 
 listed for service in the War of 1812, but did 
 not go beyond Portsmouth, as hostilities had 
 ended before he reached there. With his 
 wife, Rhoda, who was a daughter of Gideon 
 Simonds, of Burlington, Mass., he reared 
 four children, namely: Louisa Adams, who 
 married Luke Gale, of Alexandria; Elias 
 Andrews, the subject of this biography; Han- 
 nah A., the wife of David Rollins, formerly 
 of Alexandria, but now of Groton, Mass. ; and 
 Holbrook S. , of Alexandria. Both parents 
 attended the Baptist church. 
 
 Elias A. Perkins was reared and educated 
 in his native town, remaining on the home 
 farm until he was twenty-two years old. 
 Coming then to this county, he worked at the 
 carpenter's trade in Ouincy. Having already 
 learned the use of tools while a boy, he was 
 paid journeyman's wages at the end of a year. 
 After nine years' experience as a journeyman, 
 he started in business for himself, locating in 
 Dorchester as a carpenter and builder, remain- 
 ing there imtil 1865, when he settled perma- 
 nently in Ouincy. He carried on a very 
 extensive business, erecting many houses, 
 public buildings, and churches in towns near 
 Boston, and at times employing from twenty 
 to twenty-five men. For the past twelve or 
 fourteen years he has been a trustee of the 
 Quincy Savings Bank and a member of its 
 Board of Investment. He is also a director of 
 
 the Dorchester Mutual Insurance Company 
 and of the Quincy Co-operative Bank. 
 
 Mr. Perkins has been identified with the 
 Republican party since its formation, and has 
 always taken an active part in politics. He 
 was a member of the Ouincy Board of Select- 
 men for four successive years. After the city 
 charter was adopted, he served on the Board 
 of Assessors for some time, being principal 
 assessor for one year. He is a life member of 
 the Mechanics' Charitable Association, which 
 he joined in 1874. In 1863 he was married 
 to. Miss Mary Frances Hills, a daughter of 
 Alden Hills, of Hudson, N. H. He attends 
 the Unitarian church, and is very broad and 
 liberal in his religious beliefs. 
 
 ILLIAM H. H. HANCOCK, a 
 
 well-known and reliable jeweller of 
 Cohasset, was born in this town, 
 October 16, 1840, son of Horace and Susan 
 (Stoddard) Hancock. The Hancocks are of 
 English extraction. Horace Hancock was 
 born in Winchendon, Mass., in i8co. He lo- 
 cated in Cohasset when a young man, and for 
 some time was engaged in shoemaking. His 
 later years were devoted to the pursuit of agri- 
 culture. He died in 1881. Mrs. Hancock, 
 who was born in Cohasset in 1802, and died 
 in 1879, was of Scotch descent. Her father, 
 Major James Stoddard, was a member of the 
 famous Boston Tea Party, and served as an 
 artificer in the Continental army. He was 
 among the sufferers at Valley Forge during 
 the terrible winter of 1777-78. 
 
 William H. H. Hancock was educated in 
 the public schools "of Cohasset. He left 
 school at the age of thirteen; but by reading 
 and observation he has amply made up the de- 
 ficiencies in his early training, and he is well 
 informed on all matters of practical impor- 
 tance. Engaging in the manufacture of boots 
 and shoes in Cohasset in 1871, he was so oc- 
 cupied something over two years. In 1874 
 he opened a shop for making and repairing 
 watches, and some time later he added miscel- 
 laneous jewelry to his stock in trade. He 
 now has a prosperous business. Mr. Hancock 
 is a Republican, politically. Actively inter- 
 ested in the welfare of the town, he has been
 
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 AMORY FISHER.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
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 solicited to accept public office, but has uiod- 
 estly refused. He is widely known and highly 
 respected. 
 
 FISHER, for many years a 
 lent business man of Dedham, 
 
 born November 4, 18 18, in 
 Bolton, Mass., and died at his 
 home on Church Street, Dedham, March 20, 
 1894. His father, Jacob Fisher, was a farmer 
 in Bolton, where he was a lifelong resident. 
 
 Amory Fisher learned the trade of a chair- 
 maker in his younger days; but, after coming 
 to Dedham in 1S37, he worked for Joel Rich- 
 ards in the bobbin factory a number of years, 
 then engaged in the barber's business, having 
 his office in his dwelling-house, and later 
 opened a market near by. He finally em- 
 barked in the coal and ice trade, which he 
 carried on successfully for half a century, 
 being at the time of his death one of the old- 
 est merchants in this locality. Energetic, ca- 
 pable, and strictly honest in his dealings, a 
 useful citizen, he was held in high respect, 
 and, departing, was greatly missed throughout 
 the community. He was a member of the 
 Orthodo.x Congregational church, to which 
 Mrs. Fisher also belongs. 
 
 On April 6, 1841, Amory Fisher married 
 Miss Elizabeth Dexter Everett, who was born' 
 in Dedham, near the Hyde Park line, Novem- 
 ber 10, 1818. Her father, Nathan Everett, 
 who was one of a family of four children, was 
 a native of Dedham, where his parents spent 
 the later years of their lives. He was a stone- 
 cutter by trade, and was also a contractor, and 
 as such did much general work about the 
 neighborhood. He moved to the village of 
 Dedham when Mrs. Fisher was a young child, 
 and there lived until his death, at the age of 
 fifty-five years. The maiden name of the wife 
 of Mr. Everett was Hepzibah Colburn. She 
 was born in West Dedham in 1797, being the 
 descendant of a pioneer family of that local- 
 ity, and the daughter of Isaac Colburn, a me- 
 chanic, who was twice married, and who reared 
 fifteen children. Of the three children born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Everett, Elizabeth D., Mrs. 
 Fisher, is the only survivor. Mrs. Everett 
 lived a widow many years, always making her 
 
 home with Mrs. P'isher, dying here at the ven- 
 erable age of ninety-six. Her twin sister, 
 Mrs. Sally Cole, it may be mentioned, lived 
 to be ninety-three years old. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Fisher became the parents of 
 two sons, Edward P^verett and P'rank Amory, 
 botli of whom died in childhood. In 1891 
 Mr. and Mrs. P"isher celebrated the golden 
 anniversary of their marriage, the occasion 
 being a very happy one to the numerous 
 friends who participated in the festivities. 
 The comely and convenient dwelling now oc- 
 cupied by Mrs. Fisher was built by her hus- 
 band in 1846, and has well withstood the 
 winds and weather for fifty years. Other 
 buildings on the place are comparatively new, 
 having been constructed shortly after the fire 
 of 1 891, by which Mr. Fisher lost his barns, 
 grain store, carriages, and six horses. Mrs. 
 Fisher is a woman of superior intelligence, of 
 a kind and generous disposition, doing much 
 to relieve the wants of the poor, and is held 
 in high respect by all who have the pleasure 
 of her acquaintance. 
 
 T^HARLES \V. LINCOLN, the popular 
 I Vr^ and efficient Postmaster of Holbrook, 
 ^U^^ was born here, December 31, 1849, 
 son of Ephraim and Lucy A. 
 (French) Lincoln. Both parents are also na- 
 tives of Plolbrook, and still reside here. The 
 father, who is one of the most prosperous men 
 of the town, was formerly the Postmaster, and 
 filled the position with credit to himself and 
 to the full satisfaction of the townspeople. 
 
 Charles W. Lincoln obtained his early edu- 
 cation in the common schools, finishing at the 
 high school of Holbrook, which was then 
 known as East Randolph. Upon reaching his 
 majority, he engaged in the manufacture of 
 boots and shoes. After spending several 
 years as the sole proprietor of a shop, he 
 formed a partnership with N. P. Sprague, 
 with whom, under the firm name of Lincoln & 
 Sprague, the business was continued for a 
 number of years. Then Mr. Lincoln retired 
 from the firm in order to become a salesman 
 for a produce concern doing business in Bos- 
 ton. He had been in this position for two 
 years, when, in 1885, he was appointed Post-
 
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 master at Holbrook. The satisfaction he has 
 given as Postmaster is evidenced by the fact 
 that he has held the position under the suc- 
 ceeding administrations, and that he is more 
 popular to-day than he has ever been. In pol- 
 itics Mr. Lincoln is a Republican, and he has 
 served as a Registrar of Votes. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln is a member of the Masonic 
 order at Randolph. Me married Marietta H. 
 Wilde, of Holbrook, daughter of the late 
 L. F. Wilde, who was a shoe manufacturer of 
 East Randolph, now Holbrook. .Mr. and 
 Mrs. Lincoln have two children — Walter W. 
 and Henry F. 
 
 HOMAS McDonnell, the senior 
 member of the firm of McDonnell & 
 Cook, who execute cemetery and monu- 
 mental work of all kinds at South Quincy, was 
 born P'ebruary 8, 185 1, in Athlone, County 
 Roscommon, Ireland, which was also the 
 birthplace of his parents, Patrick and Bridget 
 (Cunniff) McDonnell. The father was en- 
 gaged in farming in his native county until 
 1873, when he emigrated to America. He lo- 
 cated in Quincy, Mass., where he has since 
 lived retired from active pursuits. With his 
 wife, Bridget, who was a daughter of John 
 Cunniff, of the County Roscommon, he reared 
 a family of nine children, namely: Mary, who 
 is the wife of Hugh Whoriskey, of Cambridge, 
 Mass.; John A., of Quincy; Timothy, de- 
 ceased; Thomas, the subject of this sketch; 
 the Rev. Matthew F. McDonnell, of whom 
 there is no special record; Rose A., who mar- 
 ried James F. Kelley, of the firm of McDon- 
 nell & Kelley, of Quincy; Patrick and Mar- 
 garet, both deceased ; and Theresa, a school 
 teacher in West Quincy. 
 
 Thomas McDonnell was educated in the na- 
 tional schools of Athlone, Ireland. After- 
 ward he assisted in the labors of the home 
 farm until 1871, when, with the purpose of 
 bettering his condition, he came to the United 
 States. Taking up his residence in Quincy, 
 he here learned the stone-cutter's trade. 
 After following that calling for four years, he 
 formed a partnership with his brothers John 
 and Timothy, under the firm name of McDon- 
 nell Brothers, continuing with them until 
 
 1878, when he sold his interest to the other 
 members of the firm. Entering then into 
 company with his present partner, Martin H. 
 Cook, under the name by which the firm has 
 since been known, he has carried on a thriv- 
 ing trade in monuments and general cemetery 
 work, employing about twenty-five men. He 
 is also a director of the Blue Hill Granite 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. McDonnell was married June 11, 1879, 
 to Miss Mary A., daughter of Thomas Dolan, 
 of this city. They have had nine children, 
 of whom six are living. These are: Mary E., 
 Matthew F., Thomas C, John J., Lauretta, 
 and Emily. Mr. McDonnell is a member of 
 Monticello Lodge, A. O. U. W., of Charles- 
 town, Mass. ; of the Workmen's Benefit Asso- 
 ciation; of the Royal Arcanum, John Adams 
 Council, No. 12 10, of Wollaston. 
 
 FNRY VAN NESS, an industrious 
 fruit grower of Medway, was born in 
 Caldwell, N.J., February 25, 1833, 
 son of Peter and Sally Ann (Van 
 Houton) Van Ness. The grandfather, Henry 
 I. Van Ness, was a native of Caldwell. Peter 
 Van Ness, also a native of Caldwell, was a 
 shoemaker, and followed that trade and farm- 
 ing in his native town throughout his active 
 period. His wife, who was born in Orange, 
 N.J., died in 1863. She was the mother of 
 nine children, as follows: Henry, the subject 
 of this sketch ; Hettie, who resides in Caroline 
 County, Virginia, and is the widow of Peter 
 Ryerson ; Martha Jane, who is no longer living; 
 Harriet, who married Ezra Bush, of Caldwell, 
 and died leaving two children — P'red and Ida; 
 Phoebe, who married the Rev. Henry Steel - 
 man, and resides at the homestead in Cald- 
 well; Josephine, the wife of James Wardell, 
 a machinist of Newark, N.J. ; Charlotte, the 
 wife of Samuel Wardwell, a cigar-maker in 
 Caldwell; James A., who married Carrie 
 Tompkins, and resides in Newark; and Ed- 
 ward, who is no longer living. 
 
 Henry Van Ness was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of his native town. At the age 
 of twenty-one he engaged in the cigar busi- 
 ness in Lynnfield, Mass. Three years later 
 he established himself in a general merchan-
 
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 dise business, which he subsequently carried 
 on for seventeen years. He was also con- 
 nected with the wholesale woodenware busi- 
 ness in Worcester, Mass., for a time; and he 
 was the proprietor of a general store in Ash- 
 burnham, Mass., until 1876, when he came to 
 Medway, and bought his present farm, lie 
 now owns about forty-five acres, which he has 
 brought to a high state of cultivation, and de- 
 votes to general farming, dairying, garden- 
 ing, and fruit-growing. 
 
 Mr. Van Ness married for his first wife 
 Sarah E. Norwood, of Lynnfield, who died in 
 1874. She was a daughter of the late James 
 and Betsey Norwood. In October, 1875, Mr. 
 Van Ness was again married to Sarah S. 
 Brooks, who was born in Ashburnham, May 
 30, 1830, daughter of Elijah and Rebecca 
 (Sanderson) Brooks. Elijah Brooks was a 
 prosperous farmer of Ashburnham, his native 
 town; and his wife was born in Littleton, 
 Mass. Both are now deceased. The children 
 of Mr. Van Ness by his first union were: 
 Nellie, now the wife of Frank \V. Whiting, 
 of Southboro, Mass.; Charles H., a conductor 
 by occupation, who married Gertrude Morse, 
 and resides in Somerville, Mass. ; Emma E., 
 the wife of Frank W. Reynolds, a cream 
 dealer in Albany, N.Y.; Susie S. who mar- 
 ried Earl A. Adams, a machinist, and resides 
 in Norwood, R.I. ; and Ernest, who died 
 young. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Van Ness is a Republican; 
 and, though not an office-seeker, he takes a 
 deep interest in public affairs. He is widely 
 and favorably known as an industrious farmer 
 and a worthy, upright citizen, and is highly 
 esteemed by the entire community in which 
 he lives. Mr. and Mrs. Van Ness are mem- 
 bers of the Congregational church. 
 
 'ON. WILLIAM NEWCOMB EATON 
 was born December 29, 1845, in 
 |l9 1 Quincy, where he is now a leading 
 
 ice dealer. His grandparents, John 
 and Dorothy (Fox) Eaton, were lifelong resi- 
 dents of Meredith, N.H. 
 
 Jacob F. Eaton, father of William N., born 
 in Meredith, N.H., in 1814, there attended 
 school until he reached the age of fourteen 
 
 years. Starting then in life on his own ac- 
 count with but a dollar and a half in his 
 pockets, he went to Boston in search of em- 
 ployment. Here he met a man who offered 
 him one hundred and twenty dollars a year to 
 work on his farm. This proposal he accepted 
 gladly; and at the end of twelve months he 
 went home, taking to his mother one hundred 
 dollars. Afterward for several years he con- 
 tinued as a farm hand, each season prudently 
 saving a large proportion of his earnings. 
 Subsequently he hired Mount Wollaston farm, 
 and conducted it for thirteen years, raising 
 considerable produce for the market, establish- 
 ing a successful milk business, and employing 
 about ten men to assist him in his labors. 
 He then purchased the farm now owned and 
 occupied by his son, William N. Having, 
 while in Boston, become somewhat familiar 
 with the ice business as the driver of a team 
 for a dealer in that commodity, he now deter- 
 mined to establish a like industry in this 
 town. For this purpose he fiooded about 
 twelve acres of his forty-acre farm, making an 
 artificial pond. In the course of time he suc- 
 ceeded in building up a flourishing trade in 
 ice, and was for many years the only dealer in 
 Quincy and in that part of Milton through 
 which his route extended. He was a strong 
 advocate of the principles of the Democratic 
 party, and for a number of years served as 
 Selectman. He was a Mason of Rural Lodge 
 in Quincy, and belonged to St. Stephen's 
 Chapter and to the Boston Consistory. He 
 married Ann Jerusha, daughter of William 
 Nevvcomb, of this town; and they had seven 
 children. Of these six grew to maturity, 
 namely: Lucy Annie, now the widow of 
 Charles F. Pierce, late of Quincy; Edward J., 
 of Milton; William Newcomb, the subject 
 of this sketch; Emma Jerusha, the wife of 
 Walter L. Wellington, of Cambridge, Mass.; 
 'Henry Warren, of Boston; and Carrie New- 
 comb, the wife of Eugene H. Sprague, of 
 Wollaston. Both parents were members of 
 the Adams Temple Unitarian Church. The 
 father's death occurred in 1871. 
 
 William N. Eaton was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Quincy. For about two years 
 after leaving school, he was employed in a 
 wholesale flour house in Boston. Returning
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 then to Quincy, he embarked in the milk busi- 
 ness on his own account, and in time acquired 
 a profitable patronage. Since the death of his 
 father, having sold his milk route, he has de- 
 voted himself to the ice business, in which he 
 is meeting with a deserved success, being the 
 principal dealer in this city and in a portion 
 of Milton. He iiandles eight thousand tons 
 of ice annually, anil in the summer season em- 
 ploys fifteen men, together with six double 
 and two single teams; while on his farm he 
 cuts from fifty to sixty tons of hay each year. 
 
 In politics Mr. Eaton is an unswerving 
 Democrat, and he has rendered his native 
 town efificient service in v:irious official posi- 
 tions. For seven years he was .Selectman and 
 Paymaster of Quincy. In 1883 and 1884 he 
 was a Representative to the lower branch of 
 the State legislature, serving during both 
 terms on the Insurance and Prisons Commit- 
 tees. In 1 89 1 and 1892 he was Senator for 
 the First Norfolk District; and while in that 
 body was on the Public Works Committee. 
 He was made a Mason in Rural Lodge, 
 Quincy, of which he is now Past Master. 
 He is also a member of St. Stephen's Chapter 
 of the -South Shore Commandery; of the Jo- 
 seph Cerneau Consistory of Boston ; and of the 
 Granite City Club. On December 29, 1869, 
 he married Mar}' Francesca, daughter of 
 Flisha and Lucy (Newcomb) Packard, of 
 Quincy. (An account of Mrs. Eaton's pater- 
 nal ancestors may be found in the biography 
 of her uncle. Colonel A. B. Packard.) Mr. 
 and Mrs. Eaton have five children — Minnie 
 Francesca, Lula, Annie Jerusha, Edith Eliza- 
 beth, and Grace. Lula is now the wife of 
 Arthur Hall Doble, of whose father, Enoch 
 Hall Doble, a biography is given elsewhere in 
 this work. 
 
 -^ENJAMIN JOHNSON, of Quincy, 
 who deals extensively in lumber, was 
 born April 11, 1823, in St. Albans,. 
 Me., son of Charles Johnson. 
 Charles Johnson, who was born, bred, and ed- 
 ucated in Jackson, Me., was afterward engaged 
 in the lumber business in Orono, and built 
 some of the first mills erected on the Penob- 
 scot River, being at the time one of the 
 
 most prominent lumber men in that section of 
 the State. In 1837, when about to return 
 from Galveston, Tex., then Mexican territory, 
 to which he had gone with shipments of lum- 
 ber, he was murdered. He was a man of su- 
 peri(n- business qualifications and a strong 
 member of the old Whig party. He married 
 Elizabeth Wiggins, a daughter of Asa Wig- 
 gins, of St. Albans, and with her reared five 
 children. These were: Benjamin, the subject 
 of this sketch; Augusta Scott, deceased; Le 
 Baron H., of Fort Wrangel, Alaska; Mel- 
 ville, of Macwahoc plantation, Aroostook 
 County, Me. ; and Mary Ann. Both parents 
 attended the Congregational church. 
 
 At the age of fourteen Benjamin Johnson 
 ceased to attend the public schools, and on 
 account of the death of his father assumed the 
 responsibility of providing for the family, he 
 being the eldest child. He went to work at 
 lumbering, being principally employed on the 
 river, and remaining in a subordinate position 
 until he had become familiar with that branch 
 of industry. In 1848 he embarked in enter- 
 prises on his own account, buying large tracts 
 of standing timber, and converting it into 
 lumber in mills hired for the purpose. He 
 formed a partnership with Mr. Palmer, becom- 
 ing junior member of the firm thus estab- 
 lished; and for many years Palmer & Johnson 
 cut from twenty to thirty million feet of lum- 
 ber annually, employing sometimes more than 
 three hundred men. On the 1st of May, 
 1879, he came to Quincy, and bought the 
 lumber-yard of a man who had been one of his 
 best customers in the preceding seven years. 
 Here he has since carried on a very prosper- 
 ous business, handling between four and five 
 million feet of lumber each year. On his 
 wharf is a finish-mill, from which all kinds of 
 dressed lumber are sold to both the wholesale 
 and retail trade. 
 
 Mr. Johnson married Maria, daughter of 
 Samuel J. Foster, of Weston, Aroostook 
 County, Me. The latter was born in Tops- 
 ham, Me., April 21, 1809, and there grew to 
 manhood. Following the lumber business on 
 a large scale, he kept sixty oxen at work in 
 the woods during the winter season, and had 
 four or five six-horse teams constantly em- 
 ployed. He was also an extensive stock-raiser,
 
 BENJAMIN JOHNSON.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 7« 
 
 having the largest farm of the kind in Maine, 
 and keeping from eighty to one hundred horses 
 and colts. In politics he was a prominent 
 Whig, and, having served on Governor Kent's 
 staff, was afterward known by all as Colonel 
 Foster. He married Julia A. Brown, daugh- 
 ter of Benjamin Brown, of Vassalboro, Me., 
 who at one time was the president of a bank 
 in Hallowell, and was considered the richest 
 man in the State. He was descended from 
 one of two brothers, I^hilip and William Mc- 
 Clellan, who came from Scotland to Portland, 
 Me., at an early day. The entire history of 
 this family is preserved in "Good Old Times,'" 
 written by Elijah Kellogg. 
 
 Of Mr. Johnson's three children two are liv- 
 ing. These are: Lillian M., the wife of 
 Frank K. Damon, of Ouincy; and Ik-njamin 
 Johnson, Jr. The latter was elected Ijy the 
 Republican party to the City Council in 1S96, 
 and is serving on the P'inance and Legis- 
 lation Committees. He is engaged in the 
 lumber business with his father, with which 
 he has been familiar from his youth. An es- 
 teemed Odd Fellow, he belongs to Mount 
 WoUaston Lodge of Ouincy and to Manet 
 Encampment. He is also a member of 
 Hodenesonee Tribe, Improved Order of Red 
 Men, of Wollaston; of the Granite City Club; 
 of the Ouincy Yacht Club, to which his father 
 likewise belongs; and to the Boston Lodge of 
 the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoc, a social 
 organization of lumber dealers. He married 
 Sarah T. Burke, of this city, and has four 
 children — Marian E., Sarah, Edith, and Ben- 
 jamin (third). Mr. Johnson, Sr., belongs to 
 St. Andrew's Lodge, F. & A. M., of Ban- 
 gor, Me. 
 
 UGENE SNELL, the president of the 
 Holbrook Co-operative Bank of Hol- 
 brook, Mass., was born in this town, 
 February 7, 1847, son of Alvin and Annie B. 
 (Holbrook) Snell. His paternal grandfather, 
 who came from Ireland, and settled in what is 
 now Brockton, had two sons. Of these, 
 Alvin, born in Brockton in 1805, settled in 
 1832 where his son Eugene now resides, and 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits. He also did 
 considerable shoemaking, which was the prin- 
 
 cipal industry of the vicinity at that time. 
 His wife, Annie B., was born in East Ran- 
 dolpli, now Holbrook. 
 
 luigene Snell grew up in this town, and his 
 early education was received in the common 
 schools. When only fourteen years of age he 
 became a regular employee in the shoe factory 
 of A. C. Chandler, for whom he worked dur- 
 ing the ne.\t four years. He was subsequently 
 employed in different manufacturing concerns 
 and finally in the well-known establishment 
 of Thomas White & Co. After working for 
 four years in Mr. White's shop, he became 
 foreman and superintendent. He had held 
 that position for twenty years when he re- 
 signed in January, 1894. For five years Mr. 
 Snell was vice-president of the Co-operative 
 Bank. In 1894 he was elected president, 
 which office he holds at the present time. 
 Mr. Snell's position is one of great responsi- 
 bility; and his election to it was a tribute, not 
 only to his ability as a financier and an ad- 
 ministrative officer, but to the integrity of 
 his personal character. As vice-president he 
 showed in an unusual degree his financial and 
 e.xecutive ability, and it was a natural conse- 
 quence that he should be chosen president. 
 
 Mr. Snell married Olive A. Poor, of Bos- 
 ton, Mass. She has been the mother of three 
 children — Hattie A., Elmer A., and Annie 
 L. Hattie is a teacher in one of the public 
 schools of Arlington. Mr. Snell and his fam- 
 ily attend the Congregational church at Hol- 
 brook, and they are active in the social and 
 benevolent work of the society. In politics 
 Mr. Snell is a Republican. Public-spirited 
 to a high degree, he is devoted to the inter- 
 ests of his native town. He is a member of 
 the Masonic bodies at Brockton. A well- 
 informed man, Mr. Snell has clear and defi- 
 nite views regarding questions of social and 
 political importance. 
 
 ANFORD P. BOWDISH, a car- 
 penter and builder of Foxboro, was 
 born July 21, 1817. in Burrillville, 
 R.I., which was likewise the birth- 
 place of his father, Asa Bowdish. The fam- 
 ily in Rhode Island originated with an ances- 
 tor who located in Gloucester, Providence
 
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 County. Here David Bowdish, the grand- 
 father of Sanford P., was born and bred. 
 David afterward removed to Burrillville, set- 
 tling in the midst of a dense forest, from 
 which he reclaimed a farm. At first he lived 
 in a log cabin erected by his own hands; but 
 before many years he had a substantial frame 
 house, in which he spent his declining days, 
 passing away at the age of eighty years. He 
 married Lois Pierce, and of their children 
 Asa was the only son. 
 
 Asa Bowdish inherited the parental home- 
 stead, and managed it for several years. Sub- 
 sequently he sold the property, that he might 
 give his exclusive attention to his trade of a 
 cooper. This occupation he followed in 
 Wrentham, Norfolk County, foraiime. Then 
 he removed to Uxbridge, where he bought 
 land, and carried on mixed husbandry in con- 
 nection with coopering until his demise, in 
 the seventy-fifth year of his age. His wife. 
 Patience, who was a daughter of Timothy 
 Perry, had seven children, as follows: San- 
 ford P., the subject of this biography; Lois, 
 who died some time ago; Crawford, of North- 
 bridge; Rachel, a resident of West Town- 
 send, Mass.; Caroline, of Foxboro; Mary, 
 who lives with her eldest brother; and Asa 
 VV., also of this town. Having enlisted in 
 1862, Asa W. served for nine months in the 
 Civil VV'ar, participating with Company K, 
 Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infan- 
 try, in the engagements at Goldsboro and 
 White Hall, N.C. At the expiration of his 
 term he was mustered out of the service at 
 Readville, Mass., and is now a comrade of the 
 G. A. R. post at Canton. 
 
 Having acquired his education in the dis- 
 trict schools of Burrillville, R.I., Sanford P. 
 Bowdish worked for the neighboring farmers 
 by the month. After the removal of the fam- 
 ily to Uxbridge he learned the carpenter's 
 trade, becoming one of the most skilful work- 
 men in the vicinity. This craft has been his 
 regular occupation since 1844. At one time 
 he was Surveyor of Wood and Lumber in Ux- 
 bridge. In 1886 Mr. Bowdish purchased the 
 James Daniels estate in Foxboro. Here he 
 has since lived somewhat retired from active 
 occupation. In i860 he was unfortunate 
 enough to lose the sight of his left eye. Well 
 
 preserved in body and mind, he looks young 
 in spite of his years, and is regarded as a man 
 of sterling integrity. 
 
 Mr. Bowdish was married to I\Iiss Mary A. 
 Smith, a daughter of Chauncey Smith, of 
 Macedon, N.Y. She died in 1882, leaving 
 no children. Mr. Bowdish has been an Odd 
 Fellow since he joined the lodge of Uxbridge 
 in 1847. He cast his first Presidential vote 
 in 1840 for Martin Van Buren, and since the 
 formation of the Republican party has been 
 one of its stanchest supporters. Both he and 
 his brother Asa are living witnesses of the 
 strange outbreak in Rhode Island known as 
 "Dorr's Rebellion." 
 
 EMUEL W. STANDISH, the editor 
 of the Stoughton Sentinel, was born 
 in North Easton, Mass., December 
 13, 1858, son of David B. and 
 Hannah G. (Ellis) Standish. His grand- 
 father, Lemuel Standish, who was a ship- 
 builder of Bath, Me., was accidentally killed 
 when about sixty years old. 
 
 David B. Standish, born in Bath, was a 
 resident of Stoughton during the last fifteen 
 years of his life. He was an engineer on the 
 Boston & Providence Railroad; and in this 
 capacity he had travelled constantly between 
 the two cities for thirty-seven years, when he 
 retired on a pension in 1880. At his death, 
 which occurred in 1880, he was the oldest en- 
 gineer in point of service on the road or in 
 the country. By his wife, Hannah, who is a 
 native of Dedham, Mass., and is now living 
 in Stoughton with a daughter, he became the 
 father of seven children. These were: Al- 
 bert E., now an engineer on the N.Y., N. H. 
 & H. Railroad; Henry A., now a conductor 
 on the same road; David H., who is a whole- 
 sale dry -goods dealer in New York City; 
 George E., in the dry-goods business in Bos- 
 ton ; Lemuel W., the subject of this sketch; 
 Ella L., who resides with her mother in 
 Stoughton; and Elmer W., deceased. Albert 
 married Miss Rebecca Capen, of Stoughton, 
 and has four children — -Miles, Ellis, Lucy, 
 and Ethel; Henry married Miss Nellie Kins- 
 ley, of Stoughton, and has one child, Edward
 
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 73 
 
 K. ; David married Miss Anna Ellis, of 
 Stoughton ; George married Miss Jennie 
 Graves, of Lynn, Mass., and has one child, 
 Jennie. 
 
 Lemuel W. Standish graduated from the 
 Stoughton High School in 1876. On leaving 
 school he learned the printing business, serv- 
 ing an apprenticeship in Wakefield, Mass., 
 and working for four years in Boston. Then, 
 returning to Stoughton, he went to work in 
 the Sentinel office. In 1883 he bought the 
 paper, which since that time has been under 
 his management. The Sentinel, which was 
 established in 1861 by William A. and W. H. 
 Wood, of Stoughton, under Mr. Standish's 
 management has been a bright, progressive, 
 and newsy weekly. In the well-equipped 
 office all kinds of job printing are also done. 
 
 Mr. Standish was married in 1885 to Nettie 
 A. Briggs, of Stoughton, and has four chil- 
 dren — Rose, Karl, Clement, and Walker. 
 An active Republican, he has been a member 
 of the Republican Town Committee as secre- 
 tary for the past ten years, is now serving his 
 second term on the Republican State Commit- 
 tee, and is a member of that body's E.\ecutive 
 Committee. He was the party candidate for 
 Representative in the General Court in 1891, 
 when he carried his own town in the face of 
 an adverse party vote, and came within eighty 
 votes of being elected in a district which 
 gave four hundred Democratic majority. A 
 Mason in good standing, he is Senior Warden 
 of Rising Star Lodge; and he belongs to La- 
 fayette Commandery, U. O. G. C. He is a 
 member of the Stoughton Musical Society, 
 and he has sung in the Congregational church 
 choir for ten years. Mr. Standish is one of 
 the leading young men of Stoughton, and has 
 many friends. 
 
 -OSEPH WARREN HAYDEN, the 
 Chief of Police in Ouincy, was born 
 here in December, 1841, son of George 
 W. Hayden. The father, born in 
 Braintree, Mass., in 18 13, grew to man's es- 
 tate in his native town, and learned the trade 
 of shoemaker. After his marriage he re- 
 moved to Ouincy, where he followed his trade 
 until his ~death in 1865, while yet in the 
 
 prime of life. His wife, in maidenhood Eliza 
 M. Whiting, who was a native of this town, 
 bore him four children. These were: George 
 L., who died November 29, 1896; Joseph 
 Warren, the subject of this sketch; Albert 
 A. and William A., both of Braintree, this 
 county. Both parents were members of the 
 Congregational Church of Ouincy. 
 
 Joseph Warren Hayden was educated in the 
 common schools of Ouincy. When old 
 enough to select an occupation, he chose that 
 of stone-cutter, and thereupon began learning 
 the trade. While the late Civil War was in 
 progress, he ran away from his employer to 
 enlist in the service of the Union. Joining 
 Company M, First Massachusetts Heavy Ar- 
 tillery, he was sent to Washington, D.C., 
 where he remained on guard for two years. 
 He was then sent with his regiment to the 
 Army of the Potomac, and on June 22, 1864, 
 was taken prisoner in front of Petersburg. 
 He was held by the Confederates for more 
 than si.\ months, during which lime he was an 
 unwilling visitor at Libby Prison, Belle Isle, 
 Salisbury, Andersonville, Savannah, Flor- 
 ence, Mellen, Charleston, and St. John's Col- 
 lege Hospital. He was discharged from the 
 hospital, July 2, 1865, a mere anatomy, hav- 
 ing been reduced in weight while in Southern 
 prisons from one hundred and ninety-nine 
 pounds to ninety -si.x pounds. After his re- 
 turn home, when his health permitted, Mr. 
 Hayden resumed his trade, and followed it for 
 a number of years. He was then appointed 
 Inspector by the Board of Health, a position 
 which he held for si.x or seven years. Then 
 he became a permanent patrolman on the po- 
 lice force. Two years later, in 1893, he was 
 appointed Chief of Police, a capacity in which 
 he has since served most satisfactorily to the 
 city and with credit to himself. 
 
 For several years Chief Hayden was cap- 
 tain of the old "Tiger Fire Company," and he 
 was engineer of the fire department for five 
 years. He is a member of Mount Wollaston 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of Delphi Lodge, K. of 
 P., of Weymouth; of Philedian Senate, 
 K. A. E. O. ; and of Paul Revere Post, 
 G. A. R. In November, 1 866, he married 
 Miss Lavina H. Thayer, a daughter of John 
 H. Thayer, of Braintree, Mass.
 
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 OSEPH DYER, a leading business man 
 of South Weymouth, president of the 
 South Weymouth Savings Bank, and 
 formerly a member of the Massachu- 
 setts legislature, was born in this town, No- 
 vember 9, 1830, son of Joseph and Betsey 
 (White) Dyer. His parents were both na- 
 tives of Weymouth; and his grandfather, John 
 Dyer, was in his day one of its wealthy and 
 prominent citizens. The family has long 
 been a reputable one in this locality. 
 
 Joseph Dyer grew to manhood in his native 
 town, and acquired a common-school educa- 
 tion. At the age of twenty-one he engaged 
 in stamping and gilding boots, a business 
 which he followed successfully for fifteen 
 years. In 1866 he established himself in the 
 grocery business in Independence Square, 
 where he has since continued to maintain a 
 large patronage. He was one of the organ- 
 izers of the -South Weymouth Savings Bank, 
 of which he is now president and a trustee; 
 and he is a director of the First National 
 Bank, of which also he was an incorporator. 
 He is a member of the Weymouth Grocers' 
 Association, and as a live business man is ac- 
 tively interested in the prosperity of the town. 
 In politics a Republican, he was elected to 
 the legislature in 1873; and for a number of 
 years he served the town as Auditor. 
 
 Mr. Dyer has been twice married. The 
 maiden name of his first wife was Caroline 
 Blackinton. His present wife, who was in 
 maidenhood Florence Deane, is a native of 
 .South Weymouth. Mr. Dyer is widely and 
 favorably known among the business men of 
 this section, and possesses the esteem and con- 
 fidence of his fellow-townsmen. 
 
 LIVER CAPEN, born in Dedham, 
 October 14, 1804, son of Nathaniel 
 and Submit (Bullard) Capen, was 
 prominent in business circles, both in 
 Dedham and Boston, and is well remembered 
 by the older residents of Dedham. His first 
 American ancestor, who came from England, 
 was an early settler in Dorchester, Mass. 
 Nathaniel Capcn, born in Sharon, Mass., 
 spent his last years in Dedham. His first 
 marriage was contracted with Submit Bullard, 
 
 the mother of Oliver Capen. For his second 
 wife he married Olive, a sister of his first 
 wife. 
 
 Oliver Capen at first engaged in farming. 
 .Shortly after he embarked in a mercantile 
 business here in Dedham. When the Read- 
 ville branch railroad was extended to Dedham, 
 he took the road on a lease, and was for some 
 time its sole manager. He subsequently 
 went into the wood and coal business at Pack- 
 ard's Wharf, Boston, afterward adding the 
 sale of brick, lime, and cement. For several 
 years after his marriage he occupied his 
 father's old homestead on Westfield Street, 
 Dedham. Later he removed to the Whiting 
 homestead on High Street, where he after- 
 ward lived. 
 
 Mr. Capen married Sarah Ann Whiting, 
 who was born in Dedham, daughter of Calvin 
 and Pllizabeth (Fuller) Whiting. Her 
 grandfather, Isaac Whiting, was a farmer and 
 large land-owner here, and influential in town 
 affairs. Calvin Whiting, who was a man of 
 much inventive genius, was engaged in the 
 cotton manufacturing business for a time, but 
 was better known as a manufacturer of tin- 
 ware. His inventive ability served him well 
 in both these lines, for use in which he 
 invented and improved numerous pieces of 
 machinery. Soon after his marriage he built 
 the house now occupied by his grandchildren, 
 the son and daughter of Oliver and Sarah Ann 
 Capen, and where his last days were spent. 
 Mrs. Whiting was born in Dedham, daughter 
 of Hezekiah and Anna (Draper) Fuller. Mr. 
 Capen died October 23, 1865, and his wife 
 on March 27, 1888. A son and daughter 
 survive them — Calvin Whiting Capen and 
 Elizabeth Fuller Capen. The son, who was 
 in business for some years, of late has lived 
 retired, only looking after his private inter- 
 ests. The daughter received a high-school 
 education. Since the death of her mother she 
 has resided with her brotber. 
 
 ENRY WHITE, turnkey at the Nor- 
 folk County jail and house of cor- 
 rection, located in Dedham, Mass., 
 has held this position since 1859, 
 making a service, with the exception of a brief
 
 
 
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 BiOGRAi'iiicAi. ki<:vip:vv 
 
 77 
 
 term of absence in war time, of nearly four 
 decades. He was born April 20, 1824, in the 
 neighboring town of Weymouth, where his 
 great-grandfather White liad settled early in 
 life, and where his father, George W. White, 
 and his grandfather, whose name was Jona- 
 than, were both born and reared. Jonathan 
 White was engaged in agricultural pursuits in 
 Weymouth, and also worked at the shoe- 
 maker's trade more or less during his long 
 life of eighty years. 
 
 George W. White was a noted musician in 
 his day, and for some years in addition to his 
 other labors he kept a livery stable in Wey- 
 mouth. He was progressive in his views, 
 highly respected for his intelligence and in- 
 tegrity. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Betsey Burrell, was a native of Weymouth, 
 being one of a large family of children born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Burrell. Her 
 father, who lived to the age of fourscore years, 
 was a shoemaker and farmer throughout his 
 active life. Mrs. Betsey B. White bore her 
 husband twelve children, all of whom grew to 
 mature years, the following being yet alive, 
 namely: Elizabeth, a teacher in San F"ran- 
 cisco, Cal. ; George W. , Deputy Sheriff of 
 Norfolk County; William; Henry, the spe- 
 cial subject of this brief biographical record; 
 Francis E. ; and Melvina, who married 
 Francis Bush. The mother, who was con- 
 nected with the Orthodo.x church, died at the 
 age of seventy-three years. 
 
 Henry White grew to man's estate on the 
 home farm, attending the district schools in 
 his boyhood and youth, and learning the shoe- 
 maker's trade from his father. On attaining 
 his majority, he embarked in business for him- 
 self, engaging in the manufacture of shoes at 
 Weymouth I.anding, where he continued until 
 his appointment to his present office in 1859. 
 In this position Mr. White has served most 
 faithfully and satisfactorily, discharging his 
 official duties in a manner worthy of the 
 highest commendation, and has the entire con- 
 fidence and respect of those above and below 
 him. The number of prisoners under his 
 charge averages about ninety, although it has 
 at times been as high as one hundred and 
 fifty, but not often. In 1862 Mr. White, 
 shortly after the hanging of Hersey at the 
 
 jail, left his position in order to serve in de- 
 fence of his country, enlisting from Wey- 
 mouth in Company A, Forty-second Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, in which he 
 served nine months, being with General 
 Banks's expedition at various points along 
 the coast. At the expiration of his term of 
 enlistment he returned to Dedham, and re- 
 sumed his duties as turnkey. 
 
 Mr. White was married in May, 1849, to 
 Miss Mary Wales, who was born in Weymouth, 
 a daughter of Asa B. Wales, for forty years a 
 well-known and popular tavern-keeper of that 
 town. Mr. and Mrs. White reared one child, 
 a son, Frank W., who is in the insurance 
 business in Boston. He married Delia Star- 
 rett, and has two children — Winnifred and 
 Starrett. Mrs. White passed to the life be- 
 yond in May, 1893, aged sixty-two years. 
 She was a woman of great strength and purity 
 of character, highly esteemed by all who knew 
 her, and a regular attendant of the Univer.sal- 
 ist church, as is Mr. White. He is a stead- 
 fast Republican in his political affiliations, 
 and, fraternally, belongs to Constellation 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., which he joined soon 
 after its orrranization. 
 
 ORING G. LITTLEFIELD, a shoe 
 manufacturer of Avon, is a native of 
 
 Randolph, born October 24, 1848. 
 
 He is a son of Aaron and Emily 
 (Wales) Littlefield. The father is a native of 
 the Pine Tree State: and the mother was born 
 in Randolph, Mass. They had a family of 
 fourteen children, of whom Loring G. was 
 the seventh child. He acquired his primary 
 education in the public schools of East 
 Stoughton, to which place his parents moved 
 when he was three years old. Subsequently 
 he attended school for one term in Middle- 
 boro, Mass. When about fourteen years of 
 age he went to work in the boot manufactory 
 of E. Tucker & Co. in East Stoughton (now 
 Avon), where for a short time he was em- 
 ployed in the stitching department. After- 
 ward for a number of years he worked in the 
 stitching department of E. W. & G. W. 
 Littlefield's factory. Entering into partner- 
 ship with E. W. and G. F.^ Littlefield in
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 1872, he was engaged in the manufacture of 
 boots and shoes at East Stoughton, under the 
 firm name of E. W. Littlefield & Co., for 
 four years. Then for six years Mr. Little- 
 field was in the livery business in East 
 Stoughton, and bought and sold all kinds of 
 live stock. During the ensuing five years he 
 was associated with G. F. Littlefield in the 
 manufacture of boots and shoes in East 
 Stoughton and Brockton, the firm being G. F. 
 & L. G. Littlefield. Since 1888 he has man- 
 aged an independent business, manufacturing 
 a medium grade of men's, boys', and youth's 
 shoes. He has erected a large plant, and 
 when business is good employs about one hun- 
 dred and eighty hands. 
 
 Li 1882 he was married to Miss Celia 
 Lynch, of F]ast Stoughton, and has a promis- 
 ing family of five children — Loring, George 
 h1, Frank W., Annie G., and Celia V. Mr. 
 Littlefield, who is a Republican, served for 
 three years as Selectman of Avon. He is ac- 
 tively interested in local politics. 
 
 :ECHARIAH L. BICKNELL, an ex- 
 Representative to the General Court 
 from Weymouth, and the president of 
 the East Weymouth Savings Bank, 
 was born in Weymouth, June 28, 1820, son of 
 Lovell and Rebecca (Dyer) Bicknell, who 
 were also natives of Weymouth. The family 
 is an old and honored one in the town. Its 
 first representative came here about the year 
 1635. Mr. Bicknell's maternal grandfather, 
 Asa Dyer, v;as a soldier of the Revolution. 
 His paternal grandfather was Zechariah. 
 Lovell Bicknell, the father, was a stanch 
 Democrat, and for a time the Town Treasurer 
 of Weymouth. In his youth he was a sea- 
 man. Later he was employed by the govern- 
 ment in building stone piers and walls, and 
 did considerable work of that kind at New- 
 port, R.I. He kept his residence in Wey- 
 mouth, and died in 1872. Of his children, 
 Zechariah L. is the only survivor. 
 
 Zechariah L. Bicknell received his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Weymouth and 
 in a private academy at Hingham. When 
 about seventeen years of age he began to 
 learn the carpenter's trade in Boston. Hav- 
 
 ing served an apprenticeship of four years, 
 he worked as a journeyman for some time. In 
 1850 he engaged as clerk in a store of East 
 Weymouth; and in 1865 he started a general 
 merchandise business for himself, and con- 
 ducted it afterward for fifteen years. He sub- 
 sequently became an insurance broker, which 
 business he still carries on, representing the 
 Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 
 Weymouth. One of the organizers of the 
 East Weymouth Savings Bank, he is now a 
 member of its Board of Trustees and its presi- 
 dent. He was a Representative to General 
 Court for the sessions of 1856, 1857, and 
 1 89 1. P"or fifteen years he served as Select- 
 man of Weymouth, being for much of the 
 time chairman of the board. He was a mem- 
 ber of what has since been known as the War 
 Board. He has also been a member of the 
 Board of Assessors. In jjolitics he is a Dem- 
 ocrat. 
 
 Mr. Bicknell married Abbie L. Perry, who 
 bore him three children. These were: Mary 
 L. , now deceased, who was the wife of George 
 Miles, of Weymouth; Ruth L., the wife of 
 Charles Harrington, of Weymouth ; and Ma- 
 rinda, the wife of Samuel C. Denton. Mr. 
 Bicknell's present wife was previously Mrs. 
 Sarah C. Barker, the widow of the late Warren 
 W. Barker, of Marshfield. Mr. Bicknell is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 and one of the trustees of the society. He is 
 also a member of Orphans' Hope Lodge, F. & 
 A. M., of 'East Weymouth, and was the first 
 Master after the return of its charter. He be- 
 longs to Crescent Lodge of the I. O. O. F. 
 of East Weymouth, is one of its trustees, and 
 takes an active interest in its welfare. He 
 has done considerable business in settling es- 
 tates, having been administrator in a number 
 of instances. He has also been a Justice of 
 the Peace. A self-made man of high integ- 
 rity and sterling character, he has the respect 
 of his townsmen. 
 
 UGUSTUS L. CHASE, M.D., of 
 Randolph, physician and surgeon, was 
 born in Somerset, Vt., March 9, 
 1849. A son of Abraham and 
 Catherine (Reed) Chase, he comes of an old
 
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 ZECHARIAH L. BICKNKLL.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 8i 
 
 New England family. Three brothers, 
 Thomas, William, and Aquila Chase, came 
 to this country from England some time after 
 the arrival of the "Mayflower," and settled in 
 New England. Dr. Chase is a descendant in 
 the seventh generation from Aquila. His 
 great-great-grandfather Chase was a Revolu- 
 tionary soldier. Abraham Chase was a farmer 
 and a native and lifelong resident of Whiting- 
 ham, Vt. His wife also was of Elnglish de- 
 scent and a native of Whitingham. Her 
 father, Calvin Reed, was a soldier in the War 
 of 1 812. 
 
 Augustus T-. Chase was reared on his 
 futher's farm in Whitingham, and attended 
 the public schools of that town, including the 
 high school. When he was twenty years of 
 age he began to study medicine with Dr. C. 
 Edwin Miles, of Boston, under whose direc- 
 tion mainly he studied three years, in the 
 meanwhile taking the regular course of lect- 
 ures at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio. Having graduated from this 
 institution on February 7, 1872, in the 
 month of March following he entered upon 
 his profession in Randolph, which has been 
 his field of labor ever since. He worked hard 
 to qualify himself for his calling, and earned 
 money by teaching school in Whitingham dur- 
 ing the winter season. Dr. Chase has a large 
 general practice, and is highly esteemed by 
 his fellows. An editorial in the Massac/at- 
 sctts Medical Joiiriial oi August, 1894, says he 
 "is painstaking in his methods; bases his 
 views and efforts only upon the most careful 
 investigations; and, his conclusions once 
 formed, is prompt to act, firm in his convic- 
 tions, and fearless in the discharge of duty." 
 He was the recording secretary of the Massa- 
 chusetts Eclectic Medical Society for years, 
 and was the president in 1885, doing much to 
 promote the growth and prosperity of the 
 organization. He is a member of the Boston 
 District Eclectic Medical Society and the Bos- 
 ton Eclectic Gynaecological and Obstetrical 
 Society. In 1894 he was appointed a member 
 of the Massachusetts State Board of Registra- 
 tion in Medicine for six years; and from Au- 
 gust, 1891, to September, 1893, during Presi- 
 dent Harrison's administration, he was a 
 member of the Pension Examining Board of 
 
 Brockton. His practice includes his duties 
 as the medical examiner for a number of fra- 
 ternal organizations and insurance companies. 
 In 1873 Dr. Chase was married to Mary L. , 
 daughter of Ephraiin Mann, of Randolph, 
 Mass. His children are: Ella L. , a graduate 
 of the department of liberal arts in Boston 
 University; Herbert M., a student at Harvard 
 College; and Oilman L., a graduate of the 
 Randolph High School. Dr. Chase has 
 served as chairman of the Randolph Republi- 
 can Committee, and he takes an active inter- 
 est in the welfare of his party and the prog- 
 ress of his town. He is a member of the 
 New England Order of Protection; of the 
 Knights of Honor; of Rising Star Lodge, No. 
 76, I. O. O. E. , of Randolph; and of Golden 
 Star Lodge, No. 6g, Daughters of Rebecca, of 
 the same place. 
 
 HARLES HENRY BELCHER, a 
 , retired merchant of Holbrook, is a 
 Is , native of East Randolph (now Hol- 
 brook), born June 4, 1830. His 
 parents were Jeremiah and Hannah (Brooks) 
 Belcher. The father also, who was a farmer, 
 was a native of East Randolph. The mother 
 was born in Hanover, Mass. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was reared on a 
 farm in East Randolph, and educated in the 
 public schools of this town. When about six- 
 teen years of age he began to work at shoe- 
 making, and when he became of age he en- 
 gaged in the shoe business on his own account 
 in East Randolph. His business prospered, 
 and in course of time he adiled the manufact- 
 ure of boots. He had a large factory, and 
 did a prosperous business, employing from 
 forty to fifty hands. In 1883 his factory was 
 burned, and he did not attempt to rebuild. 
 He subsequently opened a general store in 
 Holbrook, which he conducted luitil 1894, 
 when he retired. 
 
 Mr. Belcher has been twice married. His 
 first wife, who was before marriage Miss Eliz- 
 abeth A. Gurney, of Abington, Mass., died 
 March 16, 1867, leaving one daughter, Clara 
 F., who is now the wife of J. Elliott Chand- 
 ler, of Brockton, Mass. The present .Mrs. 
 Belcher was in maidenhood Miss Eliza J.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Thayer, daughter of Otis Thayer (now de- 
 ceased), of Holbrook. By her also he has one 
 living daughter, Fannie E., wife of Lester 
 S. Holbrook, of Holbrook, Mass. Mr. 
 Belcher is a Republican, politically. He 
 was on the Holbrook Board of Selectmen for 
 a number of years. He is a public-spirited 
 citizen, in favor of all projects for the ad- 
 vancement of the town, and has aided materi- 
 ally in improving it. Belcher Street is 
 named in his honor. Mr. Belcher is Assistant 
 Dictator of the Knights of Honor of Holbrook. 
 He is a member of the Winthrop Congrega- 
 tional Church. A well-known citizen, he has 
 the confidence of his townsmen, and is univer- 
 sally respected. He has a pleasant home at 
 the corner of IMymouth and Weymouth 
 Streets. 
 
 iRS. LOUISA MARSH, of Ded- 
 ham, the widow of the late George 
 Marsh, is a native of this town 
 and a daughter of Ezra W. and 
 Lendamine (Guild) Taft. Her paternal 
 grandfather, Frederick Taft, who was a life- 
 long resident of U.tbridge, Mass., and was for 
 many years prominently identified with the 
 public affairs of that town, died at the age of 
 eighty. Ezra W. Taft was a native of L^x- 
 bridge. He settled in Dedhani, and became 
 one of the best known cotton manufacturers of 
 this locality in his day. He built a cotton- 
 mill in Readville, and carried it on for some 
 years. He then constructed the dam at East 
 Uedham ; and, erecting a large stone cotton 
 factory, he continued to manufacture goods ex- 
 tensively until his retirement from business, 
 which took place in 1861. He was prominent 
 in financial circles and the president of the 
 Dedhain National Bank. In politics he acted 
 with the Republican party. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Selectmen for many years, 
 and a Representative in the State legislature 
 for four terms. At his death he was eighty- 
 four years old. His wife, Lendamine, was 
 born in Dedham. Her father, Calvin Guild, 
 descended from one of the earliest settlers in 
 this town. She died October 24, 1897, aged 
 ninety-four years. Of the si.\ children reared 
 by her, five are living, namely: Josephus, 
 
 who resides in Boston; Cornelius, who resides 
 in Dedham; Minerva, of whom there is no 
 special record; Louisa, the subject of this 
 sketch; and Ezra F., a resident of Cambridge, 
 Mass. Both parents were united with the 
 Congregational church. 
 
 On June 19, 1869, Louisa Taft was joined 
 in marriage with George Marsh. He was 
 born in Dedham, June 24, 1838, son of Daniel 
 Marsh. His father, who was a native of 
 Hingham, Mass., learned the mason's trade in 
 Dedham, and followed it during the active 
 period of his life. He died here at an ad- 
 vanced age. George Marsh was educated in 
 the graded and high schools of this town. 
 After completing his studies, he entered 
 Tower's drug store as an apprentice. He re- 
 mained with Mr. Tower for some time, and 
 then went to Boston, where he was employed 
 as a drug clerk for four years. When twenty- 
 one years old he returned to Dedham, and, 
 purchasing his former employer's store, he en- 
 gaged in business upon his own account. For 
 over thirty years he conducted one of the best 
 pharmaceutical establishments in Dedham, 
 and enjoyed a liberal patronage. He took a 
 lively interest in all matters relative to the 
 progress and improvement of the town, was 
 highly esteemed for his many commendable 
 qualities, and was a regular attendant of the 
 Congregational church. He died December 
 25, 1890, aged fifty-two years. Mrs. Marsh 
 and he were the parents of three children, 
 namely: Theodore T. , who resides in Ded- 
 ham, and is in the insurance business in Bos- 
 ton ; Alice, who is employed at the Dedham 
 Public Library; and Louise, a kindergarten 
 teacher in Dedham. 
 
 Mrs. Marsh and her children are members 
 of the Congregational church, and take an 
 earnest interest in Sunday-school work. The 
 family occupy a pleasantly located residence, 
 which was built by the late Mr. Marsh in 
 1870. 
 
 HARLES WILSON, a prosperous 
 granite dealer of Duincy, was born 
 here, March 18, 1833, son of Will- 
 iam Wilson. The father, who was 
 born and bred in Cambridge, Mass., after
 
 BIOGRAl'llR-AL REVIKVV 
 
 83 
 
 learning the trade of a blacksmith, followed 
 that occupation in his native town tor a few 
 years. Then he removed to Oiiincy, thinking 
 this town a better location for one in his busi- 
 ness, and thereafter remained a resident until 
 his death in 1862, at the age of seventy-six 
 years. A man of much enterprise, he not 
 only followed blacksmithing after coming 
 here, but added materially to his income by 
 his dealings in granite, for some years operat- 
 ing a quarry from which he obtained a valu- 
 able building stone. In politics he was an old 
 Jacksonian Democrat. He married Louisa, 
 daughter of Micaiah Adams, of Ouincy, and 
 became the father of nine children, namely: 
 George Frederick, now deceased; I'lmeline, 
 who married William Parker, of this city; 
 Ann, also deceased, who was the wife of Al- 
 bert Thayer, of Ouincy; Francis, likewise de- 
 ceased; William, now of San Francisco, Cal. ; 
 Charles, the subject of this sketch; John, of 
 Ouincy; Adeline, the wife of Edward Nutter, 
 of South Lancaster, Mass. ; and Lydia 
 Amanda, the wife of Wallace Manuel, of 
 North Weymouth, Mass. In religion both 
 parents were of the liberal type of believers, 
 and were active members of the Universalist 
 church. 
 
 In his boyhood Charles Wilson attended the 
 public schools of Ouincy. He began earning 
 his living by working in a quarry. At the age 
 of nineteen he embarked in business for him- 
 self as a manufacturer of paving stone for the 
 New Orleans and Philadelphia markets. Now 
 he has what is claimed to be the most extensive 
 trade in his line of any dealer of the locality. 
 At the outset he employed about twenty men 
 in cutting the granite, and did a good deal of 
 teaming, keeping six of the largest and sleek- 
 est oxen in Ouincy. Since then, on occasions 
 when business was at its prime, he kept as 
 many as one hundred men busy in preparing 
 the paving blocks, of which he shipped from 
 seventy-five to one hundred thousand in a day. 
 He is likewise somewhat interested in real es- 
 tate, his sales in realty being considerable. 
 In politics he affiliates with the Republican 
 party, but has never been an aspirant for 
 official honors. 
 
 On January i, 1872, Mr. Wilson married 
 Mary B., daughter of William H. Harris, of 
 
 East Stoughton, Mass. She passed away on 
 February 26, 1897, leaving one son. Charles 
 Henry. Two other children born of the union 
 died at an early age. Mr. Wilson is liberal 
 in his religious beliefs, and an attendant of 
 the Universalist church. He is held in high 
 respect as a man of good business capacity, 
 upright and honorable in all his dealings, and 
 a most useful citizen. 
 
 RANCIS AMBLER, of Weymouth, an 
 ex-member of the State legislature for 
 Weymouth and Ouincy, and a dealer in 
 flour and grain at East Braintree, was born 
 here in June, 1833. He is a son of Nelson 
 and Emily (Nash) Ambler, both natives of 
 Weymouth. The family is an old one here, 
 and is well and favorably known. Mr. 
 Ambler's great-uncle on his mother's side 
 was a soldier of the War of 18 12. His uncle, 
 William G. Nash, though now eighty-four 
 years old, is still actively engaged in the 
 grocery business in Weymouth. 
 
 When Francis was in his fourth year his 
 father died; and his mother subsequently mar- 
 ried Silas Binney, who for twenty years was a 
 Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County. Owing to 
 an injury of a leg, received from the stroke of 
 a hammer when in his fifth year, he could not 
 go about much until eleven years of age, and 
 in the interval received special instruction at 
 home, and later attended a private school. 
 When able to do so, he went to the Weymouth 
 public schools, working mornings and even- 
 ings in the drug store of Amos S. White at 
 Weymouth. When about thirty years of age, 
 having acquired a thorough knowledge of the 
 drug business, he bought out Mr. White, and 
 afterward conducted the store for about seven- 
 teen years. Early in the eighties he joined 
 A. L. Hobart in the flour and grain business, 
 which, with a mill located at the head of Mo- 
 natiquit River, was carried on under the name 
 of Ambler & Hobart. At the end of a year 
 Mr. Ambler bought out his partner's interest, 
 and since then, while retaining the firm 
 name, has been the sole proprietor. In the 
 different departments he employs eight men, 
 and he gives his personal supervision to the 
 details of the business. Some time after en-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 gaging in this business, he sold out his drug 
 store to Dr. E. L. Warren. In politics he is 
 a Republican, and he has taken an active part 
 in the town affairs. For several years he was 
 a member of the Board of Selectmen of Wey- 
 mouth, and for a part of that time the clerk of 
 the Board. In 1885 and 1886 he represented 
 Weymouth and Quincy in the legislature, and 
 was clerk of the Legislative Committee on 
 Insurance. 
 
 Mr. Ambler married Elvira C. Paty, of 
 Plymouth, and has one daughter, Emma F., 
 now the wife of Dr. John F. Welch, of 
 Quincy. He attends the Union Congrega- 
 tional Church of Weymouth and Braintree, is 
 a member of the Masonic Lodge of Wey- 
 mouth, and a promoter and charter member of 
 the Royal Arcanum at Weymouth. He has 
 been president of the South Shore Co-opera- 
 tive Bank since its organization, a director of 
 both the Union National Bank of Weymouth 
 and the Weymouth Savings Bank, and a trus- 
 tee of the Tufts Library since its incorpora- 
 tion. A self-made man, Mr. Ambler is a 
 good representative of those who win respect 
 for themselves, a position of influence, and a 
 comfortable fortune. 
 
 /§X^ 
 
 EORGE W. FOSTER, a leading cit- 
 V '3 I 'zen of Franklin, Mass., was born in 
 
 — ^ this town, February 20, 1841, son of 
 Benjamin and Mary Ann (Cook) Foster. 
 The father, who was a farmer and a boat- 
 builder by occupation, was also a much re- 
 spected citizen of Franklin. He had two 
 children: George Thompson, who died in boy- 
 hood; and George W., whose name appears at 
 the head of this sketch. 
 
 George W. Foster was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Franklin. He engaged in farm- 
 ing, after his marriage settling on his present 
 farm, then known as the Jabez Wright farm, 
 and which contains at this time about fifty 
 acres. Mr. Foster is thoroughly up-to-date 
 in his methods, and has greally improved his 
 property. He carries on general farming, 
 and also devotes considerable attention to rais- 
 ing poultry for the market. He is a Republi- 
 can in politics, and takes an active interest in 
 the welfare of the town, but has hitherto de- 
 
 clined office. He was married on June 29, 
 1870, to Amelia Wheldon, of Lynn, Mass. 
 Mrs. F"oster's father was an awl-maker by 
 trade, and her mother is now living in Attle- 
 boro. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have had three 
 children: Alice A., now living at home; 
 Mabel, working in Boston; and Gertrude 
 Louise, a bright little girl, who passed away 
 at the age of four years. Although Mr. 
 Foster has kept out of politics, he fulfils the 
 obligations of citizenship by using his influ- 
 ence in behalf of the best men and measures; 
 and he and his family are highly esteemed by 
 their fellow-townspeople. 
 
 ,OYAL T. MANN, a prosperous 
 dairy farmer of Randolph, son of 
 Alvan and Emeline R. (Mitchell) 
 Mann, was born February 10, 1843, 
 at the homestead where he now resifles. This 
 farm was purchased by his great-grandfather, 
 Joseph Man, a native of Scituate, in 1734, 
 what is now the town of Randolph then being 
 the South Precinct of Braintree. Its next 
 occupant was Seth, son of Joseph, born in 
 Scituate in 1724; and the third owner was 
 John Mann, a native of Randolph, son of Seth 
 and grandfather of Royal T= Mann. Joseph 
 Man was a son of Thomas and grandson of 
 Richard Man, emigrant, who was made a free- 
 man at Scituate in January, 1644. 
 
 Alvan Mann, son of John, was a lifelong 
 resident of Randolph; and for many years he 
 cultivated the farm which his son. Royal T. , 
 now carries on. He married in 1836 PZmeline 
 R. Mitchell, who was born in 18 14, daughter 
 of Eliphalet and Hannah (Howard) Mitchell, 
 of Easton, Mass. Her paternal grandfather, 
 Colonel Abiel Mitchell, commissioned in 
 February, 1776, rendered gallant and valu- 
 able services to his country during the Revo- 
 lutionary War. 
 
 He was a son of Timothy Mitchell, of 
 Bridgewater, grandson of Thomas, great- 
 grandson of Jacob, and great-great-grandson of 
 Experience Mitchell, one of the forefathers 
 who came to Plymouth in the third ship, the 
 "Ann," in 1623. Colonel Mitchell was a Se- 
 lectman of Easton twenty-one years and Rep- 
 resentative to the General Court twenty-two
 
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 87 
 
 years. He died in 1821, aged eighty-eight 
 years. "His grave in the South Easton cem- 
 etery," says the historian, "is annually dec- 
 orated with flowers, and with the flag which 
 he so gallantly defended." 
 
 Alvan and Kmeline R. M. (Mitchell) Mann 
 became the parents of five children, four of 
 whom are living, namely: Dr. Augustine A. 
 Mann, who served as surgeon of a Rhode 
 Island Cavalry Regiment during the Civil 
 War, and is now practising in Central Falls, 
 R.I. ; Royal T. ; Edwin M., of Randolph; 
 and Luthera H., who makes her home with 
 her brother. Royal T., the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 Royal T. Mann received his education in 
 the common schools and the Stetson High 
 School, and his industrial training on his 
 father's farm. He owns now the homestead 
 of one hundred and twenty-five acres, which 
 he has managed since 1870, and also has 
 some outlying wood lots. He devotes his 
 principal energy to dairy farming, and sup- 
 plies a large number of regular customers 
 with milk. He has served as a Selectman for 
 si.x years, three years of which he was chair- 
 man of the board; is now serving as a mem- 
 ber of the School Board and as a trustee of the 
 Stetson High School; and has acted as a Jus- 
 tice of the Peace for a number of years. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Mann is a member of the Congrega- 
 tional church, and has been a Deacon since 
 1878. He is one of the most able farmers 
 and stirring citizens of Randolph, and his 
 public services have been of much benefit to 
 the community. He has been for many years 
 a trustee of the Randolph Savings Bank. 
 
 ILHRIDGE F. PORTER, the manager 
 of the Weymouth Clothing Company, 
 of the Braintree Clothing Company, 
 and of the Granite Clothing Company of 
 Quincy, is one of the most enterprising and 
 progressive business men of the county. 
 Born July 31, 1853, in South Braintree, 
 Mass., he is a son of the late Joseph Porter. 
 His grandfather, Rodolphus Porter, a carpen- 
 ter bv trade, was born and reared in Middle- 
 
 boro, Plymouth County, and there spent his 
 life. 
 
 Joseph Porter was born Ai^ril 28, 1824, in 
 Holbrook, Mass., where as a boy he worked at 
 the shoemaker's trade. On coming of age he 
 learned butchering, and subsequently carried 
 on a prosperous business in that line, running 
 two carts for many years. He gave up that 
 business when he was made Postmaster at the 
 State-house 'in Boston, where he remained 
 until his death in 1870. He was a stanch Re- 
 publican and an active jiolitician, but was not 
 an office-seeker. A man of broad and gener- 
 ous sympathies, he was ready to share his last 
 dollar with the needy. He was strictly tem- 
 perate, and had the sincere respect of all with 
 whom he was brought in contact. His friends 
 were legion, antl he had not a known enemy in 
 the world. Although not a member of any 
 religious organization, he took an active in- 
 terest in church affairs, and for many years 
 was a member of the Congregational church 
 choir, singing every Sunday when not de- 
 tained at home by reason of sickness. He 
 married Mary, a daughter of John Arnold, of 
 .South Braintree, Mass. .She was born in that 
 town in 1823, and is still living, a bright and 
 most lovable woman. She attends the Con- 
 gregational church. Of their four children, 
 the survivors are: Ann Mary, the wife of 
 Douglas A. Brooks, of South Braintree; Sarah 
 L. , who married Azel R. French, a native of 
 Canton, Mass., now a resident of South Brain- 
 tree; and Elbridge F., the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 Elbridge 1*". Porter attended the public 
 schools of his native town until after the 
 death of his father. Going then to Boston, 
 he worked in a boot and shoe store for two 
 years. Subsequently he was employed in a 
 gentlemen's wholesale furnishing house until 
 he was of age. Familiar with the details of 
 that business, he established a store of a sim- 
 ilar kind in South Braintree in 1875 for his 
 brother-in-law, Mr. French, and managed it 
 for some years. In 1882 he opened a seconil 
 store at Weymouth: and a short time later he 
 established a like business in Stoughton, 
 which he conducted for five years. In 1892 
 he opened his present store in Quincy, under 
 the name of the Granite Clothing Company.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Here he has been as successful as any mer- 
 chant in the city. 
 
 Fraternally, Mr. Porter belongs to the 
 I. O. O. F. of East Weymouth, having 
 membership in the Wampatuck Encampment 
 of the same place; also to the Knights of 
 Honor and the Knights of Pythias of Brain- 
 tree; to the (juincy Club, the Granite City 
 Club, and to the Braintree Social and 
 Commercial Club. He first married Ella, 
 daughter of Joseph Oliver, of Avon, Mass. 
 She died in early womanhood, leaving two 
 children — Joseph and Herbert. His second 
 marriage was contracted with Miss Louie 
 Howland, of Randolph, Mass., who died leav- 
 ing one child, Blanche. A third marriage 
 united Mr. Porter with Miss Lizzie Nutter, 
 daughter of George Nutter, of Ouincy; and 
 they have one child living, Elberta Porter. 
 
 June 2 1, 
 
 "ON. HENRY O. FAIRBANKS, e.x- 
 Mayor of Ouincy, Mass., is a native 
 of Boston, where he is engaged in 
 business as a flour merchant. Born 
 1852, a son of Moses Fairbanks, he 
 is a worthy representative of one of the oldest 
 families of Norfolk County, being a lineal 
 descendant of Jonathan Fairbanks, who emi- 
 grated from Sowerby, in Yorkshire, England, 
 arriving in Boston in 1633, and in 1636 set- 
 tled at Dedham. From timbers that he 
 brought with him across the ocean, it is said, 
 he built the main part of the old Fairbanks 
 house, a celebrated landmark, still standing, 
 which has during this time, a period of two 
 hundred and sixty or more years, been owned 
 and occupied by some of his posterity, who 
 have kept it free from mortgage or other en- 
 cumbrance, it being the oldest house in New 
 England with such a record. Jonathan Fair- 
 banks became a man of influence in the little 
 hamlet to which he brought his wife and fam- 
 ily, all of whom were born in England; and, 
 having been admitted as a townsman, he 
 signed the covenant in 1642, and resided on 
 his homestead until his death in 1688. 
 
 Captain George Fairbanks, the son of Jona- 
 than, remained in Dedham with his parents 
 until 1657, when he located in that part of the 
 county now called Millis. He was one of the 
 
 original settlers and founders of the town of 
 Sherborn, where he served four years as Se- 
 lectman, and was chosen as one of the com- 
 mittee to select a minister for the parish 
 church. He was a member of the Ancient 
 and Honorable Artillery Company. This 
 highly esteemed citizen was accidentally 
 drowned June 10, 1682. His wife, Mary 
 Adams, of Dedham, whom he married October 
 26, 1646, died August 11, 171 1. 
 
 Their son, Eleazer, Sr. , through whom the 
 line was continued, was born June 8, 1655. 
 In 1679 he took up a home lot on Main Street, 
 Sherborn. Captain Eleazer P'airbanks, son of 
 Eleazer, Sr. , was born in Sherborn, October 
 29, 1690, and died there September 19, 1741. 
 His wife, Martha Bullard, who was born De- 
 cember 25, 1712, a daughter of Captain Sam- 
 uel Bullard, survived him, and a few years 
 after his death married again. 
 
 Ebenezer P"airbanks, son of Captain Eleazer 
 and Martha F'airbanks, born in Sherborn, 
 Mass., June i, 1734, was Lieutenant of a 
 company of minute-men that promptly re- 
 sponded to the alarm given on April 19, 1775, 
 and at a later period served for a time as a 
 private in the Revolutionary War. He was a 
 farmer by occupation; and in 1783 he removed 
 to Brimfield, Mass., settling in the north-east- 
 ern part of the town. He was a man of sterl- 
 ing qualities, eminently pious, and served for 
 many years as Deacon of the church. On 
 July 2, 1 76 1, he married Elizabeth Dearth, 
 who was born September 24, 1743, and died 
 June 15, 1 818. 
 
 Asa Fairbanks, son of Deacon Ebenezer, 
 was born March 4, 1762, in that part of the 
 old town of Sherborn that is now known as 
 Medway. Although but a boy when the colo- 
 nies began their struggle for independence, 
 he enlisted in the service of his country, and 
 at the age of fourteen years aided in guarding 
 the military stores around Sherborn; and two 
 years later, having again joined the brave sol- 
 dires, he was a ferryman during the summer 
 season between Tiverton and Greenwich, R.I., 
 transporting horses, men, provisions, and am- 
 munition. In 1780 he re-enlisted, and was 
 sent to West Point, where he was stationed on 
 that day in September when Arnold attempted >' 
 to betray the fortress into the hands of the
 
 HENRY O. FAIRBANKS.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 9' 
 
 British. On April 28, 1784, he married 
 Hepzibah Adams, vvlio was Ixirn in Sherborn, 
 December 8, 1761, a daughter of Captain 
 Moses Adams. Very soon after their union 
 he and his fair bride removed to Dublin, 
 N.H., settling in the midst of the dense 
 woods. For three months or more they lived 
 in a rude log cabin, having neither chimney 
 nor door, and did all of their cooking by the 
 side of a log in the open air. Their son Asa 
 was the grandfather of Henry O. Fairbanks, 
 the special subject of this biographical sketch. 
 
 Asa Fairbanks, Jr., was born in Dublin, 
 N.H., March 17, 1787; and in his early days 
 he assisted in the pioneer labor of clearing 
 the land which his father had purchased. He 
 subsequently lived for a time in Peterboro, 
 N.H., going thence to the town of Hancock. 
 He met with a premature death, being frozen 
 while out hunting near Centre Harbor, N.H. 
 His first wife, the mother of Moses Fairbanks, 
 was Polly Whitcomb, a daughter of John 
 VVhitcomb. She died September 24, 1838; 
 and he subsequently married Mis."? Sarah Hen- 
 iston. 
 
 Moses Fairbanks, born June 19, 1816, in 
 Peterboro, N.H., was reared on a farm, and 
 obtained his education in the district school. 
 At the age of eighteen years, deciding that he 
 had no particular taste for agricultural pur- 
 suits, he went to Concord, N.H., where he 
 worked in a liotel for two years, and thence to 
 Boston, Mass. He obtained a situation as 
 clerk with the firm of Boyd & Allen, being in 
 their service while they were building the 
 Howard Athenceum. Subsequently entering 
 into business on his own account, he was for a 
 number of years at the head of the firm of 
 Fairbanks & Beard, afterward being connected 
 with the firm of Moses Fairbanks & Co. ; and 
 he was later in business alone for five years. 
 He lived nearly fourscore years, passing from 
 earth on February 4, 1896. On April 27, 
 
 1840, he married Frances Maria Moulton, who 
 was born in Centre Harbor, N. H., May 23, 
 1821, a daughter of Jonathan Smith .and Deb- 
 orah (Nash) Moulton. Their children were 
 as follows: Mary Frances, born December I, 
 
 1841, who married April 2, 1863, Daniel B. 
 Spear, of Boston ; Helen Maria, who was born 
 October 16, 1845, and died April 4, 1846; 
 
 Helen Louise, born April 3, 1847, died No- 
 vember 2, 1848; Ella Abra, born March 7, 
 1850; Henry O. ; William Mose.s, born De- 
 cember II, 1855, who married Decem.ber 18, 
 1879, Alice M. Sargent; Carrie Deborah, born 
 April 9, 1858, who died March i, 1890; and 
 Maria Moulton, who was born October 18, 
 1863, and died August 28, 1865. 
 
 Llenry O. Fairbanks was educated in the 
 public schools of Boston, being graduated 
 from the English High School with the class 
 of 1869. He at once entered the employ of 
 Nazro & Co., commission merchants of that 
 city, and there acquired a thorough knowledge 
 of the flour and grain business. In 1881 he 
 resigned his position to become manager of a 
 large fiouring-mill at Columbus, Ohio, re- 
 maining there a year, hi 1882 Mr. Fairbanks 
 returned to Boston, and opened an office as a 
 flour merchant on Commercial Street, where 
 he soon established an extensive business, 
 which has constantly increased. On the com- 
 pletion of the present Chamber of Commerce 
 he removed his office to that building, where 
 he is still engaged, being the representative of 
 several of the leading flouring-mills of the 
 United States. Removing to Quincy soon 
 after his marriage, Mr. Fairbanks has since 
 been identified with the highest interests of 
 this city. 
 
 In 1889, when the city charter was granted, 
 he represented Ward Five in the Common 
 Council; and, being re-elected the succeeding 
 year, he was unanimously chosen president of 
 that body. In 1891 he was elected to the 
 highest office within the gift of his fellow-cit- 
 izens, being chosen Mayor of the city; and 
 the ensuing two years he was honored with a 
 re-election to the same position. During his 
 mayoralty the town reached its one hundredth 
 birthday; and he, as chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Committee having charge of the celebra- 
 tion, did much to insure its success. While 
 he was Mayor, the present system of water- 
 works was completed, the commodious and 
 well-equipped high-school building was 
 erected, also the large central fire engine 
 house, and the lawsuit of Quincy with Dart- 
 mouth College over the Woodward fund was 
 settled in the city's favor. 
 
 In politics Mr. Fairbanks is a stanch Re-
 
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 UlOGkAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 publican. He was made a Mason in Rural 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., of Quincy, of which 
 he is Past Master; is a member of St. 
 Stephen's Chapter, R. A. M.; and of South 
 Shore Commandery ; and has been District 
 Deputy of the Twenty-fourth Masonic Dis- 
 trict. He also belongs to the John Hancock 
 Lodge, L O. O. F. ; to the VVollaston Lodge, 
 K. of H., of which he has been Dictator and 
 District Deputy; Woodbine Lodge, K. & 
 L. of H., which he has served as Protector; 
 and he is a Past Sachem of Hodenosaunee 
 Tribe, I. O. R. M. 
 
 Mr. Fairbanks was married January 14, 
 1875, ^'^ Miss Carrie A., daughter of Henry 
 H. anil Julia V. (Severance) Brown, of l^os- 
 ton, Mass. They have three children — Mabel 
 F., Harry M., and Mollie E. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Fairbanks are members of the Unitarian 
 Church of Wollaston. 
 
 AUSTIN THAYER, of Randolph, 
 a dealer in coal and wood, hay, 
 grain, shingles, brick, etc., was 
 born in Randolph, February 27, 
 1847, son of Rufus and Margery A. (\Vhite) 
 Thayer. The Thayer family is an old one in 
 this town. Rufus Thayer was an extensive 
 land-owner here and a citizen of prominence 
 and influence. A member of the old Whig 
 party, he joined the Republican party at its 
 formation, and continued one of its loyal 
 supporters up to the time of his death, which 
 occurred on May 25, 1853. His wife, Mar- 
 gery, a native of Braintree, was a direct de- 
 scendant of Peregrine White, who was the 
 first white child born in New England. 
 Rufus and Margery Thayer were the parents 
 of five children, of whom Rufus A., Charles 
 M., and S. Austin are living. 
 
 S. Austin Thayer lost his father by death 
 when young. He received his early educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Randolph and 
 in an academy at South Braintree. After- 
 ward for two years he attended the Law- 
 rence Scientific School at Cambridge, a de- 
 partment of Harvard University. In 1876 he 
 went to Kansas, and was for a number of 
 years engaged in cattle and sheep raising at 
 Solomon City. In 1884 he returned and en- 
 
 gaged in the grain business at South Brain- 
 tree, having erected a mill in that town. 
 After remaining there for a year, he came to 
 Randolph, built a mill here, and started in 
 the same business. Subsequently he added 
 coal, wood, and other merchandise to his 
 stock in trade. His present prosperity is 
 largely due to his punctual delivery of all 
 goods bought, to his unfailing fairness in 
 every transaction, and to the fact that every- 
 thing he sells is as represented by him. 
 
 Mr. Thayer and his brother, Rufus A., were 
 among the active promoters of the Randolph 
 Street Railway connecting Randolph and 
 South Braintree. Probably no one man tak- 
 ing part in the enterprise did more to forward 
 it than did the subject of this sketch. For 
 some time previously he saw that it would be 
 of great convenience to the residents of both 
 towns, and would increase the valuation of 
 property. Every one now recognizes the 
 value of the road and the wisdom of Mr. 
 Thayer's vigorous action in securing it. 
 
 Mr. Thayer is a well-known sportsman, 
 being a fisherman of proverbial good luck and 
 a famous shot. He makes occasional trips to 
 Maine and the lower British Provinces, and 
 invariably brings back trophies of his skill. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is the 
 father of three children — Arthur A., Ethel, 
 and Lena. 
 
 rmc 
 
 FORGE T. WILDE, the present 
 \ '*) I efficient Clerk and Treasurer of Hol- 
 brook and a leading merchant of the 
 town, was born in Braintree, Mass., October 
 7, 1845. He is a son of Atherton T. and Avis 
 A. (Hobart) Wilde, both natives of Brain- 
 tree. Atherton T. Wilde, who is now in his 
 eighty-si.xth year, has been a farmer during the 
 most of his life. He still resides in Brain- 
 tree, where he is generally esteemed. 
 
 George T. Wilde grew to manhood in Brain- 
 tree, receiving his education in the public 
 schools of that town and in Hollis Institute. 
 When twenty-one years of age he was em- 
 ployed as a clerk by B. F. Shaw & Henry 
 Loud at East Weymouth, and afterward 
 worked for them for about two years. He was 
 subsequently a clerk for a year with S. W.
 
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 93 
 
 Hayden, of Neponset. In 1871 he came to 
 Holbrook, purchased the business of Henry H. 
 Packard, and has since carried on a general 
 merchandise store. He removed to his pres- 
 ent location in 1894. Hy careful and trust- 
 worthy business methods he has built up for 
 himself a prosperous business. He aims to 
 keep a full line of the different classes of 
 goods usually carried in a general merchandise 
 store, and to have only stock of high grade. 
 Satisfied with moderate rates of profit, he sup- 
 plies his customers with goods at low prices. 
 
 Mr. Wilde's wife was before her marriage 
 Betsey B. White, daughter of Isaac W, White, 
 late of Holbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Wilde 
 have two children — George H. and Walter B. 
 For years Mr. Wilde has taken an active in- 
 terest in politics, constantly seeking "the 
 greatest good of the greatest number," regard- 
 less of personal considerations, and support- 
 ing the Republican party. He has been the 
 Town Clerk and Treasurer for nine years. 
 He was one of the promoters and organizers 
 of the Holbrook Co-operative Bank, and since 
 its establishment has been its secretary and 
 treasurer, with the exception of one year. 
 An esteemed member of the Knights of 
 Pythias of Holbrook, he is the present 
 treasurer of the organization. He is a mem- 
 ber of Winthrop Congregational Church of 
 Holbrook. 
 
 |ALEB LOTHROP, treasurer of the 
 Cohassct Savings Bank, was born in 
 Cohasset, Mass., September 7, 
 1849, son of John Q. A. and 
 Eunice B. (Bates) Lothrop. His parents 
 were natives of Cohasset, as were also his 
 grandparents, Caleb and Mary (Snow) Lo- 
 throp. The English ancestor of the family 
 was the Rev. John Lothrop, a noted preacher 
 of his day; and Colonel Thomas Lothrop, a 
 descendant of the Rev. John, served in the 
 Revolutionary War. 
 
 John Q. A. Lothrop, when a young man, 
 learned the stair-builder's trade in Boston, 
 but did not long follow it. For some time he 
 was employed by his father in mackerel fish- 
 ing, and for a number of years he held the ap- 
 pointment of Custom-house Inspector at this 
 
 port. He acted as a trustee and was finally 
 elected president of the Cohasset Savings 
 Bank, a position which he occupied at the 
 time of his death. He was for a long period 
 identified with the Board of Selectmen, both 
 as a member and as chairman, was twice 
 elected a County Commissioner, and served 
 three terms in the legislature. Politically, 
 he was a Republican; and his ability and ac- 
 tivity as a party leader gained for him a wide 
 acquaintance throughout the county. He was 
 a member of Konohasset Lodge, F. & A. M. 
 He died September 24, 1894, and his wife, 
 June 23, 1897. Four of their children are 
 living, namely: Caleb, the subject of this 
 sketch; Mary T. L., wife of Charles A. 
 Gross, of Cohasset; Ouincy A., who resides 
 in Boston; and Eunice J., wife of Charles H. 
 Cousins, a resident of this town. 
 
 Caleb Lothrop acquired his education in the 
 common schools, and for a time was employed 
 by his uncle, Ephraim Snow, of East Boston. 
 Entering the store of Tower Brothers as a 
 clerk, he later became a partner in the busi- 
 ness, and was connected with that concern 
 until 1883, when he was elected treasurer of 
 the Cohasset Savings Bank. Mr. Lothrop has 
 occupied the position of registrar of the Water 
 Company since its organization. In politics 
 he is a Republican, has served the town as 
 Auditor, and is now secretary and treasurer of 
 the School Board. He is prominent in local 
 musical circles, being leader of the choir at 
 the First Congregational Church (Unitarian), 
 of which he is a member; and he was at one 
 time superintendent of the Sunday-school. 
 Mr. Lothrop married Mary E. Gross, by whom 
 he has two sons — Thomas A. and Charles G. 
 
 tOSCOE J. 
 Hill, Ncri 
 known 
 
 SHERMAN, of Walnut 
 irfolk County, Mass., a well- 
 and successful contractor 
 and builder, was born in Edge- 
 comb, Me., July 30, 1 86 1, a son of Jared and 
 Emily (Baker) Sherman. 
 
 Roger Sherman, father of Jared, was a 
 farmer of Edgecomb, his native town. He 
 died at the age of seventy-nine. Jared Sher- 
 man was born in Edgecomb in 1820, and 
 spent his life there, engaged in farming and
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 carpenter work. An active and public- 
 spirited citizen, he served for some time as 
 Selectman of the town. His wife, who was 
 born in Edgecomb in 1833, and is now si.xty- 
 four years of age, is a daughter of John Baker, 
 a Revolutionary patriot, who lived to be 
 eighty-four years old. Mrs. Sherman is living 
 on the old homestead in Edgecomb. She is 
 the mother of five children; namely, Roscoe 
 J., Gertrude, Stanton D., Walter John, and 
 VVinnifred M. 
 
 Roscoe J. Sherman remained on the home 
 farm until he was fourteen years of age, in 
 the meantime attending school in Edgecomb. 
 For five years he led a seafaring life, making 
 a number of trips to the Western Banks, cod- 
 fishing, two trips to the West Indies as an 
 able seaman, and following the coasting trade 
 for some time between New York and Boston 
 and South Carolina. In 1882 he began to 
 learn the carpenter's trade, working with 
 Warren Worthington, with whom he remained 
 nine years. He then formed a copartnership 
 with Otis Worthington, which continued about 
 four years; and since the dissolution of the 
 firm Mr. Sherman has been sole manager of 
 his business. Among the noteworthy build- 
 ings he has constructed may be mentioned 
 those of the Dedham Poor Farm. Most of his 
 operations have been in Dedham and Newton 
 Highlands. 
 
 Mr. Sherman was married in 1892 to Mrs. 
 Charlotte M. Cobb, daughter of Luther Whit- 
 ney. She was born in Hyde Park in 1861. 
 They have one child, a boy. Mr. Sherman 
 votes the Republican ticket. He is an Odd 
 Fellow, belonging to Samuel Dexter Lodge, 
 No. 232. He is an attendant at the Meth- 
 odist church, of which his wife is a member. 
 
 METCALF FOGG, D.D.S., 
 of Ouincy, Mass., is one of the lead- 
 ing dentists of Norfolk County, 
 having a large practice in this city 
 and in adjacent towns. He was born Febru- 
 ary 19, 1855, in Norwood, Mass., and is a son 
 of the late David S. Fogg, M.D. 
 
 Among his ancestors are representatives of 
 the Fogg and Gilman families, from whom he 
 is descended, who were prominent among the 
 
 early settlers of New England. The I''ogg 
 family estates in England, it is said, which 
 were entailed, were recently held by Sir 
 Charles Fogg. The History of Hampton, 
 N.H., records the name of Samuel Fogg, 
 probably the progenitor of most of the race 
 in that State, as a grantee of land there 
 in 1658. Ralph Fogg, who was made a free- 
 man in Salem, Mass., in 1634, and was Town 
 Treasurer in 1637, and was for some years ac- 
 tive in municipal affairs, at length returned 
 to London. The Gilmans are said to have 
 originated in Wales. Edward Gilman, a na- 
 tive of Hingham, Norfolk County, England, 
 came to this country in 1638, landing in Bos- 
 ton. A few years later he removed to Exeter, 
 N.H., where his sons were already settled. 
 
 Stephen Fogg and Bradbury Gilman, two of 
 the great-grandfathers of Dr. Ralph M. Fogg, 
 were born and bred in Exeter, N.H. ; and for 
 many years the important points in the 
 life history of these two men were nearly 
 identical. Both were participants in the 
 battle of Bunker Hill and in other memo- 
 rable engagements of the Revolution; and at 
 its close both married, moved to Meredith, 
 N.H., and took up tracts of forest land on the 
 banks of Lake Winnepesaukee, where each 
 cleared and improved farms that are now in 
 possession of his lineal descendants. Joseph 
 I""ogg, the son of Stephen Fogg, and the Doc- 
 tor's grandfather, held a commission as Cap- 
 tain of a New Hampshire company in the War 
 of 1812. He married Judith Gilman, daugh- 
 ter of Bradbury Gilman. 
 
 David Sylvester, their fourth son, attended 
 Holmes Academy in Plymouth, N.H., and 
 Dartmouth College, and then read medicine 
 with Dr. Josiah Crosby, of Manchester, N.H., 
 taking the degree of Doctor of Medicine at 
 the Dartmouth Medical School in 1845. The 
 succeeding year he spent in the medical 
 schools and hospitals of Philadelphia, at that 
 time the centre of medical culture. Coming 
 to Norfolk County in 1846, he settled in that 
 part of Dedham now known as Norwood, and 
 built up an extensive and lucrative practice in 
 that and surrounding towns, at his death in 
 1893 being one of the most successful and 
 best known physicians in this part of Massa- 
 chusetts. In 1 86 1 he was appointed a volun-
 
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 teer surgeon, and served in the Peninsular 
 campaign. He was subsequently appointed by 
 President Lincoln as surgeon of the Board of 
 Enrolment for the Seventh Massachusetts Di- 
 vision, and had his headquarters at Concord, 
 this State, until the close of the Rebellion. 
 Returning to Norwood, he resumed his former 
 practice among the people whose confidence 
 and respect he had long sijice won. He was 
 a physician of great skill, a man of sterling 
 character, distinguished for his love of right 
 and humanity, and was highly esteemed by old 
 and young. 
 
 In 1847 he married Mary B. Tucker, a 
 daughter of the Rev. Thomas W. Tucker, at 
 that time in charge of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church at Dorchester Lower Mills. The 
 children born of their union were: Mary (de- 
 ceased) ; Irving S. Fogg, M. D., a graduate of 
 Harvard College; Ralph Metcalf, the special 
 subject of this biography; Mabel (deceased) ; 
 Ada; Helen (deceased); Arthur and Ernest 
 T. , both of Boston. The Doctor was a mem- 
 ber of the Norfolk Medical Society, the Mas- 
 sachusetts Medical Society, and the American 
 Medical Association. 
 
 Mrs. David S. Fogg's grandfather Tucker, 
 a native of England, married Hannah Waite 
 in Medford, Mass. Thomas W. Tucker was 
 the youngest of a large family of children born 
 of this union. He became a member of the 
 Bromfield Street Methodist Episcopal Church 
 in Boston when nineteen years old, and two 
 years later was ordained a minister of that de- 
 nomination, with which he was actively identi- 
 fied for more than threesccrre years. For a 
 long period he was an itinerant preacher of the 
 New England Conference, his circuit extend- 
 ing through New Hampshire and Vermont. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Orne, 
 was born in Charlestown, N.H. A woman of 
 superior qualities of mind and heart, she be- 
 came his worthy helpmeet, and was honored in 
 the church and conference as a true mother in 
 Israel. Mr. Tucker was eminently successful 
 in his pastoral labors, by his earnest efforts 
 winning large numbers of men, women, and 
 children to espouse the Master's cause, and 
 greatly increasing the membership of the 
 churches. The Rev. Edward T. Taylor, 
 familiarly known as "Father Taylor," for 
 
 many years pastor of the Sailors' Bethel, Bos- 
 ton, was one of his early converts. The Rev. 
 Thomas W. Tucker passed to the higher life 
 in 1871, at Chelsea, Mass., aged eighty years. 
 
 Ralph M. I'ogg received his elementary ed- 
 ucation at private schools, afterward attending 
 successively Dean Academy in Franklin, 
 Mass., and the Harvard Dental College. In 
 1880 he began the practice of dentistry, open- 
 ing offices in both Norwood and Boston, and 
 met with good success from the first. In 1893 
 he gave up his office in Boston, retaining the 
 one in Norwood, and opened two others, one 
 in Ouincy and one in Dedham ; and in each of 
 these places he has a large patronage. For 
 years Dr. Fogg was dissatisfied with nitrous 
 o.xide gas as an an:esthetic, it failing to pro- 
 tect the patient against pain; and, in trying to 
 find some harmless compound to accomplish 
 the desired results, he made many e.\-peri- 
 ments, and after much study produced the 
 "Boston Vegetable Vapor," an anaesthetic that 
 has proved eminently successful. In 1885 the 
 Boston Vegetable Anaesthetic Company was 
 formed for the purpose of placing the vapor 
 on the market, and it has since been used by 
 leading dentists in all parts of the country 
 with most satisfactory results. Dr. Fogg is 
 a member of the State Dental Association. 
 
 In December, 1893, Dr. Fogg married Miss 
 Anna Saville, a daughter of Charles P"rancis 
 Saville, of Ouincy, Mass. A brief history of 
 her paternal ancestors may be found on 
 another page of this volume, in connection 
 with the sketch of her cousin, George Saville. 
 Dr. and Mrs. Fogg are members of the Epis- 
 copal church. 
 
 EV. WALTER RUSSELL BREED, 
 B.S., B. D., the rector of Christ 
 Church, Ouincy, was born January 
 10, 1866. in Lynn, Esse.x County, 
 Mass. His father, Joseph Breed, a native of 
 Lynn, Mass., born in 1826, who was a well- 
 known merchant of that city throughout his 
 entire business life, married Frances, daugh- 
 ter of the Rev. John T. Burrill. They reared 
 si.x children — Anna, George, Arthur, Henry, 
 Walter, and Laura. George is now a resident 
 of Lynn. Arthur, also residing in Lynn, has
 
 BlOGRAtHICAL REVIEW 
 
 served as State Senator, and been a member of 
 the Governor's Council. Laura is the wife of 
 Charles Walker. The Rev. John T. Burrill 
 was for some years the pastor of the Quincy 
 Point church. Subsequently, after entering 
 the Episcopal denomination, he became rector 
 of Christ Church in Quincy, and later was the 
 rector of the Old North Church in Boston, 
 during the decade of the si.\ties. 
 
 Walter Russell Breed was educated in the 
 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 
 graduating therefrom in 1887 with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Science. Three years 
 later, having taken the prescribed course of 
 study in the Episcopal Theological School at 
 Cambridge, Mass., he there received the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was subse- 
 quently ordained Deacon by Bishop Padtlock 
 in Cambridge, and priest in Tarrytown, 
 N.Y., by Bishop Potter. His first pastoral 
 charge was the Episcopal church at Concord, 
 Mass., where he was settled for three years. 
 In November, 1893, he accepted the rector- 
 ship ot Christ Church, Quincy, where he has 
 zealously labored in his sacred calling. 
 
 A man of broad culture, Mr. Breed is 
 deeply interested in the cause of education, 
 which he has done much to advance as a mem- 
 ber of the Quincy School Board and the 
 chairman of the Board's Committee on Even- 
 ing Schools. Also connected with the Wood- 
 ward School since its organization, he is now 
 the vice-president of its Board of Trustees. 
 On June 4, 1894, he was united in marriage 
 with Miss Ellen Broderick Zelmer, a daughter 
 of William Zelmer, of Lansford, Pa., and now 
 has one child, William Zelmer Breed. 
 
 'ENAS A. FRENCH, the chairman 
 and secretary of the Board of Asses- 
 sors of Holbrook, was born in this 
 town on September 4, 1843, son of 
 the Hon. Zenas and Julia (Tower) French. 
 The French family is of English origin. Its 
 first representative in America was John 
 French, who came here about the year 1630. 
 Captain Moses French, the great-grandfather 
 of Zenas A., commanded a company of soldiers 
 in the Revolution. His son Zenas, who was 
 a drummer in the same war, became very 
 
 prominent as a citizen, and served in the 
 legislative session of 181 8. Zenas (second), 
 father of the subject of this sketch, was for 
 seventeen successive years a Selectman ot the 
 old town of Randolph, represented it in the 
 legislature in 1837 and 1839, and was State 
 Senator from Norfolk County in 1852. He 
 was a Republican from the time of the forma- 
 tion of the party, and took a leading part in 
 its work. He voted for General P'remont, and 
 was president of the local Fremont Club at 
 East Randolph, now Holbrook. His mother, 
 it is said, was a descendant of John Alden, of 
 the Plymouth Colony. Julia, his wife, was a 
 native of Braintree, Mass. Her grandfather 
 was a member of the famous Boston Tea Party. 
 The Hon. Zenas and Julia French were the 
 parents of seven children. Of these, five are 
 lilting, namely: Mrs. A. H. Platts, of Abing- 
 ton; Zenas A., the subject of this sketch; and 
 Ruth W. , Sarah R., and Caroline F., who re- 
 side in Holbrook. 
 
 Zenas A. French was reared on his father's 
 estate in Holbrook, receiving his education in 
 the public schools of the town. At the age 
 of twenty-one years he was employed as a 
 cutter in the boot and shoe manufactory of 
 Thomas White, of East Randolph. Subse- 
 quently he entered the employ of Edmund 
 White, working for him from 1865 until 1893, 
 most of the time in the capacity of general 
 superintendent of the shop. For si.xteen 
 years he has been a member of the Holbrook 
 School Committee; and for a number of years 
 he was chairman of the board, which position 
 he now holds, in the spring of 1897 having 
 been unanimously elected to the School Board. 
 He is also chairman of the Board of Assessors. 
 In 189s he occupied a seat in the legislature, 
 and he served as a member of the legislative 
 Committee on Education. While his politi- 
 cal principles are warmly Republican, he is 
 heartily in sympathy with the aims of the 
 Prohibitionists. 
 
 Mr. French married Lucy J. Beebe, of 
 Hampden, Mass. They have one daughter, 
 Linda M. Mr. French is a director of the 
 Holbrook Co-operative Bank, and he has been 
 the librarian of the Holbrook Public Library 
 since its establishment in 1874. Fraternally, 
 he is a member of the Knights of Honor.
 
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 99 
 
 |EV. CARLOS SLAFTER is a highly 
 respected resident of Dedham. A 
 man of scholarly attainments and 
 broad culture, a teacher for a full 
 half-century, and the principal of the Dedham 
 High School for forty consecutive years, many 
 of the leading men of this and neighboring 
 towns, including merchants, ministers, doc- 
 tors, and lawyers, as well as their wives and 
 children, are indebted to him for a large por- 
 tion of their educational and moral training. 
 He was born July 21, 1825, in Thetford, Vt., 
 son of Sylvester and Mary (Johnson) Slafter. 
 His grandfather, John Slafter, was born in 
 Mansfield, Conn. When a ynung man, John 
 removed to Norwich, Vt., where he was the 
 first permanent settler, and was numbered 
 among the leading farmers. He served as a 
 soldier in the French and Indian War, and 
 also for a short time in the Revolution, 
 being a member of the Committee of Safety, 
 and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. 
 He lived eighty years, and held town office. 
 During most of the years he was a citizen of 
 Norwich. 
 
 Sylvester Slafter, born and reared in Nor- 
 wich, after reaching man's estate settled in 
 the neighboring town of Thetford, where he 
 was afterward engaged in general farming and 
 fruit-growing until his demise, at the age of 
 seventy years. He was active in town affairs, 
 serving in various offices. His wife, Mary, 
 was a daughter of Calvin Johnson, of Norwich, 
 who for four years served in the Revolutionary 
 army, taking an active part in many of the 
 battles of that war. They reared ten chil- 
 dren, of whom Edmund, Mrs. Christiana 
 Tilden, Lyman, and Carlos are living. The 
 mother passed away years before her husband, 
 dying at the age of fifty-two years. Both 
 parents were members of the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 Carlos Slafter was fitted for Dartmouth in 
 the Thetford Academy, and was graduated 
 from that college with the class of 1849. Be- 
 ginning when but sixteen years old, he had 
 previously taught school for several terms in 
 Fairlee, Vt., and in Lyme, N. H. While in 
 college he taught for three winters in Massa- 
 chusetts. In 1851 and 1852 he had charge of 
 the Framingham High School and Academy. 
 
 From there he came to Dedham in the latter 
 year, to accept the position of master of the 
 Dedham High School. This position he had 
 ably filled for forty years, when he resigned 
 his charge, in June, 1892. When he took the 
 school he was the only teacher of its thirty- 
 five pupils. In 1892 the number of students 
 enrolled was one hundred and seventy, while 
 the corps of instructors included five other 
 teachers beside himself. 
 
 Mr. Slafter was married August 4, 1853, to 
 Miss Rebecca Bui lard. She was born in Ded- 
 ham, daughter of William Bullard, a substan- 
 tial farmer and the representative of one of 
 the earliest families of this locality. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Slafter have two children, namely: 
 Theodore S., an artist, in Dedham; and Anna 
 R., the wife of Calvin Countryman, a mer- 
 chant of Rockford, 111. In the capacity of 
 master of the high school Mr. Slafter was 
 identified with the highest interests of Ded- 
 ham. He was also largely instrumental in 
 securing the establishment of the public li- 
 brary, of which he is one of the trustees, and 
 he has been active in the Historical Society, 
 of which he is a curator. He was ordained 
 Deacon by Bishop Eastburn in Trinity 
 Church, Boston, May, 1865, and was after- 
 ward chaplain of the jail of Norfolk County 
 for several years. In politics he has the 
 courage of his convictions, voting for the 
 best men, regardless of party dictation. 
 
 Since relinquishing the work of an instruc- 
 tor, he has devoted much of his leisure to writ- 
 ing for periodicals, historical discourses, and 
 the composition of several books still unpub- 
 lished and not yet dismissed from his careful 
 revision. 
 
 OHN W. CHASE, M.D., one of the 
 most active and skilful physicians of 
 Norfolk County, has been a resident of 
 Dedham for thirty years; and during 
 this time he has been busily employed, and has 
 built up a very large and lucrative practice. 
 He was born December 9, 1839, in tapping, 
 N.H., a son of Prescott and Sally (Sanborn) 
 Chase, and comes of old Colonial stock. 
 
 Among the emigrants bearing this surname 
 may be mentioned, first, Aquila, of Newbury,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Mass., 1646, having been at Hampton, N.H., 
 in 1640, wlio was the founder of a numerous 
 family; his brother Thomas, of Hampton; and 
 William, of Roxbury, 1630. Jonathan, Jr., 
 son of Jonathan Chase, Sr., and grandfather 
 of Dr. Chase, was born, lived, and died in 
 Epping, where he was engaged in general 
 farming until his death, at the age of seventy- 
 seven years. 
 
 Prescott Chase was one of a family of two 
 children born to his parents. His entire life 
 of sixty-nine years was spent in his native 
 town, where he was numbered among the lead- 
 ing agriculturists, and was a leading citizen. 
 Possessed of those traits of industry and thrift 
 characteristic of the true New luiglander, and 
 guided by the principles of honesty and integ- 
 rity, he became influential in the community, 
 and was held in high respect by all who knew 
 him. It was a common saying that Prescott 
 Chase"s word was as good as his bond. He 
 married Sally Sanborn, a daughter of Zebulon 
 Sanborn, a farmer and lumberman, and a 
 prominent citizen of Epping, N.H. Eight 
 children were born of their union, five of 
 whom are now living, as follows: John W. , 
 the Doctor; Samuel; Jennie, the wife of 
 Daniel K. Foster; Frank; and Hattie. The 
 mother, Mrs. Sally S. Chase, is now, at the 
 advanced age of seventy-nine years, living at 
 the old homestead in Epping, N.H. She is a 
 member of the Congregational church, with 
 which her husband also was connected. 
 
 John W. Chase received his preliminary ed- 
 ucation in the district schools of his native 
 town and at the academy in Kingston. Dur- 
 ing the war of the Rebellion he served for 
 some time as a hospital steward in the regular 
 United States Army. He subsequently pur- 
 sued his professional studies in the Medical 
 School of Maine, at Bowdoin College, in 
 Brunswick, Me., being graduated in 1867. 
 On August 12 of that year the young Doctor 
 located in Dedham, and in the practice of his 
 profession met witli such success from the 
 start that he has since continued here. In 
 1873, with the desire to still further perfect 
 himself in the science of medicine and sur- 
 gery, he visited some of the principal hospi- 
 tals and colleges of Europe, pursuing his 
 studies and attending lectures in Leipsic, 
 
 Vienna, and London, he being the only prac- 
 titioner in this section of the county to take 
 such a course of study. 
 
 In Bnmswick, Me., on June 16, 1869, Dr. 
 Chase married Miss Harriet E. Weeman, who 
 was born in Freeport, Me., a daughter of 
 James Pope and Elizabeth (True) Weeman. 
 Mr. Weeman was a hardware merchant in 
 F"reeport until 1866, when he removed to 
 Brunswick, Me., where he is still actively en- 
 gaged in business pursuits, although seventy- 
 nine years old. His wife died some years 
 ago, aged seventy-two years. They reared 
 three children, of whom two are living — Mrs. 
 Chase and her sister, Abbie C. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Weeman were both members of the Congrega- 
 tional church, and for many years he was a 
 Deacon. Dr. and Mrs. Chase are the parents 
 of three children, two of whom are living; 
 namely, Alice W. and Julian D. , the latter a 
 bright and active youth of fifteen, now prepar- 
 ing for a scientific education. Grace Lillian 
 died aged eight months. 
 
 Dr. Chase is a stanch supporter of the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party. He has been 
 a member of the School Board one year, of 
 the Board of Health four years, and for four 
 years under President Harrison's administra- 
 tion he was pension examiner. Being wide- 
 awake and public-spirited, he takes great in- 
 terest in the establishment of enterprises 
 calculated to benefit the town, and is one of 
 the promoters and a large stockholder of the 
 Norfolk Suburban Street Railway, and also of 
 the Norfolk Central Railway. 
 
 The Doctor is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society of Norfolk County, and 
 for twenty-five consecutive years was county 
 physician, holding the office for a longer time 
 than any other incumbent since the office was 
 established. Fraternally, he is a member of 
 Constellation Lodge, F. & A. M., of Dedham; 
 of the A. O. U. W.; of the Knights of 
 Honor; of the Royal Arcanum; and of the 
 New England Order of Protection. He and 
 his family are attendants of the Congrega- 
 tional church. Mrs. Chase, a woman of cult- 
 ure and refinement, was educated in the high 
 school of Brunswick, Me., and for some years 
 prior to her marriage was a successful teacher 
 in that college town.
 
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 103 
 
 'OSEPH A. GUSHING, a prominent 
 citizen of East Weymouth, now man- 
 ager of the bicycle sundry department 
 of the John P. Lovell Arms Gompany, 
 lioston, was born in Hingham, Mass., Decem- 
 ber 24, 1846, son of Adam and Harriet (Lor- 
 ing) Gushing, botii parents natives of tliat old 
 Plymouth Gounty town. 
 
 The Gushing family is an old and honored 
 one in this section of the State, and is of 
 English origin. The emigrant ancestor, 
 Matthew Gushing, settled in Hingham in 
 1638. Of the sixth generation in lineal de- 
 scent from Matthew was Mr. Joseph A. Gush- 
 ing's grandfather, Jonathan Gushing, who 
 took a leading part in town affairs in Hing- 
 ham in the early part of the century, serving 
 as Selectman, and also as a Representative to 
 the General Goiirt. Adam Gushing, above 
 named, was a soldier in the War of 1812; and 
 his widow drew a government pension on that 
 account. 
 
 When Joseph A. Gushing was twelve years 
 of age, his parents removed to Gohasset; and 
 he was educated in the public schools of that 
 town, including the high school. When he 
 was eighteen years old, his father died; and he 
 shortly became self-supporting, beginning his 
 working life as clerk in the revenue office at 
 Hingham. After serving there for some time, 
 he was employed for several years as book- 
 keeper for A. W. Glapp & Go., boot and shoe 
 dealers of Boston, and then went to North 
 Weymouth, where he became identified with 
 Ale.xis Torry & Go., manufacturers of boots 
 and shoes, as clerk and treasurer, in which po- 
 sition he remained for twenty years. Since 
 that time he has filled his present position 
 with the John P. Lovell Arms Gompany. 
 
 Mr. Gushing married Dora L. Benson, a 
 native of Falmouth, Mass., and a lady of taste 
 and culture. He is a Republican in politics, 
 and has been interested in various ways in the 
 administration of public affairs in the town. 
 He has been on the School Gommittee of 
 Weymouth for nine years, and part of the time 
 was clerk of the board. He has also been Au- 
 ditor. He was formerly treasurer of the East 
 Weymouth Savings Bank, of which he is now 
 vice-president, trustee, and a member of its 
 Board of Investment. In religious belief Mr. 
 
 Gushing is a Methodist, and he and his wife 
 are members of the Methodist P2piscopal 
 church. He is a steward and trustee, and is 
 now treasurer of the society. Fraternally, he 
 is a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the 
 Temple of Honor at East Weymouth. In 
 1890 he was Representative to the State legis- 
 ature, and while there served on the Gommit- 
 tee on Banks and Banking. 
 
 EAVITT BATES, a former resident of 
 P3ast Weymouth, who had served in 
 the Givil War, and was well known 
 in the wholesale clothing trade of 
 Boston, was born in Weymouth, August 11, 
 1843. His father, Abraham Bates, was a na- 
 tive of Weymouth; and his mother, Susan L. 
 (Stoddard) Bates, was born in Hingham, 
 Mass. 
 
 Leavitt Bates attended the common and 
 high schools of Weymouth for the usual 
 period, and completed his studies at a busi- 
 ness college in Boston. His business career 
 was begun in the general store of Henry Loud 
 at East Weymouth, where he remained until 
 1861. In this year he enlisted as a private in 
 Gompany A, P'orty-second Regiment, Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteers, for nine months' service 
 in the Givil War. After the expiration of his 
 first term of service he re-enlisted in the 
 Fourth Heavy Artillery, with which he served 
 until mustered out at the close of the war. 
 Upon his return home he resumed his former 
 position with Mr. Loud, serving in the capac- 
 ity of salesman and that of assistant in the 
 post-ofifice, which was located in the store. 
 Subsequently he became book-keeper for a 
 Boston house dealing in tailors' supplies. 
 Later he entered the wholesale clothing busi- 
 ness as a member of the firm of Smith, Rich- 
 ardson & Bates, doing business on Summer 
 Street, Boston. After the withdrawal of Mr. 
 Richardson the concern was known as Smith, 
 Bates & Go. Mr. Bates was also interested 
 in the East Weymouth Savings Bank, of which 
 he was a director. His connection with the 
 clothing firm continued until his death, which 
 occurred suddenly in New York, May 6, 1888, 
 while representing the Providence District at 
 the General Gonference of the Methodist Epis-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 copal Church held in that city. He was not 
 quite forty-five years old at the time, and the 
 event was a shock to his business associates 
 and fellow-townsmen. He took a deep inter- 
 est in the general welfare and progress of East 
 Weymouth, and his wise counsels and valu- 
 able assistance in all matters of public impor- 
 tance are still remembered by his townsmen. 
 His business ability and integrity were of a 
 high standard. He was an active member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal church, and he 
 served as its treasurer for seventeen years. 
 He was connected with the Masonic fraternity, 
 and was a comrade of Reynolds Post, G. A. R., 
 of Weymouth. His political views were 
 strongly Republican. 
 
 On December ii, 1867, Mr. Bates was 
 united in marriage with Anne E. Tirrell, of 
 Weymouth. She is a daughter of Harrison 
 F. S. and Elizabeth (Jacob) Tirrell. The 
 former was a native of this town, and the 
 latter was born in Hingham. Mrs. Bates's 
 paternal grandfather was Norton Q. Tirrell. 
 On her mother's side she is a descendant of 
 John Hancock, the American patriot and 
 statesman. She became the mother of three 
 children ^ Harry W., Leavitt W., and Emma 
 E. Since the death of her husband Mrs. 
 Bates has continued to reside at 73 Broad 
 Street. She is connected with the Women's 
 Relief Corps, is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church, and stands high in the es- 
 timation of the entire community. 
 
 IDMUND WHITE, a well-known citizen 
 of Holbrook, Mass., for many years a 
 leading manufacturer of boots and 
 shoes, is a native of this town, until recent 
 years known as East Randolph. He was born 
 on August 21, 1823, his parents being 
 Thomas and Meriel (Burr) White, the former 
 a native of Holbrook, and the latter of Co- 
 hasset. 
 
 John White (great-grandfather of Edmund) 
 and Joseph White, brother of John, were 
 among the earliest settlers in East Randolph, 
 now Holbrook. They were of English de- 
 scent, and belonged to an old Colonial family. 
 Their earliest progenitor in America bearing 
 this surname was Thomas White, who is said 
 
 to have been "admitted a freeman of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Colony in 1636, being then and 
 previously an inhabitant of Weymouth and a 
 member of the church." Thomas White, of a 
 later generation, father of Edmund White, 
 was a shoemaker early in life, and later be- 
 came interested in agricultural pursuits. 
 
 Mr. Edmund White received his early men- 
 tal training in the common schools of Hol- 
 brook. The education thus acquired he has 
 supplemented by reading and by close obser- 
 vation of men and afifairs during the years of 
 his business life. He is in every way a self- 
 made man; and his success has been due, not 
 to exceptional opportunities at the beginning, 
 but to his purpose and readiness to make the 
 most of every opportunity for personal im- 
 provement, and to his persevering energy, 
 ambition, and enterprise. When about twelve 
 years of age; he began to learn the shoe- 
 maker's trade, and when eighteen years old he 
 was recognized as an expert Crispin. He 
 worked at this handicraft as a journeyman 
 until twenty-five years of age, when he started 
 in business for himself as a boot and shoe 
 manufacturer. At the start he had a partner, 
 George N. Spear, and the business was carried 
 on under the name of White & Spear. A 
 short time after, William Gray being added to 
 the firm, it became White & Gray. For a 
 number of years I\Ir. White carried on busi- 
 ness alone; and in 1865 he formed a partner- 
 ship with his brother Thomas, which existed 
 for over five years. From the expiration of 
 that time he was sole manager of a manufact- 
 uring business up to 1893, when he retired. 
 Mr. White started manufacturing in a small 
 way, and gradually increased until he carried 
 on a very extensive business. His plant in 
 Holbrook was among the larger manufacturing 
 enterprises of New England, and employed at 
 times as many as three hundred hands. 
 
 The marked administrative ability that has 
 enabled Mr. White to become the head of a 
 great manufacturing concern also demonstrates 
 his fitness for other positions where breadth 
 of outlook and sound judgment are needed. 
 His townsmen have recognized his desirabil- 
 ity and fitness for public office, and in 1882 
 he served as Representative from the Sixth 
 Norfolk District to the State legislature. He
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL Rf:VIP:vV 
 
 'OS 
 
 was on the Fisheries Committee. His record 
 as a legislator is as untainted as his record as 
 a business man. 
 
 Mr. White has three children living; 
 namely, Emmons, Edmund B., and Albert B. , 
 the last two named being graduates of Yale 
 College. Mr. White is a Republican in poli- 
 tics. He is in favor of any movement looking 
 to the general imj^rovement of society or the 
 welfare of his native town. He is one of the 
 Deacons of Winthrop Congregational Church 
 of Holbrook. 
 
 ,\CA^/ IE LI AM NASH, a prosperous gen- 
 eral merchant and Postmaster of 
 Nash, was born in Weymouth, 
 Mass., April 6, 1835, son of William G. and 
 Dorothy (Torrey) Nash. He is a representa- 
 tive of one of the oldest and most highly repu- 
 table families in Weymouth; and his grand- 
 father, Joshua Nash, was a lifelong resident 
 of Nash's Corners. William G. Nash and his 
 wife were born in this town; and the former, 
 who for many years kept a general store at 
 "The Corners," is now eighty-eight years old. 
 He has reared several children, of whom the 
 survivors are: William, Maria D., and El- 
 bridge. The last-named is a druggist of 
 South Weymouth. 
 
 William Nash, after attending the schools 
 of his town, at the age of nineteen engaged in 
 the manufacture of shoes. The depression in 
 business caused by the outbreak^of the Civil 
 War so affected his particular line of industry 
 that he relinquished it, and, entering his 
 father's store as an assistant, eventually suc- 
 ceeded to the business, which he has since 
 carried on successfully. Politically, he is a 
 Republican; and in July, 1892, he was ap- 
 pointed Postmaster of Nash. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Selectmen of Weymouth 
 for fifteen years, and he also served as Over- 
 seer of the Poor. For a number of years he 
 has been a Justice of the Peace. During his 
 long period of public service he has been in- 
 strumental in accomplishing much toward the 
 improvement of the town. He is connected 
 with Orphans' Hope Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
 East Weymouth, and with the Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows at South Weymouth. In his religious 
 
 belief he is a Congregationalist. Mr. Nash 
 is married, and has three children — Annie 
 M., William B., and Elbridge B. Na.sh. > 
 
 fOUIS N. LINCOLN, of the f^rm of 
 Lincoln Brothers, of Cohasset, dealers 
 ^ in wood and coal, was born Janu- 
 ary 27, 1827, a son of Joseph and 
 Mary H. (Nichols) Lincoln, native residents 
 of this town. He comes of old New England 
 stock, being a descendant in the seventh gen- 
 eration of Samuel Lincoln, who settled in Co- 
 hasset, then a part of Hingham, in 1637. 
 From Samuel the line is traced through 
 Daniel, Hezekiah, Francis, Zenas, to Joseph, 
 the father of the subject of this sketch. Jo- 
 seph Lincoln, who was a native of Cohasset, 
 was a carpenter by trade. He died in 1869. 
 His wife died in 1867. Of their children the 
 following are living: Samuel N. ; Zenas D., 
 a member of the firm of Lincoln Brothers; 
 and Louis N. 
 
 Louis N. Lincoln grew to manhood in his 
 native town, acquiring his education in the 
 public schools. In 1842, when he was but fif- 
 teen years of age, he began to learn the brick 
 mason's trade in Boston with his older 
 brother, Henry Lincoln, now deceased. In 
 1850 Mr. Lincoln was engaged as clerk in the 
 store of John Simmons, a wholesale and retail 
 clothing merchant of Boston; and he re- 
 mained in Mr. Simmons's employ about six 
 years. P"or a number of years he has been in 
 business as an auctioneer and real estate 
 dealer; and in 1879, with his brother, he es- 
 tablished the coal and wood business now 
 managed by the firm of Lincoln Brothers, an 
 enterprise which has been very successful. 
 Several years ago Mr. Lincoln became a trus- 
 tee of the Cohasset Savings Bank, and he was 
 elected vice-president. He has also been for 
 a number of years a member of the Board of 
 Investment of the bank, and for an extended 
 period he has held the office of president of 
 the Cohasset Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 
 
 On September 15, 1850, Mr. Lincoln was 
 united in marriage with Miss Eliza A. Liv- 
 ingstone, of Boston, Mass. The\- had one 
 daughter, P^ffie P". , who died October 21, 
 1873. In politics Mr. Lincoln is a Demo-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 crat, and some years ago he was closely iden- 
 tified with the political affairs of Cohasset. 
 In 1870 he was elected Selectman, Assessor, 
 and Overseer of the Poor; and he served as 
 such eight successive years. He was chair- 
 man of the Board of Selectmen for some time, 
 a member of the Board of Health, and he was 
 also Constable of Cohasset. Mr. Lincoln is 
 a member of the First Congregational (Unita- 
 rian) Society of this town. 
 
 'ENRY A. NASH, the well-known 
 cashier of the Union National Bank 
 in Weymouth, Mass., was born in 
 this town, November 23, 1829, son 
 of Abner P. and Silence W. (Humphrey) 
 Nash. Timothy Nash, his paternal grand- 
 father, who was a Revolutionary soldier, was 
 a descendant of an English family that settled 
 in Weymouth early in the seventeenth cen- 
 tury. Abner P. Nash, son of Timothy, was 
 an early shoe manufacturer of Weymouth: 
 and afterward he engaged in the shoe and 
 leather business in Boston. Three of his 
 children now survive: Henry A.; Almena, 
 wife of Israel D. Wildes, of Weymouth; and 
 George H., residing in Oakland, la. 
 
 Mr. Henry A. Nash received his education 
 in the public schools of Weymouth, at Leices- 
 ter Academy, and at Milton Academy. At the 
 age of sixteen he became a clerk in his 
 father's shoe and leather establishment in 
 Boston; and upon attaining his majority he 
 was made a partner in the business, under the 
 firm name of Abner P. Nash & Co., this firm 
 existing until 1854. In that year the younger 
 partner withdrew from the concern to estab- 
 lish a like business in San Francisco, Cal., in 
 partnership with T. W. Beamis and Parker S. 
 Fogg, with whom he continued for ten years. 
 Soon after his return to Weymouth, in 1865, 
 Mr. Nash was chosen a director of the Union 
 National Bank, also holding the office of pres- 
 ident of the bank for a time; and in 1896 he 
 was appointed to his present position of 
 cashier. For several years past he has been 
 president of the Weymouth Savings Bank. 
 
 By his wife, Betsey B. White, also a native 
 of Weymouth, now deceased, Mr. Nash had 
 three children, two of whom are now living. 
 
 His son, Harry A., Jr., has an ofifice in Bos- 
 ton as a civil engineer. 
 
 Mr. Nash may be called a self-made man, 
 his success in life being due to his diligent 
 application to business and his faithfulness 
 in the administration of trusts. He has al- 
 ways devoted much time and attention to local 
 affairs, having served as one of the Selectmen 
 for a period of thirteen years, for twelve years 
 as clerk of the board, and since 1884 as a 
 member of the Board of Water Commissioners 
 of the town, also acting as clerk of that board. 
 He always votes independently, favoring 
 things that make for progress, and, as a man 
 of intelligence and undoubted integrity, com- 
 mands the respect and confidence of all who 
 know him. 
 
 NDREW J. GOVE, proprietor of a 
 flourishing livery and express busi- 
 ness in Randolph and formerly a 
 member of the Massachusetts legis- 
 lature, was born in the town now known as 
 Plainfield, N. H., October 26, 1834, son of 
 Isaiah and Mary (Brown) Gove. The Gove 
 family, of which he is a representative, was 
 founded in America by three brothers, who 
 emigrated from England at an early date in 
 the Colonial period. Of the one who located 
 in New Hampshire, the subject of this sketch 
 is a direct descendant. Isaiah Gove and his 
 wife were both natives of the Granite State, 
 and the former was an industrious tiller of the 
 soil. 
 
 Andrew J. Gove was reared to farm life; but 
 at the age of nineteen he went to Boston, 
 where he remained a short time, removing 
 thence to South Weymouth, where also he 
 made but a short stay. Subsequently going to 
 Hingham, he obtained his first experience as 
 an expressman in the employ of David Gush- 
 ing. In 1858 he came to Randolph, where he 
 was employed in the same business by Will- 
 iam Cole, and later by Charles Estabrook. 
 From 1865 to 1871 he was engaged in busi- 
 ness for himself at East Randolph. After- 
 ward, returning to Randolph, he purchased the 
 express route of his former employer, Charles 
 Estabrook, and has since conducted a profitable 
 business between this town and Boston.
 
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 Since 1882 he has also carried on a first-class 
 livery stable, and he enjoys the liberal patron- 
 age and good will of the community. Being 
 elected to the legislature for the years 1873 
 and 1874, he made a capable Representative, 
 proving faithful to the interests of his con- 
 stituents. He is well advanced in Masonry, 
 being a member of the Blue Lotlge in Ran- 
 dolph, and is a charter member of l^ay State 
 Commandery, K. T., of Brockton. 
 
 Mr. Gove married Sarah L. C'Lishing, of 
 Hingham, and by her has two children: Alice 
 C., wife of J. S. Fowler, of Hingham; and 
 A. Florence Gove, who resides with her par- 
 ents. 
 
 lUI'ERT FRANI-CLIN CLAFLIN, 
 who has been cashier of the National 
 |ID\ Granite Bank of Ouincy, Mass., for 
 more than a cjuarter of a century, 
 was born in Boston, September 29, 1845, a'""! 
 is a son of the late Thomas J. Claflin. 
 
 His paternal grandfather, James Claflin, 
 was born in the latter part of the eighteenth 
 century in Barre, Mass., whence he enlisted 
 as a soldier in the War of 1812. He subse- 
 quently engaged in farming in Hopkinton, 
 Middlesex County. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Susan Wadsworth, was a direct de- 
 scendant of two of the early presidents of Har- 
 vard College, the Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth 
 and the Rev. Samuel Willard. She was a 
 woman of remarkable energy and strong physi- 
 cal powers, being bright and active until her 
 death, which occurred at the age of ninety- 
 seven years from la grippe. 
 
 Thomas J. Claflin was born in Hopkinton, 
 Mass., and in the common schools of that town 
 received his education. He started in the 
 railroad business when a young man, in the 
 early days of the Old Colony Railway, on 
 which for seventeen years he was employed as 
 a conductor, a large part of the time having 
 charge of the "steamboat train" running be- 
 tween Boston and Fall River. This position 
 gave him a very large acquaintance with the 
 leading merchants of New England, who in 
 their frequent trips to New York were his pas- 
 sengers. He was a man of marked personal- 
 ity, very genial and accommodating, and noted 
 
 for his power of c|uick and apt repartee. On 
 leaving the railroad, he lived retired from ac- 
 tive business until his death, at the age of 
 seventy-seven years. He married Mary A., 
 daughter of Anthony Holbrook, of Boston, 
 Mass. Of their union four children were 
 born, as follows: Rupert Franklin; Fred- 
 erick A., of Boston; Hettie H., wife of 
 George F. Whall, of Littleton, Mass. ; and 
 James Alfred, of Wollaston. The parents 
 were not members of any religious organiza- 
 tion, but were of the Orthodo.x faith. 
 
 Rupert F. Claflin received a substantial ed- 
 ucation in the public schools of Boston, con- 
 tinuing his studies until fourteen years of age, 
 when he became messenger boy in a wholesale 
 dry-goods house, his salary being fifty dollars 
 per annum. He remained there a year, and 
 the next year was employed in a specie 
 broker's of^ce. Twelve months later he be- 
 came assistant to the ticket master in the Bos- 
 ton office of the Old Colony Railway Com- 
 pany, where he sold tickets for a little more 
 than a year. Securing then a situation in 
 the National Bank of Redemption, which was 
 called the Bank of Mutual Redemption, under 
 the old State bank system, he remained there 
 a year. He was subsequently employed in 
 the Atlas Bank an equal length of time, after 
 which he went to Chicago, where he worked 
 for a year and a half, part of the time in a 
 railway office and during the remaining 
 months with a real estate dealer. Returning 
 East, he was soon made cashier of the Hop- 
 kinton Bank at Hopkinton, Mass., and was 
 also elected treasurer of the Hopkinton Sav- 
 ings Bank, positions which he retained three 
 years, resigning to come to Ouincy. Here 
 on the 1st of July, 1871, he assumed the 
 cashiership of the National Granite Bank; and 
 he has since discharged the duties of this po- 
 sition with marked ability and faithfulness. 
 Mr. Claflin has also been a member of the 
 Board of Directors of this bank for many years, 
 and since 1890 has been president of the 
 Ouincy .Savings Bank. He is likewise treas- 
 urer of the Ouincy .Shoe Company and one of 
 the directorate of the Braintree Street Rail- 
 way Company. 
 
 In politics he has always been independent, 
 voting regardless of party affiliations, Hf
 
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 served as Notary Public fourteen years, and 
 for five years was a member of the School 
 Board, three years being its chairman. Fra- 
 ternally, he is a member of the Massachusetts 
 Reform Club of Boston, of the Granite City 
 Club, and of the Suburban Bank Cashiers' 
 Association. He is very progressive in his 
 views, and has been somewhat active in cur- 
 rent reformatory movements, having been 
 made president of the first Tariff Reform 
 League established in Ouincy, of the Civil 
 Service Reform League, and of the lousiness 
 Men's Association. He has devoted much of 
 his leisure time to physical culture, always 
 striving to perfect his physical condition, with 
 a view to performing his mental work to the 
 best advantage and to obtaining the highest 
 enjoyment of the fast fleeting years. Since 
 1882 he has been a devotee of the bicycle, and 
 prior to that time he was an enthusiastic pe- 
 destrian in a private way. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Claflin married Miss Lydia M., 
 daughter of James B. Hull, of Lombard, 111. 
 She died in 1877, leaving two children, who 
 subsequently died from diphtheria. The fol- 
 lowing year he married her cousin. Miss 
 Alice M., daughter of Alanson P. Benson, of 
 Manlius, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Claflin have 
 two children — Helen H. and Alice L. 
 
 HOMAS HENRY McDONNELL, a 
 member of the firm McDonnell & Sons, 
 of Ouincy, and the president of the 
 Ouincy Quarry Company, was born in this 
 town, August 18, 1848, son of Patrick and 
 Mary (Hughes) McDonnell. The father was 
 born June 12, 18 17, in the County Roscom- 
 mon, Ireland. Leaving his native land in 
 1834, he came to this country, taking up his 
 residence in Dorchester, Mass. Here he 
 worked in a tannery for two or three years. 
 Then he came to Ouincy, where he served an 
 apprenticeship at the trade of a stone-cutter, 
 and subsequently followed that trade for sev- 
 eral years. In 1857 he embarked in the gran- 
 ite business on his own account, manufactur- 
 ing monumental and cemetery work of all 
 descriptions for the wholesale trade, and meet- 
 ing with great success from the first. In 
 1871 he enlarged his operations, taking into 
 
 partnenship his two sons, Thomas Henry and 
 John O., of whom the latter died in 1894. 
 Besides one of the largest and best quarries in 
 ( )uincy, the firm owns another in Barre, Vt., 
 which produces a fine quality of granite, of a 
 lighter shade than the Quincy granite, and 
 especially adapted for building vaults, mauso- 
 leums, and that class of structures, as it is 
 comparatively easy to work, and can be quar- 
 ried in blocks of almost any size. The value 
 of the Ouincy granite, which takes and holds 
 a higher polish than any other yet discovered, 
 has been known for more than half a century, 
 and still leads all others in popularity. Mc- 
 Donnell & Sons have large yards in Buffalo 
 and Chictawauga, Erie County, N.Y. , and at 
 West Seneca, in the same State; and they 
 keep an agent and office at Indianapolis, Ind., 
 and an agent at Geneva, N.Y. Their trade 
 throughout the Union is very large. Many 
 monuments and mausoleums from their works 
 may be seen in the principal cemeteries of 
 New York, Indiana, and other States. They 
 have also a high reputation as architects and 
 builders, their designs being artistic and well 
 executed. Having started in business on a 
 modest scale, they are now obliged to keep 
 about one hundred and fifty men constantly 
 employed to meet the demands of their pa- 
 trons. They were the first firm in Ouincy to 
 adopt the apparatus of the American Pneu- 
 matic Tool Company for carving and cutting 
 stone. 
 
 After attending the public schools of 
 Ouincy, Thomas Henry McDonnell took a 
 business course at Comer's Commercial Col- 
 lege in Boston. He then learned the stone- 
 cutter's trade in his father's sheds, where he 
 worked until of age. At this time he was 
 taken into partnership by his father and 
 brother, since which event he has been an im- 
 portant factor in extending the business and 
 placing the firm in its present conspicuous po- 
 sition. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Ouincy Quarry Company, and has since been 
 its president. He has also been a director of 
 the Quincy & Boston Street Railway Com- 
 pany since its organization, and of the 
 Ouincy, Braintree & Holbrook Street Rail- 
 way; and he is largely interested in real 
 estate in various parts of the country, bejng
 
 lilOC.KAl'IIICAI, REVIKW 
 
 a member of President Hill and Cranch Hill 
 Land Companies. As a member of the firm 
 of McDonnell & Sons, he has an interest in a 
 large dairy farm of five hundred acres in 
 Springfield, N.Y., on the Rochester, Buffalo 
 & Pittsburg Railroad, where a fine grade of 
 petroleum has been struck, and in other 
 real estate in the immediate vicinity of J-iuf- 
 falo, N.Y. 
 
 Mr. McDonnell has fellowship in the order 
 of the Knights of Columbus and that of the 
 Royal Arcanum. In 1892, accompanied by 
 his friend, the Rev. T. J. Danahy, he enjoyed 
 a PLuropean trip, and while in Rome, together 
 with his clerical friend, was accorded the 
 great and rare privilege of a private audience 
 with the Holy Father, Pope Leo XTII. 
 
 0SP:PH HARDING, a skilled tool- 
 maker, who has resided in Medfield 
 since he gave up active business five 
 years ago, was born in what is now Mil- 
 lis, Norfolk County, Mass., August 24, 1821. 
 His parents were Theophilus and Mary (Hard- 
 ing) Harding, the father a son of Theodore 
 Harding, and the mother a daughter of Steven 
 Harding. 
 
 Theophilus Harding followed farming, and 
 always resided in Millis. He was twice mar- 
 ried, first to Abigail Clark, of Medfield, who 
 bore him five children, all now deceased, 
 namely: Clark; Betsy, who was the wife of 
 John Cook, also deceased, a tanner and 
 butcher; Julia, wife of Orrin Pratt, who was 
 a shoemaker; Theodore, who lived for a time 
 on the old homestead, and also in Medfield; 
 and Abigail, who was twice married, her first 
 husband being Adin Partridge, and her sec- 
 ond, Captain Henry, now in Philadelphia. 
 After the death of his first wife, Abigail, 
 Theophilus Harding married Mrs. Mary 
 Harding Atwell, a widow, who was horn in 
 Millis. He died in P"ebruary, 1843, and she 
 in April, 1873. I-'our children were the fruit 
 of this second union; namely, Joseph, Eliza, 
 Alfred, and Moses. Eliza, born May 15, 
 1823, now wife of L. M. Richards, residing 
 in Medfield, has had five children, as follows: 
 Mary F., Addison, and Emma, who have 
 passed away; Ella Maria, wife of William 
 
 Crane; Emma L., wife of I^. M. Bent, a coal 
 dealer. Alfred, born in 1827, is employed in 
 a hotel in P'o-xboro. Moses (deceased), was 
 in the Civil War. He married Abbic .Seavey. 
 
 Josei)h Harding, the eldest child of The- 
 ophilus and Mary Harding, was given with the 
 other children a practical common-school edu- 
 cation. At the age of sixteen he learned the 
 trade of a gunsmith, at which he worked a few 
 years. He then turned his attention to the 
 making of watch tools, gun tools, and tools 
 for the manufacture of tinware. He engaged 
 in the tool manufacturing business in Sher- 
 born, Lowell, Waltham, and Sj^ringfield, and 
 again in Waltham. Going to Chicago in 
 1869, he worked for twenty years in a tin 
 manufacturing shop in that city and for some 
 time at Elgin, 111., in a watch factory. He 
 came to Medfield in 1892, and built a new 
 house on Adams Avenue, his present home, 
 where Mrs. Ella M. Crane and her husband 
 are living with him. For several years Mr. 
 Harding has not been engaged in business. 
 
 On June 23, 1846, he married Miss Eliza 
 M. Bacon, of Millis. She was born in 1823, 
 and was a daughter of William and Melinda 
 Bacon, both now deceased. Her father was a 
 church bell maker. Mrs. Harding died in 
 Chicago, 111., April i, 1884, at sixty years of 
 age. 
 
 Mr. Harding cast his first Presidential vote 
 for Franklin Pierce, but since then he has 
 been a Republican. Although a popular and 
 successful man, he has never accepted official 
 honors. 
 
 LIVER H. CLIFFORD, who is well 
 remembered by the older residents of 
 Medfield, was a native of Brookfield 
 Vt., born January 18, i8og, son of 
 Samuel and Betsy (Hamlin) Clifford. 
 
 Samuel Clifford, who was born in Boscawen, 
 N. H., was a schoolmate of Daniel Webster. 
 Betsy Hamlin, whom he married in Brook- 
 field, Vt., was born in that town. May 6, 
 1780, a daughter of Oliver and Rachel (Cleve- 
 land) Hamlin. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Clifford 
 had eight children, of whom three are living, 
 namely: William T.. in Ware, Mass.; Sam- 
 uel, Jr., in Eugene City, Ore.: and L-prenn,
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 now Mrs. Dean, of Waltham, Mass. The 
 father died in Fisherville, Vt., after a life 
 of usefulness spent as a farmer and school 
 teacher. 
 
 Oliver Clifford was educated in the common 
 schools of Danbury, N.H. At the age of 
 twenty one he came to Medfield, Mass., and 
 engaged in farming here and in Millis, return- 
 ing to Medfield in 1868, after which he lived 
 in retirement in the village until his death on 
 June 8, 1893. 
 
 On September 29, 1838, Mr. Clifford mar- 
 ried Miss Elizabeth Mason, who was born in 
 Princeton, Mass., January 20, 18 16, daughter 
 of Joseph and Sallie (Foster) Mason. Her 
 father was a farmer, and always lived in 
 Princeton. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford had four 
 children, namely: Joseph C, who was born 
 September 10, 1839, and died November 12, 
 1 89 1, and whose widow, formerly Mary E. 
 Conders, now lives in Allentown, Pa. ; Al- 
 fred, born p-ebruary 11, 1845, who married 
 Mary F". Morton, lives in St. Louis, Mo., and 
 is secretary of the Consolidated Steel Ware 
 Company; Ellen, born March 7, 1846, who 
 for several years was a teacher in Medfield 
 and Needham, has also served on the School 
 Committee, and now lives with her mother on 
 the homestead; and Sarah Elizabeth, born 
 May I, 1854, who married George F. Twitch- 
 ell, an engineer in the straw shop, and lived 
 in Medfield till her death, December 15, 
 1883. 
 
 IMOTHY SMITH, a well-known and 
 highly esteemed citizen of Dedham, 
 Mass., was born P'ebruary 12, 1821, in 
 Stoughton, Mass., and is the representative of 
 one of the earliest families settled in that old 
 Norfolk County town, which was the birth- 
 place of his great-great-grandfather, Jesse 
 Smith, his great-grandfather, his grandfather, 
 Joseph Smith, Sr. , and his father, Joseph, Jr. 
 Joseph Smith, Sr., was one of the leading 
 farmers of the town, and acquired a large 
 amount of real estate. To him and his wife, 
 whose maiden name was Rhoda Morris, seven 
 children were born; namely, Joseph, Jr., Na- 
 than, Ebcnezer, Luther, Calvin, Timothy, 
 and Ruth. As these children settled in life, 
 
 he gave to each of them a farm. Grandfather 
 Smith lived to the age of seventy years, being 
 a vigorous and hearty man until the last. 
 
 Joseph .Smith, Jr., was reared as a tiller of 
 the soil, receiving a common-school education. 
 Marrying soon after he attained his majority, 
 he continued industriously and successfully 
 engaged in agricultural labors until his death, 
 at the age of si.\ty-one years. A man of ster- 
 ling integrity, he was highly respected. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Susan R. 
 White, was born and bred in P3aston, being 
 one of the three children of her parents. She 
 survived her husband, living to the age of 
 sixty-three years. Of their si.x children two 
 are yet living, namely: Joan, the widow of 
 Willard Corbett, of Dedham; and Timothy, 
 the special subject of this sketch. Both par- 
 ents were attendants of the Methodist church. 
 
 Timothy Smith spent the years of his 
 childhood and youth on the home farm, ob- 
 taining the rudiments of his education at the 
 Pierce School, which he attended four years. 
 He subsequently pursued his studies in the 
 district school of West Stoughton and later 
 in one of the Canton schools. When but 
 twelve years old he entered the Messenger 
 Mills at Canton, in order to learn the trade of 
 making cotton cloth, including shirting and 
 sheeting, which were there manufactured". 
 Beginning at the lowest position, he gradually 
 worked his way through every department of 
 the factory, being enabled before many years 
 to superintend the entire process of convert- 
 ing a bale of raw cotton into cloth; and when 
 but eighteen years old he was given charge of 
 the spinning and weaving rooms, with their 
 thirty employees. In 1840 this mill was 
 burned; and Mr. Smith accepted a similar 
 position in a newly erected mill at Newton, 
 remaining there until some time during the 
 next year, when he went to Franklin City 
 Mills, to engage with P'reeman Fisher, who 
 had previously been in business with Mr. 
 Messenger. After serving as overseer of the 
 spinning and weaving department five years, 
 he was made superintendent of the mills, and 
 with its eighty looms turned out thousands of 
 yards of cloth daily for a number of years. 
 When the company drew off their pond for the 
 New York & New England Railway Coid-
 
 JOHN O. A. FIELD.
 
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 pany, 
 
 Smith went to Lewiston, Me., to 
 
 set up machinery in a new mill, being gone 
 six months. On his return to Franklin he 
 acted as agent for a company for eight years, 
 and then in partnership with Timothy Kaley 
 began the manufacture of knitting cotton on 
 his own account in Canton, Mass. Five years 
 later Mr. Smith sold his interest in the Can- 
 ton mill, and, going to New Orleans, set up 
 machinery in a new mill. He remained 
 there until he saw everything in good run- 
 ning order, returning North just before the 
 firing on F'ort Sumter. During the succeed- 
 ing three years Mr. Smith worked as an over- 
 seer for Mr. Taft at the Norfolk Mills in 
 Dedham: and, when these mills were pur- 
 chased by the Merchants' Woollen Company, 
 he was placed in charge of a gang of night 
 workmen as overseer. After the war he re- 
 signed his position to engage in the manu- 
 facture of spring beds, a business which he 
 carried on successfully for a number of years. 
 In his present vocation, that of undertaking, 
 he has been engaged since 1875, when he was 
 appointed undertaker for the town. He is 
 the oldest undertaker in point of service of 
 any in this locality, and carries on a large 
 business, with the aid of his son-in-law, under 
 the firm name of Smith & Higgins. He has 
 a host of friends throughout the community, 
 and does work for all classes of people, irre- 
 spective of church afifiliations. He manufact- 
 ures the most of his coffins, keeping several 
 hands constantly employed. 
 
 Mr. Smith was married in 1842 to Miss 
 Emily Hamilton, who was born in Scituate, 
 Mass., a daughter of Leonard and Ruth 
 (Morris) Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton was born 
 and reared in Brookfield, Mass.; but after his 
 marriage he settled in Scituate, where his 
 death occurred when he was but forty-si.x years 
 old. Mrs. Smith bore her husband six chil- 
 dren, of whom the following is a brief record: 
 George E., the first-born, died May 31, 1844, 
 aged fifteen months; Georgianna, born May 
 19, 1845, tlied October 29, 1862; Emeline F., 
 born October 23, 1848, died January 2, 1852; 
 F" ranees A., born February 19, 1854, is the 
 wife of Franklin P. Higgins, and has one 
 child, Herbert F. Higgins; Charles .Sumner, 
 born May 4, 1857, died January 17, 1858; and 
 
 Clara K., i)orn November 12, 1867, died July 
 II, 1868. On November 22, 1894, after 
 more than half a century of happy wedlock, 
 Mrs. Smith passed to the life immortal. 
 
 In politics Mr. Smith is a steadfast Repub- 
 lican. He is a F'ree Mason, belonging to 
 Constellation Lodge of Dedham. Mr. Smith 
 and his daughter and her husband are members 
 of the Baptist church. 
 
 §OHN O. A. FIF:LD, the senior mem- 
 ber (^f the firm Field & Wild, of 
 Quincy, quarrymen and dealers in 
 building and monumental granite, was 
 born here, January 4, 1835. His great-grand- 
 parents, Joseph and Abigail (Newcomb) Field, 
 spent their lives here; and their son, Joseph 
 Field, who married Relief Baxter, was also a 
 lifelong resident of this town. Harvey Field, 
 the father of the subject of this sketch, for 
 many years was one of the most prominent and 
 influential men in Quincy, and a promoter of 
 many of its most beneficial enterprises. A 
 more extended account of him will be found in 
 the biography of George H. F'ield. 
 
 John O. A. F'ield was bred and educated in 
 Quincy. As soon as he was old enough he 
 took charge of one of his father's farms, on 
 which was a large dairy. He subsequently es- 
 tablished a milk route in Quincy, and con- 
 ducted it for nearly forty years, having a very 
 lucrative patronage. Besides this, from 1855 
 to i860 he dealt in paving-stones; and he did 
 a good deal of heavy teaming in this locality. 
 During the Civil War he was a superintendent 
 of cavalry horses for the government in Read- 
 ville and Boston. He abandoned his team- 
 ing business in 1870, when elected High- 
 way Surveyor, a position which he filled for 
 two years. He afterward served as Selectman 
 of Quincy for five years, and in 1876 was the 
 chairman of the board. He had been Special 
 Commissioner of Norfolk County nine years 
 when, in 1S84, he was elected Regular Com- 
 missioner, in which capacity he served for five 
 years. In 1884 Mr. F'ield formed a copartner- 
 ship with Frank M. Wild, and succeeding to 
 the business established by the late John 
 Q. A. Wild, the father of FVank M., became 
 senior member of the present firm of Field &
 
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 BIOGRAl'HICAL REVIEW 
 
 Wild. The firm owns one of the largest quar- 
 ries ill this section of New England, executes 
 monumental and cemetery work of all kinds, 
 and employs a large number of men. It often 
 furnishes granite for building material. The 
 stone for the recent addition to the Dedham 
 court-house was obtained at Dover quarry, 
 owned by Mr. Field. For the past fifteen 
 years Mr. Field has been a member of the In- 
 vestment Committee of the Ouincy Savings 
 Bank. Also, for four years he was the presi- 
 dent of the Granite Manufacturers' Association 
 of New England, which included si.x New Eng- 
 land States and New York City. Another of 
 his occupations has been the settlement of 
 many estates in this vicinity, some of which 
 involved large sums of money. 
 
 Mr. Field belongs to Mount Wollaston 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; to the Knights of 
 Pythias, the Knights of Honor, and the 
 Granite City Club. Politically, he is a Re- 
 publican, and in 1896 and 1897 was elected 
 Councilman-at-large. He was married No- 
 vember 28, 1858, to Sylvia Carol.ine Welling- 
 ton, daughter of Elbridge Wellington, a na- 
 tive of Concord, Mass., who afterward became 
 a resident of New Orleans. Of their five chil- 
 dren, four are living — John VV., Georgiana, 
 Harvey Adams, and Jennie Kartlett. Geor- 
 giana is the wife of D. P'rederick Potter, of 
 Buffalo, N. Y. ; and Plarvey Adams is a student 
 at the Harvard Medical School, class of i8g8. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Field are members of the Adams 
 Temple Parish, in which he served as one of 
 the Parish Committee from 1872 until 1877; 
 and they attend the church connected there- 
 with. 
 
 p^EWCOMB B. TOWER, one of the 
 leading merchants of Cohasset, was 
 born in this town, February 20, 
 1848. His parents were Abraham 
 H. and Charlotte (Bates) Tower, the former 
 of whom was for many years engaged in the 
 mackerel fishing industry of this locality, but 
 is now deceased. A more extended account of 
 Mr. Tower's ancestry may be found in the 
 sketch of his brother, Abraham H. Tower, 
 which is published elsewhere in this work. 
 Ncwcomb B. Tow'cr was educated in the 
 
 public schools of Cohasset, and previous to 
 entering mercantile pursuits he assisted his 
 father in mackerel fishing. In 1866 he be- 
 came associated with his brother, Abraham 
 H., in carrying on a general store, coal, lum- 
 ber, and building materials being later added 
 to their stock in trade. The firm, which is 
 known as Tower Brothers & Co., have con- 
 ducted a successful business for over thirty 
 years, and are widely and favorably known 
 along the South Shore. Mr. Tower has been 
 a trustee of the Cohasset Savings Bank for the 
 past thirty-five years, and takes a deep interest 
 in all other institutions established for the ben- 
 efit of the community. In politics a Republi- 
 can, he ably fulfilled the duties of Town Clerk 
 for twenty-five years, was elected to the Board 
 of Selectmen in 1895, and is Assessor and 
 Overseer of the Poor. 
 
 Mr. Tower married Sophronia L. Parker, of 
 this town, by whom he has had five children, 
 four of whom are living; namely, George P., 
 Ella G., Mary P., and Charlotte S. Ella G. 
 is the wife of Edward Nichols, of Cohasset. 
 
 Mr. Tower was formerly organist of the 
 First Unitarian Church, of which he is now a 
 Deacon. He is also actively interested in the 
 Sunday-school. He is a member of the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, and belongs to Konohasset 
 Lodge. 
 
 ELA P'RENCH, a venerable and 
 highly respected resident of Wey- 
 mouth, was born in this town, April 
 15, 1818, son of Stephen and Sallie 
 (Dyer) P'rench, both also natives of the town. 
 His grandfather, Stephen French, Sr. , was 
 one of the early settlers of Weymouth. The 
 father, who was a farmer and did considerable 
 teaming, died in his sixty-eighth year, having 
 been prominent in the town and having served 
 as Overseer of the Poor. His surviving chil- 
 dren are: Bela, the subject of this sketch; 
 and Thomas M., who resides in East Wey- 
 mouth. 
 
 Bela P"rench grew up on his father's farm. 
 His school life ended when he was sixteen 
 years of age. Upon reaching his majority he 
 entered the employ of the Weymouth Iron 
 Company, for whom he did general jobbing for 
 
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 JOHN CASHMAN.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
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 a number of years. He subseciuently engaged 
 in farming, whicli has been his chief occiipa- 
 tiiin since. He owns about fifty acres of land 
 in the towns of Weymouth and Ilingham. 
 J^'or some time he dealt in wood. 
 
 Mr. French has been twice married. On 
 the first occasion he was united to Mary A. 
 Washburn, of Plympton, who bore him one 
 son, now deceased. The second marriage was 
 contracted with Lucy E. , daughter of Jacob 
 Lovell, of Weymouth. She is the mother of 
 Bela French, ■ of the firm of French & Mer- 
 chant, dry-goods merchants at East Weymouth. 
 There is one grandchild, Lucy A. French. 
 Mr. French, Sr. , has been a trustee of the 
 East Weymouth Savings Bank since it was 
 organized. He is an active member and a 
 trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
 East Weymouth. Public-spirited and gener- 
 ous, he is ready to lend his time and influence 
 for the furtherance of any worthy object. 
 Watching the trend of events in Weymouth, 
 he has witnessed many changes and seen many 
 improvements. 
 
 jDWIN P. WORSTER, the vice-presi- 
 dent of the LTnion National Bank of 
 Weymouth, was born August 24, 
 1S26, son of Ezekiel and Mary (Bourne) 
 Worster. The father, a native of Somers- 
 worth, N.LL, at the age of seventeen came to 
 Weymouth, and was here engaged in boot and 
 shoe making until fifty years of age. Subse- 
 quently he took up the coal and wood busi- 
 ness, which he had followed for several years 
 when ill health compelled him to retire. He 
 died in June, i860. His wife was a native of 
 Barnstable, Mass. 
 
 Edwin P. Worster went to school in Wey- 
 mouth until twelve years of age. Then he 
 learned the trade of shoemaker, which he fol- 
 lowed until 1844. He ne.xt spent two years 
 learning the carpenter's trade in Lowell, 
 Mass., after which he returned to Weymouth. 
 In 1849 he sailed for California via Cape 
 Horn, making the journey in seven months and 
 fourteen days. After a short time spent in 
 the gold mines and a year in the State of Cal- 
 ifornia, he decided to return East, and em- 
 barked on a sailing-vessel bound for the Isth- 
 
 mus of Panama. Owing to severe storms and 
 calms the ship landed its passengers on the 
 coast of Nicaragua, from which place the 
 party crossed the country to Crey Town on the 
 yXtlantic side. At Chagres Mr. Worster took 
 passage on a steamship, and returned home by 
 way of New York. After some time spent in 
 recruiting his health, which had been imjiaired 
 by malarial fever contracted on the Pacific 
 Coast, he established himself in the brokerage 
 business in Boston. Dealing principally in 
 foreign money ant! negotiable paper, and 
 negotiating loans, he in time acquired a 
 large and profitai)le coiniection. In 1893 lie 
 practically retired from business. 
 
 Mr. Worster married Miss Mary J. Metcalf, 
 of Petersboro, N.H. Of the five children 
 born to them, four survive. These are: li. 
 Frank, who is living in New York City; 
 Clara A., the wife of P. H. Linton, of Wey- 
 mouth ; Charles H., also in Weymouth; and 
 Nellie W., the wife of George W., of the 
 same place. Mrs. Worster died March 21, 
 i8g6. Mr. Worster is a member of the Delta 
 Lodge, A. V. & A. M., of Weymouth. He 
 is a director and the vice-president of the 
 Union National Bank. Taking an earnest 
 interest in the affairs of his native town, he is 
 always ready to lend his aid for its advance- 
 ment. 
 
 OHN CASH MAN, a quarry owner and 
 a general contractor of Ouincy, was 
 born June 23, 1S49, in County Cork, 
 Ireland, son of James Cashman. The 
 father came to the country with his family in 
 about the middle of the present century, set- 
 tling in Hanover, Mass. Here, after learning 
 the trade of brickmaker, he became a con- 
 tractor and lumber dealer, (^ne of the most 
 enterprising men of his time, he built up a 
 large business, attained honorable prominence 
 in the community, and at different times served 
 in several of the minor town offices. He mar- 
 ried Catherine Long, a daughter of Dennis 
 Long, of the County Cork. Of their ten chil- 
 dren, nine grew to maturity. The latter were: 
 Hannah, who is the widow of John Connors, 
 late of Rockland, Mass. ; Julia, who married 
 Daniel Reardon, of Rockland; John, the sub-
 
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 ject of this sketch; Dennis J., of whom there 
 is no special record ; James, now deceased ; 
 Catherine, who married John Mclntyre, of 
 Brockton, Mass. ; William, now a resident of 
 Oiiincy; Ellen, the wife of James Spence, of 
 Rockland, Mass. ; and Luke, residing in New 
 York City. 
 
 Although John Cashman's opportunities for 
 obtaining a knowledge of books in his early 
 years were very limited, yet by close observa- 
 tion and intelligent reading he has become 
 well informed on general topics, and is a typi- 
 cal representative of the self-made men of our 
 generation. When a lad of twelve years he 
 began driving a team for his father, an occupa- 
 tion which he followed for ten years. Coming 
 then to Ouincy, he drove a stone team for four 
 years, and then established himself as a team- 
 ster on his own account. He has done well 
 from the outset. For many years he has car- 
 ried on the heaviest business of that kind in 
 this section of the county, employing about 
 thirty horses and nearly twice as man}^ men. 
 As a contractor he has been very prosperous. 
 Among his more important works have been 
 the building of the water-works in Quincy and 
 Ipswich, Mass., and of those at Bar Harbor, 
 Me. He has also done a vast amount of con- 
 tract labor on various railways. In 1885 he 
 purchased one of the finest quarries in Ouincy, 
 the product of which is a very handsome, rich, 
 dark blue stone, much in demand among 
 builders. He is also interested in the 
 Ouincy Electric Light and Power Company, of 
 which he is a director. 
 
 On April 12, 1874, Mr. Cashman married 
 Hannah M. Falvey, a daughter of Eugene Fal- 
 vey, of Ouincy. They have had eleven chil- 
 dren, of whom Adeline, James E. , Mary, 
 William, John, Ellen, Beatrice, and Henry 
 are living. 
 
 EVERETT HOLBROOK, a represent- 
 ative man of the town of Holbrook, was 
 born here April 23, 1835, son of 
 Eli.sha N. and Relief (Linfield) Holbrook. 
 The father, a native of Braintree, was a well- 
 known shoe manufacturer of East Randolph 
 (now Holbrook), for a half-century, and was 
 one of the most succes.sful business men the 
 
 county has produced. The industry of which 
 he was the head was one of the important 
 factors in the growth and prosperity of East 
 Randolph, and it was owing largely to his 
 influence that the town was set off as a sepa- 
 rate corporation. Desirous of expressing their 
 appreciation of his many acts of generosity to 
 the town and their recognition of his honor- 
 able and upright chaVacter, the residents vol- 
 untarily renamed the town Holbrook in his 
 honor. In politics he was a Republican, hav- 
 ing joined the party at its formation. He was 
 previously a Whig. A public-spirited man, 
 he was interested not only in the welfare of 
 his own town, but in the great questions at 
 issue concerning the advancement or welfare 
 of the State and of the country at large, having 
 clear and decided views in relation to all, and 
 being always ready to cast the weight of his 
 influence on the side which he believed to be 
 the right. He was a devoted member of Win- 
 throp Congregational Church and one of its 
 most liberal contributors. He donated to the 
 town the magnificent sum of fifty thousand 
 dollars, a jDart of which was used in building 
 the public library. His death occurred on 
 F"ebruary 5, 1871. The town named after 
 him was incorporated on the 29th of the 
 same month. His wife. Relief, was born in 
 East Randolph (Holbrook). Two of their 
 children are living, namely: Mary W., of 
 Holbrook ; and E. Everett, the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 E. Everett Holbrook grew to manhood in 
 East Randolph, receiving his education partly 
 in the town and partly at Phillips Andover 
 Academy. When about thirty years of age 
 he became a partner in business with his 
 father, the firm being known as that of E. N. 
 Holbrook & Son. Shortly after the death of 
 his father Mr. Holbrook retired from the 
 manufacturing business. He was a director of 
 the former National Bank of Randolph, and he 
 is now a director of the Holbrook Co-operative 
 National Bank. He was the first Representa- 
 tive of Holbrook in the General Court. 
 While in the legislature he served on the 
 Committee on Mercantile Affairs. 
 
 Mr. Holbrook has been twice married. On 
 the first occasion he was united with Mary J. 
 Russell, a daughter of the Rev. E. Russell,
 
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 D. D., of Holbrook. She died in iS86, the 
 mother of two children, namely: Jennie L., 
 now the wife of Edward N. Waterman, of Al- 
 bany, N. Y. ; and Mary S., living at Holbrook. 
 The second marriage was contracted in I-"ebrii- 
 ary, 1889, with Mrs. Isabel N. Dana, of Mil- 
 waukee, Wis. Like his father, Mr. Holbrook 
 is an active member of Winthrop Congrega- 
 tional Church, and was for two years the 
 superintendent of its Sunday-school. He is a 
 man of extensive information and a keen 
 judge of human nature. He has travelled in 
 Europe and in the United States, and has 
 spent several winters in the South. Mr. Hol- 
 brook's house, surrounded by lawn and shrub- 
 bery, is one of the most attractive features of 
 the town. 
 
 Tt^UFUS A. THAYER, of Randolph, a 
 I "^^ former representative of the Seventh 
 Xfe\ ^Vard, Norfolk District, in the 
 ^""^ General Court, was born in Ran- 
 dolph, December 3, 1839. ^ son of Rufus 
 Thayer, he is a descendant of Richard Thayer, 
 of Boston, who, with two brothers, came to 
 this country from England in 1640. The 
 father was a Republican in politics and a very 
 public-spirited man, being especially inter- 
 ested and active in school matters. He gave 
 a portion of his farm as a site for a school 
 building, upon which the district' school- 
 house, No. 5, now stands. He married Mar- 
 gery A. White, a native of Braintree and a 
 daughter of Captain Calvin White, of Brain- 
 tree. His death occurred in 1863. Of his 
 children, the other survivors are: Charles M., 
 of the firm W. T. Piper & Co., manufacturers 
 of vinegar, 124 Broad Street, Boston; and S. 
 Austin, a dealer in coal, grain, hay, and lum- 
 ber at Randolph. 
 
 In his youth, while also busy at farm work, 
 Rufus A. Thayer attended the public schools 
 of Randolph, Hollis Institute at South Brain- 
 tree, and Pierce Academy at Middleboro, 
 Mass., finishing his education with a business 
 course at Comer's Commercial College in Bos- 
 ton. At his father's death the charge of the 
 property and the guardianship of his younger 
 brothers and sisters devolved upon him. Ac- 
 tive in local politics for a prolonged period, he 
 
 served on the Board of Selectmen many years, 
 and has officiated as chairman of the Council. 
 In 1888 and 1889 he was the Seventh Ward's 
 Representative in the State legislature, serv- 
 ing in 1 888 on the Committee of County Es- 
 timates and Ta.xation, and as clerk of the 
 Committee on Ta.xation, and in 1889 as the 
 chairman of the Committee on Public Chari- 
 table Institutions. 
 
 Mr. Thayer married Isadore Arnold, of 
 Braintree, and has two daughters. The latter 
 are: Flora A. and Mabel K., both graduates 
 of Thayer Academy, of Braintree. Mr. 
 Thayer was instrumental in the building of 
 the Randolph Street Railway, and is a director 
 and the clerk of the corporation owning it. 
 He is a man of position and influence in the 
 community, and is at all times interested in 
 the growth of the town. 
 
 -J^EWTON WHITE, formerly a well- 
 known boot and shoe manufacturer of 
 Holbrook, was born in ICast Ran- 
 dolph (now Holbrook), December 
 2y, 1815. He was a son of Captain Thomas 
 and Meriel (Burr) White, and a brother of Ed- 
 mund White, a biography of whom appears 
 elsewhere in this work. Captain Thomas 
 White followed his trade of stone-cutter in 
 early manhood and the calling of farmer in his 
 later years. 
 
 Newton White was reared on the farm, and 
 acquired a limited education in the schools 
 near his home. He had not the advantages 
 afforded young men of the present day, but his 
 natural ability and intelligence made up for 
 his lack of mental training. For a short time 
 he manufactured shoes in company with Na- 
 thaniel Sprague, and for a number of years 
 after he was engaged in the same business 
 without a partner. As a business man he was 
 very successful ; and he was very popular with 
 his emjDloyees and with all with whom he was 
 associated. 
 
 Mr. Holbrook was twice married. His 
 first wife, whose maiden name was Rhoda 
 White, bore him four daughters, namely: 
 Rhoda R., of whom there is no special record; 
 Ruth, now the wife of David Forrest; Mary 
 B. , the wife of Frank Lewis; and Lizzie, now
 
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 deceased. His second niarriiige was contracted 
 in 1880 with Mary A., daughter of the late 
 Lutl^er White. Mr. White was a prominent 
 Republican. During the session of 1877 he 
 represented Holbrook and Braintree in the 
 State legislature, and for a number of years he 
 was a Selectman of Holbrook. A public- 
 spirited man, he was actively interested in the 
 progress of the town. He was Deacon in the 
 Winthrop Congregational Church for over a 
 quarter of a century, and the superintendent of 
 the Sunday-school for a number of years. 
 Mr. White was an upright and conscientious 
 man, a kind father and husband, and an oblig- 
 ing neighbor. He died November 15, 1882. 
 His widow and eldest daughter still reside in 
 the handsome residence at the corner of 
 Franklin and Adams Streets in Holbrook, 
 where he made his home in the latter part of 
 his life. 
 
 ■EREMIAH CREHORE, for many years 
 an honored and respected citizen of 
 Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass., was 
 born in Dorchester, Suffolk County, 
 December ig, 1795, a son of John S. Crehore. 
 He was of Colonial stock and, on the paternal 
 side, of Irish extraction, his emigrant progen- 
 itor, Teague Crehore, having come from Ire- 
 land to Massachusetts between 1640 and 1650, 
 and settled in the town of Milton, this county. 
 An account of him and of his immediate de- 
 scendants is given in Teele's History of Mil- 
 ton, in the chapter devoted to noted men and 
 women and early families. His sons and 
 grandsons became prominently identified with 
 the interests of that section of the county, and 
 some of their posterity were residents of Mil- 
 ton until within a very few years. They were 
 principally engaged in agricultural pursuits, 
 although they vvere noted for their mechanical 
 skill and ingenuity, one member of a former 
 generation being the first manufacturer of ar- 
 tificial limbs, as well as of the first piano and 
 the first violin made in the United States. 
 
 John -S. Crehore was born on the old home- 
 stead in Milton in 1761, and died January 7, 
 
 18- 
 
 Dedham, whither he had removed 
 
 with his family in i 828. 
 learned the trade of ; 
 
 In early manhood he 
 cliair manufacturer, 
 
 which he carried (jn in addition to farming 
 during the greater part of his life. He was 
 held in much esteem as a man and as a citizen. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah 
 Lyon, was a daughter of I-llhanan Lyon, oi 
 Stoughton. She was born in that town, April 
 5, 1765, and died in Dedham at the advanced 
 age of eighty-six years, having reared six chil- 
 dren. Both she and her husband were attend- 
 ants of the Congregational church. 
 
 Jeremiah Crehore was brought up on a farm, 
 but devoted a good deal of his time to mechan- 
 ical pursuits, having a natural aptitude for that 
 work, and enjoying a wide reputation as a 
 skilled mechanic. He had his workshop on 
 his farm, and it is safe to say spent far more 
 days at the bench than in tilling the S(jil. 
 He was very ingenious, and among other 
 works which brought him fame was the placing 
 of the wires on cylinders to produce the fine 
 lines in writing-paper. In 1844 he removed 
 to the village of Dedham, where he spent his 
 remaining years, dying May 23, 1876, at the 
 age of eighty years and five months. He mar- 
 ried Miss Joan Dunbar, who was born in 
 Charlton, Worcester County, Mass., a daugh- 
 ter of Samuel and Sarah Dunbar. Her grand- 
 father, Elijah Dunbar, was born in Canton, 
 Mass., where his father, the Rev. Samuel 
 Dunbar (Harvard College, 1723), was a settled 
 minister for fifty years. (A very interesting 
 sketch of him appears in the History of Can- 
 ton.) Elijah Dunbar was a Justice of the 
 Peace, being known as Esquire Dunbar; and 
 in that capacity he did a great deal of town 
 work, and was very prominent in local affairs. 
 Mrs. Crehore was one of a family of twelve 
 children, and was herself the mother of three, 
 two of whom are now living; namely, Ellen 
 H. and Augusta. The other, a daughter Mar- 
 tha, died aged two and a half years. Mrs. Cre- 
 hore survived her husliand, attaining the age 
 of eighty-seven years. Both were active mem- 
 bers of the Unitarian church, Mr. Crehore 
 having been Deacon of the church of that de- 
 nomination in Milton until his removal to 
 Dedham. 
 
 The two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Crehore 
 vvere born in Milton, but were bred and edu- 
 cated in Dedham, being students in the high 
 school. Miss Ellen H. Crehore began teach-
 
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 ing when but seventeen years old, and after- 
 ward pursued the higher branches of education 
 at a private school in l^oston. Resuming her 
 former occupation, she taught for a time in 
 Uedhain, being subsequently a teacher in 
 Dorchester nine years, and later in Dedham. 
 She has ever taken an active and prominent 
 jiart in advancing the educational interests of 
 Dedham, for six years serving faithfully as a 
 member of the School Committee. 
 
 Miss Augusta Crehore completed her studies 
 at a select school in Roxbury, and afterward 
 fur a short time taught a private school in 
 Dedham. Since the death of their parents, 
 the sisters have lived together in Dedham, 
 their home being a pleasant and attractive 
 one. Both are active in social circles. They 
 are members of the Unitarian church and of 
 the Women's Christian Temperance Union, 
 Ellen H. being also a member of the Dedham 
 Historical Society. 
 
 §OHN K. Wn.LARD, a leading business 
 man of Randolph, was born in Win- 
 chester, N. H., January 20, 1855, son 
 of .Samuel W. and Mary A. (Bryant) 
 Willard. Me is of Scotch descent on the 
 paternal side. II is maternal grandfather, 
 Paul Butler, was a soldier and an officer in 
 the Revolutionary War. His father, who 
 engaged in the manufacture of tripe immedi- 
 ately after locating here, and subsequently 
 followed this industry for several years, retired 
 from business some time previous to his de- 
 mise, in F'ebruary, i8g6. 
 
 When five years of age John K. Willard 
 was brought by his parents to Randolph, where 
 he attended the grammar and high schools. 
 His education was completed at Philliiis 
 Academy at Andover, Mass. He became 
 associated with his father at the age of twenty- 
 four. In 1884, when the latter retired, he 
 went into partnership with L. S. Woodward, 
 of Rhode Island. One year later Mr. Wood- 
 ward withdrew, and since that time Mr. Wil- 
 lard has conducted the business alone. In 
 1S86 he added the rendering of tallow to the 
 preparation of tripe and pigs' feet. He now 
 carries on a large wholesale business in this 
 class of goods. 
 
 Mr. Willard married Grace I'. Wild, a 
 daughter of Daniel Wild, of Randoljih, and 
 has three sons — Robert H., Roger B., and 
 John R. He is both a Mason and an Odd 
 l'"elUnv, and a member of the Young Men's 
 Mutual Relief Association of Randolph, and an 
 attendant of the Baptist church. In jiolitics 
 he is a Democrat; and he has been one of the 
 Selectmen of Randoliih foi' the past six years, 
 serving as chairman of the board during the 
 current year. In the fall of 1896 he was the 
 Democratic candidate for Representative of 
 the Seventh Ward, Norfolk District, but was 
 defeated by his opjioncnt, Henry A. Belcher, 
 of the same place. However, he is popular in 
 the town with both jiarties, and is much es- 
 teemed. 
 
 LIHU A. HOL15RO0K, a prominent 
 resident of Holbrook, is a native of 
 Braintree, Mass. Born on Decem- 
 ber 2T,, 1825, son of Samuel L. and Susanna 
 D. (Adams) Holbrook, he comes of an old 
 Braintree family, which is said to be of 
 Scotch origin. Joseph Holbrcjok, his grand- 
 father, was a son of Colonel John Holbrook, 
 of Braintree. His father, Samuel L. Hol- 
 brook, was born in Braintree, and resided there 
 throughout his life, engaged in farming. His 
 mother, Susanna, was descended from the 
 famous Adams family, to which the American 
 Presidents of that name belonged. Jesse 
 Reed, who worked for John Adams, the grand- 
 father of Elihu Holbrook, in 181 5 trans- 
 planted to .South iManklin Street the beauti- 
 ful elm-tree standing near Mr. Holbrook's 
 residence, regarded as one of the landmarks of 
 the town and said to be one of the largest 
 trees in the State. Mrs. Susanna D. Hol- 
 brook, who was then a girl, assisted in the 
 transplanting. 
 
 Elihu A. Holbrook grew to manhood in 
 Braintree, and was educated in the public 
 schools of that town. When about eighteen 
 years old, he began shoemaking. This trade 
 he afterward followed as a journeyman until 
 i860, in which year he began to manufacture 
 boots on his own account in East Randolph, 
 now known as Holbrook, in ])artnership with 
 Danforth Thayer, undei- the firm name of
 
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 Thayer & Holbiuok . The firm generally 
 employed from twenty-five to thirty hands, 
 and was in business for fifteen years. After 
 Mr. Thayer's death it was merged in that of 
 E. A. Holbrook & Co. The latter firm had 
 carried on business for a number of years with 
 Mr. Holbrook at its head when it dissolved 
 and the senior partner retired from manufact- 
 uring. 
 
 Mr. Holbrook married Annie M. White, a 
 daughter of Isaac W. White, of Holbrook. 
 She bore him two children — John A. and 
 Annie M. A second marriage subsequently 
 united him to Ro.xie E. Dickinson, of Am- 
 herst, Mass. Mr. Holbrook is a Republican 
 in politics. He is now serving his second 
 term as a member of the Board of Assessors. 
 He was one of the Building Committee that 
 superintended the erection of the present 
 town hall of Holbrook; and he has occupied 
 various positions of honor and trust in the 
 town. As a citizen he is known to have at 
 heart the welfare of the community and to act 
 always for the public interest. 
 
 iEV. WILLIAM ORNE WHITE, of 
 Brookline, retired, after many years 
 of faithful service in the ministry of 
 the Unitarian body of the Congre- 
 gational church, was born in Salem, Mass., 
 February 12, 1821. His parents were the 
 Hon. Daniel A. and Eliza (Orne) White. 
 
 The founder of the family, William White, 
 came from England to this country over two 
 hundred and fifty years ago (tradition says 
 from Norfolk County), locating in Haverhill, 
 Mass., in 1642. The Rev. Mr. White's 
 grandfather, John White, who was a native of 
 Haverhill, was engaged in farming during 
 the greater part of his life, in Methuen. He 
 died there in 1800, aged eighty years. 
 
 Daniel A. White, son of John, was born in 
 Methuen, June 7, 1776, and grew to manhood 
 on the farm. Graduating from Harvard Col- 
 lege in 1797, after studying law in Salem he 
 was admitted to the bar, and began practice in 
 Newburyport. He subsequently moved to 
 Salem, where he acted as Judge of Probate for 
 thirty-eight years, resigning in 1853, at the 
 age of seventy-seven. He was first married 
 
 May 24, 1807, to Mrs. Mary Van Schalkwyck, 
 daughter of Dr. Josiah Wilder, of Lancaster, 
 Mass. Two daughters born of this union 
 grew up, and were married. His wife, Mary, 
 died June 29, 181 i; and eight years later, on 
 August I, 1819, Judge White married Mrs. 
 Eliza Wctmore, widow of William Wetmore 
 and daughter of William Orne, a merchant 
 of Salem. The fruit of this marriage was 
 one son, William, subject of this sketch, 
 named for his grandfather Orne. Mrs. Eliza 
 White died in her thirty-seventh year, March 
 27, 1821; and the Judge married on January 
 22, 1824, Mrs. Ruth Rogers, daughter of 
 Joseph Hurd, a merchant of Charlestown, 
 Mass. One son born of this union grew to 
 maturity, and was married. The father, the 
 Hon. Daniel A. White, died March 30, 1861, 
 in his eighty-fifth year. His third wife, out- 
 living him, attained the age of ninety years, 
 her death occurring in November, 1874. The 
 family record includes a long list of grand- 
 children and great-grandchildren sprung from 
 the first and third marriages. Judge White 
 was the author of a work entitled "New Eng- 
 land Congregationalism," also of eulogies on 
 Nathaniel Bowditch and John Pickering, and 
 of other public addresses that appeared in 
 print. He was one of the leading members of 
 the First Church of Salem, his wife, Eliza, 
 also being connected therewith. 
 
 William Orne White acquired his element- 
 ary education in the public and private schools 
 of Salem, and prepared for college at Phillips 
 Exeter Academy. Graduating from Harvard 
 in 1840, after two years of voyaging and for- 
 eign travel for his health, he entered the Di- 
 vinity School at Cambridge, pursued the regu- 
 lar course of study, and was graduated in 
 1845. Fo"" fivs months he supplied the pulpit 
 of the Unitarian church at Eastport, Me.; and 
 in 1846-47, in its pastor's absence, he had 
 charge of the Unitarian church in St. Louis. 
 He was ordained in West Newton, November 
 22, 1848. From that time until January i, 
 1851, he preached in West Newton ; and for 
 twenty-seven years, from October i, 185 1, to 
 November 3. 1878, he was settled in Keene, 
 N. H. Resigning his pastorate in Keene, he 
 supplied different pulpits for a time, and 
 preached for the First Congregational Society
 
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 of Sharon, in this county, for two years, from 
 September, 18S1, to September, 1883. 
 
 Several of Mr. White's discourses have 
 been published. Among them maybe named: 
 "Our Struggle Rigiiteous in the Sight of 
 God," delivered in Keene, April 13, 1862, 
 "on the day of thanksgiving for the nation's 
 victories"; an address at Keene, September 
 18, 1863, delivered at the funeral of the Rev. 
 George G. Ingersoll; a sermon preached to 
 the "Keene Congregational Society," Septem- 
 ber 29, 1867, "previous to the enlarging and 
 remodelling of their house of worship"; an 
 historical address, July 4, 1876, delivered in 
 Keene, N.H., by request of the city govern- 
 ment; farewell sermon at Keene, November 
 3, 1878; and an address at the dedication of 
 a mural monument to the memory of the 
 Rev. Dr. James Walker, ex-president of Har- 
 vard University, delivered in Harvard Church, 
 Charlestown, Mass., January 14, 1883. In 
 September, 1881, Mr. White removed to his 
 present residence in Brookline. 
 
 He was married on September 25, 1848, to 
 Margaret E., a daughter of the late Chester 
 Harding, the artist, whose home was in 
 Springfield, Mass. Mrs. White was born in 
 Barre, N.Y. She is the mother of two chil- 
 dren: Daniel Appleton, who died in infancy 
 in 1S59: and Eliza Orne White, born August 
 2, 1856, author of "Miss Brooks," "Winter- 
 borough," "The Coming of Theodora," "When 
 Molly was Six," "A Little Girl of Long 
 Ago," "A Browning Courtship and Other 
 Stories." 
 
 The Rev. Mr. White favors the Republican 
 side in politics. He served on the School 
 Committee of Keene, and was a trustee of 
 Keene Academy, president of the Cheshire 
 County Washingtonian Total Abstinence So- 
 ciety, and one of the trustees of the Orphans' 
 Home in Franklin, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. 
 White are life members of the American Uni- 
 tarian Association. 
 
 lAPT. EPHRAIM HARVEY DOANE. 
 superintendent of the Sailors' Snug 
 Harbor, a home for disabled seamen 
 at Germantown, Quincy, Mass., is 
 well fitted for the position by birth, breeding, 
 
 and experience. Son of Ephraim Doane, Jr., 
 he was born December 28, 1844, in Harwich, 
 Mass., where his ancestors had been residents 
 for several generations. His grandfather, 
 Ephraim, .Sr. , son of .Simeon Doane, one of 
 the numerous descendants of Deacon John 
 Doane, of Plymouth, 1630, and later of East- 
 ham, Cape Cod, Mass., was engaged in seafar- . 
 ing pursuits when a young man as captain 
 of a vessel. On retiring to land service, he 
 opened a store of general merchandise in his 
 native town, Harwich, and in connection with 
 it had charge of the post-office there for many 
 years. 
 
 Ephraim Doane, Jr., son of Plphraim, Sr., 
 was born in Harwich in 181 7. Like most 
 boys reared on the coast, he early imbibed a 
 love for the sea, and at the age of ten years 
 was employed as a cook on board a coaster. 
 From that time on for many a year he led a 
 seafaring life, becoming while yet a very 
 young man master of a vessel. lie was en- 
 gaged in fishing and coastwise sailing until 
 1875, when he abandoned the sea to become 
 superintendent of the Sailors' Snug Harbor in 
 Quincy. After a continuous service of eight 
 years in that capacity, he returned to his an- 
 cestral home in Harwich, where he is living 
 retired from active labor, a hale and vigorous 
 man for one of his advanced years. His wife 
 was Priscilla Ellis, a daughter of Thomas 
 Ellis, of Harwich. Of their six children, 
 three grew to years of maturity, as follows: 
 Emily, wife of Milton Kelley, of Dennis, 
 Mass. ; I^phraim Harvey; and Minnie, wife of 
 Edgar Thomas, of Dorchester, Mass. The 
 parents early united with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church, and have faithfully followed its 
 teachings. 
 
 Ephraim Harvey Doane left school at the 
 age of twelve years to follow in the footsteps 
 of his father, whom he then accompanied on 
 a coasting trip as cook. He continued going 
 to sea upward of a quarter of a century, being 
 employed in various minor capacities until 
 about twenty years old, when he was made 
 captain of a schooner, and subsequently en- 
 gaged in the coasting business a number of 
 years, the latter part of the time turning his 
 attention to yachting. In 18S5 Captain 
 Doane was appointed superintendent of the
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Sailors' Snug Harbor, a model institution of 
 its kind, where he has now the care of about 
 forty men, who a])preciate to the highest 
 degree his efforts to make their lives home- 
 like and pleasant. Fraternally, he is a mem- 
 ber of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
 Company of I5oston. 
 
 In 1863 Captain Doane married Harriet H., 
 daughter of Josiah Doane, of Harwich, who, 
 although he bears the same surname, is not a 
 near kinsman. Two children have been liorn 
 to the Captain and Mrs. Doane, naniely : 
 Annie, wife of William (Million, of Dennis, 
 Mass. ; and Hattie, who died, unmarried, at 
 the age of twenty-seven years. 
 
 M 
 
 ANIEL BONNE Y, a venerable and 
 honored citizen of Dedham, Mass., 
 is living in pleasant retirement from 
 active pursuits at his home on East 
 Street, near Washington Street, enjoying the 
 fruits of his many busy years of toil. He was 
 born October 5, 181 1, in Kingston, this State, 
 his father, Seth Bonney, being the son of Dan- 
 iel Bonney, a lifelong resident of Plymouth 
 County. 
 
 Seth Bonney was born in Middleboro. He 
 was one of a family of four children, and with 
 the others was brought up on the home farm. 
 He learned the founder's trade when a young 
 man; and this calling he followed winters for 
 some years, having charge of a blast furnace in 
 Halifax, while in the summer season he made 
 a good living at fishing. In 1823 he settled 
 in Dedham, where he was engaged in various 
 occupations until the time of his removal to 
 Irving, where, at the home of one of his sons, 
 he passed the last three of his sixty-one years 
 of life. His wife, formerly Deborah Weston, 
 was born and bred in Plympton, Mass., being 
 one of the eight children reared by Deacon 
 Weston, a jjrosperous cooper. Mrs. Bonney 
 bore her husband five children, of whom Dan- 
 iel, the special subject of this sketch, is the 
 only one living. The mother passed to the 
 
 higher life 
 
 in 1835, aged fifty-four years. 
 
 Both ])arents were members of the Baptist 
 church at Kingston. 
 
 Daniel Bonney attended the common schools 
 of Halifax until eleven vears old. when he 
 
 came with his jjarents to Dedham. At the age 
 of sixteen he went to Dunstable, N.H., to 
 learn the trade of a machinist and blacksmith, 
 serving an apprenticeship of three years; and 
 he afterward worked at his trade in a machine 
 shop in Andover, Mass. In 1833 he returned 
 to Dedham, locating in the east part of the 
 town, where he built a shop and began the 
 manufacture of blind hinges, a profitable in- 
 dustry, which he carried on several years. 
 Subsecjuently, removing his sho]) to. its present 
 locatif)n, near his residence, he enlarged it, 
 and in 1868 put in an engine; and from that 
 time until his retirement from business, in 
 1879, he made a specialty of manufacturing 
 burs, washers, and rivets, meeting with grati- 
 fying success in his enterprise. 
 
 Mr. Bonney has been twice married. His 
 first wife, to whom he was united May 14, 
 1.835, was Cordelia C. Coney, who was born 
 in Eastport, Me., and was a daughter of Will- 
 iam Coney, a native of Dedham. She died at 
 the age of fifty-four years, leaving six chil- 
 dren, namely: Sarah, wife of Horace Went- 
 worth ; Isadora, widow of the late Samuel 
 Whitmore; Henry C. , auditor for the Bell 
 Telephone Company, whose wife, Florence 
 Bridge, died in 1878, having borne him seven 
 children, of whom four are living — John, 
 Robert, Daniel, and Florence C. ; Delia, 
 widow of the late John H. Coudran ; Seth, 
 who is married, and has one child, Arthur 
 W. ; and Daniel Weston, who married Eva 
 M. Wetmore, and has five children — Daniel 
 Weston, Samuel Coney, John Henry, Roger, 
 and Eunice. After the death of his first wife 
 Mr. Bonney married Mrs. Almira S. Gale 
 Grover, who was born and reared in New 
 Hampshire, where her father, Dudley Gale, 
 was engaged in agricultural pursuits through- 
 out his life. She had been married twice 
 previous to her union with Mr. Bonney, and 
 by her first husband, Oliver Holmes, had three 
 children — Osmond A., Cora E., and Oliver 
 J. Her second husband, Frank D. Grover, to 
 whom she was married in 1863, died in 1866. 
 
 Mr. Bonney is a man of keen intelligence 
 and forethought, keeping well informed as to 
 current events, and is now, as in his earlier 
 years, deeply interested in the welfare and 
 progress of the communitv in which he resides.
 
 DEXTER E. WADSWOKTH.
 
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 He is a stronj;- Republican in politics, support- 
 ing the princijiles of that party by voice and 
 vote. 
 
 jIIARIJCS L. 1-ARNSWORTlI, a 
 bread, cake, and pastry baker at Ev- 
 erett Square, Hyde Park, is a self- 
 made man in the highest sense im- 
 plied by the term. He was born in Whiting- 
 ham, Vt. , November 24, 1S40, son of Luke 
 W. Farnsworth. His grandfather, Thomas 
 Farnsvvorth, was born in the Green Mountain 
 State, and there spent his threescore and ten 
 years of life employed as a farmer and black- 
 smith. Luke W. Farnsworth grew to man- 
 hood on the parental farm, assisting in its 
 management until of age. Going then to 
 Cape Ann, Massachusetts, he worked for some 
 ten years at quarrying, first as a common 
 laborer and afterward as foreman of the quarry. 
 Subsec[uently, returning to Vermont, he jiur- 
 chased land in Whitingham ; and from that 
 time until his demise, at the venerable age of 
 eighty-two years, he was engaged in agricult- 
 ural pursuits. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Harriet ]^righam, was born in Whiting- 
 ham, daughter of John Brigham, a leading 
 farmer of that town. Si.x children were born 
 of their union, namely: Charles L., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch ; Sophia, the wife of Charles 
 E. Chase; Ann F. , the wife of Trueworthy 
 Hayward, of Boston; John A., of whom there 
 is no special record ; Laura, who married 
 Cyrus Boyd, and lives on the old homestead; 
 and Ellen, the wife of Frederick Clifford, liv- 
 ing in Maine. The mother passed away in 
 '879, aged si.xty years. Both she and the 
 father were regular attendants of the Univer- 
 salist church. 
 
 Charles L. Farnsworth remained beneath 
 the parental roof until he attained man's 
 estate, obtaining his education in the public 
 schools, and acquiring a thorough knowledge 
 of agriculture on the homestead. Coming 
 then to Boston, he secured a situation as a 
 driver of a baker's cart. In the ten years that 
 he remained in that capacity, he became fa- 
 miliar with the business, and in 1869 was able 
 to start a bakery in Hyde Park, then a village 
 Qf fi thousand inhabitants. Having begun in 
 
 a modest, unassuming manner, limiting his 
 venture to the capital he had to invest, he has 
 since built up an e.xtensive and remunerative 
 trade in breati, cake, and all kinds of pastry. 
 Mr. Farnsworth has a large local jwtronage, 
 besides a considerable share of that of the sur- 
 rounding towns, including Uuincy, Neponsct, 
 Dcdham, and Milton; and he employs si.x 
 wagons and twenty hands. He is one of the 
 oldest-established merchants in the place, and 
 has taken an active ])art in developing the re- 
 sources of the town, which has grown rapidlv 
 in the past few years. 
 
 Mr. Farnsvvorth was married in 1869 to 
 Miss Nellie D. Clifford, who was born in 
 Maine, being one of the live children of Cap- 
 tain John Clifford. The children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Farnsworth are: Harry, lulith, Nellie, 
 and Alice. Harry, who is an electrician, 
 married Florence Page, and has one son, Au- 
 gustus. A zealous advocate of the principles 
 of the Republican party, Mr. P'arnsworth is 
 fully alive to his duties as a true and faithful 
 citizen. He has served as Selectman for two 
 years, being chairman of the board for one 
 year; as Overseer of the Poor and as a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Health ; and he for four 
 years was connected with the fire department 
 as city engineer. An esteemed member of the 
 Masonic fraternity, he belongs to the Hyde 
 Park Lodge, F. & A. M. ; to Norfolk Chap- 
 ter, R. A. M., of which he has been High 
 Priest; to the Hyde Park Council; and to 
 Cyprus Commandery, in which he has served 
 as Standard Bearer. He is also a member of 
 Forrest Lodge and Monterey F'ncampment of 
 the I. O. O. v., and a charter member of the 
 Knights of Honor. He and his wife are active 
 members of the Congregational church, which 
 his children attend. Mr. F'arnsworth's 
 
 bakery, which is one of the largest in the 
 county, was erected under his personal super- 
 vision. 
 
 EXTER EMERSON WADS- 
 WORTH, one of the foremost 
 dry-goods merchants of the city of 
 Ouincy, was born in the neighbor- 
 ing town of Milton, March 7, 1866, a son of 
 Edwin De.xter and Ellen M. (Elmerson) \\'ads. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 worth. After completing the course of study 
 in the public schools of Milton, young Wads- 
 worth entered Bryant & Stratton's Business 
 College, from which he was graduated in 1882. 
 His health being quite poor at that time, he 
 did not engage in any especial business for a 
 year or two. In 1884 he went to work for the 
 firm of iirown, Durrell & Co., of Boston, re- 
 maining with them five years. Then he 
 opened a small store in the Adams Building, 
 Ouincy. This venture was .so successful that 
 al the end of two and a half years, needing 
 better facilities and accommodations to meet 
 the demands of the business, he removed to 
 his present quarters in the Greenleaf Hotel, 
 which at that time had just been remodelled. 
 He now has one of the largest dry-goods stores 
 in Norfolk County, well stocked with as com- 
 plete a line of goods, excepting fancy dress- 
 goods, and as large an assortment of small- 
 wares as can be found in the largest store in 
 Boston. He keeps five young ladies busily 
 employe'd throughout the year, and during the 
 holidays employs si.xteen clerks. In 1894 he 
 opened a branch store in Milton, where he has 
 already built up a substantia] trade, notwith- 
 standing the recent business depression. 
 
 Prominent in Masonic circles, Mr. Wads- 
 worth is a member of Macedonian Lodge of 
 Milton, of which he is J. W., and belongs to 
 St. Paul's Chapter, the Boston Commandery, 
 and the Boston Council. He has also fellow- 
 ship in Damon Lodge, No. 12, K. of P., of 
 Boston; the Quincy Club and the Ouincy 
 Yacht Club; and he is the vice-president of 
 the Granite City Club. In politics he is an 
 unswerving Republican, and he has been one 
 of the Warrant Committee of the town of Mil- 
 ton for two years. An energetic young man, 
 Mr. Wadsworth has shown a remarkable apti- 
 tude for business, and no doubt has a prosper- 
 ous future before him. 
 
 [APT. CHARLES W. HASTINGS, 
 
 of South Weymouth, secretary of the 
 Board of Commissioners of State 
 .■\id, was horn in Schenectady, 
 N.V., January 19, 1831, son of Elijah and 
 Rebecca (.Smith) Hastings, who were both 
 natives of the State of Massachusetts, On the 
 
 paternal side he is directly descended from 
 Thomas Hastings, of Ipswich, England, who 
 came with his wife to America in 1834, set- 
 tling in Watertown, Mass. His maternal 
 grandfather was a minute-man in Revolu- 
 tionary times, and was at Lexington and other 
 battles. Of the Richards tribe, from whom 
 his mother was descended, no less than eight 
 members of one family were soldiers in the 
 Revolution. 
 
 Captain Hastings's father died rather early 
 in life, leaving his widow with nine children. 
 At five years of age Charles W. was taken into 
 the family of his aunt, Mrs. Enoch Whiting, 
 of -St. Albans, Vt. , where he remained until 
 thirteen years of age. He then made his 
 home with his cousin, Calvin Whiting, of the 
 same place, an extensive tanner; but a short 
 time afterward he became a member of the 
 family of Benjamin F. Tuller, an agriculturist 
 near St. Albans. At the age of seventeen he 
 was thrown on his own resources; and begin- 
 ning life for himself he first obtained employ- 
 ment with the then well-known S. N. Dicken- 
 son, a job printer of Boston. Mr. Dickenson 
 also owned a type foundry; and, after serving 
 as office boy, Mr. Hastings was employed in 
 the stereotype department of the concern. 
 He left this business to go into the freight 
 department of the Western Railroad at Spring- 
 field, but in 1852 became an employee in the 
 shoe factory of Tirrell & Bates at South Wey- 
 mouth, with whom he continued until 1 861. 
 Elected in the fall of i860 Representative for 
 the town of Weymouth to the lower house of 
 the State legislature, he served during a por- 
 tion of the session of 1S61, resigning in April 
 to enter the army. 
 
 He enlisted in what was afterward Company 
 H, Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 
 known as the W'ebster Regiment, Colonel 
 Fletcher W^ebster in command. He was 
 elected First Lieutenant of the company at 
 its organization, and August 10, 1862, was 
 made Captain, so remaining until his dis- 
 charge from the service in March, 1865. His 
 company became a part of the Army of the 
 Potomac under the immediate command of 
 General Banks in Maryland. In 1862 he 
 joined the General's expedition to the Shen- 
 andoah Valley. He was in a skirmish at
 
 CHARLES W. HA.S'riN(;s.
 
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 Thoroughfare Gap, and was afterward in the 
 battle of second Bull Run, where Colonel 
 Fletcher Webster fell. He fought in the 
 battles of South Mountain, Antietani, P'reder- 
 icksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and 
 participated also in the Mine Run campaign, 
 the battles of the Wilderness, and Spottsylva- 
 nia. Having crossed the North Anna River, 
 it was at this time that Captain Hastings was 
 captured by the Confederates, and, being 
 taken to Libby Prison, spent a week within 
 the walls of that den of horrors. With other 
 officers, he was then transferred to Macon, 
 Ga., and imprisoned in a stockade. From 
 there he was taken to Savannah, thence suc- 
 cessively to Charleston jail yard, to Colum- 
 bia, S. C. , and to Charlotteville, N.C. , where 
 he was duly paroled and sent to Wilmington, 
 N.C, to rejoin the Union forces. 
 
 Honorably discharged March 12, 1865, he 
 returned to South Weymouth, and has since 
 remained in this town. He was employed in 
 a shoe factory, until 1871, when he was ap- 
 pointed clerk of the Board of Police Commis- 
 sioners, then under the metropolitan system. 
 In this capacity he served for about four years, 
 and after that he again entered the shoe fac- 
 tory. Receiving the appointment of docu- 
 ment clerk in the ofifice of the Secretary of 
 the Commonwealth in December, 1877, he 
 discharged the duties of that position until 
 May, 1879, when he received the appointment 
 he now holds, of State Aid Commissioner, 
 and was chosen clerk of the board, or, in 
 other words, e.xecutive ofificer. 
 
 He married first Rachel F. Rogers, daugh- 
 ter of John G. Rogers, a former well-known 
 citizen of Weymouth. By her he had two 
 sons — Edward R. and Alfred W. He mar- 
 ried second Marion E. Daggett, daughter of 
 Isaac R. Daggett, late of Weymouth. 
 
 The Captain is a charter member of Rey- 
 nolds Post, G. A. R., No. 58, at East Wey- 
 mouth, and has served sixteen years as Adju- 
 tant of the post and two terms as its Com- 
 mander. He attends the Universalist church 
 at South Weymouth, and is a member of the 
 Prudential Committee. A Republican in 
 politics, he is a public-spirited citizen and one 
 of the honored members of the community. 
 He is a director in the South Weymouth Co- 
 
 operative Bank, and is agent for the 15oard of 
 Trustees of the Soldieis' Home in Massachu- 
 setts, situated at Chelsea, his duties being to 
 investigate cases of soldiers and sailors apply- 
 ing for admission. 
 
 -*-•••-♦— 
 
 HARLES H. RILEY, the popular 
 Postmaster of Dedham, was born in 
 this town, January i, 1S52. The 
 genial qualities which have made 
 him a favorite with all who know him are, no 
 doubt, inherited from his Irish parents. The 
 father, Francis Riley, who after his marriage 
 came to America, settling in Dedham and 
 working as a gardener, died at the age of forty- 
 four. Of his five children the only other sur- 
 vivor is now one of the sweet-faced Sisters of 
 Charity who care for orphaned children in St. 
 Vincent's Orphan Asylum of Boston. The 
 mother died at the age of fifty-si.x. 
 
 Postmaster Riley lost his father when but a 
 lad of twelve years. From that time his work- 
 ing life began, as it was needful for him to 
 earn his own living and to assist in the sup- 
 port of his mother. For seven years he was 
 a clerk in a grocery store in this town, and 
 then for the next twelve years he was clerk in 
 a hay and grain business. VVhile in this posi- 
 tion, his native ability and fitness to hold and 
 administer positions of trust and responsibility 
 were recognized; and he made many friends 
 who were ready to put him forward as the best 
 man in the town for the Postmastership. In 
 the contest of 1886 Mr. Cummings received 
 the appointment to this important position; 
 but upon his resignation, in 1888, Mr. Riley 
 was appointed to the office by President Cleve- 
 land. At the end of his term of four years 
 he was reappointed by President Harrison, 
 and upon the expiration of his second term he 
 was again reappointed by President Cleveland 
 for another term of four years. The fact of 
 these reappointments is in itself sufficient 
 proof of his having filled the position in a 
 highly .satisfactory way. Beginning with one 
 clerk, the business of the office has been so 
 much increased, and its facilities so extended, 
 that now three clerks are employed. The 
 Dedham office is one of the best appointed and 
 best managed of its class in the State. Mr.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Riley believes in suiting the public conven- 
 ience as far as possible, the most satisfactory 
 thing about the Dedham office. In addition 
 to the despatch with which the mails are 
 handled there, a most gratifying feature is the 
 constant and never-failing courtesy with 
 which every service is rendered. In 1892 and 
 1893 Mr. Riley had charge of all the offices 
 in Norfolk County, being appointed by Post- 
 master-General VVanamaker. After sending 
 his report of these offices to Washington, he 
 received a letter from the department compli- 
 menting him on his excellent manner of con- 
 ducting the business. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Riley was united in marriage 
 with Mary Foley, of Cambridge. Both Mr. 
 and Mrs. Riley are communicants of the 
 Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Riley is a 
 member of the Catholic Order of P'oresters. 
 Beginning life as a poor boy and with small 
 equipment of education, he has by his own 
 efforts, by personal industry and thrift, gained 
 a position of influence, and has won for him- 
 self general esteem. 
 
 |DMUND G. BATES, an enterprising 
 dry-goods merchant of East Weymouth, 
 was born in Weymouth, Mass., June 
 26, 1833, son of Jacob and Nabby L. (Water- 
 man) Bates. He is a representative of old and 
 highly reputable families of Weymouth. The 
 Bates family, which is of English origin, 
 sprung from three brothers who emigrated in 
 company, one settling on Cape Cod, another 
 in New Hampshire, and the other, of whom 
 the subject of this sketch is a direct descend- 
 ant, in Weymouth, Mass. Jacob and Nabby 
 L. Bates were both lifelong residents of this 
 town. The former died at the age of sixty- 
 nine years, and the latter when nearly eighty- 
 five. 
 
 Edmund G. Bates was reared and educated 
 in Weymouth. At the age of thirteen he 
 entered the employ of Henry Loud, general 
 storekeeper and Postmaster, with whom he 
 remained as clerk for twenty years. Subse- 
 quently, after serving with Mr. Loud's suc- 
 cessor, C. W. Soule, for a year, he in 1875 
 established himself in the dry and fancy goods 
 business on Broad Street, East Weymouth, 
 
 where he has built up a flourishing trade. 
 Having started in business with a limited 
 capital saved from his earnings, his prosperity 
 is the result of his business ability ; and he has 
 good reason to be proud of his success. For a 
 number of years he has been a trustee of the 
 E^ast Weymouth Savings Bank. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Investment Committee, and he 
 served on the Town Committee for some time. 
 
 Mr. Bates married Jane B. Bicknell, daugh 
 ter of Ouincy L. and Deborah (Porter) Bick- 
 nell, both of whom were natives of this town. 
 A fuller account of Mrs. Bates's ancestry may 
 be found in a sketch of Zachariah L. Bicknell, 
 which appears elsewhere in the Review. 
 Mrs. Bates has had two children — Arthur W. 
 and Addie L., neither of whom is now living. 
 
 Mr. Bates has always displayed an active 
 interest in the welfare of the town, and may 
 be depended upon at all times to favor any 
 measure calculated to develoji its resources and 
 improve its condition. He is connected with 
 various social and fraternal organizations, 
 being a member of Orphans' Hope Lodge, 
 F. & A. M. ; has been treasurer of South Shore 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, for the past 
 twenty-two years; and a member of Crescent 
 Lodge, I. O. O. ¥., for over thirty years. 
 He and his wife are members of the United 
 Order of the Golden Cross, and both are popu- 
 lar in social circles. 
 
 -iTi^ANDOLPH P. MOSELEY, the act- 
 In^ '"S secretary of the Brainard Machine 
 JJt'V Company and the superintendent of 
 their foundry at Hyde Park, was 
 born in Columbus, Ohio, June 22, 1842, son 
 of Thomas William PI. and Mary A. (Beck- 
 ner) Moseley. The grandfather, Perrow 
 Moseley, who was a Virginian by birth and a 
 civil engineer by profession, reared a number 
 of children, spent the most of his life in Ken- 
 tucky, and died there at the age of eighty 
 years. The father was reared and educated at 
 Mount Sterling, Ky. In early life he fol- 
 lowed his father's profession, and later was 
 connected with the Washington Iron Works in 
 fronton, Ohio, where he remained for sev- 
 eral years. From Ironton he went to New- 
 port, Ky. , and in 1862 came to Boston. He
 
 JOHN F. MERRILL.
 
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 '39 
 
 was the inventor of the corrugated iron roofing, 
 which he manufactured for some years. Then 
 he organized the Moseley Iron IJridge and 
 Roof Company, whose plant was located in 
 Roxbury and Readville, Mass. He was also 
 the projector and builder of a large rolling- 
 mill in Readville, where he employed an aver- 
 age of four hundred men, and carried on an ex- 
 tensive business. His death occurred in 1879, 
 at the age of sixty-four years. As an able and 
 energetic business man he was an important 
 factor in advancing the iron manufacturing in- 
 terests of this locality, and his connection with 
 the industries of Boston and its vicinity was 
 exceedingly beneficial to the laboring classes. 
 Originally a Whig in politics, he later be- 
 came a Republican. His religious creed was 
 the Presbyterian. He wedded Mary A. Beck- 
 ner, of Carlisle, Ky. , who died at the age of 
 sixty-six years. She was the mother of three 
 children; namely, Anna M. L., Randolph P., 
 and Samuel R. 
 
 Randolph P. Moseley passed his earlier 
 years in Newport, Ky. , and acquired his edu- 
 cation in a private academy. At the age of 
 eighteen he entered the employ of his father. 
 In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, P'orty- 
 second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 While serving in the Civil War, he was capt- 
 ured and held a prisoner for some time. 
 Upon his return from the army he resumed 
 his apprenticeship; and, after learning thor- 
 oughly every branch of the iron manufacturing 
 industry, be took charge of the rolling-mill. 
 He also acted as superintendent of the Bridge 
 Company, and as such directed the adjustment 
 of a number of iron bridges built by that con- 
 cern. He was connected with his father's 
 enterprises until 1869, when he was employed 
 by George Southern & Co. in the steam shovel 
 manufactory in South Boston, and remained 
 with that concern four years. He next en- 
 gaged in the hotel business as the proprietor of 
 the Everett House in Hyde Park, which he ran 
 for a year; and for the succeeding four years 
 he was employed by the Boston Gas Light 
 Company. He then became the secretary and 
 general superintendent of the Nashua Lock 
 Company in Nashua, N. H. During his eight 
 years' connection with that concern he pre- 
 pared a large catalogue, containing one thou- 
 
 sand different designs of locks, knobs, and 
 keys, which was issued to the trade at a cost 
 of fifteen thousand dollars. Some ten years 
 ago he purchaseil an interest in the Brainard 
 Foundry in Hyde Park, which is now carried 
 on under his personal supervision. This con- 
 cern makes castings of all kinds, employing 
 a large force of workmen ; and its ofifice is lo- 
 cated at 156 Oliver Street, Boston. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Moseley was united in marriage 
 with Eugenia Davis, daughter of Timothy 
 Davis, of Boston. She died in January, 1876. 
 For his second wife he married Josephine B. 
 Brainard, daughter of Amos H. Brainard, 
 Esq., the founder and official head of the com- 
 pany which bears his name. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Moseley have two children — Robert B. and 
 Eldna E. Politically, Mr. Moseley is a Re- 
 publican. He served as an Assessor in Hyde 
 Park for twelve years, and was elected a mem- 
 ber of the board of Selectmen in 1896 and 
 1897, during the last term being chairman of 
 the board. He is connected with the Masonic 
 fraternity, and is Past Commander of Timothy 
 Ingraham Post, No. 121, G. A. R. Mr. 
 Mosele)- has had a very successful business 
 career. He is especially familiar with the 
 process attending the alloying of metals, and 
 is frequently called into court as an expert. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Moseley are Episcopalians. 
 
 t^TON. JOHN FLINT MERRILL, 
 L^J the proprietor of the Boston Branch 
 _|_U I Grocery Store at Ouincy and one of 
 
 — ' the leading merchants of the city, 
 was b(irn January 16, 1849, in Brownfield, Ox- 
 ford County, Me., son of Samuel Eastman 
 Merrill. The family is, presumably, of 
 Huguenot extraction, although the first ances- 
 tor of whom there is anything definitely 
 known was Nathaniel Merrill, who emigrated 
 to this country from Hampshire, England, in 
 1634, settling in Newbury, Mass. In relig- 
 ious faith he was a Separatist, belonging to 
 the sect known as the Orthodox Congrega- 
 tional ; and his descendants to the present 
 day, without a break, are alleged to have 
 affiliated with the same denomination and to 
 have ranked high as regards intelligence and 
 morality, while, for the greater part, obtain-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ing their living by tilling the soil. One of 
 his grandsons settled in Concord, N. H., at an 
 early period, where John Merrill, a son of 
 said grandson and the great-great-grandfather 
 of John F. Merrill, was born and reared. 
 
 Nathaniel Merrill, the great-grandfather of 
 John F., also a native of Concord, was born in 
 1738. Soon after his marriage with Martha 
 Walker he removed to Fryeburg, Me., where 
 he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for 
 many years, and reared his family of thir- 
 teen children. Subsequently he removed to 
 Brownfield, where his death occurred at a 
 ripe old age. The line of descent was contin- 
 ued through his son Nathaniel, who was born 
 and bred in Fryeburg, whence in early man- 
 hood he went to Brownfield. Here he took up 
 a large tract of wild land, which he converted 
 into a good homestead. His wife, a native 
 of Conway, N.H., whose maiden name was 
 Phebe Merrill, came of the same ancestral 
 stock though far removed. They became the 
 parents of seven children, all of whom were 
 born on the Brownfield homestead. They 
 were: Phebe, Samuel Flastman, Mary, Otis, 
 Clarinda, Phedora, and Horatio. 
 
 Samuel Eastman Merrill was born F'ebruary 
 22, 1802, in Brownfield, where he lived for 
 nearly half a century, devoting his time and 
 attention to farming. In 1852 he settled in 
 Fayette, Kennebec County, Me. Two years 
 later he removed to Norway, Me., where he 
 spent his remaining years, dying there Decem- 
 ber 19, 1878. With the exception of four 
 years spent in manufacturing, he continued in 
 the occupation to which he was reared, and 
 was known as a practical and prosperous 
 farmer. In the slavery days he was a Free 
 Soiler. Later he became an earnest supporter 
 of Neal Dow's prohibition principles. In 
 June, 183 1, he married Clarissa Flint, of 
 Norway, Me., a daughter of John Flint, who 
 sprung from a pioneer family of Esse.x County, 
 Massachusetts. Both he and his wife were 
 very active members of the Congregational 
 church, which he served many years as Dea- 
 con. They had eight children, namely: 
 Elizabeth F., born in 1S33, who died in 1837; 
 Clara Phebe, born in 1835, now the widow of 
 the late James B. Potter, of the firm of Moore, 
 Smith & Co., of Boston; James Flint, born in 
 
 1837, who married Harriet Brown, and lives 
 in Quincy, Mass. ; Horatio Otis, born in 
 1840, who died in 1846; Samuel Oscar, born 
 in 1842, who married Fannie Green, of Bos- 
 ton, and is now a resident of Nashville, 
 Tenn. ; Elizabeth Flint, born in 1845, who 
 resides in Ashmont, Mass. ; Jcjhn FTint, the 
 subject of this sketch ; and F'rederick, born in 
 1850, who died in 1854. 
 
 A child when his parents removed to Nor- 
 way, Me., John F'lint Merrill was there reared 
 and educated, attending its public schools. 
 On reaching man's estate he obtained the 
 situation of clerk in a Boston grocery store, 
 where he remained five years. Then, conver- 
 sant with the business, he returned to his 
 native State, opened a grocery in Lewiston, 
 and subsequently carried it on for three years. 
 In 1878 he came to Quincy and started his 
 present store. Since then he has built up an 
 extensive and remunerative trade in fancy 
 and staple groceries, having the largest store 
 of the kind in the city. In 1886 he and 
 A. G. Durgin built the Durgin & Merrill 
 Block, the first business block with modern 
 improvements, and one of the largest erected 
 in Quincy. Mr. Merrill has always taken an 
 active interest in the welfare of the city. He 
 was the leading spirit in forming the Quincy 
 Street Railway Company, of which he was at 
 first the treasurer, and thereafter the president 
 until it went out of existence. In 1890 he 
 became a director of the Quincy & Boston 
 Street Railway Company. He is also the 
 president of the Braintree Street Railway 
 Company, the treasurer of the Randolph 
 Street Railway Company, and a director of the 
 Cottage City and I\Iartha's Vineyard Street 
 Railway Companies. 
 
 On October 4, 1894, Mr. Merrill was mar- 
 ried to Miss Elizabeth Upton Waters, daugh- 
 ter of George F. Waters, a dentist of Boston, 
 and now has one child, Catherine. He and 
 Mrs. Merrill attend the Congregational 
 church. In politics he is a straight Republi- 
 can, and for four years was president of the 
 Republican City Committee. He represented 
 the towns of Quincy and Weymouth in the 
 legislatures of 1887 and 1888, serving in both 
 on the Water Supply Committee. In 1892 he 
 was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, and
 
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 re-elected in 1893. During liis first year here 
 he was on the Committee on Meicantile Affairs 
 and the Library Committee; and he was chair- 
 man of the Committee on Constitutional 
 Amendments. In his second year he was 
 chairman of the Mercantile Affairs Commit- 
 tee and a member of that on towns and bills 
 to third reading. He'likewise carried through 
 the bill for undergrounding the electric wires 
 in the city of Boston. Mr. Merrill is a mem- 
 ber of Rural Lodge, F. & A. M., of Quincy; 
 of St. Stephen's Chapter, R. A. M. ; of South 
 Shore Commandery, K. T. ; of Mount Wollas- 
 ton Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and for a time was 
 connected with the Improved Order of Red 
 Men and the Royal Arcanum. 
 
 / STeORGE MILES, who has been a pros- 
 \ '•) I perous grocer in Hyde Park for up- 
 ward of a quarter of a centur)', was 
 born April 7, 1S42, in Stow, Middlesex- 
 County. A son of Lewis Miles, he belongs to 
 the family that has produced Major-general 
 Nelson A. Miles, the present head of the 
 United States Army. His great-grandfather, 
 who fought in the French and Indian War, 
 after being captured by the Indians, made his 
 escape but a few hours before the morning 
 appointed to burn him at the stake. Ezra 
 Miles, the grandfather, spent a large part of 
 his life in the town of Stow, being engaged in 
 the cabinet-maker's trade in that locality, 
 living there until his demise, at the age of 
 fourscore and four years. 
 
 Lewis Miles grew to man's estate in Stow, 
 his native town, there acquiring his education 
 in the common schools. He spent some years 
 in Ro.xbury, Mass., in his early manhood, 
 working in the rope-walk. Afterward he 
 returned to Stow, where he purchased a farm, 
 and was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 
 the close of his life, when si.xty-four years of 
 age. He was a very successful farmer and 
 business man, honorable and upright in all his 
 dealings, and was held in the highest regard 
 by the community. He married Miss Hannah 
 A. Dean, who was born in Cohasset, Mass., 
 one of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 John Dean. Eight children were born of this 
 union, six of whom are living; namely, Mrs. 
 
 Hannah M. Mead, Lewis H., George, Alonzo, 
 Mr.s. Martha A. Potter, and Albert T. Three 
 of these sons, Lewis, Alonzo, and George, and 
 one son-in-law, Mr. Mead, were brave partici- 
 pants in the late war. The mother, a bright 
 and winsome woman of fourscore years, is a 
 devoted member of the Methodist church. 
 
 George Miles lived beneath the parental roof 
 until nineteen years of age, when he offered his 
 services to his country. He was assigned to 
 the hospital corps of the Seventh Massachu.setts 
 Volunteer Infantry, and two years later was 
 transferred to the sutler's department, in 
 which he served until the end of the war. 
 He saw many of the important battles of the 
 war, some twenty in all, and experienced the 
 hardships and privations of army life. Subse- 
 quently, for three years, he worked for the 
 Weed Tile Manufacturing Company, and then 
 spent a few seasons at the old homestead in 
 Stow. After that, securing a situation in the 
 Boylston Market in Boston, he remained there 
 until 1870, when he came to Hyde Park, which 
 he has since made his home. Here he started 
 at once in the grocery business as senior mem- 
 ber of the firm of Miles & Silsbury, continu- 
 ing thus rive )'ears, when the partnership was 
 dissolved. Mr. Miles then carried on the 
 business alone until 1890, when he took in a 
 partner, the firm name having since been 
 Miles & Morrison. These gentlemen are car- 
 rying on a very large and profitable business, 
 having two stores, and keeping a force of eight 
 clerks busily employed. 
 
 Mr. Miles was married December 25, 1873, 
 to Miss Rosa Belle Allen. Born in Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., a daughter of Orville Allen, 
 and a sister of the wife of Thomas E. Faunce 
 (of whom a biography is presented on another 
 page), she died at the age of forty years. 
 Subsequently, on September 6, 1890, JNIr. 
 Miles married Miss Eva E. Shaw, a daughter 
 of William Shaw, of Hyde Park. Of this 
 union one child has been born, Georgia Allen. 
 In politics Mr. Miles is a sound Republican, 
 and for two years he has served his fellow- 
 townsmen as Selectman. A leading Mason in 
 Plyde Park and vicinity for some years, he has 
 done much to advance the interests of the 
 lodges with which he is connected. He is a 
 member of Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A. M., of
 
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 which he has been chaplain ior years; of Nor- 
 folk Chapter, R. A. RI., of which he is also 
 chaplain; of Hyde Park Council; of Cyprus 
 Conimandery, of which he has been Com- 
 mander for two years, besides having held 
 other offices ; of the Boston I.afayette Lodge 
 of Perfection ; of the Giles F. Yates Council 
 of Princes of Jerusalem ; of the Massachusetts 
 Consistory, in which he has taken the thirty- 
 second degree ; of the Commanders' Union of 
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island ; and of the 
 Blue Hill Chapter of the Eastern Star. He 
 also belongs to the Red Men, to the Knights 
 of Honor, and to the Royal Arcanum. Mr. 
 Miles has been a director of the Hyde Park 
 Co-operative Bank since its organization, was 
 its president for si.x years, and is now its vice- 
 president. He is a member of the Hyde Park 
 Historical Society, in which he takes a deep 
 interest. Both Mr. and Mrs. Miles are active 
 members of the Baptist church, and contrib- 
 ute generously toward its support. 
 
 ILLIAM B. HOLMES, a success- 
 ful general farmer of Sharon, was 
 born in North Easton, Mass., May 
 8, 1847, son of Bradford and Harriet (Ale.xan- 
 der) Holmes. The farm he now occupies was 
 purchased by his grandfather, Nathan Holmes, 
 a native of Stoughton, who cut thereon a con- 
 siderable amount of ship timber, hoop poles, 
 and wood. The grandfather, Nathan, married 
 Zilj^ha Monk, of Stoughton, and their chil- 
 dren were nine in number; namely, Nathan, 
 Clements, Elijah, Bradford, William, Fisher, 
 Wadsworth, Francis, and Zilpha. 
 
 Bradford Holmes, father of William B. , was 
 born in Stoughton, and accompanied his par- 
 ents to .Sharon when quite young. While 
 still a y(jung man he removed to North Easton, 
 where he remained for over twenty years, dur- 
 ing which time he was engaged in teaming. 
 Subsequently, returning to Sharon, he re- 
 sided here until his death, which occurred in 
 1882. In politics he was a Republican, and 
 he held at different times several town offices. 
 He was a member of the Lliii versa! ist church. 
 His wife, Harriet Alexander, who was a 
 native of Chestervillc, Me., became the 
 mother of five children, of whom two were 
 
 twins. The twins are no longer living; and 
 George has also passed away, dying at the age 
 of twenty-one years. The survivors are: 
 Mary, the first-born, who is now the widow of 
 Jeremiah M. Leonard, late of Stoughton; and 
 William B. , the subject of this sketch. The 
 mother died in i8g6. 
 
 William B. Holmes supplemented the edu- 
 cation obtained in the common schools of 
 Sharon by attendance at Stoughtonham Insti- 
 tute, where he finished his school studies. 
 Since reaching manhood he has tilled the soil 
 of the homestead farm besides dealing largely 
 in milk. He also does a good business in 
 wood and hoops. In politics he supports the 
 Republican party; and he has been called upon 
 to seive in several of the town offices, in all 
 of which he has acquitted himself with credit. 
 
 On .September 23, 1896, Mr. Holmes was 
 united in marriage with Caroline P. Bowden, 
 daughter of Anthony W. and Hellen N. Bow- 
 den, of Boston. He is a member of Lodge 
 No. 72, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 and Grange No. 197, of Stoughton. He and 
 his wife attend the L^niversalist church. 
 
 B 
 
 AVTD NEAL, who has been identi- 
 fied with the mercantile interests of 
 Norfolk County for more than a 
 quarter of a century, is carrying on 
 an extensive trade in groceries on Washington 
 Street, Dedham, where he has a fine and well- 
 equipped store. Son of Rufus Neal, he was 
 born April 18, 1828, in Palermo, Waldo 
 County, Me. 
 
 Rufus Neal was born on a farm in North 
 Berwick, Me., being one of a family of twelve 
 children. He was reared to agricultural' pur- 
 suits, which he followed throughout his long 
 life of seventy-eight years, first in his native 
 town and later in Palermo, where he settled 
 soon after his marriage. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Sarah Buffum, was a daugh- 
 ter of Jonathan Buffum, and one of a family of 
 thirteen children. She also was born and 
 reared on a North Berwick farm. She was 
 the mother of five children, three of whom are 
 still living; namely, Miss Harriet L. Neal, 
 Mrs. Jane P. Shorey, and David, the special 
 subject of this brief biographical sketch. The
 
 DAVID NEAL.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 •45 
 
 motlier lived to the ripe old age of eighty 
 years, and diu ing her entire life clung to the 
 Quaker faith, in which she was reared, her 
 husband being a devout and true Universal ist. 
 
 David Neal spent the days of his boyhood 
 and youth on the home farm, obtaining his 
 education in the district schools. When nine- 
 teen years old he left home and went to 
 Orono, Me., about eight miles above liangor, 
 where he worked in a lumber-mill two years. 
 Going thence to South Yarmouth, Mass., he 
 learned the trade of printing oil-cloth carpets, 
 and worked at that business in different cities 
 for sixteen years. After being employed 
 as an operator in mills at Hallowell Cross- 
 roads, now Manchester, Me., two years, 
 at Fall River, Mass., two years, Winthrop, 
 Me., one year, and at Cleveland, Ohio, two 
 years, he spent a short time in his child- 
 hood's home, and then worked in the South 
 Dedham Mills until the winter of 1861, when 
 he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, 
 settling on the farm which he had previously 
 purchased in Palermo, Me. Two years later 
 he again went to Hallowell to work in the 
 mills; but in a short time he gave up his posi- 
 tion and opened a meat market in that town, 
 remaining there five years. 
 
 He was ne.xt located in Ashland, Mass., for 
 two years, having charge of the meat market 
 of H. W. Barrett. In 1871 Mr. Neal ac- 
 cepted the position of clerk in his present 
 store in Dedham, a position which he faith- 
 fully filled seven years, in that time becoming 
 fully acquainted with the details of the busi- 
 ness. He then started as a grocer on his own 
 account, opening a store a short distance away, 
 and remained there prosperously engaged until 
 1 89 1, when he removed to his present com- 
 modious and well-arranged quarters. Mr. 
 Neal is, with one exception, the oldest-estab- 
 lished grocer in Dedham, and by his upright, 
 honorable business methods has built up a 
 large and lucrative trade, securing an extensive 
 patronage among the best people of the town. 
 He carries a full stock of staple and fancy 
 groceries, besides having a large assortment of 
 crockery and glassware, his highest endeavor 
 being to meet the wants and please the tastes 
 of his numerous customers. 
 
 On March 7, i860, Mr. Neal married Miss 
 
 Frances E. Griggs, who was born in Dedham, 
 daughter of James Grigg.s, a cabinet-maker of 
 this place. Mr. and Mrs. Neal have two chil- 
 dren ^ — Carrie I^. and lulgar, who both live in 
 Minneapolis. lulgar Neal is an electrician 
 in that city; and his sister is the wife of 
 Oliver T. Erickson, and has three children — 
 Elsie, Irene, and Frances. 
 
 Mr. Neal takes an active interest in all 
 things pertaining to the welfare of his adopted 
 town, and for four years, or since 1893, has 
 been a member of the Board of Selectmen, at 
 the election in iSg6 receiving the largest num- 
 ber of votes cast for any one candidate for 
 office. In politics he is a strict adherent of 
 the Republican party. I"'-or over thirty years 
 he has been connected with the Masonic 
 order, having united with Kennebec Lodge in 
 Hallowell, Me., and being now a member of 
 Consolation Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Ded- 
 ham. He is also a member of the Samuel 
 Dexter Lodge, No. 232, I. O. O. F. Mr. 
 Neal and his wife and daughter are connected 
 with the L'nitarian church in Dedham. 
 
 flMOTHY OWEN, a prosperous druggist 
 of Canton, who was born in Hanover, 
 N.H., March 28, 1847, is a son of 
 Frederick L. and Rebecca B. (Chandler) 
 Owen. His great-grandfather was an early 
 settler of Hanover; and his grandfather, Tim- 
 othy (first), was a resident of the same town. 
 Frederick L. was fitted for college at Kimball 
 Union Academy; and he would have taken a 
 course at Dartmouth College, but. for the 
 death of his father. He spent his life as a 
 farmer, mostly in Hanover and Lebanon. 
 His wife, Rebecca, had four children — Tim- 
 othy, Millard F., Emily, and Frederick L., 
 Jr. Millard died at the age of fifteen. The 
 father, having survived the mother, contracted 
 a second marriage with Emeline E. Ingalls, 
 who had no children. He died in Lebanon at 
 the age of sixty-seven years. 
 
 After receiving his early education in the 
 common schools and at Kimball Union Acad- 
 emy, Timothy Owen attended Dartmouth Col- 
 lege for two years, completing a course at the 
 age of nineteen. Afterward he returned to 
 Hanover, and studied pharmacy with Dr.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Smith. He then took charge of the business, 
 and for two years managed the store of George 
 Kendrick at Lebanon. His next step was to 
 go to Boston, where he entered the employ of 
 Theodore Metcalf & Co,, remaining with them 
 for about two years. Also for about the same 
 length of time he was associated with his 
 father-in-law in that city. In 1877 he came 
 to Canton, and started for himself in the drug 
 business, which he has since prosperously fol- 
 lowed, carrying a full stock of drugs and med- 
 icines. He is a member of the College of 
 Pharmacy. 
 
 Mr. Owen has been Ta.\ Collector for seven 
 years, and on the Board of Registrars for two 
 years. He is a member of Blue Hill Lodge 
 of Masons; of Mount Zion Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons, of Stoughton; of Hyde Park 
 Council; and of Cyprus Commandery, Knights 
 Templars, of Hyde Park. He has taken the 
 degrees in the Independent Order of Odd P^el- 
 lovvs, and is now Past Grand therein. In the 
 Blue Hill Lodge, A. F. & A. M., mentioned 
 above, he has been the secretary for thirteen 
 years. He was a member and an officer of the 
 Golden Cross Commandery, the collector and 
 the local secretary for the Bay State Benefi- 
 ciary Association, and the secretary of the Odd 
 Fellows and Masonic Accident Association. 
 In politics he is a Republican; and his family 
 attend the Universalist church, which he has 
 served as collector for the past three years. 
 He was married in 1871 to Nancy J., daughter 
 of Silas D. Coburn, of Boston. They have 
 six' children — Florence L., Alice M., Fred- 
 erick L. , Daisy E., S. Coburn, and Mabel R. 
 
 NDREW J. NORRIS, of Dedham, the 
 agent of Parker's Boston Express, and 
 for over fifty years a resident of this 
 town, was born in Dorchester, 
 X.H., P'ebruary 2, 1830, son of Zebulon and 
 Martha (Everett) Norris. The grandfather, 
 Nathaniel Norris, who was a native of Strat- 
 ford, N.H., settled in Dorchester when a 
 young man, and erected mills. He had car- 
 ried on a large manufacturing business for 
 many years, when he retired; and he died at 
 the age of eighty years. He reared a family 
 of ten children, of whom Zebulon was the eld- 
 
 est. Some of his sons succeeded to their 
 father's business, which was located in a part 
 of Dorchester, N.H., known as Norris Mills: 
 and two became Methodist ministers. 
 
 Zebulon Norris, father of Andrew J., left 
 home in 1833, and established a line of eight- 
 horse teams between a point in Vermont and 
 Boston. His teams made the round trip, 
 three hundred and fifty miles, in twenty days, 
 and transported large quantities of freight. 
 Some years later he gave up the business; and, 
 after following agricultural pursuits for a 
 time, he came to Dedham, where he passed 
 the rest of his life. He figured quite promi- 
 nently in public affairs, serving as a Select- 
 man, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor in 
 the town of Fairlee; Vt. , and he was for two 
 years a Representative to the legislature. 
 His wife was a native of Chesterfield, N.H., 
 and a daughter of Nathaniel Everett, a pros- 
 perous farmer. She reared three children, 
 two of whom are living, namely: Andrew J., 
 the subject of this sketch; and Samuel M. 
 Zebulon Norris and his wife died at the age of 
 sixty-nine years. They were members of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 Andrew J. Norris was educated in the 
 common schools, and resided at home until 
 seventeen years old. Going then to Boston, 
 he secured a position as clerk in a dry-goods 
 store. A short time later he settled in Ded- 
 ham, where he entered into partnership with 
 Benjamin Boyden, and carried on business at 
 East Dedham several years. In 1870 he en- 
 gaged in the grocery business upon his own 
 account in the central part of the town, and 
 for twenty years conducted a thriving trade. 
 He sold out in 1890, since which time he has 
 been connected with Parker's Express, having 
 charge of the business at this end of the line. 
 Politically, Mr. Norris is a Republican. . For 
 six years he served as a Selectman, some of 
 the time acting as chairman, when the duties 
 of assessing the town and overseeing the poor 
 were in charge of the board. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Norris was joined in marriage 
 with Harriet T. Boyden, daughter of Benjamin 
 Boyden, his former business associate. Mrs. 
 Norris has had seven children — Albert B., 
 Clara, Edward E., Elizabeth E., Frank, 
 Annie H., and Ferdinand F. Edward is now
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 149 
 
 deceased; Albert B., who is in the dry-goods 
 business in Boston, married Annie Ingails, 
 and has three children — Albert !>'., Thomas 
 M., and Martha; Elizabeth E. is the wife of 
 O. H. Hammond, and has one daughter, Mai- 
 jorie; Frank, who occupies a responsible po- 
 sition with S. S. Pierce, Boston, married Ada 
 Mosicr, and has one son, Ralph; Ferdinand 
 is also in the employ of S. S. Pierce; Eliza- 
 beth E. and Annie H. are copyists in the 
 office of the Norfolk County Registry of 
 Deeds. The children were all educated in 
 the common and high schools of Dedham. 
 They are all interested in music; and Frank is 
 a well-known tenor singer, a member of a 
 quartette and of the Apollo Club of Boston. 
 Mr. Norris, Sr., is Past Master of Constel- 
 lation Lodge, F. & A. M., and a charter 
 member of the Knights of Honor. The fam- 
 ily attend the Episcopal church. 
 
 1p)TENRY SIDNEY DRAPER, of West 
 L^-l Dedham, one of the most extensive 
 
 _|_ls I dairy farmers in Norfolk County, 
 
 — ' was born in the vicinity of his pres- 
 ent home, July 18, 1827, son of Willard and 
 Louisa (Smith) Draper. 
 
 His paternal grandfather, whose name was 
 Daniel, was the youngest son of Aaron 
 Draper, who resided in Dover, Mass., and 
 reared three sons and three daughters. Daniel 
 Draper married Amy Deane. He was the first 
 of the family to settle in West Dedham, where 
 he followed the wheelwright's trade in connec- 
 tion with farming. 
 
 Willard Draper, son of Daniel and Amy 
 (Deane) Draper, was by occupation a farmer. 
 He married Louisa, daughter of Abijah Smith, 
 and had a family of nine chiUlren, of whom 
 Henry S., the subject of this sketch, is the 
 eldest, and now the only one living. The 
 others were: Frank, Louisa, Whiting .S., 
 Mary, Dora, Hannah, Abijah, and Edward. 
 
 Henry S. Draper resided at home until 
 twenty years of age, and then engaged in 
 farming upon his own account. He bought a 
 small piece of land, upon which he began 
 dairy farming on a limited scale, gradually in- 
 creasing his acreage as his business advanced 
 in pros]3erity, and his improvements kept pace 
 
 with his progress. When circumstances re- 
 quired the erection of large barns, he visited 
 Maine, and purchased nine or ten carloads of 
 lumber, thus securing well-selected building 
 material at wholesale rates. He now owns 
 five hundred acres of excellent tillage and 
 pasture land, keeps one hundred and seventy- 
 eight cows, and handles three hundred cans of 
 milk and twenty gallons of cream per day. 
 He has established and sold eight different 
 milk routes in Boston, and at the present time 
 is supplying a numerous patronage in the 
 Back Bay district. He has recently built a 
 hennery one hundred and twenty feet long, 
 fourteen feet wide, and twelve feet high; and, 
 keeping from seven hundred to eight hundred 
 fowls, he realizes an average of thirty dozen 
 eggs per day. 
 
 Mr. Draper married for his first wife Cath- 
 erine Arris, a native of Maine. She died at 
 the age of thirty-two years, leaving three 
 daughters — Edna, Lucy, and Martha. Edna 
 is now the widow of James Armstrong, and 
 the mother of si.x sons and three daughters. 
 Lucy, who is the wife of George Williams, 
 and lives in Gardiner, Me., has one son and 
 two daughters. Martha, who is now Mrs. 
 McElroy, of Boston, has three children. For 
 his second wife Mr. Draper wedded Harriet 
 Butler, a native of Dixfield, Me., daughter of 
 Shepard Butler. By this union he has four 
 children; nainely, Sidney Waldo, Florence, 
 Willard, and George. Florence is now Mrs. 
 Almon Daniels, of Boston. She has had two 
 daughters, but has been bereft of one. Will- 
 ard Draper is married, and has two children. 
 George, the youngest son, is attending school. 
 In politics Mr. Draper is a Republican. He 
 and Mrs. Draper united with the Baptist 
 church many years ago, and the children are 
 all members. 
 
 tOBERT L. FR 
 facturer of mor 
 Park, was bori 
 
 FRAMPTON, a manu- 
 5rocco leather at Hyde 
 )rn October iS, 1847, 
 in New Bedford, Mass., son of 
 Robert L. Frampton. The family originated 
 in England, whence the first representative in 
 America came in old Colonial times, locating 
 probably in the South. James V. I'rampton,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 the grandfather of Robert L., was born and 
 reared in South Carolina. A very successful 
 planter, he had a large property, which, how- 
 ever, was swept away by the war of the Ke- 
 bellion. 
 
 The fatner lived in South Carolina until tlie 
 breaking out of the Rebellion, when he joined 
 the Union army, enlisting at Washington, 
 D. C. He married Elizabeth Moultrie, who 
 was born and bred in South Carolina. She 
 was the great-grand-daughter of the heroic 
 Colonel William Moultrie, whose ' gallant de- 
 fence of Fort Sullivan, in 1776, caused that 
 place to be afterward called Fort Moultrie. 
 Of her four children, James A., Robert L., 
 and Charlotte E. are living. Charlotte E. is 
 the wife of William Peabody, of Jamaica 
 Plain. The mother, now seventy-eight years 
 of age, and residing at South Braintree, 
 Mass., is a woman of fine character, and be- 
 longs to the Episcopal church. 
 
 Robert L. Frampton spent his early life in 
 New Bedford, acquiring a practical education 
 in the public schools of that city. During the 
 Rebellion he enlisted in New Bedford to fill a 
 quota from Milford, Mass., as a drummer boy 
 in the Nineteenth (unattached) Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until 
 the cessation of hostilities. After returning 
 to New Bedford, he worked in a morocco fac- 
 tory, learned the morocco dresser's trade, and 
 subsequently became foreman of a shop in 
 Roxbury. A short time afterward he em- 
 barked in business for himself at Boylston 
 Station, remaining there six years. Then he 
 transferred his operations to a large factory he 
 had erected at Mount Hope, and where he car- 
 ried on an extensive business for ten years, 
 employing as many as one hundred hands, it 
 being the largest and one of the oldest estab- 
 lishments of the kind in New England. In 
 1885 the Mount Hope factory was burned, and 
 Mr. Frampton at once removed to Hyde Park, 
 taking possession of the factory which he had 
 previously built. He has since met with 
 great and, seemingly, abiding prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Frampton has been twice married. The 
 first occasion was in 1871, when he was united 
 to y\delaide Rogers, who was born in Rox- 
 bury, Mass., a daughter of Joseph Rogers. 
 She died in 1S75, leaving two daughters, both 
 
 f)f whom are now deceased. His second mar- 
 riage was made with Miss Amelia E. Russell, 
 who was born and bred in Boston. .She has 
 become the mother of one child, Robert L. 
 Frampton, Jr., who is engaged in business 
 with his father. The son, as well as the 
 daughter, Adelaide R., was educated in the 
 Berkeley School. Adelaide afterward took a 
 course of study in the Boston Conservatory of 
 Music. Mr. Frampton is a stanch Republi- 
 can in politics. He belongs to the Boston 
 Lodge of Elks, in which he has held office; is 
 a charter member of Stony Brook Lodge, 
 Knights of Honor, of which he has been finan- 
 cial reporter for several years; and he is also 
 a comrade of the Timothy Ingraham Post, No. 
 121, G. A. R., of Hyde Park. In religious 
 belief he is an Episcopalian, and with his 
 family attends the Episcopal church. 
 
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 HOMAS DUNBAR, a retired business 
 ' I man of Canton, Mass., was born here, 
 August 19, 1 8 14, son of Thomas and 
 Cloa (Bent) Dunbar. His great-grandfather 
 was Samuel Dunbar, who settled in Canton in 
 1727, and was a minister in the place for fifty- 
 six years. Samuel's son, Elijah, was famous 
 in the musical line, and was the first man in 
 the State who sang by note. Elijah's son, 
 Thomas (first), who was a farmer, in 1804 pur- 
 chased the place where his son now lives, and 
 where he spent the greater part of his life. 
 The wife of this Thomas was a daughter of 
 Captain William Bent, who was a soldier in 
 the Revolution. Of their twelve children 
 Thomas and Elijah are living. Elijah now 
 resides in Grand Haven, Mich. The father 
 died in 1854, at the age of eighty years. He 
 was a stanch Whig in politics. 
 
 Thomas Dunbar, the subject of this sketch, 
 was educated in the common schools of his 
 native place. At the age of sixteen he went 
 to Dedham, Mass., and served five years as 
 a millwright and machinist. After finish- 
 ing his apprenticeship, he followed the same 
 occupation for a year, and subsequently 
 took charge of the Revere Copper Company 
 works; and he remained in the business 
 for six years. He then resigned, and went 
 back to Dedham, where he formed a partner-
 
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 •S' 
 
 ship with the man to whom he had been ap- 
 prenticed. The partnership had lasted five 
 years, when, in 1851, he went to Canada, and 
 engaged in the contracting business. This 
 turned out to be a permanent and lucrative 
 undertaking, and occupied his time and atten- 
 tion for twenty-seven years. The work was 
 mainly dredging the harbors of Lake Erie. hi 
 1877 he came back to Canton, and has re- 
 mained there ever since, having retired from 
 active business. 
 
 Mr. Dunbar was married December 27, 
 1837, to Hannah French. They have had six 
 children, of whom the only survivor is Charles 
 F., now a contractor in Buffalo, N.Y. Fred- 
 erick, another son, who was a clerk for a man- 
 ufacturing company in Stoughton, Mass., died 
 at the age of forty-two. Elwin became a phy- 
 sician, and died at the age of twenty-three. 
 Willie T. died when he was twenty-nine years 
 old. Mr. Dunbar is a member of the Unita- 
 rian church, to whose support he is a liberal 
 contributor. He has served as Deacon in the 
 same for some time, and owns the same pew 
 that his father did before him. In politics he 
 is a Rei)ublican. He has been the superin- 
 tendent of the cemetery for fourteen years. 
 
 T^APTAIN ALPHEUS P. BOYD, an 
 I \y esteemed resident of Needham, was 
 
 \%^^ formerly a sea captain, engaged in 
 the merchant service. Born in 
 Wiscasset, Me., in 1826, he is a son of 
 Thomas Boyd. The father, also a native of 
 Wiscasset, born in 1780, who followed the 
 same calling, died in 1835, in a small house 
 on School Street, Boston, where the Parker 
 House now stands. His death resulted from 
 yellow fever, which lie had contracted in a 
 Southern port. 
 
 Alpheus P. Boyd attended the common 
 schools of his native town for the customary 
 period. Subsequently he took a course in the 
 School of Navigation in New York City. Pre- 
 vious to this he had spent five years at sea, 
 sailing first as a cabin boy in the ship "Massa- 
 chusetts," Captain Sampson, engaged in the 
 carrying trade. He left the "Massachusetts" 
 at San Francisco in 1850, and for the succeed- 
 ing two years was engaged in freighting goods 
 
 from vessels to the shore. Then he bought 
 the schooner " Outolian," and sailed her for 
 three years, running between the Sanrlwich 
 Islands and San P'rancisco. After this he re- 
 turned to Maine, and bought a half-interest in 
 the "Highland Light" of Damariscotta, the 
 other half being owned by Humphrey & Baker. 
 He was three years in this ship, making 
 voyages between New Orleans and Liver- 
 pool, England. At the end of that time he 
 sold half of his interest in her, took command 
 of the "National" of Bath, Me., and engaged 
 in the freight business between New Orleans 
 and Havre, France. On the 26th of Novem- 
 ber, 1858, the "National," which drew fifteen 
 feet of water, was driven liy a heavy gale on 
 the rocks off Colorado Reefs, near Cape An- 
 tonio, Cuba, when the water was only seven 
 feet deep. The ship and cargo were a total 
 loss, but the passengers were taken off by a 
 Spanish man-of-war, and landed at Havana. 
 Captain Boyd then returned to Bath, and took 
 command of the ship "Mazeppa," running her 
 between New Orleans and Liverpool, with 
 freights of cotton. He was in her a year and 
 a half when a new ship, the "National," was 
 placed under his command. This he sailed 
 for two years and a half, between the same 
 ports as when in the old "National." He 
 then took charge of another new ship, the 
 "Nyphon," also built in Bath, sailed her for 
 three years, and then became master of the 
 "Rangoon," built in Newburyport, Mass. He 
 sailed the "Rangoon" from New York to 
 San Francisco, and from Callao to Hamburg, 
 Germany, carrying a cargo of general mer- 
 chandise. He then went to San Francisco 
 and Europe in the "Sapphire" of Newbury- 
 port. He had been in charge of this ship two 
 and one-half years, when she collided with a 
 French man-of-war off the coast of California, 
 and both vessels were disabled and obliged to 
 put into San F'rancisco for repairs. A law- 
 suit resulted, and was tried twice in the 
 Lhiited Stares district courts of California. 
 In both these trials the "Sapphire's" owners 
 were beaten; but an appeal to the Supreme 
 Court of the United States resulted in the 
 final decision that each ship should pay her 
 own e.\]Denses and costs, and should stand 
 her own damages. The underwriters paid all
 
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 damages to the "Sapphire," and presented her 
 captain with a fine chronometer. Captain 
 Boyd then took a new ship, the "Storm 
 King," built at Richmond, Me., and sailed 
 her in the East Indian trade for four years. 
 His next command was the "Willie Rosen- 
 felt," which after a short time he left for that 
 of the "Solitaire" of Cardiff, England, and 
 sailed to ports on the Pacific. In 1890, while 
 on the last-named vessel, Captain Boyd was 
 taken ill with yellow fever, contracted on the 
 coast of Panama. He went to San Francisco, 
 whence he came East overland, and then re- 
 tired from active occupation. Since he came 
 to Needham, in 1884, he has acquired shares 
 in several sailing-vessels, and has interests 
 with the Sewalls, the noted ship-builders of 
 Bath, Me., for whom he formerly sailed in a 
 number of vessels. 
 
 In September, 1858, Captain Boyd was 
 united in marriage with Susan T., daughter of 
 Gilbert Trufant, of Bath, Me. Their chil- 
 dren are: Helen, Gilbert T. , Thomas, James, 
 Samuel, Susan, and Belle. Helen, born in 
 i860, was educated in the schools of Bath and 
 in the Gillman Young Ladies' School of Bos- 
 ton. She married Robert E. Danfreld, a 
 teacher in the Needham High School, and 
 now located at Duluth, Minn. Gilbert T., 
 born in 1S62, is now in Duluth, Minn., and 
 holds a responsible position under the city 
 government. He is unmarried. Thomas, 
 born in 1863, is now chief mate of the steamer 
 "Colon," in the Pacific mail service between 
 Panama and San Francisco. He married in 
 Costa Rica a Spanish lady of South American 
 birth. James, born in 1866, graduated from 
 Chauncy Hall School in Boston, and, after 
 passing the entrance examinations for Harvard 
 College, went West to Minnesota, where he 
 engaged in the business of a plumber. Sam- 
 uel, born in 1872, was educated in the public 
 schools and in Comer's Commercial College, 
 and is now in the lumber business in Duluth, 
 Minn. Susan, born in 1877, is book-keeper 
 for Mr. Isaac Rich, the well-known theatre 
 man of Boston. Belle Boyd, born in 1881, is 
 now a pujjil in the Needham High School. 
 Captain Hoyd took his family with him on 
 many voyages to the Mediterranean and to 
 California. lie was made a Mason of Lincoln 
 
 Lodge, No. 3, at Wiscasset, in 1857. He is 
 also a member of the Boston Marine Society, 
 which was incorporated in 1742, and consists 
 of ship-owriers and captains. In politics the 
 Captain is a Democrat. 
 
 'CrJ)/' A. DRAKE, M.D., a prominent 
 YfeV/ practitioner of Weymouth, with an 
 •^ "^ ■ office at North Weymouth, was 
 born October 22, 1849, in Concord, N.H., son 
 of Simeon and Martha K. (Durgin) Drake. 
 The first of the family in America was Robert 
 Drake, who came from England in 1642, and 
 settled at Hampton, N.H. The Doctor's 
 boyhood was spent in Bath, Me., to which 
 place his parents removed when he was about 
 five years old. He attended the public 
 schools of Bath and of Augusta, and received 
 considerable instruction under private tutor- 
 ship. When fifteen years of age he enlisted 
 as a private in Company B of the First 
 Battalion of Maine Sharpshooters, and after- 
 ward served in Virginia, and was in the bri- 
 gade which received the formal surrender of 
 General Lee's army. After Dr. Drake's re- 
 turn from the war he completed his educa- 
 tion. Beginning the study of medicine after 
 passing his majority, he graduated from the 
 medical department of Bowdoin College in 
 1879, and was selected for appointment in the 
 Marine Hospital service. He was in this ser- 
 vice for four years in all, and was located at 
 Portland, Me., and at St. Louis. He re- 
 signed his position at St. Louis on November 
 I, 1879, ^n<^ in ^^^ following March came to 
 North Weymouth, where he has since been en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession. For 
 some thirteen years he has been a member of 
 the School Board, and much of the efficiency 
 of the public schools of the town is due in 
 large measure to his wise and timely sugges- 
 tions for improvement in various directions. 
 For nine years he was the chairman of the 
 board. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
 Medical Association, and takes a lively inter- 
 est in its proceedings. At present he is sur- 
 geon of Reynolds Post. No. 58, G. A. R., at 
 East Weymouth. He is also connected with 
 the Masonic fraternity; and he attends the 
 Congregational church at North Weymouth,
 
 JOSEPH M. GLOVER.
 
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 '55 
 
 and liberally contributes to the siqiport of its 
 various activities. 
 
 Dr. Drake married Rosalie M. Horn, of 
 Norway, I\1e., who is now the mother of one 
 son, VVallace H. In politics the Doctor is a 
 Republican, and he takes a strong interest in 
 the affairs, of the town and State. He is a 
 member of the Republican Town Committee, 
 and is always ready to expend time and effort 
 in behalf of his political pi'inciples. He is a 
 director and stockholder in the Ouincy & 
 Boston Electric Railroad Company. 
 
 (JOSEPH M. GLOVER, a former resi- 
 dent and a native of Ouincy, was born 
 April II, 1S34. A son of John 
 Glover, Jr., he was a descendant of one 
 John Glover, who came from England to Mas- 
 sachusetts on the ship "John and Mary," in 
 1630, landing at Hull. His great-grand- 
 father, Nathaniel Glover, was born in Dor- 
 chester, Mass. The grandfather, John Glover, 
 Sr., born August 13, 1769, on territory now 
 included in Ouincy, died here in 1855. He 
 learned the trade of a shoemaker when young, 
 but never followed it, preferring farming, an 
 occupation in which he was engaged through- 
 out his active days. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Phoebe Curtis, born in Braintree, 
 this county, September 23, 1778, was a daugh- 
 ter of Samuel Curtis. They reared a family 
 of ten children, of whom John, the first son 
 and second child, was the father of Joseph M. 
 John Glover, Jr., was born in Ouincy, 
 Mass., November 21, 1803, and died January 
 24, 1S89, having spent his long and busy life 
 in this place. He was a bootmaker by trade, 
 following that particular branch of it known as 
 bottoming boots, and was a skilful and quick 
 workman. A patriotic citizen, though not in 
 actual service during the Rebellion, he was 
 very active in raising soldiers for the army, 
 and contributed funds for necessary expenses. 
 He married Margaret Adams Field, a daugh- 
 ter of William Field, and became the father 
 of three children — William H., John, and Jo- 
 seph M. 
 
 Joseph M. Glover received a good education 
 in the Quincy common schools. Afterward 
 he learned the trade of a bootmaker, and 
 
 worked at it until after the Ijreaking out of 
 the Civil War. Then he enlisted as a pri- 
 vate in the Sixtieth Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, and, going with his com- 
 rades to the scene of conflict, served until the 
 regiment was mustered out. Soon after his 
 return to Ouincy he commenced book-keeping, 
 which he afterward made his permanent occu- 
 pation, being thus employed until his demise. 
 On January 3, 1861, Mr. Glover married 
 Frances A. Dodge, a daughter of Benjamin 
 Dodge, of Ouincy. Benjamin Dodge, who 
 was born in Beverly, Mass., brought up on the 
 coast, imbibed a love for the sea, which he 
 followed as a lad, shipping before the mast. 
 One or two rough voyages proved enough for 
 him, however; and he made up his mind to be 
 content with land pursuits. Coming to 
 Ouincy in early manhood, he began working 
 in the quarries, and was afterward engaged in 
 the granite business as long as he lived. His 
 first wife died at an early age, leaving one 
 child, Adeline, now the wife of Josiah Mun- 
 roe, of Roxbury, Mass. He subsequently 
 married Sarah Ann, daughter of Jacob Fowles, 
 of Boston, who bore him four daughters. 
 These were: Sarah Jane, who successively 
 married Seth Pratt, of Weymouth, and Solo- 
 mon Lovell, and died March 19, 1896; Eliza- 
 beth F., now the wife of Napoleon B. Fur- 
 nald, of this city; Mary A., who married 
 David J. Pratt, of Weymouth; and Frances 
 A., now Mrs. Glover. Mrs. Dodge passed 
 away February 15, 1897, aged ninety years, 
 eleven months, and twenty-three days. She 
 was a strong Universalist in religious belief, 
 and with her husband attended the church of 
 that denomination. Addie Munroe Glover, 
 the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Glover, is now 
 the wife of Charles H. Burgess, of Ouincy. 
 Mr. Glover, while holding liberal opinions on 
 questions of religion, attended and generously 
 su]3ported the Unitarian church. He died 
 October 12, 1893, regretted as one of the 
 most respected citizens of Ouincy. 
 
 jTiMERY CLINTON BRITTON, a stable- 
 
 F^ keeper of Canton, Mass., was born in 
 
 ^^^* ■ ^ Stoughton, Mass., November 14, 
 
 185S, son of Joshua and Olive F. (White)
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Britton. His grandfather, Joshua Britton, 
 was the first one of the family to settle in 
 Easton, Mass. The Brittons trace their origin 
 to three brothers who came from England at 
 an early period. 
 
 The father of Emery Clinton Britton was 
 born December 27, 1S19, in Stoughton, where 
 he still lives. He was a manufacturer of shoe 
 machinery for the shoe trade, and still does 
 some business in this line. In politics he is 
 a Republican, but he has never held public 
 office. He married Olive F. White, of Eas- 
 ton, of whose twelve children by him six are 
 living. These are: Leander G. , Melissa, 
 Henry W., Horace E., Ellis P., and Emery 
 C. Leander and Henry reside at Stoughton; 
 Melissa is the wife of W. T. Morse, of West 
 Medford, Mass; Horace E. now carries on his 
 father's business; and Ellis F". is interested in 
 mining at Cripple Creek, Col, 
 
 Emery Clinton Britton obtained his general 
 education in the public schools of his native 
 town. Later he attended the Bryant & Strat- 
 ton Commercial College at Boston, where he 
 completed a course of study at the age of nine- 
 teen. After this he was employed by his 
 father for two years; and in 1883, June 15, he 
 came to Canton. He started here in the 
 livery and sale stable business. In 1889 he 
 purchased the carriage repair shop of John 
 Hall, and has now added that branch to his 
 business. In his politics he is a Republican. 
 He is a member of the Blue Hill Lodge of 
 Masons and of Royal Arch Chapter of Stough- 
 ton, in both of which he has held offices.- He 
 is also connected with the Odd Fellows 
 Lodge, No. 72, in which he has held office. 
 He married Lizzie M. Cobb, of Sharon, 
 daughter of Warren Cobb. They have one 
 child, a daughter, Marjorie. The family at- 
 tend the Universalist church. 
 
 iHARLES H. ELLIS, the Postmaster 
 of West Dedham, and one of the Se- 
 lectmen of the town, was born here, 
 December 14, 1852, son of Merrill 
 D. Ellis. He is descended from Richard 
 h'.llis, who located here in 1632. The next in 
 line of descent was Joseph, born in 1666. 
 After him came Deacon Joseph, born in 1696, 
 
 who died in 1783, and then Abner, Sr., born 
 in 1732, who died in 1781. Abner Ellis, 
 .Sr., was one of the most prominent men of 
 his generation, serving not only in town 
 offices, but as a Representative to the General 
 Court. Colonel Abner Ellis, born in 1777, 
 the grandfather of Charles H., was brought 
 up on a farm in West Dedham. For many 
 years of his life he was engaged in general 
 merchandise, his store standing on the site of 
 the present establishment of his grandson, 
 Charles II. Ellis. He was quite influential 
 in local affairs. For a time he represented 
 his town in the State legislature, and he was 
 a Colonel in the State militia. In 1824 he 
 was appointed Postmaster, a position which 
 he afterward held until his death, in 1844. 
 The first of his two marriages was contracted 
 with Polly Gay, who had two daughters by 
 him. His second marriage was made with 
 Polly Newell, who bore him five sons. Theo- 
 dore Gay, his assistant in the post-office, mar- 
 ried a daughter of his, and in 1845 became 
 Postmaster, holding the position till 1880. 
 
 Merrill D. Ellis was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Dedham, remaining with his 
 parents until reaching man's estate. He sub- 
 sequently worked at various occupations in 
 this vicinity, finding nothing congenial to his 
 tastes until he embarked in the grocery busi- 
 ness in Dedham, where he continued fifteen 
 years. He eventually returned to West Ded- 
 ham, assuming the management of his father's 
 old store. He was a man of strong personal- 
 ity, universally respected for his honesty. 
 He took a leading part in town matters, serv- 
 ing as Selectman and as district School Com- 
 mittee for several years. He was also a Rep- 
 resentative to the State legislature for three 
 terms. He was a natural musician, being a 
 fine violinist, and for many years led the choir 
 of the Unitarian church. He was also one of 
 the Parish Committee, and the parish clerk for 
 a long time. He passed away at the age of 
 sixty-nine years, his death being deeply de- 
 plored by the community. He married Re- 
 becca Ellis, who was born and bred in Ded- 
 ham, being one of the three children of Jason 
 Ellis, a well-known agriculturist. She died 
 at the age of seventy-eight years, leaving 
 three children; namely, Frederick, Susan,
 
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 and Charles M. An esteemed member of the 
 Unitarian church, she did much toward its ad- 
 vancement. 
 
 Charles H. Ellis was educated in the public 
 schools. As soon as he was old enough to be 
 of assistance, he began working in his father's 
 store. In 1869 he became one of the regular 
 clerks, and in 1880 he succeeded to its owner- 
 ship. At the same time he was appointed 
 Postmaster, an office which he has since held, 
 and which has been in his family for more 
 than seventy years. In 1887, April 18, the 
 store was burned to the ground ; but Mr. 
 Ellis, with characteristic enterprise, immedi- 
 ately rebuilt it, and has since carried on a 
 more e.xtensive and prosperous business than 
 before. He keeps in stock a full line of dry 
 goods, boots and shoes, groceries, etc. His 
 trade is large; and his store is one of the 
 oldest in this locality, and well known for the 
 standard quality of its goods. 
 
 Mr. Ellis was married February 23, 1890, 
 to Miss Emma Towne, who was born in Ver- 
 mont, where her father, Hosea Towne, was en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits. Three chil- 
 dren have been born of this union; namely: 
 Charles Newell, George Merrill, and Warren 
 Hosea. Mr. Ellis was elected Selectman in 
 189s, and re-elected to the same office in 
 1896. Fraternally, he is a member of the 
 A. O. U. W. 
 
 IITJAM W. SCOTT, the manager 
 of the Wilton Wool Scouring Mill 
 at Hyde Park, was born in Hawick, 
 Scotland, March 7, 1865, son of John and 
 Jane (Wilson) Scott. His grandfather, 
 Michael Scott, was a farmer, who resided in 
 Scotland all of his life, and died at an ad- 
 vanced age. 
 
 John Scott, who left home when he was 
 eight years old, worked on a farm until he was 
 twenty. Then he engaged in the business of 
 a wool -sorter or warehouse man. In 1869 he 
 emigrated to the United States. Here he was 
 employed as a wool-puller in various places 
 until 1S72, at which time, his family having 
 followed him to America, he settled in Hyde 
 Park. He was in charge of the pickers for the 
 Hyde Park Woollen Company until their mills 
 
 were burned, and then started in the wool- 
 scouring business for himself at Milton 
 Lower Mills. In 1881 he erected the present 
 mill in Hyde Park, where he established a 
 business which has grown into an iniportant 
 industry; and he continued at its head until 
 his death, which occurred in March, 1893, 
 when he was si.xty years old. He was a self- 
 made man; and, aside from his natural capac- 
 ity for labor, he displayed excellent business 
 ability and strict integrity. He married Jane 
 Wilson, daughter of William and Jeanette 
 (Hunter) Wilson. Her father was a wool- 
 sorter, and a native of the same locality in 
 Scotland in which the Scotts resided. She 
 became the mother of ten children, of whom 
 five are living, namely: Walter, the superin- 
 tendent of the Wilton Wool Scouring .Mill; 
 William W., the subject of this sketch; Mary, 
 the wife of Robert E. Grant; John P.; and 
 Annie J. Mrs. John Scott is still living. 
 She is a member of the Congregational 
 church, as was her husband. 
 
 William W. Scott was about eight years old 
 when his parents emigrated to the United 
 States, and he has resided in Hyde Park 
 since he was sixteen years old. About 
 the same time, after graduating from the 
 Stoughton Grammar School in Boston, he 
 began to learn the wool-scouring business with 
 his father. Becoming thoroughly acquainted 
 with the work, he ably assisted in carrying it 
 on under his father's direction; and since the 
 death of the elder Scott he has managed the 
 enterprise as his mother's representative. 
 The mill, which is equipped with modern ma- 
 chinery, employs about twenty-five men, and, 
 being the oldest of its kind in this locality, is 
 favorably known to the trade. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Scott was joined in marriage 
 with Minnie Monroe, daughter of Joseph B. 
 Monroe, a native of Hyde Park, and a carpen- 
 ter by trade. Her parents, who are still liv- 
 ing, have reared five children. Mrs. Scott is 
 the mother of three children; namely, Inez, 
 Isabel, and Minnie. Mr. Scott has served as 
 Constable for some years, is a member of the 
 Board of Flealth, and in politics he is a Re- 
 publican. He is one of the most popular 
 yoimg men in Hyde Park, having a wide circle 
 of friends and acquaintances, and occupies a
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 prominent social position. He is a Past 
 Grand of Forest Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; Past 
 Sachem of Neponset Tribe, Improved Order of 
 Red Men; and he was formerly a member of 
 the VVaverly Club. He was one of the first to 
 ride a high-wheel bicycle after their introduc- 
 tion, was captain of the old Hyde Park 
 Bicycle Club, a member of the League of 
 American Wheelmen, and he represented 
 Massachusetts in the national meeting of that 
 organization. Mrs. Scott is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 'rank C. PACKARD, an enterprising 
 business man of Ouincy, Mass., has 
 been identified with its manufacturing 
 interests for the past twenty years. He was 
 born in this town, June 6, 1852, a son of Colo- 
 nel Abner B. and Elizabeth (Newcomb) Pack- 
 ard, of whom further mention may be found 
 on another page of this volume. The subject 
 of this sketch received his elementary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Ouincy, and sub- 
 sequently followed a course of study at a pri- 
 vate school. When seventeen years old he 
 entered the employ of E. Packard & Co., man- 
 ufacturers of boot and shoe makers' ink, as an 
 assistant, continuing with them in that capac- 
 ity until 1876, when he was admitted to the 
 firm. In 1878 he began the manufacture of 
 flavoring extracts, which he sold on the road, 
 driving east to Cape Cod, and as far south as 
 Providence, R.I., and going west to the New 
 York State line — in fact, taking in nearly all 
 the towns in the State on his regular routes. 
 He was thus engaged until 1890, and, besidesi, 
 made all the blacking sold by the firm, carry- 
 ing on a very large business. Since 1883 he 
 has been occupied with inside work almost ex- 
 clusively. The firm has been exceedingly 
 prosperous as regards its sale of both ink and 
 extracts, and has also built up a fine jobbing 
 trade in drugs and medicines. .Since 1872 
 Mr. Packard has been a regular member of 
 the fire department, having in that year joined 
 the Washington M. French Hose Company. 
 When that disbanded, he was sent to the Vult- 
 ure engine of Ouincy Point, with which he 
 remained six months. He was then made a 
 "fine member" of the steamer company, of 
 
 which he was afterward elected hoseman and 
 the treasurer. For nearly ten years he has been 
 assistant engineer of the fire department of 
 Ward One. During one winter he made some 
 money by hiring a skating rink, in which he 
 entertained private parties twice each week 
 throughout the season. In politics he affili- 
 ates with the Republican party, but in local 
 elections votes independently, and solely with 
 a view to furthering the best interests of the 
 city. 
 
 He is a member of Mount VVollaston Lodge, 
 No. 1,1. O. O. F. , and belongs also to the 
 Knights of Honor, the New England Order of 
 Protection, the O. U. A. M., and to the 
 Knights of the Ancient .^scenic Order. He 
 is likewise a member of the Granite City Club 
 and of the Ramblers' Club. 
 
 March 31, 1875, Mr. Packard married Miss 
 Lucy C. Newcombe, daughter of Ira New- 
 combe, of Ouincy. They have had six chil- 
 dren, of whom but two are now living; 
 namely, Alice Gertrude and Bertha Haskell. 
 Mrs. Packard attends the Unitarian church. 
 
 /^HARLES F. KNOWLTON, Com- 
 I St-^ missioner of Public Works at Ouincy, 
 \U was born in Swainpscott, Mass., 
 
 January 31, 1865, a son of James 
 Austin Knowlton. His great-grandfather, 
 Edmund Knowlton, fought in the battle of 
 Bunker Hill, also at Saratoga, where he capt- 
 ured a British musket, proudly cherished by 
 Mr. Knowlton. Edmund was a kinsman of 
 Colonel Thomas Knowlton, of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 James Knowlton, the grandfather of Charles 
 F., was a native of Hamilton, Mass., where he 
 spent his early years. Later he resided in 
 the neighboring town of Magnolia. He was a 
 farmer, carpenter, and boat-builder, and a 
 good worker at all. 
 
 James Austin Knowlton was born in Mag- 
 nolia, Essex County, February 19, 1821. 
 Under the instruction of his father he learned 
 the trades of a ship-builder and house carpen- 
 ter, which he followed winters until 1876. 
 In the summer seasons he kept a hotel for the 
 reception of guests from the city, having 
 charge at different seasons of the Gloucester 
 Hotel, the Pavilion, at both Gloucester and
 
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 bi()(;k.\1'1iical RKviiav 
 
 16, 
 
 Crescent Keach, and the Hesperus at Mag- 
 nolia. Each house was made very attractive 
 to boarders, and had a substantial summer 
 business. For several- years he let (or rent a 
 hotel that he owned in Swampscott ; but in 
 1882, having retired from his trades, he as- 
 sumed the management of the house himself, 
 and has since conducted it. A strict Republi- 
 can, he has been quite active in local affairs, 
 and served as an Overseer of the Poor, Asses- 
 sor, and Selectman in Swampscott for a num- 
 ber of years. He married Clara M., daughter 
 of William F"uller, of Lynn, Mass. They have 
 had eleven children, six of whom are living, 
 namely: James B., of Ludlow, Mass.; Ed- 
 mund P., of Swampscott; Daniel P., of 
 Somerville, Mass. ; Nellie M., the wife of 
 Arthur C. Widger, of Longwood, Mass. ; 
 Charles P. ; and Hattie P. Both parents are 
 members of the Congregational church. 
 
 Charles P. Knowlton completed his school- 
 ing at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial Col- 
 lege in Boston, whither he went from the pub- 
 lic schools of Swampscott. He was then 
 employed by Norman Weaver & Co. for a 
 time in putting in water-works, and was after- 
 ward with Luce & Manning from 1883 until 
 1888. Of the following year, six months were 
 spent in the capacity of clerk for H. C. 
 Thatcher & Co., wool dealers, and the other 
 six, in that of salesman for Henry Schmidt, 
 of Philadelphia. Returning to Massachusetts 
 then, he embarked in business for himself in 
 Boston. At the end of four months his health 
 gave out; and he went to Duluth, Minn., to 
 recuperate. While there he saw notice of a 
 vacancy in the city engineer's force, and, 
 applying for the situation, secured it. He at 
 once began studying engineering, and was 
 later made inspector and then the superin- 
 tendent of sewer construction. After an ex- 
 perience of eighteen months of this work he 
 went to Plverett, Wash., as an employee of 
 the Everett Land Company, and assisted in 
 laying out that city, remaining there four and 
 one-half years. During this time he had con- 
 tinued the study of engineering, obtaining a 
 thorough and practical knowledge of the 
 science. Having received word of the serious 
 illness of his father, Mr. Knowlton returned 
 home in the spring of 1S95. He soon began 
 
 working for the Massachusetts Highway Com- 
 mission, and under its direction he built .State 
 roads in North Adams, Williamstown, and 
 West Newbury. In 1896 he was appointed to 
 his present position as Commissioner of 
 Public Works. In this capacity he has done 
 much to advance the material interests of the 
 city and to further its public improvements. 
 
 Mr. Knowlton is a member of Everett 
 Lodge, No. 122, I. O. O. P., of Everett, 
 Wash., of which he was Noble Grand when he 
 came East; of Everett Lodge, K. of P.; and 
 of Everett Encampment, I. O. O. F". On 
 September 18, 1895, he married Lenor, daugh- 
 ter of Josiah Ilatton, of Snohomish, Wash. 
 A son, James Adams Knowlton, was born to 
 them August 27, 1897. Mr. Knowlton and 
 his wife attend the Congregational church. 
 
 r^TENRY P. ARNOLD, the superin- 
 |-^4 tendent of the American Tool Com- 
 \\s I pany's works at Hyde Park, was 
 
 born May 5, 1850, in Charlestown, 
 Mass., son of Isaiah P. Arnold. His paternal 
 grandfather, a descendant of an early Massa- 
 chusetts family, was a general merchant in 
 Charlestown for many years, and died there at 
 a comparatively early age, leaving a family of 
 ten children. 
 
 Isaiah Arnold was born and brought up in 
 Charlestown. In 1853 he removed to Chelsea. 
 After conducting a shoe store in Boston for 
 some time, he accepted a position as book- 
 keeper. In 1861 he changed his place of resi- 
 dence from Chelsea to Newton Centre. Five 
 years later he came to Hyde Park, which he 
 made his home until his death, at the age of 
 fifty-six years. He married Miss Sarah E. 
 Snow, a daughter of Zenas and Temperance 
 (Snow) Snow, who traced their ancestry to a 
 passenger of the "Mayflower." Of Isaiah's 
 three children two are living, namely: Henry 
 P". , the subject of this sketch; and Zenas S., 
 a resident of Ouincy, this county. The 
 mother, an active woman though seventy 
 years old, makis her home with her son 
 Henry. She is a consistent member of the 
 Baptist church, of which her husband was 
 Deacon and treasurer at the time of his 
 demise.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Henry F. Arnold passed his boyhood in 
 Chelsea and Newton Centre, being there edu- 
 cated in the public schools. When his par- 
 ents removed the family to Hyde Park, he 
 went to Boston to learn the trade of a machin- 
 ist. His apprenticeship of three years was 
 served with Mellen Bray and the succeeding 
 firm, Bray & Newell. Then he worked for 
 the American Tool and Machine Company, 
 and spent a short time with the Brainard Mill- 
 ing Company, and in the same season, in 
 i86y, began working a.s a journeyman for the 
 American Tool Company. Four years later 
 he was employed for a while by the Moseley 
 Iron Bridge Company, but returned to the 
 American Tool Company, with whom he re- 
 mained another four years. His health giv- 
 ing out, Mr. Arnold was sent to St. Lawrence 
 Bay to recuperate. After his return he was 
 employed in the grocery business at Hyde 
 Park. At the end of the first season he gave 
 up this employment, and secured a situation 
 with the Peet Valve Company of Roxbury. 
 He had worked there si.x months, when he 
 again became an employee of the American 
 Tool Company, with which this time he was 
 connected for several years. He then started 
 in business for himself in the manufacture of 
 sewing-machine treadles at Norwood, Mass., 
 continuing in this enterprise about eight 
 months. In the following year he worked for 
 the Tubular Rivet Company, after which he 
 was employed for a short time in the works of 
 the Brainard Milling Company. In 1882 he 
 entered the service of the Globe Nail Com- 
 pany, being foreman of one of their depart- 
 ments four years. In 1886 he re-entered the 
 works of the American Tool Company, of 
 which four years later he was made superin- 
 tendent, an important position which he is 
 now ably and satisfactorily filling. This 
 plant, which is one of the largest in this sec- 
 tion of the county, employs three hundred 
 men, all of whom are under Mr. Arnold's con- 
 trol. 
 
 On April 10, 1872, Mr. Arnold married 
 Miss Caroline ¥. Hibbard, who was born in 
 South Boston in 1850, being one of the three 
 children of Horatio N. Hibbard, a machinist 
 of Hyde Park. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have 
 three children; namely, Helen S. , Henry F., 
 
 Jr., and Gertrude V. In politics Mr. Arnold 
 is a decided Republican, and for three years 
 has served as Assessor. While liberal in his 
 religious views, he is not a member of any 
 church. An active worker in the Masonic fra- 
 ternity, he belongs to Hyde Park Lodge, V. & 
 A. M., in which he is Senior Warden; to 
 Norfolk Chapter, R. A. M.; to Hyde Park 
 Coimcil, of which he is Thrice Illustrious 
 Master; to Cyprus Commandery, of which he 
 is treasurer; and to Aleppo Temple of the 
 Mystic Shrine. He is also an indefatigable 
 worker in Forest Lodge, No. 148, I. O. O. ¥., 
 having served two terms in the principal 
 chairs, besides being secretary of the lodge 
 for nineteen years, and District Deputy Grand 
 Master for six years. He was likewise a 
 member of Shalom Encampment, No. 12, in 
 which he held all the ofifices, and had been 
 Scribe for five years; and he is a charter mem- 
 ber of Monterey Encampment, No. 60, 
 I. O. O. v., in which he served as Scribe for 
 a number of years, is Past Chief Patriarch and 
 Past High Priest, and has been District Dep- 
 uty Grand Patriarch. Mr. Arnold was the 
 first Commander of the American Legion of 
 Honor. Having served for five years in the 
 Hyde Park general department, he is now a 
 member of the Veteran Firemen's Associa- 
 tion. He was also for some years a member 
 of the Waverly Club. In 1869 he assisted in 
 organizing the Hyde Park Band, of which he 
 was the leader for eleven years; and he is now 
 a member of the present band. He is like- 
 wise a valued member of the Hyde Park His- 
 torical Society, and he is one of the directors 
 and was the first president of the Employers' 
 Benefit Association of the American Tool 
 and Machine Company. 
 
 ILLIAM W. BROOKS, a real es- 
 tsxi tate dealer in Canton, one of the 
 prominent and well-to-do citizens, 
 was born in Dorchester, Mass., and came to 
 Canton in 1845. His parents were William 
 and Mary Ann (Bird) Whittington. 
 
 William Whittington was born and reared 
 in Cohasset, Mass., and became a seafaring 
 man. After his marriage his family home 
 was on Meeting House Hill in Dorchester, his
 
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 '63 
 
 wife's native place. He still continued 
 voyaging, and for some years was captain of a 
 vessel engaged in the West India trade. He 
 died at sea in 1831, leeiving his widow with 
 two children, namely: Amanda, who died in 
 1852 in Canton; and William, the subject of 
 this sketch. Mrs. Whittington subsequently 
 married George W. Brooks, of Medford, 
 Mass. ; and both of her children had their 
 names changed to accord with hers, the son 
 becoming William Whittington Brooks. 
 
 George W. Brooks removed from Medford 
 when a young man, and served a full appren- 
 ticeship at the carriage builder's and harness- 
 maker's trade with T. W. Cross, of Ouincy, 
 Mass. Settling then in Dorchester, he 
 worked at his trade the greater part of his life 
 in that locality. Mrs. Brooks lived to a good 
 age, passing away in t'ebruary, 1874. 
 
 William Whittington Brooks attended the 
 public schools of Dorchester until sixteen 
 years old, when he became a clerk in the shoe 
 store of Henry Wenzell on Washington Street, 
 Boston, where he remained until about twenty 
 years old. After the removal of the family to 
 Canton he worked for a time for his step- 
 father in this town, and then went to Stough- 
 ton, where he was in the shoe trade until he 
 was of age. Changing his occupation at that 
 time, he began the manufacture of curtain 
 fixtures with Uran & Fowle, of Saxonviile, 
 but later of Canton, continuing with the fiim 
 until 1856, when he was appointed Post- 
 master of Canton. He served through the ad- 
 ministration of President Pierce, being re- 
 moved by President Lincoln in 1861 to make 
 room for Rufus C. Wood. In 1857 Mr. 
 Brooks opened a drug store in con\pany with 
 Dr. Jesse E. Pearce, with whom he subse- 
 quently studied medicine; and for thirty-five 
 years he was one of the leading druggists of 
 this town. He was exceedingly prosperous, and 
 invested his money wisely, in 1880 erecting 
 the brick block known as Brooks Block and 
 the Music Hall. In 1892 he sold out his 
 drug business to John W. Tirrell, who was for 
 some years his clerk. (See sketch which ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this volume. ) Air. Brooks 
 has since been engaged in the real estate and 
 insurance business, in which he has been very 
 fortunate. 
 
 Mr. Brooks married Miss Sarah J. Leavitt, 
 daughter of Joseph Leavitt, formerly a promi- 
 nent business man of Canton. She died in 
 1878, leaving no family. In politics Mr. 
 Brooks has always been identified with the 
 Democratic party. He has been a candidate 
 for the office of Representative to the State 
 legislature; and for twelve years he served 
 his fellow-townsmen as .Selectman, being 
 chairman of the board a part of the time, and 
 for fifteen years was Tax Collector. P'rater- 
 nally, he is a member of Blue Hill Lodge, 
 ¥. & A. M. He is an active member of the 
 Unitarian church and parish. 
 
 OSEPH HOLMI-:S, the Town Treasurer 
 of Milton, was horn November 5, 1825, 
 in Pembroke, Plymouth County. His 
 parents, John and Margaret (Porter') 
 Holmes, were natives of Marshfield, Mass. 
 John Holmes was a wheelwright by trade. 
 He followed carriage-making for a number of 
 years in Pembroke, and then engaged in gen- 
 eral mercantile business, keeping a country 
 store until his death, which occurred in 1841. 
 Of his children there are three survivors, 
 namely: John; Joseph, the subject of this 
 sketch; and Samuel. John Holmes and bis 
 brother Samuel are still residing in Pembroke. 
 Joseph Holmes was educated in the common 
 schools of his native town, and in his seven- 
 teenth year came to Milton, where he entered 
 upon an apprenticeship at the tinsmith's trade 
 with George Haynes. After serving his time 
 and working as a journeyman for a year, h; was 
 engaged for a while in the sheet-iron and tin- 
 plate business on his own account in Roxbury, 
 Mass., and in 1849 went to California by Cape 
 Horn, the length of the passage being five 
 months and three days. He remained on the 
 Pacific coast two and one-half years, either 
 working in the mines or following his trade 
 until his return East, which was made by way 
 of the Isthmus. After a temporary sojourn in 
 Milton, he was engaged several years in farm- 
 ing in Pembroke, but eventually returned to 
 Milton, where he has since resided, with the 
 exception of a few years spent in Dorchester. 
 
 In politics Mr. Holmes is independent, vot- 
 ini! for the candidates whom he considers best
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 qualified to hold office; and he is now serving 
 his tenth year as Town Treasurer. He is a 
 self-made man ; and as a progressive and public- 
 spirited citizen and a competent and faithful 
 official he has gained the esteem, confidence, 
 and good will of his fellow-townsmen. For a 
 number of years he has acted as a Justice of 
 the Peace. He is a member of Macedonian 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. 
 
 Mr. Holmes married Elmira W. Sumner, of 
 Milton. Two children were born of this 
 union, namely: J. Porter; and Nellie, who is 
 no longer living. Though not a church mem- 
 ber, Mr. Holmes contributes liberally toward 
 the support of religious activities, and is a 
 trustee of the First Methodist Church Society 
 of Dorchester. 
 
 /®^o 
 
 EORGE H. HOLBROOK, of Brain- 
 \ '•) I tree, a well-known contractor and 
 builder, was born in this town, April 
 15, 1852, son of Elias and Susan (Tower) 
 Holbrook. His grandfather, Ludovicus Hol- 
 brook, was a resident of Braintree, Mass. 
 The immigrant ancestor of the family was 
 Thomas Holbrook, who was an early settler 
 in Weymouth. Savage says that all his chil- 
 dren (si.K, including three sons, John, 
 Thomas, and William) "were probably 
 brought from England." Thomas Holbrook, 
 doubtless the second of the name, is men- 
 tioned in the Braintree records for the year 
 1640. 
 
 Elias Holbrook, who was born in Braintree, 
 has diligently followed shoemaking for the 
 greater part of his life, and is still residing 
 here, being now seventy-five years old. He 
 is a veteran of the Civil War, having served 
 in the engineers' corps. His wife, Susan 
 Tower, who also was born in Braintree, be- 
 came the mother of a large family of children, 
 of whom six are living, namely: Mary E., 
 wife of Henry B. Vinton, of the adjoining 
 town of Weymouth; Charles F., who resides 
 in Brockton, Mass. ; George H., whose name 
 heads this biographical sketch; Eugene W._. 
 of Braintree ; PZmma, wife of George E. 
 P'uiler, of Melrose; and Hattie, wife of R. A. 
 Gage, of Braintree. 
 
 George H. Holbrook, after receiving his 
 
 general education in the public schools of 
 Braintree, pursued a business course at 
 Comer's Commercial College, Boston, and 
 was graduated therefrom. He served a three 
 years' apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade 
 with A. F". Hannaford, formerly a builder in 
 this town, and subsequently became foreman 
 for Ira Litchfield, of Ouincy, Mass. In 1886 
 he engaged in business for himself; and he 
 has since been identified with building opera- 
 tions in Braintree and elsewhere, employing a 
 large number of men. At the starting of the 
 Braintree Co-operative Bank he was chosen 
 one of the directors, but did not act as such. 
 He is a charter member of Monatiquot Lodge, 
 Knights of Pythias, of this town; a member 
 of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of 
 Massachusetts ; and of the Eastern Past Chan- 
 cellors" Association of Boston; also a mem- 
 ber of P""rancis L. Souther Camp, .Sons of 
 Veterans, of Ouincy. 
 
 Mr. Holbrook married Sarah E. Newcomb, 
 of Medford, Mass., and has had seven children 
 — Alfred H., Irving N., Bessie F., Irene A., 
 Clara N. M., Miriam F., and Arthur W.— the 
 first five of whom are now living. 
 
 ■AMUEL D. CHASE, the present 
 chairman of the Board of Selectmen 
 of Holbrook, and a member of the 
 firm of White & Chase, manufact- 
 urers of shoe finishing supplies in Brookville, 
 Mass., was born December 17, 1842, in Graf- 
 ton, Mass. His parents were Samuel and 
 Lydia (Holbrook) Chase, the former a native 
 of New Hampshire, and the latter of Brain- 
 tree. His father was a shoemaker by trade. 
 One of his uncles, William Holbrook, was a 
 soldier in the War of 1812. 
 
 When about eight years of age, Samuel 
 went to Deering, N.H., where he resided for 
 a short time with an uncle. He then came to 
 Braintree. Mass., and there received his early 
 education in the public schools and at the 
 Hollis Institute, which was then located in 
 Braintree. He left school at the age of fif- 
 teen, and subsequently worked at .shoemaking 
 until he joined the Union army for service in 
 the Civil War. He served in the First Mas- 
 sachusetts Andrew's Sharpshooters, which
 
 SAMUKL I). CHASE.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 167 
 
 was so named in honor of the famous war 
 governor. Mr. Chase fought in both the first 
 and second battles of Fredericksburg, at 
 Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, 
 Bristoe Station, Ream's Station, Mine Run, 
 and at the siege of Petersburg. At Petersburg 
 he was slightly wounded in the left arm by a 
 spent ball. His whole time was spent with 
 the Army of the Potomac in the Third Brigade 
 of the Second Army Corps, and he was a wit- 
 ness of the surrender of Lee at Appomattox 
 Court-house. In 1865 he was honorably dis- 
 charged, and was mustered out on Juno 30 of 
 that year. After his return to Braintree he 
 was engaged in shoemaking for several years. 
 In 1866 he removed to Brookville, where he 
 has since resided. About 1870, in company 
 with L. A. Hayden, Jr., he engaged in the 
 manufacture of boots at Brookville, doing busi- 
 ness under the name of Chase & Hayden for 
 some three years. At the end of that time 
 Mr. Chase became a journeyman shoemaker, 
 and subsequently the foreman of the bottoming 
 department in the boot and shoe factory of Ed- 
 mund White, for whom he worked some ten 
 years. 
 
 In 1878, while foreman in Mr. White's 
 shop, Mr. Chase was elected a Selectman of 
 Holbrook, and served successively for six 
 years, being for a part of the time chairman 
 and clerk of the board. After an interval of 
 five years, during which time he was not hold- 
 ing any political office, he was again elected 
 Selectman, and as such served for seven suc- 
 cessive terms, being a large portion of the 
 time chairman of the board. In the spring of 
 1897 he was again elected, and is at present 
 serving as chairman of the board. F"or three 
 years in the seventies he was a member of the 
 School Committee, and for seven years he was 
 a member of the Board of Engineers of the fire 
 department. He has been Justice of the 
 Peace for many years, and has done a large 
 amount of business in that capacity. In poli- 
 tics Mr. Chase is a Republican. He is a 
 member of the Industrial and Improvement 
 Committee of Holbrook; of the Knights of 
 Honor, being charter member of Holbrook 
 Lodge; and a charter member of Norfolk 
 Lodge, K. of P., and of Brookville Grange, 
 P. of H. A self-made man, his success in 
 
 life may be attributed to his energy, intelli- 
 gence, and honesty. Mr. Chase was married 
 on December 26, 1866, to Mary L. White, a 
 native of Holbrook. 
 
 Hi:ODORE R. GLOVER, a retired 
 merchant residing on one of the famous 
 old Colonial estates of Milton, was 
 born November 7, 1824. He is a son of Cap- 
 tain Stephen and Rebecca Payne (Gore) 
 Glover, and is a lineal descendant of John 
 Glover, who came from lingland in the ship 
 "John and Mary," commanded by Captain 
 Squib, and settled in what is now the town of 
 Milton. (.See History of Milton, Mass.) 
 Stephen Glover, father of Theodore R. 
 Glover, was born in Ouincy, Mass. He was 
 a sea captain, and sailed to all quarters of the 
 globe. His wife was born in Boston. She 
 was a daughter of Samuel Gore, who was a 
 member of the Boston Tea Party. She was a 
 niece of Christopher Gore, LL. D., who was 
 Commissioner to England, 1 796-1 804; Gov- 
 ernor of Massachusetts, 1809; United .States 
 .Senator, 18 13-16; and who bequeathed nearly 
 one hundred thousand dollars to Harvard 
 College. 
 
 Theodore R. Glover passed the greater jjart 
 of his boyhood in Roxbury, acquiring his 
 education in the public schools. In his 
 seventeenth year he first went to sea; and he 
 afterward made a number of voyages, in the 
 meantime buying shares in vessels until he 
 was owner of a number of ships which were 
 engaged principally in the East India trade 
 and in carrying cotton to Europe. Shortly 
 after the close of the war Mr. Glover, having 
 been very successful as a business man, retired 
 from commercial pursuits. After residing for 
 a number of years in Roxbury, spending the 
 summers in Hingham, in 1879 he removed to 
 his present beautiful country seat in Milton. 
 This estate was the home of a number of the 
 Colonial governors; and for some time it was 
 occupied by the Rev. Mr. Whitfield, an Eng- 
 lish clergyman of the Episcopal church. 
 
 On May 26, 1846, Captain Glover was 
 united in marriage with Miss Mary T. Mal- 
 bon, of Hingham, Mass. ; and on May 26, 
 1896, they celebrated their golden wedding.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW 
 
 In politics he is independent, voting on prin- 
 ciple and not for party feeling. Me is a pub- 
 lic-spirited citizen, actively interested in the 
 welfare of the town. Captain and Mrs. 
 Glover are members of the Unitarian church. 
 
 IRY S. BUNTON, Town Treasurer 
 )f Hyde Park for the past twenty- 
 three years, was born in Manches- 
 ter, N. H., April 6, 1848, son of 
 Dr. Sylvanus and Clara (Conant) Bunton. 
 His family was of the so-called .Scotch-Irish 
 stock, and was undoubtedly represented among 
 the stalwart defenders of Londonderry in the 
 famous siege of i68g. 
 
 The emigrant Robert Hunton was one of the 
 original settlers of Allenstown, Merrimack 
 County, N. H. In 1746, while he was work- 
 ing with his son on his intervale farm, border- 
 ing on the Merrimac River, they were both 
 taken captive by Indians and carried by them 
 to Canada, where they were held for quite a 
 protracted period. The son, the great-grand- 
 father of Mr. Bunton of Hyde Park, entered 
 the service of the colonies as a Captain of 
 militia early in the Revolutionary War, was at 
 the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, and was 
 killed at the battle of White Plains in Sep- 
 tember, 1776. His son, Andrew, married 
 Lavinia Holden, daughter of David Holden, 
 who served as First Sergeant during the 
 French and Indian War. After his return 
 from the army Mr. Holden lived at Town- 
 send, Mass. ; but at the outbreak of the 
 Revolution his sympathies were with the 
 Crown, and so strong was the feeling in his 
 neighborhood at that period against the Tories 
 that he was obliged to leave his home and re- 
 move to Hollis, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Sylvanus, the son of Andrew Bunton, 
 was born at Allenstown, N.H., March 8, 1812. 
 He acquired a common-school education in 
 Goffstown, and, coming to Massachusetts at the 
 age of seventeen, learned the stone-mason's 
 trade in Ouincy, teaching district schools 
 during the winter before he himself had at- 
 tended any higher school. In the fall of 1833 
 he went to Pembroke Academy to fit himself 
 for college; and, entering Dartmouth in 1836, 
 he was graduated in 1840. Impaired health 
 
 necessitating a change of climate in 1841, lie 
 went to Georgetown, D.C., and was for several 
 years teacher in select classical schools at 
 Georgetown, at Elk Ridge Landing, Md. , 
 and at (Jueen Anne, Anne Arundel County, 
 Md. While at the latter place he began 
 the study of medicine, attending lectures at 
 the Washington University, Baltimore. Here 
 he was graduated ; and, being elected a resident 
 physician to their hospital, he discharged the 
 duties of that jiosition for over a year. Re- 
 turning to New Hampshire, he commenced 
 practice in Manchester in 1846, which he con- 
 tinued until the Civil War, during this time 
 holding many responsible positions of the city. 
 While living in Manchester, he became con- 
 nected with the State militia, and for two 
 years held a commission as Major and surgeon 
 of the Ninth Regiment. Early in the war his 
 patriotism led him to volunteer his services to 
 the national cause; and, being commissioned 
 by Governor Berry as Assistant Surgeon of the 
 Second New Hampshire Infantry, he was iden- 
 tified with that regiment in active service until 
 June, 1864. When the Second was mustered 
 out, he was immediately appointed surgeon of 
 the Seventh New Hampshire Regiment; and 
 after serving nearly fourteen months he was 
 mustered out with the regiment, July 25, 1865. 
 He practised his profession in Hollis, N.IL, 
 for two years, then, removing to Mont Vernon, 
 N.H., there continued in active practice initil 
 failing health and disability occasioned by his 
 army service compelled him to retire. He 
 died August 13, 1884. By his first wife, 
 Clara Conant, of Hollis, N.H., whom he 
 married December 17, 1846, and who died 
 July 3, 1873; he had two sons — Henry Syl- 
 vanus and Leonard Jewett, the latter dying in 
 infancy. Dr. Bunton's second vvife, whom he 
 married in 1874, formerly Miss Sarah Jane 
 Trevitt, of Mont Vernon, survives him. Dr. 
 Bunton was a man of sincere religious con- 
 victions and unquestioned integrity, and of 
 humane and benevolent disposition, these 
 qualities being peculiarly marked in his con- 
 scientious discharge of duty during his army 
 service. 
 
 Through his mother's family Mr. Henry S. 
 Bunton is descended from the immigrant, 
 Roger Conant, who was baptized in the parish
 
 HENRY S. BUNTON.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 church of East Biidleigh, Devonshire, I'^ng- 
 land, April 9, 1592, youngest of eight children 
 of Richard and Agnes (Clarke) Conant. He 
 was married in London in November, 1618, 
 and came to America in the year 1623, in 
 company with John Oldham, at his own ex- 
 pense. He did not long remain at Plymouth, 
 owing to a difference of religious belief be- 
 tween himself and the Pilgrim fathers, who 
 were Separatists, while he was a Non-conform- 
 ist, or Puritan. He joined Oldham and his 
 colony at Nantasket, and lived on (or, as Felt, 
 the historian says, "used") Governor's Island 
 in Boston Harbor, which was for some time 
 known as Conant's Island. During the foL 
 lowing winter he was chosen by the Dorchester 
 Company to govern their affairs at Cape Ann, 
 and he proved himself a prudent ruler and 
 skilful peacemaker. The settlers removed to 
 Naumkeag, near Salem, in the fall of 1626. 
 Mr. Conant was Governor of the colony for 
 about three years. "Although he is not uni- 
 versally recognized as the first Governor of 
 Massachusetts, he is fairly entitled to that 
 honor, for the colony of which he was the head 
 made the first permanent settlement in the 
 Massachusetts Bay territory" (History and 
 Genealogy of the Conant Family). His char- 
 acter was distinguished by strict integrity, 
 great moral courage, and an indomitable will ; 
 and he was, as well, tolerant and conciliatory, 
 and preferred the public good to his own pri- 
 vate interests. He died at Beverly in 1679. 
 
 Henry S. Bunton, a descendant in the eighth 
 generation of this distinguished colonist, was 
 educated in the Manchester public schools. 
 At the age of fifteen he went to Point Look- 
 out, Md., and for nine months rendered cleri- 
 cal assistance to his father in connection with 
 the medical department of the Confederate 
 jjrisoners' camp. During this period he con- 
 tinued his studies under his father's tuition. 
 Appointed hospital steward of the Seventh 
 New Hampshire Regiment in December, 1864, 
 he served until the war ended. He became a 
 resident of Hyde Park in 1866, coming here to 
 assume the duties of book-keeper and paymas- 
 ter for the Hyde Park Woollen Company, and 
 continuing in that capacity until 1875. In 
 1871, upon the incorporation of the Hyde Park 
 Savings Bank, he was elected first treasurer of 
 
 the bank, and held the office continuously until 
 1888, since which time he has been one of its 
 trustees and a member of the Board of Invest- 
 ment. Upon his retirement from the treasurer- 
 ship of the savings bank he became associated 
 with Messrs. Robert and John .S. Bleakie as 
 treasurer of their mills at Sabattus, Me., styled 
 Webster Woollen Company; and this position 
 he still occupies. In 1875 he was elected 
 Town Treasurer, and at each successive elec- 
 tion has been re-elected by a practically unani- 
 mous vote. 
 
 l*\)r over twenty-five years Mr. J5unton has 
 been an active member of the Masonic frater- 
 nity, and has held its highest offices. In 1874 
 he was the Commander of Timothy Ingraham 
 Post, No. 121, G. A. R. He is also a member 
 of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Mili- 
 tary Order of the Loyal Legion, the Sons of 
 Veterans, and the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. P'or eight years he served Hyde 
 Park as a member of its School Committee. 
 He is a communicant in the Protestant Iqiisco- 
 pal church, and at the present time is a Warden 
 and the treasurer of Christ Church, Hyde Park. 
 Mr. Bunton enjoys the respect of his fellow- 
 citizens in a high degree, and implicit tru.st is 
 placed in him as a financier and an honorable 
 gentleman. He married November 9, 1880, 
 Miss Mary Greenwood Giles, of Winthrop, 
 Mass. 
 
 -^OHN H. BURT, of the firm of J. H. 
 Burt & Co., contractors and builders of 
 Mattapan, Norfolk County, Mass., was 
 born in Walpole, N.H., June 6, 1827, 
 son of Holland and Nancy (Watkins) Burt. 
 The family is said to be of English descent. 
 Holland Burt was both a carpenter and cabi- 
 net-maker, and followed one or the other of 
 these trades throughout his life. Of his chil- 
 dren two sons are living; namely, John H. 
 and George L., both members of the firm 
 above named. 
 
 John H. Burt resided in his native State 
 until he reached his seventeenth year, and was 
 educated in the common schools, which after 
 the age of eight years he attended only dur- 
 ing the winter terms. Many New England 
 country boys born a half-century and more ago
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 had an experience similar to Mr. Burt's. 
 Their school advantages were of the most 
 meagre sort; and the prosperity attained by so 
 many of them shows that not opportunity, but 
 ability and determination to make the most of 
 whatever offers, is the foundation of success. 
 
 While a youth Mr. Burt liegan to learn the 
 trades in which his father was skilled; and, 
 being ambitious and capable, he became an 
 expert workman in both carpentry and cabinet- 
 making. In 1S50, in company with his 
 brother George, he began to engage in con- 
 tracting and building at Mattapan, under the 
 firm name of J. H. & G. L. Burt. This firm 
 existed for a year and a half; and at the end of 
 that time Sumner A. Burt, another brother, 
 was admitted, the company taking the name of 
 J. H. Burt & Co. Sumner Burt died several 
 years since, but the name of the firm has re- 
 mained unchanged. The business was started 
 in a small way; but by degrees it has in- 
 creased, until now Messrs. J. H. Burt & Co. 
 emjjloy during the busy season from sixty to 
 eighty workmen. As both partners are prac- 
 tical mechanics and understand every detail of 
 construction, they are able to personally direct 
 their working force and to secure the best 
 possible results. 
 
 Mr. Burt is a Republican in politics. In 
 the sixties he served two years as Selectman 
 of Milton, and in the seventies and eighties 
 he served for eight years. He served as fire 
 warden of Milton under a former law, and 
 later on was engineer in the fire department. 
 
 Mr. Burt married Mary Cushing, a native 
 of Liverpool, England. She was an adopted 
 daughter of Isaac Cushing, late of Milton. 
 Early called to part with the three children 
 born to them, Mr. and Mrs. Burt have but one 
 child living, an adopted daughter, Mabel B., 
 now the wife of Graham C. Lawson, of Phila- 
 delphia, Pa. 
 
 J~\AVID J. PIERCE, a prominent 
 =i business man of Weymouth and a 
 9y veteran of the Forty-second Massa- 
 chusetts Regiment, was born in 
 this town, October 2, 1839, son of David J. 
 and Nancy (Blanchard) Pierce. His paternal 
 grandfather, David Pierce, .Sr., was probably 
 
 a native of Vermont. The family, which in- 
 cludes several branches, has been established 
 in New England more than two hundred 
 years, among the early immigrants bearing 
 this surname being: Abraham, of Plymouth, 
 1629, and of Duxbury, 1643; John, of Water- 
 town; and Thomas, of Charlestown. 
 
 David Pierce, Jr., father of David J. Pierce, 
 was born in the vicinity of Lake Champlain, 
 and many years after he distinctly remembered 
 hearing the roar of artillery at the battle 
 fought in the neighborhood of his birthplace 
 during the War of 181 2. About the year 
 1825 he came to Weymouth, where he fol- 
 lowed the stone-cutter's trade for the rest of 
 his life, his death occurring in 1848. His 
 wife, Nancy Blanchard, who was a native of 
 Weymouth, was the mother of several chil- 
 dren, four of whom are living, namely: Will- 
 iam, who resides at Weymouth Heights; 
 Nancy, a resident of Weymouth ; George, who 
 lives in California; and David J., the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 David J. Pierce was thrown upon his own 
 resources at an early age, and when ten years 
 old he began to learn the shoemaker's trade. 
 He attended school at intervals, and, after 
 completing his studies, devoted his whole time 
 to the shoe business, of which he acquired a 
 good knowledge; and for four years he was en- 
 gaged in manufacturing upon his own account. 
 Afterward he became a photographer, and was 
 engaged in that occupation until enlisting as 
 a private in Company A, Forty-second Regi- 
 ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, for service 
 in the Civil War. He served under General 
 Butler on the Lower Mississippi for a year, 
 most of the time on detached duty as a gunner 
 at New Orleans. 
 
 After his discharge he engaged in the 
 jewelry business in Natick, Mass. Five 
 years later he entered the employ of the 
 Singer Sewing Machine Company as head 
 salesman in Toledo, Ohio; and subsequently 
 he was appointed agent of the company in 
 Terre Haute, Ind., where he remained for sev- 
 eral years, or until failing health caused him 
 to return East. He then took the position of 
 general manager of the Howe Company for the 
 New England States, with headquarters in 
 Boston, and had continued with that concern
 
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 J. EVERETT SMITH.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
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 for two years when the feeble state of his 
 health compelled him to permanently relin- 
 quish the business. For several years he car- 
 ried on the drug business in Weymouth, under 
 the firm name of D. J. Pierce & Co., also en- 
 gaging in the real estate business; anil since 
 1892 he has devoted his principal attention 
 to the latter enterprise. He was one of the 
 organizers and is now treasurer of the Stand- 
 ard Rubber Company of Brockton, and is a 
 member of the Investment Committee of the 
 South Shore Co-operative Bank. 
 
 He is well advanced in Masonry, being at 
 the present time Generalissimo of South Shore 
 Commandery, Knights Templar; Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the South Shore Masonic Relief Asso- 
 ciation; and Past Master of Delta Lodge. He 
 is also a comrade of Reynolds Post, No. 58, 
 G. A. R. 
 
 As a business man he is widely known and 
 highly respected for his integrity and regular- 
 ity, and as a worthy and useful citizen he 
 enjoys the esteem of his fellow-townsmen. 
 Politically, he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Pierce married Sarah H. Clapp, daugh- 
 ter of Charles Clapp, late of Weymouth. 
 Four children have been born to them. Three 
 died in infancy; and one is now living, a 
 daughter, Alice M. Pierce. 
 
 § EVERETT SMITH, a well-known 
 citizen of Dedham, Mass., carrying on 
 . an extensive business as a provision 
 dealer on Washington Street, is at the 
 present time, 1897, chairman of the town 
 Board of Selectmen. He was born March 1 i, 
 1838, in Norton, Bristol County, Mass., a 
 son of Jarvis Smith, and is descended from 
 one of the early settled families of Norfolk 
 County. His grandfather, Araunah Smith, 
 who was born and reared in Dedham, removed 
 thence to Norton, where he purchased a farm 
 and established a home. He died in 1844, 
 aged eighty years. 
 
 His son Jarvis was a lifelong resident of 
 Norton, and with the four other children of 
 the household was brought up on the home 
 farm. In early life he learned the trade of a 
 nail-maker, at which he worked for some 
 years. Afterward he bought a farm in Nor- 
 
 ton, and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 
 his demise, which occurred in 1847 while he 
 was yet in the prime of manhood. Jarvis 
 Smith married Henrietta Sweet, daughter of 
 Hezekiah Sweet, an early settler of Norton. 
 All of their children grew to years of maturity, 
 and two of them are yet living, namely: J. 
 Everett; and Adeline, wife of Stillman A. 
 Withcrell. The mother survived her husband 
 but a few years, passing away at the age of 
 fifty -two. Both parents were members of the 
 Unitarian church, and for several years the 
 father was a teacher in the Sunday-school. 
 
 J. Everett Smith was but ten years old when 
 his father died; and, when the death of his 
 mother occurred a few years later, he went to 
 live with an older sister, making his home 
 with her until si.\teen years of age. From 
 that time onward he was self-supporting. He 
 worked first as a farm laborer by the month, 
 afterward engaging in the ice trade and in the 
 butchering business. In 1862, in company 
 with a Mr. Brown, he opened a meat market 
 in South Dedham, and after a few months pur- 
 chased his partner's interest, and carried on 
 the business himself for a while. In 1863 
 Mr. Smith removed to Dedham, where for the 
 first ten years of his residence he sold meat 
 from the cart. In this way he won an exten- 
 sive trade, gaining the confidence of the 
 people with whom he had dealings, either in 
 buying or selling, and met with such encourag- 
 ing success that he opened his present store 
 on Washington Street in 1873. He has grad- 
 ually enlarged his business, and has now one 
 of the largest and most profitable meat and 
 provision trades in this section of Norfolk 
 County. He keeps an up-to-date market, 
 carrying a full line of first-grade provisions 
 and meat, and in addition runs three order 
 wagons in this and neighboring towns. His 
 sons ably assist him in his work, all being 
 kept busily employed. 
 
 On April 26, 1862, Mr. Smith married 
 Miss Mary A. H. Wood, who was born and 
 bred in Norton, where her father, Ely Wood, 
 was for many years station agent. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Smith have two children, namely: Lewis 
 D. , who married Miss Jennie K. Cassell: and 
 Frederick Everett. 
 
 In politics Mr. Smitli is a sound Democrat.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 He takes an active and intelligent interest in 
 local affairs, uniformly giving his moral sup- 
 port and financial aid to works of improvement. 
 In 1893 he was elected to the office of Select- 
 man, and the succeeding four years was re- 
 elected to the same responsible position, the 
 last three years being chairman of the board. 
 He is quite prominent in Masonic circles, be- 
 longing to Constellation Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 of which he is Past Master, and is the present 
 High Priest of Hebron Chapter, R. A. M. 
 He likewise belongs to the Knights of Honor, 
 and for the past five years has been Dictator 
 of the local lodge. Liberal in his religious 
 belief, Mr. Smith with his family attends the 
 Unitarian church, of which Mrs. Smith is an 
 active member. 
 
 Me. 
 
 -AMES F. PRING, the superintendent 
 of the Boston Gossamer Rubber Com- 
 pany's factory at Hyde Park, was born 
 February 3, 1856, in Kennebunkport, 
 A son of John Pring, who is a native of 
 Prince Pxlward Island, he is a direct de- 
 scendant of Martin Pring, an early explorer. 
 John Pring, Sr. , the paternal grandfather of 
 James F., spent his long and busy life of four- 
 score years on Prince Edward Island, en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits. The father, 
 John Pring, Jr., was brought up on the home 
 farm, and while a resident of his native island 
 learned the ship-carpenter's trade. At this he 
 worked after removing to the States, first in 
 Bath, Me., and later in Kennebunkport, where 
 he is now living retired from active life, at 
 the good age of seventy-nine years. He mar- 
 ried Katherine Campbell, who was also born 
 and bred in Prince Edward Island, where her 
 father, John Campbell, was a lifelong farmer 
 and fisherman. Plight children were born of 
 their union; namely, William, Annie (de- 
 ceased), John, James F., Mary (deceased), 
 Walter S., Robert K., and Thomas. Annie 
 was the wife of Robert Delanty. The 
 mother's death occurred in the si.xty-fifth year 
 of her age. Both parents united with the 
 Methodist church in their early years. 
 
 James F. Pring was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Kennebunkport. When old 
 enough he began working in the ship-yard 
 
 with his father, learning the trade of a shi))- 
 carpenter, which he made his chief occupation 
 a number of years. Subsequently, in Bcston, 
 he was engaged as a house carpenter and con- 
 tractor for ten years, after which he became 
 connected with the rubber business as foreman 
 of the cutting department in a factory at Hyde 
 Park, a position which he held three years. 
 During the succeeding three years he was the 
 superintendent of the works of the Sterling 
 Rubber Company at Framinghani, Mass. 
 This position he resigned to accept his pres- 
 ent office, the factory of this company being 
 then in Readville. In i88g, when the com- 
 pany decided to remove their plant to a more 
 advantageous location, Mr. Pring was given 
 the entire charge of selecting a site and of 
 erecting the necessary buildings. Choosing 
 the twenty-one acres of land on which the 
 plant is located, he erected one building 
 ninety-five feet by one hundred and seventy- 
 five feet, two stories in height, and another 
 in the form of the letter T, forty feet by 
 one hundred and forty feet, with an addition 
 si.\ty feet by one hundred and forty feet, both 
 two stories high. The plant is one of the 
 largest in the county. Under his excellent 
 management the business has been greatly in- 
 creased, and the original force of fifty hands 
 greatly augmented, numbering about four hun- 
 dred in the busy season. The manufactures 
 of this company consist of mackintosh cloth- 
 ing. They make a specialty of the first grade 
 of goods, which finds a ready sale in the lead- 
 ing cities of the United States. 
 
 On August 25, 1875, Mr. Pring married 
 Miss Mary E. Kalleher, who was born in New- 
 ton, Mass., daughter of Daniel Kalleher, a 
 machinist in the Nev/ton foundry, she being 
 one of a family of four children. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Pring have had two children. George, 
 their first-born, died at the age of twenty-one 
 years. The other child is a daughter, Eliza- 
 beth. In politics Mr. Pring is a steadfast 
 Republican, but takes no active part in public 
 affairs. Made a Mason in Hyde Park Lodge. 
 F. & A. M., he is a member of Royal Arch 
 Chapter, of Hyde Park Council, of Cyprus 
 Commandery, and of Mecca Temple of the 
 Mystic Shrine of Boston. He is likewise a 
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 and belongs to Waverly Club, in which he was 
 chairman of tlie House Committee for three 
 years. Both he and his estimable wife are ac- 
 tive members of the Methodist church, of 
 which he was one of the official board for 
 seven vears. 
 
 AVID L. DAVIS, who is now living 
 in retirement at Hyde Park, was 
 for over fifty-two years in the 
 employ of the Boston & Providence 
 Railroad Company. He was one of the 
 first regular employees of the road, worked 
 his way forward to a responsible position, 
 and is now one of the few survivors 
 of those with whom he was originally 
 associated in the service. Born in P^ast 
 Washington, N. H., August 3, 181 1, he is a 
 son of Edmund and Mary (Graves) Davis. 
 His grandfather, Pldmund Davis (first), was a 
 native of Hancock, N. H.; and the family de- 
 scends from one of the earliest settlers in 
 Hillsborough County of that State. The 
 grandfather, who was a prosperous farmer and 
 a life-long resident of Hancock, reared several 
 children. 
 
 Edmund Davis (second), David L. Davis's 
 father, was reared upon his father's farm in 
 Hancock, and acquired a good education in the 
 schools of that town. When a young man he 
 was employed as clerk in a store for a 
 time, and he also taught school. He finally 
 settled in East Washington, N. H., where he 
 afterward operated a saw and grist mill until 
 his death, which occurred when- he was 
 seventy-nine years old. He was considered 
 one of the best mathematicians in his locality, 
 and was called upon to transact a great deal of 
 the town's public business. He was the first 
 Postmaster in I-last Washington, and held the 
 office for a number of years. His wife, Mary, 
 a daughter of William Graves, a lifelong resi- 
 dent of East Washington, lived to be ninety - 
 two years old. He was one of the organizers 
 of the Baptist church in East Washington, and 
 he and his wife were active members. They 
 were the parents of eight children; and David 
 L., the subject of this sketch, is the only one 
 now living. 
 
 David L. Davis besfan life for himself when 
 
 a youth, and for a few years he worked in a 
 mill in New York State. He then returned 
 to his native town, where he completed his ed- 
 ucation in the common schools. At the age 
 of nineteen he went to Brookline, Mass., 
 where he was employed as a farm assistant for 
 three years. Again returning to East Wash- 
 ington, he worked in his father's mills for 
 about three years. In 1836 he entered the 
 employ of the Boston & Providence Railroad 
 Company, whose line had just been opened, 
 p-rom the occupation of track laborer he ad- 
 vanced to the position of roadmaster, thence 
 in a short time to that of superintendent of 
 repairs. During his long connection with the 
 road he saw its rolling-stock increase from 
 the original two locomotives and eight or ten 
 cars to the immense equipment of modern en- 
 gines and elegant passenger coaches afterward 
 possessed by the road. He saw four tracks 
 take the place of the old one-track line, and 
 he has witnessed many changes in the Beard 
 of Directors and the official heads of depart- 
 ments. He has survived more than one gen- 
 eration of employers, and continued a faithful 
 and highly esteemed servitor of the company 
 until 1888, when he retired, after having been 
 connected with the road for fifty-two years 
 and four months. A settler of Hyde Park 
 previous to its incorporation as a town, he has 
 seen it grow from a few farm-houses to a com- 
 munity of eleven thousand inhabitants. He 
 erected his present residence at 66 Milton 
 Street in 1846, when that locality was thinly 
 populated; and he is now the oldest resident 
 in his neighborhood. He was a member of 
 one of the first Boards of Selectmen, served as 
 an Assessor for one year, and has been a Re- 
 publican in politics since the formation of 
 that party. 
 
 In 1833 Mr. Davis was united in marriage 
 with Olive Shackley, daughter of Aaron 
 Shack ley, a native of Norway, Me. Of the 
 five children born of the union, Ellerv C, Ed- 
 mund, and P"rances E. are living. Ellery 
 C, who was formerly a civil engineer, is now 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits. He wedded 
 Minnie M. Appleton, and has two children — 
 P'rances and Jessie. Edmund, who is a well- 
 known lawyer of Hyde Park, married Sophia 
 H. Chase, and has four sons — Alvan L., Sid-
 
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 BIOGRAtHlCAL REVIEW 
 
 ney L., Edward H., and David L. Frances 
 E. is the wife of Isaac Bullard, resides in 
 Readville, Mass., and has two sons — William 
 EUery and Albert D. Mrs. David L. Davis 
 died in 1876, aged sixty-five years. Mr. 
 Davis is one of the oldest surviving members 
 of the Mutual Benefit Society of Railroad 
 Men. 
 
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 -OHN L. TWIGG, a leading druggist of 
 Needham, and a son of Charles and 
 Harriet (Co.x) Twigg, was born here in 
 1868. The father, a native of Eng- 
 who was engaged for many years in the 
 manufacture of elastic bandages in this coun- 
 try, is still living in Needham. The mother, 
 also born in England, died here in 1891. 
 
 John Twigg was educated in the public 
 schools of his native town, graduating from 
 the high school in 1886. Upon leaving 
 school, he entered the drug store of E. J. 
 Williams at Newton Highlands, where he was 
 engaged as clerk. Two years later he ob- 
 tained a similar position in the drug store of 
 C. E. Coombs on Massachusetts Avenue, Bos- 
 ton. After working there for one year, he 
 went back to his former employer. Six 
 months later he bought out the store. He had 
 carried on the business for one year when he 
 sold out, and started a drug store in Needham, 
 where he is established at the present time. 
 In 1890 he received a certificate from the 
 State Board. He joined the Massachusetts 
 Pharmaceutical Society some time ago. In 
 politics he is an independent. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Norfolk Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at 
 Needham, in which he holds the office of 
 Senior Deacon; of the Newton Chapter, 
 R. A. M. ; of the Gethsemane Commandery 
 at Newtonville, K. T. ; and of Eliot Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F., at Newton Highlands. 
 
 fHOMAS JOEL BAKER, who for more 
 than thirty years has been intimately 
 associated with the mercantile interests 
 of Dedham as one of its leading grocers and 
 hardware dealers, was born in Medfield, this 
 county, September 25, 1822, son of Joel 
 Baker. The paternal grandfather, Joseph 
 
 Baker, was born, lived, and died in West Ded- 
 ham, where he was prosperously engaged in 
 lumbering during his active life. While 
 highly respected, he was familiarly called 
 "Uncle Joe."' In his earlier years he made a 
 specialty of getting out ship timber, which he 
 sold in Boston, using oxen in transporting it 
 to the city. He lived to the age of eighty- 
 five. 
 
 Joel Baker was one of a family of eight 
 children born to his parents. He was a nat- 
 ural mechanic, and when quite young learned 
 the trades of a boat-builder and carriage- 
 maker. The latter he made his principal 
 occupation, locating in Medfield, where he 
 established a factory, and carried on an ex- 
 tensive business, being an especially skilled 
 workman. He married Abigail Heaton, a na- 
 tive of .Sutton, Mass., whose father, Joseph 
 Heaton, was a farmer and for many years a 
 Deputy Sheriff. She bore her husband three 
 children — Joseph Heaton, Thomas Joel, and 
 Julia A. Of these the subject of this sketch 
 is the only one now living. The father died 
 at the age of seventy-five years, and the 
 mother when eighty-four years old. Both 
 were faithful members of the Baptist church. 
 
 Thomas J. Baker left home when a boy of 
 twelve years to attend school in Charlestown, 
 N.H. Three years later he returned to Med- 
 field, where he pursued his studies for a time. 
 He was subsequently employed for some 
 years in general merchandise stores as a clerk, 
 first in Medfield, and then in Sherborn, Mass. 
 In 1863 he opened a store in Framingham, 
 Mass., where he carried on a substantial busi- 
 ness until after the close of the late war. 
 Disposing of his store there in 1865, he came 
 to Dedham, where he has since been located. 
 Here, by his sturdy industry, enterprise, and 
 honest methods of transacting business, he 
 has won the confidence of the public, and built 
 up an extensive and profitable trade. He has 
 a well-stocked store, including a complete 
 assortment of staple and fancy groceries, hard- 
 ware of all descriptions, and crockery. In the 
 selection of his goods his aim is to please his 
 numerous patrons, both as to quality and 
 price. 
 
 Mr. Baker was married May i, 1851, to 
 Miss Cynthia A. Breck, one of the four chil-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW 
 
 iSr 
 
 dren of Joseph Breck, a well-known farmer of 
 Medfield. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have five chil- 
 dren, namely: F"rederick J., now a cotton 
 broker in Texas, who married Miss Fannie E. 
 Draper; Edward F. , who is in partnership 
 with his father; Julia A.; Sarah 15.; and 
 Moses E. In his earlier life Mr. Baker was a 
 Whig in politics, but since the formation of 
 the Republican party he has been one of its 
 strongest adherents. He takes an active in- 
 terest in all matters concerning the welfare of 
 his town: and for the past eighteen years he 
 has held the office of Tax Collector, a longer 
 period of continuous service than is recorded 
 of any other incumbent. 
 
 "ENRY B. HUMPHREY, of Hyde 
 Park, president and general manager 
 of the H. B. Humphrey Company, 
 Boston, was born in Braintree, 
 Mass., November 27, 1865, son of Edward 
 I. and Olive W. (Curtis) Humphrey. His pa- 
 ternal grandfather, John Humphrey, was a 
 shoemaker by trade, and later was a manufact- 
 urer of boots and shoes in Milton and Brain- 
 tree, Mass. He died November i, 1862. 
 John Humphrey was probably a lineal de- 
 scendant of Jonas Humphrey, who settled at 
 Dorchester, Mass., in 1637, and whose son, 
 Deacon Jonas, removed to Weymouth soon 
 after 1650. 
 
 Edward I. Humphrey was born in Brockton 
 February 15, 1837. After completing his 
 education in the common schools, he entered 
 the service of the Chickering Piano Company, 
 with whom he has remained for the past forty- 
 four years, being now salesman at their ware- 
 rooms in Boston. He has resided in Hyde 
 Park since 1872, and is actively interested in 
 public affairs, having served upon the School 
 Board and in other town offices. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Royal Arcanum. Olive W. Curtis, 
 his first wife, who was a daughter of Ira Cur- 
 tis, a lumber dealer of Weymouth, Mass., died 
 at the age of twenty-six years, leaving two 
 children : Henry B., the subject of this sketch ; 
 and Olive C, wife of Charles E. Putnam, 
 who is with L. I. Thompson, a grocer of 
 Hyde Park. Edward I. Humphrey wedded for 
 his second wife Mary Dorety, and by this 
 
 union has two sons — Irving W. and Chester 
 B. He is an attendant of the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 Henry B. Humphrey was educated in the 
 public schools of Hyde Park, including the 
 high school, and at the age of fifteen began 
 work as a clerk in the wholesale dry-goods 
 house of Jackson, Mandell & Daniels, Boston. 
 A year later he entered the advertising busi- 
 ness, first with T. C. Evans; and a year or so 
 after he became the representative of a large 
 list of circulating mediums. He next entered 
 the employ of the Boston Post, where he re- 
 mained until September, 1886, when he be- 
 came connected with the Davis Advertising 
 Agency, which he purchased July i, 1887, 
 shortly afterward changing it to the Hum- 
 phrey Advertising Agency. Under his able 
 and energetic direction, this concern has 
 greatly increased its business. Incorporated 
 January i, 1894, as the H. B. Humphrey 
 Company, it now covers a wide field, and rep- 
 resents leading advertisers, constructing and 
 placing their announcements in any and all 
 newspapers, magazines, and periodicals of the 
 United States and Canada. Several assistants 
 are employed, the company occupying spa- 
 cious quarters at Nos. 72, 73, and 74 Interna- 
 tional Trust Company Building, 45 Milk 
 Street. Mr. Humphrey is a director in sev- 
 eral other companies of Boston. 
 
 Politically, he is a Republican. He is a 
 member of Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A. M.; 
 Norfolk Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hyde 
 Park Council and Cypress Commandery, 
 Knights Templar. He is also connected with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 the encampment, being Lieutenant Colonel of 
 Underwood Canton, No. 61. He is a charter 
 member of the local historical society, was 
 its first Recording Secretary, and, when 
 the twentieth anniversary of the incorpora- 
 tion of Hyde Park was observed, he pub- 
 lished the history of the town. He is also 
 interested in music, the drama, and, as an 
 amateur photographer, is a member of the 
 Boston Camera Club. 
 
 On August 20, 1888, Mr. Humphrey mar- 
 ried Jennie B. Sears, daughter of Eben T. 
 Sears. Her father, who was formerly a sea 
 captain and vessel-owner, retired from the sea.
 
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 HIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 and for some years was a coal merchant in 
 Hyde I'ark, Mass., where his last days were 
 spent. Mrs. Humphrey is the mother of two 
 children — Evelyn Miller and Ruth I'age. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey attend Christ lOpis- 
 copal Cluirch. He was treasurer of the par- 
 ish from 1887 to 1889. 
 
 lUTHER ORLANDO EMERSON, 
 composer, "whose name has been as- 
 sociated with tile musical delights 
 ■of many years," was born in Par- 
 sonsfield. Me., August 3, 1820. His parents 
 were Luther and Elizabeth Usher (Parsons) 
 Emerson; and on the paternal side his ances- 
 try is traced to Thomas Emerson, who settled 
 in Ipswich, Mass., about 1635, having come 
 over from Durham, England, where lived the 
 noted mathematician whose heraldic arms 
 were those of Sir Ralph Emerson. The lines 
 from this coat -of -arms, we are told, are the 
 same that are carved on the tombstone of the 
 emigrant's son Nathaniel, who died at Ipswich 
 in 17 1 2, aged eighty-three. 
 
 The second in the ancestral line now being 
 traced was another son of Thomas — ■ namely, 
 the Rev. Joseph Emerson, the first settled 
 minister of Mendon, Mass.; the third was his 
 son Edward, who was the great-grandfather of 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson and the great-great- 
 grandfather of Luther Orlando Emerson ; the 
 fourth was Edward Emerson's son, the Rev. 
 John Emerson, for forty-si.x years minister of 
 the church in Topsfield ; and the fifth was Jo- 
 seph, who married Lydia Durrell, and lived 
 in Alfred, Me. 
 
 Luther Emerson, above named, son of Jo- 
 seph and Lydia D. Emerson, and grandson of 
 the Rev. John, was a man of pronounced 
 views, a strong Whig and abolitionist. In 
 religious belief he was a Congregationalist. 
 He was married in 1807 to Elizabeth LIsher 
 Parsons, daughter of Thomas Parsons, of Par- 
 sonsfield. Me. (The Parsons family history 
 includes many dLstinguished names. John 
 Parsons was Mayor of Hereford in Hereford- 
 shire, England, in 148 1. A Parsons coat of 
 arms, it is said, was granted by Charles I. in 
 1634. An early emigrant, Joseph Parsons 
 
 was a resident of Springfield, Mass., in 1636, 
 and died there March 25, 1684.) 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth U. Emerson's father, 
 Thomas Parsons, was born in liradford, Mass., 
 September 18, 1735. He married first Anna 
 Poor, of Andover, who died May 24, 1783; 
 and second, Lucy Bradbury, of Saco, Me., 
 who died November 10, 181 1. By his first 
 wife he had nine children, by his second, ten. 
 Mrs. limerson died in 1857. She was the 
 mother of five sons and two daughters, namely : 
 Thomas, a clergyman ; Joseph Pratt ; Lucy 
 B. , wife of the Rev. Calvin Chapman, of 
 Saccarappa, Me. ; Sylvester; Charles H., a 
 clergyman, now seventy-nine years of age, liv- 
 ing in California; Luther Orlando; and Eliz- 
 abeth, who was married first to the Rev. 
 Abram J. Bourn, and second to Dr. John 
 Moore, of Quincy, 111. Now a widow for the 
 second time, she resides in Ouincy, III. 
 
 Luther Orlando Emerson remained on the 
 home farm until twenty-one years of age, in 
 the meantime attending the common schools 
 of his native town, the academy in that place, 
 and the academy in Effingham. He then ob- 
 tained employment in the Quincy Market, 
 Boston, and shortly after, intending to qualify 
 for the medical profession, entered Dracut 
 Academy, near Lowell, Mass. ; but the pas- 
 sion for music was so strong that he finally de- 
 cided to perfect himself in that art. Return- 
 ing to Boston, he obtained a position in the 
 market again, and saved as much of his earn- 
 ings as possible. 
 
 In the spring of 1844, he resolutely turned 
 his whole attention to music. With his first 
 teacher in Boston, I. B. Woodbury, he studied 
 vocal and instrumental music — piano, organ, 
 and composition — for two years; and he sub- 
 sequently studied with other teachers of note. 
 He began his work of teaching in Salem, 
 Mass., and also took charge of a church choir. 
 His compositions were so highly appreciated 
 by the choir and congregation that he felt en- 
 couraged to prepare a book of church music, 
 which was published in 1853. One of the 
 tunes in the book was "Sessions," named for 
 Mr. Emerson's pastor. This melody was des- 
 tined to have perennial popularity; but the 
 book, like most first attempts, was not a 
 flattering success. Mr. Emerson resided in
 
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 Salem eight years, removing tiien to Boston, 
 and accepting tiie position of organist and 
 musical director in the ]^ulfinch Street 
 Church. This position he held four years. 
 He was subsequently organist in Greenfield, 
 Mass., and teacher in Powers Institute, 
 Bernardston. While in (ireenfield his sec- 
 ond book of psalmody, "The Sabbath Har- 
 mony," was published. It was well received 
 by the better class of teachers, and gave him 
 a high reputation as a composer of church 
 music. In 1857 he formed the connection 
 with Oliver Ditson & Co. which has contin- 
 ued up to the present time, only one of his 
 books having been brought out by another 
 firm. The "Golden Wreath," forty thousand 
 copies of which sold the first year, was the 
 initial vohime in a long series issued by the 
 Ditsons. In 1863 this firm published his first 
 thoroughly successful church-music book, 
 "The Harp of Judah." Thirty thousand 
 copies were sold in the first three months. 
 
 His services were now in constant demand 
 as a director and leader in musical conven- 
 tions, and he gave up teaching to devote his 
 whole time to directing and composing. Mr. 
 Kmerson stands in the front rank as a con- 
 ductor. His first great triumph in this capac- 
 ity was at the convention in Keene, N. H., in 
 1862. At the convention at Concord, N.H., 
 with nine hundred singers, he carried immense 
 audiences captive to the splendid harmonies 
 evoked under his baton. Mr. Emerson has a 
 magnetic personality and wonderful control 
 over his singers. He was for several years 
 associated with Carl Zerrahn in conducting 
 the Worcester Musical Festival. He has con- 
 ducted three hundred and fifty musical festi- 
 vals, and has had under his direction all of 
 the famous singers of America during the past 
 thirty years. In festival and convention work 
 he has been associated with Dudley Buck, 
 W. O. Perkins, Solon Wilder, and H. R. 
 Palmer, of New York, names famous in musi- 
 cal circles. He is still teaching vocal music, 
 and has several musical works begun. 
 
 Among his compositions, "Sessions," 
 "Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah," and 
 "Oh, praise the Mighty God, all ye Nations," 
 it may be said, will live forever. The last- 
 named number was composed for the grand 
 
 Worcester Festival, and was sung by five hun- 
 dred voices, under the author's leadership. 
 Among his secular compositions perhaps the 
 best known is "Star of Ascending Night." 
 He has completed sixty-seven works in all, 
 has written twelve church music books, ten 
 singing-schoo! ijooks, eight anthem books, fif- 
 teen public-school singing-books, four Sab- 
 bath-school books, two glee books, four books 
 of selections for male voices, two instruction 
 books for the voice and one for the organ, 
 several chorus books, and one mass published 
 and two in preparation. 
 
 He was married March 4, 1847, to Mary J., 
 daughter of John and Mary (Burgess) Gove. 
 Mr. Gove was a prominent Boston merchant. 
 Si.\ of the seven children bora of their union 
 are living. The eldest, Mary Gove, mar- 
 ried first Edgar Clark, of Framingham, by 
 whom she had two children; and, second, 
 William Jones, of Framingham, Mass. .She 
 is now again a widow. She is a writer on the 
 Boston Herald staff, and is a talented musi- 
 cian. John G. Emerson resides in Quincy, 
 Mass. Luella P., wife of the late Robert 
 Davie, of New York, is a music teacher, and 
 has been remarkably successful as a leader of 
 ladies' choruses. Charles W. Emerson is in 
 business in Boston. Abbie died in infancy. 
 Elizabeth, also a talented musician, received a 
 diploma and bronze medal at the World's I*"air 
 in Chicago in 1893. She has written two 
 books for schools which are very popular. 
 The youngest daughter, Mabel H., is highly 
 cultured, and had she had the physical 
 strength would have made her impress upon 
 the literature of the day. 
 
 On March 4 of the present year, 1897, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Emerson celebrated their golden 
 wedding at their pleasant home in Hyde Park. 
 Mrs. Thomas Green, of Chelsea, Mass., who 
 acted as bridesmaid fifty years ago, received 
 with Mrs. Emerson. The Rev. Alexander 
 Archibald, of Hyde Park, read a poem written 
 for the occasion by the Rev. Minot J. Savage, 
 of New York; and other poems were contrib- 
 uted by Mrs. S. H. R. Giles, General H. B. 
 Carrington, and Miss Harriet Wheeler, of 
 Florida, N.Y. There was also a wedding 
 song, composed and set to music by Mrs. Clara 
 Sothy, of Chicago.
 
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 The degree of Doctor of Music was recently 
 conferred upon Mr. Emerson by the faculty of 
 Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio. Successful 
 to a remarkable degree, his relations with all 
 have always beeil tempered with singular 
 modesty, thoughtfulness, and benevolence. 
 He is kindly, charitable, liberal, with a strong 
 brain, a warm heart, and a brave and generous 
 personality. 
 
 ON. JOSIAH GARDNER ABBOTT, 
 LL. D., sometime Judge of the Su- 
 perior Court of the city of Boston, 
 and later for many years a leading 
 member of the Suffolk County bar, was born 
 at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Mass., No- 
 vember I, 1814, and died at his summer home 
 at Wellesley Hills, Norfolk County, July 2, 
 1891. He was the second son of Caleb and 
 Martha (Fletcher) Abbott, and on both pater- 
 nal and maternal sides was of English Puritan 
 and early Colonial stock. His father was a 
 son of Caleb, Sr., and Lucy (Lovejoy) Abbott, 
 and was si.xth in lineal descent from George 
 Abbot, who settled at Andover, Mass., in 
 1643, the intervening ancestors being: Timo- 
 thy; Timothy, Jr.; and Nathan, father of 
 Caleb, Sr. William Fletcher, the immigrant 
 progenitor of his mother's family, settled in 
 Chelmsford in 1653. He owned a large part 
 of the territory now included in the city of 
 Lowell. Judge Abbott's grandfathers both 
 fought in the Revolutionary War. 
 
 The best of home influences, a village li- 
 brary, and a classical school taught for a time 
 by Ralph Waldo Emerson and afterward by 
 the Rev. Abiel Abbot of honored memory, 
 contributed to develop the mind and form the 
 character of Josiah G. Abbott. tie was grad- 
 uated at Harvard in 1832, began the study of 
 law in the office of Joel Adams, of Chelms- 
 ford, in 1834 entered the law office of Na- 
 thaniel Wright in Lowell, and in January, 
 1837, was admitted to the Middlesex bar. He 
 served as Associate Justice of the Superior 
 Court of Suffolk County from 1855 till Janu- 
 ary t, 1858, when he resigned to resume the 
 more lucrative practice of law, being from that 
 time on a distinguished member of the Suffolk 
 County bar. His first law partner was Amos 
 
 Spaulding, and his second, 1842-55, .Samuel 
 A. Brown. 
 
 A Jacksonian Democrat in politics, a firm 
 believer in the principles of self-government, 
 he was a strong Union man and ever faithful 
 to the duties of citizenship. He served as a 
 Representative in the State legislature in 
 1837, as Senator in 1842 and 1843, ^n^ ^s 
 delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 
 1853; was elected to Congress in 1874, and 
 chosen a member of the Electoral Commission 
 in 1877. In 1840, as editor of the Lowell 
 Advertise); he advocated the re-election of 
 President Van Buren; in 1848, as a "bolter," 
 he supporter the Free Soil nominees. Van 
 Buren and Adams; and in i860, "as a choice 
 of evils, he voted the Douglas ticket." He 
 was a delegate to seven Democratic National 
 Conventions, and in six of them was chairman 
 of the Massachusetts delegation. 
 
 Judge Abbott served as an overseer of Har- 
 vard College, 1859-65, his removal from 
 Lowell to Boston occurring in 1861. In 
 1862 he received from Williams College the 
 degree of Doctor of Laws. Among the busi- 
 ness enterprises with which he was connected 
 may be named the Hamilton Manufacturing 
 Company at Lowell, of which he was presi- 
 dent, 1860-62; the Atlantic Cotton Mills at 
 Lawrence, of which he was president, 1861- 
 y6; the Hill Manufacturing Company, Lewis- 
 ton, Me., of which he was a director thirty-five 
 years and from 1874 till his death its presi- 
 dent; the Union Power Company at Lewiston; 
 and the Boston & Lowell Railroad, of which 
 he was a director, 1857-85, and president, 
 1879-84. 
 
 For the foregoing facts and for the follow- 
 ing estimates of the character and career of 
 this eminent jurist we are indebted to the 
 "In Memoriam " volume containing the mem- 
 oir of Judge Abbott by the Hon. Charles 
 Cowley and tributes from notable contempo- 
 raries. 
 
 "Judge Abbott's reputation as a lawyer was 
 won in the court-room, not in the closet. En- 
 dowed by nature with a body and mind of 
 great vigor, with never-satisfied ambition and 
 untiring powers of work, he early came in con- 
 flict with the most prominent lawyers of the
 
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 Middlesex bar, and proved himself an oppo- 
 nent worthy of their steel. . . . 
 
 "His power of statement of mixed c|ucstions 
 of law and facts was unrivalled. None knew 
 better than he how to elicit facts from a reluc- 
 tant or dishonest witness; and his ajjpeals to 
 juries were always forcible and judicious, and 
 met with merited success. For many years he 
 was one of the most trusted counsellors and 
 advocates of the Suffolk bar." — Hon. L. J. 
 Stockpoi.e. 
 
 "In his bearing to the court he was always 
 respectful, and in his relations to the bar he 
 never forgot those courtesies which give grace 
 to professional intercourse and lighten profes- 
 sional labors. In the conduct of business he 
 was always controlled by the highest prin- 
 ciples of honor and fair dealing. When fill- 
 ing the high position of judge, he discharged 
 its difficult and laborious duties to the satis- 
 faction of the profession; for he possessed, in 
 an eminent degree, those valuable judicial 
 virtues — patience, impartiality, and indus- 
 try."— Hon. F. O. 1'rince. 
 
 "So, too, in political action, he was faith- 
 ful and firm. He was pre-eminently a man 
 for a crisis. This is proved by many points in 
 his career, notably in 1861 and 1877. In such 
 times he never hesitated or faltered. He 
 loved his party, but he loved his country 
 more. . . . On the altar of his country he 
 offered up with the firmness of a Roman father 
 the children he loved with more than Roman 
 tenderness." — F. T. Greenhalge. 
 
 He was married July 21, 1838, to Miss 
 Caroline Livermore, daughter of the Hon. Ed- 
 ward St. Loe Livermore. Eleven children 
 were born of this union, and nine grew to ma- 
 turity, two sons having died in childhood. 
 Two sons, Edward G. and Henry L. , laid 
 down their lives for their country on Southern 
 battle-fields; and one daughter, Caroline 
 Mercy, died after marriage. The survivors 
 are : Fletcher Morton ; Samuel Appleton 
 Brown; Franklin Fierce; Grafton St. Loe; 
 Holker Welch; and Mrs. Sarah Abbott Fay, 
 widow of William P. Fay. Mrs. Caroline L. 
 Abbott died in the autumn of 1887. A su- 
 
 perior woman, of great sweetness and strength 
 of character, in her loss Judge Abbott 
 "suffered the greatest affliction of his life." 
 
 Fletcher Morton Abbott, born in Helvidere, 
 Mass., February 18, 1843, was educated in 
 the Lowell public schools and St. Paul's 
 Academy, Concord, N.H. In 1861 he en- 
 listed in Company D, under Captain Savage, 
 Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
 in which he served three years, being in en- 
 gagements at Harper's Ferry and in the Shen- 
 andoah Valley campaign. He entered the 
 medical department of Harvard University in 
 1874, and took his degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine in 1875. He has since lived retired. 
 
 Samuel Appleton Brown Abbott, born in 
 1846, was graduated at Harvard in 1866; stud- 
 ied law in his father's office, and was ad- 
 mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868; has since 
 practised in Boston and in the United States 
 Courts; was for ten years trustee of the Boston 
 Public Library and si.x years j^resident of the 
 board. He is married, and has four children. 
 Edward Gardner Abbott, eldest son of the 
 Hon. Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) 
 Abbott, was born in Lowell, September 29, 
 1840. Remarkably active, both physically 
 and mentally, before he was ten years old he 
 had read all the Waverley novels. He was 
 fitted for college at the Lowell High School, 
 and, entering Harvard, was graduated in i860. 
 A diligent student, he was also a good oars- 
 man, and belonged to the 'Varsity crew. En- 
 tering the law office of S. A. Brown in Low- 
 ell, he applied himself from ten to twelve 
 hours a day to the study of law, continuing 
 thus engaged till the breaking out of the Re- 
 bellion. He then recruited a company, called 
 the Abbott Grays, of which he was commis- 
 sioned Captain on May 24, 1861, the company 
 being attached to the Second Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Major 
 in August, 1862, and was killed August g, 
 1862, at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. 
 It has been said of him that he was a "born 
 commander, cool, intrepid, self-reliant, in- 
 domitable," a man who "took to leadership 
 of affairs as natural Iv as an eagle takes to the 
 air." 
 
 Henry Livermore Abbott, born in Lowell, 
 January 21, 1842, was graduated at Harvard
 
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 in i860. He was of a social, genial nature, 
 and a general favorite. Like his elder 
 brother, he took a good deal of interest in 
 athletic sports. He also began the study of 
 law, but early laid aside his books to engage 
 in the war for the Union. In July, 1861, 
 commissioned Lieutenant in Company A of 
 the Twentieth Massachusetts, he took part in 
 the battle of Ball's Bluff, and was soon after- 
 ward in command of his company. He was 
 present and active in nearly all the principal 
 battles of the Army of the Potomac, and his 
 military genius and ability were pronounced 
 of the highest order. He was killed at the 
 battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1S64, aged 
 twenty-two years, and after his death was 
 brevetted Brigadier-general. His company, it 
 is said, was the pride of the regiment. "Had 
 he lived and continued the profession of arms," 
 said General Hancock, "he would have been 
 one of the most distinguished commanders." 
 
 INOCH HALL DOBLE, a well-known 
 and prominent business man of Ouincy, 
 Norfolk County, Mass., who is 
 senior member of the firm of E. H. Doble & 
 Co., and is also a partner in the firm of A. H. 
 Doble & Co., was born March 13, 1821, in 
 Livermore, Me., son of Aaron and Abigail 
 (Hall) Doble, and a grandson of William 
 Doble. 
 
 Aaron Doble was born, bred, and educated 
 in Sumner, Oxford County, Me., growing to 
 man's estate on the home farm. He learned 
 the carpenter's trade; but, having much nat- 
 ural ingenuity, he gave much of his time to 
 the making of a variety of articles, includipg 
 wooden ploughs, which, it was said, were the 
 best used in that locality. One of the first to 
 espouse the cause of the Free Soil party, he 
 continued a stanch supporter of its policy. 
 He was actively interested in the welfare of 
 his town, and served in some of its minor 
 ofifices. On March 11, 1809, he married Abi- 
 gail Hall, who was born December 3, 1790, in 
 Buckficld, Me., daughter of Enoch Hall. 
 Their children were: Miriam, deceased, born 
 Augu.st 27, 18 10, who became the wife of 
 John Godding, of Livermore, Me. ; Sarah, de- 
 ceased, born July 2, 1812, who married 
 
 Nathan Deals; John, deceased, born August 
 23, 1814; Mary, deceased, born December 11, 
 1 8 16, who became the wife of Joshua Spear, 
 of Quincy, Mass. ; Henry Parsons, deceased, ^^ 
 born January 25, 1819; Enoch Hall, the sub^ 
 ject of this sketch; Delphina Parish, de- 
 ceased, born March 13, 1821, who married 
 John H. Ward; William, deceased, born 
 September 24, 1826; Cynthia Green, born 
 July 27, 1829, who married Daniel Ward, of 
 Wellington, Me.; Vesta Jane, deceased, born 
 August 20, 1831; and Elvira Varnum, born 
 July 22, 1833, who is the wife of Frank 
 Gordon, of Livermore, Me. The mother died 
 May 27, 1855. The father died February 3, 
 1 86 1. Both parents were regular attendants 
 of the meetings held each Sunday in the dis- 
 trict school-house, but neither was a church 
 member. 
 
 linoch Hall was born November 10, 1763, 
 in either Falmouth or Windham, Me. In 
 1780 he enlisted from the latter town in the 
 Continental army as a private, and served 
 until the close of the war of independence. 
 Soon afterward, for five hundred dollars, he 
 bought a tract of almost wild land in Buck- 
 field, on which were a rude log cabin, ten 
 acres of felled trees, and a yoke of oxen. In 
 the spring of 1784 he removed the trees al- 
 ready felled, and in the ensuing season raised, 
 on the ten acres they had occupied, two hun- 
 dred bushels of corn. From Windham, in 
 the fall of 1784, he brought his wife, Miriam 
 F"urbish Hall, together with his household 
 goods, including a bushel of salt, upon the 
 backs of two horses, arriving at the little log 
 cabin on his twenty-first birthday. He wore 
 a tow frock all the following winter. Next 
 spring, he having invested two dollars that he 
 had saved in two sheep, his wife made from 
 the fleeces of the latter a piece of "waled 
 cloth," and from the cloth a new suit of 
 clothes. Enoch wisely made it one of the 
 rules of his life never to buy anything for 
 which he could not pay at the time of pur- 
 chase. In the spring of 1785, working day 
 and night while the season lasted, taking 
 turns in sleeping and laboring, he and his 
 wife made three hundred pounds of maple 
 sugar and twelve gallons of maple molasses, 
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 cabin. In the spring of 1786 he built a barn, 
 covering it with long shingles made by him- 
 self. At the end of nine years he replaced 
 the humble cabin with a substantial frame 
 house, which was thereafter his residence 
 until his death, December 10, 1835. His 
 widow survived but a few years. The only 
 school he ever attended was one kept in his 
 own house for a period of three weeks by 
 Elder D. Hutchinson, he and his three elder 
 children, Dolly, Ruth, and Abigail, being 
 the pupils. Here he gained some knowledge 
 of arithmetic, and learned to write. With 
 this slight aid he subsequently educated him- 
 self, becoming qualified to instruct his 
 younger children, and to hold many important 
 and useful positions in his after life. F"or 
 many years he was one of the Selectmen of 
 Buckfield, and served repeatedly in other 
 offices. It is said of him that he exercised a 
 remarkable influence among his townsmen, 
 who seemed to consider his judgment almost 
 infallible. He was several times sent to Bos- 
 ton as a member of the General Court while 
 Maine was a province of Massachusetts. He 
 was a member of the convention that framed 
 the Constitution of Maine in [819 and 1820, 
 and represented Buckfield in the first legislat- 
 ure of the State in 1821. Nine children were 
 born to him and his wife, namely: Dolly, 
 who died at the age of twelve years; Ruth, 
 born February 17, 17S8, who married Hol- 
 lingsworth Hines; Abigail, who became the 
 wife of Aaron Doble; Andrew, born January 
 9, 1792; John, born November 14, 1795; 
 Winslow, born June 16, 1798; Dolly (sec- 
 ond), born August 24, 1801, who married 
 Daniel Brown; Zilpha, born June 8, 1804, 
 who married Simon Brown; and Hiram, born 
 September 29, 1806. 
 
 Enoch Hall's father, Hatevil Hall (third), 
 was born in Dover, N.H., March 24, 1736. 
 He lived at various times in Windham, Buck- 
 field, and Brooks, dying in the latter place 
 May 10, 1804. In 1754 he married Ruth, 
 daughter of Job and Margaret (Barbour) 
 Winslow. .She died June 11, 1798, leaving 
 among other children a son named Enoch. 
 The maiden name of the second wife of Hate- 
 vil Hall (third) was Ann Jenkins. Hatevil 
 Hall (second) who was born in Dover, N. H., 
 
 February 15, in either 1708 or 1709, died No- 
 vember 28, 1797, leaving four hundred and 
 seventy-five descendants. He was either a 
 turner or chair-maker by trade, and a promi- 
 nent member of the Society of Friends. On 
 April I, 1733, he married Sarah Furbush, 
 who died March 2, 1790. Both he and his 
 wife were remarkably open-hearted, generous, 
 and hospitable people. Hatevil Hall (first), 
 the father of the preceding bearer of the name, 
 married Mercy Cornwall, and lived at J31ack 
 River. According to tradition, he was 
 drowned in early manhood, leaving but the 
 one child. John Hall, the immigrant founder 
 of the Hall family, was born in 1617. He 
 served as Town Clerk, Lot Layer, Commis- 
 sioner, and Selectman. His son, Hatevil 
 (first), was his third child. 
 
 Enoch Hall Doble was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Livermore, Me., and remained 
 beneath the parental roof until twenty years of 
 age. Coming then to Boston, he shipped for 
 one summer with his brother John, who ran a 
 packet between Boston and Cohasset. In the 
 following sunnner he worked on the farm of 
 his brother-in-law, Joshua H. Spear, in 
 Ouincy. Going thence to Braintree, he started 
 in the meat business on his own account, con- 
 tinuing about a year. Returning then to 
 Livermore, he bought a farm, and was there 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits six or more 
 years. Having disposed of his farm at the 
 end of that period, he came again to Ouincy, 
 purchased the store of his brother Henry, and 
 with the exception of four years has since 
 continued in mercantile business at the stand 
 now occupied by the firm of E. H. Doble & 
 Co. This firm was formed in 1874, when Mr. 
 Doble admitted into partnership his son Her- 
 bert. It carries a fine line of general mer- 
 chandise, including hay and grain, and em- 
 ploys about sixteen hands, their trade being 
 both wholesale and retail. In 1890 Mr. 
 Doble's son, William H. Doble, opened the 
 store now occu])ied by the present firm of 
 A. H. Doble & Co.; and in 1893 the firm of 
 W. H. Doble & Co. was incorporated. In 
 February, 1896, the stock of that firm was 
 purchased by Mr. Doble and his son, Arthur 
 H., with whom he formed a partnership under 
 the name of A. H. Doble & Co. This firm
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 also handles general merchandise, and is 
 carrying on an extensive wholesale and retail 
 business, keeping fourteen clerks busily em- 
 ployed. 
 
 In politics Mr. Doble has been actively 
 identified with the Republican party since he 
 cast his first Presidential vote for General 
 J. C. Fremont. He married Rachel, daugh- 
 ter of James Timberlake, of Livermore, Me. 
 Of his six children Herbert F., Ernest E., 
 William H., and Arthur H. are living. 
 Ernest E. is a physician in Boston. Arthur 
 H., who was born January 5, 1870, after 
 graduating from Adams Academy in 1888, en- 
 tered his father's store, and is now in partner- 
 ship with him. He married Lucy, daughter 
 of William N. Eaton, of this city; and they 
 both attend the First Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Doble are members of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church, of which he has been for several 
 years a trustee. 
 
 fOSEPH FISHER, late a prominent citi- 
 zen and lifelong resident of Dedham, 
 was born here, July 21, 1 805, son of 
 Benjamin and Nabby (Baker) Fisher, 
 and died on August 13, 1880. 
 
 He was of ancient and honorable Colonial 
 stock, on his father's side tracing his lineage 
 back through six generations in Norfolk 
 County, Massachusetts, to Anthony Fisher, 
 who owned and occupied the estate in Syle- 
 ham, Suffolk County, England, called " Wig- 
 notte, " and on his mother's side counting 
 among bis ancestors prominent members of 
 the "Mayflower" company. Anthony Fisher' 
 married Mary Fiske, of St. James, South 
 Elmham, Suffolk County, England. Their 
 son Anthony,^ the emigrant, was baptized in 
 1 591, and came to the Massachusetts Colony in 
 the ship "Rose" in 1637. He first settled 
 in Dedham, but subsequently removed to Dor- 
 chester, where he died April 18, 1671. He 
 had a son Anthony,' who married Joanna 
 Faxon on September 7, 1647. She was born 
 in Braintree, now Quincy, in 1626, and died 
 October 16, 1694, her husband having died 
 the year before his father. The next in line 
 was their son Eliezer," born September 18, 
 1669. He was married on October 13, 1698, 
 
 to Mary Avery, who was born in Dedham, 
 August 21, 1674, daughter of Deacon Will- 
 iam and Mary (Lane) Avery. He died Febru- 
 ary 6, 1722, and she on March 25, 1749. 
 
 Benjamin,' their youngest son, was born in 
 Dedham in May, 1721. He married in 1742 
 Sarah Everett, who was born in Dedham, June 
 7, 1718, daughter of William and Rachel 
 (Newcomb) E'verett, and grand-daughter of 
 Captain John Everett, whose father, Richard 
 Everett, was one of the founders of Dedham. 
 Benjamin Fisher died January 18, 1777, and 
 his widow on August 2, 1795. The next in 
 line was their son Asa,'' born April 30, 1745, 
 who was well educated, and amassed a consider- 
 able fortune for his day. On July 2, 1767, he 
 married Elizabeth Draper, whose birth occurred 
 in Dedham, January 16, 1747. Her parents 
 were Daniel and Rachel (Pond) Draper. Asa 
 Fisher died April 2, 1823, and his wife on 
 October 26, 1813. 
 
 Benjamin Fisher,' son of Asa and Elizabeth, 
 and the father of Joseph Fisher'* of this sketch, 
 was born February 23, 1777, and was united 
 in marriage with Miss Nabby Baker on May 
 13, 1801. She was born November 5, 1778, 
 daughter of Joseph and Monica (Gay) Baker. 
 Monica Gay, who was born in Attleboro, 
 Mass., in 1754, daughter of Jabez and Hannah 
 (Bradford) Gay, was a descendant of Governor 
 Bradford, also, it is said, of John and PrisciJla 
 (Mullins) Alden. One ancestral line is thus 
 briefly given : her mother was a daughter of 
 Perez and Abigail (Belcher) Bradford, and a 
 grand-daughter of Samuel Bradford, of Dux- 
 bury, who was a grandson of William Bradford, 
 the second Governor of Plymouth Colony. 
 Benjamin Fisher' died July 5, 1829, aged fifty- 
 two years. 
 
 In early life Joseph Fisher, the subject of 
 this sketch, began business as a manufacturer 
 of carriages and harnesses in West Dedham. 
 He had followed the business but a few years 
 when on account of his health he was advised 
 to seek an occupation that would permit of his 
 spending more time in the open air, and he 
 afterward dealt in horses quite extensively. 
 He purchased his father's homestead on High 
 Street, West Dedham, and subsequently lived 
 there. 
 
 Joseph Fisher was twice married, his first
 
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 union being witii Miss Hannah Baker, by 
 whom he had one son, George Fisher. His 
 second wife, who survives him, was Mary Eliz- 
 abeth Campbell before marriage. She was 
 born in Harrington, now Millbridge, Washing- 
 ton County, Me., daughter of Colin Campbell, 
 who was a native of the same town. His 
 father, James, born February g, 1761, was a 
 son of Ale.xander Campbell, Jr., one of the 
 early settlers in Maine, who in turn was the 
 son of Alexander and Frances (Drummond) 
 Campbell. 
 
 Alexander Campbell, Jr., was a Brigadier- 
 general in the Revolutionary War. In 1758 
 he married Elizabeth Nichols, with whom he 
 jived almost fifty years, his death occurring in 
 1807, and hers four years later, in 181 1. 
 James Campbell, Mrs. Fisher's grandfather, 
 was very prominent in public affairs, and served 
 several terms as a member of the Massachu- 
 setts legislature, making the journey to and 
 from his home in Maine on horseback. He 
 was also a Judge in the local courts. On 
 August 24, 1788, he married Susanna Cofifin, 
 of Nantucket, Mass. He died July 7, 1826, 
 and she on September 24, 1833. Colin Camp- 
 bell, after completing his school education at 
 Blue Hill Academy, taught school for awhile. 
 As a life work he chose farming; but much of 
 his time was given to official duties, including 
 those of Town Clerk and other local offices. 
 He married Sally Griggs Ricker, who was 
 born in Cherryfield, Me., daughter of Amaziah 
 and Susanna (Baker) Ricker, the last named a 
 native of West Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 Four children were born to Joseph and Mary 
 E. (Campbell) Fisher: Hattie Smith; Joseph 
 Lyman; Elizabeth Campbell; and May Camp- 
 bell, who died at the age of twelve years. 
 Hattie S. Fisher married George Henry Smith, 
 a native of Halifax, England, who is now a 
 manufacturer in Halifax, England. Joseph 
 Lyman Fisher is a farmer, and has a handsome 
 house on Main Streef, West Dedham. 
 
 In politics Joseph Fisher was a lifelong 
 Republican. He was a trustee of Dedham 
 Savings Bank, a director of Dedham National 
 Bank, also of Norfolk Insurance Company and 
 the Mutual Insurance Company of Dedham. 
 He was a prominent member of the Unitarian 
 church, and a man of pronounced public spirit. 
 
 LB]':RT MONROE MILLER, M.D., a 
 well-known and esteemed physician of 
 
 Needham, nephew of Dr. Albert E. 
 
 Miller, was born in the town of 
 Virgil, Cortland County, N.Y., August 30, 
 1857, son of George W. and Lucinda (Wood- 
 ard) Miller, and grandson of Ezekiel Miller. 
 His father was a farmer, born in the town of 
 Covert, Seneca County, N.Y.; and his mother 
 was a daughter of Archibald and Betsey (Ben- 
 ton) Woodard, of Virgil. 
 
 Albert M. Miller received his first school 
 training in his native town, and when only 
 thirteen years of. age came to Massachusetts, 
 and attended successively a grammar school in 
 Weston, Middlesex County, where he spent 
 about a year, and Willow Park Seminary in 
 Westboro, where he was graduated in 1875. 
 Returning to his old home in Virgil, his 
 father having died during his absence, he then 
 attended the Cortland State Normal School 
 for a year, and at the end of that time came to 
 Needham to make his home with his uncle, 
 Dr. Albert E. Miller, and to begin the study 
 of medicine. For about five years he travelled 
 much as advance agent for the lecture tours of 
 his uncle, and at the same time pursued a reg- 
 ular course of study. He then attended med- 
 ical lectures at the Maine Medical College 
 in Brunswick and at Dartmouth College, 
 graduating from the last-named institution in 
 1881, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 After several months' experience as an assist- 
 ant physician in the McLean Asylum Hospi- 
 tal and a brief period in Chesterfield, Hamp- 
 shire County, Mass., he came back to Need- 
 ham, and was with his uncle until 18S3. In 
 that year he removed to Waltham, where he 
 practised until the latter part of 1S84, when 
 he returned to Needham. The thirteen years 
 that have since elapsed have been years of use- 
 ful activity and progress. 
 
 Dr. Albert M. Miller is a physician of the 
 regular school, and by his skill and natural 
 aptness for his profession has gained a large 
 and steadily increasing practice. He has been 
 a member of the Needham Board of Health 
 for ten years, and in this position has served 
 the town with the utmost faithfulness. In 
 politics the Doctor is a Republican. He is a 
 member of Norfolk Lodge of F. & A. M.,
 
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 having joined the organization in 1883; also 
 a member of Eliot Lodge, No. 58, I. O. O F., 
 of which he is Past Grand; and member of the 
 U. O. G. C, an insurance society. He was 
 graduated from the C. L. & S. C. of New 
 England in 1888. 
 
 Dr. Miller and Isabelle B. Mann, daughter 
 of Daniel F. Mann, of Needham, were mar- 
 ried on January 26, 1887. They have one 
 child, Harold Lionel Miller, born January 7, 
 1895. 
 
 i^^ EORGE THOMAS MAGEE, a well- 
 Sl known journalist residing in (Juincy, 
 Mass., was born in the adjacent town 
 of Hingham, August 9, i860, being the only 
 son of Thomas and Caroline (Penniman) 
 Magee. His father, a native of Braintree, 
 Mass., was born March 14, 1825, son of 
 Thomas and Elizabeth Magee; and his mother 
 is a daughter of Stephen Penniman. An ac- 
 count of her ancestry may be found following 
 this sketch under the title of " James Penni- 
 man. " 
 
 Mr. Magee has two sisters: Susan Caroline, 
 born in Ouincy, May 21, 1852; and Eliza 
 Maria, born in Hingham, May 19, 1856. 
 Susan Caroline Magee was married at Hing- 
 ham, December 2, 1875, to William Howard 
 North, who was born in Watertown, Mass., 
 January i, 1853, son of Richard and Rebecca 
 (Tupper) North. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. North 
 have two children : Grace Caroline, born in 
 Quincy, January 23, 1877; and Howard Mann- 
 ing, born in Ouincy, June 28, 1879. Eliza 
 Maria Magee was married in Quincy, Novem- 
 ber 7, 1883, to Charles Barrett Tilton, who 
 was born in East Boston, May 16, 1858, a son 
 of Thomas Barrett and Maria Melvina (Ams- 
 den) Tilton. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Tilton have 
 one child — • Irma Caroline, born in Quincy, 
 June 5, 1887. 
 
 George Thomas Magee' s parents moved to 
 .Quincy when he was a child ; and with the ex- 
 ception of three years in the seventies, which 
 were spent in Hingham, and five years in the 
 eighties, when he lived in East Weymouth, he 
 has had his home in this town. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Quincy and 
 Hingham. After leaving school, he was first 
 
 employed as an operator by the Telephone 
 Despatch Company of Boston, with whom he 
 remained until 1886. Having a taste for 
 newspaper work, he seized the first opportunity 
 of entering upon that sphere of activity by ac- 
 cepting a position on the staff of the Wey- 
 mouth Crt.?^//^ as local reporter. In 1891 he 
 severed his connection with the Gazette to take 
 the position of city reporter for the Quincy 
 Daily Ledger ; and this position he still holds. 
 In the fall of 1892 he was engaged to repre- 
 sent the New England Associated Press in 
 Quincy and Milton ; and he was thus occupied 
 something over four years — until April, 1897, 
 when the association retired from business. 
 Immediately offered the post of correspondent 
 in Quincy and Milton for the Boston Tran- 
 script, Mr. Magee entered on his duties May i, 
 1897. He is affiliated with several well- 
 known secret organizations, being a member of 
 the Essenic Order and the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, etc. 
 
 On June 15, 1887, he married Fannie, 
 daughter of Charles Granderson and Mary 
 Frances (Merrill) Jackman. Mrs. Magee was 
 born in Boston, January 14, 1864. One of 
 her ancestors, Eli Conant, was a Lieutenant 
 in the Revolutionary army. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Magee have no children. 
 
 James Pennim.an, ancestor of the Penniman 
 family in America, was born in P^ngland. He 
 was admitted a freeman in the Massachusetts 
 Colony, March 6, 163 1. He married Lydia 
 Eliot, a sister of the "Apostle to the Indians, " 
 the Rev. John Eliot, with whom he came to 
 America on the ship "Lion" in 1631; and 
 the earliest known of him was in Braintree, 
 Mass. His descendants in direct line were: 
 Joseph,- James, ^ James, ■* Major Stephen,' 
 Stephen,*^ and Stephen.' 
 
 Stephen Pennimans was born in Braintree, 
 June 4, 1743, a son of James and Dorcas 
 (Vinton) Penniman. The Braintree town re- 
 ports and the Massachusetts archives at the 
 State-house are the sources from which his 
 military history has been complied. It is in 
 part as follows : — 
 
 He was Lieutenant in Colonel Benjamin 
 Lincoln's regiment of minute-men in April, 
 1775, and was Captain from April 28 to May
 
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 •95 
 
 25 that same year. On August 8, 1776, 
 he marched as Captain to join Colonel 
 Ebenezer Francis's regiment; and he was or- 
 dered to be commissioned September 26, 1776. 
 He was at one time Captain in Colonel Dike's 
 regiment, stationed at Dorchester Heights; 
 and, to quote directly from the archives, 
 " Stephen Penniman appears with the rank of 
 Major on the muster and pay roll of the field 
 and staff officers of the Massachusetts 
 
 regiment. Colonel Benjamin Gill for services 
 in re-enforcing General Gates at Northward 
 in 1777. Engaged September 15, 1777; dis- 
 charged November 29, 1777-" In 1779 he 
 was promoted to the rank of Colonel (Pat- 
 tee's History of Old Braintree). He married 
 Sarah Holbrook, January 25, 1765. They both 
 died in Washington, N.H. 
 
 Their son, Stephen Penniman," was born in 
 Braintree, January 15, 1768, and died in that 
 town, January 5, 1849. He was married in 
 1792 to Relief Thayer, of Braintree, who was 
 born July ig, 1774, and died August 26, 1861. 
 
 Stephen Penniman,'" son of Stephen and 
 Relief, was born in Braintree, August 25, 
 1800, and died in Quincy, March 25, 1864. 
 He married Caroline Veazie, who was born in 
 Quincy, April 26,1805, and died in the same 
 town. May 5, 1842. The following is a brief 
 record of their children: George was born in 
 
 1826, and died in 1850; Eliza, born about 
 
 1827, died about 1855 ; Caroline, born Febru- 
 ary 22, 1830, was married to Thomas Magee 
 in Quincy, August 5, 1851 (the parents of 
 George T. Magee) ; Stephen, born November 
 12, 183 1, married Melinda D. Bridgham, Oc- 
 tober 28, 1858; Henry, born in 1837, married 
 Mary Batchelder; William Wood, born Sep- 
 tember I, 1836, married Eliza A. Giles, 
 November 25, 1858; Martha Ann, born Sep- 
 tember I, 1836, is the wife of John W. 
 Moore. 
 
 IDWIN C. JENNEY, the Postmaster at 
 Hyde Park and an attorney-at-law, is a 
 most popular public official, having 
 won by his courtesy, accommodating spirit, and 
 attention to his responsible duties, a host of 
 friends and well-wishers. Born December 14, 
 1865, in Lakeville, Plymouth County, son of 
 
 Charles I^. Jenney, he is a descendant of John 
 Jenney, who came to the Plymouth Colony in 
 1 62 1, or, as is perhaps more correctly stated, 
 in 1623, in the ship " Little James," accom- 
 panied by his wife Sarah (whom he married in 
 Leyden in 1614) and three children — Samuel, 
 Abigail, and Sarah. On May 22, 1627, there 
 was a division of the cattle into twelve lots, 
 which were assigned in just proportion to the 
 colonists, who were divided into a correspond- 
 ing number of companies. The twelfth lot 
 fell to John Jenney and his company. Some 
 of the descendants of John Jenney are living 
 in I'lymouth at the present day. 
 
 Edwin Jenney, the grandfather of Edwin 
 C, was burn in New Bedford, where he was 
 engaged during the larger part of his active 
 years as a cooper. He subsequently removed 
 to Lakeville, where he died at the age of 
 eighty years. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Sarah Howland, bore him four children, 
 all of whom are still living. 
 
 Charles £. Jenney was born in New Bed- 
 ford, where he was educated, and afterward 
 learned the trade of a shoemaker. In his 
 young manhood he was engaged for a time as 
 a manufacturer of shoes in Middleboro, Mass. 
 Thence he removed to Brockton, accepting the 
 position of Chief of Police, which he held 
 many years. In 1882 he came to Hyde Park 
 to act in a similar capacity in this town, con- 
 tinuing at the head of the police force here 
 for about ten years. In 1889 he was appointed 
 Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County, an office in 
 which he has since served to the satisfaction 
 of all concerned. He married Alvira F. 
 Clark, who was born in Middleboro, one of the 
 four children of Zebulon Clark, a farmer of 
 that place. She reared four children, namely: 
 Charles F., an attorney, with offices in Hyde 
 Park and Boston; Edwin C. ; Mabel C. ; and 
 Lizzie K. Both parents are members of the 
 Baptist church. In politics the father is a 
 straightforward Republican. 
 
 Edwin C. Jenney obtained his elementary 
 education in the public schools of Middleboro 
 and Brockton. After graduating from the 
 Hyde Park High School, he went to work in 
 the post-office as a clerk, under Henry C. 
 Stark, remaining with him three years. He 
 subsequently took up the study of law, gradu-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ated from Boston University School of Law in 
 1890, and was duly admitted to the bar. Soon 
 after beginning practice in Hyde Tark, he 
 opened an office in Boston also, and con- 
 ducted both until appointed Postmaster in 
 October, 1894. Since then Mr. Jenney has 
 given undivided attention to his official duties. 
 Under his management the Hyde Park post- 
 office, which is one of the second class, has 
 greatly facilitated the business interests of the 
 place. His present force of assistants numbers 
 ten carriers, five substitutes, four clerks, and 
 one special delivery messenger, as against six 
 carriers, two substitutes, and three clerks when 
 he took the office. Within the past two years 
 stations have been established at Claren- 
 don Hills, Readville, and East River Street, 
 and stamp agencies at 140 Fairmount Avenue 
 and in the Hazelwood district. The territory 
 over which he has postal charge covers five 
 square miles, with a population of about four- 
 teen thousand people, which is rapidly increas- 
 ing, the town being one of the most prosperous 
 and important in the vicinity of Boston. 
 
 Mr. Jenney was married June 24, 1891, to 
 Miss Lora J. Pattee, who was born in New- 
 ton, Mass., daughter of Alonzo H. and Mary 
 B. (Brooks) Pattee. Mr. Jenney is a Demo- 
 crat in politics, being one of the strongest and 
 most active members of his party in this local- 
 ity. In 1891 and 1892 he was a candidate for 
 the State legislature on the Democratic ticket. 
 
 "ENRY BLACKMAN, an enterprising 
 farmer of Needham, was born in 
 Dorchester, Mass., September 8, 
 1823, son of Henry and Caroline 
 M. (Enslin) Blackman. The family came 
 originally from England, and settled in Dor- 
 chester, in which town Jonathan Blackman, 
 grandfather of Henry, was born, lived, and 
 died. Henry Blackman, father of the subject 
 of this sketch, was born in Dorchester in 
 1803. He was engaged for some time in the 
 junk business there, and carried on the same 
 business in Boston after becoming a resident 
 of Needham. He was also engaged in farm- 
 ing. He died January 26, 1863. His wife, 
 Caroline, who was born February 8, 1804, 
 
 and is now living in Needham, is a daughter 
 of John Frederick luislin, formerly of Boston. 
 
 Their son, Henry Blackman, was educated 
 in the public schools of Dorchester, pursuing 
 his studies until he was fifteen years of age, 
 when he came to Needham with his father, 
 and began working on the farm. He now 
 owns a farm of twenty-eight acres on Green- 
 dale Avenue, in the eastern part of Needham. 
 He makes a specialty of milk and pork, and 
 has also dealt quite extensively in wood. He 
 served the town as Selectman for two years, 
 has been Surveyor of Highways, was a fire en- 
 gineer for ten years, and also served as fire 
 warden. He attends the First Parish (Unita- 
 rian) Church, and was a member of the Stand- 
 ing Committee for a number of years. 
 
 Mr. Blackman married in 1870 Jane C. , a 
 daughter of David Young, of Loudon Centre, 
 N.H., and has had two children: Carrie M., 
 born in 1871, who married William Tilton, 
 and died in December, 1895; and Henry D., 
 born in 1874, who was educated in Comer's 
 Commercial School, married Mabel A. Dodge, 
 and now resides on the farm. 
 
 "ARRY W. SOUTHER, Postmaster at 
 Cohasset, his native place, was born 
 
 1^ I on November 29, 1862, son of An- 
 drew J. and Mehitable C. (Hart- 
 well) Souther. The family is one of the old- 
 est in this town. Probably the first of the 
 name in Massachusetts was Nathaniel Souther, 
 who was at Plymouth in 1636, and afterward 
 removed to Boston. 
 
 Andrew J. Souther, father of Harry W. , was 
 in his earlier years in the employ of the South 
 Shore Railroad as book-keeper, a vocation 
 which he followed until a few years ago. He 
 is still residing in Cohasset, his native town, 
 and is now in his sixty-eighth .year. He was 
 formerly active in public affairs, having served 
 as Town Clerk and Treasurer, and is a highly 
 respected citizen. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Mehitable C. Piartwell, was born in 
 Middleboro, Plymouth County, this State. 
 Her father was a lineal descendant of William 
 Hartwell, who settled in Concord, Mass., in 
 1636; and her mother was a descendant of
 
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 John Alden, who came over in the " May- 
 flower. 
 
 Seven children were born to Andrew J. and 
 Mehitable C. Souther, namely: Harry W., the 
 special subject of this sketch; Eleanor G. ; 
 Abbie H. ; Edward E. H. ; George \V. ; Kay 
 M. ; and Blanche M. 
 
 Harry W. Souther was educated in tiie com- 
 mon and high schools of Cohasset. After 
 comjdeting his studies he entered the employ 
 of Charles A. Gross & Co. as a clerk, and 
 gained the esteem and confidence of his em- 
 ployers, with whom he remained several years, 
 during which time he acquired a wide circle of 
 friends and acquaintances. He has been a 
 member of the Republican Town Committee 
 for a number of years ; was formerly Town 
 Auditor; was nominated Postmaster on July 2, 
 1897, and confirmed three days later. 
 
 Mr. Souther is a Past Master of Konohasset 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. He is connected with 
 Pentalpha Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and 
 South Shore Commandery, Knights Templars; 
 and is a member of Cohasset Lodge, No. 192, 
 Independent Order of Odd I-'ellows. 
 
 (3r^ 
 
 HAVEN BEARING, M.D., a well- 
 jl known and popular physician of Brain- 
 -^' tree, was born in Kittery, York 
 County, Me., son of Captain Roger and Lu- 
 cinda (Boston) Bearing, both of Maine. His 
 father was of English descent. He was for 
 many years a sea captain, afterward carrying 
 on commercial pursuits at Kittery and at 
 Portsmouth. Members of the family in Eng- 
 land have sat in Parliament and held high 
 offices. The town of Beering, N.H., was 
 named by Governor Wentworth, who married 
 one of this family. 
 
 Thomas Haven Bearing received his early 
 education in the common schools of Kittery 
 and in different New England academies, and 
 continued it under special tutors in special 
 college courses. His father met with finan- 
 cial reverses; and, in order to provide himself 
 with funds necessary to further study, the 
 young man taught school for some years in 
 Maine and New Hampshire. Ill health also 
 interrupted his student life, and obliged him 
 to take two sea voyages. He studied medi- 
 
 cine at the best colleges of Philadelphia, New 
 York, and Boston, and visited the principal 
 hospitals of Europe. Eirst settling in Bos- 
 ton, he was professor of surgery and derma- 
 tology in the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, for nearly six years was dean of 
 the college, and was assistant surgeon of a 
 Boston regiment. In the late war he was sur- 
 geon in one of the largest hospitals of Wash- 
 ington; and he is now an honorary member of 
 Company K, P'ifth Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Militia. 
 
 Since May, 1863, Br. Bearing has been a 
 resident physician of Braintree, and to-day 
 controls a large local practice, with a firmly 
 established reputation as physician and sur- 
 geon. He is president of the South Norfolk 
 Medical Society, a member of the American 
 Medical Association, ex ojficio vice-president 
 of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and a 
 member of the Harvard Alumni Association. 
 While a resident of Boston he was placed 
 upon the School Board of that city, has since 
 been for many years a member of the Braintree 
 Board, and for five years its chairman. He 
 has taken an active interest in the local 
 politics of the town, and is at the preserit 
 time a member of the Board of Water Com- 
 missioners. He is, and has been for a num- 
 ber of years, vice-president and a director of 
 the Braintree Co-operative Bank. In 1889 he 
 was elected to the House of Representatives. 
 He has always been associated with the Re- 
 publican party, and is a member of the Nor- 
 folk Republican Club, Boston. 
 
 He married Mary J. Jenkins, daughter of 
 the late Beacon Solon Jenkins, of Boston. 
 Four children were born of this union, 
 namely: Mary J., wife of C. E. Belcher, a 
 real estate dealer of Braintree; H. P'lora (de- 
 ceased); Frank H., with the firm of Barry, 
 Thayer & Co., well-known cotton merchants 
 of Boston; and Br. Henry L., who is a gen- 
 eral practitioner of Braintree, also making 
 a specialty of diseases of women and children. 
 The younger son is also a member of the 
 Braintree School Board. His present (sec- 
 ond) wife, Helen A., is the daughter of J. W. 
 Nevers, an engineer of Charlestown. 
 
 Br. Bearing is a member of the First Con- 
 greoational Church. He is well known in
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 musical circles, is a member of the Union 
 Musical Choral Society of Braintree and its 
 president, and is also identified with the 
 Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical 
 society in the country and one of the largest, 
 of which he has been president. He was for 
 many years the chorister of the Congregational 
 church. The Doctor is identified with the 
 Masonic order, and with the Knights of 
 Honor, and is a member of the Boston and the 
 Braintree Pine-tree Clubs, being president of 
 the latter organization; also at the present 
 time vice-president of the Massachusetts So- 
 ciety of that name. Needless to .say, both 
 professionally and socially, he enjoys a very 
 wide and extended acquaintance. He has al- 
 ways been a strong advocate of temperance, 
 and upon appropriate occasions has delivered 
 lectures on this subject, thus gaining an added 
 reputation in the vicinity. 
 
 LBERT DAVENPORT, of Hyde Park, 
 
 one of the largest retail milk dealers 
 in this section of Norfolk County, 
 was born November i, 1855, in the 
 neighboring town of Canton, which was also 
 the birthplace of his father, Charles Daven- 
 port. His grandfather, John Davenport, who 
 was born and brought up in Milton, Mass., re- 
 moved to Canton, where, until his death at 
 the age of eighty years, he was engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits on the farm that now 
 forms a part of the J. M. P^orbes estate. 
 
 Charles Davenport, one of a family of 
 seven children, with them was reared on the 
 parental homestead. Like his father, he has 
 followed the occupation of farmer; and now, a 
 hale and hearty man of seventy-two years, he 
 resides on his homestead. Green Lodge farm, 
 one of the most attractive estates in Canton. 
 His wife, in maidenhood Mary Davenport, a 
 daughter of Jesse Davenport, has borne him 
 five sons and two daughters, of whom the 
 daughters are deceased. The sons are: 
 Charles E. , who is engaged in the ice busi- 
 ness at Readville; Albert, the subject of, this 
 sketch; Jesse E. ; Roger S. ; and Warren J. 
 Both the father and mother are exemplary 
 Universalists. 
 
 Albert Davenport obtained a practical edu- 
 
 cation in the common schools of Canton. In 
 his boyhood he became familiar with farm 
 work. When a young man he entered into 
 the ice business in company with his brother 
 Charles, continuing ten years, when the part- 
 nership was dissolved. In 1891 he estab- 
 lished his present business, commencing on a 
 modest scale. His route at first covered but 
 a small territory, and tiiirty-one eight-quart 
 cans were sufficient to supply milk to his cus- 
 tomers. He is now one of the largest of the 
 eleven dealers in Hyde Park, as far as trade is 
 concerned, running two wagons in Hyde Park 
 alone. In the business he disposes of the 
 milk product of nine dairy farms, or eight 
 hundred quarts per day. 
 
 On June i, 1879, Mr. Davenport married 
 Miss Annie £. Forknall, who was born and 
 bred in Boston, where her father, William S. 
 Forknall, now a resident of Needham, was 
 then engaged as a woollen manufacturer. 
 They have a family of six daughters; namely, 
 Edna F., Hattie E., Myrtle F., Annie M., 
 Norma A., and Alberta E. Mr. Davenport is 
 a steadfast Republican in politics. He is a 
 member and one of the trustees of I'orest 
 Lodge, No. 148; and Monterey Encampment, 
 No. 60, I. O. O. F. ; a member of the 
 American Legion of Honor; of the Ridley 
 Protective Association of Worcester; and of 
 the Waverly Club of Hyde Park. Both he 
 and his wife are in communion with the Evan- 
 gelical Society of Readville. 
 
 ^JON. JAMES T. STEVENS, a well- 
 known manufacturer of South Brain- 
 tree, was born in this town, June 
 20, 1835, son of Benjamin Stevens, 
 an Englishman, and Elizabeth (Austin) 
 Stevens, who was a native of Nova Scotia. 
 
 At the age of twelve years, after attending 
 school in Braintree for a time, and taking a 
 short course at the Hollis Academy, he began 
 to work for his living in a tack factory of 
 South Braintree. He industriously followed 
 this line of occupation afterward until he was 
 able to go into business for himself. In 
 1870, in company with George D. Willis, he 
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 and nails at South Braintree, under the firm 
 name of J. T. Stevens & Co., which was after- 
 wards changed to that of Stevens & Willis. 
 This enterprise has proved most successful. 
 The factory, well situated on the Monatiquot 
 River, is fitted up with the best of machinery. 
 He is also interested in the Co-operative 
 Bank of Braintree, of which he was one of the 
 incorporators, and has since been the presi- 
 dent; and he is a trustee of the Braintree 
 Savings Bank. 
 
 For several years before the breaking out of 
 the Civil War, Mr. Stevens was connected 
 with the State militia, and held the rank of 
 First Lieutenant. He responded to President 
 Lincoln's first call for troops, and, as First 
 Lieutenant of his company, saw service for 
 three months at different stations in Virginia. 
 He was subsequently made Captain of Com- 
 pany I, Forty-second Regiment, Massachu- 
 setts Volunteer Infantry, and served at the 
 front in Virginia. As a young man Mr. 
 Stevens developed strong musical tastes, and 
 was long an active member of the Braintree 
 Glee Club. During Gilmore's Peace Jubilee 
 in Boston he served as the president of the 
 Braintree Musical Society, an organization 
 which aided materially in the success of the 
 great Jubilee. A strong Republican, he has 
 been before the public eye in various offices 
 of trust for many years past. He has served 
 as chief engineer of the fire dejiartment. In 
 1876 he was Braintree's Representative to the 
 General Court: and he has been for many 
 years the chairman of the Board of Water 
 Commissioners and of the Board of Trustees 
 of the Sinking Fund. In 1888 he was elected 
 State Senator, and served for two terms. 
 
 Mr. Stevens married Myra F. Willis, a 
 daughter of George W. Willis, late of Brain- 
 tree, and by her has two children — - George 
 W. and Idella F. His daughter is now the 
 wife of Louis W. Thayer. Mr. Stevens is an 
 esteemed Mason of Delta Lodge of Weymouth, 
 having membership with the Pentalpha Chap- 
 ter and the South Shore Commandery. 
 Fleeted First Commander of General Sylvanus 
 Thayer Post, No. 87, G. A. R., he held that 
 office for three consecutive terms. Mr. 
 Stevens is also one of the trustees of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 ERMON B. MILLER, one of the 
 leading farmers of Franklin, Mass., 
 a son of Elkanah and Lsabella 
 (Battles) Miller, was born in the 
 house where he now lives, March 23, 1823. 
 His father, Elkanah Miller, son of Jesse 
 Miller, lived in l-"ranklin for a time after mar- 
 riage; but in 1824 he moved to Augusta, Me., 
 where he continued his labors as a tiller of 
 the soil. His first wife, Lsabella Battles, of 
 North Bridge water, now Brockton, Mass., bore 
 him seven children, namely: Hermon, the 
 subject of this sketch; Catharine, the widow 
 of Eliphalet Cooper, now living in Augusta; 
 and Harriet Richardson, William, Adeline, 
 Thurston (who went to California), and 
 Charlotte .Skillings, all of whom have passed 
 from earth. Mrs. Isabella B, Miller died in 
 1840; and Mr. Elkanah Miller married for his 
 second wife Mrs. Deborah Gleason, now de- 
 ceased. He died in Augusta in November, 
 1880. 
 
 Hermon B. Miller was taken by his parents 
 to Augusta when he was but one year old; and 
 he there grew to maturity, and received his 
 education in the jjublic schools. Learning 
 the blacksmith's trade at the age of eighteen, 
 he subsequently worked at the anvil in Au- 
 gusta and elsewhere in Maine for about two 
 years. When he was in his twenty-first year 
 he went to New Bedford, Mass., where he re- 
 mained about three years. After that he 
 worked at his trade for three years in West 
 Medway, a year in Woonsocket, R.I., and for 
 seven years in Blackstone. Obliged then on 
 account of his poor health to change hi« occu- 
 pation, he bought his present farm in P'rank- 
 lin, Mass. Industrious and enterprising, he 
 has made many improvements on the place, 
 which contains about seventy-five acres of 
 land. He now works at farming altogether. 
 
 While living in Blackstone, Mr. Miller 
 held the office of Constable; and since he has 
 lived in P'ranklin he has served on the police 
 force of the town. In politics Mr. Miller is 
 an Independent, believing in putting the best 
 man in office. 
 
 Mr. Miller was married September 4, 1845. 
 to Mary Wadsworth, a daughter of Seth and 
 Olive (Metcalf) Wadsworth, of Franklin. 
 Mrs. Miller died April 10, 1897. She was
 
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 the mother of five children, as follows: Mary 
 I., born Au<iust 25, 1848, now the widow of 
 George F. VVadsworth, and living at the pa- 
 ternal home; Olive W., born June i, 1858, 
 and George H., born May 25, i860, both liv- 
 ing at home; and twins, Arthur O. and Alice 
 O., born March 2, 1863. Alice O. died May 
 10, 1896; and Arthur is working in a straw 
 shop in Jtoston. 
 
 ALBERT SIMPSON, of East Milton, 
 the treasurer of the Granite Railway 
 Company, whose headquarters are at 
 166 Devonshire Street, Boston, was 
 born in Quincy, Mass., November 12, 1848. 
 He is a son of John A. and Mahala L. (Wig- 
 gin) Simpson. The Simpson family is of 
 Scotch origin. John A. Simpson, who was 
 born in Greenland, N.H., resided in Quincy 
 for a number of years, and was there engaged 
 in the transportation of granite. He served 
 on the Building Committee under whose di- 
 rection the present city hall in Quincy was 
 erected. A Democrat before the Civil War, 
 he became a Republican after it. He died in 
 1S62. His wife, a native of New Market, 
 N.H., is still living. Of their family five are 
 living, namely: John A., in Newfields, N.H. ; 
 Mary E., the wife of Jonas W. Jewett, of 
 Hartland, Me. ; Emma L., the wife of Charles 
 Leavitt, of Quincy, Mass. ; Addie L. , the 
 wife of Thomas L. Pcarce, of East Milton, 
 Mass. ; and Charles F. 
 
 J. Albert Simpson was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Quincy, finishing with the high 
 school. When he was fourteen years of age 
 his parents moved to East Milton, where he 
 has since resided. At the age of fifteen he 
 obtained a position as clerk in a millinery 
 store of Boston. There he remained three 
 years, and then for some time he was clerk in 
 a Quincy store. During the ensuing four 
 years he worked at paper-hanging and paint- 
 ing, and for several years after he was a clerk 
 in East Milton. In 1882 he was employed as 
 book-keeper by the Granite Railway Com- 
 l)any. He served in this capacity until 1890, 
 when he was elected the treasurer of the com- 
 pany. An able businessman, he is well fitted 
 for his important position. 
 
 Married in 1882 to Ela M., daughter of 
 William Balch, late of Bcston, Mass., Mr. 
 Simpson has two .sons — George A. and Will- 
 iam B. In politics he is a Republican. For 
 nine successive years he was Selectman of 
 Milton, and for five years he was chairman of 
 the board. During the first six years of his 
 service on the board he was Assessor, Sur- 
 veyor of Highways, and Overseer of the Poor. 
 For two years he was Sewer Commissioner of 
 Milton. An esteemed Mason, he belongs to 
 Macedonian Lodge, F. & A. M., of Milton; 
 and he is an Odd Fellow of Dorchester Lodge, 
 No. 158. He is a member of the Baptist 
 church at East Milton, and was chairman of 
 the Building Committee that had charge of 
 the erection of the present church edifice. 
 
 rOHN ADAMS TILTON, a leading 
 business man of Needham, is a native 
 of the Granite State. Born on the 
 Tilton farm at Deerfield in the year 
 1 86 1, he belongs to the fifth generation of the 
 family that has occupied the Tilton home- 
 stead. His first ancestor in this country, who 
 settled in New Hampshire, was one of three 
 brothers that came from Tilton, England. 
 The others severally settled in Maine and 
 Massachusetts. The grandfather of John A., 
 Josiah B. Tilton, was a prominent farmer of 
 Deerfield, engaged extensively in market gar- 
 dening. He married Nancy Adams, who was 
 a cousin of John Adams, the second President 
 of the United States. Grandfather Tilton 
 was prominently identified with all public 
 movements in his native town, and was Dep- 
 uty Sheriff and Justice of the Peace for many 
 years. Albert Tilton, son of Josiah, born in 
 1-835, has always been engaged in agricult- 
 ure. He married Emma, daughter of George 
 W. Manning, a retired business man of New- 
 buryport, Mass., and with his wife is now liv- 
 ing at Needham. 
 
 John A. Tilton was educated in the town 
 schools of Deerfield. After leaving school, 
 he worked on his father's farm until he was 
 sixteen years of age. Then he began learn- 
 ing the blacksmith's trade with Edward I"". 
 Manning, of Newburyport, Mass., remaining 
 with him for three years. Afterward he car-
 
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 207 
 
 ried on a general blacksmith business for some 
 five years at Deerfield. In 1883 he came to 
 Needham, where he has since resided. For 
 about three years he worked at farming. In 
 1891 he went into the grain business, which 
 he has since followed. He deals extensively 
 in grain, flour, hay, coal, and wood. By his 
 fair dealing and prompt delivery he has built 
 up a prosperous and growing business. 
 
 In 1S82 Mr. Tilton was united in marriage 
 with Lucy, daughter of Caleb C. Crawley, of 
 East Boston, Mass. He has two children, 
 namely: Marion E., born in 1888, now at- 
 tending the Kimball Intermediate School; 
 and Ruth A., born in 1896. In politics Mr. 
 Tilton supports the Republican party. 
 
 DWIN N. MAYBERRY, M.D., a 
 leading physician and surgeon of South 
 Weymouth, was born in Edgartown, 
 Mass., February 1 8, 1858, son of Dr. Edwin 
 and Leonora (Hall) Mayberry. His father 
 was a practising physician of Edgartown for 
 twenty-five years. He removed to East Wey- 
 mouth late in life, and there followed his pro- 
 fession for several years previous to his death, 
 which occurred in 1895. Four of his chil- 
 dren survive, namely: a daughter, the wife of 
 H. N. Allin, an attorney of Waltham, Mass. ; 
 Dr. Edwin N. ; George L. , a lawyer of Wal- 
 tham and an ex-Mayor of that city; and Dr. 
 Charles B., connected with the State Hospital 
 at Danville, Pa. 
 
 Edwin N. Mayberry fitted for college at 
 Edgartown, and began the study of medicine 
 under the instruction of his father. He took 
 the regular course at the Medical School of 
 the University of Vermont, graduating in the 
 class of 1882, afterward taking post-graduate 
 studies at the Harvard University Medical 
 School. After a brief period of professional 
 experience, partly at Saugus and partly at 
 West Warren, Mass., in December, 1885, he 
 came to South Weymouth, where he estab- 
 lished himself in a large and lucrative prac- 
 tice. He married Fannie E. Lowry, of Bur- 
 lington, Vt. 
 
 Dr. Mayberry is a member of the State 
 Medical Society, and has served officially as 
 censor and counsellor of that body. He has 
 
 been for several years a Deacon of the Union 
 Congregational church at South Weymouth. 
 He was one of the organizers of the South 
 Weymouth Co-operative Bank, and has from 
 the first been a director of the bank. A mem- 
 ber of the Wildey Lodge, I. O. O. F., he is 
 now a Past Grand of that lodge. He is also 
 associated with the Grand Lodge of the State. 
 The Doctor is a medical examiner for the 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
 York, for the North-western Life Insurance 
 Company of Milwaukee, Wis., for the Penn 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company of I'hiladel- 
 phia, the National Life Insurance Company 
 of Montpelier, the State Mutual Life In- 
 surance Company of Worcester, the Massa- 
 chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of 
 Springfield, Mass., and also for several other 
 companies in Maine and Connecticut. 
 
 /^TeORGE WOODBURY MORTON, a 
 \ '•) I naval veteran of the Civil War and 
 a prominent real estate dealer of 
 Quincy, was born here, May 2, i84i, in the 
 old Morton homestead on the corner of Cod- 
 dington and Spear Streets. A son of the late 
 William Sa.xton Morton, he is a lineal de- 
 scendant of George and Sarah (Bradford) Mor- 
 ton. This George Morton came to America 
 in the ship "Ann," which arrived in Plym- 
 outh Harbor from England in July, 1623, 
 being the third vessel after the "Mayflower" 
 to reach this part of the coast. He and a Mr. 
 Hathaway were spoken of by William Pierce, 
 the commander of the "Ann" as two of his 
 principal passengers. With him were his 
 wife, who was a sister of Governor Brad- 
 ford, and his four children. One of the 
 latter, Nathaniel Morton, subsequently served 
 the colony as its Secretary, and was the author 
 of the "New England Memorial," a brief his- 
 torical volume. 
 
 William Sa.xton Morton, a son of Joseph 
 and Mary (Wheeler) Morton, born in Rox- 
 bury, Mass., September 22, 1809, died in 
 Ouincy, September 21, 1871. He was well 
 educated, having studied at the Phillips Exe- 
 ter Academy in New Hampshire and later at 
 Harvard College, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1831. Among his classmates at Har-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 vard were the celebrated Wendell Phillips; 
 the late ex-Mayor Shurtleff, of Boston; and 
 others who attained eminence in business or 
 professional life. After spending a short 
 time abroad, he commenced the study of law 
 in the office of Sidney Bartlett, and subse- 
 quently entered upon the legal profession at 
 Amherst, N.H., under the auspices of the 
 Hon. Perley Dodge, then Clerk of Courts in 
 that locality. In 1840 he settled in Quincy, 
 where he continued his professional labors 
 until his demise, becoming one of the leading 
 members of the bar. He served many years 
 as Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of 
 Insolvency, and he was also Trial Justice for 
 a time. He was one of the prime movers in 
 the formation of many of the leading business 
 and financial organizations of this locality, 
 and through his wise efforts their future suc- 
 cess was attained. He was a charter member 
 of the Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany, which was established in 1850, and, 
 being soon after chosen its president, served 
 in that capacity throughout the rest of his 
 life, his activity in its behalf placing it 
 among the foremost offices of the kind in New 
 England. His name also headed the list of 
 incorporators of the Mount Wollaston Na- 
 tional Bank, established in 1853, and of which 
 he wa.*; for several years a director. In 1850 
 he was a Representative to the General Court, 
 and during that year he was a delegate to the 
 Constitutional Convention. He took a deep 
 interest in the cause of education, being espe- 
 cially interested in the advancement of the 
 public-school system, and was for some years 
 a member of the local .School Board and a 
 trustee of Milton Academy. While at Har- 
 vard, the memories of which period he fondly 
 cherished, he cultivated a taste for poetical 
 literature that afterward bore fruit in the form 
 of contributions to the leading periodicals of 
 the day. He was of a sunny, genial disposi- 
 tion, hospitable and generous almost to a 
 fault, with sympathies that were quickly 
 aroused by any call of distress. In him the 
 deserving poor found a friend prompt to alle- 
 viate their wants, and few seeking his aid 
 went away empty-handed. At the home fire- 
 side, surrounded by his family, in whom was 
 centred his greatest happiness, his endearing 
 
 qualities of heart and mind shone brightest. 
 When the tocsin of war souniled through the 
 land, his patriotic blood was aroused to the 
 highest enthusiasm; and he bravely surren- 
 dered two of his sons to his country, sending 
 them forth to assist in sustaining the nation's 
 honor and flag. While his life was not un- 
 marked by sorrow, it was brightened by a firm 
 belief in a happy future, as exjiressed by him- 
 self in the following stanzas: — 
 
 Twilight shades are gathering round me. 
 
 And the night is coming on : 
 Peering from their homes of azure, 
 
 ("ileam the star fires one l)y one. 
 
 As 1 sit in silence lonely, 
 
 .Musing o'er the dying da\. 
 With its shadows come the memories 
 
 Of the dear ones passed away. 
 
 On the farther shore, united. 
 
 They have met, and will not part. 
 Clinging to each other's bosoms, 
 
 Hand to hand and heart to heart. 
 
 Radiant in that land of glory. 
 
 Waiting are our angel train. 
 Death, for me thou hast no terrors : 
 
 I shall meet my loved again. 
 
 The union of William S. Morton with Mar)' 
 Jane Woodbury Grimes was solemnized on 
 October 3, 1839, ^^ ^^^ Stone Chapel, Boston. 
 She was born in Francestown, N.H., Febru- 
 ary 19, 1 82 1, daughter of Thomas Grimes. 
 Her children were: Joseph William, born at 
 Amherst, N.H., July 22, 1840, who died at 
 Quincy, Mass., December 17, 1865; George 
 Woodbury, the subject of this sketch; Mary, 
 born June 17, 1844; Arthur Austerfield, born 
 January 11, 1847, who died March 24, 1854; 
 Martha Woodbury, born December 25, 1849, 
 who died April 26, 1870; Arthur Austerfield 
 (second), born July 22, 1855, died December 
 17, 1890; and Sarah Josephine, born August 
 12, 1858. Joseph William, the first-born, was 
 fitted for college under the tuition of Profes- 
 sor Jenks, of Middleboro, with whom he sub- 
 sequently visited the principal cities of Europe. 
 In the spring of 1859 he entered the Harvard 
 Law School, in which he pursued his studies 
 until after the breaking out of the late war. 
 Abandoning then his personal ambitions, he 
 enlisted as a private in the Fourth Massachu-
 
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 setts Volunteer Cavalry, which was at once sent 
 to Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico. For 
 meritorious conduct he was promoted to the 
 rank of Second Lieutenant; and at the battle 
 of Baton Rouge, August 5, 1862, owing to the 
 illness or absence of higher officers, he was 
 commanding officer of the cavalry there en- 
 gaged, and was soon after made First Lieuten- 
 ant. On account of sickness the young Lieu- 
 tenant returned home for a short furlough. 
 Going back to New Orleans before he had re- 
 covered his health, he was forced to come 
 home a second time, whereupon he resigned 
 his commission. Governor Andrew subse- 
 quently asked him to raise a company of men. 
 Having complied with the request, he was 
 made Captain of Company D, Fourth Massa- 
 chusetts Cavalry, and sent to Hilton Head 
 with his men, arriving there April i, 1S64. 
 He then went to Jacksonville, thence to 
 Gainesville. In Gainesville he was taken 
 prisoner on August 8, 1864; and with other 
 captives he was carried to Macon, then to Au- 
 gusta, whence he was marched to Anderson- 
 ville. He was subsequently sent to Charles- 
 ton, and thence to Columbia, S.C. While 
 here he escaped from prison, and found pro- 
 tection within the lines of Sherman's army. 
 Subsequently he was assigned to duty on the 
 staff of General Blair, of the Seventeenth 
 Army Corps. With his health completely 
 undermined by the hardships of army and 
 prison life, he died a few months after he was 
 mustered out of service. 
 
 Mary Morton, the eldest daughter of Will- 
 iam Saxton Morton, married Jesse P. Wood- 
 bury, of Francestown, N.H., his birthplace. 
 He was a paymaster in the United States 
 Navy during the war. Their children were: 
 Mary Morton, born December 16, 1868; Jesse 
 D., born May 7, 1871; Martha Morton, born 
 July 9, 1872; Edith, born February 5, 1874; 
 and William Sa.xton Morton, born September 
 25, 1876, who died June 17, 1880. Sarah 
 Josephine, the youngest child of William Sax- 
 ton Morton, was married October 2, 1885, to 
 Frederick H. Smith, of Quincy. 
 
 George Woodbury Morton enlisted in the 
 United States Navy when nineteen years old, 
 and on September 25, 1861, was appointed 
 acting assistant paymaster. On October 10 
 
 of that year he reported for duty on board the 
 United States steamer "R. B. Forbes," at 
 Hampton Roads, Virginia, where Commodore 
 S. F. Dupont was fitting out a squadron. A 
 few days later the Commodore, with his fleet, 
 set sail for Port Royal, where he arrived after 
 a very stormy passage in which several vessels 
 were disabled and some lost. On November 
 7 the squadron, headed by Commodore 
 Dupont in the frigate "Wabash," made an 
 attack on F'orts Beauregard and Walker, which 
 they captured after five hours of fighting. 
 The "Forbes," being disabled, was towed to 
 New York navy-yard by the steamship "At- 
 lantic" for repairs. On the 23d of P'ebruary, 
 1862, her repairs being completed, she was 
 sent to New Orleans to join Admiral F'arra- 
 gut's squadron; but, encountering bad weather 
 on the way, she was wrecked and burned three 
 days after leaving New York. Mr. Morton 
 was on board the "Roanoke," waiting orders 
 during the memorable engagement between 
 the "Merrrimac" and the "Monitor" on 
 March 9, 1862. Three days later he reported 
 for duty to Lieutenant Commander Henry K. 
 Davenport, on board the "Hetzel," at New- 
 bern, N.C. He remained on the "Hetzel" 
 three years, and afterward served under Cap- 
 tain John J. Almy, on the "Juniata," stationed 
 first at Fort Fisher and then at Port Royal, 
 S.C. In May, 1865, the "Juniata" sailed for 
 Bermuda, thence to the Cape de Verde Islands, 
 Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Janeiro, Montevideo, 
 Buenos Ayres, and to the coast of West Africa, 
 stopping at Loanda, Benguela, and at Great and 
 Little Fish Bay. On the homeward trip the 
 "Juniata" put in at St. Helena, Montevideo, 
 Buenos Ayres, and Rio Janeiro. In the last- 
 mentioned place Mr. Morton was detached 
 from the vessel, and ordered home, to which 
 he returned by way of London, and received 
 his honorable discharge June 9, 1867. Since 
 that time he has been actively identified with 
 the real estate interests of Quincy, conducting 
 a successful business. 
 
 On February 3, 1887, Mr. Morton married 
 Mrs. Lydia Lincoln (Averill) Follett, a 
 daughter of the late Thomas W. Averill. The 
 maiden name of Mrs. Morton's mother was 
 Lydia Lincoln Souther. A further ancestral 
 history of Mrs. Morton's maternal relatives
 
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 may be found in connection with the sketch of 
 Edward B. Souther, a brother of her mother. 
 The Souther family has been noted for longev- 
 ity. An aunt of Mrs. Morton's mother, 
 named Lydia Souther, lived to the remarkable 
 age of one hundred years and three months. 
 Mr. Morton is a stanch Republican in poli- 
 tics. In the years of 1890, 1891, and 1892 
 he was a member of the City Council, and 
 served on the Finance Committee of that 
 body. He has served as commodore, secre- 
 tary, and treasurer of the Ouincy Yacht Club, 
 of which he was a charter member. An ac- 
 complished sportsman, he is equally expert 
 with the gun and rod. He spends his sum- 
 mers at his residence, called the Red Lion, 
 at Hough's Neck, where he and his many 
 friends find ample amusement and pleasure. 
 
 [DGAR H. BOWERS, an influential 
 resident of Needham, was born in 
 Framingham, Middlesex County, on 
 the 23d day of May, 1837, son of Francis 
 and Elmira (Rice) Bowers. His grand- 
 father, Samuel Bowers, was a native of 
 Groton, Mass. The father, who was also born 
 in Groton, and lived to be seventy years of 
 age, died in 1861. By occupation he was 
 a general farmer. The mother was a daugh- 
 ter of Ezra Rice, and a lineal descendant of 
 Edmund Rice, who came to this country in 
 1638, bringing eight sons. 
 
 Edgar H. Bowers was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of his native town, graduating 
 from the high school in 1852. Then he went 
 to work at the shoe business in Framingham. 
 In i860 he came to Needham, and was here 
 engaged for six years in the grocery business. 
 He subsequently, with Galen Orr, his father- 
 in-law, under the name of Galen Orr & Co., 
 went into the manufacture of blind trimmings, 
 their factory being at Needham, and their 
 customers including jobbers and retail dealers 
 throughout New England and as far West as 
 California. Mr. Bowers was elected Assessor 
 of Needham in 1885 and 1887, and served 
 seven years in all, being for two years the 
 chairman of the board, and for the remainder 
 of the time its clerk. I'rom 1892 to 1895 he 
 served the town as Selectman. He was again 
 
 elected to that office in March, 1897, and is 
 now the chairman of the board. In Norfolk 
 Lodge, v. & A. M., he is a Past Master and 
 the present secretary. In politics he is a 
 Democrat, with a tendency to independence. 
 He is a member of the I""irst Congregational 
 Church, and has been a chorister therein for a 
 number of years. Taking a deep interest in 
 the temperance question, he was for many 
 years a member of the Sons of Temperance. 
 Since 1868 he has been a Justice of the 
 Peace. After serving in the capacity of Post- 
 master from 1885 to 1889, under President 
 Cleveland's first administration, he resigned in 
 favor of his assistant. 
 
 In 1861 Mr. Bowers married Mary E. Orr, 
 eldest daughter of Galen and Mary A. (Smith) 
 Orr, of Needham. Galen Orr, whose name is 
 highly honored in this section, was one of the 
 representative business men of Needham. He 
 was a descendant of Hugh Orr, born in Loch- 
 winnoch, Scotland, on June 2, 1715, who 
 came to this country, and settled in East 
 Bridgewater, dying there on December 6, 
 1798. Hugh is said to have made the first 
 cannon barrel from a solid casting; and this 
 weapon, it is alleged, was afterward used in 
 the Revolutionary War. He was a member of 
 the Massachusetts .Senate, and was a manu- 
 facturer of cotton machinery. Galen Orr's 
 parents were Thomas Orr, of Bridgewater, and 
 Rachel (Bullen) Orr, who belonged to Need- 
 ham. Galen was born in Shirley, Mass. 
 After receiving a meagre school training, he 
 began in very early life to be self-supporting. 
 He learned the trade of nail-cutting, and then 
 became a blacksmith. In 1839 he estab- 
 lished the business which still bears his 
 name. In 1864 he represented the Four- 
 teenth Norfolk District in the General Court 
 of Massachusetts; was Selectman and Over- 
 seer of the Poor of Needham for eight con- 
 secutive years, dating from 1855; and was 
 elected again in 1872, and became the chair- 
 man of the board. In 1869 he was elected 
 Special County Commissioner, and served for 
 three years; and in 1871 he was elected 
 County Commissioner, and served until 1880. 
 He was president of the Needham Savings 
 Bank and a most liberal supporter of the First 
 Congregational Church Society. Though not
 
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 a church member, he was deeply interested in 
 the welfare of the society, furnished the church 
 organ, and was for many years the organist. 
 His noble and upright character were recog- 
 nized and appreciated, and his natural kindli- 
 ness of heart won for him the lasting gratitude 
 of many whom he had hel]3ed. In politics he 
 was a Republican. Mr. Orr was married in 
 1837 to Mary Ann, daughter of Luther Smith, 
 and had a family of one son and three 
 daughters. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bowers have had three chil- 
 dren — -Howard Francis, Willie S., and Alls- 
 ton Rice. Howard, who was born in 1861, 
 died in 1894; Willie died in 1872, when four 
 years old; Allston, born in November, 1874, 
 after passing through the grammar and high 
 schools of Needham, took a course in the Mas- 
 sachusetts Institute of Technology, and is 
 now book-keeper for the Union Cycle Com- 
 pany of Needham. 
 
 kARCUS P. HODGES, a success- 
 ful agriculturist and dairyman of 
 Foxboro, Mass., was born Oc- 
 tober 13, 1S25, on the farm where 
 he now resides; and his father, Benjamin 
 Hodges, Jr., was born on the same place, al- 
 though the farm was at that earlier time in- 
 cluded within the limits of the town of 
 Sharon. 
 
 The family is of English extraction, the 
 emigrant ancestor having been William 
 Hodges, who settled in Taunton, Mass., as 
 early as 1643, ^"d died there eleven years 
 later. He was one of the original owners of 
 the Taunton Iron Works. By his wife, Mary, 
 a daughter of Henry Andrews, he had two 
 sons: John, born in 1650; and Henry, born 
 in 1652. From Henry Hodges, who was a 
 Deacon in the church and Captain in the mi- 
 litia, and who married Esther Gallop, Mr. 
 Marcus P. Hodges is descended, the succes- 
 sive ancestors being: Henry, Jr., of the third 
 generation; his son Josiah ; Benjamin, Sr. ; 
 and Benjamin, Jr. 
 
 In his early manhood Benjamin Hodges, 
 Sr., son of Josiah Hodges, was a lifelong 
 farmer. By dint of patient and persevering 
 labor he cleared a large tract in what is now 
 
 Foxboro, and, having replaced the original 
 log cabin by a substantial frame house, here 
 sjicnt his declining years, dying at the age of 
 threescore and ten. He was a minute-man of 
 the Revolution, was called into service at dif- 
 ferent times, and was on guard when Dorches- 
 ter Heights was fortified. His first wife, 
 I'^sther Allen, whom he married in 1772, was 
 a daughter of Robert and Ruth (H'isher) 
 Allen, of Walpole. She died in 1780, having 
 been the mother of three children — Sewall, 
 Daniel, and Esther. His second wife, mar- 
 ried in 1783, was Miriam Pratt, daughter of 
 Josiah and Abigail (Williams) Pratt. She 
 was the mother of six children: Hannah, born 
 1784; Rachel; Joseph; Benjamin, Jr. ; Anna, 
 born in 1791; and James, born 1794, died in 
 infancy. Benjamin Hodges, Sr. , died in 
 1 8 14. His wife, Miriam, died December 31, 
 1825. 
 
 Benjamin Hodges, Jr., was brought up on 
 the home farm, and here spent his long and 
 busy life of ninety-three years. He worked at 
 the cooper's trade in conjunction with general 
 farming, and was also a charcoal burner for 
 many years. To him and his wife, Hannah 
 Talbot, six children were born, namely: Ben- 
 jamin F., who died in 1895; Emeline; Lucy; 
 Lewis, who died in infancy; Marcus Pratt; 
 and Catherine F. Emeline, who lives with 
 her brother, Marcus P., is the widow of the 
 late S. L. Boyden, and the mother of four 
 children: Hannah E. ; Charles L., a private 
 in Company F", F"ourth Massachusetts Volun- 
 teer Infantry, who was wounded in battle, 
 and died in New Orleans; Benjamin F . ; and 
 Amos. Lucy, the widow of Asahel Dean, has 
 two children — Marcus E. and Anna. Cath- 
 erine, who lives in Chelsea, Mass., is the 
 wife of Nahum Dunbar, and has three chil- 
 dren — Mary Louisa, Charles G., and Annie. 
 
 Marcus P. Hodges was educated in the dis- 
 trict schools, and on the homestead farm ob- 
 tained a practical knowledge of the various 
 branches of industry included in agriculture. 
 On leaving school he began working for his 
 brother Benjamin, remaining with him, how- 
 ever, but a short time. He then returned to 
 the old homestead, and at his father's death 
 inherited a portion of the paternal acres. He 
 owns forty acres of tillable land, and has in
 
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 addition a large and valuable wood lot. He 
 carries on general farming, making somewhat 
 a specialty of dairying, keeping about twenty 
 cows the entire year. 
 
 Mr. Hodges cast his first Presidential vote 
 in 1848 for Zachary Taylor. He is an ear- 
 nest advocate of the principles of the Republi- 
 can party, but has never been an aspirant for 
 political honors, although he has served as 
 Highway Surveyor, and has been a member of 
 the jury on several occasions. 
 
 TT^HARLES WILLIAMS HODGES, 
 I Ky real estate dealer of Foxboro, Mass., 
 \%) has been closely identified with the 
 business interests of this section of 
 Norfolk County for forty years, and has ma- 
 terially assisted in advancing the growth and 
 prosperity of the town in which he has so long 
 resided. He was born September 12, 1823, 
 on the same farm in Norton, Bristol County, 
 that was the birthplace of his father, Williams 
 Hodges. 
 
 Concerning his early ancestors in this coun- 
 try we glean a few particulars from the ex- 
 ceedingly interesting "Genealogical Records 
 of the Hodges Family in New England," com- 
 piled by Almon D. Hodges, Jr., published in 
 1896. 
 
 William Hodges was an early settler in 
 Taunton, Mass., his name appearing on the 
 records in 1643. He married Mary Andrews, 
 daughter of Henry Andrews, and had two 
 sons: John, born in 1650: and Henry, who 
 was born in 1652, and died in 1717, having 
 been a "leading man in all the affairs of the 
 settlement." His son Joseph, who was the 
 first of the family to settle in Norton, living 
 at "Crooked Meadow," was a Major in the old 
 French War. He took an active part in the 
 siege of Louisburg in 1745, and died before 
 he could reach home. The Major's eldest 
 son. Captain Joseph, through whom the line 
 was continued, was born in 1714, and was 
 killed in battle with the Indians near Lake 
 George, N.Y., in 1756. He left one son, 
 Joseph Hodges, 3d, the grandfather of Charles 
 W., and two daughters — Miriam and Naomi. 
 
 Joseph Hodges, 3d, was by occupation a 
 tiller of the soil. Inheriting the military 
 
 and patriotic spirit of his father and grand- 
 father, he served long and bravely in the Rev- 
 olutionary War, first as private, then succes- 
 sively as Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Captain. 
 He lived to the age of fifty-seven. He mar- 
 ried Lurana Williams, and had eight children, 
 seven of whom grew to years of maturity; 
 namely, Miriam, Lurana, Joseph, Sophia, 
 Williams, Clarissa, and Nancy — a son, Sim- 
 
 eon, having died in childhood. 
 
 The old 
 
 homestead on which they were brought up is 
 still in the possession of the family. 
 
 Williams Hodges succeeded to the vocation 
 in which he was reared, being one of the most 
 prosperous farmers and highly esteemed citi- 
 zens of Norton. He was very modest and re- 
 tiring, and, with the exception of serving for 
 a time as Selectman and Assessor when he 
 was a young man, steadily refused public 
 oiifice. He married Avis P. Whitmarsh, of 
 Dighton, Mass., and they reared seven chil- 
 dren, namely: Charles Williams, the subject 
 of this sketch; Mary Avis; Angelia P., who 
 died at the age of twenty-two years ; Joseph 
 F. ; Clarissa; Emma R.; and Alfred B. 
 Mary A. is the widow of Augustus Lane, for- 
 merly a prominent citizen of Norton, and has 
 two children — Helen and Dwight F. ; Joseph 
 F. Hodges, a resident of Hyde Park, married 
 Caroline Andrews, and has one child, George 
 W. ; Clarissa is the widow of the late Ben- 
 jamin Parker, of Norton ; Emma, who has 
 never married, lives in Norton; Alfred, resid- 
 ing in Taunton, married Ellen Pratt, of Nor- 
 ton, and has one child. Bertha. 
 
 Charles W. Hodges, after acquiring his ed- 
 ucation in the district schools of Norton and 
 at the academy in Seekonk, now East Provi- 
 dence, taught school four years in the towns 
 of Norton, Taunton, and Attleboro. He was 
 subsequently employed seven years in a store 
 of general merchandise in Norton, whence he 
 came to Foxboro in 1857. Here, in company 
 with his brother, Joseph F. Hodges, he 
 opened a furniture and grocery store, which 
 ■they conducted ten years, when the firm was 
 changed, the business being carried on for 
 nine years more under the name of Hodges & 
 Messenger. The partnership was then dis- 
 solved and the business divided, Mr. Hodges 
 retaining the furniture department, to which.
 
 CHARLES W. HODGES.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 fifteen years later, he added the insurance 
 business, becoming agent for several com- 
 panies. In 18S9 he sold the furniture busi- 
 ness to his eldest son. Since that time he 
 has been largely interested in real estate, in 
 which he has had many extensive transactions; 
 and he has recently admitted into partnership 
 one of his younger sons. 
 
 Mr. Hodges cast his first Presidential vote 
 in 1844 for James K. Polk. He is a strong 
 Prohibitionist in politics, and is a leading 
 member of the Good Templars and of the Sons 
 of Temperance. He has been elected to all 
 the important offices within the gift of his 
 fellow-townsmen, having been Selectman, As- 
 sessor, School Committee, Town Treasurer for 
 many years. Justice of the Peace a quarter of 
 a century, and in 1853 he represented Norton 
 in the State legislature. He has been presi- 
 dent of the Foxboro Savings Bank. He has 
 been a member and the treasurer of the local 
 grange since its organization. 
 
 Mr. Hodges was married April 30, 1856, to 
 Mary K. Nichols, daughter of Gilbert and Re- 
 becca (Crane) Nichols, of Berkeley, Mass. 
 They have four children; namely, Charles G., 
 Mary Avis, Louis Williams, and John Brad- 
 ford. Charles G. Hodges married Laura L. 
 Shepard, and has two children — Maud A. and 
 Ruth E. He is in the furniture business, 
 having succeeded his father, and is now Town 
 Auditor and a trustee of the Savings Bank. 
 Louis VV. Hodges is Town Clerk of P'oxboro, 
 and also a Justice of the Peace. He married 
 Annie A. Wilbur, a daughter of Seth S. Wil- 
 bur, of this town: and they have three children 
 — Grace Avis, Gilbert Williams, and Gene- 
 vra Wilbur. 
 
 M 
 
 ANIEL B. WHITE, of Randolph, a 
 prosperous coal dealer of Randolph, 
 Wy was born in this town, May 27, 
 1844. His parents were Solomon 
 L. and Elizabeth (Belcher) White, the father 
 being a native of Vermont, and the mother of 
 Randolph, Mass. 
 
 Daniel B. White was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and at the Stetson High School. 
 When fifteen years old he entered a grocery 
 store as clerk. After acquiring a thorough 
 
 knowledge of the business, he engaged in it 
 for himself, taking as a partner Mr. R. W. 
 Turner. Mr. Turner subsequently retiring, 
 Mr. C. H. Belcher was admitted as a partner, 
 the firm assuming the style of D. B. White 
 & Co. Mr. White later became interested in 
 the retail coal business with Mr. Turner, and 
 selling in 1887 his interest in the grocery 
 store to Mr. Belcher, and buying the interest 
 of his partner Turner in the coal business, he 
 has since carried on the latter alone. He is 
 actively interested in the business develop- 
 ment and general improvement of the town, 
 was one of the promoters of the Randolph 
 Power Company, of wiiich he is treasurer, is 
 a member of the Board of Water Commis- 
 sioners, and a trustee of the Savings Bank. 
 Politically, he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. White married Flora A. Belcher, 
 daughter of Charles lielcher, late of Ran- 
 dolph, and has two children: Jennie 1'"., wife 
 of W. H. Leavitt, of Randolph; and Helen 
 E., who resides with her parents. Mr. 
 White is a charter member of the Knights of 
 Honor, and has been officially connected with 
 the order in this town since its organization. 
 
 /^C^TTlMAX B. loud, of the firm R. 
 \ '•) I Loud & Sons, box manufacturers of 
 ^-— •^ South Weymouth, and Assessor of 
 the town, was born in Weymouth, July 12, 
 1839. A son of Reuben and Theda (Burrell) 
 Loud, he belongs to one of the oldest families 
 in Weymouth. The grandfather, Eliphalet 
 Loud, who was also born in Weymouth, is 
 said to have been a soldier in the Revolution; 
 and his son Reuben is said to have been a 
 soldier in the War of 181 2. Reuben, born in 
 1798, died at the age of ninety-three. In 
 early life he was in the grain business and a 
 member of the firm of Joseph Loud & Co. 
 Subsequently he started a planing-mill and 
 box factory, which was conducted under the 
 style of Reuben Loud & Son. He became an 
 extensive land-owner, and was a well-known 
 man in Weymouth in his day. His living 
 children are: Reuben, Richard, Mary, Francis 
 P., Gilman B., and Maria J. 
 
 Gilman B. Loud grew to manhood in Wey- 
 mouth, obtaining his education in the public
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 schools. When about fourteen years old he 
 began working in his father's planing-mill 
 and box factory. In July, 1861, he became a 
 member of the firm of Reuben Loud & Sons, 
 with which he has been since identified. He 
 married Lydia M. Shaw, of Weymouth, daugh- 
 ter of George W. Shaw. Nine children have 
 been born of the marriage; namely, Emily T. , 
 George G., Wilton A., Frank E., R. Cady, 
 Chester S., Lina M., Merton S. , and Jessie S. 
 Mr. Loud has taken an active part in poli- 
 tics in Weymouth. He was a member of the 
 Republican Town Committee for some twenty 
 years. For a year he was a member of the 
 Board of Selectmen and he has served five 
 years as Assessor of Taxes. A member of the 
 Old South Congregational Church at South 
 Weymouth for a quarter of a century, he has 
 been a chorister therein, the treasurer of the 
 society, and one of its Deacons for the past 
 fifteen years. His large circle of business 
 acquaintances have the fullest confidence in 
 his integrity. Promptness and fair dealing 
 are the characteristics of his business rela- 
 tions. 
 
 (^>r LBERT J. DANIELS, one of the lead- 
 LJA ing farmers of Foxboro, was born 
 J<i\\ where he now resides, October 13, 
 — ' 1846, son of Lewis G. and Sarah 
 A. (Perrigo) Daniels. His great-grandfather, 
 Francis Daniels, who was a native of Nor- 
 mandy, France, emigrated to America, and 
 settled in Foxboro in 1749. Francis Daniels 
 located upon wild land, which he cleared for 
 agricultural purposes, erecting thereon a frame 
 house; and before his death he had improved 
 sixty acres of tillage land. He married 
 Keziah Rockwood. His daughters, Margaret 
 and Mary, became the first and second wives 
 respectively of Ezra Carpenter, one of the 
 leading residents of Foxboro in his day, con- 
 cerning whom further information may be 
 found in the sketch of E. P. Carpenter, which 
 appears elsewhere in the Review. Anna 
 Daniels, another daughter of Francis, mar- 
 ried for her first husband Neheniiah Carpen- 
 ter, and for her second, Stephen Rhodes. 
 
 James Daniels, grandfather of Albert J., 
 was born on the homestead in 1761. He suc- 
 
 ceeded to its ownership, and resided there 
 until his death, which occurred in 1849. He 
 married for his first wife Naamah Guild, and 
 for his second, I'llizabeth Gay, and reared the , 
 following children: Jemima, Chloe, James, 
 and Tryphena by his first marriage; and l-'.liz- 
 abeth, Lewis G., and Anna by his second. 
 
 Lewis G. Daniels, Albert J. Daniels's 
 father, was born and reared upon the home 
 farm, which he inherited in turn; and during 
 his life he added many acres to the property. 
 He also improved the house, and displayed 
 much energy in the management of the prop- 
 erty. He died in the spring of 1896, aged 
 eighty- six years. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Sarah A. Perrigo, became the 
 mother of three children — Lewis S., John F., 
 and Albert J. Lewis S. , who is a travelling 
 man, and resides in Cleveland, Ohio, married 
 Lillian E. Carroll, and has one son, Harry 
 C. , born September 14, 1874. John F., who 
 resides in Central City, Col., wedded Martha 
 Boomer, and his children are: Albert J., 
 born July 25, 1870; and .Susan M., born July 
 I, 1876. 
 
 Albert J. Daniels was educated in the com- 
 mon and high schools of Foxboro. When a 
 young man he learned the carpenter's trade, 
 which he followed as a journeyman in this 
 town, and also in St. Paul, Minn., until 1871, 
 when he returned to the homestead, and has 
 since been engaged in general farming. 
 
 On November 29, 1883, Mr. Daniels was 
 united in marriage with Eliza A. Morse, 
 daughter of Newell Morse; and for an account 
 of her family and ancestors the reader is re- 
 ferred to a sketch of Charles N. Morse, which 
 also may be found upon another page of this 
 work. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels have four chil- 
 dren, as follows: Francis Newell, Marion 
 Winifred, Laura Antoinette, and Bertha 
 Alice. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Daniels is a Republican; 
 and his first Presidential vote was cast for 
 General Ulysses S. Grant in 1868. He has 
 rendered able services to the town as an As- 
 sessor for eight years and as a member of the 
 Board of Selectmen for two years. He and 
 Mrs. Daniels are members of Foxboro Grange, 
 No. 193, Patrons of Husbandry, in which he 
 was lecturer three years. Four generations of
 
 MARSHALL L. PLRRIN.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 2 19 
 
 the family have occupied the farm, and it is 
 worthy of note that the house built by his 
 great-grandfather has been remodelled or en- 
 larged by each succeeding generation. 
 
 ARSHALL LIVINGSTON PER-^ 
 RIN was born in the village of 
 
 J ajj^ ( Grantville, now Wellesley Hills, 
 — 'July 31, 1855. John Perryn, 
 who came to this country from London in 
 1635, and with others founded the town of 
 Rehoboth, was his paternal ancestor; while his 
 mother's family descended from Gregory 
 Stone, who came here from England in 1634. 
 Noah Perrin, his father, one of Boston's 
 wholesale merchants fifty years ago, was a 
 prominent Methodist. His mother, Philenia 
 Winship Stone Perrin, was daughter of Cap- 
 tain P. R. L. Stone, in the line of the early 
 Unitarian settlers of Cambridge, Mount Au- 
 burn being formerly called "Stone's Woods." 
 Marshall Livingston Perrin received his 
 schooling in Grantville, and was one of the 
 original members of the Needham High 
 School, West Division, which was held alter- 
 nately by years in Maugus and in Waban 
 Halls. He went from there to Harvard Col- 
 lege, entering when he was fourteen years of 
 age, and graduating in the class of 1874, be- 
 fore he was nineteen, the youngest in his 
 class. Immediately afterward he was ap- 
 pointed secretary of an expedition of the 
 United States Fish Commission to the Pacific 
 coast, and travelled extensively in the unset- 
 tled portions of the West. During this time, 
 while living among the McCloud River Ind- 
 ians near Mount Shasta, he was bitten, pre- 
 sumably by a tarantula, from the effects of 
 which he barely recovered. On returning 
 East, he pursued post-graduate studies in 
 science at Harvard University, receiving the 
 degree of Master of Arts in 1876. For a 
 number of years he was afterward connected 
 with Mr. Stone's private school for boys, now 
 located on Chestnut Street. 
 
 In 188 1, when Wellesley was incorporated, 
 Mr. Perrin was chosen by the citizens of the 
 new town one of the first broad of School 
 Committee. About this time, after recover- 
 
 ing from pneumonia, he made several trips 
 upon the Western Ocean, frequently on sail- 
 ing-vessels, doing his share of the work, and 
 one summer cruising among the whalers of the 
 North with supplies from Newfoundland. 
 
 Leaving home in the autumn of 1883, Mr. 
 Perrin spent five or six years in travel and 
 study, becoming intimately acquainted with 
 the various phases of life in the countries of 
 modern Europe. During this time he was 
 connected with the German universities in 
 the capacity of student or instructor, being 
 appointed by the Prussian government for 
 three years to the position of Lektor of the 
 English language at the University of Gottin- 
 gen. At this university he passed his doc- 
 tor's examination in 1889. He had already 
 been elected to the head of the department 
 of Teutonic languages in Boston University, 
 which position he still holds, having been 
 made full professor in 1892. 
 
 Since 1893 Mr. Perrin has also filled the 
 office of Superintendent of Schools in his na- 
 tive town, where the condition and reputation 
 of the schools attest his efficiency. 
 
 Mr. Perrin's literary work has been varied, 
 including educational articles, an algebra 
 drill book, the translation of the ponderous 
 volumes of Von Sybel's "Founding of the 
 German Empire," and a commentary in Ger- 
 man upon an ancient Middle English Chron- 
 icle in manuscript, upon which Mr. Perrin 
 spent a good deal of learned research in the 
 libraries of the Old World. Mr. Perrin has 
 also been active in Masonic circles, and is 
 to-day Master of Meridian Lodge, situated at 
 Natick. Withal, Mr. Perrin is one of the 
 busiest men in town, though he never seems 
 to be in too much of a hurry to stop for a 
 genial chat. From the delicate and weakly 
 child of which the old residents tell us, one 
 could scarcely recognize the robust and 
 healthy figure of to-day. 
 
 Mr. Perrin married February 23, 1889, 
 Mary Josephine Williams, daughter of George 
 B. Williams, of Maple Grove Farm, Walpole, 
 N.H., a lady of rare accomplishments and re- 
 finement. Very soon after the birth of their 
 boy, Harold Livingston, who still survives, 
 la grippe first raged, and numbered the young 
 wife among its victims. Mr. Perrin has not
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 since married. lie lives with hiis mother on 
 the homestead. 
 
 /®Tc 
 
 EORGP: VV. porter, a leading mu- 
 I jJjT sician of Avon, and lately Repre- 
 ^ — sentative to the legislature from the 
 Seventh Norfolk District, was born in East 
 Stoughton (now Avon), January 30, 1843, son 
 of Ahira and Rachel D. (Swan) Porter. The 
 Porter family is of English origin, and the 
 subject of this sketch is of the fifth generation 
 in this country. His grandfather was Colonel 
 Cyrus Porter, a prominent citizen of Avon. 
 Ahira Porter, the father, was born in this 
 town, and worked in the boot and shoe shops 
 here for a number of years. An accoipplished 
 musician, he taught singing-school in East 
 Stoughton and neighboring towns. His death 
 occurred in 1863. His wife, a native of 
 Stoughton, died in 1861. They were the par- 
 ents of six children — Ahira S., Rachel D. , 
 William, Samuel, James, and George VV. 
 
 George W. Porter acquired his education in 
 the public schools of Avon. When he was 
 about eighteen years of age he went to work 
 in a shoe shop; and for twenty years he was 
 employed in boot and shoe manufactories in 
 this town, most of the time as a cutter. A 
 natural and trained musician, he has been 
 manager and director of the well-known 
 Porter's Orchestra for a quarter of a century. 
 This orchestra was organized by his oldest 
 brother, Ahira S. Porter (now deceased), and 
 is one of the best musical organizations of the 
 kind in this part of the State. For the past 
 ten years Mr. Porter has devoted practically 
 all his time to the interests of the orchestra, 
 which has filled engagements in many differ- 
 ent towns throughout Eastern Massachusetts. 
 He is a member of the Stoughton Musical 
 Society. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. I'orter was married to Ellen 
 E., daughter of William H. Tucker, of Avon. 
 Mr. Porter is a prominent member of the Re- 
 publican party. During the session of 1895- 
 96 he repn.'sented this district in the State 
 legislature; and he has been chairman of the 
 Avon Republican Committee for a number of 
 years, and has served as Selectman for the 
 past three years. 
 
 REDERICK E. ROBINSON, a pros- 
 perous shoe merchant of Dedham, 
 Mass., was born in this town, Decem- 
 ber 27, 1854, son of Samuel and Deborah 
 Cutting (Upton) Robinson. 
 
 Elijah Robinson, the paternal grandfather 
 of Frederick 1-2., was a son of Jabez Robinson, 
 who was born in England, and came to Amer- 
 ica about the time of the Revolutionary War. 
 He, Jabez, served as a private in the War of 
 18 12. Elijah Robinson was born in Litch- 
 field, Me., which was likewise the birthplace 
 of his son Samuel. The latter, who is now 
 eighty-five years old, followed farming during 
 his active career, and also did contract work, 
 giving employment to a large number of men. 
 His wife, Deborah, was a daughter of James 
 and Deborah (Cutting) Upton. Her maternal 
 grandfather. Earl Cutting, was an American 
 patriot, who fought in the Revolutionary 
 War. Samuel and Deborah Robinson became 
 the parents of six children; namely, Esther 
 and Melissa (who died young), Samuel 
 Francis, Theodore Edgar, Melissa Deborah, 
 and Frederick PI. 
 
 Frederick E. Robinson spent the early years 
 of his life in Dedham, and acquired his school 
 education in the grammar and high schools. 
 At the age of seventeen he entered the store 
 of Andrew Wiggin as clerk, and here gained 
 his first knowledge of the shoe business. 
 Subsequently he became a salesman for W. H. 
 Pierson on Temple Place, Boston, and still 
 later office clerk in a Lynn establishment. In 
 1887 he returned to Dedham, and went into 
 the boot and shoe business for himself. He 
 has been very successful, and now enjoys the 
 largest trade in his line in this town. Mr. 
 Robinson is unmarried. In politics he is a 
 Republican. He attends the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 e;^^WITHIN BROTHERS, comprising 
 John and Thomas Swithin, granite 
 dealers of Ouincy, were born Octo- 
 ber 2, 1854, sons of Thomas 
 Swithin. The parents, both of whom were 
 born in Scotland, came to this country in 
 1852, settling in Ouincy. The father was 
 successfully engaged in the granite business
 
 CHARLES L. ISAUGKK.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 223 
 
 here, which included quarrying, building, 
 paving, and monumental work by contract and 
 otherwise, up to the time of his death. He 
 belonged to Suffolk Lodge, I. O. O. F., of 
 Boston, and to the Scotch Charitable Society. 
 
 John and Thomas Swithin were educated in 
 the public schools of Ouincy and at Miss Sa- 
 ville's private school. Both served an appren- 
 ticeship at the stone-cutter's trade, and subse- 
 quently worked at it for wages until 1887. 
 Then they started their present thriving busi- 
 ness, under the firm name of Swithin Brothers. 
 
 They make a specialty of fine monumental 
 and statuary work. While their business is 
 exclusively of a retail character, it is large; 
 and they keep a number of agents on the 
 road. The brothers are stockholders of the 
 Lyons Granite Company, while John is one 
 of its directors. Both are directors of the 
 Blue Hill Granite Company; and they are 
 stockholders of the Ouincy Quarry Company, 
 of which John was a promoter and is now a 
 director. They are also in the real estate 
 business, keeping an ofifice therefor in Durgin 
 & Merrill's Block, and owning- property in 
 various parts of the city. John Swithin is a 
 member of the Executive Committee of the 
 Granite Manufacturers' Association of Ouincy; 
 the president of the Ouincy Shoe Company; 
 and a trustee of the President's Hill, Presi- 
 dent's Hill Annex, and the Cranch Hill Real 
 Estate Trusts. 
 
 Both John and Thomas Swithin are mem- 
 bers of Mount VVollaston Lodge, No. 80, 
 I. O. O. P., and of Manet Encampment. 
 John was elected to the City Council from 
 Ward One in 1896, and served on the Com- 
 mittee of Streets, Ways, Bridges, and Lights, 
 and on that of Public Buildings and Grounds. 
 Both brothers attend the Episcopal church. 
 
 ^I^UTHER O. CROCKER, a prosperous 
 lj[ manufacturer of Braintree, was born 
 JL Jf ^ in Bridgewater, Mass., December, 
 1857, son of Luther O. and Olive 
 M. Crocker. He is of English descent, and 
 his paternal grandfather was Luther H. 
 Crocker. Luther O. Crocker, the father, was 
 a native of West Dedham, and a machinist and 
 mechanical engineer by trade, which in early 
 
 life he followed in Louisville, Ky., and Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio. Though of limited education, 
 not having enjoyed the opportunities within 
 the reach of the young men of this generation, 
 yet he improved those he had, and became ex- 
 pert in his calling and successful in business. 
 He was the inventor of fancy and complicated 
 dies used in the manufacture of ticket punches, 
 and established the manufactory now carried 
 on in East Braintree by his son. He was a 
 Republican politically, and was interested in 
 all public improvements within the limits of 
 his town and county. He attended the Union 
 Congregational Church of Weymouth and 
 Braintree, and was a member of the Masonic 
 order. He died in April, 1895, leaving two 
 children — Oscar M. and Luther O. His 
 widow survives, and resides with her younger 
 son. 
 
 Until fifteen years of age Luther O. 
 Crocker, the special subject of this sketch, 
 attended school in East Braintree. Upon 
 finishing his studies, he entered his father's 
 factory to learn the art of manufacturing rail- 
 road punches. After his father's death he 
 assumed entire management of the business, 
 and he has since maintained the high reputa- 
 tion of the firm for reliable work. Mr. 
 Crocker married Jennie Pratt, by whom he has 
 three children — Fred M., Edith O., and 
 Olive. Following his father's example, he is 
 a Republican in politics. Fraternally, he be- 
 longs to the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 T^HARLES LOUIS BADGER, the 
 I v-^ senior member of the firm Badger 
 ^^Hs Brothers, granite dealers and ma- 
 
 chinists at West Ouincy, is one of 
 the oldest and best known quarrymen of this 
 vicinity. He was born August 17, 1820, in 
 Bow, N. H., son of Ezra Badger. The grand- 
 father, Jacob Badger, resided in Concord, 
 N.H., his native town, throughout the larger 
 part of his long and busy life of fourscore 
 years. The other part was spent in Old 
 Town, Me., where he was in business. A 
 blacksmith by trade, he was a very skilful 
 and ingenious workman, and sometimes made 
 traps, knives, and other useful articles for the 
 Indians.
 
 224 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Ezra Badger, born June 9, 1798, was reared 
 in Concord, which was also his native town. 
 He learned the trade of a quarryman when 
 young, and started in business on his own ac- 
 count in the neighboring town of Hooksett. 
 Here he quarried about one-half of the granite 
 used in the construction of Ouincy Market in 
 Boston. This brought him into prominence; 
 and a visit from Thomas Hollis, of Milton, 
 Mass., induced him to give up his busi- 
 ness in Hooksett, and come to Ouincy as 
 superintendent of his quarries. When the 
 Bunker Hill Monument Association was 
 formed, he was chosen by the committee to 
 superintend the quarrying of the granite to be 
 used in erecting the monument ; and with 
 Solomon Willard, its architect, he selected 
 the Ouincy quarry from which the first granite 
 used in its construction was taken. Begin- 
 ning in 1847, he carried on business in 
 Ouincy until about 1855, when he sold out, 
 and retired. During the Civil War he en- 
 listed as a wagoner in the Thirty-third Regi- 
 ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and 
 died while in the army. In politics he was a 
 Jacksonian Democrat during his younger days. 
 Afterward he became successively a Whig 
 and a Republican. He married Sophia 
 White, a daughter of James White, of Bow, 
 N. H., and by her became the father of eight 
 children, namely: Charles Louis and Maria 
 L. ; Mary A., the wife of Alonzo G. Davis, 
 of this city; Charlotte S. J.; Leon C, de- 
 ceased, who served in the Rebellion as a pri- 
 vate in the Twenty-second Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, and was a member of the 
 Masonic fraternity; Frank C, of Kinsley, 
 Kan. ; Hannah Porter, who died at the age of 
 seven years; and Clara O., who lived but 
 three years. Both parents attended the Con- 
 gregational church. 
 
 Charles Louis Badger was eight years old 
 when he came with his parents to Ouincy. 
 At the age of sixteen years, when he had ac- 
 quired the usual common -school education, he 
 became a clerk in the office of Solomon Wil- 
 lard, an architect. During five of the seven 
 years he spent in this employment, he devoted 
 his evenings to study, and gave one winter at 
 the Lfniversity of Norwich, Vt., perfecting 
 himself in mathematics. After leavina: Mr. 
 
 Willard, he joined the J. B. Whicher Granite 
 Company. Withdrawing from it in 1847, he 
 passed the next two years travelling through 
 New England, engaged in railway work. On 
 November 11, 1849, he sailed for California 
 by Cape Horn, spending six months on the 
 way. On arriving at San Francisco, he went 
 directly to the gold mines on the Tolumne 
 River. Not meeting here with the success 
 that he had anticipated, he returned to Massa- 
 chusetts in the spring of 1852 by way of the 
 Isthmus. Very soon after, he started in the 
 granite business in company with his father, 
 his brother Leon C, and his brother-in-law, 
 A. G. Davis, under the name of K. Badger & 
 Sons. In a few months the brother Leon and 
 Mr. Davis withdrew from the firm, but the two 
 remaining partners continued in the business 
 until 1855. Mr. Badger and his brother, 
 Leon C. Badger, then established the present 
 firm of the Badger Brothers. They first 
 worked the quarry from which was taken the 
 granite used in building the New York Ex- 
 change in 1835. I'l 1868 they purchased 
 their present quarry, one of the largest in this 
 part of the country, and have since been num- 
 bered among the most extensive and prosper- 
 ous granite dealers. They employ an average 
 of one hundred men, including several skilled 
 machinists for a branch of their business that 
 they have carried on since the firm was incor- 
 porated. Leon C. Badger died in or about the 
 year 1S88, leaving three children — George 
 L., Frederick L., and Margaret M. In 1863 
 Mr. Badger admitted to partnership these two 
 nephews and two sons. 
 
 On August 10, 1852, Mr. Badger was mar- 
 ried to Mary C, daughter of William Love- 
 land, of Norwich, Vt. She bore him four 
 children, namely: William E., now at the 
 head of the firm of Badger Brothers; Clara 
 E. , who died at the age of twenty years; 
 Charles F., who died in March, 1896; and 
 Mary L., also deceased. Mr. Badger's first 
 wife died in April, 1870; and he subsequently 
 married Annie W. French, a daughter of 
 Adam and Sally (Allen) French. The pres- 
 ent Mrs. Badger is a direct descendant of John 
 Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Her only child, 
 Henry L., died in infancy. Soon after that 
 event Mr. and Mrs. Badger adopted a little
 
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 boy, Russell VV. Badger, to whom they are 
 giving the same advantages and care as they 
 would to one of their own blood. In politics 
 Mr. Badger is a strong Republican; and he is 
 a member of Rural Lodge, F. & A. M. He 
 is also a member of the Bethany Congrega- 
 tional Church. Mrs. Badger is a Deaconess 
 of the same church and the president of the 
 Bethany Ladies' Circle connected therewith. 
 
 WALES BAKER, a member of 
 the Board of Selectmen of Ran- 
 dolph and formerly Postmaster, 
 was born in this town, November 
 son of Minot and Fanny (White) 
 Baker. His father was a native of New 
 Hampshire; and his mother, who was born in 
 what is now Brookville, Mass., was a descend- 
 ant of Peregrine White, the first white child 
 born in New England after the landing of the 
 "Mayflower" Pilgrims. Minot Baker fol- 
 lowed the shoemaker's trade in Randolph, and 
 was a well-known and respected citizen. His 
 death occurred in 1862. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was educated in 
 the common and high schools of Rantlolph, 
 and at the age of twenty years began to learn 
 the tinsmith's trade, serving an apprentice- 
 ship of four years. After working as a jour- 
 neyman in Toledo, Ohio, for a year, he re- 
 turned to Randolph, where he engaged in 
 business for himself, first alone and later be- 
 coming associated with G. F. Thayer. The 
 firm of Baker & Thayer continued in business 
 until 1873, when they sold out to Charles A. 
 Wales, Mr. Baker remaining with the new 
 proprietor until 1888. For a short time he 
 was employed at his trade in North liaston, 
 Mass. In June^ 1890, he was appointed Post- 
 master at Randolph by President Harrison, 
 and held office until May 15, 1895, since 
 which time he has carried on the tinware busi- 
 ness here. 
 
 Mr. Baker married Emma A. Fritts, of 
 Randolph, and has a family of seven children; 
 namely, Alice W., M. Everett, Florence L. , 
 Cora A., Arthur C, Norman F., and 
 Ernest R. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Baker is a Republican, and 
 has served as a Selectman since March, 1897. 
 
 He is a Dictator of the Knights of Honor, 
 and permanent secretary of Rising Star 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; chaplain of Pilgrim 
 Lodge, No. 14, New England Order of Protec- 
 tion; a member of Maple Lodge, No. 313, 
 Knights and Ladies of Honor, of Ouincy, 
 Mass. ; and Orator of Randolph Lodge, No. 7, 
 American Benefit Society. lie is an earnest 
 advocate of tlie temiierance cause. As an ac- 
 tive member of the Congregational church he 
 takes a deep interest in religious work, serv- 
 ing as assessor and collector of the parish, 
 treasurer of the church, and superintendent of 
 the Sabbath-school. 
 
 yLLIS J. PITCHER, a leading grocer 
 P and business man of .South Weymouth, 
 '^"^ - "^ is a native of Belfast, Me., born 
 April 30, 1840, son of Calvin and Joanna 
 (Prescott) Pitcher. The father was a native 
 of Stoddard, N.H., and served as a soldier in 
 the War of 18 12. The subject of this sketch 
 was brought up on his father's farm, and at- 
 tended the district schools during the winters. 
 When eighteen years of age he went to sea, 
 and spent ten years in foreign trade, serving 
 both before the mast and as officer. Soon 
 after the close of the Civil War he returned 
 home ; and after a brief visit to his native place 
 he established himself in the grocery business 
 at West Medford, Mass. After being thus 
 engaged for some time, he made one more sea 
 voyage, on his return taking up his residence 
 in Everett, Mass., where also he engaged in 
 the grocery business. In 1872 he came to 
 South Weymouth, and opened a grocery store, 
 in which he has been very successful. Mr. 
 Pitcher married Mary G. Allen, of Hillsboro, 
 N.H., by whom he has three children — 
 George E., Florence M., and Eloise A. He 
 is a member of Wildey Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
 at South Weymouth, and has been its treas- 
 urer since 1885; and is a member of the 
 U. O. G. C, of which society he has been 
 treasurer since its organization in 1880. He 
 is a trustee of the South Weymouth Savings 
 Bank, a director in the Weymouth Agricult- 
 ural and Industrial Society, and a director in 
 Odd Fellows Hall Association. He was an 
 incorporator of the Co-operative Bank, and has
 
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 been its treasurer since its incorporation. 
 Politically, he is a Democrat, and has capably 
 served the town of Weymouth as Auditor. 
 
 ■RTHUR WHITAKER, an enterpris- 
 ing farmer and milk dealer of Need- 
 ham, Ma.ss. , was born in South- 
 bridge, Mass., in 1859, son of 
 Thomas and Harriet A. (Mason) Whitaker. 
 The father, Thomas Whitaker, who was born 
 in England, came to this country in 1838. 
 He went first to Southbridge, but removed to 
 Needhani in 1866, where he took an active 
 part in politics, and was also an ardent tem- 
 perance worker. His death occurred in 1882. 
 He married Harriet A., daughter of Abel 
 Mason, of Southbridge, but formerly of Med- 
 held. Mrs. Thomas Whitaker was a member 
 of the old Massachusetts family of Masons. 
 Her grandfather served with the rank of Cap- 
 tain in the Revolutionary War, and was pres- 
 ent at the surrender of Burgoyne. 
 
 Arthur Whitaker came to Needhani with his 
 parents when he was seven years of age, and 
 received his elementary education in the pub- 
 lic schools of this town. He was graduated 
 at the Massachusetts Agricultural College at 
 Amher.st in 1881, and then, returning to 
 Needham, engaged in his present business. 
 He has a farm of fifty acres, and keeps forty 
 cows, supplying four hundred families with 
 milk. He also makes a specialty of market 
 gardening, and grows large quantities of sweet 
 corn for the Boston market, being probably 
 the largest raiser of sweet corn in Massachu- 
 setts. Mr. Whitaker personally supervises 
 every department of his growing business, 
 which he conducts according to the most 
 scientific methods. The degree of success 
 which he has attained is a strong argument in 
 favor of scientific agriculture. Mr. Whitaker 
 was elected Selectman in 1886, when he was 
 but twenty- seven years of age; and he served 
 for seven years, during three of which he was 
 chairman of the board. He had previously 
 been elected Assessor. He is now serving as 
 Justice of the Peace. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican. He is a member of the Norfolk 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of ]':iiot Lodge, No. 58, 
 I. O. O. F., of which he is a Past Grand; and 
 
 of the Needham Lodge of A. O. U. W. He 
 also takes a great interest in athletics, and is 
 a member of the Needhani Bicycle Club, and 
 vice-president of the Newton Bicycle Club. 
 
 On October 30, 1897, he was married to 
 Miss Christine Wenzel, daughter of Iwan P. 
 Wenzel, a prominent instructor of music in 
 Boston. 
 
 T^HARLES A. GROSS, a prominent 
 I sX merchant of Cohasset, and a veteran 
 \^ of the Civil War, was born in Du.x- 
 bury, Mass., June 25, 1832, son of 
 Jonathan Y. and Cynthia (Willard) Gross. 
 His parents were natives of Massachusetts, 
 and his father was a carpenter by trade. He 
 acquired his education in the common schools 
 and an academy of his native town, where he 
 resided until he was eighteen years old. He 
 then settled in Cohasset, and was for some 
 time messenger for Beals's Cohasset & Boston 
 It.xpress. Enlisting as a private in Company 
 A, Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteers, he served one year in tlie Rebellion, 
 participating in the battles of Goldsboro, 
 Kingston, and others. After his return home 
 he resumed his former occupation, but subse- 
 quently established himself in mercantile 
 business, in which he continued alone for sev- 
 eral years. He finally became associated, 
 under the firm name of Gross & Nichols, with 
 Mr. James H. Nichols, his present partner. 
 The firm do a large retail business in gen- 
 eral merchandise, and their methods are such 
 as to gain the confidence of their numerous 
 patrons. Mr. Gross is also president of the 
 Cohasset Water Company, and is interested 
 generally in public improvements. He is a 
 Republican politically, and served as Post- 
 master of Cohasset for eighteen' years. He is 
 a Past Master of Konohasset Lodge, ¥. & 
 A. M., belongs to the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and has been Commander of 
 Henry Bryant Post, No. 98, G. A. R., for a 
 number of years. 
 
 Mr. Gross's present wife was before mar- 
 riage Mary T. L. Lothrop, daughter of John 
 0. A. Lothrop, further reference to whom may 
 be found in the sketch of Caleb Lothrop, 
 which appears on another page of the Review.
 
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 229 
 
 Mr. Gross has three daughters — Mrs. Caleb 
 Lothrop, Laura A. Gross, and Mrs. Harry VV. 
 Parker, of Cohasset. 
 
 /"AOLONEL ABNER B. PACKARD, 
 I Nr-^ of Quincy, a manufacturer of electro- 
 ^^Hs typCi stereotype, and linotype 
 
 metal, a refiner of dross, and a 
 dealer in lead, spelter, antimony, and tin, is 
 a pioneer in his line of industry, and the 
 founder of an extensive and profitable busi- 
 ness. He was horn in this town, November 
 21, 1821, a son of William and Lucy (Turner) 
 Packard. The father was one of the leading 
 quarryraen of Ouincy. By his wife, who was 
 a native of Ouincy, he became the father of 
 seventeen children, of whom eleven grew to 
 maturity. These were: Lucy Ann, who is 
 the widow of the late Dr. George Newcomb, of 
 this city; Rosamond, deceased; Margaret, 
 now deceased, who married Thomas White, 
 also deceased: Lydia, deceased, who was the 
 wife of the late P'rancis Saville; William H., 
 of whom there is no special record; Elisha, 
 deceased; Emily, deceased, who was the wife 
 of the late Charles Marsh; Louisa, now Mrs. 
 Stowe; Colonel Abner B. , the subject of this 
 sketch; Abigail, the wife of Andrew J. Dun- 
 bar; and Sarah, the widow of the late Joseph 
 P'ranklin Burrell. Both parents were mem- 
 bers of the P]piscopal church, and the father 
 was a Deacon of the society for many years. 
 
 Abner B. Packard, having completed his ed- 
 ucation in the Ouincy public schools, went to 
 Boston, where he was employed as clerk in a 
 store for two or three years. He was subse- 
 quently engaged in mercantile pursuits with 
 his brother for a few years, and then started in 
 his present business, beginning in a small way 
 as a dealer in metals. With a team he first went 
 through the country districts purchasing lead 
 until his money was exhausted. Then, return- 
 ing with about a thousand pounds of the metal, 
 he unloaded it in a corner, mentally wondering 
 how he was ever to get his money back. One 
 day subsequently, while passing through 
 Washington Street, Boston, he saw something 
 lying in a hallway that looked like lead; and, 
 climbing several flights of narrow stairs, he 
 found himself in the old Dickinson Type 
 
 Foundry. Here he inquired if they wanted 
 to buy any lead, and, receiving an affirmative 
 answer, returned to Ouincy, rah the lead he 
 had on hand in an old pan, and forwarded it 
 to the foundry. This transaction proved so 
 profitable that he continued in the busines.s, 
 and soon had among his regular customers two 
 other type foundries and two lead-pipe fac- 
 tories. Afterward he engaged in the manu 
 facture of type metal, and has since supplied 
 the offices of the New York Woi /d, I'nss, and 
 A'ctL's, and furnishes nearly all the stereotype 
 material for the New P^ngland trade, handling 
 over six hundred tons of type metal annually. 
 Colonel Packard is also associated in business 
 with his nephew IClisha and his two sons. 
 This firm, which at first made ink for shoe- 
 makers' use, is now engaged in the manufact- 
 ure of flavoring extracts and patent medicines. 
 In his younger days the Colonel manufactured 
 boots for a few years, employing twenty men 
 in his factory. He is a director of the Mount 
 Wollastnn National Bank and of the Ouincy 
 Electric Light and Power Company. 
 
 When the military company known as the 
 Ouincy Light Guards was organized, Mr. 
 Packart] was made Captain of a company, and 
 in the following year was promoted to the 
 rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In April, 1861, 
 scarce a month after burying three beautiful 
 little daughters, and leaving his wife, son, and 
 nephew sick in bed, he set out to do his part 
 in suppressing the Rebellion, in command of 
 the Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. 
 He went by steamer directly to Fortress Mon- 
 roe, thence, four weeks later, to Newport 
 News, and at the end of six weeks to. Hamp- 
 ton, where the regiment remained until the 
 expiration of its three months' term of enlist- 
 ment, when it was mustered out of service, 
 and in 1862 was called out again, and waited 
 in Boston three days, where they were dis- 
 charged. 
 
 Colonel Packard was married in November, 
 1849, to Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis New- 
 combe, of Ouincy. They have had six chil- 
 dren, of whom Frank C. and Walter M. are 
 living. Mrs. Packard, who is a great lover 
 of flowers,- has made an extensive study of 
 floriculture, and has had erected under her per- 
 sonal supervision three of the finest green-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 houses in the city, one of which is one hun- 
 dred feet in length, and has about ten 
 thousand feet of space under glass. She is 
 very successful as a florist, raising many rare 
 and choice plants, but neither advertises nor 
 sells to the trade, simply accommodating the 
 home people. 
 
 Franklin G. morse, superintend- 
 ent of the Hoi brook Water Works, is 
 a native of Hubbardston, Mass., born 
 October lo, 1835, son of Asa and Elizabeth 
 (Golding) Morse. He is a descendant of 
 Abner Morse, an Englishman, who, with a 
 number of others bearing the same surname, 
 came to America several generations ago. 
 Asa Morse, the father, was born in Hubbards- 
 ton. He lived for a number of years in 
 Petersham, Worcester County, Mass., and was 
 engaged in the latter part of his life in farm- 
 ing. His wife also, the mother of Franklin 
 G., was a native of the old Bay State. 
 
 Franklin G. Morse was three years old 
 when his parents moved to Petersham; and he 
 grew up on the farm there, acquiring his edu- 
 cation in the district school. When he at- 
 tained his majority, he went to work for him- 
 self; and for seven years he was engaged in 
 sewing leather in a boot and shoe shop in 
 Athol, Mass., running a machine by foot- 
 power. He was then for about three years en- 
 gaged in the same way in East Randolph 
 (now Holbrook), Mass. Subsequently he was 
 employed for nearly thirty years as stationary 
 engineer for Thomas White & Co., the well- 
 known shoe manufacturers. In 1894 he was 
 elected superintendent of the Holbrook Water 
 Works, the duties of which responsible posi- 
 tion he has since capably performed. He has 
 been a member of the Holbrook Board of 
 Water Commissioners for nine years. In pol- 
 itics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Morse was married August 16, 1859, 
 to Elvira I. Stockwell, of Athol, Mass. ; and 
 they had one son, Charles, who died at the 
 age of one year and fifteen days. Mr. Morse 
 is a member of Rising Star Lodge, No. j6, 
 I. O. O. F., of Randolph, Mass. He and his 
 wife are members of the Winthrop Congrega- 
 tional Church. A self-made man and mainly 
 
 self-educated, his success reflects credit upon 
 him; and he has the respect of all who know 
 him. 
 
 WATSON ARNOLD, a prominent 
 resident of Braintree and a member of 
 the firm Skinner & Arnold, provi- 
 sion dealers of Boston, was born here, March 
 2S» 1837, son of John B. and Nancy B. 
 (Thayer) Arnold. He is descended from the 
 English Arnolds. His father was a well- 
 known boot and shoe manufacturer of Brain- 
 tree, and was prominent in local politics. 
 
 At the age of fifteen, after receiving a com- 
 mon-school education, Mr. Arnold entered a 
 Boston wooden-ware establishment in the 
 capacity of clerk. Several years afterward 
 spent by him in various lines of business in- 
 cluded some time in a pharmacy, four years in 
 the wholesale provision business, and ten 
 years in the general merchandise business in 
 Braintree. He then learned the wholesale 
 grocery business in the establishment of 
 Henry Callender & Co., of Boston, with whom 
 he was associated for ten years. In July, 
 1878, the present firm of Skinner & Arnold 
 came into existence. This firm, which is 
 most prosperous, deals in general provisions 
 and hotel and restaurant supplies. 
 
 Mr. Arnold married Miss Maria V. Board- 
 man, of Saugus, Mass., and has four daugh- 
 ters living — Bertha M., Helen L., Julia I., 
 and Jessie R. He is Republican in politics, 
 and he represented Braintree in the House in 
 1868. He also served for several years as 
 Town Clerk and the Postmaster of Braintree, 
 and he is a trustee of the Thayer Public Li- 
 brary. A supporter of every good cause, he 
 is a liberal contributor to religious denomina- 
 tions. He is a member of the Masonic order, 
 and belongs to the South Shore Commandery 
 at East Weymouth. In 1861 he took his blue 
 lodge degrees. 
 
 -ONATHAN COBB, of Dedham, Regis- 
 ter of Probate and Insolvency for Nor- 
 folk County, was born in this town 
 March 2, 1829, son of Jonathan 
 Holmes and Sophia (Doggett) Cobb. His
 
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 2.31 
 
 paternal grandfather, Jonathan Cobb, was a 
 lifelong resident of Sharon, Mass. lie was 
 an inn keeper in the days when the only means 
 of travel was by stage, and he also carried on 
 a farm. 
 
 Jonathan Holmes Cobb, father of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was born in Sharon, July 
 g, 1799. He prepared for his collegiate 
 course at the Milton Academy, and was gradu- 
 ated at Harvard in 18 17. Entering the law 
 office of William Dunbar, Esq., of Canton, he 
 there engaged in the study of law until Octo- 
 ber 9, 1818, when he sailed for Charleston, 
 S.C., and resumed his studies in the ofifice of 
 Benjamin F. Dunkin, then a prominent law- 
 yer in that city. While in Charleston he 
 opened a classical and English school; but 
 upon the appearance of yellow fever in 1819 
 lie returned to Massachusetts, and went into 
 the law office of Jabez Chickering, Esq., in 
 Dedhain. He was admitted to the Norfolk 
 County bar in September, 1820, and opened 
 an office in this town. Later he also had a 
 law office in Boston, and for a year or two he 
 was editor of the Village Register. About 
 the year 1831 he engaged in the manufacture 
 of silk, and published a work upon the sub- 
 ject. In February, 1831, the legislature hav- 
 ing authorized the publication of a manual 
 upon the mulberry-tree and the manufacture of 
 silk, Jonathan H. Cobb was commissioned by 
 Governor Lincoln to prepare such a work. 
 Several editions of the manual were printed; 
 and afterward, by special act of Congress, it 
 was issued by the national government, and 
 distributed throughout the country. In 1837 
 Mr. Cobb, its author, established a sewing- 
 silk manufactory, of which he was the prin- 
 cipal owner and superintendent. He con- 
 ducted this enterprise until 1845, when the 
 plant was destroyed by fire. 
 
 Upon the retirement of Judge Haven in 
 1833, Jonathan H. Cobb was appointed Regis- 
 ter of Probate for Norfolk County, a position 
 which he held until 1879, when he was suc- 
 ceeded by his son. For thirty consecutive 
 years he served as Town Clerk of Dedham, de- 
 clining a re-election in 1875, and for forty 
 years he was an active magistrate in this 
 county. For many years he was an important 
 factor in financial circles, and in 1831 was in- 
 
 strumental in founding the Dedham Institu- 
 tion for Savings. He was a Deacon of the 
 First Church for more than forty years. Jon- 
 athan Holmes Cobb died March 12, 1882. 
 His wife, .Sophia, was a daughter of John 
 Doggett, a Boston merchant, who resided in 
 Dedham. .She became the mother of eight 
 children, of whom the following survive: 
 Sojihia J. I'"rcnch ; Jonathan, the subject of 
 this sketch; Samuel D. ; Isabella F. French; 
 Abl)ie Guild; and John D., a graduate of Har- 
 vard and Assistant Register of Probate. 
 Mrs. Sophia D. Cobb lived to be seventy-two 
 years old. 
 
 Jonathan Cobb received his education in the 
 public and private schools, and had several 
 teachers of languages, and at the age of fifteen 
 went into a wholesale importing house in Bos- 
 ton. In January, 1849, he departed for Cali- 
 fornia by way of Mexico, and upon his arrival 
 there worked in the mines two seasons and on 
 a cattle ranch for a year. In November, 
 185 1, he returned to Dedham. He was em- 
 ployed in the probate office for about a year, 
 at the end of which time he returned to mer- 
 cantile pursuits as a salesman in a wholesale 
 store in Boston. From 1855 to 1859 he was 
 in business in Nashville, Tenn. Returning 
 home in that year, he resumed work in the 
 Registry of Probate as clerk ; and in January, 
 1862, he was appointed Assistant Register. 
 In 1879 he succeeded his father as Register, 
 and has since occupied that position. His 
 ability has been fully demonstrated by the 
 efficient manner in which the large amount of 
 probate and insolvency cases are handled, and 
 he also transacts considerable private busi- 
 ness. 
 
 On July 29, 1857, Mr. Cobb was united in 
 marriage with Martha S. Wales, who was born 
 in Boston, March 24, 1832, daughter of Sam- 
 uel Wales, a merchant of that city. Mrs. 
 Cobb died June 29, 1S77. She was the 
 mother of five children, and is survived by 
 four, namely: Edward S., a mechanical en- 
 gineer in San Francisco; Benjamin W., a 
 book-keeper; Charles A., a travelling sales- 
 man in the wholesale paper trade; and Fred- 
 erick Copeland, a book-keeper in Dedham. 
 
 Mr. Cobb is connected with the California 
 Pioneers Society of New England. He is a
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 member of the Unitarian churcli, and was 
 parish clerk for twenty years. In politics he 
 is a Republican. 
 
 .''RANCIS MICTCALF, a retired manu- 
 facturer, residing in Reliingham, 
 Mass., and a son of HoUis and Abi- 
 gail (Allen) Metcalf, was born here, January 
 28, 1823. One of his early ancestors, who 
 was born in Dedham in 1704, in :73s took up 
 a farm of five hundred acres in North Bel- 
 lingham, which he afterward cleared and 
 largely brought under cultivation. He spent 
 the rest of his life there. His son Stephen, 
 who inherited the property, built the house 
 which is still standing. Stephen was the first 
 judge to hold court in the Norfolk County 
 court-house. He died in Bellingham; and 
 his son Stephen, the grandfather of Francis, 
 took charge of the farm. Grandfather Met- 
 calf, who was both a lawyer and farmer, died 
 in the old home. Hollis Metcalf, son of the 
 last Stephen, engaged in farming on the old 
 homestead. He built the house now occupied 
 by F'rancis Metcalf, and lived there until his 
 death, which occurred October i, 1876. The 
 first of his two marriages was contracted with 
 Abigail Allen, who died in i860. She had 
 two children: Francis, the subject of this 
 sketch; and Olive, who died in 1841. The 
 second marriage united him with Louise 
 Allen, of Holliston, Mass., who died in No- 
 vember, 1896. 
 
 Francis Metcalf was educated in the public 
 schools of Bellingham. Then he went for one 
 year to the institute in Worcester, Mass. 
 After leaving college, he worked on the farm 
 with his father until 185 i, when he started in 
 the manufacture of packing cases, in which he 
 employed four or five men, and which was his 
 business until his retirement from active life. 
 Although successful in this line of busi- 
 ness, he has always devoted some time to 
 farming; and he still owns about one hundred 
 and twenty-five acres of the old Metcalf home- 
 stead. He also owns land in other parts of 
 the town, and he has built several houses. 
 The packing case factory is now conducted by 
 his son. 
 
 In politics Mr. Metcalf was formerly a 
 
 Whig. In later years he has voted the Demo- 
 cratic ticket, although he is very independent, 
 preferring to support the better man regard- 
 less of party. A member of the I. O. O. F., 
 he belongs to Rising Sun Lodge, No. 99, of 
 West Medway. He has been married three- 
 times. The first occasion was in 1845, when 
 he was united to Almira Adams, of Medway. 
 Her father was Captain Christopher Adams, a 
 cabinet-maker of Medway. She had two chil- 
 dren: Frank H., who died when a baby; and 
 Olive, now living in Providence, R.I. The 
 mother died April 11, 1849. The second 
 marriage was contracted on May 7, 1851, with 
 Maria, daughter of Caleb Adams, a farmer of 
 Bellingham. Her children were: Hiram 
 Frank, born June 22, 1852, who married 
 Katie E. Hazelton, of West Medway, and is 
 now living in Providence, R. I., where he has 
 charge of a large paper bo.x shop; Alice 
 Maria, born October 17, 1853, who died in 
 Minnesota, December 29, 1877; Lydia A., 
 born November 13, 1855, who married Addi- 
 son E. Bullard, the superintendent of a fac- 
 tory in Caryville, Mass.; Edward B., born in 
 1857, who died in babyhood; Sarah A., who 
 died July 10, 1859; and Edward E., born 
 July I, 1861, who lives in Caryville, and 
 is working in his father's shop. Mr. Met- 
 calf's second wife died January 21, 1870, 
 at the age of forty-two years. On Novem- 
 ber 27, 1 87 1, the third marriage was made 
 with Mary, daughter of Alexander T. and 
 Maria (Sayles) Wilkinson, of Mendon, Mass. 
 Her father, who was a merchant, is now living 
 in Milford, Mass. The present Mrs. Metcalf 
 has had one child, Jesse W. , born July 27, 
 1873, who died February 23, 1875. Mrs. 
 Metcalf is a member of the Episcopal Church 
 of Woonsocket, R.I. 
 
 HARLES H. SPEAR, of Ouincy, 
 was born here, April 12, 1844, son of 
 Charles Adams Spear. The emi- 
 grant ancestor of the Spear family 
 was John Spear, whose son Samuel married 
 Elizabeth Daniels. The next in line of de- 
 scent was their son, John Spear, who married 
 Mary Arnold. Their son, Seth Spear, who 
 was born January 19, 1741, and who died Au-
 
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 235 
 
 gust 26, 1 8 18, was the great-grandfather of 
 Charles H. The line was continued through 
 Alpheus Spear, a son of Seth by his second 
 wife, Abigail Marsh Spear. Alpheus was a 
 lifelong resident of Ouincy, where he carried 
 on a thriving business as a farmer and trader. 
 He was one of the founders of the Universal ist 
 church of Ouincy and very active in the work 
 of that denomination. He married Ann 
 Adams, a woman of superior intellect, who 
 ably assisted him in his domestic, social, and 
 religious relations. 
 
 Charles Adams Spear was born in this town, 
 January 10, 1820, and was here bred and edu- 
 cated. On attaining his majority, he hired 
 tlie old Adams farm, and there for many years 
 of his married life resided in the house in 
 which John Adams, the second President of 
 tiie United States, was born in 1735. He car- 
 ried on general farming quite extensively, 
 making a specialty of raising hay and produc- 
 ing milk. He kept on an average about sixty 
 cows, and as early as 1834 he began carrying 
 milk into Boston. In the summer of 1848 he 
 introduced the use of a two-wheeled cart as a 
 conveyance. He had a large and lucrative 
 milk route, and continued in the business 
 until his death, which occurred May 8, 1868. 
 He married Caroline Adams, a daughter of 
 Hbenezer Green, of Ouincy. Their children 
 were: Charles H., the subject of this sketch; 
 Carrie Adams, who died at the age of fifteen 
 years; and Alice Dean, the wife of John W. 
 Sanborn, of this town. His religious creed 
 was broad and liberal; and he was a generous 
 contributor toward the support of the Univer- 
 salist church, of which he was a valued 
 member. 
 
 Charles H. Spear received his education in 
 the Ouincy public schools. As soon as he 
 was old enough, he began assisting his father 
 in the dairy and farm work. When twenty- 
 two years of age he succeeded his father in 
 the milk business, which he carried on suc- 
 cessfully until April 4, 1876. As boy and 
 man he drove the milk wagon for twenty 
 years, during which period he never lost a 
 day. He did not again engage in any perma- 
 nent business until 1882, when he embarked 
 in the ice trade, beginning in a modest way, 
 with but two wagons, disposing of only sev- 
 
 eral hundred tons a year. He soon estab- 
 lished an extensive business, each year put- 
 ting on additional wagons and men, being thus 
 engaged until the 1st of January, 1895, when 
 he sold his route, which then demanded five 
 thousand tons yearly, to Frank S. Patch. 
 Since that time Mr. Spear has not been ac- 
 tively engaged in any business. Pie has been 
 a director of the Blue Hill Granite Company 
 since its organization and the treasurer of 
 President's Hill Real Estate Trusts. 
 
 On November 14, 1866, Mr. Spear married 
 Mary F., daughter of Samuel Mitchell. Mr. 
 Mitchell, who was born February 11, 1813, in 
 Otisfield, Me., died in Ouincy, at the home 
 of Mr. Spear, on June 16, 1889. He learned 
 the trade of a carpenter in his youthful days, 
 and at the age of twenty years removed to 
 Boston, tvhere he continued at his chosen oc- 
 cupation until the death of his wife. There- 
 after he resided with his daughter in Ouincy. 
 His wife, Charlotte Bray, a daughter of Joshua 
 and Thankful (Bray) Plumer, had three chil- 
 dren, of whom Mary F. and Charlotte A. at- 
 tained maturity. Charlotte is the wife of 
 Frank A. Bates, of Ikaintree. Mrs. Spear's 
 grandmother. Thankful Bray Plumer, who, 
 born May 29, 1776, in Gloucester, Mass., died 
 August 3, 1865, was married to Joshua 
 Plumer on October 9, 1803. Her father, 
 Samuel Bray, Jr., was married May 23, 1771, 
 to Molly Herrick. His father, Samuel Bray, 
 Sr., who was baptized October 30, 1720, and 
 died February ig, 1803, was married to Abi- 
 gail Glover, June 13, 1743. Moses Bray, 
 the father of the last-named Samuel, was 
 a son of Thomas Bray, Jr., whose father, 
 Thomas Bray, Sr., a ship-builder by trade, 
 in 1642 came from England to America, 
 landing in Gloucester, where the Bray family 
 have since held an honored position. Mr. 
 Spear and his wife have two children — 
 Horace Emery and Lottie Bray. Both par- 
 ents attend the Unitarian church. 
 
 KRANKLIN D. THAYER, a well- 
 known resident of Braintree, was born 
 in the adjoining town of Weymouth. 
 September 27, 1838, son of David and Lydia 
 (Loud) Thayer. His maternal grandfather,
 
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 Benjamin Loud, who was a carpenter and an 
 early settler of Weymouth, lived to be more 
 than ninety years old. The father, a native 
 of Braintrce, resided in Weymouth after his 
 marriage, and died when Franklin D. was but 
 a child. The other surviving children of 
 David Thayer are: Augusta, now Mrs. 
 Walker, of Weymouth; and Susan T., the 
 wife of Herbert A. Vinton, also of Wey- 
 mouth. 
 
 Franklin D. Thayer was brought up in the 
 family of a relative, Thomas Humphrey, of 
 Weymouth, a tanner and currier by trade. 
 He attended the public schools until old 
 enough to go into business. Then he became 
 a manufacturer of leather, and afterward car- 
 ried on that industry in Weymouth for eigh- 
 teen years, employing about forty men in his 
 plant. He married Sarah J. Brooks, who bore 
 him one daughter, Jennie F. Thayer. For 
 fourteen years he was identified with the fire 
 department of the town, and for a number of 
 years he was chief engineer of the department. 
 He has also served two terms on the Board of 
 Assessors in Weymouth. Mr. Thayer is a 
 member of the Crescent Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
 of East Weymouth ; of Pentelpha Chapter of 
 Royal Arch Masons ; and the Scribe of Or- 
 phans' Hope Lodge, F. & A. M. He is 
 also connected with the South Shore Com- 
 mandery, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. 
 Mr. Thayer is prominent in business circles 
 in Weymouth, is a director of the Union 
 National Bank there, and also a director of 
 the South Weymouth Co-operative Bank. In 
 i8g4 he retired from business. 
 
 J~\R. SAMUEL A. TUTTLE, the 
 =i well-known veterinary surgeon of 
 '^J Hyde Park, and the proprietor of 
 "Tuttle's Elixir," having an office 
 at 27 lieverly Street, Boston, was born in 
 Effingham, N. H., September 11, 1837, son of 
 Samuel and Nancy (Drake) Tuttle. His 
 great-grandfather, George Tuttle, who came 
 from England and settled in Lee on a farm, 
 at a later date removed to Effingham, where he 
 afterward resided on another farm, and worked 
 at his trade of wheelwright. George was em- 
 ployed in various mills in that section, built a 
 
 number of water-wheels, was a very well- 
 known and influential man, and died at the 
 age of eighty-four. His son George, the 
 grandfather of Dr. Tuttle, was a farmer, and 
 spent the greater part of his life on the farm, 
 to which his parents moved when he was a 
 boy. Grandfather Tuttle, who was one of a 
 family of fourteen children, had fourteen chil- 
 dren of his own, and died at the age of forty- 
 six. His wife, Sarah G. Tuttle, was born in 
 that vicinity, and lived to be eighty-four years 
 old. 
 
 Samuel Tuttle, the second of the fourteen 
 children of his parents, was brought up a 
 farmer, and afterward devoted his attention to 
 agricultural pursuits. He lived on the old 
 homestead, and after the death of his father 
 assisted in the support of the family, and 
 later moved to East Andover, where he spent 
 the last years of his life, dying at the age of 
 seventy-eight years. His wife, Nancy, was a 
 daughter of Deacon John Drake, and was born 
 in Effingham. She had a family of fourteen 
 children, of whom ten grew to maturity, and 
 four are still living. The latter are: Abra- 
 ham D., Charles F., Samuel A., and W. D. 
 Tuttle. The mother died at the age of 
 seventy-two years. She was married when 
 only sixteen years old, and had spent fifty-six 
 years of wedded life. The celebration of her 
 golden wedding was a pleasant occasion to all 
 who were present. Both parents were mem- 
 bers of the Free Will Baptist church. 
 
 Samuel A. Tuttle spent the early years of 
 his life on his father's farm, and was educated 
 in the common schools of his native town and 
 in the academies at Wolfboro and Andover. 
 In 1859 he went to Illinois, where he had a 
 farm and ran a ranch, shipping cattle and hogs 
 to Chicago. At the end of ten years he sold 
 out, and went to the State of Mississippi, 
 where he managed a large cotton plantation 
 for a year. Then, coming North, he stopped 
 in Boston, where he opened a sale and livery 
 stable on a large scale. A year later he 
 bought out the large Everett Stables in Hyde 
 Park, containing fifty horses, and carried on a 
 large business here for two years. Returning 
 to Boston then, and purchasing a livery and 
 sale stable, he carried it on until 1884, when 
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 the same year he began to manufacture 
 "Tuttle's Elixir," which has since been intro- 
 duced into every State in the Union, and has 
 given such remarkable satisfaction. He has 
 now a high reputation for skilful and success- 
 ful treatment, and is called to go to all parts 
 of New England to attend the most difficult 
 cases of disease in high-bred and valuable 
 animals. 
 
 Dr. Tuttle is a Democrat in politics, as 
 have been several generations of his family; 
 but, though well suited for public life, he has 
 steadily refused to be a candidate for office. 
 He is a member of the I. O. O. F. A Mason 
 of high standing, he belongs to Norfolk Royal 
 Arch Chapter, Hyde Park Council, and 
 Cyprus Commandery. In the Hyde Park 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a 
 member, the Doctor has served on the Official 
 Board for many years, and has been a teacher 
 of the Sunday-school. At a recent meeting 
 of the Co-operative Bank League he was 
 placed on the Executive Committee for three 
 years. He has been a resident of Hyde Park 
 since 1872. 
 
 LONZO F. BENNETT, a retired man- 
 ufacturer of jewelry, residing in 
 Wrentham, was born February 1 3, 
 1 841, in this town, which was the 
 birthplace of his father, Isaac F. Bennett. 
 He is descended from a pioneer family of New 
 Hampshire, the State in which his grand- 
 father, Isaac Bennett, was born and bred. 
 While living among the granite hills, he 
 learned the cabinet-maker's trade, after which 
 he removed to this county, settling in 
 Wrentham, where he died full of years. To 
 him and his wife, whose maiden name was 
 Elizabeth Randall, thirteen children were 
 born. 
 
 Isaac F. Bennett, one of the younger chil- 
 dren of Isaac Bennett, was born September 
 II, 1810. In common with the companions 
 of his youth he obtained his education in the 
 schools of his district. Subsequently, after 
 working at the blacksmith's trade for several 
 years, he became a tool-maker in the jewelry 
 business, being employed in that capacity in 
 North Attleboro, Mass. Sixteen years ago he 
 
 retired from active pursuits; and he has since 
 resided at the beautiful home of his son, 
 Alonzo F., on the South Road. His wife, 
 Lydia, was born in Rhode Island, daughter of 
 Daniel and Lydia (Haskell) Hayden. They 
 have six children — Ellen F., Bradford A., 
 Ahmzo F., Charles H., Daniel, and Alice. 
 Bradford, who is unmarried, lives on the old 
 homestead. Charles H. is a prominent mer- 
 chant of Springfield, Mass., and has three 
 times represented that city in the General 
 Court. Daniel, who married Anna O. Whit- 
 ing, died in 1882, leaving three children — 
 Alice B. , Marion N., and Arthur H. Alice, 
 the youngest child of Isaac F. Bennett, and 
 who graduated from the Woman's College of 
 Philadelphia and from the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, was 
 the first woman to receive the degree of Doctor 
 of Philosophy in this country. She is a mem- 
 ber of both the Legal Medico Society of 
 Pennsylvania and the Legal Medical Society 
 of New York. For sixteen years she was su- 
 perintendent of the State Asylum for the In- 
 sane at Norristown, Pa. This responsible 
 position she recently resigned to take charge 
 of an invalid daughter of one of Chicago's 
 millionaires, with whom she has travelled ex- 
 tensively through the country. 
 
 Alonzo ¥. Bennett was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Wrentham. While yet a lad he 
 became familiar with agricultural labor, and 
 also learned the jewelry trade, at which he 
 worked until the late Civil War was in full 
 progress. In 1862, inspired by purely pa- 
 triotic motives, he enlisted in the Forty-fifth 
 Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, as Sergeant 
 of a company. Afterward, with his comrades, 
 he was in several important engagements, in- 
 cluding the battles of Kingston and Goldsboro 
 in North Carolina. At the close of the Re- 
 bellion he resumed his trade, locating in 
 North Attleboro, where he continued in the 
 manufacture of jewelry for seventeen years. 
 He then disposed of his interest in that, and 
 has since resided on his farm in Wrentham, 
 free from the restraints of business. 
 
 On October 10, 1888, Mr. Bennett was mar- 
 ried to Miss Mary Allston Morse, a daughter 
 of William Morse. They have two children 
 — Helen F. and Alice A. With the excep-
 
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 tion of the year 1864, when he cast his first 
 Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, Mr. 
 Bennett has been an earnest supporter of the 
 Democratic party. 
 
 LIJAH ADAMS MORSE, of Canton, 
 manufacturer, member of Congress for 
 the Twelfth Massachusetts District, 
 is a native of Indiana, born in South Bend, 
 but of an early New England family. His 
 father, the Rev. Abner Morse, A.M., was a 
 native of Medway, Mass., descending from 
 Samuel Morse, who settled in Dedham in 
 1635; and his mother, Hannah Peck Morse, 
 was born in New York State. His middle 
 name, Adams, is a family name, coming from 
 the marriage of an ancestor of Joseph Morse, 
 of Sherborn, with Prudence Adams, of Brain- 
 tree (now Quincy), a relative of the Presi- 
 dents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams. 
 Eleven years after his birth the family re- 
 turned to Massachusetts; and his early educa- 
 tion was acquired here, in the public schools 
 of Sherborn and Holliston, and at the well- 
 known old Boylston School in Boston, and 
 finisbed at the Onondaga Academy in New 
 York State. In his nineteenth year he en- 
 listed in the Civil War in Company A, Fourth 
 Massachusetts Infantry, as a private, and was 
 with General Butler in Virginia three months 
 and with General Banks for nine months in 
 Louisiana. The foundation of his fortune was 
 laid when he was yet a boy, alone in a little 
 shop in Sharon, during his school vacations, 
 in the preparation of the stove polish which 
 afterward became so widely known under the 
 name of the ''Rising Sun." Upon his return 
 from the army he joined his brother in the 
 establishment in Canton of the works for the 
 manufacture of his stove polish; and this was 
 rapidly developed into an important industry. 
 The factory now covers four acres of land, and 
 has a capacity of ten tons a day. Since Sep- 
 tember I, 1888, Mr. Morse has been the sole 
 proprietor of the business. 
 
 Mr. Morse's public career began in the 
 seventies, when he was elected a member of 
 the Massachusetts House of Representatives 
 for 1876, in which body he at once became 
 prominent. In 1886 and 1887 he was a mem- 
 
 ber of the State Senate, in 1888 a member of 
 the Executive Council, and in the latter year, 
 while holding the position of Councillor, was 
 nominated and elected to Congress as the suc- 
 cessor of the Hon. John D. Long, by a ma- 
 jority of three thousand, six hundred and 
 eighty votes. He has since served in the 
 Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and 
 Fifty-fourth Congresses, and declined a cer- 
 tain nomination and re-election to the Fifty- 
 fifth Congress. As a State Senator he was 
 influential in advancing various reform meas- 
 ures, and, with other legislation, secured rad- 
 ical amendments to the laws for the protection 
 of children and for punishment of crimes 
 against chastity. In Congress he has been 
 identified with all the great measures advo- 
 cated by the Republican party, and has made 
 speeches on the floor of the House in favor of 
 protection to American manufactures and 
 American labor, in favor of sound finances, 
 in favor of restricted immigration, against 
 sectarian appropriations of public money, in 
 favor of more stringent naturalization laws, in 
 favor of the annexation of the Hawaiian 
 Islands, in favor of memorializing the Russian 
 government in behalf of the persecuted Jews, 
 in favor of a non-partisan commission to in- 
 vestigate the alcoholic liquor traffic and its re- 
 lation to pauperism, crime, insanity, and tax- 
 ation, and on many other important subjects. 
 His politics have always been Republican. 
 He has also been a lifelong supporter of tem- 
 perance measures, for many years a recognized 
 leader in the temperance cause. He is inter- 
 ested in all matters pertaining to the public 
 schools, and is a warm supporter of every 
 effort for social reform which he regards as 
 genuine. He is a practical philanthropist, 
 and has given generously to various charities. 
 The ground for th'e Canton Memorial Hall, the 
 memorial tablets on the hall, and the bronze 
 soldier on the green, in memory of those who 
 fell in the Civil War, were his gifts to the 
 town of Canton. He has frequently been 
 heard on the public platform in addresses on 
 political, educational, temperance. Grand 
 Army, and religious topics, of which he has 
 delivered more than two thousand in New 
 England and other States. Mr. Morse is a 
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 logical Society, of the Congregational Club, 
 of the Norfolk Club, of Post, No. 94, G. A. R., 
 and of the Sons of the American Revolution, 
 and has for many years been a Deacon of the 
 Congregational church in Canton. 
 
 He was married January i, 1868, to Miss 
 Felicia Vining, daughter of Samuel A. Vin- 
 ing, of Holbrook. They have three living 
 children: Abner, born in 1870; Samuel, in 
 1876; and Benjamin, in 1878. (Copied from 
 "Men of Progress.") 
 
 Fulton, 
 
 lISS JULIA A. EASTMAN, of 
 Wellesley, a well-known writer 
 and one of the founders of the 
 Dana Hall School, was born in 
 N.Y., in 1837. A daughter of the 
 Rev. John Eastman and his wife, Prudence, 
 she is a descendant of Roger Eastman, who 
 settled in Salisbury in 1638. Born in Eng- 
 land in 161 I, he came to the country from 
 London in the ship "Confidence," John Tob- 
 son, master. Joseph, one of the ten children 
 of Roger, born in 165 i, went from Salisbury to 
 Hadley, and died there in April, i6gi. He 
 married Mary, daughter of the Hon. Peter Til- 
 son, of Hadley, and had a family of three chil- 
 dren. Joseph (second), son of Joseph (first), 
 was born in 1683. He was taken captive by 
 the French and Indians at the time when the 
 raid upon Deerfield was made. After his re- 
 lease he settled in Hadley on the place of 
 his grandfather. In 171 1 he married Mary 
 Smith. Joseph (third), a native of Amherst, 
 born in 1715, died in 1790. On May 17, 
 1746, he married Sarah Ingraham ; and ten 
 children were born to them. John, son of Jo- 
 seph (third), was born at Amherst in 175 1. 
 He married Hepzibah, daughter of John 
 Keyes, and became the father of fifteen chil- 
 dren. 
 
 The Rev. John Eastman, born in Amherst 
 in 1803, was educated at Williams College 
 and in the Theological Seminary at Auburn, 
 N.Y. In 1830 he was ordained to the minis- 
 try, and commenced his pastoral duties in the 
 Congregational church at Fulton, N.Y. For 
 eleven years he was pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional church in Danville, Vt. For seventeen 
 years he labored at Hawley, Mass., in the East 
 
 and West I'arishes, and he was in Indiana for 
 two years. He continued in active work until 
 he was seventy-five years old, when he retired; 
 and in 1880 he died at Wellesley. Mrs. Pru- 
 dence Eastman, a daughter of Barnet Dole, of 
 Charlemont, Mass., was born in 18 12, and 
 died in 1844. Her mother before marriage 
 was Prudence Wilder, of Shelburne, Mass. 
 
 Miss Eastman came to Hawley in 1843, and 
 was sent to the public schools of that town. 
 She was subsequently a pupil of Amherst 
 Academy, of Monson Academy, and of Ipswich 
 Female Seminary at Ipswich, Mass. She 
 commenced teaching in Owego, N.Y., and was 
 engaged in the academy there in 1859 and 
 i860. Later she taught in Monson Academy 
 and in a private school of Westficld, Mass., 
 for five years. She then devoted her time for 
 six or eight years to literary work, writing 
 books for boys and girls, and winning thereby 
 many prizes. One of her stories was "Strik- 
 ing for the Right," which won a prize of one 
 thousand dollars, offered by the publishers, D. 
 Lothrop & Co. This and other writings of 
 Miss Eastman published by the Lothrops have 
 been translated into several foreign languages. 
 She has also written more or less for the 
 Youth's Coinpanion. In 188 1 she and her sister 
 Sarah opened the Dana Hall School at Welles- 
 ley, a preparatory school for young ladies, 
 fitting especially for Wellesley College, and 
 entering its pupils at the college upon the 
 certificate of its principals. The Misses East- 
 man are sole proprietors of the school, which 
 now has about one hundred pupils. 
 
 Miss Sarah Eastman, the younger of the two 
 ladies, was born in Mexico, N.Y., in 1839, 
 and was graduated from Mount Holyoke Col- 
 lege in the class of 1861. Of this college 
 she is at present one of the trustees. She 
 taught for several years in Ohio, also in Welles- 
 ley College, which she left to take charge of 
 the preparatory school with her sister. 
 
 REELAND DAVID LESLIE, M.D., 
 a leading physician of Milton, was born 
 June 29, 1858, in Patten, Me., son of 
 .Sylvester Z. and Isabel L. (Huston) Leslie, 
 both natives of Maine. The Leslies are an 
 old Scottish family: and this branch in Amer-
 
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 ica is traced back to the Rev. James Leslie, 
 who came to New England with his wife, Mar- 
 garet Sherar, about the year 1728, and settled 
 at Topsfield, Essex County, Mass. 
 
 From James Leslie, through his son George, 
 his grandson William, and William's son, 
 Samuel Chase Leslie, the line descends to 
 Sylvester Zina, father of Dr. Leslie. 
 
 The Rev. George Leslie, born November 
 25, 1727, was graduated at Harvard College in 
 I74<S, ordained to the ministry at Linebrook in 
 Ipswich, Mass., November 15, 1749, had 
 charge of the church there thirty years, was 
 then dismissed at his own request, and was in- 
 stalled July 12, 1780, as minister at Washing- 
 ton, N.H., where "he discharged his duties 
 with faithfulness and great acceptance until 
 his death, which occurred September 11, 
 1800." The headstone which marks his 
 grave, placed there by vote of the town, con- 
 tains this epitaph, showing the estimation in 
 which he was held by the friends who knew 
 bim best: "He was a man of brilliant genius 
 and great learning and eminent in piety and 
 morality." Further interesting particulars 
 concerning him may be found in Felt's His- 
 tory of Ipswich, Mass., and the History of 
 Washington, N. H. 
 
 He married Hepzibah Burpee, daughter of 
 Deacon Jonathan Burpee, and had eight chil- 
 dren—George, Jr., David, James, Jonathan, 
 William, Hepzibah, Joseph, and Mehitable. 
 David Leslie, the second son, was the father of 
 the Rev. David Leslie, born in 1797, who in 
 1837 was sent as a Methodist missionary to 
 Oregon, where he assisted in forming one of 
 the first Protestant churches on the Pacific 
 coast, and aided in founding Willamette 
 University. 
 
 William, fifth son of the Rev. George 
 Leslie, born in Ipswich, Mass., resided for 
 some years in Cornish, N.H., the home of his 
 wife, Mary Chase, who died at the early age 
 of twenty-three years. Their children were: 
 Betsy, Mary, and Samuel Chase, who is the 
 fourth in the line now being considered. 
 
 Samuel Chase Leslie, born September 17, 
 1791, married Mary Eliza Thomas, of Clare- 
 mont, N.H., and lived successively in Salem 
 and Haverhill, Mass., in Lincoln and in Pat- 
 ten, Me., where he died, April 20, 1845. His 
 
 wife, born November 26, 1792, died December 
 29, 1847. Their children were: William, 
 born January 29, 1818; David T., born July 
 ig, 1819, who was educated at West Point, 
 served in the Mexican War, and was killed at 
 Matamoras, January 20, 1847; Esther Ives; 
 James B. ; Samuel C; John P.; Sylvester 
 Zina, born July 12, 1831; and Mary E., born 
 in 1835, died April 29, 1857. Sylvester 
 Zina Leslie married October 7, 1855, Isabel 
 Leighton Huston, born January 21, 1835. 
 They had two children, namely: Freeland 
 David, the special subject of this biographical 
 sketch; and his sister, Ida May, born in 
 Patten, Me., February 5, i860. 
 
 When in his eleventh year I'reeland D. 
 Leslie removed with his parents to Boston, 
 Mass. He attended the public schools in that 
 city, including the English High School, and 
 subsequently pursued a course in medicine in 
 the Boston University School of Medicine, 
 where he was graduated in 1879. Beginning 
 the practice of his profession in Canton, 
 Mass., in June, 1880, he remained there for 
 five years; and at the end of this time he went 
 abroad, and took special lecture courses in the 
 hospitals at Vienna and Berlin, spending two 
 years in Europe. In 1888 Dr. Leslie came to 
 Milton, where he has since been assiduously 
 engaged in the practice of medicine, becoming 
 so well and favorably known in this region 
 that comment upon his skill seems needless. 
 Having found time to be interested in many 
 things not directly within the pale of his pro- 
 fessional duties, he is now on his second term 
 as a member of the School Committee, and he 
 has also served on the local Board of Health. 
 He is a member of the Massachusetts Homoeo- 
 pathic Medical Society; of Macedonian 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., of Milton, of which he 
 was first Master; and of Dorchester Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F. 
 
 Dr. Leslie married Georgiana Shepard, 
 daughter of James S. Shepard, of Canton, 
 Mass. They have three children: Bernard 
 Shepard Leslie, born in London, England, 
 December 2, 1882; Howard Clifford Leslie, 
 born in Milton, Mass., Sunday, November 4, 
 1 888; and Freeland Huston Leslie, born in 
 Milton, November 7, 1890. The Doctor and 
 his family reside on Brook Road.
 
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 LFRED G. METCALF, a prominent 
 and highly respected citizen of Frank- 
 lin, now living in retirement, was 
 born in this town, May 23, 1825, 
 son of William and Sallie (Gaskell) Metcalf. 
 William H. Metcalf, the grandfather, was 
 born December 23, 1754. He was a farmer 
 and a soldier of the Revolution, and was a 
 lifelong resident of Franklin, dying here in 
 1842. His wife, Patty Richardson, to whom 
 he was married in 1776, died in 1823. Their 
 children were: Willard, born in 1777, who 
 died in 1839; Polly, born in 1778, who died 
 in 1 795; Marcus, born in 17S0, who died in 
 1803; Patty, born in 1783; Ebenezer, born in 
 1788, who died in 1796; William, born March 
 8, 1790, who died June 23, 1S72; Abigail, 
 born in 1795, who died in 1870; Mary, born 
 in 1797; and Elizabeth, born in 1801. 
 
 William Metcalf was a farmer, a lumber- 
 man, and a dealer in wood and charcoal. He 
 served his native town as Selectman, Asses- 
 sor, Collector of Taxes, and in 185 1 repre- 
 sented it in the State legislature. He was a 
 member of the First Congregational Parish. 
 His wife, Sallie, who was born at Mendon, 
 Mass., April 2, 1797, died on February 25, 
 1885. Their children were: William War- 
 ren and Alfred G. William Warren, born in 
 18 19, was educated at Franklin Academy in 
 Franklin, and studied dentistry with Dr. 
 Mayo, of Boston. He subsequently practised 
 in that city for fifteen years, and died in 1870. 
 
 Alfred G. Metcalf was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Franklin and at Holliston 
 Academy. He has always lived at home, 
 spending his active period in agriculture. He 
 has also done considerable lumbering and 
 dealt in wood. He has been a Democrat in 
 politics, and has taken a strong interest in 
 town affairs. In 1875 he was Selectman. 
 He has also been Road Commissioner, and 
 was Assessor for two years. A Mason of E.x- 
 celsior Lodge of F"ranklin, he is a member of 
 the Royal Arch Chapter. He attends the 
 Baptist church. 
 
 On December 28, 1845, Mr. Metcalf was 
 united in marriage with Charlotte A. Gil- 
 more, of Franklin, Mass. She was born Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1824, daughter of Joseph and Maria 
 (Dilber) Gilmore. The father was a farmer 
 
 and a native of Franklin; and the mother was 
 a native of Providence, R.I. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Metcalf have been the parents of three chil- 
 (h-en : Evelyn E., born September 16, 1846, 
 who died in 1865; William S., born May 14, 
 1853; and Louisa A., born January 30, 1861. 
 William, who is a member and the treasurer 
 of the Plainville Stock Company, manufactur- 
 ing jewellers, married Ida E. Hcaton, of this 
 town, and has two children, namely: Bertha 
 L. , born May 9, 1879; and Leroy A., born 
 September 25, 1886. Louisa A., who resides 
 with her parents, has been a teacher in P'rank- 
 lin village for fourteen years. 
 
 son of Walter Bowman, who was born in 
 Springfield, N.H. His grandfather. Deputy 
 Bowman, who was born in New Hampshire, 
 there spent the greater part of his life engaged 
 as a tiller of the soil, and was a soldier in the 
 War of 1812. Deputy married Margaret Mc- 
 Clure, who was born in Southern New Hamp- 
 shire of Irish parentage. They reared a fam- 
 ily of fourteen children. Both were attend- 
 ants of the Baptist church. They both died 
 at the age of ninety years. 
 
 After following the tanner's trade in his na- 
 tive State for a number of years, Walter Bow- 
 man turned his attention to farming. He re- 
 moved to Vermont, where he passed his 
 remaining days, and died at the age of four- 
 score and eight years. In politics he was a 
 Jacksonian Democrat. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Abigail Calef, was born in 
 Grantham, N.H., being one of the ten chil- 
 dren of Nathaniel Calef, a well-to-do farmer 
 of that place. Of Walter's six children, 
 Sarah P., Abbie M., Sylvester, and Alonzo 
 are living. Both parents were members of 
 the Baptist church. 
 
 Alonzo Bowman received his education in 
 the district schools. When about seventeen 
 years old he came to Massachusetts, secured a 
 situation as clerk in a grocery store in Bos- 
 ton, and was employed in that capacity for 
 several years. Subsequently he was engaged
 
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 in the express business in Brookline until the 
 breaking out of the Civil War. Enlisting 
 then in Company F, Twenty-sixth Massachu- 
 setts Volunteer Infantry, he went South with 
 the Nineteenth Army Corps, and was detailed 
 to duty in the office of the Provost Marshal 
 at Louisiana, being stationed at New Orleans 
 for some time. He afterward went with his 
 regiment to Virginia, and, joining Sheridan 
 in the Shenandoah Valley, was an active par- 
 ticipant in some of the most hotly contested 
 battles of the entire war, and had several nar- 
 row escapes from death. In 1864, his term 
 of enlistment having expired, he was dis- 
 charged as a private, and returned to Brook- 
 line. From 1865 till 1871 he was employed 
 in the weighing department of the Boston 
 custom-house. In the latter year he was ap- 
 pointed a patrolman on the Brookline police 
 force. Five years later, in 1876, he was 
 made Chief of Police, an office which he has 
 since filled with commendable ability. When 
 he assumed his present position, the police 
 force numbered but seven men. There are 
 now thirty-nine men and five horses. An am- 
 bulance and a patrol wagon are used. 
 
 Mr. Bowman is a steadfast Republican in 
 his political affiliations. In the Masonic fra- 
 ternity he has been Marshal for ten years, 
 and belongs to Beth-Horon Lodge of Brook- 
 line; to St. John Royal Arch Chapter; to De 
 Molay Commandery of Boston ; and to Rox- 
 bury Council, in which he has taken the 
 thirty-second degree. He is likewise a mem- 
 ber of the Brookline Lodge of Odd Fellows 
 and of the Knights of Honor; is president of 
 the Chiefs of Police Association of Brookline, 
 and also of the Chiefs of Police Union of 
 Massachusetts. Mr. Bowman was married in 
 1858 to Miss Ann K. Russell, and has one 
 child, Walter H. 
 
 KS. NANCY D. GILLETT, an 
 esteemed resident of Walnut Hill, 
 was born in Maxfield, Me., Au- 
 gust 17, 1833, daughter of Sam- 
 Sarah H. (Davis) Mcintosh. On 
 the paternal side she is of Scotch descent. 
 Her grandfather, Jeremiah Mcintosh, was born 
 April 13, 1751, in what is now Hyde Park, 
 
 Mass. He fought for American independence 
 in the Revolutionary War, taking part in the 
 battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, as a 
 member of Captain Samuel Heath's company. 
 In May of the same year he volunteered to 
 serve under Captain George Goold, in Colonel 
 Sargent's regiment, and was appointed Orderly 
 Sergeant. P'rom October, 1775, to February, 
 1776, he was on furlough in Dorchester, being 
 sick with fever and general prostration. He 
 resumed active service in September, 1776, 
 under Captain Ebenezer Gore, in the regiment 
 commanded by Colonel W. M. Mcintosh, 
 which marched to Sawpits, N.Y., where and 
 at New Castle, N. Y., near White Plains, he 
 performed guard and patrol duty. One of 
 Mrs. Gillett's great-grandfathers on the ma- 
 ternal side was Benjamin Swett, a sea captain 
 of Orrington, Me. Her grandfather, Isaac 
 Davis, was a Methodist minister. Samuel 
 Mcintosh, her father, was a native of Hyde 
 Park, Mass. He and his wife had a family 
 of seven children; namely, Elizabeth, Isaac 
 D., Lydia K., Elisha, Nancy D., Benjamin 
 S., and Eliza Ann. 
 
 Nancy D. Mcintosh attended the district 
 school, remaining with her parents until 
 twenty-three years of age. In 1856 she ob- 
 tained work in East Dedham at Taft's Cotton 
 Mills. Thence she moved to Waltham, and 
 engaged in dressmaking. There she met Ben- 
 jamin F. Gillett, a widower, to whom she was 
 married in that town on November 15, 1858. 
 After her marriage she went with her husband 
 to Rochester, Vt., where he bought a farm, 
 which he conducted for some time. In 1874 
 Mr. Gillett purchased a lot in Dedham, which 
 he cultivated up to the time of his death. 
 Though he could not be prevailed upon to ac- 
 cept public office, he took a lively interest in 
 town and county affairs; and he was an active 
 worker for the welfare of the Methodist 
 church, acting as class leader for a number of 
 years. An exemplary citizen, he was held in 
 high esteem by all who knew him. His death 
 occurred December 18, 1893. By his first 
 wife he had two children: Austin F., now a 
 farmer in Bethel, Vt. ; and Ellen M., now 
 the widow of C. O. Wiley, a farmer and a 
 resident of Rochester, Vt. Mrs. Gillett has 
 resided in this vicinity for twenty-three years,
 
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 249 
 
 has been an active and valuable church mem- 
 ber, and is widely known and respected. She 
 has one child, Henry W. , born in Troy, 
 N.ll., June 16, i86i, who is now a dentist, 
 practising in Newport, R.I. He was married 
 June 14, 1893, to Miss Elizabeth Pay, of 
 Ensiland. 
 
 X^/lLLARD P. 
 ^V of the Be 
 ♦^ '^ Mil lis, was 
 
 CLARK, the chairman 
 Board of Selectmen of 
 was born in his present resi- 
 dence, December 24, 1830, son of James P. 
 and Maria F. (Frost) Clark. The farm now 
 cultivated by Mr. Clark and his brother was 
 cleared from the wilderness by their grand- 
 father, John Clark, who erected the dwelling, 
 and resided there until his death. 
 
 James P. Clark, who inherited the home- 
 stead, conducted it energetically during his 
 active years. He was a prominent man in 
 his day, holding various town offices, and act- 
 ing as Justice of the Peace, and was highly es- 
 teemed for his many commendable qualities. 
 He died September 6, 1865. His wife, 
 Maria, who was a native of Billerica, Mass., 
 became the mother of three children; namely, 
 Willard P., John M., and James W. John 
 M. successively married Martha D. Pierce 
 and Mary Clark, and died in August, 1866. 
 His widow died in Hyde Park, Mass., Novem- 
 ber 2, 1897. James W., who resides at the 
 homestead, married Amelia Wallace. Mrs. 
 Maria Clark died in 1883. 
 
 Willard P. Clark acquired a common-school 
 education, which included a course in the high 
 school. He has always lived at the home- 
 stead, and he assisted in its cultivation from 
 an early day. Since 1865 he and his brother 
 have managed it jointly. Besides the home- 
 stead proper of one hundred and fourteen 
 acres, they own seventy acres of outlying 
 land. Willard P. Clark is also engaged in 
 the insurance business as agent for the Nor- 
 folk, Dedham, Ouincy, Fitchburg, and the 
 Traders' and Mechanics' Insurance Com- 
 panies. In politics he is a Democrat, and he 
 has been the chairman of the Board of Select- 
 men for the past thirteen years. He is also a 
 Justice of the Peace, and has settled several 
 estates. 
 
 Mr. Clark has been twice married. The 
 first occasion was on November 9, 1854, when 
 he was united to Susan Billings, of Walpole, 
 Mass., daughter of Hewins Billings, a farmer 
 and stone-cutter of that town. She died in 
 April, i860, leaving no children. The sec- 
 ond marriage was contracted on November 21, 
 1861, with Abbie R. Lovell, of Millis, 
 daughter of Asahcl P. and iCliza (Stedman) 
 Lovell. She died May 17, 1893, leaving two 
 children — Jennie M. and John F. — both of 
 whom are residing at home. Mr. Clark occu- 
 pies a prominent position both as a business 
 man and farmer, and his able public services 
 have earned for him the sincere esteem of his 
 fellow-townsmen. He is a member of the 
 Patrons of Husbandry of Millis. 
 
 EV. DANIEL J. KELEHKR, Ph.D., 
 the pastor of St. Joseph's Roman 
 
 to\ Catholic Church, Medway, was born 
 in North Andover, Mass., March 6, 
 1859, son of James and Mary (Lane) Keleher. 
 His parents emigrated from Ireland in 1849, 
 first settling in Lawrence, Mass. After grad- 
 uating from the Lawrence High School in 
 1876, he became a student at Villanova Col- 
 lege in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. His 
 theological course was pursued at St. Mary's 
 University, Baltimore, from which he was 
 graduated in 1883. 
 
 Having been ordained to the priesthood by 
 Cardinal Gibbons, Father Keleher was as- 
 signed as assistant pastor to the Church of St. 
 Francis de Sales in Roxbury, Mass. In Sep- 
 tember, 1888, he became a member of the 
 faculty at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, 
 Mass.; and in November, 1896, he came to 
 Medway to undertake the pastorate of St. Jo- 
 seph's Church. This parish was formerly in 
 charge of priests from neighboring towns, in- 
 cluding Father Cuddihy, of Milford, and 
 Father Ouinlan, of Holliston. Its first regu- 
 lar pastor was Father Boylan, now of Charles- 
 town, Mass. His successor was Father 
 Thomas B. Lownay, who remained nine years, 
 and is now stationed in Marlboro. St. Jo- 
 seph's church edifice, which was commenced 
 by Father Ouinlan, was completed by Father 
 Boylan. Under the pastoral care of Father
 
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 Keleher, the entire parish* which includes St. 
 Brendan's Church and congregation at North 
 Bellingham, is in a flourishing condition. 
 Since coming to Medvvay, Father Keleher 
 has gained many warm friends. His untiring 
 labors in behalf of the church and the general 
 morality of the comnuinity are highly appre- 
 ciated by his fellow-townsmen. 
 
 lifelong resident of 
 (lillis, spent his ac- 
 
 'Y^VT^OSES C. ADAMS, a Selectman of 
 Lj^ Millis and an ex-member of the 
 rjJ^T Massachusetts legislature, was 
 ^ ^~^ born where he now resides, No- 
 
 vember 17, 1843, son of Edward and Keziah 
 L. (Clark) Adams. Henry Adams, the first 
 of his ancestors to settle in this section of the 
 county, located upon land in the vicinity of 
 the present homestead. Micah Adams, his 
 grandfather, who was a 
 the locality now called 
 tive years in farming. 
 
 Edward Adams, who was also a farmer, 
 built the house in which his son now resides. 
 He died September 23, 1870. His wife, who 
 was a native of Milford, Mass., became the 
 mother of five children, as follows: Charles, 
 born November 16, 1831, who died September 
 24, 1837; Mercy P., born August 26, 1834, 
 who married F"rancis O. Phillips, of this 
 town: Mary R., born October 24, 1838, who 
 is the wife of George Wight, of Medfield, 
 Mass.; Edward M., born November 17, 1840, 
 who died October 12, 1849; and Moses C, 
 the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Keziah 
 Adams died January 15, 1891. 
 
 After acquiring a common-school education, 
 Moses C. Adams began to assist upon the 
 farm where he has always resided. He now 
 owns the property, which contains one hun- 
 dred acres of fine tillage land. A successful 
 agriculturist, his crops are large and of su- 
 perior quality: and he raises some excellent 
 stock. In ])olitics he is a Republican. He 
 has been a member of the Board of Selectmen 
 since the incorporation of the town, has 
 served as Inspector of Cattle for the last five 
 years, is at the present time Street Commis- 
 sioner, was chairman of the Board of Assessors 
 for five years, and he ably represented Millis 
 in the legislature of 1890. 
 
 On June 17, 1880, Mr. Adams was united 
 in marriage with Abbie H. Ellis, who was 
 born in Milford, March 9, 1850. Her par- 
 ents, both now deceased, were Warren and 
 Louisa (Cutter) Ellis, of that town, the for- 
 mer of whom was a shoemaker by trade. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Adams have three children, namely: 
 Edward Ellis, born July 27, 1881 ; Bessie K., 
 born September 13, 1883; and Lotta M., born 
 June 24, i88g. Mr. Adams is connected with 
 Medfield Lodge, I. O. O. P., and with the 
 Royal Arcanum; and he has been a member of 
 the Home Circle since its organization in 
 Millis. 
 
 "inxANIEL BROWN, a prosperous busi- 
 1^^ ness man of Wrentham, engaged in 
 i L^V ^''^^ manufacture of manila hats, 
 split braids, etc., was born in Ire- 
 land, December 26, 1842. His father, Alex- 
 ander Brown, in 1843 emigrated from Ireland 
 to the United States, locating in Wrentham. 
 Alexander followed cabinet-making here for 
 some years, and was also engaged in tilling 
 the soil, being the owner of a well-improved 
 farm, which is still in the possession of the 
 family. He died on his homestead in 1889, 
 aged seventy-eight years. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Margaret Lawson, bore him 
 four children; namely, Ellen, Daniel, John, 
 and Alexander. Ellen married Charles S. 
 Goddard, of Worcester, Mass., and has three 
 children — George, Frank, and Fred. Alex- 
 ander is now deceased. 
 
 Daniel Brown was bred and educated in 
 Wrentham, having been but an infant when he 
 was brought to the country. After leaving 
 the district schools, he learned the cabinet- 
 maker's trade, which he worked at for five 
 years, being an ingenious and skilful artisan. 
 He then turned his attention to pattern-mak- 
 ing, and was employed for twenty years in 
 the straw shop of William E. George. When 
 his employer failed, Mr. Brown purchased the 
 business, and has since carried it on with 
 signal success. He enlarged the plant by 
 additions to the buildings as the work in- 
 creased, and now gives steady employment to 
 about one hundred and eighty people. He has 
 purchased a new residence, in which he and his
 
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 estimable wife extend a gracious hospitality 
 to their hosts of friends. 
 
 On July 22, 1868, Mr. IJrowii married 
 Miss Esther A. Getchell, who was born in 
 Topsfield, Me., daughter of Isaac Getchell. 
 They have two children — Charles Edwin and 
 Grace G. The son married Grace Arnisbey, 
 of Winchester, Mass., and has one child, 
 Anna. Mr. Brown cast his first Presidential 
 vote in 1864 for Abraham Lincoln, and has 
 since been an active worker in the Republi- 
 can ranks. In 1896 he was a member of the 
 State legislature. He is a member of Wam- 
 pum Lodge, No. 195, I. O. O. F., of Wren- 
 tham. Both he and his wife attend the Con- 
 gregational Church of Wrentham. 
 
 -AMES D. McAVOY, one of the leading 
 citizens of Hyde Park, has been identi- 
 fied with the interests of this town for 
 nearly thee decades, in that time con- 
 tributing his full share toward promoting its 
 prosperity. He was born September 24, 
 1824, in Londonderry, on the north coast of 
 Ireland, coming from thrifty Scotch-Irish an- 
 cestry. His father, John McAvoy, was a ship- 
 per of grain and cattle in Londonderry for a 
 number of years, and was very successful in 
 business. He subsequently removed to Strat- 
 ton. County Tyrone, Ireland, where he died at 
 the age of seventy-five. He married Miss 
 Ellen Sheran; and they became the parents of 
 nine children, of whom James D. is the only 
 survivor. Both were Catholics, and their 
 children have never departed from the relig- 
 ious faith in which they were reared. 
 
 When a boy of thirteen years, James D. 
 McAvoy left his native land, and, crossing the 
 Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, after a tedious 
 passage of two months landed at St. John, 
 N.B., where he lived two years. Coming 
 then to Boston, he secured work in the gas- 
 house at the North End, and proved himself 
 so efficient that he was later made foreman of 
 a gang of men appointed to lay gas-pipes in 
 trenches, remaining in this capacity until 
 1841. Going in that year to North Easton, 
 Bristol County, a town reached then only by 
 stage-coach, he began work in the cutlery fac- 
 tory of John Ames, great-grandfather of ex- 
 
 Governor Ame.s, receiving fifteen dollars per 
 month, and boarding himself. This was good 
 pay, as eight dollars a week was the highest 
 price then paid to skilled laborers. He re- 
 mained with Mr. Ames until 1849, saving 
 meanwhile several hundred dollars from his 
 monthly stipend. One of his brothers at that 
 time borrowed money of him in order to go to 
 California with a company that were to start 
 for the gold fields; but at the last moment the 
 brother was prevented from going, and Mr. 
 McAvoy took his place with scarcely twenty- 
 four hours' notice. The company, consisting 
 of one hundred and fifty men, sailed in the 
 good ship "Edward Everett," manned with a 
 crew of twenty-five sailors, on January 10, 
 1849, and, after a delightful voyage around 
 the Horn, arrived at San Francisco the loth 
 day of July. 
 
 Hundreds of vessels were in the bay, and 
 five dollars an hour was willingly paid to all 
 who would assist in unloading vessels. The 
 main body of the company left two days later 
 for the mines, the captain with six or seven 
 others remaining behind to look after the 
 cargo, as well as to convert the "Edward 
 Everett " into a steamer. This they did by 
 putting in an engine and boiler which they 
 had brought with them. The boat was a flat- 
 bottomed side-wheeler. Mr. McAvoy, N. A. 
 Proctor, Samuel Baker, and a Mr. Perkins, 
 who were the most active in the work, are all 
 now living in Eastern Massachusetts. In the 
 early part of August they made a trial trip 
 with the steamer into Suisun Bay, going as far 
 as Benecia Bay, now known as Atlantic City. 
 
 Its mining ventures proving unfortunate, 
 the company broke up; and the vessel was run 
 up Sacramento Bay, and afterward disposed of 
 for six thousand dollars, the cargo being 
 loaded on to an ox wagon, and taken to the 
 mines on Moquelumne River. The trip was 
 in every way a discouraging one. There was 
 a great scarcity of water, sickness universally 
 prevailed among the men, and, being heavily 
 overloaded, the oxen gave out, and another 
 pair had to be purchased to complete the four- 
 ox team. On a foot-hill the cattle evidently 
 scented water, and made a dash for the stream. 
 Mr. McAvoy, sick and exhausted, left the 
 company, and proceeded on foot to the
 
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 Moquelumne River, where a Dr. Hubbard was 
 found, who gave him medical attention, charg- 
 ing him a fee of five hundred dollars. 
 
 On recovering his health, Mr. McAvoy 
 crossed the river to Willow Bend, where he 
 worked with shovel and pan, "picking" up 
 from thirty to forty dollars a day. Becoming 
 dissatisfied, he started with his pack mule for 
 the South, going along the Calaveras River to 
 General Fremont's claim, "Mariposa," and 
 was away si.x months, but never found as good 
 picking as he had left. In 1850 he returned 
 to Sonora, where there were good "dry dig- 
 gins," but was again taken with fever and 
 ague. He dosed himself with whiskey and 
 quinine, but remained sick for some time, 
 going to work, however, in a store at sixteen 
 dollars a day, until he should be well enough 
 to resume mining. All articles of merchan- 
 dise sold high, potatoes and vegetables bring- 
 ing a dollar a pound. In the fall of 1852 he 
 decided to return home, and wrote to the 
 brother whose place he had taken in the com- 
 pany to collect the thirteen hundred dollars 
 due him from the Ames Company, and come 
 at once to California. The brother was thir- 
 teen months on the voyage out, being so sick 
 when he arrived that Mr. McAvoy remained 
 to nurse him, and afterward gave him one 
 thousand dollars in gold dust, advising him 
 to return to Massachusetts. Since that time 
 he has not been definitely heard from. He was 
 once reported to have been seen in San Fran- 
 cisco, and as the cholera was raging there at 
 the time it is very probable that he became its 
 victim. Mr. McAvoy came East, and, think- 
 ing his brother dead, never returned to the 
 mines as he had intended. 
 
 In the fall of 1851, very soon after coming 
 from California, he stayed for a short time in 
 Sharon, Mass., where he was offered nine dol- 
 lars a week to run a trip-hammer, but declined 
 the job. He accepted instead a position with 
 Mr. -Schenck, of Mansfield, agreeing to give a 
 •week's notice before leaving, and was with 
 him just two weeks. Going then to Canton, 
 he began to make trowels, working as a jour- 
 neyman at one dollar and a quarter per day, 
 afterward earning as much as seven dollars a 
 day at piece work. At length he secured a 
 water privilege in Cumberland Hill, R.I., 
 
 and started in business for himself as a trowel 
 manufacturer, becoming senior member of the 
 firm of McAvoy & Co., taking in as an equal 
 partner his former employer, J. B. Schenck, 
 and, comiieting with other trowel manufact- 
 urers in the Boston market, continued fourteen 
 months to manufacture trowels from steel im- 
 ported from England, he having charge of the 
 inside work, and Mr. Schenck attending to 
 the outside management. By bad policy his 
 partner involved the company to a fearful ex- 
 tent, and disappeared. He was subsequently 
 arrested in New York, but only one hundred 
 and forty dollars of the company's money 
 was recovered ; and it took Mr. McAvoy two 
 years to pay off the debts contracted by his 
 absconding partner. He next located in Fox- 
 boro, Mass., where he manufactured trowels, 
 at the same time running a grist-mill nights, 
 continuing until 1861, when he disposed of 
 his factory. For fifteen years thereafter he 
 operated his grist-mill, and in addition car- 
 ried on a grocery business, in which he made 
 money rapidly, his business becoming suffi- 
 cient to warrant him in opening a second store. 
 
 In 1876 he came to Hyde Park, then a 
 thriving village, and established a grain store 
 in the old government building. He met with 
 excellent success from the start, and a few 
 years later added coal, brick, lime, and 
 cement to his stock, continuing in active 
 business until 1889. In 1890 Mr. McAvoy 
 was one of the party of one hundred "forty- 
 niners" to make a pleasure trip to California, 
 being accompanied by his wife and daughter. 
 This party, \vhich was away forty-five days, 
 received marked attention along the entire 
 route, and, carrying letters from the Governor 
 of Massachusetts to the Governor of California 
 and to the Governors of the intermediate 
 States, was royally entertained at every stop- 
 ping-place. At San Bernardino they literally 
 walked on flowers, a foretaste of their recep- 
 tion being given them some hours before they 
 reached the city, when a special car, bearing 
 representatives from that place, met them, 
 bringing fruit, wine, and other choice deli- 
 cacies for the inner man". 
 
 Mr. McAvoy was one of the original pro- 
 moters of the Hyde Park Electric Light and 
 Power Company, of which he has been a di-
 
 Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE E. HOLBROOK.
 
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 2SS 
 
 rector since its organization, and of which he 
 was president from 1890 until his resignation 
 in October, 1896. In September, 1896, he 
 was elected president of the Norfolk Sub- 
 urban Electric Railway Company, an office 
 which he still holds. He has for some years 
 been largely interested in real estate matters, 
 and in 1884 he erected his present elegant 
 house on Milton Street in Readville. He has 
 taken a very prominent part in local affairs, 
 having been Selectman four years, one year 
 serving as chairman of the board ; and during 
 the entire time he was also Highway Sur- 
 veyor. He is now one of the State Board of 
 Park Commissioners. In politics he is a 
 strong gold Democrat. 
 
 Mr. McAvoy was married June i, 1851, to 
 Miss Mary Morrison, a native of Sharon, 
 Mass. Of their four children but one is liv- 
 ing, a daughter, Nellie L. 
 
 ENTON P. CROCKER, M.D., a 
 young and prominent physician of 
 Foxboro, was born March 13, 1867, 
 in Hyannis, Mass., son of Benjamin 
 F. Crocker. The latter was born in Barn- 
 stable, Mass., where he is now actively en- 
 gaged in business, being one of the foremost 
 residents of the place. For many years he 
 has been profitably engaged in lumber dealing 
 and brick-making. He has also cultivated 
 cranberries with success. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Caroline P. Pulsifer, was 
 born in Eden, Me., daughter of the late Dr. 
 Moses R. Pulsifer, who was a prominent ho- 
 moeopathic physican of Ellsworth, Me. They 
 have reared four children, namely: Willard 
 C, a former physician of Foxboro, but now 
 of Springfield, Mass., who married Anna 
 Pond, of this town; Augusta P., who is the 
 wife of James V. Turner, a designer of 
 woollen fabrics; Bertha, a school-teacher in 
 Springfield, Mass.; and Benton P., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 Benton P. Crocker received his elementary 
 education in the district schools of Cape Cod. 
 Afterward he pursued a course at Amherst 
 College and at the medical department of the 
 University of Vermont. He subsequently at- 
 tended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College 
 
 of New York City, from which he received 
 the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the 
 class of 1891. He then obtained experience 
 and a practical knowledge of his profession at 
 the New York Lying-in Hospital, where he 
 remained as assistant resident physician for 
 nearly a year. In September, 1894, Dr. 
 Crocker came to Foxboro, where he has made 
 rapid strides in the practice of his profession. 
 The share of patronage he has already won in 
 Foxboro gives promise of a very successful 
 future. 
 
 The Doctor is a member of the medical so- 
 cieties of Massachusetts and Norfolk County. 
 He was made an Odd Fellow in Excelsior 
 Lodge, No. 87, of Foxboro. He is also a 
 member and the medical examiner of the 
 United Order of the Golden Cross, and of the 
 United Order of Pilgrim F"athers, Cocasset 
 Colony. Taking much interest in agricultural 
 questions, he also belongs to Foxboro 
 Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. A member of 
 the Universalist church, his religious creed is 
 liberal. 
 
 /^JeORGE E. HOLBROOK, one of the 
 \ '•) I most prominent farmers in Norfolk, 
 ^ — was born December 14, 1839, upon 
 the farm he now owns and occupies, son of 
 George E. and Clarissa (Turner) Holbrook. 
 The paternal grandfather, Daniel Holbrook, 
 who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary 
 War, was a resident of Norfolk for the greater 
 part of his life and the original owner of the 
 Holbrook homestead. His death occurred 
 April 17, 1839. He wedded Mary Edwards, 
 and reared three children, namely: Eliza E., 
 born in 1802; Mary B., born January 13, 
 1804, who married Silas J. Holbrook; and 
 George E. , father of the subject of this 
 sketch. None are now living. 
 
 George E. Holbrook (first) was born in 
 Norfolk, September 13, 1S06, and died in 
 1859. He inherited the home farm, which he 
 had helped to clear; and he cultivated it suc- 
 cessfully during his active years. He was ac- 
 tive in military affairs, serving as a Major in 
 the State militia. His wife, Clarissa, who 
 was a native of Medfield, Mass., became the 
 mother of three children, as follows: Silas
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 P., M.D., who married Jennie Campbell, and 
 is a practising physician in East Douglas, 
 Mass.; George E., the subject of this sketch; 
 and Mary E., who married Edwin F. Cowell, 
 a veteran of the Civil War, and a conductor on 
 the New England Railroad, residing in Dor- 
 chester, Mass. The mother died in 1889. 
 
 George E. Holbrook, the subject of this 
 sketch, attended schools in Norfolk and 
 VVrentham, completing his studies at the age 
 of eighteen. He has always resided at the 
 homestead, assisting his father in its cultiva- 
 tion. After caring for his mother during her 
 declining years, he succeeded to the farm. 
 The property contains eighty-seven acres of 
 well-improved land, located in one of the 
 most fertile districts of the State, and is de- 
 voted to general farming, dairying, and fruit- 
 growing. In 1873 Mr. Holbrook engaged in 
 the provision business in Boston, but with- 
 drew from that enterprise a year later, prefer- 
 ring to give his entire attention to his farm. 
 Politically, he is a Republican, and has for 
 years been identified with local public affairs. 
 He served with ability as Highway Surveyor 
 for five years, was Collector of Ta.xes for eight 
 years. Constable for two years ; and he has 
 been on the Board of Assessors in all for over 
 sixteen years, having been the first Assessor 
 of Norfolk after its incorporation. At the 
 present time he is special police officer, and 
 he fills other town offices. He is Master of 
 Norfolk Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and 
 a charter member of Mount Nebo Council, 
 Royal Arcanum of Medfield. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Holbrook married Estella L. 
 Pond, daughter of Henry E. and Louisa B. 
 Pond, of Franklin, Mass. Her father, now 
 deceased, was an inventor, and for some time 
 a depot agent in that town. Her mother re- 
 sides in Holliston, Mass. Mrs. Holbrook is 
 the mother of five children; namely, Estella 
 L. , George P., Warner Howard, Sarah 
 Fisher, and Louisa, all of whom are residing 
 at home. All the members of the family are 
 musicians, and frequently furnish music for 
 dancing parties, receptions, and other social 
 functions. Mr. Holbrook has taught music 
 and led orchestras, and Mrs. Holbrook spent 
 some time in Germany studying music. She 
 is a member of the Congregational church. 
 
 iHARLES N. MORSE, of Foxboro, 
 is engaged in the Christian work of 
 bringing up children placed under 
 his protection by the Boston Chil- 
 dren's Aid Society. He was born in North 
 Foxboro, Mass., March 5, 1833, son of Newell 
 Morse. His great-grandfather, Amos Morse 
 (first), took up land here at an early day, and 
 erected thereon a saw-mill in the place now 
 occupied by Boynton's grist-mill. He cleared 
 a part of the land, carrying on farming and 
 milling until his demise. 
 
 Amos Morse (second), the grandfather of 
 Charles N., was born on the old homestead, 
 which subsequently became his by inheri- 
 tance. During his active life he was likewise 
 engaged in lumbering and farming, and he im- 
 proved the property in many ways. His wife. 
 Submit Paine Morse, belonged to a family 
 that was founded here in Colonial times. 
 Newell Morse, his second-born child, suc- 
 ceeded to the occupations of his ancestors, and 
 with his brother Leonard inherited the ances- 
 tral acres. During the later days of his life, 
 which was closed at the age of sixty-two years, 
 Newell was exclusively engaged in agricult- 
 ural pursuits. He married Miss Sally F. 
 Mann, who bore him six children, namely: 
 Charles N. , the subject of this sketch; Helen 
 F., who died in childhood; Edson A., who 
 lives on the old homestead near the Neponset 
 Reservoir; Eliza A., who married A. J. 
 Daniels, of this town, and has four children; 
 Julius E. , of Wrentham; and Elwin C, a real 
 estate dealer in Boston. 
 
 Charles N. Morse obtained his education in 
 the district schools. Beginning when quite 
 young, he was employed in the Union Straw 
 Works for twenty consecutive years. Subse- 
 quently, in Milford, Mass., he had charge of 
 the straw department in a factory for four 
 years. Returning then to Foxboro, he pur- 
 chased the Hartshorn farm of one hundred and 
 twenty-five acres, where in recent years he 
 has cared for the boys sent to him by the 
 benevolent organization above referred to. 
 Twenty-three boys are now there. They are 
 trained so that they may be able to do for 
 themselves in due time, and become worthy 
 citizens of the republic. 
 
 Mr. Morse was married November 19, 1856,
 
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 259 
 
 to Miss Hester Maria Maybury, of Otisfield, 
 Me. They have two children — Frank A. 
 and Mabel E. The latter is a student at 
 Wellesley College. Frank A., after attend- 
 ing Amherst College, graduated from the 
 Harvard Medical School, and has since been 
 prosperously engaged in the medical profes- 
 sion at Lynn, Mass. He married Miss 
 Blanche Boardman, of Lowell, Mass., and has 
 one child, Beatrice Morse. Mr. Morse, Sr., 
 has been an advocate of Republican principles 
 since he cast his first Presidential vote in 
 1856 for John C. Fremont, and has served as 
 a member of the School Committee. He has 
 recently united with the local society of the 
 Knights of Honor. In 1851 he joined the 
 Congregational Church of Foxboro, and since 
 then has been twice elected a Deacon. He 
 was also a Deacon of the Congregational 
 Church of Milford. 
 
 OVLBERT H. BIRD, a well-known and 
 j^A respected citizen of Brookline, was 
 /j\\ born in Boston, Mass., January 18, 
 — " 1 84 1, son of Harrison and Lucy 
 (Willson) Bird. His grandfather, Seth Bird, 
 was engaged in teaming in Portland, Me., for 
 a number of years; and in that city Harrison 
 Bird was born, reared, and educated. When 
 a young man, Harrison Bird came to Boston, 
 and was employed for some time in a market 
 as clerk for his uncle. He then established 
 a stall of his own, and was for sixty years in 
 the provision business in Faneuil Hall 
 Market. He was one of the oldest market- 
 men in Faneuil Hall, and was widely known 
 and very popular. In 1847 he moved to 
 Brookline, where he lived thirty-five years, 
 and erected a handsome residence. He died 
 at the age of eighty-five. He attended the 
 Swedenborgian church. His wife, a native of 
 Boston, died at the age of seventy-two. She 
 was the mother of three children, two of whom 
 have passed away. 
 
 Albert H. Bird passed the first seven years 
 of his life in Dorchester, now a part of Bos- 
 ton. He acquired his education in the public 
 schools of Brookline, and on leaving school 
 went into business with his father. After 
 the death of the latter he sold out the busi- 
 
 ness, and has since been retired. He built 
 his present handsome residence at 246 Har- 
 vard Street, Brookline, in 1888. 
 
 Mr. Bird was married in 1864 to Eliza A., 
 daughter of William Churchill, of Brookline. 
 Mrs. Bird was born in Dorchester, Mass. 
 Her father, a wealthy fish merchant, with a 
 place of business at Long Wharf, ]5oston, died 
 at the age of sixty. Mrs. Bird died at the age 
 of fifty-five. Mr. Bird is a gentleman of cult- 
 ure, interested in literature and art. He is 
 an extensive reader, and is conversant with 
 the best English authors. 
 
 T^LIFFORD BELCHER, who died on 
 I \t^ Sejiteraber 15, 1897, at his home in 
 ^^^^^ Canton, was born in this town in 
 1821, and was the third in direct 
 line to bear that name. He came of substan- 
 tial English stock, represented in the Massa- 
 chusetts Colony before 1640 by Edward Bel- 
 cher, of Boston; Andrew Belcher, of Cam- 
 bridge; Gregory Belcher, of Boston and later 
 of Cambridge; and Jeremy Belcher, of Ipswich. 
 Mr. Belcher's grandfather, Clifford Belcher, 
 first, was born, lived, and died in Canton, 
 spending his long years in useful activity. 
 
 His son, Clifford Belcher, second, was born 
 and reared in Canton, and for many years was 
 known as one of the most energetic, industri- 
 ous, and valued citizens of the place. He 
 owned a small farm, which he carried on in 
 connection with carpentering. He built in 
 1845 the house now owned by his son Clifford, 
 and there spent his last days in comfort and 
 plenty, passing away at the venerable age of 
 eighty-six years. In his earlier life he was an 
 adherent of the Democratic party, but in later 
 years was a strong advocate of the principles 
 of the Republican party. He was for some 
 years Selectman, and held other offices of minor 
 importance. To him and his wife, whose 
 maiden name was Mary McKendry, seven chil- 
 dren were born, only one of whom is now liv- 
 ing; namely, Sarah, wife of A. W. Kinsley. 
 
 Clifford I3e!cher, third, attended the common 
 schools of Canton until eighteen years of age. 
 He then went to Easton and learned the 
 moulder's trade in the foundry with his 
 brother, Daniel Belcher. In 1845 he re-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 turned to Canton, and entered into the service 
 of the Kinsley Iron and Machine Company. 
 In 1866 he estahlished a foundry of his own 
 on Walnut Street, which he conducted suc- 
 cessfully for many years. For the last seven 
 years Mr. Belcher lived retired from active 
 pursuits, enjoying a well-deserved leisure, a 
 much respected citizen. He was a Rejiublican 
 in politics, but was never an aspirant for office. 
 Mr. Belcher was twice married. His first 
 wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth B. 
 Spair, died in 1881, leaving four children, 
 namely- Fred C, Charles E., Addie L., and 
 Elmer A. Mr. Belcher married September 
 10, 1883, Miss L. Arvilla Dean, of Easton, 
 Mass. With his wife he attended the Congre- 
 gational church, to whose support he was a lib- 
 eral contributor. 
 
 /lYc 
 
 EORGE HOLLISTER BROWN, an 
 VI^T ^l'^'"'^' enterprising, and far-sighted 
 
 — business man, engaged in dealing in 
 real estate and mortgages, conveyancing, and 
 insurance business in Quincy, Mass., was born 
 in Detroit, Mich., March 17, 1870, a son of 
 Charles Hall and Georgianna (Newcomb) 
 Brown. 
 
 His paternal grandfather, Nathan Hollister 
 Brown, was born and bred in Charlton, Sara- 
 toga County, N.Y., the date of his birth being 
 May 10, 1815. He was active in town affairs, 
 holding the office of Supervisor for several 
 years, and was familiarly known as "Squire" 
 Brown. After the close of the Civil War, in 
 which he served as Captain of Company H, 
 New York Seventy-seventh Regiment, State 
 Volunteers, he removed to Detroit, Mich., 
 where he carried on business as a contractor 
 and builder. He was subsequently appointed 
 as an officer in the House of Correction at De- 
 troit, serving there for some time. He was a 
 man of much mechanical ingenuity and the 
 inventor of a freight-car roofing. He attained 
 the age of si.xty-eight years and seven months, 
 passing to the life eternal February 20, 1884. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Amanda 
 Hall, was born in Southeast, Putnam County, 
 N.Y., August 19, 1815, and died in Detroit, 
 October 23, 1876. 
 
 Charles Hall Brown was born July 5, 1849, 
 
 at Charlton, Saratoga County, N.Y. Having 
 completed his schooling in his native State, at 
 the age of sixteen years he secured employment 
 at Dr. Spence's drug store in Detroit, whither 
 his parents had removed and at seventeen he 
 was putting uj) prescriptions, being the young- 
 est prescription clerk the proprietor had ever 
 known, proving himself efficient and trust- 
 worthy. Marrying in 1868, he continued to 
 live in Detroit up to the date of his appoint- 
 ment, in 1 87 1, as the general Western agent 
 of the Frederick Stearns's Drug Company, in 
 which capacity he was engaged in travelling 
 most of the time for about fifteen years, hav- 
 ing his headquarters at St. Louis, the home 
 of the family being in Detroit as before. Re- 
 moving to Little F"alls, Minn., in 1888, he 
 established a drug store in that city, and has 
 since conducted a satisfactory business, hav- 
 ing built up an extensive trade. He is a 
 member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife, 
 who was a daughter of Dr. George Newcomb, of 
 Quincy, Mass., died December 24, 1881, leav- 
 ing three children, as follows: Charles Fred- 
 erick, proprietor of the Brown Electrical Con- 
 struction Company of New Haven, Conn. ; 
 George Hollister; and Herbert Stanley, pro- 
 fessor of mathematics at the Episcopal Acad- 
 emy in Cheshire, Conn. Both of the parents 
 were endowed with musical talent; and for 
 some years the mother was the principal alto 
 singer in one of the large churches of Detroit, 
 and afterward officiated as organist in an 
 Episcopal church in that city. Mrs. Brown 
 was also an instructor in a music school, and 
 had a large class of private pupils. 
 
 George H. Brown, the special subject of 
 this sketch, obtained the rudiments of his ed- 
 ucation in the Coddington School, Quincy, 
 which he attended in 1875, afterward continu- 
 ing his studies at a private school in Detroit 
 and in the public schools of that city. At the 
 age of twelve years he obtained a situation in 
 the office of the Michigan Central Railway 
 Company, and continued in the railroad busi- 
 ness until coming to Quincy three years later. 
 He secured work in Boston as a clerk in the 
 office of an insurance publication, with which 
 he was connected a year. In 1886 he opened 
 an office as public stenographer and typewrit- 
 ist, but closed it three months later when he
 
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 26r 
 
 was appointed an assistant in the secretary's 
 office of the New England Insurance Ex- 
 change. He remained there a year, and in 
 the meantime formed a partnership with Al- 
 fred E. Cram, under the firm name of (jeorge 
 H. Brown & Co., and opened offices in the 
 Chadwick Building, Boston, for shorthand 
 work, continuing until 1888. Prior to that 
 time he had formed a liking for insurance 
 work, and in the winter of 1887 had taken out 
 an insurance broker's license, and had solic- 
 ited fire risks, confining his operations to 
 Ouincy chiefly. In 1888 he opened an office 
 in the Durgin & Merrill Block, and soon, in 
 addition to his insurance business, added that 
 of real estate, mortgages, and kindred matters, 
 removing to his present offices in the Adams 
 linilding in 1889. Frequently requested by 
 his numerous customers to prepare legal in- 
 struments, he determined to fit himself for 
 that work, and accordingly took a two years' 
 course of study at the Boston University Law 
 School, continuing his business here at the 
 same time. 
 
 In iSqi Mr. Brown was appointed by the 
 late Governor Russell Justice of the Peace, 
 and in 1893 he received his appointment as 
 Notary Public. His business has greatly in- 
 creased, his dealing in realty and mortgages 
 being e.xtensive; and as a fire insurance agent 
 he represents several of the old and reliable 
 stock and mutual insurance companies. He 
 is a trustee of several estates, and has the 
 management of a number of trust estates, mak- 
 ing a specialty of the care of property. He 
 collects rents and incomes, settles estates of 
 deceased persons, etc. 
 
 Mr. Brown is a Republican, and, although 
 interested in politics, has never held public 
 office. He is a member of the Royal .Society 
 of Good Fellows, of which he has been secre- 
 tary since its formation in 1889; is a direc- 
 tor in the Young Men's Christian Association, 
 which he assisted in organizing; is a director 
 in the Ouincy Board of Trade; is a member 
 of the Ouincy Board of Fire Underwriters; 
 and in 1891 assisted in the organization 
 of the Quincy Musical Club, and became its 
 first president. He has inherited some of the 
 musical talent of his parents, and, while at- 
 tending the law school, was a member and 
 
 the manager for one season of the Boston Uni- 
 versity Glee Club. He is one of the Wardens 
 of the Episcopal church, and takes an active 
 interest in church work. Mr. Brown is a 
 member of the Quincy Historical Society, the 
 Yacht Club, and the Wollaston Golf Club. 
 
 On the 22d of February, 1893, Mr. Brown 
 married Miss Mabel Lewis Pollock, daughter 
 of Allen F. Pollock, of Quincy. Three chil- 
 dren have been born to them, and two are liv- 
 ing; namely, Madeleine Pollock and Francis 
 Irving. 
 
 ALTER S. WESTON, a Boston 
 ,S)\I contractor and builder, was born in 
 Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., 
 November 12, 1852, son of Augustus Weston 
 and Elmira White Weston, and belongs to an 
 old Massachusetts family of English descetit. 
 His paternal grandfather, Galon Weston, a 
 ship-builder of Duxbury, married Judith 
 Frost. They were Unitarians; and their six 
 children — Samuel, Judith, Seth, Margaret, 
 Augustus, and Caroline — were brought up in 
 that faith. 
 
 The son Augustus learned the shoemaker's 
 trade in his youth, but afterward became a 
 butcher, and also engaged in agriculture. He 
 enlisted in the Union Army, in Company I of 
 the Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volun- 
 teers, December 6, 1862, was made Sergeant 
 of his company, and served until the close of 
 the war. After his return to Duxbury he de- 
 voted his time to farming and to the public 
 affairs of the town. He was a Republican, 
 and represented the district in the legislature. 
 He also held the office of Assessor, always 
 taking a lively interest in the political ques- 
 tions of the day. His death occurred October 
 18, 1873. His wife was a daughter of Bart- 
 lett White, of Duxbury, and was one of a 
 family of three children. Mr. White, who 
 was a butcher by trade, carried on the express 
 business between Duxbury and Boston. He 
 was a man of influence in the town. The off- 
 spring of Mr. and Mrs. Weston were twelve 
 in number, of whom seven are now liv- 
 ing, namely: Walter S. ; Amelia, who mar- 
 ried James Walley, and resides in Hyde 
 Park; Samuel; Henry; Harry; Thomas; and
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Hattie, who married Elmer Leach, of Dux- 
 bury. 
 
 Walter S. Weston lived at home until four- 
 teen years old. At that early age he went to 
 Boston to learn the mason's trade, which he 
 followed as a journeyman until able to go into 
 business for himself. In 1872 he decided to 
 try his fortunes in California, and journeyed 
 thither by way of the Isthmus of Panama. 
 For some time he was employed on the Capi- 
 tol Building in Carson City, Nev., setting 
 stone which was cut from the quarries by the 
 inmates of the county jail. He spent a year 
 in the State of Nevada, and returned to Bos- 
 ton upon the death of his father in the fall of 
 1873. As the eldest son he undertook the en- 
 tire support of his widowed mother and her 
 large family, and cheerfully supplied their 
 every need. He built extensively in St. 
 John, N. B., after the great fire of 1877. 
 Going South in 1890, he was located for a 
 year in Cardip, Tenn., and subsequently in 
 Alabama. Upon his return to Boston he was 
 placed upon the police force, and remained a 
 patrolman in the South Cove district for three 
 years. Again making a change, he was em- 
 ployed as foreman in the establishment of 
 Messrs. Weston & Sheppard, of which firm 
 his uncle was the senior partner. During his 
 business career in Boston many fine hotels 
 have been erected by Mr. Weston, notably one 
 on the corner of Marlboro and E.xeter Streets, 
 the fine structure on the corner of Boylston 
 Street and Massachusetts Avenue, also that on 
 Massachusetts Avenue and Haviland Street. 
 Fourteen houses on Haviland Street, between 
 Massachusetts Avenue and Parker Street, va- 
 rious apartment houses on Commonwealth 
 Avenue, aLso Hotel Ludlow, opposite Trin- 
 ity Church, and the remodelled Hotel Plaza, 
 are specimens of his business achievements. 
 
 He married July 3, 1876, Minnie Calder, of 
 Nova Scotia. Of this union two children 
 have been born — Walter A. and Minnie B. 
 Since 1887 Mr. Weston and his family have 
 resided in Hyde Park. 
 
 Politically, he is a Republican, and for the 
 past two years has been a member of the 
 Board of Selectmen. He is a charter mem- 
 ber of the Knights of Malta; a member of the 
 Aberdour Lodge, F. & A. M., of Boston, and 
 
 of the Norfolk Royal Arch Chapter, Hyde 
 Park Council, R. & S. M.; and Cyprus Com- 
 mandery, K. T. ; also of Mount Forest Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F., No. 148, of Hyde Park; was 
 formerly a member of the Independent Order 
 of Red Men, now a member of the Royal Ar- 
 canum, Alpha, No. I, and was at one time a 
 member of the Lancers of Boston. He has 
 also been connected with the Boston Builders' 
 E.xchange and with the Mechanic Exchange 
 of the city of Boston. An influential member 
 of the Universalist church, Mr. Weston at the 
 present time holds the president's chair of the 
 Board of Trustees in that society. 
 
 OHN FLAVEL JENKINS MAYO, 
 better known as John F. J. Mayo, for 
 many years a prominent manufacturer 
 of Norfolk County, was born in Rox- 
 bury, Mass., in 1819, and died at his home in 
 Needham, August 11, 1893. He belonged to 
 an old Massachusetts family, dating from 
 early Colonial times. 
 
 "The Roxbury Mayos," says Francis S. 
 Drake in his history of the town, "are de- 
 scended from John, a young child brought 
 over in 1633 by Robert Gamblin, Jr., and 
 who was the son of his wife by a former hus- 
 band. He married in 1654 Hannah, daughter 
 of John Graves." "Thomas, son of John 
 Mayo, was born in 1673." A later Thomas 
 Mayo, father of the late Mr. John F. J. Mayo, 
 was born at Roxbury in 1765, and was for 
 many years a merchant in Roxbury and in 
 Boston. He died at the age of fifty-eight 
 years. His wife, who was the daughter of 
 Deacon Davis, of Roxbury, died in 1856. 
 
 Having received his education in the Rox- 
 bury schools, John F. J. Mayo began his 
 working life as an assistant in a jewelry store, 
 where he remained for some time. Not liking 
 the business, however, he left it, and learned 
 the trade of carpenter and builder, at which he 
 worked for many years. He then engaged in 
 the business of manufacturing glue in Rox- 
 bury, removing his plant in 1855 to Need- 
 ham, and operating for some time in this 
 town. His partner for sixteen years was 
 Edwin I-^vans, and the business was carried on 
 under the name of Evans & Mayo. At the
 
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 265 
 
 end of that time Mr. Mayo began to work at 
 his trade again as a member of the firm of 
 Gould & Mayo, which continued for eight 
 years. He then retired from active business 
 life. 
 
 On April 20, 184S, Mr. Mayo was married 
 to Ellen E. Eaton, daughter of William and 
 Sally (Johnson) Eaton, of Needham. Mr. 
 I'^aton represented one of the old and honored 
 families of this region, and was himself a 
 broad-minded, public-spirited citizen, and for 
 some years Selectman of the town. He had 
 a family of nine children, as follows: George 
 Eaton, born in 1819, now residing in Needham; 
 Emily, born in 1821, who died in 1885, wife 
 of George H. Gay; Augustus, born in 1823, a 
 resident of Needham; Charles, born in 1824, 
 who died in infancy; Ellen E., now Mrs. 
 Mayo; Mary J., who was born in 1828, and 
 died in 1889; Adeline, born in 1830, who 
 was married in 1864 to John Morton Harris, 
 late resident of Needham, whose life is 
 sketched on another page of this work; 
 Charles W. Eaton, born May 30, 1833, who 
 married Lucetta Hunt, of Sudbury, and is 
 now in the clothing business in Boston; 
 Everett J., the youngest son, born in 1837, 
 who married Lydia Euller, of Wellesley, lived 
 in Needham until his death in June, 1896, 
 and was well-known in the express and livery 
 business and as a prominent politician. 
 
 Mr. Mayo is survived by his wife and one 
 child, a daughter, Alice E., who was born in 
 1859, was married to Charles Atherton Hicks 
 in 1883, and resides in Needham. 
 
 Mr. Mayo was deeply interested for many 
 years in the work of the F"irst Parish Church, 
 Unitarian Congregational, both he himself 
 and Mrs. Mayo being members thereof. He 
 was one of the Parish Committee, and one of 
 the Building Committee when the church 
 edifice was removed. In politics Mr. Mayo 
 was a Republican, and ever ready to work for 
 his party or to contribute liberally for the ad- 
 vancement of its interests. In 1850 he was 
 elected member of the Council of Roxbury for 
 two years, and he was also for many years a 
 member of the Roxbury Artillery Company. 
 He took an active interest in all town im- 
 provements, and was a generous promoter of 
 reforms. 
 
 HARLES W. THAYER, a promi- 
 nent farmer of Bellingham, was born 
 in this place, October 22, 1824, 
 son of Willard and Rhoda (Sher- 
 man) Thayer, both natives of Bellingham. 
 
 Willard, son of Ebenezer Thayer, was a 
 carriage-maker in early life, afterward devot- 
 ing himself to farming. In 1837 he built 
 the house now owned by his son; and he died 
 there, December 17, 1878, his wife surviving 
 until November 28, 1889. They had nine 
 children, namely: James A,, a mechanic by 
 trade, who spent much of his life in Belling- 
 ham, and died in Providence, R.I., March 4, 
 1887; Charles W. ; Henry Franklin, who 
 died February 16, 1833, at the age of four 
 years; Barton D., who married Laura Ban- 
 croft (deceased), and who lives in New York 
 City, where he has charge of the Cornelius 
 Vanderbilt place; Olney S., who died in 
 1887; Mary Frances, the wife of Edward V. 
 Light, a machinist of Providence, R. I. ; Ade- 
 line, who married John W. Randall, of Provi- 
 dence; William Henry, who is married and 
 resides in Providence; Rhoda Mandella, who 
 is the wife of William Brittin, a carpenter, 
 and resides in Milford, Mass. 
 
 Charles W. Thayer, the second son, was 
 well educated at the common and high schools 
 of the county, and lived at home with his par- 
 ents until he married, at twenty-one years of 
 age. He then purchased the entire interest 
 in the old homestead farm of thirty acres at 
 South Bellingham, where he now resides. 
 He has made all the improvements on the 
 place, including the erection of new build- 
 ings. He has also engaged in different real 
 estate transactions, and he is now the owner 
 of other houses and lands in the vicinity. 
 He has devoted most of his attention to farm- 
 ing, but, owing to somewhat failing health 
 during the past few years, has been obliged to 
 take a less active part in the farm work than 
 formerly. 
 
 He married October 23, 1845, Betsey W. 
 Aldrich, who was born in Mendon, Mass., 
 July 7, 1826, daughter of Allen and Sarah 
 (Scott) Aldrich. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich had 
 four children: Betsey W. : Phcebe, wife of C. 
 Cooper, a retired merchant of New York City; 
 Sylvanus; and Allen — the last two being de-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ceased. The father was a farmer of Mcndon, 
 and died there in 1834. The mother married 
 a second husband, James Burchard, and had 
 five children; namely, Daniel, Francis (de- 
 ceased), Joseph, Charles, and George, de- 
 ceased. She died in Killingham, Conn. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Thayer have one child, a 
 daughter, Ella F., born August 15, 1855. 
 She married Charles E. Delmage, who is in 
 the fruit and confectionery business, and re- 
 sides in Providence, R.I. 
 
 Mr. Thayer is a Republican in politics, and 
 has always cast his vote for the candidates of 
 that party. Though he belongs to no secret 
 orders, and has always refused public office, 
 he is a well-known, popular, and influential 
 citizen. His farm is well improved and a 
 credit to his industry. The products of his 
 dairy are well known to the people of the vi- 
 cinity. 
 
 lERRITT S. KEITH, one of the 
 foremost provision dealers of 
 Wellesley Hills, and a son of 
 Samuel and Mary (Price) Keith, 
 was born in Havelock, N.B., in 1850. The 
 father was born in New Brunswick in 1792, 
 and was engaged in farming there until the 
 time of his death in 1868. By the first of his 
 two marriages there were four children — 
 John, Charles, Noah, and Hattie. Born of 
 the second marriage, which was contracted 
 with Mary Price, of New Brunswick, were 
 eight children — Elizabeth, Isaiah, Ezekiel, 
 David, Victoria, Jane, Theodore, and Merritt. 
 Isaiah died in 1887. The mother was eighty- 
 one years old at her death in 1888. 
 
 Leaving the public schools of Havelock 
 when he was eighteen years old, Merritt 
 Keith went to work on the farm. In 1872 he 
 came to Massachusetts, and was employed 
 in the express business with Everett J. Eaton, 
 of Needham, during the ensuing si.\ years. 
 Then he was engaged in the provision busi- 
 ness at Highlandville for one year, after 
 which he moved to Needham village. In 1887 
 he came from there to Wellesley, and engaged 
 in the same business. He has a good busi- 
 ness now, supplying customers in Needham 
 and Wellesley Hills with general provisions, 
 
 including meats, canned goods, vegetables, 
 and fruit. 
 
 Mr. Keith is a member of the Eliot Lodge, 
 No. 158, I. O. O. F., of Needham; and of 
 Wellesley Grange, P. of H. In politics he is 
 a thorough Republican, and he is a regular 
 attendant of the Congregational Church at 
 Wellesley Hills. He was married March i, 
 1877, to Ida, daughter of William Herring, 
 who belongs to one of the old families of 
 Needham. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Keith are: Eva, born in 1878, now attending 
 the high school; Harold F., born in 1880, a 
 student of the Burdett Commercial College; 
 Laura Pearl, born in 1884, who attends the 
 grammar school; and Malcomb, born in 1886, 
 who is a pupil of the intermediate school. 
 
 rmo 
 
 EORGE R. MANN and his brother, 
 V |5T WILLIAM R. MANN, cotton 
 ^ — manufacturers of Sharon, are sons of 
 George Harvey and Rhoda (Fisher) Mann ; and 
 their father was a pioneer in the cotton indus- 
 try of New England. 
 
 They are descendants in the seventh genera- 
 tion of William Mann, who was born in the 
 county of Kent, England, in 1607, and emi- 
 grated to the Massachusetts Bay colony at an 
 early date, settling in Cambridge. In 1637 
 he married Mary Jerauld and on June 11, 
 1657, he married for his second wife Alice 
 Teal. William Mann died March 7, 1662. 
 Samuel Mann, only son of William, was born 
 July 6, 1647, and was one of the early stu- 
 dents of Harvard College, where he was grad- 
 uated in 1667. He settled at Wrentham, 
 Mass., in 1673, and died May 22, 1719. His 
 wife, Esther Ware, of Dedham, Mass., whom 
 he married on May 13, 1673, died in Septem- 
 ber, 1730. Samuel and Esther Mann were the 
 parents of eleven children; namely, Mary, 
 Samuel, Nathaniel, William, Theodore, 
 Thomas, Hannah, Beria, Pelatiah, Margaret, 
 and Esther. 
 
 Nathaniel, the next in line, was born in 
 Dedham, April 8, 1677. On December 19, 
 1704, he married Elizabeth Georges, and his 
 children were: George, John, Nathaniel, 
 Mary, Robert, Jeremiah, Joseph, Ezra, Rich- 
 ard, and Timothy. Ezra Mann, great-grand-
 
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 267 
 
 father of the subjects of this sketcli, was born 
 in VVrcntham, October 13, 17 19. On July 
 16, 1752, he married Esther Ncwland. They 
 reared a family of four children — Otis, 
 Rufus, Esther, and Jeremiah. 
 
 Rufus Mann, grandfather of the present 
 generation, was born in Wrenthani, August 
 26, 1755. He was Sergeant in Captain Sabin 
 Mann's company of minute-men, who marched 
 from Medfield to Boston, April 19, 1775; and 
 he also rendercti further service, for which he 
 received a United States pension near the 
 close of his life. He followed the black- 
 smith's and cooper's trades during his active 
 years, and died August 26, 1837. On Janu- 
 ary 25, 1 78 1, he married Sybil Allen, who 
 was born in Medfield, Mass., April 13, 1757, 
 and died November 10, 1838. Rufus and 
 Sybil Mann lived in Medfield until 1814, 
 when they moved to Wrentham. They were 
 the parents of five children: Sarah, born Janu- 
 ary 2, 1782; Rodney, born March 15, 1784: 
 Susanna, born September 7, 1785; George 
 Harvey, born -September 16, 1793; and Jer- 
 auld Newland Ezra, who was born June 20, 
 1796, and married Betsey Kingsbury, of Wal- 
 pole, February 16, 1822. Receiving the ajj- 
 pointment of Sheriff for Norfolk County in 
 1835, he held that office and that of jailer for 
 twenty-one years, and then resigned on ac- 
 count of his health. He moved to Vernon, 
 Conn., and died there in April, 1857. Sarah 
 Mann married Daniel Everett, January i, 
 1807; and she died March 16, 1808. Rodney 
 died in Buenos Ayres, South America, April 
 16, 1S26. Susanna became the wife of Timo- 
 thy Palmer Whitney, who was for a number of 
 years Sheriff of Norfolk County. 
 
 George Harvey Mann, second son of Rufus, 
 and the father of George R. and William R. 
 Mann, was born in Medfield, and lived there 
 until he was si.xteen years old. He then went 
 to Mansfield, and was apprenticed to Messrs. 
 Otis and Oliver Allen to learn the trade of a 
 carpenter. In 18 14 he went under an agree- 
 ment with others to Greenwich, Conn., to 
 work in a machine shop. While there he 
 was one of a number of men that were called 
 out to throw up fortifications to resist the 
 British, who were ravaging the coast. From 
 Greenwich he went to Medway village, and 
 
 was engaged in the manufacture of cotton ma- 
 chinery and cotton goods, being associated 
 with John and I'eter Smith, Dean Walker, 
 and Oliver Dean. He stayed there until 
 1822, when he removed to East Walpole, and 
 took charge of the Neponset Cotton Manufact- 
 uring Company factory, where he remained 
 until 1826, when he went to Amoskeag, 
 N.H., taking his family with him. While 
 there he changed the works from sheetings to 
 bed-tickings, and established the reputation of 
 the celebrated Amoskeag tickings. Not find- 
 ing it for his interest to remain, he returned 
 to his old position in East Walpole. In 1831 
 he purchased of Joseph W. Revere a water 
 privilege in Sharon, erected a factory, and 
 commenced the manufacture of bed-ticking 
 that held the first price in the market, the 
 business continuing until March 10, 1840, 
 when his factory was destroyed by fire. In 
 1 841 he erected a building on another site, 
 and commenced the construction of machinery, 
 for the manufacture of cotton duck for sails. 
 In 1843 he filled the building with machinery, 
 and started on his new venture in company 
 with his eldest son. His health failing, in 
 1844 he sold out his interest in the concern 
 to his youngest son. He died October 25, 
 1847. George H. Mann always took an active 
 part in everything that related to the best in- 
 terest of the town. He was elected to the 
 General Court in 1837. He was one of the 
 early advocates of the temperance cause in 
 this locality, and was actively interested in 
 the Congregational church, of which he was a 
 member. His wife, Rhoda Fisher, whom he 
 married May 10, 1820, was born in Medway, 
 Mass., June 18, 1798. .She became the 
 mother of four children, namely: George 
 Rodney, born in Medway, June 30, 1821; 
 William Rufus, born in Walpole, October 30, 
 1823; Caroline Frances, born in Walpole, 
 June 18, 1829; and Sarah ]{lizabeth, who was 
 born in Sharon, February 5, 1834, and mar- 
 ried William Curtis Mills, November 2, 
 
 1853- 
 
 George R. and William R. Mann continued 
 the manufacture of sail duck until the fall of 
 1845, when they contracted with Henry Ed- 
 wards, of Boston, to manufacture belting duck 
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 under the Goodyear patent, the firm being 
 afterward known as the Boston Belting Com- 
 pany; and for them they have for over fifty 
 years been engaged exclusively in producing 
 that fabric. In 1856 they enlarged their busi- 
 ness, and erected a brick factory building on 
 a new site. 
 
 On June 6, 1843, George Rodney Mann 
 was united in marriage with Laura C. John- 
 son, of Sharon. She died in November, 1886. 
 They had an adopted daughter, Emma May, 
 who was born in 1850, and died in 1888. He 
 was always found on the right side in advanc- 
 ing the public interest. 
 
 William Rufus Mann has figured quite 
 prominently in public affairs. He served as 
 a Selectman in 1854, was again elected for the 
 years 1872 and 1873, was Town Treasurer in 
 1856, and has ably filled other positions of 
 public trust. He received his first appoint- 
 ment as Justice of the Peace, April 27, 1858. 
 Prevented by physical incapacity from taking 
 an active part in the defence of the Union, he 
 rendered much valuable aid to the sick and 
 wounded soldiers in this vicinity during the 
 Civil War. He received the appointment of 
 United States Enrolling Officer; and he en- 
 listed and filled the town's quota of soldiers, 
 and visited all the hospitals in Maryland and 
 Northern Virginia, procuring furloughs for 
 the wounded. His deeds of kindness are still 
 fresh in the memory of many citizens. He is 
 a member of the New England and the Ded- 
 ham Historical Societies and a life member 
 of the American Pomological Society, and 
 takes an active interest in these organizations, 
 as well as in subjects kindred to those with 
 which they deal. 
 
 William R. Mann has been three times 
 married. On June 7, 1849, he wedded Mary 
 Hewins, of Sharon; and she died March 7, 
 1878. On July 13, 1881, he was again mar- 
 ried to Esther E., widow of Richard Fletcher 
 Ladd, late of Boston, the daughter of Christo- 
 pher C. Barney; and she died January 10, 
 1S92. His present wife, whom he married 
 December 5, 1893, was before marriage Julia 
 A. Barney, of Fall River, Mass. Mr. Mann 
 has two children by his first union: Mary 
 Ella, born July 9, 1850; and George Hewins, 
 born P"ebruary 28, 1856. Mary Ella is the 
 
 wife of James E. Greensmith, a native of 
 Derby, England, and now superintendent of 
 the Portland (Me.) Locomotive and Marine 
 Engine Works. George Hewins married De- 
 cember 5, 1883, Elizabeth Cass Stowell, born 
 in Haverhill, Mass., in 1863, and has three 
 children; namely, Esther Stowell, Ruth Hew- 
 ins, and William Rufus. The Mann broth- 
 ers are Republicans in politics. 
 
 RANK CLARK GRANGER, M.D., 
 of Randolph, Norfolk County, Mass., 
 physician and surgeon, was born in 
 Randolph, Vt. , April 8, 1849, a son of Noah 
 and Caroline (Clark) Granger. He comes of 
 an old New England family, being descended 
 from Launcelot Granger, who emigrated from 
 England in the first half of the seventeenth 
 century, and is known to have been living in 
 Ipswich, Mass., in 1648. P'rom Ipswich he 
 removed to Newbury; and thence he migrated 
 to Suffield, Conn., where the remaining years 
 of his life were spent. He died in 1689, leav- 
 ing a large family. 
 
 Dr. Granger's great-grandfather. Captain 
 John Granger, was an officer in the Revolu- 
 tionary army. Having raised a company of 
 minute-men at New Braintree, Mass., he was 
 chosen Captain, and was in command at Bun- 
 ker Hill and during the siege of Boston. 
 The Doctor's grandfather, Roger Granger, was 
 a farmer. 
 
 Frank Clark Granger, after attending school 
 in Randolph, Vt., in his early years, entered 
 the Vermont State Normal School at Ran- 
 dolph, where he was graduated in 1867. In 
 the meanwhile, however, his father having 
 met with financial reverses, he was obliged to 
 earn the money to meet the expenses of his 
 professional training; and at the age of six- 
 teen he began to teach, taking charge of a 
 school at Tunbridge, Vt. He subsequently 
 taught at Cresskill, N.J. After graduating 
 from the Normal School, he taught for two 
 years and a half in California; and he then 
 taught in Belmont, Nev., until 1876. The 
 study of medicine he began in 1874, under 
 the direction of Dr. S. Grant Moore; and he 
 continued it under Dr. L. C. Butler, of Essex, 
 Vt. Matriculating at Dartmouth Medical
 
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 College, in 1876 he there took a course of 
 lectures; and he later took a course at the 
 medical department of the University of Ver- 
 mont. From the latter institution he re- 
 ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 
 1877. He pursued a post-graduate course in 
 the University of the City of New York; and 
 during the year 1877 he did special work in 
 the Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary, under 
 Dr. William Oliver Moore, of New York 
 City. In 1888 Dr. Granger spent four 
 months in post-graduate work in the General 
 Hospital at Vienna, Austria, and three 
 months more he devoted to travel in Europe. 
 In December, 1877, he settled in Randolph; 
 and he now has a large and lucrative practice 
 in Randolph and the adjoining towns. Dr. 
 Granger is a member of the American Medi- 
 cal Association, also a fellow of the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society, and since 1890 has 
 been on the Board of Censors. 
 
 On August 13, 1873, he was married to 
 Alice M., daughter of Dr. Lucius C. and 
 Hannah D. (Page) Butler, of Essex, Vt. The 
 following children have blessed their union: 
 Frank Butler, Lucius Dwight, and Roger 
 Gordon. Dr. Granger is Master of Norfolk 
 Union Lodge, A. F. & A. M,, of Randolph; is 
 a member of Santucket Chapter, R. A. M., 
 of Brockton ; and of Bay State Commandery, 
 K. T., of Brockton. He is also a member of 
 Norfolk Lodge, No. 119, Knights of Pythias. 
 In 1875 he was elected superintendent of pub- 
 lic instruction in Nye County, Nevada. He 
 has contributed some valuable papers to medi- 
 cal literature, notably "Jaborandi as a Galac- 
 togogue " (1880), and "Chloroform in Labor" 
 (1891). 
 
 fYMAN K. PUTNEY, one of the prom- 
 inent residents of Wellesley, was born 
 ^ in Troy, N. H., in 1835, son of Jo- 
 seph M. and Mary (Winch) Putney. 
 His grandfather, Jedediah Putney, who was 
 born in Putney, England, came to this coun- 
 try when about twenty years of age. After 
 following the occupation of farmer in Ashfield, 
 Mass., and in Troy, N.H., he died in Troy at 
 the remarkable age of one hundred and three 
 years. His wife, formerly Abigail Knight, 
 
 of Fitzwilliam, N.II., died in 1832. Their 
 son, Joseph M., born in Ashfield, who has 
 also been a farmer, is now leading a retired 
 life in Lancaster, Mass., having already passed 
 his ninety-fourth birthday. His wife, Mary, 
 who came from Fitzwilliam, and was born in 
 1812, is also living. 
 
 Leaving the public schools of Troy when he 
 was eleven years old, Lyman K. Putney 
 started out in life for himself. He first 
 worked on farms in various towns in the in- 
 terior of New Hampshire for three years. 
 Then he went to Clintonville, now Clinton, 
 Mass., with the intention of learning the 
 woollen maker's trade; but, finding the work 
 very distasteful, he abandoned it at the end of 
 the first year. He was ne.xt employed in Bos- 
 ton, first in a stable and then in a market. 
 After staying in the market for a year and a 
 half, he began driving teams in the city for 
 another man. Four years later he started in 
 the teaming business for himself. In 1854 he 
 helped to form the firm of Whipple & Co., 
 and became the junior partner. This firm 
 still does business under the same name. Lo- 
 cated first on Kilby Street, they moved later 
 to their present location on Lincoln and High 
 Streets, where they have been doing a large 
 business for the last twenty-five years, chiefly 
 for the shoe and leather trade. Although Mr. 
 Putney has not been actively engaged in the 
 business since \?>T(i, he retains his interest in 
 the firm. In 1873 he purchased a farm, put 
 up buildings, and carried on farming for the 
 next fourteen years. Then he sold out his 
 land, and engaged in the real estate business. 
 He has put up some of the public buildings at 
 Wellesley Hills, and owns a number of houses 
 and blocks in the village. In 1868 he moved 
 from Boston to West Newton, and two years 
 later to Grantville, now Wellesley Hills. 
 Ever since he has lived in Wellesley, Mr. Put- 
 ney has taken an active part in the life of the 
 town. He served as Town Assessor for two 
 years. In 1877 he was elected Selectman of 
 the old town of Needham, and served for four 
 years in that capacity, being the chairman of 
 the board for three of those years. He was 
 elected to the General Court from the Ninth 
 Norfolk District in 1879, and served on the 
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 Board of Selectmen again in 1881, he served 
 for five years. During the two following 
 years he was Water Commissioner. He was 
 again elected to the General Court in 1882, 
 and he served on the Committee on Chari- 
 table Institutions. He was also on the com- 
 mittee appointed to investigate charges made 
 against the management of the Tewksbury 
 Almshouse by General Butler, who was then 
 the Governor of the State. Once more elected 
 to the Board of Selectmen in 1887, he served 
 for four years, making fourteen years in all 
 that he has been on this board. He has also 
 been on the committee elected by the town to 
 look after public buildings, etc. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Putney joined the Bethesda 
 Lodge, No. 30, I. O. O. F., and passed 
 through all the chairs. In 1861 he became a 
 member of Mount Washington Encampment. 
 Nine years later he was made Master Mason 
 in the Dalhousie Lodge and a member of the 
 R. A- Chapter, both of Newtonville. He 
 was a charter member of the Sincerity Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F., at Wellesley, and subsequently 
 was its first Noble Grand, to become which 
 he withdrew from the lodge in Boston. In 
 1878 he was made Deputy of the Twenty- 
 eighth District of the I. O. O. F.; and in 
 1895 he took the degrees in the Natick Com- 
 mandery, K. T. In politics Mr. Putney is an 
 Independent, although tending toward Repub- 
 lican principles. Mr. Putney has been 
 abroad three times, in 1895, i8g6, and 1897, 
 when he travelled extensively through Europe. 
 He was married in 1858 to Abbie A., daugh- 
 ter of William Marshall, of Troy, N.H., and 
 has had four children. These were: Alice 
 M., born in 1859, married, and living in 
 Needham ; Henry Marshall, born in 1864, 
 now a partner in the teaming business, and in 
 charge of it; Herbert W., born in 1868, who 
 died in 1879; and Ethel W. , born in 1881, 
 now attending the Wellesley High School. 
 
 "h:NRY BEEBEE CARRINGTON, 
 lawyer, soldier, author, born at Wal- 
 H-y I lingford, Conn., March 2, 1824, 
 
 son of Miles M. and Mary (Beebee) 
 Carrington, is a grandson of James Carring- 
 
 ton (partner of Eli Whitney in the manufact- 
 ure of rifles for the United States, inspector 
 of Harper's Ferry and Springfield arsenals, 
 inventor of the coffee-mill) and a great-grand- 
 son of Captain Jeremiah Carrington, by whom 
 Washington was entertained at Wallingford 
 during his trip to New England after the war. 
 His grandfather and great-grandfather Beebee 
 were graduates of Yale College, and the latter 
 served in the French and Canadian War of 
 1758-59. His great-grandfather. Captain 
 Caleb At water, was president of the Connecti- 
 cut Land Company which settled "New Con- 
 necticut," known as "the Western Reserve," 
 where several towns retain family names given 
 at their settlement. 
 
 Early education largely shaped his political 
 future. While at Torringford, Conn., 1836, 
 at the boarding-school of the Rev. Epaphras 
 Goodman and Dr. Erasmus D. Hudson (after- 
 ward noted abolitionists), John Brown, of 
 Ossawatomie, visiting the school, took 
 pledges from the scholars that, when they be- 
 came men, they would work for the extinction 
 of slavery. Among these were W. W. 
 Patton, afterward president of Howard L^niver- 
 sity, and Thomas K. Brace, afterward Mayor 
 of Hartford. Later, at Farmington, Conn., 
 where the escaped slaves of the "Armisted" 
 (slaver) were cared for by the United States 
 pending the question of their return to 
 slavery, the prayer-meeting of the venerable 
 Noah Porter was mobbed because he prayed 
 that the slaves might remain free. A few 
 days later his old teachers, Goodman and 
 Hudson, were mobbed at West Hartford dur- 
 ing an anti-slavery lecture. The impressions 
 thus made were never effaced. Under date of 
 March 10, 1886, the poet Whittier thus wrote 
 to the subject of this sketch: "In my way, I 
 have tried to serve the cause of Liberty and 
 Humanity by speech and pen, while others like 
 thyself enforced their stern and righteous 
 lessons in the dread arbitrament of the battle- 
 field. The incident of John Brown's address 
 to thee and thy schoolmates is noteworthy. 
 One boy, at least, took to heart the lesson, 
 and made it the rule of his life." 
 
 While yet a mere boy, the subject of our 
 sketch, going from New York to New Haven 
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 drews, then member of Congress from Cleve- 
 land, during the half-day's sail sat upon the 
 knee of Daniel Webster, and listened with in- 
 tense interest to his diseussion of the slavery 
 question and that of protection to American 
 manufactures. The lesson made an earnest 
 impression. He graduated at Yale College in 
 1845; and, of his classmates, William B. 
 Woods (Union), and Richard Taylor, Isaac 
 Monroe St. John, James C. Tappan, and 
 William Connor (Confederate) also became 
 Generals during the Civil War. As optional 
 studies during the Junior and Senior years Car- 
 rington took drawing, surgery, and French, 
 all of which became factors in subsequent en- 
 gineering and military life. When the famous 
 firemen's riot occurred, his room, No. i South 
 College, on Chapel Street, was a point of the 
 students' defence. On the 17th of June, 1887, 
 during the Soldiers' Monument celebration, 
 while awaiting the advance of the military 
 column. Generals Sherman and Sheridan left 
 the reviewing stand near by, and accompanied 
 him to No. i, to witness the theatre of his 
 "first skirmish." 
 
 Upon graduating, Carrington, at the request 
 of Washington Irving, was selected by Pro- 
 fessor B. Silliman, Sr., for the professorship 
 of natural science and Greek at the Irving In- 
 stitute, Tarrytown, N.Y. There he instituted 
 military drill, erected a gymnasium, and for a 
 while acted as amanuensis for Mr. Irving in 
 work upon his "Life of Washington." He 
 also acted as usher at Mr. Irving's reception 
 upon his return from Spain, when the widow 
 of Alexander Hamilton, James Harper, 
 Philip K. Paulding, Hiram Ketchum, Com- 
 modore Perry, Commander McKenzie, and 
 others were guests. On one occasion, while 
 accompanying Mr. Irving to White Plains, 
 the latter pointed out Chatterton Hill as the 
 spot where the nominal battle of White 
 Plains was fought. After a survey of the po- 
 sition a map was drawn, which became the 
 starting-point for "Battles of the American 
 Revolution," completed thirty years later. 
 Among the pupils under his instruction were: 
 William (afterward Governor and Senator) 
 Sprague; Amasa Sprague; Adam C. Badeau 
 (afterward of Grant's staff), Hobart C. Her- 
 rick (New York Corn Ex-change), Thomas 
 
 and John Uenny, of New York; and others, 
 mostly from New York City. 
 
 A course at the Yale Law School followed, 
 he at the same time serving as professor of 
 mathematics and natural science at Root's 
 Collegiate Institute. A daily diary was main- 
 tained during his college course, embracing 
 current data as to the political and military 
 events of Europe; and these were tabulated 
 when the revolutions of 1848 occurred. Dr. 
 Baird's lectures upon Russia were also copied, 
 and utilized when events made Russia a factor 
 in the subsequent campaigns. 
 
 November, 1848, Mr. Carrington settled 
 at Columbus, Ohio, first as partner of A. F. 
 Perry and then for nine years with William 
 Dennison, until the latter became Governor of 
 Ohio. During the winter of 1849 he partici- 
 pated with Henry C. Noble and others in the 
 rescue of Frederick Douglass, when his oppo- 
 nents tried to drown out with a fire-engine his 
 attempted delivery of an anti-slavery lecture 
 in the old Ohio State-house. In 1851 he 
 visited Henry Clay at Ashland, Ky., in 
 furtherance of a purpose formed while in col- 
 lege, and secured a copy of the "Memorial to 
 Washington," which contains the autographic 
 signatures of the members of the United 
 States Senate in 1840. His address upon 
 Russia, just before the arrival of Kossuth, in 
 whose reception he participated, was the last 
 delivered in the old State-house, which 
 burned that night. In conference with the 
 patriot he prepared a detailed map of the 
 Hungarian struggle up to and including 
 the camp where Georgey surrendered to the 
 combined armies of Austria and Russia. 
 
 An' incident occurred in 1852 which made 
 permanent friendship with General Scott. On 
 his arrival at Columbus, while candidate for 
 the Presidency, during the firing of a salute at 
 the station a premature discharge killed two 
 and blinded a third of the gunners. Sending 
 medical aid to their relief, he seated General 
 Scott in a carriage, without advising him of 
 the accident, introduced him to the people at 
 the Neil House, reported for the Wliig Review 
 his protest to the assembled Germans against 
 the current report that he shot German de- 
 serters at Mexico because they were for- 
 eigners, and the next morning accompanied
 
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 him to visit the afflicted families of the vic- 
 tims. Besides liberal gifts of money General 
 Scott exhibited the most tender sympathy, and 
 afterward wrote more than once, inquiring as 
 to their welfare. He supplied books from 
 time to time for military study, and in 1861 
 sent him through the fortifications about 
 Washington to make observations likely to be 
 useful in his army career. 
 
 In 1854, with J. VV. Andrews, Joseph R. 
 Swan, Henry C. Noble, B. F. Martin, Lo- 
 renzo English, and others, a plan was devised 
 for a State conference as to the condition of 
 affairs in Kansas and Nebraska. A State con- 
 vention was called for July 13; and Henry S. 
 Lane, of Indiana, started a similar movement 
 in that State. More than a thousand dele- 
 gates attended. A Committee of Resolutions 
 from each district included leading men of all 
 parties. At noon Mr. Dennison produced a 
 Detroit paper suggesting the name "Republi- 
 can" for the fusion movement. Mr. Giddings 
 opposed this, preferring "Republican Confed- 
 eracy. '" No name was adopted, but the fusion 
 was so complete that a State ticket was 
 elected by more than a hundred thousand ma- 
 jority. A permanent committee was ap- 
 pointed to correspond with lovers of liberty 
 throughout the land, to make the movement 
 national; namely, H. B. Carrington, Joseph 
 R. Swan, Dr. J. B. Coulter, J. H. Baker, and 
 Rufus P. Spaulding. Of the Congressional 
 Committee, William Allison alone survives. 
 Henry S. Lane telegraphed from Indianapolis, 
 "The Indianapolis Convention repudiates the 
 Nebraska swindle, and has organized for a vic- 
 torious conflict." Lane and Dennison were 
 president and vice-president of the Philadel- 
 phia Convention, which first introduced the 
 Republican party to national suffrage. 
 
 During this period Mr. Carrington was an 
 Elder of the Second Presbyterian Church, and 
 for a time was superintendent of its Sunday- 
 school. He organized the first Y. M. C. 
 Association of Central Ohio, secured the sub- 
 scription and superintended the building of 
 the stone church still used by the society, and 
 was also a trustee of Marietta College. 
 
 When Mr. Chase became Governor, he was 
 charged with the organization of a uniformed 
 State militia, and State encampments were 
 
 instituted. His annual report for 1859 
 showed thirty companies at one encampment, 
 and sudden calls were made to test their dis- 
 cipline. The First Regiment (Colonel Ed. 
 A. King, afterward killed at Chickamauga, as 
 Lieutenant Colonel, Nineteenth United States 
 Infantry) rallied seven companies at night in 
 thirty minutes. On a dark and stormy night 
 the Columbus battalion reported more than 
 half its strength in twenty-seven minutes. 
 Major-generals Walcott, Mitchell, and Jones 
 were from these companies. Such was the 
 trend and character of the Ohio militia as war 
 drew near. 
 
 Until war began, he was attorney of all rail- 
 roads in Central Ohio, and two cases reported 
 in Sixth Ohio Reports (New Series) became 
 authority. He was appointed by Justice Mc- 
 Lain, upon recommendation of the Ohio bar, 
 Special Commissioner to dispose of certain 
 admiralty cases during the illness of District 
 Judge Leavitt, and was counsel with Thomas 
 Corwin in the case of Driscoll v. Parish, 
 where the alleged participancy of the defend- 
 ant in the rescue of a fugitive slave gave im- 
 portance to the issue. He accompanied Mr. 
 Chase in his election canvass, alternating the 
 opening address at various county seats; ac- 
 companied him to the opening of the Balti- 
 more & Ohio Railroad, and spoke at the Mary- 
 land Institute in honor of the event; and, 
 under the Governor's direction, negotiated 
 with President Buchanan and his cabinet a 
 plan, carried into effect, for the joint dismissal 
 by Federal and State Courts of conflicting 
 processes in the Greene County fugitive slave 
 case. In the subsequent Langston case he 
 placed the militia under arms to support the 
 Supreme Court and prevent the rearrest of 
 the defendant in case the court, under writ of 
 habeas corpus^ should order a discharge. 
 
 As Adjutant-general he escorted the Prince 
 of Wales from Cincinnati to Columbus, the 
 legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee as 
 well, and took part in the escort of President- 
 elect Lincoln from Illinois to Columbus. A 
 volume of military regulations and tactics, 
 published in 1859, was revised the following 
 year; nearly twenty bronze guns were rifled; 
 and, as the result of a State convention of 
 officers, new laws were enacted to make the
 
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 organization more complete. Trips to New 
 York and Massachusetts encampments and to 
 Generals Scott and Wool were annual. The 
 Adjutant-general of New York, Frederick K. 
 Townsend, afterward became a Major in the 
 Eighteenth United States Infantry; and Will- 
 iam Schouler, Adjutant-general of Massachu- 
 setts, had been for a time Adjutant-general of 
 Ohio while Carrington was Judge Advocate- 
 general of the State. 
 
 When his partner Dennison became Gov- 
 ernor, new impetus was given to the militia. 
 The dedication of the Perry monument at 
 Cleveland brought the force again together. 
 Wood's (afterward Barnett's) battery had al- 
 ready been inspected by General Scott and 
 pronounced "excellent." The sham battle on 
 the lake was arranged to correspond as nearly 
 as possible with the rig, tonnage, and arma- 
 ment of vessels engaged in the battle of Lake 
 Erie; and the survivors of Perry's men, with 
 the Marine Artillery and Providence Light In- 
 fantry, formed the escort of Governor Sprague 
 from Rhode Island. 
 
 In January, 1861, Senator Chase wrote: 
 "Our most sober thinkers and those best in- 
 formed, as well as conservative men from the 
 South, predict war. Our militia should be 
 officered by the wisest and best men. How 
 soon they may be needed, no man can tell." 
 Secretary Cass also wrote, "We have, indeed, 
 fallen upon evil times, when those who should 
 preserve seem bent upon destroying our 
 country." 
 
 On the nth of April the Adjutant-general 
 delivered an address, entitled "The Hour, the 
 Peril, and the Duty," predicting the war and 
 its result. At the request of Senators Gar- 
 field, Cox, and others, it was repeated twice; 
 and Fort Sumter fell before the last delivery. 
 The call for seventy-five thousand men fol- 
 lowed. Two regiments were despatched for 
 Washington within si.xty hours. Si.xty Sena- 
 tors and members were uniformed as a com- 
 pany, and drilled under the State-house 
 dome. Garfield, being tallest, was assigned to 
 the right, and made acting First Sergeant. 
 Upon his demanding why the "left" and not 
 the "right" foot was uniformly advanced, the 
 Adjutant-general gave him a musket, with the 
 order, " Charge Bayonet ! " The Sergeant ac- 
 
 cepted the lesson amid the merriment of his 
 associates. Senators Co.x and Sleigh, repre- 
 senting the two parties, were selected for 
 vacant militia brigadierships, to make them 
 eligible for appointment in the three months' 
 service; and, upon suspension of the rules 
 before midnight, a bill was passed authoriz- 
 ing the Governor to appoint a Major-general 
 from citizens at large, and the commission 
 of McClellan was made out and delivered to 
 him. 
 
 A plan of campaign in the contingency of 
 war had been submitted to General Wool and 
 approved by him. A foundry was opened on 
 the Sabbath, and solid shot cast for Barnett's 
 battery, which had been ordered to Columbus. 
 The State militia were placed in various fair 
 grounds for quick concentration. General 
 Wool supplied ten thousand stand of arms; 
 and the militia were ready for service before 
 a regiment of volunteers, other than those sent 
 East, had been mustered into the United 
 States service. 
 
 A despatch from Senator Carlisle, of West 
 Virginia, reported that hostile forces would be 
 upon the Ohio border, if not anticipated by 
 the immediate presence of troops. Doubtful 
 of his right to pass militia beyond the State 
 line. Governor Dennison authorized the Ad- 
 jutant-general to report to General McClellan, 
 and execute any orders he deemed necessary 
 at such a juncture. The result was tele- 
 graphic orders given on the train at various 
 stations, so that the eight regiments of militia 
 were put in motion within eight hours. A 
 section of Barnett's battery and Steadman's 
 regiment crossed to Parkersburg, and occupied 
 the heights at midnight, just in time to cut off 
 the Confederate advance. Bridges were re- 
 built, and the whole line restored as far as 
 Grafton. The battle of Philippi was fought, 
 Barnett's battery firing the first shot of the war 
 in the West. Confederates occupied Huttons- 
 ville Pass with one small iron gun: and Colo- 
 nel Steadman, Colonel Milroy, of Indiana, 
 and Barnett favored the proposition of the 
 Adjutant-general to advance, without transpor- 
 tation except ambulances, receipt for sup- 
 plies, and live on the country. This was 
 overruled by General Morris, in command at 
 Grafton, and Colonel Kelly, of the W^est Vir-
 
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 ginia regiment, who was too seriously 
 wounded to join his command. But Grafton 
 and its communications with the Ohio were 
 never afterward disturbed. 
 
 The thanks of the President and the Secre- 
 tary of War were followed, upon the request 
 of Generals Scott and Wool, seconded by Sec- 
 retary Chase, by the appointment (unsolicited) 
 of the Adjutant-general as Colonel of the 
 Eighteenth United States Infantry. This was 
 the only three-battalion regiment filled to its 
 maximum during the war. It took to the field 
 two thousand, four hundred and forty-three 
 officers and men, containing during the war 
 four thousand, seven hundred and seventy- 
 three men, of whom three thousand, one hun- 
 dred and ninety were American by birth, and 
 two thousand forty-nine, citizens of Ohio. 
 By permission of the Secretary of War the 
 Adjutant-general, while commanding the reg- 
 ular army rendezvous at Camp Thomas, near 
 Columbus, was permitted to continue duty for 
 the State until July i, 1861. He therefore 
 signed the commissions of McClellan, Cox, 
 Garfield, Rosecrans, Sill, Hayes, Matthews, 
 Steadman, Beatty, and others afterward dis- 
 tinguished in the war. One detachment of 
 colored volunteers for Massachusetts received 
 from him a set of silk colors before their de- 
 parture. No other Western State presented a 
 militia organization which had been drilled 
 in both battalion and brigade movements. 
 
 During November, 1861, he reported with 
 his command to General Thomas at Lebanon, 
 Ky. , leaving a battalion of the Sixteenth 
 United States Infantry at Louisville, after 
 suppressing, at the request of General Buell, a 
 mutiny of volunteers claiming a furlough of 
 , thirty days after enlistment. The Ninth and 
 Thirty-fifth Ohio and the Second Minnesota 
 were added to the Eighteenth to complete the 
 brigade; but peremptory orders from Washing- 
 ton detached the commander to first complete 
 the enlistments at the Regular Army Camp of 
 Instruction at Camp Thomas. The result was 
 the separation of the regiment from its im- 
 mediate commander. 
 
 In June, 1862, he published an appeal to 
 the people of Ohio, urging the formation on 
 Saturday afternoons of a reserve force of one 
 hundred thousand men, closing the appeal 
 
 with the words, "for this is a war of the 
 people, by the people, and for the people." 
 He was unexpectedly called to Washington. 
 A conference of several Cabinet officers had 
 been called at the suggestion of Secretary 
 Chase, who threatened to surrender the Treas- 
 ury portfolio unless General McClellan were 
 removed from command ; and Colonel Carring- 
 ton was named as the officer to bear despatches 
 to that effect. Secretary Seward suggested 
 that the relations of that officer with General 
 McClellan had been such as to make such a 
 duty very unpleasant, especially as General 
 McClellan had desired the Eighteenth In- 
 fantry to be sent East to join his command. 
 Secretary Welles and William Cullen Bryant, 
 who had been invited to the interview, con- 
 curred. Despatches had been received stat- 
 ing that Generals Halleck and Pope would 
 arrive during the night from the VVest ; and 
 Colonel Carrington was instructed to meet 
 those officers upon their arrival, with requests 
 that they would not report at the War Depart- 
 ment, but be ready at ten o'clock the follow- 
 ing morning to visit the President at the Sol- 
 diers' Home. General Pope was met at mid- 
 night, and General Halleck at daylight. The 
 latter was unknown to Colonel Carrington, 
 and insisted that the cap ornament "18" was 
 of Ohio, that he was absent without leave, and 
 not an officer of the regular army. The com- 
 munication was delivered, however; and at ten 
 o'clock the officers of the Cabinet mentioned 
 alighted at Willard's, and were introduced. 
 Halleck accepted the fact, but did not until 
 after the war forgive the incident. 
 
 The question with President Lincoln was 
 simply "whether different operations in Ken- 
 tucky, Missouri, and Tennessee were acci- 
 dentally harmonious or the result of forecast 
 which included all zones of operation in one 
 systematic conduct of the war." These offi- 
 cers were at once placed in their respective 
 commands, and Colonel Carrington returned 
 to Camp Thomas. 
 
 The Kirby Smith campaign opened. L^pon 
 urgent appeal of Governor Morton, the Adju- 
 tant-general ordered Colonel Carrington to re- 
 port at once to Indiana and take charge of 
 organizing and equipping its forces for the 
 field. Eleven regiments were forwarded in as
 
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 277 
 
 many days, including muster, arming, and 
 payment of bounty; and eventually this officer 
 sent into the service nearly one hundreil thou- 
 sand men from that State alone. A battalion 
 of officers was organized. The return ol 
 paroled men and new regiments soon placed 
 under drill four brigades, with batteries daily 
 instructed in target practice, and cavalry in 
 sword exercise. The entire force was in- 
 spected by Inspector-general Van Rensselaer, 
 and was claimed by General McClerland to be 
 organized for a separate command for himself. 
 It was known that such had been President 
 Lincoln's design — his "castor-oil expedition 
 to open the Mississippi," as he called it. On 
 the 30th of November the commanding officers 
 of the regiments and batteries sent a request 
 to General Halleck that the force take the 
 field under its temporary commander. Grad- 
 ually the regiments were sent to various 
 points requiring troops, and McClerland's 
 corps ceased to exist. Meanwhile and fol- 
 lowing the draft of 1862, which was resisted 
 in parts of Indiana, the disloyal Order of the 
 Knights of the Golden Circle, and then that 
 of the Sons of Liberty, became more pro- 
 nounced in its revolutionary plans. The as- 
 signment of Colonel Carrington to command 
 the regular brigade shortly before the battle of 
 Stone River, when Rosecrans called for all his 
 force, brought such a protest from Governor 
 Morton that finally that brigade went into 
 action under Lieutenant Colonel Shepherd of 
 the Eighteenth Infantry. The year closed 
 with troops on duty near the State-house, re- 
 sisting processes of the State Supreme Court, 
 which were nearly as revolutionary and trea- 
 sonable as the plans of the more openly dis- 
 loyal. One judge in Illinois, who instructed 
 a grand jury to find indictments for kidnap- 
 ping against officers and soldiers arresting de- 
 serters, was removed from the court-house, 
 and his court adjourned sine die. The legis- 
 lature passed an act, removing from the Gov- 
 ernor control of the militia, substituting 
 officers of the State to issue commissions 
 and control the militia. The ■ Governor was 
 called upon to surrender to their control the 
 public arms. The following paper was ex- 
 ecuted by. him at midnight, and solved the 
 dilemma: ^- 
 
 EXECUTIVK Department, January 30, 1863. 
 
 All arms and equipments helonj^ing to the United 
 States in the arsenal of this city are hereby turned over 
 to your posse.ssion and control. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 O. P. Morton. 
 Cor.oNKL Cakki.xgto.n. 
 
 After promotion, as Brigadier-general, Car- 
 rington commanded the district, conducted its 
 recruiting service as well as the border de- 
 fence, and at one time armed eighteen thou- 
 sand of the militia to supply the need of 
 troops along the Ohio River. When Bragg 
 threatened Louisville, and all public stores 
 were removed to the north shore, the fortifica- 
 tion of the banks became a necessity, as the 
 stage of water exposed fording-places below 
 the falls. The domestic treason became so 
 marked that over one hundred were convicted 
 by juries in the Federal Court. One deserter 
 and three bounty jumpers were sent in irons 
 to General Sherman for work in trenches. 
 Attempts to release Confederate prisoners in 
 Camps Morton, Douglass, and Chase became 
 so serious that a howitzer battery was sent by 
 General Rosecrans from St. Louis, and the 
 Sixtieth Massachusetts was sent to increase 
 the guard, which had been depleted for ser- 
 vice at the South. Provost Marshal Richard 
 W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, reported a 
 deposit of the rituals of the traitors at an 
 office in that city, and upon seizure sent the 
 entire material to headquarters. A full ex- 
 posure was made to the government. 
 
 Detached for a short time to organize one- 
 hundred-day men at Cleveland by request of 
 Governor Todd, General Carrington was 
 ordered back to Indiana during the Morgan 
 raid, and afterward joined his regiment in the 
 Army of the Cumberland. The thanks of the 
 State and a special testimonial from the city of 
 Indianapolis attended his departure. The fol- 
 lowing is an extract from a letter of Major- 
 general Heintzelman to General Halleck: 
 "To his [General Carrington's] energy, per- 
 severance, and good judgment I am indebted 
 for all the information I have been able to 
 submit. To the information thus obtained 
 and the measures taken in consequence 
 thereof, we are indebted mainly for being
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 saved the horrors of civil war in this sec- 
 tion." 
 
 While General Carrington's headquarters 
 were at Louisville, he received the thanks of 
 Governor Bramblett and General Burbridge for 
 services in raising the siege of Frankfort; 
 and he was president of the commission to 
 try guerilla chiefs leaving for the frontier in 
 the fall of 1865. During the fall and winter 
 he commanded the East District of Nebraska, 
 organized a Pawnee battalion under Major 
 North, and operated along the line of the Re- 
 publican. In the spring of 1866 he was 
 visited by General Sherman at Fort Kearney, 
 and the expedition to open a wagon road 
 around the Big Horn Mountains to Montana 
 was projected. So confident was General 
 Sherman that the Laramie conference with 
 Indians, designated for May, would ensure 
 peace, that families of officers were induced 
 to accompany the command. Upon reaching 
 Laramie the Indian conference was in ses- 
 sion, but peremptory orders obliged the troops 
 to proceed without waiting for final action. 
 The treaty was a failure. Members of the 
 conference received presents, and immedi- 
 ately began war upon the new line. Daily 
 conflicts occurred. Forts were built, but 
 only protected their immediate vicinity. Re- 
 enforcements, called for and promised, were 
 withheld. The fight of December 6 and the 
 Fetterman disaster of December 21 left the 
 small garrisons with ammunition varying from 
 ten to forty-five rounds per man. A special 
 commission visited the country, and their 
 official report uses this caustic language: 
 "The difficulty is, in a nutshell, that the com- 
 manding officer of the district was furnished 
 no more troops or supplies for this state of 
 war than had been provided and furnished for 
 a state of profound peace. In regions where 
 all was peace, as at Laramie in November, 
 twelve companies were stationed; while in 
 regions where all was war, as at Fort Kearney, 
 there were only five companies allowed." For 
 want of timely re-enforcements to retain the 
 country occupied, the forts were dismantled 
 or burned ; and the whole line was abandoned 
 for a season by order of General Grant. It 
 was not until more than two years later, and 
 after the then senior colonel of the army 
 
 had been retired from active service for a 
 wound received in line of duty, that his 
 official report as District Commander, re- 
 ceived early in 1867 at Washington, was 
 permitted to be published. 
 
 During 1867 he conducted conferences 
 while at Fort McPherson with Chiefs Pawnee 
 Killer, Dull Knife, Spotted Tail, and others, 
 and in 1868-69 commanded Fort Sedgwick, 
 Colorado. His wound disabled him from 
 mounted service; and in December he was as- 
 signed as military professor of Wabash Col- 
 lege, Indiana. Upon increase of disability 
 that threatened to prove fatal, he was retired 
 the following year. While on this detail he 
 erected the large gymnasium, now the Hovey 
 Museum, raising most of the funds by per- 
 sonal solicitation in Indiana; built the city 
 hall and other structures; assisted at the test 
 of the St. Louis Bridge at request of Captain 
 Eads; and made an examination of the Ash- 
 tabula Bridge after that disaster, which vindi- 
 cated its designer, Amasa Stone, Jr., from 
 responsibility for alleged defects of design 
 and construction. 
 
 Meanwhile, in lectures and study. General 
 Carrington completed the text and many of the 
 maps for his "Battles of the American Revolu- 
 tion," and then, under the auspices of the 
 British and American governments, visited 
 Europe to perfect his work. He was placed 
 on assimilated rank with British officers, re- 
 ceived the courtesies of the Athenaeum, Army 
 and Navy Club (senior and junior). United 
 Service Club (senior and junior), Huntington 
 Fine Arts Club, The Reform Club, and 
 others, as well as the Royal Geographical So- 
 ciety, in whose rooms he prepared a large 
 map, now held by the society, for illustration 
 of a lecture, before the British Association, 
 upon the American Indians of the North-west. 
 He was a member of several standing commit- 
 tees of the British Association, and at Ox- 
 ford, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, and Edinburgh 
 Universities was alike welcomed. At the 
 casting of the first eighty-one ton gun at Wool- 
 wich he was the only foreigner present except 
 the Duke of Braganza; and at its final test 
 he was called from Paris by 'General Camp- 
 bell, Director-general of Artillery, to witness 
 the same, being the only foreigner present.
 
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 279 
 
 Each member of Lord Beaconsfield's Cabinet 
 contributed aid in liis researclies; and, as a 
 member of the United States Supreme Court 
 bar, he was present when the Lord Chancellor 
 announced the end, sine die, of the High Court 
 of Lnglish Chancery. Courtesies extended to 
 Major Bridges, of the First Regiment, Queen's 
 Guards, and William Blackmore, of Parlia- 
 ment, while they were on the frontier in 1868, 
 were more than reciprocated by British army 
 circles during his visit. 
 
 In Paris, Minister Washburne and Secretary 
 Hitt secured opportunities for research; and 
 ex-President and Madame Thiers, as well as 
 Count Rochambeau and Senators Oscar and 
 Edmund Lafayette, largely contributed to his 
 success. Each of these officials and each 
 member of the British Cabinet took occasion, 
 upon completion of the volume, to recognize 
 its impartiality of research and record. Colo- 
 nel Hamley, of the Queen's Staff College, and 
 Colonel C. C. Chesney, of the Royal En- 
 gineers, especially indorsed its treatment of 
 the art of war in the introduction. Sir Jo- 
 seph Hooker, president of the Royal Society, 
 wrote, "I was never able before to understand 
 the full character of Washington; and I have 
 read the volume most carefully, with ever-in- 
 creasing delight and profit." Of the Ameri- 
 can proof-readers of the manuscript, George 
 Bancroft, Benson J. Lossing, and President 
 Woolsey were equally cordial in its indorse- 
 ment. 
 
 Besides being a life member of the Ameri- 
 can Historical Society, General Carrington 
 was made corresponding member of the Massa- 
 chusetts, Virginia, and other State Historical 
 Societies, and received the degree of Doctor 
 of Laws from Wabash College in 1870. His 
 literary works, besides more than a hundred 
 addresses before historical and educational so- 
 cieties and conventions at home and abroad, 
 include the following: "The Scourge of the 
 Alps" (a serial, 1847); "American Classics" 
 (1849); "Russia among the Nations" (1851); 
 "Military Regulations and Tactics" (1859); 
 "Crisis Thoughts" (1861); "Hints to Sol- 
 diers taking the Field" (1862), of which the 
 United States Sanitary and Christian Commis- 
 sions distributed more than one hundred thou- 
 sand; "Absaroka, Land of Massacre" 
 
 (1868), enlarged as "Wyoming Opened" 
 (1886) ; "Battles of the American Revolu- 
 tion" (1876), in its sixth thousand, as revised 
 with the aid of the late Robert C. Winthrop; 
 "The Indian Question" (1884); "Ocean to 
 Ocean" (1886); "Washington Obelisk and 
 its Voices" (1886); "Boston and New York 
 in the Revolution " (1889) ; "Human Liberty 
 Developed," (a patriotic reader, 1888); "Co- 
 lumbian Selections" (1893); "The Six Na- 
 tions of New York" and the "Cherokees of 
 North Carolina" (1892), published by the 
 government; "Beacon Lights of Patriotism" 
 (1895); and the editing of "Poems of Home 
 and Country" (by the Rev. S. Y. Smith, 
 author of the hymn "America"). General 
 Carrington was corresponding secretary of the 
 Boston committee having in charge the testi- 
 monial to Dr. Smith at Music Hall, Boston, 
 April 3, 1895. 
 
 "The Battles of the Bible " and " Pre-Chris- 
 tian Assurances of Christianity" were in prep- 
 aration, when the sheets were destroyed by a 
 fire which also destroyed many hundreds of 
 photo negatives of Indians taken in person. 
 "The Rent Veil and Other Poems" is ready 
 for the printer. "The Rose of the Guadal- 
 quivir," the data of which Mr. Irving left in- 
 complete, is in process of development. 
 
 General Carrington removed to Boston in 
 1882 and to Hyde Park in 1885. In 1889 he 
 was detailed to make treaties with the Flat- 
 head Indians of Montana. In i8go he made 
 the Indian census of the Six Nations of New 
 York, and in i8gi, personally conducted the 
 removal of the Flathead Indians from Bitter 
 Root valley to their new reservation in North- 
 western Montana. In 1896 he became mem- 
 ber of the Sewer Board of Commissioners 
 of Hyde Park, otherwise avoiding civil 
 office. 
 
 He first married at Columbus, Ohio, in 
 1851, Margaret McDowell, eldest daughter of 
 Joseph Sullivant, a noted scientist and scholar. 
 Their eldest son, Henry Sullivant, graduated 
 at Wabash College, 1879, had two years of 
 service in the South Seas, and died in 1894, 
 while in the service of the Illinois Central 
 Railroad Company, leaving one son, Henry 
 B. Carrington, Jr. Of six children by this 
 wife, the only survivor is Jarnes Beebee Car-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 rington, of the editorial staff of Sctibner's 
 Magazine, whose versatile literary work in 
 that duty has given him a well-deserved posi- 
 tion among scholars. 
 
 On the 3d of April, 1870, General Carring- 
 ton married Frances Courtney (widow of Lieu- 
 tenant G. VV. Grummond, Colonel of a Michi- 
 gan regiment during the Civil War). He was 
 killed in battle with Indians, December 21, 
 1 866. She was the youngest daughter of 
 Robert and Eliza J. (Haynes) Courtney, of 
 Franklin, Tenn., Virginians of noted loyalty 
 to the Union even while surrounded by those 
 opposed to the prosecution of the war. This 
 family, after the battle of Franklin, took per- 
 sonal charge of the Federal wounded left on 
 the field, and nursed them in a church until 
 Federal troops, after the battle of Nashville, 
 again occupied Franklin. General Thomas 
 and other Federal officials ofificially recognized 
 this service; and the history of the experience 
 of Mrs. Carrington (then Miss Courtneyj was 
 published by the United States Sanitary Com- 
 mission as one of the striking episodes of the 
 war. One son by her former husband, Will- 
 iam Wands, adopted by General Carrington, 
 died of consumption at Hyde Park, January 
 19, 1897. Their son, Robert Chase Carring- 
 ton, born January 28, 1872, was for two years 
 associated with the mercantile house of Buck 
 & Co., in Montana, and later book-keeper of 
 Bleakie & Co., woollen manufacturers at 
 Hyde Park, until he went to North Carolina 
 in the fall of 1896, to restore impaired health. 
 Two daughters are: Henrietta, born April 28, 
 1874; and Eliza Jane, born April 27, 1875. 
 Mrs. Carrington's sister, Mrs. Florence O. 
 Cochnower, who participated in the care of 
 Federal wounded soldiers during the war, is 
 in the public service at Washington, and is in 
 receipt of a pension for services rendered. 
 
 AMUEL W. THORNDIKE, who 
 was for many years a prominent 
 business man of Boston and during 
 the latter part of his life a resident 
 of Braintree, Mass., was born in Boston, 
 Mass., February 23, 1836, a son of James P. 
 and Martha E. (Hodgdon) Thorndike. His 
 father, James P. Thorndike, a native of War- 
 
 ner, N.H., was one of the leading wholesale 
 leather merchants in Boston, in which city he 
 took lip his permanent residence in 1835, hav- 
 ing previously been engaged in the tanning 
 business in Salem. About 1856 he began 
 spending his summers in Braintree, and con- 
 tinued to do so for the rest of his life, which 
 closed in October, 1878. His wife, Martha, 
 was a native of Salem, Mass. 
 
 Samuel W. Thorndike was reared to man- 
 hood in Boston, receiving his education in the 
 public schools and in the institution now 
 known as the Chauncy Hall School of that 
 city. He then became a clerk in his father's 
 office in Boston, in which position he contin- 
 ued for a number of years. He subsequently 
 entered into a partnership with his elder 
 brother in the wholesale leather business, 
 under the style of James D. Thorndike & Co., 
 the firm e.xisting until the great Boston fire of 
 1872, when it dissolved. After some years 
 more of business life devoted to railroad in- 
 terests, Mr. Thorndike, owing- to ill health, 
 retired, and passed his days as a private citi- 
 zen of Braintree until his demise on May 20, 
 1896. He was a Democrat in politics; and, 
 though not an active politician, he took a 
 lively interest in town affairs. He served 
 some time as Justice of the Peace. His relig- 
 ious opinions led him to attend and support 
 the Congregational church, but he was also a 
 generous contributor to other religious bodies 
 and various charitable institutions. Mr. 
 Thorndike was a representative citizen in the 
 sense that he combined the best and most 
 prominent elements of New England charac- 
 ter — -tenacity of purpose, devotion to prin- 
 ciple, and indomitable perseverance in what- 
 ever he undertook. Commanding the respect 
 which accompanies success in any legitimate 
 walk in life, he was also esteemed for his per- 
 sonal qualities, which realized a lofty ideal of 
 manhood; and his death was the cause of 
 wide-spread sorrow. 
 
 Mr. Thorndike married Elizabeth J. Hay- 
 den, daughter of Charles D. and Rebecca T. 
 (Arnold) Hayden, and a member of an old 
 Braintree family, her paternal grandfather, 
 Robert Hayden, having been many years a resi- 
 dent of this town. One of Mrs. Thorndike's 
 ancestors, Nehemiah Hayden, fought for
 
 HENRY T. MANSFIELD.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 nS3 
 
 American independence in the Revolutionary 
 War. Mr. and Mrs. Thorndike were the par- 
 ents of one son, Alden A., who now resides, 
 with his own family and his widowed mother, 
 at the beautiful homestead in Rraintree. 
 
 ENRY TUCKER MANSFIELD, 
 M.D., a successful medical practi- 
 ce) I tioner of Needham, was born in 
 Boston, February 2, 1838, son of 
 John T. and E. Adeline (Story) Mansfield. 
 As Dr. Mansfield is descended on the paternal 
 side from the Dudleys and Tuckers, and on 
 the maternal side from the Storys, on his fam- 
 ily tree may be found some of the most dis- 
 tinguished names of the old Bay State. His 
 paternal grandfather, Daniel Hopkins Mans- 
 field, son of Matthew Mansfield, was a prosper- 
 ous merchant of Salem interested in the ocean 
 carrying trade; and his grandmother Mans- 
 field was a direct descendant of Governor 
 Dudley of Massachusetts, whose daughter, 
 Anne, married Governor Bradstreet. 
 
 John T. Mansfield, above named, was born 
 in Salem in 1799, and was a prominent mer- 
 chant and business man of that town. He 
 was for eleven years United States Consul at 
 Pernambuco, Brazil, South America, and 
 filled the ofifice with eminent credit. He died 
 in 1839. His wife, E. Adeline, was the 
 youngest, daughter of Dr. Elisha Story, of 
 Marblehead, and sister to the late Hon. Jo- 
 seph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States. Dr, Story was 
 one of the members of the Boston Tea Party 
 of 1773, and Dr. Mansfield has now in his 
 I)ossession a very ancient and interesting doc- 
 ument describing that historical event. 
 
 In 1862 Henry T. Mansfield, who had been 
 educated in the public schools of Salem, 
 Mass., received a commission as assistant 
 paymaster of the United States Navy. He 
 was stationed off Charleston Harbor, S.C. , 
 and was present at the fall of Charleston. 
 He resigned in 1865, at the close of the war, 
 and returning to Boston began the study of 
 medicine at the medical department of Har- 
 vard University; and, graduating in 1869 
 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he 
 commenced the practice of his profession in 
 
 Boston. He removed to Dedham in 1873, 
 and practised there for one year, being during 
 that time both town and county physician. 
 In July, 1874, he came to Needham, and has 
 since resided in this town, where he has made 
 many warm personal friends, and has built up 
 a successful and lucrative practice. For ten 
 years he has been town physician of Needham, 
 and he has served as chairman of the Board of 
 Health. 
 
 Dr. Mansfield is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society, of the American Medi- 
 cal Society, and of the Harvard Medical 
 Alumni; is a comrade of Galen Orr Post, 
 G. A. R., of Needham; is connected with the 
 military order. Loyal Legion of the United 
 States; Oriental Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F., 
 of Boston; and the Veteran Odd P'ellows 
 Association. He is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason, being a member of Revere Lodge, 
 A. F. & A. M., in Boston; of Newton Chapter, 
 R. A. M. ; Gethsemane Commandery, K. T., 
 of Newtonville; and of De Witt Clinton Con- 
 sistory. Dr. Mansfield has been a Justice of 
 the Peace of the State of Massachusetts for 
 nearly twelve years. He is a member of the 
 First Parish Church. 
 
 (TTRVING VV. HORNE, the popular and 
 hI efficient Superintendent of Schools in 
 J_|_ Braintree, was born in Berlin, N.H., 
 July 10, 1859, son of John R. and Sarah 
 (Wheeler) Home, both natives of the State of 
 New Hampshire. John R. Home, a native of 
 New Hampshire, is an extensive land-owner 
 in Berlin, and is said to own the largest farm 
 in Coos Count)'. He has been a successful 
 agriculturist and prominent in local politics. 
 He served for nine years as chairman of the 
 Board of Selectmen of Berlin, was Town Col- 
 lector for seven years, and he represented the 
 place in the legislature for two terms. 
 
 The early education of Superintendent 
 Home was obtained in the schools of Berlin 
 and at the Bridgton Academy of North Bridg- 
 ton. Me. After graduating from the latter 
 institution in 1882, he entered Bowdoin Col- 
 lege. Graduating from Bowdoin four years 
 later, he began his career as teacher, having 
 already gained some experience at different
 
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 times during his under-graduate days. His 
 first position after leaving college was that of 
 principal of the high school at Topsham, Me. 
 This he subsequently left to become principal 
 of the Gorham High School. He held the 
 same position in the Southboro (Massachu- 
 setts) High School for two years and at East 
 Providence for one year; and for the same 
 length of time he was assistant principal of 
 the Chelsea High School. He next accepted 
 the charge of the Ouincy High School, and in 
 1892 he was appointed Superintendent of the 
 Schools of Braintree. 
 
 Mr. Home is a member of the Congre- 
 gational church at Braintree. He married 
 Miss E. J. Pulsifer, of Sumner, Me., and 
 has one son, named Alton Irving. He is 
 identified by membership with the Knights of 
 Pythias, the F. & A. M., and the I. O. O. F. 
 
 "ON. HENRY B. TERRY, a leading 
 lawyer, the Town Clerk and Trial 
 Justice of Hyde Park, was born at 
 Raynham, Mass., April 21, 1845, 
 son of John and Miriam S. (Bradbury) Terry. 
 The first ancestor of the family in this country 
 was Thomas Terry, who, with a company of 
 other settlers, purchased Block Island in 1662. 
 He later removed to Freetown, of which he 
 was Selectman and for many years the Repre- 
 sentative to the General Court. He was also 
 Lieutenant of the Freetown Militia Company, 
 and was known as Lieutenant Jerry. Zeph- 
 eniah, great-grandfather of Judge Terry, was a 
 farmer, and spent most of his life in Free- 
 town, where he was prominent and respected. 
 His son John, who was a ship-master and a 
 farmer, died in Newtown, N.Y. , at the age of 
 fifty-nine years. John married Clarissa Dean, 
 of Raynham, one of the five children of Job 
 Dean, a farmer of that town. She was born 
 in a house now over two hundred years old. 
 Of her eight children, three are living, 
 namely: James, residing in New York; Eliz- 
 abeth, the widow of Henry Southworth ; and 
 John (second), Jiving in Hyde Park. Claris.sa 
 Terry died at the age of sixty-four. She was 
 a Congregational ist in religious faith, as was 
 her husband. 
 
 John Terry, the father of Judge Terry, 
 
 began life on the home farm, and remained 
 there until nineteen years of age, receiving 
 his education in the public schools. When 
 nineteen he took employment on a coasting- 
 vessel. After following the sea for the next 
 four years, he settled down on the shore, and 
 learned the foundry business. He worked ten 
 years as a journeyman, spending the latter 
 half of that period in Raynham. He opened a 
 foundry in Raynham, which he operated for 
 two years. Then he built a foundry in Mans- 
 field, and conducted that for three years, 
 after which he sold it to Gardiner Chilson, 
 and was his superintendent until 1866. In 
 this year he came to Hyde Park, where he has 
 since resided. Here he has been interested in 
 all local affairs, and has taken an active part 
 in the public life of the town. He has been 
 Overseer of the Poor for fifteen years and on 
 the Board of Health for two years. He has 
 also been interested quite largely in real es- 
 tate investments, building a number of houses, 
 and beginning the village of Sunnyside. His 
 wife, Miriam, to whom he was married on No- 
 vember 5, 1843, was a daughter of Samuel 
 Bradbury, of York, Me. Mr. Bradbury was a 
 carpenter and builder, and was born and spent 
 the greater part of his life in York. Mrs. 
 Miriam S. Terry died March 27, 1890, having 
 had one child, Henry B. Both parents were 
 members of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 and the father has been a trustee and steward 
 of the society for many years. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics. 
 
 Henry B. Terry sf)ent the early years of his 
 life at home, receiving his elementary instruc- 
 tion in private schools. Among these was the 
 well-known academy at East Greenwich, R.I., 
 a Methodist fitting school, where he was a 
 student in May, 1862, when he enlisted in 
 Company F of the Ninth Rhode Island Regi- 
 ment as a private. After three months he 
 was discharged; and in the spring of 1863 he 
 returned to East Greenwich, and completed 
 his course. He then entered Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity at Middletown, Conn. Having grad- 
 uated in 1867, he then entered upon a course 
 of reading in preparation for the legal pro- 
 fession with Charles W. Turner, Esq., of Bos- 
 ton. In 1 87 1 he was admitted to the bar. 
 Thereupon he settled in Hyde Park, where
 
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 he has since been in active practice. In 1870 
 he was first elected Town Clerk, which office 
 he has held since, a period of twenty-six 
 years. In 1871 he was appointed Trial Jus- 
 tice, a capacity in which he has since effi- 
 ciently served, being now among the oldest 
 trial justices in this county and among the 
 oldest lawyers in the town. In his private 
 practice he makes a specialty of settling es- 
 tates, and has done a large amount of business 
 in that line. Like his father, he is a loyal 
 Republican, and has always taken an active 
 interest in town affairs. 
 
 In 1872 Judge Terry married Abbie A., 
 daughter of Jacob and Abigail (Bird) VVether- 
 ell, of Newton. Mr. Wetherell, who was 
 superintendent for nineteen years with the 
 firm of Grover & Baker, manufacturers of sew- 
 ing machines, and saw the business grow from 
 a factory employing fifty men to one employ- 
 ing five hundred, died in 1874. Mrs. Wether- 
 ell was one of a large family. Of her si.x 
 children, three are living — Mrs. George 
 Pettee, Mrs. Terry, and Frank J. She was 
 connected with the Baptist denomination, and 
 was an active worker in the church. At her 
 death she was seventy-one years old. Judge 
 Terry and his wife have one child, Sarah 
 Miriam. The Judge is a comrade of Timothy 
 Ingraham Post, No. 121, G. A. R., and has 
 membership in several Masonic bodies, in- 
 cluding the Norfolk Royal Arch Chapter, 
 Hyde Park Council, and Cyprus Commandery. 
 He is a director of the Real Estate and Build- 
 ing Company, the oldest in this section. 
 Both he and Mrs. Terry attend and support 
 the Methodist church, of which he has been a 
 trustee for several years. Mrs. Terry is one 
 of the most active members of the society. 
 
 -OHN EVERETT, a lawyer of Canton, 
 Mass., was born in I'o.xboro, May 16, 
 1852, and is the son of Colonel John 
 Metcalf Everett and Elizabeth Morse 
 Barrett Everett. His great-grandfather, John 
 Everett (an uncle of Edward Everett, Gov- 
 ernor of Massachusetts, and his brother, Alex- 
 ander H. Everett, lawyer and diplomatist), 
 lived in Stoughton and Dedham previous to 
 the Revolutionary War, in which he served as 
 
 Captain, in Dorchester and other places, and 
 in Rhode Island. When Eoxboro was set off 
 as a town, he was the first Selectman and 
 Representative to the General Court. He 
 held the place of Representative for many 
 years, and died in Foxboro. 
 
 Colonel John M. Everett, father of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was born in I-'oxboro in 
 1803. He carried on the business of straw 
 manufacturer for many years, and on retiring 
 from that enterprise he bought the hotel called 
 the Half-way House, where he resided several 
 years, holding court as a Justice and carry- 
 ing on a farm. He was also Selectman and 
 Representative. In politics he was a Re- 
 publican. He had charge of the schools of 
 Foxboro for some years. As civil engineer 
 he made the map of the town. He was a 
 prominent man in military matters, was Colo- 
 nel of the Second Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Militia, and also served on the General's staff. 
 He married Elizabeth Morse Barrett, a lady 
 of culture and refinement, daughter of Amos 
 Barrett, and they had these children: Met- 
 calf, named after his grandfather, Captain 
 Metcalf Everett; John, the subject of this 
 sketch; and Elizabeth. Metcalf Everett died 
 in New York City, where he was engaged in 
 business. On the death of the Hon. M. 
 Everett, who was a prominent lawyer in 
 Wrentham, Colonel John M. Everett removed 
 to that place; and there he died in April, 
 1883, at the advanced age of eighty years. 
 
 John Everett, the subject of this sketch, re- 
 ceived his early education in the F"oxboro 
 High School, graduating in 1868, while that 
 school was under the supervision of his father, 
 and in New York. He taught school a few 
 years as principal of large grammar schools. 
 The Everett School, it may be mentioned, 
 where Richard Olney, Attorney-General of the 
 United States during President Cleveland's 
 second administration, once taught, now 
 hears the family name, by vote of the town, 
 in honor of the father and son, both former 
 teachers of this school. In 1876 Mr. 
 P2verett commenced the study of law with 
 Ellis Ames, Esq., of Canton, and in 1879 
 was admitted as an attorney and counsellor-at- 
 law to practise in all the courts. He has 
 since been in active practice in Canton, sue-
 
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 ceeding Mr. Ames, and occupying his noted 
 office. In politics lie is a Republican. He 
 has served as Moderator, School Committee, 
 Auditor of Public Accounts, Town Treasurer, 
 chairman of Selectmen, and chairman of the 
 Water Commissioners. For the pa.st five 
 years he has been chairman of the Committee 
 of Fifteen on Recommendations to the Town, 
 and is now honorably retired by rule of the 
 town, fixing this limit. Mr. Everett is a 
 member of the Masonic Lodge, and has been 
 trustee of the Odd Fellows Lodge for several 
 years. He is also president and director of 
 the Co-operative Bank, and takes a deep inter- 
 est in the peace, industry, prosperity, and 
 happiness of the people. Mr. Everett has 
 never married. 
 
 iHARLES ILSLEY PORTER, M.D., 
 of Canton, Mass., is a native of Nor- 
 folk County. He was born in 
 Weymouth on November 27, 1865, 
 the son of George E. and Amanda (Cushing) 
 Porter. His branch of the family is de- 
 scended from Richard Porter, who was one of 
 the company of about one hundred persons 
 that came from Weymouth, England, to Mas- 
 sachusetts in 1635, ^nd settled at the place 
 then known as Wessagussett, which name was 
 shortly changed to Weymouth, the territory 
 remaining the same, it is said, to this day. 
 John Porter, son of Richard, married in 1660 
 a daughter of Nicholas Byram. As we learn 
 from the "Porter Genealogy," by the Hon. Jo- 
 seph W. Porter, of Burlington, Me., the line 
 continues thus: Samuel,' Samuel," Joseph,' 
 Lebbeus,'' Whitcomb,' George E.,^ Charles 
 Ilsley." Lieutenant Joseph Porter 5 married 
 ill 1753 Elizabeth Burrill, a "woman of re- 
 markable personal beauty," a school-teacher, 
 daughter of Samuel and Content (Whitcomb) 
 Burrill. Lebbeus Porter, "^ born in 1771, great- 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch, spent 
 the greater part of his married life in 
 Wrentham, Mass. His son, Whitcomb Porter, 
 who was a prominent insurance agent of Bos- 
 ton, for many years was engaged in business on 
 State Street, and resided in Quincy. His 
 wife, who was a daughter of Ebenezer and 
 Betsy (Nash) Hunt, of Weymouth, was a di- 
 
 rect descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, of 
 the Plymouth colony. 
 
 George E. Porter, son of Whitcomb and 
 Susan (Hunt) Porter, was born in 1828. For 
 thirty years he was a prominent shoe manu- 
 facturer in Weymouth, Mass. He married 
 Amanda dishing, daughter of Simeon Cush- 
 ing, and had five children, as follows: Edith, 
 Alice, Susan H., Charles Ilsley, and Edgar. 
 Edith Porter is the wife of the Rev. L. S. 
 Crossley, of South Framingham, Mass. 
 Edgar died at the age of forty-one years. 
 Mr. George E. Porter died at his home in 
 Weymouth, at the age of sixty-eight years, 
 November 23, 1896. 
 
 Charles Ilsley, now the only surviving son, 
 received his early education in the common 
 schools and the high school of his native town, 
 and was tutored for one year. He entered 
 the Boston University Medical School in 
 188.4, was graduated in 1888, and in the fall 
 of the same year settled as a physician in Can- 
 ton, Mass., where he has since remained, ac- 
 tive in his profession, with an increasing 
 practice. In politics he is a Republican; but 
 he has not held public office, having declined 
 to serve on the Board of Health, as he believes 
 a physician should give all his time to those 
 who employ his services. On October 6, 
 1 89 1, he married Margery, daughter of Joseph 
 W. Wattles, one of the prominent manufact- 
 urers of the town. Dr. and Mrs. Porter have 
 one child, a daughter named Helen M. The 
 Doctor and his wife are attendants at the Uni- 
 tarian church. 
 
 TT^HARLES ALLEN HOWLAND, a 
 I \y well-known and esteemed citizen of 
 ^yjs^^ Quincy, the president of the Mount 
 Wollaston National Bank, and the 
 president and treasurer of the Quincy Mutual 
 Fire Insurance Company, was born in Worces- 
 ter, Mass., September 4, 1829. A son of 
 Southworth Allen Howland, he is a direct de- 
 scendant in the seventh generation of John 
 Howland, whose signature is the thirteenth of 
 the forty-one names appended to the memo- 
 rable compact made in the cabin of the "May- 
 flower" in Cape Cod Harbor, November 21, 
 1620, At that time he was twenty-one years
 
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 289 
 
 old. From the day of his departure from 
 England he had been a member of the family 
 of John Carver, the first Governor of the 
 Plymouth Colony. He was one of the "prin- 
 cipal men " who were sent out in a boat 
 manned by eight sailors to select a place in 
 which the weary band might settle, and who, 
 upon being driven by a storm into Plymouth 
 Harbor, made choice of Plymouth. This 
 John Howland was subsequently a prominent 
 man in the new colony. In 1633, 1634, and 
 1635 he was one of the seven members of the 
 Governor's Council. He was also Assessor in 
 1633, and in 1636 he served on a jury. In 
 1643 he was a soldier in the Plymouth Mili- 
 tary Company, and in 1666 was Selectman of 
 the town. He was Assessor in 1633 and 
 1634 and a member of Governor Bradford's 
 Council in 1633-35. He was chosen Deputy 
 in 1641, 1645 to 1652, 1656, 1658, 1661, 
 1663, 1666, 1667, and 1670. After the elec- 
 tion which was held on June 2, 1670, he re- 
 fused to become a candidate again. He died 
 February 23, 1673, over eighty years old. 
 He married Elizabeth Tilley, a daughter of 
 John Tilley. She died December 21, 1687, 
 aged fourscore years. 
 
 John Howland (second), son of the Pil- 
 grim, born in Plymouth, October 26, 1627, 
 married a daughter of Robert Lee, of Barn- 
 stable. He lived for a time in Marshfield, 
 Mass., where he was highly respected as a 
 systematic and energetic business man. The 
 next ancestor was their son, John Howland 
 (third), who was born in Barnstable, Decem- 
 ber 31, 1664. On June i, 17 19, he married 
 for his second wife, Mary Crocker, who was 
 born June 6, 1681. Their son Job, who, born 
 in Barnstable, June 18, 1726, died in the 
 same town. May i, 1794, married December 
 6, 1753, Hannah Jenkins, a daughter of Ben- 
 jamin Jenkins, and a grand-daughter of Joseph 
 and Mary (Howland) Jenkins. .She was born 
 in 1733, and died September 21, 1781. 
 Their son Southworth, the grandfather of 
 Charles Allen Howland, was born March 29, 
 1775, in the town of Barnstable, where he 
 spent his early years. Subsequently in Con- 
 way, Mass., he learned the trade of a house 
 carpenter from his brother John, and, on com- 
 ing of age, settled in West Brookfield, Mass. 
 
 A very skilful and ingenious workman, he was 
 often called upon to do jobs entirely foreign 
 to his trade. On one occasion he was asked 
 to alter and fit an artificial leg that had been 
 imjiorteil from England by one of his neigh- 
 bors. He, however, found it easier to make 
 a new one, adding such improvements as to 
 give full satisfaction to the wearer. His suc- 
 cess became widely known, and in the ensu- 
 ing forty years he was often called upon to 
 furnish artificial limbs to men and women in 
 various parts of the United States, he being 
 the only manufacturer of them, so far as 
 known, for many years thereafter. He was 
 a man of decided convictions, and was prompt 
 and fearless in expressing and defending them. 
 As early as 18 12 both he and his good wife 
 [iledged themselves not to touch intoxicating 
 drinks when passed around in company, as 
 was then the universal custom; and a short 
 time afterward they joined, with a few of their 
 neighbors, in forming a society for the ])ro- 
 motion of temperance. He likewise had pub- 
 lished at his own expense, for free distri- 
 bution, a tract written on that subject by the 
 noted Dr. Rush. On November 24, 1797, 
 he married Esther Allen, a daughter of 
 Nathan and Persis Allen, of West Brookfield. 
 She was born December 18, 1780, and died 
 October 12, 1812. On March 13, 1816, he 
 married fo his second wife Polly Ware, a 
 daughter of Dr. Samuel and Bethia (Avery) 
 Ware, of Conway, Mass. She was born De- 
 cember 5, 1785, and died February 11, 1870. 
 Southworth Allen Howland, born in West 
 Brookfield, Mass., September 11, 1800, died 
 in Worcester, Mass., October 7, 1882. He 
 learned the trade of a bookbinder in Plym- 
 outh, Mass., and in 1821 opened a book store 
 and bindery in Worcester, both of which he 
 conducted for more than a quarter of a cen- 
 tury. In 1852 he went into the insurance 
 business, and was afterward engaged therein 
 during the rest of his active years. He was 
 also a publisher of some note. Among the 
 books issued by him were: "Historical Col- 
 lections of Massachusetts," "Historical Col- 
 lections of New England," and a cook-book, 
 entitled "The Economical Housekeeper," of 
 which nearly two hundred thousand copies 
 were sold. He married Esther Allen, a
 
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 daughter of Captain William Allen, of Plym- 
 outh, and became the father of five children; 
 namely. South worth A., Esther A., Charles 
 A., Edward Payson, and William O. Both 
 he and his wife were members of the Congre- 
 gational church. A man of sterling worth, he 
 was respected by all who knew him. An 
 obituary referring to him has the following: 
 "He was an active, useful citizen, an ener- 
 getic worker, charitable and kind to all, a man 
 who loved his home." 
 
 Charles Allen Howland attended the com- 
 mon and high schools of Worcester. After- 
 ward he studied with a private tutor, and com- 
 pleted his education at the Leicester Acad- 
 emy. While going to school, he learned the 
 bookbinder's trade with his father. After 
 leaving the academy, he was employed in the 
 Registry of Deeds for two and one-half years. 
 While there he spent most of his leisure time 
 in the office of his father, who had changed 
 his business from that of a bookseller and 
 binder to that of an insurance agent, and was 
 then representing several companies, includ- 
 ing the Ouincy Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany, at that time but four or five years in 
 existence. He helped his father in making 
 out surveys, applications, plans, etc. Some 
 of this work e.xecuted by him, when sent to 
 the main office in Ouincy, attracted the atten- 
 tion of the secretary, who wrote to the agent 
 in Worcester, inquiring whom he had for a 
 clerk. On being told that it was his son 
 Charles, the secretary visited Worcester for 
 the purpose of hiring the said son Charles as a 
 clerk in the Ouincy office, offering him as an 
 inducement eleven dollars per week. Mr. 
 Howland accepted the offer, coming at once to 
 Ouincy, where he has since resided. In three 
 months he mastered the details of his work, 
 and during the first year he adjusted a few 
 losses for the company. The work done by 
 him in the second year was so satisfactory 
 that he was appointed adjuster, and in the en- 
 suing year he was made assistant secretary. 
 On -December 13, i860, the secretary of the 
 company had a stroke of paralysis; and the 
 charge of the office was intrusted to Mr. How- 
 land. On April 14, 1861, he was regularly 
 elected secretary of the company, a position in 
 which he subsequently served with great abil- 
 
 ity and fidelity for nearly twenty-four years. 
 In 1884 he was elected president and treas- 
 urer of the corporation. He is also interested 
 in other business enterprises. A director of 
 the Mount VVollaston National Bank for the 
 past twenty years, he has been its president 
 since 1893. He is likewise a trustee of the 
 Ouincy Savings Bank; a director of the Hing- 
 ham Cordage Company; director of the Law- 
 rence Duck Company, manufacturers of cotton 
 duck, of Lawrence, Mass. ; and he is the chair- 
 man of the Board of Managers of Adams 
 Academy. He has steadily refused all politi- 
 cal office. Outside his business relations he 
 takes much interest in psychology, and is a 
 member of the Psychological Society of 
 Boston. 
 
 On January 5, 1871, Mr. Howland married 
 Miss Helen M. Moore, a daughter of the 
 Rev. Josiah Moore, of Duxbury, Mass. They 
 have two children, namely: Mabel, now the 
 wife of Francis H. Lister, who is a chief en- 
 gineer in the British army; and Charles A. 
 Howland, Jr., a member of the class of 1900 
 at Harvard College. 
 
 DWARD BANGS RICHARDSON, a 
 well-known and highly esteemed resi- 
 dent of Brookline, living on Davis 
 Avenue, is now United States clerk at the 
 Boston custom-house, with which he has been 
 connected a quarter of a century. He has 
 been employed in various capacities; and his 
 continuous retention in the civil service 
 through the last six Presidential administra- 
 tions is in itself a speaking evidence of his 
 ability, fidelity, and popularity. He was 
 born May 20, 1838, in Worcester, Mass., a 
 son of Peter and Hitty S. (Prentise) Richard- 
 son. 
 
 His ancestors were among the early settlers 
 of Princeton, Worcester County; and there 
 his paternal grandparents, Samuel and Lucy 
 (Mirick) Richardson, spent their entire lives, 
 each dying at an advanced age. 
 
 Peter Richardson was born in Princeton, 
 and in common with his numerous brothers 
 and sisters was brought up on the home farm. 
 In his younger days he was employed for a 
 time as a clerk in a store in his native town,
 
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 afterward going into business for himself in 
 Worcester, where he remained some years. 
 In 1848 he opened a large grocery store in 
 Boston, but shortly removed to Brookline, 
 and here spent the last thirty-five years 
 of his life, dying at the age of eighty years. 
 As a man of sterling integrity he was highly 
 respected. He attended and supported the 
 Unitarian church. He married Hitty Spencer 
 Prentise, who was born in Princeton, where 
 her father, Henry Prentise, was engaged as a 
 blacksmith. Her mother, whose maiden name 
 was Abigail Gill, was a niece of Lieutenant 
 Governor Gill, who was Acting Governor 1799 
 to May, 1800. Her early home was on School 
 Street, Boston, near Tremont Street, occupy- 
 ing the present site of the Parker House. 
 
 Peter Richardson and his wife reared ten 
 children, five of whom are now living, as fol- 
 lows: William E., Thomas E., George P., 
 Spencer W., and Edward Bangs. Five of 
 the.ir sons participated in the late Civil War, 
 all serving as commissioned officers: James, 
 as a Captain in the Twenty-first Massachu- 
 setts and later a Lieutenant Colonel of the 
 Third Massachusetts Heavy Artillery; Will- 
 iam, as a Quartermaster and a Captain in 
 the Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer In- 
 fantry; George P., First Lieutenant in the 
 Third Heavy Artillery; Spencer W., a Cap- 
 tain in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteer Infantry; and Edward B., the special 
 subject of this sketch, who was First Lieu- 
 tenant in the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, and later of the United States 
 Signal Corps. These five brothers are all 
 credited to the quota of the town of Brook- 
 line. They served their country with fidelity, 
 and each was discharged with an honorable 
 record. Their mother, who spent her last 
 years at the home of her son, Edward B. , in 
 Brookline, retained her mental faculties and 
 her physical vigor until about a year before 
 her death, which occurred when she was 
 ninety years old. The graves of the parents 
 are in the family lot in Walnut Hill Ceme- 
 tery. 
 
 Edward B. Richardson was but one year old 
 when his parents left Worcester. After a 
 brief stay in Boston he came with them to 
 Brookline, then a small village with scarce a 
 
 thousand inhabitants, now a prosperous town 
 that has increased in population and valua- 
 tion with phenomenal rapidity. After his 
 graduation at the high school he began work 
 in the office of the Manchester Print Works in 
 Boston; and in 1858 he entered the Bank of 
 Mutual Redemption in that city as receiving 
 teller, remaining there three years. In 1862 
 he enlisted in Company A, Forty-fifth Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, as First Lieuten- 
 ant of the company. He was later assigned 
 to the United States Signal Corps with the same 
 rank, which was the highest in that branch of 
 the service, and continued there until the close 
 of the war. Soon after his discharge he went 
 to Burlington, la., as private secretary of Gen- 
 eral William B. Strong, who was general 
 freight agent and superintendent of the Bur- 
 lington & Missouri Railway Company. Hav- 
 ing resigned that position in 1871, in the 
 ensuing year he was appointed Inspector of 
 Customs, and has since held positions in 
 nearly every department in the custom-house. 
 In 1894 he was made storekeeper. 
 
 Mr. Richardson is a stanch Republican in 
 politics. He is a prominent comrade of C. L. 
 Chandler Post, No. 143, G. A. R., of which 
 he has been Commander; is Master Workman 
 of the A. O. U. W. , and a life member of its 
 Grand Lodge; is also a member of the Mili- 
 tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
 States, which is composed of officers of the 
 army and navy who served in the late Rebell- 
 ion. 
 
 On May 10, 1881, Mr. Richardson married 
 Miss Amanda Jellison, a daughter of James 
 Jellison, of Calais, Me. Liberal in religious 
 belief, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson attend the 
 Unitarian church. 
 
 /rr^APTAIN EDWIN DEXTER WADS- 
 I \y WORTH, of Milton, one of the Com- 
 ^^Hs missioners of Norfolk County, was 
 
 born in this town, December 3, 
 1832, son of Thomas Thacher and Mary 
 (Bradlee) Wadsworth. His father was a na- 
 tive of Milton; and his mother was born in 
 Brookline, Mass. Captain Wadsworth is of 
 the eighth generation in descent from Chris- 
 topher Wadsworth, who emigrated from Eng-
 
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 land in 1632, and settled in Duxbury. Tiie 
 lineage is as follows: Christopher,' Captain 
 Samuel,-' Deacon John,* Deacon Benjamin,-' 
 John, 5 Benjamin,'' Thomas Thacher,' Edwin 
 Dexter.* 
 
 The Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, D.D., 
 president of Harvard College, 1725-37, was 
 the youngest son of Captain Samuel Wads- 
 worth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Amer- 
 ican poet and scholar, son of Stephen and 
 Zilpha (Wadsworth) Longfellow, was a grand- 
 son of General Peleg Wadsworth, who was of 
 the fifth generation in descent from Christo- 
 pher, of Duxbury, the line descending from 
 his son John.- 
 
 Captain Samuel Wadsworth settled in 
 1656 in what was then a part of Dorchester 
 and is now Milton, where he became proprie- 
 tor of a large tract of land, including Wads- 
 worth Hill, on which is situated the estate 
 owned and occupied by the subject of this 
 sketch. Captain Wadsworth was killed at 
 Sudbury in April, 1676, while defending that 
 town from an attack by the Indians during 
 King Philip's War. He is said to have been 
 at that time forty-six years of age. The spot 
 where he and other brave officers and soldiers 
 were slain is now marked by a monument at 
 Green Hill, Sudbury, where the bicentennial 
 anniversary of the battle was celebrated in 1876. 
 
 Captain Samuel Wadsworth's descendants 
 have now for more than two and a half cen- 
 turies been identified with the town of Milton. 
 Representatives of four generations of the fam- 
 ily, including Captain Edwin D. Wadsworth's 
 father, have been members of the General 
 Court; and Thomas T. Wadsworth, was also 
 prominent in the public affairs of Milton, 
 serving as a Selectman and in other town 
 offices. He died in 1883. 
 
 Edwin D. Wadsworth was graduated from 
 the Milton Academy ; and in 1849, when in 
 his seventeenth year, he went to California by 
 way of Cape Horn, remaining there about a 
 year and a half. After his return he entered 
 the merchant marine service, in which he 
 rapidly worked his way forward; and as mas- 
 ter of vessels engaged in the foreign trade 
 he visited the principal ports of Europe, 
 South America, and the Far East. During 
 the Civil War he commanded a transport 
 
 steamer conveying soldiers to different poinLs 
 of destination along the Southern coast; and 
 he was later in command of steamships of the 
 Cromwell and Black Star lines, plying be- 
 tween New York and New Orleans. In 1868 
 he abandoned the sea, and, settling in Milton, 
 was for a number of years engaged in the coal 
 business. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican. He has 
 served as a member of the Board of Select- 
 men; was a member of the School Board six 
 years, a part of the time acting as its chair- 
 man; is now serving his fourth year as chair- 
 man of the Board of Assessors, and was 
 elected a County Commissioner for three 
 years in 1896. He was one of the promoters 
 of the Milton Water Works, is actively inter- 
 esting himself in securing an improved sewer- 
 age system for the town, and as a public- 
 spirited citizen is always ready with his influ- 
 ence to aid in forwarding all measures calcu- 
 lated to be of benefit to the community. He 
 is a charter member and a Past Master of 
 Macedonian Lodge, ¥. & A. M., has been 
 treasurer of the Boston Marine Society for 
 the past twelve years, and for five years sec- 
 retary of the Society of California Pioneers of 
 New England. He is a member of the Soci- 
 ety of Colonial \\'ars, and of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution. 
 
 Captain Wadsworth married Ellen M. Emer- 
 son, daughter of the late Joshua Emerson, of 
 Milton, and has two children — Dexter E. and 
 Annie M. Wadsworth. 
 
 UDGE LOUIS A. COOK, of Wey- 
 mouth, Clerk of Courts for Norfolk 
 County, was born in Blackstone, Mass., 
 May 4, 1847. A son of Louis and Orinda 
 Ballou (Cook) Cook, he traces his ancestry to 
 Walter Cook, who settled in Weymouth at 
 some time previous to the year 1643. After- 
 ward, in company with a number of others 
 from Weymouth and Braintree, Walter settled 
 in what is now the town of Mendon, Mass. 
 During King Philip's War he, with the other 
 members of the company, was driven back to 
 Weymouth; but he subsequently returned, and 
 died in Mendon. 
 
 Ichabod Cook, the grandfather of the sub-
 
 LOUIS A. LOOK.
 
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 29s 
 
 ject of this sketch, was a prosperous farmer of 
 Blackstone — which was formerly a part of 
 Mendon — the author of two or three books, 
 and also a Quaker preacher. He served a 
 term in the legislature, and died at the age of 
 seventy. The maiden name of his wife was 
 Louisa Cook. His son Louis, a man of 
 scholarly attainments, taught in the Friends' 
 Boarding-school at Providence, R. I., and was 
 a member of the School Committee in Black- 
 stone. He married Orinda Ballou Cook on 
 October 16, 1843, and died at the age of 
 thirty-five. The widow survived him until 
 the fifty-sixth year of her age. 
 
 Louis A. Cook spent the most of his early 
 life at Candlewood, a farm in Blackstone that 
 derived its name from a neighboring hill 
 where pine knots were obtained for illumina- 
 tion. He was well educated in the public 
 schools of Blackstone and Woonsocket, R.I., 
 and at Phillips Exeter Academy. Several 
 years of his boyhood were spent in semi- 
 invalidism through a severe injury, acciden- 
 tally received when he was eleven years old, 
 and which threatened to be fatal. Having, 
 however, recovered his normal health and 
 strength, and after spending a short time in 
 business, he engaged in school -teaching at 
 the age of twenty-two, and subsequently 
 taught in Bellingham, Blackstone, Smithfield, 
 and Manville. At the age of twenty-five he 
 was made head master of the Bates Grammar 
 School, located in South Weymouth, where he 
 has since resided. 
 
 In November, 1879, he was elected Repre- 
 sentative to the State legislature'; and in Jan- 
 uary, 1880, he resigned his position as teacher 
 to take his seat. He afterward pursued the 
 study of law, to which he had previously given 
 some attention, and was admitted to the Plym- 
 outh County bar at Plymouth, November 13, 
 1884. Offices were opened by him at Abing- 
 ton. South Weymouth, and afterward at Bos- 
 ton, with Messrs. William J. Coughlan and 
 Daniel R. Coughlan, under the firm name of 
 Cook & Coughlan. In 1889 and 1890 he was 
 again a member of the State legislature. In 
 the convention of the First District delegates 
 held in 1892 he was for a time the leading 
 candidate for the Senatorial nomination, with 
 more than eighty ballots in his favor, and in 
 
 three ballots came within one vote of the nom- 
 ination, which was finally won near midnight 
 by the Hon. John F. Merrill, of Quincy. He 
 has served as a member of the School Com- 
 mittee both in Blackstone and Weymouth, and 
 for a number of years he has been chosen 
 Moderator of the annual town meetings of 
 Weymouth. He is chairman of the Park 
 Commissioners of Weymouth and a trustee of 
 the Tufts (town) Library. On July 30, 1896, 
 he was appointed one of the Special Justices 
 of the District Court of East Norfolk. Re- 
 ferring to that event, the Boston Herald of 
 July 24, 1896, said, "The appointment by 
 Governor Wolcott of Louis A. Cook, of Wey- 
 mouth, to the position of Special Justice of 
 the District Court at East Norfolk that holds 
 its sessions at Quincy, gives great satisfaction 
 to the appointee's hosts of friends." In No- 
 vember, 1896, after a hot contest in the 
 county convention and at the polls, he was 
 elected Clerk of Courts for Norfolk County by 
 a plurality of more than four thousand votes. 
 During the canvass the leading papers of the 
 county published many complimentary notices 
 of his life and character. 
 
 Unlike many men who have been successful 
 in the political field. Judge Cook is a strict 
 temperance man. He is a member of the In- 
 dependent Order of Good Templars and of the 
 Order of the Golden Cross. During his first 
 year in the legislature he had charge of all 
 the prohibition legislation. It was mainly 
 through his efforts that the celebrated "screen 
 law," compelling saloon proprietors to remove 
 screens from their doors and windows, was 
 passed. Judge Cook also belongs to the 
 Royal Arcanum and the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows. In August, 1893, he was 
 elected to the highest State office in the latter 
 fraternity, and he was Massachusetts repre- 
 sentative at Chicago in the demonstration 
 made by the order at the World's Fair in the 
 same year. In 1894 he was one of the repre- 
 sentatives to the Sovereign Lodge from Mas- 
 sachusetts at Chattanooga, Tenn., when the 
 members were quartered and the session was 
 held at Lookout Inn, on the summit of Look- 
 out Mountain; and he served in the same ca- 
 pacity in the session of 1895, held at Atlantic 
 City, N.J.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 On February 22, 1876, Judge Cook married 
 Lucinda A. Clark, who was born in Smith- 
 field, R. I. , d:uit;hter of Joseph S. Clark. Mrs. 
 Cook is one of five children. Their children 
 are: Louis A., Jr., now a student at Yale 
 University; Sidney R. ; and Florence M. 
 
 MOS H. BRAINARD is prominently 
 associated with the manufacturing in- 
 terests of Norfolk County, being 
 general manager and treasurer of 
 the Hraiiiard Milling Machine Company, which 
 is iDcated in Hyde Park. He was born in 
 Newburyport, Mass. ; and his father, Joseph 
 Brainard, was a native of the same city, and tra- 
 ditionally the lineal descendant of "one of two 
 brothers who came from England to America 
 in 1640." 
 
 Joseph Brainard was reared in Newburyport, 
 where he learned the cabinet-maker's trade, 
 and was for some time there engaged in busi- 
 ness. He subsequently removed to Boston 
 and embarked in business as a stair-builder, 
 following that trade principally until his death 
 at the age of seventy-one years. He married 
 Miss Fdnah Haskell, who was born in Deer 
 Isle, Me. This town was also the birthplace 
 of her father, Caleb Haskell, who served in 
 the Revolution, being a participant in several 
 engagements, including the battle of Bunker 
 fTill and Arnold's expedition to Quebec. 
 After the close of the war Mr. Haskell settled 
 in Newburyport, where most of his ten chil- 
 dren were reared. The children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Joseph Brainard were five in number, 
 all being boys, and two are still living, 
 namely: Samuel, a resident of Iowa; and 
 Amos H., the subject of this sketch. The 
 parents were both members of the First Con- 
 gregational Church of Newburyport. 
 
 Amos H. Brainard spent his childhood and 
 youth in his native city, acquiring his educa- 
 tion in the public schools. During his early 
 manhood he was engaged in various employ- 
 ments, mostly of a mechanical nature; and he 
 learned the trade of a carriage-maker in Bos- 
 ton. He subsequently established a machine 
 shop in that city, but later, transferring his 
 business to Hyde Park, under the name of the 
 Union Vise Company began the manufacture 
 
 of vises of his own invention. He employed 
 a force of seventy men in his factory, and 
 during the five years in which he was thus en- 
 gaged turned out forty thousand vises. He 
 then embarked in the milling machine busi- 
 ness, being a pioneer in this industry, in which 
 he has been eminently successful. The com- 
 pany began on a modest scale, and gradually 
 enlarged their works. Having secured a large 
 number of patents upon the inventions of Mr. 
 Brainard, they are now carrying on the most 
 extensive and lucrative business of any firm 
 similarly engaged in this or any other countr)-. 
 One hundred and fifty men are kept constantly 
 employed, the demand for their manufactures 
 being great throughout all parts of the United 
 States as well as in foreign countries. They 
 have branch houses in all the large European 
 cities, and they ship goods to China and other 
 Asiatic ports. Making a specialty of milling 
 machines and of automatic gear cutting ma- 
 chines, they carry out the American idea of 
 keeping a supply of interchangeable parts of 
 machinery. Mr. Brainard is a very intelli- 
 gent, energetic and capable man, a typical 
 "Captain of Industry," and his well-written 
 and interesting articles on various topics con- 
 nected with machinery, which frequently ap- 
 pear in journals devoted to mechanics, are 
 widely read. Since 1858 he has made his 
 home in Hyde Park, where he is one of the 
 most prominent and influential citizens. 
 
 Mr. Brainard is the father of eight children, 
 namely: Genevieve; Florence, wife of George 
 D. Thayer, a shoe merchant in Boston, and 
 mother of three children — Lila, Harry B. , 
 and Burgess; and Amos D., who married 
 Marie Louise Gridley, and is in partnership 
 with his father; Josephine, Edith I., Marian, 
 and Ida A. Josephine is the wife of Ran- 
 dolph P. Moseley, of whom a sketch appears 
 elsewhere in this volume; Edith I. is the wife 
 of John L. Barry, Jr., a resident of Hyde Park, 
 in business in Boston, and has three children 
 — Margaret L. , John L. , and Edward H. ; 
 Ednah, who married E. McAdam, died at the 
 age of thirty years, leaving two children — 
 Linda B. and Edith G. ; and Ida A., the wife 
 of O. S. Hyde, a wool merchant in Wrentham, 
 has two children — Stillman B. and Amos B. 
 
 Mr. Brainard is one of the leading Republi-
 
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 cans of this vicinity, and takes an active part 
 in local affairs. He has served as Selectman 
 of Hyde Park nine years, being chairman of 
 the board one year; was also Overseer of the 
 Poor, being chairman of the board one year; 
 and for many years has served as a trustee of 
 the public library, for several years as chair- 
 man of the board. He is a trustee and vice- 
 preside]it of the savings-bank; is a charter 
 member of the Hyde Park Trust and Safe De- 
 posit Company; and was the first president of 
 the Hyde Park Historical Society. He at- 
 tends the Episcopal church, of which Mrs. 
 I^rainard is a communicant, and takes great 
 interest in that organization, having been its 
 first Senior Warden. 
 
 'RANCIS L. BABCOCK, M.D., a 
 highly esteemed citizen of Dedham, 
 where he is successfully engaged in the 
 practice of medicine, also now serving as 
 county physician and as chairman of the Ded- 
 ham Board of Health, was born June 12, 
 1849, in the neighboring town of Medfield in 
 the same county. He is a son of the late 
 Benjamin J. Babcock, and is descended from 
 one of the early families of this part of Mas- 
 sachusetts, the emigrant ancestor having come 
 from England at an early period. His pater- 
 nal grandfather, Lowell Babcock, was born 
 and reared in Norfolk County, and during his 
 active life was engaged as a blacksmith in 
 Sherborn, Middlesex County, where he died at 
 the age of seventy-five years. 
 
 Benjamin J. Babcock was born in Sherborn. 
 He learned the trarle of a baker in Medfield, 
 where he subsequently followed this occupa- 
 tion, first as a journeyman and later in busi- 
 ness for himself, living there until 1876, 
 when he moved to Middleboro, Mass. Later 
 he settled in Dedham, where he died when 
 but sixty-si.x years old. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Milletiah T. Johnson, was 
 born in Medfield, a daughter of Oliver John- 
 son, for many years a harness-maker in that 
 town. She died at the age of forty years, 
 having borne her husband four sons and one 
 daughter. The four sons grew to maturity, 
 three of them being now living, as follows: 
 Francis L., the subject of this brief sketch; 
 
 Albert J. ; and Charles B. Both of the par- 
 ents were valued members of the Jiaptist 
 church of Medfield, the father having .served 
 many years as a Deacon. 
 
 Francis L. Babcock was brought up and ed- 
 ucated in Medfield, attending first the district 
 schools and later the high school. He began 
 life for himself as a carriage-maker, being en- 
 gaged in the business for eleven years. Ever 
 keeping in mind his determination to pursue 
 a professional calling, he continued his 
 studies, and in 1876 entered Boston Univer- 
 sity Medical School, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1879. Dr. Babcock at once began 
 the practice of his profession in Dedham, 
 where by prompt and faithful attention to his 
 duties he has won a large and constantly 
 growing practice. He is identified by mem- 
 bership with the Massachusetts State Homceo- 
 pathic Medical Society and the American 
 Medical Institute of Homoeopathy. He is 
 now serving as county physician, is chairman 
 of the Dedham Board of Health, of which he 
 has been a member for eight years, and is also 
 a member of the School Board, with which he 
 has been connected eight years. 
 
 Dr. Babcock was married November 27, 
 1S73, to Miss Frances J. Daniels, daughter of 
 I'rank P. and Jane F. (Ellis) Daniels, of 
 Medway, where her father was engaged in the 
 manufacture of boots and shoes until his 
 death. The Doctor and Mrs. Babcock have 
 one child, Millie ¥. Babcock. 
 
 Dr. Babcock is a strong Republican in poli- 
 tics, and, in addition to his other town offices, 
 has been a Park Commissioner several years. 
 He is a member of Constellation Lodge, F. & 
 A. M.; of Norfolk Chapter; of Hyde Park 
 Council; and of Cypress Commandery, K. T. 
 He is also a member of the A. O. U. W. 
 and a charter member of the Royal Arcanum 
 and the Home Circle, in which he has held 
 many offices. He is the examining surgeon 
 of the Travellers' Commercial Insurance Com- 
 pany, his outside work, with his regular prac- 
 tice, taking up all of his time. The Doctor 
 and Mrs. Babcock are active members of the 
 Baptist church and of the Sunday-school con- 
 nected with it, in which both take great in- 
 terest. The Doctor is also chairman of the 
 trustees of the church,
 
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 ILLIAM MANN, who was formerly 
 a scythe-maker, and is now residing 
 upon a farm in I'"ranklin, Norfolk 
 County, Mass., was born December ii, 1819, 
 in Chesterfield, N.H., where his parents, 
 Thomas VV. and Ruth (Buxton) Mann, 
 natives of Smithfield, R. I., had settled in 
 18 1 8. His father was for a few years 
 there engaged in the manufacture of scythes. 
 In 1852 the family removed to Franklin, 
 Mass., where the father joined them in 1856; 
 and they resided in this town for the rest of 
 their lives. Thomas VV. Mann died in 1864, 
 and his wife died in 1871. They were the 
 parents of five children, of whom the only sur- 
 vivor is William, the subject of this sketch. 
 The others were: Emily; Ruth Elizabeth; 
 Diana; and Susan Caroline, who died at the 
 age of three years. 
 
 William Mann acquired a common-school 
 education ; and at tlie age of seventeen years 
 he went to Smithfield, R.I., where he began 
 work in a scythe manufactory. He served his 
 apprenticeship, and followed the trade as a 
 journeyman for thirty-five years, during which 
 time he worked in Maine, New Hampshire, 
 Massachusetts, New York, and Montreal, 
 Canada. In 1852 he settled upon the farm in 
 Franklin where he now resides, but continued 
 to work as a scythe-maker for several years. 
 He then relinquished it, and entered the wood 
 and coal trade, in which he was engaged for 
 fifteen years. He now owns thirty acres of 
 fertile land, well adapted to the cultivation of 
 general crops; and he also has a dairy, and 
 raises poultry. For sixteen years he sup- 
 ported the Liberty party (anti-slavery), he was 
 a Republican twenty-seven years, and for the 
 past six years has been a Prohibitionist. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Mann married for his first 
 wife Sarah B. Metcalf, of Winthrop, Me., 
 daughter of Deacon Addison A. and Chloe F. 
 (Adams) Metcalf, neither of whom is now liv- 
 ing. Mrs. Metcalf, who reached the advanced 
 age of one hundred years, died in Walpole, 
 Mass., in July, 1897. Mrs. Sarah B. Met- 
 calf Mann died in 1872; and in 1879 Mr. 
 Mann married Mrs. Mary W. Smith, daughter 
 of Michael Bright, of Stoughton, Mass. Mr. 
 Mann's first wife was the mother of five 
 children, namely: Emily; Harriet; William 
 
 A., who died at the age of seven years; 
 Alden Taylor; and Mary. Emily is the wife 
 of Willard E. Everett, of Lowell, Mass., ad- 
 vertising agent for Hood's Sarsaparilla ; Har- 
 riet married the Rev. N. T. Dyer, a Con- 
 gregational preacher in Ashburnham, Mass. ; 
 Alden Taylor Mann, who married Elsie Smith, 
 is connected with the Steinhert Company, a 
 pianoforte concern in Lowell ; and Mary is the 
 wife of Henry Smith, a life insurance agent 
 of that city. 
 
 As an artisan Mr. Mann acquired a wide 
 reputation, his services being in constant de- 
 mand while he followed his trade. As a 
 farmer he is equally successful; and as a man 
 he is highly esteemed for his many estimable 
 qualities, not the least of them being his gen- 
 erosity and public spirit. He was an early 
 abolitionist, a coworker with Garrison, Pills- 
 bury, and Phillips; and he has always been a 
 firm friend of the temperance cause. A great 
 reader, he is well informed on many questions, 
 and is strong in argument. Possessed of deep 
 religious convictions, he is a ready defender 
 of the Bible and an expounder of its 
 teachings. 
 
 RANCIS OLIVER PHILLIPS, the 
 representative of one of the oldest fam- 
 ilies in Millis, was born where he now 
 resides, January 8, 1829, son of Oliver and 
 Hannah (Richardson) Phillips. The grand- 
 father, Jedediah Phillips, who was reared and 
 educated in Phillipston, Mass., settled here 
 when a young man, and was actively engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits until his ninety-sec- 
 ond year. He was the father of ten children, 
 none of whom are living. 
 
 Oliver Phillips, who was born June 10, 
 1789, on the site of Millis, learned the wheel- 
 wright's trade, and followed it for many years 
 in connection with farming. Settling in 1815 
 upon the farm his son now occupies, he culti- 
 vated it successfully during the rest of his ac- 
 tive years. His first wife, Hannah, who was 
 born in the same district, died in 1855. He 
 was again married to Mrs. Irene Hawes, a 
 daughter of Simeon Richardson, of this town, 
 and who died in 1875. Oliver Phillips's 
 children, all by his first union, were:
 
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 303 
 
 Amanda, born March 31, 1809; Elisha R., 
 born April 5, 181 1; Sarah E., born Septem- 
 ber 17, 1813; Hannah, born November 23, 
 i8l6; and Francis O., the subject of this 
 siietch. Amanda, who married Joim Harber, 
 died July 18, 1834; Elisha R., now deceased, 
 married Elizabeth Daniels; Sarah K., also de- 
 ceased, married Ellis Daniels, who died July 
 3, 1844; and Hannah is the wife of Timothy 
 Bullard, of Millis. 
 
 Francis Oliver Phillips attended school in 
 his native town. When a young man he 
 learned the wheelwright's trade; and he sub- 
 sequently worked in Sherborn, Mass., for a 
 year. With this exception he has always re- 
 sided at the homestead, and followed his trade 
 in Millis. In 1854 he took charge of the 
 farm, relieving his father of all care during 
 his declining years, and succeeding to the 
 farm after the latter's death. His property 
 consists of the homestead, containing eigh- 
 teen acres, with other land amounting to forty- 
 five acres. The Phillips farm is one of the 
 oldest pieces of agricultural property in 
 Millis. The barn was built in 1740. Besides 
 carriage-making, Mr. Phillips carries on gen- 
 eral farming. 
 
 In April, 1854, Mr. Phillips was united in 
 marriage with Mercy P. Adams, who was born 
 in this town, August 26, 1834. She is a 
 daughter of Edward and Keziah L. (Clark) 
 Adams, of whom an account will be found in 
 the biography of Moses S. Adams. Mrs. 
 Phillips has been the mother of two children. 
 They were: Edward Adams, born in January, 
 1856, who resides with his parents; and Mary 
 Frances, born in i860, who married Stuart 
 McLee, of East Walpole, Mass., and died at 
 the age of twenty-one years. Mr. Phillips is 
 independent in politics. He is a member of 
 Medway Lodge, No. 163, L O. O. F. Both 
 he and Mrs. Phillips attend the Congrega- 
 tional church. 
 
 ENJAMIN F. SHUMWAY, the sec- 
 V ond Selectman of Medfield, and a 
 I f^ ' prosperous farmer, was born in 
 Dover, this county, March 23, 1823. 
 He is a son of John and Abigail (Wight) 
 Shumway, and a grandson of Jeremiah Shum- 
 
 way and Amos Wight. The father was a na- 
 tive of Pomfret, Conn., whence he came to 
 Norfolk County about the year 1803, and 
 worked for several years as hostler in a hotel 
 in Medfield. After his marriage he settled in 
 Dover, and took up farming, which he fol- 
 lowed until his death in 1844. His wife, 
 Abigail, was born in Medfield. She survived 
 him thirty years, dying in 1874. John and 
 Abigail Shumway were the parents of ten 
 children, namely: Abigail, who died in the 
 same year as her father; Itlizabeth, deceased; 
 Amos W. , who died in 1892; Jolin, who died 
 in i8gi ; Benjamin F., the subject of this 
 sketch; George, who successively married 
 Mary Bickford, of Sherborn, Mass., and Ida 
 May Rogers, and now resides in Medfield 
 village; Elbridge, a resident of Norwood, 
 Mass.; William and Louisa, deceased; and 
 Sarah E., the wife of Benjamin N. Sawin, 
 of Dover. 
 
 Benjamin F. Shumway received a conmion- 
 school education. He lived at home until 
 1839, when at the age of sixteen he started for 
 himself on the farm which he now occupies. 
 The estate contains one hundred and fifty 
 acres of excellent farm land. He keeps a 
 dairy of twenty cows, from which he sells the 
 milk for Boston consumers. On November 
 26, 1846, he married Miss Lucy A. Cutler, of 
 Medfield. She was born F"ebruary 18, 1827, 
 daughter of Oliver and Lucy (P"airbanks) 
 Cutler, and grand-daughter of Oliver and 
 Nancy (Harding) Cutler. Her grandparents 
 were lifelong residents of Medfield. Oliver 
 Cutler, Jr., was born here, P^ebruary 22, 1797. 
 Both he and his father were engaged in farm- 
 ing on the same place. He died in Septem- 
 ber, 1864, aged sixty-seven years, survived by 
 Lucy, his wife, whose death occurred Febru- 
 ary 7, 1 88 1, in her ninetieth year. She was 
 born in Needham, Mass. They had six chil- 
 dren—Charles C, Mary B., Alfred and Al- 
 bert (twins), Lucy A., and Caroline A. 
 Charles C, now deceased, born September 14, 
 1820, married Cynthia Randall, and had one 
 child, Cynthia C, who is now the widow of 
 William B. Marchant, and lives in Brooklyn, 
 N.Y. Mary B., born April 3, 1822, married 
 George Dunham, and died April 13, 1853, 
 leaving one child, George O., who is now in
 
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 Michigan. Alfred and Albert were born 
 June 13, 1824. Albert died March 21, 1845. 
 Alfred, now living in Medficld, married Ade- 
 line Spencer, who has since died. Their son, 
 Lewis A., married Miss Thursa F"leming, and 
 has one child, Archie E. Caroline A., born 
 January 13, 1830, died February 21, 187S. 
 She was the wife of John Baldwin, who is in 
 the white lead business in Chicago, 111. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Shumway have had three chil- 
 dren : Nathan Wight, born January 3, 1848, 
 who is emjiloyed in a net and twine factory in 
 Cambridge, Mass.; Benjamin F., Jr., born 
 February 10, 1850, who died March 15, 1S50; 
 and Albert Cutler, born October 17, 1851, 
 now a pattern-maker in Pawtucket, R.I., who 
 married March 30, 1876, Miss Kate E. 
 Wetherell, of Providence, R.I., where they 
 lived for twenty years. 
 
 In politics Mr. Shumway is a Democrat. 
 He has been a member of the Board of Select- 
 men for twenty-four years, a part of the time 
 serving as chairman, an Assessor for about 
 twelve years, Overseer of the Poor for ten 
 years, and a member of the School Committee 
 for one year. 
 
 M 
 
 AVID CARPENTER, a lifelong and 
 esteemed resident of Fo.xboro, was 
 born here, January 6, 1S30. A son 
 of Ezra Carpenter, Jr., he is a 
 lineal descendant of William Carpenter, a na- 
 tive of England, who came to America in 
 early Colonial times, and died at Weymouth, 
 Mass., in 1659. (Further information con- 
 cerning Mr. Carpenter's early ancestors will 
 be found in the biography of Robert W. Car- 
 penter.) Nehemiah Carpenter, the great- 
 grandfather of David, who was born October 
 20, 1 73 1, moved to Foxboro in 1749, after- 
 ward living here until his death on May 14, 
 1799. 
 
 Ezra Carpenter, son of Nehemiah and the 
 grandfather of David, born in Foxboro in 
 1752, died in this town, July i, 1840. He 
 was a farmer by occupation. Soon after 
 reaching man's estate, he bought land situated 
 about one mile south of the parental home- 
 stead, and there improved one of the most val- 
 uable farms in the locality. He was a Lieu- 
 
 tenant of a company in the Revolutionary 
 War. Lieutenant Carpenter first married 
 Margaret Daniels, who died a few years later, 
 leaving three children. He subsequently 
 married Mary Daniels, who bore him five chil- 
 dren, all of whom lived to a good old age. 
 They were: Francis, who attained the age of 
 eighty-eight years; Polly, who was ninety-two 
 years; Daniels, who was eighty-five; Ezra, 
 Jr., who was seventy; and Achsa, who was 
 eighty-four years. Ezra Carpenter, Jr., born 
 in this town, November 7, 1801, died on the 
 parental homestead, December 25, 1871. He 
 assisted his father in the pioneer labor of 
 clearing the land, cared for his parents in 
 their old age, and at their death succeeded to 
 the home farm. Possessing good judgment 
 and much force of character, he was looked up 
 to for leadership by the community. He 
 served as Selectman for several years, was also 
 a member of the State legislature, and his 
 name appeared oftener than that of any other 
 person as an administrator of estates. He 
 married Eliza Belcher, a daughter of Samuel 
 Belcher; and they reared three children — 
 Susan, Eliza, and David. Susan is the wife 
 of James A. Comey, of this town. Eliza first 
 married Henry Belcher, who died in 1862. 
 Afterward she became the wife of Cyrus L. 
 Cook. 
 
 David Carpenter obtained his early educa- 
 tion in the district school, where he was an 
 apt pupil. Subsequently he worked as a 
 moulder in an iron foundry for a time; but, 
 not liking the trade, he abandoned it, and en- 
 tered the employment of the Union Straw 
 Works. In this factory he spent thirty years, 
 serving in different positions of responsibil- 
 ity. For the past twenty-four years Mr. Car- 
 penter has had charge of Rock Hill Cemetery. 
 The handsome mortuary chapel connected 
 therewith was erected under his supervision. 
 When a young man he built a house for him- 
 self and family, not far from the home of his 
 youth, but subsequently removed to the dwell- 
 ing he now occupies. He is a great lover of 
 nature in all its forms, and takes great delight 
 in the cultivation of flowers. He is also fond 
 of reading, and has collected a valuable library 
 of choice literature, with which he regales his 
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 On May 27, 1849, Mr. Carpenter married 
 Miss Mary Davis, of Pittston, Me. They have 
 two children — Sanford Irving and Mary E. 
 Mr. Carpenter has persistently advocated the 
 principles of the Republican party since its 
 formation. In 1852 he cast his first Presi- 
 dential vote for Franklin Pierce. He is in- 
 terested in all things pertaining to the educa- 
 tional and literary advancement of the town, 
 and for a quarter of a century has been a trus- 
 tee of the public library. He belongs to the 
 Knights of Honor, and is a consistent mem- 
 ber of the Universal ist church. 
 
 22 
 
 JEREMIAH B. HALP:, a well-known 
 fire insurance agent, who was at one 
 time the Postmaster of Medfield, Mass., 
 was born in Smithfield, R.I., P^ebruary 
 1830, son of Gardner and Ann .Susan 
 (Ballon) Hale. The grandfather, Levi Hale, 
 who resided in Swansea, Mass., was a cooper 
 by trade. His children, all now deceased, 
 were: Pllizabeth, Anthony, Levi, Hannah, 
 Edward, Elmira, Gardner, William, Cordelia, 
 and ]5etsey. 
 
 Gardner Hale, who was born in Swansea, 
 at an early age left home to start in life for 
 himself. He worked in cotton factories of 
 various towns in Rhode Island and Massachu- 
 setts, and became an e.xpert in the cotton in- 
 dustry. In 1849 he went as superintendent of 
 a factory to Prattville, Ala., where he resided 
 during the ensuing ten years. He built two 
 mills in Alabama, where the rest of his life 
 was spent, having his residence in the vicinity 
 of Birmingham. He died in September, 1886. 
 His wife, Ann Susan, who was a native of 
 Cumberland, R.I., became the mother of 
 eleven children. These were: Jeremiah B., 
 the subject of this sketch; Hannah, who is 
 the widow of Thomas Williams, and resides 
 in Alabama; Susan, who is the widow of Pro- 
 fessor J. F. Tarrant, and is now a school 
 teacher in Montgomery, Ala. ; George, who 
 died in 1887; Emily and Emeline, twins, who 
 are also deceased; Henry A., who was an edi- 
 tor, and died in Birmingham, Ala. ; Charles, 
 who died young; Anna, who is the widow of 
 Foster Terrill, and resides in Birmingham; 
 Daniel, also a resident of that city; and Eliza, 
 
 who married William Morgan, and resides in 
 Dadeville, Ala. Mrs. Gardner Hale w^as a 
 lady of superior intelligence, and occupied a 
 prominent social position. .She died very 
 suddenly of cholera in 1870. 
 
 Jeremiah B. Hale was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Massachusetts, and resided at 
 home until he was nineteen years old. He 
 became an operative in a cotton-mill, and 
 later accompanied his father to Alabama, 
 where he was an overseer in a factory of Pratt- 
 ville for three and one-half years. Then he 
 returned North, and worked in a straw factory 
 of P'o.xboro, Mass., for five years. During the 
 succeeding four years he carried on the straw 
 business for Alden, King & Co. , in Middleboro, 
 Mass., after which he returned to his previous 
 position in P"o.\boro, where he continued to 
 reside for three years. After this he came to 
 Medfield, and engaged in the straw and palm 
 leaf business in company with Warren Chen- 
 ery. A year later he purchased the machinery 
 from Mr. Chenery, and three years from then 
 his interest in the business. The sole propri- 
 etor thereafter, he had carried on a flourishing 
 enterprise for several years, when, in 1876, 
 the factory was destroyed by fire. Appointed 
 the Postmaster of Medfield in 1880, he filled 
 that office until 1889, when he became the 
 superintendent and general manager of the 
 straw factory of Searle, Dai ley & Co. This 
 position he held cmtil 1S96, when he retired. 
 He has been engaged in the fire insurance 
 business since 1873, and for some years has 
 been the local agent for the Home, the West- 
 chester, Hartford, the Citizens", Middlesex, 
 Merchants' and Farmers', the Norfolk, the 
 Dedham, and the Abington Fire Insurance 
 Companies. 
 
 Mr. Hale, who has been three times mar- 
 ried, was first wedded in 1849 to Eliza A. 
 Grover. A native of Mansfield, iVIass., she 
 was a daughter of William and Betsey Grover, 
 prosperous farming people of that town, both 
 of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Eliza Hale 
 died in Alabama in 1851; and in June, 1852, 
 Mr. Hale contracted his second marriage with 
 Mary J. Plimpton, a daughter of George and 
 Mary (Tolman) Plimpton, who were lifelong 
 residents of Sharon, Mass. His second wife 
 having died in 1887, he married her sister,
 
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 Josephine E. Plimpton, in August, 1889. 
 Born of his first union were two children — ■ 
 William and Eliza — both of whom died 
 young. His second wife was the mother of 
 four children, namely: Merton, who did not 
 live to grow up; Clarence, who died at the 
 age of two years; Lillian, who married Dr. 
 C. E. Bigelow, of Leominster, Mass., and has 
 had two children, one of whom is living; and 
 Charles, who was accidentally drowned at the 
 age of twenty years. Mr. Hale has been Se- 
 lectman, Assessor, Town Clerk, and Overseer 
 of the Poor, and was a member of the School 
 Board for nine years. He is still acting as a 
 Justice of the Peace, and is a member of the 
 Cemetery Committee. In politics he sup- 
 ports the Republican party, and he has been 
 a delegate to several State conventions. He 
 is one of the best informed men upon current 
 topics in Medfield, and is held in high esteem 
 by all who know him. Both he and Mrs. Hale 
 are members of the Baptist church. 
 
 ^Crr)/ARREN H. BRIGHT, a well- 
 Y(jA/ known farmer and lumber dealer of 
 Vs V> Franklin, was born in Canton, this 
 county, August 4, 1842, son of Michael and 
 Elvira (Richards) Bright. Michael Bright, 
 who was born in Natick, Mass., was engaged 
 in farming in Canton for some time, and then 
 removed to Sharon. In 1871 he came to 
 Franklin, where he made his home with his 
 son Warren, until his death in April, 1879. 
 The mother died in Sharon in 1862. Her 
 other children were: Samuel, the first-born, 
 now in California; Mary, who is the wife of 
 William Mann, and lives in Franklin; Eliza- 
 beth, who is the widow of John Metcalf, and 
 lives in Franklin; Thomas, who died in 1895; 
 Daniel, who died during the war at New Or- 
 leans; Edwin, who lives in Attleboro, Mass., 
 engaged in the jewelry business; Frederick, 
 who is a farmer, and resides at F"ranklin vil- 
 lage; Willard, who is living near Warren H. 
 Bright; Charles, who resides in Franklin, and 
 is employed in the straw shop; and Sarah, 
 Elizabeth, and Abbie, deceased. 
 
 Warren H. Bright received a common- 
 school education. At the age of twenty-one 
 years he obtained a position in the Lothrop 
 
 Knife Shop in Sharon, Mass., and worked 
 there for about a year. At the end of that 
 time he enlisted for service in the Civil War 
 in the Eleventh Massachusetts Battery. He 
 was subsequently in the battle of the Wilder- 
 ness at Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold 
 Harbor, and at the siege of Petersburg, with- 
 out receiving an injury in any way. After he 
 was discharged at Readville, Mass., he re- 
 turned to Sharon. Subsequently he went to 
 Avon, where he engaged in farming near a 
 sister living there. At the end of five years 
 he came to Franklin, settling near the village, 
 and there, besides farming, engaged in the 
 lumber business, buying wood lots, and cut- 
 ting wood and lumber. He owns, in addition 
 to the home farm containing fifty-five acres, 
 two others of sixty-five and forty acres respec- 
 tively, and about eighty-five acres of sprout 
 land. He has much improved the land since 
 it came into his possession. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Bright was married to Mary 
 Peary, of Avon, a daughter of Stephen and 
 Susan (Rowe) Peary. Mr. Peary is a well- 
 known farmer and lumberman of Avon, and 
 resides there at the present time witii his 
 wife. Mrs. Bright died in December, 1886. 
 Her children were: Edna, now teaching in 
 the seminary at Montpelier, Vt. ; Susan, the 
 wife of Roy Conant Southworth, living at 
 Ware, Mass. ; Annie Belle, a teacher in the 
 public schools, residing at home; Elvira, 
 now Mrs. Frank Ribero, of Chelsea, Mass. ; 
 Henry James and Harry, both living at home; 
 and Ina and Mabel, both of whom died young. 
 Mr. Bright married for his second wife Agnes 
 M. Trask, a native of Yarmouth, N.S. She 
 was born P"ebruary 10, 1864, daughter of 
 Henry G. and Rebecca (Crosby) Trask, both 
 natives of Yarmouth. The father, who was 
 a farmer, is now deceased; and the mother 
 lives in Mijford with her children. By Mr. 
 Bright's second marriage there is one child, 
 Carl Aubrey, born December 12, 1892. Mr. 
 Bright's older children attended the high 
 school and the academy. In politics he is 
 a Republican. He was Overseer of the Poor 
 in Franklin for nine years, and was Assessor 
 of the town in 1895. He belongs to the 
 I. O. O. F. of Franklin and to Post 60, 
 G. A. R. While he is a member of the Bap-
 
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 309 
 
 tist denomination, he and his family attend 
 the Methodist Episcopal church in Franklin. 
 His success in the world is chiefly due to his 
 tireless industry. 
 
 'REEMAN A. PARMENTER, a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Assessors of Dover, 
 was born in Bolton, Mass., August 31, 
 1849, son of Curtis and Mary (Dwinells) 
 Parmenter. The father, who was a native of 
 P'ramingham, Mass., followed the shoemaker's 
 trade. He possessed considerable musical 
 ability, and, after settling in Bolton after his 
 marriage, he taught music there for some time. 
 Later in Sudbury, Mass., he continued to 
 give music lessons, and worked at his trade 
 for some three years. Then returning to 
 Framingham, he was there engaged in team- 
 ing and the work of a stone-mason until his 
 death, which occurred July 3, 1884. Pi is 
 wife, Mary, who is a native of Massachusetts, 
 became the mother of seven children, as fol- 
 lows: Freeman A., the subject of this sketch; 
 George, who married Delia Dickey, and is a 
 confectionery dealer in South P"ramingham; 
 Mary, who resides in Worcester, Mass.; 
 Charles, who married Jennie Robinson, and 
 lives in South Framingham, Mass.; Estella 
 v., the wife of Elijah Goulding, of Wellesley, 
 Mass. , Ellsworth L., a travelling salesman, 
 who married Alice Burbidge, and resides in 
 South Framingham; and Sarah R., who is the 
 widow of Joseph Smith, and lives in Welles- 
 ley. Mrs. Mary Parmenter is still living, and 
 resides with her children. 
 
 Freeman A. Parmenter was reared in Fram- 
 ingham, receiving his education in the com- 
 mon schools. Beginning at the age of nine- 
 teen, he worked as a stone-mason for a few 
 years. In 1873 he went to Sudbury, where 
 he had charge of the famous Wayside Inn for 
 a year. He then settled upon the old Gould- 
 ing farm in Dover, where he has since resided. 
 He owns eighty acres of fertile land, which he 
 devotes to general farming and pasturage. He 
 keeps an average of twenty-eight cows, and 
 supplies a large number of regular customers 
 in Wellesley with milk. 
 
 On November 27, 1873, Mr. Parmenter was 
 united in marriage with Lucy E. Goulding. 
 
 She was born in Dover, November 11, 1852, 
 daughter of Henry and H. limelinc (Edward.s) 
 Goulding. Henry Goulding, who was a na- 
 tive of Sherborn, Mass., settled upon the 
 farm in Dover after his marriage, and was 
 there engaged in agriculture until his death, 
 which was caused by an accident on July 16, 
 1884. His wife, who was born in Lincoln, 
 Mass., died January 14, 1883. Mr. Parmen- 
 tcr's first wife died November i, 1886. On 
 October 10, 1888, he wedded her sister, Ma- 
 tilda Goulding, who was born Maixh 15, 1847. 
 The children of the first marriage were: 
 George F., born March 26, 1877, who is now 
 a student at Amherst College; Elmer Henry, 
 born November 27, i88i ; and Lucy M., born 
 March 22, 1886, who died May 30, 1893. 
 The present Mrs. Parmenter has one son, 
 Ernest B., born March 15, 1892. In politics 
 Mr. Parmenter acts with the Republican 
 party, and has served as an Assessor for the 
 past four years. His long-continued industry 
 has been attended with good results finan- 
 cially, and as an able and progressive farmer 
 he ranks among the leading agriculturists of 
 this town. Both he and Mrs. Parmenter are 
 attendants and members of the Baptist church 
 in Medfield. 
 
 OHN T. MELLUS, the proprietor of 
 the Wellesley Steam Laundry, was 
 born in South Braintree in 1855. His 
 father, Joseph Melius, who was born 
 May 30, 1809, after spending a number of 
 years in the express business at South lirain- 
 tree, became a newsdealer in the Old Colony 
 depot. On November 26, 183 1, Joseph mar- 
 ried Adeline M., daughter of F^dward M. Vin- 
 ton. Mrs. Melius belongs to the seventh 
 generation of Vintons in this country. Her 
 first ancestor concerning whom anything is 
 known was born in Europe, probably in 
 France, in 1620. In 1648, when his first 
 child was born, he was living in Lynn, Mass. 
 Joseph Melius was the father of eight chil- 
 dren, four of whom are now living. These 
 are: Adeline Elizabeth, who married Thomas 
 Fallon, and resides in Ro.xbury, Mass.; Lucy 
 Preston, who married Edward Hunt, and re- 
 sides in Rockland, Mass.; Eliza Ann, who
 
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 married D. F. Morse, and is now living in 
 Brookline, Mass.; and John T., the subject 
 of this slvctch. 
 
 John T. Melius was educated in the graded 
 schools and high school of South Braintree. 
 After leaving school he worked in a shoe shop 
 in South Hraintree. In 1883 he came to 
 Wellesley, and worked at the same business 
 for two years. Then he went to work in a 
 laundry for Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Morse, and 
 was soon made foreman, a position that he 
 held four years. Upon the death of Mr. 
 Morse in i8go, he bought a share in the busi- 
 ness, and ran it for a year and a half in part- 
 nership with Leonard T. Morse. At the end 
 of that time he bought out the business, and 
 has since conducted it alone. Mr. Melius has 
 made many improvements in his laundry, and 
 the work is now done with the best of modern 
 appliances. He runs two wagons, and has 
 patrons in Wellesley, Newton, Auburndale, 
 and Newtonville. Mr. Melius is a member of 
 Sincerity Lodge, No. 173, I. O. O. F., at 
 Wellesley, having transferred his member- 
 ship in 1896 from Puritan Lodge, No. 179, 
 South Braintree. He is also a member of the 
 Nahanton Tribe of Red Men, No. 81, at 
 South Braintree. 
 
 'OHN BULLARD, of Millis, a thriving 
 farmer and the representative of an old 
 family in this section, was born here, 
 December 7, 1823, son of John and 
 Chloe (Partridge) Bullard. His great-grand- 
 father, Timothy Bullard, settled in the north- 
 ern part of the town, upon land which he con- 
 verted into a good farm, and which has been 
 in the family's possession for three genera- 
 tions. The grandfather, Ralph Bullard, re- 
 sided at the homestead. The father, who 
 succeeded to the home farm, thereafter occu- 
 pied it until his death, which occurred Sep- 
 tember 27, 1875. His wife, Chloe, who was 
 a native of Medway, died April 13, 1861. By 
 him she was the mother of three children, 
 namely: Timothy, born November 20, 18 16, 
 who married Hannah Phillips, and resides in 
 Millis; Rhoda, born in February, 18 19, who 
 died October i, 1S20; and John, the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 John Bullard acquired a common-school ed- 
 ucation. From an early age he assisted in 
 carrying on the farm, remaining on it until he 
 was fifty years old. He then bought the old 
 Daniels farm, formerly the property of his 
 wife's father, and now owns seventy-five acres 
 of well-improved land, which he devotes to 
 general farming. By the exercise of good 
 judgment and a practical knowledge of agri- 
 culture he has reached a position of comfort- 
 able prosperity, and is regarded as one of the 
 prominent and successful farmers of this 
 locality. 
 
 On May 21, 1845, Mr. Bullard married 
 Pearllee Daniels, who was born in this town, 
 July 29, 1823. She is a daughter of Paul and 
 Eliza (Breck) Daniels, who were natives re- 
 spectively of Millis and Sherborn, Mass. 
 Her father, one of the stirring farmers of his 
 day, died here, P'ebruary 15, 1876; and her 
 mother died June 16, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Bullard have had four children, namely: 
 Harriet P., born October 20, 1846; Lewella, 
 born November 4, 1849; Sewell, born ]\Iarch 
 21, 1851; and Joseph D., born September 16, 
 1855. Harriet P. is the second wife of Lewis 
 La Croix, a Selectman and the Town Clerk of 
 Millis. They reside with her father, and 
 have two children — Lewis B. and Chester. 
 Lewella, who died March 13, 1880, was the 
 first wife of Lewis La Croix. Sewell H., 
 who is a fruit-grower in Waldo, Fla., wedded 
 Marion J. Daniels. Joseph D. wedded Mary 
 Emma Follansbee, and is an employee of the 
 Old Colony Railroad Company in Framing- 
 ham, Mass. In politics Mr. Bullard, Sr., 
 supports the Republican party. Mrs. Bullard 
 is a member of the Congregational church. 
 
 ILLIAM H. WADE, a retired jew- 
 eller of Wrentham, Mass., was born 
 in this town, Norfolk County, Feb- 
 ruary 21, 1840. His parents were RIarshall 
 S. and Elizabeth (Hunt) Wade. His pater- 
 nal grandfather, Lewis Wade, was born in 
 Rehoboth, Mass., in 1766, and was a black- 
 smith by trade. He married Rebecca Peck, 
 who was born August 19, 1765. 
 
 Their son, Marshall S. Wade, born in 
 March, 1798, was a native of Rehoboth. He
 
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 313 
 
 was a reed-maker by trade, but he also learned 
 the business of cabinet-making, to which he 
 gave some attention, and besides that he did 
 house painting to some extent. He came to 
 Wrcntham when eighteen years of age, and 
 settled at the place where he lived for the re- 
 mainder of his life. For his first wife he 
 married Miranda Cobb. The fruit of this 
 union was one son, Marshall S., Ji., who 
 served in the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regi- 
 ment during the late war, where he re- 
 ceived three wounds, and never fully re- 
 covered from them; and a daughter, Miranda 
 M., who married L. D. Newell, of Provi- 
 dence, R.I., and has one son, Frank W. For 
 his second wife Mr. Marshall S. Wade married 
 Flizabeth Hunt, by whom he had five chil- 
 dren, as follows: Caroline E. ; Lydia F. ; 
 Mary R., who died young; William H., the 
 subject of this sketch; and Frank, who died 
 in infancy. Mr. Wade married for his third 
 wife Azubah Parmenter Russell, but had no 
 children by that marriage. " He died Sep- 
 tember 26, iSSi . 
 
 William H. Wade, the subject of this 
 sketch, was educated in the district schools of 
 the town and at Day's Academy. At the age 
 of fifteen years he left home, and started for 
 himself in Boston, working in the office of the 
 Traveller, one of the prominent daily papers 
 of that city. He afterward went to North 
 Attleboro, Mass., where he was employed in 
 the store of W. D. Cotton & Co. ; and, remain- 
 ing with that firm until its dissolution, he 
 continued with its successors, R. Knapp & 
 Holmes, for three years. He afterward be- 
 came book-keeper for Freeman Brothers & 
 Co., of Attleboro, and remained with them 
 imtil the war broke out. He enlisted in 
 Company I, Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, 
 was soon appointed Sergeant, and afterward 
 at the battle of Fair Oaks was made First 
 Sergeant. Later he was made Second Lieu- 
 tenant of Company D, and commanded that 
 company at Fredericksburg. Promoted to be 
 First Lieutenant, May 14, 1863, he was in 
 active service in all of the battles up to 
 Gettysburg; and soon after this he was put on 
 detached service at Long Island, Boston Har- 
 bor, where he remained until February, 1864. 
 He subsequently returned to active service in 
 
 the field, and was with his regiment in 1864 
 during Grant's campaign. In June, 1864, 
 his term expired; but he returned to the army 
 in the commissary's department in the Twenty- 
 fifth Corps, when it went to Te.xas from Vir- 
 ginia in 1865, and was on duty there until 
 May, 1868. He then purchased a farm in 
 Eyota, Minn., and cleared the land, building 
 a small house, where he and his sister lived 
 until November, 1870, when he sold it, and 
 came East. He went to Attleboro, Mass., 
 and engaged in book-keeping for a period of 
 six years. In 1876 he started in the jewelry 
 business at Plainville, where he continued 
 until 1890, when the firm changed, he remain- 
 ing with the new firm until 1S96, and then 
 retiring from active mercantile life. He has 
 since purchased a farm of twenty-five acres in 
 Wrentham, on which he now lives. 
 
 Mr. Wade married Flizabeth N. Sherman, 
 daughter of George B. Sherman, of Wrentham, 
 Mass. They have no children. Mr. Wade is 
 one of the most prominent and influential cit- 
 izens of the town. He has served as Repre- 
 sentative to the legislature, .Selectman, High- 
 way Surveyor, Assessor, and Auditor. He is 
 a charter member of the local G. A. R. Post, 
 and also of Post No. 145, of Attleboro, and was 
 one of the organizers of Post No. 133 of Plain- 
 ville, of which he was first Commander. This 
 position he has held with slight intermissions 
 for the larger part of the time up to the pres- 
 ent. He was also Commander of the Attle- 
 boro Post. He has been a St. Albans Mason 
 since 1863. In 1886 he became a member of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, No. 
 57, of Wrentham. He is also connected with 
 the American Benefit .Society, of which he is 
 at present State president, being a charter 
 member. In his political views Mr. Wade is 
 a Republican, and cast his first Presidential 
 vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. 
 
 KRANCIS A. BRAGG, M.D., a skilful 
 physician of Foxboro, Mass., where he 
 has been located since 1895, was born 
 January 2, 1865, in Shutesbury, Franklin 
 County. A son of Henry O. Bragg, he comes 
 of excellent New England ancestry. 
 
 Henry O. Bragg was born in Royalston,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Mass., where he was brought up to agricult- 
 ural pursuits. He subsequently carried on 
 farming for a time successively in Shutesbury 
 and Amherst. In 1895 he removed to this 
 town, and has since lived retired from active 
 business cares. He married Miss Jemima 
 Shores, a direct descendant of Peregrine 
 White, who, born to William and Susanna 
 White in Provincetown Harbor soon after the 
 arrival of the Pilgrims in America, is said to 
 have been the first white child to receive birth 
 in the New World. Of Henry O. Bragg's 
 children — three boys and two girls — the 
 daughters are both dead. The sons are: 
 Everett B., a manufactilring chemist in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio; William T., of Springfield, 
 Mass.; and Francis A., the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 After graduating from Amherst High 
 School, Francis A. Bragg attended the Har- 
 vard Medical School, from which he received 
 his degree with the class of 1894. He began 
 the practice of medicine in Boston, Mass., re- 
 maining there for a time. In 1895 he came 
 to Fo.xboro, where he has since followed his 
 profession. He has won a fair share of prac- 
 tice in this and surrounding towns, and he is 
 rapidly gaining the confidence of the commu- 
 nity. The Doctor is a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society, of the Boston Medi- 
 cal Association, and of the American Medical 
 Association. He is also an Odd Fellow, 
 belonging to E.xcelsior Lodge, No. 87, of 
 Foxboro. In politics he is a steadfast Re- 
 publican. He is a regular attendant of the 
 Congregational church of Foxboro, with 
 which he joined by letter. With his natural 
 ability, scholarly attainments, and profes- 
 sional skill, it is easy to predict a successful 
 future for him. 
 
 jHARLES O. GREENE, a prosperous 
 farmer of Norfolk and a Civil War 
 veteran, was born August 27, 1844, 
 in Bristol, Addison County, Vt., 
 son of Squire and Rhoda (Rathburn) Greene. 
 The father, a native of Weare, N. H., when 
 twelve years old accompanied his parents to 
 Bristol. When a young man. Squire Greene 
 engaged in farming and teaming. After re- 
 
 siding in Bristol until 1863, he moved to a 
 farm in Marquette, Wis., where he died in 
 1865. His wife, Rhoda, who was a native of 
 Bristol, became the mother of six children, as 
 follows: George N. and Asa R., both of whom 
 are retired farmers in West Concord, Minn. ; 
 Charles O., the subject of this sketch; Alfa- 
 rette, the wife of John Steen, a merchant and 
 stock-raiser in Waltham, Minn.; David S., a 
 prosperous farmer in Palmer, S. Dak. ; and 
 Liena, the wife of George Ralph, a tobacco 
 and cigar dealer in West Superior, Wis. The 
 mother died in Bristol in 1854. 
 
 After attending the common schools of his 
 native town for a brief period, Charles O. 
 Greene at the age of ten years began to work 
 for the neighboring farmers. He left Ver- 
 mont in March, 1861, and on September 27, 
 1862, he enlisted in the First Rhode Island 
 Cavalry, under Colonel Dupee and Captain 
 Willis Capron. In the following October 
 the regiment was sent to Montville, Va. At 
 Kelley's Ford on March 17, 1863, it lost 
 forty men. On the same occasion Mr. Greene 
 was taken prisoner, but succeeded in making 
 his escape the same night. At the battle of 
 Middleboro, June 17, 1863, his regiment lost 
 over three hundred men, leaving but fifty-two 
 of its original quota. His next engagement 
 was at Boonsboro, Md., after which the regi- 
 ment took an active part in all the engage- 
 ments from that of Gettysburg to that of the 
 Rapidan River. On January i, 1864, he was 
 transferred to the First New Hampshire 
 Regiment, in which later he re-enlisted, and 
 served under General Grant at Cold Harbor, 
 Spottsylvania, and Petersburg. At one time 
 his regiment was kept marching for forty days 
 and nights, with but few intervals for sleep. 
 It lost heavily in Wilson's Raid; and, after 
 being somewhat recruited, it was ordered to 
 the Shenandoah Valley under General Sheri- 
 dan. At Fisher's Hill, September 9, 1864, 
 Mr. Greene received a gunshot wound in the 
 right shoulder that put an end to his active 
 service. After being confined by it in sev- 
 eral hospitals, he was discharged at Chestnut 
 Hill, near Philadelphia, in May, 1865. Dur- 
 ing the year following the close of the war he 
 resided in Providence, R.I.; and the succeed- 
 ing two years were spent in farming in Smith-
 
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 3'S 
 
 field, R.I. In 1868 he went to San Mateo, 
 Cal., and was there employed upon a large 
 .stock ranch for si.x years, after which he was 
 engaged in keeping a summer resort at Seig- 
 ler's Springs until October, 1876. Then he 
 returned East, and resided for a year in Woon- 
 socket, R.I. For some time he was engaged 
 in farming and staging in Gloucester, R.I., 
 resided in Greenville for one year, and in 
 1S84 settled upon his present farm in Nor- 
 folk. He owns about one hundred and thirty 
 acres of e.\cellent land, well adapted to gen- 
 eral farming and dairying, on which he has 
 made various improvements. The industrious 
 habits acquired by him in his early boyhood 
 have never been allowed to deteriorate, and 
 since the war have kept him constantly busy. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He has 
 served as Road Commissioner si.x years, and 
 he was upon the School Board four years. 
 
 On March 25, 1866, Mr. Greene was united 
 in marriage with Emily Harris, born in 
 Smithfield, R.I., September 6, 1845. She is 
 a daughter of Hezekiah S. and Susan M. 
 (Sawyer) Harris, the former of whom was a 
 native of Lyndon, Vt., and the latter of Provi- 
 dence. Mr. Harris was for many years en- 
 gaged in the cigar manufacturing business and 
 in general mercantile pursuits, and was also 
 a well-known horseman and farmer. Now 
 seventy-seven years old, he resides upon his 
 farm in Smithfield. His wife died November 
 12, 1879. Ml"- 3">J ^""S- Greene have had 
 three children, namely: Charles E. and 
 Austin E., twins, who were born in San 
 Mateo, Cal., April 20, 1872; and Frank H., 
 born December 31, 1876, who died September 
 9, 1893. Charles E. resides in Providence, 
 R.I. Austin E., who lives with his parents, 
 married Rose F. Whiting, of Norfolk, and has 
 two children — ^ Everett W. and Malcolm H. 
 Mr. Greene is a comrade of Franklin Post, 
 No. 60, G. A. R. Both he and Mrs. Greene 
 attend the Universalist church. 
 
 I D WARD MOFFETTE, the manager of 
 the Dedham Lumber Company at Ded- 
 ham, Mass., is carrying on an exten- 
 sive lumber and coal business in partnership 
 with his brother, Robert J. Moffette. He 
 
 was born August 8, 1849, '" Boston, Mass., a 
 son of George A. Moffette. He is of English 
 ancestry, his great-grandfather, Edward Mof- 
 fette, having been born and reared in P^ngland. 
 This ancestor spent some years of his life in 
 Quebec, Canada, as a government official, al- 
 though he returned to his native land, and 
 died there. 
 
 George Moffette, the grandfather, was born 
 in Quebec, where he spent his brief life. He 
 was accidentally killed by being thrown from 
 a horse when but little more than twenty-four 
 years old. At his death he left his young 
 wife with four small children. George A. 
 Moffette, who was born in Quebec, spent a 
 large part of his seventy-one years of life in 
 Boston, where his death occurred in 1893. 
 From 1848 until his death he was employed in 
 the pianoforte factory of Chickering & Sons, 
 for some years in the capacity of superintend- 
 ent of the factory. He married Miss Jane 
 Turner, who was born in Gibraltar, Spain, 
 being the daughter of P^dward Turner, an Eng- 
 lish officer, and one of a family of six chil- 
 dren. .She became the mother of five children, 
 of whom George, Robert J., PIdward, and 
 Clarissa are living. Clarissa is the wife of 
 F"ranklin P. Bingham. Both parents were 
 members of the E])iscopal church. The 
 mother died in 1S91, at the age of sixty-eight 
 years. 
 
 Edward Moffette obtained his education in 
 the Boston public schools, being graduated 
 from the English High School. He afterward 
 spent some years in his native city, being em- 
 ployed as a clerk in various stores. He was 
 then appointed to the State Weather Bureau 
 at Washington, D.C., where he remained 
 until 1889. In that year, in partnership with 
 his brother Robert, he established his present 
 coal and lumber yard on Mount Vernon Street, 
 Dedham, where he has a large stock of all 
 kinds of lumber and coal, and has since car- 
 ried on a very remunerative business. Enter- 
 prising and industrious, he has met with suc- 
 cess in his undertakings. 
 
 Mr. Moffette was married October 8, 1890, 
 to Miss Mary A. Howard, who was born in 
 Cumberland, Md. , where her father, the late 
 Henry Howard, was largely interested in coal 
 mines. Mr. Howard was born in Salem,
 
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 Mass., where he resided throughout the most 
 of his lifetime, although his business took 
 him frequently to Cumberland. He died at 
 the age of forty-five years. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Mary Winchester, and who 
 was born in Gloucester, Mass., is the mother 
 of six children, Mrs. Moffette being the 
 youngest. She is a member of the Episcopal 
 church, to which Mr. Howard also belonged. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Moffette have four children; 
 namely, Thelma, George E., Henry E., and 
 Phyllis. Mr. Moffette belongs to Longfellow 
 Lodge, Roslindale, L O. O. P., the Royal 
 Arcanum, and the Odd Fellows Encampment. 
 He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal 
 Church of Dedham. 
 
 RLANDO B. CRANE, a prominent 
 merchant of Avon, was born here 
 when the place was called East 
 Stoughton, January 20, 1835. He is 
 a son of Ebenezer and Angeline A. (Briggs) 
 Crane. The Crane family is one of the old 
 families of Avon. Ebenezer Crane, who was 
 a boot cutter, died in 1852. The mother's 
 death occurred in 1897. 
 
 Orlando B. Crane attended the schools near 
 his home when he had an opportunity, obtain- 
 ing a fair education. When about fifteen 
 years of age, he went to work in a boot factory 
 of East Stoughton. Here he learned the 
 trade, and was afterward engaged in boot-mak- 
 ing for a number of years. When he was 
 about twenty years of age, he engaged in the 
 express business, running from East Stough- 
 ton to Boston. After spending five years at 
 that, he manufactured boots for a year and a 
 half. In the fall of 1866 he opened a grocery 
 store in East Stoughton, which, after conduct- 
 ing it for about eight years, he sold in 1874. 
 He was subsequently in business in Brockton 
 and Canton, Mass. About the year 1882 he 
 started in the provision business in East 
 Stoughton, subsequently adding groceries, 
 hay, and grain to his stock in trade. He is 
 now in control of a large and successful busi- 
 ness, and his methods are such that he has the 
 confidence of all with whom he deals. Suc- 
 cessful by his own efforts alone, he is a self- 
 made man. 
 
 Mr. Crane was married to Miss Annie .S. 
 Kimball, of Bethel, Me. They have five 
 children — A. Evaline, Everett C, Harry L., 
 Orlando B., and Lester K. Mr. Crane has 
 taken a prominent part in local politics, and 
 he represented this district in the State leg- 
 islature in 1867. 
 
 (^^YDDISON S. SHEPARD, a prominent 
 l^\ farmer and dairyman of Franklin, was 
 J<i\\ born in Wrentham, this county, 
 ^~^ May 29, 1829, son of Chickery and 
 Relief (Gilmore) Shepard. His paternal 
 grandfather and great-grandfather were both 
 named John. The father, born in Foxboro, 
 was a blacksmith, and worked at his trade in 
 Foxboro, Wrentham, and in Walpole. He 
 afterward moved to Franklin, and settled on 
 the farm where his son Addison now lives, 
 dying here in June, 1855. His wife, who was 
 a native of Raynham, died in 1868. Their 
 other children were: John C. , who died at the 
 age of twenty-one; Laura E., the wife of 
 Philip S. Sparrow, who is now living in re- 
 tirement at West Medway; Louis B. , who 
 married Mary Tibbetts, and resides in Fox- 
 boro village; Elmira, who is the widow of 
 the late Abner D. Sparrow, and lives in 
 Calais, Vt. ; Daniel G., .a veteran of the 
 G. A. R., living in Boston, who married 
 Mary Pond, now deceased; and Eliza A., who 
 is the widow of George H. Robinson, and re- 
 sides near her brother Addison. 
 
 Addison S. Shepard received his education 
 at Day's Academy and in the public schools 
 of Wrentham. After the death of his father 
 he took charge of the farm, and has lived here 
 since, engaged in general farming and dairy- 
 ing, and in the raising of poultry and fruit. 
 He owns fifty acres of well-improved land. 
 In politics he is a Republican. Although he 
 may be found at the polls on voting day, he 
 has never cared to put himself forward as a 
 candidate for ofifice. A member of the Ortho- 
 dox Church of Franklin, he is devoted to the 
 interests of the society. For twenty-seven 
 years he worked in the straw shop. His in- 
 dustry and thrift have made him a successful 
 man. 
 
 On October 15, 1863, Mr. Shepard was
 
 ADDISON S. SHEPARD.
 
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 3'9 
 
 united in marriage with Mrs. Harriet M. 
 Pond Wilson, of Franklin, daughter of 
 Hiram and Joanna (Fales) Pond. The father 
 was a farmer of this place. Mrs. Shepard 
 died January 19, 1889, having been the mother 
 of three children. These were: Martha A., 
 who died at the age of nine years; and Addie 
 May and Louis A., both of whom died in 
 childhood. 
 
 fEONARD DRAPER, who is now liv- 
 ing in retirement in Dover, repre- 
 ^ sents an old and highly reputable 
 Norfolk County family. He was 
 born in Dover, January 6, 1823, son of Moses 
 and Maria (Wilbur) Draper. His great- 
 grandfather, John Draper, moved his family to 
 Dover, and settled in the western part of the 
 town. Josiah Draper, grandfather of Leon- 
 ard, cleared and improved a farm. 
 
 Moses Draper, after succeeding to the 
 farm, cultivated it during the active period 
 of his life, and died in 1885. His wife, 
 Maria, who was a native of Westmoreland, 
 Mass., became the mother of six children — ■ 
 Elizabeth, Leonard, Alfreda, Ann Maria, Ann 
 Maria (second), and Adeline. Elizabeth is 
 now the widow of Albert Mann, and resides 
 in Milford, Mass. Both Alfreda and Ann 
 Maria (first) died young. Ann Maria (second) 
 married Everett Mann, and she and her hus- 
 band are no longer living. They were the 
 parents of four children — Herbert, Bertha, 
 Lester, and another child who did not reach 
 maturity. Adeline first married Simon Mc- 
 Donald, who died leaving three children ; 
 namely, Arthur, Flora, and George. She is 
 now the wife of William Schofield, and re- 
 sides in Nova Scotia. Mrs. Moses Draper 
 died in 1871. 
 
 Leonard Draper attended the common 
 schools. When seventeen years old he went 
 to Providence for the purpose of learning the 
 baker's trade. Soon becoming homesick, he 
 returned to Dover, and assisted upon the farm 
 for some time. He later learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade, which he afterward followed in 
 connection with farming until he was fifty 
 years old; and he succeeded to the ownership 
 of the property after his father's death. He 
 
 remained at the homestead until 1890, when 
 he sold the farm. Then, retiring from active 
 labor, he has since occupied his present resi- 
 dence in the village. 
 
 On October 13, 1846, Mr. Draper was 
 united in marriage with Caroline F. Chicker- 
 ing. She was born in Dover, February 22, 
 1826, daughter of Daniel and Orpha (Bur- 
 bank) Chickering. Her father, who was a na- 
 tive of Dover, and resided in this town and in 
 Medfield, was twice married. By his first 
 union, which was with Caroline Lovell, there 
 was one son, Cyrus, who is now deceased. 
 His second wife, in maidenhood Orpha Bur- 
 bank, had three children: James, who is de- 
 ceased; Caroline F., who is now Mrs. Draper; 
 and Almira, who died at the age of nineteen. 
 Li politics Mr. Draper acts with the Republi- 
 can party, but could never be induced to ac- 
 cept a nomination to any public office. Mrs. 
 Draper is a member of the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 ,HILANDER BATES, a well-known 
 boot and shoe merchant of Cohasset, 
 Norfolk County, secretary of the Co- 
 hasset Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany and an ex-member of the Massachusetts 
 legislature, was born in South Weymouth, 
 September 16, 1836. His parents were War- 
 ren and Harriet N. (Vining) Bates, natives of 
 South Weymouth, who moved to Cohasset 
 about the year 1840. 
 
 Philander Bates was reared and educated in 
 Cohasset; and at the age of nineteen he began 
 work in a shoe factory in his native town, 
 where he remained some years. In 1861 he 
 returned to Cohasset, and opening a retail boot 
 and shoe store has carried on the business up 
 to the present time. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican, and in 1874 
 he was chosen Selectman, Assessor, and Over- 
 seer of the Poor. He has held the first two 
 offices continuously since that time, having 
 been chairman of the Board of Selectmen for 
 several years; and with the exception of two 
 years he has served as Overseer of the Poor. 
 In 1880 he represented Cohasset, Scituate, 
 and Norwell in the legislature. In January, 
 1895, he was appointed secretary of the Cohas-
 
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 set Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He is 
 a Deacon of the Second Congregational 
 Church, and for a number of years has been 
 superintendent of the Sunday-school. 
 
 )UCIUS W. DANIELS, a leading farmer 
 of the town of Franklin, son of Fisher 
 and Ann (Fames) Daniels, was born 
 April 5, 1839, on the farm where he 
 now resides. The homestead was first occu- 
 pied by his great-grandfather, David Daniels, 
 who came to this town from East Medway ; and 
 it has now been in the family one hundred and 
 forty years. David's son Joseph, who was 
 born on the place, carried on the farm and also 
 conducted a country store. His wife was 
 Susan Fisher, a native of Franklin. Their 
 thirteen children were named as follows; 
 Seth, Fisher, Albert E., Hiram, Darwin, 
 George, Charles, Julia, Myra, Susan, Martha, 
 Harriet, and Caroline. The only survivor is 
 Harriet, who is the widow of Mortimer Blake, 
 and is living at Hyde Park, Norfolk County, 
 with her son. 
 
 Fisher Daniels, the second son of David, as 
 the list is here given, took charge of the 
 homestead property upon the death of his 
 father, and, besides carrying on farming, en- 
 gaged in teaching school. He taught at differ- 
 ent times in every district in Franklin, and 
 was a schoolmaster for over twenty years. He 
 always lived at the homestead with the excep- 
 tion of about three years, when he was in a 
 grocery store in Manchester, N. H., with his 
 brothers. He died in Franklin on March 7, 
 1874. He was twice married. His first wife, 
 Eunice Adams, of Franklin, lived only about 
 a year after their marriage. She was the 
 mother of one child, a son Waldo, who was a 
 schoolmaster and at different times held all 
 the town offices, being a very prominent man 
 in town. He died in 1886. His wife, for- 
 merly Helen R. Gilmore, is now living in 
 Franklin. Mrs. Ann Eames Daniels, the sec- 
 ond wife of Fisher Daniels, was a native of 
 Hopkinton. She died in February, 1876, 
 having been the mother of five children; 
 namely, J. Wheaton, Eunice Adams, Lucius 
 W. , Eunice Ann, and Lucelie Adelaide. J. 
 Wheaton Daniels married Hattie King, and is 
 
 now living at Palmyra, N.J. Eunice Adams 
 Daniels died at the age of four years, and 
 Eunice Ann at the age of two years. Lucelie 
 Adelaide is the wife of William Schlesu- 
 meyers, a carpenter of West Dedham, now 
 Westwood. 
 
 Lucius W. Daniels, after receiving his ele- 
 mentary education in the common schools, at- 
 tended the Franklin High School and the well- 
 known Literary Institution at New Hampton, 
 N. H., where he was a student for a year and 
 a half. When twenty-one years of age, he 
 spent two months in Philadelphia, Pa. With 
 that exception he has remained at the home- 
 stead. He took care of his parents in their 
 declining years, and since coming into posses- 
 sion of the estate he has made many improve- 
 ments on the place. He owns about two hun- 
 dred and fifty acres, and has a fine new set of 
 buildings. He carries on some general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, but his main business is 
 the marketing of dairy products. He for- 
 merly operated a box factory, but has now dis- 
 continued that and devotes his time to his 
 agricultural interests. 
 
 He has held the office of Assessor for a year 
 and that of Selectman of the town for two 
 years. In politics he is a Republican, and al- 
 ways takes a lively interest in all Republican 
 meetings and movements. He is a member of 
 the Knights of Honor, of Franklin, and of the 
 local grange. He and his wife belong to the 
 Congregational church. 
 
 Mr. Daniels was married on September 3, 
 1861, to Miss Helen S. Warfield, of Franklin, 
 who was born October 23, 1839, a daughter of 
 Ebenezer and Sarah (Morse) Warfield, the 
 mother a native of Walpole and the father of 
 P>anklin. Mr. Warfield was a school-teacher, 
 farmer, and trader. He died in Franklin 
 when his daughter Sarah was eight years of 
 age, and his wife is also deceased. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Daniels have four children — Mary, 
 Hattie, Ernest, and Edith. Mary Leola was 
 educated in this country, and is now teaching 
 in a seminary in Eastern Turkey, where she 
 has been engaged for about ten years. Hattie 
 Adelia and Edith Nellie are at home with 
 their father and mother. Mr. Ernest Darling 
 Daniels has been for a number of years the 
 popular principal of the Franklin High
 
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 323 
 
 School. He married Miss Gertrude Goodwin, 
 a former classmate in the Bridgewater Normal 
 School. 
 
 /^Teorge alonzo southgate, 
 
 I •) I M.D., one of the most successful 
 — physicians of Dedham, was born in 
 Leicester, Worcester County, Mass., Septem- 
 ber 27, 1833, son of Samuel and Charlotte 
 Warren (Fuller) Southgate. He is a direct 
 descendant of Richard Southgate, a civil en- 
 gineer, who, with his wife and five children 
 and his brother John, joined a company formed 
 in Boston and vicinity in 1718 or 1719, and 
 settled at Strawberry Hill, now Leicester, 
 Mass. Richard Southgate laid out the town, 
 of which he was the first Treasurer, and re- 
 ceived a grant of seven hundred and forty acres 
 of land. The line of descent comes through 
 Richard (second), Isaac, Samuel (first), and 
 Samuel (second) to Dr. Southgate, the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 Samuel Southgate (first). Dr. Southgate's 
 grandfather, who was a card manufacturer in 
 Leicester, as was also the Doctor's father, died 
 in Dedham, June 5, 1876. The family record 
 for longevity is somewhat remarkable. The 
 first and second Richards were eighty-four 
 when they died in Leicester. Isaac died there 
 at eighty-one, Samuel (first) died there in 
 1859, aged eighty-one, and Samuel (second) 
 lived to be seventy. Dr. Southgate's mother 
 was born in Easton, Mass., daughter of Rufus 
 and Charlotte (Warren) Fuller. The former, 
 who was a woollen manufacturer, spent his last 
 days in Worcester County, Massachusetts. 
 The maiden name of Dr. Southgate's maternal 
 great-grandmother was Elizabeth Wheeler. 
 His maternal great-great-grandmother was 
 Mary Belcher (Bass) Henshaw, whose father, 
 Joseph Bass, married Ruth Alden, daughter of 
 John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. The Doc- 
 tor's mother, who lived to be seventy-five years 
 old, had two children, of whom only he reached 
 maturity. The other child was Mary Louise, 
 born twenty years later than the Doctor, and 
 who died when but two and one-half years old. 
 George Alonzo Southgate fitted for his col- 
 legiate course at the Leicester Academy and 
 under the direction of a private tutor. He 
 
 began his professional studies" in the medical 
 department of Dartmouth College. Later he 
 entered the "University of Benn.sylvania, and 
 was graduated with the class of 1859. F'irst 
 locating in Millbury, Mass., he remained there 
 until 1863. Then he came to Dedham, where 
 he has been in successful practice for over 
 thirty years. F"or the past three years he has 
 had an office at 2 Commonwealth Avenue, 
 Boston. 
 
 (3n June 13, i860, Dr. Southgate was 
 united in marriage with Mary Bigelow Will- 
 son. She is a daughter of the Rev. Luther 
 and Fidelia (Wells) Willson. Her father, 
 who was pastor of a Unitarian church in 
 Petersham, Mass., for many years, died in 
 that town. Mrs. Southgate's parents had a 
 family of twelve children, and her brother, the 
 Rev. E. B. Willson, was the pastor of a Uni- 
 tarian Church at Salem, Mass., for thirty-five 
 years. She is the mother of five children, 
 namely: Robert Willson, a graduate of Bos- 
 ton University Medical School, and asso- 
 ciated with his father; Delia Wells, the wife 
 of Anson S. Marshall, a lawyer of Concord, 
 N.H. ; May Fuller, who married Harry P. 
 Cormerias, a business man of Boston, and a 
 resident of Dedham ; Walter Bradford, who is 
 also in business in Boston ; and Helen Louise, 
 a kindergarten teacher. In politics Dr. South- 
 gate is a Republican, and he served upon the 
 Board of Health for four years. He is a mem- 
 ber of Olive Branch Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
 Millbury. For many years he was officially 
 connected with the Unitarian society, and the 
 family attend that church. 
 
 ILLIAM STEARNS, residing on 
 Sewell Avenue, Brookline, is prac- 
 tically retired from active pursuits, 
 although he still pays some attention to vege- 
 table gardening. Born August 10, 1830, near 
 his present home, he is a son of Marshall 
 Stearns, who was- a native of Waltham or 
 Weston, Mass. Charles Stearns, the grand- 
 father, spent his early life in Waltham, 
 whence he came to Brookline in the first years 
 of the present century. He purchased land in 
 Brookline, and thereafter was engaged in gen- 
 eral farminsr and market gardenins; as long as
 
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 he was able to work. He also purchased a 
 house, which is now occupied by one of his 
 grandsons, Charles H. Stearns. He spent his 
 last days in Brookline, passing away at the 
 venerable age of ninety-three years. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Flagg, 
 born and bred in Ashby, Mas.s., died in Brook- 
 line at the age of fourscore years. They had 
 a family of seven children, none of whom are 
 now living. Both parents were highly re- 
 spected throughout the community, and were 
 active members of the Unitarian, or First 
 Parish, Church. 
 
 Marshall Stearns succeeded to the owner- 
 ship of a portion of the old homestead farm. 
 After erecting the house now owned and occu- 
 pied by his son William, he made it his per- 
 manent residence. He devoted much of his 
 time to tilling the soil, meeting with especial 
 success in raising early vegetables and fruit for 
 the home markets. He took a deep interest in 
 the welfare of the town, and served his towns- 
 men as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of 
 the Poor, and was Brookline's Representative 
 in the State legislature for two terms. He 
 was a Whig in his early years, but after the 
 formation of the Republican party was one of 
 its firmest adherents. At his death he was 
 si.xty-eight years of age. He married Su- 
 sanna C. Jones, who was born in Brookline, 
 March 5, 1807. -She was one of the two chil- 
 dren of Joseph and Hannah (Clark) Jones. 
 Joseph Jones, a well-known farmer, died Sep- 
 tember 14, 1822, aged forty-nine years; while 
 his wife, who was born February 2, 1778, died 
 February 28, 1826. Susanna C. Stearns died 
 July 26, 1873, aged sixty-six years, leaving 
 two children, namely: William, the subject of 
 this sketch; and Hannah C, the wife of Will- 
 iam J. Swift, formerly of Nantucket, Mass. 
 Two other children died in early life. Both 
 were connected with the Unitarian church, the 
 father having been an ofificial member. 
 
 William Stearns was educated in Brookline, 
 attending both the common and high schools, 
 and subsequently assisted in the care of the 
 home farm, which came into his possession on 
 the death of his parents. He afterward en- 
 gaged in the real estate business. Having 
 divided his land into house lots, he has since 
 sold the larger part of it ; and forty or more 
 
 houses occupy the site of his former farm, <jn 
 which for so many years he and his father 
 raised garden truck. 
 
 Mr. Stearns was married October 6, 1858, 
 to Miss Margaret G. Swift. Born in Nan- 
 tucket, Mass., she was one of the three chil- 
 dren of Henry Swift, who was engaged as a 
 whaler in his early life. .She died March 18, 
 1869, aged thirty years, having borne her hus- 
 band one child — Henry, who lived but four 
 years. On October 28, 1874, Mr. Stearns 
 married Miss Annie Russell, daughter of 
 Thomas V. Russell, a lawyer of St. Lawrence 
 County, New York. By this marriage there 
 are three children — Elsie R., Marshall, and 
 Russell. In politics Mr. Stearns votes for 
 the men he deems best qualified for the posi- 
 tions to be filled, irrespective of party affilia- 
 tions. He is a member of the Brookline 
 Club and of the Casino. His religious creed 
 is liberal, and he attends the Unitarian 
 church. 
 
 ENJAMIN KENRICK, a thriving 
 dairy farmer of Dover, was born in 
 this town, April 25, 1850, son of 
 John and Abigail (Ingalls) Kenrick. 
 His grandfather was a native of Newton, Mass. 
 The father, who was also born in Newton, fol- 
 lowed the trade of blacksmith in that place 
 until 1848, when he moved to FJover, and set- 
 tled upon the farm which is now owned by his 
 son. The rest of his active life was devoted 
 to agricultural pursuits; and he died June 2, 
 1892. His wife, Abigail, who was a native of 
 Fitzwilliam, N.H., became the mother of 
 seven children, as follows: Caroline R., born 
 November 30, 1842, who died young; Althea, 
 born March 2, 1845, who died March 31, 
 1893; Mary Caroline, born September 4, 
 1848, who died May 8, 1891; Benjamin, the 
 subject of this sketch; Luella Gertrude, born 
 July 19, 1854, who died December 7, 1875; 
 Abbie Ann, born March 8, 1857, who is now 
 residing in Dorchester, Mass. ; and Theodocia, 
 born June 23, i860, who died March 8, 1863. 
 Mrs. John Kenrick died July i, 1888. 
 
 Benjamin Kenrick received his education in 
 the common schools of Dover. At the age of 
 eighteen he went to Lawrence, Mass., and was
 
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 325 
 
 afterward employed in the woollen-mills of 
 that city for twenty years. In 1888 he re- 
 turned to Dover, and took charge of the home 
 farm, which came into his possession after his 
 father's death. The property contains one 
 hundred and ten acres of fertile land, with new 
 and substantial buildings. The land is mainly 
 ilevoted to dairy pur[)oses. 
 
 The first of Mr. Kenrick's three marriages 
 was contracted on February 9, 1874, with 
 Evangeline .St. Clair Archer, of Lawrence. 
 Born in Charlotte, Me., daughter of Henry 
 Archer, who was a prosperous farmer, she died 
 September 25, 1876, leaving one daughter. 
 This daughter, Emma May, born June 16, 
 1876, died November 2, 1893. Mr. Ken- 
 rick's second wife, Charlotte Victoria, was 
 born in Maine, daughter of Samuel Scammon, 
 who was a lumberman and a farmer. They 
 were wedded in Lawrence, June 30, 1881. 
 She died September 25, 1887, leaving no chil- 
 dren. The third marriage, which was per- 
 formed September 9, 1S93, united him to Mrs. 
 Margaret Maud (Clark) Webster, who was 
 born on Prince Edward Island, May 5, 1859, 
 daughter of William and Annie (Ling) Clark, 
 both now deceased. Her father, who was an 
 Englishman, and who emigrated to Prince Ed- 
 ward Island when young, was later engaged 
 in the shoe business and farming. By her 
 first husband, Charles F. Webster, of Law- 
 rence, Mrs. Kenrick has one daughter — Helen 
 Miriam, born January 16, 1885. Mr. Ken- 
 rick's happy faculty for adapting himself to 
 circumstances is probably the secret of his suc- 
 cess in life. His farm occupies a desirable 
 location, within easy reach of the Boston 
 market. In politics he is a Rejiublican. 
 
 SNOCH WAITE, a prosperous manufact- 
 urer of Franklin, Mass., one of the sons 
 ■ of the late Joseph and Anna Waite, 
 was born in England in 1835. His father was 
 a manufacturer of felt for King George in 
 England, but came to this country when quite 
 a young man and established himself in the 
 same business. He was the first felt manu- 
 facturer in America; and when he had estab- 
 lished himself he sent for his wife and chil- 
 dren, and made his home in Massachusetts. 
 
 He died in 1888, at the age of seventy-seven; 
 and his wife, Anna, died in 1892, at the age of 
 ninety-one. They had ten children. 
 
 After a brief term of schooling in New- 
 market, England, Enoch Waite at eight years 
 of age began to work at the felting trade. He 
 came to America when he was fifteen years 
 old, and first found employment in the old Bay 
 State Mills, Lawrence, Mass. In 1856 he 
 went to Johnson, R.I., and, starting a mill for 
 Judge Pitman's son for the manufacture of felt 
 carpet, remained there two years. Then he 
 removed to Lowell and worked in the Middle- 
 sex Mills until 1861, when he went to Win- 
 chester and started a mill for S. M. Allen, 
 where they manufactured fibrilla, an article 
 made from tow and used during the war in the 
 place of cotton. When peace was declared, 
 there was no more use for their product, and 
 the mill was closed. Mr. Waite ne.xt had 
 charge of a mill in Charlestown for the manu- 
 facture of felt carpets. He stayed there but 
 two years, however, and then went to Law- 
 rence again and engaged in the manufacture of 
 glove linings. After a short time he pro- 
 ceeded to Wrentham, where he managed a mill 
 run by the Elliot Felting Company for the 
 manufacture of felt table and piano covers as 
 well as all other kinds of felt goods. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Waite came to P'ranklin and 
 started in business for himself again, manu- 
 facturing felt cloth, and in two years took a 
 partner by the name of A. H. Morse. They 
 worked together until 18S1, when the partner- 
 ship was dissolved, and Mr. Waite started 
 what is now known as the City Mills, which 
 he managed for three years. He next started 
 a felt-mill for F. B. Ray, called the Union 
 Mill, and also went into business with Mr. 
 Bannigon, known as the "rubber king," in 
 Lawrence, Mass. They ran the Lawrence 
 Felting Mills together until 1888, when Mr. 
 Waite sold out his interest to his partner, and 
 then conducted his own mill exclusively. He 
 also bought a privilege in the Rockville Mill 
 from Mr. Richardson, of Medway. He 
 turned this into a felt-n)ill, and placed his 
 son in charge. The mill is running at pres- 
 ent to its full capacity. Mr. Waite is him- 
 self president, treasurer, and manager of the 
 Waite Felting Company, of Franklin, a posi-
 
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 tion he has held for a number of years. He 
 has been a very successful man in his busi- 
 ness, and is counted one of the representative 
 citizens of Franklin. 
 
 'REDERICK P. DRAKE, an engineer 
 and prominent citizen of Canton, was 
 born here, March 16, 185 1, son of An- 
 drew and Lucy (Gray) Drake. His grand- 
 father, Ziba Drake, was the first one of the 
 family to reside in the town. Andrew Drake, 
 a native of Sharon, was in the coal business 
 for many years in Boston, and was also en- 
 gaged in the carpenter's trade. In politics he 
 was a Republican. He married Lucy T. 
 Gray, of Sandwich, and they had five children, 
 as follows: Laura J., Sarah E., Harriett A., 
 Mary E., and Frederick P. Mary, who is 
 now deceased, was the wife of Fred Belcher; 
 Laura J. is the widow of James L. Shepard ; 
 Sarah E. is the widow of N. H. Lord; and 
 Harriett A. is the wife of Isaac Capen. The 
 father died in Canton at the age of seventy 
 years. 
 
 Frederick P. Drake received his education 
 in the common schools of his native town and 
 at the private school of Sanford \V. Billings in 
 Sharon. When he was nineteen years of age 
 he learned the carpenter's trade, and has fol- 
 lowed it since. He has been in the employ- 
 ment of the Revere Copper Company as car- 
 penter for tvventy-si.x years. In politics he is 
 a Republican. He was Constable for some 
 years. In 1886 he formed the fire company, 
 and has been chief of the board of fire en- 
 gineers. He has been Selectman since 1892, 
 when he was first elected to that ofifice. On 
 November 2, 1897, on the Republican ticket, 
 he was elected a member of the General Court 
 from the Fourth Norfolk District. Mr. Drake 
 is a member of the Blue Hill Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows, of which he is Past Noble Grand. 
 He is also Past Chief Patriarch of Mount He- 
 bron Encampment, of Stoughton ; and he is 
 also connected with the Knights of Honor, 
 Richard Gridley Lodge, having passed all the 
 chairs. He married Ellen Jones, a daughter 
 of David Jones, of Stoughton. They have no 
 family. Mr. Drake is a member of the Bap- 
 tist church. 
 
 JSAAC HILLS HAZELTON, M.D., a 
 highly respected physician of Wellesley, 
 was born in Boston, May 17, 1838. A 
 son of Isaac and Susan (Pickard) Hazel- 
 ton, he is a direct descendant of the Robert 
 Hazelton who, with his brother John, was 
 one of the first settlers of Rowley in about 
 1639. His grandfather, Thomas Hazelton, 
 was born in Chester, N.H., in 1776, and, 
 having spent his life there engaged in farm- 
 ing, died in 1847. Thomas married Lucretia 
 Hills in June, 1800. Their son, Isaac Hills 
 Hazelton, Sr., who was born in Chester, 
 N.H., June 8, 1805, and followed the occupa- 
 tion of builder, married Susan, a daughter of 
 Jere Pickard, of Dresden, Me., and died in 
 September, 1863. The Pickard family came 
 to this country from England in 1630, and 
 settled in Massachusetts. 
 
 Isaac Hills Hazelton, the subject of this 
 biography, received his elementary education 
 in the public schools of Boston. He was sub- 
 sequently a member of the class of i860 at 
 Harvard College. He left college, however, 
 to join the undergraduate department of the 
 Medical School, and afterward, in i86i, grad- 
 uated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 In April of the same year he was appointed 
 assistant physician at the Concord Asylum. 
 He passed the examinations for admission to 
 the navy in the following September, and 
 on the 17th received his appointment as 
 assistant surgeon from Gideon Wells, then 
 the Secretary of the Navy. This position 
 he held until September 11, 1865, when 
 he resigned. In December, 1861, he was 
 sent on the United States recruiting -ship 
 "Ohio," and in January of 1S62 on the "Ver- 
 mont." He sailed for Port Royal, S.C., Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1862, and arrived April 16, after a 
 perilous voyage. He was ordered to the 
 "Paul Jones" on December 31, and afterward 
 took part in several expeditions through 
 South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. From 
 July 10 to July 18, 1863, he was engaged in 
 the attack on Charleston. He was with the 
 army temporarily during the bombardment of 
 Fort Wagner and at Beaufort, S.C., where he 
 was in charge of three hospitals from July 19 
 to August 19, 1863. After leaving Beaufort, 
 he came to Boston, but was ordered to the
 
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 329 
 
 Boston yard in September, and to the Pacific 
 Squadron on the 14th of December, 1864, serv- 
 ing on the United States flag-ship "Lancas- 
 ter." He returned East, July 10, 1865. On 
 September 12, 1865, after resigning from the 
 naval service, he was appointed associate phy- 
 sician at the McLean Asylum, where he prac- 
 tised for two years. He is now a member of 
 the Wellesley Board of Health, and is the 
 local medical examiner for a number of insur- 
 ance companies. For many years he has been 
 the State Medical Examiner of Lunacy. He 
 is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
 ciety, Norfolii County Medical Society, of the 
 Loyal Legion, of the Charles Ward Grand 
 Army Post of Newton, and of the Kearsarge 
 Association of Naval Veterans, and of ' the 
 Regular Army and Navy Union, of which he 
 was surgeon -general on the staff of the Com- 
 mander-in-Chief. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican; and he served on the Republican Town 
 Committee, of which he was chairman for sev- 
 eral years. He attends the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 Dr. Hazelton was married in Newburyport, 
 Mass., on November 23, 1867, to Mary Allen 
 Brewster, a daughter of William H. Brewster, 
 who was a lineal descendant of Elder Brews- 
 ter. Dr. and Mrs. Hazelton have had four 
 children: Mary Brewster, born in November, 
 1868; Isaac Brewster, born in December, 
 1870, now studying at the Institute of Tech- 
 nology; Olivia B., born in January, 1873, 
 now at home; and Margaret P., born in Marcli, 
 1876, also living at home. The eldest daugh- 
 ter studied at the Boston Museum of Fine 
 Arts, where she has been a teacher for the 
 last four years. She took the Halgarten prize 
 in 1896, the first time it was ever awarded to 
 a woman. 
 
 YpT^AYMOND S. BYAM, an enterprising 
 I ^-^ and prosperous business man of Can- 
 |b\ ton, was born November 15, 1839, 
 
 ^"^ in Chelmsford, Mass., son of Otis 
 Byam. The family was first represented in 
 America by the traditional three brothers from 
 England, one of whom settled in Chelmsford, 
 near Robbins Hill, where some of his descend- 
 ants have since lived. Otis Byam was born 
 
 and reared on the old home farm in Chelms- 
 ford. When a young man he went to Boston, 
 where he was for some years a merchant, and 
 also kept the old hotel called the Hanover 
 House. He subsequently returned to the 
 scenes of his childhood, and, purchasing the 
 Byam homestead, carried on general farming 
 until his death in 1858, at the age of sixty- 
 four years. He was a man of unblemished 
 character, honest and uprigiit, and a strcjng 
 Democrat in politics, although he never cared 
 to hold office. He married Miss Lavina 
 Boomer, of Keene, N. H. Of their four chil- 
 dren, George O. , of Chelmsford, and Ray- 
 mond S. are living. 
 
 Raymond S. Byam was an attentlant of the 
 Chelmsford common schools until seventeen 
 years old. Then he went into the milk busi- 
 ness in Lowell, Mass., and was engaged in it 
 for two years. During the following twelve 
 months he conducted a livery stable on tiie 
 corner of Middlesex and Howard Streets in 
 that city. In July, i86i, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany G of the Sixteenth Massachusetts Volun- 
 teer Infantry, known as the Butler Rifles, and 
 afterward served for three years in the Civil 
 War, being promoted to the rank of Corporal 
 of the color guards, and assigned to the pio- 
 neer corps. He saw much of the roughest 
 part of army life, and was an active partici- 
 pant in many of the hardest fought battles of 
 the war. He was in the engagement at F'or- 
 tress Monroe, under General Wolf; saw the 
 "Monitor" sink the "Merrimac, " March 9, 
 1862; was at Gosport Navy Yard. Having 
 joined General Hooker at Fair Oaks, he took 
 part in the Seven Days' Plight ; was ne.xt at 
 Harrison's Landing; stood beside the gallant 
 Genera] Sickles when he lost his leg at the 
 battle of Gettysburg; was later at Hanover 
 Court-house, the second Bull Run, Peters- 
 burg, and Chancellorsville. In the last- 
 named battle he received a slight wound. He 
 completed his term of service at Petersburg in 
 July, 1864. After his return to Chelmsford, 
 Mr. Byam remained at home for a short time. 
 In the fall of 1864, he went to Roxbury, 
 Mass., where he was for two years engaged 
 in driving an express wagon to Boston. In 
 1866 he came to Canton as messenger for 
 Crummett's Express Company, a position
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 which he held for two years. In 1868 he es- 
 tablished his present express business between 
 here and Boston, forming a partnership with 
 his brother, S. L. Byam, who is now deceased. 
 The express is conducted under the name of 
 Byam & Co. He also deals in coal, ice, lime, 
 cejiient, drain pipe, hay, and other merchan- 
 dise; and he does a large business in moving 
 furniture, employing several men and keeping 
 twenty-seven horses. 
 
 Mr. Byam takes a genuine interest in all 
 matters pertaining to the town's welfare and 
 prosperity, and for five years did efficient ser- 
 vice as Selectman and Overseer of the Poor. 
 In politics he is identified with the Republi- 
 can party. He is a member of the New Eng- 
 land Railroad Agency and of the Boston E.\- 
 press League, and is the National Color Bearer 
 in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
 pany of Boston. He was made a Mason in the 
 Blue Hill Lodge; and he belongs to Mount 
 Zion Chapter, R. A. M., and to the Joseph 
 Warren Commandery, K. T. , of Ro.xbury. 
 He is also a member of Revere Post, No. 94, 
 G. A. R., of which he has been chaplain for 
 some time. 
 
 On November 6, 1S67, he married Miss 
 Helen S. Bailey, who, born and reared in 
 Philadelphia, died May 8, 1S97. Their three 
 children are: Ella S., Harry S., and Alice 
 M. Mr. Byam and his family attend the 
 Universalist church. 
 
 rmo 
 
 EORGE V. RICHARDSON, a re- 
 \ 3 I tired business man of Needham, was 
 born in 1825 in Canton, Mass., son 
 of John and Sally (Tufts) Richardson. The 
 father, who was born in Quincy, Mass., in 
 1799, and was a hatter by trade, died in 1859. 
 The mother, a daughter of Joseph Tufts, was 
 born in 1796, and died in 1884. 
 
 George Richardson was eight years of age 
 when he was withdrawn from the common 
 schools and sent to work for Joseph Fisher, a 
 machinist. He lived with Mr. Fisher for two 
 years, doing chores and working around the 
 house, and attending school in winter for a few 
 weeks. Subsequently he was employed in 
 several different families in the same way 
 until 1S35, when he went to Dedham to live 
 
 with Eben Wight and his sister. After stay- 
 ing in Dedham two years, he went to live with 
 Joseph Briggs on Federal Hill, where he re- 
 mained one year. In 1842 he began to learn 
 the carpenter's trade with William Eaton. 
 With Mr. Eaton he stayed four years, and then 
 worked at the trade for about twenty-five years. 
 He had worked in his brother's sash and blind 
 factory in Boston for three years when his 
 brother sold out. Then Mr. Richardson en- 
 gaged in the business of making oil tanks, 
 forming a partnership with Edwin Irvine, 
 under the firm name of Richardson & Irvine. 
 After four years he bought out his partner's 
 interest, and continued in the business with 
 his son as partner, under the name of Richard- 
 son & Son, until 1891, when he sold out and 
 retired. He is now living in Needham. In 
 the Baptist Church of Needham he is a 
 Deacon, a member of the Standing Committee 
 and of most of the other committees. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was married in 1850 to Ann 
 Jane, daughter of John Davis, of Needham, 
 now Wellesley. She died in 1866. They 
 had seven children, namely: Ann Elizabeth, 
 who married Zadock Bradford, and lives in 
 Somerville; Emma Louisa, who married 
 Charles Thorpe, and lives at Highlandville; 
 George Davis, who died aged nine years; 
 Frank Bowman, who married Margaret Mor- 
 gan, of Salem, was his father's partner, and is 
 now doing business in Boston; Eben Henry, 
 who married Carrie L. Tuttle, of Hyde Park ; 
 Clara Veazie, who died when four years old ; 
 and Mary F'rances, who married Augustus 
 Zirngiebel, and lives in Needham. Mr. Rich- 
 ardson was married a second time in 1878 to 
 Sarah, daughter of Moses Alden, of Newton 
 Upper Falls. Her father belongs to the third 
 generation of the Aldens who have lived on 
 the old estate in Needham, and is a direct de- 
 scendant of John Alden, of the Plymouth 
 Colony. 
 
 ^-IT^ROF. WILLIAM RUSSELL SMITH 
 lk»/ was for many years prominent as a 
 ll g) musician in Medfield and the adjoin- 
 ing towns. Born here September 1 1, 
 
 1S38, he was a son of Jeremiah Russell and
 
 WILLIAM R. SMITH.
 
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 333 
 
 Eliza (Mason) Smith, both natives of Med- 
 field. The paternal grandfather, also named 
 Jeremiah, settled in the southern part of the 
 town on what is now known as Nelson farm, 
 and was there engaged in farming for many 
 years. The father, who also followed agricult- 
 ure here for a time, is now living in Provi- 
 dence, R.I., with his daughter. His first 
 wife, Eliza, died at the age of thirty. After 
 her death he married Christiana Bigelow, of 
 Charlton, Mass., who is now also deceased. 
 By the first marriage there were two children 
 — William R. and Eliza M. Mary A., a 
 child of the second wife, is now the wife of 
 Melvin Willard, of Providence, a salesman of 
 carriages. 
 
 William Russell Smith attended the com- 
 mon schools for the usual period. Afterward 
 he was sent to Reading Academy and then to 
 Boston, where he made a special study of 
 music. He began as a teacher of music by 
 instructing pupils in Medfield, Norwood, 
 Millis, Mansfield, and other towns, while he 
 resided in Medfield. Subsequently, in addi- 
 tion to his many private pupils, he had charge 
 of the music training in Dean Academy. In 
 1872 he came to the farm where his family 
 now reside. Here he made many improve- 
 ments, and added to the original twenty-seven 
 acres by the purchase of woodlands. His time 
 being entirely occupied by his professional 
 duties, he was obliged to hire a foreman to 
 manage the farm work; but all work done upon 
 the place has been carried on under his instruc- 
 tions. His evenings were occupied in direct- 
 ing classes, bands, or orchestras, or in conduct- 
 ing sundry choirs, of which he was the leader. 
 For fourteen years he was the organist and 
 choir leader at the Unitarian church; and for 
 the eight years preceding his death, which oc- 
 curred on April 25, 1896, he held a like posi- 
 tion in the Second Congregational Church. 
 His interest in this department of his work 
 was strong, and the fine discrimination with 
 which the anthems or hymns were selected and 
 rendered clearly betokened his musical ability, 
 knowledge, and taste. His patience in con- 
 ducting rehearsals was remarkable. Pie was 
 ever ready to give extra time when needed, and 
 he had the happy faculty of keeping the mem- 
 bers of his choir in harmonious comradeship. 
 
 He was an expert performer on the piano, 
 organ, cornet, and various stringed instru- 
 ments. While possessed in so full a degree 
 with the artistic temperament, he was in every 
 respect a manly man. In politics he voted the 
 Republican ticket. He was a member of the 
 Royal Arcanum and of the A. O. of U. W. 
 of Medfield. None knew him who did not 
 grieve for his loss when he died. 
 
 On September 5, 1865, Professor Smith 
 married Julia A. Hamant, of Medfield, who 
 died August 9, 1869. On June 30, 1872, he 
 married Mary Jane Hamant, a sister of the 
 first Mrs. Smith. By the second marriage 
 there were thiee children : I^llis Russell, born 
 May 2, 1873, who died April 5, 1874; Will- 
 iam Bernard, born December 28, 1874, who 
 died July 15, 1892; and Bertram Hamant, 
 born I-'ebruary 10, 1879, now attending school. 
 William B. Smith was a most promising young 
 man and a talented musician. With his nat- 
 ural ability and the early instruction given 
 him by his father, a brilliant career seemed 
 before him. He was a member of the Med- 
 field Utopian Club and a great favorite 
 throughout the town. His early death was 
 greatly lamented, and his parents had the sym- 
 pathy of a wide circle of friends. 
 
 RANCIS H. COWING, formerly for 
 many years railroad station agent in 
 Weymouth and a member of the present 
 Board of Assessors, was born in this town De- 
 cember 17, 1834, son of Joshua B. and Deb- 
 orah (Cushing) Cowing. He is a descendant 
 on both sides of well-known W'eymouth fami- 
 lies. His great-uncle, Joshua Bates, a native 
 of Boston, but long a resident of London and a 
 member of the firm of the Messrs. Baring of 
 that city, in 1852 founded the Boston Public 
 Library by donating fifty thonsand dollars for 
 the erection of a suitable building, subse- 
 quently increasing his benefactions by a like 
 sum for the purchase of books. This was the 
 building on Boylston Street, near Tremont 
 Street, which continued in use for library pur- 
 poses until 1895. Donations of money and 
 books for the purpose had previouslv been 
 made, beginning in 1843, when M. Vattemare 
 secured a gift of books from the city of Paris;
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 but Mr. Bates was the one who made the 
 library an accomplished fact. His name was 
 given to the main hall in commemoration of 
 his munificence, and has been i)erpetuated in 
 the main hall of the present magnificent 
 structure in Copley Square. Joshua B. Cow- 
 ing, father of the subject of this sketch, was 
 a lifelong resident of Weymouth and for many 
 years a custom boot and shoe maker by trade. 
 He died in 1S85. Seven of his children now 
 survive, and of these Francis H. is the eldest. 
 Francis II. Cowing acquired a common- 
 school education. At the age of eighteen he 
 obtained employment as clerk in a general 
 store, in which capacity he served some five 
 years, on June i, 1857, being appointed sta- 
 tion agent of the old South Shore Railway. 
 He also ably and faithfully discharged the 
 duties of telegraph operator for thirty-three 
 ■years, or until i8go, when he resigned. Hav- 
 ing invested his savings to good advantage, he 
 is at the present time in easy circumstances. 
 For a number of years he has been a trustee 
 of the Weymouth Savings Bank. In politics 
 he is a Republican, and he has been a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Assessors since 1895. 
 His long service as station agent gained for 
 him a wide circle of friends and acquaint- 
 ances, and he is respected and esteemed by all 
 who know him. 
 
 Ji 
 
 ANIKL WARREN, a prosperous 
 merchant of Wellesley, born in. 
 1826, is a native of Cork County, 
 Ireland, which has been the birth- 
 place of nine generations of his family; for the 
 Warrens are an old and prominent family in 
 Ireland. Daniel Warren was educated in the 
 public schools in Cork County. At the age of 
 fifteen he went to learn the carpenter's trade. 
 He worked at his trade for three years, after 
 which he spent one year at home. Another 
 year was passed in working at his trade, and 
 then, having made up his mind to come to 
 America, he set to work to earn the money 
 for his passage. He came to this country in 
 the year 1852, landing in New York with one 
 dollar and twelve cents in his pocket. By the 
 time he reached Hartford, Conn., he had but 
 twelve cents left. However, he soon found 
 
 employment with a contractor, building 
 bridges. After working for him one year, he 
 spent another in the employment of C(jllins & 
 Cushing at the same business, and then came 
 to that part of Needham which is now Welles- 
 ley, and worked in a machine shop for thir- 
 teen years. In 1S69 he went into the coal 
 business, and has been engaged in it ever 
 since, He has increased his business each 
 year; and he now has an extensive trade in 
 coal, hay, grain, etc. Mr. Warren is a public- 
 spirited citizen, and has been in many public 
 positions. He was a member of the board of 
 Town Assessors, and he was serving on the 
 Town Committee when Wellesley was set off 
 from Needham. He was for many years a 
 member of the Improvement Society, and was 
 the first Irishman from Needham to sit upon a 
 jury. That was over thirty years ago, and 
 since then he has served many times, and also 
 on the grand jury. Mr. Warren is a member 
 of the Newton branch of the Irish Land 
 League. In religious belief he is a Roman 
 Catholic and an earnest supporter of his 
 church. He bought the land where the church 
 now stands, and had charge of the construction 
 of the building. He has always done a great 
 deal toward building up church property and 
 making improvements generally. 
 
 Mr. Warren was married in W'atertown in 
 1S56 to Ann Reynolds, who was born in 
 Lei trim County, Ireland, and came to this 
 country in 184S. Mr. and Mrs. Warren have 
 had six children, namely: Margaret, born in 
 1857, who married James Caley, and is now 
 living in Canada; Fannie, born in 1859, who 
 was educated at Notre Dame Academy, Rox- 
 bury, and at Boston University, and is now the 
 principal of the Wellesley North School ; 
 Jeremiah, born in 1861, who died in 1862; 
 Mary, living at home; Daniel, born in 1867, 
 now in the e.xpress business at Wellesley 
 Lower Falls; and John, born in 1873, with 
 his father in the coal business. 
 
 BEN HIGGINS, the proprietor of Elm- 
 wood Farm, Dover, was born in 
 Gloucester, Mass., March 31, 1845, 
 son of Eben and Lydia (Tucker) Higgins. 
 His grandparents, Eben and Susan (Sears)
 
 FREDERICK H. KIXGSBUKV.
 
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 337 
 
 Higgins, both natives of Brewster, Mass., 
 spent their last years in Newtonville. 
 
 Eben Higgins (second), the father of the 
 subject of this sketch, was a native of ]?rews- 
 ter. At an early age he went to sea, and 
 eventually became master of a vessel. After 
 acquiring considerable wealth he retired from 
 active occupation. For several years he re- 
 sided in Gloucester. In 1866 he settled upon 
 a farm in Dover, where he resided for seven 
 years. Then he moved to Newtonville, where 
 be passed the rest of his life. He died in 
 18S0. His wife, Lydia, whose father was a 
 native of Gloucester, became the mother of 
 five children — Lydia Ann, Eben, Willard 
 Sears, Susan Abbey, and Howard Holbrook. 
 Lydia, now deceased, was the wife of Abram 
 Bigelow, of Dover, who is now residing in 
 Wellesley, Mass. Willard Sears is now a 
 member of the firm of Higgins & Nickerson, 
 carpenters and builders of Newtonville. He 
 wedded Maria James, of Gloucester, who died 
 some time ago. Susan Abbey married Roger 
 Bartelle, a native of Dover. .She is dead, and 
 her husband is now in California. Howard 
 Holbrook died at the age of three months. 
 The mother resides in Newtonville. 
 
 Eben Higgins, the subject of this sketch, 
 was educated in the common and high schools 
 of Gloucester. Subsequently he went to sea 
 a year with his father, and then learned the 
 carpenter's trade in Watertown, Mass. Hav- 
 ing spent two years in Watertown, he worked 
 in Dover for a time. After his marriage he 
 went to Newtonville, where he was engaged in 
 the building business until 1877, when failing 
 health compelled him to relinquish laborious 
 employment. The Elmwood Farm was pur- 
 chased by him later. This property, which 
 consists of twenty-seven acres, he has greatly 
 improved by the erection of new buildings; 
 and he continues to cultivate it. At the pres- 
 ent time he is engaged at his trade of car- 
 penter. Politically, he is an active supporter 
 of the Republican party. He has served as 
 Town Treasurer since 1889, has been Town 
 Clerk since 1890, was an Assessor for four 
 years, is a Justice of the Peace, and he is 
 secretary of the Republican Town Committee. 
 
 On September 15, 1868, Mr. Higgins was 
 joined in marriage with Sarah A. Goulding. 
 
 She was born in Garland, Me., daughter of 
 Lewis and Maria (Holbrook) Goulding. Her 
 father, who was a native of Worcester, Mass., 
 settled upon a farm in Garland, and resided 
 there until his death. His widow, now also 
 deceased, came to Dover and married Josiah 
 Battelle. After Mr. Battellc's death she 
 wedded Caleb Haskell, who has since died. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Higgins have three children, 
 namely : Eben Edward, born November 2, 
 1871; Charles Herbert, born February 23, 
 1875; ''i"f' Lydia A., born January 27, 1884. 
 Eben E. is now a machinist in Boston, Mass. 
 Charles Herbert, D. V. S. , is a graduate of 
 the Massachusetts Agricultural College and 
 of the Magill University, Montreal. He has 
 already acquired a high reputation as a veteri- 
 nary surgeon, and is now practising in Dover, 
 with headquarters at Elmwood Farm. J^ydia 
 A. is residing at home. Mr. Higgins is con- 
 nected with Medfield Lodge, No. 1 16, 
 I. O. O. F. ; Natick Council, No. 126, Royal 
 Arcanum; John Elliott Lodge, No. 149, An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, of West 
 Newton; the Dover Grange, Patrons of Hus- 
 bandry; and with the Wildey Casualty Com- 
 pany. Both he and Mrs. Higgins are mem- 
 bers of the Congregational church, and take 
 an active interest in religious work. 
 
 REDERICK H. KINGSBURY, the 
 popular Town Clerk and Collector of 
 Ta.xes of Wellesley, was born in Need- 
 ham, now Wellesley, in 1854. A son of De.x- 
 ter and Mary Ann (Dewing) Kingsbury, he 
 belongs to an old and highly respected family 
 of the county. His grandfather, Luther Kings- 
 bury, a native of Needham, and a farmer and 
 large land-owner, married Elmira Morse, of 
 Natick. Their son, Dexter, who was born 
 May II, 1 814, became a farmer. De.xter was 
 the foreman of the Bussey farm, Jamaica 
 Plain, for eight years; the warden of the 
 Wellesley town farm for the same length of 
 time, and at a later date the foreman of the 
 Dr. Morton farm in this town. Pie died in 
 1892. His wife, Mary, a daughter of Seth 
 and Olive (Haven) Dewing, late of Needham, 
 is still living at the age of sevent\'-eight years. 
 The early life of Frederick H. Kingsbury
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 was spent at home, and he attended the com- 
 mon schools and later the high school. At 
 the age of eighteen he became a clerk in the 
 grocery store of Mansfield & Bigelow, where 
 he remained for four years. During this time 
 also he was Deputy Postmaster. Subse- 
 quently, until 1882, he was associated with his 
 father in farming. Then he was elected Col- 
 lector of Ta.xes for the town of Wellesley, 
 which office he has held for every term since 
 except one. He has been Town Clerk since 
 1888, discharging the duties of that office also 
 in a manner satisfactory to all concerned. He 
 is the administrator of his father's estate, is 
 the secretary of the Wellesley Land Improve- 
 ment Association, and is still engaged in 
 farming. 
 
 In 1885 Mr, Kingsbury married Edith A., 
 daughter of George and Catherine Nelson, of 
 Milford, N.H. He has two children: Dexter 
 Nelson, born in March, 1887; and Elizabeth 
 Louise, born September 15, i8go. Both chil- 
 dren are attending school. In politics Mr. 
 Kingsbury is a zealous Republican. He is a 
 Past Grand of Sincerity Lodge, No. 173, 
 I. O. O. F. ; a member of Welcome Lodge, 
 Daughters of Rebecca, at Natick; and the sec- 
 retary and treasurer of Wellesley Grange, Pa- 
 trons of Husbandry. 
 
 (ALVIN FAIRBANKS, one of the 
 , leading farmers and mill-owners of 
 
 \ ^ Caryville, Bellingham, Mass., the 
 son of Elijah and Nancy (Adams) 
 Fairbanks, was born in the house where he 
 now lives, October 25, 1825. His paternal 
 grandfather, Joseph Fairbanks, who was the 
 first of the family to own and occupy the home- 
 stead, was an e.\tensive farmer and the owner 
 of a great deal of mill property. He married 
 Mary Metcalf, by whom he had four children 
 — Elijah, Jonas M., Emery, and Lucy. 
 
 Their son Elijah followed his father's busi- 
 ness. He was a prominent and public- 
 spirited citizen, and filled most of the town 
 offices at different times. He died in 1871, 
 aged eighty-three. His wife was Nancy 
 Adams, of Medway. They had eight children, 
 as follows: Rufus, who died in March, 1838, 
 at the age of twenty-four; Edwin, deceased; 
 
 William; George, born December 29, 1819, 1 
 who died February i, i860; Joseph, born No- 
 vember 25, 1823, now dead; Calvin, the sub- 
 ject of our sketch; Jemima, born April 9, 
 1829, now the widow of Asa Patridge, living 
 in Jamaica Plain, Mass. ; and Nancy, born 
 January 8, 1835, who died when a young girl. 
 
 Calvin l'"airbanks obtained his elementary 
 education in the jjublic schools of Bellingijiam, 
 pursued more advanced studies at the high 
 school in Medway, where he was graduated, 
 and afterward attended the academy at Warren, 
 Mass., while teaching school evenings. With 
 the exception of three years that were passed 
 in Kennebunk, Me., where he and his brother 
 owned a saw-mill, his active life has been 
 spent in his native town. After returning 
 from Maine, he and his brother went into the 
 shoe business together, and were very success- 
 ful in the undertaking. In 1879 Mr. Fair- 
 banks came to the farm where he now lives 
 engaged in general farming and dairying. 
 The estate contains about one hundred and 
 seventy-five acres, and is well managed. 
 
 A man of good judgment and practical abil- 
 ity, fair-minded and honorable, Mr. Fairbanks 
 enjoys the respect and confidence of the towns- 
 people. He has held the office of Tax Collec- 
 tor for twelve years, and has also served as 
 Assessor, besides filling other minor offices. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He has been 
 a member of the Congregational church in 
 West Medway for a number of years. 
 
 He was first married in i860 to Almira 
 Storer, of Kennebunk, Me., who died leaving 
 no children. He was again married in 1861 
 to Jane E. , a daughter of Samuel and Eudotia 
 (Hall) Young, of Orwell, Vt. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Fairbanks have one son — Highland C, born 
 January 5, 1867, now living at home with his 
 parents. 
 
 OSEPH TAILBY, the well-known florist 
 and horticulturist of Wellesley, was 
 born in Leicestershire, England, and 
 received his early education from the 
 free schools of that county. When only thir- 
 teen years of age he began to work in a nursery 
 and greenhouse; and five years later he became 
 foreman in a private greenhouse in Knowle,
 
 JOHN F. WALL.
 
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 341 
 
 near liirminyham, Enf^land. J-'or two and one- 
 half years he remained in this position, anil 
 then became special <;ar(lener and steward for 
 William I). Dewier, a prominent manufact- 
 urer of the same town. At the end of another 
 two and one-half years he went to work in a 
 similar position for Carter & Co., of London; 
 and in 1865 he crossed the Atlantic and landed 
 at New York City. He came to South Fram- 
 ingham to take charge of the nursery and 
 greenhouses of E. J. Powers, and had re- 
 mained with him some two years and a half 
 when he settled in VVellesleyand established a 
 business for himself in a small way near where 
 he is at present located. His buildings now 
 cover si.xteen thousand, five hundred square 
 feet of land. 
 
 Mr. Tailby and his son, who is in partner- 
 ship with him, make a specialty of hybridizing 
 and producing new varieties of plants and 
 yowers, and also do a large retail business in 
 cut flowers and plants. Mr. Tailby is the 
 originator of the American types of carnations. 
 In 1880 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 
 ciety gave him the prospective prize of forty 
 dollars for the best seedling carnation. He 
 was obliged to compete for three years against 
 all comers, but finally carried off the prize, and 
 is the only person to whom it has ever been 
 awarded. The variety of carnation that won 
 this proud honor was known as the "Grace 
 Wilder." In 1S95 Mr. Tailby received the 
 silver medal from the Massachusetts Horticult- 
 ural Society for a yellow calla lily, the 
 "Elliotana. " He is now producing hybrids 
 between the Elliotana and the common Arum, 
 or Jack-in-the-pulpit, that quaintest of flowers, 
 which grows wild in New England and is 
 known to every school boy and school girl. 
 Mr. Tailby has taken many medals and certifi- 
 cates of merit from the Massachusetts and 
 New York Horticultural Societies, and is the 
 originator of the Tailby hybrid cucumber, of 
 which the seed sold the first year for eighty 
 dollars per pound. This was also awarded a 
 silver medal. When the Bruse seedling pota- 
 toes were first introduced, Mr. Tailby propa- 
 gated them in the hot-house from clippings, 
 and sold the plants at eighteen dollars per 
 dozen, realizing over five hundred dollars. 
 
 He married, in 1865, Eliza, daughter of 
 
 James Allen, of 15irmingham, ICngland, and 
 has two sons — Joseph A. and William W. 
 Josejih A. Tailby was born in 1866. He was 
 educated in the grammar school of WelJesley, 
 in Chauncy Hall .School, Boston, and at the 
 College of I'harmacy in that city. He worked 
 as an assistant at Clark University in Worces- 
 ter for two years, and then became teacher fif 
 chemistry in the College of Pharmacy from 
 which he had been graduated. He now has 
 charge for Conner & Co., manufacturing chem- 
 ists, Boston. The younger son, William W., 
 was instrumental in organizing the New P2ng- 
 land Flower Growers' Association, of which he 
 has been from the beginning secretary and 
 treasurer. He is a prominent Mason, having 
 taken the Knight Templar degree. 
 
 Mr. Tailby is a communicant of the ]{pis- 
 copal church, and belongs to the parish here in 
 Wellesley, at the organization of which he was 
 one of the original signers. Fraternally, he 
 is a member of Sincerity Lodge, No. 173, 
 I. O. O. F., is now Its treasurer, as he has 
 been for twelve years, and has passed all the 
 chairs in both the subordinate lodge and en- 
 campment. He is also a member of the 
 R. A., of Natick ; member and secretary of the 
 Massachusetts Horticultural Society; member 
 of the Florists' Club of Boston and of the 
 American Florists' Society. At the time of 
 the great Peace Jubilee in Boston in 1872, Mr. 
 Tailby was delegated as a conimittee of one 
 from British subjects in Boston, to wait on 
 Colonel F'lugier, of the British Grenadiers, to 
 solicit his permission for the famous Grenadier 
 Guards Band to play outside the building, it 
 having been announced, authoritatively or not, 
 that they would play only in the Coliseum. 
 Mr. Tailby, assisted by the Hfirticultural F"ra- 
 ternity, presented each member of the band, 
 also each member of Gilmore's Band, with a 
 hand bouquet, a button- hole bouquet of moss 
 roses, and a rosette of red, white, and blue 
 ribbons. 
 
 OHN F. WALL, the chairman of Nor- 
 folk's Board of Selectmen, and an en- 
 terprising paper manufacturer, was born 
 in Dover, Mass., September 11, 1854. 
 His parents, Patrick and Eliza (Nash) Wall,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 were natives of Killarney, Ireland. The 
 father, who emigrated to the United States at 
 the age of twenty years, settled upon a farm 
 in Dover, and there followed agriculture with 
 prosperity for many years. His last days were 
 spent in Boston, where he died in February, 
 
 189- 
 
 He served in the Civil War with the 
 
 Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteer In- 
 fantry, sustaining the loss of a limb. His 
 widow, who is now residing in Boston, has 
 been the mother of thirteen children, of whom 
 William H., John F., Joseph J., James E., 
 Lizzie E., Francis, and Philip are living. 
 James E. is a stock-broker in Boston; Joseph 
 J. is in the provision business in South Bos- 
 ton; William H., Francis, and Philip follow 
 the same business in other parts of that city ; 
 and Lizzie E. is a book-keeper. The others 
 were: Martin, Edward, and Mary, who reached 
 maturity; and three who died in infancy. 
 
 John F. Wall was educated in the common 
 schools of Dover. At the age of thirteen he 
 went to work as a farm assistant for a Mr. 
 Otis, and was later advanced to the position 
 of foreman. After his marriage he engaged 
 in the manufacture of paper with his father-in- 
 law, the late William Hill, of Dover; and 
 some five or six years later he established 
 himself in the same business in Norfolk. He 
 manufactures several kinds of paper, which 
 find a ready market in Boston and other 
 places, and has a thriving business. His 
 factory, the Campbell Mill, located in the 
 eastern part of the town, was destroyed by 
 fire, December 28, 1896, causing him con- 
 siderable loss. He resides upon a good farm 
 of sixty acres, which he has greatly improved, 
 and is now devoting his spare time to its 
 cultivation. 
 
 Mr. Wall was elected as a Democrat to the 
 Board of Selectmen three years ago, and he 
 has been its chairman for the past two years. 
 At one time he served as Constable. As an 
 able and industrious business man he has 
 gained the confidence of his fellow-townsmen, 
 and the efficiency he displays in public office 
 is heartily appreciated. He is a member of 
 King David Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of Wonewok 
 Tribe, No. 83, Improved Order of Red Men, 
 of Franklin; and of the Sons of Veterans of 
 Franklin, Mass. On January 28, 1872, he 
 
 was united in marriage with Jennie C. Hill, 
 daughter of William and Kittie (Chamless) 
 Hill, late of Dover. Mrs. Wall is the mother 
 of two children — Kittie C. and Ayana L. — 
 both of whom are residing at home. 
 
 ^^^/^'MLLARD W. turner, an es- 
 teemed and highly respected citizen 
 of Foxboro, was born in this town, 
 January 30, 1839, son of the late Willard P. 
 Turner. His father, who was born in Stough- 
 ton, this county, was educated in Foxboro, 
 having come here when a little lad to make 
 his home with his uncle, the Rev. Willard 
 Pierce. Willard P. Turner learned the tail- 
 or's trade in Foxboro, afterward working here 
 for some years. He was also for a time con- 
 nected with the straw shops, and largely in- 
 terested in their improvements. From the 
 organization of the party, in 1856, he was a 
 loyal Republican until his death, which oc- 
 curred October 18, 1896, at the age of eighty- 
 two years. For two years he was Selectman 
 of the town, serving faithfully and ably. He 
 married Miss Catherine Bird, a daughter of 
 Warren and Esther (Belcher) Bird, and with 
 her reared two children — Kate and Willard 
 W. Kate is now the widow of the late Cal- 
 vin French. She kept house for her father in 
 his declining years. 
 
 Willard W. Turner completed his education 
 in the public schools of Foxboro. Subse- 
 quently he worked in the shops of the Union 
 Straw Company for some years. In April, 
 1861, he enlisted with a company of three 
 months' men in the Fourth Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, and was afterward at the 
 battle of Big Bethel. On returning to Fox- 
 boro, Mr. Turner resumed work in the straw 
 shops, where he was employed until he re- 
 tired in 1885. He has since devoted a good 
 deal of time and attention to the raising of 
 cranberries for the market, having been asso- 
 ciated with his father in this industry for 
 many years, his average annual crop being 
 from five hundred to eight hundred barrels. 
 He is a stanch Republican in politics, and 
 voted for Abraham Lincoln in i860, that being 
 his first Presidential vote. He was a Tax 
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 343 
 
 Mr. Turner's first wife, whose maiden name 
 was Annie Barker, was born in New Bedford. 
 She died a few years after her marriage, leav- 
 ing one child, Mabel F. , who resides with her 
 aunt, Mrs. French. Mr. Turner subsequently 
 married Miss Jane A. Locke, of Lexington, 
 Mass. They have three children — Roy L. , 
 Henry VV., and Anne W. Mr. Turner is 
 much interested in Masonry, and is a member 
 of St. Alban's Lodge, F. & A. M. ; and of 
 Keystone Chapter, R. A. M. Both he and 
 Mrs. Turner arc Universal ists. 
 
 LLEN COLBURN, a well-to-do farmer 
 and dairyman, who has contributed his 
 full share toward advancing the 
 agricultural interests of Norfolk 
 County, was born October 38, 1832, in West 
 Dedham, in the house in which he now re- 
 sides. He is a son of the late Thatcher Col- 
 burn, and is descended from a i)ioneer family 
 of this part of Massachusetts. 
 
 Nathaniel Colburn emigrated from England, 
 August II, 1637, and received a grant of land 
 in the town of Dedham. He married Pris- 
 cilla Clark in 1639. The line of descent is 
 as follows: Samuel, son of Nathaniel, born 
 January 25, 1654-5; Plphraim, born Novem- 
 ber 6, 1687; Ephraim, born December 31, 
 1716; Ichabod, born February 26, 1754; and 
 Thatcher, born February 20, 1787. 
 
 Thatcher Colburn was brought up on the 
 home farm that afterward came into his pos- 
 session. He was an energetic, industrious 
 man, and in the course of his seventy-eight 
 years of life made excellent improvements on 
 his place. He married Hitty Cleveland, who 
 was born in Dover, this county, and died at 
 the old homestead, at the venerable age of 
 eighty-eight years. They reared a family of 
 five children, of whom Allen, above named, 
 and Howard, Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk 
 County, are the only survivors. The eldest 
 son, Waldo Colburn, who was graduated from 
 Phillips Academy at Andover and from the 
 Harvard Law School, and became one of the 
 leading lawyers of the State, was for a time a 
 Judge of the Superior Court and later of the 
 Supreme Court. He was prominent in local 
 affairs, serving as Selectman of the town for 
 
 many years. He lived to the age of sixty 
 years. 
 
 Allen Colburn received a good common- 
 school education, and under the tuition of his 
 father became as familiar with the theory and 
 practice of agriculture as with the contents of 
 his text-books. Choosing the free and inde- 
 pendent occupation to which he was trained as 
 his life work, he remained with his parents, 
 and succeeded to the ownership of the farm. 
 He has fifty acres of arable land, on which he 
 carries on general farming with success, and 
 makes somewhat of a specialty of dairying, 
 selling the milk from his twenty cows in the 
 Dedham markets. 
 
 Mr. Colburn was married December 18, 
 1856, to Miss Nancy Colburn, daughter of 
 Walter Colburn, of this town, a well-known 
 farmer and butcher. Mrs. Colburn lived but 
 a short time after their union, dying at the 
 age of twenty-one years, and leaving one child, 
 Nancy E. She was a woman of fine character, 
 highly respected, and was a regular attendant 
 of the Unitarian church. Mr. Colburn is a 
 decided Republican, but takes no active part 
 in political affairs. He well sustains the rep- 
 utation of his ancestors for sterling traits of 
 character and useful citizenship. He is an 
 attendant of the Baptist church and a liberal 
 contributor toward its sup]5ort. 
 
 (5 I HOMAS A. GEORGE, a merchant of 
 
 ' I Wrentham, was born here, July 23, 
 1815, son of Artemus and Annie 
 (Grant) George. The great-grandfather, 
 Richard George, who was one of the earl}' set- 
 tlers of the town, married Jerusha Hancock on 
 February 9, 173S. His children were: Han- 
 nah, born November 30, 1738; Jerusha, born 
 May 8, 1740; Thomas, born December 12, 
 1742; John, born October 28, 1744; Sarah, 
 born July 15, 1746; and Elizabeth, born Au- 
 gust 15, 174S. Thomas George, the grand- 
 father of Thomas A., resided all his lifetime 
 in his native town, and served as a Lieutenant 
 in the Revolutionary War. He married Han- 
 nah Brastow, and they had thirteen children. 
 His son Artemus, father of the subject of 
 this sketch, carried on general farming, living 
 on the old homestead during the whole of his
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 life. Artemus married Annie Grant, of 
 Rhode Island; and they had six children — 
 Artemus A., Thomas A., William H., Sarah 
 Ann, Hannah M., and Eleanor S. 
 
 After receiving his education in the dis- 
 trict schools of the town and at Day's Academy, 
 Thomas A. George taught school in different 
 districts for about seven years. He then en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of straw goods in 
 his native town, and later opened a dry-goods 
 store, which he has since carried on, a period 
 of about thirty-eight years. His political 
 views are those of the Republicans, and he 
 cast his first Presidential vote for the Whig 
 candidate in 1836. Mr. George has never 
 married. 
 
 'REDERICK HARRISON WIGHT, a 
 prosperous farmer and marketman of 
 Dover, was born in this town, Decem- 
 ber 4, 1827, son of Asa and Sibyl (Holbrook) 
 Wight. His grandfather, Seth Wight, who 
 came here from Medfield, Mass., was engaged 
 in farming and sheep-raising for the rest of 
 his life. 
 
 Asa Wight, born in Dover, was reared to 
 agricultural pursuits. He succeeded to his 
 father's farm, which he cultivated during his 
 active years. A profitable business in wood 
 and charcoal was also carried on by him. He 
 died December 13, i86g. Sibyl Holbrook, 
 who became his wife, was a native of Sherman, 
 Mass. Their children were: James H., born 
 July 21, 1816; Harrison, born April 5, 1818, 
 who died September 15, 1825; Henry, born 
 November 24, 1819, who died September 28, 
 1825; Frederick, born July 13, 1821, who 
 died September 10, 1825; Sibyl Augusta, 
 born June 13, 1823, who died October 2, 
 1825; and Frederick H., the subject of this 
 sketch. James H. Wight, who married Caro- 
 line Whitney, died in May, 1896. His wife 
 is now residing in Newton Highlands, Mass. 
 Mrs. Sibyl Wight died in May, 1871. 
 
 Frederick Harrison Wight attended the 
 common schools. At the age of seventeen he 
 began to learn the shoemaker's trade. He 
 continued to reside at home, and woi-ked at his 
 trade until 185 1, at which time he engaged in 
 farming at the homestead, and began to run a 
 
 market wagon through Dover, Needham, 
 Brighton, and Boston. In 1871 he moved to 
 the village, where he has since carried on 
 business as a marketman. He owns a well- 
 improved farm, containing twenty-six acres: 
 and he still continues to till the soil with ac- 
 tivity. 
 
 On June 3, 185 i, Mr. Wight married Susan 
 E. Ware. She was born in Wrentham, Mass., 
 September 18, 1829, daughter of Herman and 
 Ruth (Whiting) Ware, both natives of 
 Wrentham, Mass. Herman Ware settled in 
 Medfield in 1843, and was engaged in farming 
 and butchering there for many years. He 
 died in Dover, July 7, 1883, aged eighty-two 
 years; and his wife died June 15, 1871. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wight have three children, namely: 
 Ellen Augusta, born January 14, 1858; Ade- 
 laide Evora, born June 28, 1863; and Fred- 
 erick Leslie, born May 5, 1869. Ellen 
 Augusta married Lewis W. Chandler, a car- 
 penter and contractor of Needham, Mass. 
 Adelaide Evora is the wife of George H. 
 Thompson, a prosperous farmer of New Brain- 
 tree, Mass. Frederick Leslie, who is in the 
 antique furniture business in Washington, 
 D.C., married Lottie Louise Bacon, of New 
 Braintree. Mr. Wight supports the Republi- 
 can party, but has never aspired to public 
 office. He takes much interest in all meas- 
 ures calculated to advance the welfare of the 
 community. Both he and Mrs. Wight are 
 members of the Congregational church. 
 
 RVILLE C. RHODES, a Selectman 
 of Bellingham township and a promi- 
 nent farmer there, was born Novem- 
 ber I, 1843, son of William O. and 
 Waity (Cooke) Rhodes, both natives of Bell- 
 ingham. John Rhodes, the paternal grand- 
 father, a native of Bristol, R. I., was the 
 first of the family to come to Bellingham, 
 where he and his sister resided all their lives. 
 William O. Rhodes, son of John, is a boot- 
 maker by trade. The greater part of Will- 
 iam's life, however, has been devoted to agri- 
 culture on his farm on Blackstone Street, 
 where he still resides, at the age of eighty- 
 one. His wife died in 1886, leaving three 
 children. These are: Mary J., the wife of
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 347 
 
 George H. Thayer, of Bellingham village; 
 Irvin O., who married Etta Talcott, and re- 
 sides in Mendon, Mass., where he is a suc- 
 cessful butcher; and Orville C, the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Rhodes received a common-school edu- 
 cation, and remained at home until twenty- 
 four years of age. In 1865 he moved to the 
 farm of seven acres on which he now lives. 
 He has much enhanced the value of the place 
 by erecting new buildings and making other 
 improvements. Here he raises poultry exten- 
 sively for the market. His is chiefly occu- 
 pied as a meat dealer, doing his own butcher- 
 ing, and running a retail cart through Belling- 
 ham and Mendon, where he has a large trade. 
 Mr. Rhodes is much interested in the public 
 affairs of the town, and votes the Independent 
 ticket. He was Assessor for about ten years, 
 and he has been Selectman for the past three 
 years. In the Bellingham Grange, No. 190, 
 P. H., he is Master. 
 
 His wife, in maidenhood Charlotte M. 
 Cook, was born May 10, 1840, in VVrentham, 
 this county, daughter of Avery and Charlotte 
 (Barney) Cook. Her mother was a native of 
 Rhode Island; and her father was born in 
 Wrentham, where he resided until his death. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes have two children : 
 Clara A., born November 29, 1868, who re- 
 sides at home; and Frederick M., born Janu- 
 ary 13, 1874, who married Lottie Clarke, and 
 resides with his wife and parents at the old 
 farm. Mr. Rhodes has earned his success in 
 life by close application to work and by mak- 
 ing a constant endeavor to please his cus- 
 tomers. He is well known and liked through- 
 out the town and county. 
 
 AMES WILLARD DANIELS, one of 
 the prosperous farmers of Millis, was 
 born in this town when it was a part of 
 Medway, April 2, 1817. Also natives 
 place were his parents, James and 
 (Richardson) Daniels; his paternal 
 grandparents, Lemuel and Priscilla (Penni- 
 man) Daniels; and his maternal grandparents, 
 Simeon and Elizabeth (Jones) Richardson. 
 Lemuel Daniels, who was a shoemaker by 
 trade, settled upon the farm where his grand- 
 
 of the 
 Rhoda 
 
 son now resides, and occupied it for the rest 
 of his life. He was the father of two children 
 — - Jasper and James — both now deceased. 
 Jasper wedded Mehitable Partridge, and re- 
 sided in Rockville. 
 
 James Daniels settled at the homestead 
 after his marriage, and was there engaged in 
 farming until October 2, 18 16, when the acci- 
 dental discharge of a gun totally destroyed 
 the sight of both eyes. He died July 29, 
 1882, aged eighty-eight years, and his wife 
 on February 24 of the same year. Their chil- 
 dren were: James W., the subject of this 
 sketch; Rhoda R., born August 31, 1821, 
 who died at the age of ten years; and Abigail 
 P., born March 16, 1829, who died December 
 3, 1831- 
 
 James Willard Daniels acquired a common- 
 school education, and was reared to agricult- 
 ural pursuits at the homestead. He has al- 
 ways resided here, and since 1842 has man- 
 aged the farm, which he inherited after his 
 father's death. On the property, containing 
 ninety acres, twenty acres of which is wood- 
 land, he has made various improvements. 
 Prior to 1887 he was for many years engaged 
 in driving a team between this town and Bos- 
 ton. He has been a Republican since the for- 
 mation of his party, and he cast his first Pres- 
 idential ballot for William Henry Harrison. 
 Valuable public services were rendered by 
 him in the capacity of Road Surveyor. 
 
 On February 24, 1842, Mr. Daniels married 
 for his first wife Marion Adams. Her par- 
 ents, Aaron and Catherine Adams, both now 
 deceased, were prosperous farming people of 
 West Medway. She died March 24, 1849, 
 leaving two children: Rhoda A., born Decem- 
 ber 4, 1842, who died April 2, i860; and 
 Marion Jane, born February 23, 1849, who 
 married Sewell H. Bullard, and lives in 
 Florida. On October 30, 1850, Mr. Daniels 
 wedded Mrs. Mary (Morse) Bullard. She is a 
 daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Metcalf) 
 Morse, who were natives respectively of Sher- 
 born, Mass., and Franklin, and resided upon a 
 farm in the district now called Millis. The 
 father died here at the age of ninety-four, and 
 the mother at that of eighty-seven. By her 
 union with her first husband, Sylvanus Bul- 
 lard, who died here in 1836, Mrs. Daniels had
 
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 one son, Frederick Francis, who, born Novem- 
 ber 30, 1836, died September 15, 1838. By 
 her second marriage she had one daughter, 
 Mary Abbott, born October i, 1851, who died 
 February 21, 1856. She is a member of the 
 Congregational church. 
 
 J-\ DENYS ZIRNGIEBEL, a leading 
 — \ florist of Massachusetts, was born 
 SV. in Neufchatel, one of the French- 
 speaking cantons of Switzerland, in 
 the year 1829. He was educated in the Col- 
 lege of Neufchatel, under Professor Louis 
 Agassiz, graduating in 1848, and then becom- 
 ing an apprentice in the Neufchatel Botanical 
 Gardens, where he remained for three years. 
 The next eight years he spent in Paris, en- 
 gaged in the floral business. He then took 
 charge of the Gardens of Shadau in Thun, 
 Switzerland, for three years; and in 1854 he 
 came to America, landing at New Orleans. 
 He was in Louisiana for two years; and at the 
 end of that time he came to Cambridge, Mass., 
 and took charge of the Harvard Botanic 
 Gardens. In this position as curator he re- 
 mained for twelve years, associated with Pro- 
 fessor Asa Gray, the distinguished botanist 
 and author. In 1864 Mr. Zirngiebel came to 
 Needham, and purchased the property where 
 he is now extensively engaged in floriculture, 
 raising many plants and flowers for the Boston 
 markets. At present he has about thirty-five 
 thousand feet under glass and about eight 
 acres devoted to the raising of flowers. He 
 makes a specialty of producing new varieties 
 of plants, flowers, and seeds, particularly of 
 pansies, and in this respect has a national rep- 
 utation, having originated many new and 
 choice varieties. He also does a large busi- 
 ness in ornamental and landscape gardening, 
 and is greatly interested in the subject of 
 heating greenhouses. He has made a study 
 of this important question, and is the origina- 
 tor and introducer of the system of heating by 
 under pressure of hot water. For this he re- 
 ceived the first prize offered for the best essay 
 on heating, there being fifty-eight competitors 
 from different parts of the United States and 
 Canada. 
 
 In 1854, shortly before coming to the 
 
 United States, Mr. Zirngiebel was married in 
 Switzerland to Henriette Zeller. The three 
 children born of this union are: Denys, Jr., 
 Hattie, and Augustus. Denys, Jr., born in 
 Switzerland in 1855, is now living in Need- 
 ham. He was educated in the common 
 schools and the high school of this town, and 
 learned the electrical business with IModgett 
 Brothers, of Boston. Hattie was born in 
 Cambridge in 1859, ^"^ ^^^ educated in the 
 public schools of Needham, including the high 
 school. She married Mr. A. N. VVyeth, of 
 Cambridge, and lives in Needham. Augus- 
 tus, who was born in 1862, and is now en- 
 gaged in business with his father, married 
 Mary Richardson. In politics Mr. Zirngiebel 
 is a Republican, and he is a faithful supporter 
 of Republican principles and American insti- 
 tutions. 
 
 ORACH BAXTER SPEAR, a prom- 
 inent and highly esteemed citizen of 
 Quincy, Mass., where he is now 
 living retired from active pursuits, 
 was born in this town, October 7, 1822. His 
 father, Elijah Spear, was born here, January 
 27, 1775- He was a son of Seth and Judith 
 (Adams) Spear, and a descendant of old Nor- 
 folk County families. Seth Spear was a sol- 
 dier in the Revolution, and later was known 
 as Lieutenant Spear. He, son of John Spear, 
 was born in 1742 in this town, then a part of 
 old Braintree, and died here, August 26, i8i8. 
 That he was active in local affairs is evinced 
 by the mention of his name as a town officer in 
 the early records of Quincy. He w^as three 
 times married. Judith Adams, of Milton, to 
 whom he was united in 1764, died July 10, 
 1787, aged forty years. In 1788 he married 
 Abigail Marsh, and after her death he married 
 Fanny Nightingale. 
 
 Elijah Spear learned the currier's trade in 
 his early days, but, instead of following it after 
 becoming of age, turned his attention then to 
 freighting stone on sloops from Quincy to 
 Boston. In this occupation he saved consid- 
 erable money, which he invested in land; and 
 during his later years he was prosperously 
 engaged in the pursuit of agriculture, his 
 death occurring in 1833. He served as Se-
 
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 351 
 
 lectman of the town two years, and was a 
 member of the School Committee for some 
 time. In the first year of the present century 
 he married Susanna Baxter (born 1780, died 
 1863), daughter of Jonathan Baxter, of 
 Quincy. They reared eight children, as fol- 
 lows: Seth, born January 9, 1801, died in 
 April, 1888; Susanna, born August 31, 1802, 
 who married Thomas M. Marsh, and died in 
 1891 ; Elizabeth, born January 4, 1805, now 
 the widow of Seth Jillson, formerly of Willi- 
 mantic, but later of Norwich, Conn., where 
 she is now spending her declining years; Abi- 
 gail, born April 29, 1807, died unmarried at 
 the age of twenty-five years; Judith, born Jan- 
 uary 24, 1812, now residing in Quincy; 
 Elijah, born in 1813, who died at the age 
 of twenty-five years, unmarried ; Lucy, born 
 March 31, 1817, who married Charles Marsh, 
 and died in 1862; and Horace Baxter, the 
 special subject of this sketch. The parents 
 were active members of the First Church of 
 Quincy (Unitarian), whose house of worship 
 is the Stone Temple, sometimes called the 
 "Adams Temple, " built at the request of ex- 
 President John Adams, mostly of stone from a 
 quarry presented by him late in his life to the 
 town. 
 
 Horace Baxter Spear completed his educa- 
 tion at Derby Academy in Hingham, Mass., 
 and was then employed for several years as 
 clerk by Josiah Brigham & Co., in a general 
 country store in Quincy. Subsequently, form- 
 ing a partnership with his brother-in-law, 
 Charles Marsh, under the name of Marsh & 
 Spear, he was engaged in the wholesale leather 
 trade in Boston for ten years. The following 
 three years he had no permanent business, but 
 in 1868 he was appointed cashier of the 
 National Granite Bank and treasurer of the 
 Quincy Savings Bank. These positions he 
 resigned in 1871, when he became cashier of 
 the National Mount Wollaston Bank. In 
 1887, after sixteen years of efficient service, he 
 resigned his position as cashier of the last 
 named bank, and was succeeded by his son, 
 Horace Frederick. Since then Mr. Spear has 
 not been confined to any active business. He 
 is a director of the National Mount Wollaston 
 Bank and a trustee of the Quincy Savings 
 Bank, where he served for several years on the 
 
 board of investment, and also as vice-president 
 and president. For seventeen years he was 
 Town Treasurer of Quincy, and he served in 
 the same capacity the first year after the adop- 
 tion of the city charter. He has served for 
 about thirty years as the local agent of the 
 Norfolk and Dedham Insurance Companies, 
 and this position he still retains. In jiolitics 
 he is a straight Republican. He holds a 
 commission as Justice of the Peace, having 
 received his first appointment from Governor 
 Claflin. 
 
 Mr. Spear was married October 25, 1S60, 
 to Mary Maria, daughter of lileazer and Mary 
 (Gould) F"rederick, of Quincy. The three 
 children born of their union are: Horace Fred- 
 erick, cashier of the National Mount Wollas- 
 ton Bank; Lucy Maria; and Joseph Gould. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Spear are members of the First 
 Congregational Society (Unitarian), of which 
 he has been treasurer and also one of the Parish 
 Committee. His more than ordinary capacity 
 as a business man and financier, as exemplified 
 in his career as a banker and in his public 
 service as Town Treasurer, is recognized by 
 his fellow-townsmen; and he is rightly re- 
 garded as one who has done bis full share in 
 promoting the best interests of the town. He 
 and his wife and family form a part of the best 
 social element of Quincy. 
 
 EV. DWIGHT M. HODGE was born 
 in Salisbury, Herkimer County, 
 N.Y., about fifty years ago. While 
 young, his parents removed to 
 Northern New York, settling in Adams 
 Centre, Jefferson County. Mr. Hodge was 
 educated in the public and private schools, 
 Lowville Academy, and St. Lawrence Univer- 
 sity. He attributes the better part of his ed- 
 ucation, however, to his tutoring by an ex- 
 ]5rofessor of Oxford, who served as an officer 
 in the rebel army, and remained in this coun- 
 try some years after the close of the war. 
 Leaving college, Mr. Hodge settled in North 
 Adams. After a pastorate of two years, he 
 continued the study of medicine, which he had 
 taken up before entering college. During the 
 interval between his years of study at Low- 
 ville and his entering college he also taught
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 school, holding the position of principal of 
 the village school in Rodman, N. Y. 
 
 After his completion of his course of medi- 
 cal study he was settled for ten years in Dan- 
 bury, Conn.; and for nine of those years he 
 was a member of the Board of Education in 
 that city. During this time a committee, ap- 
 pointed by the Pennsylvania legislature to re- 
 vise the school system of that State, took 
 counsel of leading educators, and were referred 
 by the Connecticut State Board of Education 
 to Mr. Hodge as one of the persons most com- 
 petent to advise them in their work. Most of 
 his suggestions were embodied in the com- 
 mittee's report. During his residence in 
 Danbury Mr. Hodge also became a candi- 
 date for Congress in William H. Barnum's 
 district. Of course, the contest was a hope- 
 less one in Mr. Barnum's time. Neverthless, 
 Mr. Hodge's vote was one of which he has no 
 reason to be ashamed. He had the support of 
 independent newspapers, the Springfield Re- 
 publican^ though outside the State, advising 
 voters desiring better political conditions to 
 vote for Mr. Hodge. In 1880 Mr. Hodge was 
 invited to become pastor of the Second Uni- 
 versalist Church in the city of New York, and 
 accepted, remaining in New York ten years, 
 accepting a call to his present charge in 
 P"ranklin in 1891 . 
 
 Mr. Hodge travelled in Europe in the sum- 
 mer of 1886 and again in the summer of 1890, 
 visiting nearly all the continental countries 
 except Russia. As a writer Mr. Hodge has 
 achieved some distinction, and especially as a 
 writer of poetry. It is felt that, were he to 
 live a less busy and more contemplative life, 
 he would make a mark in literature. He has 
 contributed poetry and prose to the Univer- 
 salist Quarleyl]\ Christian Leader, the Inde- 
 pendent^ and various other periodicals. Mr. 
 Hodge's tastes, however, incline him to an 
 active life; and he holds various positions of 
 influence in his denomination, being at the 
 present time a trustee of the Universalist 
 Publishing House, a trustee of the Massachu- 
 setts Universalist Convention, and a member 
 of its Advisory Committee. 
 
 Mr. Hodge is an honorary member of the 
 Harlem Club, New York City, and was for 
 two terms president of the Universalist Club 
 
 of New York City. While visiting Europe in 
 1890, Mr. Hodge received the freedom of the 
 royal castle of Nuremberg through the cour- 
 tesy of the Regent of Bavaria. He was also a 
 guest of the Carlton Club, one of the most 
 exclusive clubs of London. 
 
 RTHUR W. STETSON, printer, son 
 of the late David Brainard Stetson, (jf 
 Quincy, is a lineal descendant, in 
 the eighth generation, of Robert 
 Stetson, who in 1658 was cornet of the first 
 troop of horsemen raised in Plymouth Colony. 
 Cornet Robert Stetson was born in 161 3 and 
 died February i, 1703. From him the line of 
 descent is as follows: Joseph, born June, 1639, 
 who resided in Scituate, and died in 1724; 
 Robert, born December 9, 1670, who married 
 Mary Collamore, of Scituate; Amos, who was 
 born June 18, 1703, married Margaret Thayer, 
 of Braintree, May 9, 1727, and died in Brain- 
 tree in 1777; Rufus, born December 8, 1735; 
 Jeremiah, born September i, 1776, who mar- 
 ried Hannah White, December i, 1803, died 
 October 20, 1862; and David Brainard, who 
 was born in Weymouth, Mass., P'ebruary i, 
 1817. 
 
 Two of Mr. Stetson's near kinsmen were 
 soldiers of the Revolutionary War, namely: 
 Amos Stetson, his father's great-uncle, who 
 died of sickness soon after the surrender of 
 Burgoyne; and Gideon Stetson, his grand- 
 father's cousin, who enlisted when but four- 
 teen years old. 
 
 David Brainard Stetson on attaining his 
 majority came to Quincy to work as a clerk in 
 Fitz's store. He subsequently applied him- 
 self for a few years to the trade of a shoe- 
 maker, which he had previously learned, fol- 
 lowing that occupation until 1848. Going 
 then to North Weymouth, he had charge of 
 the store of Henry Newton for about eigh- 
 teen months, when he returned to Quincy to 
 assume the management of the Union Store, 
 Division No. 179, a style of mercantile busi- 
 ness quite prominent in many parts of the 
 State at that time. He was successful in this 
 undertaking, and, investing his earnings in 
 shares of the corporation, soon had a control- 
 ling interest in its stock, the store, which was
 
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 one of general merchandise, eventually falling 
 into his hands. After carrying it on for a 
 brief period, he closed out all departments 
 excepting that of shoes, to which he afterward 
 devoted his attention, becoming one of the 
 foremost boot and shoe dealers of the town. 
 At the time of his death, from a shock of 
 paralysis received four days before, which 
 occurred August 17, 1894, he was the oldest 
 merchant as regards actual engagement in 
 trade of any in Quincy. This long-estab- 
 lished business, which is still in a flourishing 
 condition, is continued by his daughter, Miss 
 Ella L. Stetson. 
 
 In his earlier years Mr. David H. Stetson 
 was connected with the Free Soil party, and 
 was a strong anti-slavery worker, being a 
 faithful friend and follower of Garrison and 
 Phillips. He was one of the original mem- 
 bers of the Republican party, was an earnest 
 advocate of the temperance cause, and he took 
 a deep interest in local and national politics, 
 but never aspired to public office. He was a 
 member of the Congregational church, and 
 each Sunday found him in his accustomed 
 pew. His remains are laid to rest in the cem- 
 etery at Mount Wollaston, where a beautiful 
 sarcophagus has been erected to his memory 
 by his loving children. 
 
 On April 25, 1841, he married Abigail 
 Spear, daughter of Jedediah Spear, of Quincy. 
 She died December 10, 1864, having borne 
 him five children — Warren B., Abbie E., 
 Lorin A., Ella L., and Arthur W. His sec- 
 ond wife, Mrs. H. B. D. Fitz, died Septem- 
 ber 27, 1887. Warren B. Stetson, the eldest 
 son, born September 26, 1842, is a shoe man- 
 ufacturer in Middleboro, Mass. ; Abbie E., 
 born in Quincy, February 14, 1844, married 
 Henry O. Studley; Lorin A., born April 11, 
 1847, died October 11, 185 1 ; Ella L. Stetson 
 was born November 4, 1853. Mrs. Studley, 
 Ella L., and Arthur W. live at the old home- 
 stead in Quincy. 
 
 While still a pupil in the public schools 
 Arthur W. Stetson laid the foundation for his 
 present prosperous enterprise by printing visit- 
 ing and business cards with a small hand-press. 
 In his earlier mature years he worked for a 
 while in his father's store; but as his printing 
 activities increased he decided to turn his 
 
 entire energies in this direction, the result 
 being that by his artistic and superior work- 
 manship, combined with a close and prompt 
 attention to the wants of his customers, he has 
 built up a large and lucrative business. 
 
 Mr. Stetson is a Mason of prominence in 
 Eastern Massachusetts, being a member of the 
 following organizations of that order: Rural 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., and St. Stephen's Chap- 
 ter, R. A. M., of Quincy, of which he is 
 High Priest; South Shore Commandery, K.'I'., 
 of East Weymouth; Boston Council of Royal 
 and Select Masters ; Boston Lafayette Lodge 
 of Perfection; Giles F. Yates Council, 
 Princes of Jerusalem; Mount Olivet Chap- 
 ter, Rose Croix; Massachusetts Consistory, 
 Thirty-second Degree; and Aleppo Temple, 
 A. A. O. N. M. S., of Boston. He was also 
 one of the board of Grand Officers of the 
 Grand Encampment of Odd T'ellows in 1894, 
 1895, and i8g6, and is a member of the fol- 
 lowing bodies belonging to that order: Mount 
 Wollaston Lodge, No. 80, I. O. O. F., of 
 which he is P. G. ; Manet Encampment, No. 
 75, of Quincy, of which he is P. C. P. ; Grand 
 Canton Shawmut, No. i, of Boston, of which 
 he is Past Captain ; and of Amana Rebekah 
 Lodge, No. 96, of South Braintree. 
 
 -I^TON. FRANCIS W. DARLING, of 
 
 L^-l Hyde Park, Mass., dealer in wood 
 
 |[ g I and coal, was born in Boston on 
 
 — December i6, 1852. His father 
 
 George Darling, and his grandfather, Samuel 
 
 Darling, were both natives of that city. The 
 
 latter was a lumber dealer, and had a wharf at 
 
 Charles Street. He accumulated considerable 
 
 property, and died a wealthy man. 
 
 George Darling was one of a number of 
 children born to his parents, and was educated 
 in the public schools of Boston, including the 
 high school. He early went into the grocery 
 business, at first as clerk and later for himself, 
 and was in the wholesale trade during the 
 greater part of his active life. He was a 
 well-known man in Boston, and enjoyed wide- 
 spread confidence. His wife, whose name be- 
 fore marriage was Eliza A. Duncan, and who 
 also was of Boston, bore him four children, 
 of whom two lived to reach adult age. George
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Darling, Jr., who was in the drug business in 
 Boston, died at the age of twenty-five years. 
 Mrs. Darling died at the age of fifty-seven. 
 Both parents for a time were connected with 
 the Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, and later 
 were Unitarians. Mr. George Darling was a 
 Mason and an Odd Fellow. He had charge of 
 his sister's estate for some years, acting as 
 guardian. 
 
 Francis W. Darling spent his early life in 
 Boston. After his graduation from the Eng- 
 lish High School he entered the grocery store 
 of Stedman, Thayer & Co., one of the best 
 known firms in the city, as clerk, and was with 
 them for four years. He then began the study 
 of law in the Boston University Law School, 
 but before completing the course was obliged 
 to give it up on account of failing health. 
 He next went into the employ of the Cobb 
 Lime Company with their Boston agent, and 
 becoming intimately associated with Governor 
 Bodwell, of Maine, and the Hon. Francis 
 Cobb, of Rockland, Me., men of much promi- 
 nence, was with them until 1878, when he 
 formed the company of Darling & Stebbins, 
 and controlled two wharves in Boston, doing 
 a retail business. Later this firm dissolved; 
 and in 1890 Mr. Darling established the busi- 
 ness now conducted under the name of F. W. 
 Darling & Co. in Hyde Park, with a Boston 
 office at 17 Exchange Place. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Darling was united in mar- 
 riage with Anna E. Keene, of Rockland, Me., 
 daughter of Horatio N. Keene, a boot and shoe 
 dealer of that city. Two children have been 
 born to them — Harold D. and Laura K. 
 
 In politics Mr. Darling is a Republican, 
 and in 1892 he was elected to represent the 
 town of Hyde Park in the State legislature. 
 He was re-elected in 1893 by three times the 
 majority received in 1892, and in 1894 he was 
 unanimously nominated from the First Norfolk 
 District as the Republican candidate for Sen- 
 ator. He carried the election by five times 
 the majority ever before given, and was re- 
 elected to the Senate in 1895 by a still greater 
 majority. In 1896 he sent a letter to the con- 
 vention refusing, although strongly urged, to 
 be a candidate for a third term. Mr. Darling 
 was brought into prominence by his advocacy 
 of the anti-stock-watering bills passed in 1893 
 
 and 1894, and by his demand for a statement 
 of the American Sugar Refining Trust, which 
 had diligently evaded the law for several years. 
 He was prominent in the Senate by his work 
 in getting through the Metropolitan Sewer 
 Construction Bill for the Neponset valley. 
 During his last year in the House he was a 
 candidate for the speakership, and during his 
 second year in the Senate he was a prominent 
 candidate for the presidency. He has always 
 taken an active interest in the public affairs of 
 the town, and has delivered patriotic and other 
 addresses upon many occasions, notably one on 
 May 30, 1896, at Hyde Park. He is the only 
 Senator ever sent from Hyde Park. Mr. Dar- 
 ling is a member of the Masonic Lodge of 
 Hyde Park, also of the I. O. O. F. ; is vice- 
 president of the First Unitarian Society of 
 this place; and was a member of the Hyde 
 Park Club, of which he was an organizer and 
 the first president. 
 
 AMUEL R. MOSELEY, of Hyde 
 Park, the publisher of the Norfolk 
 County Gazette, was born in Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, November 6, 1846, son 
 of Thomas W. H. and Mary A. (Beckner) 
 Moseley. The paternal grandfather, Daniel 
 P. Moseley, who was born near Culpeper 
 Court-house, Va., owned the farm where the 
 battle of Cedar Mountain was fought. A law- 
 yer with an extensive practice in Eastern 
 Kentucky, he was a prominent man in the dis- 
 trict. He died near Greenup, Ky. , at the age 
 of seventy years. 
 
 Thomas W. H. Moseley, born in Mont- 
 gomery County, Kentucky; one of the many 
 children of Daniel, became a civil engineer, 
 and built many bridges, which are monuments 
 to his skill. He came to Massachusetts in 
 1861 and settled in Roxbury. Two years 
 later he removed to Hyde Park. During the 
 period of the Mexican War he was Adjutant- 
 general in Ohio. His work in Massachusetts 
 was principally upon iron bridges and iron 
 buildings. He died in Scranton, Pa., in 
 1S80, while there upon a business engagement. 
 Many inventions of his are in the Patent 
 Office at Washington and in use throughout 
 the country. He married Mary A. Beckner,
 
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 who was born in Bath County, Kentucky, 
 daughter of Jacob L. Beckner by his wife 
 Nancy West (Lancaster) Beckner. She was 
 a descendant of Benjamin West, the great 
 American landscape painter. Of her four 
 children, a son died young. The others are: 
 Randolph P., Anna M. L., and Samuel R. 
 Both parents were members of the Presbyterian 
 church. The father was one of Hyde Park's 
 most esteemed residents. 
 
 Samuel R. Moseley came to Hyde Park in 
 1863, and became a clerk in the office of the 
 iron works there until the company dissolved. 
 In 1873 he and Randolph C. Getchell became 
 the publishers of the Norfolk County Gazette. 
 In 1876 he bought out his partner's inter- 
 est, and since that time has conducted the 
 paper alone. The Gazette is the oldest paper 
 in the county. Started at Dedham in 1813, it 
 was brought in 1868 to Hyde Park, where it 
 has since been published. Mr. Moseley has 
 made it one of the finest papers in the State. 
 It is highly prized by its subscribers as a pub- 
 lication full of the latest local news and al- 
 ways abreast of the times. Its circulation, 
 which is large and influential, extends to 
 many prominent business men of the county 
 as regular subscribers. Besides publishing 
 his paper, Mr. Moseley does a large business 
 in job printing, for which he has a complete 
 plant. 
 
 On June 6, 1870, Mr. Moseley married 
 Caroline M. Brown, of Andover, Mass., a 
 daughter of John D. Brown, who was a drug- 
 gist in Andover for forty years. He is a 
 member of Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A. M. ; 
 of Norfolk Royal Arch Chapter; of Hyde Park 
 Council ; of Neponset Tribe, No. 26, of the 
 Hyde Park Red Men ; of Forest Lodge, No. 
 148, I. O. O. F. ; of the Riverside Lodge, 
 No. 33, A. O. U. W. ; of the' Waverly Club; 
 and a charter member of the Hyde Park Social 
 Club. In politics he has figured prominently 
 as one of the active Republicans of the town. 
 P'or the past fifteen years he has been a mem- 
 ber of the party's town committee, and for 
 the last two years he has been the chairman of 
 its county committee. He was one of the 
 first auditors of accounts of the town. A 
 member of the legislature in 1885-87, he 
 served on the committee appointed to investi- 
 
 gate the question of child labor in factories; 
 and during both years he was on the Railroad 
 Committee. He was also the Postmaster of 
 the town during Harrison's administration. 
 A public spirited man, he has taken a constant 
 interest in the affairs of the town and favored 
 every measure likely to benefit it. Both he 
 and Mrs. Moseley are connected with the 
 I^piscopal church. 
 
 KV. GEORGE HILL, who was a 
 prominent Universalist minister of 
 
 Is \ Norwood, was born July 8, 1825, 
 
 in Meredith, N.H. His grand- 
 father served as a soldier in the war for inde- 
 pendence. His father, Parmenas Hill, was 
 for many years employed in the paper-mills of 
 Meredith. Parmenas Hill had a family of 
 eight children, namely: Charles, a resident 
 of Haverhill, Mass. ; Dr. Hiram Hill, of Man- 
 chester, N.H.; Mrs. Hugh McLeod, of Cam- 
 bridge, Mass. ; Dr. Esther Hawkes, of Lynn, 
 Mass.; VV. S. Hill, of Hyde Park, Mass.; 
 E. O. Hill, of Ansonia, Conn. ; Sylvanus, 
 who is residing in Lynn; and George Hill, 
 the subject of this sketch. He died before 
 any of his children reached maturit)', thus 
 leaving them to shape their own course in life; 
 but the struggle for existence and education 
 was bravely won, and all became worthy mem- 
 bers of society. 
 
 George Hill pursued his elementary studies 
 in Meredith, where his boyhood was spent. 
 Being ambitious to acquire a liberal education, 
 he labored diligently upon farms and in cot- 
 ton-mills, with a view of accomplishing that 
 laudable purpose. By practising the most 
 rigid economy he succeeded in saving a sum 
 sufficient to pay his expenses at the Pembroke 
 Academy; and he afterward taught school in 
 New Hampshire and Massachusetts. His 
 theological studies were commenced under the 
 guidance of the Rev. Uriah Clark, and 
 when twenty-si.x years old he was ordained a 
 Universalist preacher. His first pastorate 
 was at Arlington, Mass., where he remained 
 eleven years, at the expiration of which time 
 he was called to Milford, Mass. After resid- 
 ing there for five years, he was in 1867 in- 
 stalled pastor of the church in South Dedham,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 now Norwood. His pastoral labors in this 
 town were thoroughly appreciated by the gen- 
 eral community. In 1884 he relinquished the 
 arduous duties of a regular pastorate, but con- 
 tinued to retain his connection with the min- 
 istry, and frequently supplied the pulpits in 
 East Walpole, Mansfield, Foxboro, and 
 Methuen. Much interested in the welfare of 
 Norwood, he was one of the organizers of the 
 Business Men's Association and the Board of 
 Trade, was the secretary of the latter organi- 
 zation, was a member of the Board of Health, 
 and a trustee of the public library. He was 
 a man of strong individuality and superior 
 mental force, whose advice was always sound 
 and judicious. His noble, unselfish charac- 
 ter and kindly disposition are still fresh in 
 the memory of his friends and acquaintances, 
 who may be said to include the entire com- 
 munity. He was chaplain of Orient Lodge, 
 F. & A. M. ; and he was officiating in the 
 same capacity at the Norfolk County jail, 
 when he died at his home in Norwood, Janu- 
 ary 22, 1896. 
 
 Mr. Hill married Georgianna Brown, a 
 daughter of David Brown, of Sutton, N.H. 
 He left four daughters; namely, Florence, 
 Alice G., Jessie K., and Mary Grace. Jessie 
 K. is the wife of H. F. Walker, of Norwood; 
 Mary Grace married Joseph Foss, of this 
 town; Florence is a school teacher, and re- 
 sides in Norwood. 
 
 /T^HARLES F. KIMBALL, submaster 
 I Kr^ of the Rice Training School of Bos- 
 
 \ ^ ^ ton, Mass., and one of the most 
 valued teachers of that city, has 
 been a resident of Walnut Hill, Dedham, for 
 the past thirty years. A man of scholarly 
 attainments, keenly alive to the progressive 
 methods of instruction now in vogue in 
 schools of all grades, he has made his influ- 
 ence felt in educational circles, and has wor- 
 thily contributed his full share in maintaining 
 the high standard of the special school with 
 which he is connected. He was born Decem- 
 ber 3, 1830, in Temple, Hillsboro County, 
 N.H. His paternal ancestors for at least 
 three generations back were natives of the 
 Granite State, and each bore the name of 
 
 Isaac. The last years of hi.s great-grandfather 
 Kimball, who was a farmer, and who attained 
 a venerable age, were passed in the town of 
 Temple. Isaac Kimball, second, was like- 
 wise a sturdy and industrious tiller of the 
 soil, pursuing his occupation throughout his 
 active years either in Vermont or New Hamp- 
 shire, a part of his life being spent in each 
 State. 
 
 Isaac Kimball, third, father of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was born in New Ipswich, 
 N. H., April 19, 1789, just eleven days prior 
 to the inauguration of George Washington as 
 the first President of the United States. He 
 early learned the trade of blacksmith, and, 
 settling in Mason village, N.H., lived there 
 until 1829. During that year he removed to 
 the neighboring town of Temple, where he 
 engaged in farming in conjunction with his 
 trade, making his home there until his death, 
 which occurred at the advanced age of ninety- 
 two years. He was a skilful and thorough- 
 going farmer, familiar with all branches of 
 agriculture. He was held in high regard as a 
 man of intelligence, integrity, and honor, and 
 wielded strong influence in local affairs, serv- 
 ing in different town offices, and in 1846, 1847, 
 and 1848 as a Representative to the New 
 Hampshire legislature. In his early years he 
 was a Whig, although in 1844 he cast his vote 
 for James G. Birney, the anti-slavery candidate 
 for president. On the formation of the Re- 
 publican party he joined its ranks, and until 
 the day of his death he was a stanch supporter 
 of its principles. He retained both his physi- 
 cal and mental vigor to within two years of 
 the end of his life, when he met with an 
 accident which caused him thereafter to be 
 bed-ridden. But a short time before the 
 accident he had picked the apples from his 
 orchard by hand, climbing to the tops of the 
 highest trees. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Lucinda Tenney, was born in Hollis, 
 N. H., the daughter of William Tenney, a 
 prominent farmer. She died at the age of 
 seventy years, having borne him twelve chil- 
 dren, eight of whom grew to maturity, four 
 being yet alive, namely: Charles F. ; Sarah F., 
 widow of Luther C. Clement; Henry H. ; and 
 Mrs. Hattie M. Haynes. Both parents united 
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 in Mason village, and the father was for 
 some years a Deacon in the church. 
 
 Charles F. Kimball was brought up on the 
 home farm in Temple, obtaining the rudi- 
 ments of his education in the district school, 
 and at the age of twenty-two was preparing to 
 enter college; but his eyes failing him he was 
 forced to relinquish the design. He taught 
 school in the years 1849, 1850, 185 1, and 
 1852, afterward remaining on the farm four 
 years. In 1857 he resumed his professional 
 labors, teaching in Townsend, Fitchburg, and 
 Attleboro, being principal of grammar schools 
 in the two last named towns, and continuing 
 as principal in different schools until 1863. 
 Going then to West Dedham, Mr. Kimball 
 taught there three years, and afterward had 
 charge of the Avery School in Dedham two 
 years. In 1868 he was elected usher in the 
 Rice School, Boston; and in 1878, two years 
 after it was made a training-school in connec- 
 tion with the Boston Normal School for Girls, 
 he was made submaster of the school, a posi- 
 tion which he has since held. Mr. Kimball 
 has a long and honorable record as an instruc- 
 tor, having first taught in New Hampshire in 
 1849, and for the past twenty-nine years hav- 
 ing been connected with the Rice Training 
 School, being now the oldest teacher in the 
 building. He served one term as a member 
 of the School Board of Attleboro, Mass., and 
 for nine years was one of the members of the 
 Dedham School Board. In politics he is a 
 stanch Republican. 
 
 Mr. Kimball was married August 25, 1859, 
 to Juliet A. Stanley, of Attleboro, a daughter 
 of Deacon Seneca M. Stanley, a man of high 
 character and standing in the town. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Kimball are the parents of six children, 
 two of whom have passed away: Elsie M., the 
 eldest, having died June 7, 1885; and Mabel 
 F., the third child, on May 29, 1887. Their 
 natural gifts and eminent Christian virtues 
 had led their friends to anticipate for them a 
 career of great usefulness. The four now 
 living are: Evelyn S., a graduate of the Ded- 
 ham High School, who is at present at home; 
 Anna M., who is attending the Massachusetts 
 Normal Art School; Charles H. J., who is in 
 the insurance business in Boston ; and Frank , 
 W. , who is a graduate of Boston University, 
 
 1894, and now the principal of the high 
 school and director of music in all the schools 
 of Hardwick, Mass. All of the family are 
 greatly interested in music, and Mr. Kimball 
 has been chorister in various churches much of 
 the time since twenty years of age. Both of 
 the sons are now occupying similar positions. 
 The family are all members of the l-'irst 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Dedham, e.\ce|it 
 Frank W. , who has transferred his church 
 relations to Hardwick. They are active in all 
 departments of church work, the youngest 
 daughter being primary superintendent in the 
 Sunday-school, of which the elder of her 
 brothers is superintendent. The son Charles 
 is likewise active in town affairs, and he has 
 for the last two years been president of the 
 Dedham No-license League. 
 
 ^|OBKRT WINTHROP CARPENTER, 
 of Foxboro, Mass., a lawyer with a 
 large and important practice, and an 
 extensive dealer in real estate and 
 mortgages, was born June 4, 1853, in South 
 Walpole, Norfolk County, a son of James K. 
 Carpenter. In his veins is mingled the blood 
 of several of the ancient and honored families 
 of New England, including the Carpenters, 
 Sweets, and Boydens. The emigrant ancestor 
 on the paternal side was William Carpenter, 
 who was born in England in 1576, and died in 
 Weymouth, Mass., in 1659. His son Will- 
 iam, born in 1606, was the next progenitor, 
 the line of descent being continued through 
 William, third, born in 1631; Obadiah, Sr., 
 born March 12, 1678; Obadiah, Jr., born 
 February 16, 1707; Nehemiah, born October 
 20, 1731; Peter, born September 24, 1771, 
 and his son Edson, born December 5, 1802, in 
 Foxboro, who was the father of James E. Car- 
 penter. 
 
 Nehemiah Carpenter, of the sixth genera- 
 tion, was the very first settler of P'oxboro vil- 
 lage, coming here from Attleboro in 1749. 
 On a ledge near the centre of the town he 
 built a rude cabin on the site of the present 
 residence of John T. Carpenter; and the land 
 of which he took possession has since been 
 owned by his descendants, who have preserved 
 the building spot in its original state. In
 
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 1750 he erected a frame house, which for sev- 
 eral generations was known as the Carpenter 
 Tavern. This building stood until 1880, 
 when it was taken down and the frame re- 
 moved to Carpenter Street, where it was in- 
 corporated into the lumber shed of Joseph 
 W. Carpenter. Nehemiah Carpenter married 
 Elizabeth Sweet, a member of a noted family, 
 whose genealogy may be found in the histori- 
 cal novel, "One Thousand and One," recently 
 published. 
 
 James E. Carpenter was born and reared in 
 Fo.xboro; and there he died, the date of his 
 birth being January 30, 1829, and that of his 
 death January 30, 1880. He obtained the 
 rudiments of his education in the district 
 schools, later attending Day's Academy at 
 Wrentham and the old Pierce Academy in 
 Middleboro. He subsequently read law with 
 the late Judge Maine, and after his admission 
 to the bar, in 1857, was successfully engaged 
 in the practice of his profession in this town 
 with offices in Washington, New York, and 
 Boston. J-le married Aliss Kowena A. Boy- 
 den, the daughter of Jeremiah Boyden, the 
 representative of an old Medfield family of 
 prominence, which originated in the north of 
 England. They reared four children, as fol- 
 lows: Robert W., the subject of this sketch; 
 Charles E. , a resident of Campello, a suburb 
 of Brockton; Eugene M., who died May 13, 
 1886, aged twenty-seven years; and Anna 
 Isabel, wife of Edwin A. Booth, of Mansfield, 
 Mass. 
 
 Robert W. Carpenter was educated in the 
 public schools, completing his course of study 
 in the high school, and at the age of eighteen 
 entered his father's office as a law student. 
 He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
 Judicial Court of Massachusetts on the twenty- 
 first anniversary of his birth, June 4, 1874, 
 and, going into law partnership with his 
 father, the firm being James E. Carpenter & 
 Son, with offices in Fo.xboro and Boston, prac- 
 tised law with him until December, 1877, 
 when the firm was dissolved. Mr. Carpenter 
 is a man of superior abilities, natural and ac- 
 quired, and has often been called to serve in 
 official positions. He has been Justice of the 
 Peace and Commissioner of Insolvency for the 
 county of Norfolk; presiding officer of the 
 
 local Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodges, 
 town council ; clerk of the Board of Select- 
 men ; chief engineer of the P'ire Department; 
 and clerk of several fund and building associa- 
 tions. He was clerk of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the P'o.xboro Centennial Celebration, 
 and jniblished a record of the same in 1879. 
 He compiled the town history, which was pub- 
 lished in 1890; and he was also editor, at dif- 
 ferent times, of the Foxboro Journal, Coiii-ier, 
 Gazette, and Times. In recent years he has 
 been one of the foremost in securing the loca- 
 tion of business industries in the town. He 
 also takes a leading part in town and county 
 politics. At present he holds the offices of 
 Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. 
 
 Mr. Carpenter and Miss Etta M. Chandler, 
 of P'oxboro, daughter of Isaac G. Chandler, 
 a veteran of the late war, and Amelia A. 
 (Pills) Chandler, were united in marriage on 
 June 10, 1877. They have one son — Frank 
 C. , born May 9, 1878, now in the employ of a 
 local electric light company of P"oxboro. 
 
 In religious belief Mr. Carpenter is liberal. 
 He is actively identified with the Republican 
 party, having been secretary of the Norfolk 
 County Republican Convention a number of 
 years, and in 1896 its chairman. He is a 
 member of St. Albaw's Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 and Keystone Chapter, R. A. M., both of 
 P'oxboro; Bristol Commandery, K. T. , of 
 North Attleboro, Mass., in which he has held 
 the office of Senior Warden ; and he also 
 belongs to Excelsior Lodge, I. O. O. F. , and 
 Victory Lodge, K. of H., both of Foxboro. 
 He is an active and able business man, and at 
 the present time is secretary of the Fo.xboro 
 Board of Trade. 
 
 WALTER BRADLEE, of Milton, an 
 auctioneer and a dealer in real estate 
 and mortgages, was born here, January 
 27, 1867. A son of J. Walter and 
 Nellie M. (Morse) Bradlee, he comes of Eng- 
 lish origin. On the paternal side he is a de- 
 scendant in the seventh generation of Captain 
 John Bradlee, who commanded a Dorchester 
 regiment in the Revolutionary army, and 
 fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. From 
 Captain John the line of descent comes
 
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 through Stephen Bradlee, of Dorchester; 
 Stephen's son John, the first of the family 
 born in Milton; and John's son, John D., 
 who also was a native of Milton. John D. 
 Bradlee was an auctioneer and nurseryman. 
 In 1S58 he founded the business now managed 
 by his grandson, the subject of this sketch. 
 He was one of the originators of the F'air- 
 mount Land and Improvement Company, the 
 promoters of the town of Hyde Park, and for 
 a number of years was Deputy Sheriff of Nor- 
 folk County. 
 
 J. Walter Bradlee, Sr., was a lifelong resi- 
 dent of Milton. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of this town and at Milton Acad- 
 emy. Subsequently, taken into partnership 
 by his father, he was for some time a member 
 of the firm of J. D. Bradlee & Co. In 1881 
 he became sole proprietor of the business, 
 which since that time has been conducted 
 under the name of J. Walter Bradlee. A 
 prominent resident of Milton and a stanch 
 Republican, he held a number of important 
 offices. He was Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk 
 County for ten years, chairman of the Milton 
 School Committee for the same length of time, 
 and chairman of the Selectmen for thirteen 
 years. He represented Milton and Canton in 
 the General Court of Massachusetts two terms. 
 In the Civil War he served for nine months as 
 Corporal in Company I, Thirty-eighth Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, with General 
 Banks's division. He died in December, 
 1892. His wife, who is also a native of 
 Milton, is still residing in this town. Of 
 their children six are living; namely, J. 
 Walter, Charles, N. Marion, Eva M., Leonard 
 M., and Roger W. 
 
 J. Walter Bradlee, the subject of this 
 sketch, attended the public schools of Milton, 
 and graduated at Bryant & .Stratton's Com- 
 mercial College, Boston. For some six 
 years he was employed as travelling salesman 
 for Hosmer, Codding & Co., wholesale boot 
 and shoe jobbers of Boston. His connection 
 with this firm ended when he accepted the 
 position of Assistant Superintendent of Police 
 in Milton. This office he held for a number 
 of years. At the death of his father he took 
 charge of the real estate business, and the en- 
 terprise started in 1858 still continues to pros- 
 
 per. Mr. Bradlee deals in city and suburban 
 property, negotiates mortgages, and takes full 
 charge of estates when desired. His office is 
 Room 201, Adams Building, 23 Court Street, 
 Boston. 
 
 Mr. Bradlee was married in 1S88 to Miss 
 Clara F. Lyons, of Milton. They have a 
 family of three children — John B., Robert 
 S., and Ernest A. Like his father, Mr. 
 Bradlee is a Republican. He served for three 
 years as Assessor of Milton; and in March, 
 1897, he was elected Selectman. 
 
 6Tylf 
 
 YLER THAYER, a retired builder of 
 ll Norwood and an ex-member of the 
 Massachusetts legislature, was born in 
 Mendon, Mass., October 2, 1822, son of Otis 
 Wales and Sena (Thayer) Thayer. A repre- 
 sentative of an old Norfolk County family, he 
 is a direct descendant of Fernando Thayer, 
 who settled in Mendon in 1698. His great- 
 grandparents were Benjamin and .Sarah 
 Thayer; and his grandparents were Amos and 
 Millie Thayer, all residents of Mendon. Otis 
 Wales Thayer was a native of Mendon. 
 When a young man he engaged in farming and 
 butchering in Medfield, Mass. His wife, 
 Sena, whom he married in 1820, was a daugh- 
 ter of Dexter and Esther Thayer, of Mendon. 
 She became the mother of six children; 
 namely, Emily M., Tyler, Emeline, Harri- 
 son, Sena E., and P^sther H. 
 
 Tyler Thayer was two years old when his 
 parents moved from Mendon to Medfield, and 
 he acquired a common-school education in the 
 last-named town. At the age of fifteen he 
 began to learn the carpenter's trade, serving 
 about half of his apprenticeship in Medfield 
 and the remainder in Boston, to which city 
 he went when eighteen years old. In 1847 
 he commenced business as a carpenter and 
 builder in West Dedham (now Westwood). 
 In 1855 he removed to South Dedham. For 
 over thirty years he was the principal builder 
 in this town. He erected many of its finest 
 edifices, including the Everett school, the 
 Baptist church, and the Universal ist church, 
 that was afterward destroyed by fire. In 
 1886, he sold his business, and retired from 
 active pursuits. In 1872, when the town of
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Norwood was incorporated, its name was 
 adopted by the committee at Mr. Thayer's 
 suggestion. He was Selectman for thirteen 
 years, a member of the Board of Assessors 
 for sixteen years, and he represented the 
 town in the legislature in 1879 and 1885. 
 His public services have been very beneficial 
 to the community. During his last term in 
 the legislature the charter for the Norwood 
 Water Works was obtained. For eight years 
 he was a director of the Norwood Co-operative 
 Bank and the chairman of its .Security Com- 
 mittee, and he acts as a Justice of the Peace. 
 Since his first vote was cast for General Fre- 
 mont, he has been an active supporter of the 
 Republican party. 
 
 Mr. Thayer has been twice married. The' 
 first marriage was contracted in 1847 with 
 Nancy L. .Shattuck, who died in 185 i, leaving 
 no children. His present wife, Lucy E. 
 Adams, a daughter of John Adams, of An- 
 dover, Vt., has had si.x children, three of 
 whom are living. These are: Alice E., the 
 wife of James A. Hartshorn; Norman A. 
 Thayer, of Norwood; and Nettie, the wife of 
 Donald B. Smith, of Provincetown, Mass. 
 
 fOSKPH SMITH, a retired farmer living 
 at Unionville, in the town of Franklin, 
 Mass., a son of Joseph and Mary Ann 
 (Wallace) Smith, was born in Smith- 
 field, now Lincoln, R.L, January 5, 1830. 
 
 P2dwin Smith, progenitor of this branch of 
 the Smith family, was a member of the Rhode 
 Island Colony; and his son Benjamin was 
 born in Smithfield. Benjamin Smith, Sr. , 
 had four children, namely: Sarah, born April 
 9, 1743, who died February 23, 1751; Ben- 
 jamin, Jr., born October .14, 1744: Ruth, 
 born September 7, 1746; and Amy, born Sep- 
 tember 7, 1748. The son was the grand- 
 father of the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He was married in 1771 to Mary, a daugh- 
 ter of Colonel Daniel Tillinghast. The fol- 
 lowing is a brief record of their thirteen chil- 
 dren: Sarah, born in 1773, died in 177S; 
 George, born September 20, 1775, died 
 April 29, 1859; Daniel, born August 10, 
 1777, died in Cuba, November 25, 1805; 
 Benjamin, born August 2, 1779, died Au- 
 
 gust 8, 1806; Joseph, born June 11, 1781, died 
 on his si.xty-si.vth birthday; Annie, born Jan- 
 uary 3, 1783, died February 9, 1855; Stephen 
 Hopkins, born August 30, 1784, died May 
 28, 1858; Hopkins, born August 4, 1786, 
 died October 13, 1791; Amy, born August 
 17, 1788, died January 28, 1802; Robert, 
 born April 6, 1791, died March 22, 1871; 
 Lydia, born December 22, 1792, died April 
 17, 1806; William, born December 6, 1793, 
 died in 1893; and Mary, born September ig, 
 1795, died in March, 1888. 
 
 Joseph Smith, Sr., the fourth son of Ben- 
 jamin, Jr., was a prosperous farmer and one of 
 the prominent men of Smithfield. He served 
 in the war of 18 12, and was in his later years 
 a Quaker preacher. His wife, Mary Ann, 
 daughter of Matthew Wallace, was born in 
 Ireland, April 30, 1791, and was a descendant 
 of William Wallace. By her first husband, a 
 Mr. Lannon, she had four children, of whom 
 the only one now living is Margaret, the 
 widow of James Pilkington, of California. 
 The others were: Mary A., who married a 
 Mr. McDonald; Elizabeth, who married Dan- 
 iel McDonald: and John, who married Mar- 
 garet Veitch. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, Sr. , 
 had four children : Mary Ann, born June 6, 
 1824, who died October 18, 1855; Benjamin, 
 born .September 12, 1826; Ruth Hopkins, 
 born F"ebruary 2, 1S28, now dead; and 
 Joseph, of whom we shall speak further be- 
 low. Mrs. Smith died on the ninetieth anni- 
 versary of her husband's birthday. 
 
 Joseph Smith, the youngest-born, received 
 but a limited education, attending a select 
 school for a short time, as did also his 
 brothers and sisters. He was brought up as a 
 Quaker; and he lived at the parental home 
 until his father's death, when he went to Illi- 
 nois, where he remained ten years. In 1857 
 he went to Indiana, and worked as baggage- 
 master on a railroad for two years. Then he 
 removed to Northern Missouri, where he car- 
 ried on farming, and taught school at the same 
 time. When the war broke out, he enlisted in 
 Company H of the Second Missouri Cavalry, 
 and for one year had charge of a drug store, 
 was employed as a clerk in the Provost Mar- 
 shal's office, and was detailed to enroll the 
 militia. Being then taken sick, for three
 
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 3(^3 
 
 years he was unfit for work. On his recovery 
 from his illness he bought a sorghum-mill, 
 and carried it on while working at harness- 
 making. After a few years his health broke 
 down again; and he was obliged to leave his 
 work in Missouri, and turn his attention to 
 farming. Going to Kansas in 1X71, he took 
 up a homestead at White Rock, which he car- 
 ried on for seven years. While there he held 
 the positions of Town Assessor and Justice of 
 the Peace; but early in 1878, finding his 
 health much improved, he sold out, and re- 
 turned to his native town of Lincoln, R.I., 
 where he was married June 2, 1878. 
 
 After his marriage he bought his present 
 homestead at Unionville, known as the "Ind- 
 ian Island Farm," formerly owned by Charles 
 Rowell. Being a progressive man and an in- 
 telligent farmer, Mr. Smith has made many 
 improvements on his place, which now con- 
 tains one hundred acres of good land. He was 
 the first Postmaster and station agent at 
 Unionville; and he still holds the former po- 
 sition, although he is retired from outdoor 
 labor, and rents his farm. Mr. Smith has 
 been a successful man in business, and owns 
 considerable property in real estate, includ- 
 ing several buildings in Gary village. He is 
 a stanch Republican in jjolitics, and has been 
 a member of the I. O. O. F. He is a man of 
 quiet and studious habits, and is somewhat of 
 an antiquary, being the owner of many rare 
 and valuable relics. 
 
 Mr. Smith's wife was before marriage Eliz- 
 abeth H. Meader. Her father, P^phraim 
 Meader, a farmer and blacksmith of Sandwich, 
 N.H., died there, April 21, 1871 ; and her 
 mother, Hannah Gook Meader, died May 21, 
 1878. Mrs. Smith is a member of the 
 Friends' Meeting of Providence, R.I., and 
 Mr. Smith is liberal in religious belief. 
 
 JAMES H. FLINT, the present 
 Senator for the First Norfolk Dis- 
 trict, is a native of Middleton, 
 Essex County, born Jwne 25, 1S52. 
 He is a descendant of Thomas Flint, who 
 came from England in the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, and settled in PIssex County. James 
 Flint, his father, who was a native of Middle- 
 
 ton, and an agriculturist by occupation, mar- 
 ried Almira Batchelder, of North Reading, 
 Mass. 
 
 After attending the common schools for the 
 usual period, James H. P'lint in 1872 giadn- 
 ated from Phillips Academy at Andover, 
 Mass., carrying off the highest honors of his 
 class. Then he entered Harvard University, 
 from which he graduated with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1876. He 
 was at once appointed principal of the Marble- 
 head High School, where he remained for 
 nearly four years. Subsequently he spent six 
 months in the office of Charles L. P'lint, then 
 the secretary of the State Board of Agricult- 
 ure. In 1 88 I he received the degree of Bach- 
 elor of Laws from the Boston University Law 
 School; and, going to New York City, he 
 spent one year in the office of Stanley, Clarke 
 & Smith, a prominent law firm of that city. 
 Returning to Boston, he was admitted to the 
 Suffolk County bar in 1882, and began his law 
 practice in Boston, subsequently opening an 
 office in Weymouth, Mass. In i88g he was 
 appointed by Governor Brackett Special Jus- 
 tice of the District Court of Itastern Norfolk 
 held at Ouincy, in which capacity he offici- 
 ated for several years. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican, and he is now serving his third term 
 as chairman of the Republican Town Commit- 
 tee of Weymouth. In 1887 and 1888 he was 
 the secretary of the Republican League of the 
 State of Massachusetts. During the legislat- 
 ures of 1894, 1895, and 1896 he served as 
 Representative from the Fifth Norfolk Dis- 
 trict, comprising Weymouth and Ouincy, and 
 during these three years was a member of the 
 Probate and Insolvency Committee, the Com- 
 mittee on Street Railways; and he was House 
 chairman. In the fall of 1896 he was elected 
 State Senator from the P'irst Norfolk District 
 by a majority of forty-five hundred votes. At 
 the present time he is chairman of the Insur- 
 ance Committee and a member of the Com- 
 mittee on Ways and Means, and on Probate 
 and Insolvency. 
 
 Mr. Flint is a trustee of the Weymouth 
 Savings Bank and a director of the South 
 Shore Co-operative Bank. He belongs to the 
 Phi Beta Kappa, one of the leading secret so- 
 cieties of Harvard University; to the Masonic
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 order; to the Knights of Pythias, in which he 
 was the State Grand Chancellor in 1895 and 
 1896; and to the New England Order of Pro- 
 tection. An able writer, he is the author of 
 the book entitled "The Law of Trusts and 
 Trustees," and was the editor of the well- 
 known American edition of "Lewin on 
 Trusts," in two volumes. Mr. Flint has also 
 been engaged in literary work unconnected 
 with law. In 1889 he married Abbie E. 
 Pratt, of Ouincy, Mass. 
 
 vORTER S. BOYDEN, a well-known 
 and prosperous carpenter and builder 
 of Walpole, was born in this town, 
 September 2i, 1838, son of Maynard 
 Boyden. His paternal grandfather, Harvey 
 Boyden, who was born in the southern part of 
 Walpole about the time of the Revolution, 
 served as a soldier in the War of 181 2, al- 
 though no definite record of his service therein 
 has been preserved. 
 
 Maynard Boyden was born in Walpole in 
 1 8 10. In his earlier years he was employed 
 as a carder and spinner in this and neighbor- 
 ing towns. Afterward he worked at the trades 
 of carpenter and millwright in Walpole until 
 his death, which occurred in 1885, at the age 
 of seventy-five years. A man of sound judg- 
 ment, honorable and upright in all his trans- 
 actions, he became one of the foremost men of 
 the place, and took an active part in town 
 matters. For six years he was Selectman, 
 being elected on- the Republican ticket, which 
 he invariably supported. By his wife, Mary, 
 who was born in Bedford, N.H., he became 
 the father of four children, of whom Porter S. 
 and Susan E. are living. 
 
 Porter S. Boyden received his education in 
 the district schools of Walpole, in which he 
 was a pupil until nearly seventeen years old. 
 He then learned the carpenter's trade of his 
 father, with whom he worked for five years. 
 Afterward he spent an equal length of time 
 with the firm of Willard, Everett & Co., 
 cabinet-makers of Norwood. In 1867 he re- 
 turned to Walpole to begin carpentering on 
 his own account; and he has since continued 
 here, having for the past thirty years assisted 
 in erecting some of the largest and finest resi- 
 
 dences and business buildings of the vicinity. 
 A strong Republican in politics, he is much 
 interested in local affairs, and has served his 
 fellow-townsmen as Assessor for six years. 
 
 Mr. Boyden was married December 30, 
 1866, to Julia, daughter of Asa Hartshorn, of 
 this town. She died after a comparatively 
 brief wedded life, leaving one daughter. 
 Bertha 1*2. Boyden. On July 22, 1875, ^I"". 
 Boyden married Miss Julia Ella Hale, of 
 Lowell, Mass., who has borne him three chil- 
 dren — Maynard H., Ella B., and Dana E. 
 He is a member of Orient Lodge, F. & 
 A. M., of Norwood, in which he was Junior 
 Warden for two years ; of Keystone Chapter, 
 R. A. M., of Foxboro; and of the A. O. U. W. 
 He is also a member of the Unitarian parish, 
 of which he was the treasurer for twelve 
 years, taking a great interest in the work of 
 that denomination. His family also attend 
 the Unitarian church, and are active workers 
 therein and faithful contributors toward its 
 support. 
 
 HARLES G. CHICK, attorney-at- 
 lavv, having his office at 28 State 
 Street, Boston, and his residence at 
 Hyde Park, was born June 7, 1846, 
 in Lebanon, York County, Me. His father 
 was Simon F. Chick; and his ancestry is 
 traced back to Thomas Chick, who probably 
 came from England as early as 1652. 
 
 Prior to 1674 Thomas Chick married Eliza- 
 beth Spenser, grand-daughter of William 
 Chadbourne, one of the founders of the La- 
 conia Company's settlement at Newichawanick, 
 now Berwick, Me. Thomas Chick, Jr., father 
 of Aaron Chick, first, was a son of this mar- 
 riage. He held lands at Kittery in 1703, and 
 afterward in Berwick. Aaron Chick, first, 
 was settled at Berwick as early as 1733 on 
 lands formerly of his father Thomas. His 
 wife was Elizabeth Clark, daughter of Samuel 
 Clark, of Portsmouth, N. H. She became a 
 member of the Berwick church in 1755. 
 Aaron Chick, second, who was one of the lead- 
 ing citizens of his time, was born in Berwick 
 in 1742. He served in the war of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution as First Lieutenant in the 
 Fifth Berwick Company of the Second York
 
 CHARLES G. CHICK.
 
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 367 
 
 County Regiment. In 1763 he married Mary 
 Keays, of Salmon Falls, N. H. Among their 
 children was Aaron Chick, third, grandfather 
 of Charles G. Chick. 
 
 He was born in Berwick, and there grew to 
 man's estate. In 1791 he took up a tract of 
 wild land in the adjoining town of Lebanon, 
 and, clearing a s]jace in the forest, erected a 
 log cabin for himself and little family, and 
 began the pioneer labor of redeeming a farm 
 from the wilderness. He bore all the priva- 
 tions and hardships of his rough life with 
 brave fortitude, and in course of years had a 
 well - improved and comfortable homestead, 
 and was surrounded with pleasant and pros- 
 perous neighbors. He with others erected a 
 mill, and in addition to general farming was 
 for some years engaged in the manufacture of 
 lumber, continuing in active pursuits until a 
 short time prior to his death, which occurred 
 at the age of eighty-four years. He reared 
 eight children, Simon F. being the next in 
 line of descent. 
 
 Simon F. Chick was born in Lebanon, prob- 
 ably in the log house in which his parents 
 began housekeeping, and spent his long and 
 busy life oh the homestead, dying in 1862, at 
 the age of sixty-five years. He succeeded to 
 the ownership of the parental acres and to his 
 father's occupation, carrying on lumbering 
 and farming successfully. His second wife, 
 whose maiden name was Ann B. Pray, was 
 born in Lebanon in 18 10, a daughter of Chad- 
 bourne Fray, a farmer, who died in that town 
 when Ann was about six years of age. She 
 became the mother of five children, of whom 
 three sons are still living, namely; Ansel; 
 Almon H., who owns and occupies the old 
 homestead in I,ebanon ; and Charles G., the 
 special subject of this sketch. The mother, a 
 woman of strong Christian character and an 
 active member of the Free Will Baptist 
 church, died at the age of sixty-seven years. 
 The father was for many years a town official, 
 serving as Selectman and Tax Collector. 
 
 Charles G. Chick was brought up on the 
 home farm, and until eighteen years old 
 attended the winter terms of the district 
 school. He then worked for a time at the 
 carpenter's trade with his brother Freeman 
 (now deceased), but at the end of two years 
 
 gave it up, and, entering the J'"armington Nor- 
 mal .School, pursued the course of study and 
 was graduated in i 868. He was then engaged 
 for two years in teaching and reading law, and 
 it was during this time that he established and 
 opened the East Lebanon Academy, which he 
 conducted for a year. Going thence to 
 Somersworth, N.H., for two terms he had 
 charge of the grammar school there, at the 
 same time being a student in the law office of 
 Wells & I'lastman, with which office he be- 
 came connected in i86g, and also working as 
 he found leisure at the carpenter's trade. Mr. 
 Chick subsequently pursued his studies at the 
 Harvard Law School in Cambridge until May, 
 1871, when he entered the office of Judge 
 Charles Levi Woodbury, of Boston, with whom 
 he read law until admitted to the bar in De- 
 cember, 1871, and since that time has been 
 associated with the Judge, who is one of the 
 most distinguished members of the legal pro- 
 fession. Mr. Chick has been connected with 
 a great many corporation cases since he began 
 practising, and has done a good deal of Probate 
 work. He has been the attorney in the set- 
 tling of many extensive estates, among others 
 worthy of note being the estate of Thomas W. 
 Peirce, who left over ten million dollars' worth 
 of property, and the million and a quarter 
 estate of the late Harvey D. Parker. In 1871 
 Mr. Chick removed to Hyde Park, and has 
 since been actively identified with the highest 
 and best interests of this town. 
 
 He has been one of the warmest supporters 
 of the various beneficial enterprises inaugu- 
 rated in the town, and has served as one of the 
 committee in nearly every movement of note 
 for the past twenty-five years, often being 
 chairman or secretary. For nine years he was 
 chairman of the Board of School Committee 
 and its secretary four years, and during the 
 period of his seventeen years of consecutive 
 service was absent from but four regular meet- 
 ings, a record scarcely equalled in any city or 
 town of the Commonwealth. He has often 
 been called to serve as Moderator of town 
 meetings. He assisted in organizing the 
 Hyde Park Historical Society, of which he is 
 curator, and has for eight years been its presi- 
 dent. This is a rapidly growing society, hav- 
 ing now a library of fifteen hundred books
 
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 and a membership of over two hundred. Mr. 
 Chick is a member of various fraternal organi- 
 zations, including the Hyde Park Lodge, F. & 
 A. M. ; Norfolk Chapter, R. A. M. ; Hyde 
 Park Council; Cypress Commandery, K. T. ; 
 Allon Lodge, L O. O. F ; Knights of Honor, 
 in whose lodge he has passed all the chairs; 
 and the Society of Good Fellows, of Boston. 
 
 On December i6, 1874, Mr. Chick married 
 Miss Eliza A., daughter of Edward and Jiliza 
 A. (Mayo) Marshall. Her father was a native 
 of Milton, Mass., and lived there until 1840, 
 when he removed to Dedham, where his death 
 occurred in 1895, at the age of seventy-seven 
 years. Mrs. Marshall was born in Dorchester. 
 Her daughter, Eliza A., was born in Dedham, 
 May 7, 1848, and was there reared and edu- 
 cated. After her graduation from the high 
 school Miss Marshall taught in Hyde Park 
 seven years, resigning the principaJship of one 
 of the largest schools of the town to become 
 the wife of Mr. Chick. Of the two children 
 born to them, but one is now living; namely, 
 Francis Marshall. 
 
 Mrs. Chick is a working member of the 
 Congregational church, being actively engaged 
 in missionary and Sunday-school work. Mr. 
 Chick, though not a member of this church, 
 takes an active interest in its welfare, and is 
 a regular attendant at its services. 
 
 The attractive home of Mr. and Mrs. Chick 
 is ever open to receive their many friends, who 
 are welcomed with a generous and genial hos- 
 pitality. 
 
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 KORGE FREDERICK BAGLEY, a 
 V •) I successful contractor and builder of 
 Norwood, and a Civil War veteran, 
 was born in Boston, July 29, 1843. His 
 father, Perkins H. Bagley, a native of Belfast, 
 Me., and a carpenter by trade, spent his last 
 years in Boston, where he died at the age of 
 seventy-three. Mr. Bagley's maternal grand- 
 mother was a lifelong resident of Maine, at- 
 taining the age of nearly one hundred years. 
 
 George Frederick Bagley acquired his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Boston. When 
 his studies were completed, he learned the 
 carpenter's trade. On May 25, 1861, he en- 
 listed as a private in Company E, First Regi- 
 
 ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. 
 The regiment arrived at Georgetown, D.C., on 
 July 15 following, and participated in the first 
 battle of ]5ull Run. Afterward Mr. Bagley 
 was at the battle of Williamsburg, through the 
 Peninsular Campaign, in the battle of Fair 
 Oaks, the Seven Days' P'ight, second Bull 
 Run, and Chantilly, and, having arrived at 
 Gettysburg on the night of July i, 1863, par- 
 ticipated in the memorable struggle that en- 
 sued on the following day. P"rom July to 
 September his regiment was on duty in New 
 York City to quell disturbances caused by the 
 draft. In the spring of 1864 the First Mas- 
 sachusetts joined the Army of the Potomac 
 under General Grant, passed through the 
 battle of the Wilderness, and followed Gen- 
 eral Lee until after the battle of Spottsyl- 
 vania, when, on account of the expiration of 
 its term of service, it was ordered to Massa- 
 chusetts, and mustered out on Boston Com- 
 mon, May 25, 1864. Mr. Bagley followed 
 his trade in Boston until May 9, 1872, when 
 he came to Norviood. Here, after acting as 
 foreman in the employment of a Mr. Robbins 
 for a time, he was engaged by Tyler Thayer, 
 for whom he worked during the ensuing four- 
 teen years. For nearly ten years he has very 
 successfully conducted business as a contractor 
 and builder upon his own account. In 1889 
 he erected a pleasantly located residence for 
 his own occupancy, and his shop is situated 
 upon an adjoining lot. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Bagley married Lydia L. De- 
 Luce, a daughter of Reuben G. DeLuce, of 
 South Boston. Of his six children, George 
 F., Jr., Cora, and Lottie Frances are living. 
 Cora is the wife of Lee Warren; and Lottie 
 Frances is the wife of J. E. May, Jr. Mr. 
 Bagley is a Republican in politics. He is a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and he attends the Lfniversalisl 
 church. 
 
 
 ATTS H. BOWKER, a prominent 
 
 lilder and contractor of Norfolk 
 County, residing at 224 Aspinw^all 
 Avenue, Brookline, was born December 29, 
 1826, in Machias, Me., which was also the 
 birthplace of his father, Watts Bowker.
 
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 The emigrant ancestor came to Massachu- 
 setts in Colonial days, locating not far from 
 the coast. A James Bowker was living in 
 Scituate in 1680. Levi Bowker, the grand- 
 father of Watts H., was born and brought up 
 in Scituate, and served as Major in the Revo- 
 lutionary War. He subsequently removed to 
 Machias, Me., where he carried on a success- 
 ful business as carpenter and joiner for many 
 years, living there until his death, at the age 
 of eighty-eight. He married Betsey Watts, 
 whose sister Hannah assisted in the first naval 
 engagement of the Revolution by carrying 
 ammunition to the soldiers when all others re- 
 fused the perilous undertaking, and later re- 
 ceived a pension from the government for her 
 brave services. Hannah Watts married Levi 
 Weston, and lived to the age of one hundred 
 and two years. The grandparents reared five 
 daughters and three sons. Both were firm be- 
 lievers in the doctrines of Universalism ; and 
 both lived to be quite old, the grandfather 
 passing away at the age of eighty-six years. 
 He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
 and took an active interest in the lodge to 
 which he belonged. 
 
 Watts Bowker spent the greater portion of 
 his life in Machias, where for a good many 
 years he was extensively engaged as a lumber 
 dealer and manufacturer. Afterward remov- 
 ing to Nova Scotia, he died there at the age 
 of seventy-five. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Lydia L. Stickney, was born and 
 reared in St. John, N.B. She survived him, 
 living to the venerable age of ninety-four 
 years, retaining to a notable degree her mental 
 and physical vigor. Of her six children, all 
 of whom lived to be more than sixty years of 
 age. Watts H., the subject of this sketch, is 
 now the only survivor. 
 
 Watts H. Bowker worked at the carpenter's 
 trade with his brother from the age of fourteen 
 years until he was twenty-one, and then was 
 emploj^ed as a journeyman a year or so. 
 From 1858 until 1861 he carried on business 
 for himself in Machias, giving it up when he 
 became a member of Company C, Sixth Maine 
 Volunteer Infantry, in which he served as a 
 private a short time. He subsequently joined 
 the band of the Sixth Maine Regiment, with 
 which he was connected two years, being hon- 
 
 orably discharged at the expiration of his term 
 of enlistment. Resuming work at his trade, 
 he was engaged as a carpenter in Machias 
 until 1869, when he came to Massachusetts. 
 After spending a few months in Boston, he 
 settled in Brookline, then a village of six 
 thousand inhabitants, and has since built up 
 an extensive and lucrative business in this 
 vicinity. He has erected a large number of 
 dwelling-houses in Brookline, Newton, Ja- 
 maica Plain, and Boston, and many of the 
 large public buildings, including school- 
 houses, a portion of the public library of this 
 town, the Harvard Veterinary College in Bos- 
 ton, Keith's palatial residence, and the 
 Charles Williams Building in lirookline, also 
 the fine plant of the Brookline Gas Company. 
 
 Mr. Bowker is a Republican in politics, 
 and takes an active part in the management of 
 town and county affairs, rendering efficient 
 service to the public. He was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Selectmen in 1889, re- 
 elected the following three years, and in 1894 
 was elected County Commissioner for a term 
 of three years. While he was Commissioner, 
 the beautiful county court-house in Dedham, 
 which is one of the finest buildings of the 
 kind in New England, was erected under his 
 supervision at a cost of four hundred thou- 
 sand dollars. Mr. Bowker is a member of the 
 Brookline Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of the Massa- 
 chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; 
 and I'ost No. 143, G. A. R. 
 
 In 1S56 Mr. Bowker married Miss Julia M. 
 Lyon, who was born in Machias, Me., a 
 daughter of James Lyon, a well-known lum- 
 berman of that place. Her grandfather, 
 James Lyon, who was known as Parson Lyon, 
 was a soldier of the Revolution. Of the six 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bowker, two 
 died in infancy, and the eldest son, Philip, at 
 the age of twenty-one years. The three living 
 are: Edwin P., Arthur, and Everett. Edwin 
 P., who is in business with his father, mar- 
 ried Miss Caroline Howe. Their only child 
 died when young. Arthur, a druggist in 
 Brookline, married Edna Crane, of Machias, 
 and they have two children — Elizabeth and 
 Julia. Everett, a prosperous physician in this 
 town, married Miss Lulu, daughter of William 
 J. Griggs, of whom a brief sketch appears
 
 37° 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 elsewhere in this volume. Their only child, 
 William Henry Bowker, was graduated from 
 the Harvard Medical College, and has been 
 engaged in the jiractice of his profession four 
 years. Mrs. Bowker attends the Baptist 
 church. 
 
 ULIUS GUILD, a prosperous and well- 
 known farmer and dairyman of Wal- 
 ])()le, was born in this town, March 30, 
 1850. A son of Samuel Guild, he is a 
 grandson of Aaron Guild and a descendant of 
 John Guild, the first member of the family to 
 locate in this section of Norfolk County. 
 Reared to agricultural pursuits, Samuel Guild 
 spent his active life in farming and dairying. 
 In his later years he lived in retirement, and 
 died on the old homestead in 1892, at the 
 venerable age of eighty-six years. He was a 
 strong advocate of the principles of the Re- 
 publican party, and for some years served as 
 Highway Surveyor. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Orra Fisher, was born in Walpole. 
 She bore him six children, of whom five are 
 living, as follows: Samuel E., residing in 
 Walpole; William, of Medfield; Mary J., the 
 wife of George H. Ware; Frederick, a resi- 
 dent of Walpole; and Julius, the subject of 
 this biography. 
 
 Julius Guild grew to manhood on the old 
 home farm, acquiring a good common-school 
 education, and becoming familiar with agri- 
 culture. He received the entire management 
 of the farm at the age of twenty-five years. 
 On the property, which contains one hundred 
 acres of land, he has since carried on general 
 farming, making a specialty of dairying. His 
 regular crops include oats and hay. That of 
 the latter averages about forty tons. While 
 keeping fifteen cows, he collects milk in the 
 neighborhood, and sells it, together with the 
 product of his own dairy, by wholesale in Bos- 
 ton. For three years he was engaged in the 
 ice business, but gave that up, preferring to 
 attend to his dairying. 
 
 In politics Mr. Guild is an adherent of the 
 Republican party and an active worker in 
 local affairs. His first town office was that of 
 Superintendent of the Streets, after which he 
 was Selectman for eight years, serving as 
 
 chairman of the board for two years. At the 
 present time he is a member of the Walpole 
 School Board. He is a member of Reliance 
 Lodge and King Mount Lncampment, 
 I. O. O. F. ; of the Royal Arcanum, Spring 
 Brook Council, No. 732, in which he has 
 passed all the chairs, and is now chaplain; ol 
 the A. O. U. W., in which he has filled all 
 the ofifices; and of the Walpole Grange, 
 P. of H., of which he is Master. In each of 
 these organizations he is a helpful brother, 
 and contributes much to the advancement of 
 their interests. He is a member of the Con- 
 gregational church, of which he and his fam- 
 ily are regular attendants. On September 9, 
 1875, he married Mary Ella Pillsbury, of 
 Nashua, N.H. They have two sons — Henry 
 E. and Waldo J. 
 
 M 
 
 AVID PERKINS was born at Hamp- 
 ton, N.H., December 27, 1827, son 
 of David and Asenath (Batchelder) 
 Perkins. The family is of l^nglish 
 descent. The first Abraham was in Hampton 
 in 1640 at the first division of land of that 
 town. He was noted for his fine penmanship, 
 and was employed on public documents. The 
 maternal ancestors were direct descendants of 
 the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, the first settled 
 minister in Hampton, and the Rev. Seaborn 
 Cotton, the fourth minister of the town. 
 
 Mr. Perkins, having acquired his education 
 in the public schools of Hampton and at 
 Hampton Academy, came to Massachusetts at 
 the age of eighteen, and learned the carpen- 
 ter's trade in Boston. He went into business 
 in 1854, and remained a contractor until 1S86, 
 when he retired on account of poor health. 
 In 1865 he moved to Hyde Park, where he 
 still resides. 
 
 He was an active member of the First Con- 
 gregational Society for many years, and was a 
 member of the Building Committee for the 
 parsonage and church. He has been a trustee 
 and one of the Board of Investment of the 
 Hyde Park Savings Bank since 1873. He 
 served on the Board of Selectmen two years, 
 the Board of Assessors three years, and on the 
 Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, also 
 serving on many other important committees
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 371 
 
 of the town. He has been a director of the 
 Water Board since its organization, and at 
 present he is serving as one of the Sewer Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 He has been a member of Mount Lebanon 
 Lodge of Masons of Boston since 1862, was a 
 member of Siloam Lodge of Odd Fellows for 
 many years, and is now a member of Forrest 
 Lodge of Odd Fellows of Hyde Park. When 
 engaged in business, he was a member of the 
 Mechanics' Exchange and Master Builders' 
 Association of Boston. 
 
 He married in 1858 Hannah S. Dunn, of 
 Dixfield, Me., and has had four children, three 
 of whom are now living: Dr. John Walter 
 Perkins, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Sarah J. John- 
 son, of Hyde Park; and William D. Perkins, 
 of Seattle, Wash. 
 
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 EORGE H. WIGHT, a well-known 
 I '*) I farmer and an esteemed resident of 
 ^ — ^ Medfield, was born here, June 18, 
 1832, son of Orin and Charlotte (Adams) 
 Wight. The father, who was also born in 
 Medfield, always made his home in this town, 
 carrying on the farm that his father settled in 
 1760. He was a man of influence, and he 
 served his town as Selectman and in other 
 offices. He died in 1869. The mother died 
 in 1879. They had thirteen children, of 
 whom eight are living in Massachusetts. 
 These are: Mary J., the widow of William 
 H. Colburn, in Newton; Eliza, the widow of 
 Emery A. Wheeler, in Worcester; George 
 H., the subject of this sketch; Margaret, the 
 widow of William B. Hewins, in Medfield; 
 Sarah, also in Medfield; Jonathan G., now in 
 Medfield; Harriet H., in Wayland; and Fred- 
 erick, in Natick. Some of the children were 
 educated in the schools of Bridgewater, Mass. 
 George H. Wight attended the common 
 schools of Medfield. He lived at home for 
 several years after coming of age, and worked 
 with his father. In August, 1862, he enlisted 
 for one year in Company D, Forty-second 
 Regiment, Roxbury City Guards. He was 
 captured in the engagement at Galveston, 
 Tex., and kept in prison for two months. 
 After his discharge, at the expiration of his 
 term of enlistment in August, 1863, he re- 
 
 turned to Medfield. In the following year he 
 took charge of the homestead farm, which is 
 still his home. Besides this place, which 
 contains about eighty acres, he owns other 
 land. He carries on general farming with 
 success. For several years he was employed 
 as a land surveyor. 
 
 On January 11, 1866, Mr. Wight was 
 joined in marriage with Miss Mary R. Adams, 
 of Millis, Mass. She was born October 24, 
 1838, daughter of Edward and Keziah L. 
 (Clark) Adams. Mr. Adams, who was born 
 in Millis, and died September 23, 1870, fol- 
 lowed farming as an occupation. Mrs. Adams, 
 who was born in Milford, Mass., died January 
 15, 1 89 1. Mr. and Mrs. Wight have one 
 child, Anna M., living at home. They are 
 attendants of the Unitarian church. Mr. 
 Wight has always voted the Republican ticket. 
 He belongs to Moses Ellis Post, No. 117, 
 G. A. R. 
 
 RANCIS EUGENE EVERETT, an 
 enterprising provision dealer in Nor- 
 wood, was born in Walpole, Mass., 
 January 24, 1855, son of Charles Francis and 
 Hannah Maria (Pierce) Everett. He traces 
 his descent through a long line of ancestors to 
 the first of them, who arrived in Massachu- 
 setts at a remote date in the Colonial period. 
 His grandfather, Charles Everett, who was a 
 native of Walpole, was engaged in teaming 
 and farming. 
 
 Charles Francis Everett, P"rancis E. Ever- 
 ett's father, was born in Walpole. In his 
 earlier years he followed the trade of an iron 
 moulder. Subsequently he carried on a pro- 
 vision business until his death, which oc- 
 curred when he was fifty-eight years old. 
 His first wife, Hannah Maria Everett, who 
 was a daughter of Amos Pierce, of Fitchburg, 
 Mass., became the mother of three children, 
 namely: Minnie, who died young; Ida Jo- 
 sephine, now a professor of rhetoric and liter- 
 ature in Oakland, Cal. ; and Francis E., the 
 subject of this sketch. The second wife, 
 Eldora Frances (Adams) Everett, bore him 
 two sons — • Henry Irving and Herbert Perry. 
 
 Francis Eugene Everett was reared and ed- 
 ucated in Walpole, and at an early age began
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 to assist his fatlier in tiie provision store. 
 After the death of the latter .he succeeded to 
 the business. In 1878 he moved to Norwood, 
 where he has since carried on the same busi- 
 ness very prosperously. He is active in pub- 
 lic affairs, and in politics is a Republican. 
 He is a member of the Business Men's Asso- 
 ciation; is a Past Master of Orient Lodge, 
 F. & A. M.; is connected with Hebron Chap- 
 ter, Royal Arch Masons, and Cyprus Com- 
 mandery of Knights Templar ; a charter mem- 
 ber of Tiot Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F. ; and 
 he belongs to the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He married Agnes M. Pratt, a 
 daughter of P'lias E. Pratt, of Norwood, and 
 has one son, Kldon Francis. 
 
 DWIN P. LINFIELD, M.D., of Avon, 
 physician and surgeon, is a native of 
 Randolph, Mass., born January 7, 
 1856. A son of John P. and Louisa (P'isher) 
 Linfield, he is of English ancestry. John P. 
 Linfield, who also was born in Randolph, vvas 
 a farmer. He died December 18, 1891. His 
 wife, a native of Walpole, Mass., died January 
 29, 1 87 1. 
 
 p;dwin P. Linfield attended the public 
 schools of Randolph, remaining on the home 
 farm until his mother's death, which occurred 
 when he was fifteen years old. Ambitious and 
 energetic, he was not afraid to work for his ed- 
 ucation. While further acquiring it in a gram- 
 mar school and an academy of Rochester, N.Y., 
 for a period of three years, he acted as janitor 
 of the school building. In his eighteenth 
 year he returned to Massachusetts, locating in 
 East Stoughton (now Avon), and took up the 
 study of medicine with Dr. S. S. Gifford. 
 After spending three years with Dr. Gifford, 
 he took his medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 College, graduating in November, 1878. He 
 worked also to pay his college fees. Immedi- 
 ately after receiving his degree, he began to 
 practise in Avon, which has now been his field 
 of labor for nearly twenty years. An able and 
 popular physician, he has a large practice in 
 Avon and the adjoining towns. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 
 On December 13, 1880, he was married to 
 Miss Lucy Griffith, of Carver, Mass., whose 
 
 only child is George G. Dr. Linfield served 
 for a year on the Re]niblican Town Commit- 
 tee of Avon. Although he was for a year a 
 member of the town Board of Registrars, he 
 is not considered an aspirant to office. A 
 member of the Baptist church, he has served 
 as treasurer of the society and as a member 
 of its Prudential Committee. 
 
 LBERT E. MILLICR, M.D., one of 
 the representative professional men of 
 Norfolk County, Massachusetts, re- 
 siding in Needham, was born in the 
 town of Covert, Seneca County, N. Y., July 7, 
 1833, son of Ezekiel and Polly (Hogaboom) 
 Miller. He is a descendant of the old New 
 P2ngland family of Miller, among whom are 
 a number of noted physicians and surgeons. 
 His grandfathers were both soldiers in the 
 Revolutionary War, and his father was in the 
 War of 1812. 
 
 He attended the schools of his native town, 
 spent a year at Cortland Academy ; and then, 
 being selected by the superintendent of schools 
 to receive the benefit of the State Normal De- 
 partment at Homer Academy, he spent three 
 years in that institution. When alDOut nine- 
 teen years of age he began the study of law 
 with Judge Duel in Cortland, N.Y. Taking 
 up the study of medicine a year later, he was 
 graduated from the Syracuse Medical College 
 in 1855, and in 1864 from the University of 
 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He was a private 
 student of H. H. Smith, M.D., professor of 
 surgery in the University, and also of the 
 celebrated D. Hayes Agnew, M.D. At an 
 early period in his professional career he 
 began to lecture on public health; and he has 
 travelled extensively, delivering lectures in 
 the principal cities and towns throughout the 
 country. His lectures to pupils of public and 
 normal schools have been especially popular. 
 He has the finest apparatus in this country 
 with which to illustrate these discourses, con- 
 sisting of four beautiful French manikins, 
 thirteen skeletons, and a great variety of 
 models, plates, and drawings. For several 
 years he has lectured regularly before the New 
 England Chautauqua Assembly. He is pro- 
 fessor of physiology and hygiene in the Col-
 
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 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, and 
 medical examiner of the Pennsylvania Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. The 
 Doctor is still in active practice, having an 
 office at his residence in Needham, and also 
 one at no Treniont Street, Boston. 
 
 As a resident of Needham he is actively 
 interested in all questions concerning the wel- 
 fare and progress of the town. He is presi- 
 dent of the Board of Trustees of the Public 
 Library, and has been one of the officers since 
 its organization. He has been president of 
 the Needham Co-operative Bank since it was 
 chartered. He was one of the foremost in 
 starting the Village Improvement Society, and 
 was its first president. He has beautified and 
 rendered fertile a portion of the town re- 
 claimed from waste land, and built twenty-five 
 fine houses. He was largely instrumental in 
 obtaining from the legislature the act allowing 
 the town of Needham to supply its inhabitants 
 with pure water, and was chairman of the 
 Water Committee. He has been superintend- 
 ent of the First Parish Sunday-school for 
 twelve years. Active in the temperance 
 cause, he has been president of the Union 
 Temperance Band for three years, and is vice- 
 president of the Massachusetts Total Absti- 
 nence Society. He is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason, is on the medical staff of the De Molay 
 Commandery of Knights Templars, is Past 
 Master of Norfolk Lodge, and member of the 
 Eastern Star. He is also Past Grand of 
 Elliot Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; a member of the 
 Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; and has sev- 
 eral times held the office of D. D. G. M. 
 
 He is also connected with various medical 
 societies, notably with the Gynrecological 
 Society of Boston, the American Medical As- 
 sociation, and the International Medical Con- 
 gress. He is also a member of the Chau- 
 tauqua Literary Scientific Circle. 
 
 In politics Dr. Miller is a Republican. In 
 1888 and 1889 he represented the Ninth Nor- 
 folk District in the legislature, and was chair- 
 man of the Committee on Public Health. He 
 was one of the organizers of the Home Market, 
 Norfolk, and Massachusetts Republican Clubs, 
 and also of the Edward Everett Hale Club, of 
 which he is president. 
 
 Dr. Miller was married November 25, 1866, 
 
 to Miss Vesta Delphene Freeman, of Newark 
 Valley, N.Y. In 1890 Dr. Miller, in com- 
 pany with his wife, attended the International 
 Medical Congress at Berlin, after which they 
 travelled extensively through Germany, Hol- 
 land, Switzerland, France, and luigland. 
 
 ESTA DELPHENE MILLICK, M.D., 
 fo daughter of Alonzo and Vesta K. 
 Freeman, was born in Ketchunivillc, 
 town of Newark, Tioga County, N.Y. Her ma- 
 ternal grandfather, the Rev. Ithamar Ketchum, 
 a noted divine, and the Rev. Seneca Ketciium, 
 were among the early settlers of Cortland, 
 N.Y., where the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch was born. The Rev. Ithamar Ketchum 
 with his family subsequently removed to Tioga 
 County, and there founded the village of 
 Ketchumville and built a church, in which he 
 preached for many years. Her paternal grand- 
 father, Bicknel Freeman, who came from 
 Taunton, Mass., was a teacher. Ller father, 
 Alonzo Freeman, was also a celebrated 
 teacher. Among the Freenians are many 
 noted physicians and surgeons. 
 
 Dr. Vesta D. Miller's brother. Dr. Alonzo 
 Rudolph Freeman, was a private student of Dr. 
 Hamilton, the noted surgeon ; and, after grad- 
 uating from Long Island Medical College, he 
 settled in New London, Wis. He was surgeon 
 of the Green Bay & Winona Railroad and Mil- 
 waukee & Lake Shore Railroad, and was the 
 founder of the North-western Medical Society. 
 A half-brother, Dr. E. ¥. Eldridge, is 
 located at Grand Junction, Colorado. Their 
 mother, the Rev. V. K. F. Eldridge, possess- 
 ing in a high degree the mental and moral fac- 
 ulties that made her father a leader among 
 men, and eminently fitted her for a preacher, 
 was ordained an Elder in the Reformed Meth- 
 odist Church, Springfield, Vt. Her labors in 
 the temperance field were extended as far 
 West as the Mississippi River. 
 
 As a child Dr. Miller was noted for decision 
 of character and retentive memory. At the 
 age of ten j-ears she could give the names, 
 capitals, and government of all the countries 
 in the world, the rivers of note and their 
 length, the mountains and their heights. She 
 was well versed in the history of the L'nited
 
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 States, knew the names of all the Presidents, 
 the native States of all the great men, the 
 square miles of the lakes, the number of in- 
 habitants of each State, and the government of 
 each. In her girlhood she pursued a course of 
 study at Susquehanna Seminary, Binghamton, 
 N.Y., and later graduated from Dr. Dio 
 Lewis's Normal Institute, Boston, and from 
 the School of Oratory. Beginning to teach at 
 sixteen, during vacations she taught a private 
 school for girls. She was also a very success- 
 ful teacher in the public schools. 
 
 She attended her first course of medical 
 lectures at the New England Female Medical 
 College in Boston in 1865; she also attended 
 the medical college in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her 
 degree of Doctor of Medicine was received 
 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 Boston, and from the Post-graduate School 
 in New York City. She had the benefit of 
 special instruction in surgery and the treat- 
 ment of diseases of women in the hospitals 
 of New York. In iSgo she made the tour of 
 England, P'rance, and Germany, during which 
 she visited the principal hospitals. 
 
 Dr. Vesta D. Miller is a riiember of the 
 International Medical Congress, the American 
 Medical Association, and of the Gynaecologi- 
 cal Society of Boston. She has been pro- 
 fessor of gynaecology and pediatrics in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons since 
 1893, and gave the address to the graduating 
 class two years, in 1895 and 1896. She is 
 a graduate of the Chautauqua Literary Scien- 
 tific Circle, class of 1888, and was one of the 
 committee to get up the class banner; is 
 prominent also in temperance work; and has 
 been president of the Needham W. C. T. U. 
 since its organization. She has given lectures 
 at the coimty and State conventions in the 
 different towns and cities of the State on food, 
 dress, heredity, effect of alcohol upon the 
 human system, and kindred subjects. She is 
 president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the 
 New England Baptist Hospital, is vice-presi- 
 dent of Board of Trustees of the Hospital, 
 member of the King's Daughters of the Bap- 
 tist church, and is connected with a number of 
 other charities. She is a member of the East- 
 ern -Star, having been the first to join this 
 order in Massachusetts. 
 
 Dr. Vesta D. Miller has contributed to 
 medical literature. A paper read by her 
 before the Boston Gynaecological Society on 
 dysmenorrhcea was published by the society in 
 the New York Medical Examiner. She has 
 an extensive practice in Needham and an 
 office at 1 10 Tremont Street, Boston, where 
 she devotes two days of each week to the treat- 
 ment of diseases of women. 
 
 She was married to Dr. Albert E. Miller, 
 November 25, 1866. 
 
 t^TERBERT LINCOLN BROWN, a 
 \^\ prosperous general merchant and the 
 II 9 I Postmaster of Beechwood, was born 
 
 ^""^ in Cohasset, Mass., November 9, 
 1855, son of Ezra and Harriet Sanford (Lin- 
 coln) Brown. His grandfather, Timothy 
 Brown, removed from Barnstable County to 
 Cohasset, where he followed the occupation of 
 a fisherman and a farmer for the rest of his 
 active period. The maiden name of Timo- 
 thy's wife was Mary Wood. 
 
 lizra Brown, who was born in Cohasset, in 
 early life followed the carpenter's trade in this 
 town. He established the business in Beech- 
 wood now carried on by his son, and after 
 conducting it for some years resumed his 
 trade. Eor about two years he worked in a 
 casket factory at Whitman, Mass. ; and he was 
 employed in Ouincy for a year. Then he 
 returned to this town, and was engaged in 
 business with his son for the rest of his life. 
 He died at the age of sixty - seven years. 
 When the post-office was established here, be 
 was appointed the first Postmaster. He was a 
 member of the Board of Selectmen for some 
 time. In politics he supported the Republi- 
 can party from the time of its formation. His 
 wife, Harriet, was born in Cohasset, daughter 
 of Thomas and Alniira (Marble) Lincoln. 
 She is a descendant of Daniel, or Sergeant, 
 Lincoln, who was a resident of Hingham in 
 1644 or 1645, who was one of the proprietors 
 among whom the public lands were divided, 
 and who served as a Selectman. The death of 
 this ancestor occurred in 1699. His son, 
 Ephraim, the next in line, who married Mary 
 Nichols, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Whis- 
 ton) Nichols, resided upoii a farm at Fort
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 379 
 
 Hill. Ephraim Lincoln (second) settled on 
 the Jerusalem Road, reclaimed a farm, and 
 resided thereon for the rest of his life. He 
 married Lydia Marshall, a daughter of John 
 and Lydia (Gushing) Marshall, and whose ma- 
 ternal grandfather was the proprietor of the 
 estate in Hingham known as "The Big Elm." 
 Urbana Lincoln, son of Ephraim (second), 
 and the maternal great-grandfather of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, settled on Beechwood 
 Street in Cohasset, and was there engaged in 
 fishing and farming during his active years. 
 Twice married, his second wife, Mary, was a 
 daughter of John and Silence (Tower) Wheel- 
 wright. Thomas Lincoln, Herbert L. Brown's 
 maternal grandfather, in his younger days was 
 a fisherman and later a farmer. He married 
 Almira Marble, of this town, daughter of 
 Ephraim and Hannah (Pincin) Marble. Their 
 children were: Priscilla J., Levi, Harriet 
 Sanford, and Thomas Lincoln. Priscilla J. 
 and her two brothers occupy the old Lincoln 
 homestead, and Mrs. Ezra Brown resides at 
 Beechvvood. She has reared two children — 
 Herbert L. and Marion S. 
 
 Herbert Lincoln Brown was educated in the 
 public schools of Cohasset. At an early age 
 he began to assist his father in the store. 
 About the year 1880 he became the proprietor 
 of the business. He also succeeded his father 
 in the office of Postmaster, and, with the ex- 
 ception of a short interval, has conducted both 
 the store and post-ofifice since that time. In 
 politics he acts with the Republican party. 
 He is connected with Konohasset Lodge, F. & 
 A. M. , and with Cohasset Lodge, No. 192, 
 I. O. O. F. He married Flora Edith Wood, 
 of Cohasset, a daughter of Charles B. and 
 Ellen G. (Litchfield) Wood. Mrs. Brown is 
 the mother of three children; namely, Ethel 
 Marion, Nellie Edith, and Plzra Harold Brown. 
 
 ENJAMIN F. BAKER, a well- 
 known and honored citizen of 
 Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., 
 is in length of service the senior 
 Town Clerk of the Commonwealth. He has 
 been identified with the leading interests of 
 the town of Brookline for more than half a 
 century, taking an active part in the estab- 
 
 lishment of its educational and literary insti- 
 tutions and fraternal organizations. He was 
 born August 28, 1820, in Kennebunk, Me., 
 being a son of John Baker, Jr., and grandson 
 of a hero of the Revolution, John Baker, .Sr., 
 who spent the larger part of his active life in 
 York, Me. 
 
 John Baker, Jr., was born and reared in 
 York, Me. In the town of Kittery he 
 learned the trade of a shipwright, which he 
 subsequently followed for a time in Kenne- 
 bunk. He afterward engaged in business on 
 his own account as a boat-builder, continuing 
 in this employment until his death in 1825, at 
 the age of fifty-six years. To him and his 
 wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Towne, 
 nine children were born, of whom Benjamin 
 F. is the only survivor. The mother outlived 
 her husband many years, passing away at the 
 venerable age of eighty-eight. Both parents 
 were members of the Congregational church. 
 
 Benjamin F. Baker was but five years of 
 age when his father died. He remained with 
 his widowed mother three years, but the fol- 
 lowing five years he lived with a neighboring 
 farmer. From the age of thirteen until at- 
 taining his majority, he served an apprentice- 
 ship, after which he worked two years as a 
 journeyman. Leaving the scenes of his child- 
 hood, he came to Massachusetts, and in 1843 
 settled as a painter in Brookline, purchasing a 
 business that had been established in 1815, and 
 which is now one of the oldest in this part of 
 the State. His selection of a permanent loca- 
 tion proved very advantageous in every sense, 
 Brookline having each succeeding year made 
 rapid strides in regard to improvements and 
 growth in both population and valuation. 
 When he became a resident, the number of in- 
 habitants was placed at twelve hundred, a 
 small per cent, of the seventeen thousand re- 
 vealed by the last census. Much of the land 
 was devoted to agricultural purposes, two 
 tanneries represented the manufacturing inter- 
 ests of the town, and two stores only were to 
 be found within its limits. Communication 
 with Boston was by an omnibus, which ran 
 twice a day, making the round trip morning 
 and afternoon. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Baker was formerly a 
 Whig, but has been one of the strongest ad-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 herents of the Republican party since its for- 
 mation. In 1884 he represented the town in 
 the State legislature; and in 1852 he was 
 elected Town Clerk, a position to which he 
 has been re-elected each year since, giving 
 him a record of continuous service equalled by 
 no one in the State. For forty-si.x consecu- 
 tive years he has served as Justice of the 
 Peace, and during the late Rebellion he was 
 active in recruiting soldiers for the army. In 
 the various contests arising from the attempt 
 to anne.x Brookline to Boston he was one of 
 the most sturdy opponents ot the movement, 
 the anti-annexationists being victorious in 
 each instance, for which the town is duly 
 thankful. He has been an earnest supporter 
 and oftentimes the originator of various bene- 
 ficial enterprises, and was the promoter and 
 earnest advocate of the Brookline Public Li- 
 brary, which is the very first established by 
 the people known in the United States. This 
 library has now forty-eight thousand, two 
 hundred and fifty well-selected books, that for 
 general reading and reference are highly ap- 
 preciated, as proved by their large circulation. 
 Of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Baker has been 
 a member from the beginning, excepting one 
 term, and is now secretary, a position which 
 he has held seventeen years. He was also 
 much interested in the formation of the Brook- 
 line Historical Society. 
 
 Fraternally, he is a Mason, belonging to 
 Beth-horon Lodge, of which he is a charter 
 member; and has been Master of Mount Ver- 
 non Chapter, R. A. M., and .St. Omar Com- 
 mandery, K. T., of South Boston. He is also 
 a member of Sagamore Council, Royal Arca- 
 num. He was a charter member of the old 
 society known as the Master Painters' Asso- 
 ciation, and also of the new Master Painters' 
 and Decorators' Association, of which he has 
 been president. He is likewise a trustee of 
 the Brookline Savings Bank. In May, 1842, 
 he united with the Baptist church, of which 
 he has been clerk eighteen years, besides 
 serving sixteen years as secretary of the so- 
 ciety. He has ever taken a deep interest in 
 the work of the Sunday-school, for sixteen 
 years being one of its teachers. 
 
 In 1844 Mr. Baker married Miss Lovina 
 Libby, who was born in Limerick, Me., one 
 
 of the six children of Nathaniel Libby, the 
 representative of a prominent family of that 
 State. Six children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Baker, and three arc now living; 
 namely, Anna I., Harriet Moore, and Edward 
 VV. Anna I. married the late Harry H. 
 Adams, who was wounded while fighting for 
 his country at Petersburg, Va., and after the 
 close of the war was for some years an ofificer 
 in the custom-house. Harriet Moore Baker 
 married Aaron D. Whitney, and has one 
 child, Harry H. Whitney. Edward W., for- 
 merly a purchasing agent of the Mexican 
 Central Railway Company, is now private sec- 
 retary for the Hon. Charles F. Sprague, Rep- 
 resentative in Congress. He married Miss 
 Alice Souther, and has one child, Dorothy 
 Baker. 
 
 ARON E. TUCKER, a retired mer- 
 chant of Canton, Mass., was born in 
 this town in 181 3, son of Samuel 
 and Caty (McKendry) Tucker. His 
 father was the third in direct line to bear 
 the name Samuel. His great-grandfather, 
 Samuel Tucker, first, who was of the fourth 
 generation in descent from Robert Tucker, of 
 Weymouth and Milton, settled in Canton in 
 1752, nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. 
 (See Tucker Genealogy.) Samuel Tucker, 
 third, son of Samuel, second, and grandson of 
 the first Samuel, was born in Canton. For 
 the greater part of his active life he carried on 
 the trade of carpenter, being also a contractor 
 to some extent. In his politics he was a 
 Whig, but never held public office. He mar- 
 ried Caty McKendry, and had nine children. 
 A very hard-working man, he died at the age 
 of fifty-five years. 
 
 Aaron E. Tucker, the subject of this sketch 
 and the only one living of the nine children 
 mentioned above, received his education in the 
 common schools of his native town and at Mid- 
 dleboro Academy, which he attended two 
 years. In his earl}' manhood he taught school 
 for two years in the town of Carver and later 
 for two years in Canton. He afterward went 
 into business with his cousin, Mr. Darius 
 Tucker, carrying on for a year a general store 
 in connection with tailoring. In 1841 he
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIFAV 
 
 38 1 
 
 started for himself, opening a store for the 
 sale of general merchandise. This business 
 he continued witli gratifying success until 
 iScSo. While thus engaged he built a large 
 block on the main street of the town, also the 
 house in which he now jives, and several other 
 dwellings. After he retired from active mer- 
 cantile life he built other houses and blocks, 
 thus adding to his real estate interests. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican. Me was a 
 member of the Water Board when the water- 
 works were first laid out through the town, but 
 aside from this he has never accepted public 
 office. For twenty-five years he has been an 
 active and influential member of the Baptist 
 church and for a number of years a Deacon. 
 
 Mr. Tucker has been twice married, and by 
 his first wife, ¥A\za. A. Taber, of Randolph, 
 he has four cliildren, as follows: Annie E., 
 married to W. F. Colby; Lucius E., who mar- 
 ried Etta P. Ropes, of Danvers; Addie A., 
 the wife of S. H. Capen ; and Isabel, who 
 married A. E. De Normandie. Mrs. Eliza 
 A. Tucker died in 1863. By his second wife, 
 VA\e\i Kenrick, of Canton, he has no children. 
 Though at an advanced age, Mr. Tucker is 
 still hale and hearty. He has been a good 
 citizen of the town, is widely known, and 
 enjoys the respect of all. 
 
 Among the many interesting experiences 
 that have enriched his long life and helped to 
 mould and strengthen his character, may be 
 mentioned two that stand out in his recollec- 
 tion with peculiar vividness. 
 
 When he was at Middleboro Academy he 
 had a rare treat in listening to the far-famed 
 Daniel Webster, who delivered an address on 
 the court-house steps in Plymouth, the hall 
 being too small to accommodate the large 
 gathering. The subject was "The Currency 
 of the United States." It was a masterly 
 effort, and did much in putting him on the 
 right track, as that was the year his name was 
 added to the voting list. 
 
 In the year 1861, when the Rebellion had 
 become a fearful reality and the rebels were 
 preparing to capture Washington, he joined 
 a party of twelve of the prominent men of Can- 
 ton to visit Washington, learn more of the 
 situation, and see the fortifications and other 
 preparations to meet and repel the enemy. 
 
 On July 16, 1861, the war party, so called, 
 left Canton ; and, arriving in Washington, 
 they were escorted to the White I louse by 
 Charles P'rancis Adams, Representative in 
 Congress, who introduced the party individ- 
 ually to President Abraham Lincoln. 'I'hey 
 also had an interview with Ceneral Scott, com- 
 mander-in-chief of the army at tiiat time, 
 Cieneral Mansfield being commander of the 
 forces at Washington, D.C. Plach one of the 
 party had a permit to visit the iniblic build- 
 ings, and also the fortifications on Arlington 
 Heights. They were there during the day of 
 the ]3ull Run battle, leaving for home that 
 evening. On their arrival at New York that 
 night, a despatch was there ahead of them say- 
 ing the rebels had been brought to a standstill 
 by om- forces and fortifications, and our na- 
 tional capital was safe beyond their reach. 
 The party were loud in their acclamations of 
 joy at the result, and renewed their journey 
 for Canton with a deep-down determination to 
 do all in their power to prosecute the war and 
 subdue the rebels. 
 
 Mr. Tucker has enjoyed the sea-breeze to 
 its full extent, having visited the glades at 
 Cohasset during the fall months for duck- 
 shooting and fishing, and passed the summer 
 months at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, 
 in his snug cottage, each year for the past 
 thirty years or more. 
 
 UGENE DREW, the well-known grocer 
 of Avon, was born in East Stoughton 
 (now Avon), March 6, 1845. His 
 parents were John and Eliza A. (Haynes) 
 Drew, the former of whom was a native of 
 Canton, Mass., and the latter of the locality 
 now called Holbrook. John Drew settled in 
 East Stoughton some fifty years ago, and for a 
 time was employed as a cutter in a shoe fac- 
 tory. Later he was engaged in the manufact- 
 ure of boots upon his own account, and had a 
 thriving business for a number of years. He 
 died January i, 1S88. A man of strict integ- 
 rity, whose judgment and advice were highly 
 valued, he was frequently called upon to 
 settled estates. In politics he was Republi- 
 can, and he figured prominently in the public 
 affairs of Stoughton.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW 
 
 Eugene Drew was reared and educated in 
 East Stoughton. At the age of nineteen he 
 began to w()ri< for wages in a shoe factory. 
 In time he acquired a good knowledge of the 
 business. He was one of the first persons to 
 operate a McKay sewing-machine. For sev- 
 eral years he was foreman of the stitching- 
 room in the factory of Charles Smith; and for 
 three years he was associated with his father in 
 the manufacture of boots, under the firm name 
 of John Drew & Son. He relinquished manu- 
 facturing to enter the grocery business. After 
 conducting stores in East Stoughton and 
 Brockton for a number of years, he retired 
 from active business for a time. In January, 
 1895, he again engaged in the grocery busi- 
 ness in Avon, and is now carrying on a flour- 
 ishing trade. In politics he acts with the Re- 
 ]niblican party, and is in favor of all measures 
 likely to benefit the town. 
 
 Mr. Drew married Anna K. Hawes, of 
 Brockton, and now has one daughter, Clara H. 
 One of Avon's most energetic and progressive 
 men, he has the esteem and confidence of the 
 community. 
 
 (^AMES MACKINTOSH, market gar- 
 dener, a prominent citizen of Needham, 
 the son of Ebenezer W. and Hannah 
 (Pratt) Mackintosh, was born in Need- 
 ham, Mass., April g, 1S3.S. His great grand- 
 father, William Mackintosh, was a commis- 
 sioned officer in the Revolutionary War, 
 bearing the title Colonel. The family have 
 in their possession a letter written by General 
 Washington, in which Colonel Mackintosh is 
 ordered to move his regiment to support Wash- 
 ington at the battle of Yorktown. One of the 
 Colonel's sons, Ebenezer Mackintosh, was 
 born in Roxbury, Mass., and was a hotel- 
 keeper. His son, Ebenezer W. , born in Need- 
 ham in 179S, was a farmer, and was for many 
 years a member of the Prudential Committee 
 of the town. He died in 1878. His wife, 
 Hannah, who was the daughter of Paul Pratt, 
 of Weston, was si.xty-three years old at the 
 time of her death in 1876. 
 
 James Mackintosh, their son and the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, received his education in 
 the public schools of Needham. He worked 
 
 with his father on the farm until he was 
 twenty-five years of age, when he bought the 
 place where he now lives. He makes a spe- 
 cialty of market gardening, selling his produce 
 in Brookline and Boston; and he also deals in 
 wood, which he sells principally in Brookline 
 and Boston. Mr. Mackintosh is a public- 
 spirited man, and has served the town in many 
 different offices. In 1866 he was elected one 
 of the four Superintendents of Streets, a posi- 
 tion which he held for twelve years. In 1871 
 he was made .Selectman, and served one year; 
 and, being re-elected in 1874, he served four 
 more years. He was chairman of the board 
 one year, but declined a re-election. In 1881, 
 when the town of Wellesley was set off from 
 the town of Needham, Mr. Mackintosh was 
 again Selectman, and helped decide the ques- 
 tions that arose concerning this important 
 step. Since 1882 he has seived as Selectman 
 four years. He was chosen to represent the 
 Ninth Norfolk District in the legislature in 
 1876, and was re-elected in 1877 and in 1880. 
 During the first term he served on the Com- 
 mittee upon Agriculture; during the second 
 term he was chairman of the same committee 
 and a member of the committee on the question 
 of woman suffrage; and during the third term 
 he was on the Committee of Agriculture and 
 on the Committee of Public Service. During 
 the session of 1881, when the question of the 
 division of the town of Needham came up, Mr. 
 Mackintosh secured the passage of an amend- 
 ment to the bill, by the terms of which the 
 old town of Needham obtained a large appro- 
 priation under the school laws to be paid by 
 the new town of Wellesley. Elected Water 
 Commissioner in 1890, he served in this ca- 
 pacity for six years, and was chairman of the 
 board during the construction of the water- 
 works. Mr. Mackintosh is an Independent in 
 politics. He attends the First Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 He was married in 1864 to Lizzie, a daugh- 
 ter of John B. Hall, of Boston. She died in 
 1885, leaving two children: Herbert B., born 
 in 1874; and Wendell Phillips, born in 1879. 
 Both of the sons acquired their elementary 
 education in the public schools of Needham, 
 and, fitting for college and entering Harvard, 
 were graduated in the class of 1897. Mr.
 
 SIDNEY C. PUTNAM.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 38s 
 
 Mackintosh was married a second time in 
 1 888, to Mary E. Wales, of Newton. 
 
 IDNEY CALEB PUTNAM, late 
 general freight agent of the Old 
 Colony Railroad, who died June 26, 
 1892, at his home in Hyde Park, 
 was born December 22, 1828, in Calais, Vt. 
 He was the son of Caleb S. and I^lvira 
 (Wheelock) Putnam, and was of the ninth 
 generation in descent from John Putnam, who 
 came from England with his wife Priscilla and 
 their children, including three sons — Thomas, 
 Nathaniel, and John — about the year 1634, 
 and settled at Salem village, now Danvers, 
 Mass. The line is as follows: John,' 
 Thomas,^ Edward, ^ Edward, •■ Edward, ' Caleb," 
 Caleb, 7 Caleb S.,' Sidney Caleb.'' 
 
 Thomas Putnam, son of John, born in Eng- 
 land", married first, in 1643, Ann Holyoke, by 
 whom he had eight children, the fifth being 
 the first Edward named above. His wife, Ann, 
 died in 1665 ; and he married in 1666 Mrs. 
 Mary Veren. Joseph Putnam, the only child 
 born of this union, was the father of General 
 Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame. Dea- 
 con lulward Putnam, son of Thomas and Ann, 
 born in 1654, married Mary Hale, and had ten 
 children, the eldest. Deacon Edward, Jr., 
 being born in 1682, whose son, Edward,' 
 born in 171 1, married Ruth Euller, of Mid- 
 dleton, and shortly removed to Sutton, Mass., 
 where he died in iSoo. His son Caleb, born 
 in Sutton in 1754, married Judith Sibley, of 
 that town, in 1776, and removed to Croydon, 
 N. H. Their son, Caleb, Jr., who was a 
 native of New Hampshire, removed thence to 
 Vermont, where he followed the trade of a 
 blacksmith in connection with farming. He 
 lived to an advanced age. 
 
 Caleb Sibley Putnam, son of Caleb Putnam, 
 Jr., and father of Sidney Caleb Putnam, was 
 born in Vermont, and resided there for many 
 years. He finally removed to Canaan, N.H., 
 occupied the position of railroad station agent 
 for upward of a quarter of a century, and died 
 there at the age of seventy. His wife, Elvira, 
 was born in Calais, Vt., where her father was a 
 hotel-keeper for many years. She became the 
 mother of eight children; and Sidney Caleb, 
 
 the subject of this sketch, was the second- 
 born. Mrs. Elvira Wheelock Putnam died in 
 Manchester, N.H., at the age of eighty-one 
 years. She was a Universalist in religious 
 faith. 
 
 Sidney C. Putnam was educated in the com- 
 mon schools, and for some time after complet- 
 ing his course of study was employed as a 
 clerk in a stove and tinware store in South 
 Reading, Mass. He later drove a stage, but 
 relinquished that occupation to become assist- 
 ant to his father at the railroad office in 
 Canaan, and still later was made receiving 
 clerk at the Lowell Railroad station in Bos- 
 ton, where he remained over eight years. He 
 was ne.\t employed by the Vermont Central 
 Road to look up lost property, and while en- 
 gaged in that work he travelled about one 
 thousand miles per week. He was general 
 freight agent of the New York & New P'ng- 
 land Railroad for four years, at the end of 
 which time he became connected with the Old 
 Colony Railroad in a similar capacity, and 
 for twenty-two years had charge of the entire 
 freight department, including the Eall River 
 Line. About the year 1867 he settled in 
 Hyde Park, and during the rest of his life he 
 was actively identified with the town and its 
 institutions. He was a trustee of the savings 
 bank and a director of the water board. Sid- 
 ney C. Putnam was respected for his many 
 estimable qualities as a man and a citizen ; and 
 his death, which occurred when he was si.\ty- 
 three years old, was sincerely regretted by his 
 fellow-townsmen and his large number of 
 actjuaintances in business circles. 
 
 On December 14, 1851, Mr. Putnam mar- 
 ried Hannah A. Morse, who survives him. 
 She was born in Croydon, N. H., daughter of 
 Samuel and Chloe C. (Carroll) Morse, the 
 former of whom was a native of Dublin, N.H., 
 and the latter of Croydon. Her great-grand- 
 father, Thomas Morse, went from Sherborn, 
 Mass., to Dublin as a pioneer, and resided 
 there the rest of his life. John Morse, Mrs. 
 Putnam's paternal grandfather, inherited the 
 homestead which his father Thomas had 
 cleared from the wilderness, and passed his 
 entire life there. He was the father of si.\ 
 children. Samuel Morse, Mrs. Putnam's 
 father, was a graduate of Dartmouth College,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 and practised law in Croydon for fifty years, 
 being a well-known and influential man of that 
 region in his day. He lived to be eighty-one 
 years old. Ills wife, Mr.s. Chloe C. Carroll 
 Morse, now at the age of ninety-four years, is 
 residing with her daughter in Hyde Park. 
 She is a niend)er of the Congregational 
 church, as was also her husband. Mrs. Put- 
 nam has one daughter — Alma II., wife of 
 Henry Stone, a clerk in the New York & New 
 England Railway Company's service. 
 
 (An interesting account of the early genera- 
 tions of the Danvers family of Putnams, with 
 copious notes in regard to distant English kin, 
 may be found in Volume I. of the Putnam 
 Genealogy, now in course of publication by 
 Eben Putnam, of Salem, Mass.) 
 
 15NER ALL)h:N, one of the oldest e.\- 
 emplo)'ees of the New York, New 
 Haven & Hartford Railway Com- 
 pany, was born in Dedham, his 
 present place of residence, January 29, 1821. 
 He is a son of Francis and Sarah (Crehore) 
 Alden, and claims to be a lineal descendant 
 of John Alden, of "Mayflower" and Plymouth 
 Colony fame. Mr. Alden's father and grand- 
 father were born in New Hampshire. P"ran- 
 cis Alden, his father, for some years kept a 
 hotel in Dedham, one of the finest in the 
 county. He was married on June 7, 1818, to 
 Sarah Crehortj. By this union he had eleven 
 children; namely, p]mily, Abner, Clarissa, 
 Maria, F"rancis, Henry C, Sarah Jane, Elisha, 
 Amasa, and two who died in early childhood. 
 Francis Alden died in 1876, aged eighty-two 
 years. 
 
 Abner Alden acquired his education in the 
 Dedham schools, and also in his youth made 
 himself useful by assisting in his father's 
 hotel. In April, 1840, when he was about 
 nineteen years old, he was appointed conductor 
 on the Dedham branch of the Boston & Provi- 
 dence Railroad. This road was a primitive 
 affair with wooden rails, the cars drawn by 
 horses as far as Readville, where they were 
 connected with the steam-cars running to Bos- 
 ton. Mr. Alden had charge of three trains 
 l)er day, carrying from one hundred and fifty to 
 two hundred passengers. He was employed in 
 
 this way until 1843, when he was made rail- 
 road station agent at Dedham; and he was in 
 office there continuously until December, 
 1895. In the fifty-five years of his service he 
 saw many im[)rovements in locomotives and 
 cars, and witnessed the development of the 
 enormous system of the New York, New 
 Haven & Hartford Railroad. 
 
 Mr. Alden was married in 1855 to Miss 
 Maria Blodgett, a native of Saco, Me., where 
 her father was a ship-carpenter. She died 
 leaving one son, William Herbert, born in 
 1857, who is now a conductor in the employ of 
 the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- 
 road. He married Hattie Coomb.s, and has a 
 son and a daughter. Mr. Abner Alden con- 
 tracted a second marriage October 11, 1881, 
 with Miss Adeline Blake, daughter of Henry 
 Blake, a carpenter of Deering, Me. Her 
 mother was before marriage Nancy Barber; 
 and she, too, was a native of Deering. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Blake had a family of nine children 
 — Almira, Ale.xander, Charles, Jason, Ed- 
 ward, Martha, Elizabeth, George, and Ade- 
 line. Mr. Alden has no children by his sec- 
 ond marriage. Politically, he favors the 
 Democratic side. In religious belief and 
 affiliation he is a Unitarian. 
 
 Tt^ICHARD HOWARD, who died at his 
 I I^Y^ home in Canton, Mass., January 31, 
 JJd\ 1895, left to his family the ines- 
 
 timable inheritance of a good name. 
 A man of unusual steadfastness of character 
 and purpose, industrious, capable, and trust- 
 worthy, for fifty-seven consecutive years he 
 was connected with one of the manufacturing 
 establishments of Canton, filling successively 
 various positions, working his way from the 
 lowest to the highest, in each being faithful to 
 the duties thereof. He was born February 12, 
 1816, in England, and was a son of William 
 Howard. 
 
 In 1828 William Ploward sailed from Eng- 
 land with his wife and children, and soon after 
 his arrival in Massachusetts settled in Canton, 
 being the first member of his immediate fam- 
 ily to cross the ocean. He had been a gar- 
 dener by occupation while in his native land; 
 but on coming here he sought other labor, and
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 387 
 
 for some years worked for Mr. Lincoln in the 
 Revere Copper Works, remaining there until 
 his death in 1850, at the age of sixty-six years. 
 To him and his wife, whose maiden name was 
 Susan Heaiimont, fourteen children were born, 
 of whom but one, George Howard, of Califor- 
 nia, now lives. 
 
 Richard Howard obtained his early educa- 
 tion in iuigland, and coming to this country 
 when a boy of twelve years was afforded the 
 privilege of two years' attendance at the Can- 
 ton schools. At the age of fourteen he began 
 working in a woollen-mill, but being dissatis- 
 fied with the labor stayed there two months 
 only. He then began working in the Revere 
 Copper Works in a subordinate capacity, and, 
 having served a full apprenticeship, was pro- 
 moted from one department to another, finally 
 being appointed superintendent of the works, 
 serving in this high position for forty years. 
 In politics he uniformly sujjported the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican [xarty. 
 
 On October 8, 1841, Mr. Howard married 
 Miss Mary A. Crane, who was born in Milton, 
 Mass., a daughter of Jesse and Susan (I^rooks) 
 Crane. Of the six children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Howard, three have passed to the life 
 immortal, namely: Mary T. , who married 
 Henry Merrill, and died in 1896; Grace A., 
 who died in childhood; and Amelia F., who 
 died in infancy. The survivors are: Susan 
 W. , the first-born, living with her widowed 
 mother; William; and George E. The sons 
 are highly esteemed residents of Canton, and 
 are both employed in the Revere Copper 
 Works, with which their father was so long 
 associated, and in which tlieir grandfather was 
 also an employee. Fraternally, Mr. Howard 
 was a member of the 151 ue Hill Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F., in which he had passed all the 
 chairs; and of the Rebeccas. For many years 
 he was an active member and the treasurer of 
 the Congregational church, to which Mrs. 
 Howard likewise belongs. 
 
 "irX AVID H. BLANCHARD, a prom- 
 1=1 inent resident of Avon and an ex- 
 ^J^^J member of the Massachusetts legis- 
 lature from the Seventh Norfolk 
 District, was born in East Stoughton (now 
 
 Avon), May 28, 1834, son of Henry and Su- 
 sannah (Packard) Blanchard. His grand- 
 father, Isaac G. Klanchard, was a prosperous 
 merchant of East Stoughton. The family is 
 an old and highly reputable one in this local- 
 ity. Henry Blanchard was a lifelong resident 
 of ICast .Stoughton, and for many years en- 
 gaged in tiie manufacture of boots. After a 
 successful business career he died January 20, 
 1S74. His wife, Susannah, was a native of 
 what is now Brocktgn. 
 
 David H. Blanchard began his education in 
 East Stoughton, later attending academies in 
 Brockton and Woburn, Mass., and completing 
 his studies at the age of eighteen. 1^'or sev- 
 eral years he was associated in his father's 
 factory, finally becoming a partner under the 
 firm name of H. & D. II. Blanchard. When 
 the senior partner retired, he became asso- 
 ciated with his brother, Hiram Blanchard. 
 The firm of D. H. & H. Blanchard dissolved 
 in 1870, after which David H. was for a time 
 associated in business with Bradford Blanch- 
 ard. He was subsequently engaged in the 
 wholesale boot and shoe trade in Boston until 
 his jilace of business was destroyed by fire. 
 He has dealt quite extensively in real estate. 
 His homestead and the surrounding grounds 
 are worth)' of comparison with some of the 
 finest rural estates in this county. Politically, 
 he is a Republican; and his public services 
 have been very beneficial to the community. 
 He was formerly a member of the Board of 
 Selectmen in Stoughton; was active in secur- 
 ing the setting off and incorporation of the 
 town of Avon; was elected to the legislature 
 in 18S2; and has been a member of the Board 
 of Water Commissioners since its organization, 
 and is now the chairman of that body. In re- 
 ligious belief he is an Episcopalian. He is a 
 member of the Commercial Club of Brockton. 
 He married Sarah F. Lawton, of Taunton, 
 Mass., and has one son, Henry L., who'is a 
 graduate of Harvard University and now a 
 student at the Harvard Law School. 
 
 Hiram Blanchard, formerly associated in 
 business with his brother, David H., was born 
 in East Stoughton, November 12, 1840. 
 After reaching his majority he became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of D. H. & Hiram Blanchard; 
 and when that concern dissolved he was for
 
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 four years engaged in the furniture and carpet 
 business in Boston, as a member of the firm of 
 Swan, Basford & Co. He was a Selectman in 
 Stoughton from 1879 to 1889; and, excluding 
 the year of 1896, since the incorporation of 
 Avon he has served in the same capacity up 
 to the present time, having been the chairman 
 of the board for several years. He also served 
 as Tax Collector and as a member of the 
 School Board in Stoughton, and he is the 
 present Superintendent of Streets in Avon. 
 In politics he supports the Republican party. 
 He wedded Mary E. Demuth, of Chelsea, 
 Mass., and has had three children — Wallace; 
 Mary F. ; and Gertrude. Gertrude died in 
 infancy. Mr. Blanchard was a charter mem- 
 ber of the Knights of Honor. He is widely 
 and favorably known both as a business man 
 and a public official, and is highly esteemed 
 for his many commendable qualities. 
 
 /^APT. DAVIS GRANT McINTOSH, 
 I s^ eldest son of the late Charles Mcln- 
 ^^Hs) tosh, of Needham, Norfolk County, 
 
 Mass., was born in this town in 
 1864, and died at Shanghai, China, on Octo- 
 ber 13, 1897. On the paternal side he was 
 of Scottish descent. His father, Charles 
 Mcintosh, by occupation a farmer, was born 
 in Needham in 1829, and died here in 1893. 
 His wife was Frances Elizabeth Mills. They 
 reared a family of five children, namely: 
 Davis Grant, above named ; Theodore and 
 Charles Otis, both married and living in Need- 
 ham ; Mabel Frances, a teacher of shorthand 
 in Comer's Commercial College, Boston, liv- 
 ing at the parental home in Needham ; and 
 Carleton G., now in Comer's Commercial Col- 
 lege. 
 
 Davis Grant Mcintosh in his boyhood at- 
 tended the public schools of the town, gradu- 
 ating from the high school in 188 1. A year 
 later, yielding to his desire for a seafaring 
 life, he set sail from Philadelphia as a cabin 
 boy on the ship "Henry Failing," commanded 
 by Captain Merriman and bound for Tacoma 
 by way of Cape Horn. From Tacoma he 
 sailed to San Pedro, Cal., then went on three 
 voyages as able seaman, and afterward sailed 
 to Liverpool, where he was made third mate. 
 
 Returning to San Francisco, he went back to 
 Liverpool with another load of wheat, and was 
 promoted to the position of second mate. 
 When the "Henry Failing" again reached 
 San Francisco, Second Mate Mcintosh took the 
 opportunity to make a visit home, journeying 
 overland to Needham. He rejoined his vessel 
 in Liverpool; and, coming on her to Philadel- 
 phia, he was raised to the position of first 
 mate. From Philadelphia the "Henry trail- 
 ing" sailed to Japan, back to Tacoma, from 
 there to San Francisco, and then to Australia, 
 where she took on a cargo of coal for San 
 Pedro. P'rom that port she sailed for Tacoma, 
 where she loaded up with wheat for Havre, 
 France, and, having delivered the wheat, took 
 on a cargo for Cardiff, Wales. From Wales 
 she sailed to Rio Janeiro, thence to Philadel- 
 phia, from there to Japan, from Japan to the 
 Philippine Islands, and back to Philadelphia. 
 She then sailed for Liverjjool with a load of 
 oil ; from there to San P'rancisco, where she 
 was loaded with wheat for Liverpool, and back 
 to Philadelphia, where First Mate Mcintosh 
 was made master of the vessel. 
 
 It was in 1892 that he made his first voyage 
 as captain, going from Philadelphia to Japan 
 with a cargo of oil, from there to Manila, and 
 back to New York with sugar and hemp. In 
 New York he left the "Henr}' Failing"; and 
 at Portland, Ore., he took command of the 
 bark "Western Belle," owned by the same 
 company, and returned with a cargo of spars 
 and lumber to New York. He next went as 
 navigator on the yacht "Alaska," owned by 
 John A. Brooks, of New York, bound for 
 Glasgow, Scotland. On his return to New 
 York he went overland to California, and 
 there, taking command of the ship "St. Nich- 
 olas," sailed to Yokohama, to Hiogo, again to 
 New York, from there to San Francisco with 
 a general cargo, back to New York, and then 
 to San Francisco, where the vessel was sold. 
 Captain Mcintosh returning home overland. 
 
 His last voyage was on the "St. Kather- 
 ine, " with a cargo of lumber from British 
 Columbia to Shanghai, China, where he was 
 attacked with acute dysentery, which caused 
 his death, as announced by cable, on October 
 13, 1897, at the early age of thirty-three 
 years. He is survived by his wife, M. Fran-
 
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 ces, to whom he was married in i<S'94, she 
 afterward accomjianyiiig him on several voy- 
 ages, and two children: Marjorie F., horn in 
 1895; and Helen Dorothy, horn in jH(j6. 
 Mrs. Mcintosh is a daughter of Adam Murray, 
 of Gault, Out. 
 
 H.LIAM E. LINCOLN, a promi- 
 nent businessman of Brookline and 
 the treasurer of the Brookline Sav- 
 ings Bank, was born in Boston, Mass., July 
 17, 1842, son of William Lincoln. He comes 
 of ancient and honored stock. Through the 
 various branches of the paternal or maternal 
 family he is lineally descended from Pastor 
 John Robinson, who so kindly taught and 
 ministered to the Pilgrim company during 
 their stay in Leyden; from James Otis, one of 
 the earliest settlers of New P^ngland ; and 
 from the emigrant ancestor of the Crocker fam- 
 ily, which has been prominent in Massachu- 
 setts history for two hundred and seventy-five 
 years. The Rev. Henry Lincoln, the grand- 
 father of William ¥,., was born in Hingham, 
 Mass. Having graduated from Harvard Uni- 
 versity, he entered the ministry, and was sub- 
 sequently settled over the Congregational 
 Church of Falmouth, Mass., for a period of 
 thirty consecutive years. After resigning 
 that pastorate, he supplied various pulpits as 
 his services were needed, and spent his last 
 days at Nantucket, where he died at the ven- 
 erable age of ninety-two years. He married 
 Susannah Crocker, who was born in Fal- 
 mouth, Mass. Of their seven children, Will- 
 iam Lincoln is the sole survivor. 
 
 William Lincoln was born and brought up 
 in Falmouth, Mass., receiving his education 
 in the common schools and in the Derby 
 Academy at Flingham. In his youth he 
 worked for a time at printing, and was later a 
 clerk in a general store. On reaching his 
 majority, he embarked in the oil business, 
 which engrossed his attention for some years. 
 Then he purchased an interest in a line of 
 vessels running to New Orleans, and was en- 
 gaged in commercial pursuits for a long time. 
 Subsequently he returned to the oil business; 
 and, after carrying it on in Boston until 1854, 
 he removed to Brookline, where he is now liv- 
 
 ing, a hale and hearty man of eighty-nine 
 years. He was also for many years engaged 
 in the real estate business, which of late he 
 has left to the management of his son, Will- 
 iam V.., whom he admitted to ])artnership 
 some years ago. While living in Boston and 
 for some time after coming to this town, he 
 was a director of several Boston banks; and 
 for several years he has been a tru.stee of the 
 Brookline Savings Bank. He is a steadfast 
 Republican in politics, and has ever taken an 
 active interest in local matters. For some 
 years he was a member of the Brookline Board 
 of Assessors, a large part of the time being 
 chairman of the board. He married Mary 
 Francis, who was born in Boston, Mass., a 
 daughter of David Francis, of the firm Mun- 
 roe & P'rancis. She died at the age of fifty- 
 six years, having borne him seven children. 
 Of these four are now living, namely: Dr. 
 D. P". Lincoln; William E.; the Rev. James 
 O., of California; and Walter H., a clerk in 
 the Brookline Savings Bank. The father is 
 senior Deacon in the Congregational church, 
 to which the mother also belonged. 
 
 William E. Lincoln attended the public 
 schools of Boston until twelve years old. 
 Then he came with his parents to Brookline, 
 where in the high school he completed his ed- 
 ucation. He began his active career as a 
 clerk in his father's office, a capacity in which 
 he was employed until taken into partnership. 
 He has now the exclusive control of the busi- 
 ness, the offices being at 27 State Street, Bos- 
 ton, and at the Savings Bank in Brookline. 
 In addition to dealing in real estate, this en- 
 terprising firm also carries on a large business 
 in insurance, representing many of the promi- 
 nent companies in this part of the United 
 States. In 1880 Mr. Lincoln was elected 
 treasurer of the Savings Bank, an important 
 position, which he has filled satisfactorily to 
 all concerned. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln is a stanch Republican, and 
 for fifteen years has served as Town Auditor. 
 He is a member of the Knights of Honor, the 
 only fraternal society with which he is con- 
 nected. In October, 1880. he married Miss 
 Caroline A. Brett, daughter of C. F. Brett, a 
 clothing merchant of Boston. She was born 
 in North Bridgewater, but was bred and edu-
 
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 cated in Brookline, having come here with 
 her parents when a child. Mr. and Mrs. Lin- 
 coln have two children — -William Otis and 
 Helen A. Both parents are members of the 
 Consrregational church. 
 
 "ON. ERASTUS P. CARPENTER, 
 
 of Fo.\boro, Mass.,' has been the 
 leading spirit in the establishment 
 of the many important and valuable 
 industrial enterprises, educational institutions, 
 and other works of improvement that have con- 
 tributed to the growth and prosperity, the in- 
 tellectual and moral elevation, of this beauti- 
 ful New England village, one of the most 
 flourishing manufacturing centres of Norfolk 
 County. His paternal grandfather, Ezra Car- 
 penter, was an officer of the Revolutionary 
 army. His father, Daniels Carpenter, who 
 was an extensive and successful manufacturer, 
 died in 1880, leaving a handsome property, 
 which he had accumulated by industrious toil 
 and good business tact. His mother, who 
 before her marriage with Daniels Carpenter 
 was Abigail Payson, was the daughter of 
 Phillips Payson, of Foxboro. 
 
 Erastus Payson Carpenter, born in Foxboro, 
 November 23, 1822, was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of P'oxboro, Tolman's Private 
 School, Day's Academy at Wrentham, and 
 under the tuition of the Rev. Mortimer Blake. 
 Relinquishing the idea of entering upon a 
 professional career, however, he gave up the 
 proposed course at college, for which he was 
 fitted, and in February, 1842, secured a 
 situation with his cousin, Oliver Carpenter, 
 who was a straw manufacturer on a modest 
 scale, agreeing to work for him a year for the 
 sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, 
 serving as general factotum, his duties rang- 
 ing from the work of book-keeper to that of 
 hostler. In July he was released from his 
 contract, and, entering the employ of Warren 
 Carpenter, a brother of Oliver, was shortly 
 sent South to sell the straw goods, his head- 
 quarters being in Charleston, S.C. In Janu- 
 ary, 1843, he became a partner of his cousin 
 Warren, and assumed the charge of a branch 
 store in Richmond, Va. 
 
 While there he conceived the brilliant idea 
 
 of uniting the different straw factories of Fox- 
 boro and erecting a large factory, in which all 
 the work could be much better and quicker 
 accomplished. With this end in view, he re- 
 turned to this town, and with his partner pur- 
 chased a large tract of land, on which the 
 "great bonnet shop," now the Verandah 
 House, was built and put in operation, the 
 Hamlet House being afterward built as an 
 annex. The business grew rapidly, increasing 
 far beyond the expectations of the promoters, 
 assuming such proportions that extensive addi- 
 tions to the plant were made, the shop being 
 enlarged and the manufacture of straw goods 
 greatly facilitated by the introduction of 
 steam-power, which was thus used for the first 
 time. In 1852 the demand for straw goods 
 could not be met under the conditions then 
 existing; and Mr. E. P. Carpenter with shrewd 
 foresight and calculation planned and built the 
 Union Straw Works, the largest of the kind in 
 the world, and soon had six thousand people 
 busily employed. 
 
 In September, 1861, owing to the loss of 
 the Southern trade, a change was necessitated, 
 and Mr. Carpenter went to London, England, 
 and, selling the property to Vyse & Co., con- 
 tinued to manage the business for the new 
 owners, and in the first five months cleared a 
 sufficient sum to cover the entire purchase 
 money. He remained connected with the 
 works as superintendent and partner until 
 1S70, when otber interests demanded his 
 attention ; and during the entire time none but 
 feelings of harmony obtained between himself 
 and the employees. He was the first to inau- 
 gurate the system of sharing the profits with 
 them, and never had a strike in his factory. 
 
 During the late Rebellion, Mr. Carpenter 
 assiduously befriended the gallant soldiers and 
 their families, and in May, 1861, visited For- 
 tress Monroe and Newport News, under a com- 
 mission from the town, as " a bearer of kind 
 messages and remembrance from friends at 
 home, and to provide for the needs and com- 
 forts " of the Foxboro men. On returning 
 home he organized and was made captain of a 
 company which the town equipped with Sharp's 
 rifles at a cost of three thousand dollars; but, 
 as rifles had not then taken the place of mus- 
 kets, the government did not accept the com-
 
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 pany. He was subsequently chairman of the 
 committee having charge of expending the ten 
 thousand dollars raised for the relief of volun- 
 teers and their families by the town. His 
 home work was so highly appreciated that, 
 when the local post of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic was organized, the veterans commem- 
 orated his services and honored him by naming 
 it the E. P. Carpenter Post. 
 
 Mr. Carpenter has stood steadfastly for mod- 
 ern improvements since he was a young man, 
 having been one of the founders and generous 
 supporters of the .Sylvan Association, which 
 transformed a wild waste of land, covered with 
 weeds, brambles, and uncouth shrubs, into a 
 beautiful park, known as P'o.\boro Common. 
 In 1853 he established the first printing house 
 in this village. In 1857 he financially aided 
 the Home Library, a struggling newspaper 
 published here. The same year saw the com- 
 pletion of the handsome town house, which 
 was built largely through his efforts, he hav- 
 ing given valuable aid as chairman of the 
 Building Committee, and afterward cleared it 
 from debt by paying from his own pocket the 
 few hundred dollars used in its erection beyond 
 the sum appropriated by the town. In 185S he 
 rented its first floor for the use of the F"oxboro 
 English and Classical School, which he estab- 
 lished, with J. L. Stone, A.M., as principal; 
 and for several years, or until it was merged 
 into the Foxboro High School, he paid all de- 
 ficiencies arising in its management. Could 
 one but half remember them, space would 
 scarce permit mention of the many important 
 enterprises enhancing the town's prosperity and 
 attractions with which Mr. Carpenter has been 
 identified, either as a supporter or as sole 
 promoter; but among the most notable are the 
 following : — 
 
 Rock Hill Cemetery, purchased and im- 
 proved through his personal influence; the 
 beautiful Memorial Hall — occupied by the 
 Free Public Library — built of pebble-stone 
 and granite, which was erected to the memory 
 of the soldiers and sailors of this town upon 
 recommendations of a conmiittee, of which he 
 was chairman, and to the finishing and adorn- 
 ing of which he has contributed munificently; 
 the library itself, to which has been added the 
 Union Straw Works Library, gathered by the 
 
 employees through the inducements of Mr. 
 Carpenter, who gave them liberal offers for 
 overwork in times when there were extra de- 
 mands for straw goods; the Foxboro F'ire De- 
 partment, which was organized in 1850, and 
 equipped with a hand-engine manned by a vol- 
 unteer company, of which he was foreman; 
 the Foxboro Loan Inind and Building Associa- 
 tion, founded in 1S54, with Mr. Carpenter as 
 its president, which laid out Leonard Street 
 and built up the village known as New Jerusa- 
 lem ; the erection of the Orthodox Congrega- 
 tional church, toward which he was a large 
 moneyed contributor, and to the furnishing of 
 which he gave the beautiful rosewood pulpit; 
 and his more recent efforts in having a boot 
 factory and also the Van Choate Electrical 
 Company and the Massachusetts Inebriate 
 Hospital located here. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Carpenter was one of the incor- 
 porators of the Foxboro Savings Bank. He 
 was a large stockholder in the local telegraph 
 company that built and operated a line be- 
 tween here and Mansfield in 1859. He was 
 the first president, and one of the promoters, 
 of the Mansfield & Framingham Railway, 
 of the F'ramingham & Lowell Railway, and 
 was president of the M. V. Railway. In 1873 
 and 1874 he was a State director of the Boston 
 & Albany Railroad. 
 
 In 1872, 1873, and 1874 Mr. Carpenter was 
 State Senator; and for two years of that time 
 he was chairman of the Committee on Rail- 
 roads. He delivered a very able argument on 
 the Hoosac Tunnel question, the Senate order- 
 ing ten thousand copies printed for distribu- 
 tion. He was a member of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives in 1 891, and father of the move- 
 ment which resulted in the enactment of a State 
 highway law. In 1878 he was chosen Select- 
 man and Highway Surveyor of Foxboro; and 
 through his strenuous efforts the town's ac- 
 counts, which were in a strangely muddled 
 condition, were straightened, unpaid taxes col- 
 lected, the debt funded on long-time coupon 
 bonds, and the public business reduced to a 
 safe and simple system. In 1891 he was 
 elected chairman of the Board of Water Com- 
 missioners of Foxboro, a position that he still 
 holds. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Carpenter's residence was
 
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 destroyed by fire. The old Tayson homestead, 
 which he bought a few years later and on which 
 he made substantial improvements, is now oc- 
 cupied as the Massachusetts Inebriate Asy- 
 lum. He remodelled and rebuilt the house 
 in which he now resides. Me laid out and 
 built Maple Avenue, and superintended the 
 erection of several fine residences on this and 
 other prominent streets of the town. He has 
 improved his father's old homestead, render- 
 ing it one of the most attractive country seats 
 in all New England. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Carpenter attended the Meth- 
 odist camp meeting at Martha's Vineyard, and, 
 not being able to find suitable accommoda- 
 tions in which to tarry for a few days, con- 
 ceived the idea of establishing a summer 
 resort in that charming locality. Inducing 
 five other far-seeing business men to assist 
 him, he purchased a tract of wild land, organ- 
 ized the (^ak Bluffs Land and Wharf Com- 
 pany in 1868, and the ne.xt year was elected 
 its president. Thus through his well-timed 
 efforts the Cottage City of to-day has been 
 evolved. The wharf and Sea View House 
 were built by the company under his super- 
 vision ; and he has assisted in the develop- 
 ment of Katama, where he built Matakesett 
 Lodge, a wharf, and several cottages. He has 
 also been largely interested in the establish- 
 ment of the summer resort on Shelter Island 
 known as .Shelter Island Park. 
 
 .Some years ago Mr. Carpenter built a straw 
 sho|) at Nantucket, in which he employed 
 hundreds of women. In 1XX7 he planned and 
 superintended the construction of the famed 
 Sea Cliff Inn. A long time ago he estab- 
 lished a straw factory in Medfieid ; and under 
 the will of the late Mr. Chenery, Medfield's 
 generous benefactor, he planned and erected the 
 first town house of that place, Chenery Hall. 
 
 Mr. Carpenter can look back upon a long 
 period of useful activity and highly appre- 
 ciated public service. The town in which he 
 was born and reared, and which he has always 
 called "home," is justly proud of him, plac- 
 ing him in a high position among her honored 
 children, and earnestly desiring that his life 
 may be prolonged for many years to come, that 
 he may enjoy the fruits of his beneficent 
 labors. 
 
 broker and dealer in Boston, his office being in 
 the Chamber of Commerce building. He was 
 born October 25, 1854, in Cohasset, Mass., 
 and is the last representative of his line. His 
 father, Albert Fisher, was a native of Boltcjn, 
 this State. His paternal grandfather, Samuel 
 Fisher, was a lifelong resident of Massachu- 
 setts and the descendant of one of its earliest 
 settlers. Mrs. Ann Fisher, wife of .Samuel 
 Fisher, long surviving her husband, lived to 
 the advanced age of ninety-nine years, retain- 
 ing her faculties, including her remarkable 
 memory, to the last. She reared a family of 
 six children, training them to habits of indus- 
 try and usefulness. 
 
 Albert P'isher learned the machinist's trade 
 in the shops of the Old Colony Railway Com- 
 pany, was later an engineer on that road, and 
 for a time served the company as master me- 
 chanic. He was subsequently employed as an 
 engineer on various railroads; and in 1863, at 
 the time of Morgan's raid, when he was run- 
 ning an engine through Kentucky, he was 
 arrested and confined for a while in a fort. 
 On being paroled be returned North. At one 
 time, when running through Pennsylvania in 
 charge of an engine attached to a passenger 
 train, he saw a freight train coming down the 
 grade he was ascending. Cool-headed and 
 fearless, he reversed his engine, and by his 
 heroic efforts avoided what would have been a 
 serious wreck. As a tribute to his courage 
 and presence of mind, the grateful passengers 
 gave him a handsome present. He was after- 
 ward employed as master mechanic on the 
 Lynchburg & West Virginia Railroad. On 
 his retirement he purchased a large place on 
 P'ederal Hill, Dedham, where he spent his 
 remaining years, dying June 13, 1887, aged 
 seventy-five. 
 
 His wife, Arabella Gray, was a daughter of 
 John Gray, who was one of three men that 
 walked through the Maine woods and founded 
 Paris Hill. She was brought up and educated 
 in Maine, one of her instructors being Hanni- 
 bal Hamlin, later Vice-President of the United 
 States and one of our most distinguished states-
 
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 men. Her parents reared a large family, con- 
 sisting of four daughters and eleven sons; and, 
 as some of the elder children were away from 
 home earning their own living before the 
 arrival of the younger members of the house- 
 hold, they had but little acquaintance with 
 them, and it is a fact that the eldest son never 
 saw his youngest brother until he met him at 
 his mother's funeral. The Gray family were 
 numbered among the pioneers of that part of 
 Maine, living there at a time when bears, pan- 
 thers, and wolves were still prowling about, 
 and the red men were not always peaceful. 
 Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Albert Fisher, but two grew to adult age; and 
 but one, Albert F., is now living. The 
 mother passed to the life immortal at the age 
 of seventy-nine years. 
 
 Albert F. Fisher came with his parents to 
 Dedham when but five years old, and was here 
 educated, being graduated from the Dedham 
 High School. At the age of twenty he en- 
 tered an importing house as a clerk, a position 
 which he filled for a year, receiving a salary 
 of two dollars per week. During the time he 
 studied book-keeping; and he soon secured a 
 situation where he was given twelve dollars 
 a week as a book-keeper, and in addition made 
 twice as much as salesman. When very 
 young Mr. Fisher started in business with 
 E. S. Morse, of this town, and, though they 
 had but a limited capital, carried on a thriving 
 trade. They afterward invested in forty thou- 
 sand acres of timber land in Maine, but, this 
 proving an unwise movement on their part, 
 Mr. Fisher returned to his position as sales- 
 man with his former employer; and when the 
 firm went out of business, a year later, he en- 
 gaged as a travelling salesman for J. F. Bron- 
 son, remaining with him twelve months. He 
 then started in business on his own account as 
 a flour broker, in which he met with excellent 
 success, making money surely and rapidly. In 
 1882 he formed a partnership with F. W. 
 Wise, under the name of Fisher & Wise; and 
 this enterprising firm holds a leading position 
 among the largest operators in New England, 
 representing several mills, among them being 
 one in Superior, Wis., which has an output of 
 five thousand barrels a day. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Fisher married Miss Anna W. 
 
 Morse, who was born in Ro.xbury, Mass. Her 
 father, William Morse, was a ])rominent car- 
 penter and builder during his life, which was 
 brought to a close in the sixty-fourth year of 
 his age. Mr. Morse was a prominent and 
 influential citizen, being a member of the 
 Common Council both before and after the an- 
 nexation of Roxbury to Boston, and serving as 
 a Representative to the State legislature. 
 Kind-hearted, benevolent, and hospitable, he 
 was noted for his deeds of charity. He was 
 for some years a member of the Roxbury City 
 Guards, a well-known military company. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Fhoebe A. 
 Spofford, was a descendant of John Spofford, 
 one of the earliest settlers in Rowley, Mass., 
 and belonged to a family whose ancestry in 
 England is traced back to the time of William 
 the Conqueror. Mr. and Mrs. Morse reared 
 three children, of whom Mrs. Fisher is the 
 only one living. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have 
 three daughters, namely: Adele M., a member 
 of the class of 1899 in Smith College; Ella 
 F. ; and Grace M. 
 
 In politics Mr. Fisher is a stanch Republi- 
 can. He is very prominent and active in 
 many secret and social organizations, in- 
 cluding the following: Constellation Lodge, 
 F. & A. M., of Dedham; Norfolk Lodge, 
 R. A. M., of Hyde Park; De Molay Command- 
 ery, K. T., of Boston; Aleppo Shrine, of Bos- 
 ton; the Royal Arcanum; Royal Orders; So- 
 ciety of Good Fellows; Knights of Honor; 
 A. O. U. W. ; Boston Athletic Club; the 
 Fisher Ames Club; and he was at one time a 
 member of the Boston Cadets. He is a de- 
 voted and active member of the Orthodox, 
 or Trinitarian Congregational, Church, in 
 which he has always taken a great interest; 
 and he instituted the envelope system, by 
 which it was freed from debt. 
 
 OHN T. PITMAN, book-keeper for 
 R. S. Byam & Co., of Canton, Mass., 
 is a man of strict integrity, eminently 
 trustworthy, and well merits the high 
 esteem and respect in which he is universally 
 held. He was born July 10, 1837, in Con- 
 cord, Mass., a town rich in historical remi- 
 niscences, and held in reverence as the birth-
 
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 place or residence of distinguished thinkers 
 and writers of the nineteenth century. 
 
 The Pitman family was represented in 
 America during the Colonial period by differ- 
 ent emigrants from England. Captain John 
 Pitman was living in Danvers, Mass., in 
 1690. A Nathaniel is spoken of as in Salem 
 in 1639, but usually named Pickman. Thomas 
 was in Marblehead in 1639. Captain Benja- 
 min Pitman settled first in Gloucester, Mass. 
 He subsequently removed to Ossipee, N.H., 
 making that place his permanent home, and 
 there rearing his children. John Pitman, the 
 grandfather of John T. , was born, lived, and 
 died in Ossipee. Among his children were: 
 Joseph, a soldier of the War of 1812; and 
 William, father of John T. 
 
 William Pitman was born and educated in 
 Ossipee; but when a young man he went to 
 Concord, Mass., where he was married, and 
 where he spent a few years, removing then to 
 Maiden. In 1844 he returned to Ossipee, and 
 worked at the blacksmith's trade through his 
 years of activity, eventually going thence to 
 Brookfield, N.H., where he died at the age of 
 seventy-seven years. In politics he was a 
 steadfast Whig. His wife was formerly Miss 
 Patience S. Stiles, of Concord, Mass. They 
 were the parents of five children, as follows: 
 Elizabeth, now living in Canton ; Frank F. ; 
 Willard F. ; Lucy; and John T. 
 
 John T. Pitman was but seven years of age 
 when his parents removed from Maiden, Mass., 
 to Ossipee, N.H., where he completed his 
 education and was for a short time engaged in 
 teaching. He subsequently worked at the tin- 
 smith's trade two years; but, not satisfied with 
 this handicraft for a life work, he went to 
 Chelsea, Mass., and found employment as a 
 book-keeper. Very soon after, in September, 
 1861, he enlisted in Company M, First Mas- 
 sachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, going directly to 
 the scene of conflict; but, being taken sick, he 
 was sent home in a short time. In Septem- 
 ber, 1862, he again offered his services to his 
 country, enlisting in the Forty-third Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, and being ap- 
 pointed a Corporal in Company H. He served 
 until the expiration of his nine months' term 
 of enlistment, taking an active part in the 
 battles of Kingston, Whitehall, and Golds- 
 
 boro. Resuming his work as a book-keeper 
 in Chelsea, he remained there until January 3, 
 1873, when he accepted a similar position 
 with the well-known firm of Byam & Co., ex- 
 pressmen, of Canton, continuing with them 
 twelve years. Afterward, in the same ca- 
 pacity, he worked for the American Net and 
 Twine Company for three years; but for the 
 past nine years he has been book-keeper for 
 his former employer, R. S. Byam. Mr. Pit- 
 man is a sound Rejniblican in politics, and, 
 though not an office-seeker, is now serving a 
 two years' term as Town Auditor, having been 
 elected in the present year, 1897. 
 
 On September 7, 1862, Mr. Pitman married 
 Miss Mary O. Sinclair, who was born and bred 
 in Ossipee, N.H. They have one child, 
 Marion E. Mr. Pitman was made a Mason in 
 the Blue Hill Lodge, in which he has been 
 secretary. Marshal, and Tyler. He is also a 
 member of Revere Post, No. 94, G. A. R., 
 and has held several of the offices in that or- 
 ganization, having been Commander of the 
 post two years. While living in Chelsea he 
 united with the Universalist church, and he 
 is now a regular attendant of the Canton 
 church of that denomination. 
 
 ILLIAM BARNAS SEARS, a 
 prominent resident of Brookline, 
 doing business in Boston, was born 
 in Hamilton, Madison County, N.Y., June 
 II, 1832, son of Barnas Sears, D.D., LL.U., 
 and Elizabeth Griggs Corey Sears. His 
 father, who was a native of Sandisfield, 
 Berkshire County, Mass., was a graduate of 
 Brown University and Newton Theological 
 Seminary; pastor of the First Baptist Church, 
 Hartford, Conn. ; professor in Madison Col- 
 lege, Hamilton, N.Y. ; graduate of Berlin 
 University, Germany; professor and president 
 of Newton Theological Seminary; secretary of 
 the State Board of Education, successor to 
 Horace Mann; president of Brown University, 
 succeeding Dr. Wayland ; agent for the Pea- 
 body Educational F"und for the South, ap- 
 pointed by George Peabody, London banker. 
 He died at Saratoga Springs, July 4, 1880, 
 and was buried in the Corey tomb, Walnut 
 Street Cemeter}^ Brookline. His mother was
 
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 a daughter of Deacon Elijah Corey, of Corey 
 Hill, J^rookline, and grand-daughter of Cap- 
 tain Timothy Corey, who was on duty at the 
 battle of Lexington. 
 
 The family removed to Brookline when 
 William Barnas was a year old. He received 
 his education at the private school of Eben- 
 ezer Woodward and the classical German 
 school of Dr. Carl Siedhof in Newton Centre, 
 finishing under Professor William Russell, 
 President Ebenezer Dodge, D. D. , and Presi- 
 dent Alvah Hovey, D.D. He was instructor 
 in German, Latin, and mathematics at Pierce 
 Academy, Middleboro, and then entered the 
 store of Gardner Colby on Milk Street, Bos- 
 ton, and served his apprenticeship three and 
 one-half years, from 185 1 to 1854. After a 
 year at Alton, 111., and at New Orleans, he 
 entered the employ of Lyman Sears & Co., 
 jobbers of boots and shoes, 12 Barclay Street, 
 New York. Later on he was with Paton & 
 Co., importers. Park Place, New York, and 
 for three years prior to the Civil War in the 
 silk house of Bowen, McNamee & Co., 112 
 Broadway, New York. 
 
 At the opening of the war he was commis- 
 sioned (June 6, 1861), by Governor William 
 Sprague, of Rhode Island, First Lieutenant 
 in Company F, Second Rhode Island Regi- 
 ment, Volunteer Infantry, for three years; 
 and he served to the expiration of the term, 
 making a brilliant and honorable record. 
 His regiment opened the battle of first Bull 
 Run at Sudley Church on Sunday, July 21, 
 1861, at 9 A.M.; and. Captain Levi Tower of 
 his company being one of the first to be 
 killed, the command devolved upon Lieuten- 
 ant Sears. In this engagement the Colonel, 
 Major, two Captains, and one hundred and 
 forty men of the regiment were killed, 
 wounded, or captured. On the 28th of Octo- 
 ber, 1 86 1, Lieutenant Sears was commis- 
 sioned Captain, and thereafter was present 
 with his command at Warwick Court-house, 
 L-ee's Mills, Yorktovvn, Williamsburg, West 
 Point, Slatersville, New Kent Court-house, 
 Mechanicsville, Hanover Court-house, Savage 
 Station, Seven Pines, Turkey Bend, Malvern 
 Hill, second Bull Run, Chantilly, South 
 Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Marye's 
 Heights, Salem Church, Gettysburg, South 
 
 Anna River, and Cold Harbor, June, 1864. 
 He was honorably discharged at Providence, 
 R. I., June 17, 1864, the term of service of 
 the regiment having expired; and he subse- 
 quently received from Governors Sprague, of 
 Rhode Island, Buckingham, of Connecticut, 
 and Andrew, of Massachusetts, written com- 
 mendation for active services at the front. 
 He was wounded at first Bull Run, at Seven 
 Pines, and at Hamilton's Crossing, Freder- 
 icksburg. 
 
 Captain Sears was one of the early members 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic, on tiie 
 17th of October, 1867, joining Post No. 26 of 
 Roxbury. In 1871 he was elected Senior 
 Vice-Commander. In -September, 1874, he 
 was transferred to Post No. 143 of Brookline, 
 and in 1875 and again in 1876 was elected 
 Commander of that post. He served one year 
 on the staff of General William Cogswell, 
 Commander of the Department of Massachu- 
 setts, and one year on that of Myron P. 
 Walker, and has had the exceptional record of 
 six years' service on the national staff of 
 Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army, hav- 
 ing been first appointed in 1877 on the staff of 
 Governor Lucius Fairfield, of Wisconsin; 
 next, in 1889, on General Rea's staff; in 
 1892 on that of General A. G. Weissert, of 
 Wisconsin; in 1893 on that of Captain John 
 G. B. Adams, of Massachusetts; in 1895, on 
 the staff of Colonel Thomas G. Lawler; and 
 in 1896 on that of Clarkson. In 1874 he 
 was admitted to membership of the Massa- 
 chusetts Commandery, Military Order of the 
 Loyal Legion. He served in the State militia 
 as member of Company D, Massachusetts 
 Cavalry, Roxbury Horse Guards, from 1865 to 
 1872, when he was commissioned by Governor 
 Claflin Captain of Company C, P"irst Regi- 
 ment, Infantry; and on October 2, 1867, he 
 was elected a member of the Ancient and 
 Honorable Artillery Company, General Banks 
 at that time Commander. He is an honorary 
 member of the Clinch Rifles of Augusta, Ga., 
 having received his certificate of election in 
 August, 1875, and an honorary member of the 
 Mexican War Veterans' Association (elected 
 in 1880). In 1870 he was appointed commis- 
 sioner of the Commonwealth for disabled 
 soldiers of the war.
 
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 Captain Sears turned his attention to insur- 
 ance matters soon after the war, and began to 
 lay the foundation of his fire insurance agency 
 at 45 Kilby Street, the insurance centre of 
 Boston, in September, 1865. He was ap- 
 pointed Boston agent for the Norwich Fire 
 Insurance Company in 1867; and appointment 
 followed as agent for the Roger Williams, the 
 Commerce, the Firemen's Fund, and Union 
 Companies of California, the Hoffman, Fair- 
 field, Enterprise, German American, the 
 North British and Mercantile of London, and 
 the Guardian Assurance Company of London. 
 He has built up a first-class business, and 
 enjoys the confidence alike of underwriters 
 and assured. He was a charter member of 
 the Boston Protective Department in 1872, a 
 director in 1873, vice-president in 1874, and 
 president in 1875. In Brookline he served by 
 appointment of the Selectmen as assistant en- 
 gineer in 1876 and chief engineer in 1877 of 
 the Brookline Fire Department, and while 
 chief he reorganized the department on a 
 basis to harmonize with the system of the city 
 of Boston. 
 
 He is prominent in the Masonic fraternity, 
 being a member of the Massachusetts Lodge, 
 I'Vee and Accepted Masons, Boston ; of the 
 Roxbury Council, Royal and Select Masters; 
 of Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter; of Jo- 
 seph Warren Commandery, Knights Templar; 
 and a life member of Lafayette Lodge Perfec- 
 tion, of Giles F. Yates Council, Princes Jeru- 
 salem, of Mount Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix, 
 and of Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-sec- 
 ond degree. He is a member of the Baptist 
 church, having joined the church at Newton 
 Centre, the Rev. S. F. Smith, D.D., pastor, 
 in 1851; the church at Alton, 111., in 1854; 
 the First Baptist Church in New York in 
 i860; the Dudley Street Baptist Church, Rox- 
 bury District, Boston, 1865; and the First 
 Baptist Church, Brookline, 1874. In 1868 he 
 became a member of the Boston Baptist So- 
 cial Union, representing sixty-four Baptist 
 churches, served as director two terms, was 
 elected vice-president in 1888 and president 
 1889. During his term as president the or- 
 ganization took a new lease of life as a result 
 of his energetic efforts in its behalf. In 1880 
 he was elected a life member of the trustees 
 
 of Tremont Temple, Boston. He was ap- 
 pointed Justice of the Peace in 1870, Notary 
 Public in 1872, and Commissioner for New 
 Hampshire (appointed by Governor Weston) 
 in 1876. He has been a member of the 
 Brookline Thursday Club since 1874, and 
 member of the Trade Club, Boston, for seven 
 years, elected treasurer of the latter in 1891. 
 
 Captain Sears was married in February, 
 1863, at Roxbury, by the Rev. Dr. Rollin H. 
 Neale, to Miss Kmily A. Faunce, daughter of 
 Stephen and Rebecca W. (Langley) P'aunce. 
 By this marriage were four sons: VVilliam B., 
 Jr., born in Roxbury district; Langley B. , 
 Roxbury district; Harry Bowers, Roxbury 
 district ; and Stephen Faunce Sears, Brook- 
 line. His second marriage was on October 
 24, 1 88 1, by the Rev. Richard Montague, of 
 Providence, R.I., to Miss Sadie A. Hunt, 
 daughter of Joshua and Anne (Pearce) Hunt. 
 By this is one son, Edward H. Sears, born 
 September 25, 1885, at Brookline. His pres- 
 ent place of business is at 45 Kilby Street, 
 Boston, and his residence, Prospect Street, 
 Brookline. 
 
 Tf^EUBEN S. SWAN, cashier of the 
 I ^-^ Brookline National Bank, is a pro- 
 |b\ gressive and thorough-going busi- 
 ^■"■^^ ness man, possessing great financial 
 and executive ability. He was born January 
 7, 1850, in Dorchester, then included in Nor- 
 folk County, Massachussetts, and is a son of 
 the late William H. Swan. The Swan family 
 is one of the oldest in this part of Massachu- 
 setts, the emigrant ancestor having settled 
 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, in or be- 
 fore 1640. 
 
 Reuben Swan, grandfather of Reuben S., 
 was born in that part of Cambridge now 
 known as Arlington; but soon after his mar- 
 riage he removed to Dorchester, where he was 
 engaged in business as a grain dealer until his 
 decease, which occurred at the age of seventy- 
 eight years. The maiden name of his wife 
 was Ruth Teele. She was born and brought 
 up in West Cambridge, being the descendant 
 of a family prominent in the early history of 
 New England, and which is still represented 
 in that town. She bore her husband ten chil-
 
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 dren, two of whom are still living, both resi- 
 dents of Dorchester, one being cashier of the 
 New England IJank of Boston. Mrs. I'iuth '!". 
 Swan died at the age of fifty years. Both 
 she and her husband were members of the 
 Congregational church. 
 
 Their son, William H. Swan, was born in 
 Dorchester, Mass., March 17, 1806. Having 
 completed his education in the academy at Mil- 
 ton, he began his career as a teacher in the 
 Dorchester schools, and continued in this pro- 
 fession for a long time, for nearly a score of 
 years being submaster in the Wells School, 
 Boston. Resigning his position there, he be- 
 came connected with the New England Bank 
 as book-keeper, and remained in that capacity 
 until 1893, when he retired from active pur- 
 suits. He departed this life on January 9, 
 1896, in the ninetieth year of his age. He 
 was a sound Republican, and took an active 
 part in town affairs. For eight years he 
 served as Selectman of Dorchester, and was a 
 member of the board when the town was an- 
 nexed to the city. For thirty years and up 
 to the time of his demise he was a director in 
 the Dorchester Mutual F"ire Insurance Com- 
 pany. He was also a member of the Old 
 School-boys' Association. In 1842 he married 
 Mary E. Bronsdon, a daughter of Samuel 
 Bronsdon, a well-to-do farmer of Milton; and 
 in 1892 they celebrated the golden anniver- 
 sary of their union. Of the eight children 
 born into their household six are now living, 
 as follows: Mary R., wife of Frederick A. 
 O'Connor; Walter E. ; Reuben S. ; Allen 
 W., a well-known musician, residing in New 
 Bedford, Mass.; Joseph W. ; and Edith, wife 
 of Joseph F. Burtch. Both parents united 
 with the Unitarian church when young, and 
 always took an active interest in its growth 
 and prosperity. 
 
 After his graduation from the Dorchester 
 High School, Reuben S. Swan was engaged as 
 clerk for a year in a woollen jobbing store, and 
 was then employed for a short time in a 
 leather importing house. The following year 
 he was an assistant surveyor, but gave up his 
 position to enter the First National Bank of 
 Boston as a messenger. He was connected 
 with that institution for sixteen consecutive 
 years, being among its most faithful and able 
 
 employees. He rapidly rose from the subor- 
 dinate position first assigned him to that of 
 clerk, and at the date of his resignation had 
 been collection clerk for some time. In 
 1886, when the Brookline National Bank was 
 established, Mr. Swan accepted the cashier- 
 ship, a position which his previous experience 
 had particularly qualified him to hold; and he 
 has since been largely instrumental in build- 
 ing up the business of this institution. The 
 official force has been increased from one to 
 three members, four clerks being at times re- 
 quired to do the work. Mr. Swan is also one 
 of the directors of this bank, and has much 
 to do with the management of each of its 
 departments. 
 
 He is very influential in Masonic circles, 
 being the present Master of Beth-Horon 
 Lodge, A. V. & A. M., of Brookline; a mem- 
 ber of Roxbury Council ; of St. Paul's Chap- 
 ter, R. A. M., of Boston; and of De Molay 
 Commandery, K. T. , of Boston. He also be- 
 longs to the A. O. U. W., and is a prominent 
 member of the League of American Wheel- 
 men. In the latter he has held various 
 offices: for three years he was chairman of the 
 Finance Committee, and for several years he 
 has been a delegate to the national conven- 
 tions of this body and to the National Assem- 
 bly. He is likewise a member of the Norfolk 
 Club of Boston. In politics he is a stanch 
 Republican, and has served in the Common 
 Council of Boston. He and his family are 
 members of the Congregational church. 
 
 On October 8, 1873, Mr. Swan married 
 Miss Emma A. Melville, daughter of William 
 Melville, a piano manufacturer in Dorchester. 
 They have one child, Clifford Melville. 
 
 HARLES H. HARTSHORN, a re- 
 tired business man of Walpole, was 
 born here, March 25, 1840, in this 
 town. A son of the late Charles 
 Hartshorn, he belongs to one of the town's 
 old families. His grandfather, Richard 
 Hartshorn, was a prominent man here. The 
 father, who was born in Walpole in 1805, 
 spent here the larger part of his fourscore 
 years of life, dying in 1885. Prior to the era 
 of railways in Massachusetts he was the pro-
 
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 prietor of a freight line running from Boston 
 to Providence througli Walpole and employ- 
 ing a large number of horses. A leading 
 Democrat in this part of the county, he served 
 as Selectman and Assessor of Walpole for 
 many years. He married Miss Sarah Fales, 
 of VVrentham, and they reared two children; 
 namely, Charles H. and Josephine. Jo- 
 sephine is now the widow of Colonel Moore, 
 late of Walpole. 
 
 Charles H. Hartshorn attended the district 
 schools of Walpole until about sixteen years 
 old. Then he began driving one of his 
 father's teams between here and Boston. In 
 1861 he opened a meat market, later adding 
 to his stock general groceries and provisions. 
 As the town grew, his trade increased in pro- 
 portion, and eventually became one of the 
 largest and most lucrative of any in this vicin- 
 ity. In 1892 he retired from active pursuits, 
 turning his business over to his sons, who 
 are shrewd, honest young men, of good busi- 
 ness ability. He has been identified with the 
 Republican party for many years, and has ever 
 shown a warm interest in the welfare of his 
 native town. He has filled various offices 
 within the gift of his fellow-townsmen, having 
 been a member of the Board of Selectmen and 
 its chairman for a number of terms; Assessor 
 and Overseer of the Poor for five years; and 
 in 1S94 the Representative to the General 
 Court, being the first sent from Walpole Cen- 
 tre for many years. He is also a director of 
 the Co-operative Bank of Foxboro, Mass. 
 
 Mr. Hartshorn was married January i, 
 1862, to Miss Rebecca S. Hayden, daughter 
 of Charles D. Hayden, of Braintree, Mass. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hartshorn have five children — 
 Charles V., Elizabeth J., Robert H., Sadie, 
 and Rebecca. Elizabeth J. is the wife of Dr. 
 Bigelow, of Norwood, this county. Robert 
 and Charles carry on the business lately 
 owned by their father. Mr. Hartshorn is 
 connected with many secret organizations, in- 
 cluding Orient Lodge, P". & A. M., of Nor- 
 wood; Hebron Chapter, R. A. M., of Nor- 
 wood; Cyprus Commandery of Hyde Park; 
 Reliance Lodge, 1. O. O. P., of Walpole; 
 and the King Mount Encampment. He is 
 also connected with the A. O. U. W., of 
 which he has been the treasurer and collector; 
 
 and with the Spring Brook Council of the 
 Royal Arcanum. In the Unitarian church he 
 is an active worker and one of its most valued 
 members. 
 
 PHRAIM WILSON, a prominent farmer 
 of Dover and the representative of one 
 of the oldest families in the State, 
 was born on the Wilson homestead, May 5, 
 1825, son of Ephraim and Lucy (Capen) Wil- 
 son. The first of the family to settle in 
 Dover was Henry Wilson, who came from 
 Kent, England, in 1637, with Mary Medcalf, 
 his future wife, and settled on the farm now 
 owned by the subject of this sketch. His first 
 child was born here in 1646. Every descend- 
 ant of his who has since occupied the place has 
 been an Ephraim Wilson. Grandfather Wil- 
 son was a farmer throughout his life, and 
 always made his home on the old homestead. 
 He was very prominent in the town, and his 
 advice and opinions were much sought. Both 
 he and his wife, whose maiden name was Bul- 
 lard, died in Dover. Their children were: 
 Ephraim, born December 2, 1775; and Na- 
 thaniel, born August 25, 1779, who married, 
 and spent his active life as a farmer in Dover. 
 
 Ephraim Wilson, the father of the present 
 bearer of the name, was born December 2, 
 '775- The owner of a team, he was employed 
 by the United States government during the 
 VVar of 18 12 in carting supplies between Bos- 
 ton and Philadelphia. His son and namesake 
 has in his possession a chain used on his team. 
 He conducted the Wilson farm, and was an 
 influential man and a popular candidate for 
 public office. After serving in all the town 
 offices except those of Clerk and Treasurer, he 
 died May 16, 1847. The first of his two mar- 
 riages was contracted with Sally Richards, 
 who bore him five children — Eleazer, Isaac, 
 Sarah, Sybil, and Lucy. The second mar- 
 riage was with Lucy Capen, of Dedham, 
 Mass., whose children were Ephraim and 
 Edwin. Edwin, born September i, 1827, 
 first married Margaret Gould, of Walpole, 
 Mass. After her death he married Miss Rox- 
 ana Knight, and is now living near Lake City, 
 Minn., engaged in farming. 
 
 After receiving his education in the com-

 
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 moil schools, the present li^i^hraini Wilson took 
 up the study of surveying. Beginning when 
 nineteen years of age, he was engaged more or 
 less in surveyor's work up to about two years 
 ago. Many of the roads in Dover were laid out 
 by him. He has also done considerable con- 
 tracting work. The first contract undertaken 
 by him was in connection with the old Odd 
 I'ellows Building of Needham. He was one 
 of the Building Committee, and served as its 
 treasurer until the building was destroyed by 
 fire. ]?esides this Mr. Wilson carries on gen- 
 eral farming on the homestead, which com- 
 prises two hundred acres in Dover and fifty in 
 Dedham and other outlands. He has made 
 many improvements, and has now one of the 
 finest farms and pleasantest houses in Dover. 
 Until two years ago he took an active part in 
 politics, voting the Rejjublican ticket. He 
 has been a Justice of the Peace for more than 
 twenty-five years, and he has served the town 
 as Selectman and in other public positions. 
 An esteemed Odd Fellow, he is a member of 
 the Elliott Lodge, No. 58, at Needham, and 
 of the Grand Lodge. Llaving started in life 
 when in debt to the amount of twenty five 
 hundred dollars, it is greatly to his credit that 
 he is now one of the most prosperous and re- 
 spected men in Dover. Mr. Wilson is a re- 
 markably active and well preserved man, and 
 the autograph attached to his steel-engraved 
 portrait which accompanies this sketch was 
 written by him at the age of seventy-two years 
 and six months. 
 
 On May 11, 185 1, Mr. Wilson married 
 Mary Baker Soule, who was born in Dover, 
 February 11, 1831, daughter of Alexander and 
 Hannah (Draper) Soule. Her father, who 
 was a native of Oxford, Me., enlisted from 
 that town for service in the War of 181 2. By 
 trade he was a stone-mason, and he helped in 
 building many of the best bridges in Norfolk 
 County. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have had six 
 children, namely: Nancy, who was born Au- 
 gust 15, 1852, and died at the age of nineteen 
 years; Ephraim Henry, born October 30, 
 1854, who married Martha Mills, and lives in 
 Allston, Mass., where he has worked in the 
 car shops for fifteen years; Herbert S., born 
 January 18, 1857, who married Miss Jessie 
 Sawyer, and is employed in the paper-mill at 
 
 Pepperell, Mass.; Edwin ]'"., born January 
 30, 1859, who died at the age of seventeen; 
 James A., born September 10, 1861, who 
 died in infancy; and Lillian M. E. , born Jan- 
 uary 18, 1872, who is now Mrs. Richard IL 
 Bond, and has one child, l-lsther V. Mr. 
 Bond, together with his family, resides with 
 Mr. Wilson and assists in the management of 
 the farm. 
 
 [As the above sketch was going to press, news was 
 received of Mr. Wilson's death, which occurred sud- 
 denly at his residence, on Tuesday, January 11, li^f^.S.] 
 
 TRANCIS D. DUNBAR, a well-known 
 business man of Canton, was born in 
 that town, January i, 1842, son of Na- 
 thaniel and Frances Ann (Draper) Dunbar. 
 His grandfather, great-grandfather, and great- 
 great-grandfather on the father's side were 
 residents of Canton. Samuel Dunbar, the 
 last-named ancestor, was settled over the first 
 Congregational Parish as pastor for fifty-five 
 years. His father, John Dunbar, emigrated 
 froin Scotland about the year 1700, and soon 
 after settled in Boston. The paternal great- 
 grandfather was named Elijah, and the grand- 
 father, Thomas. 
 
 Nathaniel Dunbar learned the cabinet- 
 maker's trade in Boston. Here he married 
 Miss J. A. C. Chase, who soon died, leaving 
 no children. He subsequently married Miss 
 Frances Ann Draper, of Medfield, of whose 
 six children by him P'rancis D., Louisa, Na- 
 thaniel W., and Anna L. outlived childhood. 
 A third marriage united him to Miss Lucinda 
 Draper, a sister of the second wife, whom he 
 had survived some years when he died very 
 suddenly in 1883, in his seventy-seventh year. 
 He was engaged in the manufacture of piano- 
 forte keys, and later of paper boxes in Canton. 
 He was originally a Whig in political belief; 
 but, when the Republican party cam.e into 
 existence, he affiliated therewith, and after- 
 ward supported its candidates. 
 
 Francis D. Dunbar was educated in the 
 public school of District No. 7 of Canton. In 
 January, 1859, he went into the employ of 
 J. B. Glover & Co., of Boston, where he re- 
 mained till January, 1865. Then he went to 
 Chicago, and in October, 1866, entered the
 
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 local freight office of the Illinois Central 
 Railroad as clerk, and was afterward cashier. 
 In November, 1871, he went to Paxton, 111., 
 to take charge of that station, and remained 
 there until July, 1875. He left Paxton to 
 come back to Canton and take charge of the 
 box business for his father, where he has re- 
 mained. 
 
 On January 24, 1866, Mr. Uunbar was mar- 
 ried to Miss Francesca V. Trask, of Maine. 
 They have had four children, namely: Mil- 
 dred M., who is now at home; Francis W. , a 
 graduate of the Institute of Technology, class 
 of 1890, and now an electrical engineer at 
 Chicago; Florence A., a graduate of Framing- 
 ham Normal School, who is now a teacher in 
 the Hancock School, Boston; and Donald N., 
 who is attending school. A Mason of high 
 standing, he has been District Deputy Grand 
 Master for the Twenty-second District; in 
 18S8-89 was Worshipful Master of Blue Hill 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he is a member; 
 and he was High Priest of Mount Zion R. A. 
 Chapter in 1890-gi. His family are mem- 
 bers of and attend the Evangelical Congrega- 
 tional Church. Politically, he is a Republi- 
 can, and he was chairman of the Selectmen 
 in 1894 and 1896. He is also a trustee of 
 Canton Institution for Savings, and one of its 
 Investment Committee. 
 
 f^ENJAMIN N. SAWIN, an enter- 
 . prising farmer of Dover, was born in 
 
 ^J South Natick, Mass., February 9, 
 1823, son of Calvin and Hannah 
 (I'~elch) Sawin. The father, who was born in 
 Princeton, Mass., March 25, 1789, went to 
 Natick when a young man, and settled upon a 
 farm located south of the village. Here he 
 became prominent in public affairs, serving as 
 Constable and Collector of Taxes, and resid- 
 ing there Luitil 1835. Then he moved to 
 Dover, where he followed agriculture through- 
 out the rest of his life, and died December 
 24, 1847, aged fifty-eight years. His wife, 
 Hannah, who was born in Natick, August 31, 
 1789, became the mother of three children, 
 namely: Calvin H., born December 13, 1820; 
 Benjamin N., the subject of this sketch: and 
 Warren, born July 17, 1825. Calvin H. 
 
 married for his first wife Edith Gilmore, of 
 Sherman, Mass., who died in 1848. For his 
 second wife he married Mrs. Sally Small 
 Rogers, of Orleans, Mass., then the widow of 
 David Rogers, and now living in Natick. 
 Calvin H. died June 16, 1886. Warren mar- 
 ried Mary Ann Pierce, of Needham, Mass., 
 who is now deceased, and died March 21, 
 1 88 1. After the death of her husband Mrs. 
 Calvin Sawin continued to reside at the home- 
 stead in Dover; and she died March 4, 1880, 
 aged over ninety years. 
 
 Benjamin N. Sawin acquired a common- 
 school education, and at an early age began 
 to assist in carrying on the farm. When a 
 young man he learned the carpenter's trade, 
 which he followed for about twenty years in 
 connection with farming. Since the death 
 of his father he has managed the homestead 
 property. On the estate, which contains 
 seventy acres of excellent tillage land, he has 
 erected new and substantial buildings. P"or 
 some years he has devoted his spare time to 
 the fire insurance business, and he is the local 
 agent for several reliable companies. Politi- 
 cally, he is a Democrat; and he has long been 
 identified with public affairs. He has served 
 as a member of the Board of Selectmen and 
 Overseer of the Poor, and at the present time 
 is Park Commissioner. 
 
 Mr. Sawin has been twice married. On 
 October 20, 1864, he was united in marriage 
 with Mary J. Bacon, who was born in Lin- 
 coln, Mass., in 1837. Her parents, Aaron 
 and Mary (Brooks) Bacon, were born respec- 
 tively in Natick and Lincoln. Aaron set- 
 tled in Dover, and followed agriculture until 
 his death, which occurred in July, 1895, at 
 the age of eighty-four years. Mrs. Bacon is 
 still living. Mr. Sawin's first wife died Sep- 
 tember 6, 1888; and on October 12, 1893, he 
 wedded Sarah Eudora Shumway. She was 
 born in Dover, October 21, 1841, daughter of 
 John and Abigail (Wight) Shumway. Her 
 father was born in Thompson, Conn., Decem- 
 ber 4, 1787, and her mother, in Medfield, 
 Mass., December 21, 1792. John Shumway 
 settled upon a farm in the western part of 
 Dover when he was twenty years old, and was 
 extensively engaged in tilling the soil for the 
 rest of his life. He died February 21, 1844;
 
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 405 
 
 and his wife died February 21, 1875. They 
 were the parents of ten children, as follows: 
 Abigail Wight, born September 24, 18 14, 
 who died March 5, 1844; Elizabeth Morse, 
 born September 4, 18 16, who died January 
 14, 1847; Amos Wight, born May 13, 18 19, 
 who died in F"ebruary, 1893; John Worthing- 
 ton, born March 24, 1821, who died August 
 13, 1889; Benjamin F., born March 23, 1823; 
 George Howard, born ]<"ebruary 11, 1825; 
 William Frederick, born January 16, 1828, 
 who died January 25, 1849; Elbridge Eu- 
 gene, born February 9, 1830; Hannah 
 Louisa, born April 16, 1832, who died August 
 27, 1848; and Sarah Eudora, who is now Mrs. 
 Sawin. Benjamin F. married Lucy Ann Cut- 
 ler, of Medfield, and is a prosperous farmer in 
 that town. George Howard married for his 
 first wife Mary S. Bickford, who died; and 
 for his second wife Mary Rogers, of New 
 Hampshire. He is a wheelwright by trade, 
 and lives in Medfield. Elbridge Eugene, 
 who is a carpenter and machinist, married 
 Amanda F. Wales, and resides in Norwood, 
 Mass. 
 
 Mr. Sawin's children by his first union 
 were: Mary Nellie, born in 1865, who died in 
 1874; and George Nelson, born in October, 
 1868, who also died in 1874. Mr. Sawin is 
 widely and favorably known throughout this 
 section of the county. By his industry he has 
 attained a comfortable prosperity. He is a 
 practical and progressive farmer, and is con- 
 nected with the Patrons of Husbandry in 
 Dover. Mrs. Sawin is a member of the Uni- 
 tarian church. 
 
 /STeORGE E. POST, one of the propri- 
 I •) I etors of Powissett Farm, Dover, was 
 born in Needham, Mass., October 
 18, 1864, son of Bernhard and Barbara 
 (Understella) Post. His parents, who are na- 
 tives of Germany, emigrated to the United 
 States in 1855, and first settled in Boston. 
 Bernhard Post first found employment in a 
 book bindery, where he remained two years. 
 Then he engaged in dairy farming in Brook- 
 line. Four years later he moved to Needham, 
 where he conducted a farm for about nine years; 
 and in 1869 he settled upon the farm in 
 
 Dover now carried on by his sons. He and 
 his wife are still residing here. They have 
 reared ten children — Bernhard I'"., Margaret, 
 Carrie, Peter, Anthony C, John Henry, 
 George E., Mary, Etta''B., and Josephine. 
 Bernhard F., who is in the milk business in 
 Jamaica Plain, married Barbara Schaffner. 
 Margaret, who married John Heil, of Jamaica 
 Plain, is no longer living. Carrie is the wife 
 of Mathias Volk, and lives in Weymouth, 
 Mass. Peter married Hannah Volk, and is a 
 milk dealer at Jamaica Plain. Anthony C, 
 also in the milk business at Jamaica Plain, 
 first married Lena Heim, who is now de- 
 ceased. The maiden name of his second wife 
 was Amelia Zimmerman. John Henry is en- 
 gaged with his brother in carrying on the 
 farm in Dover. Mary, who has joined a re- 
 ligious order, is now teaching in a convent 
 school in Boston. Etta B. and Josephine are 
 residing at home. 
 
 George E. Post acquired a good education 
 in the Boston and Dover schools. Since com- 
 pleting his studies he has given his chief 
 attention to farming. He assisted his 
 father in attending to the farm duties until 
 1895, when, in company with his brother, 
 John Henry, he took the management of the 
 property; and they are now the proprietors. 
 Powissett F'arm contains one hundred and 
 twenty-five acres of excellent land especially 
 adapted for pasturage and the raising of hay. 
 As a dairy farm its equal cannot be found in 
 this locality. The Post brothers keep an 
 average of sixty cows. They are the most ex- 
 tensive milk producers in Dover, and their 
 product is shipped to Jamaica Plain. George 
 E. Post is now serving his fifth year as a 
 member of the Board of Selectmen. He is 
 also Overseer of the Poor and a member of the 
 Board of Health. In politics he is an active 
 supporter of the Democratic party. His 
 brother, John Henry, is now acting as Con- 
 stable. 
 
 On November 12, 1895, Mr. Post was 
 united in marriage with Margaret L. Ouinn. 
 She was born in Charles River Village, Au- 
 gust 24, 1870, daughter of John and Mary 
 (Hill) Ouinn, both of whom are natives of 
 Dublin, Ireland. Mrs. Post's parents emi- 
 grated to the United States in 1870, and are
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 now residing upon a farm in Dover. Mr. 
 Post is connected with the Dover Grange, Pa- 
 trons of Husbandry. The family are all 
 Roman Catholics, and attend church at South 
 
 Natick. 
 
 RASTUS WORTH INGTON, a leading 
 citizen of Dedham and for thirty years 
 Clerk of Courts for Norfolk County, 
 was born in Dedham on November 25, 1828, 
 and is the youngest and only surviving mem- 
 ber of a family of three sons, his parents 
 being Erastus and Sally (Ellis) Worthington. 
 The family, which has produced men of abil- 
 ity and of personal worth, was first repre- 
 sented in this country by Nicholas Worth- 
 ington, Englishman, who landed at Saybrook, 
 Conn., in 1640, and subsequently settled in 
 Hartford. 
 
 Erastus Worthington, first, father of the ex- 
 clerk, was a native of Belchertown, Mass., 
 and a graduate of Williams College in the 
 class of 1804. He practised law in Dedham 
 for many years; and in 1825, having been ac- 
 tive in the formation of the Norfolk Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, he became its first 
 secretary. This office he held imtil 1S40. 
 In i8i4and 1815 he represented Dedham in 
 the General Court. He was the author of 
 "An Essay on the P2stablishment of a Chan- 
 cery Jurisdiction in Massachusetts," published 
 in 1 8 10, and of the History of Dedham, 
 published in 1827. He died on June 27, 
 1842, at the age of sixty-two. His wife, who 
 was born in Dedham, one of a family of three 
 children, was the daughter of Abner Ellis, a 
 cabinet-maker and manufacturer of chairs. 
 Mrs. Sally E. Worthington and her husband 
 were both communicants of the Episcopal 
 church. 
 
 Their son Erastus, the father's namesake, 
 attended the JDublic schools of his native town 
 in his early years, and subsequently fitted for 
 college in an academy at Attleboro. Enter- 
 ing Brown University in 1846, he pursued the 
 four years' course, and shortly after his gradu- 
 ation went to Milwaukee, Wis., entering the 
 office of his brother, Ellis Worthington, at 
 that time a practising lawyer. In the au- 
 tumn of the following year he entered the 
 
 Harvard Law School at Cambridge; but after 
 being there for one term he withdrew, in order 
 to teach in the Dedham High .School, keeping 
 up at the same time his legal studies. He 
 subsequently returned to the Law School, and 
 in 1853 received from that institution the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Laws. In February, 1854, 
 at a term of the .Supreme Judicial Court, he 
 was admitted to the Norfolk County bar. 
 
 Mr. Worthington opened an office in Bos- 
 ton for the practice of his profession, and 
 after a few months formed a partnership with 
 the Hon. David A. Simmons, of Roxbury. 
 Two years after beginning the practice of law 
 he was elected to the position of Register of 
 the Court of Insolvency. This office being 
 abolished the following year, Mr. Worthing- 
 ton resigned his position, and opened a law 
 office in Dedham. In 1858 he was commis- 
 sioned by Governor Banks as Trial Justice, in 
 which office he continued for eight years. In 
 1866 he was elected Clerk of Courts for a 
 term of five years, and entered upon the duties 
 of that office in January, 1867. He was suc- 
 cessively re-elected, and held the office in all 
 for six terms, up to January, 1897. This is, 
 with two or three exceptions, the longest 
 period of service ever given by any clerk to 
 the Commonwealth. Besides attending to the 
 duties strictly pertaining to his office, Mr. 
 Worthington has been frequently selected by 
 members of the bar and appointed by the 
 court as Auditor and Master to hear cases 
 pending in the courts. He has also been the 
 public administrator of the county since 1882. 
 
 Mr. Worthington has been warmly inter- 
 ested in the public affairs of Dedham, and has 
 shown his interest in an active and practical 
 manner. For eight years he served on the 
 School Board, and he was one of the first 
 members of the Dedham Historical Society. 
 Deeply interested in antiquarian research, he 
 has given special attention to local history, 
 and has written a number of valuable papers 
 relating thereto, which have been printed, and 
 are now preserved among the records of the 
 society. Mr. Worthington was for many 
 years curator of the Historical Society, and is 
 now vice-president. He is the author of a 
 short history of Dedham published in the 
 History of 'Norfolk County in 1884. At
 
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 409 
 
 the dedication of Memorial Hall on Septem- 
 ber 19, 1868, Mr. Worth ington delivered the 
 address; and he also delivered the historical 
 address at the celebration of the two hundred 
 and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of 
 the town of Dedham, on September 21, 1886. 
 Hoth of these addresses have been printed. 
 
 Mr. Worthington was married on November 
 25, 1 86 1, to Elizabeth I''oster, one of the five 
 children of Robert Briggs, a Boston merchant, 
 dealer in crockery and porcelains. Mrs. 
 Worthington is the mother of one daughter 
 and five sons, as follows: Caroline Morton; 
 Erastus, Jr., a civil engineer, whose sketch 
 may be found on another page of this work; 
 Robert Briggs, who is Assistant Clerk of 
 Courts for Norfolk County; Alvan Fisher, 
 who is in the office of the New England Tele- 
 phone Company; Arthur Morton, a graduate 
 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 1893, and of Harvard Medical School, 1896, 
 and now house physician at the Boston City 
 Hospital; and John Winthrop Worthington, a 
 graduate of Harvard College, 1895, and now 
 a student in the Harvard Eaw School. 
 Robert Worthington married Veluette Cheney, 
 of Dedham, in November, 1896. 
 
 In politics Mr. Worthington is a Republi- 
 can, having been a member of the RepulDlican 
 party since its formation. He is one of the 
 Wardens of St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church at 
 Dedham. 
 
 ILLIAM M. COMEY, a well- 
 known wire manufacturer of City 
 Mills, in the town of Norfolk, and 
 a Civil War veteran, was born in Wrentham, 
 Mass., February 18, 1840, son of Albert and 
 Celinda (Barton) Comey. His father was a 
 native (jf Hopkinton, Mass. ; and his mother 
 was bcjrn in Wrentham. Albert Comey set- 
 tied in Wrentham after his marriage, and re- 
 sided there until 1849. Then he went to 
 California, where he remained until i860. 
 After his return he settled in Pawtucket, R.I., 
 where he followed the trade of a pattern-maker 
 for several years. His last days were passed 
 in retirement. His first wife, Celinda, who 
 died April 8, 1840, had five children, namely: 
 Albert B. , who wedded Miranda Temple, and 
 
 is living in retirement at .South Framing- 
 ham, Mass. ; George R., who died from the 
 effects of a wound received in the battle of 
 Pittsburg Landing (hiring the Civil War; 
 1^1 iza A., who is the wife of George W. Tem- 
 jile, a shoemaker of Hopkinton; Marietta C, 
 who married Henry .Stearns, a farmer of Ho[)- 
 kinton, and is no longer living; and William 
 M., the subject of this sketch. Albert 
 Comey's second wife, who is a native of Attle- 
 boro, Mass., and is now residing in Pawtucket, 
 became the mother of two children. These 
 are; Charles, who married l{lla Scott, and is 
 now a druggist in Pawtucket ; and Frank Eu- 
 gene, who married ICmma Whipple, and is now 
 living in retirement near Providence, R.I. 
 
 His mother having died when he was an 
 infant, William M. Comey was reared by his 
 grandparents. His education was obtained in 
 the common schools and at a business college. 
 On January 24, i86j, he enlisted for three 
 years as a private in Company B of the Fourth 
 United States Artillery. In the following 
 December he was transferred to Company E, 
 Second United .States Infantry, and after the 
 battle of Gettysburg to Company C of the 
 same regiment. He participated in the battles 
 of Wilson's Creek, Gaines's Mill, Mechan- 
 icsville, Malvern Hill, P'redericksburg, Chan- 
 cellorsville, Gettysburg, the second battle of 
 Bull Run, and fifteen other engagements. At 
 Wilson's Creek he was wounded in the right 
 knee. This confined him in Benton Hospital, 
 St. Louis, from August i, 1861, until Novem- 
 ber I, 1861. At the second battle of Bull 
 Run he received five wounds in his left arm 
 and hand, causing his detention at the hospital 
 in Philadelphia for three months. Discharged 
 from the service in Virginia, January 24, 
 1864, he spent a few months in Norfolk, and 
 then re-enlisted in Company E, Second Ma.s- 
 sachusetts Artillery. On February i, 1865, he 
 was transferred to Company F, Seventeenth 
 Massachusetts Infantry; and he was mustered 
 out on June 30 of the same year. After his 
 return to civil life he settled upon the farm 
 which he now occupies. Later he engaged in 
 the manufacture of wire for straw hats, which 
 he sells to manufacturers throughout the State, 
 his factory being located near his residence. 
 He has made some wise investments in real
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 estate, and owns, besides his mill property, 
 about forty acres of fertile land in Norfolk, 
 several tenement-houses in the village, and 
 others in Franklin, all of which yield a good 
 income. Politically, he is a Democrat; and 
 he takes an active interest in public affairs. 
 He is now serving as Second Selectman, is 
 secretary of the School Board, a fire warden, 
 sexton of the City Mills Cemetery, Justice of 
 the Peace, and a Notary Public, chairman of 
 the Board of Health and chairman of the Board 
 of Overseers of the Poor. 
 
 On December 7, 1865, Mr. Comey was 
 united in marriage with Ophelia H. Scott. 
 She was born in Franklin, Mass., June 30, 
 1842, daughter of Colonel Saul B. and Susan 
 P. (Daniels) .Scott, the former of whom was 
 born in Bellingham, Mass., in 1804, and the 
 latter in Mendon, Mass., in 1809. Colonel 
 -Scott, who in early life was a machinist, later 
 became a merchant and manufacturer. His 
 last days were spent in retirement in Norfolk. 
 His wife died in 1886. She was the mother 
 of four children, namely: Maroline S., the 
 wife of O. M. l^assett, a retired straw manufact- 
 urer of Franklin; Samantha S., now deceased, 
 who married Joseph Daniels, of Frank- 
 lin; Elizabeth R. ; and Ophelia H. Eliza- 
 beth R. Scott married for her first husband 
 .Stephen S. Benson, and for her second Lindley 
 Sykes. She is now residing in Norfolk vil- 
 lage. Mr. and Mrs. Comey have had two 
 children, namely: Ethel O. , born November 
 29, 1S77, who died on December 7 following; 
 and Frank Roy, born January 2, 1880, now a 
 student at Boston University, which he en- 
 tered at the age of sixteen. Mr. Comey is 
 Commander of Franklin Post, No. 60, 
 G. A. R., with which he has been promi- 
 nently identified since its formation. Both he 
 and Mrs. Comey attend the Baptist church. 
 
 ALTER H. RH^LEY, who manu- 
 factures granite tools in Quincy, 
 was born October 8, 185 i, in North 
 Carver, Mass., son of William Ripley. His 
 great-grandfather, Abner Ripley, was born 
 and reared in Duxbury, Mass. The grand- 
 father, Captain William Ripley, a native of 
 Plymouth, Mass., the greater part of whose 
 
 active life was spent in seafaring, commanded 
 a vessel for thirty years, and visited all the 
 important ports of the world, meeting with 
 some rough experiences. In the War of 1812 
 on two occasions be was taken prisoner by 
 English privateers, and once he was captured 
 by pirates, who scuttled his ship. 
 
 William Ripley, who was also born in 
 Plymouth, having but limited opportunities 
 for attending school, acquired his education 
 mainly by solitary study. Having had a quick 
 mind and a retentive memory, he became one 
 of the best informed men of his times. He 
 learned the blacksmith's trade, and worked at 
 it in Milton and North Carver, Mass., contin- 
 uing in active business until within three 
 years of his death, which occurred October 
 17, 1880. He was a member of the Baptist 
 church, and also belonged to Rural Lodge, 
 F. & A. M. He married Roxana, daughter 
 of Cyrus and Phebe (Gordon) Corliss. Of his 
 five children, George, who died April i, 1876, 
 and Walter H. attained maturity. 
 
 Walter H. Ripley obtained his first knowl- 
 edge of books in the public schools of Quincy. 
 Then he learned the trade of a blacksmith, 
 for which he had a natural aptitude. He sub- 
 sequently worked on the Boston post-ofifice, on 
 the buildings connected with the State, War, 
 and Navy Departments at Washington (the 
 work for them being done in Richmond, Va. ), 
 and on the St. Louis custom-house. After 
 this he was for ten months engaged as a trav- 
 elling salesman for the wholesale boot and 
 shoe firm of C. J. Hibbard & Co., of New- 
 port, Vt. Resuming his trade again, he 
 started in business for himself in Quinc}' in 
 1885, and has since been engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of all kinds of granite tools, doing all 
 the blacksmith work pertaining to that busi- 
 ness at his shop, and keeping five men busily 
 employed. 
 
 In politics I\Ir. Ripley is a decided Repub- 
 lican, and he takes an earnest interest in local 
 affairs. Under the town government he 
 served for seven years as Constable, for two 
 years as Selectman, and for five years was 
 chief engineer of the fire department. He is 
 a member of Francaise Lodge, No. 53, A. & 
 A. M., of Richmond, Va. ; of Mount Wollas- 
 ton Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is Vice-
 
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 411 
 
 Grand; and of the Salome Encampment of 
 Dorchester, Mass. On January i, 1879, he 
 was married to Amanda S. Davis, dauj^hter 
 of Alonzo G, and Mary A. (Badger) Davis, 
 of this city. They have had si.\ children, of 
 whom George W., Mabel H., and Chloe (i. 
 arc living. 
 
 /^TeORGE nelson, son of William 
 y •) I C. and Sarah (Chapin) Nelson, and 
 one of the leading farmers of Bc]- 
 lingham, was born in Lyme, N.H., November 
 7, 1829. The paternal grandfather, Captain 
 John Nelson, who was a soldier of the Revo- 
 lution, removed from Rehoboth, Mass., his 
 birthplace, to Lyme, N. H., where he spent 
 the rest of his life. He married Rachel 
 •Franklin, of Rehoboth, and was the father of 
 eight children, all of whom are now dead. 
 Their son, William C. Nelson, was a farmer 
 of Lyme, where he spent all his life, taking 
 an active part in the affairs of the town, and 
 holding many positions of trust. A zealous 
 church worker, he was one of the pr^^inent 
 members of the Congregational Society in 
 Lyme. He married Sarah Chapin, of Lyme. 
 His children by her were: Sarah, now living 
 in Lyme; Harriette, who died at the age of 
 fifty years; John, who married Clara Fox, and 
 resides in Lyme; George, the subject of this 
 sketch; Jane, the widow of James M. Wells, 
 late of Lyme; William C, Jr., now deceased; 
 and Charles, who died at Hanover, N.H. 
 
 George Nelson was educated in the public 
 schools of Lyme. At the age of fifteen he 
 left home and went to Hanover, N.H., to 
 learn the blacksmith's trade. After working 
 there for three years, he was employed at his 
 trade on the railroad for one year. Then he 
 returned to Hanover, where he bought out a 
 shop, and went into business with a partner. 
 In 1850 he paid a short visit to an uncle in 
 Bellingham, a Dr. George Nelson, who was at 
 that time one of the leading physicians there. 
 Mr. Nelson then went to Douglas, and there 
 worked at axe-making for several years. 
 After that he moved to Columbus, Ohio, 
 where he helped to build a railroad. Subse- 
 quently he came to the farm where he now 
 lives, known as the Bates place, and engaged 
 
 in blacksmith work and farming. Mr. Nel- 
 son has been a hard-working man. Mis health 
 being now poor, he is about to retire from 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Nelson has been very active in politics 
 as a member of the Republican party, and he 
 was an Overseer of the Poor for many years. 
 He married Eliza Jane, daughter of John and 
 Celia Ann .Smith, of Bellingham. He and 
 his wife have had two children: Ida Bell, who 
 died at the age of eight years; and Carrie, 
 who died at the age of five. Both he and 
 Mrs. Nelson worship at the Baptist church of 
 Bellingham. 
 
 ILAS EVERETT EALES, Town 
 Clerk and Treasurer of Norfolk, 
 Mass., and a Civil War veteran, 
 was born August 10, 1828, in Wal- 
 pole, Mass., of which Norfolk was formerly a 
 part. His parents, Silas and Maria (Fisher) 
 Fales, were born in the same town; and his 
 grandparents, Aaron Clark and Hephzibah 
 (Everett) Fales, were respectively natives of 
 Walpole and Dedham. Aaron Clark F"ales 
 belonged to the militia, and was out with his 
 company three times in the Revolutionary 
 War. He died in 1826, his last days being 
 spent on a farm. The old saw-mill that was a 
 part of his property in Walpole is still owned 
 by his lineal descendants. His wife lived to 
 be ninety years old, and died in 1850. 
 
 Silas P'ales followed the carpenter's trade 
 for some time in his early manhood, and culti- 
 vated the homestead farm during the rest of 
 his active years, his death occurring in 1887. 
 By his first wife, Maria P'isher, who died in 
 1834, he had five children, namely: Lewis; 
 Charles; Joel; Silas Everett; and Maria Har- 
 riet, who died in infancy. Lewis, who is no 
 longer living, was an architect, and resided in 
 Milford, Mass. He served as Trial Justice, 
 and was Town Clerk for twenty-two years. 
 Charles, who is a machinist and lives in Wal- 
 pole, married Elizabeth Wiggins, of Dedham. 
 Joel, who was in early life a schoolmaster, 
 and afterward superintendent of mills in Wal- 
 pole, died in 18S3. Silas I'ales married for 
 his second wife Roxa Perigo, of Wrentham, 
 Mass., now deceased. She was the mother of
 
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 five children, as follows: Henry E. Fales, an 
 attorney, who died in Boston in i8g6; Maria 
 Alice, who married Charles P. Lowell (both 
 deceased); Milton E., a cabinet-maker of 
 West Medway, Mass. ; Harriet Anna, wife of 
 William A. Addison, a carpenter of Walpole; 
 and Sarah P., who married Monroe Boyden, a 
 cabinet-maker of Norwood, Mass. 
 
 Silas Everett, the fourth son, whose course 
 in life is the subject of the present sketch, ac- 
 quired a common-school education in his na- 
 tive town. With the view of fitting himself 
 for professional life, he pursued a medical 
 course of study in New York City; but, giv- 
 ing up the idea later, he returned to Walpole, 
 and in company with his brother bought the 
 farm which he now occupies. They erected 
 the present dwelling; and, after carrying on 
 the farm together for a time, Silas E. Fales 
 bought his brother's interest in the property. 
 On August 3, 1862, he enlisted as a private in 
 Company B, Forty-second Regiment, Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel 
 Isaac S. Burrill and Captain, afterward Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel, Joseph Stedman. He served 
 a little over a year, most of the time being 
 stationed in New Orleans, where his health 
 became seriously impaired ; and he was honor- 
 ably discharged September 14, 1863. Since 
 his return from the South he has devoted his 
 time and energy to general farming and dairy- 
 ing, his property consisting of twenty-three 
 acres of well-improved land. 
 
 In 1870, when the town of Norfolk was in- 
 corporated, his farm was included within its 
 limits; and he was elected the first Town 
 Clerk, an office which he has since held. He 
 has been Town Treasurer for the past twenty 
 years, was a member of the School Board six 
 years, an Assessor one year, has been Sealer 
 of Weights and Measures, a trustee of the 
 public library, and has acted as a Justice of 
 the Peace since 1876. He has ably presided 
 over the Republican Town Committee for 
 about five years, and his public services are 
 highly appreciated by his party associates 
 and his fellow-townsmen in general. He is 
 a comrade of Franklin Post, No. 60, G. A. R., 
 and a member of Norfolk Grange, No. 135, 
 Patrons of Husbandry. 
 
 On April 23, 1857, Mr. Fales was joined in 
 
 marriage with Sarah A. Ware, daughter of 
 Captain Nathan and Eunice (Smith) Ware, of 
 Walpole. She died July 2, 1858, leaving one 
 daughter, Sarah W., born June 4, 1858, who 
 became the wife of George Lewis, of Reading, 
 Mass. Mr. P^ales wedded July 3, i860, Mary 
 S. Gary, who is a native of Boston. Her 
 father, Samuel Gary, a native of Alfred, Me., 
 and a stone-mason by trade, died when she 
 was quite young. Mrs. Fales is the mother of 
 two children, namely: Bertha, born June 12, 
 1867, now a governess in a physician's family 
 in Pennsylvania; and John Everett, born in 
 i86g, who married Alice M. Bullard, and re- 
 sides at home with his parents. 
 
 Mr. Fales has been a tireless worker, and 
 his industry has been well rewarded. He has 
 always been a total abstainer from the use of 
 stimulants, and is one of the few who have 
 never cultivated the tobacco habit. 
 
 /^STeORGE W. CHAPMAN, who has 
 y '*) I been Assessor and Overseer of the 
 Poor in Hyde Park, Mass., for many 
 years, is one of the best known and most 
 highly esteemed citizens of the town. He 
 was born October 3, 1850, in Wiscasset, Lin- 
 coln County, Me., a son of the late George W. 
 Chapman. This branch of the Chapman fam- 
 ily, which originated in England, was first 
 represented in America by Edward Chapman, 
 who "is supposed to have landed in Boston in 
 1639." In Rowley, Mass., in 1642, he mar- 
 ried Mary Symonds. In 1644 he had a grant 
 of land in Ipswich, Mass., where he and his 
 descendants for several generations were en- 
 gaged in tilling the soil. 
 
 George W. Chapman, first, grandfather of 
 the subject of this sketch, was born in Saco, 
 Me., where his father was an early settler. 
 He was a shoe manufacturer in his early days, 
 but later retired to a farm in Limerick, Me., 
 a neighboring town, and there spent his de- 
 clining years. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Sarah Burnham, was born in Scarboro, 
 Cumberland County, Me. She bore him 
 eight children. 
 
 George W. Chapman, second, was born dur- 
 ing the residence of his parents in Saco, 
 where he received his early education. At
 
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 the age of thirteen years he left school to go 
 to sea, shipping as a cabin boy on a vessel 
 engaged in tlie West India trade. At the age 
 of nineteen he was made master of a vessel, 
 and continued in seafaring pursuits for about 
 forty years. He died in Hyde l^ark. May 26, 
 1868. His wife, formerly Lucy A. Trask, 
 was born in Wiscasset, Me., a daughter of 
 Captain John and Hannah Trask. Her 
 father, who was master of a coasting-vessel, 
 died in 1849, aged fifty years. Three chil- 
 dren were born to George VV. and Lucy A. 
 (Trask) Chapman, of whom George VV., the 
 subject of this biographical sketch, is the only 
 one now living. The mother survived her 
 husband, dying in 1884, aged si.\ty-one years. 
 Both parents were sincere Christians, belong- 
 ing to the Orthodo.x church. 
 
 George W. Chapman lived in Wiscasset 
 until twelve years old, obtaining the rudi- 
 ments of his education in the public schools. 
 Coming to Hyde Park in 1863, he here con- 
 tinued his studies for a few terms; and in 
 1865 and 1866 he was a student at Phillips 
 Academy in Andover, Mass. He subse- 
 quently entered a broker's office in Boston, in 
 which he was employed three years. 
 
 Mr. Chapman was first elected on the Town 
 Board of Assessors in 1885, and served three 
 years, being chairman one year and clerk of 
 the board two years. He was re-elected to 
 the same office in 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 
 and 1897, and at each term served as clerk. 
 He has also been a member of the Board of 
 Overseers since 1889, during the entire period 
 acting as clerk of the board ; and for several 
 years he had been Town Auditor. He is a 
 straight Republican in politics and a leader 
 in his party. 
 
 On December 6, 1877, Mr. Chapman mar- 
 ried Miss Anna .S. Phillips, a daughter of the 
 Rev. William and Ro.xanna (Edmunds) Phil- 
 lips. She was born, bred, and educated in 
 Providence, R.L, where her father was settled 
 over a Baptist society for many years. He 
 was a man of great intelligence, much es- 
 teemed as a citizen and as a pastor; and at his 
 death, at the age of seventy-nine years, he 
 was the oldest trustee of Brown University. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have one child, a son, 
 Richard E. Mr. Chapman attends the Ortho- 
 
 dox church, having never swerved from the 
 faith in which he was reared. 
 
 RVILLE M. ROGERS, a leading 
 business man of South Braintree, was 
 born at Eastham, Cape Cod, Mass., 
 March 31, 1857. A son of Zelotes 
 and Louisa (Crosby) Rogers, both natives of 
 Cape Cod, he comes of English extraction. 
 The father, known as Captain Zelotes Rogers, 
 was a skipper for many years. The last years 
 of his life were spent on shore, and he died in 
 1894. His widow resides at Orleans, Mass. 
 
 Orville M. Rogers, the only surviving child 
 of his parents, went with them to Orleans at 
 the age of three, and there resided until he 
 was eighteen years of age. After he was thir- 
 teen he was engaged in mackerel fishing dur- 
 ing the summer season, attending school only 
 in the winter. At eighteen he went to 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass., where he served a three 
 years' apprenticeship with Thomas Mayo & 
 Co., in the plumbing and heating business, 
 and afterward worked for them as a journey- 
 man for a short time. He worked at his trade 
 in South Boston for about a year, again lo- 
 cated in Jamaica Plain, and finally settled 
 permanently in South Braintree in 1881. In 
 February, 1881, he bought the business of 
 A. A. Linnell, dealers in stoves, ranges, and 
 kitchen furnishing goods, and has successfully 
 conducted it since. 
 
 Mr. Rogers married Addie M. Rogers, of 
 Orleans, Mass., and has two children ^ — Ethel 
 M. and Wilfred S. The latter is now de- 
 ceased. Mr. Rogers is a member of the 
 South Congregational Church, which he serves 
 in the capacity of Deacon as well as a faithful 
 worker in the Sunday-school. In politics he 
 is a Republican; and he is fraternally con- 
 nected with the Royal Arcanum and the U. O. 
 of the Golden Cross at Quincy, Mass. 
 
 LIVER EVERETT, a prosperous 
 farmer of Wrentham, Mass., was born 
 in this town, December 6, 1817, son 
 of George and Nancy (Whiting) 
 Everett. His grandfather, John Plverett, was 
 one of the early settlers of Mansfield, Mass.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 His father, George Everett, was born in 
 Mansfield, and was a blacksmith by trade, 
 which he carried on for many years in 
 Wrentham and subsequently at Wampum, 
 where he resided until his death. George 
 Everett was a director of the bank in 
 Wrentham for a number of years. He mar- 
 ried Nancy Whiting, and lived to the ad- 
 vanced age of seventy-nine years. His chil- 
 dren were George W. and Oliver. George 
 W. is now deceased. He was married, and 
 left a son, George F., who married a Miss 
 Northrup, and resides in Pawtucket, R.I. 
 They have two sons — George O. and 
 Charles W. 
 
 Oliver Everett, after receiving his educa- 
 tion in the district schools, learned the wheel- 
 wright's trade, at which he served an appren- 
 ticeship of four years. He then went to 
 Walpole, and afterward to Lowell, where he 
 worked for a time. Subsequently removing 
 to Attleboro, he there carried on business for 
 three years, when he sold out, and went to 
 Pawtucket, R.I., where he remained nine 
 years. In 1864 he returned home, and has 
 since resided in this town. He carries on 
 general farming, does some teaming, and also 
 has a fair business in lumber. In his politics 
 Mr. Everett is a Republican, and cast his first 
 Presidential vote for W. H. Harrison in 1840. 
 He has served the town as Surveyor of High- 
 ways. He has never married. 
 
 A RON PRATT, attorney, collector, 
 and Justice of the Peace, was born on 
 ^JtV March 22, 1822, in Beechwood, 
 Mass., where he has been a lifelong 
 resident. His parents were Major John and 
 Zoa (Whitcomb) Pratt, both natives of this 
 place and of tlnglish extraction. Phineas 
 Pratt, his earliest American ancestor, came to 
 this country in the ship "Swallow" in 1622, 
 lived for a short time at what is now Wey- 
 mouth, received a share in the division of land 
 at Plymouth in 1624, and finally made his 
 home in Charlestown, where he died in 1680. 
 His son, Aaron, first, settled in what is now 
 Peechwood; and from him the Pratts of this 
 vicinity are descended. A later Aaron Pratt, 
 of Beechwood, was the father of John Pratt, of 
 
 the same place, and grandfather of Major John, 
 who rose from the ranks in the militia, was a 
 citizen of wealth and influence, and served as 
 Selectman and in other offices in Cohasset. 
 Major Pratt died in 1824. He and his wife 
 Zoa had twelve children, of whom three are 
 living — John, Aaron, and George. Mrs. 
 Zoa Whitcomb Pratt died in 1880, aged 
 ninety-nine years, less ten days. 
 
 An Ephraim Pratt, of Sudbury, is said to 
 have attained the age of one hundred and six- 
 teen years. Mr. Savage, the genealogist, 
 however, discredits the "marvellous tale of 
 longevity" told in Dwight's travels; namely, 
 "that he was born in November, 1687, and 
 died in May, 1804, having been 'able to mow 
 a good swath one hundred years in succes- 
 sion. ' " 
 
 Aaron Pratt acquired his education in the 
 public schools of Hanover and Cohasset, fin- 
 ishing his course with the high school. His 
 father died when Aaron was a child, and the 
 boy practically began to earn a living when 
 he was fifteen years old. He worked at what- 
 ever offered, and eventually engaged in busi- 
 ness with his brother John, under the firm 
 name of J. & A. Pratt. The brothers estab- 
 lished a general store in Beechwood, selling 
 drugs, groceries, and dry goods, and manufact- 
 uring various kinds of medicines. Aaron 
 Pratt was in this business some eight years. 
 In the meantime he had taken up official work 
 of various kinds, to which he finally gave his 
 whole attention. 
 
 Appointed Justice of the Peace more than 
 forty years ago, he has presided as judge 
 before district court in force on one hundred 
 and forty-six cases, brought by the late W. 
 Colburn, Governor Gaston, the Hon. E. 
 Avery, Judge Humphrey, the Hon. P. Sim- 
 mons, and others. In 1862 he was appointed, 
 by Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the United 
 States Treasury, Assistant Collector of Inter- 
 nal Revenue for the Twenty-second Division 
 of the Second Collection District of Massachu- 
 setts, and in 1876 was appointed Justice of the 
 Quorum. Power of attorney having been con- 
 ferred upon him, he is now "designated and 
 commissioned to issue warrants in criminal 
 cases, returnable to the district court of East 
 Norfolk, and to take bail therein " ; is "attor-
 
 AARON PRATT.
 
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 ncy and correspondent of Reed's Collection 
 and Mercantile Agency, 20 Devonshire Street, 
 Boston, Mass. ; agent for North American 
 Attorneys' and Tradesmen's Protective Union 
 Company, 206 Broadway, New York"; and 
 pays "particular attention to collection of 
 claims in the United States and Canada, insol- 
 vency, probate, abstract titles, legal matters, 
 wills and deeds, auction sales, and appraising 
 real and personal estate." Mr. Pratt gives 
 legal advice free of charge. He has made a 
 reputation as an attorney, and has the confi- 
 dence and highest respect of his clients. He 
 is also agent for the Cohasset Mutual Insur- 
 ance Company. 
 
 In politics Mr. Pratt is a Republican. He 
 has served as Selectman and Assessor of Co- 
 hasset, and has been a member of various com- 
 mittees. Gifted with a natural talent for 
 music, and at some former time engaged in 
 teaching singing-school, he is always inter- 
 ested in musical matters and in assisting the 
 young in various ways. 
 
 B 
 
 ORUS FRANKLIN HOWARD, 
 principal of the Avery School in 
 Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass., is 
 a teacher of superior qualification, 
 well versed in educational principles and 
 methods, and is meeting with eminent success 
 in his calling. He was born August 24, 
 1S44, in East Hardwick, Vt., where his 
 father, Erastus Howard, is still a resident. 
 
 As his great-grandfather Howard, whose 
 name was Isaiah, is known to have lived in 
 Lyme, Conn., near the niouth of the Connect- 
 icut River, one hundred years ago and more, 
 he may have been a descendant of "Henry 
 Howard or Hay ward," who married in Hart- 
 ford, Conn., in 1648, Sarah Stone, and whose 
 children, it is said, spelled the name, as here 
 first given, with "ow" instead of "ay." 
 Among the other early emigrants of this sur- 
 name was John, of Bridgewater, who married 
 Martha Hay ward. 
 
 Isaiah Howard, Sr., moved from Lyme, 
 Conn., to Lyme, N.H., where he died in 
 1820. His family consisted of two sons and 
 five daughters. His son Isaiah, Jr., a farmer, 
 born in Lyme in 1785, was married in 1809 
 
 to Elizabeth Cutting, and died at Bradford, 
 Vt., in 1858, his wife having died in 1843. 
 They had eight children, three daughters and 
 five sons. 
 
 Erastus Howard, son of Isaiah, Jr., was 
 born in Lyme, Grafton County, N.H., in the 
 very early part of the present century, being 
 the second of the eight children above men- 
 tioned. He remained on the home farm until 
 attaining his majority, when he engaged in 
 boating on the Connecticut River, running 
 down as far as Hartford, Conn. After follow- 
 ing this occupation some years, he settled on 
 a farm in East Hardwick, Caledonia County, 
 Vt., and was there engaged in tilling the soil 
 until 1892, when he gave up active pursuits, 
 and removed into the village near by, where 
 he still makes his home, being now eighty-five 
 years of age. His wife, Calista, who was 
 born in New Hampshire, a daughter of 
 Horace Larrabee, passed to the life immortal 
 May 18, 1882, at the age of sixty-six years, 
 leaving two children: I{rdi.x T., of Oakland, 
 Cal. ; and Dorus Franklin. Both parents 
 many years ago united with the Congrega- 
 tional Church of East Hardwick. 
 
 Dorus F. Howard spent his early years on 
 the Vermont farm, attending the district 
 schools every term after he was admitted 
 until ten years old; and from that time on- 
 ward, his services being needed at home dur- 
 ing seed-time and harvest, he was a pupil 
 during the winter sessions only. He subse- 
 quently pursued his studies at a select school 
 in the village and at the Peacham Academy. 
 At the age of eighteen he began teaching in 
 the district schools of his native county in the 
 winter season; and in the fall term he at- 
 tended the Barre (Vt. ) Academy. He after- 
 ward taught with good success in the schools 
 of Barre and East Montpelier, Vt., six years, 
 also in South Scituate, Mass., for a while, 
 and then took a course of study at the Bridge- 
 water Normal School. After his graduation 
 from the Normal, Mr. Howard had charge of 
 a grammar school in Bridgewater two years 
 and then of the Maple Street Grammar School 
 in Danvers, Mass., for a term. 
 
 In September, 1880, he accepted the prin- 
 cipalship of the Avery School in Dedham, 
 where he has since been continuously engaged,
 
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 HlOGkAPHlCAL REVIEW 
 
 a record of service unequalled by that of any 
 other principal in Uedhani and with but two 
 exceptions by that of any other teacher. In 
 189s Mr. Howard, with his assistants, moved 
 into the present beautiful new school build- 
 ing, which is one of the finest in the county, 
 with accommodations for four hundred pupils. 
 The school is constantly increasing in size, 
 the present number being three hundred and 
 fifty, next to the largest number in any school 
 in Dedham, and ninety more than when he 
 first came here. 
 
 Mr. Howard was married February 3, 1874, 
 to Miss Georgia Lander, who was born in 
 Bangor, Me., where her father, Artemas 
 Lander, carried on an extensive business as a 
 contractor, keeping a large force of men em- 
 ployed in the lumber regions of that State. 
 Her parents reared three children, of whom 
 she is the only one now living. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Howard have one child, Ethel S., who is now 
 attending Boston University. Mr. Howard is 
 a member of Constellation Lodge, F. & 
 A. M., and is president of the Norfolk 
 County Teachers' Association. 
 
 /^^^TkORGE H. J(3HNS0N, who is car- 
 \ '*) I rying on a large and prosperous busi- 
 
 — ness in Brookline as a carpenter and 
 builder, was born August 18, 1851, in Litch- 
 field, Litchfield County, Me., son of George 
 F. Johnson. The latter, who was born in 
 Freeport, Me., during the earlier years of his 
 life was engaged in ship-bnilding. In 1856 
 he came to Brookline, where he was employed 
 at carpenter's work for some time. He subse- 
 quently served for a number of years on the 
 police force, after vi^hich he resumed his trade, 
 becoming foreman of the shop established by 
 his son, George H. He is a strong supporter 
 of the Republican party, and for some time 
 has been Constable of the town. By his 
 wife, Frances, who is a daughter of James 
 Chase, of Litchfield, Me., he became the 
 father of three children, namely: George H., 
 the special subject of this sketch; Rosa, the 
 wife of Matthew Burns; and Frank, a member 
 of the police force. Both parents attend the 
 Baptist church. 
 
 George H. Johnson having been but five 
 
 years old when his parents removed to Brook- 
 line, he was here educated, attending both the 
 common and high schools. He had a natural 
 aptitude for mechanics from his youth. Hav- 
 ing learned the carpenter's trade, he worked 
 as a journeyman for thirteen years. In 1882 
 he embarked in business on his own account. 
 Besides making a specialty of jobbing, he does 
 considerable building in this locality. In 
 1884 he was elected to the Board of Water 
 Commissioners of Brookline for a term of 
 three years; and he was re-elected in 1887, 
 1890, 1893, and 1896. In these years the 
 water-works and sewer system were greatly 
 improved, and are now the equal of those in 
 any other New England town. In 1876 Mr. 
 Johnson was appointed on the Board of En- 
 gineers connected with the fire department, 
 and in the following year he was made chief 
 of the department, a very important position, 
 which he has since very efficiently filled. He 
 has been connected with the department, with 
 the exception of two years, since 1869; and, 
 with but two exceptions, he is the oldest fire- 
 man on the entire force in point of service. 
 In the past twenty years the equipments and 
 force of the department have been increased 
 from one hand engine and two companies to 
 two large steamers and six companies; and a 
 fine alarm system has been established. On 
 three occasions the department promptly re- 
 sponded to alarms from Boston, and there 
 gave valuable aid in extinguishing fires. 
 
 Mr. Johnson is a member in high standing 
 of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Beth- 
 Horon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Brookline; 
 to St. Paul R. A. Chapter of Boston: and to 
 De Molay Commandery, K. T., of Boston. 
 He is likewise a prominent member of Laomia 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he was for a 
 number of years the treasurer; of the Knights 
 of Honor of this town; of the Massachusetts 
 Charitable Association of Boston; of the 
 State Association of Fire Chiefs; and of the 
 Fireman's Relief Association, of which he 
 has been the president since its organization. 
 In December, 1872, he married Miss Calista 
 Longfellow, one of the nine children of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Gates Longfellow. Mrs. Johnson, 
 who was born and reared on a farm in Ma- 
 chias, Me., where her father was engaged in
 
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 agricultural pursuits, is an active worker in 
 religious circles and a mcmbrr of the Uni- 
 versalist church. 
 
 RANK H. RADFORD, a foreman in 
 the machine shop of the American 
 Tool and Machine Company of Hyde 
 Park, was born June 29, 1859, in Roxbury, 
 Mass. His parents, Benjamin I-". and Anna 
 M. (Hale) Radford, had ten children, of 
 whom J. Edward, William F., Frank H., and 
 Paul R., are living. J. Edward is the super- 
 intendent of the foundry in Hyde Park. The 
 father, a machinist by trade, possessed con- 
 siderable ability. He worked for some years 
 in Roxbury and Dorchester. .Subsequently 
 he organized the American Tool and Machine 
 Company, with its shops located in Boston. 
 The plant was afterward removed to Hyde 
 Park; and in 1894, a few years prior to his 
 death, he sold his interests in it to the present 
 owners. 
 
 Frank H. Radford was but seven years of 
 age when his parents removed to Dorchester, 
 and but nine years old when, in 1868, they 
 settled in Hyde Park. He attended the pub- 
 lic schools, completing his education in the 
 high school of this town, and then began 
 working at the machinist's trade under the in- 
 struction of his father, becoming a most skil- 
 ful and thorough workman. After the plant 
 was transferred to Hyde Park, his father placed 
 him in charge of a small part of the works. 
 When his father sold out, his services were re- 
 tained by the new company in his former capac- 
 ity until 1894, when he was made foreman of 
 the entire lower floor of the shop, having the 
 charge of thirty-five men. In this responsible 
 position he has performed his duties in a most 
 satisfactory manner, both to his employers 
 and to the employees under him. He is per- 
 fectly familiar with the details of the busi- 
 ness, having been connected with the factory 
 for twenty consecutive years, and is held in 
 high esteem by the company, who recognize 
 his fidelity and ability. 
 
 On October 12, 1892, Mr. Radford married 
 Miss Katherine Victoria Lockhart, who was 
 born in the Province of New Brunswick, 
 where her father, William Lockhart, was en- 
 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits. In politics 
 Mr. Radford votes for the candidates who in 
 his opinion are best qualified for the office. 
 He takes great interest in the town's welfare, 
 encouraging and aiding all movements for its 
 benefit. In 1896 he was elected to the Board 
 of Selectmen, polling one thousand and seven 
 votes, the largest number, with one exception, 
 cast for any candidate. In 1897 he was re- 
 elected to the same office by an increased vote. 
 An esteemed Odd Fellow, he belongs to 
 h'orest Lodge, No. 148, I. O. O. F., of this 
 town, and to Monterey Encampment. He at- 
 tends the Methodist church, of which Mrs. 
 Radford is a member. 
 
 AMES KEITH, who was for a number 
 of years Postmaster of East Stoughton 
 (now Avon), was born in this town, 
 October 23, 1827. He is a son of 
 Clifford and Arethusa (Harris) Keith, and a 
 direct descendant of the Rev. James Keith, a 
 Scotch Presbyterian clergyman, saiil to have 
 been the first preacher to locate in old Bridge- 
 water, Mass. Clifford Keith was a general 
 merchant of the former town of Stoughton, 
 and was also for some time engaged in boot 
 manufacturing there. A prominent citizen, 
 he was for many years a Selectman of the 
 town; and he served for a number of years as 
 Justice of the Peace. He died in 1878, in 
 his seventy-seventh year. 
 
 James Keith received his early education in 
 his native town, and later attended the acad- 
 emy in East Bridgewater. He then obtained 
 a position as clerk in a wholesale shoe store in 
 Philadelphia. After remaining there for a 
 time, he was employed as clerk in general 
 merchandise stores in Stoughton and Ran- 
 dolph successively. He subsequently found 
 employment in shoe factories in East Stough- 
 ton, performing manual labor, and also acting 
 as book-keeper. He was afterward engaged in 
 the sale of stationery, periodicals, and gentle- 
 men's furnishing goods in East Stoughton. 
 Mr. Keith, who is a Republican politically, 
 was appointed Postmaster of East Stoughton 
 in 1867, and capably performed the duties of 
 the office for seventeen consecutive years. 
 P"Gr two years he was Town Treasurer of
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Avon, and for a number of years he has served 
 as Justice of the Peace. 
 
 He has been twice married. His first wife, 
 Eliza A. Packard, of Randolph, Mass., left 
 one daughter, Emma F., who is the wife of 
 E. Lawrence Paine, of Randolph. His sec- 
 ond wife, who was in maidenhood Miss Lucy 
 S. Baker, of Bingham, Me., bore him one 
 son, J. P'rank, who is now deceased. Mr. 
 Keith is a member of Rising Star Lodge, 
 1. O. O. F., of Randolph. He is well known 
 in Avon and the vicinity, and is a very popu- 
 lar citizen. 
 
 lAPTAIN JOEL F. SHEPPARD, 
 senior partner of the firm of J. V. 
 Sheppard & Sons, coal, wood, hay, 
 and ice dealers, of East Braintree, 
 Mass., was born in Cumberland County, New 
 Jersey, November 20, 1835, son of VVilliam 
 K. and Sarah (Fithian) Sheppard. His pa- 
 ternal grandfather, who was of Scotch ances- 
 try, was a soldier in the War of 1812. The 
 P"ithians are said to be of Irish descent. 
 
 Captain Sheppard was educated in the acad- 
 emy at Salem, N.J., and resided upon his 
 father's farm until si.xteen years old. He 
 learned the trade of ship-building at Bridge- 
 ton, N.J., serving a three years' apprentice- 
 ship; and he subsequently followed a sailor's 
 life in trading-vessels which plied up and 
 down the coast. At the age of twenty-two he 
 became master of a vessel, and was engaged in 
 the coasting trade until 1869. He then came 
 to East Braintree, and established himself in 
 business as a dealer in coal, wood, and hay, in 
 1875 adding ice to his stock in trade. In 
 1882 he established at Ouincy Point a depot 
 for receiving coal by the cargo, and also 
 opened an office at Ouincy. His subsequent 
 success proves him to be a man of energy and 
 ability. He married Hannah Wallen, of 
 Cumberland County, New Jersey, and has four 
 children: Charles G. ; Eben W. ; Ida E., wife 
 of B. H. Davidson; and Ella W. 
 
 Captain .Sheppard is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and takes an active part in town affairs. 
 In 1880 he represented the towns of Braintree 
 and Holbrook in the State legislature. He 
 is at the present time the vice-president of the 
 
 South Shore Co-operative Bank at Weymouth, 
 of which his son Charles is secretary and 
 treasurer. He is a master Mason, and belongs 
 to the chapter and commandery. He attends 
 the Union Congregational Church. 
 
 AMES ALBERT HARTSHORN, 
 president of the Norwood Business 
 Men's Association and an ex-member 
 of the Massachusetts legislature, was 
 born in Walpole, Mass., February 24, 1856. 
 His parents were George and Elizabeth (Pay- 
 son) Hartshorn, the father being a successful 
 provision dealer in Walpole. The subject of 
 this sketch attended the common and high 
 schools of his native town for the usual 
 period, and subsequently took a business 
 course at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial 
 College, Boston. He then engaged in the 
 provision business with his uncle, Warren 
 Hartshorn, in Walpole, and in 1880 bought 
 the routes in East Walpole and Canton. In 
 1 88 1 he located in Norwood, where he estab- 
 lished himself in the provision business, and 
 has since conducted a thriving trade. In 
 .1891 and 1892 he represented the First Nor- 
 folk District in the legislature, serving as 
 chairman of the Committee on Roads and 
 Bridges during his last term. He was elected 
 Town Auditor in 1895, and is still serving in 
 that capacity. In politics he is a Republican. 
 As president of the Business Men's Associa- 
 tion and Board of Trade, which is an au.tiliary 
 body to the Massachusetts Board of Trade, he 
 is developing to the utmost the possible re- 
 sources of Norwood; and his labors in behalf 
 of the town's interest are widel}' recognized 
 and appreciated. Mr. Hartshorn is a member 
 of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M., in which he 
 served three years as Worshipful Master; a 
 member of Hebron Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons, and of Cyprus Commandery, Knights 
 Templar; a charter member of Tiot Lodge, 
 No. 50, I. O. O. F. ; and he also belongs to 
 Neponset Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, 
 and to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 He married Alia E. Thayer, daughter of Tyler 
 Thayer, of Norwood, and has three children — 
 Helen E. , Maud P., and George Tyler. The 
 family attend the Universalist church.
 
 
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 423 
 
 "ENRY S. COOLIDGE, real estate 
 dealer, gardener, and the proprietor 
 of a large livery stable in J-irook- 
 line, Mass., was born in this town, 
 January 6, 1842, a son of the late David S. 
 Coolidge. 
 
 He eomes of early Colonial ancestry, being 
 a lineal descendant in the eighth generation 
 of John Coolidge, an early English immi- 
 grant, who was made a freeman at Watertown, 
 Middlesex County, this State, in 1636. 
 Simon Coolidge, son of John, was the father 
 of Obadiah and the grandfather of Joseph 
 Coolidge, who was killed at the battle of Lex- 
 ington, April ig, 1775. The next in line 
 was Joseph's son, Joshua Coolidge, born in 
 1759, who likewise spent his life in Water- 
 town, where his son David, the grandfather of 
 Henry S., was born and brought up, the date 
 of his birth being March 23, 1789. 
 
 David Coolidge was engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits throughout his long life of eighty- 
 seven years, having settled first in Roxbury 
 and then in Brookline, coming here at a time 
 when the larger portion of the people were 
 tillers of the soil. He bought a large tract of 
 land, which he devoted principally to garden- 
 ing purposes, raising early vegetables and 
 fruits. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Susan Griggs, was born in Brookline, Septem- 
 ber 2, 1793, and died here at an advanced age. 
 She reared a family of eight children. 
 
 David S. Coolidge was born during the resi- 
 dence of his parents in Roxbury, but, having 
 been a small child when they removed to this 
 town, was here reared and educated. He 
 chose farming as his life occupation, and, 
 coming into possession of the ancestral home- 
 stead after the death of his parents, carried on 
 general husbandry until his death, at the age 
 of seventy-one years. He was identified with 
 the Whigs in his early manhood, but later 
 was an earnest supporter of the principles of 
 the Republican party. He was quite influen- 
 tial in local affairs, and served a number of 
 years as Selectman. He married Caroline 
 Griggs, who was born in this town, being one 
 of the seven children of Deacon Thomas and 
 Hannah (Fuller) Griggs. Her mother was a 
 native of Needham, Mass., and a daughter 
 of Captain Jonathan Fuller. Deacon Griggs 
 
 was for many years one of the most extensive 
 land-owners of Brookline, and besides serving 
 as .Selectman of the town was its Representa- 
 tive in the State legislature several terms. 
 He was an Ensign in the War of 181 2, and for 
 his services therein received a pension and a 
 large tract of land. ]5oth he and his wife 
 were members of the Baptist churcli, in which 
 he was Deacon. I^^urther ancestral history 
 may be found elsewhere in this volume in con- 
 nection with the sketch of William J. Griggs. 
 To David .S. Coolidge and his wife four chil- 
 dren were born, as follows: Henry S., the 
 special subject of this sketch; Walter G. ; 
 Harriet M.; and ICllen G. The mother is 
 still living, her home adjoining that of her 
 son, Henry S. She is a member of the Bap- 
 tist church, to which her husband also be- 
 longed. 
 
 Henry S. Coolidge was educated in Brook- 
 line, receiving his diploma at the high school. 
 Embarking in the produce business in Boston, 
 he carried it on successfully until after the 
 death of his father. His entire time has 
 since been needed to look after his interests 
 in Brookline, and he has confined his atten- 
 tion mostly to matters connected with his real 
 estate of this place. He has built and sold a 
 large number of houses, his transactions in 
 this line being quite extensive, and is num- 
 bered among the enterprising and progressive 
 citizens of the town. I^le is a sound Repub- 
 lican in his political affiliations, and he and 
 his family are regular attendants of the Bap- 
 tist church. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Coolidge married Miss Hattie 
 Russell, one of the seven children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Jeremiah Russell, of Watertown, where 
 her father is a well-known ice dealer. They 
 have two children — Linda G. and Russell. 
 
 EDEDIAH W. HIGGINS, the chair- 
 man of the Board of Selectmen of 
 Dover, was born in Truro, Mass., 
 April 4, 1857, son of Joseph and Han- 
 nah (Paine) Higgins. His grandfather, Jede- 
 diah Higgins, who was born June 3, 1784, 
 settled in Truro, where he afterward resided 
 until his death, which occurred June 23, 
 1865. Jedediah married Huldah Paine, who,
 
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 born August lo, 1788, died August 3, 1840. 
 Jedediah and Huldah Higgins were the par- 
 ents of four children, namely: Kcziah, born 
 March 28, 1S09, who died January 9, 1862; 
 Daniel P., born June 19, 181 1, who died 
 March 15, 1886; Huldah P., born June 10, 
 1 82 1, who died P'ebruary 26, 1839; and Jo- 
 seph, who was born December 24, 1822. 
 
 Joseph Higgins from an early age followed 
 the sea steadily for some time. Then for 
 several years he was engaged in the grocery 
 business, after which he returned to his sea- 
 faring life. He retired some years since, and 
 is now residing in Truro. His wife, Hannah, 
 who is a native of that town, has had six chil- 
 dren, namely: Joseph, who died in infancy; 
 Joseph A., who is now farming in Truro; 
 Martha P., who died at the age of five years; 
 Delia E., of whom there is no special record; 
 Jedediah W., the subject of this sketch; and 
 Richard P. Delia K. married for her first 
 husband S. T. Davis. Her second husband 
 was James W. I^uther. She died in 1893; 
 and her husband is now residing in Attleboro, 
 Mass. Richard P., who is a carriage painter 
 in Truro, wedded Maud McClellan. 
 
 Jedediah W. Higgins acquired a common- 
 school education, and remained at home until 
 twenty-one years old. He then came to 
 Dover; and, after working as a farm assistant 
 for three years, he entered the employ of a 
 Mr. Paine, who carried on a country store in 
 the village. A year later he was hired as a 
 clerk by T. C. Norton, and about eighteen 
 months later he bought his employer out. 
 Since engaging in mercantile pursuits he has 
 displayed a natural talent for business; and, 
 as he is now the only merchant in the village, 
 he necessarily has a large patronage. In pol- 
 itics he supports the candidates whom he con- 
 siders best qualified for the oiifice. He served 
 as an Assessor for three years. In 1890 he 
 was elected chairman of the Board of Select- 
 men, over whose deliberations he has since 
 presided with marked ability. On March 2, 
 1897, he was elected trustee of the Dover 
 Public Library. 
 
 On June 23, 1SS7, Mr. Higgins was united 
 in marriage with Amy H. Sullivan. She was 
 born in Dover, March 16, 1854, daughter of 
 Cornelius and Charlotte Sullivan. The for- 
 
 mer was a prosperous farmer of this town. 
 Both her parents are still residing here. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Higgins are the parents of four chil- 
 dren, namely: Eveline Dolly, born May 26, 
 1889; Helen Bernice, born January i, 1891, 
 who died November 5, 1897; Jedediah Rus- 
 sell, born July 4, 1893; and Elliot Wight, 
 born December 11, 1895. Mr. Higgins is 
 connected with John Elliot Lodge, No. 149, 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, of West 
 Newton, Mass. The family attend the Con- 
 gregational church, of which Mr. and Mrs. 
 Higgins are members. On November 7, 
 1886, Mr. Higgins was one of those who 
 organized the Haven Society of Christian 
 Endeavor, of which he was the first president, 
 and in which he is still an active worker. 
 
 IRA B. PRATT, of Beechwood, a well- 
 known local historian, familiar with the 
 annals of Cohasset and vicinity, was 
 born in Cohasset, August 18, 1839. 
 He is a son of Benjamin and Sarah (Stoddard) 
 Pratt. Benjamin Pratt, who was a native and 
 a lifelong resident of Cohasset, died in 1881. 
 His wife, who was born in Hingham, Mass., 
 died May 2, 1892. Three children survive 
 them, namely: Catherine L., the wife of 
 Abner Robbins, residing in Oregon; Sarah 
 E. , the wife of John D. Nutting, of Quincy, 
 Mass.; and Ira B. , the subject of this sketch. 
 (Further particulars regarding the Pratt fam- 
 ily may be found in the biography of Aaron 
 Pratt, of Beechwood.) 
 
 Ira B. Pratt was reared to man's estate in 
 Cohasset, and acquired his early education in 
 the town's public schools. Familiar with 
 farm work since his boyhood, he was the first 
 man in Cohasset to engage in market garden- 
 ing for the Boston markets, a business which 
 he followed for fifteen years. His produce is 
 now sold to the local market. He owns about 
 eighty acres of land. Gifted naturally with 
 mechanical skill, he also works in wood, iron, 
 and leather, repairing his own vehicles and 
 harness, and doing work of the same nature 
 for his neighbors. He has been a zealous 
 student of local history, and is a recognized 
 authority on matters relating to the annals of 
 this part of Norfolk County.
 
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 On March 2, 1861, Mr. Pratt was married 
 to Mary N. Curtis, a tnember of one of the 
 oldest families of Scitiiate, Mass. His chil- 
 dren are: Mary C, the wife of Spencer H. 
 Stoughton, of Cohasset ; Sarah L., the wife of 
 William O. Clapp, Jr., of Scitiiate; and Ira 
 N., a resident of Cohasset. A Republican in 
 politics, Mr. Pratt was at one time a member 
 of the Republican Town Committee, and he 
 has served as Constable of Cohasset. He 
 takes much interest in the welfare of his na- 
 tive town. While liberal in his views on re- 
 ligious subjects, he attends service at the 
 Beechwood Congregational Church. 
 
 OHN H. BURDAKIN, of Dedham, son 
 of John C. and Catharine E. Burdakin, 
 was born in Cambridge, Mass., Novem- 
 ber 3, 1840. He was educated in the 
 schools of Cambridge and Boston. At the 
 age of seventeen he entered the office of Will- 
 iam V. Thompson, a conveyancer in Boston, 
 with whom he remained about three years. 
 He then went into the Middlesex Registry of 
 Deeds at East Cambridge. In the early part 
 of the war of the Rebellion, while on a visit 
 in New York City, he enlisted in the Twenty- 
 second Regiment, New York National Guard, 
 and served subsequently at Harper's Ferry, 
 Winchester, and elsewhere in the Shenandoah 
 Valley. After his discharge from the army 
 he returned to Massachusetts, and in 1863 was 
 employed as a clerk in the Norfolk County 
 Registry of Deeds, under James Foord, Esq., 
 Registrar. Early in 1873, upon the passage 
 of a legislative act authorizing the registrar to 
 appoint an assistant, Mr. Burdakin received 
 the appointment. At the election in 1873, 
 Mr. Foord having declined a re-election, Mr. 
 Burdakin was elected his successor, and has 
 since held the office by successive elections, 
 being nominated by the Republican and Dem- 
 ocratic parties at each election. This contin- 
 ued support is satisfactory evidence of his fit- 
 ness for the position. 
 
 Mr. Burdakin is a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, of the New England 
 Historic Genealogical Society, a curator and 
 librarian of the Dedham Historical Society, 
 and a trustee of the Dedham Public Library. 
 
 He was married November 18, 1874, to 
 Ella L., daughter of Nathaniel Smith. Of 
 this union are two chililren: Leslie R., born 
 September 16, 1884; and Lillian Burdakin, 
 born August 5, 1887. 
 
 T^HARLES L. POTTLE, a succes.sful 
 I \y strawberry grower and market gar- 
 ^^(s^^ dener of Med way, was born in 
 Pittsfield, Me., March 24, 1854, 
 son of Isaac and Mary (Campbell) Pottle. 
 His parents were natives of Richmond, Me.; 
 and his father was in early life a sailor. 
 Isaac Pottle abandoned the sea in order to en- 
 gage in agriculture, and settled upon a farm 
 in Pittsfield, where he and his wife still re- 
 side. They have had nine children, three of 
 whom are living, namely: Charles L., the 
 subject of this sketch; James, who resides in 
 Oxford, Mass. ; and Cora, who married 
 Charles Horn, a hotel-keeper at Forks, Somer- 
 set County, Me. Those deceased are: Au- 
 rilla, Adelia, Amanda, Ella, Frank, and Ida. 
 
 Charles L. Pottle acquired a common-school 
 education in his native town. When seven- 
 teen years old he went to Tyngsboro, Mass., 
 where he was engaged one year as a farm as- 
 sistant. Previous to locating in Medway, he 
 followed agricultural pursuits in Newton for 
 about four years, and was similarly engaged 
 in Burlington, Mass, for about two years. 
 In April, 1880, he bought the Adams farm of 
 fifty-five acres in Medway, which he has 
 greatly improved; and he has since been iden- 
 tified with the prosperous farmers of this 
 town. He pays special attention to the rais- 
 ing of strawberries and other garden products, 
 and finds this branch of agriculture to be 
 quite profitable. 
 
 On March 27, 1878, Mr. Pottle married 
 Emma A. Sanderson, who was born in Spring- 
 field, Vt., December 21, 1854, daughter of 
 Stillman and Sarah (Keys) Sanderson. Mrs. 
 Pottle's father, who was for many years en- 
 gaged in tilling the soil in Springfield, is 
 now residing with his daughter. Mrs. San- 
 derson is no longer living. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Pottle have one daughter, Alice G. , born No- 
 vember 17, 1886. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Pottle is a Republican.
 
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 He is connected with Lodge No. 42, Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, of Medway. He 
 and Mrs. Pottle are members of the Baptist 
 church. 
 
 §O.SIiPHUS SAMPSON, of Braintree, 
 wholesale and retail dealer in choice 
 meats and provisions, was born in 
 Middleboro, Mass., April 29, 1837, 
 son of Ichabod and Hannah (Morse) Sampson. 
 He is of old Plymouth Colony stock, being of 
 the eighth generation in descent from Abra- 
 ham Sampson, who came over from England 
 about 1629 or 1630, and settled in Duxbury, 
 and numbering also among his ancestors, 
 through his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Leo- 
 nice Magoun Sampson, George Soule, of the 
 "Mayflower" company, signer of the com- 
 pact, and John Magoun, who came from Scot- 
 land in 1655, and, settling first in Hingham, 
 removed thence to Pembroke, Mass. Abra- 
 ham Sampson, it may be mentioned, is sup- 
 posed to have been a brother of Henry, a 
 minor who came in 1620 with the Pilgrim 
 Fathers. Abraham Sampson married a daugh- 
 ter of Samuel Nash, and had three sons: 
 Samuel, born 1646, who married E!sther 
 
 ; Abraham, Jr., born 1658; and Isaac, 
 
 born 1660, the last two of whom married 
 daughters of Alexander and Sarah (Alden) 
 Standish. 
 
 The following ancestral line prepared 
 partly from fragmentary records in the posses- 
 sion of Mr. Sampson, and partly from incom- 
 plete and sometimes faulty genealogical notes 
 elsewhere printed, is thought to be correct: 
 Abraham"; SamueP ; Samuel,' born in 1670, 
 who married Mercy Eddy; Ichabod," who mar- 
 ried Mercy (or Mary) Savery; Ichabod,' born 
 in 1742; Joseph,'' who married Leonice 
 Magoun, daughter of Aaron and Mary 
 (Church) Magoun and grand-daughter of 
 David and Rachel (Soule) Magoun; Ichabod,' 
 who married Hannah Morse, daughter of Levi 
 Morse and Ruth (Savery) Morse, and had a 
 daughter Ruth and two sons — Josephus^ and 
 Thomas. 
 
 Joseph Sampson was a soldier in the War 
 of 18 1 2, and in his old age drew a pension 
 from the government. He had six sons — 
 
 Luther, Aaron, Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, and 
 Ichabod — and a daughter Mary. 
 
 Jo.sephus Sampson was brought up on his 
 father's farm at Middleboro, obtaining his 
 early education in the district school, and at 
 the age of sixteen attending Pierce Academy 
 eleven weeks only. Between the school terms 
 and after his school days were over, he worked 
 on the farm, his father's death in 1856 throw- 
 ing him upon his own resources. He re- 
 mained at the old homestead until 1858, when 
 he came to Braintree to engage in the 
 butcher's business, at which he worked by the 
 month for nearly four years. In 1862 he went 
 into business for himself near his present 
 stand. Since that time he has purchased 
 land, and engaged in farming to some extent 
 in connection with his other business. 
 
 He married first January 25, 1868, Ruth A. 
 F"rench, daughter of the late Waldo French, 
 of Braintree; and of this union was born one 
 son, Everett F. , who died September 14, 
 1869, at the age of four months and twenty- 
 six days. His wife, Ruth A., died May 7, 
 i86g: and he remained single until February 
 23, 1875, when he married Mary E. French, 
 by whom he has one daughter, Ruth G. 
 
 On June 4, 1882, Mr. Sampson joined the 
 Methodist Episcopal church at South Brain- 
 tree, and became a regular attendant at all its 
 services. Connected with this church at that 
 time was a small society at East Braintree, 
 formed by a few Christian people who had 
 come from the town of Carver, Mass. In 
 this branch society he also took a deep inter- 
 est. Connected with it was a Sunday-school, 
 of which he was elected superintendent, June 
 18, 1882; and he has held this office until the 
 present time (January, 1898). On November 
 17, 1883, the Methodist Episcopal church at 
 South Braintree (formerly the Baptist church 
 of South Braintree) was destroyed by fire; and 
 in the following year a new church edifice was 
 erected upon the same site, being dedicated 
 October 12, 1884. In this work Mr. Samp- 
 son took an active part, and was the largest 
 contributor to the building fund. In the 
 meanwhile the society at East Braintree, al- 
 ready alluded to, had continued to flourish; 
 and in 1891, under the direction of the Pre- 
 siding Elder, S. O. Benton, a new church was
 
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 formed at East Braiiitree. Mr. Sampson then 
 withdrew from the church at South JJrain- 
 tree, and, joining the new church, assisted in 
 erecting a church building, toward which he 
 was again the hirgcst contributor; and he has 
 since remained connected with this church. 
 
 Mr. Sampson is a member of Delta Lodge, 
 A. F. & A. M., at Weymouth, having belonged 
 to this order nearly twenty-five years and 
 taken a deep interest and an active part in its 
 offices. He is also connected with Puritan 
 Lodge, No. 179, I. O. O. F. , of Braintree. 
 In his political views and affiliations he has 
 been a Republican from the beginning. In 
 the affairs of the town in which he lives he 
 has always been interested, but has never 
 taken a prominent part. He served as one of 
 the committee of five for the erection of the 
 Braintree high and grammar school build- 
 ing, on the same committee for the building 
 of the Perkins School at East Braintree, and 
 on the committee for the remodelling of the 
 Union School building and the Pond School 
 building, all of Braintree. In connection 
 with his provision business, he deals in pure 
 milk from cows kept on his farm. He is also 
 a grower of Cape cranberries of a fine quality, 
 which he supplies both wholesale and retail, 
 and in which he does a good business. In- 
 dustrious from his boyhood up, Mr. Sampson 
 is a man who has been willing to work early 
 and late to obtain an honest livelihood and to 
 honorably discharge his duties as a citizen 
 and neighbor. 
 
 (shames a. gale, M.D., a physician 
 of West Medway and a Civil War vet- 
 eran, was born in Amherst, N.H., Oc- 
 tober 3, 1837, son of Amory and 
 Martha (Leland) Gale. His father was a na- 
 tive of Winchester, N.H., a graduate of 
 Brown University, Providence, R.I. , and be- 
 came a Unitarian minister. Like many of 
 his profession of the past generation, he was 
 both a pastor and a physician, and exercised 
 his double calling in various places in New 
 Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, 
 finally settling at East Medway, where he 
 practised medicine in connection with farm- 
 ing. He died in US73 ; and his wife, a native 
 
 of Holliston, Mass., whose maiden name was 
 Martha Leland, died in 1882. They had five 
 children, namely: Caroline R. ; Martha Le- 
 land; Mary Kendall; James A., the subject 
 of this sketch; and Anna Harding. Caroline 
 R. is the widow of Alfred James, and she and 
 her sister Martha are living in Millis. Mary 
 Kendall Gale Warren, M.D., the widow of 
 Dr. Warren, of Boston, Mass., resides in 
 that city. Anna Harding, who was the wife 
 of the late Lyman Adams, died in 1894, leav- 
 ing two children : Jane, wife of Frank Cook, 
 of Millis; and Carrie, wife of Hobart Down- 
 ing, a student in Delaware, Ohio. 
 
 James A. Gale began his education in the 
 common and high schools of Woonsocket, 
 R.I., and advanced by attending academies in 
 Rhode Island and Vermont. His professional 
 studies were pursued at the Harvard Medical 
 School and the Western Homoeopathic Col- 
 lege, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was graduated 
 in 1861. In the same year he settled for 
 practice in West Medway. In February, 
 1864, he joined the Sixteenth Massachusetts 
 Battery, under Captain Scott, and was in 
 charge of Fort Lyon Hospital part of the time 
 until his discharge in June, 1865. Upon his 
 return to West Medway he resumed his medi- 
 cal practice, and continued it successfully 
 until 1889, when his health failed. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican, and has served with 
 ability as a member of the Board of Health. 
 
 On October 16, 1861, Dr Gale was united 
 in marriage with Jemima A. Wheeler. She 
 was born August 24, 1839, in what is now 
 Millis, where her parents, Abijah and Jemima 
 (Adams) Wheeler, who are no longer living, 
 were prosperous farming people. Mrs. Gale 
 is the mother of three children, as follows: 
 Leland Amory Lewis, born October 20, 1862; 
 Anna Adams, born July 16, 1866; and 
 Hattie Wheeler, born November 17, 1870. 
 Leland A. L. Gale is a travelling salesman 
 for Manning Brothers, boot and shoe dealers 
 of Boston; and he resides in Orange, Mass. 
 On August 3, 1887, he married Anna M. 
 Reed. On January ir, 1890, Anna Adams 
 Gale married Alton W. Ide, who is in the 
 provision business in Cranston, R.I., and has 
 one son, Leland Alton, born July 2, 1893. 
 Hattie Wheeler Gale resides at the parental
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 home, and is a kindergarten and primary 
 school teacher. 
 
 Dr. Gale has been a skilful physician, and 
 is sincerely esteemed both for his professional 
 ability and high standing as a citizen. He 
 was one of the first to join the Grand Army 
 of the Republic when that organization was 
 established. Mrs. Gale and her daughters are 
 members of the Congregational church. 
 
 ,APTAIN MILTON HERBP:RT 
 REAMY, principal keeper of Minot 
 Light-house, was born in Roches- 
 ter, riymouth County, Mass., June 
 30, 185 1, son of Milton Harvey and Fanny 
 (Sampson) Rcamy. His paternal grandpar- 
 ents were William and Elizabeth Reamy, the 
 former a planter, and both, so far as known, 
 lifelong residents of Westmoreland County, 
 Virginia. The emigrant ancestor of the fam- 
 ily is said to have been a French Huguenot, 
 who settled in Virginia at an early date. 
 
 Milton Harvey Reamy was reared and edu- 
 cated in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and 
 in young manhood learned the carpenter's 
 trade. After his marriage he came to Massa- 
 chusetts, and followed his trade for a number 
 of years, settling first in Plymouth, removing 
 thence to Rochester, and finally returning to 
 Plymouth, where f(jr a time he followed farm- 
 ing, and later engaged in the shoe business. 
 He continued his residence in Plymouth till 
 his death, January g, 1887. The maiden 
 name of his wife was Fanny Sampson. She 
 was born in Plymouth, Mass., daughter of 
 Sylvanus and Nancy (De Atley) Sampson, her 
 father a native of Plymouth, and her mother of 
 Virginia. Mrs. Reamy died January 8, i8g6. 
 Milton Herbert Reamy was the fifth-born 
 of a family of ten children; namely, Joseph, 
 Annie, Octavius, Robert, Milton H., Syl- 
 vanus, Annie, Christopher, Frances, and 
 Addie. He received his early mental training 
 in the public schools of Rochester and in 
 Plymouth, and began to acquire habits of in- 
 dustry by acting as assistant to his father. 
 When seventeen years of age he made the first 
 of four successive annual fishing trips to the 
 l^anks; and later he sailed in the merchant 
 service, mostly in the coasting trade, continu- 
 
 ing till 1878, when he was appointed assistant 
 keeper of Plymouth Light. In 1878 he was 
 appointed jjrincipal keeper of Plymouth Inner 
 Light, called the Duxbury Pier Light, and re- 
 mained there two years. He was then trans- 
 ferred to Plymouth (Garnet) Light, where he 
 remained si.\ years, at the end of which time 
 he was transferred to Minot's Ledge Light, 
 taking up his residence on the Gulf Island, a 
 beautiful spot owned by the government. In 
 1897 he went to the Centennial IC.xhibition at 
 Nashville, Tenn., to explain the government 
 light exhibit. 
 
 Captain Reamy was married in March, 
 1875, to Harriet Leland Manter, a native of 
 Plymouth, daughter of George and Ruth 
 Manter. Four children born to Captain and 
 Mrs. Reamy are living; namely, Octavius, 
 George M., Harriet Ethel, and Evelyn Mil- 
 dred. Evelyn May, the third child, died aged 
 ten years. Captain Reamy is a member of 
 Cohasset Lodge, F. & A. M., and Mayflower 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Plymouth, and is also 
 affiliated with the L. A. W. 
 
 MERY B. GIBBS, a Boston lawyer and 
 one of the representative young men 
 of Brookline, was born in Oxford 
 County, Maine, October 23, 1862, son of 
 Phineas .S. and Mary C. (Meserve) Gibbs. 
 John Gibbs, his paternal grandfather, was 
 born in Massachusetts; but at an early age, 
 soon after the Revolution, he went to Liver- 
 more, Me. Later he married Polly Stearns, 
 who was a native of Massachusetts, and daugh- 
 ter of Phineas Stearns, one of the famous 
 Boston Tea Party. John and Polly (Stearns) 
 Gibbs were the parents of fourteen children. 
 Phineas S. Gibbs, above named, one of this 
 large household group, still follows the voca- 
 tion of farming in his native town of Liver- 
 more. His wife, Mary C. , died at the age of 
 sixty-four years, leaving the following chil- 
 dren: Ellen M., who married William Hyde; 
 Joseph M. ; Annie C. , who married Isaac 
 J. Lothrop; and Emery B., whose name heads 
 the present sketch, and whose personal history 
 is outlined below. Mrs. Mary C. Meserve 
 Gibbs was a member of the Calvinistic Bap- 
 tist church, to which Mr. Gibbs belongs.
 
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 lunery B. Gibbs spent his earliest years in 
 the town of Livermore, where he obtained his 
 elementary education in the common schools. 
 Afterward he attended Hebron Academy and 
 tiie Coburn Classical Institute of Waterville, 
 graduating from the latter school in the class 
 of 1884. He was graduated at Colby Univer- 
 sity in 1888, and received his degree from 
 Boston University Law School in 1S91, since 
 which time he has been engaged in the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Boston, being a mem- 
 ber of the Suffolk County bar. Mr. Gibbs 
 worked his way through school and college, 
 paying the entire cost with his own earnings. 
 
 He married January 13, 1892, Jennie Bar- 
 bour, who is one of three children of Henry 
 N. Barbour, an iron foundry owner and lat- 
 terly a farmer of Yarmouth, Me. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Gibbs have two children : Elisabeth, 
 born Augu.st 12, 1893; and Mary Karolen, 
 born September 21, 1897. 
 
 Mr. Gibbs is a Republican in politics, and 
 was elected to represent the town of Brook- 
 line in the legislature in 1897. fie is the 
 attorney and one of the auditors of the Brook- 
 line Co-operative Bank, and is a member of 
 the Educational Society of Brookline. He 
 has served for four years on the "Committee 
 of Twenty" to consider the appropriations to 
 be made at the annua! town meeting. He is 
 a member of different college fraternities, and 
 is connected with the Beth-horon Lodge, F. 
 & A. M. A member of the Baptist church, 
 he has long been active in the .Sunday-school 
 of that society, of which he is now superin- 
 tendent; and he also holds the office of Presi- 
 dent of the New England Baptist Hospital. 
 
 |EV. HENRY FITCH JENKS, the 
 pastor of the First Congregational 
 \\s\ Parish (Unitarian) of Canton, 
 Mass., was born in Boston, October 
 17, 1842, son of John Henry Jenks. The 
 Jenks family is of English origin. Its 
 founder was Joseph Jenks, who came to this 
 country from Hammersmith, near London, in 
 1643, settling first in Lynn, Mass. He was 
 an iron worker of more than average skill 
 and an inventor of some note. The first 
 patent issued in America, according to the 
 
 copy of the document published in the Cleve- 
 land /'/(?/« Dealer oi November 12, 1895, was 
 granted to said Joseph Jenks, under date of 
 May 6, 1646. In 1652 he cut the dies for the 
 pine tree coinage, and in 1654 he invented an 
 improved scythe. lie was the maker of the 
 first fire-engine used in Boston. 
 
 Samuel Jenks, the great-grandfather of the 
 Rev. Henry V. Jenks, was the youngest cap- 
 tain in the provincial army, and took part in 
 the Canadian campaign in 1760. The grand- 
 father, Rev. William Jenks, D.D., was the 
 jjastor of Green .Street Church for many years. 
 John Henry Jenks was a well-known publisher 
 of Boston. He married Miss Mary R., daugh- 
 ter of Jeremiah Fitch, a leading dry-goods 
 merchant of Boston. The oldest of their 
 children is Henry Fitch Jenks. 
 
 When graduating from the Boston Latin 
 School in 1859, Henry F. Jenks received a 
 P'ranklin medal. In 1863 he graduated from 
 Harvard College and in 1866 from the Har- 
 vard Divinity School. In April, 1867, he was 
 ordained as pastor of the I-'irst Parish of 
 P'"itchburg, Mass. P'rom there he went to 
 Charleston, S.C., where he had charge of the 
 Archdale Street Church until 1875. He sub- 
 sequently preached in Revere, Mass., going 
 thence to Lawrence, Mass., to take charge of 
 the First Unitarian Church. In 1885 he was 
 installed over the First Congregational Par- 
 ish of Canton. 
 
 On March i, 1881, Mr. Jenks was married 
 to Miss Lavinia H., daughter of Oakes 
 Angier, of Belfast, Me. They have three 
 sons — Henry A., Charles F., and F"rederic A. 
 
 Mr. Jenks is connected with the Massachu- 
 setts Historical Society, the American His- 
 torical Society, the Bostonian .Society, the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical 
 Society, the American Oriental Society, 
 the Sons of the American Revolution, and the 
 Society of Colonial Wars. He is a director 
 of the Bunker Hill Monument Association; 
 the treasurer of the Massachusetts Convention 
 of Congregational Ministers; the secretary of 
 the Massachusetts Congregational Charitable 
 Society; the vice-president of the Massachu- 
 setts Infant Asylum ; a director of the Boston 
 Latin School Association, of which school he 
 wrote a history in 1886; a trustee of the
 
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 Derby Academy at Hingham, Mass. ; the sec- 
 retary of the Prince Society of Boston; has 
 been a trustee of the Canton Public Library 
 since 1889; and for one year was vice-presi- 
 dent of the Canton Historical Society. 
 
 7TAHARLES H. STEARNS, a prosper- 
 I \y ous and progressive agriculturist of 
 \%) the town of Brookline, Norfolk 
 County, Mass., a son of Charles 
 Stearns, Jr., was born April 28, 1837, in the 
 house in which he now resides. The family 
 to which he belongs is of English origin, and 
 in early times spelled the surname "Sterns," 
 leaving out the "a." His grandfather, 
 Charles Stearns, Sr. , was a native of Waltham, 
 Mass., the home of his ancestors for several 
 generations. He removed from there to 
 Brookline in 1806, and in 1820 purchased 
 about sixty acres of land, which included the 
 site of the present homestead. Here he 
 erected a substantia! house, and in addition to 
 general farming made a specialty of vegetable 
 gardening, a profitable branch of husbandry. 
 His wife, Nancy Flagg, who was born and 
 reared in Massachusetts, bore him seven chil- 
 dren, six of whom grew to years of maturity. 
 Grandmother Stearns passed to the life im- 
 mortal at the advanced age of fourscore years, 
 while the grandfather attained on earth the 
 age of ninety-three years. Both were attend- 
 ants of the First Parish Congregational 
 Church, known as Christ Church of Brook- 
 line. 
 
 Charles Stearns, Jr., was born in Waltham, 
 Mass., but having been very young when his 
 parents came to Brookline was here reared and 
 educated. He obtained a practical knowledge 
 of agriculture on the home farm ; and after 
 the death of his parents he and one of his 
 brothers carried on the homestead in partner- 
 ship for a time, but he afterward managed it 
 alone. He also engaged in the real estate 
 business to some extent, building twenty-five 
 or more houses in this vicinity; and he was 
 likewise quite active in local public affairs, 
 rendering the town efficient service as Select- 
 man, Assessor, Overseer of the Poor, and as a 
 member of the School Committee, filling each 
 office with commendable fidelity. He, too. 
 
 lived to a ripe old age, passing away when 
 eighty-five years old. In politics he was a 
 Whig until the formation of the Republican 
 party, when he became one of its strongest ad- 
 herents. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Hannah C. Pierce, was born in Brookline, a 
 daughter of James Pierce, a shoemaker, and 
 the representative of one of the earliest fami- 
 lies of the town. They became the parents of 
 two children: Charles H., the special subject 
 of this sketch; and James P., who was a Lieu- 
 tenant in the late Civil War, and is now pres- 
 ident of the Shawmut Bank in Boston and a 
 resident of Brookline. The mother died at 
 the comparatively early age of fifty-four years. 
 She was a member of the First Parish Church ; 
 and the father was a member of the Building 
 Committee when the new house of worship 
 was built, and took a deep interest in forward- 
 ing the work. 
 
 Charles H. Stearns was educated in the 
 public schools of Brookline and the Chauncy 
 Hall School, Boston; and after completing 
 his course of study he assisted in the labors of 
 the home farm. On the death of his father he 
 assumed the entire management of the prop- 
 erty, and for some years engaged in the nurs- 
 ery business. He subsequently divided the 
 farm into building lots, which met with a 
 ready sale, each lot being a desirable location 
 for building purposes. Retaining for his own 
 use the house in which he was born, he has 
 made many changes and improvements, render- 
 ing it one of the most attractive and con- 
 veniently arranged Colonial residences of this 
 vicinity. Since the remembrance of Mr. 
 Stearns, Brookline has grown at an astonish- 
 ing pace, the population having increased from 
 fifteen hundred to seventeen thousand, and its 
 valuation in a similar ratio. He has always 
 evinced a warm interest in public affairs, and 
 has contributed freely of his time and money 
 toward the inauguration of beneficial enter- 
 prises. In 1892 he was elected Assessor, and 
 to this important office he has since been re- 
 elected each succeeding year. He is a trustee 
 of the Brookline cemetery and one of the 
 vice-presidents of the Brookline Savings 
 Bank, with which he has been officially con- 
 nected many years. 
 
 On October 23, 1862, Mr. Stearns married
 
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 JOSHUA BRITTON.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIP:VV 
 
 43S 
 
 Anna M. Mollen, a daughter of Ihc late 
 Michael and Sarah Mellen, of this town. 
 Her father was for some time a merchant in 
 Boston, but spent his last years in ]?rookline, 
 where Mrs. Stearns was born. Mrs. Mellen, 
 who is a descendant of one of Boston's old and 
 honored families, is still living, being now 
 ninety-four years of age. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Stearns have two children — Anna and Mar- 
 ion. Anna Stearns married Alexander .S. 
 Jenney, an architect of Boston, and has two 
 children — Paul and Marion. Mr. Stearns 
 and his family are members of the First 
 Parish Unitarian Church, of which he is a 
 Deacon. He is also one of the l^arish Com- 
 mittee, and was a member of the Building 
 Committee intrusted with the erection of the 
 present church edifice. 
 
 -OSHUA BRITTON, a retired manufact- 
 urer of Stoughton, was born in Kaston, 
 Bristol County, Mass., November 27, 
 1819, son of Joshua and Nancy (Field) 
 Britton. His grandfather, Joshua Britton, 
 first, who resided in I^aston, was a Justice of 
 the Peace, and settled many estates. He mar- 
 ried Cynthia White, of Mansfield, Mass., and 
 had a family of nine children ; namely, Joshua, 
 Keziah, Thomas, James, P'anny, Cynthia and 
 Lucinda (twins), Phoebe, and Charles. 
 
 Joshua Britton, second, father of the subject 
 of this sketch, was born in Easton ; and when a 
 young man he there learned the trade of a 
 blacksmith. For some time he worked for 
 General Leach in his native town, but later 
 engaged in burning charcoal, and still later 
 was employed in teaming and in other occupa- 
 tions. In 1827 he moved to Sharon, Mass. 
 His last years were spent in Stoughton, where 
 he died November 6, 1866. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Nancy Field, was a native of 
 Mansfield. She was the mother of seven chil- 
 dren, as follows: Nancy, who married Horace 
 Weld, of Livermore, Me. (both deceased) ; 
 Richard W. , who died in 1840, aged twenty- 
 four years; Joshua, the subject of this sketch; 
 Gilbert, who died young; Lucy J., who mar- 
 ried Edward Holmes for her first husband and 
 Hosea Y. l-'uller for her second, and is now 
 living in Somerville, Mass. ; Phoebe and An- 
 
 drew J., both of whom died young. Mrs. 
 Nancy Field Britton died July 18, 1872. 
 
 Joshua, the second son, named for his father 
 and grandfather, was bound out at the age of 
 nine years to Consider A. and Amasa .South- 
 worth, cotton thread manufacturers, of Stough- 
 ton, for the term of seven years, during which 
 time he attended school three months in each 
 year. He then worked one year for them for 
 wages and subsequently was employed in the 
 Canton Hardware Factory for two years. He 
 then worked at North liaston for the John 
 Ames Knife Factory for a few months. Re- 
 turning to Stoughton in 1838 he worked for 
 Elijah Holmes in the Fisher Gay shop, at the 
 manufacture of shoe tools, for about seven 
 years. About 1848 he began business on his 
 own account at the P'isher Gay water jirivilege 
 in Stoughton, which in 1855 he purchased. 
 He continued extensively engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of tools upon his own account for 
 forty years, or until failing health caused him 
 to abandon active business; and since 1888 he 
 has lived in retirement. He gained a wide 
 reputation as a maker of awls. 
 
 On October 21, 1839, Mr. 15ritton was 
 united in marriage with Olive ¥. White. 
 She was born in Sharon, August 24, 1820, 
 daughter of John and Sally (Mitchell) White, 
 the former of whom was a prosperous farmer 
 and lifelong resident of Sharon, and the latter 
 a native of Easton. To this union were born 
 eleven children; namely, Grenville C, Ma- 
 tilda L., Melissa L., Warren F., Henry W., 
 l-lllen, Horace Edward, P'llis ¥., Clinton K. , 
 Leander G., and Walter A. Grenville C. 
 Britton died at twenty-two years; Matilda L., 
 Warren F., and Ellen died at the age of two 
 years; and. Walter A. at twenty-one. Me- 
 lissa L. is the wife of Warren T. Morse, a 
 native of Sharon, and now lives in West Med- 
 ford, Mass., and has one daughter, Marion 
 T. Morse. Henry W. , who is a banker in 
 Stoughton, married Emma K. Corbett. 
 Horace E. Britton is now manager of his 
 father's factory; in July, 1875, he wedded 
 Mary Mellison, a native of Indianna. Ellis 
 F., who is engaged in mining at Cripple 
 Creek, Col., married Affa Linfiekl, and has 
 two sons — Thornton E. and Warren L. Brit- 
 ton. Clinton E. Britton is engaged in the
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 livery and blacksmithing business in Canton. 
 He married Lizzie Cobb, and has had two 
 children — Marjorie O. and an infant deceased. 
 Leander G. Britton, who is proprietor of a 
 large sale stable in West Stoughton, married 
 Blanche Bright. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Britton is 
 strongly Republican, and in his religious be- 
 lief he is a Universalist. He was made a 
 Mason in Rising Star Lodge, October 13, 
 1864; was given the Royal Arch degree in 
 Mt. Zion Chapter, May 12, 1866; and is a 
 member of Bay State Commandery Knights 
 Templars, of Brockton. He is a Past Master 
 of the Blue Lodge and a Past High Priest of 
 the Chapter. 
 
 kATHAN W. FISHER, an energetic, 
 enterprising, and successful agricult- 
 urist of Walpole Centre, Mass., 
 was born in Walpole, February 9, 
 1846, and is the descendant of a well-known 
 early settled family, his grandfather, Daniel 
 Fisher, having been a lifelong resident of this 
 town. 
 
 Lewis Fisher, son of Daniel and father of 
 Nathan W., was born and reared in Walpole, 
 and here spent his forty-two years of earthly 
 existence, passing to the life beyond in 1848. 
 He was a farmer by occupation, paying, how- 
 ever, especial attention to raising choice nurs- 
 ery stock, in which he was very skilful. He 
 uniformly supported the Whig platform, but 
 was never an active politician. He married 
 Catherine Bassett, of Eden, Vt. , and they be- 
 came the parents of five children, namely: 
 Martin L., who died during the late war; 
 Simon E., of Worcester, Mass. ; Nathan W., 
 special subject of the present sketch; and 
 Lewis H. and Laura H., twins. 
 
 Nathan W. Fisher was but two years old 
 when his father died. He grew to man's 
 estate in his native town, attending the com- 
 mon school of North Walpole until fourteen 
 years old, when he learned the carpenter's 
 trade, which he followed for a time. In 1862 
 he enlisted in defence of the Union, becoming 
 a member of Company K, Forty-fourth Mas- 
 sachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was sta- 
 tioned during the larger part of his nine 
 
 months' term of enlistment at Newbern, N.C. 
 He fought in the engagements at Kinston, 
 N.C, and at Whitehall, after which he re- 
 turned home. In the summer of 1863 Mr. 
 Fisher resumed carpentering, but a year later 
 gave it up to re-enlist, joining Company K, 
 Forty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Infan- 
 try, which was stationed at Alexandria, Va., 
 on garrison duty until the term of enlistment 
 had expired in 1864. On again returning to 
 Walpole, he spent a year recuperating, his 
 health having become sadly impaired from ex- 
 posure and hardships. In 1866 he purchased 
 a milk route in the neighboring town of Nor- 
 wood, and he carried on the milk business for 
 eighteen years in conjunction with farming. 
 Mr. Fisher now devotes his attention to gen- 
 eral farming, including stock-raising, and in 
 winter doing also an extensive business in 
 lumbering. 
 
 In politics he is a stanch Republican, and 
 cast his first Presidential vote for General 
 Ulysses S. Grant. By President Benjamin 
 Harrison he was appointed Postmaster at Wal- 
 pole Centre, an office which he filled five 
 years. He has been a member of the Wal- 
 pole School Committee several terms, has 
 served as Assessor four years, and was a can- 
 didate for Representative to the General 
 Court, but was defeated. He is an active 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 of which he has been steward and treasurer 
 twenty years. 
 
 Mr. Fisher has been twice married. His 
 first wife, whose maiden name was Hannah C. 
 Baker, was an army nurse during the late Re- 
 bellion, and did a noble work in relieving the 
 sufferings of the wounded soldiers and in 
 caring for the sick and dying. In 1878 she 
 died, leaving no children. Mr. Fisher and 
 his second wife, formerly Miss Alma V. 
 Winslow, of Walpole, have three sons, all of 
 whom live beneath the parental roof-tree; 
 namely, Frederick C, Bernard W. , and 
 Daniel W. Fraternally, Mr. Fisher is a 
 member of E. B. Piper Post, No. 157, 
 G. A. R., of which he has been Quartermaster 
 ten years and Commander one year; of the 
 A. O. U. W. , of which he has been recorder 
 six years; and of the Walpole Grange, Pa- 
 trons of Husbandry.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 437 
 
 LEWIS SNOW, who owns a good 
 farm in Millis, and is extensively en- 
 gaged in the milk business, was born 
 in Mansfield, Conn., November 4, 
 1847, son of Joseph and Nancy (Stores) Snow. 
 The father, who was a lifelong resident of 
 Mansfield, followed agricultural pursuits until 
 his death, which occurred August 16, 1854. 
 His wife, Nancy Stores Snow, who was a na- 
 tive of New York State, became the mother 
 of seven children, as follows: William, who 
 died in infancy; Emeline, who became the 
 wife of Frank Barrett, and died in 1868; 
 Fidelia, wife of Isaac Farwell, a prosperous 
 farmer of Mansfield; Dwight, who died in 
 1866; Fielder, who died in 1859; Lucy, who 
 died in i8g6; and J. Lewis, the subject of 
 this sketch. The mother passed away Novem- 
 ber 5, 1879. 
 
 J. Lewis Snow, at the early age of seven 
 years, was forced by the death of his father to 
 contribute toward his own support; but he at- 
 tended school when opportunity permitted. 
 When a young man he worked in Newton 
 Lower Falls, Mass., for a time, and was subse- 
 quently engaged in the express business in 
 Newton. In 1895 he bought the property 
 in Millis known as the Lyman Adams farm, 
 upon which he now resides. He owns 
 eighty-four acres of well-located land, the fer- 
 tility of which he has greatly increased; and 
 he makes a specialty of dairy farming and the 
 sale of milk. 
 
 On April 22, 1875, Mr. Snow married Ella 
 Daniels, who was born in West Medway, 
 April 9, 1854, daughter of Noah and Nancy 
 (Hawes) Daniels, her father being a native of 
 Medfield, and her mother of West Medway. 
 Noah Daniels followed the carpenter's trade 
 until his death, which occurred in Millis in 
 1893, and his widow is now residing here. 
 She has reared seven children, as follows: 
 Ella, who is now Mrs. Snow; Abbie, who is 
 now Mrs. Clough; Alma and Alfred, who re- 
 side in Boston ; Ida, who married George Gil- 
 man, and resides in Lynn, Mass. ; Percy, a 
 resident of Franklin; and Jason, who lives in 
 Norwood, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Snow have 
 had six children, namely: Joseph, born Janu- 
 ary 24, 1876; Harry, born March 16, 1878; 
 Howard, born January 31, 1880; Cora, born 
 
 May 17, 1882; Ernest, born July 13, 1885; 
 and Charles, born July 28, 1887. The last 
 named died October 4, in the year of his 
 birth. Harry is now a resident of Dover, 
 Mass.; and the others are residing at home 
 with their parents. 
 
 Mr. Snow has reached a degree of comfort- 
 able prosperity through his own personal 
 energy, having made good use of his oppor- 
 tunities. In politics he is a Republican, but 
 has never allowed political aspirations to in- 
 terfere with his business affairs. Mrs. Snow 
 is a member of the Congregational church. 
 
 HARLES BYRON DEXTER, a 
 well-known and esteemed citizen of 
 Norwood, a Civil War veteran, was 
 born in Mount Vernon, Me., Janu- 
 ary 30, 1838, son of Samuel and Sarah (Libby) 
 Dexter. His father, who was a native of 
 Haverhill, Mass., had some time previously 
 joined a party of pioneers who went from this 
 State to Maine, and settled upon unimproved 
 land. He resided there for the rest of his 
 life, and died at the age of sixty-four years. 
 He was twice married, and by his second wife, 
 Sarah Libby, who was a daughter of Jacob 
 Libby, he had six children; namely, Edwin, 
 Julia, Henry, Charlotte Charles B. , the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, and Maria. 
 
 Charles Byron Dexter was left fatherless at 
 the age of five years. He resided in Mount 
 Vernon and Vienna, Me., until he was ten 
 years old, when he went to Portsmouth, N. H., 
 where he attended school until he was four- 
 teen. Subsequently learning the book- 
 binder's trade in Boston, he afterward went to 
 Readfield, Me., where he worked in the lum- 
 ber camps for a time, and later found employ- 
 ment in an oil-cloth factory. From Readfield 
 he went to Biddeford, Me., and followed the 
 same occupation until 1859, when he went to 
 Florida; and upon his return he, on April 27, 
 1861, enlisted for service in the Civil War. 
 While residing in Boston he had been a mem- 
 ber of the Fifth Artillery, Massachusetts mi- 
 litia, and was therefore familiar with discipline 
 and army regulations. As First Sergeant of 
 his company he participated in the first battle 
 of Bull Run, and after that disastrous engage-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ment he remained in camp until the spring of 
 1862. He took part in the Peninsular Cam- 
 paign and the Seven Days' Fight, the battles 
 of Gaines's Mill, Crampton Pass, Antietam, 
 Fredericksburg first and second, Salem Chapel, 
 and Gettysburg. Sergeant Dexter had been 
 twice promoted, holding the rank of First Lieu- 
 tenant at the defence of Little Round Top; and 
 upon the return of his corps to Virginia he was 
 detailed to go to Maine and conduct drafted 
 men to the front. He was appointed Quarter- 
 master of the camp at Cape P^lizabeth, where 
 he had been recruited; and after fulfilling his 
 duties he returned to the army. He was again 
 in action at the battle of Brandy Station, and 
 was subsequently placed in charge of the am- 
 bulance train, consisting of fifty-two horse 
 ambulances, two large medicine wagons, and 
 eight mule teams. He continued in that ser- 
 vice under General Grant until July, i<S64, 
 when he was ordered to Portland, and honor- 
 ably discharged. After recovering his health, 
 he, on December 3 1 of the same year, re-en- 
 listed in a company of Post Guards organized 
 at Augusta, antl was stationed at Machias Port, 
 Cape Klizabeth, and P'ort Popham, where he 
 was mustered out in September, 1865. In 
 1866 he came to South Dedham (now Nor- 
 wood), and engaged as designer and cutter for 
 E. F. Talbot, of Norwood, an oil-cloth manu- 
 facturer, also for A. A. F"olsom & Son, and 
 in 1882 established himself in the undertaking 
 business, with which he has since been identi- 
 fied. Politically, he is a Republican. He is 
 a Master Mason, a comrade of Post No. 169, 
 G. A. R., and is connected with the New 
 England Order of Protection. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Dexter was joined in marriage 
 with Carrie E. Clark, daughter of Dow and 
 Sarah Jane Clark, of Gardiner, Me. Of the 
 six children born of this union, two are living; 
 namely, George H. and Frank C. Mr. Dexter 
 and family are members of the Universalist 
 Church of Norwood. 
 
 ILLIAM MAKEPEACE THAYER, 
 of P'ranklin, the author of numer- 
 ous works in the field of history 
 and biography, was born where he now 
 resides, P'ebruary 23, 1820. His parents, 
 
 Davis and Betsey Thayer, were natives of 
 Massachusetts. The father was a well-known 
 resident of Franklin in his day. 
 
 After graduating from Br(nvn University with 
 the class of 1843, William M. Thayer studied 
 theology under Dr. Jacob kle, of Medway, 
 Mass., and was licensed to preach in 1845. In 
 1848 he was installed as pastor of a church 
 in Ashland, Mass., where he labored for 
 eight years, when failing health caused him 
 to abandon his pulpit. Drawn thither by a 
 natural taste and capacity for belles-lettres, he 
 then entered the field of literature. Mr. 
 Thayer's subjects were chosen carefully, with 
 a view of instructing as well as interesting his 
 readers, and in many instances are widely 
 different from those of his contemporaries. 
 Among his best known works are the lives of 
 Amos Lawrence, Mary Lyon, General N. P. 
 Banks, Benjamin Franklin, and "The White 
 House Series," including lives of Washing- 
 ton, Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield. The most 
 successful from a financial point of view was 
 the last-named work, which had a sale of over 
 half a million copies. He also wrote "The 
 Youth's History of the Rebellion," "Tact, 
 Push, and Principle" and "The Marvels of 
 the New West." These were followed by 
 "The 'Ethics of Success," a series of three 
 readers for public schools, published by Sil- 
 ver, Burdett & Co., of Boston. At the age 
 of seventy-six he commenced to write a 
 series of works for Nelson & Sons, of Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland, who in 1896 issued "Men 
 who Win" and "Women who Win" and 
 "Around the Hearthstone; or. Hints for 
 Home Builders." Several of his works have 
 been translated into foreign languages, and 
 a million and a half volumes of them have 
 found their way to the reading public. 
 
 In 1845 Mr. Thayer married Rebecca W. 
 Richards, of Dover, Mass. Of their five chil- 
 dren two are living — Eugene R. and Addison 
 Munroe. Eugene R., now engaged in busi- 
 ness in Colorado, is married, and has one son, 
 Harry S. Addison M., who is a teacher of 
 elocution, married Gertrude E. Smith, a na- 
 tive of Massachusetts, and has three children 
 — Rachel, Robert, and Gertrude. For some 
 years previous to 1876 Mr. Thayer was en- 
 gaged in lecturing on temperance, and ren- 
 
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 WILLIAM M. THAYER.
 
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 441 
 
 dered valuable aid to the cause. He occupies 
 a pleasant home, where he labors undisturbed. 
 Although he had an attack of illness some 
 time since, caused by overwork, he is still 
 among the active writers of the day. 
 
 OSEPH ADDISON ALLEN, a lead- 
 ing farmer and influential citizen of 
 Medfield, for many years engaged in 
 educational work, belongs to one of the 
 oldest families in the township. He was 
 born here, April 25, 1819, his parents being 
 Ellis and Lucy (Lane) Allen. 
 
 The Medfield branch of the Allen family to 
 which he belongs is descended from James 
 Allen,' Allin, or Alin (as the name was vari- 
 ously spelled in the old records), who came to 
 this country with his wife, Anna, in 1639 
 (freeman in 1647), ^nd settled in Dedham, of 
 which town his cousin, John Alin, was the 
 first minister. Here he lived about ten years; 
 and here, December 4, 1639, his eldest son, 
 John, was born. James' was one of a com- 
 pany formed in 1649 to found a settlement in 
 the western part of Dedham bordering on the 
 Charles River, which the following year was 
 incorporated by the name of IVIedfield. The 
 company consisted of fifty persons, each of 
 whom was to have a house lot of not more than 
 twelve acres of upland and as many of 
 meadow. Other grants were subsequently 
 made, which, together with purchases from 
 time to time, constituted the Allen farm, 
 which has remained in the family more than 
 two hundred years, and is now in the posses- 
 sion of descendants of James of the sixth and 
 seventh generations. James Allen' by his 
 wife, Anna, had nine children, of whom the 
 ninth in order of birth, Joseph,^ born June 24, 
 1652, was next in line of descent. Joseph^ 
 married Hannah Sabine, of Seekonk, by whom 
 he had twelve children, of whom Noah,^ born 
 April 21, 1685, was fifth in order of birth. 
 Noah3 married Sarah Gay, of Dedham, and 
 had seven children, the third-born being 
 Noah,* who was baptized November 8, 17 19. 
 Noah Allen* married Miriam Fisher for his 
 first wife, by whom he had five sons. The 
 mother died June 23, 1757, leaving four chil- 
 dren, all under twelve years of age. On 
 
 March 12, 1761, Noah Allen'' married for his 
 second wife Abigail Ellis, by whom he had 
 two children, Miriam and Phineas,' of whom 
 the last named was next in line of descent. 
 The mother died July 28, 1764, when Phineas 
 was only three months old; and Noah married 
 for his third wife Sybil Clark Smith, widow 
 of Elisha Smith and sister of the Rev. Pitt 
 Clark, of Norton. Noah Allen" died March 
 23, 1804, aged eighty-five years. 
 
 Phineas Allen, 5 grandfather of the subject 
 of this sketch, was born April 24, 1764. He 
 lived with his father, and inherited the home- 
 stead. In 1 78 1, when only seventeen years 
 old, he enlisted in the Revolutionary army 
 and was in active service in the Jerseys. 
 After the close of the war he reached home 
 in a pitiful condition, having travelled the 
 whole distance, fully three hundred miles, on 
 foot. He married Ruth, daughter of Asa 
 Smith, of Walpole, born February 28, 1769, 
 and they had eight children: Abigail, born 
 November 12, 1788, died P"ebruary 22, 1796; 
 Joseph, born August 15, 1790, married Lucy 
 Clarke Ware, of Cambridge; Ellis, born Sep- 
 tember 10, 1792, married Lucy Lane, of Scit- 
 uate; Silas (who subsequently took the name 
 of William Winthrop Allen), born January 
 25^ 1795; Asa Smith, born June 21, 1797, 
 married Lydia Kingsbury, and (second) 
 Martha J. Camp; Abigail, born October 5, 
 1799, married Gershom Adams; Phineas, born 
 October 15, 1801, married Clarissa Fiske, of 
 Medfield; and Noah, born April 22, 1807, 
 married Paulina S. Whiting, of Dover. 
 Phineas Allen, the father of these children, 
 died August 13, 1836, aged seventy-two years 
 and four months. Ruth, the mother, died 
 July 25, 1832, aged sixty-three. After the 
 death of his first wife Phineas married Miss 
 Eliza Turner, of Boston. His son Noah 
 (uncle of Joseph A.) is now (1897) living in 
 Medfield, past ninety years of age, a "real" 
 Son of the American Revolution. As one 
 has well said, "The Aliens from the begin- 
 ning have been progressive, stanch lovers of 
 freedom in Church and State." 
 
 Ellis Allen*' was a successful farmer, and 
 spent his life in Medfield, his native place. 
 His wife, Lucy Lane Allen, was born in 
 Scituate, Mass. Both met death by accident,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 he on March 6, 1875, and she on June i, 
 1889, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. 
 They had eight children, as follows: William 
 C, living in Medfield, whose wife, formerly 
 Harriet Coggin, is now deceased; George E., 
 deceased, as is also his wife, Susan Treat 
 Allen; Joseph A., the subject of this sketch, 
 Lucy M., widow of James Davis, living in 
 West Newton, Mass. ; Nathaniel T., princi- 
 pal of the West Newton English and Classical 
 School; Fanny, who died in girlhood; Abi- 
 gail Ellis, deceased, wife of Charles Davis, 
 of West Newton; and James T., associate 
 principal of the Allen School in West 
 Newton. 
 
 Joseph A. Allen' first attended the common 
 schools of Medfield, and later studied with his 
 uncle, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Allen, in North- 
 boro, Mass. He left home and began his 
 career as a teacher at the age of seventeen, 
 teaching music and day schools in Walpole 
 and Northboro, Mass., four years, then going 
 to Syracuse, N.Y. , where he was principal of 
 the Syracuse Academy for a number of years, 
 and was in business seven years. In i860 he 
 returned to Massachusetts, and took charge of 
 the State Reform School at Westboro. After 
 holding that position seven years, he went to 
 Fredonia, N.Y., as president of the State 
 Normal School there. Later he became asso- 
 ciate principal of the school at West Newton, 
 Mass., and after twelve years of service in that 
 capacity was called back to the State Reform 
 School, of which he had charge for three 
 years. On leaving Westboro the second time, 
 he settled on the ancestral farm in Medfield, 
 and opened a family school for boys, being 
 assisted by his daughters and by his son-in- 
 law, George Washburn. 
 
 While living in Syracuse, in November, 
 1845, Mr. Allen married Miss Lucy T. Burt, 
 who was born in Manlius, N.Y., October 20, 
 1823, daughter of Aaron and Lucy (Burk) 
 Burt. Her father, who was a railroad contrac- 
 tor, was a pioneer in Syracuse. Mrs. Allen 
 died March 19, 1875. Three children blessed 
 their union, namely: Joseph Burt, born Janu- 
 ary 2, 1852, who died February 17, 1855; 
 Elien Burt, born December 19, 1855; and 
 Rosa Smith, born January 12, 1859. Ellen 
 B. Allen and George Washburn (who was born 
 
 in Bridgevvater, Mass., April 23, 1850), were 
 married on February 18, 1886, and now live 
 with her father and sister on the old Allen 
 farm in Medfield. They have one little 
 daughter, Lucy Christiana, born August 26, 
 1896, who is the ninth in descent from the 
 pioneer settler, James Allen, the original 
 owner and occupant of the homestead, and 
 represents the eighth generation to claim it as 
 a birthplace. 
 
 Mr. Allen has always been independent in 
 politics, voting for the candidate that in his 
 judgment was best fitted to discharge official 
 duties. He is president of the Historical So- 
 ciety of Medfield. He has been chairman of 
 the School Committee and of the First Parish 
 (Unitarian) Committee several years, and is 
 still interested in the great questions of the 
 day. 
 
 ICHARD MORSE, a substantial and 
 successful farmer and dairyman of 
 East Walpole, Mass., was born in 
 this town, March 12, 1830, a son of 
 the late Chester Morse. He comes of good 
 old English Colonial stock, the Morse family 
 having been among the earliest settlers of 
 Norfolk County. His paternal grandfather, 
 Richard Morse, for whom he was named, was 
 born and reared in that part of Dedham now 
 included within the corporate limits of Nor- 
 wood, and came from there to Walpole in the 
 latter part of last century. 
 
 Chester Morse was brought up in this town, 
 and was for many years an expressman between 
 Boston and Providence, driving across the 
 country with a large baggage wagon. He was 
 also engaged in farming to some extent, own- 
 ing a homestead in Walpole, where he died at 
 the age of sixty-six years. He was a Whig in 
 politics; but, his business calling him away 
 from home a great part of the time, he had but 
 little opportunity to devote his energies to the 
 management of local affairs. He married 
 Hannah Hewins, the descendant of an old and 
 honored family of Sharon, Mass., where she 
 was born and bred. They had three children, 
 as follows: Warren, a resident of Walpole; 
 Richard, the special subject of this sketch; 
 and Chester, who died in 1857.
 
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 443 
 
 Richard Morse attended the common schools 
 of East Walpole until fifteen years old, work- 
 ing in the meantime during his leisure hours 
 and in the long vacations on the paternal farm, 
 where he continues to make his home. He 
 paj's some attention to dairying, keeping from 
 ten to twelve cows; and, although now unable 
 to do any of the manual labor, he still carries 
 on the farm by the aid of competent help, 
 superintending the work in a most efficient 
 manner, bringing to it a clear head and excel- 
 lent judgment, as in his younger days, and oc- 
 cujiying a position among the foremost agri- 
 culturists of this locality. In politics he is a 
 stanch Republican, but has never been an 
 aspirant for official honors, preferring to devote 
 his time to his private interests. 
 
 Mr. Morse was married June i6, 1886, to 
 Miss Clara Fulton, who was born in one of the 
 British Provinces. They have no children. 
 
 IRASTUS WORTHINGTON, Jk., one 
 of the prominent young business men of 
 Dedham and a well-known civil en- 
 gineer, is a native of this town. Son of 
 Erastus and Elizabeth Foster (Briggs) Worth- 
 ington, he was born on December 12, 1863, 
 and is descended from old Colonial stock of 
 English origin. His first ancestor in this 
 country, Nicholas Worthington, landed at Say- 
 brook, Conn., in 1640, and subsequently be- 
 came a resident of Hartford. 
 
 Erastus Worthington, first, grandfather of 
 Erastus, Jr., was born in Belchertown, Mass., 
 and became a leading lawyer in Dedham. He 
 was one of the organizers of the Norfolk Mut- 
 ual Fire Insurance Company, and in 1825 be- 
 came secretary of the company, being the first 
 to hold that office and continuing in it till 
 1840. His wife, Sally, was born in Dedham, 
 and died in 1856 at the age of si.\ty-five. 
 
 Erastus Worthington, second, son of the 
 first Erastus, was born on November 25, 1S28, 
 and was one of the most highly esteemed 
 and influential citizens of this town. A 
 sketch of his life may be found elsewhere in 
 this issue of the Biographical Review. 
 
 Erastus Worthington, Jr., obtained his early 
 education in the public schools of his native 
 town, including the high school, and when 
 
 twenty years of age entered the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology in Boston. In 1885 
 he was graduated at that excellent institution 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. I\Ir. 
 Worthington has since devoted his time and 
 energies to the practice of the ]irofession of 
 civil engineering, and has had charge of a 
 large number of important engineering works. 
 Interested from the first in the construction of 
 public water supply and sewerage systems, he 
 has given considerable attention to studying 
 important ciuestions relating thereto, and has 
 been engaged in the construction of water- 
 works at Middleboro, North Easton, Andover, 
 Winchester, and Rockport, in Massachusetts; 
 at Dover, N. H. ; and at Stamford, Conn. ; and 
 in about thirty other cities and towns in New 
 England. He has also been employed as en- 
 gineer on the Norfolk Central, the Norfolk 
 Suburban, and the Dedham, Hyde Park & 
 Norwood Street Railways. I-"or so young a 
 man this list furnishes a satisfactory testimo- 
 nial of successful achievement. Mr. Worth- 
 ington is a member of the Boston Society of 
 Civil Engineers, also a member of the iSIew 
 England Water Works Association. Fie is a 
 communicant of the Episcopal church. In 
 politics he is in accord with the family tradi- 
 tions, and is a stanch Republican. 
 
 ENRY BLASDALE, cashier of the 
 National Revere Rank of Boston, 
 and a well known and respected res- 
 ident of Hyde Park, was born June 
 iS, 1S36. His parents, William and Eliza- 
 beth (Parr) Blasdale, were born and spent 
 their early days in the pleasant manufacturing 
 town of Nottingham, England, where, also, 
 they were married. Immediately after their 
 marriage they went to Douai, near Paris, 
 France, where they remained some few years, 
 and where their three children — William, 
 Henry, and Charles — were born. A casual 
 interview in Paris between the father of the 
 family and N. P. Ames, the founder and at 
 that time the active manager of the Ames 
 Manufacturing Company, located at Cabot- 
 ville, now the city of Chicopee, Mass., led to 
 the removal of the family to this country and 
 its location at Cabotville, the children, re-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 spectively five, three, and two years of age, 
 growing up in that town and enjoying the ben- 
 efits of the public schools, and, as they grew 
 older, becoming as thoroughly Americanized 
 in all their ideas, sympathies, and feelings as 
 if they had been to the manor born. 
 
 Henry Blasdale at the age of fifteen left the 
 high school to enter the village bank, where, 
 and in the banks of the neighboring town of 
 Springfield, he spent some six years. In the 
 spring of 1859 he came to Boston, entering as 
 a clerk the Revere Bank, then just organized 
 under State laws and since reorganized under 
 national law as The National Revere Bank of 
 Boston. In 1865 he became cashier of the 
 bank, which position he still holds, having 
 acted as cashier for a continuous term of 
 thirty-two years and having been connected 
 with the bank in all for more than thirty-eight 
 years. He was first married May 15, i860, to 
 Miss Annette Frances Dickinson, daughter of 
 Porter Dickinson, of Amherst, Mass. She 
 died November 15, 1862. The two children 
 of this marriage died in infancy. On Febru- 
 ary 13, 1868, Mr. Blasdale married for his 
 second wife Miss F"annie W. Snow, of Boston. 
 Of their five children two have passed away. 
 Those now living are: Frederick W., Nettie 
 F. , and Eva E. 
 
 Mr. Blasdale has a pleasantly located home 
 in Hyde Park, where he has resided for 
 twenty-eight years, and is a firm believer in 
 the future growth of the town. He has served 
 several years as one of the Commissioners of 
 the Sinking Fund, an ofifice requiring but little 
 expenditure of time, and for that reason ac- 
 cepted. 
 
 REDERICK P. GLOVER, proprietor 
 of the Bird's Hill Spring Company at 
 Needham, was born in Stoughton, 
 Mass., on December 28, 1S25. His parents 
 were Pllijah and Sarah (Howe) Glover. 
 
 The first of the family to come to this coun- 
 try was John, one of the sons of Thomas 
 Glover, of England. Nathaniel, a son of 
 John, was born in Dorchester in 1630, and 
 died there in 1657. His son, Nathaniel, was 
 born in 1653, and was married to Hannah 
 Hinckley, of Braintree, Mass. They had a son 
 
 Thomas, who was born December 26, 1690, 
 and died some time between 1755 and 1757. 
 He married Elizabeth Church. His son 
 Thomas, grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch, was born September i, 1723. He 
 served in the army in a company which 
 marched from Stoughton when the alarm for 
 war was given, and was a Lieutenant under 
 Captain Peter Talbot and Colonel Frederick 
 Pope. He married Rebecca Pope, of Stoughton, 
 in 1752. Their son Elijah was born in Stough- 
 ton in 1770. He was twice married, his first 
 wife being Martha Pope, of Dorchester, and his 
 second wife Sarah Howe, also of Dorchester. 
 
 Their son, Frederick P., the subject of this 
 sketch, attended the public school in Stough- 
 ton and Brighton. When he was ten years of 
 age he began to work at the shoemaker's trade ; 
 and when he was fifteen years old he went to 
 Brighton to work in a market, where he stayed 
 about four years. He then worked five years 
 in a market in Boston, and when he was about 
 twenty-four years of age he went to New York 
 and started from there for California. At San 
 Antonio, Tex., he joined the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad Surveying Company. The party 
 travelled from San Antonio to El Paso with 
 pack mules, from there to Arizona, thence to 
 Port Umah, to San Diego, and finally to San 
 Francisco. While on their journey they were 
 several times attacked by Indians; and once 
 Mr. Glover shot a grizzly bear, which fur- 
 nished fresh meat for himself and his compan- 
 ions for some time. Mr. Glover remained in 
 California five years engaged in mining, and 
 then he returned to Boston. He came by way 
 of the Isthmus of Panama to New Orleans, 
 where he tarried six months, and thence to 
 Boston by steamer. After staying a short 
 time in the liast, however, he started a second 
 time for California, making the journey by 
 way of Salt Lake City and Carson Valley. In 
 five years he returned to Boston once more, 
 travelling by the way of Denver, St. Joseph, 
 Mo., and Washington, D. C, where he re- 
 mained during the battle of Bull Run. After 
 engaging in his former business in Boston 
 for about fifteen years, in 187S he came to 
 Needham and began farming. 
 
 He is now engaged in bottling and shipping 
 the pure natural spring water from the Bird's
 
 FKKDKKICK T. Cl.OVKK.
 
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 447 
 
 Hill Spring, which is located on high ground, 
 in a section free from building and everything 
 that would be liable to contaminate it. The 
 water comes up through the gravelly bottom of 
 a cemented brick cistern at a temperature of 
 forty-five degrees, and is constantly overflow- 
 ing the cistern. It is believed that the water 
 comes from a great depth, as in the dryest sea- 
 son its flow is not diminished, and its temper- 
 ature remains unchanged. Soft, colorless, 
 and pure, clear as a crystal, and delicious to 
 the taste, it is indorsed and recommended by 
 many eminent physicians. Although this 
 water has been on sale only a short time, its 
 users frequently testify to its efficacy in cases 
 of dyspepsia and other disorders. It is espe- 
 cially desirable for elderly and middle-aged 
 persons, because it has so small a percentage 
 of lime. A report of its analysis by the State 
 Board of Health, showing how free the water 
 is from organic and other harmful matter, is 
 given in the circulars issued by the Bird's 
 Hill Spring Company. 
 
 Mr. Glover is a Democrat in jiolitics. He 
 was chosen Selectman of the town in 1S84, 
 and served five years in that office. He at- 
 tends the First Parish Church. He was mar- 
 ried in 1861 to Emeline, a native of Boston 
 and daughter of Otis Morton, of that city. 
 They had one son, Frederick Morton, who was 
 born in 1862, and died in 1867, when about 
 four and a half years old. Mrs. Glover died 
 at her home October 28, 1897, in her sixty- 
 seventh year, after a short illness resulting 
 from a stroke of paralysis. She was a good 
 wife and mother, and possessed many sterling 
 qualities which endeared her to a large circle 
 of friends. She was reared and educated in 
 the city of her birth, and came to Needham 
 with her parents when about twenty years of 
 age. Mr. and Mrs. Morton resided in Need- 
 ham for many years, and died here, each at an 
 advanced age, the former having been for many 
 years a Deacon in the Universalist church. 
 
 /rr\APTAIN RUFUS GEORGE FRED- 
 I V^ ERICK CANDAGE, a prominent 
 ^'^ and highly influential citizen of 
 Brookline, Mass., was born at Blue 
 Hill, Me., July 28, 1826, son of Samuel 
 
 Roundy and Phebe (Parker) Candage. This 
 surname was originally Cavendish, derived 
 from the Manor of Cavendish Over Hall, Suf- 
 folk, England, and was sometimes written to 
 agree with the pronunciation, Candish. The 
 family has been in America more than two 
 hundred years. In 1660 John Candage was 
 a ship-carpenter and landed projjrietor of 
 Charlestown, Mass. ; and this surname appears 
 later in the records of the towns of Marble- 
 head, Salem, and Lynn. At Marblehead, in 
 1 69 1, Thomas Candage was engaged in the 
 fishery business. 
 
 Captain Candage's great-grandfather, James 
 Candage, was born in Massachusetts about 
 1728, was married about 1750, and went from 
 Beverly, Mass., in 1766 to Blue Hill, Me., 
 which had been settled three years earlier by 
 Joseph Wood and John Roundy. James Can- 
 dage was a man of enterprise, a typical pioneer, 
 and soon became prominent in the infant set- 
 tlement. He erected a saw-mill, and engaged 
 in lumbering, and also carried on farming. 
 He died at Blue Hill, Me., April 29, 1788. 
 His wife, Elizabeth, died on December 20, 
 1809, having been the mother of three sons 
 and three daughters. 
 
 James Candage, Jr., who was born May 9, 
 1753, and died at Blue Hill, January 12, 
 1S19, followed the occupations in which his 
 father had engaged. His wife was Hannah, 
 the daughter of John Roundy, above men- 
 tioned. Their children were: Elizabeth, born 
 September 16, 1775; Gideon, born March 17, 
 1778, who died October 26, 1782; Samuel 
 Roundy, born January 15, 1781, who died 
 December 23, 1852; Gideon, born August 18, 
 1783; Sarah, born January 4, 17S6; James, 
 bor!i April 30, 178S, who died August i, 
 1798; Azor, born April 8, 1791; and John, 
 born December 21, 1793, vvho died December 
 30, 1798. Mrs. Hannah R. Candage died 
 March 12, 1851, at the advanced age of 
 ninety-eight years. 
 
 Samuel Roundy Candage, the second son, 
 was of a frank and generous character and a 
 man greatly respected by all his associates. 
 In early life he was a seaman, but he subse- 
 quently settled at Blue Hill and engaged in 
 milling and farming. His wife Phebe, to 
 whom he was married February 29, 1S16, was
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 the widow of William Walker. She was a 
 daughter of Simeon and Mary (Perkins) 
 Parker, and grand-daughter of the Hon. Oliver 
 Parker, of Castine, Me., who was Judge of the 
 Court of Common Pleas from 1800 to 181 5. 
 The following is the record of children of 
 Samuel Roundy and Phebe Candage: Simeon 
 Parker, born November 21, 1816, died Decem- 
 ber 31, 1842, lost at sea; John Walker, born 
 March 15, 1818, died April 20, 1822; James 
 Roundy, born April 8, 1819, died at Fortune 
 Island, one of the Jiahamas, November 14, 
 1856; Samuel Barker Brooks, born January 
 25, 1821, died September i, 1826; Robert 
 Parker, born October 26, 1822, died January 
 30, 187S; Dorothy Perkins, born P^ebruary 
 16, 1825, died August 28, 1826; Rufus 
 George P^rederick, born July 28, 1826; Sam- 
 uel P"ranklin, born January 21, 1828, died 
 May 7, 1863, at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands; 
 John Brooks, born June 24, 1829, died July 
 23, 1870, in Australia; Mary Perkins, born 
 August 12, 1831, died September 4, 1831 ; 
 Hannah Roundy, born August 12, 1831, died 
 September 4, 1831 ; and Charles Edward, born 
 April 20, 1833, died April 14, 1862, at Hono- 
 lulu, Sandwich Islands. The father died on 
 December 23, 1852, and the mother on Octo- 
 ber 2, 1850. Seven of the sons became com- 
 manders of vessels in the merchant service. 
 
 Rufus G. F. , the si.xth son, attended school 
 regularly until twelve years of age, when he 
 began to work in his father's saw-mill ; and for 
 the next five years he had to content himself 
 with attending the winter terms of three 
 months each. He subsequently pursued his 
 studies at Blue Hill Academy for two terms; 
 and at the age of eighteen years, influenced by 
 the example of his brothers, he became a 
 sailor, going first on coasting-vessels running 
 between Boston and points on the Maine 
 coast, and in time making longer voyages and 
 touching the more important ports on the At- 
 lantic seaboard. At the age of twenty-four he 
 had become captain; and his first voyage in 
 this position was from Blue Hill to Boston, 
 carrying a cargo of paving-blocks. Business 
 men of his native town built for him the 
 "I-lquator, " and he subsequently sailed in 
 much larger vessels, including the sloops 
 "Fame," "Pink," "Credit"; schooners 
 
 "Passamaquoddy, " "Edward," "Zodiac," 
 and "Zulette"; half-brigs "Cura9oa," 
 "Delhi," "Zavalla, " and "liquator"; square- 
 rigged brig "Pioneer"; bark "Chesapeake"; 
 ships "Kentucky," "Java," "Iowa," 
 "Hoogly," "Wizard," "Jamestown," "Elec- 
 tric Spark," and "National Eagle." He 
 has made three voyages round the world, has 
 doubled Cape Plorn thirteen times, eight times 
 toward the West and five times toward the 
 East, and has sailed over more than five hun- 
 dred thousand miles. He has visited ports in 
 North and South America and in the West 
 Indies, the Mediterranean, in India, China, 
 and Oceanica, and on the western coast of 
 Europe. The last voyage of Captain Candage 
 was in the "National Eagle," of which he was 
 part owner; and in May, 1867, when she 
 made her home port of Boston, he retired from 
 seafaring life and settled in Brookline as his 
 permanent residence. In January of the fol- 
 lowing year he was appointed Marine Surveyor 
 by the American Ship Masters' Association of 
 New York for the record of American and for- 
 eign shipping, and in the same year was ap- 
 pointed surveyor for the Boston Board of 
 Underwriters. In 1882 he was appointed 
 surveyor for the Bureau Veritas of Paris, 
 France. 
 
 Captain Candage was married on May i, 
 1853, to Elizabeth Augusta, daughter of 
 Elijah, Jr., and Mary R. Corey, of Brookline. 
 She died on November 18, 1871 ; and on May 
 22, 1873, Captain Candage married Ella 
 Maria, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Hall) 
 White, of Weymouth. By the latter marriage 
 there were five children; namely, George 
 Frederick, Ella Augusta, Phoebe Theresa, 
 Robert Brooks, and Sarah Caroline Candage. 
 
 In 1 86 1, when the Ship Masters' Associa- 
 tion of New York was formed, Captain Can- 
 dage was elected its thirteenth member; and in 
 1867 he was elected member of the Boston 
 Marine Society. He has been president of 
 the last-named society and a member of its 
 Board of Trustees for some years. He is also 
 a member of the New York Marine Society, of 
 the New England Historic Genealogical So- 
 ciety, of the Bostonian Society, Sons of the 
 American Revolution, Bunker Hill Monument 
 Association, the Pine Tree State Club (an ex-
 
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 449 
 
 president), the Brookline Thursday Club, Nor- 
 folk Club, Massachusetts Republican Club, 
 and the Baptist Social Uni(jn. He is a 
 Mason, being a member and Past Master of 
 Beth-horen Lodge; and he is a member and 
 first Regent of Sagamore Council, Royal Ar- 
 canum. He has served the town of Brookline 
 in many positions, having been a member of 
 the School Board for five years, a Trustee of 
 the Public Library since 1871 and many years 
 treasurer of the Board, Selectman from 18S0 
 to 1883, and a member of the Board of Asses- 
 sors since 1883, as well as Moderator of the 
 town meetings many times. He has also been 
 Representative to General Court. In 1881 he 
 was elected treasurer of the Seamen's Baptist 
 Bethel and president of the Boston Terra 
 Cotta Comjjany, holding the last position until 
 1896, when the business was closed. He is 
 still president of the Boston F"ire Brick and 
 Clay Retort Company, having been connected 
 with it since 1883, and is vice-president of the 
 Industrial Home on Davis Street. The Cap- 
 tain is a man of wide observation and exceed- 
 ingly well-read, having collected a large and 
 valuable private library. Always keenly in- 
 terested in historical subjects, and especially 
 in the early history of Boston and vicinity, he 
 has written many interesting and valuable 
 papers which have been read before the various 
 societies of which he is a member, and not a 
 few of which have been published in historical 
 magazines. He is corresponding member of 
 the Maine Historical Society and honorary 
 member of the Dedham Historical Society. 
 He has a beautiful home in Brookline, but 
 usually spends his summers on the Maine 
 coast. 
 
 jLARKE STORER GOULD, M.D., 
 a successful physician of Norwood, was 
 born in South Boston, Mass., Au- 
 gust 2, 1864, son of Dr. Joseph F. 
 and Lydia R. (Lawrence) Gould. He is a 
 lineal descendant of William Gould, an Eng- 
 lishman, who arrived in America at an early 
 date in the Colonial period ; and he is a grand- 
 son of Squire John Gould, of North Leeds, 
 Me., a prominent resident and for some years 
 a Trial Justice in that town. 
 
 Joseph F. Gould was a native of North 
 Leeds, Me., but was reared in Milton. At an 
 early age he conceived a desire to become a 
 physician, and after struggling courageously 
 to procure a medical education he was gradu- 
 ated from the medical de]jartmcnt of Harvard 
 University. He practised his profession in 
 South Boston until the breaking out of the 
 Civil War, when he was appointed Surgeon of 
 the Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts V(jlun- 
 teers, and in that capacity served with distinc- 
 tion until his discharge. Resuming his prac- 
 tice in South Boston, he acquired a high repu- 
 tation as a physician and obstetrician; and 
 resided there until his death, which occurred 
 in 1887. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Lydia R. Lawrence, is a daughter of Nathan 
 and Elizabeth (Millet) Lawrence. She is a 
 direct descendant of John Lawrence, who was 
 born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1636, and was 
 the first native American of the Lawrence 
 family. John was a son of John Lawrence, 
 Sr. , of Wisset, England, who arrived on board 
 the "Arabella" in 1630; and the family 
 traces its ancestry back to Sir Robert Law- 
 rence, of Ashton Hall, who was born in 1150. 
 Four children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Jo- 
 seph F. Gould, as follows: Lawrence M., 
 M.D., a physician of Hyde Park, Mass.; 
 Junius B., of South Boston; Ruth; and Clarke 
 S. , the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Clarke Storer Gould was educated in the 
 common and high schools of Boston ; and while 
 pursuing his general studies he availed himself 
 of every opportunity for acquiring a knowledge 
 of anatomy and physiology, with a view of pre- 
 paring himself for the medical profession. 
 The unexpected death in 1885, of his father 
 who had so earnestly shared and aided his 
 plans, threw him somewhat upon his own re- 
 sources. He possessed the courage and per- 
 sistence to overcome the difficulties which now 
 confronted him, and finished his two remaining 
 years at the Medical School. After his grad- 
 uation from the Harvard Medical School in 
 18S7, he practised about a year in South Bos- 
 ton and the same time in Maynard. In 1889 
 he located in Norwood, where he has since re- 
 sided. By closely applying himself to his 
 jirofession, which absorbs his entire interest, 
 he has built up a large practice in this local-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ity, and has already acquired an honorable 
 rank among the successful physicians of Nor- 
 folk County. He is a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts State and District Medical Societies, 
 and is also a member of the American Medical 
 Association. He is connected with Orient 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. ; the Ancient Order of 
 LInited Workmen; and the Royal Arcanum, 
 having been the first Regent of Hook Council, 
 and being Medical Examiner of the order in 
 this town. He is the local surgeon for the 
 New England Railway and a member of the 
 International Association of Railway .Sur- 
 geons. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Dr. Gould married Amanda Evelyn Vroom, 
 daughter of William V. Vroom, of Clements- 
 port, N. S. , and has two children — Joseph F. 
 and Hilda P. The family attend the Univer- 
 sal ist church. 
 
 /^Tc 
 
 EORGE FENELON WILLIAMS, 
 \ |i I of Fo.xboro, Mass., recently elected 
 Re|jresentative to the State legisla- 
 ture from the Tenth Norfolk District, was 
 born in Foxboro, in the house in which he 
 now resides, April 28, 1856, being the only 
 son of Francis D. and Lydia (Copeland) Will- 
 iams. On the paternal side he is lineally de- 
 scended from Richard Williams, the first set- 
 tler of what is now Taunton, Mass. ; and 
 through his mother he is a direct descendant, 
 in the seventh generation, of John and I'ris- 
 cilla Alden, of the Plymouth Colony. 
 
 Mr. Williams received his elementary edu- 
 cation in the schools of Foxboro, and was sub- 
 sequently graduated with high honors, after a 
 four years' course, at the Chauncy Hall 
 School, Boston, where, besides gaining dis- 
 tinction in his class studies, he received a gold 
 medal for having been the best drilled private 
 in the battalion for two years in succession. 
 In 1875 he entered the employ of his father, 
 who, besides the large coal and express busi- 
 ness that he conducted, was also at that time 
 station master. Here it fell to his lot to per- 
 form the multifarious duties of ticket agent, 
 express agent, baggage-master, telegraph oper- 
 ator, and station agent, besides attending in 
 large measure to the business in coal, hay, 
 lime, cement, and teaming, all of which he ac- 
 
 complished in a manner that left no doubt of 
 his energy, endurance, and rare business ca- 
 pacity, and proved him also to be possessed of 
 an exhaustless stock of patience and good 
 humor under trying circumstances, accom- 
 panied by a never-failing courtesy. When he 
 resigned the position two or three years ago, 
 he received the highest commendations from 
 the railroad officials for the efficiency of his 
 service. 
 
 It was while occupied as above narrated that 
 Mr. Williams's fellow-townsmen, recognizing 
 in him a man worthy of their fullest confi- 
 dence, chose him to fill the important and re- 
 sponsible position of Town Treasurer. Dur- 
 ing his incumbency of this office he introduced 
 a simpler, clearer, and more comprehensive 
 system of book-keeping, by which also the 
 town was credited for the first time with in- 
 terest on its deposited balances, and which has 
 since been continued. Mr. Williams was ap- 
 pointed February 21, 1895, by the late Gov- 
 ernor Greenhalge, Notary Public and Justice 
 of the Peace, and still holds the positions. 
 He was one of the most indefatigable workers 
 for the introduction of conducted water, and 
 was made clerk of the Foxboro Water Supply 
 District, in which office" he served continu- 
 ously until 1896. In the report of the Water 
 Commissioners, 1878-93, he is spoken of as 
 follows: "G. F. Williams has performed the 
 duties of his office since the first meeting in 
 1879 ^'^ l^he present time, and acted as clerk 
 for the commissioners and as corresponding 
 secretary. He has kept neat and accurate rec- 
 ords, and has, in short, not only faithfully and 
 ably performed all the duties of his office, but 
 many others that have been demanded of him, 
 all in a most commendable manner. He de- 
 clines to receive any pay for his services." 
 He filled the position of chairman of the 
 Board of Trustees of Boyden Library for 
 twelve years, and long served as a member of 
 the Town Committee, usually acting as clerk. 
 He has been a trustee of the Foxboro Savings 
 Bank since 1888 and a vice-president since 
 1894. 
 
 At the Republican convention, which was 
 held in Music Hall, Franklin, on Monday, 
 October 11, 1897, Mr. Williams was nomi- 
 nated as Representative to the General Court
 
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 from the Tenth Norfolk District, the nomina- 
 tion hcing practically unanimous, he receiving 
 the total number of votes in the convention ex- 
 cept that of Mr. E. J. Whitaker, who, being 
 himself a candidate, waived his right to vote. 
 This district, which comprises the towns of 
 I'Vanklin, Foxboro, Medway, Norfolk, Wren- 
 tham, and Bellingham, is entitled to two 
 Representatives; and Mr. Elbridge J. Whit- 
 aker, of Wrentham, was chosen on the ticket 
 with Mr. Williams, who was subsequently 
 elected by an overwhelming majority. Mr. 
 Williams has long been deeply interested in 
 everything pertaining to the welfare of his 
 town and district; and to the duties of his new 
 position he brings an intelligent and well- 
 trained mind and an honesty of purpose that 
 cannot but redound to the credit and benefit of 
 his constituency, his native town, and his 
 party. 
 
 ENRY S. RUSSELL, of Milton, 
 Fire Commissioner of the city of 
 Boston, is a native of Dorchester, 
 Mass. He was born June 21, 
 1838, son of George Robert and Sarah P. 
 (Shaw) Russell. 
 
 Among the early New England colonists 
 were several bearing this well-known English 
 surname. In common with the Russells of 
 Newport and Providence, R.I., Colonel Rus- 
 sell is descended from John Russell, of 
 Charlestown, 1640, who became one of the 
 first settlers of the new town of Woburn. In 
 Bartlett's Genealogy of this branch of the 
 family his lineage may be traced as follows: 
 John, ' who died in Woburn, Mass., in 1676; 
 John, ^ who was ordained to the charge of the 
 First Baptist Church in Boston in 1679, and 
 died in 1680; Joseph, ^ who died in Boston in 
 1714; Thomas, ■• born in Boston in 1705, who 
 died in 1760, and whose remains, it is said, 
 rest with those of his father, mother, and 
 grandfather, in King's Chapel burial-ground; 
 Jonathan,' who for a number of years was a 
 prosperous merchant of Providence, R. I., but, 
 some time after the breaking out of the 
 Revolutionary War, removed to Mendon, 
 Mass., where he died in 1788; Jonathan,'' 
 born in Providence, R.I., 1771, who was 
 
 graduated at Brown University in 1791, and 
 died in 1832; George Robert,' born in Provi- 
 dence, 1800, who died in 1866; Henry .Stur- 
 
 Jonathan Russell, Sr., is spoken of as hav- 
 ing been Captain of a company of militia 
 known as the Providence Cadets, which at 
 some time or times during the Revolution 
 "was called into active service." His son, 
 the Hon. Jonathan Russell, LL.D., was edu- 
 cated for the law. Turning his attention for 
 a while to commerce, at a later period he was 
 for a number of years engaged in the diplo- 
 matic service, being Consul to France in the 
 time of Napoleon, one of the five commis- 
 sioners who in 1 8 14 negotiated the Treaty 
 of Ghent, and subsequently United States 
 Minister to Sweden and Norway. He was a 
 member of Congress, 1821-23. 
 
 George Robert Russell, son of the Hon. 
 Jonathan Russell by his first wife, Sarah 
 Ammidon, was graduated at Brown University 
 in 1821, founding the commercial house of 
 Russell & Sturgis, and engaged in trade with 
 China and Manila. His wife was a daughter 
 of the eminent Boston merchant, Robert 
 Gould Shaw, first, and a sister of Francis 
 George Shaw, the father of Colonel Robert G. 
 Shaw, of the P'ifty-fourth Massachusetts, to 
 whose honored memory the beautiful St. 
 Gaudens monument, which fronts the State 
 House, was dedicated in May, 1897. 
 
 The following paragraph from Mr. Froth- 
 ingham's "Life of Theodore Parker" is inter- 
 esting reading in this connection : "Of special 
 value was the society he found at West Rox- 
 bury, a small but choice circle of elegant, 
 graceful, cultivated people, accomplished in 
 the arts of life, of open hearts and, better 
 still, of humane instincts, who lived in such 
 near neighborhood that a path from Mr. 
 Parker's gate led directly to their gardens and 
 welcoming doors. The fine grounds of Mr. 
 George R. Russell lay adjacent to his own 
 modest domain; and adjoining those, again, 
 was the estate of Mr. Francis G. Shaw. In 
 both families he was at home on the heartiest 
 terms= All there were his friends, faithful, 
 sympathetic." 
 
 The Russells, be it untlerstood, were not 
 Transcendental ists, but were strong anti-
 
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 slavery people. Henry Sturgis Russell, the 
 special subject of this biographical sketch, 
 was the second-born of a family of seven 
 children. His parents removed to West Rox- 
 bury when he was a little child: and there he 
 was reared and educated, fitting for college. 
 He entered Harvard in 1856, and was gradu- 
 ated in the class of i860. In the spring of 
 1 86 1, shortly after the outbreak of the Re- 
 bellion, filled with patriotic enthusiasm, he 
 offered his services for the defence of the 
 Union, and on May i i was appointed First 
 Lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, the first new regiment to be 
 organized in the State for three years' service. 
 Six months later Lieutenant Russell was 
 promoted to the rank of Captain in the same 
 regiment, and he was subsequently commis- 
 sioned Colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts 
 Cavalry. He was in the army nearly four 
 years, in active service most of the time, and 
 was in the Shenandoah Valley and in South- 
 eastern Virginia. While bearing the rank of 
 Captain, he was taken prisoner at the battle 
 of Cedar Mountain, and was incarcerated in 
 Libby Prison for two months; and for gallant 
 conduct at the siege of Petersburg, Va., dur- 
 ing the first day of which he was wounded, he 
 was brevetted Brigadier-general. On receiv- 
 ing his discharge, he returned to Milton. 
 For six years he was in the East India trade, 
 as a member of the firm of J. M. Forbes & 
 Co. He afterward settled on a farm in Mil- 
 ton, and for thirty years was engaged in stock 
 farming. Colonel RusselTs summer home is 
 now in Milton. 
 
 In 1863 he was united in marriage with 
 Mary H. Forbes, daughter of the Hon. John 
 Murray and .Sarah .S. (Hathaway) P'orbes, of 
 Milton, and sister of the late Colonel Will- 
 iam Hathaway Forbes. The Forbes family, 
 like the Shaw family, is of Scottish origin, 
 both being distinguished for patriotism, pub- 
 lic spirit, and philanthropy. Colonel and 
 Mrs. Russell have a promising family of five 
 children. Colonel Russell was Selectman of 
 the town of Milton six years, Assessor seven 
 years. Overseer of the Poor six years, and was 
 on the .School Committee two years. A Re- 
 publican jiolitically, he was a member of Gov- 
 ernor Bullock's personal staff three years. In 
 
 1878 he was appointed chairman of the first 
 police commission organized in Boston, and 
 he presided over that body two years. In Jan- 
 uary, 1895, he was appointed to the Board of 
 Fire Commissioners of the city of Boston, 
 then consisting of three members; and in July 
 following, under the new law, he was made 
 sole Fire Commissioner of the city. 
 
 ■cj^^ARHLL J. WILLIS, cashier of the 
 Blue Hill National Bank of Milton, 
 was born in Dorchester, Mass., on 
 September 11, 1830, son of Solo- 
 mon H. and Mary A. V. (Cripps) Willis. 
 The family is said to be of English extrac- 
 tion. Jedidiah Willis, grandfather of .SareJl 
 J., was a soldier in the War of 18 12, and was 
 for a time stationed at Sackett's Harbor. He 
 was born in Easton, Mass., as was also his son 
 .Solomon, above named. 
 
 Solomon LI. Willis learned his trade of car- 
 penter in Milton of the veteran builder, James 
 Campbell, serving for many years, as was the 
 old-fashioned custom, and mastering every de- 
 tail of the business. He was thorough and 
 precise, and many of the buildings put up by 
 him are still standing in excellent preservation. 
 For several years he was employed at the cus- 
 tom-house in Boston. He resided for some 
 time in Dorchester and subsequently in 
 -Somerville, where he died in his eighty-eighth 
 year. His wife's father, James Cripps, who 
 was of French descent, was in the British 
 Naval Service under Admiral Nelson, and was 
 in the battle of the Nile, at the siege of 
 Naples, the bombardment of Copenhagen, and 
 the battle of Cape St. Vincent, and at Traf- 
 algar, where the gallant Nelson fell, and was 
 on the flag-ship "Victory." He subsequently 
 joined the American navy, and fought on board 
 the "Constitution" in the fight with the 
 "Java," a British frigate that was captured off 
 the coast of Brazil. After leaving the service 
 he settled at Damariscotta, Me., where he pur- 
 chased a small farm. He died there at about 
 seventy-five years of age. His wife was Han- 
 nah Savery, of Marblehead, descendant of an 
 old family. 
 
 .Sarell J. Willis received his education in 
 the public schools of Dorchester. When si.x-
 
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 455 
 
 teen years old lie began to learn the tinsmith's 
 trade with J. P. & C. P. Tolnian, of Dorches- 
 ter, and after serving an apprenticeship of over 
 four years was employed by the Tolmans for a 
 short time as journeyman. In 1856 he en- 
 eatred in business for himself at Dorchester as 
 a worker in tinplate and sheet iron ; but after 
 working steadily for two years his health failed, 
 and he was obliged to retire from business. 
 He subsequently followed his trade in Boston 
 for three years. In 1861 he returned to Dor- 
 chester, and engaged as journeyman with his 
 former employer, J. P. Tolman, who had dis- 
 •solved partnership with his brother and IkuI lo- 
 cated in Harrison Square. Mr. Willis worked 
 there for over four years, covering the war 
 [leriod. In September, 1S65, he formed an 
 engagement with Jarrett & Palmer, proprietors 
 of the Boston Theatre, to go on the stage as an 
 actor. He was in this profession for si.\ sea- 
 sons, playing during the winters in the large 
 cities of New tlngland and in New York, Al- 
 bany, Troy, and elsewhere, and in the summer 
 in tlie J^ritish Provinces, at Halifa.x, St. 
 Johns, and Fredericton, and often serving as 
 prompter and stage manager. In May, 1870, 
 Mr. Willis went to Dorchester Lower Mills 
 and took a position as book-keeper in a lumber 
 business located at Harrison Square, remain- 
 ing there until January, 1876. On March i, 
 1876, he entered the Blue Hill National Bank, 
 then at Dorchester, Mass., as cashier, succeed- 
 ing K. J. Bispham, who had been elected pres- 
 ident. In 1882 the bank was removed to 
 Milton, and incorporated as the Blue Hill Na- 
 tional Bank of Milton. 
 
 Mr. Willis is a Republican in politics, but 
 is somewhat independent in his views. He is 
 a well-known and public-spirited citizen of 
 Milton, interested in town affairs and in all 
 matters of general importance. Many years 
 ago he served as assistant engineer in the Dor- 
 chester Fire Department. 
 
 Mr. Willis married Mary W., daughter of 
 the late E. J. Bispham, former president of 
 the Blue Hill National Bank. The Bispham 
 family is an honored one in this section, and 
 is said to be of English extraction. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Willis have three children, namely, Ben- 
 jamin C. ; Howard B. ; and Mary E., wife of 
 Dr. Homer Emerson, dentist at Milton. Mr. 
 
 Willis is a member of Union Lodge, F. & 
 A. M., at Dorchester, and of Uncattaquisett 
 Tribe of Red Men, No. 53, of Dorchester. 
 
 LBERT SULLINGHAM PAIGE, In- 
 spector of Police in Brookline, Mass., 
 has been connected with this de- 
 partment of the municipal govern- 
 ment for more than two decades, being, with 
 Init one or two e.xceptions, the oldest man in 
 point of service on the force. He was born 
 April 16, 1846, in Wellfleet, Barnstable 
 County, this State, and reckons among his an- 
 cestors three of the prominent early families 
 that settled at Cape Cod — the Hoi brooks, the 
 Lombards, and the Bacons. His paternal 
 grandfather, John Barnard Paige, spent a life- 
 time of si.xty-five years in Thorntf)n, N. H., 
 where he was a successful farmer. His wife, 
 whose maiden name was Hannah Sullingham, 
 lived to the age of threescore and ten years, 
 and was the mother of fourteen children, seven 
 of whom are now living. 
 
 John Sullingham Paige, father of Albert S., 
 was born in Thornton, N.H., where he lived 
 until eighteen years of age. Coming then to 
 Boston, he worked in a hotel a number of years, 
 and then engaged in business on his own ac- 
 count, continuing active until his death, which 
 occurred at the comparatively early age of fifty- 
 nine years. He married Hannah Lombard, 
 who was born in Wellfleet, Mass., the daugh- 
 ter of Ephraim and Eliza (Holbrook) Lom- 
 bard. Her grandfather. Captain Josejjh Hol- 
 brook, was one of the early and well-known 
 pilots of that locality, and a prominent man of 
 his times. Mrs. Hannah L. Paige is still liv- 
 ing, a very bright and active woman of seventy- 
 seven years, and makes her home with Albert 
 S. Paige, her only child. Both parents be- 
 came members of the Universalist church in 
 their younger days, and were active workers in 
 that denomination. Mrs. A. S. Paige is an 
 active member of the Baptist church. 
 
 Albert S. Paige spent the greater part of 
 the first twelve years of his life in Boston, and 
 obtained the rudiments of his education in the 
 Phillips School of that city, completing his 
 studies in the public schools of Brookline. 
 He began earning his living as a clerk in a
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 provision store, and was afterward engaged in 
 a wholesale business some years, continuing in 
 the latter until May, 1876, when he was ap- 
 pointed patrolman. A little later he was as- 
 signed to special duty with the rank of ser- 
 geant; and in 1888 he was promoted to the 
 office of inspector with the rank of lieutenant, 
 a position which he has since filled. Besides 
 his work as a detective he has charge of all 
 court cases, having received his appointment 
 as court officer in 1882. He was made a 
 Mason in Beth-Horon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., 
 of Brookline, and is also a member of the 
 Knights of Honor, which, he joined in 1876. 
 
 On September 5, 1870, Mr. Paige married 
 Miss Carrie E. Spencer, who was born in 
 Eastport, Me., being one of the three children 
 of William S. and Mary A. (Low) Spencer. 
 Mr. Spencer conducted the business of a house 
 painter in Eastport for several years, but re- 
 moved from there to Brookline when Mrs. 
 Paige was a young girl, and for many years 
 was employed by B. F. Baker, of whom a brief 
 sketch appears on another page of this volume. 
 
 Mr. Spencer was interested in all matters 
 affecting the welfare of the town, and took part 
 in the movement for the present public library 
 building. Mr. and Mrs. Paige have one child, 
 a son, Walter W. Paige, who is engaged in the 
 real estate business in Boston. 
 
 B 
 
 R. SAMUEL STILLMAN WHIT- 
 NP;Y, for many years prominent in 
 Dedham and the surrounding towns 
 as a leading physician, was born in 
 Mass., son of George and Esther 
 Whitney. George Whitney, also a 
 
 Natick, 
 
 (Morse) 
 
 native of Natick, was a farmer and a large 
 
 landed proprietor. He died at the age of 
 
 seventy years. His wife, who was a daughter 
 
 of one of the leading families, bore him eight 
 
 children, and died at the age of sixty. 
 
 Samuel Stillman Whitney passed his boy- 
 hood in Natick. His general education was 
 received in the common schools of the town, 
 at Leicester Academy, and at Amherst Col- 
 lege. He had been in college two years when 
 his health gave way. After a rest he began 
 the study of medicine, reading first with Mrs. 
 Whitney's father in South Natick and later 
 
 with Dr. John Fisher, of Boston. He then 
 matriculated at the Harvard Medical School. 
 After duly graduating from that institution, 
 he began the practice of his profession at 
 Newton Upper Falls, where he remained for 
 six years. He then spent a year in Europe 
 studying and perfecting himself in medical 
 knowledge, and acquiring practical experience 
 in French and German hospitals. 
 
 Solicited by many of the best people to set- 
 tle for practice in Dedham, he came here in 
 1844. He was one of the most successful phy- 
 sicians in this section of the State, and gained 
 a widespread reputation for skill and ability. 
 His practice covered a wide area and absorbed 
 his whole time. He owned five horses, and 
 was kept constantly active. His death at the 
 age of forty, undoubtedly hastened by his de- 
 votion to his profession, was deeply lamented 
 by a large circle of friends. His rare quali- 
 ties of mind and heart made him the most 
 charming comrade at all times, and in do- 
 mestic life an ideal character. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Spaulding Whitney was not only 
 the wife but th& daughter of a physician. 
 Born in Littleton, January 6, 1816, she comes 
 of a family that was among the earliest to set- 
 tle in Chelmsford. Her father. Dr. Spauld- 
 ing, was born there, and was graduated from 
 the Boston Medical School. He practised in 
 Littleton and later in South Natick, where he 
 spent the last part of his life, dying at the age 
 of seventy-six. Mrs. Whitney's mother, Sally 
 Whitney, was a daughter of Dr. Timothy 
 Harrington, a practising physician of Chelms- 
 ford for many years. She was one of two chil- 
 dren, and had only one child of her own, Mrs. 
 Whitney. Mrs. Whitney was educated in the 
 schools of Littleton and Natick, and in a pri- 
 vate finishing school at Cambridge. She 
 afterward taught school in Cambridge and in 
 South Natick for two years previous to her 
 marriage, which took place in 1839. She re- 
 moved with her husband to Dedham, and has 
 since resided here. Dr. and Mrs. Whitney 
 lost two children — one who died in infanc}'; 
 and Stillman Spaulding, who grew to matu- 
 rity. The latter was educated in the common 
 and high schools, and later graduated from the 
 Boston Homoeopathic School of Medicine. 
 He settled for practice in Allston, where he
 
 CHARLES H. WHU'I'LE.
 
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 459 
 
 remained, worthily representing iiis jHofession 
 until his ileath at the age of thirty-six years. 
 Dr. Samuel .S. Whitney, the father, was a Re- 
 publican in politics. He was a devout and 
 consistent member of the Orthodox church. 
 To keep in touch with the times, little as his 
 leisure was, he was a constant student. He 
 also wrote a number of valuable papers, some 
 of which were widely copied in the English 
 medical journals, and were read before socie- 
 ties of jihysicians and surgeons. 
 
 LLEN C. BATES, proprietor of the 
 stove and tinware business formerly 
 carried on in Cohasset by his 
 father, was born in Boston, Septem- 
 ber 4, 1844, son of Samuel and Sarah (Col- 
 lier) Bates. His parents were natives of Co- 
 hasset, as was also his grandfather, Samuel 
 Bates (first), who was a prosperous merchant. 
 Samuel Bates (second) established the stove 
 business here in 1844, and continued it until 
 his death, which occurred in 1SS8. Natu- 
 rally modest and unassuming, he preferred to 
 devote his entire time to his business, and as 
 a result he enjoyed an ample degree of pros- 
 perity. Politically, he supported the Repub- 
 lican party, and in his religious views he was 
 a Unitarian. Of his children four survive; 
 namely, Samuel P., Allen C, Elizabeth C, 
 and George C. Elizabeth C. is a resident of 
 this town, and George C. resides in Boston. 
 The Bates and Collier families are both of 
 Colonial ancestry, and have long been identi- 
 fied with Cohasset and the vicinity. 
 
 Allen C. Bates grew to manhood in this 
 town, and was educated in the common and 
 high schools. At the age of sixteen he began 
 to learn the tinsmith's trade, and he continued 
 in his father's employ until succeeding to the 
 business in 1888. He has since added plumb- 
 ing to his other business, and also carries a 
 large stock of stoves, furnaces, tin and hard- 
 ware, kitchen furnishings, glassware, and 
 other household recjuisites. He is also Sealer 
 of Weights and Measures. He is a member of 
 Konohasset Lodge, F. & A. M.; and Nan- 
 tasket Lodge, Knights of Honor. In politics 
 he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. 15ates marrieil Emily L. , daughter of 
 
 the late Paul Bates, of Cohas.set, and has three 
 children living — Paul J. and Samuel C. 
 (twins), and Henry B. The first-born child, 
 an infant named Allen C, died in 1871. 
 
 HARLES U. WHIPPLE, one of the 
 successful farmers of ]3ellingham, was 
 born here, September 8, 1845, son 
 of James R. and Caroline C. 
 (Cooper) Whipple. His father, a stone- 
 cutter by trade, and in later years a farmer, is 
 now eighty-four years of, age, and resides on a 
 farm in Cumberland, where he has lived all 
 his life. The mother, who was a native of 
 Rehoboth, Mass., died in 1879. James R. 
 Whipple subsecpiently contracted a second 
 marriage with Catherine Gallagher, a native 
 of Ireland. His children, all by his first 
 wife, were: Marcus E., now residing in Cum- 
 berland; Artcmus L., a farmer of Cum- 
 berland; Augustus, who died in infancy; 
 and Charles H., the subject of this sketch. 
 There were no children by his second mar- 
 riage. 
 
 Charles H. Whipple received a common- 
 school education. At the age of fifteen, when 
 the Southern Rebellion broke out, he ran away 
 from home, and enlisted in Company I, 
 Fourth Rhode Island Regiment, under Colo- 
 nel J. I. McCarty and Captains Lapham and 
 Morse. With his regiment he fought at Roa- 
 noke Island and Newbern ; participated in the 
 siege and capture of Fort Macon ; was at 
 Blackwater and the capture of Fort Hill; and 
 fought at White House Landing, South Moun- 
 tain, Antietam, P'redericksburg, second Bull 
 Run, and the battle of the Wilderness. After 
 the last-named battle he was with the Army 
 of the Potomac at Petersburg. In the battle 
 of Antietam Mr. Whipple received a ball in 
 the thigh. At the battle of P"redericksburg 
 he was wounded by a shell fragment, which 
 struck him on the head, disabling him for five 
 weeks, without forcing him into the hospital. 
 After his discharge in Providence, R.I., in 
 October, 1864, he re-enlisted in the Second 
 United States Veteran Volunteers, Company G, 
 and was finally discharged on March 7, 1866. 
 After a short stay at home he went to Woon- 
 socket, and was engaged in teaming there for
 
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 about eight years. In 1877 he removed to 
 Blackstone, Worcester County, where he spent 
 seven years employed in driving a butcher's 
 wagon through the country. In 1884 he re- 
 moved to his present place of residence at 
 Bellingham, continuing to deal in meats for 
 about two years, afterward devoting his entire 
 time to farming and teaming. 
 
 In September, 1869, during his residence in 
 VVoonsocket, Mr. Whipple married Miss 
 Carrie J. Lapham, who was born in 1849, 
 daughter of Lawton and Laura (Darling) 
 Lapham. Her father vi'as a machinist by 
 trade. She died December 28, 1875, leaving 
 two children: Rupert L., who married Nellie 
 Webster, resides in Providence, and is a fire- 
 man on the railroad; and Ethel, who lives at 
 home with her father. Mr. Whipple married 
 again on September i, 1880, Miss Julia M. 
 Toomey, of Jefferson County, New York, who 
 was born June 25, 1859, daughter of Thomas 
 and Anna M. (Gilson) Toomey. Her father 
 was a shoemaker of Woonsocket. The present 
 Mrs. Whipple has had seven children — 
 Carrie L., Bertha M., Clara, Mabel, Charles, 
 Frederick, and Hazel. Clara and Hazel are 
 dead. The others reside at home. 
 
 Mr. Whipple now owns one hundred and 
 thirty acres of land, which he has improved 
 with new buildings, etc. He is one of the 
 most enterprising farmers in the vicinity, in 
 addition to his general farming carrying on a 
 large dairy business and dealing largely in 
 poultry. He runs a cart daily to Woonsocket, 
 and has an extended milk route. He is an In- 
 dependent in politics. A member of the Ma- 
 sonic order, he belongs to Blackstone River 
 Lodge, No. 4, of Blackstone, Mass. ; to the 
 Knights Templar Commandery of Woon- 
 socket; and to the Royal Arch Chapter, 
 No. 5. 
 
 /TAOLONEL A. C. DRINKWATER, 
 I V-^ a well-known leather manufacturer of 
 
 V ^ ^ Braintree, is a native of Topsham, 
 Me. Born in July, 1846, son of 
 Joseph S. and Mary E. (Alexander) Drink- 
 water, both natives of Maine, his paternal 
 great-grandfather was a naval officer in the 
 war of the Revolution, while his maternal 
 
 grandfather took an active part in the War of 
 1812, and was at the battle of Plattsburg. 
 The father manufactured leather, owning a 
 tannery at Brunswick, Me., and was promi- 
 nent and active in the politics of his county. 
 
 After attending the high school of Topsham 
 for a time, A. C. Drinkwater finished his 
 early education at the Edward Little Institute 
 in Auburn, Me. In 1863 he enlisted for ser- 
 vice in the Civil War in Company K of the 
 First District of Columbia Cavalry, which in 
 1864 was added to the First Maine Cavalry. 
 He afterward fought in the Wilson raid, took 
 part in the action before Richmond and Peters- 
 burg, and assisted in the capture of the 
 Weldon Road. Taken prisoner by the enemy 
 at the last-named place in November, 1864, 
 he was subsequently confined in Libby Prison 
 until March, 1865, when he was duly ex- 
 changed. Shortly after he joined his regi- 
 ment at Annapolis, and was present at the 
 surrender of Lee at Appomattox. He was 
 mustered out of service July 6, 1865, and re- 
 ceived his honorable discharge. After spend- 
 ing some time in his native State, he came to 
 Braintree in 1868, and established the busi- 
 ness which he has since prosperously carried 
 on in this town. His tannery is located on 
 the Monatiquot River, which is well adapted 
 for tanning purposes. Having learned the 
 business in his father's factory, he thoroughly 
 understands every branch of the industry. He 
 tans fine sole leather after the method known 
 as the "Drinkwater process." 
 
 Colonel Drinkwater married Susie H. 
 Brocklebank, of Bridgton, Me., and has four 
 children now living. These are: Milard P\, 
 Horace R., Elsie E., and Helen V. Since 
 1867 he has been identified with the Masonic 
 order. He was a delegate to the State Demo- 
 cratic Convention for twenty consecutive 
 years, and during that time he served as 
 treasurer and chairman of the State Commit- 
 tee. In the years 1880 and 1884 he was dele- 
 gate to the National Democratic Convention, 
 and in 1883 he served as Aide-de-camp, with 
 the rank of Colonel, on the staff of General 
 Butler, then the Governor of Massachusetts. 
 He has served on various committees of the 
 town of Braintree, is a Water Commissioner, a 
 member of the School Committee, and a mem-
 
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 ber at large of the Democratic State Central 
 Committee. 
 
 ILLIAM OUINCY FISHER, wlio 
 was a carpenter by trade and a 
 tarmer in Medfield for many years, 
 was born here, July 27, 1809, son of Quincy 
 and Ame (A-llen) Fisher, both of whom were 
 descendants of old families here. Quincy 
 Fisher, son of John, was a man of much me- 
 chanical ability, whose principal occupation 
 was that of carpenter. He died in Medfield in 
 1824, aged forty-eight years. His wife died 
 in 1870. They were the parents of eight chil- 
 dren, namely: Ame, born in 1802, who died 
 in the same year; William, born in 1803, 
 died in 1806; and Ame (the second of the 
 name), born in 1807, died in the same year; 
 William Quincy, the subject of this sketch; 
 Ame A., born in 181 1, who married John 
 Ellis, and died in i860; Miriam, born in 
 1814, who died in 181 5; Miriam (second), 
 born in 18 17, who married Henry P. Bruce, 
 and died in 1895; and John, born in 1820, 
 who died in 1820. 
 
 After receiving a district schooling, Will- 
 iam Quincy Fisher began learning the carpen- 
 ter's trade. Subsequently he worked with his 
 father until the latter's death. Then he took 
 charge of the old farm, and carried it on for 
 the rest of his life. He died here, October 
 15, 1886, in his seventy-eighth year. His 
 was a well-spent life, and he was highly re- 
 spected by all with whom he came in contact. 
 He took much interest in politics, supported 
 the Democratic party, and cast his first Presi- 
 dential vote for Andrew Jackson in 1832. 
 He served the town in the capacity of Select- 
 man for a number of years. 
 
 On February 4, 1841, Mr. Fisher married 
 Miss Mary L. Harding. She was born in 
 Medfield, June 7, 1817, daughter of Oliver 
 and Sarah (F"rench) Harding, who were na- 
 tives respectively of Medfield and Dedham. 
 Her father, whose chief occupation was 
 marketing, died in 1822, at the age of forty- 
 six. The mother died in 1877, aged ninety- 
 six years. They had five other children, 
 namely: Nathan, born in 1809, a brush manu- 
 facturer, who married Mary Harmstead, and 
 
 died in 1895; Henry, born in 181 i, who mar- 
 ried Mary Russell, and died in 1881; Sarah, 
 born in 18 12, who became the wife of Will- 
 iam Forbes, and died November 2, 1896; Jo- 
 seph, born in 18 14, who married Ellen Hast- 
 ings, and is now deceased; and Hannah, born 
 in 1820, who married Amos W. Shumway, of 
 Dover, and now lives in South Natick. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Fisher had two daughters: Mary E., 
 born December 24, 1841, who has always re- 
 sided in Medfield; and Sarah H., born Sep- 
 tember 26, 1843, who married George W. 
 Bruce in 1876. They all live with Mrs. 
 Fisher. Three great-grandfathers of these 
 ladies fought in the Revolutionary War. 
 Miss Mary E. P^isher is a member of the Med- 
 field Historical Society, in which she takes 
 great interest. Mrs. F'isher attends the Uni- 
 tarian church of Medfield, to which her hus- 
 band used to accompany her before his 
 decease. 
 
 EV. CHARLES EDWARD BEALS, 
 pastor of the Congregational Church 
 of Stoneham, Middlesex County, 
 Mass., is a native of Stoughton, 
 Norfolk County, where his great-grandfather 
 Beals settled seventy years ago and more, and 
 where his grandfather, Jedediah Beals, is now 
 living, a venerable octogenarian, born in 1813, 
 he being of the seventh generation of the fam- 
 ily in New England. 
 
 An examination of the historical data rela- 
 tive to the Beal (or Beals) name brings us 
 face to face with one of the oldest families in 
 America, for among the builders of the west- 
 ern republic must be reckoned the Beal pro- 
 genitor and his offspring. 
 
 The early home of the Beals was England. 
 Aside from tradition, which affirms the exist- 
 ence of the name in the days of William the 
 Conqueror, aside from certain facts which 
 seem to indicate that the family name was 
 contemporaneous with, if, indeed, it did not 
 antedate the Norman Conquest, there is an 
 abundance of authentic historic evidence suffi- 
 cient to establish indubitably the high an- 
 tiquity of the family. We find traces of the 
 name in some of the oldest public and official 
 documents e.xtant in England. But it is with
 
 462 
 
 BlOGRArHICAL REVIEW 
 
 the American branch that we are chiefly con- 
 cerned here. 
 
 Two hundred and thirty years ago William 
 Stoughton, afterwards Lieutenant Governor of 
 Massachusetts, and whose name this town now 
 bears, in his famous election sermon of 1668 
 said, "God sifted a whole nation that he might 
 send choice grain into the wilderness." 
 Among the choice spirits of his day, whom 
 the God of nations had called to leave home 
 and native land to battle with the austerities 
 of bleak New England's wilderness, was the 
 venerable John Beal, of Hingham, since 
 famous as the patriarch of an almost innumer- 
 able tribe which has overspread America. 
 
 The fourth town clerk of Hingham, Mass., 
 Daniel Gushing, left on record the following: 
 "A list of the names of such persons as came 
 out of the town of Ilingham and towns adja- 
 cent in the county of Norfolk, in the kingdom 
 of England, into New England, and settled in 
 Hingham in New England . . . 1638. John 
 Beal, shoemaker, with his wife and five sons 
 and three daughters and two servants, came 
 from Old Hingham, and settled at New Hing- 
 ham." (A'rw England Historic Genealog- 
 ical Register, vol. ,xiv. p. 26. See also 
 History of Hingl/ani.) It was on the loth 
 of August, 1638, that the ship "Diligent," of 
 which John Martin was master, arrived at Bos- 
 ton, having on board the above-named persons. 
 
 No doubt John Beal was led to select 
 Hingham as the place for his new home, by 
 the fact that his brother-in-law, the Rev. 
 Peter Hobart, a fearless and devout man, was 
 located there as pastor. Soon after taking up 
 his abode there, John Beal received a grant of 
 land from the town, and on March 13, 1639, 
 took the "freeman's oath'' and was admitted to 
 the freedom of the Massachusetts Colony. In 
 1649 and again in 1659 John Beal represented 
 the town of Hingham in the General Court of 
 the colony, as we may learn from the public 
 records of those early days. 
 
 That this pioneer sire lived to a ripened 
 age may be inferred from the following entry 
 in Judge Samuel Sewall's well-known 
 "Diary": "April i, 1688. Father Beal, of 
 Hingham, dies, cet. 100"; and under the same 
 date David Hobart, son of the Rev. Peter 
 Hobart, writes, "My uncle, John Beal, died 
 
 suddenly." From the above, it would appear 
 that John Beal was born in luigland about 
 1588. As has already been intimated, he 
 married into the Hobart family; for his first 
 wife, who was the mother of his ten children, 
 was Nazareth, the daughter of Edmund and 
 Margaret (Dewey) Hobart. She was born in 
 England about 1600, and died in Hingham, 
 Mass., September 23, 1658. For his second 
 wife John Beal married, March 10, 1659, Mrs. 
 Mary Jacob, widow of Nicholas Jacob. 
 
 The fourth child and eldest son of John and 
 Nazareth (Hobart) Beal was John Beal, Jr., 
 wh(j was born in England about 1627. He 
 married, first, January 6, 1658-g, Elizabeth 
 
 , who died February i, 1659-60. 
 
 He married, secondly, November 14, 1660, 
 Mary Gill, daughter of Thomas and Hannah 
 (Otis) Gill. John Beal, Jr., died September 
 12, 1695, aged sixty-seven years. He was a 
 carpenter by trade. Eight children were born 
 to John Beal, Jr., one only by his first wife. 
 
 Thomas Beal, the youngest son of John and 
 Mary (Gill) Beal, was born in Hingham, 
 March 15, 1671-2. His wife, whom he mar- 
 ried June 13, 1 710, was Jael Remington, 
 daughter of Thomas and Remember (Stowell) 
 Remington. About 1726 Thomas Beal re- 
 moved with his family to Newton, where he 
 died September 14, 175 1. Old-time families 
 were heroic in size. That of Thomas Beal 
 was no exception. An even dozen of children 
 came into his home, nine being born in 
 Hingham. 
 
 Israel Beal, the ninth child and third son of 
 Thomas and Jael (Remington) Beal, was born 
 in Hingham, April 25, 1726. By the removal 
 of his father to Newton in the same year, he 
 became one of the rising young inhabitants of 
 that place. In 1748 he took for his wife 
 Eunice Flagg. It is said that Israel Beal at 
 one time was of Waltham. In 1770 we find 
 that he was a resident of Dorchester, and in 
 1790 the Braintree records narrate the fact of 
 his being "warned. from town." A portion of 
 the town of Braintree was incorporated as the 
 town of Randolph in 1793. Israel Beal thus 
 became a resident of the new town, for his 
 home was in the easterly part of the town, 
 near the Weymouth line, in what is now 
 known as the town of Holbrook. Here he
 
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 463 
 
 toiled as a farmer. Here, too, may be found 
 his gravestone, erected by his great-grandson. 
 Colonel Eleazer Beal, third, of Randolph, 
 bearing the date of 18 10 (though Alden, in 
 his Sketches of Randolph, fixes the time of his 
 death a year later). These were the days that 
 "tried men's souls." Israel Beal and his sons 
 faithfully shared the perils and privations of 
 the Revolutionary patriot's lot; and their hon- 
 orable records may be found in the Massachu- 
 setts archives and in the first volume of 
 "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the 
 Revolutionary War," recently issued by the 
 old Bay State. 
 
 Eleazer Beal, the second son and fourth 
 child of Israel and Eunice (Flagg) Beal, was 
 born in Newton, July 9, 1758. We find in 
 the official documents of Dorchester the in- 
 tention of marriage of Eleazer Beal and 
 Sarah French recorded March 17, 1778. Sarah 
 French was the daughter of Joshua and Esther 
 French. She was born December 14, 1760, 
 and died February 21, 1825. Eleazer Beal 
 died March 28, 1819. During the latter part 
 of his life he lived on Main Street, Ran- 
 dolph, in the Linfield neighborhood. By oc- 
 cupation he was a farmer and shoemaker. A 
 perusal of the official Revolutionary docu- 
 ments previously mentioned reveals the fact 
 that Eleazer Beals was in most active service 
 in the patriot ranks for a long period of time. 
 The sacred number seven represents the num- 
 ber of children of Eleazer and Sarah Beal. 
 Of these one daughter married Isaac Blanch- 
 ard, and they became the ancestors of the well- 
 known Blanchard family of Avon. 
 
 With the children of Eleazer Beal comes 
 the introduction of the name into Stoughton, 
 and, we may also note, the additional letter in 
 the patronymic. Isaac Beals born in Ran- 
 dolph, December 7, 1783, removed to Stough- 
 ton, "and was the first man to introduce the 
 manufacture of boots in that town, which busi- 
 ness he followed a number of years. It is 
 now largely carried on at the present day. At 
 the introduction of the manufacture of boots 
 at Sing Sing State Prison, N.Y. , he was 
 called to take charge of the establishment, 
 and oversee the business. He continued there 
 until ill health compelled him to leave. He 
 served in the War of 1S12" {New England 
 
 Historic Genealogical Register, vol. xiii. p. 
 i8i). He died January 14, 1859. ^^^ was 
 twice married, and a number of the residents 
 of Stoughton are descended from him. 
 
 Jedediah Beals (Eleazer,^ Israel,' Thomas,' 
 John,^ John"), the fifth child and third son of 
 Eleazer and Sarah (French) Beal, first saw the 
 light of day in Randolph, March 17, 1787. 
 He settled, perhaps about 1825, in Stoughton. 
 He married Phebe Wales, daughter of Joshua 
 and Sally (Porter) Wales. Jedediah Beals 
 was a shoemaker. After coming to Stough- 
 ton, he resided first in the "Light-house" 
 neighborhood, then in a house adjoining what 
 is now C. A. Brown's fancy and dry-goods 
 store. Later his home was on Prospect 
 Street. He was a kind-hearted gentleman, 
 attaining the age of ninety-three years and six 
 months, passing away September 17, 1880, at 
 the home of his son, Jedediah Beals, Jr., on 
 Prospect Street, where his declining years 
 had been spent in tranquillity. His wife was 
 born June 21, 1793, and died April 13, 1872. 
 Jedediah Beals was a remarkable old man, and 
 after he was ninety years old delighted in the 
 use of rod and gun, putting the younger Nim- 
 rods and disciples of good Isaac Walton to 
 shame by bringing down rabbits and squirrels 
 with unerring aim and invariably securing 
 the largest strings of fish. In his younger 
 days he "trained" with the militia, and no 
 doubt covered himself with glory at those 
 famous musters of ye olden time. His great- 
 grandchild vividly recalls his fascinating tale 
 of the excitement in 1812. The alarm being 
 given, as the people were assembled in church 
 in Randolph on the quiet Sabbath, that the 
 British were about to land at Hingham, this 
 young militia-man responded with his com- 
 rades to the call of duty. The hasty march to 
 Hingham was marked with tears and dough- 
 nuts, for the women along the route, while 
 feeding the gallant heroes, bemoaned the 
 fact that perhaps they should never behold 
 them again. But most of the troubles antic- 
 ipated in this life never come to us, and it 
 was so in this case; for, after all, the redcoats 
 deemed discretion to be the better part of 
 valor, and prudently sailed away. 
 
 Jedediah Beals, Jr., son of Jedediah and 
 Phebe (Wales) Beals, for many years has been
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL KEVIEW 
 
 a well-known and respected citizen of this 
 town. Born in Randolph, January 26, 18 13, 
 he early learned the trade of shoemaking. 
 The removal of his father to Stoughton 
 brought him hither. By his industry, frugal- 
 ity, and unswerving integrity he gathered to- 
 gether a sum sufficient to establish himself as 
 a manufacturer of boots and shoes. He also 
 entered the dry-goods and grocery business in 
 the store now occupied by Mr. Henry Albert 
 Drake on Pleasant Street. By his excellent 
 business sagacity, his sterling honesty and un- 
 flagging attention to the needs of his cus- 
 tomers he attained a competency, and retired 
 from business about 1865. He built the large 
 house on Prospect Street in which he has 
 made his home for more than thirty years. 
 In 1879 he began the manufacture of knit 
 goods, which business he carried on with suc- 
 cess until recently, when he retired on account 
 of advancing years. He married September 
 16, 1838, Laura Ann Gay, daughter of Jesse 
 and Susan (Howard) Gay. She died June 8, 
 i860. 
 
 Of the seven children born to Jedediah and 
 Laura Ann Beals, but one attained to years of 
 maturity. This was Charles Emery Beals. 
 He was born in Stoughton, I'ebruary 5, 1843. 
 At an early age he became a merchant, enter- 
 ing into partnership with Mr. Henry Albert 
 Drake. He married July 30, 1865, Miss 
 Susan Fisher, daughter of Henry and Mary 
 Tilden (Upham) Fisher. Two children re- 
 sulted from this union. Charles Emery Beals 
 died May 23, 1869. Mrs. Susan Beals, sur- 
 viving her husband, resides in the home of 
 Mr. Jedediah Beals on Prospect Street. 
 
 Susie Laura Beals, daughter of Charles 
 Emery and Susan (Fisher) Beals, was born in 
 Stoughton, September 23, 1866. As a stu- 
 dent in the public schools of her native town, 
 she gave unusual promise, easily leading her 
 classes and commanding alike the admiration 
 of her classmates and the love of her teachers. 
 She was the valedictorian of the class of 1884, 
 Stoughton High School. She also graduated 
 from the Girls' High School of Boston, in 
 which school she likewise pursued a post- 
 graduate course. She married April 20, 1890, 
 William Harvey Clifford, son of Kilborn R. 
 and Arminda (Eames) Clifford, of Stoughton. 
 
 One child was the fruit of this marriage; 
 namely, Charles William Clifford, born in 
 Stoughton, December 22, 1893. After nearly 
 three years of suffering from pulmonary tuber- 
 culosis, from which relief was sought in vain 
 by a Southern trip, she passed away August 
 16, 1897. Hers was a rare, beautiful char- 
 acter, ripened and mellowed by the months of 
 weary agony. During her protracted illness 
 her thoughts were constantly for the welfare of 
 others. Many were the helpful, sympathetic, 
 cheering letters which emanated from her sick- 
 room, and which remain to testify to the depth 
 and genuineness of her Christian character. 
 
 Charles Edward Beals, the younger child of 
 Charles Emery and Susan Beals, was born 
 in Stoughton, July 15, i86g. Educated in 
 the public schools of Stoughton, he graduated 
 from the high school in 1885 as salutatorian. 
 For four years he studied mechanical engineer- 
 ing in the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
 ogy, Boston. He was graduated from Drew 
 Theological Seminary, Madison, N.J., in 
 
 1892, being selected as one of the commence- 
 ment speakers. During the summers of 1889, 
 1S90, and 1891 he supplied the Methodist 
 churches of Washington, R.I., Hingham, 
 Mass., and West Abington, Mass., respec- 
 tively. Entering the New England Southern 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 in April, 1892, he was appointed to the Em- 
 manuel Church, Mansfield, Mass., which pas- 
 torate he filled for four years. During one of 
 these years he also served as pastor of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church in Foxboro. He 
 was ordained Deacon at Plymouth in April, 
 
 1893, and Elder at Brockton in April, 1894, 
 passing the four years' examination in two 
 years. He was secretary of the Providence 
 District Ministerial Association for two years. 
 He was first vice-president of the Providence 
 District Epworth League for one year and 
 president of the same association for one year. 
 He was appointed pastor of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church of Phenix, R.I., in April, 
 1896. In July of the same year he resigned 
 from the ministry and membership of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church on account of 
 dissatisfaction with its polity. He at once 
 accepted the pastorate of the Maverick Church 
 Chapel, East Boston, becoming assistant to
 
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 467 
 
 the Rev. Smith Baker, D.D., of the Maverick 
 Congregational Church of that city. In July, 
 1897, receiving a unanimou.s call from the 
 Congregational Church of Stoneham, Mass., 
 he accepted, assuming the pastorate August i, 
 and being formally installed by an ecclesiasti- 
 cal council, September 16, 1897. 
 
 Mr. Beals is a member of the New England 
 Historic-Genealogical Society and of the 
 Stoughton Historical Society. He married 
 June 30, 1892, Miss Nellie Vernon Drake, 
 daughter of Ebenezer H. and Phebe S. (Lunn) 
 Drake, of Stoughton. They have two chil- 
 dren: Helen Drake Beals, born in Mansfield, 
 January 5, 1895; and Charles Edward Beals, 
 Jr., born in East Boston, July 20, 1896. 
 
 LHERT HEDGES and CLIEEORD 
 J. HEDGES, machinists and bicycle 
 manufacturers, are among the most 
 energetic and enterprising young 
 business men of F"o.\boro. Both were born in 
 the town of West Upton, Worcester County. 
 
 James Hedges, the father of these gentle- 
 men, was born and reared in England. He 
 came from there to Massachusetts when about 
 twenty-nine years old. Locating in West 
 Upton, he was engaged at his trade of machin- 
 ist in Knowlton's straw shop, having charge of 
 the machines and the general supervision of 
 the works for a number of years. In 1882 he 
 went to Adrian, Mich., becoming the junior 
 member of the firm Royston & Hedges, 
 workers and dealers in straw goods. Very 
 prosperous for a time, this firm, which was one 
 of the first of the kind in the West, eventually 
 sunk owing to the methods of Mr. Royston. 
 James Hedges then went to Milwaukee, Wis., 
 where he was the superintendent of the large 
 straw works of Mr. Slocum for about a year. 
 Not liking the place very well, he then re- 
 turned East, coming direct to Foxboro, where 
 he has since been employed in the straw man- 
 ufactory of Caton Brothers & Bixby, one of 
 the leading firms of the county. He and his 
 family are stanch Republicans, and he belongs 
 to the fraternities of Masons and Knights 
 Templar. On July 23, 1859, he was married 
 to Miss Sarah J. MuUings. She has had 
 seven children; namely, Annie, Jennie, 
 
 Emma, Albert, F"lora, Clifford J., and James. 
 James is deceased. Annie is the wife of 
 Henry Drake, and lives in W'inslow, Ariz. 
 Jennie is the wife of Edward Cleveland, of 
 Adrian, Mich., and has one son, Ollie. Clif- 
 ford J. was born September 19, 1876. The 
 father recently erected a fine residence on 
 Central Street, not far from the machine shop 
 of his sons. 
 
 Albert Hedges married Bessie Butterworth, 
 of Fo.xboro, and has one child, Barbara. In 
 1893 he opened this shop for the building of 
 bicycles. Here the brothers make a wheel 
 known as the "Hedges," which has found 
 great favor in the market. Besides repairing 
 they execute all kinds of light work, and have 
 an extensive trade in custom-made bicycles. 
 Albert was one of the swiftest riders in the 
 country on the old high wheel. In Michigan 
 he was the champion of the State, and he has 
 been the leading rider of Norfolk County. 
 He was known all over the country as a daring 
 and fearless bicyclist; and at one time he beat 
 the world's champion, Zimmerman, in two 
 races, one a scratch race and the other a 
 handicap. He has a large number of medals 
 and trophies won in bicycle races, a part of 
 them having been gained when he rode in the 
 racing circuit for the Pope Manufacturing 
 Company. 
 
 TEPHEN T. ROCKWOOD, who 
 owns and cultivates a productive 
 farm in Norfolk, was born in this 
 town, January 18, 1841. A son of 
 Benjamin and Sarah R. (Pond) Rockwood, he 
 belongs to one of the oldest families in this 
 section. His farm was formerly a part of that 
 occupied by his grandparents, Benjamin and 
 Lucy M. (Ware) Rockwood, who were natives 
 of Wrentham. The former served as an As- 
 sessor for a number of years. 
 
 The father of Stephen T. was born at the 
 homestead, November 4, 1812. He followed 
 the trade of carpenter for many years, and 
 tilled the soil of the home farm, which he pur- 
 chased from the original homestead. He died 
 March 27, 1S55. Sarah R. Rockwood, his 
 wife, who was born in Wrentham, Mass., Jan- 
 uary 18, 1S15, became the mother of seven
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 children, as follows: Benjamin H., born Feb- 
 ruary 20, 1839; Stephen T., the subject of 
 this sketch; Sarah M., born August 5, 1843; 
 Nathan H., born March 22, 1846; liunice A., 
 born October 27, 1848; Elisha W., born 
 March 16, 1851; and Elijah C, born October 
 9, 1853. Benjamin, who is a box-maker, and 
 resides in VVestboro, Mass., wedded Mary D. 
 Fuller; Sarah, now deceased, was the wife of 
 Horace Briggs, who resides in California; 
 Nathan, who successively married Sarah E. 
 Pond and Hattie Louisa Harden, is residing in 
 Norfolk; Eunice is the wife of James T. 
 Adams, a merchant in Medway village, 
 Mass. ; Elisha, who is a miller, and resides in 
 Norfolk, married Louisa Clark; Elijah died 
 March 2, 1858, in his fifth year. The mother, 
 who is now eighty-three years old, resides with 
 her son, Stephen T. 
 
 Stephen T. Rockwood attended the common 
 schools. He has not been absent from the 
 homestead for any length of time, with the 
 exception of two seasons spent as a farm assist- 
 ant in his younger days. At the age of 
 twenty-two he took charge of the farm, which 
 eventually came into his possession. He has 
 since devoted his fourteen acres of land to 
 dairy purposes and the raising of poultry. 
 He also deals in fertilizers and agricultural 
 implements, acting as local agent for several 
 well-known manufacturers. 
 
 On January 4, 1863, Mr. Rockwood con- 
 tracted his first marriage with Caroline E. 
 Hill. She was a daughter of William A. and 
 Henrietta (Lawrence) Hill, prosperous farm- 
 ing people, both of whom are now deceased. 
 She received a severe shock from lightning, 
 August 29, 1868, from the effects of which 
 she died April 7, 1869. She left two chil- 
 dren — Cora F. and George P. Cora F. is the 
 wife of Harry S. Mason, of Medfield, Mass., 
 and has one child. Marguerite. George works 
 in a straw factory in Wrentham, Mass. Mr. 
 Rockwood's second wife, whom he wedded 
 September 27, 1870, was Mary E., daughter 
 of Russell and Adeline E. (Babcock) Haynes, 
 born in Acton, Mass., November 27, 1848. 
 Her father died in 1859, and her mother on 
 July 19, 1897. To this union were born three 
 children, namely: Bernard R., on March 12, 
 1872; Harold S., December 24, 1884, who 
 
 died August 4, 1887; and Marion S., on Au- 
 gust 6, 1892. Bernard R., who is a book- 
 keeper in Franklin, Mass., married Ada Law- 
 rence. Their children are: Mildred L., btjrn 
 in April 14, 1893; Marjory E., born June 29, 
 1895; and Arthur L., born June 5, 1897. 
 Mr. Rockwood has served with ability as an 
 Assessor and a member of the School Board. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is con- 
 nected with Norfolk Grange, Patrons of Hus- 
 bandry. Both he and Mrs. Rockwood are 
 active members of the Congregational church. 
 
 UWARD L. UNDERWOOD, a highly 
 esteemed resident of Canton, Norfolk 
 County, is one of the corps of in- 
 structors in the private classical school of J. P. 
 Hopkinson on Chestnut Street, Boston. He 
 was born in that city, July 23, 1859, being a 
 son of Edward Dana and a descendant, in 
 the seventh generation, of Richard Dana, who 
 settled in Brighton, Mass., in 1640. 
 
 Edward Dana, a son of Aaron Dana, was 
 born and bred in Boston, where, until his 
 death in 1866, he was a commission merchant 
 in Quincy Market. He married Elizabeth 
 Hopkins Saunders, a daughter of Samuel 
 Little Saunders and Mehitable Saunders, the 
 only child of their union being Edward Liv- 
 ingston, the special subject of this brief biog- 
 raphy. The father was a Democrat in politics 
 until 1859, but after that time he was a firm 
 adherent of the Republican party. 
 
 Edward Livingston Dana was adopted a few 
 years after the death of his father, by Dr. 
 William E. Underwood, his step-father, a 
 prominent physician and active politician of 
 Boston, who was for two years in the legislat- 
 ure and for many years a trusted and honored 
 member of the Boston School Board. His 
 name was at that time legally changed to Ed- 
 ward Livingston Underwood, by which he has 
 since been known. He attended the public 
 schools of Boston, the primary, grammar, and 
 Latin, afterward entering Harvard College, 
 from which he was graduated in 1882. The 
 following two years he was engaged with E. 
 Allen & Co., jobbers of wool. In 1884 he 
 began his professional career, teaching first
 
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 for a term of three months at Rockport, going 
 from there to Bernardston, Mass., as a teacher 
 in Powers Institute, in which he remained 
 until 1890. Coming then to Canton, Mr. 
 Underwood was principal of the high school 
 of that town two years, when he accepted his 
 present position with Mr. Hopkinson. In 
 addition to this regular work he is actively 
 engaged in private tutoring for college prepa- 
 ration, in which occupation he has been emi- 
 nently successful. 
 
 Mr. Underwood has been identified with the 
 Republican party since attaining his majority, 
 and takes genuine interest in local and na- 
 tional affairs. In the advancement of educa- 
 tional and literary matters he has taken an ac- 
 tive part, and is a member of the Canton 
 School Board and a trustee of the public li- 
 brary. He is an enthusiastic worker in Ma- 
 sonic circles, being secretary of Blue Hill 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. ; a member of St. Matthew's 
 Chapter, R. A. M., of Boston; of Hyde Park 
 Council of Royal and Select Masters; of St. 
 Omer Commandery, K. T. , of Boston ; and 
 of Aleppo Temple, A. O. M. S., of that city. 
 
 Mr. Underwood was married July 23, 1885, 
 to Lucy Merrill, a daughter of William Whit- 
 tle Merrill, of Roxbury. They have three 
 children; namely, Edward Dana, Helen Dana, 
 and Robert White Dana. Mrs. Underwood is 
 a direct descendant of Peregrine White, dis- 
 tinguished as being the first child of the Pil- 
 grims born after their arrival in America, his 
 birth having occurred on board the "May- 
 flower." Mr. Underwood and his family 
 attend the Unitarian church. 
 
 "ON. MILTON METCALF FISHER, 
 the eldest son of Willis Fisher, Esq., 
 and Caroline P'airbanks, was born 
 at South PVanklin, Mass., January 
 30, 1 81 I. His ancestry on both sides is 
 purely English, and is traced through his 
 grandparents, Josejjh and Susan, both Fishers, 
 in two lines: through the latter and her 
 father, the Hon. Jabez Fisher, to Thomas 
 Fisher, a native of Winston in Suffolk 
 County, England, who emigrated to Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., with wife and three children in 
 1634; and through the former to Anthony 
 
 Fisher, of Syleham in the same county, who 
 did not emigrate, but sent his son Anthony, 
 wife, and five children, with three young 
 grandsons — ^ Joshua, Jr., John, and Daniel — 
 all of whom came to Dedham in 1637, while 
 Joshua, Sr., and wife and three children, com- 
 ing in 1640, settled in Medfield in 1650. 
 Thomas and his family removed from Cam- 
 bridge to Dedham; but their e.xact relation- 
 ship to the Dedham Fishers is not yet known, 
 though probably it was not very remote. 
 
 P'rom this nucleus of nineteen I^nglish- 
 born P'ishers, with few stray exceptions per- 
 haps from the liritish Provinces, have 
 descended all the Fishers of the Northern 
 ami most of the Western States. The history 
 of Captain Daniel Fisher, of Dedham, as 
 Speaker of the General Court and Governor's 
 Assistant, and of his son Daniel in his arrest 
 of the famous Sir Edmund Andros, is well 
 known. The twenty years' public service of 
 the Hon. Jabez Fisher as Councillor, member 
 of the Provincial Congress, Representative 
 and Senator, are matters of record in the 
 archives of the State. 
 
 The subject of this article was fitted for col- 
 lege at Day's Academy, Wrentham, Mass., 
 and in 1832, with a view to the ministry, en- 
 tered Amherst in a large class with the future 
 Governor Bullock, the Hon. E. H. Kellogg, 
 Judge Kellogg, of Vermont, Dr. Nathan 
 Allen, of Lowell, and the Hon. and Rev. 
 Edmund Dowse; but on account of ill health 
 he left college the next year. He began 
 teaching school at the age of sixteen. In 
 1832 he taught the first classical school in 
 Randolph, preparing in part some twenty 
 }oung men for college, many of whom are 
 leading men in various parts of the country, 
 foitr each in the three common professions. 
 
 In 1835 he was a trader in Franklin. Re- 
 moving in iS36to Westboro, he continued the 
 business there and in West Upton, having 
 married the eldest daughter of the Hon. 
 Luther Metcalf, of Medway, in 1836. In 
 1838, after a most persistent contest on the 
 ground that he was an abolitionist, he was ap- 
 pointed Postmaster of Westboro. ;\Ir. Fisher, 
 having voted for Van Buren in 1836, and 
 being indorsed by the Democratic Committee 
 and others as "honest and capable," Amos
 
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 Kendall, then Postmaster-General, for once 
 sadly disappointed the proslavery element. 
 In 1840 Mr. Fisher removed to Medway, and, 
 establishing the manufacture of straw goods, 
 continued the same until 1863. He was the 
 first secretary and treasurer — and for many 
 years — of the American Straw Goods Asso- 
 ciation, and was deputed to Washington to ad- 
 just the revenue tax upon the straw goods 
 business with Governor Boutwell, the first 
 Revenue Tax Commissioner, in 1861. 
 
 On retiring from this business, he estab- 
 lished an agency for insurance, ofificially rep- 
 resenting the leading companies, both Ameri- 
 can and foreign, and controlled the largest 
 risks in the vicinity for many years, his son, 
 F. L. Fisher, being associated with him since 
 1878 to the present time. 
 
 In 1840 he was elected a Deacon in the vil- 
 lage church, a title and an office by which he 
 has been familiarly known through life. As 
 pupil, teacher, and superintendent he has 
 been connected with the Sunday-school since 
 1 8 19, and has often conducted religious ser- 
 vices in his own and other churches as a lay- 
 man. He was active in the organization of 
 the Washingtonian Home, and director for 
 many years. He was connected, in some 
 cases officially, with the leading religious and 
 benevolent organizations. State and national, 
 and was a regular contributor to their support. 
 
 In Medway he served upon all the boards of 
 town officers for several years. By executive 
 appointment he has held the offices of Justice 
 of the Peace and of the Quorum for all the 
 counties, Notary Public, Commissioner of the 
 New York & Boston Railroad, and commis- 
 sioner for the division of the old town of 
 Danvers. In 1848 he was a county delegate 
 with Charles Francis Adams from Norfolk 
 County to the Buffalo Convention, and Free 
 Soil candidate with him and Judge Wilkinson 
 for Senator in 1850. After an illness of sev- 
 eral years he was elected Senator for the West 
 Norfolk District in 1859 and i860. In both 
 terms he resisted as a specialty the annexation 
 of Roxbury to Boston, with so much enthusi- 
 asm, as charged by Mr. Worthington of the 
 Traveler and member of the House, as to 
 delay the measure for eight years, for the 
 benefit of Norfolk County, as estimated by the 
 
 County Treasurer, to the amount of seventy- 
 five thousand dollars. 
 
 He was elected County Commissioner for 
 Norfolk from 1863 to 1872, serving three 
 years as chairman of the board. Two reports 
 made by him, involving large amounts laying 
 out highways, were sharply contested in the 
 higher courts; and, although made by a lay- 
 man, both reports were sustained by the courts 
 in every point. In one case Judge Gray de- 
 cided that it was very proper to withhold a 
 payment of ten thousand dollars to the town of 
 Brookline, in case the town had been annexed 
 to Boston before the highway was completed. 
 He was contemporary with the earliest in the 
 temperance and anti-slavery causes. 
 
 While in college, in 1832-33, he was the 
 first to break silence in the chapel by an orig- 
 inal essay upon slavery, and was called from 
 the platform by the professor of rhetoric, but 
 was sustained by the faculty; and the college 
 was revolutionized for the anti-slavery cause. 
 Though failing to graduate with his class, he 
 afterward received the honorary degree of 
 Master of Arts. In 1834 he attended as a 
 delegate the first anniversary of the American 
 Anti-slavery Society. In 1844 he first intro- 
 duced the subject of slavery in the American 
 Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 
 and their refusal to take high anti-slavery 
 ground led to the new organization of the 
 great American Missionary Association. 
 
 Since 1830 he has been a frequent and often 
 a regular contributor upon miscellaneous sub- 
 jects to the daily and weekly press. He has 
 delivered lectures upon temperance, slavery, 
 and other subjects upon various occasions. 
 He was one of the earliest and is now one of 
 the oldest of the pioneers in the abolition of 
 slavery. In i860 he obtained a charter for 
 the Dean Library Association, of which he 
 was president for many years. In 1861 he 
 was active and liberal in war measures, and 
 he has been present with ready speech to the 
 Grand Army every Decoration Day from the 
 beginning to the latest. Oakland Cemetery, 
 which he established in 1865, he gave in 1888 
 to the Congregational Society of Medway, 
 with some provision for its care. He was 
 present at burials for thirty years. In 1872 
 he inaugurated the Medway Savings Bank,
 
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 anil has been its president from the first. In 
 1875 he was prominent in the erection of 
 Sanford Hall, and in 1881 he initiated and 
 promoted the erection of the Sanford Mills. 
 These and the Straw Works are the largest of 
 the substantial and most valuable structures in 
 Medway. Mr. Fisher has held many important 
 trusts and appointments under the Probate 
 Courts, and has been a conveyancer and man- 
 ager of estates for many years. He has held for 
 himself and with others much real estate, and 
 has erected buildings in Medway village, which 
 have now increased more than fivefold since 
 his residence there. His name appears as 
 grantor in the Norfolk Registry upon nearly 
 one hundred conveyances in various forms. 
 
 Mr. Fisher married Eleanor Metcalf, daugh- 
 ter of the Hon. Luther Metcalf, of Medway. 
 He has two sons and two daughters. His eld- 
 est son. Dr. Theo. W. Fisher, is well known 
 in Boston as a late superintendent of the Lu- 
 natic Hospital and in other ofificial and private 
 relations. His youngest son, Fred L. Fisher, 
 late treasurer of the Medway Savings Bank, 
 has been connected with him many years in 
 insurance business, having an office in Boston. 
 His eldest daughter was formerly a private 
 teacher of French and German, and his young- 
 est is married, and lives in Tennessee. 
 
 Mr. Fisher has been too much devoted to 
 business and secular matters of a miscellane- 
 ous kind to attain a high literary position. 
 He was chairman of the Town Committee to 
 prepare a town history of Medway, a work 
 which the town voted to publish upon his sug- 
 gestion and plan, and which has many articles 
 from his pen. A brief sketch of him may be 
 found in the History of Franklin, his native 
 town, and in the Histories of Medway and the 
 County of Norfolk. 
 
 7T\HAUNCEY C. CHURCHILL, a for- 
 I V-' mer resident of Dedham, who was for 
 ^^is^^ years the honored Treasurer of Nor- 
 folk County, was born in West 
 Fairlee, Vt., September 26, 181 5, son of 
 William L. and Eliza (Lanphear) Churchill. 
 After receiving his education in the common 
 schools of his native town, he taught school 
 for four years, working on a farm during his 
 
 vacations. In the winter of 1839 he went to 
 Salisbury, Mass., where he was employed in 
 the .Salisbury mills. He remained there until 
 1842, when he came to Dedham, and entered 
 the employ of what is now the Merchant 
 Woollen Companies' Mills, where he worked 
 for thirteen years. His absolute trustworthi- 
 ness had become duly recognized, as also his 
 ability to administer responsible positions; 
 and in 1855 he was chosen by the people of 
 Norfolk County as County Treasurer. He 
 was successively re-elected fourteen times, 
 and held the position until 1889. In 1864 he 
 was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal 
 Revenue, in which capacity he served for five 
 years. He was also a member of the Dedham 
 School Committee for nine years, beginning 
 in 1871. These offices he filled with entire 
 credit to himself and to the full satisfaction 
 of his constituency. An active member of 
 the Allen Evangelical Society of Dedham, he 
 served it as treasurer and collector for many 
 years. On June 7, 1842, he was united in 
 marriage with Permelia, daughter of Deacon 
 Benajah Sabin, of Salisbury. He died in 
 1889, at the age of seventy-four years. Mr. 
 Churchill was always ready to expend personal 
 effort in forwarding any movement for the 
 welfare of his townsmen. The efficient way 
 in which all his obligations were discharged, 
 whether public or private, won for him a wide 
 circle of friends. 
 
 Mrs. Churchill is descended from an old 
 and esteemed family. Her paternal grand- 
 father, John Sabin, was a farmer and a promi- 
 nent man of his time. Her father, Deacon 
 Benajah, was Selectman for many years, a 
 member of the School Committee, and a val- 
 ued officer in the church. He had a family of 
 three children, of whom two — Betsey and 
 Permelia — reached maturity. Mrs. Churchill 
 has spent her life in Washington, N.H., and 
 Fairlee, Vt., and in Dedham, Mass. Since 
 1856 she has lived in the house built by Mr. 
 Churchill. Her two children are: Chauncey 
 S. and Isadora Maria. Isadora is the widow 
 of Charles H. Leland, who was a clerk in the 
 Baker, Hunnewell Company, a prominent man 
 in the community, and belonged to one of the 
 old Dedham families. Chauncey S. Churchill 
 is one of the prominent dealers in coal and
 
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 lumber in this town, and has been in business 
 for nineteen years. The firm of which he is 
 a member, Fisher Churchill Company, who 
 also deal extensively in ice, is one of the most 
 important in town. He has three children — 
 Ethel, Marion S., and Carroll C. 
 
 fllOMAS E. FAUNCE, president of the 
 Co-operative Bank of Hyde Park, Nor- 
 folk County, was born in South Boston, 
 Mass., February 8, 1848, a son of Thomas 
 Faunce.' He is the representative of an early 
 and prominent family of Eastern Massachu- 
 setts, being a lineal descendant of John 
 Faunce, who came over in the "Ann," one of 
 the forefather ships, in 1623, and settled at 
 Plymouth. He was the father of Elder 
 Thomas Faunce. The paternal grandfather 
 of Mr. Faunce, of Hyde Park, was Thomas 
 Faunce, Sr., who died when a young man, 
 leaving his widow, whose maiden name was 
 Sally Savory, with but one child, Thomas. 
 Mrs. Sally S. P^aunce survived her husband 
 many years, living to the age of seventy-six. 
 Thomas Faunce was born and educated in 
 Plymouth, where in his early manhood he 
 worked several years at the carpenter's trade. 
 He subsequently removed to Boston, and es- 
 tablished a broker's office. He married Mary 
 A. D. Gerrish, daughter of Thomas Gerrish. 
 They became the parents of s\x children, two 
 of whom are living, namely: Arabella A., 
 wife of Wilmot E. Broad, of Chama, N.M.; 
 and Thomas E., the special subject of this 
 sketch. The father died at the age of fifty- 
 four years, and the mother at the age of 
 sixty-nine. 
 
 Thomas E. Faunce was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Boston, being a Franklin Medal 
 graduate, and also a graduate of Comer's Com- 
 mercial College. At seventeen years of age 
 he entered the employ of William H. S. Jor- 
 dan, at that time a prominent insurance agent, 
 with whom he remained ten months. He was 
 afterward connected with the Manufacturers' 
 Insurance Company of Boston nineteen years, 
 most of the time being at the head of his de- 
 partment. In 1883 he established himself in 
 business on his own account as an insurance 
 agent and real estate dealer, and three years 
 
 later organized the bank of which he is now 
 president. The grand success of this organi- 
 zation is almost entirely due to the efforts of 
 Mr. F^aunce, who has labored with untiring 
 zeal in its behalf. He is also agent for eight 
 large insurance companies, deals extensively 
 in mortgages, and does a great amount of 
 work as an appraiser of real estate, of the 
 value of which he is considered an excellent 
 judge. He is auditor of the Norfolk Subur- 
 ban Street Railway, chairman of the Board of 
 Assessors, a member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the Massachusetts League of Co- 
 operative Banks, and a valued member of 
 Forest Lodge of Odd Fellows, Monterey En- 
 campment, Royal Society of Good Fellows, 
 and Neponset Tribe of Red Men. In politics 
 he is a Republican. He has been a resident 
 of Hyde Park for more than thirty years, is 
 one of the active business men of the town, 
 and has a host of friends. 
 
 Mr. P'aunce was married in September, 
 1870, to Miss Josephine Allen, who was born 
 in Cambridge, Mass., where her father, Or- 
 ville Allen, was a piano maker, removing 
 to Leominster, Mass., when a child, and com- 
 ing to Hyde Park in 1866. 
 
 HARLES A. FAAS, one of the influ- 
 ential men of Wrentham, Mass., was 
 born in Wiirtemberg, South Ger- 
 many, April 6, 1827. He came to 
 this country in a sailing-vessel, landing in 
 New York after a voyage of forty days. Here 
 he soon found employment as an engraver in 
 the jewelry business. After working in New 
 York for a short time, he moved to New 
 Britain, Conn., and then to Newark, N.J., 
 where he started in business for himself at die 
 cutting. He had been three years in New 
 Jersey when he moved to Wickford, R.I., 
 whence, soon after, he went to Providence, 
 R.I. Subsequently he came to Wrentham, 
 and settled in the village of Plainville, where 
 he has made his home ever since. 
 , In 1 86 1 Mr. Faas enlisted in the Seventh 
 Massachusetts Regiment as a private. After- 
 wards he was promoted to the rank of Fourth 
 Sergeant. He was at the battle of Fair Oaks 
 when he was wounded by a rifle ball and taken
 
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 to the rear, where his right leg was amputated. 
 He remained on the battle-fiehl four days, and 
 was then taken to the hospital at Philadelphia, 
 where he stayed twenty-two days, after which he 
 was sent home to Wrentham. On account of 
 his good nature and genial spirits, he was popu- 
 lar in his company. With the exception of four 
 years, which were spent in New York, Mr. 
 Faas has lived since the war in Plainville. In 
 politics he is a stanch Republican. He was 
 naturalized in 1858. 
 
 Mr. Faas first married Margaret Neff, a na- 
 tive of Germany. They had three children, 
 namely: Charles A., who married Addie 
 Meeks, of Brooklyn; Paulina, who married 
 William Gregory, and lives in Bois6 City, 
 Idaho; and PVances, who died leaving a hus- 
 band and seven children. Mr. Faas was mar- 
 ried a second time to Emma Cheever, and they 
 have three children — Edwin, George, and 
 Florence. Edwin married F^va Anthony, and 
 has one daughter, Josephine; and Florence is 
 the wife of William Greenhalge, of Phenix, 
 R.I. 
 
 TEPHEN B. BALKAM is a well- 
 known business man of Hyde Park, 
 engaged as a dealer in coal, lumber, 
 wood, and cement, on Pierce Street, 
 where he has one of the oldest established and 
 largest yards in this section of the State. He 
 was born October 4, 1842, in Robbinston, 
 Washington County, Me., a son of Gilbert 
 Balkam, who was born in the same town. His 
 paternal grandfather, John Balkam, removed 
 to that State from Attleboro, Mass., and be- 
 came prominent as a Brigadier-general of the 
 Maine militia. 
 
 Gilbert Balkam, one of a family of ten chil- 
 dren, was brought up to the trade of a carpen- 
 ter, which he followed for some years in his 
 native town. While yet a young man he 
 spent six or seven years in Boston, and then 
 returned to Maine, and was there engaged as 
 a ship builder and finisher throughout his ac- 
 tive years. Coming to Massachusetts after 
 his retirement, he spent his declining days at 
 the home of one of his sons in Jamaica Plain, 
 dying at a good age. He married Mrs. Susan 
 Brewer, a daughter of John Dutch, and widow 
 
 of William Brewer. She bore him eight chil- 
 dren, as follows: Stephen B., Henry, Will- 
 iatn F., Sewell D. , Mary, Hannah A., and two 
 that died at an early age. The mother is still 
 living, being now eighty-two years old. The 
 father was a member of the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 Stephen B. Balkam remained with his par- 
 ents until eighteen years of age, acquiring his 
 early education in the district schools. Com- 
 ing then to Boston, he obtained employment 
 with the firm of William Pope & Sons, lumber 
 dealers, with whom he remained as a clerk five 
 years. On the ist of May, 1874, he located 
 at Hyde Park as agent for a lumber company; 
 and three years later he embarked in the coal 
 business on his own account. In 1883 betook 
 William H. Harlow, his present partner, into 
 company with him, enlarging his business at 
 the same time; and in 1885, having outgrown 
 the dimensions of their former yard, this firm 
 removed to their present fine location, where 
 they have built up an extensive trade in their 
 line of merchandise. Since Mr. Balkam came 
 here, the town has grown with surprising 
 rapidity: and in the erection of the large num- 
 ber of buildings he has furnished his full 
 share of the lumber, of which he carries a fine 
 stock, and of all other materials used. 
 
 Mr. Balkam was married May 11, 1868, to 
 Miss Alice B. Crandon, who was born at Co- 
 lumbia F"alls, Me., where her father, the late 
 Joseph Crandon, was a prosperous ship- 
 builder. Mr. Crandon was twice married, 
 Mrs. Balkam's mother, who bore him three 
 children, having been his second wife. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Balkam are the parents of seven chil- 
 dren, one of whom, Marion May, died at the 
 age of seven years. The others are as fol- 
 lows: Elizabeth G., who married William 
 Flett, a foreman in the Rand Avery Supply 
 Company, and has two children — Alice Ger- 
 trude and Helen Hendry; Charles Herbert, 
 who is in the lumber business with W. R. 
 Chester; Ralph W., a student in the Harvard 
 Veterinary College; Alice C, living at home, 
 a kindergarten teacher in Boston; Gilbert, a 
 Dartmouth student; and Helen, a pupil in the 
 Bridgewater Normal School. 
 
 In politics Mr. Balkam is an earnest sup- 
 porter of the principles of the Republican
 
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 party, and has served on the Hyde Park Board 
 of Selectmen several years. He was made a 
 Mason in Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A. M., in 
 which he has been Steward, Warden, and 
 Master. He is also a member of Norfolk 
 Chapter, R. A. M., and of Cypress Com- 
 mandery, K. T., of which he is Past Com- 
 mander. He takes a deep interest in religious 
 matters, being a Deacon in the Congre- 
 gational church, of which his wife and their 
 children are members, Mr. and Mrs. Balkam 
 being also teachers in the Sunday-school. In 
 1882 he built his handsome house, which is a 
 centre of social activity and the abode of hos- 
 pitality. 
 
 r^AEV. RUFUS KENDRICK HAR- 
 LOW, the pastor of the Evangelical 
 Congregational church at Medway 
 Village for the past twenty-five 
 years, was born in Middleboro, Mass., March 
 28, 1834, son of Major Branch and Lurany 
 (Keith) Harlow. The father, who was a na- 
 tive of Halifax, Mass., spent his early years 
 in Pocasset, and later settled in Middleboro, 
 where he was engaged in the manufacture of 
 hollow ware. He was widely and favorably 
 known both as a business man and a public 
 ofificial, having served as High Sheriff of 
 Plymouth County. His wife, who was a na- 
 tive of Middleboro, became the mother of 
 twelve children; namely, Hope, Bradford, 
 Branch, Ivory (first), Lurany, Ivory (second), 
 Chester, Elizabeth, P^oster, Rufus K., Louisa, 
 and Benjamin. Of these Hope, Bradford, 
 Elizabeth, Foster, and Rufus K. are living. 
 Major Branch Harlow died in August, 1861; 
 and his wife died in May, 1878. 
 
 Rufus Kendrick Harlow prepared for his 
 collegiate course at the Pierce Academy, 
 Middleboro, and was graduated from Amherst 
 College with the class of 1865. His theolog- 
 ical studies were pursued at the Bangor (Me.) 
 Theological Seminary, from which he was 
 graduated in 1868. After his ordination to 
 the ministry, which took place at Middleboro 
 in October of that year, he officiated as the 
 pastor of the St. Lawrence Street Congrega- 
 tional Church, Portland, Me., for thirteen 
 months. He next occupied the pulpit of the 
 
 Congregational church in Belfast, Me., for 
 the same length of time. His call from the 
 Congregational Society in Medway village 
 was received in October, 1871 ; and he was in- 
 stalled as pastor February 13, 1872. The 
 Village Evangelical Congregational church was 
 erected in 1838, on land donated to the society 
 by David Whiting, a resident of New York 
 and a native of Medway. On October 3 of 
 that year the Rev. David Sanford, Mr. Har- 
 low's predecessor, was installed as its first 
 pastor. The church has a total membership 
 of one hundred and ninety-eight. The 
 Deacons are M. M. P'isher and James F. 
 Adams; its Standing Committee is composed 
 of James T. Adams, Sumner H. Clark, and 
 Alvin Clough ; the Parish Committee are: 
 Frank Cummings, J. P. Plummer, Alvin 
 Clough, and the pastor. The officers of the 
 Ladies' Benevolent Society are Mrs. J. P. 
 Plummer, president; Mrs. Mary Fisher, sec- 
 retary; and Mrs. J. F. Adams, treasurer. 
 Charles R. Adams is the superintendent of 
 the Sunday-school. On September 7, 1888, 
 the society fittingly observed its fiftieth 
 anniversary. 
 
 Mr. Harlow is unmarried. During the 
 quarter of a century that has elapsed since his 
 installation he has labored zealously and suc- 
 cessfully for the moral welfare of the commu- 
 nity, gaining the friendship and esteem of a 
 large number of people outside of his own con- 
 gregation. He is deeply attached to his 
 church, takes special pride in the decoration 
 of its grounds, and is exceedingly partial to 
 flowers. On February 17, 1897, as more 
 convenient than the 13th, the twenty-fifth 
 anniversary of his installation was cele- 
 brated by a public service; and on the occa- 
 sion he was presented with a loving-cup of 
 solid silver appropriately engraved. 
 
 -OHN EMORY HOAR, an ex-master 
 of the Brookline High School, was 
 born in Poultney, Vt., November 22, 
 1828. A son of Hiram and Sarah 
 (Smith) Hoar, he belongs to the ninth genera- 
 tion of his family in this country. The first 
 generation was the family of Charles, son of 
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 second Charles, who was Sheriff of Gloucester, 
 died in his native country. His widow, with 
 her five children, sailed for America in 1640, 
 and landed in Boston. From Boston she 
 moved to Braintree; and in 1660 she was liv- 
 ing in Concord, Mass., where several genera- 
 tions of the family were born. The name 
 Hoar has been borne by several men of note, 
 including senators, judges, and prominent 
 lawyers. The line of descent is traced 
 through John Hoar, son of Charles (second) ; 
 Daniel, born in Scituate, Mass., in 1650; 
 John, born in Concord, Mass., in 1678; Jo- 
 siah, born in Sudbury in 171 7; Jonathan, 
 born in Sudbury in 1747; and David, born in 
 Sudbury in 1773. Jonathan Hoar, who was 
 John E. Hoar's great-grandfather, commanded 
 a company of minute-men at Concord when the 
 Revolutionary War began. The greater part 
 of his life was devoted to farming in Sudbury, 
 where he died in 1S13. David Hoar, the 
 grandfather, who was born in 1773, passed his 
 early years in Sudbury and the latter part of 
 his life in Poultney, Vt. He died in 1862. 
 He married Miss Angelette Pierce, who, born 
 in 1782, died in 1846. She was a native of 
 Holliston, Mass., and a member of one of the 
 old families of that town. The pioneer of her 
 family in this country, John Tierce, came 
 from Norwich, England, in 1637, with his 
 wife and four children, and settled in Water- 
 town, Mass. From him the descent of Mrs. 
 Angelette Hoar is traced through Anthony, 
 Joseph, John, John ^second), Seth, and Na- 
 thaniel, the last named being her father. Her 
 children were: Hiram, Sarah, Eliza, and Lu- 
 cius Augustus, all of whom have passed away. 
 Hiram Hoar was reared on a farm, and re- 
 ceived a common-school education. After- 
 ward he settled on a farm in Poultney, Vt., 
 near his birthplace, and there was engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits during a great part of his 
 life, retiring when he began to feel the infirm- 
 ities of age. In politics he was a Jacksonian 
 Democrat. He was interested in town 
 matters, and served in some town offices. 
 His death occurred on October 23, 1886, in 
 Pawlet, Rutland County, Vt. , at the age of 
 eighty-three. His wife, a native of Sudbury, 
 Mass., was a daughter of Josiah Smith, whose 
 English ancestors settled in New Ipswich. 
 
 The Smith family originated with Kichard 
 Smith, who came from Shr()])ham, Norfolk 
 County, England, to this country about 1639 
 or 1640. The generations succeeding him 
 were represented by Richard, Josei)h, 
 Ephraim, and Josiah, the last named being 
 Mrs. Sarah Hoar's father. Josiah .Smith, who 
 was a farmer of Sudbury, reared three other 
 children — Mary, ICphraim, and FMbridge. 
 Sarah Hoar died March 18, 1872, at the age of 
 sixty-five. Her children, all living, are: 
 John tlmory, the subject of this sketch; Sarah 
 A., the wife of Walton Blakely; and Richard 
 R., a shoe dealer of Sudbury. .She was a 
 member of the Congregational church. 
 
 John Emory Hoar passed his early years on 
 the farm, attending the public schools of his 
 native town. At the age of fifteen he entered 
 Castleton (Vt. ) Seminary, where he took 
 the college preparatory course; and he took a 
 year's course in Middlebury College, then en- 
 tering Harvard. From Harvard he graduated 
 in 1852. He began work as a teacher in the 
 district school of his native town, and taught 
 for a while in Castleton Seminary. After 
 finishing his course of study at Harvard, he 
 was submaster in the Cambridge High School 
 for two years. In 1854 he was appointed 
 master of the Brookline High School. In 
 this reponsible position, the duties of which 
 he ably discharged for thirty-five years, he 
 saw one whole generation pass away and 
 another grow up ; and he trained many brill- 
 iant scholars and prominent men. .Since his 
 resignation in 1888 he has lived in retire- 
 ment. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Hoar was married to Ann Bor- 
 rodaile Blakely, who was born in Pawlet, 
 Vt., daughter of David Blakely. She died at 
 the age of thirty-seven, leaving one child, 
 David B. , now living. A graduate of Har- 
 vard, David B. Hoar has been practising law 
 in Boston since 1879, making his home with 
 his father. The latter's second wife was Lucy 
 A., daughter of the Rev. Elijah Demond, of 
 Newbury, Mass. She died at the age of 
 seventy; and Mr. Hoar subsecpiently married 
 Mary Tuck Jones, of Baltimore, born in 
 Prince George County, Maryland, daughter of 
 Henry Jones. In politics Mr. Hoar is inde- 
 pendent. He is a member of the Brookline
 
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 School Board, and has been on the Board of 
 Trustees of the public library for a number of 
 years. He has held all the ofifices of the Nor- 
 folk County Teachers' Association. He also 
 belongs to the American Institute of Instruc- 
 tion and the Brookline Historical Publishing 
 Society; to the Thursday Club since its organ- 
 ization — some twenty-six years — in which he 
 has held all the offices ; and to the Union Club 
 of Boston. He is a member of St. Paul's 
 Church, Brookline. 
 
 LIVER DEAN, M.D., formerly a 
 well-known physician and prominent 
 citizen of Franklin, Mass., was born 
 in the town of Franklin, Mass., Feb- 
 ruary i8, 1783, and died December 5, 1871, 
 at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. He 
 was the son of Seth and Edna (Pond) Dean. 
 The father, Seth Dean, who was born in 
 Franklin in 1761, was a member of one of the 
 oldest families of that town. He died in 
 1834, at the age of seventy-three years. His 
 wife, Edna, survived him, dying in 1852, 
 aged eighty-eight years. They had three 
 children, of whom Oliver was the eldest. 
 The others were: Sylvester and Edna. The 
 latter died in early womanhood. 
 
 Oliver Dean, the subject of this sketch, 
 began his education in the district schools of 
 his native town, and also attended different 
 academies in the vicinity. He subsequently 
 studied medicine in the offices of Dr. Mann, 
 of Wrentham, and Dr. Ingalls, of Boston. 
 He first started in the practice of medicine at 
 Medway, where he remained until forty years 
 of age, and was very successful, but on ac- 
 count of ill health was obliged to give up his 
 profession. He then became interested in a 
 manufacturing business at Manchester, N. H., 
 to which place he removed before it was 
 known by its present name, and when it con- 
 tained very few inhabitants. He remained 
 there for some time, bought real estate, 
 erected mills, and carried on similar enter- 
 prises to such an e.xtent as to become known as 
 the "Father of Manchester." Later in life he 
 removed to Boston and thence to Franklin, 
 where he founded the well-known preparatory 
 school (Dean Academy) which bears his 
 
 name. Dr. Dean was twice married, his first 
 wife being Caroline Francour, the daughter of 
 a French gentleman who had to fly from his 
 native country during the French Revolution. 
 She died leaving no children. He married 
 for his second wife Mrs. Louisa Cobb 
 Hawes, the daughter of Joseph and Sally C. 
 (Jillson) Cobb, of Wrentham and Attleboro 
 respectively. By this marriage there were no 
 children. Mrs. Dean still survives her hus- 
 band, and is a much respected resident of this 
 town. Dr. Dean was a useful, enterprising, 
 and philanthropic citizen, and, though long 
 passed away, has a lasting memorial in the 
 school which he founded. 
 
 1819. 
 Eliza 
 
 OHN MORTON HARRIS, for many 
 years a well-known civil engineer of 
 Norfolk County, residing in Needham, 
 was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 
 He was the eldest son of John and 
 (Whittemore) Harris, and was a lineal 
 descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas 
 Harris, one of the earliest settlers at Charles- 
 town, Mass. The second in this line was 
 John Harris, who married Amy Hills; the 
 third, their son Thomas, who married Hepzi- 
 bah Croswell; the fourth, Thomas, third, who 
 married in 1708 Mary Dowse; the fifth, 
 John, second, who married in 1740 Melli- 
 cent Rand; the si.xth, Thomas, fourth, who 
 married Mary Frothingham in 1776, and died 
 in 1814; the seventh, John, born in 1781, 
 who married Eliza Whittemore. (See 
 "Charlestown Genealogies and Estates.") 
 
 John Harris, above named, son of Thomas 
 and Mary (Frothingham) Harris, born in 
 Charlestown, February 17, 1781, was a mer- 
 chant, sea captain, and ship-owner. He mar- 
 ried Eliza, the daughter of Nathan Whitte- 
 more, and had a family of six children, as 
 follows: John M., Helen E., Harriet B., Will- 
 iam B., Charles S., and Henry C. Of these 
 only one son and a daughter are living. Har- 
 riet B. was born in 1823, and was educated in 
 Charlestown and in Boston. She married in 
 1853 the Rev. James F. Hicks, then pastor 
 of the First Parish Church of Needham, and 
 had one son, Charles Atherton Hicks, born 
 December 21, 1853.
 
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 479 
 
 John Morton Harris was educated in thie 
 common schools of Charlestown and in pri- 
 vate schools, and at the age of twenty-one 
 went into the office of Mr. Samuel Felton, a 
 civil engineer of Charlestown, where he re- 
 mained, learning the profession. Henry D. 
 Thoreau, of Concord, friend of Ralph Waldo 
 Emerson, was a student in Mr. Felton's office 
 at the same time. While Mr. Harris was in 
 Mr. Felton's office, much of the work upon 
 the designs for the construction of Bunker 
 Hill Monument was done there, Mr. Felton 
 being one of the engineers having charge of 
 the building. After finishing his studies with 
 Mr. P"elton, Mr. Harris entered the employ of 
 the Fitchburg Railroad as assistant engineer, 
 and was in that position for a number of 
 years, having charge during that time of the 
 construction of a branch of the Fitchburg 
 system. He built what was known as the 
 air-line road from Brooklineto Woonsocket by 
 way of Needham. In 1849 he took up his 
 residence in Needham; and he subsequently 
 did much engineering in Norfolk County, 
 building roads, laying out public lands, and 
 constructing bridges, etc. In 1866 he was 
 employed on the Vanderbilt system, and had 
 charge of the building of the second track of 
 the Hudson River Railroad. 
 
 In 1872 he was elected to represent the dis- 
 trict in the Massachusetts General Court, and 
 while there was chairman of the Committee 
 on Railroads. Mr. Harris was Town Treas- 
 urer of Needham for one year, and for several 
 years a member of the School Board. He was 
 not a politician, but was always interested in 
 any movement for the public good or conven- 
 ience. Naturally of an exact and scientific 
 mind, he was devoted to the study of astron- 
 omy and natural history. As a civil engineer 
 he was thoroughly skilled, and was widely 
 known for his ability and efficiency in his 
 chosen field of work. When he first came to 
 Needham, Mr. Harris lived in the south part 
 of the town on the farm now occupied by the 
 Sutton family; and after his return from New 
 York he built the dwelling on Great Plain 
 Avenue and Webster Street, where he resided 
 until his death in 1884. 
 
 Mr. Harris was married in 1864 to Adeline 
 E., daughter of William Eaton, of Needham. 
 
 Two children were born of this marriage, but 
 both died in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Charles Athcrton 1 licks, above named, 
 the nephew of Mr. Harris and his successor in 
 business, was educated in the Needham 
 schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology. He was in business for a while 
 in Newton Centre, under the name of Cleve- 
 land & Hicks, later was assistant engineer of 
 the Holyoke Water Power Company for five 
 years; and prior to that he was, in the United 
 States Coast Survey, working on the Gulf 
 Stream between Cape Cod and the Gulf of 
 Mexico, and was shipwrecked while on board 
 the schooner "Drift." Upon taking charge 
 of Mr. Harris's business, Mr. Hicks settled in 
 Needham; and he now carries on general work 
 in this and the surrounding counties. He is 
 a member of the ]?oston Society of tlngi- 
 neers, and the accuracy and value of his work 
 are too well known to require any words of 
 commendation here. 
 
 Mr. Hicks married in 1882 Alice E., 
 daughter of Mr. J. F. J. Mayo, of Needham, 
 and niece of Mrs. Harris. Mr. Hicks's 
 grandfather, John F. Hicks, of Sutton, Mass., 
 took his family to Western New York, and 
 cut the trees from the land where the city of 
 Syracuse now stands, and was the owner of 
 the Onondaga County Salt Springs. He mar- 
 ried Margaret Kaus, and had a family of 
 eight children. 
 
 rm^ 
 
 EORGE EDWIN WHITING, a re- 
 \J3 1 tired resident of Hyde Park, was 
 born in Dedham, Mass., December 
 25, 1S36, son of Edwin and Rebecca (Dean) 
 .Whiting, and comes of an old N-orfolk County 
 family, his father having been a lineal de- 
 scendant of Nathaniel Whiting, who emi- 
 grated more than two hundred and fifty years 
 ago, and settled in Dedham, and who was also 
 the ancestor of his paternal grandmother. 
 
 Nathaniel Whiting was admitted to the 
 church in Dedham in 1641. He died in 16S2; 
 and his wife, Hannah, died in 1714. They 
 had fourteen children. The sixth child, Na- 
 thaniel, Jr., born November 5, 1653, had 
 eight children by his wife, Sarah; and the 
 sixth of this group, the third Nathaniel, mar-
 
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 ried Johanna Ellice, their offspring also being 
 eight in number. Joshua, their youngest 
 child, born June 14, 1729, married February 
 12, 1756, Mary Fuller; and Abner Whiting, 
 born in 1760, third son of this couple, mar- 
 ried Loacada Whiting, by whom he had four 
 children, one being Edwin, above named, 
 father of Mr. George E. Whiting. 
 
 Loacada Whiting was of the fifth genera- 
 tion in descent from the first Nathaniel, 
 through his son Samuel, fourth child, born 
 October 20, 1649, who married Sarah Metcalf, 
 and had nine children, the third a son, Jere- 
 miah, born April 12, 1695. He married 
 Ruth Wells; and Joshua, born September 11, 
 1729, their sixth child, married August 5, 
 1756, Elizabeth Pond, who became the mother 
 of eight children, the fifth the daughter Loa- 
 cada, born October 27, 1766. The grand- 
 father, Abner Whiting, was a farmer. He 
 spent his life in Dedham, and died there May 
 20, 1838. His wife, Loacada, whom he mar- 
 ried January 25, 1785-6, died August 28, 1852, 
 at the age of eighty -five years, ten months. 
 Their son, Edwin Whiting, was brought up on 
 the home farm, and was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Dedham. Later he took the 
 homestead at Green Lodge, where he passed 
 the remainder of his life, attaining the age of 
 eighty years. He married Rebecca Dean, the 
 daughter of Jesse Dean, of Dedham, and had 
 two children — Frances and George E. Whit- 
 ing. The mother died at the age of seventy- 
 two. Both parents attended the Unitarian 
 church. 
 
 George E. Whiting obtained his education 
 in the common schools and at the Green Moun- 
 tain Liberal Institute at South Woodstock, 
 Vt. Having completed his course of study, 
 he returned to the home farm, where he re- 
 mained until 1S86, diligently engaged in the 
 management of its one hundred and forty 
 acres, bringing his broad fields to a high state 
 of cultivation. He then came to Hyde Park, 
 and built his present beautiful dwelling, 
 which is the finest in the town and most 
 pleasantly located. 
 
 Mr. Whiting is a Republican in politics. 
 He was elected to serve on the Board of Se- 
 lectmen in 1893, and was re-elected in 1894 
 and in 1895. He was appointed Cemetery 
 
 Commissioner in November, 1892, and is now 
 superintendent of the Fairview Cemetery, 
 which is one of the finest in this section. He 
 is also president of the Hyde Park Electric 
 Light Company. 
 
 Mrs. Whiting, whose maiden name was Isa- 
 bell H. Hoadley, is the daughter of Henry 
 C. Hoadley, of South Woodstock, Vt. 
 Thomas Hoadly, her great-grandfather, born 
 in P^ngland in 1737, came to Boston and set- 
 tled near that city. He paid taxes in Brook- 
 line in 1771-75, served as a soldier in the 
 Revolution, and drew a pension from April 
 20, 1818, until his death, which occurred on 
 January 20, 1829, at the age of ninety-two. 
 Mr. Henry C. Hoadley's father was a farmer, 
 and made his home in Tewksbury during the 
 first part of his life, removing later to Hart- 
 land, Vt., where he settled on an unbroken 
 tract of three hundred acres, which he cleared 
 for a farm. He died there in February, 1843, 
 at the age of seventy-three. By his first wife, 
 Sarah French, born in Hartland, who died at 
 the age of thirty-nine, he had six children; 
 and by his second wife, Mrs. Mehitable Marcy 
 Whitney, he had one daughter, Lucy Whit- 
 ney. Mr. Henry C. Hoadley purchased a 
 farm of his own when he grew to maturity, 
 and spent his life engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits, in which he was very successful. 
 Three children were born to him and his wife, 
 Lucy Whitney, a native of Hartland, and two 
 of them are living, namely: Mrs. Whiting; 
 and James H., in South Woodstock on the old 
 homestead. 
 
 Mrs. Whiting spent her life in South 
 Woodstock until her marriage, which took 
 place on November 24, 1858. She is the 
 mother of four children, as follows: Sadie 
 Frances, who is married to Joseph W. Wat- 
 tles, Jr., of the firm of L. R. Wattles & Co., 
 manufacturers of "Dressene" in Canton, and 
 has two children — Joseph, third, and Shirley; 
 Annie R., who married Fred W. Fenno, New 
 England agent for the Royal Baking Powder 
 Company; George H., who is in Boston, a 
 cotton broker, married Bessie Blanche Bleakie, 
 daughter of the well-known and extensive 
 woollen manufacturer, Robert Bleakie; and 
 Edwin, the youngest, who is a book-keeper in 
 Boston, resides at home with his parents.
 
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 I \y biismes; 
 \^Hb' T. anc 
 
 LBERT HOWARD, a prominent 
 3.SS man of Sharon, son of Charles 
 id S. Josephine (Cobb) How- 
 ard, was born upon the farm where 
 he now resides, September 18, 1854. He is a 
 great-grandson of Oliver Howard, formerly of 
 Easton, Mass., and a grandson of George and 
 Abigail (Henshaw) Howard, natives of that 
 town. 
 
 George Howard was the first of the family 
 to locate in Sharon, and he settled on the farm 
 that is now owned by his grandson. He died 
 in 1864, and his wife died about two years 
 later. They were the parents of six children 
 — Rebecca, Angeline, George F., Charles T., 
 Abigail, and Newland F. Rebecca Howard 
 married Charles Johnson, of Sharon, and has 
 had two children ; namely, one that died in 
 infancy and Annie M. Angeline married 
 William B. King, and her children are: Jo- 
 sephine and George B. George F. Howard 
 married Lavania Wyman. Abigail married 
 for her first husband Sumner T. Palmer, and 
 for her second husband Edward Tisdale, of 
 West Bridgcwater, Mass. Newland F. How- 
 ard, who married Irene Morrison, was for 
 many years a manufacturer of hat blocks in 
 Boston, Mass., and is now retired from busi- 
 ness. 
 
 Charles T. Howard, father of C. Elbert, 
 was born in Sharon, October 2, 1822. He 
 grew to manhood at the homestead, and suc- 
 ceeding to its ownership he carried on general 
 farming with success. He also dealt quite ex- 
 tensively in wood and charcoal. He was a Se- 
 lectman for a number of years, and represented 
 this town in the legislature during the years 
 1S54 and 1855. He died September 17, 
 1885. S. Josephine Cobb, his wife, was born 
 in East Mansfield, Mas.s. , in 1827. She was 
 the daughter of James and Lyntha (Leach) 
 Cobb, the former of whom was a native of 
 Wrentham, and the latter of Raynham, Mass. 
 James Cobb was a prominent cotton manufact- 
 urer of his day. He died in 1859, and his 
 wife died in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. 
 Howard had five children, as follows: C. El- 
 bert, the subject of this sketch; Ella J.; 
 Walter M. , born April 10, 1859, who died 
 September 17, 1885; Aimee J., born July 30, 
 1861 ; and Clarence P., who was born August 
 
 20,"i864, and died August 25, 1885. Ella J. 
 Howard is the wife of A. W. Drajier, D. D. S., 
 of P'o.xboro, and has three children — Alice 
 E. , Howard W. , and Aimee F. Draper. 
 Aimee J. Howard, who was for fifteen years a 
 school teacher, is now residing at the ancestral 
 home in Sharon. 
 
 C. Elbert Howard was educated in the com- 
 mon schools, and has always resided at the 
 homestead. He does general teaming, carries 
 on the farm, deals in wood. Politically, he is 
 independent, and votes for the candidates whom 
 he considers most capable of holding ofRce. 
 He is connected with St. Albans Lodge, F. & 
 A. M. ; Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- 
 sons; Excelsior Lodge, No. 87, I. O. O. F., 
 of Foxboro; and with the grange in Sharon. 
 Mr. Howard is unmarried. 
 
 WILLIAM H. 
 surance fin 
 & Son, of 1 
 
 NORRIS, of the in- 
 rm of William H. Norris 
 Boston, was born at Rum- 
 ney, N.H., September 24, 1838, son of John 
 and Mira (Holden) Norris. He comes of old 
 English and early Colonial stock, being a lin- 
 eal descendant of Nicholas Norris, who is 
 said to have arrived in this country about 
 1650, and who was married at Hampton, 
 N.H., in 1664, to Sarah Coxe. (See History 
 of Hampton; also Norris Genealogy, by 
 L. A. Morrison.) A few years later he re- 
 moved to Exeter, where he was a soldier in 
 the garrison in 1696, under Captain Hall. 
 He was living in Exeter as late as 1721. 
 John Norris, Sr. , father of John above named, 
 and a representative of the fifth generation of 
 the family in New England, was a first settler 
 at Effingham, N.H. He was a surveyor and 
 on the staff of surveyors of General Whilton, 
 whom he assisted in surveying upper Ver- 
 mont. He settled on a farm in Chelsea, Vt., 
 and later bought an estate at Groton, N.H., 
 where he lived until the time of his death. 
 He had eleven children and forty-eight grand- 
 children. 
 
 His son John was born in Chelsea, Vt., 
 September 22, 1794, and lived upon the home 
 farm until twenty-one years of age. He 
 taught the district school for a time, and then 
 went to Boston, where he learned and followed
 
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 the carpenter's and builder's trade. Later re- 
 moving to Plymouth, N.H., he resided there 
 four or five years. He then removed to Rum- 
 ney, Grafton County, N.H., where he built 
 the Baptist church. Finally settling in Gro- 
 ton, N.H., he lived there until 1870, when he 
 died at the age of seventy-six years. His 
 wife, Mira, was a daughter of David Holden, 
 a farmer of Groton, where she was born No- 
 vember 28, 1800. They had thirteen chil- 
 dren, twelve of whom attained adult age, and 
 eight are now living; namely, David, Mira 
 Ann, Ann Maria, Sarah F., William H., 
 Marietta L. , John A., and Harriet J. Mrs. 
 Norris died at the age of sixty-seven. Both 
 parents were members of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church; and the father, who was an ac- 
 complished musician and played on a variety 
 of instruments, was the musical director of 
 the choir for many years. He was a Free 
 Mason and Master of the local lodge for a 
 quarter of a century. 
 
 Until twenty-one years of age William H. 
 Norris lived at home with his parents, obtain- 
 ing his education in the public and private 
 schools of his native town, and assisting his 
 father upon the farm and at the trade of car- 
 pentering. Upon reaching his majority, he 
 became a clerk in the office of a life and fire 
 insurance company in Boston, and there con- 
 tinued until 1861. In October of that year he 
 enlisted in Company C, Thirty-second Regi- 
 ment, Massachusetts Volunteers; and he 
 serveii until July 17, 1865. He was on duty 
 in the brigade quartermaster's department, 
 and had charge of supplies, passing through 
 all the battles of the Army of the Potomac. 
 At the close of the war he re-entered the in- 
 surance business, and some years later took in 
 partnership Mr. J. K. Corthell, with whom he 
 was associated until 1892, when Mr. Corthell 
 retired, and his son, Harry A. Norris, became 
 his partner. The firm of William H. Norris 
 & -Son, well known as one of the oldest 
 agencies in the city, represent eighteen com- 
 panies, and do a very large business, making 
 a specialty of fire insurance. 
 
 Mr. Norris married in 1861 Calista M. 
 Jeffers, daughter of Ebenezer and Lucy A. 
 Jeffers, of Rumney, N.H., where her father 
 was a shoemaker. She was one of two chil- 
 
 dren. Her brother was lost in the war. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Norris have two sons — Clarence G. 
 and Harry A. Their only daughter, Wilhel- 
 mina C, died in iiS90, at the age of twenty- 
 six. Clarence G. Norris married Grace H. 
 Harshbarger. He is a graduate of the depart- 
 ment of civil engineering of the Massachu- 
 setts Institute of Technology, was employed 
 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for 
 four years, and now resides in Hyde Park. 
 Harry Adams Norris, who is in partnership 
 with his father, married Nettie B. House, and 
 has one son, Bradford Faunce. 
 
 Mr. Norris is a stanch Republican in poli- 
 tics. He is a prominent member of various 
 fraternities, namely: the Hyde Park Lodge, 
 F. & A. M.; Norfolk Chapter, R. A. M.; 
 Hyde Park Council; Cyprus Commandery, 
 K. T. ; and Timothy Ingraham Post, G. A. R. 
 He has been a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church since the age of twenty years, 
 has been treasurer of the society for twenty 
 years, and he served on the Board of Trustees 
 and Stewards as secretary and treasurer for 
 many years. He has always taken an active 
 interest in church matters, and has been espe- 
 cially attached to the Sunday-school, where 
 he has been a teacher for a long period. His 
 son Clarence is the superintendent, and his 
 second son is also active in the Sunday-school 
 and church work. 
 
 HARLES CASPER HENRY, editor 
 of the Wellesley Rcvieiv, was born 
 November i, 1852, in Brooklyn, 
 N.Y. His father, Nicholas Henry, 
 a native of Kaiserslautern, Germany, came to 
 this country when a young man, and settled in 
 N-ew York City, where he engaged in business 
 as a merchant tailor. Enlisting in Company 
 H, Fifty-second New York Volunteers, in 
 1861, he went to the front, was with the Army 
 of the Potomac two years, and was wounded at 
 Antietam. After serving some time in the 
 ranks, he received a commission as Second 
 Lieutenant of Company F in the same regi- 
 ment; and a little later, for gallant conduct 
 and meritorious services, he was promoted to 
 the rank of First J^ieutenant of that company. 
 He received his c^ischarge in 1864, and then 
 
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 483 
 
 went to Washington, where he was engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits until the time of his death 
 in 1866. His wife, Ann Catharine Schaffer, 
 who came to this country with her parents in 
 1831, was a native of Hesse-Cassel, Germany. 
 They were married in 1842 in New York, and 
 had nine children — Mary, Conrad, William, 
 Amelia, Charles Casper, Edward, Kate, 
 Annie, and Louise — four of whom, namely, 
 Mary, Catharine, Annie, and the subject of 
 this sketch are now living. 
 
 Charles Casper Henry was educated in the 
 public schools in Brooklyn, N.Y., and at Co- 
 lumbia Institute, Washington, D.C. After 
 leaving school, he returned to Brooklyn ; and 
 in 1870 he came to Massachusetts, and en- 
 gaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1881 he be- 
 came clerk for the Boston & Albany Railroad 
 at Natick, and continued to serve in that ca- 
 pacity until 1884, when he was appointed rail- 
 way station agent at Wellesley Hills, and at 
 about the same time assumed the editorship of 
 the Wellesley Courant. In 1893 he resigned 
 the charge of the Courant, and in the next 
 year became editor of the Wellesley Reviciv, 
 a position which he now holds. The Welles- 
 ley Revieiv is independent in politics, and is 
 devoted to the interests of the town. Mr. 
 Henry is also a correspondent of the Boston 
 press. 
 
 In politics he is a liberal Republican. He 
 was for six years secretary of the Norfolk 
 County Republican Committee, also a member 
 of the Republican Town Committee, and for 
 seven years Town Auditor of Wellesley. Mr. 
 Henry belongs to the Norfolk County Club. 
 He was made a Mason in Meridian Lodge, Na- 
 tick, Mass., where he held the position of 
 Master during the years 1 886 and 1 887, and was 
 District Deputy Grand Master in 1896 and 
 1897. He is a member of the Parker Royal 
 Arch Chapter, was its High Priest in 1891-92 
 and District Deputy Grand High Priest in 
 1894, 189s, and 1896, and is a permanent mem- 
 ber of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Massa- 
 chusetts to the Massachusetts Convention of 
 the Holy Order of High Priesthood. He is 
 a member of Natick Commandery, K. T., 
 being its present Recorder, and is also a 
 member of Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine, 
 of Boston. Mr. Henry served as chairman 
 
 of the committee that compiled the history 
 of Meridian Lodge, from 1797 to 1892 which 
 was published in 1892. 
 
 Mr. Henry was married in 1874 to Adeline 
 Sylvia, a daughter of Malachi Babcock, of 
 Natick. They have two children: Edward, 
 born in 1876, who was graduated from the 
 Harvard Dental College in the class of 1897; 
 and Grace Gertrude, who was born in 1878, 
 and is now studying at the State Normal 
 School at South P"ramingham. 
 
 r- 
 
 v. PATRICK H. CALLANAN, 
 A.M., the faithful, efficient, and be- 
 loved pastor of St. John's Church, 
 Newton Lower Falls, was born in 
 New York City, February 4, 1856. His par- 
 ents, Michael and Catherine (Jervois) Cal- 
 lanan, are natives of County Cork, Ireland. 
 Michael Callanan was born in 1824, and came 
 to this country in 1845, landing in New York 
 City, where he made his home for some time. 
 He now lives in Boston, and follows his for- 
 mer occupation, that of turner. He was mar- 
 ried in New York City in 1850 to Catherine, 
 daughter of Sampson and Ellen Jervois. She 
 was born in 1826, and came to this country in 
 1850. Six children were born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Callanan. The eldest, Ellen C, born 
 in New York City in 1852, is with her father. 
 Maria A., the second child, born in the same 
 place in 1854, was educated in Boston, attend- 
 ing the Girls' High and the Normal School, 
 and is now a teacher in the Quincy Primary 
 School in that city. Mary and Katie died 
 young. Sampson A. Callanan, born at Port 
 Jervis, N. Y., in 1861, took the degrees of 
 Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts at Boston 
 College, and later the degree of Doctor of 
 Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. 
 He is now a practising physician, with office 
 at 82 Warren Street, Roxbury. Dr. Calla- 
 nan married Miss Mary Harkins, and has 
 three children — -Paul, Frank, and Charlotte 
 — the eldest six years old. 
 
 P. H. Callanan acquired his early education 
 in the public schools of New York. In Sep- 
 tember, 1870, he entered Boston College, 
 graduating with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts in June, 1877, and two years later receiv-
 
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 ing the degree of Master of Arts from the 
 same institution. In September, 1877, he 
 entered St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, N. Y., 
 and was appointed "Master of Choir" and in- 
 structor of music the following September. 
 He received Ecclesiastical Tonsure from 
 Bishop Mclnerney, of Albany, December 21, 
 1878; received Minor Orders from Bishop 
 VVadhams, of Ogdensburg, June 7, 1879; re- 
 ceived the Subdeaconship from Bishop Mc- 
 lnerney, December 20, 1879; the Deaconship 
 from Bishop Healy, of Portland, May 22, 
 1880; and was ordained Priest by Bishop Mc- 
 lnerney, December 18, 1880. On January i, 
 1881, he was appointed by Archbishop Will- 
 iams curate at the Church of the Sacred Heart, 
 East Cambridge. There he labored three 
 years. Early in 1884 he was transferred to 
 West Newton to take charge of that parish 
 during the illness of the Rev. Father Mc- 
 Grath, and a few months later was appointed 
 pastor of Foxboro, Wrentham, and Medfield. 
 November 27, 1890, he was appointed pastor 
 of Newton Lower Falls. 
 
 P'ather Callanan gave evidence of a brill- 
 iant future early in his college life. He was 
 Captain of the College Baseball Club, Prefect 
 of the Sodality, President of the Debating So- 
 ciety, and Major of the Military Battalion. 
 In 1886 he was appointed paid military in- 
 structor to his fellow-collegians by the late 
 Father Fulton. He won many honors, and 
 every purse of gold granted for excellence in 
 special branches of study, a feat performed 
 by no other student since the college was 
 founded. Possessed of natural histrionic 
 talent, he won laurels before the footlights. 
 Edwin Booth attended one of the rehearsals of 
 "Richelieu," which the college students were 
 preparing for presentation on the stage, and 
 was much impressed with the ability of the 
 young student. The stage held out to him 
 promises of a distinguished future, but after 
 completing his college course he betook him- 
 self to a theological seminary to equip himself 
 for the highest and noblest work of man. 
 When he entered on his pastorate in Foxboro, 
 the parish was in a very unfavorable condi- 
 tion. The parishioners were at odds, the 
 parish was heavily involved in debt, having 
 lost two churches by fire, and the society was 
 
 discontented and discouraged. I<"ather Calla- 
 nan went to work in earnest; and, his spirit 
 being soon emulated by the people, they be- 
 came reunited, and prosperity smiled upon 
 them. He at first beautified the old church 
 and improved the grounds, then built another 
 church at a cost of several thousand dollars, 
 which was out of debt at the close of his six 
 years' pastorate, there being a surplus in the 
 treasury besides. In November, 1890, he 
 took charge of St. John's Parish at Newton 
 Lower F"alls, where he found the conditions 
 almost similar to what they had been in Fox- 
 boro when he went there. With the same 
 spirit he had displayed elsewhere, taking as 
 his motto, "With bigotry for none and charity 
 for all," he went to work; and his efforts re- 
 sulted in a new and handsome parochial resi- 
 dence, new stable, a practically new church, 
 the old one being repaired and embellished, 
 and the grounds about the church property 
 graded and beautified. The spirit of the 
 pastor magnetized the flock. The church at- 
 tendance was largely increased; and on De- 
 cember 18, 1895, the entire property was de- 
 clared free from debt. That date was the 
 fifteenth anniversary of his ordination to the 
 priesthood; and his parishioners and many of 
 the leading citizens of the place met in St. 
 John's Parish Hall to tender their congratula- 
 tions, to express in a series of resolutions 
 their appreciation of his services, and to pre- 
 sent him with a generous token of esteem and 
 gratitude, a purse of eleven hundred dollars. 
 The occasion was one of heartfelt interest and 
 rejoicing. Addresses were made by members 
 of the parish and visiting friends, Catholic 
 and non-Catholic, speaking of the spiritual 
 growth of the parish, the work of Father Cal- 
 lanan in behalf of good citizenship and his 
 public spirit ; and congratulatory letters were 
 read from Archbishop Williams, the Hon. 
 E. P. Carpenter, and others. 
 
 Father Callanan is a tireless worker for the 
 cause of total abstinence; and that may be the 
 reason why, as one of the Selectmen stated at 
 the anniversary testimonial, there were no 
 paupers in Newton Lower Falls. 
 
 His influence is not confined to his own 
 church, but extends to town affairs. In Fox- 
 boro he found the streets about his church in
 
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 a deplorable condition. He induced the town 
 to widen the street on which his church stood, 
 and concrete the sidewalks; and he was influ- 
 ential in calling a special town meeting for 
 the purpose of opening and grading new 
 streets. His efforts, united with tliose of 
 other progressive citizens, secured the con- 
 struction of one of the best water -works sys- 
 tems in the Commonwealth. Father Callanan 
 is thoroughly American in sentiment. His 
 patriotism was alluded to by one of the 
 speakers at the anniversary testimonial on 
 December 18, 1895 (Mr. H. J. Jaquith), who 
 gave the following incident: "Mr. Alexander 
 H. Stephens, ex-vice-president of the Confed- 
 eracy, was visiting Mr. Jaquith; and the latter 
 took him to Father Callanan's church on Sun- 
 day. The priest had just been elected to the 
 Grand Army, and the post attended in a body 
 to listen to his sermon. His discourse was a 
 thrilling and eloquent one on the patriotism 
 of the North, and naturally did not suit Mr. 
 Stephens, who asked, 'Why did you bring me 
 to hear that?'" Father Callanan bears the 
 good will of the entire community, and with- 
 out doubt has done a great deal of good in his 
 seven years' pastorate at Lower Falls in ele- 
 vating the moral and social standing of his 
 people. 
 
 fRVING C. WEBSTER, an enterprising 
 leather merchant of Boston and a resi- 
 dent of Hyde Park, was born in Cam- 
 bridgeport, Mass., November 3, 1X57, 
 son of the Rev. Amos and Adeline E. (Con- 
 verse) Webster. His great-grandfather Web- 
 ster was killed in the battle of l^ennington; 
 and his grandfather, Amos Webster, who was 
 born May 10, 1773, and who followed agri- 
 cultural pursuits in Rumney, N. H., died 
 there July 10, 1854, aged eighty-one years, 
 having outlived his three wives. His first 
 wife, Mary Hall, whom he married on Febru- 
 ary 19, 1797, was born on February 15, 1775, 
 and died May 9, 1836. She was the mother 
 of nine children, among whom was the Rev. 
 Amos Webster, father of Irving C. His sec- 
 ond wife, Lydia Sanborn, died July 4, 1846; 
 and Dorothy Bagley, his third wife, died 
 April 29, 1853. 
 
 The Rev. Amos Webster was born in Rum- 
 ney, June 23, 1817. His early education was 
 obtained in the district schools; and at the age 
 of seventeen he went to Ouincy, Mass., where 
 he was for a time employed in a granite 
 quarry. He later taught school, and by dili- 
 gence and perseverance acquired means to 
 complete his education. After graduating 
 from the New Hampton (N.H.) Theological 
 Institute, he settled as pastor of the BajHist 
 church at Newton Upper Falls, Mass. ; and 
 he also supplied pulpits in other parts of the 
 State. In i860 he settled in Hyde Park; and, 
 besides supplying the pulpit here at times, he 
 edited the Christian Era for eighteen years. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Baptist 
 church in Hyde Park, with which he was ac- 
 tively connected for the rest of his life; and he 
 was also interested in educational affairs, serv- 
 ing upon the School Committee for eighteen 
 years. The degree of Master of Arts was con- 
 ferred upon him by Colby University, Water- 
 ville, Me., and that of Doctor of Divinity by 
 Columbia College. 
 
 The Rev. Amos Webster passed his declin- 
 ing years in retirement with hrs son Irving C, 
 and died February 14, 1894. His wife, Ade- 
 line E. Converse, was born in Boston, May 
 30, 1S28, daughter of Benjamin and Adeline 
 B. (Battell) Converse. Her father was born 
 in Connecticut, February 2, 179S; and her 
 mother was born in Dover, Mass., September 
 
 14, 1801. The Converse family is traceable 
 to one Roger de Coigneviese, who accom- 
 panied William the Conqueror from Normandy 
 and fought in the battle of Hastings. The 
 American ancestor emigrated in 1630, settling 
 in Charlestown, Mass., and established the 
 first ferry between that place and Boston. 
 The Genealogy of the family was issued in 
 1887. Benjamin Converse was for many years 
 a provision dealer; and his last days were 
 spent in Cambridgeport, where he died May 
 
 15, 1874. He was a member of the Baptist 
 church. His wife, Adeline Battell, whom he 
 married July 30, 1821, died November 29, 
 1884. She was the mother of three children, 
 all of whom are still living; namely, two sons 
 and Mrs. Webster. Five children were born 
 to the Rev. and Mrs. Amos Webster, and 
 three of them are living, namely: Ella, wife
 
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 of S. S. Knowles; Irving C, the subject of 
 this sketch; and Florence, wife of Samuel 
 Albee. Mr. Webster's mother resides with 
 him. 
 
 Irving C. Webster was educated in the com- 
 mon and high schools of Hyde Park, and when 
 nineteen years old he entered the leather busi- 
 ness in Boston as a clerk for Proctor, Hunt & 
 Haskell. After remaining with that concern 
 five years, he became a travelling salesman in 
 the same line, continuing upon the road until 
 1894, since which time he has been in busi- 
 ness for himself at Ii8 Summer Street, Bos- 
 ton. He is actively interested in the progress 
 and improvement of Hyde Park, was one of 
 the founders of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association in this town, serving as its first 
 secretary, was formerly vice-president, and is 
 at the present time a director. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Advisory Committee of the Baptist 
 church, with which he has been officially con- 
 nected since early manhood, and for several 
 years acted as assistant superintendent of the 
 Sunday-school. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can. He is a member of Hyde Park Lodge, 
 F. & A. M. ; a charter member of Allon Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F. ; was formerly secretary of the 
 encampment, is a past officer of the Royal Ar- 
 canum; and is a member of the Leather Trade 
 Club of Boston. 
 
 On November 20, 1879, Mr. Webster was 
 united in marriage with Mary E. Allen. She 
 was born in Chipman, N.B., April 13, 1858, 
 daughter of John and Jennie Allen, who were 
 the parents of a large family. Mrs. Mary E. 
 Webster died December 17, 1893, leaving two 
 children — -Edith L. and Chester C. Mr. 
 Webster was married a second time, Novem- 
 ber 17, 1897, to Miss E. Theresa Gaffney, of 
 Killingly, Conn., daughter of Mrs. Emily T. 
 Gaffney. 
 
 |HARLES H. SMITH, an esteemed 
 |, resident of Dedham and the Treas- 
 'is ^ urer of Norfolk County, was born in 
 Dover, Mass., April 5, 1850. A 
 son of Abner L. Smith, he is a lineal de- 
 scendant of one of the pioneer settlers of this 
 part of Massachusetts. His great-grand- 
 father, John Williams, was a lifelong resident 
 
 of Norfolk County, and had the honor of being 
 the first to have his name inscribed as a mem- 
 ber of Constellation Lodge, V. & A. M. The 
 paternal grandfather, Ebenezer Smith, was 
 born and reared in Dover. After a few years 
 spent in Connecticut, where he owned and 
 operated a mill, he resided in his native town 
 during the remainder (jf his life, and died 
 there at the age of threescore and ten years. 
 He was a millwright and carpenter, and often 
 walked the seventeen miles intervening be- 
 tween Dover and Boston, when his work was 
 in that city. 
 
 Abner L. Smith was brought up on a farm, 
 and received his education in the old Eliot 
 School at Jamaica Plain. On attaining man's 
 estate, he settled on a farm in Dover, where 
 he was engaged in agricultural jiursuits until 
 his death, when but fifty-five years old. He 
 was prominently identified with the leading 
 interests of the town, serving as Overseer of 
 the Poor, Assessor, and Town Clerk for up- 
 ward of twenty years, and for a long time as 
 chairman of the Board of Selectmen. He 
 married Mary W. Howe, one of the seven 
 children of Isaac and Betsey Howe, of Dover. 
 Though now seventy years old, she is still 
 active, a regular attendant of the Unitarian 
 church, as was her husband, and takes part in 
 the church work. 
 
 Charles H. Smith remained with his par- 
 ents until seventeen years of age, receiving a 
 good common-school education. Then he 
 learned the trade of a machinist, for which he 
 had a natural aptitude. He soon became an 
 expert in the handling of engines, and for 
 some time ran locomotive engines on their 
 trial trips for the Grant Locomotive Works 
 at Paterson, N.J. He superintended the 
 setting up the engine that won the gold 
 medal at the Paris E.xposition for this com- 
 pany. He put the first steam air brake used 
 in this country on a Rogers locomotive, and 
 helped build the first traction engine seen in 
 the United States. After continuing in this 
 line of work for seven years, he returned to his 
 native town, and was there engaged in general 
 farming for si.x years. He served for twelve 
 years as Town Clerk, and was Selectman for 
 nine years, being chairman of the board dur- 
 ing the last three years of that period. He
 
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 was also an Overseer of the Poor and a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Health. He has been 
 Justice of the Peace for many years, having 
 been appointed by Governor John D. Long; 
 and in 1889 he was appointed by Governor 
 Ames as one of a Board of Commissioners to 
 administer oaths to county officers. In 1889 
 Mr. Smith was elected to his present respon- 
 sible position as County Treasurer. Since 
 then he has been re-elected four times, receiv- 
 ing the nomination and hearty support of 
 both parties, a noteworthy proof of his popu- 
 larity. In 1890 he removed to Dedham, 
 which he has since made his home. 
 
 On November 14, 1876, Mr. Smith married 
 Miss Mary H. Humphrey, one of the five chil- 
 dren of Captain and Mrs. John Humphrey. 
 Her father was formerly a sea captain and for 
 many years was engaged in the tea trade in 
 China. He was afterward placed in charge 
 of the United States war vessel ".Swatara," 
 during the late Rebellion, and is now secre- 
 tary of the Boston Marine Society. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Smith have si.x children; namely, Bessie 
 M., Maud C, Abner H., Edith H., Anson 
 C, and Celia M. In politics Mr. Smith is a 
 tried and true Republican. He was one of 
 the founders of the Norfollv Club of Boston, 
 and is now its vice-president. A Master 
 Mason, he belongs to Constellation Lodge, as 
 did his grandfather and great-grandfather. 
 He is also a member of the Dedham Histori- 
 cal Society and an ardent lover of the rod 
 and gun. He is the president of the Dedham 
 Sportsman's Club, one of the largest organ- 
 izations of the kind in New England. Both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Uni- 
 tarian Church of Dedham, and are active in 
 religious work. They were formerly con- 
 nected with the church of that denomination 
 in Dover, he having been also one of the 
 Parish Committee. 
 
 UGENE C. PLIMPTON, of Sharon, a 
 highly successful cranberry grower was 
 born in this town, P'ebruary 26, 
 1845, son of Lyman and Louisa (Capen) 
 Plimpton. His farm is the one on which 
 Ziba Plimpton, Sr., his great-grandfather, set- 
 tled in 1 78 1. Ziba Plimpton, Sr., was born 
 
 in South Walpole, Mass., in 1751. He was a 
 prominent citizen of Sharon in his day. He 
 died in 1821. 
 
 Ziba Plimpton, Jr., son of the elder Ziba, 
 was born in South Walpole in 1780. He was 
 six months old when his parents moved to 
 Sharon; and he resided in the old Plimpton 
 house until 1807, when he built the dwelling 
 now occupied by his grandson, Eugene C. 
 His children, named respectively George, 
 Jeremiah, Harriet, and Lyman, were reared 
 there; and he continued to occupy it until his 
 death, which occurred in 1870, at the age of 
 ninety years. 
 
 Lyman Plimpton, the youngest son, was 
 born in West Sharon, July 26, 181 3. He re- 
 sided in the house built by his father until 
 after his marriage, when he repaired the old 
 Ziba Plimpton house opposite, and occupied 
 that for the greater part of his life. His ac- 
 tive years were spent in tilling the soil of the 
 farm which he inherited, and he was one of 
 the useful and highly respected citizens of his 
 day. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Louisa Capen, was born in Stoughton, Mass., 
 in 1817. She became the mother of five chil- 
 dren, as follows: Lyman M. ; Louisa A. ; Eu- 
 gene C, the subject of this sketch; Lewis F.; 
 and Harriet May. Lyman M. resides in Col- 
 orado. Louisa A. married Henry Cutler, a 
 merchant of Northampton, Mass., and has had 
 two children: Martha H. ; and Louisa S., 
 who is no longer living. Lewis P., who is 
 carrying on mercantile business in Northamp- 
 ton, married Chiara Curtis, of Amherst, 
 Mass., and has two children — Emily and 
 Fanny. Harriet May is now residing in 
 West Sharon. 
 
 P'or several years previous to his death it 
 had been the custom for Mr. and Mrs. Lyman 
 Plimpton to spend their winters with their 
 daughter in Northampton, and return to the 
 old homestead in the spring. Being ill in 
 the spring of 1896, he did not undertake the 
 journey home until July; and the end came on 
 August I, 1896, in the presence of most of his 
 family. The funeral services were conducted 
 by Sanford Waters Billings, of Sharon, who 
 referred touchingly to the honorable career 
 and upright character of the departed and the 
 four surviving grandchildren rendered some
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 of the favorite hymns which they had fre- 
 quently sung for their grandfather while in 
 life. 
 
 Eugene C. Plimpton, the third child and 
 second son of Lyman and Louisa C. Plimpton, 
 was educated in the common schools; and after 
 finishing his studies he began to learn the ma- 
 chinist's trade in Northampton. In June, 
 1863, he enlisted in the United States Navy 
 at Charlestown, Mass. ; but, after serving in 
 the North Atlantic Squadron for a short 
 time, he went to Bridgeport, Conn., and en- 
 tered the Howe Sewing Machine factory. He 
 remained with that concern until 1877 as con- 
 tractor, and was quite successful in that line. 
 Later for a time he was extensively engaged 
 in raising sheep in Southern Colorado; and, 
 selling out in 1880, he went to the mining 
 districts of Leadville. In 1882 he went to 
 Orange County, California, where he was in 
 the fruit-raising business a year and a half; 
 and in 1884 he returned to the homestead in 
 Sharon. He has fifty acres of well-improved 
 land, including eight acres of meadow, which 
 he uses for raising cranberries, doing a large 
 business in that line, selling exclusively in 
 the wholesale market. His crop for 1897 was 
 nearly one thousand barrels. 
 
 In November, 1875, Mr. Plimpton married 
 Helen Louise Blinn, of Hartford, Conn. She 
 is a daughter of George H. and Louise M. 
 (Eno) Blinn, the former of whom was born in 
 New Jersey, and the latter in Hartford. Mr. 
 Blinn is now residing in New Haven, Conn. 
 Mrs. Blinn died in 1883. Mrs. Plimpton is 
 an Episcopalian. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Plim])ton acts with the Re- 
 publican party: and while residing in Bridge- 
 port he was a member of the Common Coun- 
 cil. He is well advanced in Masonry, being 
 a member of St. John Lodge, F. & A. M. ; 
 Jerusalem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; and 
 Hamilton Commandery, Knights Templar, of 
 Bridgeport. The Plimpton family is widely 
 and favorably known in this vicinity. Mrs. 
 Louisa Capen Plimpton and her daughter re- 
 side in the old Ziba Plimpton house. It is 
 worthy of note that the golden anniversaries 
 of the weddings of three children of Ziba 
 Plimpton, Jr. — namely, Jeremiah, Lyman, 
 and Mrs. Joseph Swan — were celebrated the 
 
 same year; and it is exceedingly doubtful if 
 this coincidence can be paralleled. 
 
 fHOMAS JEFFI?RSON DANIELS, a 
 prominent farmer of Franklin and rep- 
 resentative of one of the old- families, 
 was born here, April 10, 1826, only son of 
 Nathan and Roxana (Thayer) Daniels. His 
 grandfather, Nathan Daniels, second, and his 
 grandfather's brother, Adams Daniels, came 
 to Franklin with their parents, Nathan and 
 Mary (Adams) Daniels (formerly spelled 
 Daniell), from East Medway in 1767. 
 Adams Daniels later settled in Medfield. 
 
 Nathan Daniels, second, who was born in 
 1748, and who fought in the war of the Revo- 
 lution in 1775, was a farmer by occupation. 
 He was also a Justice of the Peace and a 
 Judge, and he settled many estates. He died 
 in 1 84 1. He had been twice married, and 
 had reared seven children; namely, Cyrus, 
 Ezra, Luke, Nathan (third), Dorcas, Sal lie, 
 and Olive. The third Nathan, father of 
 Thomas J., was a farmer through life, and al- 
 ways lived at the old homestead. He died in 
 1872. His wife, who was the daughter of 
 Nahum Thayer, an auger maker of Medway, 
 was born in Sherborn. They had three 
 children — -Thomas Jefferson, Lucy Gilbert, 
 and Harriet Adeline. ■ Lucy Daniels is the 
 widow of William A. Baldwin, and lives in 
 West Medway. Adeline is Mrs. William A. 
 Bartlett, of this town. 
 
 Mr. Thomas J. Daniels, the subject of this 
 sketch, having obtained his educatioii^jn the 
 common schools of Franklin, remaiiied at 
 home until twenty-one years of age, when he 
 went into a shoe shop in Sherborn, where he 
 worked for two months. He then worked in a 
 machine shop in West Medway for four 
 months, and later at Caryville in the cotton 
 manufactory for three months. Then, being 
 sick, he came home-. Upon regaining his 
 health, he went into the lumber business, and 
 carried on farming on the old farm-. . He came 
 to his present farm "in 1865. He now owns 
 about three hundred acres, and still continues 
 in the wood business, sawing and splitting 
 wood, and selling it. He has held the office 
 of Highway Surveyor for about thirty years,
 
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 489 
 
 and has been Forest Fire Warden for ten 
 years. In politics he is a Democrat. 
 
 In October, 1853, Mr. Daniels was married 
 to Celia Ann riici<s, of Swansea, Mass., 
 daughter of Jacob Hicks. She died in 1857, 
 leaving one child, Nathan A., now living in 
 Franklin, and engaged in the wood and lum- 
 ber business. He married Emma Ackley, 
 and has four children; namely, limery 
 Nathan, Frank Jefferson, Bertha lilizabeth, 
 and Eva Celia. 
 
 On November 12, i860, Mr. Daniels mar- 
 ried his second wife. Miss Mary E. Billings, 
 a native of Sharon, Mass., born August 22, 
 1838, daughter of Dudley and Achsah 
 (Thayer) Billings. Her father, who was a 
 native of Foxboro, was a farmer, and lived 
 during the greater part of his life in Canton 
 and Sharon. He died in Canton in May, 
 1856; and his wife, a native of Easton, died 
 December 10, 1861. Their children were: 
 Spencer, who was born January 4, 1820, and 
 died in 1882; Angeline, born in 1822; Ach- 
 sah, born in 1S24; Warren, born in 1827; 
 Ruhama, born in 1830; and Mrs. Mary E. 
 Daniels, who is the only one now living. 
 Mrs. Daniels's maternal grandfather, Na- 
 thaniel Thayer, lived in Easton. His wife, 
 Phoebe Thayer, died in Medway. 
 
 There have been six children by Mr. 
 Daniels's second marriage; namely, Nahum 
 Ellsworth, Oscar Jefferson, Cyrus Weston, 
 Carrie Alice, Dora Elizabeth, and Ella 
 Ruhama. Nahum Ellsworth Daniels, who 
 was born October 20, 1861, married Almira 
 Amanda Roberts, and is now living in Perry, 
 la. He is a freight conductor on the Chicago, 
 Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, having been 
 an employee for the past fourteen years. He 
 is a member of the Brotherhood Railroad 
 Trainmen's -Lodge, and holds the office of 
 Financier. 
 
 For the past ten years he has represented 
 this lodge at the annual convention, it being 
 held in 1897 at Toronto, Canada, where he 
 acted as delegate. He has three children; 
 namely, Mabel Elizabeth, Ella May, and 
 Warren Ellsworth. Mr. Nahum E. Daniels 
 is also an active member of the Odd Fellows 
 Lodge and the Order of Red Men. Oscar, 
 who was born November 4, 1869, lives at 
 
 I'^ranklin, and is in the bicycle store. Cyrus, 
 born February 6, 1874, died at the age of one 
 year and seven months. Carrie, born in Jan- 
 uary, 1876, and Ella, born February 7, 1883, 
 are at home. Dora, who was born in Septem- 
 ber, 1879, died at the age of one year, eleven 
 months, and five days. 
 
 lOSES BOYD, the oldest railroad 
 conductor in point of service in 
 the United States, is a resident 
 of Dedham, Norfolk County, 
 Mass., where he was born October 29, 1815. 
 His father, David Boyd, was born in Dedham; 
 but his grandfather, Robert Boyd, coming 
 from thrifty Scottish ancestry, was a native of 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 David Boyd was left an orphan when but 
 seven years of age; and from that time until 
 attaining his majority he lived on a farm in 
 West Dedham, obtaining his education in the 
 district schools. After his marriage he pur- 
 chased a farm in that locality, and for several 
 years engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. 
 He subsequently sold his farming property, 
 and spent his declining days at the home of his 
 son Moses, passing away at the venerable age 
 of ninety-three years. He was a man of fine 
 traits of character, generous and just in his es- 
 timates of his fellow-men, and was held in 
 high regard throughout the community. He 
 took great interest in the Unitarian church, of 
 which both he and his good wife were active 
 members. Of their five children two are still 
 living, namely : Mrs. MarySjjear; and Moses, 
 the special subject of this brief biographical 
 sketch. Mrs. Boyd, whose maiden name was 
 Polly French, was born in West Dedham, a 
 daughter of Samuel and Mary P"rench. She 
 lived to the advanced age of eighty-six years. 
 
 Moses Boyd remained beneath the parental 
 roof until eighteen years old, when he went 
 into the cabinet shop of Russell & Baker at 
 the "Upper Village " to learn the trade of a 
 cabinet-maker; and for some ten years there- 
 after he followed that branch of the business 
 known as wood-turning. In 1843 Mr. Boyd 
 entered the employ of the railroad company, 
 and, as conductor, brakeman, and baggage- 
 master, took entire charge of the railway
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 train, which made two daily trips between 
 Dedham and Boston. At that early day there 
 were but two stations between Dedham and 
 Forest Hills; and at Hyde Park, where only 
 two families patronized the road, if a member 
 of either desired to ride into Boston on the 
 train he signified his intention by standing 
 beside the track, and the engineer, who was 
 on the lookout for passengers, stopped for 
 him. Under the most favorable conditions 
 forty-five minutes were consumed in those 
 days in the passage to and from Boston ; and 
 on several occasions in the winter season Mr. 
 Boyd was obliged to leave his train stuck fast 
 in the snow, while he and the passengers 
 walked to their destination. Since he became 
 connected with the road, fifty-four years ago, 
 all of the earlier officials have passed away; 
 and he has lived to see the wonderful improve- 
 ments and the greatly increased facilities of 
 transportation throughout the country. Two 
 railroads, representing two great railway sys- 
 tems, now pass through Dedham ; and the 
 number of trains between here and Boston 
 has been increased to fifty per day. For 
 fifty-three years Mr. Boyd served as conduc- 
 tor, resigning his position in 1896, although 
 he still acts as assistant, going into Boston 
 three times each day. He has ever been a 
 faithful ofifioial of the company which he has 
 served for so many years, and is well known 
 along the entire length of the road, being one 
 of the most popular and respected conductors 
 in the service. 
 
 On December 25, 1840, Mr. Boyd mar- 
 ried Miss Olive Guild, who was born in West 
 Dedham, being one of the nine children of 
 Reuben A. Guild, a prosperous blacksmith 
 and wheelwright of that part of the town. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are the parents of seven 
 children, six of whom are yet living; namely, 
 Maria L. , Moses Gardner, Frank R., Ella E., 
 Charles M., and Fred W. Maria L. Boyd is 
 the wife of Cornelius A. Taft, paying teller in 
 the Webster Bank, Boston, and has one child, 
 Ella L. Moses Gardner Boyd, who married 
 Harriet T. Wolcott, has three children — 
 Gardner, Robert St. Barbe, and Margaret. 
 Frank R. Boyd married Julia Thorpe, and has 
 one child, Walter. Ella E. Boyd is the wife 
 of Jeremiah Williams, and has three children 
 
 — Mildred, Gardner, and Malcolm. Charles 
 M., who married Jennie Parker, has three 
 children — Charles Parker, Olive, and Elea- 
 nor, p-red W. Boyd married Ella Neale, of 
 Hyde Park, and has three daughters — Flor- 
 ence N., Marion, and Helen. 
 
 In politics Mr. Boyd, who was for many 
 years a Democrat, is independent, having the 
 courage of his convictions, and voting for the 
 best men and best measures irrespective of 
 party affiliations. He is of the liberal type 
 in religion and an attendant of the Unitarian 
 church. Mrs. Boyd died January 10, 1884. 
 
 7T\HARLES RICE, a retired fruit-grower 
 I V^ of Wellesley, the son of Charles and 
 ^Is^^ Maria (Jennings) Rice, was born in 
 Needham, now Wellesley Falls, Oc- 
 tober 10, 1823. His paternal grandfather 
 came to Massachusetts from Wales, and, set- 
 tling in Brighton, was there engaged as a 
 butcher up to the time of his death. 
 
 Charles Rice, Sr., son of the immigrant, 
 was born in Brighton in 1787. He engaged 
 in the paper manufacturing business at Need- 
 ham Lower Falls, and became a prominent 
 man in the town, where he held the office 
 of Selectman a number of times, was the 
 Representative of his district to the General 
 Court, and also filled other positions of public 
 trust. He was a member of Meridian Lodge, 
 A. F. & A. M., at Needham Lower Falls, 
 also a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and 
 of the commandery, Knights Templar. He 
 was married twice. His first wife was Lucy 
 Mann, of Needham ; and his second wife was 
 Maria Jennings, of Natick. 
 
 Charles Rice, son of Charles, Sr. , and IMaria 
 J. Rice, acquired his general education in the 
 Wellesley public school, Marshall's private 
 school at Newton Centre, at Seth Davis Acad- 
 emy at West Newton, and at Holliston Acad- 
 emy. After leaving the academy, he took a 
 course at Comer's Commercial College in Bos- 
 ton, and then went into a real estate ofifice in 
 that city with Samuel Rice. He next ac- 
 cepted a position with a merchant by the name 
 of Turner, to settle up accounts, but soon left 
 to take charge of affairs at home. In 1850 he 
 went into the lumber business at Needham
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 49' 
 
 Lower Falls, in which he was engaged until 
 
 1862. During the war he was in the custom- 
 house in Boston under Collector Hannibal 
 Hamlin. He held this position for nineteen 
 months, and was the only inspector of lumber 
 in vessels in the ports of Boston, Brighton, 
 Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, Neponset, 
 and Dorchester. He had to inspect all the 
 limiber imported, and deliver a written report 
 to the appraiser, Mr. Frost. After this he 
 went into the coal business at Needham for a 
 short time. When his father died, he bought 
 out the heirs in part; and since that time he 
 has lived in a residence of his own near the 
 old homestead, engaged until 1895 in growing 
 fruit for the market. In that year he sold a 
 large part of his estate and retired from busi- 
 'ness. In politics Mr. Rice is a Democrat. 
 
 He was married in 1850 to Harriet M., a 
 (laughter of Charles Brigham, of Lexington, 
 this State. She died June 7, i860. Her 
 children were: Herbert Francis, who was born 
 in 1852, and died in 1883; Hattie Brigham, 
 born in 1857, who married Frank Crowell, and 
 died in 1880; and Lizzie and Mary, who both 
 died in infancy. Mr. Rice was married again 
 in 1861 to Ellen, a daughter of Dr. Charles F. 
 Hartvvell, of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Rice 
 have three children — Charles Irving, born in 
 
 1863, doing business in Boston; Clifford 
 Hartwell, born in 1870, who married Mabel le 
 Camille Haskins, and is general manager for 
 the New England States of the Niagara Fire 
 Insurance Company of New York; and Cath- 
 arine Shepherd, born in 1877, living at home. 
 
 7TAHARLES T. CRANE, for the past 
 I Vx eighteen years treasurer of the Wey- 
 V^is mouth Savings Bank, was born in 
 
 Braintree, Mass., September 19, 
 1843, son of John and Elizabeth (Nash) 
 Crane. His paternal grandfather was John 
 Crane, an agriculturist, and the first ancestor 
 in this country one Henry Crane, an early 
 settler of Dorchester, Mass., and of English 
 origin. John Crane (second), during the last 
 thirty years of his life, carried on a retail boot 
 and shoe store in Weymouth. He died in Oc- 
 tober, 1892, his widow and three children sur- 
 viving him, namely: Eliza N., wife of Nathan 
 
 O. Smith, of Weymouth; Charles T. ; and S. 
 Augusta. 
 
 The subject of this sketch grew to man's es- 
 tate in the town of Braintree. He received a 
 common-school education, which he has since 
 supplemented by general reading and practical 
 business experience. At the age of nineteen 
 he went to work as a clerk in his father's 
 store. Two years later he became a member 
 of the firm, and carried on the business in 
 company with his father until 1874, when he 
 retired, in order to become book-keeper for the 
 Hall Safe and Lock Company, of Boston. He 
 subsequently spent a year in Wisconsin and 
 Minnesota, in 1878 returning to Weymouth to 
 enter the Savings Bank, of which institution 
 he was made treasurer in 1879, and with which 
 he has since remained connected. Mr. Crane 
 married Lavonne E. Walbridge, of Boston. 
 They have no children. He is a Republican 
 in politics, but with Independent proclivities. 
 He has for many years been a Deacon in the 
 Union Congregational Church of Weymouth, 
 and for several years served as superintendent 
 of the Simday-school. He is also a member 
 of Weymouth Chapter, Royal Arcanum. 
 
 RANCIS F. BULLOCK, a well-known 
 contractor and builder of South Wey- 
 mouth, was born in Stanstead, P. Q. , 
 Canada, September 24, 1840, son of Noble 
 and Annis (Abbott) Bullock. His father, son 
 of an early settler of Stanstead County, was 
 in early life engaged in mercantile business 
 there, but afterward turned his attention to 
 farming. He died in the forty-ninth year of 
 his age. 
 
 Francis F. Bullock was brought up on his 
 father's farm, and was educated in the schools 
 of his native county. He then served an ap- 
 prenticeship to a carpenter and builder. In 
 November, 1861, he came to South Wey- 
 mouth, and for several years was employed 
 here as a mechanic in a box factory owned by 
 E. and C. Sherman. Subsequently he re- 
 turned to Stanstead to engage in general mer- 
 cantile business with his brother, A. Fenton 
 Bullock, under the firm name of A. F. Bullock 
 & Co. Still later he returned to South Wey- 
 mouth, and worked here for a while at his trade
 
 492 
 
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 of carpenter. He then tried farming for two 
 years in Cloud County, Kansas. Tliere he had 
 ai.so some experience in building; and, finally 
 returning to South Weymouth, he established 
 himself here as a contractor and builder, and 
 has since been quite successful. By the reli- 
 able quality of his work he has gained the re- 
 spect and ciinfidence of the business com- 
 munity. 
 
 Mr. Bullock married C. Fannie Curtis, a 
 native of this town. They have one adopted 
 daughter, E. Helen. Mr. Bullock is a mem- 
 ber of Wildey Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of which 
 he was one of the organizers. He is also a di- 
 rector in the .South Weymouth Co-operative 
 Bank, of which -he has been a stockholder 
 since its organization. He is independent in 
 politics, and is interested in town affairs and 
 all movements for the improvement of the 
 town or county. He is a member of the Uni- 
 versalist Church Society, of which he is also 
 treasurer. 
 
 JOSEPH ST. JOHN, who carries on a 
 thriving general mercantile business in 
 Cohasset, was born in St. John's, N.F., 
 October 15, 1844, son of James and 
 Anastasia (Powers) St. John, the father being 
 a native of Ireland, and the mother of New- 
 foundland. James St. John, who was a tailor 
 by trade, moved from Newfoundland to East 
 Boston, where he remained some four years, 
 and then located in Cohasset. He followed 
 his trade in this town for over thirty years, 
 and resided here until his death, which oc- 
 curred in 1893, at the age of eighty-two years. 
 He was the father of four children — Mar- 
 garet, Joseph, William, and John. 
 
 Joseph St. John was about ten years old 
 when his parents left Newfoundland, and he 
 has resided in Cohasset since he was fourteen. 
 He acquired a common-school education, and 
 for some time after completing his studies was 
 em|)loyed as a fisherman. He later followed 
 the sea in the merchant service, visiting the 
 principal ports of Europe, Asia, and South 
 America; and during the last two years of his 
 seafaring life he was .second mate of the ship 
 "Mary," owned by John Bates, and com- 
 nuuided by Captain James Hall, of this town. 
 
 Subsequently abandoning the sea, he followed 
 shoemaking in North Scituate, Mass., for fif- 
 teen years; and since 1886 he has kept a gen- 
 eral store, which has been well patronized. 
 In politics Mr. St. John is a Democrat. He 
 served as Postmaster under President Cleve- 
 land's administration, occupying the ofifice, in 
 all, about eight years; and he has also been 
 Constable. In religion he is a Roman Cath- 
 olic. 
 
 Mr. St. John married Catherine Roche, 
 daughter of John Roche, of Cohasset, and has 
 five children — Anastasia, James T., Celia 
 R., Theresa, and Charles J. C. 
 
 ^OHN W. PERRY, for many years a 
 member of the Boston police force, and 
 nuw living in retirement in Dedham, 
 was born in Natick, Middlesex County, 
 July 22, 182 1, son of John W. and Harriet 
 (Rice) Perry. His grandfather, Samuel 
 Perry, who conducted a farm in Natick for 
 many years, married a lady of Welsh extrac- 
 tion. Their children were Samuel, William, 
 Elijah, Sally, and John W. Grandfather 
 Perry died at the age of ninety-one, and his 
 wife also lived to an advanced age. 
 
 John W. Perry, Sr., born in Natick in 
 1789, died there February 12, 1825, at the age 
 of thirty-six, having spent his mature years in 
 the pursuit of agriculture. He first married 
 Sally Rice, of Walpole, Mass., by whom he 
 had one child, John W. , who died in infancy. 
 By his second wife, Harriet, who was a twin 
 sister of his first wife, he had two sons, 
 namely: John W. , the subject of this sketch; 
 and Andrew J., who was born June 14, 1824, 
 and died in April, 1842, in his eighteenth 
 year. After her husband's death Mrs. Perry 
 married Alfred Bacon, and resided in Natick, 
 where she and her second husband passed their 
 last years. 
 
 John W. Perry, the subject of this sketch, 
 was nine years old when he went with his 
 mother to Dover. There he attended Straw- 
 berry Hill School until he was fourteen years 
 old. He lived with his mother till he was 
 seventeen years of age, when he began an ap- 
 prenticeship to John Davis, of Sherborn, 
 Mass., to learn blacksmithing. After he had
 
 
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 495 
 
 learned his trade, he worked as journeyman in 
 Medvvay, Holliston, and other places nntil 
 twenty-five years of age. Afterward a severe 
 injury received while shoeing a young horse 
 obliged him to give up his trade. He then 
 bought out tlie bakery of Wesley P. Balch, of 
 Medfield. Selling out the shop at the end of 
 five years of successful business, he returned 
 to Natick, there established another bakeshop, 
 and continued in the business three years 
 more. At the end of that time he sold out 
 and went to Boston, accepting a jiosition with 
 A. n. Allen, a furniture dealer in Dock 
 Square. After working in this employment 
 until 1859, he went on the Boston police 
 force, and was connected therewith till April, 
 1882, when he was pensioned for disability, 
 having suffered prostration from heat, while on 
 duty on Boston Common. Several others were 
 prostrated at the same time, two of whom 
 died. In November, 18S2, he bought an ele- 
 gant house in Dedham, and has since resided 
 here. He is a Republican in political affil- 
 iation. 
 
 Mr. Perry was married in 1S46 to Miss 
 Sarah D. Breck, daughter of Joseph Breck, of 
 Medfield, Mass. Her brother, Joseph L. 
 Breck, is now deceased. Her sisters are Jo- 
 sephine and Cynthia Ann. The latter is the 
 wife of Thomas J. Baker, a prominent citizen 
 of Dedham. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have had no 
 children. 
 
 EORGE B. SHERMAN, a late resi- 
 •) I dent of Plainville, Norfolk County, 
 and an artist of considerable note, 
 was born in P'all River, Mass., June 29, 1825, 
 son of the Rev. Eleazer and Hannah Brightman 
 Sherman. He received a common-school edu- 
 cation, and early in life followed the example 
 of many other adventurous New England 
 youths, and went to' sea. Beginning on the 
 lowest round of the ladder, he served some 
 years before the mast as a common sailor, but 
 made such good use of his scanty opportunities 
 ^ for advancement that, while still a compara- 
 ■f tively young man, he became commander of a 
 ' v'essel. In 1849 he joined the vast army of 
 fortune hunters on their way to the newly dis- 
 covered gold-fields of California, making the 
 
 journey in the sailing-vessel "Argonaut." 
 He remained in California, however, but a 
 little more than a year, when, because of fail- 
 ing health, he returned to his native town, 
 where for the ne.xt twelve years he remained. 
 In 1863 he removed to Norfolk County, and 
 for a time followed the comjiaratively obscure 
 calling of a stationary engineer, removing to 
 Plainville in 1873 to a permanent home. The 
 unsatisfactory condition of his health, how- 
 ever, obliged him once more to seek a new em- 
 ployment; and the force of circumstances this 
 time conduced to hajjpy results, directing him 
 to that sphere of life in which he was best 
 qualified to succeed. Gifted by nature with a 
 fine artistic temperament and a keen eye for 
 form and color, he had already improved these 
 talents to some extent by practice in spare 
 moments and by an intelligent study of nat- 
 ure and also of the works of famous artists, so 
 far as they had come under his observation. 
 He, therefore, now turned his attention to 
 landscape painting, to which occupation the 
 last twenty years of his life, which closed Au- 
 gust 28, 1897, were mostly given. Among 
 the pictures which contributed in largest 
 measure to establish and fi.\ his reputation as a 
 landscape painter of marked power are "The 
 Battle-field of Gettysburg from Little Round 
 Top Mountain," "The Old Man of the Moun- 
 tain" (a natural, rocky projection bearing the 
 aspect of a man's head, in the White Moun- 
 tains of New Hampshire), "Echo Lake," 
 "Franconia Notch," and several paintings of 
 Green Mountain scenery. 
 
 In estimating his work, it may be said that 
 Mr. Sherman was not only imbued with an in- 
 tense love of Nature in all her ever-varying 
 moods and aspects, but also had a thorough 
 command of the technique of his art. His 
 canvases evince the careful study and intelli- 
 gent treatment that distinguish the work of a 
 master fi'om that of a tyro; while to these 
 essential qualities were added others partaking 
 more of his own individuality, though free 
 from anything like mannerism. Though his 
 art career was begun comparatively late in 
 life, he achieved for himself a recognized 
 place among New England painters that might 
 be envied by many a one starting earlier and 
 with better advantages. Mr. Sherman was es-
 
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 sentially a manly man and a true gentleman 
 in all the relations of life. Of more than 
 common intelligence, he kept himself well 
 informed upon subjects of current interest out- 
 side of his profession ; and it may be said of 
 him that his life from childhood was one con- 
 tinued effort at self-improvement. The record 
 of his success is of use as an example of 
 energy and perseverance to the younger gener- 
 ation. 
 
 In October, 185 1, Mr. Sherman married 
 Miss Sarah J. Gifford, of North Bridgewater 
 (now Brockton), Mass. ; and they became the 
 parents of three children, of whom but one at- 
 tained maturity, namely: Elizabeth N., who 
 became the wife of William H. Wade, of 
 Wrentham, Mass. Mrs. Sherman, who sur- 
 vives her husband, resides in Plainville, and is 
 a lady widely known and equally respected for 
 her amiable and true womanly character. 
 
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 URDON SOUTHWORTH, chairman 
 \ •) I of the Board of Selectmen, Stough- 
 ^ — ^ ton, was born in this town, March 
 27, 1846, son of Luther and Sarah A. (Rich- 
 ards) Southworth. His grandfather, Jedediah 
 Southworth, who was an early settler in 
 Stoughton, married Sarah Hewett ; and of that 
 union eight children were born — Apollos, 
 Luther, Albert, Marcus, Sally, Lucy, Martha, 
 and Mary. 
 
 Luther Southworth, Gurdon Southworth 's 
 father, was born in Stoughton, December 13, 
 1799. In early manhood he was a manufact- 
 urer of cotton thread and twine, but his later 
 years were devoted to agricultural pursuits. 
 He was widely and favorably known as an up- 
 right, conscientious citizen, who fully merited 
 the esteem in which he was held. He lived 
 to be ninety-two years old, dying in Decem- 
 ber, 1 891. His wife, Sarah, who was born 
 in Sharon in 18 10, became the mother of two 
 children — Luther, born in December, 1843, 
 who married Emma Ward, and is residing in 
 West Stoughton ; and Gurdon, the subject of 
 this sketch. The mother died in 1875. 
 
 Gurdon Southworth acquired his education 
 in the public schools of his native town. 
 When a young man he worked in the woollen 
 factories, and also in boot and shoe factories. 
 
 In 1873 he became associated with his brother 
 in the manufacture of screws at West Stough- 
 ton, in which business he was engaged for 
 nearly ten years. In 1882 he, in company 
 with Charles M. Staples, bought a bakery in 
 this town; and, giving up the screw manufact- 
 uring business, he continued in parthershij] 
 with Mr. Staples until the latter's death in 
 1889, since which time he has carried on the 
 enterprise alone. He conducts a very profit- 
 able business, and two teams are kept busy 
 supplying bread and pastry to his numerous 
 patrons in Stoughton, Sharon, Canton, and 
 Avon. 
 
 On November 7, 1868, Mr. Southworth 
 married Sarah B. Staples, who was born in 
 Stoughton, January 30, 1852, daughter of 
 Algernon and Docena (Harlow) Staples. Her 
 mother died in 1852; and her father, who is a 
 shoemaker by trade, is now residing in Chase's 
 Mills, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Southworth have 
 one son — Ernest B. , born April 18, 1872, 
 who is now assistant superintendent of the 
 Stoughton Rubber Company's works in this 
 town. 
 
 In politics Mr. Southworth is a Republican, 
 and he is capably filling the position of 
 chairman of the Board of Selectmen. He 
 is treasurer of Rising Star Lodge, F. & 
 A. M. , Secretary of Mount Zion Royal Arch 
 Chapter, a member of Bay State Commandery, 
 Knights Templar, of Brockton, and a member 
 of Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine in 
 Boston. He is also a member of Lodge No. 
 172, I. O. O. F. , and an associate member of 
 A. St. John Chambr6 Post, No. 72, of 
 Stoughton. 
 
 8, 1851, 
 
 iILTON HARRINGTON HOW- 
 ARD, a contractor and builder 
 of Norwood, was born in W'est 
 Bridgewater, Mass., September 
 son of Lewis G. and Abigail (Cope- 
 land) Howard. The family is of English 
 origin, and traces its descent from one of the 
 Dukes of Norfolk. Zephaniah Howard, grand- 
 father of the subject of this sketch, was an ar- 
 chitect and builder, and framed the dome o''. 
 tbe State House in Boston. 
 
 Lewis G. Howard was born in West Bri dge-
 
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 497 
 
 water in 1810. He first became a shoemaker, 
 and later followed the carpenter's trade in his 
 native town. His wife, Abigail, who was a 
 daughter of Martin Copeland, of Foxboro, 
 Mass., became the mother of two sons — Mil- 
 ton H., the subject of this sketch; and 
 Somers. 
 
 Milton Harrington Howard was educated in 
 the public schools and at Bridgewater Acad- 
 emy. After completing his studies, he began 
 to learn tlie carpenter's trade. He was later 
 engaged in setting up machinery in furniture 
 factories in and around Boston; and about the 
 year 1874 he established himself as a builder 
 in Norwood, in which business he has since 
 continued. He has satisfactorily filled many 
 large contracts in this locality, among them 
 those for the building of the Universalist and 
 Congregational churches, the North, East, 
 West, and Guild schools, and the extension to 
 the high-school building; also several factories 
 and much general work in Norwood, Read- 
 ville, and Walpole, including the erection of 
 many fine residences. He is a member of 
 Orient Lodge, F. & A. M., Hebron Royal 
 Arch Chapter, in which he has occupied some 
 of the chairs; the New England Order of Pro- 
 tection, in which he has held offices; and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, in which, 
 also, he has filled various offices, for several 
 years having been Deputy Grand Master. Po- 
 litically, he is a Republican, and is at the 
 present time serving upon the School Board. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Howard married for his first 
 wife Mary Elizabeth Cottle, daughter of 
 George and Sophia Cottle, of Boston. She 
 died in September, 1874. In 1876 he wedded 
 for his second wife Ella A. Capen, by whom 
 he has four children ; namely, Carrie Ethel, 
 Maud Stanley, Herman Capen, and Marion 
 Wilder. The family attend the Congrega- 
 tional church. 
 
 SSAAC BEALS, a much "respected citizen 
 of Avon and the superintendent of 
 Highland Park, was born in East Stough- 
 ton, Mass., December 17, 1836, son of 
 Isaac and Submit (Monk) Beals. His grand- 
 father was Eleazer Beals, of Randolph, which 
 town was the birthplace of his father, his 
 
 mother being a native of Stoughton. Isaac 
 Beals, father of the subject of this sketch, 
 served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and 
 afterward settled in I{ast Stoughton. He was 
 the first one in .Stoughton to engage in the 
 manufacture of boots and shoes for commercial 
 jjurposes. 
 
 Isaac Ikals, Jr., was reared and educated in 
 his native town, and at the age of twenty he 
 began work in a boot manufactory. He later 
 engaged in business for himself under the firm 
 name of Isaac Beals & Co., and carried on a 
 flourishing enterprise, both in this town and 
 in Brockton, for a number of years. He did 
 much to develop the boot and shoe manufact- 
 uring industry of both places, and his business 
 ability and progressive tendencies proved very 
 beneficial to the community. As a public- 
 spiiited citizen, he has taken an active interest 
 in promoting improvements in the direction of 
 public works. He was instrumental in secur- 
 ing the extension of the Brockton Street Rail- 
 way through Avon, and as superintendent of 
 Highland Park he has done much to increase 
 the beauty of this fine public reservation. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Beals married Marcia A. Packard, of 
 this town, by whom he has two children — 
 Alice G., wife of Frank Mellendy; and Wal 
 lace M. 
 
 EORGE D. WILLIS, junior partner 
 5 I of the firm of Stevens & Willis, nail 
 and tack manufacturers of South 
 Braintree, was born in Braintree, June 25, 
 1844, son of George W. and Almira (Arnold) 
 Willis. On his father's side he belongs to 
 one of the oldest families of Bridgewater; and 
 on his mother's side he is descended from the 
 Arnolds of old Braintree, who were well repre- 
 sented in the Revolutionary War. George W. 
 Willis came to Braintree when young, and be- 
 came a boot manufacturer here, also carrying 
 on a jobbing business in Boston. He died at 
 the early age of thirty-eight years. 
 
 Mr. George D. Willis, after attending the 
 high school at Braintree and pursuing a subse- 
 cpient course of study at Comer's Business 
 College, entered the employ of Blake & Alden, 
 furniture dealers of Boston, with whom he re-
 
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 mained as salesman for ten years. In 1868 he 
 began the manufacture of tacks and shoe nails 
 in South Braintree, in partnership with Mr. 
 Stevens, they being the founders of this in- 
 dustry. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Willis was Mary E. 
 Barrett, daughter of the late Rev. Fiske Bar- 
 rett, of South Braintree; and by her he had 
 one daughter — Annie M., now deceased. He 
 married, second, Ella S. Hobart, daughter of 
 the Hon. F. A. Hobart, of South Braintree, 
 and by this union has one son — George D., Jr. 
 
 Mr. Willis has taken an active interest in 
 politics. He has served as Town Clerk, 
 Town Auditor, and as a member of the School 
 Committee. In 1890 he represented the towns 
 of Braintree and Holbrook in the State legis- 
 lature. In July, 1864, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany I, Forty-second Massachusetts Volunteer 
 Infantry, doing duty in Maryland in guarding 
 railways and supply trains. He was dis- 
 charged in November of the same year, and 
 returned to South Braintree. He has for sev- 
 eral terms been Commander of General Syl- 
 vanus Thayer Post, No. 87, of which he is a 
 charter member; and he has also served on the 
 staff of Department Commanders Adams and 
 Churchill of the G. A. R. He is a member 
 of Rural Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Ouincy, 
 and of the Bay State Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, at Brockton. He is connected with 
 the Braintree Savings Bank as a vice-presi- 
 dent, trustee, and auditor. 
 
 TT^HARLES S. MANN, treasurer and 
 I V^ manager of the New England Awl and 
 ^js ^ Needle Company, West Medway, 
 was born in Brockton, Mass., Feb- 
 ruary 2, 1847, son of Lemuel and Lucy (Ball) 
 Mann. The father, who was a native of 
 Wrentham, Mass., followed the wheelwright's 
 trade for many years, and was employed at 
 different times in Wrentham, Easton, Brock- 
 ton, and Stoughton. He is now residing with 
 his son in West Medway. His wife, Lucy, 
 who was a native of Northboro, Mass., became 
 the mother of two children, namely: Lucy, 
 who died at the age of three years; and 
 Charles S., the subject of this sketch. The 
 mother died in 1869. 
 
 Charles S. Mann, after completing his 
 school education at Newbury, Vt. , learned 
 the trade of a machinist. He was employed 
 for some time in Stoughton and Brockton, suc- 
 cessively; and in 1866 he began the manufact- 
 ure of awls upon his own account in Brockton. 
 Three years later he became connected with 
 the firm of Fenn & Daniels, as superintendent 
 of their factory ; and the present building was 
 erected under his supervision. He was soon 
 afterward admitted to the firm, which, under 
 the style of Fenn, Daniels & Mann, carried on 
 business until 1871, when the New England 
 Awl and Needle Company was incorporated, 
 with Mr. Mann as treasurer and general man- 
 ager. This concern manufactures awls, 
 needles, button-hooks, and wire novelties, and 
 employs a large force of men and women. 
 They ship their products to all parts of the 
 United States, and also to Canada and Europe, 
 and have accjuired a high rejiutation. For 
 over twenty-five years the present manager has 
 devoted his efforts to the development of this 
 enterprise, and the success attained is in a 
 great measure due to his energy and business 
 ability. 
 
 Mr. Mann wedded Lizzie M. Ide, a native 
 of Upton, Mass., and daughter of Timothy and 
 Sarah Ide, who now reside in West Medway, 
 where the father is following the blacksmith 
 and wheelwright's trade. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Mann is an earnest sup- 
 porter of the Republican party; and he has 
 been chairman of the Town Committee. He 
 is now chairman of the Board of Registration. 
 He is connected with Charles River Lodge, 
 F. & A. M., and is a member of the Norfolk 
 Club of Boston. He is one of the most active 
 business men of W^est Medway, and is highly 
 esteemed for his personal worth and his use- 
 fulness to the community. 
 
 RTHUR N. CRAM, a prominent and 
 valued citizen of Walpole, Mass., has 
 been for many years identified with 
 the manufacturing interests of this 
 town, although he is now partly retired from 
 active pursuits. He was born August i, 1852, 
 in Boston, Mass., son of Jerome B. Cram, a 
 former highly esteemed citizen of Walpole.
 
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 501 
 
 His paternal grandfather, Levi Cram, was a 
 finely educated man and for several years a 
 noted teacher of Lowell, Mass. 
 
 Jerome B. Cram was engaged in manufactur- 
 ing during a large part of his life, being a 
 member of the enterprising firm of Manning, 
 Glover & Co., of Boston. He made his home 
 in Walpole, and assisted in advancing the edu- 
 cational status of the town by his faithful and 
 efficient services as a member of the School 
 Committee. He was a strong Republican in 
 his political affiliations. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Lucy Norton, was born in 
 Boston, where her father was superintendent of 
 the old stage line running from that city to 
 Providence, R.I. Mrs. Cram died in early 
 womanhood, leaving but one child — Arthur 
 N. , the subject of this sketch, then but a 
 month old. 
 
 Arthur N. Cram received his elementary ed- 
 ucation in the common schools of Walpole, 
 was fitted for college at St. Mark's Boarding 
 School, and was graduated at Harvard with the 
 class of 1874. He soon went into his father's 
 factory to learn the business of manufacturing 
 curled horse-hair, and, having remained with 
 the firm until its dissolution, was from that 
 time until 1889 engaged to some extent in 
 manufacturing. For the past few years he has 
 lived somewhat retired. 
 
 He has never swerved from the political 
 faith in which he was brought up, being a 
 steadfast Republican. Well known as a man 
 of progressive enterprise and energy, wide- 
 awake to the necessities of his growing town, 
 he has worked unceasingly in its interests 
 while serving in the various town and county 
 offices to which he has been elected. He has 
 been Town Auditor, a trustee of the public 
 library, a Selectman six years, chairman 'of 
 the board four years, and is now serving a two 
 years' term, to which he was recently elected. 
 It was largely through his efforts that the fine 
 system of water-works was introduced into 
 Walpole in 1895, and he was a member of the 
 first Board of Water. Commissioners. For 
 twelve years he has been Secretary of the Re- 
 publican Town Committee. He has served on 
 the County Committee, is chairman of the 
 Representative District Committee, and a 
 member of the Norfolk District Committee. 
 
 Mr. Cram was married November 15, 1882, 
 to Miss Carrie E. Stone, a daughter of J. Ed- 
 ward Stone, of this town, and a grand-daugh- 
 ter of Dr. E. Stone. Mr. and Mrs. Cram 
 have five children; namely, Warner S., Mar- 
 jorie, Edward S. , Chauncey J., and Frances 
 C. In the order of Odd Fellows, Mr. Cram 
 has held all the offices of Reliance Lodge and 
 of King Mountain Encampment. He has also 
 passed all the chairs of the A. O. U. W. , and 
 has held most of the offices in the Spring 
 Brook Council, Royal Arcanum. Liberal in 
 his religious belief, he is a regular attendant, 
 with his family, of the Unitarian church, and 
 an active member of the Parish Committee. 
 
 EWIS E. GRAY, the proprietor of a 
 periodical and variety store in Fox- 
 boro, was born January 20, 1842, in 
 Easton, Mass. His paternal grand- 
 father, Lewis Gray (first), spent the larger 
 part of his long life in Cambridgeport, Mass., 
 where his death occurred at the venerable age 
 of ninety years. An upright and trustworthy 
 man, this Lewis was for many years the con- 
 fidential servant of Judge Dana, of the Massa- 
 chusetts Supreme Court. 
 
 Lewis Gray (second), the father of Lewis E. , 
 was born in Cambridgeport. After reaching 
 man's estate, he removed to Easton, Bristol 
 County, and was there engaged as a harness- 
 maker for several years. In 1849 he located 
 in F'oxboro, where he afterward resided until 
 his demise, at the age of seventy-eight years. 
 He married Louisa Packard, who bore him five 
 children, namely: Francis D. , who died in 
 1849, aged twenty-six years; Sibyl E., an un- 
 married lady, living in Foxboro ; Davis P., 
 now a resident of Northbridge, Mass., who 
 married Louisa Winters, and has two daugh- 
 ters — ^ Lilla and Clara; Mary E. , who has 
 never *narried, and lives in this town; and 
 Lewis E. , the subject of this biography. 
 Lilla Gray is now the wife of James Alex- 
 ander, of Springfield, Mass., and has two chil- 
 dren — Clara and Robert. Clara Gray mar- 
 ried Henry Dolliver, of Grafton, Mass., and 
 has three children — Maud, Jessie, and Harold. 
 
 Lewis E. Gray obtained a good business ed- 
 ucation in the public schools of Easton and
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Foxboro. Afterward he learned the trade of 
 box-maker, and worked for several years in the 
 factory of V. S. Pond, having charge of the 
 paper-box department for a large portion of the 
 time. In 1884 he resigned his position there, 
 to open the periodical and variety store, which 
 has since acquired an extensive and lucrative 
 trade. He carries a fine stock of fancy goods, 
 and furnishes the reading public with the lead- 
 ing papers, magazines, and periodicals of the 
 day, keeping a good supply on hand. 
 
 On July 16, 1865, Mr. Gray married Miss 
 Sarah Curtis. They have reared two children 
 — Harrie F. and Hattie C. The latter assists 
 her father in the store. Mr. Gray cast his 
 first Presidential vote in 1864, for Abraham 
 Lincoln. Since then he has voted for the can- 
 didates whom he thought best qualified for 
 the office. He served for ten years, from 1886 
 to 1896, as Town Clerk. Fraternally, he is a 
 member of the A. O. U. W. 
 
 P'. THAYER, a prominent resi- 
 dent of Bellingham, and the only son 
 of Luther and Urana (Plill) Thayer, 
 was born here January 25, 1826. 
 His grandfather, Luther, was the first of the 
 family to settle on the old homestead, where 
 the subject of our sketch now lives. Grand- 
 father Luther, who carried on a large farm ac- 
 cording to the best methods of his time, died 
 in 1804; and his wife, Mary, died six years 
 after. They had two children — Ellery and 
 Luther. I^llery, born in 1796, married Abi- 
 gail Pickering. Luther was born in Belling- 
 ham in the year 1800. He spent his life 
 here, chiefly engaged in farming. He was ac- 
 tive in politics, interested in the growth and 
 prosperity of the town, and held many offices 
 of trust. At his death he was eighty-seven 
 years old. His wife, Urana, who came from 
 Mendon, Mass., died in 1879, at the age of 
 seventy-eight. Their only child is the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 Ruel F. Thayer was first sent to the public 
 schools in Bellingham, and afterward attended 
 more advanced schools outside the town. 
 When quite a young man he left home, and 
 went to Milford, Mass., where he found em- 
 ployment as clerk in a store. After remaining 
 
 there two years, he returned to Bellingham, 
 and opened a general store. After carrying on 
 this for fourteen years, he sold out, and took 
 charge of the old homestead, which he has 
 since managed. To public questions, which 
 have long interested him, he has been able to 
 give more attention since he sold his business. 
 In politics he is a Republican and a stanch 
 uj)holder of his party's principles. Since 
 1857, excepting one year, he has served on the 
 Board of Selectmen. He has been Town 
 Treasurer since 1^77. He has also been 
 Town Assessor, and he was Overseer of the 
 Poor for three years. In 1868 he was the 
 town's Representative in the State legislature. 
 He has done a great deal to promote the best 
 interests of Bellingham, takes a leading part 
 in all movements designed for its benefit, and 
 gives much attention to its educational inter- 
 ests. 
 
 Mr. Thayer was married in March, 1862, 
 to Lizzie Darling, of Mansfield, Conn. He 
 has one son — L. P'rancis, born August 12, 
 1863. The latter married Anna Scott, daugh- 
 ter of P^dgar Scott, a farmer of Bellingham, 
 and has one son, Ruel Scott Thayer, who was 
 born April ii, 1893. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ruel Thayer attend the Baptist church. 
 
 'OHN PULCIFER, a retired business 
 man living in Wellesley, and a son of 
 p]ps and Betsey Pulcifer, was born in 
 Gloucester, Mass., in 1824. The 
 Pulcifers came originally from Scotland. Mr. 
 Pulcifer's grandfather was a farmer. The 
 father was born in Gloucester, followed the 
 trade of carpenter in that town, and died in 
 1872. His wife's death occurred in 1891. 
 
 John Pulcifer was withdrawn from the pub- 
 lic school in Gloucester when he was fourteen 
 years of age, and sent to work on a farm for 
 Deacon Rice, in North Brighton. He was 
 with Deacon Rice for two years, "doing a 
 man's work and receiving a boy's wages." 
 After working two years longer at farming, 
 this time in Newton Lower Falls, he began to 
 learn the trade of wheelwright with Anson 
 Fisher. He worked with him for five years, 
 and then did joiner's work for Jonathan Calk- 
 ins for two years. He then bought out Mr.
 
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 Calkins, and continued the business in his own 
 name, in connection with blacksmithing and 
 carriage-painting. After spending thirty-five 
 years in this business, he retired in 1892, and 
 has lived very quietly at his home in Welles- 
 ley ever since. Although a public-spirited 
 citizen and anxious to promote the interests 
 of the town, he does not care for public life, 
 and he has never held office. In politics he 
 is a Republican. A member of St. Mary's 
 Episcopal Church of Newton for forty years, 
 he has been Warden for eight years, and Ves- 
 tryman for seventeen years. 
 
 The first of Mr. Pulcifer's two marriages 
 was contracted with Eliza Boyd, whose two 
 children by him died in infancy. On the 
 second occasion he was united to Susan, 
 daughter of Joseph Greenwood, of Waltham, 
 Mass. They have had four children — Susan 
 G., born in 1859, living at home; Carrie, 
 born in 1865, who married William P. Shaw, 
 and lives in Bath, Me. ; Mary, living with her 
 parents; and Ella G., born in 1867, who 
 graduated from the State Normal School in 
 1895, and is now a teacher at Revere, Mass. 
 
 SAHEL E. LOVELL, an enterprising 
 dairyman of Millis, was born upon the 
 farm he now occupies, December 
 28, 1836, son of Asahel P. and 
 Eliza (Stedman) Lovell. The first ancestor 
 of the family to settle in Norfolk County was 
 Alexander Lovell, who moved from Roxbury, 
 Mass., and located in Medfield. Zachariah 
 Lovell, the grandfather of Asahel ¥., resided 
 in the place now called Millis village for 
 some years, and then moved to the farm now 
 owned by his grandson. He resided here until 
 bis death, which occurred February 24, 1875. 
 His first marriage was made with Sibyl Plimp- 
 ton, who was Asahel F. Lovell's grandmother. 
 The maiden name of his second wife was Abi- 
 gail Thayer. 
 
 Asahel P. Lovell, who was born in the 
 place now called Millis, was brought up a 
 farmer. After his marriage he took charge of 
 the homestead property, which he improved to 
 a considerable extent. He died in 1892. 
 His wife, Eliza, who was a native of Sherborn, 
 Mass., became the mother 'of Sibyl P., Abbie 
 
 R., Asahel F., and Fred S. Steadman. Sibyl 
 P. was the wife of Daniel G. Stevens. Abbie 
 R. was the wife of Willard Clark, who resides 
 in Millis; and Fred S. Steadman Lovell died 
 in infancy. Mrs. Eliza Lovell died April 12, 
 1875. 
 
 Asahel F. Lovell attended school in his na- 
 tive town, and at an early age began to assist 
 his father upon the farm. When thirty-five 
 years old he took the management of the 
 property, which eventually came into his pos- 
 session ; and he cared for his parents during 
 their declining years. He now owns two hun- 
 dred and fourteen acres of fertile land, keeps 
 an average of twenty-two cows, and daily 
 sends a large quantity of milk to Boston. In 
 politics he is a Republican, and he has served 
 upon the Board of Assessors for the past two 
 years. He is connected with the Home Circle 
 and the grange in Millis, and is much inter- 
 ested in agricultural progress and the general 
 welfare of the community. 
 
 On June 9, 1861, Mr. Lovell married Olive 
 A. Hartshorn, who was born in Franklin, 
 Mass., July 16, 1839. Her parents, Edmund 
 and Susan N. (Ware) Hartshorn, both now de- 
 ceased, were prosperous farming people. The 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Lovell were born as 
 follows: Edmund Francis, December 25, 
 1862; Mary Eliza, March i, 1864; Winifred 
 Jeanette and Wallace Dean, twins, April 14, 
 1868; Susan Ware, February 10, 1873; and 
 P'reddie Steadman, July i, 1877, who died 
 July 24 of the same year. lidmund Francis, 
 who married Hester Richardson, is a painter 
 by trade, and resides in Millis. Mary Eliza 
 married Putnam Clark, a resident of this town, 
 and a pipe-maker in Boston. Winifred Jean- 
 ette is the widow of William Knowles, and re- 
 sides with her father. Wallace Dean died 
 September 14, 1869. Susan Ware is the wife 
 of Harry Alden, a clothier of Norwood, Mass. 
 Mrs. Asahel F. Lovell died May 19, 1890. 
 
 •TEPHEN B. SIMONS, formerly a 
 well-known merchant of Boston, 
 was born April 20, 1836, in Hol- 
 liston, Mass., son of James F. and 
 Cina Marble (Blanchard) Simons. His grand- 
 father, who was born in England, came to this
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 country when a young man. The father was 
 born in Boston on May ii, 1809. He was a 
 tailor by trade, and did business in Holliston. 
 He married Cina Marble Blanchard, who was 
 born in Millbury, Mass., April 20, 1812. 
 They had two .sons— James ¥., Jr., and 
 Stephen Blanchard, who followed the same 
 business, and at one time were in partnership. 
 The mother died in 1853, and the father in 
 August, 1877. 
 
 Stephen B. Simons obtained his education in 
 the public schools and at the academy of Hol- 
 liston. At the age of fourteen he went to 
 work in a gentlemen's furnishing store on Elm 
 Street, Boston. He had been two years in 
 this place when he left to accept the position 
 of manager in John Gove's store on Mer- 
 chants Row. In two years more he purchased 
 the gentlemen's furnishing department in this 
 store, and went into business for himself. 
 His trade was mostly retail. He continued 
 in the business he had chosen for himself with 
 increasing prosperity, and founded at different 
 times the firms of Simons Brothers, Whitten 
 & Co., and Simons, Hatch & Whitten. In 
 the great Boston fire of 1872 he suffered heavy 
 losses; but soon after he went to work in the 
 same business, under the firm name of Simons, 
 Whitten & Co., and in a comparatively shoit 
 time was able to meet his debts. Then he 
 gave a dinner to all his creditors, each of 
 whom, on that occasion, found under his plate 
 a check for the amount due to him. After 
 this he remained in the same firm, continuing 
 to increase the business, which was now 
 wholesale. He was located at different times 
 on Essex Street, Franklin Street, and W'in- 
 throp Scpiare. Mr. Simons was a prominent 
 member of the Boston Merchants' Association, 
 of the Algonquin, Central, and Suffolk Clubs, 
 of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, which 
 he joined in 1868, of the Wellesley Managers' 
 Club, which received its first entrance fee 
 from him. He was also a lifelong member of 
 the Y. M. C. A. His religious creed was 
 that of the Unitarians, and he attended Dr. 
 Minot Savage's church in Boston and the Uni- 
 tarian church at Wellesley Hills. In politics 
 Mr. Simons was a Democrat. That he was 
 highly esteemed is shown by the memorial res- 
 olutions adopted and put upon record by sun- 
 
 dry organizations after his death, on February 
 9, 1897. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Simons was married to Almira 
 N., daughter of John and Mary Ann (McNear) 
 Mason, of Boston. Mr. Mason, who was born 
 in Sandwich, N. H., and did a brokerage busi- 
 ness in Boston, died in August, 1877. His 
 wife's death occurred in December, 1895. 
 Mrs. Simons was educated in the public 
 schools in Boston until she was fourteen years 
 old. Afterward she attended a private school 
 on West Street. 
 
 tLBERT A. BRACKETT, of Milton, 
 was born in Quincy, Mass., December 
 5, 1850, son of Charles C. and 
 ^"^ Sarah (Peabody) Brackett. His 
 lineage we are imable to give, the only ances- 
 tral names with which we have been favored 
 being those of James and Benning Brackett, 
 said to have been brothers living at a remote 
 period in the old town of Braintree, of which 
 Quincy was formerly a part. A Richard 
 Brackett, it may be mentioned, was living in 
 Boston in 1632; and in 1642, it is said, he 
 and his wife Alice were dismissed to the 
 church in Braintree. Their son James re- 
 moved to Braintree in 1675. 
 
 Charles C. Brackett, who was born in New 
 Hampshire, was a contractor and builder. 
 Coming to Massachusetts, he lived for a num- 
 ber of years in Quincy, where he erected a 
 number of buildings. In politics he was a 
 Republican. He resided for some time in 
 Topsfield, Mass., and while there was sent 
 as representative to the State legislature. He 
 died April 5, 1885. His wife, Mrs. Sarah P. 
 Brackett, who was a native of Essex County, 
 Massachusetts, died in May, 1885. 
 
 Albert A. Brackett acquired his education 
 in the public schools of Quincy. Leaving 
 the high school at the age of fifteen, he en- 
 tered the Mount Wollaston National Bank as 
 clerk; and he was subsequently employed as 
 clerk in the wholesale leather house of E. B. 
 Pratt & Co. He was connected with this 
 house about twelve years, a portion of the time 
 as partner. In 1878 he started in business for 
 himself, opening a wholesale leather house at 
 90 High Street, Boston. Some time later he
 
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 507 
 
 removed to his present location, 64 South 
 Street, Boston. He was tiie first tenant in 
 this building. Since 1874 Mr. Brackett has 
 been a resident of East Milton, and a street in 
 this town is named for him. 
 
 He married Miss Lavinia H. Ikuiton, of 
 Milton, Mass. ; and they have two children — 
 Albert E. and Vina B. In the eighties Mr. 
 Brackett, who is a Republican, was four years 
 Selectman of Milton; and in March of the 
 present year (1897) he was again elected a 
 member of the board. During the session of 
 1888 he represented the Fourth Norfolk Dis- 
 trict in the State legislature. He is Past 
 Master of Rural Lodge, F. & A. M., and a 
 member of Joseph Warren Comrnandery, K.T. , 
 of Boston. Mr. Brackett is practically a self- 
 made man, having worked his way up to his 
 present position in the business world. 
 
 RED HOMER WILLIAMS, one of 
 Boston's rising lawyers and a well- 
 known resident of Brookline, was born 
 in Foxboro, Norfolk County, January 7, 1857, 
 son of Virgil Homer and Nancy R. (Briggs) 
 Williams. He is descended from Richard 
 Williams, who settled in Taunton in 1637. 
 Lewis Williams, father of Virgil H., was born 
 in Easton, Mass., and spent his life in farm- 
 ing in that town, a prominent and highly re- 
 spected citizen. He met his death by an acci- 
 dent, in the seventy-si.xth year of his age. 
 
 Virgil Homer Williams, the father of the 
 subject of this sketch, was brought up on the 
 grandfather's farm. He was a painter by 
 trade, and was also employed in the manufact- 
 ure of straw goods. At the age of seventy-five 
 years he is now retired, and is residing with 
 his son. He married a daughter of Wheaton 
 Briggs, a wheelwright of Attleboro. Mrs. 
 Williams died in 1880, at the age of si.xty- 
 four years. She was a member of the Congre- 
 gational church in Foxboro. 
 
 Fred Homer Williams, the only child of his 
 parents, lived in Foxboro until sixteen years 
 of age, when he entered Brown University, 
 where he was graduated in the class of 1877. 
 Fie was principal of the high school at East 
 Medway, now Millis, Norfolk County, for two 
 years, and then began the study of law with 
 
 Judge W. H. Fox, of Taunton, Mass. Before 
 he had completed his law studies, his health 
 failed; and he spent a year and a half in Min- 
 nesota. Recovering, he continued his studies 
 with Judge Fox and at the Boston University 
 Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1882. After a period of two years spent in 
 the practice of law in Foxboro, he opened an 
 office in Boston, and has long been associated 
 with Mr. Frank M. Copeland, under the firm 
 name of Williams & Copeland. 
 
 He married July 19, 1881, Julia Annette 
 Blake, who was born in Whitman, then called 
 South Abington, the daughter of -Samuel 
 Blake, a shoe manufacturer of that place. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Williams have one child — Har- 
 old P., born October 2, 1882. Mr. Williams 
 has always resided in this county, and has 
 made his home in Brookline since 1890, hav- 
 ing, also, a large farm at Millis, where he 
 spends the summer months. He is a Republi- 
 can, and served in the Massachusetts House of 
 Representatives in 1883-84, and has recently 
 taken his seat as a member of the State Senate 
 for 1898. 
 
 He was secretary of the Norfolk Club for a 
 period of five years, between 18S4 and 1889. 
 He is also secretary of the Association of the 
 Sons of Brown, composed of graduates of 
 Brown University residing in Boston and 
 vicinity. Formerly a member of the St. Al- 
 bans Lodge, F. & A. M., and Excelsior 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Foxboro, he is now a 
 member of the Beth-horon Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 Lomia Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Brookline, and 
 of the East Medway Grange, Patrons of Hus- 
 bandry. 
 
 Mr. Williams has long been a member of 
 the Curtis Club, composed of Boston lawyers. 
 Socially, he is connected with the Lhiiversity 
 and Exchange Clubs in Boston and with the 
 Riverdale Casino, of Brookline. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Williams attend the Harvard Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 HITMAN COOK, a farmer and man- 
 ufacturer of Bellingham, Mass., son 
 of Emory B. and Laura A. (How- 
 ard) Cook, was born in Bellingham, March 16, 
 
 185; 
 
 His grandfather Cook was the first of
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 the family to come to Bellingham, and he took 
 lip the farm which is still in the possession of 
 the family. 
 
 Emory B. Cook was a mechanic and machin- 
 ist, and worked at his trade in West Medway, 
 Soiithboro, and Marlboro, but finally settled in 
 Bellingham. He began to manufacture the 
 Cook's patent cupola windmill about the year 
 1879; and it was patented August 3, 1880. 
 On account of the cheapness of other mills, 
 however, he made but about seventy-five of the 
 cupola mills; but he continued making chisel 
 handles until his death, which occurred May 
 12, 1897. He is survived by his wife, for- 
 merly Laura A. Howard, of Bellingham, and 
 their two children — Whitman, of Belling- 
 ham; and Frank A., now living in Newton- 
 ville, where he is engaged in the carpentering 
 business. Mrs. Cook spends her time partly 
 in Newtonville with her son Frank and partly 
 in Bellingham with the subject of our sketch. 
 
 Whitman Cook received but a common- 
 school education. When he was a young man, 
 he went to Fryeburg, Me., where he worked at 
 the carpenter's trade for about twelve years, 
 and then returned to Bellingham in March, 
 1890, to take charge of the old homestead and 
 of his father's business. He now owns a 
 small farm, but spends the greater part of his 
 time at his trade. He is soon to take charge 
 of his father's business, and carry on the man- 
 ufacture of chisel - handles. Mr. Cook is a 
 Republican in politics, and has served on the 
 School Board for three years. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Junior Order of American Me- 
 chanics of Bellingham. 
 
 He was married in January, 1873, to Alice 
 B. , a daughter of John and Alice Harrinian, of 
 Fryeburg, Me. Mrs. Cook's father, who was 
 a blacksmith by trade, and who also carried on 
 a farm, died at the age of eighty-six .years. 
 Mrs. Cook's mother has also departed this 
 life. 
 
 ^\CA;/ILLIAM fisher guild, the 
 chairman of the Medfield Board of 
 .Selectmen, and a leading farmer of 
 that town, was born in Walpole, Norfolk 
 County, November 20, 1839, son of Samuel 
 and Orra (Fisher) Guild. His paternal grand- 
 
 parents were Aaron and Cynthia (Smith) 
 Guild, who spent their lives in Walpole; and 
 his maternal grandparents were William and 
 Nabby (Capen) Fisher. 
 
 Samuel Guild, who was born in Walpole, 
 February 12, 1806, lived on the old homestead 
 throughout the greater part of his life. In 
 his early years he did teaming to Boston, and 
 subsequently he was engaged in butchering 
 and farming. He died in May, 1893, aged 
 eighty-seven years. His wife, Orra, whose 
 birth occurred May 4, 18 12, died May 20, 
 1864, aged fifty-two years. They had six 
 children, namely: Orra Elizabeth, born April 
 4, 1834, who married Lyman D. Ware, now 
 residing in Walpole, and died December 10, 
 1863; Samuel Elbridge, born April 20, 1835, 
 who was successively a machinist and card- 
 maker, served in the late war in the capacity 
 of naval assistant engineer, and on April 7, 
 1859, married Jane Earle, of Hollis, Me., 
 with whom he now lives in Walpole; Mary 
 Jane, born August 24, 1837, now residing in 
 Jamaica Plain, Mass., with her son, George 
 H. Ware, being the widow of George Henry 
 Ware, who died in 1863; William Fisher, the 
 subject of this sketch; Frederick, born No- 
 vember 15, 1843, now employed in the card 
 factory at Walpole, who married Phoebe Wil- 
 mot ; Julius, born March 30, 1850, now resid- 
 ing on the old Guild homestead in Walpole, 
 who married Mary Ella Pillsbury. 
 
 The special subject of this sketch, William 
 Fisher Guild, received a good common-school 
 education. At the age of eight years he went 
 to live with an uncle, with whom he remained 
 two years, receiving his board and clothing. 
 Returning home then, he remained with his 
 parents until about sixteen years old, when he 
 went to work in a card factory and grist-mill, 
 afterward following the two occupations for 
 about five years. On September 12, 1862, he 
 enlisted for nine months' service in the Union 
 army, joining Company K, Forty-fourth Mas- 
 sachusetts Infantry, under Colonel Francis L. 
 Lee and Captains Frank W. Reynolds and 
 Richard H. Weld. The regiment lost ten 
 men in its first skirmish, which occurred at 
 Rawles Mill, N.C. After passing without in- 
 jury through many others, Mr. Guild was dis- 
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 After his return home he bought a farm in 
 the southern part of the town of Medfieid, 
 which he carried on up to 1881. He then re- 
 moved to his present farm, the old Piympton 
 homestead, wliich was first settled by Henry 
 Piympton about the year 1705. Mr. Guild 
 also owns property in the north-west part of 
 Medfieid. Besides carrying on general farm- 
 ing, he keeps a dairy of fifteen cows, and ships 
 milk to Boston. 
 
 On May 15, 1862, Mr. Guild was married to 
 Miss Elizabeth M. Piympton, who was born in 
 Medfieid, May 23, 1841, daughter of David 
 and Plunice M. (Ware) Piympton. Her 
 father, who was a lifelong farmer, belonged to 
 the fourth generation of Plymptons who occu- 
 pied the farm. Her mother was born in Wal- 
 pole. Both parents have passed away. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Guild have had seven children, 
 namely: Louis, born September 15, 1864, 
 nwv living in Medfieid; Arthur, born in i866; 
 Orra E., who married Walter H. Webb, on 
 August 25, 1897, and now resides in Provi- 
 dence, R.I. ; Annie, of whom there is no 
 special record; Samuel D., a clerk in Boston, 
 Mass. ; Edward A., who died in December, 
 1895 ; and Mabel, now attending school. The 
 Republican jjarty has had a constant adherent 
 in Mr. Guild. He was first elected to the 
 office of Selectman in 1879, and he served in 
 that capacity until 18S1. In 1894 he was 
 elected chairman of the board, and he has 
 since presided at the board meetings for two 
 years. Since 1877 he has been on the Board 
 of Assessors. He belongs to Moses Ellis 
 Post, No. 117, G. A. R., of Medfieid. Both 
 he and Mrs. Guild are members ui the Unita- 
 rian church, and he is on the Parisli Committee. 
 
 "ENRY C. AUSTIN, of Medway, the 
 chairman of the Board of Assessors, 
 was born in New Haven, Conn., 
 April 16, 1837. His parents, Eli 
 B. and Grace M. (Beecher) Austin, were na- 
 tives of that city. The father carried on a 
 wholesale grocery business in New Haven 
 until his death, which occurred in 1842. The 
 mother died in Medway in 1886. They had 
 seven children, three of whom are living, 
 namely: Mary A., who is the widow of W. C. 
 
 Kain, and resides in Milford, Mass. ; Eliza- 
 beth B. , who is a resident of the same town; 
 and Henry C, the subject of this sketch, who 
 is the youngest. The others were Benjamin 
 B., Charlie, Sarah, and William E. 
 
 Henry C. Austin was educated in private 
 schools of New Haven. On reaching the age 
 of eighteen years, he went to Knoxville, 
 Tenn., and five years later to Douglas County, 
 Missouri. A few years after he engaged in 
 farming in Litchfield, 111. In 1869 he came 
 East, and carried on general farming near 
 West Medway for a time. He ne.xt con- 
 ducted a general store for about five years. 
 Then he worked for a while as a book-keeper, 
 after which he retired from active business 
 pursuits. He now occupies a pleasant country 
 residence, and has four acres of land, which he 
 cultivates. In politics he is a Democrat, and 
 he has served with ability as cliairman of the 
 Board of Assessors for the past si.x years. He 
 is a member of Charles River Lodge, F. & 
 A. M., of Medway, of the Knights of Honor, 
 of Holliston, Mass., and of Medway Lodge, 
 No. 163, I. O. O. F., of Medway. 
 
 On October 2, 1862, Mr. Austin married 
 Leah Martha Huddlestun, who was born in 
 Charleston, W. Va. , December 11, 1842. Her 
 parents, Thomas and Martha (Simms) Hud- 
 dlestun, in 1856, moved to Missouri, where 
 her father followed contracting and building 
 for a time. Later they went to Kansas, and 
 there spent the rest of their lives. Mrs. 
 Austin has had six children, four of whom are 
 living. These are: Charles Henry, the super- 
 intendent of a box manufactory at West Med- 
 way ; Francis Beecher, of Milford, Mass. ; Al- 
 bert Elmer, of Amherst, Mass. ; and Grace 
 May, who resides at home. The others were 
 Thomas Jasper, the first-born, and Roswell 
 C. , the fourch. Mr. Austin is warden of 
 Christ's Episcopal Church, which was organ- 
 ized December 24, 1881, by Rev. John S. 
 Beers, and now has a membership of forty. 
 
 SEWIS DUDLEY METCALF, a re- 
 tired business man of Norfolk, was 
 born in Franklin, Mass., February 
 26, 1834, son of Lewis L. and Sibyl 
 D. (Dudley) Metcalf. His grandfather, Lewis
 
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 Metcalf, who was a lifelong resident of Wren- 
 tham, Mass., followed the carpenter's trade in 
 early life, and in his later years was a farmer. 
 
 Lewis L. Metcalf, born in Wrentham, was 
 for some years engaged in the manufacture of 
 wicking and batting. In i860 he moved to 
 Hamilton, Greenwood County, Kan., where 
 he bought a farm. Here the long droughts 
 and destructive grasshoppers proved serious 
 drawbacks to his farming. He died there in 
 1886. His first wife, Sibyl, who was a native 
 of Needham, Mass., died in 1834. His sec- 
 ond wife, who was before marriage Rachel 
 Glidden, of Wiscasset, Me., died in Decem- 
 ber, 1892. He was the father of seven chil- 
 dren, all by his first union, namely: Spencer, 
 who married Anna Arnold, and is now en- 
 gaged in the dairy business in St. Louis, Mo. ; 
 F"anny, who is now Mrs. Beals, and resides in 
 Hamilton, Kan. ; Lewis D., the subject of 
 this sketch; Sibyl Dudley, who married 
 Oscar Grover, and died in Kansas in 1878; 
 Hartley G. , who is now connected with the 
 St. Louis water-works; Casandana, the wife of 
 Elijah Leonard, a retired resident of Franklin, 
 Mass. ; and Theodore, a farmer of Morrisville, 
 Kan. 
 
 Lewis Dudley Metcalf, after attending the 
 common schools for a period, began work in 
 a cotton-mill at an early age. When fourteen 
 years old he went to Medway, Mass., where 
 he was employed in a batting factory for a 
 time. Then he was employed in a straw shop 
 for two years. He learned the trade of bleach- 
 ing straw goods in Boston. Later, going to 
 St. Louis, Mo., he followed his trade, and car- 
 ried on a laundry in that city for eleven years. 
 In 1865 he returned East, and for eleven years 
 was engaged in the real estate business in Bos- 
 ton as a member of the firm of Nason & Met- 
 calf. Retiring from active business then, he 
 erected a house in Franklin, Mass., lived in 
 it for a short time, and then removed to his 
 present farm in Norfolk, where he has since 
 resided. Besides his homestead property of 
 seventeen acres, he owns several other estates 
 in this town. His time is chiefly devoted to 
 the care of his investments. In politics he is 
 a Democrat. He has served for one year as 
 Assessor and Collector, and he has been a Jus- 
 tice of the Peace for the past fourteen years. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Metcalf was joined in marriage 
 with Myrtilla F. Miller, a native of Franklin, 
 Mass. She is a daughter of Whipple and 
 Betsey Miller, the former of whom was a na- 
 tive of Wrentham and a boat-builder by trade. 
 Mrs. Metcalf's parents are no longer living. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf have had two children, 
 namely: Fred D. , who is now in the grocery 
 business in this State; and Bessie D., who 
 died in January, 1876, aged five years. Mr. 
 Metcalf has had a busy as well as a successful 
 career, and he is fairly entitled to the rest and 
 recreation he now enjoys. 
 
 March 
 
 ^AMUEL H. CAPEN, Deputy Sheriff 
 of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 
 was born in the town of Canton, 
 where he remains a resident, on 
 12, 1848. He is a son of the late 
 George Capen, of Canton, and comes of early 
 and honored American ancestry, being a lineal 
 descendant of Barnard Capen, an English emi- 
 grant, who was one of the first settlers of the 
 old town of Dorchester, Mass. His great- 
 grandfather, Samuel Capen, Sr. , was born in 
 Dorchester, but removed from there to Canton 
 prior to the Revolution, being the founder of 
 the family in this vicinity. His son, Samuel, 
 Jr., the next in this line, was a lifelong resi- 
 dent of Canton. 
 
 George Capen, son of Samuel Capen, Jr., 
 also spent his life in Canton, dying in 1863, 
 at the age of forty-five years. He was a nat- 
 ural mechanic, and made good use of his talent 
 as a manufacturer of machinery. A man of 
 unusual ability and intelligence, eminently 
 trustworthy, he was prominent in local affairs, 
 serving many years as a member of the School 
 Committee and as Town Treasurer, and in 
 1855 representing Canton in the General 
 Court. Prior to the war he was a Democrat in 
 politics. He married Clara Boyden, of Dor- 
 chester, and was the father of seven children. 
 Five of the family are now living, namely: 
 Samuel H;, Oscar D., and Edwin A., all of 
 this town; Eliza M., wife of George H. Chap- 
 man, formerly of Canton, but now residing at 
 Evanston, Wyo. ; and George H., of Canton. 
 
 Samuel H. Capen received his early educa- 
 tion in the public schools and in private
 
 SAMUEL H. CAl'EN.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 5^3 
 
 schools of Canton, completing his studies, at 
 the age of eighteen years, in the Stoiighton 
 Institute at Sharon, Mass. He was subse- 
 quently employed as a clerk in the general 
 store of E. Capen for three years; and in 1S69 
 he accepted a similar position in the clothing 
 house of George Fenno & Co., of Boston, re- 
 maining with that firm four years. Mr. Capen 
 then bought out the entire business of Mr. 
 A. E. Tucker, of Canton, and for fifteen years 
 carried on a prosperous trade in general mer- 
 chandise. In 1877 he was appointed to his 
 present responsible office by Rufus C. Wood, 
 the High .Sheriff; and in 1886 he succeeded 
 William Mansfield as general insurance 
 agent. In politics he is a strong and able ad- 
 vocate of the principles of the Republican 
 party, with which during his entire business 
 life he has been actively identified. Two 
 years he has served as Selectman. He was a 
 member of the first Board of Engineers of the 
 Canton fire department, and for a number of 
 terms he filled the office of Constable. He 
 was for a long time one of the trustees of the 
 Canton Institution for Savings. 
 
 Mr. Capen and Miss Adelaide A. Tucker, 
 daughter of A. E. Tucker, were married on 
 October 24, 1871. They have two children — 
 Samuel H., Jr. ; and Harold T. Mr. Capen 
 is a Mason of high standing, belonging to Blue 
 Hill Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he is 
 Past Master, to Mt. Zion Chapter, R. A. M., 
 and to Cypress Commandery, K.T. , of Hyde 
 Park. He is also a member of Blue Hill 
 Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mr. Capen and his 
 family are regular attendants of the Unitarian 
 church. 
 
 lEV. ALBERT BULL VORSE, of 
 Wellesley Hills, son of Dr. Isaac and 
 Elizabeth (Reber) Vorse, was born 
 in Lewisburg, Union County, Pa. 
 His grandfather was a farmer in Windham, 
 N. Y. The father, Dr. Isaac Shepard Vorse, 
 who was born in Connecticut, and educated in 
 Pennsylvania, followed the medical profession 
 in the latter State until his death in 1838. 
 He married Elizabeth, daughter of John 
 Reber, of Lewisburg, Pa. 
 
 After attending the public schools of his na- 
 
 tive town for the usual period, Albert ISuel 
 Vorse fitted for college, entered Bucknell in 
 1848, and graduated therefrom in 185 1. He 
 then read law in the office of James F. Linn 
 for one year, after which he entered the law 
 school at Eaton, Pa. Here he studied for two 
 years, and was then admitted to the bar in 
 1853. He opened a law office in Lewisburg, 
 and practised there until 1857. Then he was 
 a student in the Meadville Theological School 
 for two years. He was ordained while at the 
 Divinity School, and took his first church in 
 i860 at Lewisburg. There he stayed but one 
 year, however, and then accejjted a call to the 
 Unitarian church in Sandwich, Mass., where 
 he remained for the ensuing year. His next 
 call was to Littleton, Mass., where he served 
 seven year§. He then went to Needham, and 
 officiated at the church there, and also at 
 Wellesley Hills. In 1871 he came to Welles- 
 ley Hills, then Grantville, and was installed 
 as the regular minister, a position he still 
 fills. He is a member of the Norfolk Minis- 
 ters' Association, a life member of the Unita- 
 rian Association of Boston, a life member of 
 the Y. M. C. U. of Boston, a member of the 
 Wellesley Club; and he has been for a long 
 period identified with the temperance move- 
 ment. In politics he is a strong Republican. 
 
 Mr. Vorse was married in 1862 to Harriet 
 Ellen, a daughter of Mason White, who was 
 for many years Selectman of Sandwich, Mass., 
 and a Justice of the Peace. They have one 
 son, Albert White, born in 1S65. Albert's 
 early education was obtained in the public 
 schools of Wellesley, at the Aliens' School in 
 Newton, and at Chauncy Hall School and the 
 Berkeley School in Boston. He then entered 
 Harvarcl College, where he was graduated with 
 the class of 1889. Now he is a journalist in 
 New York. He was one of those who went 
 with the Peary relief expedition, which was 
 gone about four months. 
 
 AMES THAYER PENNIMAN, a 
 manufacturer of shoddy leather and 
 inner-soles in the city of Quincy, was 
 born June 5, 1819, in Braintree, Alass., 
 which was also the place of birth of his father 
 and grandfather, both of whom were named
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIFAV 
 
 Stephen Pennimnn. Stephen Penniman, Sr. , 
 was a schoolmaster of renown in Colonial 
 times, and commanded a company of Brain- 
 tree men in the war for independence. A man 
 of much ability and familiar with town affairs, 
 he served in nearly every local office of im- 
 portance. 
 
 Stephen Penniman, Jr., who obtained a good 
 education in his youth, followed the occupa- 
 tion of farmer, and was highly esteemed 
 throughout his life. He died in 1849. He 
 married Miss Relief Thayer, and became the 
 father of nine children, si,x of whom attained 
 maturity. These were: Thomas O. , de- 
 ceased ; Sarah, who married Thomas New- 
 comb, of Ouincy; Stephen and Luther, both 
 deceased; Eliza Ann, the wife of Arthur 
 Hayden, of this city; and James Thayer, the 
 subject of this sketch. Adhering to the relig- 
 ious faith in which they were reared, both par- 
 ents were active members of the Congrega- 
 tional Church of North Braintree. 
 
 After completing his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of his native town, James T. Pen- 
 niman learned the shoemaker's trade, and fol- 
 lowed it for some years. Beginning in 1842, 
 he manufactured boots of the finest grade, 
 doing custom work almost entirely, and acquir- 
 ing a substantial business. In 1876 he and 
 his son James embarked in the manufacture of 
 inner-soles and shoddy leather. One of the 
 largest of its kind in this section of New Eng- 
 land, this firm handles about one hundred and 
 fifty tons of stock each year, employing about 
 twenty-five hands in their factory, and profit- 
 ably disposing of the product to shoe manu- 
 facturers. 
 
 In politics Mr. Penniman is a firm supporter 
 of the principles of the Democratic party. On 
 December 13, 1844, he was united in marriage 
 with Maria Augusta, daughter of Thomas 
 Brooks, of Charlestown, Mass. Plight chil- 
 dren were born of their union, of whom Har- 
 riet, Mary Eliza, Ada, and James H. grew to 
 maturity. Harriet has been twice married. 
 Her first husband was the late Charles Curtis, 
 of Quincy, and her second, Albert A. Dolli- 
 ver. Mary Eliza, now deceased, was the wife 
 of John R. Graham. James Henry Penniman, 
 born December 13, 1858, received his educa- 
 tion in the common and high schools of 
 
 Quincy. He began his business career as a 
 clerk in the store of E. B. Pratt, a leather 
 dealer in Ikjston, and there obtained a thor- 
 ough knowledge of the leather trade. Subse- 
 cpiently for some years he was engaged in the 
 leather business with Albert A. Brackett as 
 junior member of the firm of A. A. Brackett & 
 Co. Then, selling out his interest, he was 
 engaged in business alone for some time. In 
 1887 he formed a jiartnership with J. P'ayer- 
 weather, and, uniting with his father, who had 
 previously established the factory, began busi- 
 ness under their present firm name, and has 
 since been quite successful. He is a member 
 of the Knights of Honor; and he stands high 
 in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Rural 
 Lodge, St. Stephen's Chapter, and to South 
 Shore Commandery. He married Mary Blair, 
 of Laconia, N. H. ; and they have two children 
 — Howard and Ruth. 
 
 LBRIDGE L. MANN, a prominent res- 
 ident of Dover and a veteran of the 
 Civil War, was born in this town, 
 May 14, 1834, son of Ellis and Betsey 
 (Wight) Mann. The first of the family to 
 settle in Dover was James Mann, great-grand- 
 father of the subject of this sketch. Simeon 
 Mann, the grandfather, married Persis Leland, 
 of Sherborn, Mass., and was one of the stir- 
 ring farmers of Dover in his day. 
 
 Ellis Mann, who was a lifelong resident of 
 Dover, cultivated a farm in the southern part 
 of the town from early manhood until he was 
 fifty years old. He then moved to the farm 
 which his son now occupies, and resided here 
 for the rest of his life. He died August 23, 
 1873. His wife Betsey, who was a native 
 of Dover, became the mother of three chil- 
 dren, namely: Mary, born May 20, 1831 ; 
 p;ibridge L., the subject of this sketch; and 
 George H., born August 7, 1840. Mary be- 
 came the wife of Alfred Cutler, of Holliston, 
 Mass., who is now deceased, and died Decem- 
 ber 16, 1857. George H., who is a travel- 
 ling salesman for a Boston grocery firm, mar- 
 ried Ruth Coolidge, and resides in Maiden, 
 Mass. The mother died August 9, 1870. 
 
 Elbridge L. Mann was educated in the 
 common schools of Dover. When a young
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 man he was employed as a farmer and gar- 
 dener in this locality. On September 13, 
 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company B, 
 Forty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
 teer Infantry, under Captain Joseph Stedman 
 and Colonel Isaac Burrell, of Boston. He 
 saw considerable active service in the Civil 
 War, but escaped uninjured, and was dis- 
 charged at Readville, Mass., August 20, 1863. 
 After his return from the army he engaged 
 in farming at the homestead, and succeeded 
 to its ownership after his father's death. He 
 devotes his farm of sixty-six and one-half 
 acres to the raising of hay, corn, and potatoes; 
 and he also carries on a dairy. 
 
 On November 27, 1S64, Mr. Mann was 
 joined in marriage with Adeline B. Gould- 
 ing. She was born in Garland, Me., Decem- 
 ber 23, 1843, daughter of Lewis and Maria 
 (Holbrook) Goulding. Her father died when 
 she was five years old, and she accompanied 
 her mother to Dover. Mrs. Mann died July 
 31, 1886, leaving five children. These were : 
 Lillian J., born May 31, 1866; Maurice W., 
 born January 19, 1868, who is now a carpen- 
 ter; George E., born November 25, 1871 ; 
 Elsie M. , born October 10, 1873, who died 
 January 29, 1896; and Sara A., who is a 
 graduate of the Emerson College of Oratory, 
 and resides at home. In politics Mr. Mann 
 acts with the Republican party. He served 
 the town faithfully as an Assessor for nine 
 years, and he has also been a member of the 
 School Board. He is connected with King 
 Philip Lodge, No. 1147, Knights of Honor, 
 and is a comrade of General VVadsworth Post, 
 No. 63, G. A. R., of Natick. He is one of 
 the most active farmers and prominent citizens 
 of Dover, and is highly respected by the en- 
 tire community. The family attend the Or- 
 thodox church. 
 
 lICHARD CUNNINGHAM, an influ- 
 ential resident of Wellesley, who is 
 engaged in business in Boston, was 
 born in Needham, now Wellesley, 
 in 1854, son of William and Mary (Hurley) 
 Cunningham. The father, who was born in 
 Ireland in 18 12, came to America in 1830, 
 and for a time was a farmer. Later he was 
 
 appointed first station agent at Grantville, 
 now Wellesley Hills, on the Boston & Al- 
 bany Railroad. While discharging the duties 
 of this position, he also did a considerable 
 business in wood and flour. Of the genial, 
 warm-hearted nature so common to his coun- 
 trymen, he was a favorite with all who knew 
 him. He died in 1856. His wife, Mary, a 
 native of Cork, Ireland, who was born in 
 1823, daughter of Patrick Hurley, of Cork, 
 came with her father to this country in 1829. 
 Of her seven children, four sons and three 
 daughters, one daughter is deceased. James, 
 one of the sons, is the general ticket agent of 
 the Boston & Albany Railroad at Worcester. 
 The surviving daughters are: Ellen, now Mrs. 
 Pease, who lives in Boston; and Alice, who 
 also resides in Boston. 
 
 Richard Cunningham received his education 
 in the common and high schools of Needham. 
 At the age of fourteen years he went to Bos- 
 ton, and obtained employment in the leather 
 business. He was with Davis Brothers for 
 six years and with William Quirin & Co. 
 until 1883. Then he was in partnership with 
 George Emerson, under the firm name of G. 
 Emerson & Co., for ten years. At the end of 
 that time he bought out his partner's interest 
 in the business, which he has since carried on 
 alone. His place of business is at 153 Sum- 
 mer Street, Boston, where he first went to 
 work for Mr. Quirin. Dealing largely in 
 supplies for shoe manufacturers, his trade is 
 entirely wholesale. When Mr. Cunningham 
 started in his business life, he was paid just 
 three dollars a week, and at the end of his 
 first year was one hundred and fifty dollars in 
 debt to his landlady. In the second year he 
 received five dollars a week, and at the close 
 of the year was presented with fifty dollars 
 extra. In those early days he boarded at a 
 house distant about a mile and a half from the 
 station, which he had to reach every morning 
 in time to catch the six o'clock train; and he 
 was on time every day for three years. By 
 application and energy he has since acquired a 
 prosperous business. 
 
 Mr. Cunningham is much interested in the 
 town affairs of Wellesley, and takes an im- 
 portant part in directing them. He has been 
 a member of the Board of Selectmen since
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIKW 
 
 1890, and he was the chairman of that body 
 for one year. He is a member of the 
 Maugus Club of Wellesley Hills and of 
 the Unitarian church, being a member of the 
 church Standing Committee. In politics he 
 is a loyal Democrat, and he has been the 
 chairman of the Democratic Town Committee 
 for thirteen years. In 1S83 he was united in 
 marriage with Hattie Louise, a daughter of 
 James H. Beck, of Wellesley, formerly of 
 Boston. His four children were born as fol- 
 lows: Shirley Beck, August 27, 1884; Rich- 
 ard Beck, December 4, 1885; Dorothy, in 
 April, 1891; and Phyllis, in November, 1893. 
 
 /^TkORGE EUGENE BELKNAP, Rear 
 \ '•) I Admiral, United States Navy, now 
 ^ — retired after forty-seven years of 
 honorable and distinguished service on the ac- 
 tive list in war and peace, and residing in 
 Brookline, Mass., is a native of Newport, 
 N.H. Born January 22, 1832, son of Sawyer 
 and Martha (Aiken) Belknap, he is of old 
 Colonial stock, on the paternal side English 
 Puritan and on the maternal mainly Scotch 
 Presbyterian. 
 
 His first American ancestor, Abraham Bel- 
 knap, came from Warwickshire, England, in 
 1637, settled at Lynn, Mass., and died in 
 1643. Among Abraham's posterity may be 
 named Dr. Jeremy Belknap, historian (Har- 
 vard College, 1762); General William G. 
 Belknap, United States Army; and General 
 William Worth Belknap, ex-Secretary of 
 War. From the emigrant to the Admiral, 
 the line is as follows: Abraham," Samuel,- 
 Ebenezer, ' Moses, ■* Lieutenant Ezekiel,' 
 Moses, ^ Sawyer,' George E. ** 
 
 Ebenezer, born 1670, ol!ii/ 1765, saw ser- 
 vice in the Colonial wars; and his son Moses, 
 born 1704, p/'iif 1803, was one of the signers 
 of the Association Test in 1776. Lieutenant 
 Ezekiel Belknap, who took part in the battle 
 of Saratoga and was present at the -surrender 
 of Burgoyne, 1777, was born at Haverhill, 
 Mass., in November, 1735 (O. S.), and died 
 at Atkinson, N. H., where he was a farmer, in 
 January, 1837. The family records show 
 other remarkable instances of longevity than 
 those above given: Hannah, wife of Ebenezer 
 
 Belknap, died in 1779, at the age of one hun- 
 dred and six years and eleven months. Her 
 son John lived to reach his one hundred and 
 first year, and four of her daughters each 
 exceeded the age of one hundred years. 
 
 Moses, son of Ezekiel, born 1781, odiu 
 1818, was Captain of a New Hampshire 
 company of artillery at l*"ort Constitution in 
 the War of 1812; and Sawyer Belknap, born 
 1805, I'/'iif 1882, held several town offices at 
 Newport, N. H.; was Postmaster under Presi- 
 dents Pierce and Buchanan; and was Adju- 
 tant, Thirty-first Regiment, New Hampshire 
 militia. 
 
 The wife of Captain Moses and mother of 
 the late Mr. Sawyer Belknap was Esther, 
 daughter of Stephen Webster. Her father 
 was a Revolutionary soldier in service at the 
 battle of Saratoga, and a witness of Bur- 
 goyne's surrender. He was a descendant of 
 John Webster, an P^nglish emigrant, who is 
 said to have settled in New Hampshire in 
 1642. 
 
 Admiral Belknap's mother, Martha Aiken 
 Belknap, a native of Bedford, N.H., was the 
 daughter of Andrew and Martha (McAllister) 
 Aiken, and grand-daughter of William and 
 Jerusha (Spofford) McAllister. Her paternal 
 grandfather. Captain James Aiken, raised and 
 served with the company of Revolutionary 
 soldiers that wenffrom the town of Bedford, 
 N.H. The Riddles, Spoffords, and McAllis- 
 ters of the company were his kinsmen. Mrs. 
 Belknap's grandfather McAllister fought at 
 Bunker Hill. His wife was a descendant of 
 John and Elizabeth (Scott) Spofford, who 
 came from Yorkshire, England, and settled at 
 Rowley, Mass., in 1638. Several kinsmen in 
 this line served in the Colonial and Revolu- 
 tionary Wars. 
 
 The eldest-born of six sons, George Eugene 
 Belknap acquired his early education in the 
 public schools of his native town, and on Oc- 
 tober 7, 1847, in his sixteenth year, received a 
 flattering recognition of his merits and abili- 
 ties as a "lad o' pairts," the unsolicited ap- 
 pointment of naval cadet from New Hamp- 
 shire. After a few weeks' instruction at the 
 Naval Academy he was ordered, December, 
 1847, to the brig "Porpoise," on cruise to 
 west coast of Africa, and arrived back at Nor-
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 5'7 
 
 folk, April, 1850. On the frigate "Rari- 
 tan," fifty guns, Pacific Squadron, i<S50-53, 
 he was with the force landed from this ship at 
 Valparaiso, Chili, 185 1, for the protection of 
 American citizens during a revolution there. 
 At the Naval Academy, 1853-54, he was 
 graduated as passed midshipman, Jinie, 1854, 
 and ordered to the United States Coast Sur- 
 vey steamer "Corwin." Acting master sloop 
 "Falmouth," 1854-55, he was commissioned 
 Lieutenant, September 16, 1855, and ordered 
 to receiving-ship "Ohio," Boston; was on 
 sloop "Portsmouth," Asiatic Station, 1856 
 -58, being on patrol duty several weeks at 
 Canton, guarding American consulate from 
 threatened attack of Chinese, October and No- 
 vember, 1856. He commanded a launch with 
 twelve-pound howitzer and thirty-five men at 
 capture and razing to the ground of the Bar- 
 rier Forts, Canton River, 1856. The four 
 forts mounted, in the aggregate, one hundred 
 and seventy-six guns, one a brass piece, eight- 
 inch calibre and twenty-three feet in length. 
 Three men were killed and eight wounded 
 of his party during these operations. He 
 visited Japan, September, 1857, the "Ports- 
 mouth" being the second ship to call there 
 after Perry's treaty. The "Portsmouth" car- 
 ried to Minister Townsend Harris the first 
 mail he had received in fourteen months. 
 
 He served on the "Ohio," 1858, and the St. 
 Louis Home Squadron, 1859-61; commanded 
 "St. Louis" boats at both re-enforcements of 
 Fort Pickens, April, 1861 ; piloted General 
 Harvey Brown and Captain M. C. Meigs, 
 United States engineers, into the fort; was 
 executive officer of gunboat'" Huron," S. A. B. 
 Squadron, 1861-62; in expedition against 
 Fernandina, St. John's, St. Mary's, St. Augus- 
 tine, in March, 1862; and captured English 
 steamer "Cumbria," loaded with arms, cloth- 
 ing, and medicines, off Charleston, May, 
 1862. Said the Captain when boarded, "This 
 is a bonus of two thousand dollars out of my 
 pocket." Taking the prize to Philadelphia 
 for adjudication, he was commissioned Lieu- 
 tenant Commander, July 16, 1862. He was 
 executive officer of the iron-clad frigate "New 
 Ironsides," of eighteen guns, fourteen eleven- 
 inch Dahlgren, and two Parrott two hundred- 
 pounders on gun deck, and two fifty-pounders 
 
 Dahlgren rifles on spar deck. The guns of 
 main battery had crews of thirty-five men, ten 
 of them for the handling of the heavy port 
 shutters. The shutters were seldom closed 
 after the enemy had been quieted by two or 
 three broadsides. After Ijeing on special 
 duty at Newport News, November and De- 
 cember, 1862, he proceeded to Port Royal. 
 
 At that port the ship was stripped of masts 
 and yards, and then stationed off Charlest(jn. 
 Twenty-seven engagements ensued with de- 
 fences of that city, comprising the attack of 
 the 7th of April, 1863, and subsequent bom- 
 bardments of Fort Wagner, P'orts Sumter and 
 Moultrie, and Batteries Bee, Beauregard, and 
 Johnston. Total number of shells fired from 
 broadside of eight guns during siege was four 
 thousand, four hundred and thirty-nine, with 
 aggregate weight of two hundred eighty-eight 
 and one-half tons. Most rapid fire in action 
 was at the rate of 1.74 per shot. On one 
 occasion four hundred and ninety shells were 
 delivered in continuous round, at rate of 
 2.86 per fire. Smoke often retarded the 
 pointing and firing. At fight of the 7th of 
 April the spar deck was covered with bags of 
 sand overlaid with rawhides, and the slop- 
 ing sides of the four-inch armor were plastered 
 with grease an inch thick to better resist the 
 enemy's fire. After that day the sand-bags 
 alone were retained for protection against 
 plunging fire, the value of such protection 
 being fully demonstrated. The ten-inch solid 
 shot from forts would scoop off the bags 
 struck, but leave the deck plank practically 
 uninjured. The one-inch iron plate under- 
 neath, however, would be invariably shattered. 
 A rebel torpedo boat of Davis pattern suc- 
 ceeded in exploding a heavy torpedo under 
 starboard bilge amidships on evening of Octo- 
 ber 5, 1863. Happily the ship received no 
 serious damage, but Acting Master Howard 
 was mortally shot as he stood in the gangway 
 hailing the "David." For service in "Iron- 
 sides," Officer Belknap received commendation 
 from her respective commanders, Commodores 
 Turner and Rowan, and from Admiral DuPont. 
 
 He was next ordered to command gunboat 
 "Seneca," September, 1864; transferred to 
 command of monitor "Canonicus," off City 
 Point, James River, November, 1864; en-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 gaged Hewlett's House Battery, December 5 
 and 6, 1864; subsequently proceeded to lieau- 
 fort, N.C., as one of Porter's fleet. In both 
 fights at Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and 
 January, 1865, engaged the enemy at closest 
 quarters; ship aground at times, received 
 many hits; men knocked down inside of turret 
 by impact of shot; one officer wounded by 
 grape shot from fort during assault; flag shot 
 away twice; boats and smoke-stack riddled; 
 guy and davits shot away, and much other 
 damage received. He directed movements 
 and firing of vessel from outside of the turret 
 and pilot-house, commended by Commodore 
 Radford and Admiral Porter. After capture 
 of Fort Fisher, ordered to proceed with 
 "Canonicus " to Charle.ston; was on advanced 
 picket duty the night the enemy evacuated the 
 city, and fired the last shot at its defences; 
 also received the last shot from the enemy di- 
 rected at the fleet, an eight-inch rifle shell 
 from Moultrie, February 4, 1863; accom- 
 panied Admiral Dahlgren to the city on the 
 afternoon of the evacuation. That evening, 
 by a ruse, in concert with the late Commodore 
 Barrett, he assisted in the capture of the Eng- 
 lish steamer "Deer" attempting to enter the 
 port. He commanded the "Canonicus" in 
 Admiral Godon's special squadron to Havana 
 in quest of the rebel iron-clad "Stonewall," 
 and found her surrendered to the Spanish 
 authorities; put the "Canonicus" out of com- 
 mission at Philadelphia, June, 1865; ordered 
 to Naval Academy, July, 1865; detached at 
 own request, August, 1865; was e.xecutive 
 officer of the "Shenandoah," sailing for Asi- 
 atic Station via Cape of Good Hope and Indian 
 ports, December, 1865. Promoted to Com- 
 mander for war service on the way out, he was 
 assigned to command of flag-ship "Hartford" 
 on arrival at Hong-Kong, February, 1867; 
 commanded squadron expedition against In- 
 dians, southern coast Formosa, June, 1867, 
 many being stricken with sunstroke, one 
 officer shot by enemy ; participated in cere- 
 monies incident to the opening of the ports of 
 Osaka and Kobe, inland sea of Japan, Janu- 
 ary, 1868; put "Hartford" out of commission 
 at New York, August, 1868; ordered to Naval 
 Academy, September, 1868; detached at own 
 request, October, 1868; rendezvous duty. 
 
 New York, winter of 1868-69; navigation 
 officer, navy-yard, Boston, 1869-72. Ordered 
 to command the "Tuscarora, " May, 1872, he 
 sailed for the Pacific, via Straits of Magellan, 
 the following month; ordered January i, 
 1873, to take Commander Selfridge aboard at 
 Panama, and co-operate in a survey for an 
 inter-oceanic canal across the Isthmus of 
 Darien; landed seamen and marines at Pan- 
 ama, April, 1873, to protect the transit acrcss 
 the Isthmus during a revolution there. 
 
 Assigned May, 1873, to special duty on 
 board the "Tuscarora," having been selected 
 by the department to make deep-sea soundings 
 between the western coasts of the United 
 States and the shores of Japan, to determine 
 the practicability of laying a submarine cable 
 on the bed of the North Pacific, he fitted the 
 ship for the work at Mare Island, and began 
 operations off San Francisco the following 
 September; was supplied with apparatus for 
 sounding of both rope and wire, but soon dis- 
 carded the use of the former altogether, and 
 used the Sir William Thomson machine for 
 sounding with pianoforte wire of gauge No. 
 22. The machine was new and comparatively 
 untried; improved upon the details of its con- 
 struction_, and prosecuted the work with great 
 success, working an entire revolution in the 
 methods of deep-sea sounding, getting more 
 accurate results than had hitherto been ob- 
 tained, with a corresponding economy of time 
 and labor. The "Challenger" had been sup- 
 plied with the Thomson machine, but would 
 not attempt its use. The superintendent of 
 the coast survey also discouraged its adoption ; 
 but Admiral Ammen, the Chief of the Bureau 
 of Navigation, Navy Department, determined 
 it should be tried on board the "Tuscarora"; 
 and the result amply sustained his prescient 
 decision. He ascertained the "True Conti- 
 nental Outline" from Cape Flattery to San 
 Diego, ran lines of sounding from San Diego 
 to Yokohama via the Hawaiian and Bouin 
 Islands and the Aleutian group, and found off 
 the east coast of Japan the deepest and most 
 extended trough yet discovered in the bed of 
 the great oceans, the deepest cast being four 
 thousand, six hundred and fifty-five fathoms, 
 or more than five and a quarter statute miles. 
 He invented three different cylinders, or cups,
 
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 5") 
 
 for bringing up specimens of the bottom, 
 which are now in use in the navy. The cup 
 No. 2, slightly altered, has been adopted by 
 the Coast Survey, imder the name of the 
 "Sigsbee Cup." 
 
 The progress and results of the "Tusca- 
 rora's" survey excited great interest both in 
 this country and in Europe. In an address 
 before the Mathematical and Physical Section 
 of the British Association at Glasgow, Sep- 
 tember, 1876, Sir William Thomson (now 
 Lortl Kelvin) spoke of the work in terms of 
 high compliment. Sir Wyville Thomson, of 
 the "Challenger" expedition, also commended 
 the methods and achievements of the "Tusca- 
 rora's" survey in his address before the Asi- 
 atic Society of Japan at Yokohama in Febru- 
 ary, 1875, acknowledging the great advance 
 that had been made in deep-sea work by the 
 use of the Sir William Thomson machine. 
 
 Senior ofificer present at fionolulu when 
 riot occurred at the election of David Ka- 
 lakaua as king of the Hawaiian Islands, Feb- 
 ruary 12, 1874, Commodore Belknap landed 
 companies of blue-jackets and marines from 
 the "Tuscarora" and the "Portsmouth," re- 
 stored order and occupied the town six days at 
 the request of the king, when, the new govern- 
 ment, being firmly established, he withdrew 
 the force to the ships. He received there- 
 for the thanks of the king, the legislative 
 assembly, the Chamber of Commerce, and the 
 consular corps. Detached from the "Tusca- 
 rora," October, 1874, he was ordered as Hy- 
 drographic Inspector, United States Coast 
 Survey, December, 1874; asked for other 
 orders, and received orders to command receiv- 
 ing-ship "Ohio," Boston, January, 1875. 
 Commissioned Captain, January 25, 1875, and 
 obliged to go South two months later on ac- 
 count of ill health, due to exposure while 
 doing deep-sea work, he went to Pensacola 
 Station as Captain of the yard. He was on 
 the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, 
 June, 1875, and on the Board of Examiners at 
 same place, . October, 1875; detached from 
 Pensacola yard, May, 1876, and put on special 
 duty with reference to deep-sea sounding; De- 
 cember I, 1876, ordered back to Pensacola 
 yard as Commandant; remained in command 
 there until January 15, 1881. 
 
 March 11, 1881, he assumed command of 
 the "Alaska" at Panama. Senior officer pres- 
 ent for greater part of the time on Pacific 
 coast of Peru and Chili, he made a number of 
 deep-sea soundings off the coast of Peru, the 
 deepest in three thousand, three hundred and 
 sixty-seven fathoms, one hundred miles west 
 of Callao Bay. Was on special duty at Hono- 
 lulu with the "Alaska" from August to latter 
 part of November, 1882. November 21, 
 1882, he received from King Kalakaua a com- 
 mission and decoration as Knight Commander 
 of the Royal Order of Kamehameha, which are 
 now in the custody of the Department of State 
 at Washington. Having put the "Alaska" 
 out of commission at Mare Island navy-yard, 
 February, 1883, he was ordered to Norfolk as 
 Captain of the yard, June, 1883. 
 
 He was president of the Naval Torpedo 
 Board, 1883-84, senior member "Dolphin" 
 Examining Board, 1885, commissioned as 
 Commodore, June 2, 1885, and ordered to 
 Washington as superintendent of the Naval 
 Observatory. Detached from Observatory a 
 year later, and ordered June 15, 1S86, to as- 
 sume command of the navy-yard, Mare Island, 
 California, he was commissioned as Rear Ad- 
 miral, February 12, 1889, and March g de- 
 tached from command of the yard and ordered 
 to proceed to Yokohama, Japan, and assume 
 command of the naval force of the Asiatic Sta- 
 tion. He assumed such command, April 4, 
 i88g, and retained it until P\>bruary 20, 1892, 
 when he was detached and ordered home; was 
 ordered as president of Board of Inspection 
 and Survey, April 17, 1892; and was ordered 
 to Chicago, October, 1892, to represent the 
 Naval Service at the dedicatory ceremonies of 
 the grounds and buildings of the Exposition. 
 In April, 1893, Admiral Belknap was ordered, 
 in conjunction with Major-general Schofield, 
 United States Army, as special escort to 
 Vice-Admiral, the Duke de Veragua, at the 
 Naval Review, New York Harbor. He sub- 
 sequently supervised the speed trials of the 
 new cruisers, the "Detroit," "Machias," "New 
 York," "Columbia," and "Marblehead "; also 
 the final examination and trial of the "De- 
 troit" and "New York." He was retired from 
 active service under the age limit prescribed 
 by statutes, January 22, 1894 Total sea ser-
 
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 vice, twenty-four years, four months; shore 
 duty, eighteen years, three months; unem- 
 ployed, three years, nine months. 
 
 Admiral Belknap was for a time connected 
 with the American Geographical Society, but 
 withdrew from its membership some years 
 ago. He is a member of the New England 
 Historic Genealogical Society, Boston; of the 
 New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, 
 N.H.; of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion of the United States; of the Naval 
 Order of the United States; and of the Colo- 
 nial and Foreign Wars Orders. He is also 
 Knight Commander of the Royal Order of 
 Kammehameha of the Hawaiian kingdom. 
 
 He is a frequent contributor to magazines 
 and newspapers. A notable paper from his 
 pen, "Reminiscent of the 'New Ironsides' off 
 Charleston," appears in the United Service for 
 February, i8g6, reprinted by request from the 
 old series of that monthly review of military 
 and naval affairs, a fact which testifies to its 
 absorbing interest and value. It is a graphic 
 account of hotly contested actions and weari- 
 somCj anxious months and years of blockade 
 duty. 
 
 Admiral Belknap received the honorary de- 
 gree of Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in 1894. He is now chairman of the 
 Board of Commissioners of the Massachu- 
 setts Nautical Training School, and a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Trustees of the National 
 Sailors' Home at Ouincy, Mass. 
 
 ILLIAM HOLTHAM, e.x-chief en- 
 gineer of the fire department of 
 Hyde Park and one of the rising 
 business men of the town, was born in Ports- 
 mouth, England, October 17, 1852. His 
 father, Henry Holtham, son of Henry, was 
 born in London, England, in 1806, and was for 
 a number of years a provision dealer, grocer, 
 and baker of Portsmouth. Coming thence to 
 Massachusetts, he settled in Dedham, and car- 
 ried on his business there from 1855 until the 
 time of his death, in 18S0. His wife was 
 Elizabeth Ticknor, a native of the Isle of 
 Wight. They had ten children, namely: 
 Ellen; William, deceased; Henry S., in the 
 
 milk business in Hyde Park; Emma, de- 
 ceased; Sarah; Joseph; Alfred; Lizzie; 
 William W. ; and Gershom Edward. The 
 mother died at the age of si.\ty-four years, in 
 the year 1879. Both parents were members 
 of the Baptist church. 
 
 William Holtham went to school in Dedham 
 until fourteen years of age, when he entered 
 his father's store, where he was employed 
 until his twenty-first year. He then went to 
 Woonsocket, R.I., and was in a machine fac- 
 tory for a short time. Later he came to Hyde 
 Park, and served as a clerk in his brother's 
 provision store for ten years. After a brief 
 period in the employ of John P. Squires, a 
 pork-packer of Boston, he became associated 
 with the firm of Christopher & Woods, pro- 
 vision dealers of Hyde Park; and, when this 
 firm was burned out, he bought the business 
 in partnership with John H. Weatherbee, of 
 Hyde Park, with whom he continued for four 
 years. Having established himself at his 
 present place of business in 1893, he is now 
 the owner of one of the finest markets in 
 Hyde Park, carries a full line of meats and 
 provisions, and numbers among his customers 
 most of the best families in the town. 
 
 Mr. Holtham is, with two exceptions, the 
 oldest member of the fire department, having 
 been associated with that body for the past 
 twenty-one years. Beginning at the lowest 
 round of the ladder, he was gradually pro- 
 moted, and in 1895 was elected chief en- 
 gineer, which position he held until May, 
 1897. He is a member of the Chief Engi- 
 neers' Association of Boston, and is also a 
 member of the Relief Association of the Hyde 
 Park Fire Department. 
 
 He was married in 1871 to Miss Adella F. 
 Trask, daughter of Warren H. Trask, of 
 Stoughton. They have two children — Will- 
 iam E. , who is with the Swift Beef Company 
 of Allegheny City; and Helen F. Mr. Holt- 
 ham is a member of Hyde Park Lodge, F. 
 & A. M. ; Norfolk Chapter, R. A. M. ; Hyde 
 Park Council and Cyprus Commandery, K. T. 
 He is also a member of Forest Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F. , of which he was treasurer for 
 many years, and a charter member of the Mon- 
 terea Encampment; and he likewise belongs 
 to the Legion of Honor, and has held many
 
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 offices. Both Mr. and Mr.s. Holtham are at- 
 tendants of the Baptist church. 
 
 ^.an 
 
 ILLIAM F. KING, a prominent 
 rmer of the town of Franklin and 
 a veteran of the Civil War, was 
 born in VVrentham, September 5, 1839, son of 
 David and Lucy (Maker) King. The father 
 was born in Paisley, Scotland, July 4, 1800, 
 and came to America in 1819, sojourning at 
 St. John, N. B. Removing thence to New 
 Hampshire, he stayed there a year as a farm 
 laborer; but, being a weaver by trade, and 
 preferring that occupation, he came to Massa- 
 chusetts, and in this State and in Rhode Isl- 
 and set up eighteen different mills, and was 
 superintendent of the weaving department in 
 these mills. He worked, also, in "the Uld 
 Steam Mill" at Providence, R.I., and re- 
 mained in that city until his son William F. 
 was two years old. P'rom Providence he re- 
 moved to the village of City Mills, Norfolk 
 County, and worked there until he came to the 
 farm where William P". now resides. Here 
 he died on September 30, 1865. 
 
 David King was twice married. His first 
 wife was Lucy Maker, above named, a native 
 of East Brewster, Mass. She died November 
 25, 1842, having been the mother of nine 
 children, the eldest of whom, named William, 
 died in infancy. The second, PZmmeline S. , 
 born September 17, 1825, now living in Hart- 
 ford, Conn., is the widow of Charles A. John- 
 son, who died in California. Warren N. 
 King, who lives in Franklin, near William 
 F., married, first, Louisa Richards, and, sec- 
 ond, Julia A. Blake, both now deceased. 
 John King lives in Rockville, Mass. His 
 wife, who was Ann Eliza Maker, is now de- 
 ceased. Margaret died at the age of three 
 years. Chloe M. King lives with her brother, 
 William P'. The other two children died in 
 infancy. The second wife of David King was 
 Lucy Fisher, of this town, who died in 1875. 
 She had one child — a daughter lilizabeth, who 
 died at the age of five .years. All the King 
 children were educated in the common schools. 
 
 After leaving school, William V. King- 
 remained on the home farm until he enlisted, 
 on December 17, 1863, in Company I of the 
 
 Eighteenth Massachu.setts Infantry, under 
 Colonel Hayes and Lieutenant Hemmingway, 
 and went to the front as a defender of the 
 Union. On October 21, 1864, he was trans- 
 ferred to Company G of the Thirty-second 
 Regiment. He was in the following engage- 
 ments during the war: May 5 to 7, 1864, in 
 the battle of the Wilderness; on May 8, at 
 Laurel Hill; May 10 to May 18, at Spottsyl- 
 vania; May 23-27, at North Anna; on May 30, 
 at Shady Grove Road; from June i to June 
 12, at Cold Harbor; June 20 to July 20, at 
 Petersburg; August 21, at Weldon Railroad; 
 September 30, at Preble's P"arm ; October 27, 
 1864, and P^ebruary 5-7, 1865, at Hatcher's 
 Run; March 25, 1865, at Fort Stedman ; 
 March 30, at Boydton Road, where he, un- 
 aided, captured two prisoners; March 31, 
 1S65, at Gravelly Run; April i, 1865, at P^ive 
 P'orks; April 2, at the fall of Petersburg; and, 
 on April 9, at Appomattox. He was the first 
 infantry man to fire a shot in the Army of the 
 Potomac after General Grant was placed in 
 command; and Charles Wilson, of this town, 
 was the first man killed in battle. 
 
 Mr. King was discharged at Alexandria, 
 Va., on June 29, 1865, and shortly after re- 
 turned home. He owns a farm of about one 
 hundred and fifty acres, and carries on general 
 farming and some dairying. He also does 
 butchering, and is Inspector of Cattle for the 
 town. In politics he is a RejHiblican,- and is 
 always loyal to his party. He is a member of 
 Post No. 60, G. A. R. He and his family 
 are members of the Baptist church at Norfolk. 
 
 Mr. King has been twice married. His 
 first wife, who became Mrs. King July 2, 
 i860, was Laura Ann Lawrence, a native of 
 the town of Wrentham, born December 24, 
 1841. Her parents were Addison C. and 
 Olive (Hill) Lawrence, the mother born in 
 Medway on December 15, 1809, and the 
 father in Franklin on October 19, 1808. 
 Mr. Lawrence was a machinist, and made his 
 home in Wrentham, where both he and his 
 wife died. Mrs. Laura A. L. King died 
 March 29, 1875. She was the mother of 
 three children, namely: Lucy M., born April 
 8, 1863, who lives with her father; David 
 Addison, a farmer, living near his father, 
 born August 15, 1866, who married Bertha
 
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 Nickerson, of Chelsea, Mass., born July 6, 
 1S75; and Willie W. King, born August 23, 
 1S70, who has always remained at home. On 
 July 6, 1879, Mr. King married for his sec- 
 ond wife Abbie E. Morey, of Bradford, Vt., 
 born January 19, 1852, daughter of William 
 Wa-shburn and Lydia (Converse) Morey. Her 
 father was born in Orford, N. H., March 29, 
 1809; and her mother was born in Lyme, 
 N. H., July 7, 1 82 1. Mr. Morey was a life- 
 long farmer. Both he and his wife died here 
 at their daughter's home. Mrs. King is a 
 great lover of flowers and plants, and is very 
 successful in their cultivation in her hot- 
 house, from which she sells many flowers and 
 cuttings. She has one daughter, Ruth Eliza- 
 beth King, born January 10, 1885, living at 
 home. 
 
 'AMUEL T. ELLIOTT, of Hyde 
 Park, the treasurer of the Massachu- 
 setts Benefit Life Association of 
 Boston, was born in Sturgis, Mich., 
 July 26, 1861, son of James C. and Mary A. 
 (Tuttle) Elliott. The family is of English 
 origin. Joseph Elliott, the great-grandfather 
 of the subject of this sketch, enlisted in Cap- 
 tain W. M. Thomas's regiment or company, 
 July 23, 1 78 1, and was discharged as a Cap- 
 tain, December i of the same year. The haz- 
 ardous work of transporting supplies through 
 the British lines to the American army was 
 performed by him. He resided in Sutton, 
 Mass. ; and an account of his valuable services 
 in the Revolutionary War will be found in the 
 history of that town. Alvah Elliott, grand- 
 father of Samuel T. , was a native of New 
 York State, and followed the trade of a mill- 
 wright. While pursuing his calling near 
 Dunkirk, N.Y., he was stricken with typhus 
 fever, and died at the age of thirty-eight 
 years. 
 
 James Clark Elliott, who was born and 
 reared in New York State and learned the 
 trade of a carpenter, followed the business of 
 builder and manufacturer of pumps in Sturgis, 
 Mich. Some years later he went to Joliet, 
 111., where he executed a large construction 
 contract for the Rock Island Railroad. He is 
 now seventy-four years old, and is living in 
 
 retirement with his son. For many years he 
 has been a member of the Methodist I'^piscopal 
 church and a local preacher. His wife, Mary 
 A., who was a native of Effingham, N.H., 
 died at the age of sixty-nine. She was the 
 mother of three children, of whom Alvah T. 
 and Samuel T. are living. 
 
 Samuel T. Elliott began his education in 
 the common schools. Subsequently, after a 
 two years' course at the Michigan Agricultural 
 College in Lansing, at the solicitation of the 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction, he ac- 
 cepted the position of assistant clerk in the 
 office of that department. In 1881 he became 
 book-keeper for the Massachusetts Benefit Life 
 Association, and took up his residence at 
 Hyde Park in the Readville district. When 
 he entered the service of this association, it 
 had but recently organized, and its quarters 
 were limited to one room. As business in- 
 creased, he was advanced to the position of 
 comptroller: and in 1896 he became the treas- 
 urer. At that time the association occupied 
 eighteen large rooms, employed fifty clerks, 
 and was one of the largest organizations of 
 its kind in the United States. In the fall of 
 1897 he took up the profession of dentistry, 
 locating with Dr. C. E. Tuttle at 242 Hunt- 
 ington Avenue, Boston. Politically, Mr. 
 Elliott is a Republican. He served as a 
 Selectman during the years 1893, 1894, 1895, 
 and 1896, having been chairman during the 
 last two terms. Among the notable public 
 improvements made while he was connected 
 with that body were the abolition of grade 
 crossings and the establishment of a union 
 depot at Readville. He is the secretary and 
 treasurer and a director of the Readville 
 Homestead Association, and a member of the 
 corporation of the Hyde Park Savings Bank. 
 He is a member of the Hyde Park Histori- 
 cal Society; the treasurer of the Blue Hill 
 Evangelical Society, which has a reading - 
 room and library in Readville; and a director 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association. 
 Appointed a Notary Public by Governor Rus- 
 sell, he is a Justice of the Peace by the ap- 
 pointment of Governor Ames and the reap- 
 pointment of Governor Greenhalge. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Elliott was united in marriage 
 with Mary C. Crippen,. who was born in Syra-
 
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 525 
 
 cuse, N.Y., daughter of A. Crippen, a black- 
 smith and a wheelwright by trade. Mrs. 
 Elliott is the mother of three children — Una, 
 Wesley A., and Margaret. Both parents are 
 members of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 'KANCIS D. WILLIAMS, a successful 
 business man of Foxboro, was born 
 April 6, 1824, in Dighton, Mass., the 
 ancestral home of the Williams family. His 
 father, the late Simeon Williams, was the 
 third in direct line who bore that name, lived 
 and died in Dighton, and was buried in the 
 rural cemetery that his grandfather had located 
 and laid out. Richard Williams, the founder 
 of the family in Bristol County, was the origi- 
 nal settler of Taunton, Mass., where he spent 
 his last years. His body lies interred in the 
 family burying - ground. Simeon Williams, 
 2d, grandfather of Francis B. , is believed to 
 have been a soldier in the Revolutionary 
 army, and to have been wounded in the cause 
 of independence. 
 
 Simeon Williams, 3d, was educated in the 
 district schools of Dighton, where he was 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits in his younger 
 days. He afterward worked for Jesse Smith, 
 the owner of a stage route between Taunton 
 and Boston. The distinction is credited to 
 him of having driven the first stage from 
 Taunton to Foxboro, and also that from Taun- 
 ton to New Bedford, Mass. At his death he 
 was fifty-six years old. He married Mary 
 Pierce, a daughter of Thomas Pierce. They 
 became the parents of three children, namely: 
 Francis D., the subject of this sketch ; Simeon 
 H., of South Framingham; and .Mary, who 
 has spent much of her life in Providence, 
 R. I., and is the wife of Elisha Allen. 
 
 Francis D. Williams was educated in the 
 schools of Dighton, Norton, and Attleboro, 
 living on the home farm until seventeen years 
 old. Then, learning the carpenter's trade, he 
 followed it for twenty successive years, work- 
 ing in Dorchester and Taunton. Coming 
 from Taunton to P'oxboro, he became one of 
 the owners of Pond's mill for two years. 
 Subsequently he bought the stage and express 
 line to East Foxboro and Mansfield, and in 
 1858 the express business on the train from 
 
 here to Boston, of which he has since had 
 charge. For a quarter of a century after the 
 railroad was finished, Mr. Williams was the 
 P'oxboro station agent. Later he was en- 
 gaged in the coal business for twenty-two 
 years. He is a strong advocate of Republican 
 principles. In 1852 he cast his first Presi- 
 dential vote for Winfield Scott. He has been 
 influential in local affairs, encouraging all 
 modern improvements, having served on vari- 
 ous committees, and having been one of the 
 most active helpers in the work of laying out 
 the common. He has been Selectman for 
 three years, and for six years he was one of 
 the Water Commissioners. 
 
 On July I, 1847, Mr. Williams married 
 Miss Lydia Townsend Copeland, a descendant 
 in the sixth generation from John Alden and 
 Priscilla Mullen. They have two children — 
 Frances Lydia and George Fenelon. Frances 
 Lydia is the wife of Judge Thomas E. Grover, 
 and has one son, Gregory W. Grover. George 
 Fenelon, who is in charge of the Fo.xboro 
 telephone and postal telegraph station, has 
 served as Town Treasurer, and since 1879 
 has been clerk of the Water Board. He mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Alice Phelps, a daughter of 
 Eli Phelps, of this town; and they have two 
 children — Ruth, seven years old ; and Louis, 
 five years yoiniger. 
 
 WILL W. MA\ 
 and respectec 
 was born in 
 
 MAYHEW, a well-known 
 ed resident of Braintree, 
 this town, January 15, 
 1 8 57, son of William W. and Susan S. (Ar- 
 nold) Mayhew. His father, one of the Select- 
 men of Braintree, is descended from Thomas 
 Mayhew (i 592-1682), an Englishman, the 
 first settler of Martha's Vineyard, and noted 
 for his missionary efforts among the Indians. 
 His mother comes of Pilgrim stock. 
 
 Mr. Will W. Mayhew was educated in the 
 common and high schools of Braintree. At 
 the age of seventeen he entered the employ of 
 Messrs. M. C. Hood & Co., wholesale dry- 
 goods merchants of Boston. He remained 
 with them for about four years, during which 
 time he was promoted to the position of sales- 
 man for the concern. He subsequently be- 
 came travelling salesman for the wholesale
 
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 dry-goods firm of S. T. Tucker & Co., of Bos- 
 ton, with whom he was connected for five 
 years. In 1883, in company with W. I. Ar- 
 nold, he engaged in the manufacture of cloth- 
 ing at Braintree, under the style of Arnold & 
 Mayhew. In 1884 Mr. W. H. Shaw was ad- 
 mitted to the firm, and during the same year 
 the business was removed to Boston. Some 
 time afterward the firm dissolved, and Mr. 
 Mayhew became the sole proprietor of the 
 business, which he still retains, and has been 
 most successful in the enterprise. He takes 
 an active interest in local politics, and has 
 been a member of the Republican Committee 
 for the past ten years. He is a trustee of the 
 school fund, and is now serving his second 
 term in the legislature as Representative from 
 Braintree and Weymouth. During his first 
 term he represented Braintree and Holbrook. 
 He married Miss M. Rosamund Minchin, of 
 Braintree, by whom he has had one son, John 
 H., who died in infancy. Mr. Mayhew is 
 connected by membership with the Masons, 
 the Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 EORGE SANFORD, who has been 
 31 Tax Collector of Hyde Park for fif- 
 teen consecutive years, was born 
 June 13, 1830, in Dartmouth, Bristol County, 
 Mass. A son of Thomas E. Sanford, he be- 
 longs to a long-established family of that 
 town. The paternal great-grandfather, also 
 named George, who was an extensive land- 
 owner and for many years one of the most 
 thriving and influential farmers of Dartmouth, 
 there reared his family. His son, Caleb San- 
 ford, spent his entire life of fifty-eight years 
 in Dartmouth, dying in 1835. Caleb was en- 
 gaged in mercantile business during the major 
 portion of his life, and in addition owned a 
 coaster, and was interested to some extent in 
 the coasting trade. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Content Gifford, survived him many 
 years, passing away at an advanced age. She 
 was the mother of four children, all of whom 
 grew to maturity. 
 
 Thomas E. Sanford grew to man's estate in 
 Dartmouth, where in his youthful days he 
 worked in his father's store as a clerk. He 
 subsequently sailed a coasting-vessel for sev- 
 
 eral seasons, getting a fine start in life in that 
 manner. Afterward he opened a store in 
 South Dartmouth, where he carried on a sub- 
 stantial and lucrative trade until his sudden 
 death of heart-disease when seventy years of 
 age. He married Miss Ann H. Sherman, 
 who was born in Dartmouth, daughter of Jireh 
 and Anna H. Sherman. Her father, who was 
 a farmer anil also served for some years as a 
 revenue officer, died in that town at the age of 
 threescore and ten years, and her mother at 
 the age of ninety. The children reared 
 by Thomas E. Sanford and his wife are: 
 Sophia A., the wife of Edwin A. Howland; 
 George, the subject of this sketch ; and Mrs. 
 Sarah H. Baker. Both parents were active 
 and faithful members of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church. After a widowhood of many 
 years the mother passed away at the venerable 
 age of ninety-one years. 
 
 George Sanford received his academical ed- 
 ucation in East Greenwich and Dartmouth, 
 and then began working for himself. In 
 1855 he went on a sea voyage, after which he 
 learned the art of manufacturing nails by 
 hand. This trade he afterward followed in 
 East Wareham for two years as a journeyman 
 and later as a manufacturer, being also agent 
 of the Tisdale Nail Works for a number of 
 years. During the fifteen years that he re- 
 sided in East Wareham he took a great inter- 
 est in local affairs, serving as Selectman, for 
 five years being chairman of the board, As- 
 sessor, and Overseer of the Poor. In 1868 
 and 1870 he represented that town in the Gen- 
 eral Court, being largely elected by the Re- 
 publicans, although he has always been a 
 Democrat, even in war time, and a sound 
 money man. While in the legislature he was 
 chairman of the Committee on Fisheries. In 
 the later sixties Mr. Sanford opened a store 
 in East Wareham; and in 1871 he came to 
 Hyde Park, where he established another 
 store, becoming senior member of the firm of 
 Sanford & Runnells, for some years conduct- 
 ing both business establishments. In 1881 
 the partnership was dissolved, and since that 
 time Mr. Sanford has devoted his attention to 
 his official work. He was elected Selectman 
 of Hyde Park in 1875 and 1876; and in 1881 
 he was chosen Assessor, a capacity in which
 
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 527 
 
 he served most acceptably for ten consecutive 
 years. In 1882 he was appointed Tax Collec- 
 tor, which office he has since very efficiently 
 filled. 
 
 In A])ril, 1853, Mr. Sanford married Miss 
 Mary A. Hayden, who was born in Wareham', 
 Mass. She is one of the two children of 
 Joseph P. Hayden, an insurance agent of that 
 place. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford have three 
 children — Jethro C, Clara Frances, and 
 Eliza F. Jethro C, who is the superin- 
 tendent of the New York & San Juan Smelt- 
 ing Company's works in Colorado, and has 
 been Grand Master of the Grand Masonic 
 Lodge of Colorado, married Miss Lottie Far- 
 ley, of Eureka, Col. Eliza F. married 
 Albert F. Rogers, a manufacturer of fire- 
 works, and has two children — Mildred S. and 
 George M. Mr. Sanford, Sr., was made a 
 Mason in Social Harmony Lodge of Wareham, 
 in which he has since held many of the 
 offices. He is a member of the Order of 
 Eastern Star; of Allyn Lodge, I. O. O. F., of 
 Hyde Park; and a charter member of the 
 Royal Arcanum. For some years he was a 
 member of the Hyde Park and Waverly Clubs, 
 for a while being treasurer of the latter. He 
 is also a member of the Hyde Park Historical 
 Society, and is connected with the Hyde 
 Park Savings Bank as auditor and trustee. 
 While his religious creed is broad, he attends 
 the Unitarian church. 
 
 ID WIN P. GURNEY, builder and con- 
 tractor of Needham, Mass., a son of 
 Jacob and Sarah (Stephens) Gurney, 
 was born in Hebron, Me., June 30, 1842. 
 Elisha Gurney, his great grandfather, was one 
 of the first settlers of Hebron ; and on a rock 
 which may still be seen on the old Gurney 
 farm was baked the first bread made in the 
 town. Elisha Gurney was a commissioned 
 officer in the P"rench and Indian wars. 
 
 His son, Jacob, Sr. , who was born in 
 Bridgewater, Mass., and moved with him to 
 Hebron, Me., where he engaged in farming, 
 was a soldier in the Revolution, entering the 
 service when but fifteen years of age. The 
 gun which he carried is still in the possession 
 of the family. Jacob's son, Jacob, Jr., the 
 
 father of the subject of this sketch, was born 
 in Hebron, Me., in 1809. He enlisted in 
 1863 in Company A, Thirtieth Maine Regi- 
 ment, under General Nathaniel T. Banks; and 
 both he and his sixteen-year-old son, Judson, 
 who was with him in the Red River expedi- 
 tion, died in the service, the latter from expos- 
 ure and hardships. Jacob Gurney, Jr., mar- 
 ried Sarah, the daughter of Caleb Stejjhens, 
 who was a pioneer settler in Maine. Mr. 
 Stephens at one time moved his family on an 
 ox sled in the middle of winter to Dead 
 River, Me., a place so remote from the con- 
 veniences of civilization that to get his corn 
 ground he had to carry it twelve miles to mill 
 on his back. He died in 1884. 
 
 Edwin P. Gurney was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Hebron and at the Hebron 
 Academy, from which he was graduated in 
 1862. In the same year he enlisted in Com- 
 pany C, Seventeenth Maine Regiment of In- 
 fantry, under Captain Augustus Golderman 
 and Colonel Roberts. This regiment was en- 
 gaged in engineering for some time before it 
 was sent to the front. Mr. Gurney was in the 
 heavy artillery in the defence of Washington, 
 his regiment helping to construct the forts 
 about the city. While at this work he was in- 
 jured by a team ; and he was discharged from 
 the service in February, 1863. He draws a 
 pension from the government. Returning to 
 his home in Hebron, he was engaged as a 
 school teacher for seven years after leaving 
 the army, and then worked at his trade of 
 building in Lewiston until 1879, when he 
 went to Colorado. A year later he came back 
 to Cambridge, and worked in tiie car shops, 
 but went to Florida the next year, and for a 
 year or so worked at his trade. Then, return- 
 ing North, he worked in Cambridge, for the 
 ne.xt eleven years. In 1893 he came to Need- 
 ham, where he has been engaged as a builder 
 and contractor ever since. Mr. Gurney is 
 a comrade of Galen Orr Post, No. 81, 
 G. A. R., of Needham. In politics he is a 
 Republican, and he is a member of the Con- 
 gregational church. 
 
 Mr. Gurney was married in 1869 to Louise 
 M., the daughter of Harvey Dunham, of 
 Hebron, Me. They have one daughter — 
 Lillian M., born in Hebron in 1871, educated
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 in the schools of Hebron and of Cambridge, 
 Mass., and now living at home. 
 
 OHN HENRY DUNBAR, superintend- 
 ent of the almshouse and town farm at 
 Canton, Norfolk County, Mass., was 
 born August 25, 1836, in Winchendon, 
 Worcester County, son of John D. Dunbar, 
 Jr. His grandfather, John D. Dunbar, Sr., 
 was a lineal descendant of Samuel Dunbar, 
 the first member of the Dunbar family to lo- 
 cate in Canton, where he was a settled minis- 
 ter during the Revolutionary War. A near 
 kinsman was Squire Bill Dunbar, a prominent 
 figure of this locality in 1S25. John D. Dun- 
 bar, Sr., was one of the leading Masons of his 
 day, as is shown by papers in the hands of 
 Mr. Dunbar, these being his credentials, 
 dated 1802, as a member of the District De- 
 partment, Grand Commandery of Massachu- 
 setts, Seventh Masonic District. 
 
 John D. Dunbar, Jr., was born in Charlton, 
 Mass., and when but a hoy was in the War of 
 1812, accompanying his uncle, with whom he 
 afterward worked for some years at manufact- 
 uring in Canton. He subsequently formed a 
 partnership with his brother, William C, and 
 opened factories in Sharon, Canton, and 
 Stoughton, Mass. ; but the fi^rm finally re- 
 moved to Barre, Mass., and there began the 
 manufacture of cotton cloth. In a few years 
 the partnership was dissolved, John D. Dun- 
 bar going from Barre to Winchendon Springs, 
 Mass., where he carried on an extensive man- 
 ufacturing business until 183S. The succeed- 
 ing thirty years or so he was engaged in the 
 building and loan business in Boston, contin- 
 uing until 1867, when he became a resident of 
 Canton, where he lived retired until his death, 
 on June 12, 1879, ^t the venerable age of 
 eighty-two years and six months. He mar- 
 ried Miss Harriet Beaman, of Winchendon, 
 and they reared three children, namely: John 
 H., the special subject of this sketch; Lillian 
 F., wife of the Rev. John H. Hartman, a for- 
 mer 7Tiinister of Canton; and Zerviah, who 
 died at an early age. 
 
 John Henry Dunbar was educated at Chap- 
 man Hall School, a private educational insti- 
 tution in Boston, where he was graduated in 
 
 1854. He was subsequently engaged for some 
 time as a ship-chandler in Boston, going from 
 there to South America in 1865. Two years 
 later he returned to Boston, and soon estab- 
 lished himself as a ship-chandler, a business 
 which he conducted successfully twenty-two 
 years. He then became the New England 
 agent for the Calumet Fire Clay Company, 
 having his office in Boston, and remained in 
 that position until i8gi, when he was given 
 charge of the Canton almshouse and town 
 farm, an office which he has since filled with 
 great ability and fidelity. In politics he is a 
 sound Democrat, and for six years he has been 
 a member of the Democratic Town Committee. 
 Mr. Dunbar was married June 22, 1871, to 
 Miss Frances S. Goodrich, who was born in 
 New York, a daughter of Francis Goodrich. 
 They have one son, Dwight Dunbar. Mr. 
 Dunbar is a member of St. John's Lodge, F. 
 & A. M., of Boston. He is a Congregation- 
 alist in religious belief, and he and his fam- 
 ily attend the Congregational church. 
 
 YRUS M. ALLEN, a representative 
 farmer of Franklin, Mass., and a son 
 of Cyrus and Sally (Bacon) Allen, 
 was born in Franklin, June 6, 1831. 
 His paternal great-grandfather, Samuel, came 
 from Medfield to Franklin, and settled near 
 the farm now occupied by Cyrus M. Allen. 
 Samuel was a farmer all his life, and so was 
 his son Abijah, who succeeded to the old home 
 farm. Abijah was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary War, taking part in the battle of 
 Bunker Hill, and having previously been a 
 member of the Boston Tea Party. His son 
 Cyrus, vi'ho in young manhood came to the 
 farm now occupied by the subject of this 
 sketch, was both farmer and mechanic. Cyrus 
 lived on the farm until his death on Septem- 
 ber 2, 1866. His wife, Sally Bacon Allen, 
 a native of Franklin, died May 25, 1886. 
 They had four children — Marena, George, 
 Cyrus M., and Thomas. George died in in- 
 fancy. Thomas, born October 7, 1836, mar- 
 ried Martha M. Metcalf, and lives in Frank- 
 lin, where he conducts a wood yard. Marena 
 married Rensselaer Patch, and went to Iowa 
 to live, where she and her husband died.
 
 BENJAMIN F. BOYDEN.
 
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 53' 
 
 Cyrus M. Allen received a common-school 
 education. At the age of twenty-one he ob- 
 tained employment in a straw shop of Frank- 
 lin. During the following sixteen years he 
 worked in l^'ranklin, Worcester, Maiden, 
 Keene, N.H., and Reading, Pa. In 1869 he 
 returned to the old homestead, where he has 
 remained since, engaged in general farming and 
 dairying. He has made many improvements 
 on his beautiful place, and now owns one hun- 
 dred and twenty acres of good farming land. 
 He keeps about twenty cows, and does a good 
 retail milk business. In politics he is a 
 stanch Republican. He has served his towns- 
 men for one year as Assessor and for twelve 
 years as Overseer of the Poor. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Grange Society at Franklin and of 
 the Farmers' Club. 
 
 Mr. Allen was married November 30, 1854, 
 to Sarah M., a daughter of William and Julia 
 (Amsden) Williams. Mr. Williams spent his 
 life chiefly in Southboro, Mass., where he was 
 engaged in farming and shoemaking, and died 
 in Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. Allen had six 
 children, namely: William Henry, born July 
 20, 1856, who married Belle H. Sechler, and 
 is living in Downingtown, Pa., where he is 
 engaged as supervisor on the Penn. Railroad; 
 Aklis M., born November 12, 1861, who died 
 at the age of two years ; Emma Marena, born 
 November 12, 1863; Julia W., born February 
 27, 1866; Abbie M., born February 13, 1870; 
 and George A., born November 16, 1874, who 
 married Margerie E. Bacon. The last four 
 live with their parents. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
 Allen are earnest members of the Congrega- 
 tional church at Franklin. 
 
 RIAH W. BOYDEN, an experienced 
 and progressive miller of Foxboro, was 
 born in this town, March 30, 1848, 
 son of the late Benjamin F. 
 Boyden. His great-grandfather, Seth Boyden, 
 came here from Medfield when this section of 
 Norfolk County was in its primitive wildness, 
 and took up two hundred acres of land in what 
 is now the north-eastern part of Foxboro. 
 Seth, who was twice married, reared six chil- 
 dren, of whom Seth, second, was the grand- 
 father of Uriah W. 
 
 Seth Boyden, second, born in Stoughton, 
 Mass., April 22, 1764, died on his Foxboro 
 farm, August 15, 1840. When a young man 
 he settled in this town, erecting a fine brick 
 house, the first of its kind in the locality; and 
 which is now one of the landmarks of the 
 place. Possessed of much inventive genius, 
 he devised, among other things, the famous 
 leather-splitting machine, which caused a rev- 
 olution in the shoe and leather business. He 
 married Susan, daughter of Uriah Atherton, 
 who is alleged to have cast, at his foundry in 
 Stoughton, the first cannon used in the Revo- 
 lutionary Army. It is related that, after Mr. 
 Atherton had started with the cannon for 
 either Dorchester Heights or Cambridge, his 
 team was unable to haul it, owing to the mis- 
 erable condition of the roads, and that Seth 
 Boyden, first, brought to his assistance a yoke 
 of bulls and a stallion that had to be worked 
 in fetters. Seth assured Mr. Atherton that 
 with these the transportation of the cannon 
 would be safe; for, if he should meet the red- 
 coats, all he would need to do to rout them 
 was to unhitch his warlike cattle. Mrs. Susan 
 Boyden had ten children; namely, Seth, Alex- 
 ander, Susanna, Sarah, Otis, Sabra, Hannah, 
 Uriah A., Benjamin ¥., and William P. 
 Seth, the third bearer of the name, became a 
 noted inventor, removed to Newark, N.J., 
 where he spent his last years, and where in 
 i8go a statue was erected to his memory in 
 Washington Park. Alexander, a resident of 
 Massachusetts, was an inventor of a machine 
 for turning knife-handles. Sarah died in 
 Newark, N.J., at the age of forty years. 
 Otis, who had worked for his brothers in 
 Newark, died there in 1861. Sabra became 
 the wife of Silas -Smith, of P'oxboro, and died 
 in 1861. Hannah died in infancy. Uriah A., 
 by occupation a civil engineer, invented a 
 turbine water-wheel, and died in Boston in 
 1S79, leaving a sum of money to Harvard Col- 
 lege to be used for scientific purposes. He 
 also gave a munificent gift to the Foxboro 
 public library, which was named for him. 
 William P., the youngest son, also a civil 
 engineer, died in Kentucky in 18S6. 
 
 Benjamin F. Boyden, who was born in Fox- 
 boro, January 28, 1807, died at his late home, 
 August 21, 1896. When a young man he
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 went with his brother William to Cambridge 
 to introduce the leather-splitting machines, 
 and was there engaged in business for some 
 time. He subsequently went to Schenectady, 
 N. Y., remaining there two years. In 1835 he 
 resumed business in Cambridge, Mass., con- 
 tinuing there until the death of his father in 
 1840, when he assumed the management of 
 the old homestead. In 1871 he removed to 
 the place now known as Boyden's Mill, in 
 North Fo.xboro, where he resided until his 
 demise. On January i, 1829, he married 
 Miss Lucinda A. Clapp, daughter of Thomas 
 Clapp, a Revolutionary soldier, and one of the 
 guards at tiie e.xecution of Major Andrd, the 
 sword which he wore being still preserved by 
 the family. She passed away March 8, 1877, 
 having given birth to four children. These 
 were: Sarah A., who resides with her brother 
 Uriah in North Fo.xboro; Seth R., a resident 
 of New York City, who has charge of the 
 establishment of Dwight, Church & Co. ; 
 Susan A., who died in infancy; and Uriah 
 W. , the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Uriah VV. Boyden was bred and educated in 
 his native town. After reaching man's estate, 
 he bought a grist-mill in North Foxboro, and 
 has since carried it on successfully. Later he 
 bought a house not far from the mill, where 
 he and his sister now reside. He also owns 
 the old Boyden homestead on Oak Street, and 
 has a farm of one hundred acres, which he 
 devotes to general agriculture. Politically, 
 he has always been a firm supporter of Demo- 
 cratic principles. Pie is a member of the 
 Masonic fraternity, belonging to St. Alban's 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., of Fo.xboro, Mass. 
 
 rmo 
 
 EORGE WILLARD GAY, a well- 
 \ •) I known business man of Norwood, 
 formerly South Dedham, son of the 
 late Willard and Emeline (Rhoades) Gay, was 
 born here on July 16, 1841. He is of the 
 eighth generation in descent from John Gay, 
 who came to America about 1630, and, set- 
 tling first at Watertown, was a grantee in the 
 Great Dividends and in the Beaver Brook 
 Plowlands, owning all together forty acres; was 
 admitted a freeman May 6, 1635; was one of 
 the founders of the plantation of Dedham — as 
 
 shown by his signature on the petition for in- 
 corporation, September 6, 1636^ and was 
 among the original proprietors of lands. The 
 line is as follows: John,' Samuel,^ Timothy,^ 
 Timothy," Ichabod,' Oliver,'' Willard, =" George 
 Willard."* 
 
 John Gay was on the Board of Selectmen of 
 Dedham in 1654. He died March 4, 1688. 
 His wife, who is said in family tradition to 
 have been widow Baldwicke before he married 
 her, died August 14, 1691. John Gay's will 
 (Suffolk Records), dated December 18, 1686, 
 was proved December 17, 1689, his wife, Jo- 
 anna, and son, John, being the executors. 
 His estate was valued at ninety-one pounds, 
 five shillings, eight pence. The children of 
 John and Joanna Gay were: Samuel, who was 
 born March 10, 1639, and died April 15, 
 1718; Hezekiah, born July 3, 1640, who died 
 November 28, 1669; Nathaniel, born Janu- 
 ary II, 1643, who died February 20, 1712; 
 Joanna, born March 23, 1645; EHezer, born 
 June 25, 1647, who died April 13, 1726 
 (wrongly called FIbenezer by Savage) ; Abiel, 
 born April 23, 1649, who was married to 
 Daniel Hawes, February 23, 1677; Judith, 
 Abiel's twin sister (called Judah in her 
 father's will), who was married February 8, 
 1672, to John Fuller; John, born May 6, 
 165 1, who died November ig, 173 1; Jona- 
 than, born August i, 1653; Hannah, born Oc- 
 tober 16, 1656, who died February 26, 1660; 
 and Elizabeth (date and place of birth un- 
 known), who married Richard Martin in 1660 
 (see Reg., atite, vol. ,\ix. 168), not mentioned 
 in her father's will. 
 
 Samuel, the eldest son, received under his 
 father's will the portion of land near Medfield 
 granted by the town in the division of lands. 
 He was one of the Selectmen in 1698. He 
 died April 15, 17 18. He was married No- 
 vember 23, 1 66 1, to Mary, daughter of Ed- 
 ward Bridge, of Roxbury. She died April 13, 
 1718. F"ollowing are the children of Samuel 
 and Mary (Bridge) Gay: Samuel, born Febru- 
 ary 4, 1663; Edward, born April 13, 1666, who 
 married March 25, 1688, Rebecca Fisher, and 
 died December 23, 1730; John, who was born 
 June 25. 1668, and died June 17, 1758; Heze- 
 kiah, born May 10, 1670; and Timothy, born 
 September 15, 1674.
 
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 533 
 
 Timothy Gay died May 26, 17 19. He and 
 his wife. Patience, had six children: Hannah, 
 born February 28, 1698; Hezekiah, born Oc- 
 tober 30, 1700, who died September 5, 1774; 
 Timothy, Jr., born December 29, 1703; David, 
 born November 6, 1707; Joshua, born October 
 23, 1710; and Patience, born August 23, 1713. 
 
 Timothy Gay, Jr., died March 29, 1793. 
 He was married in Stoughton, Mass., Febru- 
 ary 10, 1727, to Azubah Thorp, who died De- 
 cember 9, 1773. Their children were: Re- 
 becca, born June 22, 1730; Timothy, born 
 July 30, 1733; Solomon, born P"ebruary 24, 
 1741, who was inarried to Abigail Gould, 
 Feljruary 4, 1762; Seth, who was born Octo- 
 ber 9, 1742, and died March 18, 1752; Icha- 
 bod, who was born May 8, 1745, and died De- 
 cember 23, 1812; Jesse, born September 4, 
 1747, Selectman at Dedham in 1793; and 
 Azubah, born November 21, 1753, who was 
 married to Abner Colburn, December 10, 
 1772. 
 
 Ichabod Gay was married first, July 24, 
 1766, to Mary Gould, who died August 27, 
 1778. Their children were: Ichabod, born 
 June 2, 1767, who married Catherine P^llis; 
 Oliver, who was born June 17, 1771, and died 
 September 26, 1824; Molly, born November 
 30> 17731 who married Lemuel Savels, Sep- 
 tember 3, 1795; Wilkes, born August 30, 
 1775, who married Betsey Savels, May 18, 
 1796. Ichabod Gay's second wife, formerly 
 Mrs. Mary Fisher, bore him one child, Peggy, 
 born June 20, 1789, who was married August 
 II, 1806, to Lemuel Taunt. Mrs. Mary Gay 
 died March 24, 1797. 
 
 Oliver Gay, grandfather of George W. Gay, 
 married first Hannah Richards, who died July 
 18, 1805; and second, in 1806, Mary Fisher, 
 of Sharon, who died March 21, 1832. By his 
 second wife he had: Reuben R., born Novem- 
 ber 10, 1806, who died April 9, 1828; 
 George, born May 4, 1809, who died .Septem- 
 ber 24, 1S24; Mary, born December 20, 18 10, 
 who died September 22, 1824; Hannah, born 
 June 3, 1813, who died March 27, 1833, wife 
 of John Ellis Hartshorn; Willard, born Janu- 
 ary 3, 1818, who died January 31, 1882; and 
 ElDenezer Fisher, who was born September 8, 
 1820, and died November 15, 1871. Oliver 
 Gay died September 26, 1824. 
 
 Willard Gay, third son of Oliver named 
 above, married November 15, 1840, Emeline, 
 daughter of Lewis and Hannah (Ellis) 
 Rhoades, and was the father of five children, 
 namely: George W., whose name appears at 
 the head of this article; Mary ¥., born Octo- 
 ber 20, 1845; Emma W., born l-'ebruary 11, 
 1849, who died June 15, 1S92; Warren F., 
 who was born February 11, 185 1, and died 
 October i, 1852; and ICbenezer V., born June 
 4, 1861. Mrs. Gay died February 18, 1877. 
 
 George Willard Gay acquired his education 
 in the public schools of his native town. At 
 the age of nineteen he went to work for Isaac 
 Colburn & Co., a shoe leather firm of Boston, 
 with whom he remained nine years. He then 
 established a business of his own on High 
 Street, Boston, dealing in upper and sole 
 leather; but the great fire of 1872, so disas- 
 trous to the business men of Boston, ruined 
 his enterprise, and in February, 1873, he en- 
 gaged as salesman with Winslow Brothers, 
 tanners of Norwood. He has now been with 
 this firm nearly a quarter of a century. Mr. 
 Gay is a member of the Business Men's Asso- 
 ciation and of the Norwood Associates, a 
 land company; he is a director of the Co-oper- 
 ative Bank and a member of the Investment 
 Committee; and he is engaged in the fire in- 
 surance business. He is actively interested 
 in the welfare of Norwood, has served on the 
 School Committee, and is a Justice of the 
 Peace. 
 
 He was married May 29, 1S67, to Maria L. 
 Hoyle. Their union has been blessed by the 
 following children: Willard B., who was born 
 February 26, 1868, and died March 26, 1886; 
 Mabel H., who was born May 14, 1870, and 
 died October 14, i8go; Harold W., born May 
 30, 1874; Eva B., born January 6, 1879; and 
 George W., Jr., born April 25, 1883. 
 
 TILLMAN E. NEWELL, a mem- 
 ber of the Magee Furnace Company 
 of Boston and a resident of Hyde 
 Park, was born in Lisbon Falls, ' 
 Me., July 4, 1847, son of Stillman and Ara- 
 bella (Berry) Newell. The father, a native of 
 Maine, who for some years followed the trade 
 of a tailor in Strong, spent his last days in
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Lisbon Falls, and died at the age of thirty- 
 seven years. The mother was a daughter of 
 Deacon Edward Berry, a prominent farmer and 
 tanner of Lisbon Falls. Mr. Berry and his 
 wife were members of the Congregational 
 church. The subject of this sketch is .Still- 
 man Newell's only child. Arabella Newell 
 subsequently married the Rev. John Elliott, a 
 Congregational preacher, and became the 
 mother of five children, of whom J. F., Belle 
 May, and Charles D. Elliott are living. 
 Charles resides in Montana. The mother 
 died at the age of si.\ty-nine years. The Rev. 
 Mr. Elliott, who was for some time the pastor 
 of a church in West Auburn, Me., preached 
 for twenty years in Rumford, Me., and died at 
 the age of seventy-eight. 
 
 Stillman E. Newell passed his boyhood in 
 Auburn and Rumford, and was educated in the 
 common schools. When fifteen years old he 
 went to Boston, where he was employed by 
 Charles Monroe, a baker, for two years. 
 Then, entering the stove business as a clerk 
 for James G. Haynes, he' remained with him 
 for ten years. After carrying on business on 
 his own account for six years, he sold out and 
 became travelling salesman for the Barstow 
 Stove Company. He remained in the employ- 
 ment of this firm until about 1880, when he 
 became the travelling representative of the 
 Magee Furnace Company. He was a director 
 of the Co-operative Bank in Hyde Park for 
 two years. 
 
 On December 18, 1871, Mr. Newell was 
 united in marriage with Susan E. Martin. 
 Her father, the late Hon. J. K. Martin, was 
 an extensive farmer and cattle dealer of Rum- 
 ford, and for two years a member of the Maine 
 Senate. Mrs. Newell is the mother of four 
 children — ■ Freelon, Emeline M., Helen A., 
 and Susan. Freelon is in the glass business 
 in Boston. Since settling here in 1880, Mr. 
 Newell has been actively interested in the 
 progress of the town. He was elected a Se- 
 lectman in 1896 and 1897. In politics he is 
 a Republican. He is a member of the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen of Hyde 
 Park, of the Knights of Honor of Boston, and 
 of the Royal Arcanum. He, his wife, and a 
 daughter are united with the Congregational 
 clnirch. Owing his success in life to his gen- 
 
 eral ability and agreeable personal qualities, 
 Mr. Newell has the esteem of a wide circle of 
 
 friends. 
 
 OI5ERT BLEAKIE, one of the well 
 known and liighly respected residents 
 
 (r> \ of Hyde Park, Mass. , was born near 
 Glasgow, Scotland, in 1833, being 
 the eldest of four children. In 1847 I\j[r. 
 Bleakie's father came to Massachusetts and 
 entered the employ of the Salisbury Mills, of 
 .Salisbury and Amesbury; and there he started 
 the first fancy woolen looms in this country. 
 His family followed the year after, Robert, 
 the subject of this .sketch, being then in his 
 fourteenth year. At the age of eleven years 
 he had worked as a bobbin boy in a mill in 
 Scotland, and the year following had begun as 
 a weaver. Upon coming to this country he 
 entered the mills under the charge of his 
 father, remaining in Salisbury until 1850, 
 when the family removed to East Greenwich, 
 R. I. In a few years he took charge of the 
 weaving department of the Elm Street Mills 
 in Providence, R. I. ; and practically the only 
 schooling he received during life was at this 
 time, being obtained at night schools. In 
 1859 he took charge as superintendent of the 
 Harrison Mills at Franklin, N.J. ; and two 
 years later he accepted a similar position at a 
 woollen-mill in Rhode Island, where he re- 
 mained until i860, w'hen he started in for him- 
 self. 
 
 His first venture was at Tolland, Conn., in 
 a one-set mill. His success there was so great 
 that he received many offers ; and in 1863 he 
 accepted the management of the Hyde Park 
 Woolen Mills, where he remained until 1873, 
 when the mill was destroyed by fire. After 
 leaving Tolland, in connection with some 
 Providence parties he organized the Riverside 
 Company, and personally made the plans for 
 the mill, purchased the machinery, superin- 
 tended the installation, and started the mill in 
 operation. He had a part ownership in the 
 company, but a difference in opinion as to a 
 question in policy caused him to give up his 
 position shortly after the mill had started run- 
 ning. In 1876 he organized the firm of 
 Robert Bleakie & Co., consisting of himself
 
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 and his brother, John S. , and Charles F. 
 Allen, and purchased the Webster Mill at 
 Sabattus, Me. Afterward the firm acquired 
 the Amesbury Mill; and still later, that is, in 
 1878, they bought the Hyde Park Woollen 
 Company's property, and operated these three 
 mills under the one management. 
 
 Mr. Bleakie has made his home in Hyde 
 Park; and, while having no ambition for polit- 
 ical pron)inence, he has been frequently called 
 to offices of trust by his fellow-citizens, serv- 
 ing as chairman of the Board of Selectmen for 
 several years. In 1880 he was elected presi- 
 dent of the Hyde Park Savings Bank, and 
 under his management the bank has been 
 highly successful, the surplus growing from 
 one hundred and sixty-three dollars to seventy 
 thousand dollars. He has also been identified 
 with the Hyde Park Water Company. The 
 tariff discussion has engaged much of his at- 
 tention, and has proved him to be an origi- 
 nal and vigorous thinker on economical ques- 
 tions, with a decided leaning toward the policy 
 of freer if not free trade. He certainly has 
 gained something of a national reputation by 
 the candor of his expression of views on the 
 question of free wool. 
 
 'OHN E. COUSENS, a prosperous and 
 well-known resident of Brookline, is 
 carrying on an extensive business as a 
 dealer in coal, having a wharf in Bos- 
 ton, not far from the town limits of Brookline. 
 He was born March 8, 1836, in Lyman, Me., 
 which was likewise the birthplace of his 
 father, Seth Cousens. The latter, who was a 
 farmer by occupation, spent his entire life of 
 eighty-four years in Lyman. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Elizabeth Plmmons, was one 
 of the ten children of John limmons, another 
 successful farmer of Lyman. She reared 
 fourteen children, seven of whom are living; 
 namely, Horace, Samuel, Oliver, Joseph, 
 Ivory, Amanda, and John E. Amanda is the 
 wife of Frederick Spurr. ■ The mother passed 
 away at the age of seventy-one years. Both 
 she and her husband belonged to the Congre- 
 gational church. 
 
 John E. Cousens received a practical educa- 
 tion, partly in the town of Lyman and partly 
 
 at the high school of Brookline, where he be- 
 came a resident when entering his teens. 
 Afterward for some years he was employed 
 as a clerk in a grocery store. He then en- 
 gaged in the lumber business at Fernandina, 
 Fla., continuing there two years. Returning 
 to Brookline in 1869, he established his pres- 
 ent yard, forming a partnership with his 
 brother Horace, and for twenty years carried 
 on a substantial trade under the firm name of 
 Cousens Brothers. Since 1889 he has contin- 
 ued the business alone, being the only resi- 
 dent coal merchant in this town, and has a 
 large number of patrons both here and in the 
 city. He is a firm adherent of the Republi- 
 can party. Active in Masonry, he is a mem- 
 ber of Beth-Horon Lodge; of St. Paul's 
 Royal Arch Chapter; and of the Joseph War- 
 ren Commandery. A prominent member of 
 the Universalist church, he is the president 
 of the Board of Parish Trustees. 
 
 Mr. Cousens was married September 13, 
 1871, to Miss Sarah C. Wiggin, who was born 
 in Belfast, Me., one of the five children of 
 Nathaniel and Sarah Wiggin. Her father was 
 a shoe manufacturer in Belfast for many years. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Cousens have three children — ■ 
 Rebecca L., John A., and Kate E. — who have 
 had excellent educational advantages. Re- 
 becca L. is now a member of the Boston Art 
 School, and her brother and sister are students 
 at Tufts College. 
 
 jHAUNCEY G. FULLER, a farmer 
 
 II and a former school teacher of Wren- 
 Is ^ thani, was born in Newton, Mass., 
 May 17, 1 817, son of John and 
 Nancy (Grant) P"uller. Stephen Fuller, the 
 grandfather, born in Attleboro, was a house 
 carpenter. Some of the old tools used by him 
 in his trade have come down to present mem- 
 bers of the family. His children by his wife, 
 Maxcey, were : John, Stephen, Ann, and 
 Mary. John, after making nails by hand for 
 many years, afterward used machinery for 
 their manufacture. Upon settling in Wren- 
 tham, he bought a farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, and spent his last days there. He 
 was a Selectman and Overseer of the Poor for 
 many years. At his death he was fifty-six
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 years old. His wife, Nancy, had five chil- 
 dren. These were: Nancy G., who became 
 the wife of Lyman VV. Daggett, of Attleboro, 
 and had one daughter, Cora L. R. ; John, 
 whose first wife, Esther P. Eaton F"ullcr, 
 had two boys — Arthur E. and Willis N. — 
 and whose second wife, Frances P2. FoUett 
 Fuller, had one daughter; Cornelia, who mar- 
 ried S. R. Jackson, of Providence; Catherine, 
 who married Alonzo Follett, of Wrentham, 
 and had four daughters; and Chauncey G., the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Chauncey G. P'uller, the only surviving 
 member of the family, attended the district 
 schools, and afterward graduated from Day's 
 Academy and North Attleboro Academy. He 
 then engaged in school-teaching, which he fol- 
 lowed successfully until he was forty years of 
 age. He married Catherine C. Blackinton, 
 and since that time has lived upon the farm. 
 His wife died twelve years ago, leaving no 
 children. He keeps about thirty acres of his 
 farm under cultivation. Ninety acres are 
 woodland. He has been a Republican since 
 the formation of that party, and his first Presi- 
 dential vote was cast for VV. H. Harrison. 
 He has represented his town in the legislature 
 at two different periods, serving on the Valua- 
 tion Committee in i860; was Selectman for 
 eighteen years; and he has also served on the 
 School Committee. 
 
 "liNRY C. BIGELOW, the president 
 of the Citizens' Mutual Insurance 
 
 19 I Company of Boston and a resident 
 
 of Dedham, was born in VVayland, 
 Mass., January 20, 1834, son of Ezra and 
 Sally (Grossman) Bigelow. He is a descend- 
 ant in the seventh generation from Samuel 
 Bigelow, and the family dates its origin in 
 America from the year 1653. Amariah Bige- 
 low, M.D., grandfather of Henry C, was a 
 lifelong resident of West Boylston, Mass., 
 and practised his profession there during his 
 active period. He reared a family of four 
 children. 
 
 Ezra Bigelow, Henry C. Bigelow's father, 
 was born in We.st Boylston, November 27, 
 1782. In early life he was engaged in a mer- 
 cantile business. This he relinquished for 
 
 agriculture, and for a time he resided upon a 
 farm in Wayland. He later returned to his 
 native town, where he continued to till the 
 soil for the rest of his active years; and his 
 last days were spent at the home of his daugh- 
 ter in Clinton, Mass. He married .Sally 
 Grossman, a native of Boylston, and had a 
 family of five children, one of whom, Everett 
 W., became a business man in lioston, and 
 died of apoplexy, May 16, 1895. The others 
 are: Augusta, Cynthia G., Ilenry C, and 
 Sarah. Mrs. P2zra Bigelow died in June, 
 1838. 
 
 Henry C. Bigelow was but four years old 
 when his mother died. After finishing his 
 studies in the common schools, he was em- 
 ployed as clerk in a store for five years. For 
 the succeeding five years he served in the same 
 capacity in the local post-ofifice, advancing to 
 the position of head clerk. His connection 
 with the insurance business dates from about 
 the year 1858, when he became clerk for the 
 Merchants' and Farmers" Insurance Company 
 in Worcester, Mass., with whom he remained 
 about seven years. During the latter part of 
 the Civil War he held an appointment in the 
 Military Bureau of Justice in Washington, 
 D.C. Ujjon his return in 1865 he became a 
 special agent of the Home Insurance Com- 
 pany, with headquarters in New Haven, Conn. 
 Beginning in 1871, he was special agent and 
 adjuster for si.x years with the firm of Foster 
 & Cole, of Boston. In 1877 he became presi- 
 dent of the Citizens' Mutual Insurance Com- 
 pany. His long experience in the business 
 has made him familiar with every detail and 
 enabled him to place the Citizens' Mutual 
 upon its present strong financial basis. 
 
 On January 21, 1855, Mr. Bigelow was 
 united in marriage with Maria E. F'uller, a na- 
 tive of Wellesley, Mass., daughter of Jonathan 
 and Sarah A. Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow 
 have had three children — Cora Louisa, Her- 
 bert Henry, and Ada Withington. Ada is the 
 wife of James Y. Noyes, clerk of the Nor- 
 folk Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Ded- 
 ham. The elder children died, aged respec- 
 tively five years and two years. In politics 
 Mr. Bigelow is a Republican. Both he and 
 Mrs. Bigelow are members of the First Con- 
 gregational Church. He is also a leader in
 
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 S39 
 
 the Sunday-school, and has been a Deacon 
 for several years. In Morning Star Loilge, 
 F. & A. M., of Worcester, he is a Past Wor- 
 shipful Master. Since October, 1875, he has 
 resided in Dedham, where he is highly es- 
 teemed. 
 
 LBKRT F. MORSK, a well known 
 citizen of Canton, Mass., was born in 
 Onondaga Valley, N.Y., in 1842, 
 being the son of the Rev. Abner 
 and Hannah (Peck) Morse. He is a lineal de- 
 scendant of Samuel Morse, who was one of 
 the twelve original proprietors of the old Nor- 
 folk County town of Dedham, having come to 
 Massachusetts from Dedham, luigland, about 
 the year 1635. 
 
 The Rev. Abner Morse, son of Abner, 
 grandson of Fzekiel, great-grandson of Henry 
 Morse, and father of the subject of this sketch, 
 was born in Med way, Mass. He was a gradu- 
 ate of Brown University, and was an old-time 
 minister of the gospel. He went West about 
 1835, first to Jamestown, N.Y., from there to 
 Onondaga Valley, N. Y., and then to South 
 Bend, Ind., where he remained for si.\- years. 
 He then returned Fast, and was in various 
 places in the vicinity of Boston, but unsettled. 
 He was a member of the New England His- 
 toric Genealogical Society and an active 
 "pioneer in genealogical research." He died 
 in Sharon, Mass., at the age of seventy-two; 
 and his remains rest in Holliston cemetery, 
 where eight generations are represented in the 
 same lot. His first wife was Sarah Ann 
 Voorhees, of New Jersey, who died very soon 
 after marriage, without surviving children. 
 His second wife was Hannah Peck, daughter 
 of Franklin Peck, who built at Onondaga 
 Valley the first grist-mill west of Utica, N.Y. 
 Three sons — Abner L. , who resides in Can- 
 ton, Elijah A., and Albert F. — were born of 
 the second marriage. 
 
 Albert F., the subject of this sketch, was 
 educated in the common schools of New York 
 State and Boston, and in the schools of 
 Sharon, Mass. At the age of seventeen he 
 began the work of life as clerk in a country 
 store, and continued thus engaged for about 
 five years. In 1862 he enlisted from Sharon 
 
 in Company B, Thirty-third Regiment Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, and during his 
 three years' service was in the battles oi Fred- 
 ericksburg, Beverly Ford, Chancel lorsvi lie, 
 Gettysburg, 'and Catlett's Station. Injured 
 by a mule while driving a powder team in 
 the army, he returned to .Sharon in 1865, 
 and after staying there a few months removed 
 to Canton and went into the manufacture of 
 the Rising Sun .Stove Polish, being associated 
 in this enterjirise with his brother Fllijah, who 
 had already begun in a small way. Desiring 
 a change of scene and occupation, in 1868 he 
 went South, and vvas engaged in farming in 
 Virginia for a year. During the ne.xt si.x 
 years, — from 1870 to 1S76, he vvas selling 
 Southern produce in the North(;rn markets, 
 mainly in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In 
 1876 he came back to Canton and undertook 
 the supcrintendency of his brother's factory, 
 which afterward was much enlarged on account 
 of the growing business. He has remained 
 here ever since. 
 
 Mr. Morse is a member of Revere Post No. 
 94, G. A. R., of this town, and has served as 
 chaplain of the same for many years. His 
 family are attendants of the Congregational 
 church, where he was clerk of the society for 
 fifteen years, and also for some time superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday-school. In politics he 
 is a Republican; but, unlike his brother 
 Pllijah, he never cared for public life. 
 
 Mr. Morse was married April 19, 1866, to 
 Emeline F". , daughter of Granville Pollard, of 
 Sharon. They have two children — Etta L. 
 and Leon F. who are of the tenth generation 
 from the original Samuel Morse. 
 
 HARLES F. JENNEY, counsellor- 
 at-Iaw, was born in Middleboro, 
 Mass., September 16, i860, son of 
 Charles E. and Elvira F". (Clark) 
 Jenney. The English ancestor of the family, 
 John Jenney, who was a member of John 
 Robinson's congregation in Leyden, landed at 
 Plymouth in 1623. 
 
 Charles F., the eldest child of his parents, 
 graduated from the high school in Brockton, 
 Mass., was a teacher in public schools in 
 Brockton for two years, and then entered the
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Law School of Boston University, from whicli 
 he graduated in 1883 at the head of his class. 
 He was admitted at the bar October 4, 1882, 
 and after a short season of practice in Hyde 
 Park opened an office in Boston in*i883. His 
 office is now in the Sears Building, 199 Wash- 
 ington Street, and his residence in Hyde 
 Park. 
 
 In 1886 he married Miss Mary E. Bruce, 
 daughter of Joseph and Mary (Logan) Bruce. 
 Of this union were born Elsie Bruce and 
 Mildred Clark Jenney. 
 
 Mr. Jenney is an independent Democrat, 
 and represented his district in the legislature 
 of 1886. With two exceptions he has been 
 the only Democrat to represent this Republi- 
 can town. He has served on the Board of 
 Trustees of the Public Library for ten years, 
 and has been chairman of the board for four 
 years. He has been a member of the Ceme- 
 tery Commission for four years, and has acted 
 as Moderator at town meetings. He is attor- 
 ney for the Hyde Park Co-operative Bank and 
 for the Norfolk Suburban Street Railway 
 Company, and is one of the directors of the 
 latter corporation. Since 1886 he has been 
 one of the instructors in the Boston Univer- 
 sity La-w School. He was for several years 
 corresponding secretary of the Hyde Park His- 
 torical Society, and is a member of the Ded- 
 ham and Canton Historical Societies. Mr. 
 Jenney has been successful in the practice of 
 his profession, and is largely interested in 
 real estate in Hyde Park. 
 
 the Rev 
 Thomas 
 
 ENRY B. MINER, the esteemed 
 master of the Edward Everett School 
 of Boston, was born in Dorchester, 
 Mass., September 17, 1843, son of 
 Bradley and Louisa (Tucker) Miner. 
 Miner came to Charlestown, Mass., 
 in 1630, and, at the request of Governor Win- 
 throp, soon after 1645 joined his colony in 
 New London, Conn., where succeeding gener- 
 ations of the family have been born. One of 
 the family .still owns a portion of the original 
 grant of land, which has been handed down 
 through many generations of farmers. 
 
 Mr. Henry B. Miner's grandfather, Saxton 
 Miner, a native of Connecticut, was a farmer 
 
 and manufacturer of North Stonington, where 
 he died at the age of sixty years. His son 
 Bradley was one of a large family of children. 
 He wifs graduated from Madison University 
 in New York State, became a Baptist minis- 
 ter, and preached in that denomination until 
 the time of his death. He was settled at 
 different periods of his life in P'all River, 
 Mass., in Dorchester, Mass., where he re- 
 mained eight years, in Pittsfield, this State, 
 and in Providence, R.I., where he died in 
 1854. He married for his second wife a 
 daughter of Nathan Tucker, a farmer of Can- 
 ton. They had two children, the youngest of 
 whom was Sarah L., who was graduated from 
 the Boston Normal School and the Boston 
 University, and taught for several years in the 
 Boston High School and in the Hyde Park 
 High School. She died at the home of her 
 brother, Henry B., in Hyde Park in 1892, at 
 the age of thirty-nine. She was a member of 
 the Baptist church. The mother died at the 
 age of seventy-six years. 
 
 Mr. Henry B. Miner spent his boyhood 
 days in Providence, where he had been left 
 fatherless at the age of eleven years. He was 
 graduated from Brown University in 1864, and 
 at once began teaching in the Canton schools. 
 Mr. Miner claims a residence in this county 
 since 1858. He taught in the high school at 
 Canton for four years, at the end of that time 
 accepting a position in the Tileston School in 
 Boston. In 1875 h*^ came to the Edward 
 Everett School, of which he has now been the 
 honored master for twenty-two years. Dur- 
 ing this length of time the population of the 
 neighborhood has so much increased that two 
 districts formerly covered by the school have 
 been detached. Beginning with a school 
 membership of six hundred, this same terri- 
 tory now contains three thousand children. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Miner married Miss Maud M. 
 Clark, daughter of Dr. Henry G. Clark, a 
 well-known Boston physician of fifty years' 
 standing, who died in 1874. Miss Clark was 
 one of three children. Mr. and Mrs. Miner 
 have one child, a daughter named Dorothy. 
 A son named Henry G. died in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Miner is an honored member of various 
 educational associations, and has an important 
 position in educational circles in Boston and
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 541 
 
 its vicinity. He is beloved and respected by 
 his pupils and friends, and universally es- 
 teemed. He has been a trustee of the public 
 library of Hyde Park for many years, and for 
 the past four years the chairman of that board. 
 He is a member of the Hyde Park Historical 
 Society, and is interested in genealogical and 
 literary researches. A successful instructor 
 of youth, he is a man whose influence can 
 never be measured, because so far-reaching. 
 
 INSLOW FAUNCE, foreman of the 
 pattern department of the New Eng- 
 land car shops, Norwood, and chair- 
 man of the School Board of this town, was 
 born in Kingston, Mass., April ii, 1S50, son 
 of George and Adeline F. (Winslow) Faunce. 
 On the paternal side he is a descendant of 
 Francis Cook, Stephen Hopkins, Isaac Aller- 
 ton, and Mary Chilton — ^ who all arrived at 
 Plymouth on board the "Mayflower" in 1620 
 — and of John Faunce, who came to Plymouth 
 in the ship "Ann" in 1623. The Faunce 
 family has been identified with the town of 
 Kingston since its original settlement. Mr. 
 Faunce's great-grandfather, Elijah, and his 
 grandfather, Kilborn Faunce, were lifelong 
 residents of Kingston; and the latter, who 
 followed the mason's trade, was a prominent 
 citizen of his day. 
 
 George Faunce, above named, son of Kil- 
 born, was born in Kingston in 1816, and is 
 still residing there. He married Adeline F. 
 Winslow, a descendant of Knelm Winslow, 
 who arrived in Plymouth in 1633. Her 
 father, William Winslow, was the son of 
 Major Nathaniel Winslow, who served with 
 honor through the Revolutionary War. 
 
 She became the mother of the following 
 children: Elmer; Ellen; Winslow, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch ; Myron; Linus, a professor 
 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 
 Alton; George, superintendent of' the Penn- 
 sylvania Lead Company of Pittsburg, Pa. ; 
 Bertha ; and Sarah C. 
 
 Winslow Faunce acquired his education in 
 the public schools of Kingston, and was for a 
 time engaged in teaching. He subsequently 
 learned the carpenter's trade, and, coming to 
 Norwood in 1882, followed it as a journeyman 
 
 until 1S84, when lie engaged as a pattern- 
 maker in the car shops of the New l-lngiand 
 Railway, where he is now foreman of that de- 
 partment. Mr. Faunce is a charter member 
 of Tiot Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F., acting as 
 Past Grand when it was organized, and is now 
 its secretary, and is also a member of the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen. Politically, 
 he acts with the Republican party, and is 
 serving with ability as chairman of the School 
 Board. 
 
 Mr. P"aunce married for his first wife 
 Nellie J. Stranger, who bore him one daugh- 
 ter, Clara L. ; and for his second wife he 
 wedded Laura A. Stranger, his first wife's 
 sister. Mr. and Mrs. P"aunce attend the Con- 
 gregational church. 
 
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 DMUND N. CLARK, a prosperous gen- 
 eral farmer and stock-raiser of Millis, 
 was born here, August ig, 1840, son 
 of El bridge and Lydia C. (Newton) Clark. 
 The family was founded in this country by Jo- 
 seph and John Clark, who emigrated from • 
 Plngland, and settled in Medway. Lemuel 
 Clark, the grandfather of Edmund N., married 
 Deborah E. Newton, of Framingham. (A 
 more extended account of the family will be 
 found in the biography of John Clark.) 
 
 Elbridge Clark was born September 1 1, 
 1812, on the territory now embraced in Millis. 
 He followed agriculture in connection with 
 brick making, and occupied the Clark home- 
 stead until his death, which occurred Febru- 
 ary 4, 1896. His first wife, Lydia, who was 
 born in Princeton, Mass., July 18, 18 14, died 
 May 31, 1869. His second wife, in maiden- 
 hood Mary Elizabeth Mansfield, whom he 
 married November 30, 1871, was born in 
 Lynn, Mass., August 19, 1827, and now re- 
 sides with her son in Millis. By his first 
 union Pllbridge Clark was the -father of seven 
 children, namely: Mary Ophelia, who died 
 June 6, 1843; Edmund N., the subject of this 
 sketch; Lucy Jane, who married Alvah Stone, 
 and resides in Medina, Mich. ; Martha Ophe- 
 lia, the second wife of Leander Day, of Fram- 
 ingham, Mass. ; Harriet Lydia, now deceased, 
 who was the first wife of Leander Day; El- 
 bridge William, born in 1850, who died in
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 January, 185 1; and Lemuel, born February 6, 
 1 858, who married Bertha Sweet, and is en- 
 gaged in farming in this town. 
 
 Edmund N. Clark was educated in the com- 
 mon and high schools of his native town. 
 Since completing his studies he has given his 
 attention to agricultural pursuits. He re- 
 sided at the homestead until 1878, when he 
 purchased the John Bullard farm, which he 
 has greatly improved since taking possession. 
 He owns one hundred and thirty acres of land, 
 well adapted for tillage and pasturage; and he 
 carries on general farming and stock-raising. 
 In politics a Republican, he was a member of 
 the School Board for nine years and Assessor 
 for two years. 
 
 Mr. Clark married Tryphena R. Fisher, 
 who was born in Med way, January 17, 1841, 
 daughter of Lewis and Betsey (Richardson) 
 Fisher, of that town. Her father, now de- 
 ceased, was a stirring farmer in his day. Her 
 mother resides with a daughter in Chicago. 
 Mrs. Clark has been the mother of six chil- 
 dren, namely: Ernest, born October 12, 1868; 
 Elsie Lydia, born January 28, 1870; Betsey 
 F., born August 25, 1871; Arthur Lewis, 
 born F"ebruary 19, 1873, who died June 8 of 
 the same year; Irving Richardson, born Octo- 
 ber 24, 1874; and Fanny Ethel, born October 
 21, 1876. Ernest is now residing in Ridg- 
 way, Col. Elsie Lydia married Perry S. 
 Newcomb, who is now a boot and shoe dealer 
 in Chicago. Betsey is the wife of Clarence 
 Thorn, a coal and grain dealer in Millis. 
 Irving R. and Fanny E. are residing at home. 
 Mr. Clark's natural ability and untiring in- 
 dustry have placed him among the leading 
 agriculturists of this locality, and he stands 
 high in the estimation of his townsmen. 
 Mrs. Clark is a member of the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 ILLIAM LEONARD HODGES, of 
 West Stoughton, a gentleman of 
 means, with a taste for quiet coun- 
 try life, an esteemed and popular member of 
 the community where he dwells, was born on 
 July 13, 1858, son of Leonard and Jane 
 (Atherton) Hodges. He is a lineal descend- 
 ant in the seventh generation of William 
 
 Hodges, presumably of English birth, an early 
 settler of Taunton, Mass., his name first ap- 
 pearing on the records under the date August, 
 1643. His marriage took place a few years 
 later, his wife being Mary Andrews, daughter 
 of Henry Andrews, of Taunton. This is the 
 line: William," John,-= William, ^ Abijah," 
 Samuel,' Leonard,^ William Leonard.' (See 
 Hodges Genealogy.) 
 
 Samuel Hodges, grandfather of the subject 
 of this sketch, was an innkeeper in Taunton 
 and f^aston, Mass., many years previous to the 
 advent of railroads, and was one of the best 
 known men of his day in that section of the 
 State. He married Lucinda Austin, of Digh- 
 ton, Mass., and reared several children, among 
 whom were Samuel, Jr., Lucinda, and Leon- 
 ard. Samuel Hodges, Jr., who was commis- 
 sioned First Lieutenant in the United States 
 army, and served as a recruiting officer in the 
 War of 181 2, incorporated the Gay Cotton 
 Manufacturing Company in 181 3. Later he 
 was appointed United States Consul at the 
 Cape Verde Islands, and went there in i8ig. 
 He died in 1835. Lucinda Hodges married 
 the Rev. Calvin Park. 
 
 Leonard Hodges, father of William L., was 
 born in Taunton, Mass., July 8, 1794. He 
 learned the jeweller's trade, and in 1820 he es- 
 tablished himself in business at West Stough- 
 ton. His progressive tendencies manifested 
 themselves as early as 1822, when he began 
 the manufacture of satinets, the weaving in 
 those days being done by hand looms. His 
 energy, business ability, and close application 
 soon developed the enterprise to such an extent 
 as to necessitate the employment of twenty- 
 five weavers ; and he later erected and equipped 
 a mill with improved machinery. In 1851 he 
 retired from business, renting the mill to his 
 nephew, who in company with Calvin Tuck 
 carried it on under the firm name of Tuck & 
 Hodges until 1857, at which time be sold the 
 property to Charles French, of Canton. For 
 many years he was a director of the Neponset 
 Bank, Canton. Thoroughl}' upright and hon- 
 orable, unassuming in manner, having no am- 
 bition for office, he occupied a prominent place 
 among the leading citizens of Stoughton, where 
 he died March i, 1871, sincerely mourned by 
 a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
 
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 545 
 
 Jane Atherton, his wife, whom he married 
 January 12, 1848, was a daughter of Elijah 
 and Ruth (Tisdale) Atherton, of Stoughton. 
 She became the mother of two children, 
 namely: Anna A., born August 20, 1855; and 
 William Leonard, the subject of this sketch. 
 Anna A. is now the widow of Claude Wilson, 
 M.U. , late a prominent physician of Water- 
 town, N.Y. , who died April 23, 1896. She 
 has had five children — Anna Belle, Janet, 
 Margery, Claude, and Leonard. 
 
 William L. Hodges pursued his primary 
 studies in the public schools of Stoughton, and 
 then took a four years' course at the West 
 Newton English and Classical School. After 
 some time spent in travel he resumed his 
 residence in West Stoughton. Unconnected 
 with any business enterprise, he devotes much 
 time and thought with happy effect to imiirov- 
 ing and beautifying his estate. He has never 
 been induced to accept public office, and holds 
 himself aloof from political affairs. He is 
 well advanced in Masonry, being a member of 
 Rising Star Lodge, of Stoughton, and of Bay 
 State Commandery, Knights Templar, of 
 Brockton. He is a Director of Neponset Na- 
 tional Bank, Canton, Mass. 
 
 On May 10, 1883, Mr. Hodges was united 
 in marriage with Littie Gray Simmonds, of 
 Boston. Her parents were David M. and 
 Lydia A. (Dudley) Simmonds, the former of 
 whom was a furniture dealer. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hodges have two children, namely: Lydia, 
 born January 29, 1884; and William, Jr., 
 born September 28, 1887. 
 
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 EORGE HENRY BATEMAN, an 
 \ S I extensive milk dealer of Norwood 
 and a member of the Board of Select- 
 men, was born in Sullivan County, New 
 York, October 12, 1847, son of William and 
 Harriet Newell (Smith) Bateman. His pater- 
 nal grandfather, also named William, who was 
 a prosperous farmer of Herkimer County, New 
 York, and lived to be seventy-three years old, 
 had a family of nine children; namely, Will- 
 iam, Jonathan, Perry, Rozelle, Lyman, 
 Eunice, Lucy, Louisa, and Gaylord. Of 
 these two died young. 
 
 William Bateman, the father of George H., 
 
 was born in Newport, N.Y., November 11, 
 1 81 5. He was reared to agricultural pursuit.s, 
 and for some time owned and cultivated a 
 large farm in Cazenovia, N.Y. He went to 
 California in 1852. Upon his return East in 
 the following year, he settled upon a farm in 
 East Walpole, Mass. He later removed to 
 South Dedham (now Norwood), where he re- 
 sided for some years; and he died in Pike, 
 N.Y., aged seventy-two. His wife, Harriet, 
 who was born in Newport, N.Y., April 5, 
 1 8 18, became the mother of seven children, as 
 follows: Jerome Bonaparte, born in Greece, 
 N.Y., in 1840; Rozelle S. and Adeline Vir- 
 ginia, both born in Cazenovia, N.Y., in 1843; 
 George H., the subject of this sketch; Anna 
 L., born in Cazenovia in 1851; Frank Will- 
 iam, born in East Walpole in 1855; and 
 Lillie Frances, born in i860. 
 
 George Henry Bateman began his education 
 in East Walpole, and completed his studies in 
 South Dedham. When seventeen years old he 
 was employed by Simon Gould in driving a 
 milk wagon for a short time. Then he was 
 for several years an operative in Isaac Ellis's 
 paper-mill. After relinquishing that employ- 
 ment he resumed his connection with the milk 
 business, driving a wagon for Jason M. 
 Patten, of Hyde Park. A short time later he 
 purchased the business of his employer, and 
 has since carried it on. Employing nine 
 horses and four wagons, he delivers a large 
 quantity of milk daily to regular customers in 
 Hyde Park and other towns. Politically, he 
 is a Republican, and he has been a Selectman 
 since 1892. He is a member of the Business 
 Men's Association and of the Board of Trade, 
 and was active in securing the establishment 
 of the electric railway between Norwood and 
 Dedham. In Masonry he has advanced to the 
 Commandery, being a member of Hyde Park 
 Lodge, F. & A. M, ; of Hebron Chapter, 
 Royal Arch Masons; of Hyde Park Council of 
 Royal and Select Masters; and of Cyprus 
 Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also 
 connected with Nahatan Tribe, Improved 
 Order of Red Men. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Bateman was united in mar- 
 riage with Martha L. McLeod, daughter of 
 Thomas McLeod, of Gardiner, Me. Mrs. 
 Bateman is the mother of five children;
 
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 namely, Lilla Frances, Harold K., Bernice 
 M., Eleanor, ami Ruth. The family occupy a 
 handsome residence located on Washington 
 Street, and attend the Universalist church. 
 
 LVIN HOLLIS, dealer in hay, grain, 
 coal, wood, and flour, with place of 
 business at Depot Square, South 
 Weymouth, is a native of Wey- 
 mouth, born November 5, 1847, son of San- 
 ford and Martha (Shaw) Hollis. His father, 
 a shoemaker by occupation, was a resident of 
 South Weymouth for many years. Of his 
 children six survive, namely: Martha M., 
 widow of the late Joseph P. Thayer; Alvin; 
 Charles; Lucy, wife of Walton R. Shaw; 
 Sanford W. ; and Fannie, wife of Winslow P. 
 Wilbur. 
 
 Alvin Hollis obtained his education in the 
 district schools. When fourteen years of age 
 he found employment in a shoe shop, where 
 he remained about six years. He then en- 
 gaged in the ice business, which he carried on 
 for twenty four years, a part of the time being 
 associated with his brother Charles, under the 
 firm name of A. & C. Hollis. In 1889 he 
 started in his present business, in which he 
 has been quite successful. He has served on 
 the Board of Directors of the South Weymouth 
 Co-operative Bank, and was one of the organ- 
 izers of the institution. He is also a trustee 
 of the Savings Bank. 
 
 Mr. Hollis married Adelaide Carroll, of 
 Weymouth, by whom he has had four children: 
 Mary L., wife of George W. Sargent; Bessie 
 E. , who is now deceased; Bertha E. ; and 
 Adelaide F. Mr. Hollis is a Republican po- 
 litically, and, although not an ofifice-holder, is 
 much interested in town affairs. He belongs 
 to the I. O. O. F. and to the U. O. G. C, of 
 which last-named order he is a charter 
 member. 
 
 R.I. 
 
 ON. SAMUEL WARNER, of Wren- 
 
 tham, an old and honored member of 
 
 the Norfolk County bar, was born 
 
 October 2, 18 16, in Providence, 
 
 His paternal grandfather, Nathan 
 
 Warner, who was born in Warwick, R.I.. in 
 
 early life removed to Providence, where he 
 died at an advanced age. It is believed that 
 Nathan was one of the minute-men of Revolu- 
 tionary times, and was discharged at Saratoga 
 as a drummer boy, having served in the army 
 for some time, although he was not present at 
 any important battle. 
 
 Samuel Warner, Sr., the father of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was born and educated in 
 Providence, R.I. When a boy he became a 
 sailor, in which calling he afterward passed 
 through many dangers, and visited a large 
 number of foreign ports. He was on board 
 the frigate "Essex," commanded by Commo- 
 dore Bainbridge, at the siege of Tripoli in 
 Algiers. When duly qualified he became a 
 master mariner and a part owner of the ves- 
 sels he commanded. After retiring from the 
 sea, he was engaged for a time in the grocery 
 business. He also carried on farming, spend- 
 ing several years in Wrentham. In his de- 
 clining days he returned to Providence, where 
 his death occurred, at the age of seventy-nine 
 years. To him and his wife, whose maiden 
 name was Sarah A. Mann, two children were 
 born — Elisha M. and Samuel. Elisha M. 
 died many years ago, leaving three children 
 — ^ Charles H., Samuel, and Annie. 
 
 Samuel Warner was but six years old when 
 his parents settled in this town. He at- 
 tended the district schools for a time, then 
 continued his studies in Providence, and later 
 was a pupil of Day's Academy. After this he 
 took a course in Brown University, graduated 
 from that institution with the class of 1838, 
 and thereupon began reading law. Soon after 
 his admission to the bar he located in Wren- 
 tham, and in a comparatively brief time won a 
 place among the most able lawyers of the 
 county, together with a wide and lucrative 
 general practice. He has served as Trial 
 Justice since the first establishment of that 
 ofifice under Governor Banks. 
 
 Mr. Warner was married December 24, 
 1840, to Miss Hannah F. Pond, a daughter of 
 Oliver Pond, of Wrentham, and a grand- 
 daughter of Captain Oliver Pond, of Revolu- 
 tionary fame. He has one daughter, Sarah 
 A. In politics he has been a Republican 
 since the formation of his party. His first 
 Presidential vote was cast in 1840 for Martin
 
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 547 
 
 Van Buren. He served for many terms at 
 different periods as a member of the Wren- 
 tham School Committee, and for twenty-five 
 years was Town Clerk. In 1843, 1848, and 
 1882, he was a Representative to the General 
 Court; and in 1851 he was State Senator. In 
 the latter part of that year Mr. Warner was 
 appointed Land Agent of the Commonwealth 
 for a term of three years, having charge of the 
 public lands in Maine that belonged to Mas- 
 sachusetts. In that period he sold all these 
 lands, making the last sale to the State of 
 Maine, and turned in to the government a 
 total sum of six hundred and sixty-one thou- 
 sand, two hundred and fifty dollars, and 
 seventy cents. An acknowledgment of the 
 deed of conveyance was made before Rufus 
 Choate, Justice of the Peace. A record of 
 this may be found in the Massachusetts Leg- 
 islative Reports for 1854, chapter Ixii. p. 
 437. In 1853 Mr. Warner was a member of 
 the Constitutional Convention. He is deeply 
 interested in national and political affairs, 
 and has been one of the stanchest adherents of 
 his party. 
 
 §AMES McKAY, Chief of Police in 
 Hyde Park, Norfolk County, Mass., 
 was born June 19, 1843, in Warwick, 
 R.I., of Scotch parentage. His grand- 
 father, Alexander McKay, was a lifelong resi- 
 dent of Scotland, where he was engaged in 
 tilling the soil. 
 
 John McKay, father of James, was born and 
 reared in Scotland, but in his early manhood 
 emigrated to the United States, locating in 
 Warwick, R.I., where he subsequently be- 
 came overseer in a cotton-mill, residing there 
 until his demise, at the age of seventy-three 
 years. His wife, Barbara, was born in Scot- 
 land, a daughter of Alexander Dove, who 
 came to America with his wife and eight chil- 
 dren, and settled in Warwick, R. I. Mrs. 
 Barbara Dove McKay died at the age of 
 thirty-four years, leaving six children, as fol- 
 lows: Alexander, a resident of California; 
 John, a commercial traveller; Letitia, wife of 
 William Randall; James, the special subject 
 of this biographical sketch; Jane, widow of 
 the late William T. Mills; and Mary A., un- 
 
 married, who lives in Hyde Park. The par- 
 ents clung through life to the religious faith 
 in which they were reared, being devout mem- 
 bers of the Presbyterian church. 
 
 James McKay was educated in the public 
 schools of Warwick, which he attended until 
 he was seventeen years old, when he began 
 working at the machinist's trade. On June 5, 
 1 861, shortly before his eighteenth birthday, 
 he enlisted as a private in Company A, Sec- 
 ond Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and 
 went to the front with the regiment. He 
 passed through all the service of the Army of 
 the Potomac, was with Sheridan in his cam- 
 paign in the Shenandoah Valley, and was an 
 active participant in thirty-five engagements, 
 including the first battle of Bull Run, the 
 battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Cold Har- 
 bor, Petersburg, and Spottsylvania. He was 
 advanced successively from private to Cor- 
 poral, Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Second 
 Lieutenant, and from that rank was promoted 
 to First Lieutenant for his bravery in leading 
 his company in the last fight at Sailor's Creek, 
 where he was wounded by a minie ball in the 
 shoulder, receiving an injury that confined 
 him in the hospital several months. Honor- 
 ably discharged on July 27, 1865, he was mus- 
 tered out as First Lieutenant of his company. 
 
 Returning to Warwick, Mr. McKay com- 
 pleted his trade as a machinist with the Green 
 Manufacturing Company, which sent him sub- 
 sequently to Readville, this county, to take 
 charge of the machine shops in the branch of 
 their works known as the Smithfield Manufact- 
 uring Company. On giving up that position 
 he worked nine years as journeyman contrac- 
 tor in the machine shops of B. F. Sturtevant, 
 of Boston, and later was employed ten years 
 by the Boston Blower Company as superin- 
 tendent of their works at Hyde Park, having 
 ninety men under him. He afterward trav- 
 elled two years for the same firm, his territory 
 extending through the New England and 
 Middle States. Resigning that position, he 
 became travelling salesman for the Barney 
 Ventilating Company, with whom he re- 
 mained until 1893, when he was appointed 
 chief of the Hyde Park police force. He had 
 previously been connected with the manage- 
 ment of the town affairs, having served in
 
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 1888 as Selectman. I''or three years he was 
 treasurer of the Republican Town Committee. 
 Mr. McKay was married in 1871 to Miss 
 Alma George, who was born in Chelsea, Vt., 
 being one of the six children of Rufus and 
 Nancy George. Mr. and Mrs. McKay have 
 one child, Lizzie L. McKay. Fraternally, 
 Mr. McKay is a member of Hyde Park Lodge, 
 F. & A. M. ; of the Royal Arcanum, No. 136; 
 is Past Sachem of Neponset Tribe of Red 
 Men; and is very active in the work of Tim- 
 othy Ingraham Post, No. 121, G. A. R., in 
 which he has passed all the chairs, having 
 been Quartermaster five years. Commander of 
 the post, and is now Adjutant. He is like- 
 wise a member of the Loyal Legion, a mili- 
 tary order of the United States. In former 
 years he was connected with the Waverley 
 Club. He is liberal in his religious belief 
 and a regular attendant of the Universalist 
 church. 
 
 'RANK O. PIERCE, Third Selectman 
 of Norfolk and a veteran of the Civil 
 War, was born in Acworth, Sullivan 
 County, N.H., December 23, 1835, son of 
 Orville W. and Amanda (Templeton) Pierce. 
 The father, who was a native of Alstead, 
 N.H., followed agriculture in that town until 
 he moved to Langdon, where he passed the 
 rest of his life. Amanda, his first wife, who 
 was born in Acworth, N. H., died in 1856. 
 His second marriage was contracted 
 Miss Burrows, of Alstead, who died in 
 Born of his first marriage were 
 
 with 
 1890. 
 eight 
 
 children, two of whom are living, namely: 
 Frank O., the subject of this sketch; and 
 Hattie, the wife of Willard Inman, a contrac- 
 tor in Brooklyn, N.Y. The others were: Me- 
 lissa, Jacob, Mary Ann, Orilla, George, and 
 .Sarah. His second wife had two children: 
 Emma, who died in 1883; and Charles, who 
 is now a miller in Alstead. 
 
 Frank O. Pierce remained at home until 
 reaching his majority. Afterward he worked 
 in a bo.x factory of Fo.xboro, Mass., until 
 1 86 1, when he entered the service in Com- 
 pany F, Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry. His term of enlistment 
 was mainly spent in the vicinity of the James 
 
 River. Discharged after its expiration in 
 July, 1861, he re-enlisted in Company B, 
 Fourteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Vol- 
 unteers, on September 11, 1862, under Colo- 
 nel Robert Wilson and Captain Johnson. 
 At the battle of Winchester he received a 
 severe gunshot wound in the ankle, necessitat- 
 ing amputation. After being confined for 
 about a year in hospitals at Winchester, Bal- 
 timore, and at Manchester, N.H., he was dis- 
 charged September 8, 1865. After staying at 
 his home in New Hampshire for a time, he 
 returned to P'oxboro, where he operated a port- 
 able engine, and later worked at his old trade 
 of box-making. About 1872 he moved to 
 Norfolk; and in 1873 he bought the Captain 
 Fairfield farm, where he has since resided. 
 He has made various improvements in his 
 property, which now contains eighty acres of 
 fertile land; and he carries on general farm- 
 ing and dairying with prosperity. Politi- 
 cally, he is a Republican; and he was elected 
 a Selectman in March, 1897. He is a mem- 
 ber of St. Alban's Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
 Foxboro; and of the Order of the Pilgrim 
 Fathers. 
 
 On September 8, 1870, Mr. Pierce was 
 joined in marriage with Mrs. Jane Messenger, 
 of Norfolk, daughter of Charles and Hannah 
 (Wilson) Train, both of whom are now de- 
 ceased. Her father, who was a teacher of 
 penmanship in various parts of the country, 
 died in New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce 
 have three children, as follows: Mabel, the 
 wife of Frank Proctor, who is in the meat 
 business, and resides in Wollaston, Mass. ; 
 George and Jennie, who are residing at home. 
 Mrs. Pierce is a member of the Baptist 
 church. Mr. Pierce is a comrade of E. P. 
 Carpenter Post, No. 90, G. A. R., of Fox- 
 boro, Mass. 
 
 lAPTAIN DAVID F. HENDERSON, 
 a well-known agriculturist of Need- 
 ham, was born at Newton, Mass., 
 in 1840, son. of John and Catherine 
 (F"oster) Henderson. The family is of Scotch 
 origin, and its representatives in Scotland have 
 long been identified with the history of the 
 country. Captain Henderson's paternal grand-
 
 D.WID F. HENDERSON.
 
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 55' 
 
 father was John Henderson, Sr. , born in Scot- 
 land, who was a Cajjtain in tlie English army. 
 The younger John, the father above named, 
 was born in Scotland in 1805, and came to 
 Massachusetts in 1824, settling in Newton. 
 He married Catherine, daughter of David 
 foster, an Englishman, who brought his fam- 
 ily to this country at about the same time. 
 
 Their son, David E. , was educated in the 
 common schools of Newton and at Woodward's 
 Academy in that town, where he was gradu- 
 ated in 1855. After leaving school he worked 
 on his father's farm until 1857, the year of his 
 removal to Needham with his parents. He 
 subsequently continued working as a farm 
 laborer until 1867, when he rented a farm in 
 Needham, which he operated for twenty years. 
 He then purchased the farm on Mark Tree 
 Road, where he now resides engaged especially 
 in market gardening. 
 
 In 1878 he joined the Ro.xbury Horse 
 Guards ; and he has been successively Corporal, 
 Sergeant, Lieutenant, and for four years Cap- 
 tain in that organization. He is now a mem- 
 ber of the Roxbury Historical Society. Cap- 
 tain Henderson has been Superintendent of 
 Streets for three years, also Constable; and in 
 both these offices has served the public with 
 marked ability and with entire fidelity to the 
 constituency by whom he was appointed. He 
 is the oldest member of the Norfolk Lodge of 
 E. & A. M., was made an Odd Eellow in 1870, 
 and is a member of Lodge No. 58 of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Eellows, and Past Grand. 
 He was also a member of Massasoit Encamp- 
 ment, of Boston, and has been a member of 
 the Needham Lodge of Knights of Honor since 
 1878. In politics he is a Republican, and is 
 a member of the Boston Marketmen's Republi- 
 can Club. 
 
 In 1865 Captain Henderson was married to 
 Miss Emily A., daughter of Albion Squires, 
 of New Hampshire. Captain and Mrs. Hen- 
 derson have no children. 
 
 ILLIAM E. HALL, for the past 
 thirty years a resident of Brookline, 
 Mass., is now living retired from 
 active pursuits, enjoying the leisure earned by 
 his many years of toil and thrift. He was 
 
 born March 7, 1824, in Alfred, York County, 
 Me., the birthplace of his father, Dr. Abial 
 Hall, Jr., and the town in which his grand- 
 father, Dr. Abial Hall, Sr. , was for many 
 years the leading physician. Dr. Abial Hall, 
 Sr. , after beginning practice in Concord, in 
 his early manhood went to Alfred, Me., where 
 he continued his labors until his demise, at 
 the age of sixty-eight years. At one time he 
 was a member of the Massachusetts legislat- 
 ure. He was also a Revolutionary soldier, 
 and fought at the battles of Bennington and 
 Saratoga. 
 
 Dr. Abial Hall, Jr., who was born in Al- 
 fred in 1787, passed his entire life in his na- 
 tive town, and died in 1869, at the age of 
 eighty-two years. He entered upon a medical 
 career when young, acquired a high reputation 
 throughout the county, and was eminently suc- 
 cessful. A man of commanding presence, 
 he yet had a benevolent countenance, through 
 which a kindly nature shone brightly, win- 
 ning love and respect wherever he went. He 
 was a Deacon in the Congregational church, 
 to which his good wife also belonged. A 
 handsome memorial window, placed by his 
 son, William E., in the church edifice where 
 he attended religious services, recalls his 
 good works. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Elizabeth Erost, was born and educated 
 in Sanford, Me. She reared a family of five 
 children, three of whom are now living. 
 These are: William E., the subject of this 
 sketch; Edward P. Hall, of Philadelphia, Pa.; 
 and Dr. Jerry G. Hall, a physician in Wells, 
 Me. One son. Dr. Edwin Hall, who died in 
 1852, was known as one of the most skilful 
 surgeons of Maine. The mother, who was 
 born in 1794, died in 1863. 
 
 William E. Hall received a practical com- 
 mon-school education. When eighteen years 
 old he began teaching in the district schools 
 of his native town, and was afterward so em- 
 ployed nearly every winter until 1850. From 
 1843 until 1847 he was also engaged as a 
 clerk in a country store in Springvale, Me. 
 In 1850 he purchased an interest in a cargo 
 consigned to California, and, taking passage 
 on the vessel which carried it, made the voy- 
 age to that State by way of Cape Horn, being 
 two hundred days on the water. Two years
 
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 later he returned to Maine, taking a steamer 
 to Panama, thence across the Isthmus by mule 
 train, and again by steamer to New York. 
 After spending a short time with his parents, 
 Mr. Hall settled in Boston. Here he carried 
 on an extensive business as a lumber dealer 
 until 1887, when he retired. In 1866 he pur- 
 chased his present commodious home in 
 Brookline, which he has made his permanent 
 residence. 
 
 Mr. Hall is a decided Republican in his 
 views, but has firmly declined all political 
 offices. In 1865 he was married to Miss 
 Catherine R. Fogg, who, born in South Ber- 
 wick, Me., in 1839, died in Brookline, Mass., 
 July 29, 1889. She was one of the two chil- 
 dren of the late Joseph Fogg, of South Ber- 
 wick. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hall 
 is a daughter, Fannie M., now the wife of 
 William J. Fegan, a boot and shoe manufact- 
 urer of Boston. 
 
 /®X' 
 
 EORGE P. MASON, a farmer and 
 \ •) I one of the leading men of Franklin, 
 
 — Mass., was born in Warren, R.I., 
 March 2, 1855, son of Charles and Eliza 
 (Peck) Mason. The father, who was born in 
 Swansea, Mass., and acquired the trade of 
 mason, when quite a young man went to War- 
 ren, R.I., to follow that business. In 1876 
 he moved to Cornish, N.H., and was there en- 
 gaged in general farming for a number of 
 years. In his old age he came to live with 
 Mr. Mason in Franklin, where he died Sep- 
 tember II, 1896. His wife, Eliza, who was 
 also a native of Swansea, bore him four chil- 
 dren. These were: Phoebe, who died at the 
 age of four; Charles Clarence, who died in 
 1892; George P., the subject of this sketch; 
 and Edmund V., born in 1875, who married 
 and is living in Everett, Mass. 
 
 After obtaining his education in the public 
 schools of Warren, R. I., graduating from the 
 high school, George P. Mason remained at 
 home until he was twenty years of age. Then 
 he came to Franklin, and engaged in the 
 market business. He continued in this work 
 until the year 1888, when he went to Boston 
 to work as a salesman in a wholesale beef 
 market for one year and a half. Six months 
 
 more were spent in an employment in Frank- 
 lin, after which he worked at the wholesale 
 beef business in Boston for six years. In Au- 
 gust, 1896, he returned to Franklin, and set- 
 tled on his present farm, known as the old 
 Clark farm, which now contains about thirty- 
 five acres of well -improved land. Mr. Mason 
 is engaged in general farming, and keeps a 
 dairy. 
 
 In politics Mr. Mason is a stanch Republi- 
 can and an important man in town affairs. 
 At the present time he is Third Selectman of 
 the town, having held that office since Janu- 
 ary, 1897. A Free and Accepted Mason of 
 Excelsior Lodge in P'ranklin, he belongs to 
 Miller Royal Arch Chapter. He was married 
 on January 3, 1876, to Mary J., daughter of 
 Charles W. and Elmira (Albee) Clark, of 
 Milford, Mass. Mr. Clark was born in 
 Franklin, where he spent the greater part of 
 his life engaged in the butcher's trade. He 
 died in Franklin on May 21, 1893. Mrs. 
 Clark now resides in P'ranklin with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Mason. 
 
 /^C^TeORGE K. NICKERSON, dealer in 
 \ I5 I meats and provisions, who has been 
 for nearly forty years in business in 
 Cohasset, was born in this town, December 
 25, 1837. His parents were Captain George 
 L. and Harriet L. (Beal) Nickerson. His 
 father was born in Provincetown in 1800, and 
 belonged to an old Cape Cod family; and his 
 mother was born in Cohasset. Her brother, 
 George Beal, was a soldier in the War of 
 1812. 
 
 Captain Nickerson followed the sea for a 
 great many years, visiting nearly every part of 
 the globe, and commanded a number of ves- 
 sels. He was several years master of the 
 quarantine boat at Deer Island in Boston Har- 
 bor. The Nickersons are a long-lived family; 
 and the Captain was no exception to the gen- 
 eral rule, being over ninety-two years of age 
 at the time of his death, which occurred in 
 Cohasset. Mrs. Nickerson died in 1863. Of 
 their children two are living; George K., the 
 subject of this sketch; and Mary H., wife of 
 Edward E. Wentworth, of Cohasset. 
 
 George K. Nickerson was reared and edu-
 
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 553 
 
 cated in Cohasset. When he was seventeen 
 years of age he began to learn the machinist's 
 trade in Taunton, Mass. ; and he served an ap- 
 prenticeship of three years. After acquiring 
 the trade, he vjovked as a journeyman for a 
 short time. He subsequently engaged in re- 
 tailing meats and provisions with Charles 1'. 
 Bourne, under the firm name of ]5ourne & 
 Nickerson. This partnership continued some 
 thirty-eight years, and was dissolved May i, 
 1896. Since that time Mr. Nickerson has 
 been sole proprietor of the market. He has 
 been very successful as a business man, and 
 has the confidence and esteem of all with 
 whom he has dealings. He is a self-made 
 man, his prosperity being the fruit of his own 
 industry and perseverance. 
 
 Mr. Nickerson has been twice married. 
 His first wife, Pamelia S. Kilburn, of Cohas- 
 set, Mass., died May 26, 1865. His second 
 wife, Clarissa C. Ripley, of Hingham, Mass., 
 died January 9, 1897. He has three children 
 living — Henry R., Harriet A., and Mary A. 
 Mr. Nickerson has been for a number of years 
 a trustee of the Cohasset Savings Bank, and 
 is a stockholder in the Cohasset Water Com- 
 pany. He was one of the original promoters 
 of the splendid system of water-works which 
 Cohasset enjoys. 
 
 -OHN JAMES WHETTON, a repre- 
 sentative business man of Needham, 
 Mass., was born in .Sutton, in Ashfield, 
 Nottinghamshire, England, October 
 21, 1844. He was educated in the common 
 schools of Sutton, and was then employed for 
 six years in the merchant shipping business. 
 Having acquired a taste for the sea, he shipped 
 as cabin boy on the " Kurrachee, " commanded 
 by Captain Clark, and bound for the West 
 Indies. Pie made two trips on this vessel, 
 and was advanced to the position of ordinary 
 seaman. His ne.xt voyage was on the steam- 
 ship " Great Britain, " in the Australian pas- 
 senger line, under Captain John Gray. On 
 this vessel he was promoted to able seaman. 
 He remained a member of the crew of the 
 "Great Britain" for three years, and then 
 shipped as able seaman on the "Denmark," 
 of the National Steamship Company, from 
 
 Liverpool to New York. His next voyage 
 was on the "Helvetia," from Portsmouth, 
 England, to Alexandria, P-gypt. He subse- 
 quently came to this country as one of the 
 crew of the steamship " luigland," on which 
 he made several voyages, leaving her in 1870, 
 in order to become a resident of Needham. 
 On his arrival here he first found employment 
 as clerk in a grocery store owned by Oben C. 
 Parker, for whom he worked one year. He 
 was then employed for some time by the firm 
 of Greenwood & White, and later by Green- 
 wood & Proctor. He subsequently went into 
 partnership in the grocery business with H. T. 
 Reed, under the firm name of H. T. Reed & 
 Co. The company dissolved within two years; 
 and the business was sold to E. B. P'owler, for 
 whom Mr. Whetton worked one year. He 
 then bought out Mark Lee's grocery store in 
 Highlandville, and established himself in his 
 present business. He keeps a general stock, 
 handling hardware, grain, crockery, and other 
 articles in constant demand. In January, 
 1890, he was appointed Postmaster of Need- 
 ham by Postmaster-General Wanamaker; and 
 during his incumbency the rating of the office 
 was raised to third class. In 1896 Mr. Whet- 
 ton was reappointed as Postmaster by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland. Mr. Whetton is a member of 
 the Norfolk Lodge, E. & A. M., of Needham, 
 and has been a member of the Nehoiden 
 Lodge, K. of H., for the last seventeen years. 
 He was married in 1871, in Ashfield, Not- 
 tinghamshire, iMigland, to Martha, a daughter 
 of Henry Farrand, of Sutton. They have had 
 four children — Jane, who died in infancy; 
 James Henry, now assistant treasurer in the 
 Lhiion Cycle Company; Frederick, who died 
 in infanc}'; and Arthur H., now a student in 
 the high school of this town. 
 
 ILLIAM JAMES WALLACE, the 
 Postmaster of Norwood, was born in 
 Boston, December 10, 1833, son of 
 James and Jane (Shields) Wallace. The 
 father, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, son 
 of a Scotch farmer, was a nail -maker by trade. 
 He came to the United States in early man- 
 hood, and here married Jane, daughter of 
 William Shields, a prosperous farmer, who
 
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 resided near Belfast, Ireland, Their children 
 were: Mary J., who died at the age of four- 
 teen years; and William James, the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 William James Wallace spent his boyhood 
 in Boston, attending the public schools in that 
 city. His first business experience was as a 
 clerk in a furnishing store. Afterward he 
 learned the cabinet-maker's trade in Dorches- 
 ter, where he remained for six years. In 1857 
 he went to South Dedham, and worked at his 
 trade with Haley, Marse & Co., Willard 
 Everett & Co., and Daniels, Harris & Co. 
 After leaving South Dedham, he established 
 himself as a cabinet-maker in Boston ; and in 
 1872 he became associated in this capacity 
 with the New England Organ Company of 
 Boston, remaining with that firm for eleven 
 years. He enlisted July i, 1862, from South 
 Dedham, in Company I, Thirty-fifth Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteers, which was attached to 
 the Ninth Army Corps. He saw service at 
 South Mountain, Antietam, and the first 
 Fredericksburg; and he was present at the 
 surrender of Vicksburg. Returning to Ken- 
 tucky, he was detailed to the Commissary 
 Department at Crab Orchard Springs. He 
 was taken prisoner at the rear of Petersburg, 
 and spent five months in prison at Salisbury, 
 N. C. Afterward he was transferred to Libby 
 Prison, from which after a single night he 
 was liberated in an exchange of prisoners. 
 Then, with his health completely shattered, 
 he returned to his home in Norwood, and from 
 there was sent to the hospital at Readville. 
 He was mustered out with the other members 
 of his regiment in June, 1865. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Wallace was appointed Post- 
 master of Norwood by President Cleveland, 
 was reappointed by President Harrison in 
 1890, and again by President Cleveland in 
 1894. He married Elinor, daughter of James 
 Holmes, of Plalifax, N. S. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Wallace have had five children — Mary S. , 
 Harriet Eleanor, Sarah Louise, William J., 
 Jr., and Clara. Elected to the State leg- 
 islature in 1880, Mr. Wallace served one term 
 in the House of Representatives. He was 
 connected with the Norwood fire department 
 for thirty years, is a member of the George 
 K. Bird Post of G. A. R., and a charter mem- 
 
 ber of the Tiot Lodge, No. 50, of Norwood, 
 and of Monterey Encampment, I. O. O. F., of 
 Hyde Park. 
 
 ONATHAN PARKER HAYWARD, 
 
 a well-known contractor and builder 
 residing in Braintree, was born in this 
 town, October 19, 1844, son of Daniel 
 and Sarah H. (Clapp) Hayward. 
 
 The emigrant ancestor of this branch of the 
 Hayward family received a grant of land from 
 King George, a large tract located in and 
 around East Braintree; and in this vicinity 
 some of his descendants have since remained. 
 The first school opened in Braintree is said to 
 have been taught by a Miss Hayward. 
 Daniel Hayward, great-grandfather of Mr. J. 
 Parker Hayward, was a Revolutionary soldier; 
 and Eliphas Thayer, an ancestor of Mr. Hay- 
 ward on his grandmother's side, was also in 
 the army, and was stationed at West Point at 
 the time of the capture of Major Andre. 
 Abigail Thayer, a daughter of Eliphas, is still 
 living at the age of ninety-two, and resides in 
 Boston. 
 
 Daniel Hayward, father of the subject of 
 this sketch, was a builder and contractor in 
 his earlier years, and later in life followed 
 agricultural pursuits. He died in March, 
 1883, leaving a widow, now (1897) in the 
 seventy-eighth year of her age, with four chil- 
 dren: George D., a resident of Neponset; J. 
 Parker, Charles A., and Annah E., all of 
 Braintree. He was a Republican in politics 
 and Orthodox in religion, attending the Con- 
 gregational church. 
 
 When about eighteen years of age J. Parker 
 Hayward, having obtained his education in 
 the public schools of Braintree, began learn- 
 ing the carpenter and builder's trade, at which 
 he worked with his father for a short period, 
 afterward being employed as a journeyman 
 carpenter in Boston. More than a quarter of 
 a century ago, in company with his brother 
 Charles, he engaged in contracting and build- 
 ing under the firm name of Hayward Brothers, 
 who continue to carry on a most successful 
 business at the present time. 
 
 Mr. Hayward married Mary F. Baxter, of 
 Quincy, Mass., and is the father of two sons
 
 GEORGE W. BACON.
 
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 SS7 
 
 — Daniel B. and Franklin P. Mrs. Hayward 
 is a daughter of Daniel and Abigail (Curtis) 
 Baxter. Through his great-grandfather, Dan- 
 iel Hayward, Mr. Hayward is a member of 
 the Society of Sons of the Amciican Revo- 
 lution. Politically, he is a Republican, and 
 is now serving his third term as a Selectman 
 of Braintree, being clerk of the board. 
 
 RANCTS D. HAMANT, a cattle dealer 
 of Medfield, was born in this town, 
 June 6, 1839, son of Daniels and Han- 
 nah (Ellis) Hamant. The Hamant farm, 
 which he now occupies, was cleared and im- 
 proved by his great-grandfather, Timothy 
 Hamant; and his grandfather, Daniels Ha- 
 mant, was a lifelong resident here. 
 
 Daniels Hamant, second, father of F'rancis 
 D., was born and reared on the homestead, 
 which he subsequently inherited. He was a 
 prosperous farmer and cattle dealer, and has a 
 wide reputation as an upright and honorable 
 man. He took a prominent part in public 
 affairs, and was serving as Selectman and As- 
 sessor at the time of his death, which occurred 
 in May, 1874, when he was sixty-two years 
 old. His wife, Hannah, who was also a na- 
 tive of Medfield, became the mother of three 
 children, namely: Mary J., the widow of 
 William R. Smith, and a resident of Med- 
 field; Francis D., the subject of this sketch; 
 and Julia A., who became the first wife of 
 William R. Smith, but is no longer living. 
 The mother died in March, 1S88. 
 
 Francis D. Hamant received his general 
 education in the common schools and at the 
 New Hampton (N. H.) Literary Institute, sub- 
 sequently completing a course of study at a 
 commercial college in Boston. He then 
 turned his attention to farming and also to 
 dealing in live stock. Energetic and pos- 
 sessed of sound judgment, he has realized e-x- 
 cellent financial results. Succeeding to the 
 ownership of the homestead, which contains 
 two hundred acres, he has since made various 
 improvements in the property, including the 
 erection of a new residence. 
 
 On August 31, 1867, Mr. Hamant was 
 united in marriage with Eliza M. Cushman, of 
 
 Medfield. She was a daughter of J. R. 
 Smith; but, her mother dying at the time of 
 her birth, she was adopted by Jacob R. Cush- 
 man. Mrs. Hamant died February 11, 1895, 
 leaving five children; namely, Gertrude C. , 
 Nettie F., Daniels, Mary E., and Francis, all 
 of whom are residing at home except Daniels, 
 who is employed as a book-keeper in a busi- 
 ness establishment in Boston. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Hamant is a Republican. 
 He served as Selectman one year, and is now 
 Assessor, Inspector of Cattle and Provisions, 
 and a Justice of the Peace. He is connected 
 by membership with the Royal Arcanum and 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and 
 he is also an active member of the Baptist 
 church. His farm, which is one of the finest 
 pieces of agricultural property in Medfield, is 
 situated near the village, and presents tangi- 
 ble evidence both of its owner's industry and 
 prosperit)'. 
 
 rWTc 
 
 FORGE WARREN BACON, of 
 \ •) I P^ranklin, son of the late Joseph 
 Thomas and Mary Ann Metcalf 
 Bacon, was born December 3, 1831, and now 
 lives on one of the oldest ancestral homesteads 
 in Norfolk County. He is of the eighth gen- 
 eration from Michael Bacon, who, with two 
 brothers, his wife and four children, emigrated 
 from Ireland early in the seventeenth century. 
 They all settled in Dedham. Michael died in 
 the winter of 1647-48. His son, John 
 Bacon, died June 17, 1683. Rebecca Bacon, 
 wife of John, died October 27, 1684. Their 
 son, Thomas, settled in Wrentham. He mar- 
 ried Hannah I^'ales, and had seven children. 
 Their son, Thomas Bacon, second, born No- 
 vember 26, 1693, married Deborah Clark. 
 They had seven children, two of whom were: 
 Thomas Bacon, third; and Seth Bacon. 
 
 These two brothers lived to an old age in 
 that part of Wrentham which was set off and 
 formed the town of Franklin. Thomas Bacon, 
 second, died in Franklin, June 6, 1784, in the 
 ninety-first year of his age. His wife, Debo- 
 rah, died January 6, 1785, aged eighty-four 
 years. Their direct descendants now live in 
 Franklin, bearing the family name of Allen. 
 Cyrus Allen and Sally Bacon Allen are now
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 dead. Cyrus Milton Allen, who lives on tiieir 
 homestead, is an enterprising farmer and an 
 acknowledged leader in all farmers' organiza- 
 tions. The present Deacon Thomas Bacon 
 Allen is his younger brother. George Alfred 
 Allen, son of Cyrus M. Allen, is of the ninth 
 generation in the line of Thomas Bacon, third; 
 and his wife, Margie Emma Bacon, who is the 
 only daughter of George W. Bacon, the subject 
 of this sketch is of the ninth generation in the 
 line of Seth Bacon, the younger brother. 
 
 Seth Bacon, son of Thomas, second, married 
 Abigail Whiting, June 3, 1762. They had 
 five children — Joseph, Theophihis, Sarah, 
 Thomas, and Abigail. He died November 
 24, 1822. His wife, Abigail, died October 
 3. ^77^- Joseph Bacon, their son, married 
 Chloe Lethbridge. They had one daughter, 
 Abigail, who was betrothed to Willis Fisher, 
 of Franklin. She died at the age of twenty 
 years, in 1807, her mother dying at the age of 
 forty-two years in 1802. Joseph Bacon and 
 his second wife, Ruth Heaton, had two chil- 
 dren — Joseph Thomas and Delia Emmons 
 Bacon. Joseph Bacon's church history was 
 contemporary with the ministry of the Rev. 
 Nathaniel Emmons, D. D. , he being for many 
 years one of Dr. Emmons's Deacons. He sur- 
 vived his venerable and beloved pastor several 
 years, and died May 6, 1843, aged eighty 
 years. Ruth Heaton, his wife, died January 
 6, 1866, aged eighty-nine years. Deacon 
 Bacon was a man of sterling qualities, and was 
 highly appreciated in his time. He was Jus- 
 tice of the Peace for many years, represented 
 his town for seven consecutive years in the 
 State legislature, and was sent from Franklin 
 as delegate to the State convention to amend 
 the constitution. In politics he was an in- 
 tense Whig. In society he was genial, with 
 an overflow of pleasantry from a jocose nature 
 that made him attractive to the young. 
 
 Joseph Thomas Bacon, his son, was born 
 February 14, 1808. He became a farmer 
 much against his taste, as he was naturally me- 
 chanical and possessed a genius that served 
 him well on the farm later in life. Being the 
 only son, he yielded his choice of occupation 
 to the strong desire of his father, who was a 
 well-to-do farmer. In iS26his father built a 
 spacious mansion for those days, suited for two 
 
 families. At an early age Joseph T. Bacon 
 married Mary Ann Metcalf. He was a man of 
 good judgment, diligent in his business, and 
 held offices of trust in the town. He was a 
 devout Christian worker, and was made Deacon 
 of the only church in town -at the age of 
 twenty-one years. His strong faith, with the 
 courage of his convictions, made him one of the 
 foremost men in the church and Sunday-school. 
 He was prompt in duty, always ready to tes- 
 tify to his faith in Jesus Christ, and was a liv- 
 ing epistle, known and read of all men. His 
 wife was also a devoted Christian woman. 
 They had four children, one of whom (Ellen) 
 died in infancy, three — Abigail Miranda, 
 Thomas Metcalf, and George W. — living to 
 fill useful spheres in society. 
 
 Abigail Miranda is the wife of Deacon 
 Erastus E. Baker. Thomas Metcalf Bacon 
 was educated for a teacher at Holliston Acad- 
 emy and Westfield Normal School. In all of 
 this course of study he was the close compan- 
 ion of the late Charles A. Richardson, of the 
 Congregationalist. Messrs. Richardson and 
 Bacon were associated together in teaching in 
 Hadley, Mass. Mr. Bacon continued teaching 
 till near the close of his life. He died at the 
 age of twenty-seven years. He was married to 
 Emily J. Thayer. They had one son, Joseph 
 Thomas Bacon. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Philadelphia, Pa. ; and at the 
 age of seventeen he secured a position as as- 
 sistant book-keeper in the Girard Bank. He 
 furnished the required bond, and, filling the 
 place with honor, won the love of his su- 
 periors. For the last twenty-four years he has 
 filled a lucrative position in a mercantile house 
 in that city, living in Moorestown, N.J., 
 where he has an elegant home for his wife and 
 four children. He is a stanch Christian 
 worker and able supporter of the Presbyterian 
 church where he resides. 
 
 George W. Bacon is a man of much energy 
 and push, of strict integrity of character, with 
 deep religious convictions. He has a strong 
 faith in and is a loving witness for Jesus 
 Christ. At the age of eighteen years he 
 joined the church, under the pastorate of the 
 Rev. Samuel Hunt. His religious fervor and 
 love for the church have been combined with 
 an indomrtable energy to overcome obstacles
 
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 to uniform attendance of church and Sunday- 
 school. As a business man he has always 
 made business before pleasure one of the rules 
 of his life, has always loved to work, and has 
 shown enterprise and thrift in all of his under- 
 takings. While very young he taught a district 
 school in his own town several winters. At 
 the age of twenty-one he married Julia Adams 
 Brooks, daughter of Dr. Paschal P. Brooks, of 
 Albany, N. Y. They had three children, two 
 of whom died in infancy. 
 
 Dr. Henry Metcalf Bacon, their first-born 
 son, was gi'aduated at Amherst College in the 
 class of 1876. In answer to a call for that 
 college to send a teacher to Kansas, he re- 
 sponded at once. While teaching in Arkansas 
 City, he pursued his study in pharmacy, and 
 later made it his profession for some years in 
 Kansas City. In 18S3 he married Mattie 
 Mitchel, who was his pupil in 1876 and 1877. 
 Later they both completed a course of study 
 and lectures in the Medical College of Kansas 
 City, Kan. Dr. Bacon has served in the City 
 Council and on the School Board. 
 
 In 1858 and 1859 George W. Bacon pros- 
 pected in Kansas for sixteen months. After 
 good observation and some experience in 
 pioneer life he resolved never to move his 
 family into so new a country. He purchased 
 several tracts of land, much of which he re- 
 tained for twenty years to good advantage. In 
 1865 he was called to part with his beloved 
 and devoted wife, who died June 14 in her 
 thirty-fourth year. The next fall Mr. Bacon 
 established himself in business in Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., where for nearly ten years he car- 
 ried on a hat and bonnet bleachery with much 
 success. In 1867 he married Emily J. 
 Thayer Bacon. While living in the city, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Bacon identified themselves with the 
 Christian workers in the historic Presbyterian 
 church at Fifth and Buttonwood Streets, the 
 Rev. Thomas J. Shepard, D.D., pastor. In 
 1872 Mr. Bacon was made one of the trustees 
 of that society. In 1874 he had a pressing 
 call to return to the old home in Franklin, 
 owing to the illness of his mother; while 
 the age of both parents pointed to a duty to 
 give a helping hand in their declining years. 
 
 Resolving at once to remodel the family 
 dwelling, he greatly enlarged the old^mansion, 
 
 making it convenient for both families. As 
 soon as they were settled on the old farm, he 
 pushed forward with characteristic energy the 
 improvement of the farm generally, making 
 the rough smooth, the crooked straight, and the 
 barren fruitful. Early in 1875 he was made 
 Deacon of the First Congregational Church. 
 In the spring of 1878 both of his parents died, 
 Mrs. Bacon surviving her husband just one 
 month, their respective ages being seventy 
 and seventy-two. This was a severe blow 
 to their son, who had fondly leaned upon 
 the judgment and skill of his father wherein 
 he had never assumed responsibility. He 
 painfully felt that he was alone in command of 
 a large farm. While seeking for the highest 
 wisdom, he summoned all of his powers to the 
 task in hand. A new inspiration and aspira- 
 tions at once gave zest to his love of home 
 and family and his plans for work. In 
 1881-85 he prepared to can the products of 
 his farm. He pushed with all of his force 
 such crops as he could thus pack for the 
 market, and, making his own cans, packed fifty 
 thousand in one season. Soon came the crash 
 in that line of goods, and prices declined so as 
 to leave too little margin for so much work 
 and outlay of capital. Fortunatel}', he sold 
 his machinery to a new company just advanc- 
 ing in the business to be buried by the ava- 
 lanche of bankrupt goods just beginning to 
 sweep like a wave over the market. Mr. 
 Bacon still pushed those special crops, carrying 
 them to a packing company in the immediate 
 neighborhood, where he found a cash market 
 for all he could produce. He then made the 
 dairy his leading effort, filling three silos 
 with ensilage he made from the corn he raised 
 for the factory. Milk and small fruits, vege- 
 tables and hay, now make up the yearly in- 
 come. 
 
 Mr. Bacon has three children by his second 
 wife, two of whom are married — George Edgar 
 and Margie Emma Bacon. Howard Thayer, 
 the youngest, now lives on the old home place, 
 and is an efificient worker in agriculture, horti- 
 culture, and mechanics. His future depends 
 much upon decisions that just now press upon 
 his young manhood. Seven grandchildren, 
 now upon the arena of life, make the tenth 
 generation of this family.
 
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 M 
 
 ANIEL P. SMITH, M.D., who is 
 also entitled to the degrees of 
 Batchelor of Arts and Master of 
 Arts, the latter having been con- 
 ferred upon him by Boston College in 1893, 
 is a promising and popular young physician of 
 Canton, Norfolk County, Mass. He was born 
 in Canton, January 23, 1862. 
 
 His father, Patrick Smith, was born and 
 reared in the Emerald Isle. Crossing the 
 Atlantic in his early manhood, he settled in 
 Canton, and has since made this town his 
 home. Energetic, industrious, and very trust- 
 worthy, for fifty-three consecutive years he 
 was employed at the Revere Copper Works. 
 
 Dr. Daniel P. Smith in his boyhood was 
 a pupil in the public schools of Canton; and 
 later he attended Boston College, from which 
 he was graduated in iSSt,, with the degree of 
 Batchelor of Arts. He afterward took a 
 thorough course of study at the Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Medical College in New York City, re- 
 ceiving his diploma from that noted institution 
 in 1887. He then began the exercise of his 
 profession at Attleboro, Bristol County, Mass., 
 and continued there nine years, building up a 
 good practice. In February, 1896, he re- 
 turned to Canton, where he is meeting with 
 eminent success in his professional career, 
 having already established an enviable reputa- 
 tion for skill in diagnosing and treating the 
 various ills to which flesh is heir. 
 
 Dr. Smith is a sound Democrat on all polit- 
 ical questions. Fraternally, he is a member 
 of the Royal Society of Good Fellows of 
 Attleboro, in which he was Ruler for some 
 time, of the Ancient Order Hibernians, and 
 Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters. 
 He is likewise a member of the Boston Col- 
 lege Alumni Association and of the Catholic 
 Alumni Club of Boston. 
 
 ILLIAM E. MANN, a well-known 
 farmer and lumber manufacturer of 
 Norfolk, was born in this town, De- 
 cember 22, 1844, son of Levi and Lydia 
 (Lurana) Mann. His parents were natives of 
 North Wrentham, now Norfolk, as was also 
 his grandfather, Salmon Mann; and he is de- 
 scended from the Rev. Samuel Mann, who was 
 
 the first settled minister in Wrentham. The 
 Rev. Samuel Mann lived in the central part of 
 the town, and many of his descendants may be 
 found in this vicinity. Salmon Mann, who 
 married Phoebe Howe, of Marlboro, Mass.-, 
 followed agricultural pursuits, and operated 
 a saw-mill. 
 
 Levi Mann, father of William K., inher- 
 ited the homestead farm and the mill, both of 
 which he carried on during his active years. 
 He was a Selectman of Wrentham, served in 
 the same capacity for many years in Norfolk, 
 and represented his district in the legislature 
 for one term. He died April 18, 1888. His 
 wife survived him about seven years, dying 
 February 3, 1S95. They were the parents of 
 si.x children, as follows: Thomas, who mar- 
 ried Julia Backus, of Ashford, Conn., served 
 through the Civil War, and is now Postmaster 
 at Fitchburg, Mass. ; William E., the subject 
 of this sketch; James W., who died at Port 
 Hudson, La. ; Edward W. , who married Eme- 
 line Cary, of Medway, Mass., and is Postmas- 
 ter and the only merchant in Norfolk village; 
 Phoebe, who died from an accident, at the age 
 of twelve years; and Frank W., who married 
 Fanny Backus, and manufactures bone-cutters 
 in Milford, Mass. All were educated in the 
 common schools, and Frank attended college. 
 
 William E. Mann assisted in carrying on 
 the home farm until the death of his father, 
 when he took charge of it, and has since man- 
 aged the property. He owns two hundred 
 acres of tillage and pasture land, besides con- 
 siderable woodland ; and besides general farm- 
 ing he manufactures hard and soft lumber and 
 building material at the old Mann saw-mill. 
 He does a good business, and is regarded as 
 one of the prosperous citizens of the town. 
 
 On April 20, 1873, Mr. Mann was joined 
 in marriage with Jennie M. Rae, who was 
 born in Nova Scotia, September 15, 1847, 
 daughter of William and Elizabeth (Craig) 
 Rae. Her father, who was a native of Dum- 
 fries, Scotland, accompanied his parents, who 
 were people of wealth, to Nova Scotia, when 
 he was twelve years old. He died in 1887, 
 and Mrs. Rae passed away in 1895. 
 
 Mr. Mann has served with ability in several 
 town offices, and is now sexton of the ceme- 
 tery. In politics he is a Republican. He
 
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 and Mrs. Mann are active members of the 
 Congregational church, and his brother lul- 
 ward is very prominent in that society. 
 
 /2)ia)RGI-: p. M0KI<;Y, Town Clerk ot 
 V ST Walpole, Norfolk County, Mass., 
 was born at Walpole Centre J n 1.S26, 
 a son of Palmer Morey. His paternal grand- 
 father, the Rev. George Morey, who came here 
 from Norton, Bristol County, was a noted 
 minister of the gospel, and for forty-four years 
 the only clergyman of this town. 
 
 Palmer Morey was a lifelong resident of 
 Waljiole, for many years being a leading 
 farmer and one of the most influential citizens 
 of this place. He was a steaclfast Whig, and 
 for many years served in various town offices, 
 including that of Selectman and of Assessor, 
 besides representing his town in the State 
 legislature. His wife, formerly Priscilla M. 
 Porter, of Middleboro, Mass., bore him three 
 children, namely: H. Louisa, deceased; 
 George P. ; and Sarah J. The father's death, 
 which occurred on the old home farm in Wal-. 
 pole in 1864, at the age of si.xty-seven years, 
 was a serious loss to the community. 
 
 George P. Morey left school at the age of 
 fourteen years to assume the position of a 
 clerk in a country store; and, after being thus 
 employed fifteen years, he went to Boston, and 
 was a clerk in the wholesale grocery store of 
 Robert M. Morse four years. Returning then 
 to Walpole, he established himself here as 
 a general merchant, and continued in business 
 several years, building up a flourishing local 
 trade. He was at the same time engaged in 
 farming, and operated a saw-mill, his lumber 
 business being large and lucrative. In 1861 
 he was appointed an officer in the Boston cus- 
 tom-house by John C. -Goodrich, and con- 
 tinued there eight years. 
 
 Mr. Morey is a public-spirited, enterprising 
 man, in hearty sympathy with the progressive 
 movements for adding to the prosperity of the 
 town, and has rendered efficient service to his 
 fellow-men in various official capacities. For 
 fifteen years he was Special County Commis- 
 sioner. He was for many years one of the 
 Town Board of Selectmen; and in 1865 he 
 was elected to his present position of Town 
 
 Clerk, succeeding his father, who had been 
 the incumbent of the office the twenty i)reced- 
 ing years. 
 
 Mr. Morey married Miss Jessie A. Blake- 
 ley, of New Orleans. They have one child — - 
 George P. Morey, Jr., who is in business as 
 a real estate dealer in Boston, but resides with 
 his parents at Walpole Centre. Mr. Morey 
 and his family attend the Unitarian church. 
 
 URTON W. NEAL, who was for 
 many years a leading builder of 
 Brookline, Mass., is now enjoying 
 the comforts of life free from the 
 cares of business activity. He was born in 
 Hereford, Canada East, December 25, 1833, 
 son of the late John Neal. His grandfather, 
 Samuel Neal, was born in or near Unity, 
 N.H., and there spent the larger portion of 
 his life. 
 
 John Neal, who was born and educated in 
 Unity, for many years followed farming and 
 carpentering in that town. Later he removed 
 to Hartford, Vt., where he followed both oc- 
 cupations to some extent. His last years 
 were passed in Woodstock, Vt., where he died 
 at the age of threescore years and ten. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Lucy D. Mor- 
 gan, bore him seven children, of whom 
 Amanda, Burton, W., and Rosaline are living. 
 Both parents were members of the Congrega- 
 tional church. 
 
 Burton W. Neal received a good common- 
 school education, and afterward learned the 
 carpenter's trade. In 1853 he came to Brook- 
 line as a journeyman carpenter, and in 1870 
 he established himself in business here on his 
 own account. A skilful and ingenious work- 
 man, thoroughly conversant with the use of 
 tools, he had no trouble in securing all the 
 work he needed. In the succeeding twenty- 
 one years he built a large number of resi- 
 dences in this vicinity. Si.x years ago he 
 gave up his business to his son. Burton W. 
 Neal, Jr., who is now conducting it very suc- 
 cessfully. While he has been a strong Re- 
 publican in politics, he has never been an as- 
 pirant to official honors. For some years he 
 has been one of the directors of the Brook- 
 line Savings Bank. He attends the Baptist
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 church, toward the support of which he con- 
 tributes cheerfully and liberally. 
 
 Mr. Neal was married in 1855 to Miss Lena 
 Becker, who was born in Germany. They 
 have two children — Clara and Burton W., Jr. 
 Clara married George F. Boynton, a dry-goods 
 merchant in Brookline; and they have one 
 child, George. Burton VV. Neal, Jr., married 
 Miss Ida Campbell ; and they have a daughter, 
 named Marion. 
 
 C^|-OHN VV. TIRRELL, the proprietor of 
 ^, Tirrell's Pharmacy, located in Brooks 
 Block, Washington Street, Canton, is 
 a well-known business man of this 
 town and one of its most respected citizens. 
 He was born July 8, 1856, in East Bridge- 
 water, Plymouth County. His father, Will- 
 iam Tirrell, was also a native of Bridgewater; 
 and his paternal grandfather, also named 
 William, was an early settler of the town. 
 The father was reared in Bridgewater, and for 
 a while was there engaged in the grocery and 
 grain business. Selling out his store, he 
 turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, 
 and was thereafter engaged in farming until 
 his death, which occurred when he was thirty- 
 eight years old. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Emily S. Bell, was born in Stock- 
 ton, Me., daughter of John Bell, a prosperous 
 shoe manufacturer of that place. At her hus- 
 band's death she was left with three young 
 children to care for, namely: Altazana, now 
 the wife of Joseph H. Bisbee, of Canton; 
 John W., the subject of this sketch; and 
 Jennie G., the wife of Charles H. Griggs, of 
 Milton, Mass. 
 
 John W. Tirrell had but limited educational 
 advantages, his early knowledge having been 
 obtained in the public schools of Beaver vil- 
 lage in East Bridgewater before he was thir- 
 teen years old. In 1869 his widowed mother 
 came with her little family to Canton, and he 
 obtained work in a stocking factory. His 
 mother afterward returned to East Bridge- 
 water, but he continued his residence here, 
 and for a year or more was employed by C. M. 
 & J. N. Staples in their large bakery. On 
 April I, 1872, he entered the drug store of 
 W. W. Brooks for the purpose of learning 
 
 the business, and remained with him as clerk 
 until January i, 1889. He then bought out 
 his former employer, Mr. Brooks, and has 
 since carried on a general drug business, as 
 above mentioned. He has met with signal 
 success from the first, maintaining the reputa- 
 tion of the establishment, which was opened 
 in 1856 by the late proprietor, as a first-class 
 drug store and pharmacy. 
 
 In former years Mr. Tirrell invariably sup- 
 ported the Republican ticket. He is now in- 
 dependent in his views, and casts his vote for 
 the men best suited for the office to be filled. 
 On November 20, 1877, he married Miss 
 Annie Little, a daughter of William Little, 
 of Pembroke, Me. They have two sons, both 
 young men of whom their parents may justly 
 be proud. William B. is a graduate of the 
 Canton High School; and Arthur L. , who is 
 in the city office of the Boston & Maine Rail- 
 way Company, resides at home. Mr. Tirrell is 
 a member of Blue Hill Lodge, A. F. & A. M., 
 of Canton; of Mount Zion Royal Arch Chap- 
 ter of Stoughton ; of Hyde Park Council of 
 J^oyal and Select Masters; of Cyprus Com- 
 mandery, Knights Templar, of Hyde Park; of 
 Blue Hill Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of Pecunit 
 Tribe, I. O. R. M. ; and of Samuel Adams 
 Colony, Pilgrim Fathers, of Boston. 
 
 /^S^EORGE F. GRIDLEY, of the firm 
 \ •) I Downer & Co., bankers and stock- 
 brokers of Boston, is a well-known 
 resident of Hyde Park. He was born Febru- 
 ary 28, 1848, in Boston, which was also the 
 birthplace of his father, George A. Gridley, 
 and of his grandfather, William Gridley. 
 The Gridleys trace their descent to three 
 brothers named Gridley, who emigrated from 
 England to America in old Colonial times, 
 settling in or near Boston. William Gridley, 
 the paternal great-grandfather of George F., 
 spent a large part of his life in Boston, pros- 
 perously engaged in business. William Grid- 
 ley, second, who inherited the business quali- 
 ties of his father, was for many years engaged 
 in the manufacture of furniture in Boston. 
 He was one of the founders of the firm of 
 Gridley & Blake, which after his death in 
 1845 was changed to Blake & Alden.
 
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 George A. Gridley spent his seventy-three 
 years of life in his native city, for many years 
 carrying on a substantial business as a dealer 
 in second-hand furniture, being the junior 
 member of the firm Barry & Gridley. He 
 married Susan P. Smallpeace, who was born 
 and bred in Boston. Her father, Robert 
 Smallpeace, was the proprietor of a fashion- 
 able hair-dressing establishment in that city. 
 She is still living, being now a bright and in- 
 telligent woman of eighty-five years. Her 
 children are: William A., George F. , and 
 Maria L. Maria is the wife of Amos D. 
 Brainard. Both parents united with the Uni- 
 tarian church in their earlier days. 
 
 George F. Gridley attended the public 
 schools of Boston until he was fifteen years 
 old. After his graduation from the grammar 
 department, he accepted a position with the 
 firm of which he is now a member, and which 
 is one of the oldest and best known firms in 
 the city, having been established fifty years 
 ago, under the name of Stone & Downer. He 
 began as office boy, working from twelve to 
 fifteen hours daily, receiving at first but fifty 
 dollars per annum for his labors. From that 
 position he gradually worked his way upward, 
 becoming clerk and then cashier. In 1881 he 
 was admitted to the firm as junior partner. 
 In the same year he became a member of the 
 Stock E.xchange. Here he has been one of 
 the Governing Committee for three years, and 
 will be until 1898, when his term will expire. 
 He possesses in a rare degree the qualities es- 
 sential to a business man, while quiet and un- 
 assuming in manner. 
 
 On January 24, 1871, Mr. Gridley married 
 Miss Nannie Smith, who was born in Saco, 
 Me., daughter of John and Elizabeth Smith, 
 the former of whom was a leading dry-goods 
 merchant of that place. Mrs. Gridley, who 
 was a woman of refinement and culture, much 
 beloved by all who knew her, died March 12, 
 1894, aged forty-three years. A devout 
 Christian, she was a member of the Episcopal 
 church. In this society, with which he 
 united many years ago, Mr. Gridley is now 
 the lay reader. He was also for some time 
 one of the church trustees and the clerk of the 
 parish. In politics he is a strong Republi- 
 can. He has served his fellow-townsmen as 
 
 Auditor for some years, although his business 
 leaves him but little time to devote to public 
 affairs; and he has been a trustee of the public 
 library for seventeen years. He is a member 
 of the Royal Arcanum: of the Hyde I'ark 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of Norfolk Chapter, 
 R. A. M.; of Hyde Park Council, which he 
 served as an officer for five years, declining a 
 re-election in 1896; and of Cyprus Command- 
 ery, K. T. He also declined to accept the 
 higher offices in the lodge. 
 
 OLONEL GEORGr: W. ROBBINS, 
 the present chairman of the Board of 
 Selectmen of Avon, Mass., and a 
 distinguished veteran of the late 
 Civil War, was born in Avon on February 2, 
 1839, son of Captain Samuel Virgin and Sally 
 (Loring) Robbins. His ancestors, both pa- 
 ternal and maternal, were of English origin. 
 His mother's parents were Jacob and Lydia 
 (Tilson) Loring, her paternal grandfather's 
 name being Ignatius Loring. Captain Rob- 
 bins, the father, was a master mariner in the 
 West Indian merchant service with Samuel 
 P. Draper, of Boston, and was lost in the 
 Gulf Stream with his vessel, the bark 
 "Sharon," being en route from Savannah to 
 Hamburg, Germany, and only two days out 
 from port. 
 
 George Washington Robbins, the subject of 
 this sketch, who was only eight years old at 
 the time of his father's death, was educated in 
 the public schools of Avon, and later, having 
 shown a natural aptitude for military tactics, 
 was sent to Russell's Military Academy at 
 New Haven, Conn. He was a student in that 
 institution for about three years, and during 
 the last two years held the rank of captain of 
 the cadets. In 1858 he left the academy, and 
 went to Dane County, Wisconsin, near Madi- 
 son, and became superintendent of a farm of 
 over thirteen hundred acres, which was owned 
 by his brother, John V. Robbins. 
 
 He remained in this position until August 
 12, 1861, when he was commissioned as Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel in the Plighth Regiment of 
 Wisconsin Volunteers, better known as the 
 Eagle Regiment. On the 14th of the follow- 
 ing October the "Eagles" reached St. Louis,
 
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 Mo., and were assigned to duty along the line 
 of the Iron Mountain Railroad, which they 
 kept guarded during that fall and the follow- 
 ing winter. The first battle in which the 
 regiment participated occurred on October 22, 
 1861. During this winter the regiment was 
 transferred to Cairo, 111., and in the following 
 spring crossed the river to Bird's Point, 111., 
 and opened up the Bird's Point & Sykeston 
 Railroad in order that supplies could be des- 
 patched to General Pope's army, then sta- 
 tioned at New Madrid and Island Number 
 Ten. On April 7 and 8 engagements oc- 
 curred at these two places; on May 8, 1862, 
 the battle of Farmington took place; and on 
 the 28th of May the siege of Corinth was 
 opened. September 14 and September 19 
 there were fights at luka, Miss., and on Octo- 
 ber 3 and 4 at Corinth. In this last engage- 
 ment the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment had 
 twenty-one men killed, eighty-three wounded, 
 and eighteen missing. Colonel Robbins was 
 in all these engagements with his regiment, 
 and was subsequently at Jackson, where his 
 men were in the advance. On May 14, 1863, 
 they were at Champion Hills, and on the 22d 
 of the month, being then a part of the Second 
 Brigade, Second Division of the Fifteenth 
 Army Corps, they were engaged in the assault 
 on Vicksburg, which was in the nature of a 
 feint made with a view of absorbing the atten- 
 tion of the rebel commander, and thus pre- 
 venting him from massing his troops against 
 General McClernand of the Thirteenth Corps. 
 Succeeding this the regiment fought in the 
 battles of Mechanicsville on June 4 and Rich- 
 mond on June 14, and was present at the sur- 
 render of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. On 
 October 3, 1862, at the battle of Corinth, 
 Colonel Robbins was shot in the leg, and 
 seriously injured; and on July i, 1863, while 
 behind the levees on the Louisiana side, 
 he was again disabled, his horse falling on 
 him, and injuring him so severely as to make 
 it needful for him to give up his command. 
 On September i, 1863, he was honorably dis- 
 charged by order of General Grant, for inju- 
 ries received in the service, holding the com- 
 mission of Colonel, which had been granted 
 him on December 20, 1862. 
 
 After retiring from the service, Colonel 
 
 Robbins came to Avon, remaining here until 
 the spring of 1864, when he started for the 
 Far West by overland stage route. In May 
 he arrived in Austin, Nev., where he engaged 
 in milling and mining for two years, and sub- 
 sequently until 1870 in managing a stage 
 route and conducting a hotel at Pinto Creek, 
 thirty-two miles east of White Pine. In Jan- 
 uary, 1870, Colonel Robbins returned to 
 Avon, and for a number of years engaged in 
 the livery business, also running an express 
 line between Avon and Boston. In 1875 and 
 1876, while in this business, he served as Se- 
 lectman of the town of Stoughton, of which 
 Avon was then a part; and after the division 
 of the towns he was chosen as a member of 
 the first Board of Selectmen of Avon. He 
 was again chosen Selectman in 1896-97, and 
 in both years has been chairman of the board. 
 
 Colonel Robbins's wife was before marriage 
 Miss Deborah T. Inglee, of Halifax, Mass. 
 She has been the mother of four children, by 
 name George W., P'lorence I., Grace A., and 
 Helen T. The Colonel is a member of 
 Fletcher Webster Post, No. 13, G. A. R., at 
 Brockton, Mass. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can. He has served the town of Avon as 
 Superintendent of Streets, and his fellow- 
 townsmen hold him in highest esteem both as 
 an official serving the public interests and as a 
 man in private life. Naturally of exact and 
 military habits and of unflinching courage, he 
 inspired the soldiers under his command with 
 enthusiasm and bravery, and as an officer se- 
 cured the most perfect discipline. 
 
 No allusion to the Eighth Wisconsin Regi- 
 ment should be made without referring to 
 "Old Abe," the eagle that was always carried 
 into battle, and that has made the regiment so 
 famous. "Old Abe" was captured in Wis- 
 consin in 1861, when an eaglet, by a Chip- 
 pewa Indian, who sold the bird for a bushel 
 of corn. It was subsequerrtly presented to 
 the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment, christened 
 "Old Abe" in honor of Abraham Lincoln, 
 and became the pet and inspiration of the 
 regiment. It was of the species known as 
 the white-headed or bald-headed eagle, the 
 American emblem. "Old Abe " was carried 
 into battle; and it is said that when the fight 
 raged most fiercely, and the enthusiasm of the
 
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 soldiers was at its highest, then it was that he 
 "seemed to be in his own element. He 
 flapped his wings in the midst of the furious 
 storm, and, with head erect, faced the flying 
 bullets and crashing shells, with no signs of 
 fear." His presence became almost a prestige 
 of victory, and at the battle of Corinth the 
 rebel General Price, made every effort to 
 capture him; but "Old Abe," as if conscious 
 of his danger, soared aloft, and, though many 
 shots were hurled after him, was soon out of 
 reach of harm. One bullet just grazed his 
 feathers, but did no serious injury. After 
 this, it being feared that he might some time 
 become lost, his tail and wing were cropped 
 to prevent his flight, and for a time he lost 
 his appearance of dignified royalty. He was 
 again shot at Vicksburg, but was never in- 
 jured in the flesh. He shared all the marches 
 of the regiment, including Sherman's great 
 march and the Red River expedition, and was 
 in twenty-five battles and as many skirmishes. 
 After the war large sums of money were 
 offered for him, the Barnum Circus manage- 
 ment offering twenty thousand dollars; but it 
 was ■ decided by his "comrades" that he 
 should be given to the State government of 
 Wisconsin. He appeared at various reunions, 
 was one of the features of interest at the Cen- 
 tennial at Philadelphia, and in the winter of 
 1878-79 was in Boston for a number of 
 months. It is estimated that, merely by the 
 sale of his pictures, at least one hundred thou- 
 sand dollars was added to G. A. R. funds. 
 "Old Abe" died in 1881, and through the art 
 of the taxiilermist has been preserved in life- 
 like attitude, and may be seen in the War 
 Museum at Washington. 
 
 'AMUEL BRADLEY NOYES, a 
 lawyer and a prominent citizen of 
 Canton, Mass., was born in Ded- 
 ham, Mass., April 9, 1817. The 
 eldest 9on of Samuel and Elizabeth (Morrill) 
 Noyes, he is a descendant of Nicholas Noyes, 
 who belonged to the Noyes family of Choul- 
 dertown, Wiltshire, England. This ancestor, 
 at the age of nineteen, ■ with his brother 
 James, who was a clergyman, came to New 
 England in 1634, and settled in Newbury, 
 
 Mass., in 1635, five years after the settlement 
 of Boston. The maternal great-grandfather of 
 Mr. Noyes, the Rev. Isaac Morrill, graduated 
 at Harvard College in 1737, was a strict, Pu- 
 ritanic divine, and the pastor in Wilmington 
 at the time of his death, which occurred in 
 1793. His son and the grandfather of Mr. 
 Noyes, Eliakim Morrill, was a highly re- 
 spected resident of Ucdham. 
 
 Samuel B. Noyes attended the public 
 schools, and also for one year a private school 
 in Dedham, under the tuition of the Hon. 
 Francis W. Bird. He entered Phillips An- 
 dover Academy in 1836, and remained there 
 until the summer of 1840, in which year he 
 entered Harvard College. While at Phillips 
 Academy he was closely in touch with stu- 
 dent life, and he is now a member of the acad- 
 emy's Alumni Association. In 1875, when 
 the Philomathean Society of the academy, in 
 which he played a prominent part during his 
 school days, held its semi-centennial anniver- 
 sary, he was chosen to be the orator of the 
 day. His address on that occasion, together 
 with an account of the day's proceedings and 
 views of the academy buildings, was subse- 
 quently published in book form. On leaving 
 college he studied law successively with the 
 Hon. Isaac Davis, of Worcester, Mass., the 
 Hon. Ezra Wilkinson, of Dedham, and the 
 Hon. Ellis Ames, of Canton. He was ad- 
 mitted to the Norfolk County bar in April, 
 1847, and began practice in Canton, where he 
 has resided ever since, with the exception of 
 two years spent in Florida. Mr. Noyes has 
 served in public office with distinguished abil- 
 ity. In 1849 he was Justice of the Peace, 
 and Trial Justice from 1850 until 1867. He 
 was appointed by Governor John H. Clifford 
 Commissioner of Insolvency for Norfolk 
 County in 1853; from 1849 ^° 1871 he was 
 a member of the Canton School Board; and 
 Superintendent of Public Schools from 1856 
 to 1858, from 1861 to 1864, and from 1867 
 to 1 87 1. He has always taken a deep inter- 
 est in popular education, even outside his 
 own town. In 1864 he was appointed by the 
 Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, then the Sec- 
 retary of the United States Treasury, as a 
 special agent of the department, and the act- 
 ing Collector of Customs at Fernandina, Fla.
 
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 Here he spent two years, and then retunied 
 North. In May, 1867, the Hon. Salmon P. 
 Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Su- 
 preme Court, appointed him Register of 
 Bankruptcy for the Second Congressional 
 District, which office he still holds. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican, and he has constantly 
 taken an earnest interest in State and national 
 affairs. He formed and kept up a wide polit- 
 ical acquaintance; and his support has been 
 often sought, and always given on the side 
 of justice and integrity. 
 
 Mr. Noyes is a member of the New Eng- 
 land Historical and Genealogical Society, of 
 the New England Agricultural Society, of 
 the Massachusetts Press Association, of the 
 Bunker Hill Monument Association, and of 
 the Stoughton Musical Society. In the latter 
 organization he was a member of the Com- 
 mittee of Arrangements that had charge of 
 their centennial celebration in 1886, and it 
 was he who delivered the address for the occa- 
 sion. In private life he is known as a man of 
 taste and culture, a genial companion, an ac- 
 complished entertainer, and a valued and re- 
 liable friend. He has marked literary and 
 musical tastes. The classics of his school 
 and college life have never lost their interest 
 for him, and he has a special fondness for the 
 old English writers of the time of Addison 
 and Johnson. He is familiar with the writ- 
 ings of Shakspere, and his knowledge of the 
 famous actors who have appeared on the Amer- 
 ican stage in Shaksperian drama for the past 
 forty years is extensive. He has been an in- 
 dustrious writer for the public press, espe- 
 cially in the line of historical essays. For 
 over ten years he has been almost totally 
 blind, and consequently has lived retired from 
 public and social life; but he still retains his 
 health and spirits, and enjoys a life of leisure 
 in the companionship of his friends and fam- 
 ily. He has from his youth devoted much 
 time to the study of music. In college he 
 was the leader of the college choir, of the 
 Harvard Glee Club, and of several other 
 choirs, being thereby enabled to partially de- 
 fray his expenses. It is safe to assume that, 
 had he made a specialty of voice culture, he 
 would have become famous as a tenor singer. 
 As a member of the class of Harvard Univer- 
 
 sity, 1844, he received his degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts in 1864 and that of Master of Arts 
 in 1 87 1. 
 
 In January, 1850, Mr. Noyes was married 
 to Georgiana, daughter of James and Abigail 
 (Gookin) Beaumont. Her father came to 
 New lingland from Denby, ICngland, in 1800, 
 and in 1802 built the first mill in Massachu- 
 setts erected for the manufacture of cotton by 
 machinery. Her mother was a daughter of 
 Edmond Gookin, a lineal descendant of Daniel 
 Gookin, who in 1650 was magistrate of the 
 Indians in Massachusetts, and who accom- 
 panied the preacher, John Eliot, in his visits 
 to the various tribes. Daniel Gookin's His- 
 tory of the Indians is published in the col- 
 lection of the Massachusetts Historical So- 
 ciety. Mr. Noyes has four children, namely: 
 Teresa, the wife of Charles H. French, of 
 Canton; Eliza Rosita, the wife of F. VV. 
 Sumner, of the same town; Bradley Morrill, 
 of Canton ; and James Beaumont, who married 
 Mary Bartlett, of Lynn, and resides in Bos- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 AMES H. PACKARD, a prominent 
 resident of Milton, now retired from 
 business life, is a native of Dorchester, 
 born April 10, 1845, son of Henry J. 
 and Amanda (Waite) Packard. The Packard 
 family is an old one in Milton, and its men 
 have been among the progressive citizens of 
 the town. Samuel Packard, the first of the 
 name in this country, came from England in 
 1638, and settled in Bridgewater. The grand- 
 father of James H. Packard was a soldier in 
 the War of 1812. He settled in Milton, 
 coming to this town from Bridgewater in 
 either 1S05 or 1806. 
 
 Henry J. Packard, who was born in Milton, 
 resided for many years in Dorchester, on what 
 is now Morton Street. In early life he was a 
 cabinet-maker. Later he turned his attention 
 to the making of pianos. For a number of 
 years he was in business at Dorchester Lower 
 Mills, manufacturing different kinds of furni- 
 ture. He was a man of very decided opinions, 
 and in politics was a Whig. His death oc- 
 curred in 1854. Of his children, four are liv- 
 ing, namely: Elizabeth T. , now Mrs. W. H.
 
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 Bowman, of Dorchester Lower Mills; James 
 H., the subject of this sketch; William E., 
 who resides at Dorchester Lower Mills; and 
 Frank, who resides on the old Packard home- 
 stead on Morton Street, Dorchester. 
 
 James H. Packard resided in Dorchester 
 until he readied his fifteenth year, attending 
 school at the old Winthrop School-house. 
 He then came to Milton, where he entered 
 the employ of Samuel Adams, then a well- 
 known baker of Milton and the proprietor of 
 the original Bent & Co. Bakery, which was at 
 that time located on Wadsworth Hill. After 
 working for Mr. Adams for about ten years, 
 he engaged in the provision and meat busi- 
 ness, with his headquarters in Dorchester. 
 After two years he returned to the business 
 with which he had formerly been connected, 
 but which was now under different manage- 
 ment. In 1874 he was made gardener of the 
 Milton Cemetery, and subsequently was ap- 
 pointed superintendent. The last-named po- 
 sition he filled for fifteen years, having 
 been in all engaged for twenty-three years in 
 cemetery work. For fourteen years he was 
 town undertaker of Milton. 
 
 On January 5, 1881, Mr. Packard was 
 united in marriage with Emma L. Wadsworth, 
 of Milton, daughter of Charles and Elmira T. 
 (Hunt) Wadsworth. Mr. Packard is a Re- 
 publican in politics. He is a member of 
 Union Lodge, F. & A. M., at Dorchester, 
 which is one of the oldest Masonic lodges in 
 the State; and of St. Stephen's Chapter, 
 R. A. M., of Ouincy, Mass. He was for- 
 merly identified with Mattapan Lodge, K. of 
 P., of Dorchester. 
 
 -OHN F. BROOKS, manufacturer of 
 infants" fine shirts, bands, mittens, and 
 similar articles, was born in Cohasset, 
 Mass., in 1868, son of Frank and Mary 
 G. (Rose) Brooks. The father was a seaman, 
 who sailed from Cohasset on a whaling voyage; 
 and the ship was never heard from. His 
 wife, Mary G., was born in 1845, was a 
 daughter of John Rose, of the Azores Islands. 
 She is now a resident of Needham. 
 
 John F. Brooks was educated in the public 
 schools of Cohasset, at the Derby Academy in 
 
 Hingham, and at Phillips Academy at Exe- 
 ter, N.H., being graduated at the last-named 
 institution in 1889. In the fall of the same 
 year he went to work as travelling salesman 
 tor T. O. Gardner & Co., of Boston, and in 
 this capacity visited New York, Philadelphia, 
 Baltimore, Washington, and many other large 
 cities. He remained with this firm five years, 
 and then, in company with H. I. Brett, pur- 
 chased the business of his former employers, 
 which they carried on under the firm name of 
 Brooks & Brett, their factory being located in 
 Boston. In 1896 they bought the factory of 
 Alexander Lines & Co., at Highlandville, 
 Mass., to which they removed their entire 
 machinery. In July, 1896, Mr. Brett retired 
 from the company; and the business is now 
 carried on under the name of John F. Brooks 
 & Co. The stock, of which the factory pro- 
 duces about thirty-five thousand dollars' worth 
 in a year, is sold principally to jobbers and 
 large retail dealers. Mr. Brooks has enlarged 
 and improved the plant, putting in all the new 
 and improved machinery used in this line of 
 business, and has in other respects shown 
 himself to be a wide-awake and thoroughly up- 
 to-date business man. He is a member of 
 Old Colony Lodge, F. & A. M., of Hingham, 
 Mass. 
 
 fs^AMES T. LENNON, the proprietor of 
 a large livery stable in Wellesley, and 
 a son of Michael and Kate (P"ield) 
 Lennon, was born in the County Ros- 
 common, Ireland, in 1854. The father, who 
 was also a native of Roscommon, born in 
 1833, died in 1892. He was a school teacher 
 throughout the greater part of his life. The 
 mother, who was also a teacher, died when 
 their son, James T., was an infant. 
 
 James T. Lennon was educated in his na- 
 tive town. Having finished his education, he 
 became a monitor in the school in which he 
 had pursued his studies. After filling this 
 position very satisfactorily for one year, he 
 set sail for this country in a vessel bound to 
 Boston. Soon after his arrival he found em- 
 ployment in the stables of R. H. White at 
 Chestnut Hill, Brookline. In 1875 he came 
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 and was here engaged in farming for five 
 years. He was subsequently manager of a 
 livery business for C. H. Mcintosh and his 
 successor, Mr. Taylor. After spending a year 
 in the employment of the latter, Mr. Lennon 
 bought the stables, and has since conducted 
 them very successfully in his own name. He 
 has a good and growing business. In politics 
 Mr. Lennon is a Democrat, and his religious 
 belief is the Roman Catholic. He is a mem- 
 ber of the St. John's Catholic Church at 
 Wellesley Lower Falls; of the Natick Coun- 
 cil, No. 126, R. A. M., of Natick; and of the 
 A. O. H., Division No. 25, at Newton Lower 
 Falls, of whose Finance Committee he is the 
 chairman. 
 
 Mr. Lennon was married in May, 18S2, to 
 Mary, daughter of Hugh Conley, a resident of 
 County Roscommon, Ireland, where his 
 daughter was born. Mr. and Mrs. Lennon 
 have nine children, born as follows: Kate, in 
 1883; Hugh, in 1884; Mary, in 1885; James, 
 in 1886; Lizzie, in 1887; Agnes, in 1S90; 
 Margaret, in 1893; Louisa, in 1894; and 
 Helen, in 1897. Of these the first six are at- 
 tending school. 
 
 iHARLES H. FRENCH, an extensive 
 and prosperous manufacturer of Nor- 
 folk County, residing in Canton, was 
 born in this town, April 17, 1848, 
 a son of Charles Howe French. His grand- 
 father, Alexander French, was likewise born 
 in Canton, and was of old Colonial stock, the 
 family having emigrated from England in the 
 seventeenth century. 
 
 Charles Howe French was born and bred in 
 Canton, and during his years of activity was 
 identified with the highest and best interests 
 of the town. For some time he was engaged 
 in business as a railroad contractor, but after- 
 ward established himself in business in 
 Stoughton as a manufacturer of fancy woollen 
 goods, for which he gained a wide reputation, 
 the productions of his mill being in demand 
 in all the leading New England markets. He 
 was a stanch Republican in politics and very 
 active in local affairs, serving as Selectman, 
 besides being Representative to the General 
 Court, and State Senator two terms. He was 
 
 for thirty-eight years president of the Nepon- 
 set National Bank, a position which he occu- 
 pied at the time of his death, on January 13, 
 1889, at the age of seventy-four years. Four 
 children were reared by him and his wife, 
 Elmira K. Everett, daughter of Deacon Leon- 
 ard Everett, of Canton, namely: Caroline O. ; 
 Ella A., widow of D. T. V. Huntoon, of Can- 
 ton ; Charles H. ; and Abbott E., of this 
 town. 
 
 Charles H. French completed his education 
 at the age of eighteen years in the Chauncy 
 Hall School, Boston, and at once entered the 
 factory of his father in Stoughton, in order to 
 learn the business, and was there employed in 
 various capacities until the demise of his 
 father. Since that time he has carried on the 
 business in company with his brother, Abbott 
 E. French, and Robert Ward, of South 
 Orange, N.J., this firm being among the lead- 
 ing woollen manufacturers of Massachusetts. 
 
 In politics Mr. French is a Republican, 
 faithful to the principles in which he was 
 reared. He has succeeded his father as presi- 
 dent of the Neponset National Bank, is also 
 president of the Braintree & Weymouth Street 
 Railway Company, and is a member of the 
 Canton School Board. He is a prominent 
 member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging 
 to Blue Hill Lodge, F. & A. M., of Canton; 
 to Mount Zion Chapter, R. A. M., of Stough- 
 ton; and to Cypress Commandery, K. T., of 
 Hyde Park. He is of the liberal type in his 
 religious belief and a regular attendant of the 
 Unitarian church. 
 
 Mr. French was married September 13, 
 1875, to Miss Theresa I. Noyes, daughter of 
 Samuel B. Noyes, of Canton. Mr. and Mrs. 
 French have three children, sons, namely: 
 Charles Howe, who was named for his grand- 
 father; Malcolm B. ; and Norman B. 
 
 RANK ALDRICH FALLS, one of 
 the most prominent residents of Nor- 
 wood, the chairman of the Board of 
 Selectmen, and an ex-member of the Massachu- 
 setts legislature, was born in South Dedham, 
 October 13, 1848, son of Eliphalet and Lucy 
 Bullard (Weatherbee) Fales. The founders of 
 his family originally came from Chester, Eng-
 
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 land. His paternal grandfather, also named 
 Eliphalet, was a native of Walpole, Mass., as 
 was also his father. Both were farmers, and 
 their last days were spent in Norwood. The 
 father married Lucy Bullard VVeatherbee, a 
 daughter of Joel and Betsey (Sumner) 
 Weatherbee. She became the mother of six 
 children — Henry U., Frank A., Walter, 
 Frederick A., Susan E. , and Albert. 
 
 Frank Aldrich Fales was educated in the 
 public schools of his native town, and at the 
 age of eighteen he apprenticed himself to a 
 carpenter. After learning the trade, he fol- 
 lowed it as a journeyman for five years. At 
 the end of that time he entered the employ of 
 Clark & Leatherbee, lumber dealers of Bos- 
 ton, and was later advanced to the position of 
 superintendent of their wharf. He remained 
 with that concern four years. Returning to 
 Norwood in 1S77, he purchased the flour, 
 grain, and feed business of William Fisher, 
 then located on Washington Street. In 1880 
 he built his present mill on Railroad Street, 
 the only grist-mill in town, and which has a 
 large and profitable business. In politics 
 Mr. Fales is a Republican. His public ser- 
 vices have been greatly beneficial to the town. 
 He has been a member of the Board of Select- 
 men since 1882, and is now its chairman. 
 He was a member of the first Board of Fire 
 Engineers and of the committee appointed to 
 secure the construction of the water-works, 
 which were completed in 1885. He was 
 mainly instrumental in securing the abolition 
 of grade crossings on Washington and Guild 
 Streets, represented the First Norfolk Dis- 
 trict in the legislature during the sessions of 
 1886, 1887, and 1888, and he is now serving 
 his second term as a Justice of the Peace. 
 He also belongs to the Business Men's Asso- 
 ciation, and is a director of the Norwood Co- 
 operative Bank and a member of its Finance 
 Committee. He is prominent in the fraternal 
 orders, being a member of Orient Lodge, F. & 
 A. M. ; of Hebron Chapter of Norwood; and 
 of Cyprus Commandery, Knights Templar, of 
 Hyde Park. He is a charter member of Tiot 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of which he was the first 
 Noble Grand, has been chairman of its Board 
 of Trustees, and served for two terms as Dis- 
 trict Deputy Grand Master; was the first 
 
 Sachem of Nahatan Tribe, Improved Order of 
 Red Men, serving it for a time in the capaci- 
 ties of chairman of its Board of Trustees and 
 District Deputy; and he is a member of the 
 Norfolk Club of Boston. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Fales was united in marriage 
 with Jennie F. Train, of Potsdam, N.Y. 
 Both he and Mrs. Fales attend the Univer- 
 salist church. 
 
 rOHN ALLEN NEWELL, a lifelong 
 resident of Dover, Norfolk County, 
 Mass., who at the time of his death, 
 September 21, 1894, was the oldest 
 citizen in the town, was born here, June 29, 
 1803, youngest son of Jesse and Mehitable 
 (Allen) Newell. The original ancestors of 
 the family in this country, from whom Mr. 
 Newell traced his descent in direct line, were 
 Abraham Newell and his wife, P"rances, who 
 came from Ipswich, England, in 1634, and 
 settled in Roxbury, Mass. They each lived, 
 it is said, to be ninety-one years old. Other 
 instances of remarkable longevity among Mr. 
 Newell's ancestors, on both the paternal and 
 maternal side, are on record. A great-grand- 
 father and his wife lived to be ninety-seven 
 and one hundred and three years old respec- 
 tively; a grandmother lived to be ninety- 
 eight; and an uncle, who died in i860, was 
 upward of ninety years of age. Many of 
 Mr. Newell's progenitors were men of note, 
 some of them rendering important service to 
 the country in the Revolutionary War, while 
 others were prominent in local affairs. Elea- 
 zer Allen, great -great-grandfather of Mr. 
 Newell on his mother's side, and his brother 
 Hezekiah, were two of the first settlers in 
 Dover, then a part of Dedham, known as the 
 "Springfield District," Dover not being 
 corporated as a separate town until 1784. 
 
 Jesse Newell was born in Dover. At 
 early day he settled upon the farm where 
 two daughters of his son, the late John 
 Newell, now reside. He spent his life 
 this town; and besides being engaged in agri- 
 culture he followed the trade of weaver, at 
 which he was an adept. This was before the 
 advent of modern machinery, and his methods 
 as well as implements would be regarded as 
 
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 curiosities nowadays. When old age came 
 upon him, they were consigned to the garret, 
 where they served to interest and perplex the 
 inquiring minds of the younger generation. 
 He and his wife, Mehitable, who was also a 
 native of Dover, became the parents of nine 
 children, namely: Rebecca, who was born Oc- 
 tober 8, 1792, and died August 16, 1827; 
 Charles, born May 7, 1794, died October ig, 
 1872; Mehitable, born October 7, 1795, who 
 married Sherman Batelle, of Dover, and died 
 July 14, 1842; Jesse, born August 13, 1797, 
 died November 16, 1879; Amy, born May 
 iS, 1799, died July 13, 1827; Dolly, born 
 October 19, 1801, died May 8, 1824; John 
 A., principal subject of this sketch; Betsey, 
 born January 8, 1807, who married Obed 
 Allen, and died November 23, 1883; Sarah 
 M., born January 9, iSio, who married Mason 
 Brown, off Dover, and died April 7, 1843. 
 
 John Allen Newell received such education 
 as was afforded by the district school of his 
 native town. His limited amount of book 
 knowledge was compensated for in his mature 
 years by his great natural intelligence and 
 habits of close observation. At an early age 
 he was trained to the useful and invigorating 
 work of tilling the soil, which he continued 
 through the active period of his long life. 
 He was a fine specimen of the successful 
 farmer of the type of a generation ago, har- 
 vesting crops of Indian corn, rye, oats, and 
 potatoes, taking great pride in his horses and 
 cattle, felling trees from woodland acres, and 
 working them up in various ways, such as 
 making charcoal for city customers, cutting 
 hoop-poles and getting out railroad sleepers. 
 But whether engaged in farm work, in busi- 
 ness lines, serving in town office, on the jury, 
 or in matters of arbitration, he was always 
 considered a man of unusually good judgment. 
 
 In politics he was a true Democrat, casting 
 his first vote for the Democratic ticket in 
 1824, when just twenty-one years of age, and 
 his last one a few months before his death, 
 thus giving almost seventy years of unswerv- 
 ing loyalty to his party. He took an active 
 interest in all the town meetings, and was 
 quick to recognize and support all practical 
 measures for the public good. He was opti- 
 mistic in temperament. His happy disposi- 
 
 tion, noticeable when a child, expanded in 
 later years, and led him constantly to look 
 upon the bright rather than on the dark side 
 of life. Perhaps this characteristic, combined 
 with his lifelong temperance, had much to do 
 with prolonging his years, as it doubtless 
 had with his wonderful health and vigor. His 
 sense of duty was of the highest type, as was 
 his personal integrity. He was noted besides 
 for his excellent business ability, great 
 strength of character, tenacity of purpose, and 
 rare presence of mind. An instance of the 
 latter occurred in the early fifties, when he 
 saved his dwelling-house from being destroyed 
 by fire. It was as follows: On a windy day 
 in midwinter, when, as it chanced, house and 
 farm help were away from the place, Mr. 
 Newell, happening to open an outer door 
 while preparing food for the swine, discovered 
 that the roof of the main part of the house was 
 in roaring flames. Quick as lightning he 
 seized the axe and pail, filled the latter from 
 the pump, ascended two flights of stairs to the 
 attic, slashed a hole through the roof, and 
 emptied his pail, returning again and again 
 for water. With agility and strength almost 
 superhuman, he battled with the flames un- 
 aided until he finally succeeded in subduing 
 them, thus saving his home. 
 
 Once when in the prime of manhood he 
 narrowly escaped a violent death. He had 
 started in the small hours of the morning with 
 a load of hay to market in the city. Return- 
 ing home late in the afternoon, sleep over- 
 came him as he drove aloqg. Suddenly he 
 awakened in front of the railroad track, to see 
 his horse struck down and swept away by the 
 locomotive, directly before his face. Al- 
 though a man of "iron nerve," it could not be 
 otherwise than that he should experience a 
 feeling of horror as he discovered his own nar- 
 row escape. 
 
 In 1832 Mi. Newell married Miss Caroline 
 Allen, only daughter of Cglonel Obed Allen, 
 of the adjoining town of Medfield. Five chil- 
 dren were the result of this union: John A., 
 Harriet, Sarah, William, and Caroline. John 
 A., who was born October 28, 1835, married 
 Alvira Diana Willard; and they now reside in 
 Medfield, this county. Harriet, born January 
 8, 1840, resides with her sister Caroline on
 
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 the old Dover homestead. Sarah, born F"eb- 
 ruary 19, 1843, is the wife of Aldeii Derby, 
 and lives in Elmira, N.Y. William, born 
 May 9, 1847, died in August, 1884. Caro- 
 line, born February 3, 1850, resides on the 
 homestead, as above stated. She is a lady 
 who combines the best and strongest qualities 
 of her father with the softer graces of refined 
 womanhood. 
 
 Before the infirmities of age came upon 
 him, Mr. Newell attended and helped support 
 the Unitarian church in his native town, 
 where his parents and grandparents wor- 
 shipped before him. When, a few years ago, 
 within the short space of two weeks, death 
 stole from his side his aged wife and his 
 youngest son William, then in the prime of 
 young manhood, and on whom he had allowed 
 family cares to devolve, there was something 
 truly heroic in the manner in which the aged 
 man bowed to the divine decree. After this 
 double bereavement he went calmly on di- 
 recting his affairs and waiting in patience 
 for the Master's call. Most tenderly was he 
 cared for in these declining years by his 
 youngest daughter Caroline. His departure 
 was the cause of wide-spread sorrow, and his 
 memory is held in tender regard by those he 
 left behind. 
 
 AVID T. HAGAN, a retired busi- 
 ness man of Canton, Mass., was born 
 in Ireland, the son of Francis and 
 Ann (Lennon) Hagan, and came to 
 this country in his boyhood, about fifty years 
 ago, 1847 or 1848, with his father, Francis 
 Hagan, Jr., who also was a native of Ireland, 
 being son of Francis, Sr., a lifelong resident 
 of the Emerald Isle. Francis Hagan, the 
 emigrant, settled iji Canton, where he had 
 charge of Messinger's farrii for about thirty- 
 three years, and also worked in the Messinger 
 Silk F'actory. His wife, Ann Lennon, bore 
 him four children, only one of whom, David 
 T., the subject of this sketch, is now living. 
 The father died in 1886, at the age of eighty 
 vears. In politics he was a stanch Democrat. 
 David T. Hagan was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of this town. When he was si.x- 
 teen he took a course at Comer's Commercial- 
 
 College in Boston, and was subsequently book- 
 keeper for P. V. Logan, of that city, for three 
 years. In 1865 he returned to Canton, and 
 engaged in the woollen business, which he 
 followed for four years; and then in 1869 he, 
 in partnership with P. P". Brady, opened a 
 general country store, which they conducted 
 until November of 1881, when the partnership 
 was dissolved, and Mr. Hagan assumed the 
 entire management, carrying it on for about 
 si.x years more. The store being burned out 
 in 18S7, he retired from business, and for the 
 next seven years held the position of Town 
 Librarian. Since 1895 he has been practi- 
 cally retired from the activities of life. In 
 politics he is a Democrat, but has never been 
 specially interested in political affairs. He 
 and his family attend the Roman Catholic 
 church. 
 
 Mr. Hagan and Margaret E. Galligan, of 
 Canton, were married October 5, 1875. 
 Eight children have been born to them, and 
 five are now living; namely, F"rancis, Mar- 
 garet, Joseph, John, and James, all of whom 
 are in Canton, and with the e.xception of 
 Francis, third of the name, all at the parental 
 home. 
 
 DWARD JULIUS SANDBERG, a 
 well-known contractor of (Juincy, Nor- 
 folk County, Mass., was born Octo- 
 ber 21, 1866, in Helsingborg, Sweden, that 
 town being also the birthplace of his father, 
 Neils Sandberg, who lives there at this day, 
 and is a prominent citizen. 
 
 Neils Sandberg learned the trade of a 
 watchmaker when a boy, and as soon as old 
 enough started in the watch-making business 
 for himself. He has met with good success, 
 and is still carrying on the business, employ- 
 ing a number of men in his factory. To him 
 and his wife, whose maiden name was Sophia 
 Nelson, eight children were born, five of 
 whom are now living; namely, P!dward Julius, 
 Adolph Siegfrid, Amanda Geneveva, and 
 Gustaf Anton, all of this city, and Oscar. 
 The parents are members of the Lutheran 
 church. 
 
 Edward J. Sandberg obtained a practical ed- 
 ucation in Helsingborg, and after leaving
 
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 school went to Denmark, where he was cm- 
 ployed two years as coachman for Mr. Ostrop, 
 a man well known throughout that country. 
 Returning to Sweden, Mr. Sandberg was a 
 member of the engineering corps connected 
 with the -Skone & Hallands Railway Company 
 two years. He subsequently worked as a gar- 
 dener a year, and then came to America, set- 
 tling in Ouincy in iS86. Securing a situa- 
 tion with Henry Barker, he remained with him 
 two years; and then, having become familiar 
 with the customs and methods of this country, 
 he started in business on his own account as 
 a teamster and contractor. He began on a 
 modest scale, and, as his business has in- 
 creased, has added to his equipments, keeping 
 now eight horses and two drivers, at times 
 employing from thirty-five to forty extra 
 teams. He makes a specialty of building 
 streets, cellars, and walls, being one of the 
 leading men in that line of industry in the 
 city. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Sandberg is an earnest ad- 
 vocate of the principles of the Republican 
 party. He has been one of the Ward and City 
 Committee five years, and has served as spe- 
 cial police for an equal length of time. Fra- 
 ternally, he is a member of Mount Wollaston 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of Manet Encampment ; 
 and of Philedian Senate, A. E. O., of Ouincy. 
 
 On the thirteenth day of June, 1891, he 
 married Hanna Marie Dorum, daughter of H. 
 Dorum, a former resident of Ouincy. Three 
 children have been born of this union, and two 
 are now living; namely, Henry Siegfrid and 
 Edward Julius, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sandberg 
 attend the Lutheran church. 
 
 §OHN CLARK, of Millis, was born Oc- 
 tober 2, 1816, prior to the setting off 
 of this town from Medway, in the old 
 Clark homestead, his present residence. 
 A son of Lemuel and Deborah E. (Newton) 
 Clark, he is a descendant of one of two broth- 
 ers, Joseph and John Clark, who emigrated 
 from England, and settled in Medway at an 
 early date in the town's history. They located 
 upon an eminence in Millis, called Chestnut 
 Hill. The majority of their descendants have 
 been engaged in agricultural pursuits in this 
 
 vicinity; and the farm which is now owned 
 by the subject of this sketch was cultivated 
 in turn by his great-grandfather, Nathaniel, 
 and his grandfather, .Stephen Clark. Stephen, 
 who died January 29, 1820, married Eunice, 
 daughter of David Clark, a blacksmith of 
 Medway, and was the father of eight children, 
 namely: Chloe; John; Asenath, who married 
 E. Haven; Stephen; Eunice; Lemuel; Na- 
 thaniel; and Rebecca. 
 
 Lemuel Clark, born here in 1780, besides 
 carrying on the homestead farm, was engaged 
 in the manufacture of brick. He died in 
 1858. His wife, Deborah, who was a native 
 of Framingham, became the mother of four 
 children, namely: David, born May 17, 1807; 
 Sarah, born October 22, 1810, who died Octo- 
 ber 27, 1857; Elbridge, born September 11, 
 1812; and John, the subject of this sketch. 
 David, who successively married Huldah Bar- 
 ton, Harriet Danforth, and Harriet Mann, 
 died in September, 1891. Elbridge, now 
 deceased, married for his first wife Lydia 
 Newton and for his second Mary Mansfield. 
 His widow is residing at Millis. Mrs. Lem- 
 uel Clark died in 1864. 
 
 At the age of eighteen, having obtained his 
 education in the common schools, John Clark 
 began to serv'e an apprenticeship at the car- 
 penter's trade in West Medway. Subse- 
 quently, after working as a journeyman for 
 some years in East Medway, Rockville, and 
 the place now called Millis village, he re- 
 turned in 1844 to the homestead, where he 
 has since resided. In 1845 he engaged in the 
 manufacture of brick, running two yards, and 
 carrying on a thriving business in that line 
 until 1890, at which time he sold out. He is 
 still actively engaged in the cultivation of the 
 home farm, of which nine acres are under till- 
 age and fifty are timbered. In politics he is 
 a Republican. 
 
 On May 24, 1837, Mr. Clark wedded 
 Martha Maria Dairy, who was born in Attle- 
 boro, Mass., daughter of a prosperous farmer 
 of West Medway. She became the mother of 
 eleven children, as follows: Albert L., born 
 May 27, 1838; John Addison, born February 
 12, 1S40, who died February 19, 1842; Sarah 
 Louisa, born November 10, 1841 ; David Ad- 
 dison, born October 9, 1843; Frederick Fran-
 
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 cis, born June 6, 1846; Rlioda Isabella, born 
 July 22, i(S48; John Edwards, born Septem- 
 ber 16, 1850, who was drowned July i, 1854; 
 Mary Adeline, born December 17, 1852; Jen- 
 nie Maria, born July 28, 1855; Abbie Eliza, 
 born March 3, 1858; and Carrie P., born Sep- 
 tember 4, 1859, who married George R. Hill, 
 and died July 25, 1884, of injuries received 
 in an accident. Albert L. , who married Har- 
 riet Rice, is a grain dealer in Leominster, 
 Mass. Sarah Louisa is the widow of George 
 B. Fisher, and resides in Millis. David Ad- 
 dison married Rose Roberts, and is a member 
 of the firm Clark & Roberts, bottlers, at No. 
 221 State Street, Boston. Frederick Francis, 
 who resides in New York City, married Flor- 
 ence E. Collins. Rhoda Isabella is the wife 
 of Charles H. Russell, and resides in South 
 F"ramingham, Mass. Mary Adeline married 
 William F. Harding, a grocer of Fitcbburg, 
 Mass. Jennie Maria married Daniel Adams, 
 of Waltham, a mason by trade; and Abbie 
 Eliza is the wife of Francis H. Russell, and 
 resides in Ro.xbm'y, Mass. The mother died 
 December 2, 1881. A second marriage, con- 
 tracted on March 8, 1883, united Mr. Clark 
 to Abbie L. Russell. She was born in Med- 
 field, Mass., August 30, 1834, daughter of 
 Daniel P. and Polly P. (Hammant) Russell, 
 who were prosperous farming people and 
 natives of Medfield. Her father died May 26, 
 1875, and her mother on January i, 1892. 
 Mr. Clark is a member of the Congregational 
 church, while Mrs. Clark is a Unitarian. 
 
 7TAHARLES HALEY, a highly success- 
 I St-^ ful contractor and builder of Norfolk 
 ^'^ County, residing at Hyde Park, was 
 
 born March 5, 1835, in Somerset 
 County, Maine, son of Mark Haley. He 
 comes of good old pioneer stock, being the 
 lineal descendant of one Thomas Haley, who 
 in 1653 was a resident of Saco, Me., a city 
 which has been the abiding-place of some 
 member of the Haley family ever since. The 
 great-grandfather of Charles Haley had charge 
 of the lower ferry in that town for several 
 years, being succeeded by a Mr. Weddock. 
 
 A later Thomas Haley, the paternal grand- 
 father of Charles, was born in Saco in 1760; 
 
 and after his marriage with Margery Scam- 
 mon, the descendant of an old and respected 
 family of York County, Maine, he settled on 
 a farm near his birthplace, and was afterwartl 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits until his 
 death, at the age of threescore and three 
 years. 
 
 Mark Haley was born on the parental home- 
 stead in Saco in December, 1799, and for 
 more than thirty years lived there, being em- 
 ployed from his youth up as a tiller of the 
 soil. In 1832 he removed to Somerset 
 County, where he took up a tract of heavily 
 timbered land, consisting of one hundred 
 acres, from the government, and, having 
 cleared a space, erected a rude log cabin, in 
 which he and his wife began housekeeping. 
 She also was born and brought up in Saco, in 
 her early years unused to the privations and 
 hardships which she in common with her few 
 neighbors bravely endured in her new home. 
 Her maiden name was Lydia Hill; and she in- 
 herited in a high degree the determination 
 and force of character that marked her ances- 
 tors, making her a true helpmate to her hus- 
 band in his pioneer labors. He worked with 
 energetic perseverance, clearing and improv- 
 ing the land, eventually replacing the humble 
 log structure with a substantial frame house, 
 in which he afterward lived in comparative 
 luxury until his death, at the age of fifty-three 
 years. His widow survived him, dying at the 
 age of sixty-seven. Both were members of 
 the Congregational church, in which he served 
 as Deacon some years. He was also quite 
 prominent in local affairs, and was Superin- 
 tendent of the Highways at a time when many 
 of the roads of the county were being laid out. 
 Mark and Lydia Haley reared six children, 
 of whom three are living, namely: Malinda, 
 who is unmarried; Charles, whose personal 
 history is here outlined; and Lydia Ann, wife 
 of J. H. Fogg, of Biddeford, Me. 
 
 Charles Haley spent the first eighteen years 
 of his life in St. Albans, Me., his boyhood 
 being passed in the log cabin, which was so 
 rudely constructed that the snow sifted in 
 through the cracks, he often finding a quilt of 
 this fleecy material on his bed on a winter's 
 morning. After obtaining a district-school 
 education, and supplementing it by a brief
 
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 term of attendance at the high school, he went 
 to Biddeforcl, and began working for his 
 cousin, Thomas Hill, of whom he learned the 
 carpenter's trade. On attaining his majority, 
 he came to Boston, and for ten years worked 
 as a journeyman carpenter, four years of the 
 time being spent in Watertown ; and four years 
 at the Back Bay. Mr. Haley then established 
 himself in business as a contractor and builder 
 in what is now Hyde Park, which was not 
 then incorporated as a town, he being one of 
 the first to build in this locality. Buying a 
 piece of ground on Mount Neponset, he 
 erected a house on the site now occupied by 
 the residence of Mr. Henry Miner; and he has 
 since built some of the largest and finest 
 dwellings in Hyde Park, Attleboro, Canton, 
 Jamaica Plain, 15rookIine, and Newton, the 
 number being in the hundreds. He has been 
 eminently successful in business, having 
 amassed a good property, including ten or 
 twelve houses, of which he was the architect 
 as well as builder. l''or a year he owned and 
 conducted a lumber yard in this vicinity, but 
 then sold out, concluding that his time was 
 better occupied in contracting and building. 
 
 On December 25, 1864, Mr. Haley married 
 Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of Joseph and 
 Emeline (Moore) P'arnsworth, and one of a 
 family of eleven children. She was born in 
 Lincoln, Mass., in the house in which her 
 marriage was solemnized on that beautiful 
 Christmas Day, thirty-three years ago. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Haley have never had any children. 
 Both are active members of the Methodist 
 church, of which he was a trustee fifteen 
 years. He is a strong Republican, but has 
 never aspired to political office, although he 
 did serve one year as Assessor. 
 
 'OSEPH WILLARD HEATON, who 
 was an influential resident of Franklin, 
 Mass., was born October 26, 1829, in 
 this town, son of Samuel and Tirzah 
 Heaton. His father was born July 17, 1798; 
 and his mother, whose maiden name was Tir- 
 zah Carleton, was born in Acworth, N. H., 
 April 23, 1806. They were married in July, 
 1823, and became the parents of thirteen chil- 
 dren. Of these one died in infancy. The 
 
 others, of whom five reside in Franklin, are: 
 William, George, Sarah, Joseph, Henry, 
 Samuel, Halsey, Melansa, Francis, Melansa 
 (second), p;ilen, and Charles. 
 
 Joseph W'illard Heaton attended the jniblic 
 schools of his native town. When he was 
 fourteen years of age, he began to work on his 
 father's farm. At the age of twenty he went 
 to Hopkinton, to learn the shoemaker's trade. 
 After a comparatively short time he was ap- 
 pointed the superintendent of the establish- 
 ment. He held this position until 1867, 
 when he and his brother-in-law started in the 
 provision business in Franklin. After five 
 years Mr. Heaton sold his interest to his 
 partner, and then went into the hay, grain, 
 wood, and coal business. He retired in 1892 
 with a comfortable income, and afterward 
 lived quietly at his home in Franklin. Mr. 
 Heaton filled several town offices, where he 
 exercised for the benefit of the community the 
 same good judgment that made him so suc- 
 cessful in business. 
 
 He was married August 17, 1853, to Ellen 
 F"rancis, a daughter of Addison and Sally 
 (Hancock) Thompson, of Wrentham, Mass. 
 His only child, lilla Flora, who was born in 
 1855, died in 1856. Mr. Heaton died August 
 22, 1897, aged si.xty-seven years. 
 
 Me. 
 
 EDEDIAH P. PLUMMER, of Med- 
 way, one of the best known artisans 
 connected with the straw industry in 
 this section, was born in Monmouth, 
 August 31, 1 819, son of John and Re- 
 becca (Johnson) Plummer. The founder of 
 the family, which is of English origin, settled 
 in Newburyport; and several of his descend- 
 ants were identified with the early growth of 
 that town. Jabez Plummer, grandfather of 
 Jedediah P., was a soldier in the Revolution- 
 ary War, and is supposed to have been killed 
 in battle, as he never returned from the ser- 
 vice. 
 
 John Plummer, who was born in Hamp- 
 stead, N. H., in 1777, passed his early life in 
 Litchfield, N. H. Then he moved to Mon- 
 mouth, Me. ; and the rest of his active period 
 was spent in tilling the soil. He lived to the 
 age of ninety-four years and six months. His
 
 JOSEPH W. HEATON.
 
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 58' 
 
 first wife, Rebecca, who was a native of Hills- 
 boro, N.H., died at the age of fifty-eight. 
 A second marriage united him to Mrs. Bates, 
 a widow of Dr. Bates, of Greene, Me. She is 
 now deceased. Of his nine children, all by 
 his first union, the survivors are: Dianna, now 
 residing in Monmouth, the widow of Shej^ard 
 Pease, who died in the army; Jedediah P., the 
 subject of this sketch; and Rebecca, who mar- 
 riecl Joseph Spear, and resides in West Gard- 
 ner, Mass. The others were : John, who died 
 in 18S5; Judith, who died in 1838; Jabez, 
 who died in 1892; and Mary, William, and 
 Alden, the last-named of whom died in 1887. 
 
 Jedediah P. Plummer acquired a common- 
 school education in his native town, and re- 
 sided there until he was nineteen years old. 
 He then went to Boston and later to Walpole, 
 Mass., where he worked as a farm assistant for 
 three years. He ne.xt entered a straw factory 
 in that town, three years later going to 
 Springfield, Mass., where he was engaged in 
 the same business until 1852. From Spring- 
 field he went to Nevada County, California, 
 and there worked in the mines for nine 
 months. Upon his return to Massachusetts in 
 the following year he resumed his former 
 occupation in Medway, where he has since 
 resided. He has been the superintendent of 
 the bleaching department of a factory in this 
 town for many years. Having spent consider- 
 ably over half a century in the straw business, 
 and being at the present time the oldest active 
 artisan in the locality, he is about to retire. 
 He has been thrifty as well as industrious, 
 and owns considerable real estate, including 
 a farm. He is connected with Medway Lodge, 
 No. 163, I. O. O. F. , and with the Sons of 
 Temperance. Formerly a Whig in politics, 
 he has acted with the Republican party since 
 its formation. 
 
 In August, 1849, while residing in Sjjring- 
 field, Mr. Plummer was united in marriage 
 with Sophia L. Spear, of Gardiner, Me., 
 daughter of Nathan Spear. She died in 1S58, 
 having been the mother of Charles, who died 
 at the age of nine months, and another child 
 that died unnamed. Mr. Plummer's present 
 wife, whom he wedded October 14, i860, was 
 before marriage Sarah Frances Benner, born 
 in Waldoboro, Me., April 24, 1834. Her 
 
 parents, both now deceased, were John A. and 
 Hannah (Storer) Benner, the former a native 
 of Nobleboro, Me., and the latter of Waldo- 
 boro, Me. Mr. Benner resided for the greater 
 portion of his active period in Waldojjoro, 
 where he followed ship-building and farming. 
 Mrs. Plummer is the mother of two children : 
 Frank Prescott, born I'"e!jruary 19, 1868, the 
 superintendent of the sizing dejwrtment of 
 a straw factory in Medway; and Mary L. , 
 born December 9, 1871, who is the wife of 
 Charles R. Adams, a manufacturer of straw 
 goods and a farmer in North Franklin. The 
 family are all members of the Congregational 
 church, and take an active interest in religious 
 work. Since 1893 Mrs. Plummer has been 
 president of the Ladies' Benevolent Society 
 of Medway, connected with the Congrega- 
 tional church. 
 
 4^»^» 
 
 REDERICK LEONARD FISHER, a 
 prosperous farmer and business man of 
 Norwood, was born in South Dedham, 
 January 29, 1862, son of William Curtis and 
 Emily E. (Atkins) Fisher. He is a descend- 
 ant of David Fisher, who was familiarly 
 known as "King David," and who was an 
 early settler in Dedham. David Fisher had 
 six sons; and the line of descent of the sub- 
 ject of this^ sketch is through Oliver (son of 
 David, first), David (second), Leonard, and 
 William Curtis. The family is one of the old- 
 est in this locality, and si.x generations have 
 resided within sight of the present homestead. 
 Grandfather Leonard Fisher tilled the soil 
 of a good farm, and, previous to the advent of 
 railroads, was engaged in teaming from Boston 
 to New York by way of Providence and New 
 Haven. 
 
 William Curtis Fisher, father of P'rederick 
 L., has been engaged in agriculture since his 
 youth, and was formerly an extensive dairy- 
 man. He married Emily E. Atkins, daugh- 
 ter of John and family (Perry) Atkins, and has 
 reared four children; namely, Frederick L., 
 Emily C, Nettie M., and Abby S. 
 
 Frederick Leonard Fisher attended the com- 
 mon schools of his native town, and at an 
 early age began to assist his father upon the 
 farm. He has made agriculture his chief.
 
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 occupation, but has also engaged in other 
 branches of industry. His first business vent- 
 ure was the leasing of a clay pit, the product 
 of which he sold to the paper mills. He has 
 been a member of the fire department for a 
 number of years, was Highway Surveyor from 
 1885 to 1890, and has served upon the ]5oard 
 of Selectmen since 1894. Politically, he is 
 an independent Republican. He is a member 
 of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M., was one of 
 the organizers, and first Vice-Grand of Tiot 
 Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F., and is connected 
 by membership with the Royal Arcanum. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Fisher was joined in marriage 
 with Harriet D. Blackman, daughter of Cyrus 
 F. and Mary K. (Babb) Blackman. He has 
 three children — Curtis B. , Leonard C. , and 
 Emily. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher attend the Con- 
 gregational church. 
 
 MMONS LEONARD, a retired manu- 
 facturer of Sharon, was born in the ad- 
 joining town of Foxboro, May 17, 
 1825, son of Hartford and Betsey (Shaw) 
 Leonard. His parents were natives of Fo.x- 
 boro. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Leon- 
 ard, who was a blacksmith in that town, mar- 
 ried Mille Blake, of Wrentham, Mass. They 
 had twelve children, as follows: Pattie, Hart- 
 ford, Polly, Elllis, Robert, Amelia, Samuel, 
 Sanford, Harvey, Ann M., and Williams and 
 Warren (twins). Harvey married Emeline 
 Skinner, and is still residing in Fo.xboro ; but 
 his wife is no longer living. 
 
 Hartford Leonard learned the blacksmith's 
 trade in his native town. In 1829, about four 
 years after the birth of his son Emmons, he 
 removed to Franklin, in the same county, and 
 resided there until his death, which occurred 
 August 31, 1 85 5. For several years he was 
 a Selectman, and in 1851 he was a member of 
 the Massachusetts legislature. His wife, 
 whose maiden name was Betsey Shaw, died 
 March i, 1846. She was the mother of five 
 children, namely: I'^lizabeth, who was born 
 December 18, 1820, and died September 29, 
 1841 ; Hartford P., who was born May 3, 
 1822, was graduated at Amherst College, and 
 died November 27, 1892; t;mmons, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch; George Shaw, born Sep- 
 
 tember 29, 1833; and Mary Louisa, born 
 January 6, 1836. George Shaw, who is a 
 machinist in Quincy, Mass., married J'lmma 
 Leonard. Mary Louisa was married June 9, 
 1870, to Hiram E. West, of Attleboro, Mass., 
 a machinist. They have one daughter — Mille 
 Louise, born August 16, 1876. 
 
 Emmons Leonard acquired his education in 
 the common schools, and when nineteen 
 years old he began work in a straw factory. 
 He was thus employed for thirteen years, 
 when on account of failing health he went to 
 Madison, Jones County, la., and bought a 
 farm. He followed agricultural pursuits in 
 the West until 1866, when he sold his farm 
 and returned to Massachusetts. Purchasing 
 a mill in the north part of Sharon, he engaged 
 in the manufacture of packing-cases, the 
 greater part of his product being used by the 
 Morse Brothers. Pie continued in business 
 until January 8, 1897, at which time he sold 
 his plant to Captain H. A. Blackstone. He 
 is now living in retirement. 
 
 On March 14, 1850, Mr. Leonard was 
 united in marriage with Henrietta Dunbar, 
 daughter of Amasa Dunbar, formerly an ex- 
 tensive shoe manufacturer of Sharon. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Leonard are the parents of one 
 daughter — Lizzie N., who was born in Madi- 
 son, la., January 10, 1861, and is now resid- 
 ing at the parental home in Sharon. 
 
 In politics Mr. Leonard is a Republican, 
 but he would never accept office. He has 
 always attended strictly to business; and his 
 leisure time has mostly been devoted to the 
 affairs of the Congregational church, with 
 which he has been officially connected, and of 
 which he is still a member. 
 
 ,EV. GEORGE WALTER NEAD, 
 
 the pastor of the First Baptist Church 
 at Norwood, Mass., was born Janu- 
 ary 7, 1845. He is the son of 
 James and Mary (Smith) Nead. His father 
 and mother were both of English parentage. 
 Their five children were: James, Albert, 
 James (second), George Walter, and Charles. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Nead attended .school in 
 Cleveland, his boyhood home, taking an aca- 
 demical course at Richfield, Ohio. In 1861 he
 
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 enlisted at Berea, Ohio, in Company E, Sixty- 
 fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and, join- 
 ing the John Sherman brigade at Mansfield, 
 went with his regiment to the front. He 
 participated in the battle of Shiloh. At the 
 siege of Corinth he was stricken with fever, 
 and remained in the hos[jital for two months, 
 after which he was discharged on account of 
 disability. Upon the recovery of his health in 
 1864 he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and 
 Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry, and saw five 
 months of active service under General Curtis 
 in Kansas and Missouri. At the expiration of 
 his term of service he was mustered out at 
 Springfield, 111. ; and immediately upon re-en- 
 tering civil life he continued an uninterrupted 
 pursuit of knowledge. He first went to Knox 
 College, at Galesburg, 111., and subsequently 
 to the Chicago University, receiving from that 
 university the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and 
 Master of Arts in due course. The fallowing 
 three years, 1870-73, were passed in prepara- 
 tion for the ministry at the Theological Sem- 
 inary in Chicago. He there received the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Divinity, and was or- 
 dained at Chicago, when he at once organized 
 the Union Stock Yards Baptist Church, of 
 which he was pastor for three successive years. 
 The following five years were spent at Medina, 
 Ohio, which pastorate he resigned to ac- 
 cept a call from the Baptist church at Oberlin, 
 Ohio, where he remained for five years; and 
 after a pastorate of four "years at Avon, Ohio, 
 he came to New England, and spent a year in 
 study at the Newton Theological Institution. 
 He received a call to Norwood in 1892, and 
 hereby became the spiritual leader of the Bap- 
 tist church in this pleasant New England vil- 
 lage in the vicinity of Boston. 
 
 He has been twice married. His first wife 
 was Orisy Villa, the daughter of Orman and 
 Mary Crocker, of Galesburg, 111. By her he 
 had one son, Benjamin, born January 6, 1880. 
 His second marriage was to Miss Julia Etta 
 Tryon, daughter of Robert Tryon, of Bedford, 
 Ohio. They have had six children, five of 
 whom are now living — Bertha Evangeline, 
 Goldwin Whittier (deceased), Raymond 
 Harker, Gladwin Murl, Carol Plimpton, and 
 George Washington. Mr. Nead is a member 
 of the George K. Bird Post of the G. A. R., 
 
 and has been chaplain of the post a number of 
 years. He is also a member of the Business 
 Men's Association of Norwood. He is an 
 easy yet impressive speaker, evangelistic as 
 well as scholarly in the presentation of gospel 
 teaching. He is also of a social nature, and 
 thoroughly enjoys his pastoral work, is popular 
 with the jjeople of the town, and is much 
 sought after to attend weddings, funerals, 
 memorial occasions, and so forth. A goodly 
 degree of success has thus far attended his 
 faithful ministry in each of his fields of labor. 
 At present he is vice-president of the Boston 
 Baptist Ministers' Conference which meets 
 in Chipnian Hall, Tremont Temple, each 
 Monday morning. 
 
 (TTRA BARROWS GUSHING* M.D., a 
 hI well-known physician residing in Brook- 
 Jj_ line, was born in Providence, Bureau 
 County, 111., November 12, 1846, son of 
 Caleb and Malinda Peck (Barrows) Gushing. 
 The father, who was born in Massachusetts in 
 1793, removed in 1S36 to Illinois, where he 
 became a farmer on an extensive scale. He 
 died in 1876. The mother, born in Paw- 
 tucket, R.I., in 1806, died in 1870. A 
 daughter of William Barrows, she was a sister 
 of Dr. Ira Barrows, of Providence, R.I., and 
 Dr. George Barrows, of Taunton, Mass., both 
 distinguished medical practitioners and pio- 
 neers in the school of honueopathy. She was 
 united with the Congregational Church of 
 Providence, 111., in which two of her sons are 
 Deacons; and a grandson of hers is a minister. 
 The Doctor is one of a family of nine chil- 
 dren, of whom his own mother, the second 
 wife of his father, bore seven. Five of the 
 children are still living, and all are in the 
 West. 
 
 Ira Barrows Gushing attended the common 
 schools of his native town until sixteen years 
 of age. In 1864 he enlisted in the One 
 Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois \'oIunteer 
 Infantry for three years, and was mustered out 
 at the close of the war in 1865. Subse- 
 quently he spent about two years in the Eng- 
 lish High School at Princeton, 111. In 1869 
 he came to Taunton, where he began the study 
 of medicine in the office of his uncle. As
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 has been stated, Ur. l^arrows was a skilful 
 exponent of the principles of homoeopathy. 
 In the fall of 1869, through his influence, his 
 nephew entered the Hahnemann Medical Col- 
 lege at Philadelphia. Having a liking for 
 chemistry, he took a special course in that 
 subject with Professor Barker, of Yale Uni- 
 versity, and subsequently, in 1872, during 
 the vacation of the medical school, a full 
 course. In the winter of 1871-72 he was a 
 student at the New York Homoeopathic Col- 
 lege, and in the spring was graduated from 
 that institution with the degree of Doctor of 
 Medicine. After this he returned to Taunton, 
 and during the summer of that year was en- 
 gaged in practice with his uncle. In the fol- 
 J,owing winter and spring he took a post-gradu- 
 ate course in the New York Ophthalmic 
 Hospital and College, graduating in 1873. 
 He then returned to Taunton, and resumed 
 his practice there, making a specialty of treat- 
 ing diseases of the eye and ear. In the spring 
 of 1875 he removed to Brookline, becoming 
 the successor of Dr. Warren Sandford, who 
 had succeeded Dr. Wilde, the first physician 
 to practise homoeopathy in this vicinity. 
 During the three years preceding that of 
 1875 Dr. Cushing had served as assistant 
 surgeon to the Third Regiment of Militia, 
 having been appointed in 1872 by Governor 
 Washburn, and being the first of the new 
 school called to the service of the State. The 
 Doctor is the inventor .of the well-known 
 "Cushing Process" for purifying and refin- 
 ing distilled liquors. This process consists 
 of forcing through the liquors heated atmos- 
 pheric air, previously freed from living germs 
 by Professor Tyndall's method, thus thor- 
 oughly oxidizing the fusel-oil and eliminating 
 the poisons. This discovery, which was made 
 known to science in 1882, was the result of 
 Dr. Cushing's investigations, begun . some 
 years before, upon the effect of air upon spir- 
 ituous liquors. He has been examining sur- 
 geon for several benevolent organizations, and 
 he has reached a position of eminence in his 
 profession that has caused his services to be 
 sought from far and near. He is -a member 
 of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Society, 
 of the Boston Medical Society, and of the 
 Gyna;cological Society. In Masonry he is a 
 
 Master and a charter member of the lodge of 
 Brookline. He also belongs to the Royal 
 Arcanum ; and he is a comrade of the Brook- 
 line Grand Army Post, No. 143. 
 
 On October 27, 1874, Dr. Cushing was 
 united in marriage with Miss H. I-Llizabcth 
 Alden, of Bridgewater, Conn., daughter of 
 Klijah and Harriet (Bassett) Alden. Mrs. 
 Cushing's family has been known and honored 
 in Bridgewater for many years. She is a 
 direct descendant of John Alden, who came 
 from England in the " Mayflower," and landed 
 at Plymouth. The male line of descent comes 
 through Joseph, John, Joseph, and Ebenezer 
 Alden, the last-named being Mrs. Cushing's 
 grandfather. Elijah Alden, who was born 
 January 17, 1800, died at the age of seventy- 
 nine years. He was a skilled workman in 
 iron, his particular craft being the manufact- 
 ure of hand-made augers from pig-iron. His 
 wife, Harriet, a native of Bridgewater, be- 
 longed to an old and influential family. One 
 of a family of eight children, six of whom are 
 still living, she also had eight children, and 
 died at the age of seventy-one. Both she and 
 Elijah were Baptists, and the latter was a 
 Deacon in the society. Mrs. Cushing is a 
 lady of refinement, and in every way a fitting 
 helpmeet for her husband. She is the presi- 
 dent of the Ladies' Sewing Society, an aux- 
 iliary organization connected with the Baptist 
 church; and both she and Dr. Cushing are 
 members of the Baptist church. They have 
 three children, namely: Ira M., born August 
 26, 1875; Maude E., born December 27, 
 1877; and Arthur A., born January 17, 1881. 
 
 OSEPH W. WATTLES, a manufact 
 
 urer of Canton, was born in Chaplin, 
 Conn., in 1824, son of Andrew and 
 Margery (Sterry) Wattles. Andrew 
 Wattles was a native of Lebanon, Conn., 
 where he spent the most of his life. He was 
 a hatter by trade, which he carried on in the 
 different towns. In politics he was a Demo- 
 crat, and he was quite a prominent man in his 
 day. He married Margery D. Sterry, of Nor- 
 wich, Conn. ; and they had eleven children. 
 Of these three are living, namely: Joseph 
 W., the subject of this sketch; Benjamin, who
 
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 went to California in 1849; and Thomas B., 
 nmv of New Hamjishire. Andrew Wattles 
 died in Canton, at the home of his son Joseph, 
 after reaching the age of seventy-one years. 
 
 Josejih W. Wattles, the suhject of this 
 sketch, was educated in the common schools 
 of his native town. When fifteen years of 
 age he obtained employment in the cotton- 
 mills at Norwich, Conn., where he remained 
 for a period of six years. In 1846 he came to 
 Canton, Mass., where he was employed in the 
 Neponset Cotton Mill as foreman for thirty 
 years. In 1870 he started manufacturing cot- 
 ton goods at Neponset Cotton Factory, which 
 he sold out after ten years. He was then 
 connected with the cotton-mills of Pembroke, 
 N.H., for a number of years, and with the 
 mills at Newburyport, Mass., for three years. 
 He then returned to Canton, Mass. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican, and he was a Select- 
 man for three years. 
 
 Mr. Wattles married F"annie D. Marden, of 
 Newburyport. They had a family of four 
 children, namely: Ella F., now deceased; 
 Arthur S. , of Canton; Joseph W., Jr.; and 
 Margery S. Margery is tlie wife of Dr. Por- 
 ter. The family attend the Unitarian church. 
 
 RTHUR WALLACE POPE, a promi- 
 nent resident of Needham and senior 
 member of the well-known firm of 
 A. W. Pope & Co., High Street, 
 Boston, was born in Brookline, March 9, 
 1850. He is the third son of the late Charles 
 and Elizabeth (Bogman) Pope. Charles Pope 
 was born in Dorchester in 1814, was a. mer- 
 chant in Boston, though retired from active 
 business pursuits for some years before his 
 death in 1888. Mrs. Pope was daughter of 
 Captain James Bogman, and was born in Bos- 
 ton. She died in 1885. They were the 
 parents of eight children — four sons and four 
 daughters. Their oldest living son is Colonel 
 Albert A. Pope, president of the Pope Manu- 
 facturing Company. Two of their daughters 
 were physicians, though now retired from 
 practice. Arthur was educated in the public 
 schools of Brookline. While in his teens, he 
 became a clerk in the store of his brother, 
 .who was then in the wholesale shoe-finding 
 
 business on Pearl Street. In 1872 he was 
 admitted as junior partner of the firm, the 
 style being changed to Albert A. Pope & 
 Co. Si.x years later the senior partner re- 
 tired, in order to devote hi-s whole attention to 
 the Pope Manufacturing Company. For sev- 
 eral years the business was carried on by the 
 junior partners, later by A. W. Pope, under 
 the firm name of A. W. Pope & Co. The 
 house is now located at No. 45 High Street, 
 and does a large wholesale business in shoe 
 manufacturers' goods and leather. Mr. Pope 
 is vice-president of the Lincoln National Bank 
 in Boston, treasurer of the J. Alston Newhall 
 Company, wholesale leather dealers, and treas- 
 urer of the Shawmut Manufacturing Company 
 of Boston. He is also trustee of a large estate 
 in ]?oston, director in several trust companies 
 in New \'ork City, and director in three large 
 mercantile companies, of one of which he is 
 president. He is a member of the Boston 
 Merchants' Association, also of the Algon- 
 quin and of the -Commodore Clubs. He is 
 a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs to 
 Lucias Lodge of Boston. In politics he is 
 independent. 
 
 Mr. Pope was married in 1892 to Miss 
 Lilla M: Whittredge, daughter of Mr. Myron 
 Whittredge, of Lynn. They have two chil- 
 dren. Their summer home is in Needham, 
 close to the Wellesley town line, on the estate 
 known as the Ridge Hill Farms. 
 
 (^>r-UGUSTINE SHURTLEFF, M.D., a 
 /JA retired physician of Brookline, Mass., 
 yj|^\ residing on High Street, was born 
 — ' August 24, 1826, on Pemberton 
 Hill, Boston, a son of Dr. Samuel A. Shurt- 
 leff. He is closely connected with many of 
 the prominent families of early Colonial days 
 in Massachusetts. Among his ancestors were 
 eight of the passengers by the "Mayflower " in 
 1620; others by the "Fortune," which arrived 
 in 1621 ; and still others by the "Ann," 
 which came in 1623. Through his grand- 
 mother Shurtleff, whose maiden name was 
 Abigail Atwood, he traces his lineage to 
 Richard Warren, who was boin in Devonshire, 
 England, son of Christopher and Alice 
 (Webb) Warren.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Richard Warren came to Plymouth in the 
 "Mayflower" in 1620, and his wife Elizabeth 
 came in 1623 in the "Ann." They had five 
 daughters, one of whom, Mary, married Robert 
 Bartlett; their daughter, Mary Bartlett, mar- 
 ried Jonathan Moray; their daughter, Mary 
 Morey, married Nathaniel Atwood; their son, 
 Nathaniel Atwood, Jr., married Abigail 
 Shaw; their daughter Abigail (see above) 
 married Benjamin Shurtleff, Jr. ; their son, 
 Samuel Atwood Shurtleff, married Eliza 
 Carleton ; and their son Augustine is the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 Francis Cooke came in the "Mayflower." 
 His wife Hester came in the "Ann." He was 
 born in the parish of Blythe, 1577, in the 
 nineteenth year of the reign of Queen Eliza- 
 beth, and is the oldest authenticated ancestor 
 of Augustine Shurtleff. Jacob Cooke, the 
 son of Francis and Hester, married Damaris 
 Hopkins in 1646. She was the daughter of 
 Stephen Hopkins and his wife Elizabeth, and 
 parents and daughter came over in the " May- 
 flower." Martha Cooke, daughter of Jacob 
 and Damaris, married Elkanah Cushman, who 
 was the son of Elder Thomas Cushman and 
 his wife Mary Allerton, daughter of Isaac 
 Allerton. Mary Allerton came over with her 
 parents in the "Mayflower." She lived till 
 1699, and died at the age of ninety, being the 
 last survivor of the passengers by the "May- 
 flower." 
 
 Robert Cushman, the father of Elder 
 Thomas Cushman, came over in the " Fort- 
 une " in 1621, but returned to England, and 
 died there in 1626. He preached the first 
 printed sermon in New England. William 
 Shurtleff, the progenitor of all of the name in 
 America, came from Sheffield, in England, in 
 1634. The name was originally spelled Shier- 
 cliffe, and is spelled both ways to-day in 
 Sheffield. He married October 18, 1655, 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lettice. 
 William, as did his son Abie! after him, 
 became a considerable owner of real estate in 
 Plymouth, where they each in turn built a 
 number of houses. William was killed by 
 lightning, which struck the house where he 
 was visiting in Marshfield, June 23, 1666. 
 His son William, who was sitting on his 
 father's knee, escaped unhurt, living to be the 
 
 ancestor of many descendants. Abiel, his 
 younger brother, the great-great-grandfather 
 of Augustine, was born in June, shortly after 
 his father's death. He dwelt in Plymouth, 
 where he married January 14, 1695-96, 
 Lydia Barnes, and was the father of seven sons 
 and three daughters. He was a Selectman of 
 Plymouth, and held other offices. He spent 
 the last years of his life in that portion of 
 Plympton now Carver, and died there October 
 28, 1732, aged sixty-seven. Lydia, his wife, 
 died September )0, 1727, aged fifty-three. 
 Benjamin, son of Abiel, was born April 17, 
 1 710. He married March 25, 1745, Susanna 
 Cushman, daughter of Lieutenant Josiah Cush- 
 man, and grand - daughter of ]{lkanah (see 
 above). He was largely interested in iron 
 works, being part owner of the old Charlotte 
 P'urnace in Sampson's Pond in Plympton, of 
 which he was clerk and treasurer. He 
 lived on the old estate, which he inherited 
 from his father Abiel, and which he largely 
 added to from time to time, and which, with 
 its three hundred acres, now belongs to bis 
 great-grandson Augustine, the subject of this 
 sketch. Benjamin died November 23, 1788. 
 His son Benjamin, grandfather of Augustine, 
 was born October 14, 1748. He was a farmer 
 by occupation on the old place, which he in- 
 herited from his father, adding in his turn 
 fields and meadows; and, with the exception 
 of the time passed by him in militia service 
 at the siege of Boston under Washington, he 
 lived there all his life, dying July 8, 1821. 
 Benjamin married June 7, 1773, Abigail At- 
 wood (see before). She was born October 7, 
 1755, and died November 29, 1826. 
 
 Benjamin's son, Samuel Atwood Shurtleff, 
 was born and bred in Carver on the old place, 
 but in early manhood went to Boston to 
 study medicine with his elder brother, Dr. 
 Benjamin Shurtleff. In 1S15 he began the 
 practice of his profession in that city, remain- 
 ing there until 1838, when he removed to 
 Brookline, where he lived until his death in 
 1 87 1, aged nearly eighty-one years. He was 
 a successful physician, having enjoyed a large 
 and remunerative practice while in Boston, 
 which at the date of his removal had a popu- 
 lation of about eighty thousand. He- married 
 Eliza Carleton, who was born in Haverhill, t
 
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 5^9 
 
 Mass., in 1800. Her father, Jonathan Carle- 
 ton, removed to Boston in 1812, and was 
 thereafter engaged as an importer of sugar and 
 molasses and an exporter of hats and jjoots 
 until his death in 1832. He was one of the 
 original proprietors of Central Wharf, and 
 built one of the fifty-four stores, No. 5, in 
 1816, which still remains in the possession of 
 Augustine and his two sisters. Eight chil- 
 dren were born to Dr. Samuel A. and Eliza 
 Shurtleff, and, of these, four grew to mature 
 years, and three are now living, namely: 
 Augustine, the subject of this sketch; Helen, 
 wife of Dr. T. E. Francis, the oldest active 
 practitioner of Ikookline; and Isabella, wife 
 of David H. Conlidge, of Boston, a member of 
 the Suffolk Bar. One son, Carleton Atwood, 
 a graduate of Harvard College, served in the 
 regular army as medical cadet in the late 
 Rebellion, and died from disease contracted at 
 the siege of Vicksburg in 1864, aged twenty- 
 four years. The mother died in 1878. Both 
 she and her husband were at one time con- 
 nected with the Baptist church in Boston of 
 which Dr. Baldwin was the pastor, but were 
 afterward members of the Swedenborgian 
 church, which stood in Phillips Place, oppo- 
 site King's Chapel on Tremont Street. The 
 father was for a while assistant surgeon of the 
 State militia, and was at one time vice-presi- 
 dent of the State Horticultural Society, in 
 which he always felt a deep interest. His 
 house was opposite the head of Hanover Street, 
 on what is now called Scollay Square, then 
 known as Pemberton Hill; and his garden, 
 filled with fruit-trees and grape-vines, ex- 
 tended up to where the new court-house stands 
 on Pemberton Square. 
 
 Jonathan Carleton, the maternal grandfather 
 of Augustine Shurtleff, was a son of Elijah 
 and Rebekah (Webster) Carleton. He traced 
 his lineage to Edward Carleton, Esq. (from 
 the Carletons of Chertsey, Surrey, England), 
 who came over and settled in Rowley, Mass., 
 in 1638, and was appointed Judge in 1647. 
 He returned to England some time earlier 
 than 1656. His wife was Eleanor, daughter 
 of Sir Thomas Denton. They had two sons 
 and two daughters. John, theelderson, "Lieu- 
 tenant Carleton," was born in England in 
 1630, and died in Massachusetts, 1668. He 
 
 moved from Rowley to Haverhill, where he 
 was Selectman and Town Clerk. He married 
 Hannah, daughter of Joseph Jewett, Esq., of 
 Rowley. They had four sons. Edward, the 
 third son, was born in Haverhill, March 22, 
 1664. He married Elizabeth Kimball, and 
 had seven sons and four daughters. He was 
 killed by an Indian in 1711. Ebenezer, sixth 
 son of Edward and Elizabeth, was born in 
 1705 or 1706. He moved to Methuen and mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Saunders. He died in 1761. 
 Elijah, son of Ebenezer and Iillizabeth, was 
 born October 20, 1746, and died June 14, 
 1816. He married Rebekah Webster, July 
 31, 1770. His name appears with rank of 
 Corporal on the Lexington alarm-roll of Cap- 
 tain James Jones's company of minute-men, 
 which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, 
 from Methuen to Concord. 
 
 Jonathan Carleton, their son, married Han- 
 nah Sawyer, daughter of Amos and Hannah 
 Sawyer, of Beverly, Mass., a grand-daughter of 
 Nathaniel, Jr., and Tryphena (Haseltine) 
 Duston, great-grand-daughter of Nathaniel, 
 Sr. , and Mary (Ayer) Duston, and great-great- 
 grand-daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Emer- 
 son) Duston. The latter mentioned maternal 
 ancestor, Hannah Duston, daughter of Michael 
 and Hannah (Webster) Emerson, was born in 
 1657, in Haverhill, Mass., and in 1697, being 
 the wife of Thomas Duston, was captured by 
 the Indians. After seeing her week-old babe 
 killed, she was forced to march to the Indian 
 camp near the present site of the city of Con- 
 cord, N. H. There, learning that she and 
 the other captives were to be killed on reach- 
 ing their destination in Canada, she quietly 
 arose in the night, and, with the aid of her 
 nurse, Mary Neff, and a young boy, killed ten 
 of the sleeping Indians, and made her escape 
 to the Merrimac River, where they unloosed a 
 canoe, and soon after rejoined her astonished 
 family in Haverhill, iter brave act is re- 
 corded in history, and her name occupies an 
 honored position in the list of America's 
 heroic women. 
 
 Augustine Shurtleff attended private schools 
 in Boston until eleven years old, when he 
 came with his parents to Brookline. He was 
 fitted for college by a private tutor, and in 
 1842 entered Brown University, where he was
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 graduated in 1846. After pursuing the study 
 of medicine three years at the Medical School 
 of Harvard University, where he received his 
 diploma in I.S49, and subsequently, for nearly 
 two years, following the hospitals in Paris and 
 London, he began active practice in Essex 
 Street, Boston, where he remained about one 
 year. In 1852 he removed his office to Brook- 
 line, and since that time has here made his 
 home. The old stone house that his father 
 owned on Boylston Street, and which was the 
 family homestead for forty-three years, is still 
 standing; but in 1881, shortly after the death 
 of his mother, Augustine erected and removed 
 to his present dwelling on the corner of High 
 and Allerton Streets. 
 
 Dr. Shurtleff is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society, of the Massachusetts 
 Medical Benevolent Society, of the Norfolk 
 County District Medical Society, of the Bos- 
 ton Natural History Society, and for a quarter 
 of a century was a member of the Union Club. 
 Since 1869 he has been one of the trustees of 
 the Brookline Public Library. 
 
 '^AMUEL E. GUILD, a representative 
 of one of the oldest and most re- 
 spected families of Walpole, Mass., 
 was born in this town, at the North 
 lind, April 20, 1835, a son of Samuel Guild. 
 The family is of Scotch extraction, three of 
 its members — John, Samuel, and Ann — hav- 
 ing come from Scotland to America in 1636, 
 the same year locating in Dedham, Norfolk 
 County, where the descendants of the ancestor 
 of this branch of the Guild family lived for 
 some years, Samuel E. Guild being of the 
 seventh generation in Massachusetts. John 
 Guild, the great-great-grandfather of Samuel 
 E., became a pioneer of Walpole, and here 
 brought up his son Samuel, the ne.xt in line 
 of descent ; and here Aaron Guild, son of 
 Samuel and grandfather of Samuel E., spent 
 his years, being an industrious and esteemed 
 member of the farming community. 
 
 Samuel Guild succeeded to the occupation 
 of his forefathers, and, having inherited fine 
 physical powers and the habits of temperance 
 in all things that characterized the former 
 generations, attained a ripe old age, dying on 
 
 his homestead farm in 1892, aged eighty-six 
 years. To him and his wife, whose maiden 
 name was Orra Fisher, six children were 
 born, namely: Orra E., who died in i860; 
 Samuel E. , the special subject of this briet 
 biographical record; Mary J., living in Ja- 
 maica Plain, the widow of the late George H. 
 Ware; William F., of Medfield, Mass. ; Fred- 
 erick, of Walpole; and Julius, of whom a 
 sketch may be found on another page of this 
 volume. 
 
 Samuel E. Guild attended the district 
 schools until nearly seventeen years old, ob- 
 taining a practical knowledge of the studies 
 there pursued. Being possessed of some me- 
 chanical ingenuity and skill, he then began 
 the development of his natural talents by 
 learning the machinist's trade, at which he 
 worked until 1864. Enlisting that year in de- 
 fence of the Union, he became acting third as- 
 sistant engineer in the United States Navy, 
 and remained in service until the cessation of 
 hostilities. On returning home, Mr. Guild 
 resumed work at the machinist's bench, and 
 has since followed his chosen vocation with 
 great success. Politically, he is a zealous 
 supporter of the principles of the Republican 
 party, in which he is an active worker, for 
 three years having been chairman of the Re- 
 publican Town Committee. 
 
 Mr. Guild was married April 7, 1859, to 
 Miss Jane Earl, who was born in Hollis, Me., 
 a daughter of Winthrop Earl. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Guild have one daughter — Alice Maria, wife 
 of James B. Lewis, of this town. Frater- 
 nally, Mr. Guild belongs to the E. B. Piper 
 Post, No. 157, G. A. R. , of which he is the 
 present Commander; and he is a member, and 
 for the past year has been Master, of the 
 A. O. U. W. F'or a quarter of a century be 
 has faithfully served as Deacon of the Second 
 Congregational Church, and has been superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday-school. 
 
 HARLES H. BELCHER, a success- 
 ful merchant of Randolph and a vet- 
 eran of the Civil War, was born in 
 this town, April 25, 1841. He is 
 a son of Charles and Hannah (Spear) Belcher, 
 both of whom were natives of Randolph, the
 
 SAMUEL E, GUILD.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 593 
 
 father being a carpenter by trade. ^The pater- 
 nal grandfather, l^phraini Belcher, was a life- 
 long resident of this town; and the family has 
 long been a prominent one in Randolph and 
 the vicinity. Three of the children of Charles 
 and Hannah (Spear) Belcher survive, namely : 
 Mary ¥., now Mrs. Henry Nichols; Flor- 
 ence A., now Mrs. Daniel B. White — both of 
 whom are residents of this town; and Charles 
 H., the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Charles H. Belcher was educated at the 
 Stetson High School and at Pierce's Academy 
 in Middleboro. At the breaking out of the 
 Civil War he enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany D, Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteers, and served under General Banks in 
 the Department of the Gulf, participating in 
 the battle of Franklin and siege of Port Hud- 
 son. In the last - named engagement Mr. 
 Belcher received a severe scalp wound, which 
 confined him to the hospital for some time. 
 Upon completing his term of service, he was 
 honorably discharged with the rank of Cor- 
 poral. After his return from the army he 
 went to Taunton, Mass., where he was em- 
 ployed as a clerk in a grocery store until 
 1S74. He then formed a partnership with 
 Daniel B. White, of this town, with whom he 
 was associated for some time, finally becoming 
 sole proprietor of the business. He carries 
 a large and varied stock of goods, including 
 groceries and other family necessaries, and is 
 numbered among the prosperous merchants of 
 Randolph. He is a comrade of Horace Niles 
 Post, No. no, G. A. R., and a member of 
 the Knights of Honor. In 1866 Mr. Belcher 
 married Eliza A. Williams, of Taunton, who 
 died, leaving one daughter — Clara W., now 
 Mrs. William B. ' Mason, of Brockton. In 
 1885 he married Emma Howe King, a native 
 of Randolph. Mr. and Mrs. Belcher are 
 members of the Congregational church. 
 
 ^AMUEL SUTTON, for many years 
 one of the most respected residents 
 of Needham, Mass., was born at 
 Alfreton, England, February 24, 
 On account of an accident that it was 
 thought would render him unable to do manual 
 labor, he was given a good education, becom- 
 
 1812. 
 
 ing very proficient in mathematics and pen- 
 manship. He recovered his physical powers, 
 however, and subsequently developed into 
 quite an athlete. He came to America in 
 1833, and settled in Boston, afterward remov- 
 ing to Brookline and later to Ro.\bury. He 
 was one of the pioneers of the hand loom knit- 
 ting business in this country, in which he 
 was very successful. In 1856 the Mechanics 
 Charitable Association awarded him a gold 
 medal for the superior quality of his hosiery, 
 and for many years thereafter goods bearing 
 his name commanded the highest market 
 prices. In 1868 he moved to Needham, and 
 added to his business the manufacture of yarn, 
 occupying the mill now known as the Union 
 Cyle P"actory, and also several smaller estab- 
 lishments in other parts of the town. The 
 business was to be still further enlarged and 
 made into a stock company, with a capital of 
 one hundred thousand dollars, the majority of 
 which was subscribed, when the Boston fire 
 in November, 1872, swept away the accumula- 
 tion of years. 
 
 During the last twenty years of his life Mr. 
 Sutton resided at "The Farm," living a 
 quiet although an active and industrious life. 
 After the death of his wife, in 1886, his two 
 youngest daughters kept house for him, antici- 
 pating his every need. Domestic in his 
 tastes, he loved his children with the devotion 
 of a true father, and realized the truth ex- 
 pressed in David's psalms, "Children are an 
 heritage of the Lord; . . . happy is the man 
 that hath his quiver full of them." He died 
 June 6, 1897, aged eighty-five years, three 
 months, and fifteen days. He was twice mar- 
 ried, the last time in 1846, to a beautiful and 
 accomplished lady, Ann, daughter of Joseph 
 Hills, of Boston. This union was blessed with 
 eleven children, eight of whom survive, who, 
 with their wives, children, and grandchildren, 
 number all together thirty-four persons. 
 
 The surviving children of Samuel Sutton 
 are: George Hills Sutton, a resident of New 
 York City, president of the Lenox Republican 
 Club and member of the Board of Super- 
 visors of Public Schools; Thomas Sutton, of 
 whom a special mention is made elsewhere in 
 this sketch; Frederick D. Sutton, a carpenter 
 of Needham and Master of Norfolk Lodge,
 
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 A. F. & A. M., in this town; Eliza A., now 
 Mrs. Thomas J. Grossman, and a resident of 
 Needham; Samuel F. Sutton, of Yonkers, 
 N.Y. , a salesman of hosiery in the West and 
 South; Mary M. Sutton, who resides in Need- 
 ham, and is a school teacher in the public 
 schools of this town; Charles H. Sutton, a 
 farmer of Needham ; and Emma L. Sutton, 
 who resides in Needham, and is employed in 
 Boston as a stenographer. 
 
 In politics Mr. Sutton was a Republican. 
 He cast his first vote for William Henry 
 Harrison, and voted at every election from 
 that time until his death. He kept well 
 abreast with the times, and was a close stu- 
 dent of the political and economical problems 
 affecting the welfare of the United States. 
 Although never holding a town office, he was 
 much interested in local affairs, and seldom 
 failed to attend a town meeting. He was de- 
 cidedly musical in his tastes, and was a prom- 
 inent figure in Brookline musical circles for 
 many years. A singer of no small ability, 
 his happiness seemed never so complete as 
 when a difficult anthem or chant had been suc- 
 cessfully rendered. 
 
 Thomas Sutton, son of .Samuel and Ann 
 (Hills) Sutton, was born in Roxbury, Mass., 
 in 1850. He is one of the prominent busi- 
 ness men of Needham, where he is engaged in 
 the provision business. He is quite active in 
 town affairs, having served as Auditor, Select- 
 man and trustee of the public library, and is 
 at the present time Town Clerk. He was 
 married February 22, 1873, to Margarette A., 
 daughter of John H. Minchin, of Braintree, 
 Mass., a descendant of John Alden. They 
 have one daughter, Clarissa May. 
 
 -ONATHAN R. PACKARD, of the 
 H. A. Lothrop Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, Sharon, was born in North Eas- 
 ton, Mass., January 3, 1828, son of 
 Tillson and Millie (Randall) Packard. He is 
 a descendant in-the sixth generation of Samuel 
 Packard, who came from England in the "Dil- 
 igent " in 1638, and settled at Hingham, 
 whence he removed to Bridgewater. His son 
 Zacheus, baptized at Hingham in 165 r, mar- 
 ried Sarah Howard. Their son, Abiel, who 
 
 was born April 22, 1700, married Sarah Wash- 
 burn Ames, of West Bridgewater, Mass., Jan- 
 uary II, 1722; and he died in 1776. Timothy 
 Packard, of North Bridgewater, son of Abiel 
 and great-grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in 1735, and became a pros- 
 perous farmer. He married Miss Sarah 
 Alden, of Bridgewater, a direct descendant of 
 John Alden, of the Plymouth Colony. Their 
 son, Calvin Packard, grandfather of Jonathan 
 R., was born in 1762; and the greater part of 
 his life was spent upon a farm in Easton, 
 Mass., where he died in 1823. The maiden 
 name of his wife was Betsey Dunbar. She 
 was a daughter of Peter and Relief (Curtis) 
 Dunbar, of Easton. 
 
 Tillson Packard, son of Calvin and Betsey 
 (Dunbar) Packard, was born in North Easton 
 in 1792. He followed agricultural pursuits, 
 giving his undivided attention to the cultiva- 
 tion of his farm during the active period of his 
 life, which terminated December 16, 1847. 
 His wife Millie, who was a native of North 
 Easton, and a direct descendant of Thomas 
 Randall, one of the first settlers of Easton, 
 bore him three children, namely: Jonathan 
 R., the subject of this sketch; Louisa; and 
 Dexter. Louisa married John F. Long, a 
 merchant of Sharon, and became the mother of 
 two sons — P"rank P. and Fred D. Her hus- 
 band died in 1884, and she died in 1888. 
 Dexter Packard, who was born August 28, 
 1834, was connected with the H. A. Lothrop 
 Company until his death, which occurred Oc- 
 tober 28, 1896. He was for many years iden- 
 tified with public affairs in Sharon, serving as 
 a Selectman and in other offices; and in poli- 
 tics he was a Republican. He is survived by 
 his wife, who was before marriage a Miss 
 Phinney, and three children, namely: Alvin 
 Dexter, connected with the cutlery works in 
 Sharon; Warren S., cashier of Mount Vernon 
 National Bank, of Mount Vernon, Washing- 
 ton ; and Loring Bradford, who is now a stu- 
 dent at Yale College. Mrs. Millie Randall 
 Packard died in 1882, aged eighty-two years. 
 
 Jonathan R. Packard attended school until 
 he was fifteen years old, when he began to 
 learn the cutler's trade with John Ames in 
 North Easton, continuing for some time to go 
 to school in the winter months. He remained
 
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 59S 
 
 there until 1847, and after the death of Mr. 
 Ames he aeconipanicd his late emjjloyer's 
 widow to Sliaron, where, with liis assistance, 
 she established the present factory. The 
 business was managed by him and his brother 
 De.\ter until 1848. In that year was founded 
 the firm of H. A. Lothrop & Co., and later 
 was formed the corporation known as the 
 H. A. Lothrop Manufacturing Company. 
 This concern produces butcher, shoe, and 
 bread knives for both the domestic and export 
 trade, and employs an average of from forty- 
 five to fifty workmen. 
 
 In 1 861 Mr. Packard was joined in marriage 
 with Madeline Holmes, daughter of the late 
 Otis and Mira Holmes, of Providence, K.I., 
 Mr. and Mrs. Packard have four children, 
 namely: Channing R., born January 22, 1862; 
 Marshall B., born September 25, 1863; Mil- 
 dred L. , born April 12, 1874; and Susan A., 
 born May 29, 1877. Channing R. Packard 
 has charge of the office and shipping de- 
 partment of the cutlery factory. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Independent Order of Odd P'ellows 
 in Boston, and the Improved Order of Red 
 Men in Canton. Marshall B. is also employed 
 in the factory. Mildred L. is the wife of 
 John VV. L. Cram, of Newtonville, Mass. 
 Susan A. Packard is residing at home with 
 her parents. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Packard is a Republican, 
 but has never sought or held public office. 
 His long business career has been attended 
 with gratifying success, and he is highly es- 
 teemed both in business and social circles. 
 
 jDWARD E. WENTWORTH, Deputy 
 Sheriff of Norfolk County, whose home 
 is in Cohasset, was born in Water- 
 ville, Me., July 27, 1845. Son of the late 
 William Wentworth and his wife, Nancy 
 Kidder Wentworth, both of English ancestry, 
 he is a lineal descendant in the eighth genera- 
 tion of William Wentworth, who came to 
 New England about 1637, was an early settler 
 at. Exeter, N. H., lived at Wells, Me., 1642 
 -49, and removed thence to Dover, N.H., 
 where he served as Selectman, and held the 
 office of Ruling Elder in the church more 
 than forty years. 
 
 His fourth son, Ezekiel,^ was the father of 
 John,' whose son, Ezekiel,'' was the father oi 
 Samuel^ and grandfather of Timothy,'' who 
 married Abigail Black, the daughter of a Rev- 
 olutionary soldier. (.See Wentworth Gene- 
 alogy, an elaborate and interesting work in 
 three volumes.) 
 
 William Wentworth, son of Timothy ami 
 Abigail, was born in Lewiston, Me. He was 
 a millwright, and followed his trade in his na- 
 tive State and in Massachusetts, making his 
 home during the last twenty years of his life 
 in Cambridge, Mass. He died March 21, 
 1892. His wife, who was a native of Water- 
 ville. Me., now resides at North .Scituate, 
 Mass. 
 
 Edward E. Wentworth was educated in the 
 public schools of his native town. On De- 
 cember 15, 1861, in his seventeenth year, he 
 enlisted in Company Y, Seventh Regiment, 
 Maine Volunteer Infantry; and, joining the 
 Army of the Potomac, he participated in Mc- 
 Clellan's Peninsular Campaign, taking part in 
 the siege of Yorktown and the battles of Fair 
 Oaks, Malvern Hill, and Antietam. He was 
 afterward transferred to the Army of the 
 South-west, and was in Nashville at the time 
 that city was besieged. In the Army of the 
 Potomac Mr. Wentworth served as a private 
 for eighteen months, and in the Army of the 
 South-west he was post quartermaster's clerk 
 for twenty-one months. Honorably dis- 
 charged in the spring of 1865, he returned to 
 Lewiston, where his parents were living; and 
 he subsequently spent a year recuperating at 
 the headwaters of the west branch of the Pe- 
 nobscot, his health having been undermined 
 by the hardships of army life. When he had 
 fully recovered, he went to Indianapolis to 
 learn the trade of carriage-building. He was 
 in the employ of one firm for several years, 
 and became familiar with all the branches of 
 the work. Returning to New England, he 
 started in business as a carriage manufacturer 
 in Derry, N.H. 
 
 Early in the seventies, having closed up his 
 business in Derry, he removed to Cohasset, 
 and entered the employ of Charles F. Tilden, 
 for whom he worked as a journeyman for a 
 number of years. He then began to manu- 
 facture carriages on his own account in North
 
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 Scituate, and was in control of a fairly pros- 
 perous business until 1896, when he retired. 
 During all this time his home was in Cohas- 
 set, where he served as Constable for twenty- 
 two successive years. In 1895 he was ap- 
 pointed Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County; 
 and on the second day of November last, 
 1897, he was elected, on the Republican 
 ticket, Representative to the General Court 
 from Cohasset, Hingham, and Hull. 
 
 In 1874 he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Mary H. Nickerson, sister of George K. 
 Nickerson, a prominent citizen of Cohasset. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth have one daughter, 
 Abbie E., who is the wife of J. Murray Cann, 
 of Yarmouth, N.S. Mr. Wentworth is a 
 member of Henry Bryant Post, No. 98, 
 G. A. R. , of Cohasset, and was Commander 
 of the post for seven years. He is a member 
 of Konohasset Lodge, F. & A. M., of this 
 town ; and Past Grand of Cohasset Lodge, 
 No. 192, I. O. O. F. He is widely known 
 and highly esteemed. 
 
 KRANCIS BAYLIES RAY, late of 
 F"ranklin, Mass., son of Joseph and 
 Lydia (Paine) Ray, was born in South 
 Mendon, now East Blackstone, Mass., May 
 15, 1823, and died November 29, 1892. His 
 father was for many years a manufacturer of 
 mill machinery at East Blackstone, and was a 
 Colonel in the State militia; and his mother 
 was a native of Smithfield, R.I. Joseph Ray 
 came to Franklin with his family in 1839, and 
 settled in the village of Unionville, where he 
 resided until his death in 1847. He had 
 three sons who grew to manhood, namely: 
 James P. ; Francis B., the subject of this 
 sketch; and Joseph G. — all extensive and 
 well-known manufacturers in cotton and 
 woollen lines. 
 
 Francis B., having received his education 
 in the public schools, started in the wool and 
 cotton trade at eighteen years of age, and in 
 the course of his career was a large manufact- 
 urer of satinets and ieltings and dealer in 
 woollen stock, owning or being connected in 
 the proprietorship of factories in Franklin, 
 Norfolk, Caryville, South Milford, Blackstone, 
 and Millbury in Massachusetts, and Stafford 
 
 Springs in Connecticut. He was fond of 
 farming, and was one of the earliest citizens 
 in Massachusetts to become interested in 
 Jersey cattle. He was also an excellent 
 judge of and always owned fine horses. Of 
 an active and cheerful temperament, he be- 
 came very prominent in his residential town, 
 holding at different times several town offices, 
 and serving as a Representative in the State 
 legislature of 1865. He belonged to the 
 Franklin Lodge of Masons. In politics he 
 was a Republican. He was a generous and 
 public-spirited man, and did a great deal 
 toward building up and improving the com- 
 munity. He was an earnest member of the 
 First Congregational Church of Franklin, and 
 one of the committee to build the beautiful 
 church edifice that was erected in 1872 and 
 was burned in 1893. Mr. Ray married Susan 
 Bailey Rockwood, who was born in Franklin, 
 March 17, 1824, being the daughter of Asa 
 Rockwood, a well-known general storekeeper, 
 and Julia Thurston. Mr. and Mrs. Ray had 
 but one child, William Francis Ray, born 
 March 2, 1854. He married Harriet P. 
 Richardson, of Chelsea, Mass., and is now 
 living in Franklin, engaged in woollen manu- 
 facture. A graduate of Brown University in 
 1874, he is an active business man, and has 
 been State Representative and Senator, each 
 for two years. Mrs. Susan B. Ray lives in 
 the old homestead dwelling at Unionville, on 
 the farm which her husband so much im- 
 proved. 
 
 ILLIAM B. CROCKER, a promi- 
 nent and prosperous dry-goods mer- 
 chant of Foxboro, was born October 
 I, 1836, in Sandwich, Barnstable County. A 
 son of Nathan N. Crocker, he is a descendant 
 of an early settler of Cape Cod. His paternal 
 grandfather. Prince Crocker, was a lifelong 
 resident of the Cape, where he was engaged 
 in farming, and died at the venerable age of 
 ninety-two years. 
 
 Nathan N. Crocker, vvho was born and 
 brought up in Barnstable, Mass., after attain- 
 ing his majority settled in the neighboring 
 town of Sandwich as a merchant, and was for 
 many years its leading storekeeper. He mar-
 
 WILLIAM B. CROCKER.
 
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 599 
 
 ried Miss Harriet E. Boyden, a daughter of 
 Jesse Boyden, of Walpole, and with her 
 reared four children. These were: N. Henry, 
 of Brookline, Mass., who married Cornelia 
 Lincoln, and has four children — Harry H., 
 Lincoln, Richard, and John; Ariel B., who 
 married Anne Lincoln, and died January 12, 
 1892, leaving four children — Marian, Edith, 
 William, and Albert; William B., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch; and Harriet M., who is 
 unmarried. 
 
 William B. Crocker was bred and educated 
 in Sandwich. He obtained his first knowl- 
 edge of business at the general store of Brett 
 & Kingman in Brockton, where he remained 
 three years as a clerk. At the age of twenty 
 years he came to Foxboro, and during the fol- 
 lowing three years was a clerk in the dry- 
 goods store of George T. Ryder & Co. In 
 1 86 1 he embarked in business for himself at 
 the stand he now occupies, entering into part- 
 nership with his former employer, under the 
 firm name of Ryder & Crocker. A new mem- 
 ber was subsequently added to the firm, a Mr. 
 Shepard; and after a time the senior member 
 was bought out. On the death of Mr. Shep- 
 ard, in February, 1885, Mr. Crocker pur- 
 chased the interest of his heirs in the busi- 
 ness, which he managed for a time alone. 
 He has recently admitted John W. Richard- 
 son into copartnership, and a large and lucra- 
 tive business is now carried on under the 
 name of W. B. Crocker & Co. 
 
 Mr. Crocker has been three times married. 
 His first wife, whose maiden name was Laura 
 A. Carpenter, died, leaving no children. His 
 second marriage was contracted with Miss 
 Emma (Leonard) Wheaton, of Fo.xboro, 
 Mass., who also died childless. He next 
 married Miss Margaret E. Littlefield, who 
 was born in Zanesville, Ohio, daughter of 
 Mrs. Olive B. Spear by her first husband, Jo- 
 seph Littlefield. Mr. Crocker is a steadfast 
 Republican in politics, has always taken an 
 active interest in local affairs, and served the 
 community in. the capacity of -Selectman. He 
 is the treasurer of the Foxboro Cemetery 
 Company, and he has been the treasurer of the 
 Water Works Company since its organization. 
 In the Masonic fraternity he is a Past Master 
 and a Past High Priest of Keystone Chapter; 
 
 the treasurer of St. Alban's Lodge; the treas- 
 urer of Keystone Chapter; and Worthy Pa- 
 tron of the Order of the Eastern Star since 
 its organization. A man of recognized finan- 
 cial ability, he is serving most acceptably as 
 vice-president of tiie I'oxboro Co-operative 
 l^ank and as president of the I'^oxboro Savings 
 Bank. In i860 he cast his first Presidential 
 ballot for Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 LLIS THAYER NORCROSS, a re- 
 tired farmer of Bellingham, Mass., re- 
 siding near South Milford, the son 
 of Silas T. and Sallie (Hixson) Norcross, was 
 born in Bellingham, March 24, 1823. 
 
 The Norcross family is of English colonial 
 stock that has long been rooted in American 
 soil. Jeremiah Norcross, the immigrant pro- 
 genitor, settled at Watertown, this State, as 
 early as 1642. Bond in his History speaks 
 of him as a large proprietor, and as Selectman 
 in 1649. Sons Nathaniel and Richard are 
 mentioned in his will; also Anna, daughter of 
 a brother supposed to have been John Nor- 
 cross, of whom no more is heard. 
 
 Asa Norcross, great-grandfather of Mr. 
 Ellis T. Noi cross, removed from Watertown 
 to Hopkinton, Mass. ; and his son, Asa, Jr., 
 who was a farmer and a man of quiet tastes 
 and industrious habits, settled in Franklin, 
 Mass. He was a member of the Congrega- 
 tional church and a great church worker. 
 Asa Norcross, Jr., married Sylvia Thayer, of 
 Bellingham, and had three children — Silas 
 Thayer, Asa G., and Sylvia. Asa G. Nor- 
 cross married Irene Fisher. Both he and his 
 wife are now deceased. Sylvia Norcross died 
 at the age of sixteen. Silas Thayer Norcross, 
 father of the subject of our sketch, was born 
 in 1800. He died at the age of twenty-eight 
 years, in 1828; and his wife, whose maiden 
 name was Sallie Hixson, died at the same age, 
 in 1829. They had three children — Ellis 
 Thayer, Sylvia, and Sarah. Both of the girls 
 died in childhood. 
 
 Ellis T. Norcross, the only son and now the 
 sole survivor of his father's family, was left an 
 orph^yi at the age of six years. He was 
 brought up by his uncle, Silas Hixson, of 
 Bellingham, where he stayed until he was
 
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 twenty yenrs of age, when he started out for 
 himself. He first settled on a small farm near 
 where he now lives; but in 1S65 he bought 
 his present place of about twelve acres, be- 
 sides some outlying lots. He was for some 
 time engaged in making boots, and also as 
 a band leader; but his later working years 
 were devoted wholly to his farm. He has now 
 retired from active pursuits, and lives very 
 quietly at his pleasant home. In politics Mr. 
 Norcross is a stanch Republican. He has 
 held the office of Highway Surveyor, Over- 
 seer of the Poor, and has also served on the 
 School Committee. 
 
 He was married in 1845 to Ellen E., a 
 daughter of Samuel and Polly (Moore) Hawes, 
 of Cumberland, R.I. Three children were 
 the fruit of this union, namely: Emma P., 
 who married R. C. Metcalf, and is now living 
 in Lynn, Mass. ; Ellen Jeannette, who died 
 in 1864; and Eva Eliza, who married Lewis 
 Aldrich, and is living in Milford, Mass. 
 Mrs. Ellen E. Norcross died in June, 1893; 
 and Mr. Norcross was married a second time, 
 October 18, 1895, to Clarissa, daughter of 
 Amos and Clarissa (Hill) Partridge, of I-iel- 
 lingham. 
 
 ACA;/ILBUR HOWARD POWERS, 
 counsellor-at-law of Boston and 
 Hyde Park, was born in Croydon, 
 N. H., January 22, 1849, son of Elias and 
 Emeline (White) Powers. 
 
 His great-grandfather, Ezekiel Powers, was 
 one of the pioneers of Croydon, going there 
 first in 1766 through the trackless forest from 
 Massachusetts with three other explorers to 
 make preparations for a settlement, for which 
 a charter had been granted in 1763, signed by 
 Governor Benning Wentworth. Families 
 were removed thither and homes established in 
 1767. The story is told that at one stage of 
 their journey they were delayed some time in 
 building a raft with which to cross the river, 
 and while doing this they deposited the char- 
 ter, which they had brought with them, in a 
 hollow tree for safe keeping. When at length 
 they had reached the other side, and the log 
 raft had been swept away by the force of the 
 current, they discovered that the charter had 
 
 been left behind. A pistareen was offered to 
 the one who should boldly swim the stream 
 and return with the precious document, and 
 the prize was won by the pioneer ancestor of 
 the Powers family. 
 
 Ezekiel Powers was a man of resources and 
 mechanical skill; and by his world-celebrated 
 inventions, the sap-pan and the side-hill 
 plough, he was made rich and successful. He 
 fought in the war of the Revolution, and was 
 present at the surrender of Rurgoyne. He 
 died at his home in Croydon, at the age of 
 sixty-three. The maiden name of his wife 
 was Hannah Hall. They had several chil- 
 dren. Major Powers, grandfather of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, served through the War of 
 1812. He died at the age of seventy years. 
 His wife, Hanna Melendy Powers, who bore 
 him five children, died at fifty years of age. 
 
 Elias Powers was born in Croydon, and dur- 
 ing his school days he lived upon the home 
 farm. He became a civil engineer, and sur- 
 veyed the whole county. Being possessed of 
 large general information, he was the oracle of 
 the neighborhood. He was highly esteemed, 
 and was honored with election to various posi- 
 tions of responsibility and trust, as that of 
 County Commissioner and Selectman. He 
 took great interest in public affairs, was an 
 original Free Soiler and always a strong par- 
 tisan. He married Miss White, daughter of 
 Captain James White. Her father was born in 
 Newport, N.H., and was formerly a Captain of 
 the militia there. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Powers 
 had five children, namely: Albina H., ma- 
 chinist and a fish commissioner of New 
 Hampshire, who died at the age of fifty-five 
 years; Myra A., who married S. H. Bickford 
 of Fitchburg; Abijah, a farmer of Croydon, 
 residing at the old homestead; Elias F., who 
 was a Sergeant-major of Company I, Four- 
 teenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, 
 during the late Civil War, and died of pneu- 
 monia at the age of nineteen; and Wilbur 
 Howard. The mother died at the age of 
 eighty-four. The father died in the eighty- 
 third year of his age. 
 
 Wilbur H. Powers spent his early years on 
 his father's farm. He fitted for college at 
 Kimball Academy, where he was graduated in 
 1871 ; and four years later he finished his course
 
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 6ot 
 
 at Dartmouth. He at once began the study of 
 law, and after graduating from the Boston l.aw 
 School was admitted to the bar in 1878. He 
 has since continued the practice of his profes- 
 sion in the city of Boston. He was at one 
 time associated with W. B. Tanner, Attorney- 
 General of the State of Rhode Island. 
 
 He married Emily, daughter of I<"rederick 
 L. Owen, a farmer of Hanover, N.II. Mr. 
 and Mrs. flowers have two children — Walter 
 and Myra. Since 1881 the family have re- 
 sided at Hyde Park. 
 
 Mr. Powers is a Republican in politics, was 
 Representative to the legislature during iSgo, 
 1 89 1, and 1892, and has been Town Solic- 
 itor for two years. He has been a member of 
 the Republican State Committee and is on the 
 Town Committee, of which he has been chair- 
 man; was chairman of the Executive State 
 Committee and Congressional Committees; 
 was presidential elector and secretary of the 
 Electoral College in 1897. As chairman of 
 the Park Commissioners of Hyde Park he 
 was active in advocating the taking of Stony 
 Brook Reservation for a public park. He is a 
 member of Hyde Park Lodge, E. & A. M. ; 
 of the Royal Arcanum and of the Order 
 of the Golden Cross, in which he has held all 
 the offices in turn, including that of Gen- 
 eral Counsel for the United States. He is 
 a Royal Goodfellow, and has been at the head 
 of the local lodge; and he was sent as repre- 
 sentative to the Grand Lodge. He has be- 
 longed to the Waverly Club for the past fifteen 
 years, was made president of the club in 1895, 
 and has held that office to the present time. 
 Airs. Powers is a member of the Congrega- 
 tional Church of Hyde Park. 
 
 /STTo 
 
 EORGE F. DEARBORN, Lieuten- 
 \ '•) I ant of Police in Brookline, was born 
 here, July 22, 1840, son of Isaac 
 Dearborn. His grandfather, John Dearborn, 
 was born and bred in England. In early 
 manhood John came to the United States, 
 settling in Massachusetts, where he spent his 
 last days, although for a few years he was a 
 resident of the Granite State. 
 
 Isaac Dearborn was born in New Hamp- 
 shire, and was brought up as a farmer's son. 
 
 When about sixteen years old he came to 
 Brookline, and for some years worked as a 
 farm laborer. Industrious and thrifty, he was 
 able in a few years to buy a farm in the part 
 of the town adjoining Brighton, where he was 
 afterward engaged in agriculture for forty or 
 more years. Selling that projjcrty then, he 
 has since lived retired from active business in 
 Allston. Now, though fourscore and four 
 years have passed over his head, he is compar- 
 atively hale and vigorous. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Susan Coolidge, was the 
 only daughter among the eight children of 
 Mr. and Mrs. David Coolidge, of Brookline. 
 She died at the age of forty-nine years, in 
 1863, leaving four children, namely: George 
 F. and Charles E. ; Laura F"., the wife of 
 Samuel Davenport; and Susan E., the widow 
 of the late Edward Leonard. Both parents 
 were members of the Baptist church, in 
 which the mother was for many years the 
 organist. 
 
 George F. Dearborn spent his early years 
 on the home farm. Having finished his 
 studies in the district school, he became a 
 clerk in the store of his uncle, at what is now 
 called Coolidge's Corner, remaining there 
 until the breaking out of the late Rebellion. 
 Then he enlisted for nine months in the 
 Eleventh Massachusetts Battery. On return- 
 ing to Brookline at the expiration of that 
 time, he resumed work in the store and on the 
 farm, continuing thus engaged until 1870. 
 During the following two years he served as 
 patrolman on the police force, and from 1872 
 until 1878 he was truant officer. In that year 
 he was made sergeant, and then one of the 
 mounted policemen. Afterward he served in 
 the capacity of probation officer until June, 
 1880. In May, 1891, he was appointed a 
 Lieutenant of Police, in which position he has 
 since served with distinction. He has seen 
 many important changes in the police depart- 
 ment of the town government since he entered 
 the service. The force, which now numbers 
 thirty-nine men, then numbered but eight 
 men, all told, and its equipment was of a 
 meagre character. 
 
 In politics Lieutenant Dearborn has been 
 identified with the Republican party since he 
 cast his first Presidential vote in i860 for
 
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 BIOGRAIMIICAL REVIEW 
 
 Abraham Lincoln. He takes a genuine inter- 
 est in the welfare of the town in which he has 
 spent the most of his life, and which since his 
 remembrance has increased its population 
 more than fourfold. He is an active member 
 of Beth-Horon Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; of 
 Lomia Lodge, L O. O. 1'".; and of the C. L. 
 Chandler Post, No. 145, G. A. R. He is also 
 treasurer of the Brookline Police Mutual Aid 
 Association. In November, 1874, Lieutenant 
 Dearborn married Arabella M. McGregor, who 
 was born in Nova Scotia, where her father, 
 James McGregor, was a tanner for many years. 
 She is a most agreeable woman to meet and 
 a member of the P^piscopal church. 
 
 —♦-•■••-♦— 
 
 RNOLD ALLEN JENCKES, of 
 Franklin, Norfolk County, Mass., 
 who has an honorable record as a 
 soldier in the late war for the 
 Union, in which he served nearly three full 
 years, at first as a private and later as Ser- 
 geant, and who has since been a patient suf- 
 ferer from injuries received on Southern battle- 
 fields, is of Rhode Island parentage, birth, 
 and breeding, a native of Cumberland, Provi- 
 dence County, and is connected by ties of 
 blood and marriage with not a few of the old 
 families of that State. 
 
 He is a lineal descendant of Daniel Jenckes, 
 who married Catherine Balcom, and was the 
 first bearing this surname to settle at Cumber- 
 land, R. I., where he built mills. Daniel 
 Jenckes was born in Lynn. Mass., in 1663, 
 youngest son of Joseph, Sr., by his second 
 wife, he having come to Lynn a widower in 
 1643. His eldest son, Joseph, Jr., whom he 
 left in P^ngland, came over a few years later, 
 was granted land at Warwick, R.I., in 1669, 
 and a few years later removed to Pawtucket. 
 He also married and left descendants. (See 
 New England Historic Genealogical Register, 
 vol. ix.) Arnold Jenckes, grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, was a native and life- 
 long resident of Cumberland, R.I., where he 
 held many positions of public trust. He was 
 a cooper by trade, and was an extensive 
 landed proprietor. His farm, which was a 
 mile and a half long and one mile wide, is 
 
 now occupied by his descendants, and known 
 as the Jenckes homestead. Arnold Jenckes 
 was a Free Mason. He married for his first 
 wife a daughter of Saul Peck and for his 
 second a Miss Ballou, who was a descendant 
 of original settlers of the Providence Planta- 
 tion. His children were: Joel P., Eliza, 
 Harriet, Arnold Allen (first), Lois, and J. 
 Lewis. 
 
 Joel P. remained at the homestead. He 
 married first Amelia Tallent, by whom he had 
 three children — ^ Alice, Maria, and F'rank; 
 and second, Mary Arnold, who survives him, 
 his death having occurred in 1883. Alice 
 married Almon Powers, of Attleboro, Mass., 
 a carpenter, who died in Pawtucket, R.I., leav- 
 ing her with three children. Maria married 
 Omar F. Currier, of Cumberland, and settled 
 at Pawtucket, where he is proprietor of a gen- 
 eral store. They have three children. Frank 
 Jenckes is a farmer on the old homestead. 
 His first wife, formerly Miss Whipple, died 
 soon after the birth of their one child, a son; 
 and he married again. 
 
 P^liza Jenckes married Lewis Ingalls, a 
 stone-cutter of Providence, R.I. About 1845 
 they removed to Augusta, Ga. They had four 
 children — Harriet, Adelaide, Stephen Ar- 
 nold, and Evelyn. Adelaide Ingalls married 
 a Mr. Averill, who was drafted into the Con- 
 federate army, was taken prisoner, sent North 
 and paroled, and became an editor of a New 
 York paper. Stephen A. Ingalls, who mar- 
 ried in Georgia, enlisted in the rebel army, 
 and was wounded at Fredericksburg. Evelyn 
 Ingalls married a Mr. Sykes, who also was a 
 rebel soldier. Lewis Ingalls, the father, was 
 drafted into the rebel army, and served as 
 guard at Andersonville until the close of the 
 war. 
 
 Harriet Jenckes married Lewis Scott, a 
 farmer of Cumberland, who served in a Rhode 
 Island battery during the war. They had 
 seven children; namely, Lois, Harriet Jane, 
 Oceanna, Walter Allen, Mary Emma, Evelyn, 
 and Edwin. Lois Scott, who 'married Wil- 
 lard Grant, of Cumberland, and after his death 
 married a Mr. Evans, is now dead, leaving no 
 children. Harriet Jane Scott married Henry 
 ICUis, of Cumberland, and is now a widow 
 with three children. Oceanna Scott married
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
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 Ferdinand Pierce, of Franklin, and lias had 
 two children, a boy and a girl. Walter Allen 
 Scott served during the Civil War in Com- 
 pany F, Twelfth Rhode Island Infantry. He 
 married Helen May Whipple, settled in Provi- 
 dence, R.I., and is a member of the firm of 
 J. B. Barnaby & Co., with which he has been 
 connected many years. He has had four chil- 
 dren — Walter, Willie, Gertrude, and Harold 
 — but has been bereft of one, Gertrude, who 
 died in September, 1897. Mary Emma Scott, 
 now Mrs. Cheatam, of Central Falls, R.I., 
 has one child. Evelyn and Edwin Scott are 
 both married and live in Pawtucket. Pklwin 
 is a fine musician, and belongs to the Ameri- 
 can Band. 
 
 Lois Jenckes died at the homestead in young 
 womanhood. 
 
 J. Lewis, who was a stone-cutter, died in 
 August, 1883. His widow, formerly Lucy 
 Darling, of Cumberland, now blind, is living 
 in Franklin with her only child, P^lizabeth, 
 the wife of Addison Blake. 
 
 Arnold Allen Jenckes, first, was, like his 
 father, Arnold Jenckes, a farmer and cooper, 
 and a resident of Cumberland, R.I., all his 
 life. In politics he was a Democrat. He died 
 February 13, 1888. His wife. Amy Ann 
 Alexander, of Cumberland, a descendant of the 
 Narragansett Indians, died April 22, 1883, 
 aged sixty years. Their children were: Ar- 
 nold Allen, of Franklin, whose name stands 
 at the head of this family record; Josephine 
 Maria; Louisa Evelyn and Ella Frances, both 
 deceased; Elmer Ellsworth, who died unmar- 
 ried, February 19, 1885; and George Ray. 
 
 Josephine Maria Jenckes, born about 1857, 
 married James Goldbourne, an Englishman, and 
 settled in Pawtucket, R.L, where he has been 
 connected for many years with the Conant 
 Thread Works. Seven children have been 
 born to them, and three are stiM living. 
 
 George Ray Jenckes, born in March, 1864, 
 resides on a farm at Tower Hill, Cumber- 
 land, R.I., and is not married. 
 
 Arnold Allen Jenckes, of Franklin, eldest 
 son of Arnold Allen, first, and Amy A. 
 (Alexander) Jenckes, was born in Cumber- 
 land, Providence County, R.L, March 2, 
 1847, ^nd grew to manhood in a period 
 marked by some of the most momentous 
 
 events in the history of our country. Lessons 
 of patriotism in the days that soon came were 
 learned without effort. Text-books were early 
 thrown aside, and military drill took the place 
 of school-room exercises. In the history of 
 Franklin Post, No. 60, G. A. R., of which 
 Mr. Jenckes is a comrade, it is recorded that 
 he enlisted September 26, 1862, in his six- 
 teenth year, at Providence, R.L, as private in 
 Company V, Twelfth Rhode Island Infantry; 
 was discharged July 29, 1863; re-enlisted 
 October 5, 1863, at Jamestown, R.L, as a 
 private in Company C, Third Rhode Island 
 Cavalry; was made Sergeant April 10, 1864; 
 and was finally discharged after the close 
 of the war at New Orleans, La., Novem- 
 ber 29, 1865. He was in the battle of Fred- 
 ericksburg, Va., where he was severely 
 wounded, December 13, 1862, the battle of 
 Camden, La., and in all the battles of the Red 
 River expedition. 
 
 Mr. Jenckes is a Methodist in religion and 
 an independent Republican in politics. He 
 married on April 22, 1866, Ruth Electa 
 Whipple, of Cumberland, R.L A few years 
 later they removed to Woonsocket, R.L, 
 whence they came to Franklin, Mass., where 
 they purchased the house in which they now 
 live. 
 
 The WHiipple family came to this country 
 from Scotland. David Whipple, grandfather 
 of Mrs. Jenckes, married Ruth Weatherhead, 
 a native of Wales, and settled in Cumberland, 
 R.L They had eight children — Washington, 
 Amy Ann, Sylvester Kimpton, John, Mary, 
 David Olney, Ruth Jane, and Erastus Ross. 
 
 Washington Whipple, farmer, married Ade- 
 line Ray, of Cumberland, and had seven chil- 
 dren. The four now living are: Melissa, who 
 married Ferdinand Jenckes, of Woonsocket, 
 and had five children; Clarissa A., who mar- 
 ried Leander Jenckes, of Woonsocket, and 
 after his death married Barton Wilcox, of 
 Scott Hill, Mass. ; Ruth Adeline, who mar- 
 ried Joseph Burlingame, of Cumberland, and 
 had two children, one of whom is now living; 
 and Nathan, who married a Miss Mason, of 
 Pawtucket, and is a wholesale dealer in hay, 
 grain, and produce in that city. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Nathan Whipple had three children, 
 only one of whom is now living. Owen
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW 
 
 Whipple married Sarah Emma Scott, of Cum- 
 berland. They live in I'awtucket. 
 
 Amy Ann Whipple married Otis Clark, of 
 Cumberland, who died in 1866, leaving her 
 with two children — Ambrose and ]5etsy — two 
 others having died young. She still lives in 
 Cumberland. Her son, Ambrose Clark, mar- 
 ried Sarah Whipple, of Cumberland, and went 
 West, where she died, leaving no children. 
 Betsy Clark married George Clark, a farmer 
 of Cumberland, and has three children. 
 
 John Whipple married Marcelia Lee, of 
 Slatersville, R. I., anil died in May, 1879, 
 leaving no children. Mrs. Whijjple is still 
 living on the old Whipple homestead at Cum- 
 berland. 
 
 Mary Whipple married a German named 
 Miller. They settled in Portland, Jay 
 County, Ind., where he was a very successful 
 farmer, and had a large farm. Five children 
 were born to them, and four are now living, 
 and all married and settled in Portland. The 
 sons. Alba and Sumner, each received a farm 
 when they married. The daughter. Amy, who 
 married a physician, and her sister Ada, who 
 married a farmer, each received twelve hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 David Olney Whipple married first Mary 
 Ann Spade, a German, and settled at Port- 
 land, Ind. During the war he was Captain 
 in an Indiana regiment, and received injuries 
 which finally caused his death. His first 
 wife left one child, Ruth Ann, now living; 
 and his second wife is survived by five chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Ruth Jane Whipple married Sumner Brown, 
 a stone-cutter, and lived in Cumberland. 
 They had five children, two of whom, Ida and 
 Erastus, are now living. Their son Alba died 
 at thirty-two years of age, leaving a widow 
 and three children; and David Brown died in 
 1894, aged forty -five. Ida "Brown is the wife 
 of James Metcalf, a farmer, of Wrentham, 
 Mass. Four of their seven children are now 
 living. Erastus -Brown is married, and 
 settled in Saylesville, R.I. He has no chil- 
 dren, having lost two. 
 
 Erastus Ross Whipple, farmer and stone- 
 cutter, married Jane Miller, and settled at 
 Portland, Ind. He went to California as a 
 forty-niner, is now a farmer and real estate 
 
 dealer, and a rich man. His only child, a 
 daughter, Mary, died when she was eighteen 
 years old. 
 
 Sylvester Kimpton Whipple, third child of 
 David and Ruth Whipple, and father of Mrs. 
 Jenckes, was born March 20, 1816, and died 
 August 29, 1880. He was a blacksmith, and 
 settled in Cumberland, R.I. His wife, Mary 
 Amne Jillson, of Cumberland, was a descend- 
 ant of early linglish settlers of Rhode Island. 
 She became the mother of five children, four 
 of whom are now living; namely, Lewis R., 
 Ruth Electa, Ann PLliza, and P211en Jean- 
 nette. Lewis R. Whipjile, a machinist, born 
 in 1844, married Helen C. Buxton, of Woon- 
 socket, where they still live. They have four 
 children — Eddie Lee, Willie, Bertha Louise, 
 and Sarah Augusta. Ann Eliza Whipple 
 married Henry Bartlett. They live in Cum- 
 berland, and have no children. Ellen Jean- 
 nette Whipple married Frank I. Bates, a car- 
 penter, of Valley Falls, R.I., now in busi- 
 ness in Lawrence, Kan During the late 
 war he was a soldier in Company C, Third 
 Rhode Island Cavalry, and while in the ser- 
 vice received injuries from which he is still 
 suffering. Mr. and Mrs. Bates have two chil- 
 dren — Wild Rose and Rolf Star. 
 
 Arnold Allen and Ruth Electa (Whipple) 
 Jenckes have one child, a son, Arthur Mar- 
 shall. He was born August 28, 1872, in 
 Woonsocket, R.I., is a hat-block maker, and 
 resides with his parents. He was married 
 July 2, 1895, to Miss Kate Lorena Mathew- 
 son, born June 22, 1872, daughter of James 
 Burrill Mathewson, of Valley Falls, R.I., now 
 living in Cheshire Mills, East Jaffrey, N.H. 
 Mr. Mathewson was born in 1837, and is a 
 descendant of early settlers of Rhode Island. 
 He and his four brothers served through the 
 late Civil War. His first wife, Katherine 
 Falls, of Prince Edward Island, died leaving 
 one child, a daughter, Sarah. She married 
 John Boak, who is of- Scottish descent; and 
 they are now living in Providence. .Mr. 
 Mathewson's second wife, Eliza Boak, a sister 
 of his daughter's husband, was born in 1850. 
 She died in 1891, having had these children, 
 namely: Mary, who married Everett Petette, 
 of Saratoga, N.Y., and had one child, Charles, 
 unmarried, who was drowned at twenty-seven;
 
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 Willie, who died young; Kate I.orcna, now 
 Mrs. Arthur M. Jenckes; Annie, who married 
 Seymour H. Austin, a blacksmith, lives at I'3ast 
 Jaffrey, N.H., and has three children; ICliza, 
 who died in 1897, aged nineteen; i'rances 
 Gertrude, who is housekeeper for her father; 
 Norris, Tom, Bennie, Nelson, and James, all 
 living at home, and attending school; and 
 Waity, who died young. 
 
 Arthur Marshall Jenckes is I'"irst Sergeant 
 of General William F. Draper Camp, No. 44, 
 Sons of Veterans, of Franklin. 
 
 "ON. WILLARD F. GLKASON, a 
 representative citizen of Holbrook, 
 member of the firm of Nye & Glea- 
 son, Brockton, Mass., dealers in 
 hay and grain, was born in Hubbardston, this 
 State, on December 24, 1847, son of Deacon 
 Andrew and Celia (Harwood) Gleason. His 
 grandfather Gleason and his great-grandfather 
 Gleason were both soldiers in the Revolution, 
 and fought side by side at Lexington. Dea- 
 con Andrew Gleason was a native of Worces- 
 ter; and his wife was a native of Barre, Mass. 
 The Deacon was a leading and successful agri- 
 culturist, and was a very prominent citizen of 
 Hubbardston, where he served as Selectman 
 and in various other town offices. 
 
 The boyhood and youth of Willard Gleason 
 were spent on his father's farm in Hubbards- 
 ton. He attended the common schools and 
 the high school in that town, and subsequently 
 was graduated from Franklin Academy at 
 Shelburne Falls. He came to Holbrook in 
 1872, and engaged in the express business and 
 in the business of shipping hay. He contin- 
 ued this until February, 1896, when he be- 
 came a partner in the firm of Nye & Gleason, 
 of Brockton. This firm, which carries on 
 business at b'reight Yard Square, is looked 
 upon as entirely trustworthy; and its honor- 
 able and prompt methods of dealing with cus- 
 tomers have secured a large list of patrons. 
 
 Mr. Gleason has been prominently identi- 
 fied with public interests in Holbrook, and has 
 filled various ofificial positions with credit to 
 himself and in a manner highl}' satisfactory 
 to his townsmen. For nine years he was Se- 
 lectman of Holbrook and for much of that 
 
 time chairman of the board; and for nine 
 years, also, he was chairman of the Board of 
 Water Commissioners. He was one of the 
 active promoters of the water-works system; 
 and, while in the legislature, he introduceti 
 a bill which secured the franchise for the Hol- 
 brook Water Works. He was in the Massa- 
 chusetts House of Representatives in 1885 
 and 1888, member from Holbrook and Jkain- 
 tree; and in 1890 he was -State -Senator from 
 the First Norfolk District, and chairman of 
 the Senate Committee on Public Charities, 
 and member of other committees. 
 
 Mr. Gleason married Hattie A. Reynolds, 
 of Barre, Mass., and resides on Plymouth 
 -Street, Holbrook. luiterprising and progres- 
 sive, he was one of the prime movers in the 
 organization of the Holbrook Co-operative 
 Bank, and is now vice-president of the bank 
 and one of its directors. He is sincerely re- 
 spected by his fellow-townsmen on account of 
 his ability and success as a business man, but 
 more for his high personal character and 
 worth. 
 
 * * ■ > » 
 
 ALTFR L. PALRIFR, an energetic 
 business man of Medway and for- 
 merly a member of the Connecticut 
 legislature, was born in Plainfield, Conn., 
 April 23, 1857, son of Walter and Hannah 
 (Shepard) Palmer. His parents are natives of 
 Plainfield, in which town his father is now 
 a prosperous farmer. They have had three 
 children, namely: Walter F., the subject of 
 this sketch; Margaret, wife of Jason P. La- 
 throp, of Plainfield; and P21izabeth, wife of 
 Herbert Gallop, of Oneco, Conn. 
 
 Walter F. Palmer was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and at Plainfield Academy. 
 When about twenty-three years old he went 
 to Turner's Prills, Mass., where he was en- 
 gaged in the hardware and coal business for 
 over two years. At the end of that time he 
 removed to Central Village, Conn., where for 
 the succeeding three years he kept a country 
 store, being also engaged in the undertaking 
 business. In June, 1886, he came to Medway; 
 and he established himself in the coal, wood, 
 grain, and teaming business, having centrally 
 located quarters near the dejjot. He also still
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 carries on an undertaking business. In poli- 
 tics a Democrat, he served as a member of the 
 Connecticut legislature in 1885 and 1886. 
 He is at the present time a member of the 
 Board of Selectmen of Medway, having previ- 
 ously been a Road Surveyor. 
 
 In February, 1881, Mr. Palmer was joined 
 in marriage with Ella Frances Witter, his 
 first wife. She was a native of Packerville, 
 Conn., and a daughter of Amos and Mary 
 Witter, the former of whom is no longer liv- 
 ing, the latter being a resident of Medway. 
 Mr. Palmer's first wife died September 26, 
 1888; and on February 22, 1893, he married 
 Harriet W. Gary, of Medway, daughter of 
 William H. and Maria B. (White) Cary, resi- 
 dents of this town. 
 
 Mr. Palmer is a member of Moosup Lodge, 
 F. & A. M., of Plainfield, and of the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen of Medway. 
 Since locating here, he has built up a good, 
 profitable business, and has gained the esteem 
 and good will of the entire community. 
 
 /^^ITeORGE W. HARTSHORN, a mason 
 I '•) I by trade and a well-known resident 
 
 — ^ of Foxboro, was born July 10, 1846, 
 in North Bridgewater, Mass., son of George 
 Hartshorn. His grandfather, Seth Harts- 
 horn, who was a stone-cutter, spent the larger 
 part of his long life in Foxboro. Seth mar- 
 ried Lydia Paddock, who bore him five chil- 
 dren — ^ Gilbert, George, Mary, Julia, and 
 Walter — of whom Julia is the only survivor. 
 
 George Hartshorn, born and reared in 
 Brockton, when a young man learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade, which he made his principal 
 occupation through life. In 1862 he enlisted 
 in the Forty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteer 
 Infantry, and during the campaign of General 
 N. P. Banks in the late war was stationed at 
 New Orleans. While there he contracted dis- 
 ease from exposure, and died about a year 
 after leaving home. On October 8, 1845, ^^ 
 married Miss Seraphine D. Alexander. By 
 her he became the father of four children, 
 namely: George W., the subject of this 
 sketch; Flora C, now the wife of John Tol- 
 man, residing in Springfield, Mass. ; Hattie 
 A., who is the wife of Royal J. Packard, of 
 
 this town, and has six children — Mernie, 
 Hattie (who died in infancy), Bessie, Freddie, 
 Roy, and Willie T. ; and Arthur J., a cloth- 
 ing merchant in Foxboro, who married Fannie 
 Williams, and has one child, Jesse. 
 
 George W'. Hartshorn acquired a good edu- 
 cation in the common schools. He began to 
 earn his living in a hoop-skirt factory, where 
 he was employed until after the breaking out 
 of the late war. On August 15, 1862, he en- 
 listed in the Seventh Rhode Island Volunteer 
 Infantry, on his enlistment giving his age 
 as nearly nineteen years. He subsequently 
 served until the cessation of hostilities, being 
 mustered out June 9, 1865, at New Alexan- 
 dria, Va. He experienced the hardships and 
 exposures of army life, and was an active par- 
 ticipant in thirteen of the important engage- 
 ments. At Jackson, Miss., he was wounded 
 in the foot. On returning to Massachusetts 
 he learned the mason's trade, which he has 
 since followed successfully in Foxboro, being 
 an expert workman, and well qualified to per- 
 form labor requiring skill and neatness. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Hartshorn married Miss Mari- 
 etta Brigham, who died August 9, 1885. His 
 children by her were: Etta May, who died in 
 infancy; Effie Geneva, who is now the wife of 
 George Wilber, of this town, and has one 
 child, Georgie; Jennie, who died at the age 
 of nine years; Sadie F. ; and Mary O. A 
 subsequent marriage performed September 29, 
 1885, united him to Miss Hannah A. Purdy, 
 daughter of Alexander Purdy. In politics he 
 is a sound Republican. While in the army 
 he cast his first vote for President, giving it to 
 George B. McClellan in 1864. He is a mem- 
 ber of the E. P. Carpenter Post, No. 91, 
 G. A. R., of Foxboro, and is likewise a mem- 
 ber of the A. P. A. 
 
 KJ 
 
 KINSMAN SAWYER, the popular 
 Postmaster of Wellesley, is a native 
 of North Yarmouth, Me., born in 
 1850, a son of L. W. and Sarah K. 
 (Maxfield) Sawyer. The first representative 
 of the family in this country settled in Maine 
 as early as 1620 or 1622, in which latter year 
 the first permanent settlement was made; and 
 most of their descendants have' resided in that
 
 c;k(jrc;e \v. hartshorn.
 
 mndRAI'IIICAI, RKVIEVV 
 
 609 
 
 State. Mr. Sawyer's father, a farmer by oc- 
 cupation, died in Salem, Mass., in 1892. 
 His mother was a daughter of Reuben and 
 Lucy Maxheld, of North Yarmouth, Me. 
 
 R. Kinsman Sawyer received his education 
 in the public schools of his native town and in 
 the famous Kimball Union Academy of Meri- 
 den, N.H., where he fitted for college. He 
 matriculated at Dartmouth College, but was 
 subsequently obliged to discontinue his 
 studies there on account of poor health. 
 Shortly afterward he went to New Jersey, 
 where he was employed for some time in the 
 State Reform School as instructor. Later he 
 came to Wellesley, and worked some time for 
 Mr. Durant, having charge of the improve- 
 ments then being made on what are now the 
 college grounds. Then for five years, from 
 1880 to 1885, he was superintendent of Stone 
 Hall and other college buildings. In 1886 
 he was appointed Postmaster at Wellesley by 
 President Cleveland ; and he was reappointed 
 to the same office by President Harrison, and 
 again reappointed by President Cleveland dur- 
 ing his second term. In 1886 he served the 
 town as Selectman. Mr. Sawyer has done 
 quite a business in real estate, and has built a 
 number of houses in Wellesley. . He is ac- 
 tively interested in the business and life of 
 the town and in its general welfare. He is a 
 member of the Masonic order and of other 
 secret societies, belonging to the Blue Lodge, 
 F. & A. M., at Natick; Parker Royal Arch 
 Chapter of Natick and Natick Commandery; 
 Sincerity Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is 
 Past Grand, having also represented it in the 
 Grand Lodge; and to Natick Council, Royal 
 Arcanum. He is a Warden and the treasurer 
 of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. In 1879 
 Mr. Sawyer was united in marriage with E. 
 Ellen, daughter of William P'lagg, Esq., of 
 Wellesley. 
 
 OSHUA F. LEWIS, M.D., of Hyde 
 Park, Deputy Superintendent of Indoor 
 Poor of the State Board of Lunacy and 
 Charity, was. born in Provincetown, 
 Mass., February 19, 1855, son of Josliua and 
 Mary (Avery) Lewis. Tbe family claims 
 descent from Oliver Cromwell; and its first 
 
 American progenitor settled in Barnstable 
 County, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth 
 century. Dr. Lewis's great-grandfather was 
 an officer in the British army, and served in 
 America during the Revolutionary War. 
 George Lewis, the grandfather, was born in 
 Truro, Mass., and was engaged in the fishing 
 business, controlling a large fleet of vessels 
 throughout the active period of his life. He 
 died at the age of seventy. His son Joshua, 
 father of Dr. Lewis, was also born in Truro, 
 and when a young man engaged in his father's 
 business, which he followed for many years. 
 He was favorably known along the Cape Cod 
 shore as an upright man and reliable citizen; 
 and he was prominently identified with public 
 affairs, serving as Selectman, Assessor, Over- 
 seer of the Poor, and Highway Surveyor. In 
 politics he was in his earlier years a Whig 
 and later a Republican. His wife, Mary, was 
 a daughter of Peter and Betsy Avery, of 
 Truro, her father being a master mariner. 
 She became the mother of eight children, si.x 
 of whom attained maturity, and four are now 
 living; namely, George W. , Joshua F., Anna 
 W., and Lawrence B. Those deceased are: 
 Etta, who married L. H. Richards, Deputy 
 Sheriff of Middlesex County, and died at the 
 age of forty-four; and Ida V., a school teacher 
 who died unmarried, at the age of forty-two 
 years. The father died in 1883, aged sixty- 
 eight years; and the mother lived to the age 
 of seventy-two. Both parents were members 
 of the Methodist Episcopal church, the father 
 serving as steward and clerk of the society for 
 a number of years. 
 
 Joshua F. Lewis remained at home with his 
 parents until he was fifteen years old, at 
 which time he went to reside in Ware, Hamp- 
 shire County, Mass. He fitted for his col- 
 legiate course at the Wesleyan Academy, and 
 was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1879. 
 Returning to Cape Cod, he taught school for 
 two years in Dennis. Subsequently he be- 
 came principal of the .Whitman School at 
 Brockton, Mass., where he remained three 
 years, at the expiration of which time he re- 
 ceived the appointment of secretary at the Re- 
 publican headquarters in Boston. He was 
 also principal of an evening school in Maiden 
 for six years, during which time he pursued
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 his medical studies, and was graduated at the 
 Harvard University Medical School with the 
 class of 1887. On June 15 of that year, after 
 successfully passing a competitive examina- 
 tion, he was appointed Deputy Superintend- 
 ent of Indoor Poor of the State Board of 
 Lunacy and Charity, a position which he has 
 since retained. (His duties require him to 
 visit monthly each of the eight State asylums, 
 in order to personally interview the patients 
 therein confined, ascertain where they belong 
 and if legally settled in Massachusetts, and 
 also to arrange for the deportation of those 
 who belong in foreign countries.) In this 
 particular department of the public service he 
 has become recognized as an expert, and has 
 testified in many law cases bearing upon the 
 subject. Politically, he is a Republican. 
 He was formerly a member of the School 
 Board of Maiden, but resigned upon his re- 
 moval to Hyde Park in 1890. Since 1892 he 
 has served in a like capacity in this town, and 
 is now chairman of the board. 
 
 On June 26, 1887, Dr. Lewis was united in 
 marriage in Brooklyn, N.Y., with Madeline 
 S. Howes, who was born in Dennis, Barn- 
 stable County, Mass., daughter of Barzillia 
 H. and Rebecca (Carlow) Howes. Her 
 father, who was a sea captain, circumnavi- 
 gated the globe several times vVhile in the 
 exercise of his calling. He is now sixty-four 
 years old, and a resident of Hyde Park. Her 
 mother is also living. Captain and Mrs. 
 Howes have two daughters, the other being 
 Eliza H., who married Charles R. Peto. 
 Mrs. Lewis has had three children, two of 
 whom are living — Lena S. and Etta R. 
 
 Dr. Lewis belongs to Allon Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F., the Good Fellows, the Waverly 
 Club, and the Republican Town Committee. 
 He attends the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 of which Mrs. Lewis is a member. 
 
 "Tp^OBERT CRAIG, for many years one 
 
 I S^ of the best known and most highly 
 
 |b\^^ esteemed business men of Ouincy, 
 
 was born in the parish of' Bristol, 
 
 Dumfriesshire, Scotland, March 18, 1S21. 
 
 Left an orphan at an early age, he received 
 
 little or no schooling, being apprenticed to a 
 
 stone-cutter when a mere boy. He became, 
 however, a master workman, an expert at every 
 branch of the trade, but especially at carving, 
 of which he subsequently made a specialty. 
 VVhile still a young man he enlisted in the 
 British army, and went to Gibraltar, where he 
 served for some time. In 1850 he came to 
 America, settling in Ouincy, Mass. His first 
 work here was on Minot's Ledge Light-house, 
 and for several years subsequently he followed 
 his trade as a journeyman in this town. He 
 finally engaged in monumental work in 
 Ouincy, in company with his three eldest 
 sons, with whom he continued in business 
 until the time of his death, which occurred 
 April 6, 1884, at the age of sixty-three years. 
 He took an active interest in the politics of 
 this country, became an American citizen, 
 and voted the Republican ticket at State and 
 national elections, but acted independently of 
 party affiliations in local affairs. Intelligent 
 and ambitious, he made up for his lack of 
 schooling by extended reading and habits of 
 close observation, and succeeded ultimately 
 in acquiring a very respectable education. 
 He married Janet Smith, daughter of William 
 Smith, of Glasgow, Scotland, and by her had 
 twelve children —John, William W., Isabel, 
 Robert A., James, Janet, George, Angus, 
 Charles, Walter, Arthur, and Frank. The 
 mother is still a resident of Quincy, where 
 she has many friends and is widely respected. 
 
 DGAR F. DRAKE, a prosperous dairy- 
 man and market gardener of Sharon, 
 was born in this town, November 
 25, 1851, son of Asahel and Mary E. (John- 
 son) Drake. His grandfather, Ziba Drake, 
 of Sharon, one of the stirring farmers of his 
 day, took an active part in public affairs, 
 serving as a Selectman, representing Sharon 
 in the legislature. Ziba's death occurred in 
 1852. He married Mary Smith, of Canton, 
 Mass., and by her became the father of five 
 children, of whom one died in infancy. The 
 others were: Tisdale, Hannah, Andrew, and 
 Asahel. 
 
 AsahSl Drake was born in Sharon, July 4, 
 1 8 10. From his youth he followed agricult- 
 ure in his native town. He was also an ex-
 
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 tensive cattle dealer. Prominent in political 
 affairs, he served with ability on the Board of 
 Selectmen for a number of years, and was a 
 member of the House of Representatives in 
 i860. He died January 21, 1888. On April 
 22, 1836, he married Patience Gannett, who, 
 born in Sharon, September 10, 181 5, died 
 January 24, 1845. Of that union were born 
 two children: Mary A., on January 19, 1837, 
 who married Benjamin Drake, of Stoughton, 
 Mass.; and Hannah A., on June 21, 1839, 
 who died October 21, 1843. Mary E. John- 
 son Drake, Asahel's second wife, whom he 
 wedded on November 6, 1848, was born in 
 Boston. She was a daughter of Otis and 
 Edna (Hill) Johnson, the former of whom was 
 a native of Sharon, and his wife, of Nashua, 
 N.H. Otis Johnson, after many years spent 
 in the business of grain dealer in Boston, on 
 account of failing health retired to a farm in 
 his native town. He served as a Selectman 
 for twenty-nine years, and was Town Treas- 
 urer for some time. Otis and Edna Johnson 
 reared two daughters — Edna R. and Mary E. 
 Asahel Drake's children by his second wife 
 were: Ellis O., born August 29, 1849; Edgar 
 P., the subject of this sketch; and Lizzie 
 M., born December 13, 1857, who died De- 
 cember 30, 1875. Ellis O., who is a manu- 
 facturer of steam heaters in Gardner, Mass., 
 and the Postmaster of that town, married 
 Emily A. Partridge, and has had three chil- 
 dren — Lizzie M., Bertha E. (now deceased), 
 and Harold E. Mrs. Mary E. Drake died 
 June 10, 1889. 
 
 Edgar F. Drake began his education in the 
 common schools, and attended a private school 
 for four years. When seventeen years old he 
 became a clerk in a store. A short time later 
 he engaged in the milk business, which he 
 subsequently followed for five years. After- 
 ward for three years he was associated with 
 his brother in carrying on a general store in 
 Winchendon, Mass. Since his return to 
 Sharon at the end of that time, he has been 
 engaged in his present business. On his 
 seventy acres of fertile land he keeps a dairy, 
 raises garden truck for the Stoughton and 
 Canton markets, and has a large greenhouse. 
 In politics he is a Democrat, and he has 
 served upon the School Board and as Town 
 
 Auditor. He is a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen of Sharon, and of 
 the grange in Stoughton. 
 
 On March 20, 1887, Mr. Drake was joined 
 in marriage with Eliza J. W. Berry. She was 
 born in Boston, October 20, 1858, daughter of 
 Clark T. and Betsey M. (Trickey) Berry. Her 
 father, who was an expressman, died March 6, 
 1S97; and his wife died in January, 1872. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Drake have two children: Edna 
 F. , born December 7, 1892; and Asahel E., 
 born March 5, 1895. Mr. Drake has dis- 
 played an energy and perseverance which fully 
 merit the success he has attained, and his 
 industry is highly commended by his fellow- 
 townsmen. The family attend the Congrega- 
 tional church. 
 
 ENRY W. PICKERING, a prosper- 
 ous dairyman of Bellingham and a 
 veteran of the Fourth Regiment, 
 Rhode Island Infantry, was born in 
 Woonsocket, R.I., November 9, 1840, son of 
 Wiley and Susan Blue Pickering. The 
 father, who was a native of Blackstone, Mass., 
 was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Woon- 
 socket for many years before his death. The 
 mother, who was born in Burrville, R.I., and 
 is now residing with a daughter in Provi- 
 dence, has six children living. These are: 
 Vina, the wife of Wilton Grant, of Woon- 
 socket; Henry W. , the subject of this sketch; 
 Almeda, who married Alfred Bartlett, and 
 resides in Woonsocket; Frank P., a thriving 
 farmer in Bellingham; Ellen, the wife of 
 Albert E. Sweet, of Providence; and Arnold, 
 who also resides in that city. The others 
 were: Newton R. ; Wesson Wilder, who died 
 in California; and Nathaniel. 
 
 Henry W. Pickering attended school in his 
 native town. In his youth he worked upon 
 his father's farm, and was also employed in 
 mechanical pursuits. In September, 1861, 
 he enlisted as a private in Company E, 
 P"ourth Rhode Island Infantry, under Colonel 
 McCarty and Captain Allen. He saw a great 
 deal of active service in New Orleans, North 
 Carolina, and Virginia, participating in many 
 engagements, including those of Antietam, 
 Fredericksburg, Black Water, and Petersburg,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 and being present at Appomattox Court-house 
 when General Lee surrendered. He was mus- 
 tered out July 13, 1865, and returned to 
 Woonsocket. Later he bought the farm of 
 seventy-three acres in Bellingham where he 
 has since resided. He has made various im- 
 provements in his property, and is now one of 
 the most successful dairy farmers in the town. 
 Raising vegetables and poultry yields him a 
 good income, and for the past twenty-five 
 years he has not missed a single daily trip 
 with milk to Woonsocket. In politics he is a 
 Republican, and at the present time he is an 
 Overseer of the Poor and a member of the 
 School Hoard. He is connected with the 
 Order of the Golden Cross and the Patrons of 
 Husbandry, and is a comrade of Swift Post, 
 No. 9, G. A. R. 
 
 Mr. Pickering has been twice married. 
 His first marriage, contracted in 1868, united 
 him to Amelia Wilcox, of Bellingham. She 
 was a daughter of Jerold O. and Phoebe 
 (Harris) Wilcox, who resided in Bellingham 
 all their lives. Mr. Wilcox was a well- 
 known manufacturer of rakes, and the founder 
 of the village of Rakeville, R.I. Mrs. 
 Amelia Pickering died June 25, 1871, leaving 
 one daughter, Amelia, who married George 
 Grant, a master mechanic at the Eagle Mill, 
 Woonsocket. In December, 1872, Mr. Pick- 
 ering married Caroline Fenton, of New York. 
 Her parents, Rossman and Elvira (Snell) 
 Fenton, are now deceased. She is the mother 
 of four children — Florence, Nathaniel, Ger- 
 trude, and Mary. Florence is now the wife 
 of Cumfort Sidley, of Woonsocket. The 
 other children reside with th^ir parents. 
 
 LIVER HUNT HOWE, M.D., of 
 Cohasset, was born in Dedham, Mass., 
 May 29, i860. A son of Elijah and 
 Julia A. (Hunt) Howe, he is of the 
 ninth generation of Howes in this country. 
 The name was originally spelled How. The 
 Doctor's immigrant ancestor, Abraham How, 
 was made a freeman in Roxbury, Mass., in 
 1638. From Abraham the line is traced 
 through Isaac, Isaac (second), Thomas, 
 Thomas (second), Thomas (third), Elijah, 
 and Elijah (second), the last named being Dr. 
 
 Howe's father. Thomas Howe, the Doctor's 
 great-great-grandfather, was a Revolutionary 
 patriot. 
 
 Oliver Hunt Howe acquired the rudiments 
 of his education in the public schools of Ded- 
 ham. He graduated from the Medical School 
 of Harvard University in 1886. F"or a year 
 and a half he was' house surgeon in the Boston 
 City Hospital, and he was later assistant to 
 the superintendent of the hospital. Since 
 1887, when he entered upon his profession in 
 Cohasset, he has built up a large and success- 
 ful practice. He is a skilful surgeon and 
 thoroughly in touch with modern progress in 
 medicine. He is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society, the Massachusetts 
 Medico-Legal Society, and the Massachusetts 
 Association of Boards of Health; and he is 
 the medical examiner for the district of Co- 
 hasset and physician to the Board of Health 
 in this town. 
 
 In 1889 Dr. Howe was united in marriage 
 with Martha Dresser Paul, daughter of Eben- 
 ezer and Susan (Dresser) Paul. Two children 
 have blessed the union — -Paul and Julian 
 Cheever. In politics Dr. Howe is a Repub- 
 lican. He is a Mason of Konohasset Lodge of 
 Cohasset and a member of the Second Con- 
 gregational Church in this town. 
 
 RANKLIN PORTER, for thirty years 
 a prosperous druggist and apothecary 
 Randolph, was born in Braintree, 
 Mass., October 14, 1836. His parents were 
 Ira and Eulalia (Belcher) Porter, the former 
 of whom was a native of North Bridgewater, 
 Mass., and the latter of Randolph. Mr. 
 Porter's uncle, Isaac Porter, served in the 
 War of 1 81 2, and is said to have been a drum- 
 mer on board the LInited States frigate "Ches- 
 apeake " at the time of her encounter with the 
 British frigate "Shannon." Ira Porter, father 
 of F"ranklin, was a carpenter by trade, and did 
 quite an extensive contracting and building 
 business in Randolph and the vicinity. 
 
 Franklin Porter obtained his education in 
 the common schools of Randolph and at the 
 Stetson High School. At the age of thirteen, 
 while attending school, he began to work morn- 
 ings and evenings in the drug store of Zenas
 
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 "3 
 
 Snow, which occupation he continued until 
 finisiiing his education. When seventeen 
 years old he secured a position in Boston as 
 clerk for Alvah Littlefield, who at that time 
 kept a pharmacy under the United States 
 Hotel, and with whom he remained several 
 years. Upon his return to Randolph he went 
 to work as clerk for Benjamin Dickerman, and 
 later became associated with him as a partner. 
 He eventually became sole proprietor of the 
 business by purchasing Mr. Dickerman's in- 
 terest, and has since been very successful. 
 He is an enterprising citizen, always ready to 
 aid in the introduction of public improve- 
 ments. In politics he is a Democrat, with in- 
 dependent proclivities. He is a member of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the 
 Knights of Honor, and the Royal Arcanum, 
 and is very popular socially. 
 
 November 25, 1862, Mr. Porter married 
 Eliza R. Woodman, of Randolph. He has 
 two children living, namely: Abbie Wood- 
 man, born in Randolph, July 16, 1864, and 
 now Mrs. William H. Farnsworth, of West- 
 field, Mass.; and Lee H., born in Randolph, 
 November 25, 1879, and now a student at the 
 Chauncy Hall School, Boston. 
 
 E NEWTON THAYER, a prominent 
 manufacturer and business man of Hol- 
 -^ brook, was born in this town, Octo- 
 ber 18, 1839, son of Royal and Serena A. 
 (White) Thayer. The Thayers are one of the 
 old families of Braintree, Mass., where Rich- 
 ard Thayer, immigrant, was admitted a free- 
 man in 1640. 
 
 Captain E?ra Thayer, grandfather of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was probably the first man 
 in the United States to engage in the manu- 
 facture of leather shoe-strings, establishing in 
 1838 in East Randolph (now Holbrook) an en- 
 terprise of this kind, which he conducted for a 
 number of years in a small shop that stood on 
 the spot now occupied by the Wiethrop Con- 
 gregational Church, and which he carried on 
 until his death in 1856. Gifted musically, he 
 Was for a number of years leader of the choir 
 of the Congregational Church of East Ran- 
 dolph. He was also an officer in the militia. 
 Royal Thayer, father of E. Newton Thayer, 
 
 was born in East Randolph, March 31, 1813. 
 He succeeded his father, Captain Kztsl Thayer, 
 in business, and enlarged the scope of the en- 
 terprise, adding to the manufacture of shoe- 
 strings a profitable trade in leather remnants, 
 from which were sorted the pieces of kid and 
 calf suitable for strings, the remainder being 
 sold for other purposes. The work was at first 
 all done by hand, machinery not being intro- 
 duced until after the close of the Civil War. 
 Royal Thayer was a thoroughly capable busi- 
 ness man, foresighted, and enterprising, and as 
 a natural consequence successful. He contin- 
 ued to carry on business until his death, 
 which occurred July 13, 1889. In politics he 
 was a Republican. He was actively inter- 
 ested in the welfare of the town, and was one 
 of the promoters of the present town of Hol- 
 brook, circulating a petition to have it set off 
 from the old town of Randolph. His wife, 
 who also was a native of East Randolph, born 
 February 22, 18 18, was a daughter of Colonel 
 Simeon and Sarah (Linfield) White, her 
 father being a prominent citizen of this town. 
 -She was the mother of but one child, E. New- 
 ton. Mrs. Serena A. Thayer died December 
 14, 1885. 
 
 E. Newton Thayer was educated in public 
 and private schools in his native town. He 
 first obtained employment as a clerk in a gen- 
 eral store in East Randolph, a position which 
 he held for two years. About 1857 he went 
 to work for his father in the factory; and two 
 years later he was admitted as partner, the 
 firm name becoming Royal Thayer & Son. 
 They conducted the business in East Ran- 
 dolph till 1870, when they removed to North 
 Bridgewater (now* Brockton), where they re- 
 mained until 1874. They then returned to 
 Holbrook, and erected the factory at the foot 
 oj Maple Hill Avenue, in which the business 
 is now carried on by E. Newton Thayer, suc- 
 cessor to Royal Thayer & Son. As already 
 stated, the work was at -first done by hand, even 
 to the rolling of the strings on a board. Sub- 
 sequently the superintendent of the shop, Mr. 
 Smith, invented a rolling machine, which he 
 patented in 1866, and which he later improved. 
 In 1S83 he devised a machine that produces a 
 string of much finer finish than that made by 
 the old machine, which it has superseded.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW 
 
 The factory turns out four grades of strings, 
 in the manufacture of which both men and 
 women are employed. Mr. Smith has also 
 improved the cutting machines invented by 
 others. The superiority of his machinery 
 gives Mr. Thayer an advantage over most of 
 his competitors throughout Norfolk and 
 Worcester Counties, to which the shoe-string 
 industry is principally confined. Mr. Thayer 
 is a capable and enterprising business man. 
 He was one of the promoters and organizers 
 of the Holbrook Co-operative Bank, which he 
 served as president for a number of years, and 
 also for a time as a director. 
 
 He was married in 1865, June 29, to Miss 
 B. Jane Vining, a native of Holbrook, born 
 December 22, 1842, daughter of Samuel A. 
 and Eliza Ann (White) Vining, the former a 
 prominent boot and shoe manufacturer of East 
 Randolph, now Holbrook. Mrs. Thayer has 
 four sisters: Abbie E., wife of R. H. Duncan, 
 a prominent lawyer of Brooklyn, N.Y. ; Mary 
 F., wife of the Rev. Perley B. Davis, pastor 
 of the Central Congregational Church at 
 Field's Corner, Dorchestef, Mass.; Felicia, 
 wife of Congressman Elijah A. Morse, of 
 Canton, Mass. ; and Ellen W., who married 
 Elisha Wales, formerly a boot and shoe manu- 
 facturer of Holbrook, but now deceased. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Thayer are the parents of six chil- 
 dren — Mary V., Wilson D., Alfred N., Hart- 
 ley W., Charles W., and Royal B. Charles 
 W. died at the age of nine years. Mr. Thayer 
 is a Republican politically. He is actively 
 interested in town affairs, and served on the 
 Building Committee of the first town hall of 
 Holbrook, and also on the Building Commit- 
 tee of the Franklin School in this town. He 
 and his wife and children are members of 
 Winthrop Congregational Church. 
 
 TTSHARLES H. DEANS, a successful 
 I V^ attorney-at-law and an esteemed resi- 
 ^U^^ dent of Medway, was born in Eas- 
 ton, Mass., May 2, 1832. Plis 
 parents. Dr. Samuel and Hannah LeBaron 
 (Wheaton) Deans, were natives respectively 
 of Eastford, Conn., and Easton. Samuel 
 Deans, M.D., settled in the latter town when 
 a young man, and practised his profession 
 
 there for the rest of his life. He died in 
 1873; and his wife died in January, 1881. 
 Their children were: George Wheaton Deans, 
 a lawyer and merchant, who died in Jackson- 
 ville, ¥\a., in 1888; Charlotte and l-"idelia, 
 both of whom died in infancy; lilizabeth, also 
 deceased, who was a teacher; Charles II., the 
 subject of this sketch; and Anna LeBaron, 
 who is residing in Mansfield, Mass. 
 
 Charles H. Deans was fitted for college at 
 the New Hampton (N.H.) Literary Institute, 
 and subsequently studied at Brown Univer- 
 sity. He read law in Canton, Mass., teaching 
 school while pursuing liis legal studies; and 
 he has practised law in Medway since 1858. 
 He has conducted a profitable business, and is 
 now one of the well-to-do residents of the 
 town. A Republican in politics, he has ably 
 contributed to the success of his party in this 
 section of the State. He was a member of 
 the committee appointed to raise funds for the 
 volunteers of Massachusetts during the Civil 
 War, and he was one of the enrolment com- 
 missioners who supervised the drafting of 
 levies. He was Trial Justice for twenty-one 
 years; a member of the School Board for 
 twenty-three years, being the .Superintendent 
 of Schools for a part of that period; and he 
 has been a Justice of the Peace for nearly forty 
 years. 
 
 In 1861 Mr. Deans was united in marriage 
 with Mary M. Harris, a native of Westboro, 
 Mass., and a daughter of Rufus and Elvira 
 (Goss) Harris. Mrs. Deans's father, who is 
 no longer living, was a real estate dealer in 
 Westboro. Her mother, who is now ninety- 
 two years old, and resides with her, is un- 
 usually bright and active for her age. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Deans are the parents of five chil- 
 dren, namely: Harris Wheaton, who married 
 Charlotte Ellis, of Woburn, Mass., and is 
 now a jeweller in Spencer, Mass. ; Anna Le- 
 Baron, who is residing in Denver, Col., for 
 the benefit of her health; Harriet Elizabeth, 
 the wife of George C. Conn, who is connected 
 with the freight department of the Canada 
 Pacific Railroad, and resides in Woburn, 
 Mass. ; Gertrude A., a teacher in the Milford 
 High School; and Mary Elvira, who lives at 
 home. Both parents are members of the Con- 
 gregational church.
 
 CHARLES H. DEANS.
 
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 -t^TlRAM W. PHILLIPS, submarine 
 [■^J diver, residing in Quincy, Mass., 
 
 \\s I was born in tiiis town, May g, 
 
 ^~"^ 1850, a son of Lemuel Phillips. 
 His paternal grandfather, Isaac Phillips, was 
 a resident of Weymouth, Mass. He was a 
 mason by trade, and acquired a large landed 
 property, being engaged during the greater 
 part of his active years in laying stone, build- 
 ing wharves, and kindred work. He married 
 Rhoda Litchfield. 
 
 Lemuel Phillips was born March 20, 1819, 
 in Weymouth, and in his earlier manhood 
 years was captain of the vessels he employed 
 in the business of freighting stone between 
 Quincy and Boston. In 1864 he removed to 
 Pembroke, Mass., where he has since devoted 
 his time to agricultural pursuits. He married 
 Betsey Judkins, of Alton, Me., a daughter of 
 Samuel Judkins, whose wife's maiden name 
 was Cammel. Of the eleven children born of 
 their union nine grew to mature years. The 
 record is as follows: George L., of Quincy; 
 Adelaide, wife of James Trainor, of Wey- 
 mouth; Susan, who was killed in an explo- 
 sion; Lewis, of Pembroke; Alice, who was 
 killed by a fall; Loring, of Hanover, Mass.; 
 Hiram W. ; Betsey J., wife of Marshall 
 Wright, of Weymouth; Annie, who married 
 William Gutterson, of Weymouth; Edwin P., 
 of Seattle, Wash. ; and Charles, of Pembroke, 
 Mass. 
 
 Hiram W. Phillips received a practical 
 common-school education, and afterward 
 worked at freighting stone. When about 
 nineteen years old he began making a spe- 
 cialty of diving under water, first for his own 
 amusement, becoming such an adept in this 
 athletic pursuit that in the course of two years 
 he made it a regular business, and has ever 
 since continued submarine diving. He is 
 principally engaged in building foundations 
 for wharf and bridge structures under water, 
 blasting rocks, etc.; and in this occupation he 
 has probably been under the water more times 
 than any other one man in this section of the 
 Union. He is one of the best known' and 
 most prominent divers in New England, hav- 
 ing labored all along the coast. 
 
 Mr. Phillips is a Republican in his politi- 
 cal affiliations. He has served three years in 
 
 the City Council, in which he was on the 
 Committee on Sewers, Drains, and Water 
 Supply, and the chairman of the Legislative 
 Committee. Fraternally, he is a member of 
 Rural Lodge, I'. & A. M. 
 
 Mr. Phillips was married January 2, 1876, 
 to Melvina, daughter of William Cargill, of 
 Cumberland, R.I. They have three children ; 
 namely, Harriet M., Eva D. , and Elise C. 
 
 RANK H. PORTER, a respected citi- 
 zen of Wellesley, where he is engaged 
 in the plumbing business, was born in 
 Needham, Mass., in 1856, son of John and 
 Catharine (Day) Porter. The father went to 
 California in 1859, ^nd remained there until 
 a short time before his death, which occurred 
 in 1878. His wife, Catharine, was born in 
 London, England, a daughter of Edward Day, 
 and came to this country with her parents 
 when she was but thirteen years old. 
 
 Frank H. Porter, at the age of six years, 
 went to reside in Leno.x, Mass. ; and he was 
 educated in the public schools of that town. 
 He then went to work on a farm, and re- 
 mained thus engaged until 1871, when he 
 began to learn the carpenter's trade. After a 
 year spent in carpentering he removed to 
 Pittsfield, where he worked at tinning and 
 plumbing for Backus & Sons. He remained 
 with this firm six years, and was then em- 
 ployed for a time by John I-'ealey in the sand 
 business. In 1878 he went to Boston, where 
 he worked a year for Walker & Pratt, stove 
 manufacturers. Subsequently he was em- 
 ployed by the Magee P'urnace Company for 
 one year. In 1881 he came to Wellesley, and 
 went into the plumbing business, in 1893 
 forming a partnership with Joseph Schellar, 
 under the firm name of F. H. Porter & Co. 
 This partnership remained intact until the 
 fall of 1S97, when Mr. Porter became sole 
 proprietor of the business which he conducts 
 under the name of ¥. H. Porter. His spe- 
 cialty is plumbing and the installation of 
 heating apparatus. He also carries 'a large 
 general stock of hardware. 
 
 Mr. Porter is a member of the local fire 
 company. In politics he is a strong Re- 
 publican. He belongs to Waban Lodge,
 
 6i8 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 A. O. U. W.; to Sincerity Lodge, No. 173, 
 I. O. O. F. ; and to the Manchester Unity 
 Saint Mannacs Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Welles- 
 ley. He was married in 1878 to Sarah, a 
 daughter of John and Sarah Fells, of Newton 
 Upper Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have two 
 children: Henry, born in 1880, now a student 
 at the J^urdett School of Boston; and Mary, 
 born in 18S2, who attends the grammar 
 school. 
 
 Vt. 
 
 'ILAS G. WILLIAMS, late a re- 
 spected resident of Wellesley and a 
 son of Silas and Ellis (Spaulding) 
 Williams, was born in Plainfield, 
 1 8 16. The father, who was born in 
 Royalton, Vt., there spent the greater part of 
 his life, serving in the capacity of Town 
 Clerk for over thirty years. Afterward he 
 moved to Massachusetts, and went into the 
 freight business. He died in this State in 
 1870. Of his eight children three are now 
 living in Newton Lower Falls. 
 
 Silas G. Williams, the subject of this 
 sketch, was withdrawn from the public schools 
 in Plainfield when he was seventeen years old. 
 Then he went to Winchendon, Mass., and ob- 
 tained work in a machine shop connected with 
 a cotton factory there. He was afterward put 
 in charge of the factory, a position that he 
 hekl for several years. From 1843 until the 
 outbreak of the Civil War he was engaged in 
 the freight business at Newton Upper Falls. 
 At the laying of the corner-stone of the 
 Bunker Hill monument Mr. Williams fur- 
 nished a six-horse conveyance, carrying 
 seventy -five persons, a four-horse conveyance 
 carrying fifty, and a two-horse wagon driven 
 by himself, accommodating twenty-five, the 
 entire party going to hear Daniel Webster's 
 great oration. During the war he was a re- 
 cruiting officer by virtue of his office as Se- 
 lectman. After the war he went into the 
 livery business. He died Saturday, January 
 8, 1898, aged eighty-one years and nearly 
 nine months. 
 
 Mr. Williams filled several public offices, 
 where he exercised the same integrity and care 
 which he practised in business. He served 
 for a number of years on the Board of Asses- 
 
 sors and in the capacity of Collector of Taxes 
 in Needham, and he was Selectman there for 
 eight years and the chairman of the Board of 
 Selectmen for several years. In politics he 
 was a Democrat, and he first voted in the 
 Presidential election of 1840. He attended 
 the Unitarian church at Wellesley Hills. In 
 1839 he was married to Nancy C, a daughter 
 of Thomas Caldwell, of Peterboro, N.H. 
 They had eight children — Ellen Augusta, 
 Maria Frances, Flliza Ellis, Caroline Warren, 
 Jeanette Webster, Nancy Caldwell, Silas 
 William, and Eva Katharine. Maria F" ranees 
 married Jonathan Felt; Eliza Ellis married 
 the Rev. Isaac F. Porter; Jeanette Webster 
 died in 1893; Nancy Caldwell married Arthur 
 Waldo Sweetser; Silas William died in child- 
 hood; and Eva Katharine died in infancy. 
 
 TANLEY A. CLARK, who owns 
 and cultivates a productive farm in 
 Millis, is a native of Nova Scotia, 
 and was born August 27, 1863. 
 His parents, William H. and Prudence 
 (Reagh) Clark, were natives of Wilmot, N.S. 
 The father was engaged in agriculture until 
 his death, which occurred in 1885. His first 
 wife. Prudence, died December 27, 1863. 
 His second marriage was contracted with 
 Ceretha Chute, of Wilmot, who is still resid- 
 ing there. Of his eleven children, all by his 
 first union, eight are living, namely: Sarah, 
 the wife of Phi.ieas Whitman, of Nova Scotia; 
 Wallace and John, who are residing in that 
 province; Henry, Charles, and Thomas, resi- 
 dents of Franklin, Mass.; Brenton, who lives 
 in Hyde Park, Mass. ; and Stanley A., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. The others were: Mary, 
 Isaac, and Gilbert. 
 
 Stanley A. Clark attended the common 
 schools of Nova Scotia, and resided at home 
 until he was eighteen years old. He then 
 came to the United States, and settling in 
 Millis was here employed as a farm assistant 
 for some years. After his marriage his father- 
 in-law, George W. Couth ill, bought what 
 is known as the Metcalf farm, containing fifty- 
 seven acres, which Mr. Clark rents, and where 
 he carries on general farming with gratifying 
 success. The property has undergone consid-
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW 
 
 6 19 
 
 erable improvement since it came into liis 
 possession, and he displays an energy and pro- 
 gressive tendency which promise well for his 
 future prosperity. In politics he acts with 
 the Republican party; and, though not desir- 
 ous of holding office, he takes an earnest in- 
 terest in the administration of public affairs. 
 He is connected with the Society of the Home 
 Circle. 
 
 On December 18, 1889, Mr. Clark was 
 joined in marriage with Jennie M. Couthill, 
 who was born in New York City, February 
 12, 1867, daughter of George N. and Sarah 
 (Sease) Couthill. The former is a native of 
 Coldstream, Scotland ; and the latter was born 
 in New York. Mr. Couthill arrived in New 
 York when he was eighteen years old, and 
 there learned the machinist's trade. He is 
 now employed at a straw factory in Franklin, 
 Mass. Mrs. Clark has had two children: 
 Mary Esther, born July 2, 1892, who died 
 March 4, 1893; and George Nesbitt, born Au- 
 gust 22, 1896. Both parents are members of 
 the Baptist church. 
 
 ILLIAM F. DRUGAN, the chief 
 of police in Dedham, was born July 
 29, 1838, in Cambridge, Mass., son 
 of Joseph Drugan. His paternal grandfather, 
 also named Joseph, who was born and reared 
 in Ireland, lived there during his earlier man- 
 hood, engaged as a seine weaver until his emi- 
 gration to America. After his arrival the 
 grandfather located on the island of Grand 
 Menan, off the north-east coast of Maine, and 
 there afterward resided until his death, at the 
 advanced age of seventy -eight years, being 
 much of the time occupied in fishing. 
 
 Joseph Drugan, the father of William F., 
 was born on Grand Menan, where he was bred 
 and educated. Remaining with his parents 
 until twenty years old, in common with the 
 natives of that isle he spent his time in fish- 
 ing after becoming old enough to help support 
 himself. Coming then to Massachusetts, he 
 secured work in a soap factory at Winchester, 
 remaining there as workman and foreman for 
 some years. He afterward resided for a while 
 in Cambridge, going thence to East Boston, 
 where he was foreman of a soap factory until 
 
 1855. In that year he bought a farm in Wal- 
 pole, this county; and from that time until his 
 death, at the age of seventy-eight years, he 
 was engaged in agricultural pursuits. He 
 married Sarah G. Johnston, who was born in 
 Philadelphia, Pa. She was a daughter of 
 P'razicr Johnston, who was accidentally killed 
 in that city while working on the old city 
 hall, leaving his widow with si.x children. 
 The children of Joseph and Sarah Drugan 
 were: William V., the subject of this sketch; 
 Rebecca, now the wife of H. H. Graham; 
 John, of whom there is no special record; 
 Mary, who died in 1890; Anna, the widow of 
 the late Andrew J. Sellon; and Joseph. The 
 mother died at the age of seventy years. Both 
 parents united with the Methodist Episcopal 
 church when living in East Boston. 
 
 William F. Drugan was educated in the 
 public schools of Boston, remaining with his 
 parents until thirteen years of age. He then 
 began learning the mason's trade, serving a 
 four years' apprenticeship during the long- 
 hour times, and afterward worked as a jour- 
 neyman in Boston for some years. In 1861 
 he was one of the first to respond to his coun- 
 try's call, enlisting as a private in Company 
 B, First Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 
 which was the first regiment to pass through 
 Baltimore after the riot. This regiment was 
 also the first assigned to the F'irst Army 
 Corps. Later it was transferred to the Fifth 
 Army Corps, and was in continuous service 
 until after General Grant had crossed the 
 Rapidan. Mr. Drugan saw some severe fight- 
 ing during the three years of his life as a 
 soldier, being with his comrades in some of 
 the most hotly contested battles of the war, 
 from the first battle of Bull Run until his dis- 
 charge in 1864. On returning from the army 
 he resumed his trade, working for a while for 
 L. D. Gray, of Walpole, with whom he subse- 
 quently formed a copartnership, having their 
 headquarters in Dedham, where they located 
 in 1868. They built up a very large and sub- 
 stantial business, which they carried on in 
 company until August 10, 1878. On this 
 date Mr. Drugan was appointed on the police 
 force of Dedham, a position to which he has 
 since been reappointed each year, each suc- 
 ceeding Board of Selectmen recognizing his
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ability and peculiar fitness for the responsible 
 office. Nineteen years ago, when he assumed 
 its management, the force consisted of but two 
 men. The number is now six men, who share 
 the guardianship of a town of nine thousand 
 inhabitants. 
 
 Mr. Drugan has been twice married. His 
 union with Miss Mary E. Richards took place 
 in 1864. She was born in Sharon, Mass., 
 daughter of Moses Richards, a well-to-do 
 farmer and the representative of an early 
 family of that place. She was a woman of 
 great personal worth ; and her early death at 
 the age of twenty-nine years was deeply de- 
 plored by hosts of friends, and her influence 
 was missed in the Orthodox church, of which 
 she was a member. She left two children, 
 as follows: Sarah E. and William H. Sarah 
 E. married Frank L. Gould, a coal dealer at 
 East Walpole, and has four children — Cath- 
 erine, Annie, Maynard, and Howard. Will- 
 iam H., a resident of Cambridgeport and a 
 travelling salesman for B. P. Clark, married 
 Miss Addie Morse, and has one child, Olive. 
 Mr. Drugan married for his second wife Mrs. 
 Martha E. Silsby, a daughter of Jeremiah 
 Getchell, of Hallowel!, Me. In politics Mr. 
 Drugan is a straightforward Republican, and 
 his religious creed is broad and liberal. Fra- 
 ternally, he is a member of Constellation 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., of Dedham ; of Norfolk 
 Chapter, R. A. M., of Hyde Park; and of 
 Hyde Park Council of Select Masters. He is 
 also a member of Charles W. Carroll Post, 
 No. 144, G. A. R., of Dedham; of Samuel 
 Dexter Lodge, No. 232, I. O. O. F., of this 
 town; of the A. O. U. W. ; of the Royal Ar- 
 canum; and is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Chiefs of Police Union. 
 
 flMOTHY J. WHELAN, assistant pas- 
 tor of St. Joseph's Parish, Medway, 
 was Lorn in Lawrence, Mass., Septem- 
 ber 8, 1854, son of Timothy J. and Ellen 
 (Atkin.son) Whelan. His parents, who were 
 natives of County Meath, Ireland, emigrated 
 to the United States, and settled in Law- 
 rence, Mass. Father Whelan's parents reared 
 four children, two sons and two daughters. 
 He acquired his early mental training in the 
 
 public schools of Lawrence, the Amesbury 
 (Mass.) High School, and the Putnam High 
 School in Newburyport, Mass. He subse- 
 quently attended Nicholet College, Canada, 
 and completed his theological studies with a 
 course of four and a half years at St. Mary's 
 College, Baltimore. After his ordination to 
 the priesthood in 1880, he was appointed to 
 serve at St. Barnard's Church, Concord, 
 Mass., where he remained for three years, 
 after which he was stationed at Hopkinton, 
 Mass., for a similar length of time. He was 
 located for a short time in Cambridgeport, 
 subsequently served six years at St. Francis 
 de Sales Church, Roxbury, and since Janu- 
 ary, 1896, has been assistant pastor of St. Jo- 
 seph's Church, Medway. Father Whelan is a 
 zealous priest and an indefatigable worker for 
 the welfare of the church and the prosperity of 
 the parish. 
 
 J RADFORD LEWIS, a veteran man- 
 ufacturer of Walpole Centre, Mass., 
 being senior member of the well- 
 known firm of Bradford Lewis & 
 Son, was born October 9, 18 19, in South Ded- 
 ham, Mass., a son of Joseph Lewis. He is a 
 lineal descendant of William Lewis, who em- 
 igrated from Wales to Massachusetts in 1635, 
 settling in Boston, near Roxbury probably, as 
 he soon afterward united with the First 
 Church of that town, of which John Eliot, the 
 Apostle to the Indians, was the pastor. Isaac 
 Lewis, the great-grandfather of Bradford 
 Lewis, was the first of the family to make his 
 home in Walpole; and here John Lewis, the 
 next in line, was born, lived, and died. 
 
 Joseph Lewis, son of John, was born in 
 Walpole in 1773. During his earlier active 
 life he was for some years a tavern-keeper in 
 Roxbury. He subsequently engaged in gen- 
 eral farming at East Walpole, Mass., where 
 he died at the early age of forty-eight years 
 in 1 82 1. He married Miss Lydia Crane, ojf 
 Milton, Mass.; and they became the parents 
 of four children, of whom Bradford, the spe- 
 cial subject of this sketch, is the only sur- 
 vivor. 
 
 Bradford Lewis left school at the age of 
 sixteen years, and, after serving an appren-
 
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 BRADFORD LEWIS,
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIKW 
 
 623 
 
 ticcship at the trade of hoemaking, followed 
 that occupation for some years in this town 
 and at Plymptonville. He then established 
 himself in mercantile business, opening a gen- 
 eral store in VValpole, which he conducted 
 twelve years. In 1868 he began jjreparing 
 machine waste for use, establishing a plant in 
 this town; and in 1882 he added a paper-mill 
 for the manufacture of bookbinders' board, in 
 which he has since built up a flourishing in- 
 dustry. Having admitted his son to an ecjual 
 partnership in 1880, in 1894 he sold out to 
 this son, James B., who has entire charge of 
 the manufacturing, although Mr. Lewis him- 
 self still attends to the outside business, going 
 to Boston every day. 
 
 Mr. Lewis was married October 27, 1841, 
 to Miss Hannah Gay, of Walpole, who by his 
 side trod life's pathway fifty-one yeans, when 
 on December 3, 1892, little more than a 
 twelvemonth after they had celebrated the 
 golden anniversary of their wedding, the angel 
 of death silently bore her to the realms of 
 eternal day. She left five children, namely: 
 E. Frank, a prominent business man of Law- 
 rence, Mass.; Josephine G., wife of Henry A. 
 Billings, of Providence, R.I.; James Brad 
 ford, junior member of the firm of Bradford 
 Lewis & Son; Harrison N., who until his 
 death, October 8, 1897, had charge of the 
 paper department in the firm's factory; and 
 Florence A., who lives at home. E. Frank 
 Lewis has a wool-scouring factory in Law- 
 rence, and is carrying on the business estab- 
 lished in Walpole in 1870 by him and his 
 father. The business grew wonderfully while 
 it was conducted in this place; and since its 
 removal to Lawrence, in 1890, it has assumed 
 magnificent proportions, the plant being now 
 the largest of its kind in New England. 
 
 In former years Mr. Lewis voted with the 
 old Whig party, and in 1840 cast his first 
 Presidential ballot for William Henry Harri- 
 soif. Since the formation of the Republican 
 party he has been one of its firmest sup- 
 porters. He has been active and influential 
 in local affairs, and has served in all impor- 
 tant offices, including that of School Commit- 
 tee. In 1849 he made a public profession of 
 religion, uniting with the Congregational 
 church, in which he has since been an earnest 
 
 and faithful worker, being at the present time 
 Deacon of the church, superintendent of the 
 Sunday-school, and one of the Parish Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 <^«^» 
 
 ALTER HEWETT, of Needham, 
 the clothing cutter for .Shuman & 
 Co., Boston, was born in Gosport, 
 Hants, England, January 20, 1849, son of 
 Richard and Sarah (Cousens) Hewett. Rich- 
 ard Hewett was born in England in 18 14. 
 When a young man he learned the trade of 
 shipwright, and afterward had charge of the 
 new saw-mills at Portsmouth dock-yards. He 
 is now a government pensioner, living in 
 Wimbledon, County Surrey. His wife, 
 Sarah, a daughter of James Cousens, was born 
 in Hants, England, in 1816, and is still liv- 
 ing. Tney reared seven children — Charles, 
 Richard, James, F"rank, Walter, George, and 
 Sarah — all of whom, with the exception of 
 Walter, are still living in Flngland. 
 
 Walter Hewett was educated in the national 
 schools of Gosport. After leaving school he 
 served an apprenticeship of five years to the 
 clothier's trade. Then he went to London, 
 where he was engaged as cutter and afterward 
 as book-keeper in the same firm. He came to 
 this country in May, 1874, landing in Boston. 
 From there he went to Martin, Ohio, whence 
 after a stay of one year he returned to Boston 
 in the following June. Soon after he entered 
 the employment of A. Shuman & Co. as cut- 
 ter, a position that he has held ever since. 
 He went to Needham to live in 1883, and he 
 has become one of the influential men of the 
 town. Mr. Hewett is a charter member of 
 the Cutters' Union of Boston, and has served 
 in the society as recording secretar}', as finan- 
 cial secretary, and vice-president. For three 
 successive years he went as delegate to the 
 legislature to look out for the interests of this 
 organization. He has been Master Workman 
 of the K. of L. of Highlandville, and also of 
 the National Garment Makers' L^nion of Bos- 
 ton. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, 
 and he has served one year as Selectman of 
 Needham. 
 
 Mr. Hewett was married in England in 
 1 87 1 •to Anne M., daughter of James and
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Eliza Baker, of the parish of North Pethcrwin, 
 County of Devon, England. His children 
 are: William Walter, Bertha Prower, Amy 
 Gertrude, Edith Sarah, and George Henry. 
 William Walter is now working with his 
 father. The three older children were edu- 
 cated in the Avery School, and the two 
 younger are still attending school. 
 
 KLAVIUS JOSEPH US LAKE, the As- 
 sessor of Wellesley and a well-known 
 florist, is a native of Springfield, Vt. 
 Born in 1829, he is a son of Alvah and Eliza- 
 beth (Graves) Lake. His first ancestor in 
 this country was Henry Lake, born in Eng- 
 land in 1635, who came to America, and died 
 in Topsfield, Mass., at the age of ninety- 
 eight. His wife, Priscilla, was a daughter of 
 John and Priscilla Gould, who had a family of 
 four children. The line of descent from 
 Henry Lake is through Daniel, Enos, Enos 
 (second), and Alvah. Daniel married Sarah 
 Bixbee. The first Enos, who, born in 17.13, 
 married Prudence Page, was at the battles of 
 Lexington and Bunker Hill, and shared in the 
 capture of Fort Ticonderoga. Grandfather 
 Enos was married to Abigail Hudson on Sep- 
 tember 22, 1796. She died in 1800. 
 
 Alvah Lake was born in Springfield, Vt., 
 and lived to be fifty-two years of age. His 
 wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of Henry. Graves, 
 was born in Williamsburg, Va. She married 
 for her first husband John Prior, a commis- 
 sioned officer of the Revolution. The subject 
 of this sketch has in his possession a certifi- 
 cate, signed by Generals Washington and 
 Knox, certifying the membership of Colonel 
 Prior in the Order of the Cincinnati. The 
 father of Mrs. Elizabeth Lake ranked with 
 Major Prior. A sister of hers was_ Mrs. 
 Landon Carter, a cut of whose home at Sabine 
 Hill, Va. , appeared in Munscy^ s Magazine for 
 March, 1897. She was a Revolutionary pen- 
 sioner for some time previous to her death, 
 which occurred at the age of seventy-seven. 
 John M. Gregory, Governor of Virginia, 
 1842-43, was an own cousin of hers. 
 
 When Flavins Josephus Lake was a year old, 
 his father moved to Virginia. He was edu- 
 cated in the private schfjojs of the (?itv of 
 
 Richmond in that State. At the age of four- 
 teen years he went to work in the clothing 
 business for William Star, with whom he re- 
 mained for a year. His father then returning 
 to Boston, he went to work for John Simons, a 
 clothier, with whom he remained for eleven 
 years, starting at a salary of two dollars a 
 week, and gradually advancing until he re- 
 ceived twelve hundred dollars a year. He 
 then went into the house of Whiting, Kihoe & 
 Galloupe, of Boston, and was with that firm 
 for twenty years. The firm then changed to 
 that of Bliss, Whiting & Co.; and Mr. Lake 
 became one of the partners. Theirs was 
 among the business houses destroyed in the 
 Boston fire of 1872, when Mr. Lake lost all 
 he had made. He next started as partner in 
 the firm of Lake, Gushing & Daniels, which, 
 after existing for one year, was changed to 
 that of Davis, Lake & Alien. At the end of 
 five years this company was dissolved, and 
 Mr. Lake entered the employ of A. Shum^an 
 & Co., remaining with them for two years. 
 In 1855 he came to Grantville, now Wellesley 
 Hills; and in 1878 he started the florist busi- 
 ness, in which he has since been engaged. 
 He makes a specialty of pinks and violets, 
 and sells principally to the wholesale trade in 
 Boston. His hot-houses cover about sixteen 
 thousand feet of land. In 1884 Mr. Lake was 
 elected Assessor of Wellesley, and has since 
 served the town in that capacity. For three 
 years he was on the Board of Auditors, and he 
 was the chairman of the Building Committee 
 that erected the Shaw School-house. He is a 
 member of the Congregational church at 
 Wellesley Hills, and takes an active part in 
 the church work. In politics he is inde- 
 pendent. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Lake married Mary Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Alexander Grant, of Richmond, 
 who came originally from England. The 
 maiden name of her mother was Elizabeth 
 Wyott Lark. The two children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Lake are: Walter and Alexander. Wal- 
 ter Lake, born in 1853 in Boston, was edu- 
 cated in the Allen School at West Newton 
 and at the schoojs in Wellesley. He married 
 Mary E., daughter of George Mills, of Newton 
 Lower Falls, and has one child, May, born in 
 1880, who is now a pupil in the high school
 
 BIOGRAPHICAI, REVIEW 
 
 625 
 
 at Medfielcl, where her parents reside. Alex- 
 ander Grant Lake, who was born in Grantviile 
 in 1865, and was educated at the Allen School 
 and in Chauncy Hall School in Boston, now 
 has charge of the greenhouses of Lake & Son. 
 He married Charlotte Sarrott, of Nova Scotia, 
 who died in 1895, leaving one son, Charles 
 Percy Lake, to whom she gave birth in 1894. 
 
 Y^EVVIS ALDEN, a well-known and 
 Ijl prominent citizen of Holbrook, was 
 JL j^ ^ born in this town, April 29, 1848. 
 He is a son of Lewis and Abigail 
 N. (Belcher) Alden and a descendant in the 
 ninth generation of John and Priscilla 
 (Mullins) Alden, of Plymouth. His parents 
 were natives of East Randolph (now Hol- 
 brook), Mass. His father died when Lewis 
 Alden was an infant. The boy grew to man- 
 hood in East Randolph, acquiring his educa- 
 tion in the schools of his native town. He 
 finished his studies in the high school in his 
 eighteenth year, and entered the employ of 
 L. F. Wilde & Co., boot and shoe manufact- 
 urers of East Randolph. Engaged in the 
 stock-cutting department of this concern until 
 1874, he was subsequently in the employ of 
 Rufus Gibbs & Co., of Boston, jobbers and 
 manufacturers of boots and shoes. After 
 working in their jobbing department for a 
 short time, he was for three years superintend- 
 ent of their boot and shoe factory in South 
 Weymouth, Mass. In 1878 he returned to 
 Holbrook, and started an independent busi- 
 ness as a boot and shoe manufacturer. In 
 1893 Leonard Belcher became his partner; 
 and the business was conducted under the firm 
 name of Alden & Belcher until May, 1897, 
 when the partnership was dissolved. Mr. 
 Alden has been very successful in business. 
 He was one of the promoters and organizers of 
 the Holbrook Co-operative Bank, and he has 
 been a member of the Board of Directors since 
 its organization. 
 
 He married Harriet S. Hammond, a native 
 of Boston, Mass., and they have two children: 
 Mabel P., a teacher in Holbrook; and Annie 
 L. In politics Mr. Alden is a Republican. 
 A member of the School Committee of Hol- 
 brook since 1889, he has presided during a 
 
 portion of the time as chairman of the board, 
 and has served as clerk and purchasing agent. 
 He was for nine years a member of the Board 
 of Trustees of the Holbrook Public Library, 
 and for some time its president. P'or a num- 
 ber of years he has presided as Moderator of 
 the Holbrook town meetings. He is a charter 
 member of Lodge No. 1753, Knights of 
 Honor, of Holbrook, in which he served for a 
 number of terms as Dictator. He was one of 
 the promoters and founders of the Methodist 
 Episcojjal church in this town, has been class 
 leader since the incorj^oration of the church, 
 and Sunday-school superintendent for twelve 
 years. 
 
 AMES H. MURPHY, a well-known 
 resident of Canton, Mass., where he 
 has served as Selectman, and is now a 
 member of the Board of Health, was 
 born not far from his present home in 1855, of 
 Irish parentage. 
 
 His father, the late Dennis Murphy, grew 
 to manhood in the Emerald Isle, whence he 
 emigrated to this country in 1847. Settling 
 in Canton, he here made his permanent home, 
 winning for himself an assured position 
 among the valued citizens of the town. He 
 was an industrious, hard-working man, and was 
 successfully employed as a carpenter and con- 
 tractor .until his death in 1890. For forty 
 years or more he had charge of the Catholic 
 church and cemetery. He was a Democrat in 
 his political affiliations. To him and his 
 good wife, Mary Golden, seven children were 
 born, of whom four are now living, namely: 
 Mary, wife of Leonard Fisher; Margaret, who 
 married J. Lynch; Annie, wife of Dennis 
 Lyons; and James H., the special subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 James H. Murphy received his elementary 
 education in the public schools of Canton, and 
 made further advance in learning by attend- 
 ance at a private school in Sharon. At the 
 age of seventeen he began working at the car- 
 penter's trade with William Billings, and, 
 after serving his time, followed the trade for 
 more than a dozen years. He established 
 himself in business in 1876 as an undertaker 
 and funeral director, and he continues sue-
 
 626 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL Rp:VIEW 
 
 cessfiilly engaged in that calling. Since the 
 death of his father he has had the care of the 
 Catholic church and cemetery, devoting con- 
 siderable of his time to each. He is also a 
 real estate dealer to some extent, and often 
 acts as auctioneer in this and neighboring 
 towns. In politics he is a sound Democrat, 
 never swerving from party allegiance. He 
 has contributed to the town's welfare and 
 progress by his services for four years as Se- 
 lectman, Overseer of the Poor, and Assessor, 
 also as a member of the Board of Health, on 
 which he is now serving, this being the 
 seventh year he has held the position, al- 
 though not in successive terms. 
 
 For twenty-one years Mr. Murphy has been 
 a member of Division 2, A. O. H., twenty 
 years of the time having been treasurer 
 thereof. He is also a member of the Canton 
 Court of Foresters, of which he has been 
 treasurer for some time; of Magnolia Coun- 
 cil, Knights of Columbus, of Hyde Park; of 
 the Maine Benefit Association; of the Irish 
 Charitable Association of Boston; of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Undertakers' Association; and of 
 the Norfolk County Undertakers' Association, 
 in which he is a director. 
 
 Mr. Murphy was married June i6, 1885, to 
 Miss Jennie O'Donnell, who was born in 
 Stoughton, Mass., a daughter of John O'Don- 
 nell. She died in 1894, leaving no children. 
 
 /^TeORGE bird TALBOT, a retired 
 \ •) I merchant residing in Norwood, was 
 born in Sharon, Mass., February 26, 
 181Q, son of Josiah and Mary (Richards) Tal- 
 bot. He traces his descent by a long line of 
 ancestors to Peter Talbot, who emigrated 
 from England at an early date in the Colonial 
 period. His grandfather, Josiah Talbot, was 
 one of the prominent farmers of Sharon in his 
 day. The father, who was a native of Sharon, 
 followed agriculture with prosperity during 
 his active years. His last days were spent in 
 Norwood, and he lived to be eighty-eight 
 years old. His wife, Mary, who was a daugh- 
 ter of Jeremiah Richards, of Wilton, Me., be- 
 came the mother of eleven children, namely: 
 Nathaniel, who died in infancy: Josiah 
 Warren and P^benezer I-".; Mary Ann, the 
 
 wife of Seth Colburn; George B., the subject 
 of this sketch; Susan M., the wife of .Samuel 
 Richards; Nathaniel (second), who died 
 young; Nancy, who married Amos Binney; 
 Harriet, the wife of Gustavus Forbes; Israel 
 F., who is a physician; and -Sarah W., who 
 married Brainard Darrows. 
 
 George Bird Talbot passed his boyhood in 
 Sharon, where he attended school. At the 
 age of si.\tecn he secured a position as clerk 
 in Foxboro, Mass. He later entered the store 
 of Oliver Ames & Son, of liaston, Mass., 
 with whom he remained four years, working 
 his way forward to the position of head clerk, 
 and receiving charge of the buying of stock. 
 After establishing a general store in West 
 Dedham and conducting it for a year, he sold 
 out, and for the succeeding four years took 
 charge of the estate of his wife's father in 
 Boxboro, Mass. In 1848 he established the 
 wholesale grocery house of Talbot, Winches- 
 ter & Upham, at 48 Water Street, Boston, 
 which became one of the largest concerns of 
 its kind in the city. He had been the prin- 
 ci]3al one of this firm for twenty-five years, 
 when he retired in 1873. Mr. Talbot took up 
 his residence in South Dedham in 1853. 
 Since relinquishing his business in Boston, he 
 has been identified with the progress and de- 
 velopment of this town. He has invested 
 quite largely in land, upon which he built 
 dwelling-houses. These he subsequently sold 
 on the instalment plan. 
 
 In 1840 Mr. Talbot was united in marriage 
 with Augusta Bigelow, who was a daughter of 
 Lyman Bigelow, of Boxboro, Mass. To that 
 union were born two children, one of whom 
 died in infancy. The other child, Augusta, 
 became the wife of Marshman W. Sanborn. 
 His present wife was before marriage Martha 
 Bicknell, daughter of Thomas Bicknell, of 
 Melrose, Mass. She is the mother of six 
 children, namely: Helen Maria and Mary Jo- 
 sephine; Dr. George H. Talbot, of Newton- 
 ville, Mass.; Martha; Erastus W. ; and 
 Jennie F. Mr. Talbot is still active, and at- 
 tends personally to his numerous affairs. In 
 politics he acts with the Republican party. 
 In religious belief he is a Universalist; and 
 he is a member of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 of Nor\Yood, Mass.
 
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 )AVVRENCE McGINNIS, a lar^e real 
 estate owner, living in retirement in 
 Medway, was born in Glenfarden, 
 Ireland, March 17, i<S3i, son of 
 Alonzo and Alice (McHugh) McGinnis. The 
 father, who was a farmer and a grocer in Glen- 
 farden, spent all his lifetime in that place, 
 and died in 1864, aged eighty-four years. 
 By his first marriage, which was contracted 
 with a lady named McGouty, there were seven 
 children. His second wife, Alice McHugh 
 McGinnis, who was a native of County Cavan, 
 died in 1850, aged sixty-two. Of her si.x 
 children the subject of this sketch is the 
 only one living. 
 
 Lawrence McGinnis was educated in Ire- 
 land. At the age of twenty years he emi- 
 grated to the United States, landing in New 
 York City in 1852. Thence he went to Bos- 
 ton, where his brother, Barney McGinnis, was 
 serving on the police force. From Boston, 
 after a short stay, he went to St. Johnsbury, 
 Vt. , and resided there for five years. He 
 next worked at shoemaking in Hopkinton, 
 Mass., for a year and a half, after which he 
 moved to Medway. For nearly forty years he 
 was connected with the shoemaking industry 
 in this town. During that time, by carefully 
 investing his surplus earnings, he acquired 
 considerable property. He owns the old 
 Gladstone House, which he has greatly im- 
 proved, and also two dwelling-houses, which 
 yield a good income. He has been successful 
 as a real estate dealer. Since 1889, when he 
 retired from active labor, he has devoted his 
 time to the care of his property. For the 
 past thirty-eight years he has been a Repub- 
 lican in politics, taking a warm interest in 
 local affairs and the success of his party. His 
 industry and thrift have gained for him the 
 respect of his fellow-townsmen. 
 
 On November 19, 1853, Mr. McGinnis 
 married Rose Kaney, who was born in Glen- 
 farden, Ireland, June 24, 1833, daughter of 
 Francis and Ann (McGuire) Kaney. Her 
 father, who was a cattle dealer, died in Ire- 
 land. Her mother subsequently emigrated 
 with her children to the United States, and 
 died in Medway. Mrs. McGinnis is the 
 mother of eleven children, as follows: Ann, 
 the wife of Francis Flinn, of Boston; Alice, 
 
 who married John Keenan, of Roxbury; 
 Mary, who is now Mrs. William Reardon, of 
 Congress, N.Y. ; John, a real estate dealer in 
 Congress; Bernard, who married Kate Feley, 
 of Holliston, Mass., and is a shoemaker in 
 Medway; Margaret, who is residing at home; 
 Rosilla, the wife of John Reardon, of this 
 town; .Sarah, the wife of Denis Brcsenham, 
 of Boston; Charles, who is conducting a real 
 estate business in Medway; Lawrence, who 
 resides in Boston; and James, who is attend- 
 ing school in Notre Dame, Ind. The family 
 attend the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Mc- 
 Ginnis was a liberal contributor toward the 
 erection of the church edifice in Medway. 
 
 DWARD WHITING, a prominent and 
 successful farmer of Medway, was born 
 in Southboro, Mass., May 22, 1824, 
 son of Mason and Martha (Amsden) Whiting. 
 Mason Whiting was a native of Dedham, 
 Mass. When twenty-four years old he accom- 
 panied his parents to Southboro, where he 
 made his home for a long period, and was 
 diligently engaged in farming. His wife, 
 Martha Amsden, who was born in Hopkinton, 
 Mass., became the mother of seven children, 
 namely: Martha; Edward, the subject of this 
 sketch; Maria; George; Charles; Abbie; and 
 Henry. Martha and Abbie are no longer liv- 
 ing; Maria is the wife of VVillard S. Gill, a 
 farmer and carpenter, residing in Douglas, 
 Mich. ; George, who was married and whose 
 home was in Worcester, Mass., died in De- 
 cember, 1897; Charles is living in retirement 
 in California; and Henry is a railroad man in 
 that State. Mrs. Martha A. Whiting died 
 February 12, 1857, aged fifty-six; and Mason 
 Whiting, who long survived her, spent his 
 last days with his son in Medway, where he 
 died in 1883, at the age of ninety-one years 
 and three months. 
 
 Edward Whiting was educated in the com- 
 mon schools, and when a young man he 
 worked for a short time in a shoe manufactory. 
 He has always, however, preferred agricult- 
 ural pursuits to any other calling: and, set- 
 tling upon a farm in Southboro, he continued 
 to reside there until 1867, when he went to a 
 farm in New Salem, Mass., where he re-
 
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 mained six years. From New Salem he re- 
 moved to Canaan, N. H., and carried on 
 lumbering operations until 1877. In that 
 year he bought his present farm of one hun- 
 dred acres of well-improved land in Med way. 
 He devotes his energies to general farming and 
 dairying, and sells considerable milk. Polit- 
 ically, Mr. Whiting is a Republican. He has 
 been Overseer of the Poor for the past ten 
 years, and has served as Cattle Inspector and 
 Fence Viewer six years. 
 
 On July 2, 1845, Mr. Whiting was joined 
 in marriage with Harriet A. Woods, who was 
 born in Southboro, July 6, 1827. Her par- 
 ents, David and Sally (Arnold) Woods, were 
 prosperous farming people. Her father was a 
 native of Southboro, and her mother of Marl- 
 boro, Mass. To Mr. and Mrs. Whiting in 
 the early years of their married life were born 
 eleven children; namely, Addie A., Edward 
 Mason, Hattie Maria, Emery, Mary Eliza- 
 beth, Francis Waldo, Cora, Nellie L., Jessie 
 I., Mason, and Grace Emma. The following 
 is a brief record of the eight that are now liv- 
 ing: Addie A., whose husband, Uriah Howes, 
 died while serving in the Civil War, is resid- 
 ing in New Salem; Emery is now superin- 
 tendent of the poor farm in Medway; Mary 
 Elizabeth married Lendell Taylor, and lives 
 in Albion, Kennebec County, Me. ; Francis 
 Waldo resides in Southboro; Cora is now 
 Mrs. Searls, and her husband is a lawyer in 
 Boston; Jessie I. married Charles Lawrence, 
 and resides in West Medway; Mason Whiting 
 is at home with his parents: and Grace Emma 
 is the wife of W. Ervvin Smith, of Somer- 
 ville, Mass. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Whiting are members of the 
 Baptist church. 
 
 W: 
 
 [LLIAM K. MELCHER, Inspector 
 of Buildings at Brookline and the 
 chairman of the town Board of 
 Water Commissioners, was born February 13, 
 181 5, in Brunswick, Me., son of Samuel Mel- 
 cher. His grandfather, Samuel Melcher, Sr., 
 spent his entire life in Maine, a large part of 
 the time having been engaged as a carpenter 
 and joiner in the town of Brunswick. 
 
 Samuel Melcher was a house carpenter and 
 
 a ship-joiner, and did a good deal of work at 
 each industry. He erected several churches 
 in different parts of the State, but made 
 Brunswick his chief place of residence, living 
 there until his death, at the advanced age of 
 eighty-seven years. He married Lois D. 
 Dunning, who .was born in Brunswick, Me., 
 daughter of Andrew Dunning. Seven sons 
 and an equal number of daughters were born 
 of the union. Of these five children are now 
 living — William K., Jesse A., Margaret, 
 Frances, and Charles. The mother died at 
 the age of fourscore and four years. Both 
 she and her husband were members of the 
 Brunswick Congregational Church. 
 
 William K. Melcher spent the first twenty- 
 seven years of his life in Brunswick, obtaining 
 a practical education in the public schools, 
 and learning from his father the trade of car- 
 penter and joiner. He subsequently followed 
 his trade as a journeyman for a number of 
 years, first in his native town and then for a 
 year in Boston. From Boston in 1844 he 
 came to Brookline, which has since been his 
 home. In 1849 he started in the business of 
 carpenter on his own account, and continued 
 actively employed for forty years. Among 
 the many buildings erected under his super- 
 vision in this locality is the town hall, a very 
 handsome structure, which cost two hundred 
 thousand dollars. He has been Inspector of 
 Buildings since i88g; and he has served con- 
 tinuously on the Brookline Water Board since 
 1886, having been elected thereto for three- 
 years terms in 1889, 1892, and 1895. Dur- 
 ing this entire period he has been chairman 
 of the board, being its oldest member in 
 point of service and the oldest man in town 
 holding office. He is prominently identified 
 with the Masonic fraternity, being a charter 
 member of Beth-Horon Lodge, and he was for 
 many years a member of St. Omar Command- 
 ery of Boston, of the Boston Council, and of 
 the Mount Vernon Chapter. In the Beth- 
 Horon Lodge he was the First Senior Deacon. 
 He is also a member of the Massachusetts 
 Charitable Mechanic Association, and of the 
 Pine Tree State Club of Boston. In religious 
 faith he is a Congregationalist. 
 . Mr. Melcher was married January 23, 1851, 
 to Charlotte Glazier, who was born in Jericho,
 
 WILLIAM K. MELCHER.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
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 Vt. , daughter of Jotham Glazier. Mr. 
 Glazier, who removed from Jericho to Boston, 
 for some years kept a hotel in the latter city. 
 He afterward lived for a time in Urookline, 
 and then settled in West Boylston, Worcester 
 County, where he died at a venerable age. 
 While living in Brookline he owned the first 
 coach line running from here to Boston, that 
 being the only means of public transportation 
 for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Melcher have 
 three children — Isabel L., William K., and 
 George. Isabel L. is the widow of the late 
 Nelson A. Mowton ; William K., Jr., a mem- 
 ber of the Boston Dry-goods Company, mar- 
 ried Addie Doane, and has three children — 
 Louise, Carl, and George; and George mar- 
 ried Fannie Packard, and they have three chil- 
 dren — Dora, Richard, and Andrew. George 
 is chief engineer at Keith's Theatre in 
 Boston. 
 
 ALTER R. FEGAN, senior mem- 
 ber of the firm of Fegan & Ballou, 
 wholesale dealers in granite, of 
 Ouincy, Mass., was born in this town, Febru- 
 ary 20, 1848. He is of Irish parentage, his 
 father, the late Edward Fegan, son of James, 
 having been born, bred, and married in Ire- 
 land, in County Meath. 
 
 While in his native country Edward Fegan 
 learned the trade of carpenter and wheel- 
 wright, which he followed until his marriage, 
 when he came to America. He settled in 
 West Ouincy, being one of the first to locate 
 in that part of the town, and, resuming his 
 early occupation, continued it until his death, 
 at the age of fifty-five years. His wife was 
 Ellen, daughter of Walter Forbes, of Kildare, 
 Ireland. They had seven children, all of 
 whom were born in this country, as follows: 
 James W. ; Walter R. ; Mary Ann; Eliza- 
 beth; Ellen; the Rev. Edward J., of Natick, 
 Mass. ; and Theresa M. James Fegan, the 
 paternal grandfather, who was a farmer by oc- 
 cupation, spent his entire life in Ireland, with 
 the exception of four years passed in visiting 
 his son in America. 
 
 Walter R. Fegan, after completing his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Ouincy, fol- 
 lowed the blacksmith's trade for about sixteen 
 
 years, and then acted as treasurer and manager 
 of the Quincy Co-operative Granite Works for 
 ten years. On the ist of July, 1890, he 
 formed a partnership with John C. Ballou, 
 under their present firm name. They pur- 
 chased their quarry and plant, which is one of 
 the oldest estalilislied in Ouincy, and have 
 since conducted a thriving wholesale business, 
 making a specialty of monumental work and 
 keeping some forty men constantly employed. 
 In politics Mr. I'egan is a sound Democrat. 
 .Since 1894 he has served as Assessor. 
 
 He was married April 25, 1871, to Miss 
 Mary J. Hernan, who was born in Boston, 
 Mass., a daughter of Michael Hernan and 
 B. M. Mullen Hernan. Mr. Hernan and his 
 wife emigrated from the Emerald Isle a few 
 years after their marriage; and, settling in 
 Ouincy, he was here engaged as a custom boot 
 and shoe maker for several years. His father, 
 Bart Hernan, did an extensive farming busi- 
 ness in Galway, Ireland, where Mrs. Her- 
 nan's father, Peter Mullen, was a trader in 
 cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Fegan have had five 
 children, namely: Edward J., who lived but 
 six years; Aloysius Walter ; Marie De Pazzi ; 
 Edward J.; and Zita Mechtilde. 
 
 TTXHESTER a. BIGELOW, a constable 
 I Vr' and the owner of a livery stable in 
 
 ^Js^^ Wellesley, was born in Sherborn, 
 Mass., in 1844, son of Abraham and 
 Mary (Whitney) Bigelow. The first ancestor 
 of the family concerning whom anything is 
 known came to this country from England, 
 and assumed the name of Bigelow upon his 
 arrival here. Mr. Bigelow's grandfather, 
 Isaac Bigelow, a native of Natick, who was 
 a miller by trade, and died in Natfck in 1852, 
 married Fanny Jackson. Their son, Abra- 
 ham (second), who was a farmer and shoe- 
 maker, was born in Natick in 1810, and died 
 in 1888. He moved to Sherborn, and in 1848 
 purchased a place in Dover. His wife, Mary 
 Brown, a daughter of Ebenezer Whitney, of 
 Dorchester, Mass., who was born in 1813 and 
 died in 1881, had eight children. 
 
 Chester A. Bigelow was sent to the public 
 school in Sherborn and Dover. On Februar)^ 
 24, 1862, -at the age of seventeen, he enlisted
 
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 under Captain Clark, in Company H, Thir- 
 teenth Massachusetts Infantry, commanded by 
 Colonel S. H. Leonard. He went to the 
 Shenandoah Valley with General McDowell's 
 division of the Army of the Potomac, and his 
 first engagement was at Thoroughfare Gap. 
 At the second Bull Run he was taken pris- 
 oner, was paroled at Gainesville, and sent to 
 the parole camp at Columbus, Ohio. On the 
 28th of the following January he was ex- 
 changed, and rejoined his regiment at Ma- 
 nassas. Taken prisoner again at the battle of 
 Gettysburg, he was this time paroled on the 
 field, and sent under a flag of truce to General 
 Couch's line, and from there to the parole 
 camp at West Chester, Pa. On the 24th of 
 July, having been granted leave of absence, 
 he came to Boston on a visit. He returned to 
 his regiment in the following September, and 
 went into winter quarters on the Rapidan 
 River. In the following spring he was with 
 Grant at the battle of the Wilderness, and 
 took part in the engagements before Peters- 
 burg. In July, 1864, he was transferred to 
 Company I of the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts 
 Regiment; and on February 24, 1865, he was 
 mustered out, his term having expired. Dur- 
 ing the whole time of his service he was never 
 wounded, and he was off duty but once. After 
 the war he returned home, and went into the 
 hat business, being located at different times 
 in Medfield, Framingham, Cincinnati, and 
 Newton Upper Fails. Then he went to 
 Dover, where he found employment in a gro- 
 cery store for a year. He came to Boston at 
 the end of that time, to assume the position of 
 discipline officer in the Reform School at 
 Deer Island. Afterward he held a similar 
 position in the school at Providence, R. I., for 
 a short time. Three years later he started in 
 the grocery business, forming a partnership 
 with C. H. Mansfield. After one year he 
 sold his share of the business. Subsequently, 
 before taking up his present occupation at 
 Wellesley, he worked in a hat factory at 
 Natick for a while. He is now associated 
 with his brother in the livery business. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow is one of the constables of the 
 town, having been appointed in 1875, when 
 Wellesley was part of Xeedham. He is a 
 member of the Wadsworth Post, G. A. R., at 
 
 Natick; of the Dalhousie Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 at Newtonville; and of the Sincerity Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F., No. 173, at Wellesley, to which 
 he was transferred from the Eliot Lodge at 
 Needham. In politics he is an ardent Repub- 
 lican. He was married in 1868 to Emma E., 
 daughter of Albion K. P. Howe, of Dover, 
 Mass. 
 
 ,EV. FRANCIS FRIGUGLIETTI, 
 pastor of St. John's Catholic Church 
 at Quincy, was born in Italy. He 
 was educated for the priesthood in 
 Rome, at the College Propaganda, and was 
 ordained in that city in 1859. Five years 
 later, in 1864, he came to Massachusetts, 
 and was first located as assistant pastor of the 
 church at Brookline. Following that, he was 
 for a time assistant pastor of the Gate of 
 Heaven Church in South Boston. He was 
 transferred, with his pastor, Rev. James Sulli- 
 van, to Quincy in P""ebruary, 1868. The church 
 in which the Catholic population were wor- 
 shipping at that time had a seating capacity of 
 about five hundred, but within four years the 
 congregation increased so that larger accom- 
 modations became necessary; and in 1872, 
 as a result of zealous work on the part of 
 Father Friguglietti and the hearty support of 
 his parishioners, a new building was com- 
 pleted, having a seating capacity of twelve 
 hundred, more than twice that of the old 
 structure. The new edifice stands on School 
 Street at the corner of Gay. Eight years 
 later, in 1880, the parochial residence, a 
 handsome and commodious frame house, was 
 erected. 
 
 In the surrounding towns Father Frigu- 
 glietti has four other churches under his care, 
 and three of these were established by him. 
 The fourth is the West Quincy church, which 
 at the time he settled here had a seating 
 capacity of about one hundred and fifty, but 
 which has now been enlarged so that it will 
 seat five hundred. The three that he has 
 organized" are those in Atlantic, at South 
 Braintree, and at Hough's Neck. The Atlan- 
 tic church, built in 1878, seats about four 
 hundred. The one at South Braintree, erected 
 in 1879, seats about three hundred. The
 
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 church at Hough's Neck was built in iiS83. 
 Roughly estimating, it will be seen that his 
 parishioners number about three thousand. 
 He has three assistants; namely, Rev. John 
 P. Cuffe, Rev. F. A. Cunningham, and Rev. 
 J. Johnston. 
 
 Father Friguglietti has been settled over 
 the Quincy church for thirty years, a period 
 marked by great changes ; and he looks back 
 with pleasure and satisfaction upon the suc- 
 cessful accomplishment of his aims and plans 
 for his people. 
 
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 T^ORNELIUS J. MURPHY, a success- 
 I \y ful business man of Norfolk, and who 
 ^lU has figured prominently in local 
 
 affairs, is a native of County Cork, 
 Ireland. Born February 2, 1847, he is a son 
 of Michael and Hannah (Cody) Murphy, who 
 were industrious farming people in the old 
 country. His parents came to the United 
 States in 1848, and settled in Norfolk. The 
 father, who was much respected for his Ikmi- 
 esty and industry, found employment on the 
 farm of Mr. Ware for the rest of his lifetime. 
 He died in June, 1871. The mother, who 
 resides with her son, Cornelius J., has had 
 eight children; namely, Margaret, Cornelius 
 J., John, Jeremiah, Michael, David, Barthol- 
 omew, and Mary. Margaret, Michael, Bar- 
 tholomew, and Mary are now deceased. John 
 resides in Norfolk; Jeremiah is in the real 
 estate business in Kansas City, Mo. ; and 
 David is a railway employee in this town. 
 
 Cornelius J. Murphy attended public and 
 private schools of his native town. When old 
 enough he was employed by Mr. Ware in the 
 lumber and wood business. Later he became 
 Mr. Ware's partner, under the firm name of 
 Ware & Murphy. Since the death of the 
 senior member the business has been con- 
 ducted under the name of C. J. Murphy. Mr. 
 Murphy deals in all kinds of lumber and fire- 
 wood, having a spacious yard in this town ; 
 and he carries on an extensive business. In 
 politics he votes independently, preferring to 
 support the candidates whom he considers 
 most capable of holding office. He was a 
 member of the Board of Selectmen for twelve 
 years, was an Assessor for eight years ; and he 
 
 served as Highway Surveyor for twenty-one 
 years. In the course of his business career, 
 which has been marked by a spirit of enter- 
 prise and a strict adherence to principles of 
 integrity, he has acquired considerable prop- 
 erty. On October i, 1871, Mr. Murphy was 
 united in marriage with JClizabeth Watson, 
 a daughter of Robert and Winifred Watson, 
 of Medway. Mrs. Murphy's parents, now de- 
 ceased, were prosperous farming people. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Murphy have four children — M. 
 Frank, Cornelius Albert, May Ciertrude, and 
 Lester Joseph, all of whom are residing at 
 home. Mr. Murphy is a member of the Cath- 
 olic Order of Foresters. In religious belief 
 he is a Roman Catholic. 
 
 ILLIAM JOHN DANA, a well- 
 lS)\l known florist of Wellesley, who is 
 also Town Constable and the Chief 
 of the Wellesley Fire Department, was born in 
 Roxbury, Mass., in 1856, son of Horace and 
 Mary Catherine (Burns) Dana. The father, 
 who was born in Grafton, Vt., in 181 5, and 
 was left an orphan at an early age, went to 
 Boston when quite young, and worked in the 
 grocery business in that city for a number of 
 years. He then removed to Braintree, and 
 was in the same line of business there, carry- 
 ing on, also, some farming. He died in 
 Braintree, Mass., in 1897. His wife died in 
 1863. 
 
 William John Dana, who was but seven 
 years old at his mother's death, obtained his 
 education in the grammar schools of Ro.xbury 
 and Braintree. When eighteen years of age 
 he began to take contracts for the building of 
 streets, cellars, reservoirs, wells, etc., in the 
 towns of Weymouth and Braintree. At the age 
 of twenty-one he took charge of the Stetson 
 estate of four hundred acres, as superin- 
 tendent. Later he was elected Superintend- 
 ent of Streets in Braintree. In 18S5 he came 
 to Wellesley, and became superintendent of 
 the Hollis estate of two hundred acres. He 
 was retained in this position after the property 
 changed hands, by the new owner. Dr. Cull is, 
 until 1895, when he was appointed by the 
 Selectmen as Superintendent of Streets. In 
 this capacity he served for one year. During
 
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 the last ten years he has efficiently filled the 
 office of Constable. For six years he was 
 Chief of the Fire Department, in which position 
 he showed marked executive ability. In 1891 
 Mr. Dana entered the florist business, which 
 now occupies his chief attention. He started 
 in company with Robert McGorham, under 
 the style of Dana & McGorham. This con- 
 nection had existed for two years when he 
 bought out the interest of Mr. McGorham, 
 and received Denis Murphy into partnership. 
 Dana & Murphy did business for a year, at 
 the end of which time Mr. Dana became the 
 sole proprietor of the business, which he has 
 since conducted under his own name. He 
 makes a specialty of roses, pinks, and violets, 
 which are sold both by wholesale and retail. 
 He has about forty-three thousand feet of land 
 under glass, and his buildings are located at 
 Wellesley Hills. 
 
 In 1S77 Mr. Dana was married to Mrs. 
 Harriet D. Snow, whose first husband was 
 Samuel N. W. Snow, and who is a daughter 
 of John Bowditch, a prominent resident of 
 Braintree. In politics Mr. Dana is a Repub- 
 lican. He is a member of the Florists' and 
 Gardeners' Club of Boston, and of the R. A. 
 at Natick. In 1896 he joined the Roxbury 
 Horse Guards, of which his father was a char- 
 ter member. 
 
 EREMIAH C. KITTREDGE, of Brook- 
 line, author of "Historic Footprints on 
 British Soil," was born in Boston, 
 December 13, 1847, son of Jeremiah 
 and Clarissa J. (Chapman) Kittredge. John 
 Kittredge, the first of the family in this coun- 
 try, came from England to Massachusetts early 
 in the seventeenth century; and since 1652 
 generations of the family have been born in 
 Billerica, this State, and vicinity. 
 
 Thomas Kittredge, great-grandfather of 
 Jeremiah C, was in the French and Indian 
 War and in the Revolution. Jeremiah Kit- 
 tredge, Sr., son of Thomas, was born in 
 Tewksbury, Mass., in 1763, and lived for 
 a number of years in Billerica. He managed 
 a farm and kept a tavern, and for some time 
 he served as Constable of Tewksbury. Al- 
 though but twelve years old wh&n the war 
 
 broke out, he fought in the Revcdution. He 
 died at the age of fifty-five. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Anna Chapman, was a na- 
 tive of Tewksbury. She died at the age of 
 eighty-five. They had a family of five chil- 
 dren, all of whcjm attained maturity. 
 
 Jeremiah, Jr., named for his father, re- 
 mained with his parents until he reached his 
 majority, when, with twenty-five cents in his 
 pocket and with high resolve to succeed, he 
 walked over to Charlestown in search of em- 
 ployment. Securing a clerkship in a grocery 
 store, he went to work with a will, and re- 
 mained there several years, winning by his 
 diligence, courtesy, and evident ability the 
 approval and good will of his employers. 
 Ambitious and energetic, he, in company with 
 a young man named VVyman, at length started 
 in business in Boston, not far from the old 
 Boston & Maine Railroad station. After a 
 few years of prosperity the partnership was 
 dissolved, and he removed to the site now 
 occupied by the Boylston National Bank. 
 Here he began to engage in the West India 
 trade, and in time built a fleet of vessels that 
 sailed to the different ports in the West 
 Indies and to some of the Baltic ports, goods 
 manufactured in the United States being ex- 
 changed for cotton, logwood, mahogany, coffee, 
 and other commodities. In 1835 Mr. Kit- 
 tredge removed to the office on Commercial 
 Street, Boston, where he was in business at 
 the time of his death. Here he carried on 
 a large business in naval stores, in addition to 
 the lines of trade already established. Cam- 
 phene, a burning fluid popular at that time, 
 was invented by him, and brought him large 
 returns. Spirits of turpentine, tar, pitch, and 
 rosin were manufactured and sold by him ; 
 and in the buying of these products he be- 
 came intimately associated with Southern peo- 
 ple whose acquaintance he found agreeable and 
 friendly. 
 
 Although essentially a man of practical 
 affairs, Mr. Jeremiah Kittredge was fond of 
 literature and science, and found time to grat- 
 ify his tastes in these directions by attending 
 courses of lectures. He never entered politi- 
 cal life, though earnestly requested to do so 
 on various occasions, his wide experience of 
 men and affairs having given him a varied and
 
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 practical knowledge that would have been of 
 the greatest service to a public official. He 
 also declined to act as president of the Black- 
 stone National Bank, to which position he was 
 elected. 
 
 In 1843 he purchased from the other heirs 
 their rights in the homestead property in 
 Tewksbt-uy ; and in ,1854 he removed the old 
 house, whicli had stood there since early in 
 i( the eighteenth century, and built the capa- 
 cious house and barn now on the estate. It 
 was his intention to make Tewksbury his sum- 
 mer home; but his death, which occurred on 
 November 5, 1855, prevented. 
 
 He was twice married. His first wife, 
 Lydia Wood, who died young, bore him three 
 children (now deceased). His second wife 
 was a daughter of John Chapman, a black- 
 smith, who came to Tewksbury from London- 
 derry, N. H., and who was a prominent Free 
 Mason. Mrs. Chapman was born in the town 
 of Tewksbury. She lived to the age of 
 ninety-nine years. By his second wife Mr. 
 Kittredge had two children, namely: George 
 Albert and Jeremiah C, who is the only one 
 living to-day. M'r. and Mrs. Jeremiah Kit- 
 tredge were connected with the Park Street 
 Church in Boston, and their sons were chris- 
 tened there. 
 
 Jeremiah C. Kittredge in his youth, after 
 attending the Boston Latin School, went one 
 year to Phillips Academy in Andover, then 
 took a course of study at the Chauncy Hall 
 School, and later was for some time under the 
 tuition of a private tutor, Professor Busbay. 
 His health failing then, he gave up his 
 studies; and shortly after, owing to the death 
 of his elder brother, he assumed charge of the 
 family estate. Since then he has devoted 
 himself to literary work and the care of his 
 property, and for some time he has also been 
 engaged in real estate business. From 1870 
 to 1880 he lived at the homestead in Tewks- 
 bury. He then took up his residence in Bos- 
 ton, and in 1889 he built his present house in 
 Brookline. He was married in 1874 to Mar- 
 tha A., daughter of the Hon. Hiram A. 
 Stevens, of East Boston, and has two daugh- 
 ters — Florence Ethel and Clarissa Maria. 
 
 In politics the Hon. H. A. Stevens was an 
 independent Republican. He was in the 
 
 State legislature, and in 1864 was one of the 
 committee sent to Gettysburg to take charge 
 of the bodies of the Union soldiers. 
 
 Mr. Kittredge is a man of culture, with a 
 broad knowledge of men and things. He has 
 travelled extensively in Europe and the United 
 States. He has published a work on the 
 Tewksbury Library, a "Library Guide," and 
 he has written a number of dramas and com- 
 edies. He is a member of the American Li- 
 brary Association, the Bostonian Society, and 
 Thayer Association of Chauncy Hall. He is 
 chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Tewksbury Public Library. This institution 
 was founded by Mr. Kittredge and his brother, 
 George Albert, and is one of the best libraries 
 in this part of the .State. He also has a re- 
 markably fine private library. Mrs. Kittredge 
 is regent of the chapter of the Daughters of 
 the Revolution of Brookline. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Kittredge attend the Unitarian church. 
 
 LIAB METCALF POND, a retired 
 farmer and a highly respected resident 
 of P^anklin, was born in this town, 
 October 7, 18 19, son of Jeremiah and Polly 
 (Morse) Pond. The Pond farm, which has 
 passed from father to son through- four genera- 
 tions, was settled by Ezra Pond, the great- 
 grandfather of Eliab M. The grandfather 
 was Hezekiah, the si.xth son of Ezra Pond. 
 
 Jeremiah Pond, who was born February 12, 
 1781, died on June 2, 1827. His widow mar- 
 ried Leonard Pond, of Franklin; and both 
 lived on the farm during the remainder of 
 their lives. She died in 1863, and Leonard 
 in 1853. The children of Jeremiah were: 
 Lyman, Eliza P., Moulton, Asa, Eliab j\I., 
 and Alfred D. Lyman was born January 9, 
 1806, married Clarissa Bu.xton, and died De- 
 cember II, 1829. Eliza P., born November 
 II, 1809, now deceased, was the wife of Mark 
 D. Moulton, who is also deceased. The 
 widow of Asa, who was born January 4, 18 15, 
 is living at East Brimfield, Mass. Alfred D., 
 born May 17, 1823, died January 3, 1827. 
 
 Eliab Pond has resided all his lifetime on 
 the old homestead. After leaving the com- 
 mon schools he engaged in general farming, 
 and he took charge of the farm after his mar-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RKVIEW 
 
 riage. On the farm he keeps a dairy. Be- 
 sides the eighty acres of the home estate he 
 owns other land in town conjointly with his 
 son. At first he voted with the Whigs. 
 Since that party went out of existence he has 
 been a Democrat. He is interested in local 
 affairs, but he has never been an office-seeker, 
 nor has he desired to hold office. He attends 
 the Universalist Church of Franklin. A 
 hard-working man, he has become comfort- 
 ably prosperous, and is well-known and re- 
 spected. 
 
 In 1845 Mr. Pond was married to Miss Isa- 
 bella I. Lawrence, a native of Franklin, and a 
 daughter of Leonard and Azuba (Johnson) 
 Lawrence. Mr. Lawrence was a blacksmith 
 by trade, and both he and his wife lived and 
 died in this town. Mrs. Pond died April 2, 
 1897, leaving four children — Fliza Jane, 
 Ella Gertrude, Ada, and Wilton A. Eliza, 
 who was born April 17, 1846, is the wife of 
 William Blake, a farmer, and resides near her 
 father; Ella, born August 30, 1853, is the 
 wife of Charles Weeks, and lives at Matawan, 
 N.J. ; Ada, born January 2, 1862, is now Mrs. 
 Hugh McMillan, of Milford, Mass.; Wilton 
 A., born July 2, i860, lives on the old home- 
 stead with his father, and is engaged in the 
 real estate business. Mrs. Elizabeth Law- 
 rence Clark, a sister of the late Mrs. Pond, 
 keeps house for the family. 
 
 w 
 
 BRADFORD WHITE, late a 
 resident of Canton, Mass., was 
 born in this town in 1830, and was 
 the son of James and Aurelia (Howard) 
 White. 
 
 His grandfather was Rufus White, of Rayn- 
 ham, Bristol County, Mass. James White, 
 son of Rufus, was born in that town, July i, 
 1798, and removed to Canton at the age of 
 about thirty years. He worked at the manu- 
 facture of candle-wicking for some little time, 
 but later on built a mill, and engaged in the 
 manufacture of cotton and satinet, which he 
 carried on for a number of years. He then 
 retired from active business life,- and took care 
 of his property. In his political views he 
 was a liberal. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Aurelia Howard, was born in Chester- 
 
 field, Hampshire County, this State; but 
 when quite young she removed to Bridge- 
 water, Bristol County, where they were mar- 
 ried. They had eight children, four of 
 whom are now living; namely, Mary, James 
 F., Harriet D., and Stillman. Mary White 
 married Mr. D. Makepeace, but is now a 
 widow; Harriet also married a Mr. Make- 
 peace; James V. White resides in Norwood; 
 and Stillman resides in Providence. The 
 father died in 1866. 
 
 W. Bradford White, the second of the three 
 sons here named, was educated in the schools 
 of his native town; and when about si.xteen 
 years of age he learned the machinist's trade, 
 which he followed until 1878. After that he 
 was for seventeen years superintendent of the 
 braiding-mill in the town of Warren, R.I., 
 engaged in the manufacture of lamp-wicking 
 and braids. He then returned to Canton. In 
 politics he affiliated with the Republican 
 party, having at first been a Free Soiler. He 
 was a member of the Blue Hill Lodge of 
 Masons, also of the St. John's Encampment 
 of Knights Templars. 
 
 Mr. White married Sarah Adams, daughter 
 of Jedediah Adams. They had one child, a 
 son, Herbert, who died in infancy. Mr. and 
 Mrs. White attended the Baptist church. Mr. 
 White never cared for public life, but always 
 took a great interest in the affairs of his na- 
 tive town. His death, which occurred April 
 10, 1897, caused wide-spread sorrow in the 
 community. 
 
 ,^ILAS ALLEN STONF:, one of 
 Sharon's prominent business men 
 and a member of its Board of Se- 
 lectmen, was born in Norton, 
 Mass., February 3, 1843, son of Larnard and 
 Caroline (Allen) Stone. His grandfather, 
 Nathaniel Stone, born September 2, 1753, 
 who was a lifelong resident of Norton and a 
 manufacturer of iron, served as a Corporal in 
 the Revolutionary War, and died April 11, 
 1835. Nathaniel married Rebecca Wood- 
 ward, who, born in Taunton, Mass., June 26, 
 1758, died September 8, 1806. They had 
 twelve children, as follows: Sarah, born Feb- 
 ruary 20, 1780, who died October 4, 1843;
 
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 Sibyl, born December i, 1781, who died 
 March 25, 1832; Rebecca, born October 14, 
 1783, who died May i, 1857; Nathaniel, born 
 June 26, 1785, who died July 26, 1840; Han- 
 nah, born August 12, 1787, who died June 3, 
 1866; Lydia, born October 14, 1789, who 
 died March 19, 1876; Lucinda, born Decem- 
 ber 17, 1791, who died July 20, 1870; 
 Betsey, born August 4, 1793, who died Octo- 
 ber 9, 1880; Larnard, born December 25, 
 1794; Earl W., born October 15, 1796, who 
 died January 28, 1879; Fanny, born July 24, 
 1798, who died January 22, 1879; and Mason, 
 born May 21, 1800, who died in 1888. 
 
 Larnard Stone was reared in Norton. 
 When a young man he was engaged in ped- 
 dling dry goods for several years. In 1834 he 
 bought a farm in Norton, where he resided for 
 a time. Later he was foreman of his brother's 
 mill in East Newton, Mass. Failing health 
 finally compelled him to retire; and he died 
 September 12, 1859. He was a good me- 
 chanic, doing considerable work in that line; 
 and he also settled estates. His first wife, 
 Caroline, who was born in Mansfield, Mass., 
 November 7, 1806, died July 14, 1846. On 
 May 24, 1848, he married for his second wife 
 Mrs. Roxanna Carpenter Harris, who, born 
 in 1801, died August 12, 1849. His children 
 by his first wife were: Hiram L., born Octo- 
 ber 23, 1834, who died March 25, i860; 
 Nathaniel D., born December 15, 1835, who 
 died February 24, 1858; Sarah C, born Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1839, who died May 14, 1869;- Silas 
 A., the subject of this sketch; and George 
 O., born April 29, 1845, who died April 3, 
 1847. 
 
 Silas Allen Stone was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Norton. When nineteen years 
 old he began to learn the blacksmith's trade 
 in Sharon. After serving his apprenticeship 
 and working as a journeyman for a time, he 
 went to Providence, R.L, where he remained 
 a year. Returning to Norton, he followed his 
 trade upon his own account for two years, and 
 then built his present shop in Sharon. Here he 
 was engaged in the general business of black- 
 smith and wheelwright quite extensively until 
 1 880. For the succeeding three years he re- 
 sided upon his grandfather's old farm in Nor- 
 ton, carrying on general farming and dealing 
 
 in horses and carriages. From 1883 to 1892 
 he was engaged in the manufacture of car- 
 riages and general blacksmith work. Since 
 that year, besides carrying on his farm, 
 his time has been given exclusively to dealing 
 in horses and carriages. In politics he is a 
 Republican, and he has been a member of the 
 Republican Town Committee for some time. 
 While residing in Norton he served as a Se- 
 lectman and Assessor, and was Overseer of 
 the Poor for two years. Previous to 1896 he 
 was a Selectman of this town, and he was 
 elected to that office for the thirteenth time in 
 1897. 
 
 On April 29, 1867, Mr. Stone was united 
 in marriage with Mary L. Billings, a native 
 of this town. She is a daughter of Sanford 
 and Phoebe (Lincoln) Billings, natives re- 
 spectively of Sharon and Easton, Mass. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Stone have two children: Mary C, 
 born April 26, 1869; and Allen, born Novem- 
 ber 10, 1875. Mary C. is now the wife of 
 Adolph P. D. Piguet, a florist of West Rox- 
 bury, Mass. Allen is residing at home. Mr. 
 Stone has been a member of St. James Lodge, 
 F. & A. M., of Mansfield, since 1866; and of 
 Lodge No. 43. Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, of Sharon. Mrs. Stone is a mem- 
 ber of the Congregational church. 
 
 ENRY S. WARD, a capable farmer and 
 respected citizen of Franklin, Mass., 
 was born in Wrentham, Mass., Au- 
 gust 5, 1869, son of William S. 
 and Adeline S. (Ruggles) Ward. The father, 
 who was a native of P'ranklin, removed to 
 Westbury in early manhood, and subsequently 
 resided in other towns, for the most part 
 carrying on a business in general repairing. 
 Finally returning to Westbury, he now resides 
 there, retired from active work. His wife, 
 Adeline, who was a native of Wrentham, died 
 in 1869. They had two children: William, 
 a promising boy, who died at the age of four- 
 teen years; and Henry S., whose name ap- 
 pears at the head of this sketch. 
 
 Henry S. Ward was educated in the public 
 school of Franklin. When he was an infant 
 he was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Corbin, 
 of Franklin, and brought up by them as their
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 own child. He remained with his foster-par- 
 ents until he was twenty-three years old, 
 when he came to live on his present farm, 
 which contains fifty acres. He leases the 
 property and carries on general farming, keep- 
 ing poultry and paying special attention to 
 dairying, besides running a wagon in Frank- 
 lin. Energetic and industrious, he has met 
 with a fair measure of success. In politics 
 he is a Republican, and he takes an active in- 
 terest in all that pertains to the welfare of the 
 town in which he lives. 
 
 Mr. Ward was married May 24, 1893, to 
 Miss Georgia E. Medley, of Montreal, Can- 
 ada. Mrs. Ward was born August 23, 1871. 
 and is a daughter of Stephen B. and Anna M. 
 (Page) Medley. Her father, who is now de- 
 ceased, was a merchant. Her mother resides 
 in Holyoke, Mass. Mrs. Ward is a member 
 of the Baptist church, and attends service in 
 Boston. She is the mother of one child, 
 Maude S., born June 27, 1895. 
 
 ENJAMIN GANNETT, a prominent 
 resident and real estate owner of 
 Sharon, was born upon the farm 
 where he now resides, March 29, 
 1825, son of Captain Earl B. and Mary 
 (Clark) Gannett. The grandfather, Benjamin 
 Gannett, who was a native of Sharon, cleared 
 from the wilderness the farm now owned by 
 his grandson. He served as a member of the 
 Board of Selectmen. He married April 7, 
 1784, Deborah Sampson, the only woman of 
 whom it is authentically recorded that she 
 served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. 
 An interesting article in regard to her ap- 
 peared in the Boston Transcript in March, 
 1897, showing that she enlisted, probably by 
 proxy, in April, 17S1, at which time she was 
 twenty-two years old, under the name of 
 Robert Shurtleff, in a company commanded by 
 Captain George Webb, in the Massachusetts 
 regiment commanded by Colonel Shepherd 
 and afterward by Colonel Henry Jackson. 
 Dressed in male clothes, she kept the* secret 
 of her sex until the close of 'the war. She 
 was at the capture of Cornwallis, having 
 recovered from the immediate effects of a 
 wound received at Tarrytown some months be- 
 
 fore, but from which she died April 29, 1827, 
 after years of suffering. Some years after her 
 marriage, when her wound began to be 
 troublesome, she applied for and received a 
 pension from the government, being success- 
 ful in proving herself to be the identical per- 
 son who had served as Robert Shurtleff. The 
 pension ceased at her death, at which time her 
 husband was seventy-four years old. Mr. 
 Gannett being then in reduced circumstances 
 owing to the expenses attached to his wife's 
 sickness, application was made to Congress for 
 a special act in his favor, which, owing to the 
 absence of any law governing the case, was not 
 granted until January 31, 1837, at which time 
 the Committee on Pensions reported a bill 
 granting him a pension of eighty dollars per 
 year "from March 4, 1831, for and during his 
 natural life." This relief arrived too late, 
 however; for Mr. Gannett had been in his 
 grave for three weeks when the report was 
 made. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Gannett 
 reared three children — Patience, Earl B. , and 
 Mary. Patience married Seth Gray, and 
 Mary wedded Judson Gilbert. 
 
 Earl B. Gannett, Benjamin Gannett's 
 father, was born in Sharon, November 8, 
 1785. He was a stone-cutter by trade, which 
 he followed in connection with farming; and 
 he assisted his father in improving the home- 
 stead property. He held a Captain's commis- 
 sion in the State militia, and was favorably 
 known in this locality. He was accidentally 
 killed at a quarry, June 9, 1845. His wife, 
 Mary, born in Sharon, December 17, 1788, 
 was a daughter of Thomas Clark, a stirring 
 farmer of Sharon. The other children of Mr. 
 Clark were: Amatha, Lewis, Nathan, John, 
 Rhoda, Susan, Thomas, and Marcus. Cap- 
 tain Gannett's children were: Mary, who mar- 
 ried Barzilla Monk, of Stoughton, Mass.; 
 Patience, who married Asa L. Drake, of 
 Sharon; Rhoda, who became the wife of 
 Elijah Monk, of Stoughton; Deborah, who 
 died March 13, 1821, aged three years; Earl, 
 who successively married Susan Gay, of Can- 
 ton, Mass., and Jane, the widow of Henry 
 Reid ; Benjamin, the subject of this sketch; 
 Thomas, who died at the age of thirty-one 
 years; and Joseph Warren. Of these there 
 are three survivors: Rhoda, Earl, and Ben-
 
 BIOGRAI'HlC7\L RKVIEW 
 
 ('39 
 
 jamin. Joseph Warren Gannett was formerly 
 auditor for the Union Pacific Railroad at 
 Omaha, Neb., and the treasurer of the Repub- 
 lican Valley Railroad Company. He married 
 for his first wife Kate Joslyn and for his sec- 
 ond Fanny Joslyn. By his second union he 
 has one son, Earl. Mrs. Earl I^. Gannett 
 died in March, 1872. 
 
 Benjamin Gannett acquired his education in 
 the district schools of Sharon, and was reared 
 to farm life at the homestead where he has al- 
 ways resided. After his mother's death he 
 bought the home farm of forty-five acres. He 
 also owns' another farm of a like size. He 
 has followed agriculture with good financial 
 results, and has been successful as a real es- 
 tate dealer. At the present time he leases 
 the greater part of his property, retaining a 
 small portion, which he cultivates. He was 
 formerly quite an extensive dealer in horses, 
 and he carried on livery stables in various lo- 
 calities. 
 
 Mr. Gannett was first married to Martha 
 Jane Gay, of Stoughton, who died May 10, 
 1859, aged thirty-three years. On May 26, 
 1867, a second marriage united him to Helen 
 E. Thayer, of North Easton, Mass. She is a 
 daughter of Zebah and Prudence (Stone) 
 Thayer, natives respectively of Bridgewater 
 and South Easton. Mr. Thayer, who was a 
 carpenter by trade, died June 22, 1875, and 
 his wife on March 26, 1888. They were the 
 parents of nine children: Sarah S., Fidelia, 
 and George G., who are no longer living; 
 Lydia S. and Mary; Lucy Jane, who married 
 W. S. Martin, of Pawtucket, R.I.; Mary A., 
 the wife of Charles Perkins, of F"ayville, 
 Mass.; Helen E., who is now Mrs. Gannett; 
 and Lillie M., the wife of Edward Monks, of 
 Stoughton. By Mr. Gannett's first union 
 there were four children, namely: Isaac B., 
 born November 28, 1847; Mary Jane, born 
 November 28, 185 i ; Warren, who died in in- 
 fancy; and Hannah L., born June i, 1858. 
 Isaac B. married Emily Trafton, and resides 
 near Pawtucket, R.I. Mary Jane is the wife 
 of Frank Leonard, formerly of Stoughton, 
 now a coal dealer and contractor residing in 
 Sharon. She has one daughter, Edith Brad- 
 ford. Hannah L. is the wife of Herbert 
 Pollard, of Sharon, and has one daughter, 
 
 Ella Louise. The children of Mr. Gannett's 
 second union are: Nettie F., born March 16, 
 1868; Adelbert Henry, born November 14, 
 1869; Benjamin F., born January 10, 1871; 
 and Susan G., born August 26, 1873. Nettie 
 F. is the wife of Walter Watson, formerly of 
 Sharon, now of Needham, and her children 
 are: Helen A., Roy G., Warren D., and 
 Pearl. Adelbert Henry, a merchant who re- 
 sides in North Somerville, Mass., married 
 Annie Parker. Benjamin F., who is a horse 
 dealer in Dedham, wedded Maggie Burke, 
 and has three children — Harold S. , John, and 
 Benjamin. Susan G. is employed in a store 
 in Stoughton. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Gannett is a Democrat. 
 P'or nineteen years he has served as Select- 
 man, Overseer of the Poor, and Assessor; and 
 he has been a member of the Board of Health 
 for thirteen years. His life has been an ener- 
 getic and industrious one, and he is still 
 smart and active. 
 
 TEPHEN H. REYNOLDS, resid- 
 ing at 71 Central Avenue, Hyde 
 Park, Norfolk County, was until 
 quite recently junior member of the 
 firm of Hood & Reynolds, manufacturers of 
 dental instruments and dealers in dental 
 goods, with a factory in this town and a depot 
 at 178 Tremont Street, Boston. He was born 
 March 17, 1S35, in New Market, N.H., a son 
 of Stephen Reynolds. 
 
 The emigrant ancestor of the family, who 
 was of English descent, came to Massachu- 
 setts from Port Royal, N.S., in 1674, and 
 settled in or near Haverhill. One of his 
 grandsons, Daniel Reynolds, a progenitor of 
 Stephen H. some generations removed, was 
 born in Bradford, Mass., in 1728. 
 
 Daniel Reynolds, second, the next in line 
 of descent, was born in Bo.xford, Mass., in 
 1754, and in early manhood settled in Lon- 
 donderry, N.H., where he was afterward for 
 many years one of the leading citizens. He 
 served as an officer in the Revolutionary War, 
 first as Captain of a company in Colonel 
 Moody's regiment, and later as Colonel of a 
 regiment that he raised. In 1780, 1784, 
 1786, and 1788 he was a Representative to
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 the General Court; and in 1785, 1787, 1789, 
 and 1792 he was Selectman of the town. 
 He died December 13, 1795. 
 
 His son, Daniel, third, grandfather of 
 Stephen H., was born and reared in Derry, 
 N.H., where he learned the carpenter's trade, 
 which he followed for a time. He subse- 
 quently gave that up, and was engaged as a 
 teacher in the district schools of Dover and 
 Durham for a number of years, and later was 
 Deputy Sheriff of Strafford County. He died 
 at the early age of thirty-eight years. His 
 wife, Elizabeth Leighton, who was born in 
 Durham, N.H., was a daughter of James 
 Leighton, one of Paul Jones's "Men," and a 
 niece of Judge Thompson, of that town. She 
 died September 12, 1851, aged seventy-one 
 years, having been the mother of seven chil- 
 dren, among them being Stephen, father of 
 Stephen H. 
 
 Stephen Reynolds was born and educated in 
 Durham. He chose shoemaking as his occu- 
 pation, and followed it in his native town and 
 in New Market for a while, but later removed 
 to Madbury, N. H., and purchasing land was 
 thenceforth engaged as a farmer, shoemaker, 
 and station agent, living there until his death, 
 which occurred at the age of seventy-four 
 years. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Sally Garland, was born in Durham. Her 
 parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Garland, each 
 had an earthly life of more than ninety-five 
 years. Her paternal grandfather was killed 
 in the Revolutionary War. Stephen and 
 Sally (Garland) Reynolds reared eleven chil- 
 dren, namely: Mary E. ; Lydia, who died in 
 1867; Stephen H. ; James A.; Hannah J.; 
 Charles W. ; Sarah M. ; Josephine M.; John 
 D. ; George A. ; and Bernice A., who died in 
 1849. The mother passed away at the age of 
 threescore and ten years. She was a devoted 
 member of the Baptist church, of which her 
 husband was for many years a Deacon. 
 
 Stephen H. Reynolds attended the district 
 school until ten years of age, when he entered 
 the cotton-mills, 'where he remained seven 
 years, working twelve hours a day. Going 
 then to Boston, he spent three years in learn- 
 ing the trade of a gold beater, receiving two 
 and a half dollars per week wages. Before 
 the beginning of the late Rebellion, Mr. Rey- 
 
 nolds went to Concord, Mass., where he en- 
 listed as a private in Company G, Fifth Mas- 
 sachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He served 
 throughout his three months' term of enlist- 
 ment, passing through the battles of Bull Run 
 and other engagements. After his discharge 
 he returned to Concord, and re-enlisted as a 
 private in the First Massachusetts Light 
 Battery, which was first attached to the First 
 Army Corps and then to the Si.\th. He was 
 promoted first to the rank of Corporal, then to 
 Sergeant, and was an active participant in the 
 battles at West Point, Gaines's Mills, Sav- 
 age's Station, Charles City Cross-roads, sec- 
 ond Bull Run, Grampton Pass, South Moun- 
 tain, Antietam, and at Fredericksburg, where 
 on December 13, 1862, he was severely 
 wounded. He was taken to the hospital, of 
 which he remained an inmate until August 
 15, 1863, when he received his honorable dis- 
 charge. 
 
 Returning to Concord, Mass., Mr. Reynolds 
 resumed work at his trade, continuing there 
 two years. He then settled as a gold beater 
 in Boston, where in 1872 he formed a partner- 
 ship with Mr. Hood, beginning business on a 
 small scale. This they gradually enlarged, 
 eventually employing twenty hands at the fac- 
 tory in Hyde Park, of which Mr. Reynolds 
 had the supervision, and a large number of 
 salesmen in their office in Boston. Both 
 members of this enterprising firm, being men 
 of superior business ability and push, kept 
 well abreast of the times in regard to the 
 modern methods of dentistry, manufacturing 
 and handling all instruments, articles, and 
 materials used in the dental profession. In 
 March, 1897, Mr. Reynolds withdrew from 
 the firm of Hood & Reynolds, and, associat- 
 ing himself with his two sons, has since con- 
 tinued the manufacture of gold foils and other 
 specialties for dentists" use. 
 
 Mr. Reynolds was married on the 8th of 
 September, 1866, to Miss Lucy Adams, who 
 was born in Dorchester, Mass., the only child 
 of George W. Adams, a clerk. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Reynolds have three children, namely: Lizzie 
 G. , born in 1868, who is now the wife of 
 Edgar Hodgson, a jeweller and watchmaker in 
 Boston, and has two children — Maurice and 
 Gladys; George L., who married Miss Ella
 
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 Brown, and is in tiie factory with his father; 
 and S. Warren, also in the factory, who mar- 
 ried Miss Mabel Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. Rey- 
 nolds have lost one child, a son named Wal- 
 ter, who died in 1877. 
 
 In politics Mr. Reynolds affiliates with the 
 Republican party. He is a member of Timo- 
 thy Ingraham Post, No. 121, G. A. R., in 
 which he has served as Commander, besides 
 holding all other important offices; he has 
 held the highest official position in the local 
 lodge of Knights of Honor; has been treas- 
 urer two years of Forest Lodge, No. 148, 
 I. O. O. ¥. ; and is an active member of the 
 Waverly Club. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds 
 are regular attendants of the Baptist church. 
 In 1894 they took possession of their pleasant 
 dwelling, which he had just completed; and 
 here they entertain their numerous friends and 
 acquaintances with a gracious hospitality. 
 
 RTHUR F. YOUNG, of Foxboro, a 
 dyer and bleacher, and a manufacturer 
 of felt and straw hats, was born in 
 this town, November 16, i860, son 
 of Asa H. and Sarah (Atwood) Young. The 
 father, who was born and reared in Luton, 
 Bedfordshire, England, learned to dye straw 
 goods in his native town, and subsequently 
 worked at the trade until 1859. Then he 
 came to America to join his brother William, 
 who was already established in the same busi- 
 ness at Hersey Place, Foxboro. A few years 
 later he accepted the position of chief dyer at 
 the Union Straw Works, where he remained 
 about ten years. In 1885 he built a large 
 shop near his home, and taking his eldest son, 
 Arthur F., into copartnership, he began the 
 business of bleaching and dyeing, in which 
 he is an expert, and the manufacture of 
 straw and felt hats. Soon after coming here 
 he married Miss Sarah Atwood, who is also a 
 native of Luton. She has borne him seven 
 children; namely, Arthur F., Jennie, Walter, 
 Charles, William, Harry, and Alfred. Wal- 
 ter, who is living in this town, married Mary 
 A. McGoty; Charles married M. Lou Butter- 
 worth, and has two children — Leslie and 
 Marguerite; and William married Miss Ada 
 Forrest. 
 
 Arthur F. Young obtained a practical edu- 
 cation in the public schools of this town, and 
 under the instruction of his father learned the 
 trade of a dyer at the Union Straw Works, 
 where he was employed three years. He 
 afterward worked at his trade with B. H. 
 Spaulding in Milford, Mass., and for three 
 years in Monson, Mass., with the firm of Mer- 
 rick, Fay & Co. In 1885 he returned to I*"ox- 
 boro, and entered into partnership with his 
 father, with whom he has since carried on an 
 extensive and remunerative business. In pol- 
 itics Mr. Young has been identified with the 
 Republicans since he cast his first Presiden- 
 tial vote in 1884 for James G. Blaine. He 
 takes much interest in local affairs, and is 
 now serving as chairman of the Board of Se- 
 lectmen. He was made a Mason in St. Al- 
 bans Lodge of this town. On October 14, 
 1892, he married Miss Elizabeth N. Cook, 
 daughter of George T. and Clarissa (Stratton) 
 Cook. She is a direct descendant and almost 
 the last member of an old and honored family' 
 of Norfolk County. Mr. and Mrs. Young 
 have one son, Cecil Young. 
 
 Tt^OBERT GOULD SHAW, the owner 
 I ^Y^ of one of the finest estates in Need- 
 |b\ ham, was born in Boston, June 16, 
 
 ^"^ 1872. A son of Quincy Adams and 
 Pauline (Agassiz) Shaw, he belongs to one of 
 the most prominent families in Boston. 
 Among his ancestors are numbered Governor 
 Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts, and no less 
 than twelve famous divines of New England. 
 His great-great-grandfather, Francis Shaw, 
 Sr. , who was born in Boston, March 29, 1721, 
 became a merchant of Gouldsboro. In 1745 he 
 married Lydia Dickman, who died December 
 26, 1746. A second marriage contracted by 
 this ancestor on September 22, 1747, united 
 him to Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Burt, a 
 silversmith, of whose skilful workmanship 
 many specimens are still preserved. Francis 
 Shaw, Sr., died October 18, 1784. His eld- 
 est son by his second wife, Francis Shaw, Jr., 
 born July 28, 1748, who resided in Goulds- 
 boro, there, in 1773, married Hannah Nickels, 
 who was born October 20, 1754. In 1770 
 Francis Shaw, Jr., became agent for his father
 
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 and Robert Gould, of Boston, in carrying on 
 extensive building operations at Gouldsboro. 
 He died there April 17, 1785. His widow 
 subsequently married Joseph Townsley, and 
 died at Steuben, Me., at the age of eighty- 
 one years. 
 
 Robert Gould Shaw, the grandfather of the 
 present bearer of that name, was one of Bos- 
 ton's merchant princes. Born in Gouldsboro, 
 June 4, 1776, he removed to Boston at the age 
 of thirteen, and there entered upon a mercan- 
 tile career. He married February 2, 1809, 
 Elizabeth Willard Parkman, a very beautiful 
 society belle, who made him a devoted and 
 loving wife. She belonged to the well-known 
 Boston family of that name, having connection 
 with the distinguished Massachusetts families 
 named Cheever, Lathrop, Breck, Rogers, 
 Dennison, Appleton, Woodbridge, Whiting, 
 and Chester. Through a long career Grand- 
 father Shaw was a most honorable man in all 
 his relations. While enterprising and highly 
 successful, he was also charitable. His wife 
 died April 14, 1853. His grief for her is be- 
 lieved to have been the chief cause of his 
 death on the 3d of May following. It is said 
 of him: "He was very tender-hearted to man 
 and beast. Prosperity never injured him, and 
 he retained to the end of his life a singularly 
 unworldly and youthful spirit." He be- 
 queathed four hundred thousand dollars as a 
 fund with which to found the Shaw Asylum 
 for Mariners' Children. His children were: 
 I<"rancis George, Sarah Parkman, Samuel Park- 
 man, Robert Gould, Anna Blake, Gardner 
 Howland, Joseph Coolidge, Elizabeth Will- 
 ard, and Ouincy Adams. Francis George, 
 born October 23, 1809, married Sarah Blake 
 Sturgis, and died November 7, 1882. His 
 eldest son was the famous Colonel Robert 
 Gould Shaw, who fell at Fort Wagner, and to 
 whom a monument was recently erected in 
 Boston Common. Colonel Shaw, who was 
 born October 10, 1837, and graduated from 
 Harvard College in i860, married Anna Knee- 
 land Haggerty soon after leaving college. In 
 April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 
 Seventh New York Regiment, was rapidly 
 promoted, and at the time of his death was 
 Colonel of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts 
 (colored) Volunteers. He was killed in the 
 
 assault on Fort Wagner, S. C, July 18, 1863, 
 in the twenty-sixth year of his age. "The im- 
 mortal charge of his black regiment reads like 
 a page of the Iliad or a story from Plutarch." 
 Sarah Parkman, born March 3, 181 1, married 
 Colonel George Robert Russell, who died Au- 
 gust 6, 1866. Samuel I'arkman, who was 
 born November 19, 1813, married Hannah 
 Buck, and died December 7, 1869. Robert 
 Gould, who, born September 17, 181 5, died 
 December 2, 1853, married Mary Louisa 
 Sturgis, whose death occurred August 9, 1870. 
 Anna Blake, born August 6, 18 17, married 
 Colonel William Batchelder Greene, who died 
 May 30, 1878. Gardner Howland, born June 
 10, i8ig, married Cora Lyman, and died May 
 I, 1867. Joseph Coolidge, born January 22, 
 1821, who became a priest in the Catholic 
 church, died March 10, 185 1. Elizabeth 
 Willard, born February 3, 1823, died Febru- 
 ary 14, 1850. She married Daniel Augustus 
 Oliver, whose death happened in the same 
 year as hers. 
 
 Ouincy Adams Shaw was born February 8, 
 1825. He married Pauline Agassiz, a daugh- 
 ter of the celebrated scientist, Louis John 
 Rudolph Agassiz, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., who 
 was born May 28, 1807, near Lake Neufchatel, 
 Switzerland, and who died at Cambridge, 
 Mass., December 14, 1873. Mr. 0. A. Shaw 
 was one of the syndicate that opened the 
 Calumet and Hecla Copper Mines, which have 
 been a source of wealth to several Boston men. 
 His connection with that enterprise enabled 
 him to make a large fortune. He is now liv- 
 ing in retirement in Boston. His children 
 are: Louis Agassiz, born September 10, 1861, 
 who married Mary Saltonstall, daughter of the 
 Hon. Leverett Saltonstall; Pauline, born July 
 28, 1863; Marian, born February 21, 1866; 
 Ouincy Alexander, born July 30, 1869; and 
 Robert Gould, the subject of this biography. 
 
 Robert Gould Shaw prepared for college in 
 the Hopkinson Private School in Boston, and 
 graduated from Harvard University in the 
 class of 1895. In 1896 he purchased the 
 property he now owns on South Street, Need- 
 ham. Here he has built a handsome resi- 
 dence and one of the best stables in the town. 
 He is much interested in the breeding of race 
 horses and polo ponies. The social gifts for
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 ''MS 
 
 which his family has been famous are his in a 
 marked degree. He is a member of the prin- 
 cipal clubs of Harvard, of the Puritan Club of 
 Boston, the Country Club, the Myopia Club, 
 the Norfolk Hunting Club, and the Deep Run 
 Hunting Club of Richmond, Va. Ilis sum- 
 mers are spent at the seashore, and he passes 
 the winter at his well-equipped farm in Need- 
 ham. On October 27, 1897, he was married 
 to Miss Nancy Langhorne, a daughter of 
 C. D. Langhorne, of Richmond, Va. Though 
 now leading a life of leisure, Mr. Shaw has 
 shown those sterling qualities that distin- 
 guished his ancestors as honorable and suc- 
 cessful business men and brilliant members of 
 society. 
 
 ton) 
 
 OEL P. HEWINS, of Sharon, died 
 June 29, 1897, in the house where he 
 was born, June 13, 1817, his parents 
 being Deacon Joel and Polly (Plimp- 
 Hewins, and his grandfather, Lieutenant 
 Enoch Hewins of the Continental army. 
 Deacon Joel Hewins, born April 27, 1787, 
 was a blacksmith by trade, which he followed 
 many years (in the shop still to be seen oppo- 
 site the head of Station Street) in connection 
 with farming, and was an active, hard-working 
 man. . He was prominent in public affairs in 
 town and church, and a leader in progressive 
 public and private undertakings — a fine ex- 
 ample of old Puritan stock — and died June 23, 
 1871. Polly Plimpton, his wife, who was 
 born in the west part of Sharon, April 20, 
 1 79 1, and died April 12, '1876, became the 
 mother of three children: Joel P., the subject 
 of this sketch; Charles, born February 12, 
 1 8 19; and Mary, born August 7, 1821. 
 Charles, who is now an extensive farmer in 
 Crawford, Neb., married Lucy Drake, of 
 Sharon, and had three children: Evelyn, now 
 Mrs. P. P. Curtis, living in Penn Yan, N.Y. ; 
 and Mary and Charles, not now living. Mary 
 married William R. Mann, a cotton manufact- 
 urer of Sharon, and died i'h 1878. 
 
 Joel P. Hewins received his early education 
 in the public schools of Sharon, supplemented 
 at the New Hampton (N.H.) Literary and 
 Biblical Institute. In early manhood he 
 taught school, and later engaged in the manu- 
 
 facture of boots and shoes. Afterward he 
 engaged in the oil refining business in Penn- 
 sylvania, from which he retired in 1864, and 
 returned to the old homestead. Politically, 
 he was an ardent supporter of the principles of 
 the Republican party, but in town affairs en- 
 tirely free from political bias, serving for 
 many years as member of the Boards of Select- 
 men, Overseers of the Poor, and Assessors, 
 also as Town Clerk and Treasurer, and as 
 Representative to the General Court, in an 
 unusual degree receiving the confidence and 
 respect of his political opponents, and invari- 
 ably retiring from office of his own motion, 
 and frequently against the wishes of all 
 parties, although inflexible and unsparing in 
 his denunciation of wrong-doing wherever 
 found. He was of a contemplative and studi- 
 ous turn of mind, delighting in metaphysical 
 discussion. While not a church communi- 
 cant, he was active in the Unitarian Society 
 and its treasurer at the time of his death. 
 
 On June 17, 1842, Mr. Hewins was united 
 in marriage with Sarah Jane Dunbar, born in 
 Mansfield, Mass., March 23, 1820, daughter 
 of Amasa and Nabby (Pond) Dimbar. Mr. 
 Dunbar was a native of Easton, and his wife 
 of VVrentham. He was an extensive manu- 
 facturer of boots and shoes. 
 
 They had one son, P^dmund Hart, born De- 
 cember 23, 1845 (descended and named from 
 the builder of the frigate "Constitution"), 
 who was educated in the public schools and 
 Stoughtonham Institute of Sharon and Law- 
 rence Scientific School of Cambridge, and 
 who now resides in Boston. On June 23, 
 1870, he married Kate M. Potter, and has had 
 three children: Mary Angle, born April 15, 
 1872, died September 16 of that same year; 
 Edmund Dunbar and Katharine Potter,- twins, 
 born June 27, 1875. 
 
 /T^ARROLL E. WHITE, an enterpris- 
 I V^ ing manufacturer and farmer of Bel- 
 ^U lingham, was born in Hopkinton, 
 
 R.I., September 5, 1858, son of 
 William G. and Betsey Ann (Ray) White. 
 The father, who was a native of Mansfield, 
 Mass., was brought up in Watertown, where 
 he learned the trade of blacksmith. After re-
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 siding for some time in Newton and Hopkin- 
 ton, R.I., he settled in Bellingham township, 
 where he worked at his trade until near his 
 death on February 15, 1893. He married 
 Betsey Ann Ray, of Cumberland, R. I., who 
 was born in that place, February 2, 1831. 
 His children by her are: Warren ]•:., who 
 married Grace Forbes, and is a fish dealer of 
 Bellingham; Anna E., the wife of Henry J. 
 Keyes, of Bellingham, who conducts a milk 
 route here; and Carroll E., the subject of this 
 sketch. The mother, who resides with Car- 
 roll E., under the pen name of "Didama" is 
 the author and publisher of the touching story, 
 "Three Holes in the Chimney." She has also 
 written the interesting booklet, "Richmond 
 and Way Stations,'' which is a realistic and 
 thrilling account of the war experiences of a 
 private soldier of the Union army. 
 
 Carroll E. White was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Newton, Mass. In 1877 he 
 came with his parents to Bellingham. On 
 December 25, 1879, he married Miss Annie I. 
 Forbes, of Boston, where she was born August 
 7, 1862, daughter of William H. and Susan 
 E. Forbes. Her father was salesman for a 
 wholesale dry-goods house of Boston, and a 
 lifelong resident of that city. Mr. and Mrs. 
 White have three children, namely: Waldo 
 F., born June 20, 1881 ; Carroll F., born No- 
 vember 18, 1886; and Ralph Grafton, born 
 September 12, i8g6. 
 
 When Mr. White settled in Bellingham, he 
 took a farm, and started the manufacture of 
 loom straps and flexible inner-soles. In 1888 
 he bought his present estate, known as the 
 Andrew Bates farm, containing about ninety 
 acres of land, which he has since much im- 
 proved. He carries on general farming, raises 
 some poultry, and keeps a dairy of twenty 
 milch cows. He still owns his first milk 
 route, which was bought in 1888, and which 
 covers territory extending from Milford to 
 Bellingham. Another source of income to 
 him is dealing in second-hand card-clothing, 
 old leather hose, and old raw-hide pickers, for 
 which he employs about ten hands. 
 
 In politics Mr. White is a Republican. He 
 was Assessor for one year. He is the Cattle 
 Inspector of the townshi]3, the chairman and 
 clerk of the Board of Overseers of the Poor, 
 
 and a member of the School Board. An es- 
 teemed member of the Bellingham Grange, he 
 has been Master for several years. He has 
 also been Master of the Pomona Grange, and 
 he belongs to the A. O. U. W. of Franklin 
 village. His wife and mother are members of 
 the Baptist church. 
 
 flMOTHY F. COREY, one of the most 
 extensive market gardeners of Norfolk 
 County, Massachusetts, occupies the 
 old Corey homestead in Brookline, where he 
 was born on September 30, 1861. His father, 
 Timothy Corey, the third of the name in direct 
 line, was born in the same house, March 3, 
 1822, being a son of Deacon Timothy Corey, 
 whose birthplace was a house standing not far 
 distant. 
 
 Captain Timothy Corey, great-grandfather 
 of Timothy, came to Brookline a few years be- 
 fore the Revolution, in which he served as an 
 officer, and was noted for his bravery. He 
 purchased two hundred acres of land in Brook- 
 line, and engaged in tilling the soil until his 
 death, at the age of sixty-five years. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Griggs, of Brookline, and 
 reared two sons, one being his namesake, the 
 Deacon above mentioned. 
 
 Deacon Corey was a lifelong resident of 
 Brookline, his birth having occurred here dur- 
 ing the time of the Revolution. He suc- 
 ceeded to the occupation in which he was 
 reared, and acquired a large landed property. 
 In 1806 he erected the house now owned and 
 occupied by his grandson, Timothy F., and 
 which adjoins the one he had previously 
 built in 1802. He married Mary Gardener, 
 who was born in this town, a daughter of 
 Caleb Gardener, and a descendant of one of 
 the five brave men that defended the town 
 when assailed by the Indians in early Colo- 
 nial times. Deacon Timothy and Mary G. 
 Corey reared a family of seven daughters and 
 three sons, and of these three children are yet 
 living. Deacon Corey died in 1844; and his 
 wife, surviving him, died March 3, 1861, aged 
 eighty years. She was a member of the Bap- 
 tist church, of which her husband was for 
 many years the Deacon. 
 
 Timothy Corey, third, was educated in the
 
 CHARLES F. HOWARD.
 
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 649 
 
 schools of Brookline and Worcester, and 
 under his father's instruction early became ac- 
 (jiiainted with the various branches of agri- 
 culture. On the death of his father he came 
 into possession of seventy-five acres of the 
 homestead property, which he managed with 
 great success until his decease, October 4, 
 1887. On February 17, 1852, he married 
 Sarah E. Strout, who was born in Poland, 
 Me., a daughter of Joseph Strout, a native of 
 the same town, and a grand-daughter of Nehe- 
 miah .Strout, who was born in Gloucester, 
 Mass. Her grandfather Strout was a pioneer 
 settler of Poland, Me., whither he made his 
 way from the seaport in which he was reared 
 by a route marked by blazed trees. He took 
 up a tract of heavily timbered land, con- 
 structed a log cabin in the woods, and by dint 
 of persistent toil cleared a good farm. He 
 built a comfortable frame house, which is still 
 standing, being in a good state of preserva- 
 tion, notwithstanding it has breasted the 
 storms of a century. He lived to the age of 
 ninety-four years. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Rebecca IJunn, bore him nine chil- 
 dren. Their son Joseph was a farmer, and 
 spent his entire life of eighty-four years in 
 Poland. He married Olive Downing, who 
 was born in Minot, Me., a daughter of John 
 and Ruth (Emery) Downing, both natives of 
 Massachusetts, he having been born in An- 
 dover and she in Newton, whence when a 
 child she accompanied her parents to Maine, 
 being the first white child in Minot. John 
 Downing enlisted as a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary army when a youth of sixteen years, 
 and on account of an act of bravery was ap- 
 pointed as one of the body-guard to General 
 Washington. Joseph and Olive Strout reared 
 eight children, five of whom survive, as fol- 
 lows: John A., Harriet, wife of Tolman 
 Wight; Sarah E. ; Mrs. Corey; Charles; and 
 George, a resident of Maiden, Mass. 
 
 Of the union of Timothy Corey and Sarah 
 E. Strout eight children were born, namely: 
 Lizzie G., the wife of Frederick R. Gerry, 
 who is engaged in the sash and door business 
 at Philadelphia, Pa.; Timothy F. , the special 
 subject of this sketch, and his twin brother, 
 James F., who married Idell Dodge, of London- 
 derry, Vt., and is now in business in Bos- 
 
 ton; Harold D., who married Mary H. Wal- 
 lace, of Newton, Mass., a commission broker 
 at 53 State Street, Boston; William K., who 
 married Annie Plummer, of Auburndale, and 
 is an employee of the Pope Bicycle Company 
 in Boston; Eva D. ; Linda ICmery; and Tim- 
 othy G., who died April 4, i860, aged two 
 years and seven months. Mrs. Corey has 
 been an extensive traveller, both in this coun- 
 try and Europe, having visited the j^rincipal 
 cities of each, her travels in the United .States 
 having extended through twenty States of the 
 Union. She and her daughters are communi- 
 cants of All Saints' (Episcopal) Church. 
 
 Timothy F. Corey com]ik'ted his education 
 at Bryant & Stratton's Cf)mniercial College, 
 where he took a two years" course. He then 
 turned his attention to the pursuit of agricult- 
 ure, and since the death of his father has had 
 the control of twenty acres of the .old home 
 farm. In addition to this he leases about 
 sixty acres of land in Brighton, and is carry- 
 ing on a very flourishing business in market 
 gardening, keeping some twenty-five men em- 
 ployed, and shipping his produce to Boston. 
 In addition to garden vegetables he raises 
 large quantities of fruit, making a specialty 
 of currants, cherries, and pears, all of which 
 find a ready sale near home. In politics he 
 is a stanch Republican, but has declined all 
 official honors. He is a member of Beth 
 Horan Lodge, F. & A. M.: a charter member 
 of the Knights of Essenic Order; was for- 
 merly identified with the Order of Red Men; 
 and is also a member of the Gentlemen's 
 Driving Club of Medford. 
 
 Mr. Corey was married June 13, 1888, to 
 Sarah T. Armstrong, who was born in Brewer, 
 Me., a daughter of Stephen Armstrong, a 
 ship-builder of that town. 
 
 ■ft lAJOR CHARLES F. HOWARD, 
 a veteran of the late war and an 
 esteemed resident of Foxboro, 
 was born April 6, 1823, in Taun- 
 ton, Mass., son of John Howard. His pater- 
 nal grandfather, Samuel Howard, was born 
 and bred in New York State. In early man- 
 hood Samuel moved to Bristol County, Massa- 
 chusetts, settling in the western part of Taun-
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL KKVIKW 
 
 ton, where he bought a farm, and was 
 thereafter engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 until his demise. He reared a family of ten 
 children. John Howard was born and edu- 
 cated in Taunton, and there spent his entire 
 life of si.\ty-six years. During the whole of 
 his active period he was engaged in the gro- 
 cery business, first as senior member of the 
 firm of Howard & Woodward, wholesale gro- 
 cers. Upon the death of Mr. Woodward the 
 style of the firm became Howard & Brown, 
 and still later Mr. Howard carried on the 
 business alone. By his first marriage, which 
 
 Eliza Lemist, there were no 
 second wife, Mary Seaver 
 
 three children — John S., 
 Francis. Marrying for the 
 
 was made with 
 children. His 
 Howard, had 
 Charles F., and 
 
 third time, he had by his third wife, Mary 
 Parker Howard, one child, Mary. 
 
 Charles F. Howard received his education 
 in the public schools of Taunton and at Bristol 
 Academy. Subsequently he worked for three 
 years in a printing-office. Then he learned 
 the carpenter's trade, which he followed until 
 1852. In that year he became the purchasing 
 agent of general supplies for the Union Straw 
 Works. This employment he relinquished in 
 
 1862, to form a military company, which was 
 attached to the Fourth Massachusetts Volun- 
 teer Infantry. Soon after, he was elected Cap- 
 tain of Company F, which had previously been 
 in service three montlis. In January, 1863, be- 
 fore the regiment had left the State, Captain 
 Howard was promoted to the rank of Major, a 
 capacity in which he served until the expira- 
 tion of his term of enlistment in August, 
 
 1863. With his regiment he was in the Gulf 
 expedition, under General N. P. Banks. On 
 his return to Foxboro he resumed his former 
 position in the Union Straw Works, retaining 
 it until 1888. Since then he has devoted his 
 attention to the care of a small farm on Me- 
 chanic .Street which he had previously pur- 
 chased, and on which, in 1846, he had erected 
 a fine set of buildings. 
 
 Major Howard was married November 28, 
 1844, to Miss Mary Copeland, daughter of 
 Oakes and Polly (Pettee) Copeland. He has 
 two daughters — Genevieve and Mabel. The 
 former is the wife of Joseph H. Burgess, of 
 Wareham, Mass., and has one child, Ethel H. 
 
 Mabel is the wife of Edward B. Swift, now a 
 resident of this town. The Major is a sound 
 Republican in politics. He cast his first 
 Presidential vote in 1844 for Henry Clay. 
 For more than twenty years he has been Mod- 
 erator at the annual town meetings. He is a 
 member of the Society of the Army and Navy 
 of the Gulf and of E. P. Carpenter Post, No. 
 91, G. A. R., of Foxboro. 
 
 (^>r'NDREW MILNE, the senior member 
 ijA of tTie firm of Milne & Chalmers, pro- 
 
 /J^\ prietors of granite works in Quincy, 
 ^■"^ is actively identified with the in- 
 dustrial and business interests of this city, 
 where he is held in high esteem. He was 
 born April 13, 1842, in Aberdeen, Scotland, 
 son of James Milne. The latter, born and 
 reared in Aberdeen, was engaged in tilling 
 the soil throughout his active period. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Jane Forsyth, 
 likewise a native of Aberdeen, had a family 
 of five children, of whom four grew to years 
 of maturity. These were: Elizabeth, de- 
 ceased, who was the wife of the late John Tay- 
 lor; James, also deceased; Margaret, the wife 
 of Alexander Milne; and Andrew, the special 
 subject of this sketch. Both parents were 
 members of the Presbyterian church, and 
 reared their children in the same faith. 
 
 After receiving his education in the parish 
 schools of his native city, Andrew Milne was 
 engaged in railway work in that locality until 
 his emigration to America in 1872. Coming 
 directly to Quincy, he entered the employ of 
 McKenzie & Patterson, and in the five years 
 that he remained with them learned the pol- 
 isher's trade. The firm of A. Milne & Co., 
 formed in 1882, was succeeded by the present 
 firm five years later, when Mr. Chalmers be- 
 came the junior member. They handle all 
 kinds of granite, and execute monumental 
 work of every description for the local retail 
 trade, employing in the different departments 
 an average force of thirty or forty men. Mr. 
 Milne is greatly interested in the develop- 
 ment of the granite industries and in the im- 
 provement of Quincy real estate, giving much 
 time and attention to solving problems con- 
 nected with each. He is the clerk and a di-
 
 BIOGRAI'IIK'AL REVIp:\V 
 
 ♦^S' 
 
 rector alike of the Quincy Quarry Company, 
 the Blue Hill Granite Company, and the 
 Lyons Granite Company; the vice-president 
 of President's Hill Real Instate Trust; the 
 president and a trustee of President's Hill 
 Annex Real Estate Trust; and a trustee of 
 Cranch Hill Estate Trust. 
 
 Mr. Milne is a member and Past Dictator 
 of Merry Mount Lodge, K. of H. In 1866 
 he married Mary, daughter of George Taylor, 
 of Aberdeen, Scotland. Of their children 
 James, Andrew, Mary B. T. , Thomas D., and 
 Margaret are living. Both parents are active 
 members of the Presbyterian church, and for 
 several years Mr. Milne was president of the 
 society connected therewith. 
 
 /STTo 
 
 EORGE KURTZ BIRD, formerly a 
 \ '3 I well-known Boston business man and 
 a veteran of the Civil War, was born 
 in Boston, Mass., October 12, 1843, son of 
 Edwin L. and Catherine (Kurtz) Bird. His 
 father, who was a decorator by trade, served as 
 a Captain in a Massachusetts regiment during 
 the Civil War; and a brother, John I{. Bird, 
 died in the service. 
 
 George Kurtz Bird was given the advantage 
 of a good education. After the breaking out 
 of the Rebellion he enlisted as a private in 
 the Forty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry. He was afterward ap- 
 pointed Quartermaster Sergeant, and was hon- 
 orably discharged as such after serving one 
 year. Returning to Boston, he became a 
 member of the firm of James Edmunds & Co., 
 importers of brick drain pipe, located on Fed- 
 eral Street, with which concern he continued 
 fourteen years, or until his death, which oc- 
 curred at Dorchester, Mass., April 4, 1877, 
 when he was in his thirty-fourth year. He 
 possessed a strongly defined character, a 
 marked personality, and a vigorous intellect, 
 and took an intelligent interest in current 
 affairs. In politics he acted with the Repub- 
 lican party. He was especially devoted to the 
 welfare and success of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and the G. A. R. Post in Norwood 
 was named in his honor. He was a member 
 of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M., Norwood, 
 Mass. 
 
 Mr. Bird married Hattie A. ICUis, daughter 
 of Jason and Martha A. (Smith) ICllis, the 
 former of whom is a jirosjierous farmer of 
 West Dedham. Since the death of her hus- 
 band, Mrs. Bird has resided with her parents. 
 She is the mother of two sons — John Ellis 
 and George Kurtz Bird. 
 
 GRACE C. CHEEVER, of Wrentham, 
 a well-known publisher of local 
 newspapers, was born here, July 24, 
 1824, son of John P. and Grace 
 (Richards) Cheever. The great-grandfather, 
 John Cheever, who was born in Roxbury, 
 Mass., and settled in Wrentham in 1765, first 
 erected a frame house for his ilwelling. At a 
 later date he built the house now standing, 
 and in which Horace C. was born. He 
 fought in the Revolutionary War. By occu- 
 pation he was a farmer and shop -joiner. His 
 son John, who was also a farmer, worked at 
 the trade of wheelwright for many years, and 
 died at the age of eighty-five years. This 
 John Cheever married Caroline Plymton. 
 
 John P. Cheever, son of John, followed 
 farming throughout his active life. The 
 commander of the old South militia company 
 of Wrentham, he was known as Captain 
 Cheever. He married Grace Richards, of 
 North Attleboro, who had six children by him. 
 Of these Ellen, who is the widow of James 
 D. Franklin, resides at home; Emma married 
 Charles A. Faas, of Plainville, a veteran of 
 the Grand Army, who lost a leg at Fair Oaks; 
 and Zeolide, who married J. P. Barney, re- 
 sides on a part of the homestead. 
 
 After attending the public schools of his 
 native town for the usual period, Horace C. 
 Cheever took the teachers' course at the 
 Bridgewater Normal School, and subsequently 
 taught school for a time. Afterward, having 
 much literary talent combined with business 
 ability, he published local newspapers for 
 nearly twenty years. These journals were es- 
 tablished in Danvers, Mass., Rockport, Mass., 
 and Cape May, and are still in existence. He 
 spent four years in Minnesota, between the 
 years 1856 and i860, engaged in surveying 
 lots in Minneapolis, which was then very 
 small, and where his uncle William was one
 
 6s2 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 of the first white men to settle. He returned 
 to the home farm upon the death of his father, 
 and subsequently served in the late war for six 
 months with the band of the Eighteenth Mas- 
 sachusetts Regiment. 
 
 Mr. Cheever and his wife, Ann Austin 
 Cheever, have two children — Mary B. and 
 Frederic L. Mary B. married Charles Burns, 
 of Wrentham, and has the following children 
 — Emma, Frank, Bertha, Eva, Charles, and 
 George. Frederic L., who married Kate 
 Smiley, of Danvers, has three children — 
 Horace, John, and Ellen. Mr. Cheever is 
 a Democrat. He cast his first vote for George 
 B. McClellan in 1864. 
 
 'RANKLIN ALTON PETTEE, a 
 prominent dry-goods merchant of F^ox- 
 boro, was born in this town, March 6, 
 1859, son of Albert F. Pettee. His great- 
 grandfather, Oliver Pettee, was one of the 
 original settlers of I-^oxboro. A tablet 
 erected by the town in the cemetery records 
 the fact that Oliver was a valiant soldier in 
 the Revolution. Oliver married a sister of 
 Nathaniel Clark, who was also an early settler 
 of the town, and lived to the advanced age of 
 ninety-nine years. After their marriage the 
 great-grandparents settled on the old Pettee 
 homestead on Mechanic .Street, where their 
 son Martin, the grandfather of Franklin A., 
 was born. 
 
 Martin Pettee was a soldier of the War of 
 18 1 2, being stationed at one of the forts in 
 Boston Harbor. Plis occupation in civil life 
 was that of a manufacturer of straw goods on 
 a small scale. He resided for the most part 
 in Foxboro, and passed away at the age of 
 eighty-one years. His wife, Johanna Norton 
 Pettee, had seven children that lived to ma- 
 turity. Albert F. Pettee was educated in the 
 district schools of this town. When quite 
 young he entered the Union Straw Works, in 
 which he was employed until 1SS7. Since 
 then he has lived in retirement. A talented 
 musician, he has been for many years a noted 
 teacher of music and a chorister of the Con- 
 gregational church. He married Miss Lydia 
 Messenger, daughter of Fisher Messenger, of 
 Wrentham; and Franklin A. Pettee, the sub- 
 
 ject of this sketch, is their only child. Mrs. 
 Pettee is a direct descendant of Peregrine 
 White, the first white child born in New l-ing- 
 land after the landing of the Pilgrims. 
 
 Franklin A. Pettee completed his education 
 in the juiblic schools at an early age. Soon 
 after he began his mercantile career as a clerk 
 for L. C. Bliss, a dry-goods merchant. He was 
 retained in this capacity by the successors of 
 Mr. Bliss, B. F. Boyden, and S. P. Oliver & 
 Co. Having worked for the last-named firm 
 for four years, he bought out the interest of 
 Mr. Oliver's partner; and three years later, by 
 purchasing Mr. Oliver's interest, he became 
 the sole proprietor. He has since carried on 
 the business alone, having a flourishing trade, 
 which he has won by his honest and honorable 
 methods and his good business tact. The 
 Knights of Honor is the only fraternal organ- 
 ization to which he belongs. In politics he 
 is a stanch Republican. Like his father, he 
 has great musical ability; and since he was 
 fifteen years of age he has been the organist 
 at the Congregational church. 
 
 ALMON TURNER, one of the old- 
 est and most respected residents of 
 F'oxboro, was born May 21, 18 17, in 
 Easton, Mass., son of Salmon and 
 Clarissa (Pierce) Turner. The father, who 
 was born and reared in the same town, settled 
 in New Bedford, Mass., when he was a young 
 man, and there for upward of twoscore years 
 carried on a store well stocked with general 
 merchandise. Among his regular customers 
 were many of the old whalers of the locality, 
 whose home-coming was a gala day for the 
 merchants of the town, especially if the 
 voyage had been a prosperous one. He spent 
 a very few years in Foxboro, but died in New 
 Bedford at the age of sixty-six years. Of his 
 children, Elbridge G., Willard P., Salmon, 
 Calvin K., and Clarissa P. attained maturity. 
 Elbridge G., now eighty-four years of age and 
 the only survivor, is a bachelor, an'd lives in 
 New Bedford. 
 
 Mr. Turner had but meagre educational ad- 
 vantages, his student life having been confined 
 to a few terms at the district school. While 
 yet a boy, he worked at anything he could find
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
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 to do, often assisting liis father in the store. 
 After leaving home he was employed for eight 
 years in the Union Straw Works at Foxhoro. 
 Being then seized with an acute attack of the 
 gold fever, which was raging throughout New 
 England, he started for California, making the 
 journey by the way of Nicaragua Lake. In 
 Calitornia he prospected for a tin)e along the 
 Sacramento l-Jiver; but, not meeting with the 
 success he had expected, he abandoned mining 
 and returned to Foxboro. Mere he resumed 
 work at the Union Straw shops. After some 
 time spent there, he and his brother purchased 
 a cranberry bog, which they have since culti- 
 vated with profit. 
 
 Mr. Turner married Miss Clementine L. 
 Bird, daughter of Warren Bird, of this town. 
 Of their children, George S. is living. He 
 subsequently married Miss Maria Grover, 
 daughter of Lindoll Grover. George S. 
 Turner married Ruth Wilson, who has borne 
 him one child, Mary. Mr. Salmon Turner 
 has been identified with the Republican party 
 since its formation, and is an ardent supporter 
 of its principles. He is broad and liberal in 
 his interpretation of the Scriptures, and wor- 
 ships at the Universalist church. 
 
 j^^^xETKR J. WILLIAMS,* of Ouincy, 
 *-^ ' Mass., Chief Engineer of the Ouincy 
 
 Fire Department, by occupation a 
 carpenter and builder, is a wide- 
 awake, progressive business man, highly re- 
 spected l)y his fellow-citizens. He was born 
 in this town, April i8, 1856. His parents 
 were Peter and Lydia (Olive) Williams. 
 
 The Williams family originated in Wales, 
 from whence some of its early members mi- 
 grated to Ireland, locating in the parish of 
 Inniscarra, County Cork. There Robert 
 Williams, the paternal grandfather of Peter J. 
 Williams, spent his life as a farmer. He 
 married Hannah Harold, and had two childrep, 
 but one of whom, namely, Peter, grew to ma- 
 ture years." 
 
 Peter Williams, son of Robert, was born 
 October 23, 1826, in Inniscarra, where he 
 lived until after his marriage, working for sev- 
 eral years at the shoemaker's trade. When 
 twenty-three years of age he left the Emerald 
 
 Isle, and, coming to this coimtry, settled in 
 Quincy, which he made his permanent abiding- 
 place. He continued the trade that he had 
 learned in his youthful days until the close of 
 his earthly career, February 20, 1897. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Olive, 
 was born in Bandon, County Cork, being a 
 daughter of Robert Olive. She passed to the 
 higher life June 16, 1895. ^^o^h Mrs. Will- 
 iams and her husband were devout members of 
 the Episcopal church, of which he was for 
 more than seventeen years the sexton. They 
 had a family of nine children, of whom eight 
 are now living, namely: Thomas H., of Bos- 
 ton; Robert J., of Quincy; Peter J.; Sarah 
 E., wife of Amos Lawrence Litchfield, of 
 Quincy; George R., a resident of Quincy; 
 Lydia M. ; Samuel E. and Frederick W. , 
 both of Quincy. 
 
 Peter J. Williams, after obtaining his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Quincy, learned 
 the trade of carpenter and builder, beginning 
 work at the age of eighteen and serving a full 
 apprenticeship. He was subsequently em- 
 ployed as a journeyman carjienter four years, 
 then began contracting and building on his 
 own account; and, meeting with good success 
 from the first, he has continued in the same 
 business. He has built two engine-houses 
 for the city of Quincy, has erected a large 
 number of fine private residences, and re- 
 stored and repaired the old President Adams 
 house for the Quincy Historical Society. 
 His services are always in demand for first- 
 class work, and in filling his contracts he em- 
 ploys on an average about twenty-five men. 
 
 When a youth of seventeen years Mr. Will- 
 iams joined the old Tiger pjigine Company, 
 then operating an old hand tub ; and he has 
 ever since been identified with the local fire 
 department. During the last three years of 
 the existence of the "Tigers," he was foreman 
 of the company; and when it was disbanded he 
 was presented with the silver trumpet which 
 was given to the company by the citizens of 
 Quincy- In politics independent of any party, 
 he casts his ballot for the best men for the 
 offices to be filled. Fraternally, he is a mem- 
 ber of Mount Wollaston Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
 of this city, and of the Knights of Honor. 
 
 Mr. Williams married Jessie, daughter of
 
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 Angus McChiin, (jf I'rince Edward Island. 
 Of their union fivL- children have been born, 
 and three are now living; namely, George 
 Seymour, Grover Cleveland, and Mary 
 Florence. 
 
 Ji 
 
 KACON BENJAMIN BISBEE,* one 
 of Stoughton's Civil War veterans, 
 ^J was born in North Stoughton, 
 where he now resides, April lo, 
 1832, son of Otis and Nancy (Pope) Bisbee. 
 His parents were natives of this town, as was 
 also his grandfather, Benjamin Bisbee, who 
 went from Stoughton to join the Continental 
 army, with which he served four and one-half 
 years in the war for independence. Grand- 
 father Bisbee was a prosperous farmer and a 
 well-known citizen of his day. He wedded 
 Millie Vose, and reared six children ; namely, 
 Lavinia, Millie, Hannah, Joshua, Benjamin, 
 and Otis. 
 
 Otis Bisbee, son of Benjamin, inherited 
 the farm, which he cultivated during his active 
 years, and resided at the homestead from his 
 birth until his death. He always attended 
 strictly to his private affai'rs, and was deeply 
 attached to his home and fireside. Nancy 
 Pope, whom he married, was a daughter of 
 Joseph and Betsey (Tower) Pope, and was one 
 of a family of seven children: John, William, 
 Joseph, Thomas, Nancy, Eliza, and Clarissa 
 Pope. Her father was in early life a fisher- 
 man and later a farmer. Otis and Nancy 
 (Pope) Bisbee re^ed six children, as follows: 
 James Otis, who is engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits in Stoughton ; Benjamin, the subject 
 of this sketch; Augusta, who married C. F. 
 Kimball (both deceased) ; Eliza, who is now 
 Mrs. Milliken, and resides in Somerville, 
 Mass. ; Joseph, who enlisted in the First 
 Massachusetts Cavalry for service in the Civil 
 War, and died at Hilton Head, S.C. ; and 
 Geraldine, who married George Milliken, and 
 is no longer living. Mrs. Nancy P. Bisbee 
 died in 1892. 
 
 Benjamin Bisbee acquired a common-school 
 education and resided at home with his parents 
 until he was twenty-one years old. Learning 
 the shoemaker's trade, he followed it until 
 1862, when he enlisted as a private in Com- 
 
 pany B, Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, for nine months' service. 
 He participated in the battles of White Hall, 
 Kingston, Goldsboro, and other engagements, 
 and was discharged at Milton, Mass., in July, 
 1863. Resuming his trade in Randolph, 
 Mass., he later returned to Stoughton, where 
 he was engaged in slKjemaking until 1891 ; and 
 since that time he has devoted his principal 
 attention to the cultivation of the homestead 
 farm. He carries on general farming and 
 dairying, sells considerable milk, and is also 
 in the express business as local agent of the 
 New York & Boston Despatch Company. Po- 
 litically, he is a Republican. He is promi- 
 nently identified with the Universalist church, 
 of which he is a Deacon, and has long been 
 active in its affairs. 
 
 On September 24, 1862, Deacon Bisbee 
 married Susan Y. P. Monk, of Stoughton. 
 She is a daughter of the late Isaac P. and Mary 
 A. (Packard) Monk. Deacon and Mrs. Bisbee 
 have an adopted son — John, born September 
 22, 1882, who is now attending the Stoughton 
 High School. 
 
 ENJAMIN J. WEEKS, a well- 
 known citizen of Quincy, and the 
 superintendent of the Quincy & Bos- 
 ton Electric Railway Company, was 
 born October 24, 1856. Exeter, N.H., his 
 native town, was also the birthplace of his 
 father, James Weeks, Jr., and of his grand- 
 father, James Weeks, Sr. The latter was a 
 carpenter and builder during his life. 
 
 James Weeks, Jr., learned the carpenter's 
 trade froni his father, and followed that occu- 
 pation until 1872. During the late Rebell- 
 ion he was employed in the Portsmouth navy- 
 yard on work for the government. Coming 
 to Massachusetts in 1872, he located in Bos- 
 ton, forming a partnership with John Perkins, 
 under the firm name of Perkins & Weeks, con- 
 tractors and builders. This firm built up an 
 extensive business reputation, th'eir work 
 being noted for its durability and superior 
 finish. They employed from forty to fifty 
 men, and, in addition to building many fine 
 private residences in the vicinity of Dorches- 
 ter, fitted up a good many stores and club-
 
 BKiNJAMIN J. WEEKS.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 657 
 
 rooms in the city. In 1S85 Mr. Weeks re- 
 tired from active occupation, leaving the work 
 in which he had for so many years been profit- 
 ably engaged to younger hands. His wife, 
 whose maiden name was Martha Morrison, was 
 born in Exeter, N. H., where her death oc- 
 curred in 1863. She was a faithful member 
 of the Baptist church. Her children arc: 
 Charles E., of this city; and Benjamin J. 
 Weeks. 
 
 Benjamin J. Weeks received his education 
 in the grammar and high schools of Exeter. 
 He learned the jeweller's trade in Boston, and 
 worked at it for a time in his earlier years. 
 Finding it very trying to his eyes, and his 
 health being also injured by the close confine- 
 ment, he sought outdoor employment. Enter- 
 ing the service of the old Metropolitan Street 
 Railway Company in Boston, he was a con- 
 ductor on a horse-car for about four years. 
 His health having in the meantime greatly 
 improved, he again started in the jewelry 
 business, opening a store in Exeter, N.H., 
 but was soon again compelled to give it up on 
 account of his eyes. In 1886 he went to South 
 Framingham as an employee in the Para 
 Rubber Shoe Factory. After remaining there 
 about a year, he accepted the position of 
 superintendent of the Framingham Union 
 Street Railway Company, which had just com- 
 pleted its road, and held it for eighteen 
 months. Mr. Weeks then took a special 
 course in electrics at the Thomson-Houston 
 Electric Company's works, after which he 
 was sent to Albany, .N.Y., to install the 
 power station for the Albany Street Railway, 
 at that time the largest in the country. 
 Going thence to Newport, R.I., he was super- 
 intendent of the Newport Street Railway from 
 May to January, 1891. On the 26th of 
 that month he was appointed superintend- 
 ent of the Quincy & Boston Street Railway 
 Company, with which he has since been con- 
 nected. In 1893 the Manet Street Railroad 
 was purchased and consolidated with the 
 Quincy & Boston Railway, greatly increasing 
 the facilities of the road and benefitting the 
 travelling public. In 1895 Mr. Weeks was 
 appointed superintendent of the Braintree 
 Street Railway Company, and assumed the 
 management of the road in September of that 
 
 year. In 1896, on the completion of the 
 Randolph Street Railway, he was also made 
 its superintendent. 
 
 Much interested in Masonry, Mr. Weeks is 
 a member of Rural Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
 Quincy; of St. Stephen's Chapter, R. A. M. ; 
 of South Shore Commandery, K. T. ; of La- 
 fayette Lodge of Perfection; of Giles F. 
 Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem, of Bos- 
 ton; of Mount Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix; of 
 Massachusetts Consistory of Boston; and of 
 Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 
 He also belongs to Mount Wollaston Lodge 
 and Manet PJncampment of the I. O. O. F. ; to 
 Monadiquot Lodge, K. of P., of Braintree; to 
 the A. O. U. W.; and to the Granite City 
 Club. On November i, 1886, he married 
 Miss Cora L., daughter of Ware Folsom, a 
 native of North Newport, Me., but later of 
 Exeter, N.H. Mr. and Mrs. Weeks have two 
 children; namely, Marion lithel and Earl 
 Folsom. Both parents are members of the 
 Congregational church. 
 
 DWARD B. NEVIN,* of South Wey- 
 mouth, Representative to the General 
 Court in 1897 from the Sixth Nor- 
 folk District, is a native of York County, 
 Pennsylvania, and was born November 10, 
 1858, son of John A. and Catherine J. (Brown) 
 Nevin. The Nevin family is of Scottish ex- 
 traction, and is said to be descended from 
 Robert Bruce. Many of its members have 
 achieved distinction in Western Pennsylvania, 
 where the Nevins were among the early settlers. 
 
 George P. Nevin, grandfather of Edward B., 
 was a wholesale coal dealer. His son, John 
 A. Nevin, settled in Boston, where he en- 
 gaged in the wholesale coal business. He 
 was a soldier of the Civil War, and went out 
 as Quartermaster in the coal regiment of Penn- 
 sylvania, which was composed exclusively of 
 coal men. He died shortly after the close of 
 the war. His wife, Catherine, was a native 
 of Pennsylvania. One of her grandfathers 
 fought under Wellington at Waterloo. Jere- 
 miah Hess, a great-grandfather of Edward B. 
 Nevin, was a soldier in the War of 1812. 
 
 When about a year old, Edward Nevin was 
 taken by his parents to Philadelphia, Pa.,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RFIVIEW 
 
 where they remained for about five years. 
 The family then moved to J3oston, where, as 
 above mentioned, the father engaged in busi- 
 ness; and in that city Edward B. grew to man- 
 hood and received his school training. In 
 1873 he began his working life as ofifice boy in 
 the employ of Day, Huddell & Co., wholesale 
 coal merchants of Boston, and continued with 
 them until 1876, when the firm was dissolved. 
 During the latter part of this time Mr. Nevin 
 was salesman. After this business was closed, 
 he secured a New England general agency for 
 the Pennsylvania miners. From 1883 to 
 1S90 he was in the wholesale business for him- 
 self in Boston; and in 1890 he formed a part- 
 nership with Edward M. Alden, under the 
 firm name of Alden & Nevin, which has re- 
 mained a prominent firm to the present time. 
 In November, 1896, Mr. Nevin was elected as 
 Representative to the State legislature. 
 
 In politics Mr. Nevin is a Republican. He 
 is a member of Commonwealth Lodge, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, at Boston; of 
 Columbian Lodge, F. & A. M., of Boston; 
 also of Pentalpha Chapter, R. A. M., and of 
 South Shore Commandery, K. T. , both of 
 Flast Weymouth. 
 
 Mr. Nevin married Bessie T. , daughter of 
 the late General James L. Bates, who suc- 
 ceeded to the Colonelcy of the old Twelfth 
 Massachusetts Regiment, which was formerly 
 commanded by Colonel Fletcher Webster, son 
 of Daniel Webster. Mr. Nevin resides at 
 South Weymouth. His business ofifice in Bos- 
 ton is in the Mason Building. 
 
 IrA^/ILLIAM GORSE, a resident of 
 Needham and owner of a factory for 
 the manufacture of elastic bandages 
 in Highlandville, was born in Dufifield, 
 Derbyshire, England, May 26, 1841, son of 
 Henry and Hannah (Roome) Gorse. He was 
 educated in the schools of Derbyshire, which 
 he attended until he was twelve years of age, 
 when he went to work in a knitting factory, 
 where he remained seven years. In i860 he 
 came to this country, landing in Boston, and 
 lived in Roxbury until 1861, when he came to 
 Needham. From 1864 to 1866 he was in 
 business for himself, but subsequently gave it 
 
 up and entered the employ of John and Mark 
 Lee, with whom he remained until 1871. He 
 then went to work for E. K. Hall in High- 
 landville, making surgical elastic bandages, 
 and remained in his employ for about ten 
 years. In 1881 he began business for himself 
 in the same line, in which he has since re- 
 mained engaged. He has a factory at High- 
 landville, and sells his jiroducts in Boston, 
 New York, and other large cities. He was 
 the first man to start a machine for the manu- 
 facture of elastic bandages here in the liast, 
 and was really the introducer of the business 
 in America. 
 
 Mr. Gorse is a man who takes great interest 
 in all public matters, especially those per- 
 taining to education. He has been a member 
 of the Sons of Temperance for thirty-five 
 years, and has passed through all the chairs. 
 During his term of ofifice as Worthy Patriarch, 
 the division experienced a growth exceeded by 
 but one other. He was a charter member of 
 the United Order of the Golden Cross, and is 
 a member of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Gorse is 
 an active member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church in Highlandville, of which he is a 
 trustee; and he has been for thirty years a 
 teacher in the Sunday-school. In politics he 
 is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Gorse was married in 1861 to Phebe, a 
 daughter of Robert and Phebe Shaw, of Need- 
 ham, but who came from England. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Gorse have had eight children, namely: 
 Henrietta, born in 1862, who died in 1868; 
 Louise, born in 1864, who died in 1868; 
 Frank W. , born in 1866, who married and 
 settled in Needham; Phebe Lily, born in 
 1 868, who married Arthur J. Littlehale, and 
 is living in Needham; t!tta Louise, born in 
 1870; Hannah May, born in 1872; Minnie 
 Mary, born in 1874; and William Henry, 
 born in 1878, who died aged nine months. 
 The three younger daughters have been edu- 
 cated in the grammar and high schools of the 
 town; and Minnie Mary has also had one 
 year at Burdett's Business College in Boston. 
 They are all living at home. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Gorse sent for his father and 
 mother to come and live here. The father 
 was a stanch supporter of the North during 
 the Rebellion, even before he came to this
 
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 659 
 
 country; and his son relates that in a restau- 
 rant he one day met a man equally as bitter in 
 defence of the South. They fell into discus- 
 sion ; and after hot words they agreed to de- 
 cide by their fists which was right, North or 
 South, the result from the handicuffs being 
 that the North won by a large majority. 
 Henry Gorse died in 1870, anil his wife, Han- 
 nah, in 1872. 
 
 ILLIAM FOREMAN,* proprietor of 
 a thriving tinware business in Nor- 
 wood and a veteran of the Civil 
 War, was born in Neponset, Mass., January 
 10, 1845. His father, William Foreman, 
 emigrated from England after marriage, and 
 settled upon a farm in Neponset, where he 
 passed the rest of his life. He had a family 
 of four children, two of whom are living, 
 namely: William, the subject of this sketch; 
 and Hannah, wife of Jacob Bonant, of Ash- 
 land, Mass. 
 
 William Foreman, second, began to support 
 himself at the age of nine years, at which time 
 he engaged in pegging shoes at a factory in 
 Marshfield, Mass. He later returned to Ne- 
 ponset, where he remained about three years. 
 He subsequently worked upon a farm in 
 Southboro, Mass., for a time; and still later 
 he learned the tinner's trade in Ashland. On 
 July 21, 1862, he enlisted as a private in 
 Company H, Thirty-second Regiment, Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was at- 
 tached to the Fifth Corps of the Army of the 
 Potomac. This regiment was held in reserve 
 at Antietam; but with it Mr. Foreman later 
 participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, 
 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, the 
 Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania Court- 
 house, Cold Harbor, Weldon Railroad, 
 Hatcher's Run, Five Forks, Petersburg, and 
 many skirmishes, making countless marches, 
 enduring much hardship, and finally being 
 present at Appomatto.x Court-house during 
 the ceremony of the surrender of General Lee. 
 With it Mr. Foreman also took part in the 
 Grand Review in Washington, and was mus- 
 tered out at Arlington Heights, June 25, 1865, 
 being finally discharged on July 13 following. 
 Returning to Ashland, Mr. Foreman resumed 
 
 his trade, which he followed there until 1880, 
 when he established himself in business at his 
 present location in Norwood. He is promi- 
 nently identified with G. K. Hird Post, 
 G. A. R., which he has served in various 
 official positions, having been its Conmiander 
 in 1895. In politics he is a Republican. 
 Mr. P'oreman married Carrie IJodemer, and 
 has two children: Carrie Estella, wife of 
 E. L. Ingraham, of Norwood ; and I-"reda A. 
 He attends the Universal ist church. 
 
 tOHI'RT E. AM1':.S,* : 
 facturer residing in 
 born in Ro.xbury, 
 
 a retired manu- 
 Needham, was 
 Mass., in the 
 year 1839, son of Robert W. and 
 Louisa (Danforth) Ames. His paternal 
 grandfather, Ezekiel Ames, son of Joshua 
 Ames, born in Williamsburg, Mass., in 1775, 
 a farmer and a well-known citizen, married 
 Sally Clark, and died in 1856. 
 
 Kobert W., above named, son of Ezekiel 
 and Sally (Clark) Ames, was born in Milford, 
 N.H., in 1810. He settled in Ro.xbury, and 
 was engaged in the manufacture of patent and 
 grained leather, doing an e.xtensive business 
 and finally taking his son, Robert E., into 
 partnership. He was a prominent business 
 man, and was active in all religious and re- 
 form work, being one of the Deacons of Tre- 
 mont Baptist Church, one of the Aldermen of 
 Roxbury, and an original abolitionist. He 
 died in September, 1888. His first wife, the 
 mother of Mr. Robert E. Ames, was the 
 daughter of Thomas Danforth, of Ro.xbury. 
 She died in 1841 ; and he married for his sec- 
 ond wife Frances, daughter of Thomas Tilden, 
 a master builder in the city of Boston. 
 
 Robert E. Ames was educated in the public 
 schools of his native town, graduating in 1857 
 in the third class sent out from the high 
 school. At the age of eighteen years he 
 began his working life by going into his 
 father's business. In 1864 he became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of R. W. Ames & Son, their 
 factory being located in Ro.xbury and the store 
 on High Street in Boston. In the big fire of 
 1872 the store was burned. Mr. Ames con- 
 tinued in the business until 1878, when he 
 came to Needham and took a farm. He finally
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 had the farm laid out into building lots, and 
 at length sold it to Levi Ladd. Mr. Ames is 
 now one of the Town Assessors of Needham, 
 and his sound judgment is fully appreciated by 
 his townsmen. 
 
 In 1868 he married Theoline L., daughter 
 of Josiah Richard.s, of Barry, 111., formerly a 
 resident of Brookline. Four children have 
 been born of this marriage; namely, Robert 
 E. , Jr., Louise, Walter H., and Fred R. 
 Robert, born in 1870, was educated in the 
 Needham town schools, and at eighteen years 
 of age went to sea, sailing on bark "Clyde," 
 Captain Terwelleyer, bound for Madagascar. 
 The bark was wrecked in port, and young Mr. 
 Ames then shipped for the return voyage on 
 a German vessel. This was lost, probably off 
 the coast of Cape of Good Hope; and neither 
 ship nor crew was ever heard from. Louise 
 Ames was born in July, 1872, and died in 
 1876. Walter H. Ames, born March 2-j, 
 1876, is now engaged in the dry-goods busi- 
 ness. Fred R. Ames, born March 22, 1877, 
 is a photographer in Needham. 
 
 ^S^YAMES THOMPSON, an influential cit- 
 izen of Ouincy, Norfolk County, 
 Mass., a member of the firm of John 
 Thompson & Sons, granite manufact- 
 urers and dealers, was born in the southern 
 part of Scotland, May 18, 1848. His great- 
 grandfather Thompson was one of the pioneer 
 settlers of Pittsburg, Pa., and a man of consid- 
 erable means and ability. He emigrated to this 
 country before the march of civilization had 
 extended very far westward, locating in West- 
 ern Pennsylvania while that region was yet 
 covered with heavy forests, through which wild 
 beasts roamed at will, and in which the red man 
 had his hunting-ground. He maintained a 
 ferry across the river at Pittsburg for several 
 years. 
 
 James Thompson, the paternal grandfather 
 of James Thompson of Ouincy, was for many 
 years in the British army, a part of the time 
 being stationed at the Tower of London. 
 
 John Thompson was born in the Tower of 
 London, May 3, 1815. When a boy he 
 learned the stone-cutter's trade, at which he 
 worked in the old country for several seasons. 
 
 About the middle of the present century he 
 emigrated from Scotland to the United States, 
 and, having settled in Quincy, worked for 
 various firms until 1872, receiving good 
 wages for his labor. In that year he formed 
 a partnership with his two sons — William 
 and James — and has since successfully con- 
 ducted a large business. This firm, which is 
 one of the oldest in the city, handles all kinds 
 of New England granite, and makes a spe- 
 cialty of monumental work, selling principally 
 to the wholesale trade, keeping on an average 
 fifty men busy in filling their orders. Frater- 
 nally, he is a Mason. He married Margaret 
 McCormack, daughter of John McCormack, 
 and has four children, namely: William; 
 Elizabeth; James, the direct subject of the 
 present sketch; and Margaret. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian church, to which his 
 wife, now deceased, also belonged. 
 
 James Thompson, the younger of the two 
 brothers, obtained his education in the public 
 schools of Quincy, and then learned the stone- 
 cutter's trade, working with his father. Soon 
 after attaining his majority he became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of which his father is the 
 head, and he has since ably performed his full 
 share in maintaining its prosperity. He is a 
 man of prominence and influence in various 
 financial, business, and fraternal organiza- 
 tions, being a director of the Ouincy National 
 Granite Bank; one of the incorporators of the 
 Ouincy Savings Bank; a director of the 
 Ouincy Quarry Company; president of the 
 Granite Manufacturers' Association, of which 
 he was one of the founders, and was for a time 
 the secretary; a member of Mount Wollaston 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and of the Granite City 
 Club, which he has served as president a num- 
 ber of years. 
 
 He is one of the leading members of the 
 Republican party, and for several years has 
 been actively connected with the Republican 
 City Committee. During the first four years 
 of city government he was a member of the 
 Common Council, serving the first two years 
 on the Committee on Sewers, Drains, and 
 Public Buildings and Grounds, the second 
 year being likewise chairman of the Finance 
 Committee, and the succeeding two years 
 president of the Council. In 1895 he was
 
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 66 1 
 
 elected to the State legislature, where he was 
 on the Committee on Fisheries and Game; 
 and, being re-elected in 1896, he served on 
 the Committee on Ways and Means; he was 
 also re-elected in 1897 and serves on Com- 
 mittee of Ways and Means. 
 
 Mr. Thompson married Lydia A. I'^ord, 
 daughter of Ebenezer Ford, a native of Dor- 
 chester, Mass., but later a resident of Quincy. 
 Mrs. Thompson is a descendant of James 
 Blake, one of the original settlers of Dor- 
 chester, whose house, built in very early 
 Colonial times, is now the home of the Dor- 
 chester Historical Society. 
 
 5UTHER R. GROVER, a respected 
 farmer residing in Foxboro, was 
 ^ born November 10, 1825, in Taun- 
 ton, Mass., son of Luther Grover. 
 His grandfather, Amasa Grover, was an early 
 settler of this town, where he purchased a 
 tract of unbroken land, and converted it into 
 a homestead. The house that Amasa then 
 built is still standing, and is in a good state 
 of preservation considering its age. He car- 
 ried on general farming, and also made bas- 
 kets, an industry followed by many of the 
 pioneers of his day. His wife, Olive Shaw, 
 bore him a large family of children, of whom 
 Luther was the youngest son. 
 
 Luther Grover was educated in the district 
 schools of this town. When a young man he 
 went to Taunton to learn the blacksmith's 
 trade, and for several years had charge of 
 machine blacksmith shops, among the last 
 few of which was that owned by the Grover 
 & Baker Sewing Machine Company. He sub- 
 sequently engaged in manufacturing, in which 
 he was quite successful. After building a 
 house in Fo.xboro, he removed to Newton 
 Upper Falls, but spent his last days in Bos- 
 ton, dying there at the age of fourscore years. 
 He married Miss Anna W. Caswell, a daugh- 
 ter of Alvin Caswell, and they reared four 
 children, namely: Luther R., the subject of 
 this sketch; Reuben C, who died in 1880; 
 Theodore L., who died in 1896; and Elbridge 
 H., a resident of Boston, Mass. 
 
 Luther R. Grover attended the district 
 schools of Springfield, Mass., Newton Upper 
 
 Falls, and Fo.xboro. He subsequently worked 
 for a few years at the machinist's trade. 
 Then, although he was a quick and skilful 
 workman, he was forced to give up an excel- 
 lent position owing to impaired eyesight. 
 For the last forty years he has been profitably 
 engaged in farming. He has lived in his 
 present residence for over fifty years, com- 
 ing here at the time of his marriage. Here 
 his two children were born, and also two of 
 his grandchildren. Here also he celebrated 
 his golden wedding. Standing in front of the 
 house is an elm-tree that is alleged to be two 
 hundred years old, and the largest in the 
 town. Mr. Grover has uniformly cast his 
 vote with the Democratic party. 
 
 On May 27, 1846, Mr. Grover married Miss 
 Almina M. Twichell, a daughter of Stillman 
 and I-Llvira (Cheever) Twichell, and a grand- 
 daughter of John Cheever, who was a promi- 
 nent resident of Wrentham. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Grover have two children; namely, Elvira 
 Anna and Stillman R. Elvira A., who was 
 formerly a school teacher, married John C. 
 Tibbetts, a native of Hamilton, Mass., has 
 had two children — Alva G. and John R. — and 
 is now residing in Boston. Stillman R. 
 Grover, a tool-maker in the jewelry trade, 
 married Theodora Abigail Ashley. His chil- 
 dren were: Edgar L. , who died in infancy; 
 and Esther E. 
 
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 ILLIAM GREENLEAF APPLE- 
 TON PATTEE, ■ LL.B.,* attor- 
 ney-at-law, Quincy, Mass., and 
 president of the Quincy Electric Light and 
 Power Company, is a man of keen intellect 
 and strong personality. He was born in 
 Quincy, August 28, 1S54, a son of the late 
 William S. Pattee, M.D. 
 
 Dr. Pattee was born January 8, 1824, in 
 Bath, Me., which was also the birthplace of 
 his father, William S. Pattee, Sr. After 
 completing his academical education he en- 
 tered the Harvard Medical School, and im- 
 mediately after receiving his diploma began 
 the practice of his profession in Quincy. He 
 had a thorough knowledge of medicine, and, 
 being careful, skilful, and prompt in attend- 
 ance of cases, met with great success, becom-
 
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 ing one of the leading physicians of his day. 
 He had decided literary tastes, and was a large 
 collector of choice books, his private library 
 being, with one exception, the largest in town. 
 He was deeply interested in the early settle- 
 ment of Norfolk County, and gave to the 
 public the knowledge he acquired in his re- 
 searches through the volume entitled "A His- 
 tory of Old Braintree and Ouincy," which he 
 prepared and published, and which is an ac- 
 knowledged authority on the subjects treated. 
 He rendered valuable service to the town as a 
 member of the School Committee for several 
 years, and also as one of the organizers of what 
 is now known as the "Crane Memorial Li- 
 brary" and as a member of its first board of 
 Trustees. He likewise contributed valuable 
 articles relating to local history to various 
 papers and magazines. He was a Democrat in 
 politics, invariably interested in public af- 
 fairs, and had frequent complimentary nom- 
 inations to State offices. He was a member 
 of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 
 Dr. Pattee married Mary Emily, daughter of 
 William Greenleaf Appleton, and had two 
 children, namely: William G. A., the special 
 subject of this sketch; and P^liz^beth Green- 
 leaf, who married Edwin G. Peterson, of New 
 York City, and died in early womanhood. 
 Both the Doctor and his wife were active mem- 
 bers of the Unitarian church, and he was for 
 several years superintendent of the Sunday- 
 school. 
 
 William Greenleaf Appleton, Mrs. Pattee's 
 father, was born in Portsmouth, N. H. In 
 early manhood he went to Baltimore, Md., 
 where he engaged in mercantile business for 
 many years, accumulating a good property. 
 He then returned North, settling in Ouincy, 
 where he lived retired until his demise. He 
 was a man of great force of character, taking 
 an active part in local and State affairs. He 
 was a member of the Unitarian church. His 
 first wife was Mrs. Ann Hall Adams, born 
 Greenleaf, formerly of Newbury, Mass., and 
 later of Portsmouth, N. H. After her death 
 he married her cousin, Eliza Greenleaf, a 
 daughter of Thomas Greenleaf, for twenty-four 
 years a member of the State legislature. 
 Thomas Greenleaf was a grandson of William 
 Greenleaf, who was Federal Sheriff of Suffolk 
 
 County during the Revolution, in which ca- 
 pacity the duty of promulgating the Declara- 
 tion of Independence devolved upon him. The 
 Greenleaf family originated in lingland. Ed- 
 mund Greenleaf, the common ancestor of the 
 family in New l^ngland, came to Massachu- 
 setts and settled at Newbury in 1635. His 
 daughter Judith married Tristram Coffin, Jr., 
 and going to Nantucket was with him among 
 the first settlers of that island. 
 
 The Appleton family were also of English 
 ancestry, one Samuel Appleton, of whom Mr. 
 Pattee is a lineal descendant, having come 
 from Waldingfield, .Suffolk County, England, 
 to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635. 
 
 William G. A. Pattee, who was named for 
 his maternal grandfather, was fitted for college 
 in the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, and was 
 graduated at the Harvard Law School with 
 the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1876, and 
 three years later was admitted to the bar. For 
 a time he was associated with Augustus Rust 
 as a clerk, afterward being his assistant from 
 1876 until 1882. In 1879 Mr. Pattee opened 
 an office in Ouincy, where he has built up a 
 lucrative practice, which since 1882 has re- 
 quired his entire time and attention. He was 
 attorney for the town before its incorporation 
 as a city, and was city solicitor the first two 
 years it was under municipal government. He 
 has a large corporation practice, being attorney 
 for the Ouincy & Boston Street Railway Com- 
 pany and other street railway companies; is 
 president of the Ouincy Electric Light and 
 Power Company, of which he was one of the 
 organizers; and he was also one of the organ- 
 izers, and for several years a director, of the 
 Ouincy Street Railway Company. He has 
 also been actively identified with other public 
 enterprises, being a charter member of the 
 City Hospital, and a prime mover in the organ- 
 ization of the Ouincy Historical Society, of 
 which he is one of the curators. He is a 
 member of the Harvard Law School Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Pattee is one of the leading members of 
 the Democratic party, having been one of the 
 promoters of the Young Men's Democratic 
 Club of Massachusetts, and chairman of the 
 Committee on Elections since its formation in 
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 the stiunp. Me has often served as Moderator 
 at town meetings; and he presided at the town 
 meeting which accepted the city charter, 
 which he assisted in framing. He also sug- 
 gested the design of the seal of the city of 
 Ouincy, which, with the addition of the in- 
 scription, was unanimously adopted. In i(S<S3 
 and 1884 he represented the town in the State 
 legislature, serving both years on the Judiciary 
 Committee, and being chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic organization in the House. 
 
 Mr. Pattee married Laura, daughter of 
 Richard Saltonstall, of Boston, a direct de- 
 scendant of Sir Richard Saltonstall, Lord 
 Mayor of London. Mr. and Mrs. Pattee have 
 two children; namely, Richard Saltonstall 
 and Elizabeth Greenleaf. Mrs. Pattee is a 
 communicant of Christ Church (Episcopal) of 
 Ouincy. 
 
 /^TeORGE HARVEY FIELD, Deputy 
 \ '•) I Sheriff, Ouincy, Mass., has been a 
 ^ — lifelong resident of this town, where 
 his birth occurred December 23, 1839, and 
 where his great-grandparents, Joseph and Abi- 
 gail (Newcomb) Field, spent their entire 
 lives. His grandfather, Joseph Field, Jr., a 
 farmer, married Relief Baxter, daughter of 
 Daniel Baxter, of Boston; and their son Har- 
 vey was his father. 
 
 Harvey Field was born in Ouincy, January 
 20, 1800. After completing his studies in 
 the public schools, he began butchering with 
 his uncle, and was engaged in that business 
 until 1836, when he turned his attention to 
 speculation in real estate. In that year and 
 the year following he represented Ouincy in 
 the General Court. He was very prominent 
 in local affairs, serving as Selectman of the 
 town, and also in various other offices of 
 minor importance. Energetic, far-sighted, 
 and progressive, he was the leading spirit in 
 the inauguration of many enterprises that 
 were of public benefit. Through his efforts 
 were secured all the stockholders of the Na- 
 tional Granite Bank, of which he was the orig- 
 inal projector; and he was also the chief pro- 
 moter of the ship canal, which at the time of 
 its building, before the days of railways, was 
 of inestimable advantage to the town, being 
 
 used to transport granite. He found money 
 to start the Ouincy Patriot, which was carried 
 on for a number of years under the editorship 
 of Mr. Green. He erected the first ice-house 
 in Ouincy; and, having acquired a large prop- 
 erty in land, he built many fine dwellings in 
 the town. He was very generous and open- 
 hearted, delighting to entertain his many 
 friends, and was held in the highest esteem by 
 his fellow-men. His active career, so full of 
 promise, was brought to a sudden termination 
 in 1837 by injuries received from his being 
 buried in a well, which caved in upon him. 
 P^pilepsy ensued, resulting in his death a few 
 years later. 
 
 He had eight children by his wife, ICliza- 
 beth, daughter of Ebenezer Goddard, of Rox- 
 bury, Mass. A brief record is as follows: 
 Eliza Greenfield, wife of Albion King Paris 
 Dearborn, of Bridgewater; Susanna Goddard; 
 Lucy Ann, who married John J. Floyd, of 
 this city; Relief Baxter, the wife of George 
 Porter Floyd; Mary M. : John O. A.; Mehit- 
 abel Adams, whose first husband was Charles 
 Sanderson, of Lynn, she being now the wife 
 of Dr. Edward Newhall, of that city; and 
 George Harvey, whose personal history is out- 
 lined below. Both parents were members of 
 the Unitarian church, whose house of worship 
 is the Adams Temple. 
 
 George Harvey Field attended the public 
 schools until about fourteen years old, when 
 he began working on a farm, and was there- 
 after a tiller of the soil until the ist of Janu- 
 ary, 1882. In Alarch of that year he was 
 elected Selectman and Overseer of the Poor on 
 the Republican ticket, and rendered the town 
 such efficient service that he* was kept in those 
 offices the next five years. In 1886 he be- 
 came Deputy Sheriff, a position which he has 
 since filled with commendable fidelity. 
 Under ttie new city government he was ap- 
 pointed Overseer of the Poor, and served from 
 1888 till 1893. He has also been largely in- 
 terested for a number of years in the insur- 
 ance business, having successfully represented 
 the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
 York. 
 
 P^aternally, Mr. Field is a member of 
 Rural Lodge, F. & A. M., of Ouincy; 
 of St. Stephen's Chapter; and of South
 
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 Shore Commandery. He possesses good 
 business tact, and is now one of the di- 
 rectorate of Mount Wollaston Bank and presi- 
 dent of the O. S. Rogers Granite Company. 
 
 Mr. Field married Mary Abbie, daughter of 
 Alonzo G. Davis. One child has been born 
 of their union, Maud Davis, now the wife of 
 Edward H. Dew.son, of (Juincy. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Field are Unitarians in belief, and at- 
 tend the Adams Temple Church, of which he 
 has been collector for a number of years. 
 
 iHARLES M. FULLER, M.D., a 
 prominent physician of Mcdfield, was 
 born in West Medway, Mass., Oc- 
 tober 1 8, 1854, son of A. M. H. 
 and Nancy D. (Forbush) Fuller. The father 
 was for several years a jeweller and watch- 
 maker in West Medway, Mass. Nancy D. 
 Forbush, who became his first wife and was 
 born in LTpton, Mass., died in 1854, leaving 
 one son, Charles M., the subject of this 
 sketch. For his second wife he wedded Mrs. 
 Mary Ann (Tarleton) Ingram, the widow of 
 Alphonso Ingram. By this union there were 
 two children — George Arthur and Mary 
 Louise — both of whom died in infancy. 
 
 Charles M. Fuller acquired his early educa- 
 tion in the common schools; and he attended 
 college in West Newton, Mass. His medical 
 studies were pursued at the Boston Univer- 
 sity, from which after a four years' course he 
 graduated with the class of 1878. In Janu- 
 ary, 1879, he located in Medfield, where he 
 resided until 1886. Then he moved to Bos- 
 ton, and continued to practise his profession 
 for nine years He returned to Medfield in 
 1895, establishing himself in the village; and 
 he has since acquired a large and increasing 
 practice. He is a medical inspector for the 
 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company- of New 
 York. In politics he is a Republican, and he 
 has served the community as medical examiner 
 for the Board of Health. 
 
 On February 2, 1881, Dr. P^iller was 
 united in marriage with Mrs. Lillian J. John- 
 son. She was born in West Sumner, Me., 
 November 24, 1856, daughter of Cyrus W. 
 and I'llizabeth C. Bates, neither of whom is 
 now living. Her first husband, Arthur S. 
 
 Johnson, died in 1877, leaving her with one 
 son, George Arthur, born in May, 1874. 
 George married Mabel Nason, of Somerville, 
 Mass., and is now employed in the city water 
 department of Louisville, Ky. Dr. Fuller is 
 an Odd Fellow, and he was formerly con- 
 nected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. In 1889 he was the vice-presi- 
 dent of the Massachusetts Surgical and Gy- 
 najcological Society of Boston, Mass. Both 
 he and Mrs. Fuller are members of the 
 Berkeley Temple in Boston. As a physician 
 he has gained the confidence of a large num- 
 ber of patients throughout this section of the 
 county. 
 
 INSLOW LEWIS MORSE,* one of 
 ^V Norwood's able and successful agri- 
 culturists, was born in the house 
 where he now lives, October 8, 1841, son of 
 John Lewis and Caroline (Winslow) Morse. 
 He is a lineal descendant of Samuel Morse, 
 who was born in England in 1585, came over 
 in 1635, and settled in Dedham in 1636, and 
 died in 1654. His brother Joseph settled at 
 Ipswich, Mass. Seven persons named Morse 
 are said to have settled in America in the 
 seventeenth century. 
 
 John Morse, great-grandfather of Winslow 
 L., was born in Dedham, March 25, 1753. 
 He was the owner of a large farm in South 
 Dedham, a part of which is now the property 
 of his grandson; and the active period of his 
 life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. His 
 children were: Lewis, Mary, John, and Jabez. 
 Lewis Morse, W. L. Morse's grandfather, was 
 born here, January 16, 1785. He engaged in 
 farming; and he also drove a team between 
 Boston and Providence, South Dedham being 
 a way station. On January 21, 1812, he mar- 
 ried Nabby Fisher, who bore him five chil- 
 dren, as follows: John Lewis, Olive Ellis,* 
 Albert (first), Albert (second), and Caroline. 
 Olive Ellis married John H. Brooks, of 
 Worcester, Mass. ; and Caroline married Isaac 
 fl. Upton, of Worcester. 
 
 John Lewis Morse, father of Winslow Lewis, 
 was born at the homestead, January 20, 18 14. 
 He was reared upon the farm, which he in- 
 herited at his father's death; and the present
 
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 667 
 
 residence was erected by him in 1837. He 
 married Caroline Winslow, who was born in 
 Brewster, Mass., October 14, 18 14; and 
 Winslow L. Morse, the subject of this sketch, 
 is the only child of their union. 
 
 Winslow Lewis Morse obtained his element- 
 ary education in the old liagle's Nest School- 
 house, located near his home; and he com- 
 pleted his studies at the village school in 
 South Dedham. At an early age he began to 
 assist in carrying on the farm, and for some 
 time he drove a milk wagon. After his 
 father's death he sold the milk business, and 
 has since given his attention to general farm- 
 ing. 
 
 On November 12, 1868, Mr. Morse was 
 joined in marriage with Adeline Virginia 
 Bateman, daughter of William and Harriet 
 Newell (Smith) Bateman, of this town. Mrs. 
 Morse is the mother of five children, as fol- 
 lows: Addie J., born in i86g, now the wife 
 of William Henry Drugan, of Cambridgeport, 
 Mass. ; Edwin L., born in 1871 ; Arthur W., 
 born in 1872; Ida F"., born in 1874; and 
 Caroline W. , born in 1884. 
 
 Mr. Morse is a Republican in politics. 
 The family attend the Congregational church. 
 
 ,HARLES HENRY CURRIER,* 
 inventor and manufacturer of dye 
 stuffs at 36 Berry Street, Hyde 
 Park, was born in Waterloo, N. Y., 
 March i, 18*58, son of Perry L. and Martha 
 (Bryant) Currier. His father enlisted as a 
 private in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth 
 Regiment, New York Volunteers, with which 
 he served t-hrough the Civil War, and was 
 mustered out as a Lieutenant. He returned to 
 New York State, and a year later engaged in 
 the hotel business in Titusville, Pa. Selling 
 his property there, he finally removed to 
 Georgetown, Col., and for many years was 
 engaged in mining. His wife, Martha Bry- 
 ant, who was a native of Amherst, Mass., died 
 when her son, Charles IL, the subject of this 
 sketch, their only child, was four years old. 
 
 Charles Henry Currier spent his childhood 
 and early youth in Waterloo and Auburn, 
 N.Y. , and attended school until he was eigh- 
 teen years old. He then went to Holyoke, 
 
 Mass., where he served a three years' appren- 
 ticeship at the dyer's trade in A. T. Stewart's 
 woollen-mill; and after that he was employed 
 as a journeyman dyer at an ivory button manu- 
 factory in South Hadley, Mas.s. He subse- 
 quently followed his trade in Holyoke and 
 Huntington, Mass., J5irmingham, Conn., and 
 Philadel])hia, I'a. While working in the 
 Quaker City he invented some new dye stuffs; 
 and in company with his cousin he engaged in 
 their manufacture at Walpole, Mas.s. Two 
 years later he sold a three-quarters' interest in 
 his patents; and after remaining out of busi- 
 ness for a time he connected himself with 
 A. Klipstein, a manufacturer of dye stuffs in 
 Boston. Having perfected other inventions 
 in his line, he engaged in business for himself 
 and established his factory at Hyde Park in 
 1894. His business has become one of the 
 most e.xtensive in this locality, employing 
 eleven men at the works and three salesmen 
 upon the road. 
 
 Mr. Currier married Minnie E. Higgins, 
 daughter of Ira Higgins, of Washington, 
 Mass. Three children have been born to 
 them; namely, George Robert, Essie L. , and 
 Charles Raymond. 
 
 In politics Mr. Currier is a Republican. 
 He is treasurer of the Town Committee and 
 the Republican Club. He is a thirty-second 
 degree Mason, being a member of Hyde Park 
 Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Norfolk Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons; Hyde Park Council, Royal 
 and Select Masters; Cypress Commandery, 
 Knights Templar; La Fayette Lodge of Per- 
 fection; Mount Olivet Chapter of the Rose 
 Croi.x; Giles Faneuil Hall Council, Princes of 
 Jerusalem ; Mecca Temple of the IMystic 
 Shrine; and the Massachusetts Consistory. 
 
 /STTo 
 
 EORGE CHAPMAN,* a practical, 
 \ '*) I prosperous, and progressive agricult- 
 
 — urist of Canton, Norfolk County, 
 Mass., was born in Plymouth, N. H., in 1824, 
 son of Noah and Abigail (Currier) Chapman. 
 
 Noah Chapman was born and reared among 
 New Hampshire's hills, and there remained a 
 resident, spending the larger part of his life in 
 Plymouth, his native place. The currier's 
 trade, which he learned when a young man.
 
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 BIOGRAPHK'AL REVIEW 
 
 was his habitual occupation. He married 
 Abigail Currier, a daughter of Daniel Cur- 
 rier, a well-known and prominent citizen of 
 Plymouth, and they became the parents of nine 
 children, of whom but two survive, namely: 
 George, the special subject of this brief bio- 
 graphical sketch ; and Laura, nfiw Mrs. Brad- 
 ley, of New York. 
 
 George Chapman grew to man's estate in 
 Plymouth, acquiring his book learning in the 
 common schools of the town, in which he was 
 a pupil until about fifteen years old. From 
 that age he became a self-supporting member 
 of the community, earning his own living as 
 best he could by working for the neighboring 
 farmers or at any honorable employment. In 
 1842, bidding good-by to the com])anions of 
 his youth, he came to Norfolk County, Massa- 
 chusetts, and, settling in Milton, was success- 
 fully engaged as a wood and lumber dealer for 
 fifteen years. Mr. Chapman then invested a 
 part of his money in the Bailey farm at Ponka- 
 pog, and has since been prominently identified 
 with the agricultural and business interests of 
 this community. To his extensive farming 
 operations he has added other lines of indus- 
 try, dealing to a considerable extent in wood, 
 having about two hundred acres of land in 
 Canton and vicinity in his possession. He is 
 an earnest supporter of the Republican plat- 
 form, but has never been an aspirant for politi- 
 cal office. 
 
 Mr. Chapman married Miss Rosanna Young. 
 Their children are: Laura; Mary, wife of 
 P'rancis Ellis; Henry, a resident of South Bos- 
 ton; Frederick C, of Canton; and Sarah, 
 wife of Charles Crowell. Mr. Chapman and 
 his family attend the Unitarian church. 
 
 inxAVID HENRY WHITTIER,* an 
 1^=1 able farmer of Sharon, Mass., is a 
 ^T^y native of Canaan, Kings County, 
 N. S. He was born October 9, 
 1842. His parents were Edward D. and Re- 
 becca (Ward) Whittier, lifelong residents of 
 Kings County; and his father was a prominent 
 farmer in that section of the province. Ed- 
 ward D. Whittier died in 1877, and his wife 
 died in 1893. They iiad these children, 
 namely: Urias; David H. , Eunice Ann, who 
 
 died at the age of eighteen; William L., who 
 married a Miss Bishop; Mary K., who became 
 Mrs. Bishop; Ebenezer; Abbie E. ; Urias, 
 second ; Harriet A. ; Samuel E. ; and Maggie. 
 Of these David Henry, Mary E. , I'>benezer, 
 Samuel E. , and Maggie are living 
 
 David Henry Whittier, the second-born 
 son, was educated at a private school, and 
 resided at the parental home until he was 
 twenty-two years old. He then came to Mas- 
 sachusetts; and, securing a position as foreman 
 of a large farm in Dedham, he remained there 
 until 1887. For the succeeding eight years 
 he took charge successively of the poor farms 
 in Easton and Sharon, and in 1895 he bought 
 the Philip Drake farm in this town. This 
 pro|ierty, which consists of ninety-six acres, 
 he has greatly improved ; and aside from carry- 
 ing on general farming he deals quite largely 
 in wood. 
 
 On May 28, 1872, Mr. Whittier was joined 
 in marriage with Mary Jane York. She was 
 born in Boston, August 22, 1843, daughter of 
 Captain George and Mary (Gates) York. Her 
 father was in early life a sea captain and in 
 his later years a mason. He died in 1866, 
 and Mrs. York is now residing with one of her 
 daughters in Massachusetts. Mrs. Whittier's 
 parents had a family of eight children, as fol- 
 lows: Stephen; Charles; Mary Jane; Eliza- 
 beth, wife of Lewis Warner, of New Haven, 
 Conn. ; Melissa, wife of Frank Parker, of the 
 same city ; George, who married Sarah Ste- 
 phens, and is now employed in Quincy Mar- 
 ket, Boston ; Grace, widow of Augustus 
 Ward, late of St. Louis, Mo. ; and Annie. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Whittier is a Republican. 
 He is connected with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and with the grange in 
 Sharon. He is an industrious, energetic, and 
 capable farmer- and he has a large circle of 
 friends and acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Whittier are members of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church. 
 
 W'l 
 
 ILLIAM T. COOK, a successful 
 business man of Foxboro, was born 
 May 22, 1826, in Wakefield, N. H. 
 His father, Jesse Cook, who was also born in 
 Wakefield, grew to manhood in his native
 
 WILLIAM T. COOK.
 
 HIOG R A I'M I( A I, R KVI KAV 
 
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 town, where he was engaged in farming for 
 some time. Later Jesse removed to Dover, 
 N.H., and there continued in his chosen oc- 
 cupation until his death, at the age of fifty 
 years. He married Hannah Trickey, who 
 bore him four children — William T., Sarah 
 N., Emily C, and Amasa N. Sarah, who 
 married Louis Merriam, died leaving three 
 children — Nellie A., Kmily C, and William 
 N. Emily is the wife of Henry A. Mellen, 
 of the firm of Norcross, Mellen & Co., of 
 Boston, Mass. Amasa N. Cook, who deals in 
 hats, caps, and furs, on Washington Street, 
 Boston, married Mary A. Cheever, daughter of 
 Dr. John Cheever, of Charlestown, Mass., and 
 has two children. The latter are: Alice, the 
 wife of Dr. James Shepard, residing in Brook 
 line, who has an office on Park Street, Bos- 
 ton; and Newell Cheever, who, through the 
 illness of his father, has recently given up 
 his studies at Harvard College to attend to 
 the business of the Boston store. 
 
 William T. Cook was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Wakefield and Dover, N. H. In 
 the latter town he subsequently began his 
 mercantile career as clerk in a store. Here, 
 being enterprising and ambitious, he quickly 
 outgrew his environment, went to Boston, and 
 was there engaged as a clerk until he had be- 
 come somewhat acquainted with city ways. 
 He then embarked in the hat, cap, and fur 
 business, locating at 15 and 17 Court Street, 
 where he remained for four years. During 
 the following eight years he was a member of 
 the well-known firm of Greenough, Cook & 
 Co., of Boston, taking the place of Mr. 
 Jameson, whose interest he purchased. At 
 the same time he was a member of the firm of 
 Covell, Steele & Co., of Portland. Me., the 
 two firms doing a business of five hundred 
 thousand dollars a year. About two years 
 previous to the Civil War, Mr. Cook entered 
 into partnership with Charles Rice, of Pearl 
 Street, Boston, and engaged in the sale of 
 straw goods both for themselves and for 
 the Union Straw Works of Foxboro, Mr. 
 Rice having previously been engaged in that 
 business for himself. Soon after the out- 
 break of the war they moved to New York 
 where they continued in the same business for 
 about three years. Subsequently he returned 
 
 to Boston, and joined the lumber firm of 
 Trickey, Jewett & Cook, of which the senior 
 member .was his uncle. They carried on an 
 extensive business until after the close of the 
 Rebellion, selling immense (juantities of lum- 
 ber for use in the construction of war vessels 
 at the Charlestown and Kittery navy-yards. 
 
 In July, 1866, Mr. Cook came to Foxboro. 
 One year later he entered into ])artncrship 
 with Mr. I'^ P. Carpenter, one of the founders 
 of the Union .Straw Works. A few years 
 afterward Mr. Carpenter retired from the 
 business, and for seventeen years Mr. Cook 
 was its manager and resjjonsible head. Later 
 a stock company was formed, when the Union 
 Straw Works was merged into one corporation 
 with the ]iay .State Works of Middleboro, 
 with a capital stock of five hundred thousand 
 dollars, and Mr. Cook was made president. 
 The business was continued in Foxboro, under 
 the firm name of W. T. Cook & Co., as long 
 as the work was carried on for the Union and 
 Bay State Manufacturing Company; and the 
 same business was carried on in another large 
 factory at Middleboro, Mass., under the style 
 of Albert Alden & Co. Mr. Cook sold to the 
 .State the property now occupied by the Ine- 
 briates' Home in Foxboro, and which he at 
 one time used as a stock farm. He built a 
 private trotting park on the farm while it was 
 in his possession, and raised many fine trot- 
 ting horses, at one time selling forty head. 
 He also raised full-blooded Jersey cattle in 
 large numbers. Afterward he bought the 
 old Warren homestead, which was originally 
 owned and improved by a brother of General 
 Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill fame.. He 
 now owns a well-improved and finely equipped 
 farm of one hundred and twenty acres, lying 
 between Foxboro and Mansfield, and does a 
 good deal of fancy farming. He is a director 
 in the Foxboro Co-operative Bank and chair- 
 man of the board of investment; a trustee in 
 the Foxboro Savings Bank and a member of 
 the board of investment : and a stockholder 
 and director in the Mt. Washington Cold 
 Spring Manufacturing Company of Boston. 
 He has always been a straightforward Repub- 
 lican, but has never been induced to accept 
 public office. He cast his first Presi(Jential 
 vote in 1848 for Zachary Taylor. He is a
 
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 member of the local grange, of the Knights of 
 Honor of this town, and of the Norfolk Club 
 of Boston ; and he belongs to the Congrega- 
 tional Society of Foxboro. 
 
 /^TiT.HERT C. FISHER,* one of the 
 \ ST leading farmers of F'ranklin, Mass., 
 ^ — the son of Adin and Mary (Clark) 
 F'isher, was born in this town, April 15, 
 1827. From the V)&^-a.m Historical Register, 
 October, 1892, we learn that Anthony Fisher, 
 son of Anthony of Syleham, County Suffolk, 
 England, with wife and children, came to 
 Massachusetts in 1637, bought land in Ded- 
 ham, and died in Dorchester near the Dedham 
 line in 1671 ; that his brother Joshua came 
 over in 1640, settled first in Dedham, and 
 in 1650 went to Medfneld ; and that a Thomas 
 Fisher from England, not known to be related 
 to the foregoing, came in 1634, and settled at 
 Dedham. 
 
 Timothy Fisher, Jr., son of a Timothy 
 Fisher~of Dedham, was the father of Adin 
 Fisher. He went to Medway when he was 
 twenty years of age to learn the blacksmith's 
 trade; and when the Revolution broke out he 
 enlisted in the Continental army, and served 
 his full term. He was at the battle of Bunker 
 Hill, and in many other important engage- 
 ments. After his term of enlistment expired, 
 he returned to Franklin, and was for many 
 years engaged in teaming. Fie was a strong 
 temperance man, was very enterprising, an"d 
 was successful in his business. At one period 
 he used to drive an ox team from Boston to 
 New .York City. He died at the age of 
 eighty-eight years, in the house where the 
 subject of this sketch was born. He was mar- 
 ried three times; and Mr. Fisher's father, 
 Adin F'isher, was the son of the third wife. 
 He remained at home, and'took charge of the 
 old homestead, engaged in farming and team- 
 ing. He, too, was a successful man of busi- 
 ness, and did a great deal of teaming. In his 
 later years he removed to Franklin village, 
 where he built several buildings. He died 
 there at the age of ninety-two years. His 
 wife, Mary Clark, of Franklin, was the 
 moth# of five children: Gilbert C, the sub- 
 ject of our sketch; Marshall, now engaged in 
 
 farming in Medfield ; I-'dmund T. , a ])edler, 
 living in Pawtucket, R.I. ; Mary Ann, the 
 widow of James Bond, living in Franklin vil- 
 lage; and one that died in infancy. 
 
 Gilbert Fisher received his education in the 
 public schools of Franklin. When he was 
 twelve years of age he was engaged in driving 
 an ox team for fifteen cents a day, and at the 
 age of fifteen he went to live with a doctor in 
 I""ranklin village. After remaining with him 
 one year, he returned to the old homestead, 
 where he has been ever since. He now owns 
 about one hundred and twenty-two acres of 
 land in the old farm, and carries on general 
 farming to a considerable extent, although 
 teaming is his main occupation. He married 
 Emily, a daughter of Charles Keith, of South 
 Walpole, Mass. They had five children, 
 namely: Eugene, now living in Franklin vil- 
 lage; Emma, the wife of Edward Coben, of 
 Hopkinton, Mass.; Ida, deceased; Charles, 
 a fireman on the New England Railroad, liv- 
 ing in F'ranklin; and Frank H. Mrs. Fisher 
 died July 24, 1874. 
 
 Mr. Fisher does not live in the old farm- 
 house at the present time, but boards near by 
 in the village. He is a public-spirited citi- 
 zen, and at one time he served the town as 
 Highway Surveyor. In politics he was in 
 his early days a Whig, and he is now a stanch 
 Republican. 
 
 ^-jERNARD Y. COLBURN,* organist 
 at the Universalist church at Nor- 
 wood and a well-known teacher of 
 advanced pianoforte playing in Bos- 
 ton, was born in Waltham, Mass., February g, 
 1 85 1, son of Isaac and Catherine (Farwell) 
 Colburn. He is a lineal descendant of 
 Nathaniel Colburn, who came to Dedham soon 
 after the settlement of the town, and joined 
 the church in 1641. His great-grandfather, 
 Isaac Colburn, was probably a native of \\'est 
 Dedham, where his grandfather, Isaacus Col- 
 burn, was a prosperous farmer and a lifelong 
 resident. 
 
 Isaac Colburn, second, son of Isaacus and 
 father of Bernard F. , was born in West Ded- 
 ham, and for some time was connected with 
 the South Dedham Iron Works. He was later
 
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 engaged in the shoe and leather business in 
 Boston; and in 1854 he settled in what is now 
 Norwood, where he resided for the rest of his 
 life. He died at the age of forty-seven years. 
 Catherine I'arwell, his wife, was a daughter of 
 I'eter Farwell, (jf Waltham. .She became the 
 mother of three children, namely: Bernard 
 J''., the subject of this sketch; I'rank D. ; and 
 Isaac CoJburn. 
 
 Ik'rnard F. Colburn was educated in the 
 jjublic schools, being graduated from the Ded- 
 ham Migh School. The unusual musical 
 talents which he evinced at an early age were 
 fostered and encouraged by his parents, who 
 placed him under the care of Mrs. Mary l^oy- 
 den ; and so rapidly did he advance in piano- 
 forte playing that while still attending the 
 high school he had several pupils. He pur- 
 sued a long course of advanced musical train- 
 ing under Frofessor Fritz Zuchtmann, of Bos- 
 ton, a musician and teacher of considerable 
 celebrity in his day; and in 1870, when Pro- 
 fessor Carlyle Petersilea opened his musical 
 school, Mr. Colburn was engaged to teach 
 pianoforte playing. For seventeen years he 
 continued. to occupy a prominent place in the 
 cor|xs of instructors of that excellent school, 
 and since 18S.7 he has devoted the greater jjart 
 of his time to private pupils in Boston. For 
 the past twenty-eight years Mr. Colburn has 
 officiated as organist at the Universalist 
 chinxh, Norwood, which has been his place of 
 residence during his entire musical career. 
 He has composed and published several instru- 
 mental pieces of a high order, and about nine 
 years ago he was secured as conductor by the 
 Norwood Brass Band. He is a member of the 
 Royal Arcanum and of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Colburn was united in marriage 
 with Maria E. Hartshorn, daughter of Caleb 
 Hartshorn, of Norwood. Mrs. Colburn is a lady 
 of literary tastes and attainments, and is one 
 of the trustees of the Norwood Public Library. 
 
 SUTHER STETSON ANDERSON, 
 superintendent of the Quincy Quarry 
 Company at Quincy, Mass., was 
 born April g, 1858, in the neigh- 
 boring town of Braintree, son of Luther Wil- 
 
 son Anderson, a well-known educator. He is 
 of Scottish e.xtraction, and descended from 
 early .settlers of Londonderry, N.H., where 
 his paternal grandfather, Robert Anderson, 
 who was a native and lifelong resident of that 
 historic town, formerly known as "Nutfiekl," 
 operated a saw-mill. Among the sixteen 
 original proprietors of Londonderry in April, 
 1719, were James Anderson, who had seven' 
 children, and Allen Anderson, who was child- 
 less. John Anderson, with his wife and four 
 children, came over and settled in London- 
 derry in 1725. Robert Anderson, born in 
 1789, and presumably a descendant of James 
 Anderson, died in Londonderry, N.H., in 
 1835. Mr. Anderson's ])robable genealogy 
 is as follows: James', David' (married a Miss 
 Wilson), Robert' (married Naomi Aiken), 
 Robert', Luther Wilson', Luther Stetson''. 
 
 Luther Wilson Anderson was born in Lon- 
 donderry, N. H., in 1 82 1. He was left 
 fatherless when a lad of fourteen years, and 
 his services were needed to aid in supporting 
 his widowed mother and her little family. 
 He performed his various tasks cheerfully 
 and manfully; and, notwithstanding the many 
 drawbacks and obstacles he had to contend 
 with, he fitted himself for Dartmouth College, 
 pursued the full course, and was graduated 
 with the class of 1846. During his college 
 career he partly paid his expenses by teach- 
 ing, but also spent some of his leisure time 
 in the study of medicine. He abandoned 
 the idea of becoming a physician, however, 
 and took up the vocation of teacher, for 
 which he was particularly adapted. His first 
 school after his graduation was in East Brain- 
 tree, where he taught two years, going thence 
 to the Charlestown High School as princijial, 
 and in 1852 becoming master of the English 
 High School in Boston. This position he 
 held until his death, which occurred in 1887, 
 a period of thirty-five consecutive years. He 
 had a remarkable gift of imparting knowledge, 
 was progressive in his methods, and quick to 
 m.eet every demand of the new and higher ed- 
 ucational life. He was also somewhat inter- 
 ested in literary pursuits, at one time doing a 
 good deal of writing for Harper Brothers; and 
 he was associated with the late Benjamin F. 
 Tweed, for some years a supervisor of the
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Boston schools, in the publication of a series 
 of illustrated primers. In 1881 he was 
 chosen treasurer of the Reece Button-hole Ma- 
 chine Company, an office in which he served 
 as long as he lived; and he was also manager 
 of the Adams Academy from its establish- 
 ment in 1871 until his decease, and for many 
 years was a trustee of the Thomas Crane Pub- 
 lic Library. He was made a Mason in the 
 lodge at East Weymouth. 
 
 He married Annie Warren, daughter of 
 Amos Warren Stetson, of East Braintree. 
 Four children were born of this union, and 
 three are now living, namely: Luther Stetson; 
 Jeannie Wilson, wife of Edwin S. Bennett, 
 of Dorchester, Mass.; and Amos Warren. 
 For many years both parents were mem- 
 bers of the Union Congregational Church 
 of Weymouth and Braintree, in which the 
 father was a Deacon; and, after coming to 
 Quincy in 1868, he was identified with the 
 First, or Unitarian, Congregational Church. 
 
 Luther Stetson Anderson received his ele- 
 mentary education in private schools, attend- 
 ing first one in Weymouth and afterward that 
 of Miss Wright in Quincy. In 1869 he en- 
 tered the Boston Latin School, and the follow- 
 ing year became a pupil of the English High, 
 from which he received his diploma in 1873. 
 The succeeding two years he was so much out 
 of health that he was forced to give up his 
 studies. In 1875 he was enrolled as a student 
 at Adams Academy, where he was graduated 
 in 1878; and in 1882 he was graduated from 
 Harvard College. In September of that year 
 he secured a situation in the general freight 
 office of the Old Colony Railway, where he 
 worked in various capacities for three years. 
 On September 30, 1885, Mr-. Anderson be- 
 came assistant to the president of the Union 
 Pacific Railway Company. In addition to 
 that, on April 30, 18S8, he was made assist- 
 ant treasurer of the company, and in the 
 month of June, 1889, was also appointed its 
 assistant secretary. All these positions he 
 held concurrently, and for a short time in 
 1890 he was likewise purchasing agent of the 
 same company. From February, 1891, until 
 the following autumn he was business man- 
 ager of the New England Conservatory of 
 Music. In 1893 he supervised the construc- 
 
 tion of the Quincy Quarry Railway, of which 
 he was subsequently made the superintendent, 
 a responsible position, which he i's still ably 
 filling. 
 
 Mr. Anderson is treasurer of the First Con- 
 gregational, or Unitarian, Church and one of 
 the parish assessors. He is an unswerving 
 Republican in politics, and served in the 
 City Council in 1893, 1894, 1896, and 1897, 
 the latter year being chairman of the Commit-^ 
 tee on Finance. 
 
 (ffj^OSEPH CHASE, Jr., M.D.,* a repre- 
 sentative professional man and a lead- 
 ing physician and surgeon of East 
 Weymouth, was born in Boston, No- 
 vember 25, 1 85 1, son of Dr. Joseph, Sr. , and 
 Clara (d' A. -Luce) Chase. The family is of 
 English origin, and was settled in America in 
 the early days of the country's history. 
 
 Dr. Chase's great-grandfather Luce was a 
 Revolutionary soldier, and was a man of noted 
 patriotism and bravery. The elder Dr. 
 Chase, father of the subject of this sketch, 
 resides at Martha's Vineyard, which was his 
 wife's na'tive place. He is now eighty years 
 of age. He practised dentistry for years in 
 Boston, where he was born, and later, until he 
 retired from active pursuits, was identified 
 with manufacturing interests. 
 
 Joseph, Jr., in his youth attended the public 
 schools of the city of Boston, and was gradu- 
 ated from the English High School. After 
 receiving considerable private instruction, he 
 began the study of medicine at the Boston 
 University Medical School in 1875, and was 
 graduated from that institution in 1878 as 
 valedictorian of his class, a fact sufficiently 
 attesting his superior rank in scholarship. 
 During the year succeeding his graduation 
 he practised medicine in Hingham, and later 
 was in Boston and in New York City, where 
 he was engaged in the practice of his profes- 
 sion and in pursuing post-graduate courses. 
 He was then settled at Concord, N. H., for six 
 years, and in 1S87 came to East Weymouth, 
 where he has won a widespread reputation for 
 skill as a medical practitioner, and has built 
 up a lucrative and constantly increasing busi- 
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 of Concord, N. H., a lady of taste and culture. 
 He is a member of the School Committee of 
 Weymouth, and takes an active interest in the 
 improvement and welfare of the public schools. 
 He is a member of the Boston Homoeopathic 
 and the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical 
 Societies, and of the Massachusetts Surgical 
 and Gynaecological Societies. Ur. Chase is 
 a Republican in politics, and is always glad 
 to help in furthering the spread of Republican 
 principles. He is identified with three 
 branches of the Masonic fraternity at East 
 Weymouth, with the United Order of I'ilgrim 
 Fathers, and with the American Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 "ClDMUND P. CASSELL,* accountant, a 
 P) well-known resident of Dedham, was 
 "^"• " i ■ ^ born May 7, 1838, in Boston, a son 
 of Edmund D. Cassell. His paternal grand- 
 father, James Cassell, was born in England 
 of Huguenot ancestry. In his early life he 
 was for many years a sea captain; and prior 
 to his marriage he settled in Boston, Mass. 
 He subsequently removed to Cape Cod, mak- 
 ing his home in Truro until his death, which 
 was caused by falling downstairs. He was 
 ninety-three years of age when he met with 
 this fatal accident, but was a hale and hearty 
 old gentleman, with every prospect of enjoy- 
 ing many more years of life on earth. 
 
 Edmund D. Cassell was born in Boston, 
 being one of a family of ten children, and in 
 that city spent many years of his life. While 
 yet a boy, during the War of 1812, he stood 
 on Pemberton Hill, and watched the encoun- 
 ter between the "Chesapeake" and "Shan- 
 non," when the gallant Lawrence, having 
 received his mortal wound, uttered the memo- 
 rable words, "Don't give up the ship." After 
 completing his education he learned the trade 
 of house and sign painter, and, beginning 
 business for himself in 1829, was successfully 
 engaged therein for many years. At an early 
 age he entered the military service as a pri- 
 vate, and being promoted was for some time 
 Captain of the Lafayette Guards. He was a 
 wide-awake, keen business man. In politics 
 he was a strong Republican from the forma- 
 tion of his party, and prior to that time he 
 
 cast his first Presidential vote for General 
 Jackson. In 1863 he retired from active pur- 
 suits; and he passed his last years in Dedham, 
 dying here at the age of eighty-six years in 
 1888. Strictly honorable and upright in his 
 dealings, he was held in the highest esteem 
 and respect by his fellow-men. He was a 
 typical gentleman of the old school, courtly 
 and polished in his manners, and at all times 
 a genial companion. 
 
 He married Miss Sophia Parker, a daughter 
 of James and Esther (Lawrence) Parker, her 
 mother being a relative of Abbott Lawrence, 
 who was United States Minister to England, 
 1849-52. Of the five children born to Ed- 
 mund D. and Mrs. Cassell, four grew to ma- 
 ture life, and three are still living, namely: 
 Sophia, who married Seth Caldwell, Jr., pres- 
 ident of the Girard National Bank of Phila- 
 delphia; Edmund P., the subject of this 
 sketch ; and Mary A., wife of Henry T. Mc- 
 Clearn, who is engaged in the real estate busi- 
 ness in Boston, but is a resident of Dedham. 
 The mother preceded her husband to the life 
 eternal, passing away at the age of seventy- 
 three years. Both were connected with the 
 Baptist church. 
 
 Edmund P. Cassell received his education 
 in the public schools of Boston, and was grad- 
 iiated from the Latin School with the class of 
 1856. He soon after became a clerk for the 
 firm of Kimball, Robinson & Co., boot, shoe, 
 and leather dealers, with whom he remained 
 eight years. In 1865 he gave up the posi- 
 tion, and started in a similar business on his 
 own account, forming a partnership with a 
 Mr. Parker, under the firm name of Cassell & 
 Parker, and for ten years carrying on a suc- 
 cessful trade in boots and shoes. Since that 
 time he has followed the lucrative profession 
 of an expert accountant in Boston, although 
 he has continued his residence in Dedham, 
 where he settled in 1865. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Cassell married Miss Josephine 
 H. Kingsbury, of Dedham. Her father, 
 Lewis H. Kingsbury, was accidentally killed 
 by a runaway team in Boston in 1893, in the 
 seventy-eighth year of his age. Mr. Kings- 
 bury was for forty years president of the Ded- 
 ham National Bank; and for thirty years he 
 served as Town Treasurer, besides holding
 
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 other public offices of trust and responsibility. 
 He and his wife, whose maiden name was 
 Eunice Haven, reared seven children, of 
 whom four are still living. Mrs. Kingsbury 
 was born in Boston, and died in Dedham, at 
 the age of sixty-four years. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Cassell have the following children: Jennie 
 K., wife of Lewis U. Smith, a provision 
 dealer in Boston, but a resident of Dedham, 
 where he is Past Master of the local lodge of 
 Free Masons; Edmund P., Jr., is engaged in 
 the real estate business in New York; and 
 Mabel J. 
 
 In politics Mr. Cassell is a stanch Republi- 
 can. He is a prominent member of the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, belonging to Constellation 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he was one of 
 the first members; and to Hyde Park Chapter, 
 of Hyde Park. He is an attendant of the 
 Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Cassell and 
 the daughters are communicants. 
 
 LFRED C. SMITH,* a rising young 
 lawyer of Dedham, and also a practi- 
 tioner at the Suffolk County bar in 
 Boston, was born in this old Nor- 
 folk County town, January 11, 1873, son of 
 Alfred M. and Mary J. (Heagan) Smith. 
 His paternal grandfather, Webb Smith, was a 
 prosperous farmer of Cornish, N.H., lived to 
 be eighty years old, and was the father of thir- 
 teen children. 
 
 Alfred M. Smith, son of Webb and father 
 of Alfred C. Smith, was born in Cornish, and 
 reared upon the homestead farm. At the age 
 of twenty-one he went to Lowell, Mass., 
 where he was employed for a time as night 
 watchman in a cotton factory; and he then be- 
 came an employee of the Boston & Lowell 
 Railroad Company. He later entered the ser- 
 vice of the Boston & Providence Railroad 
 Company, was assigned to duty on the Ded- 
 ham division, and was appointed a conductor 
 in 1861. He is still in active service, and 
 with one exception is the oldest conductor on 
 the Dedham branch. He has resided here for 
 forty years. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Mary J. Heagan, was born in Egypt, Me., 
 daughter of James and Amelia Heagan, the 
 former of whom was an industrious tiller of 
 
 the soil. Mrs. Smith has reared two chil- 
 dren, namely: Adelaide N., who is female 
 probation officer, with headquarters at the 
 State House, Boston; and Alfred C, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. 
 .Smith are members of the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 Alfred C. Smith was graduated from the 
 grammar school in 1886 and from the Ded- 
 ham High School in 1890. His law studies 
 were pursued under the direction of Judge 
 Grover, of Canton; J. J. Teely, Assistant 
 District Attorney for Norfolk and Plymouth 
 Counties; and James E. Cotter, who has re- 
 cently accjuired considerable distinction for 
 his able management of the defence in the 
 Bram murder trial. Mr. Smith finished his 
 course at the Boston University School of 
 Law, June 7, 1893, and was the youngest 
 student ever graduated from that department. 
 On January 11, 1894, his twenty-first birth- 
 day, he was admitted to the bar; and, immedi- 
 ately opening an office in Dedham, he prac- 
 tised his profession alone until 1895, when he 
 became associated with J.J. Teely at 95 Milk 
 Street, Boston. 
 
 In politics Mr. Smith is a Democrat. He 
 has been a member of the Town Committee 
 since 1894, and as a campaign speaker is elo- 
 quent and forcible. He is a member of the 
 Park Commission, and was a candidate for 
 Representative to the legislature in 1896. 
 In Masonry he has advanced to the Royal 
 Arch degree, being a member of Constellation 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., and Norfolk Chapter. 
 R. A. M., of Hyde Park. He is a member of 
 the Norfolk County Bar Association. Mr. 
 Smith attends the Congregational church. 
 
 UGUSTUS WHITTEMORE, a retired 
 business man residing on Carleton 
 Street, Brookline, was born in 
 Weymouth, February 12, 1821, son 
 of James and Hannah (.Stevens) Whittemore. 
 The first ancestor of the Whittemores, who 
 are of English origin, settled in Somerville, 
 Mass., where a branch of the family still re- 
 sides. Samuel Whittemore, grandfather of 
 Augustus, was a farmer of West Cambridge. 
 James Whittemore for many years kept a
 
 AUGUSTUS WHITTEMORK.
 
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 68 1 
 
 general store in Weymouth, and was a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Tufts & Whittemore. The 
 Tufts family were related to John Ouincy 
 Adams, whom James Whittemore remembered 
 very well. James went into the insurance 
 business later in life. He also became Post- 
 master of the town and a Justice of the Peace, 
 and was known as Esquire Whittemore. 
 Upon retiring from public life, he removed to 
 Cherry Valley, Mass., where he died in the 
 eighty-si.xth year of his age. He married a 
 daughter of Calvin Stevens, who was a farmer 
 of Hillsboro, N.H., and the father of fourteen 
 children. Of the six children born to James 
 Whittemore and his wife four reached matu- 
 rity and Sarah Jane and Augustus are still 
 living. Sarah Jane married John E. Bruce. 
 Both parents were members of the Congrega- 
 tional church. The mother died at the age of 
 seventy-five years. 
 
 Augustus Whittemore spent his early youth 
 in Weymouth, finishing his education at Wey- 
 mouth Academy. He then entered his 
 father's store as a clerk. When nineteen 
 years old he went to Boston, and became a 
 clerk in the silk goods jobbing-house of 
 Francis H. Blanchard & Co., in 1846 becom- 
 ing a member of the firm. In 1852 he re- 
 signed to become a clerk in an adjoining con- 
 cern. Here he had been employed for four 
 years, when the firm was succeeded by that of 
 Ordway, Bradish & Co. In 1857 this firm 
 went out of business, and Mr. Whittemore 
 started a commission business, in which he con- 
 tinued until 1 884, when he permanently retired. 
 
 Mr. Whittemore, in 1848, contracted his 
 first marriage with Sarah B., daughter of 
 Samuel H. Babcock, a Boston merchant. She 
 died in 1852, at the age of twenty-eight, hav- 
 ing borne her husband two children. Of 
 these, Ida H. married Richard H. Soule, the 
 superintendent of locomotive power on the 
 Norfolk & Western Railroad in Virginia, and 
 has two children — Windsor and Augustus 
 Whittemore Soule. Mr. Whittemore subse- 
 quently married Sarah C. Appleton, daughter 
 of John Burnham, a lawyer of Hillsboro, N.H. 
 By her he has one child, Ethel M., now the 
 widow of Charles F'. Wentworth, who was an 
 architect of the firm of Cram, Wentworth & 
 Goodhue, and died February 8, 1S97. 
 
 Mr. Whittemore formerly belonged to the 
 old Whig party, and is now a Republican. 
 He has been a Selectman of the town of 
 Brookline for one year. He has travelled ex- 
 tensively, and is well known in social circles. 
 The members of his family attend the Epis- 
 copal church, and his daughters take an ac- 
 tive interest in church affairs. He has been 
 a member of the New ICngland Guard and of 
 the Home Guard, and since 1864 of the An- 
 cient and Honorable Artillery Company of 
 Boston. When that famous body attended 
 the dedication of the Washington Monument 
 in the national capital, Mr. VVhittcmore, who 
 was then its Captain, was called upon by Gen- 
 eral Sheridan, and personally complimented 
 upon the fine form of his command. 
 
 ENRY K. SHATSWELL, D.D.S.,* 
 prominent dentist of Norfolk 
 
 County, whose office is in High 
 Street, Uedliam, over the post- 
 office, was born December 4, 1858, in Ipswich, 
 Essex County, Mass., in the very house in 
 which his father, John II. Shatswell, his 
 grandfather, John Shatswell, and his great- 
 grandfather Shatswell first opened their eyes 
 to the light of this world. This house was 
 built in 1636, and has ever since that time 
 been in the possession of the Shatswell fam- 
 ily, being now owned by the Doctor's aunt. 
 It has been the birthplace of nine generations 
 in direct descent from the original owner. 
 
 The Doctor's grandfather succeeded to the 
 ownership of the old homestead, becoming an 
 extensive farmer and a large land-owner, and 
 there spending his seventy-five years of life. 
 He had six children, four daughters and two 
 sons, all of whom are still living. 
 
 John H. Shatswell was brought up on the 
 old homestead, receiving his education in the 
 Ipswich schools. When a young man he 
 turned his attention to seafaring pursuits, 
 going first on whaling voyages; and he was 
 afterward engaged in the West India trade as 
 master of a vessel for twenty years. Captain 
 Shatswell subsequently settled in his native 
 town, where he is now living retired from ac- 
 tive business. He is a genial, whole-souled 
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 worthy of the high respect in which he is 
 held. He has been a steward and class leader 
 of the Methodist church, of which his wife 
 also was a devoted member; and he is very 
 prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to 
 the John F. Hurd Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
 which he was Master six years; to the Royal 
 Arch Chapter; and to the Knights of Malta 
 Commandery. He married Miss Harriet A. 
 Hills, who was born and bred in Ipswich, a 
 daughter of Albert and Eunice A. (Perkins) 
 Hills. Her father was a country merchant 
 and for many years one of the leading busi- 
 ness men of the town. He reared two chil- 
 dren, namely: Harriet A. (Mrs. Shatswell), 
 who died at the age of fifty-seven years; and a 
 son who is still living. Mrs. Shatswell was 
 the mother of three children, of whom the 
 Doctor is the only survivor. 
 
 Henry K. Shatswell spent his early years 
 in the parental home. He acquired his edu- 
 cation in the public schools, and then went to 
 work in a printing-office in Ipswich. Later 
 he started a paper called the Ipswich Inde- 
 pemicnt, which he published about eighteen 
 months. During this time he had studied 
 medicine to some extent; and on giving up his 
 paper he went to Chicago, 111., and attended 
 the Chicago Medical College. Returning to 
 New England, he practised for a time with a 
 local physician in Northern Vermont. He 
 then went back to Chicago, and in 1888 re- 
 ceived his diploma from the Medical College. 
 Locating his office for practice at Park 
 Square, Boston, Dr. Shatswell shortly took up 
 the study of dentistry, and in 1891 was gradu- 
 ated from the Boston Dental College. Since 
 that time the Doctor has been one of the most 
 busy and successful men of the day. He con- 
 tinued the practice of both branches of his 
 profession for a year, at the same time occupy- 
 ing the position of teacher of chemistry in the 
 Dental College and of superintendent of the 
 Suffolk Dispensary, later connected with the 
 College of Physicians. In 1892 he came to 
 Dedham, and opened his present office, at that 
 time the only office in the place. He has 
 here won an extensive and lucrative patronage, 
 his business necessitating the aid of two as- 
 sistants. With the energy and enterprise for 
 which he^as always been noted, Dr. Shats- 
 
 well has opened two other dental offices, one 
 in Medficld and one in Mattapan, in both of 
 which he has a good practice. He has also 
 the appointment of visiting surgeon at the 
 Boston Oral Hospital. 
 
 Dr. Shatswell is known as one of the 
 brightest and most promising members of his 
 profession in this part of the State, his knowl- 
 edge of medicine as well as of dental surgery 
 being of inestimable value to him in his 
 work; and he is a valued member of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Dental Society. He is active in 
 fraternal circles, belonging to Allan Lodge, 
 No. 126, I. O. O. F., of Hyde Park, and 
 being Commander of the Knights of Malta 
 Commandery of the same place. He is an at- 
 tendant of the Unitarian church, and is a 
 member of the American Yacht Club. 
 
 AMES S. JONES* was born in Boston, 
 Mass., P'ebruary 7, 1806, son of Elisha 
 and Betsey (Thayer) Jones, of that 
 city. On his mother's side he was a 
 descendant in the seventh generation of John 
 and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, of the Plym- 
 outh Colony. His grandfather. Colonel 
 Elisha Jones, held a commission under King 
 George; but at the first outbreak of hostili- 
 ties between the American colonies and the 
 English government he resigned it, and ac- 
 cepted a similar position in the Continental 
 army. On the day of the Concord fight some 
 British troops were encamped upon the lawn 
 in front of the Jones mansion. Colonel 
 Jones, having been detailed to guard the 
 stores, valued at fifty thousand dollars, which 
 had been sent to Concord by Elbridge Gerry, 
 was fired upon by the British; but the balls 
 missed their mark, and entered the wall of the 
 house, where the bullet holes may be seen to 
 this day. Colonel Barrett, who commanded 
 at Concord on that day, was a cousin of Colo- 
 nel Jones. 
 
 Elisha Jones, father of James S., was a 
 prominent commission merchant and importer 
 of foreign goods of Boston. He died in Con- 
 cord at the old homestead, and was buried in 
 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. His wife, Betsey 
 Thayer Jones, of Braintree, traced her family 
 back to a Thayer who left Gloucester, Eng-
 
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 land, in 161 8. She also claimed descent from 
 John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, thus es- 
 tablishing a connection with the famous 
 Adams family of Massachusetts. II er mother 
 was Dorothy Hunt, whose ancestors left Wey- 
 mouth, England, in 16 10. One of her mater- 
 nal ancestors was Captain liphraim Hunt, who 
 took an active part in the early I"'reneh and 
 Indian wars in Canada, and received a grant 
 of a whole township as a reward of his mili- 
 tary services. Mrs. Jones is buried in the old 
 Copp's Hill Burying-ground in Boston. 
 
 James S. Jones received his early mental 
 training in the public schools of Boston. He 
 was then sent to Day"s Academy at Wren- 
 tham, where he fitted himself for the position 
 of a teacher. When quite a young man he 
 went to reside upon the old family estate in 
 Concord, which has been in the possession of 
 the family for one hundred and twent)-five 
 years. Here he took care of an aged uncle 
 and aunt until their death, when he became 
 their sole heir. The estate, one of the most 
 beautiful in historic Concord, is now the 
 home of his daughter Mary and her family. 
 Mr. Jones died June i, 1887. His wife, 
 Elmira, was a daughter of Ariel and Abbie 
 Cheever, representatives of one of the old 
 families of Concord, who trace their ances- 
 try back to one of two brothers, Daniel and 
 Bartholomew Cheever, who came to this coun- 
 try from Canterbury, England, in 1637. 
 Daniel took up and brought under cultivation 
 twenty acres of goverment land in what is now 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Jones reared two children — 
 Alice E. and Mary E. Alice married Horace 
 Hawes, a member of an old Wrentham family 
 of that name; and they have two children — 
 Elizabeth J. and Horace. Mary became the 
 wife of Owen Bearse, of Cape Cod, a son of 
 Captain Bearse, whose ancestors fought for 
 American independence. 
 
 Mr. Owen Bearse died in the fall of 1896. 
 He and his wife had four children, of whom 
 two are now living — Mary P. and Alice H. 
 Lillian A. died in childhood, and Mark L. 
 met his death by accident while the family 
 were on a pleasure trip in the South. Mrs. 
 Bearse and her two surviving children reside 
 at the old homestead in Concord. 
 
 LBRIDGE NASH,* a well-known phar- 
 macist of South Weymouth, was born 
 in Weymouth, Mass., October 8, 
 1841, son of William G. and Dorfithy B. 
 Nash. The father was a merchant at Nash's 
 Corners for many years. The grandfather, 
 William G., is still living, in the eighty- 
 eighth year of his age. 
 
 P^lbridge Nash attended the public and high 
 schools of South Weymouth. He sub.se- 
 quently spent two years as a clerk in a cloth- 
 ing store. August 29, 1862, he enlisted in 
 Company K, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, which was attached to the 
 command of General Foster, and operated 
 mainly in North Carolina. With this regi- 
 ment he took part in the actions at Kingston, 
 White Hall, and Goldsboro. He was also with 
 the besieged troops at Little Washington, 
 N.C. He returned with his regiment to New- 
 hern, N.C., and discharged provost duty there 
 until honorably discharged, June 18, 1863. 
 P'or several years after the war Mr. Nash was 
 in his father's employ as clerk in his general 
 store at Nash's Corners. In 1876 he engaged 
 in the drug business at South Weymouth, 
 where he has since located; and during this 
 period of twenty years he has built up an ex- 
 cellent trade. He married first Elizabeth 
 Harty, of Gloucester, Mass., who is now de- 
 ceased. His present wife was in maidenhood 
 Mary J. Harty. 
 
 Mr. Nash is an active member of the Rey- 
 nolds Post, No. 58, G. A. R., and for a quarter 
 of a century has been its Quartermaster. On 
 various occasions also he has served as treas- 
 urer of the G. A. R. fairs held by that post at 
 East Weymouth. He is a member of Wildey 
 Lodge, I. O. O. F., at South Weymouth; and 
 is also connected with Orphans' Hope Lodge, 
 A. F. & A. M., at East Weymouth. 
 
 AMES MICHAEL FOLAN,* a pros- 
 perous boot and shoe merchant of Nor- 
 wood, was born in South Dedham, 
 P'ebruary 14, 1865, son of Michael and 
 Catherine (Flaherty) P'olan. The father emi- 
 grated from County Galway, Ireland, to the 
 United States in 1861, and located in South 
 Dedham in 1863. His wife, Catherine, who
 
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 is a daughter of James Flaherty, of Ireland, 
 became the mother of five children; namely, 
 Delia, Margaret, Patrick, John, and James M. 
 James Michael Folan attended the Everett 
 School until he was fifteen years old, and then 
 began to contribute toward his own support by 
 working in a foundry. He was later em- 
 ployed in a tannery, still later worked at the 
 jeweller's trade for ten months in North 
 Attleboro, Mass., and subseq.uently served an 
 apprenticeship to the house painter's trade. 
 Ambitious and progressive, he decided to 
 enter mercantile life; and, though without ex- 
 perience or credit, he at length succeeded in 
 establishing himself in the shoe business at 
 the corner of Washington and Railroad 
 Streets. His upright character and the regu- 
 larity with which he has met his obligations 
 have gained for him the respect of business 
 men and won the confidence of the public. 
 He has made some successful real estate deals, 
 thus strengthening his financial standing; 
 and, as a rising young business man, his 
 future is bright and promising. He takes a 
 lively interest in the welfare and prosperity of 
 his native town, and is a leading spirit in 
 forwarding all practical measures for its im- 
 provement. He is a member of the Business 
 Men's Association and of the local court of 
 the Catholic Order of Foresters. On June 
 2, 1892, Mr. Folan was united in marriage 
 with Julia A. Ford, daughter of James and 
 Julia Ford, of Needham, Mass., and has one 
 son, Leo M. 
 
 ARED N. HAYES,* a carpenter and 
 builder of Foxboro, was born October 
 5, 1830, in Granby, Conn., the birth- 
 place of his father, Chauncey Hayes, 
 and of his grandfather, Dudley Hayes. He 
 is of distinguished ancestry, being a kinsman 
 of a President of the United States, Ruther- 
 ford B. Hayes. A complete record of. the 
 Hayes family has been preserved in the work 
 entitled Genealogy of the Hayes Family, 
 recently published at Buffalo, N.Y., by the 
 Rev. Charles Wells Hayes, rector of St. 
 Peter's Church of Westfield, N.V., and a 
 member of the historical societies of Maine, 
 Wisconsifi, and Buffalo, N.Y., and of the 
 
 New England Genealogical Society. Dudley 
 Hayes entered the Revolutionary army when a 
 lad of eighteen years, and in one of the en- 
 gagements of that war received a wound that 
 made him a cripple for life. He owned a 
 farm in Granby, and there carried on general 
 farming until his death, at the venerable age 
 of eighty-si.\ years. He married a Miss 
 Dewey. 
 
 Chauncey Hayes early chose farming as his 
 life occupation, and purchased land adjoining 
 the homestead of his parents. He cleared 
 and improved a valuable farm, which is now 
 in the possession of one of his sons. Active 
 and enterprising, he for some years carried on 
 a substantial business in manufacturing lum- 
 ber, having built a saw-mill on his estate. 
 He lived to a ripe old age, passing away in 
 1 88 1. He married Savilla Rose, of Gran- 
 ville, Mass., and they reared eight children, 
 as follows: Maria, Chauncey, Wealthy, Jared 
 N., Lavinia, Mills, Chloe, and Hiram. 
 Chloe lives in Great Barrington, Mass., and 
 Hiram resides on the old homestead in Granby, 
 these two and Jared N. being the only surviv- 
 ing members of the family. 
 
 Jared N. Hayes obtained a practical educa- 
 tion in the district schools of his native town, 
 and on the home farm was well trained in the 
 science of agriculture. Not caring to spend 
 his life in tilling the soil, however, he served 
 an apprenticeship of three years at the trade 
 of a carpenter and joiner, after which he em- 
 barked in business for himself at Winsted, 
 Conn., and later in Great Barrington, Mass. 
 His first work in the latter place was a large 
 brick block, which has been recently burned. 
 On the completion of that building he went to 
 New Lebanon, N. Y., where he was employed 
 by the Shakers ten years as a carpenter. In 
 1 86 1 he returned to Great Barrington, remain- 
 ing there actively engaged until his removal 
 to Foxboro in 1882. Since coming here he 
 has had charge of the construction of some of 
 the finest residences in this locality, and has 
 rebuilt his own dwelling-house, making it one 
 of the most attractive of any in the town, and 
 an ornament to that part of Cocasset Street 
 on which it is located. 
 
 Mr. Hayes first married Miss Lucinda 
 Couch, who was born in Walpole. After her
 
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 death he married for his second wife Miss 
 Sarah Hale, who lived but a few years after 
 their union. He was subsequently united in 
 marriage with Miss Lucy M. Farwell, a most 
 estimable woman, noted for her social and 
 domestic virtues. Mr. Hayes has lost two 
 children, one by his first marriage and one by 
 his second. He is a strong Republican in his 
 political affiliations, having joined that party 
 on its formation. He cast his first l^rcsiden- 
 tial vote in 1852 for Franklin Pierce. While 
 living in Great Harrington he served as police 
 officer for several years, and for the past si.N 
 years he has been Chief Engineer of the Fox- 
 boro Fire Department. He is a prominent 
 member of the Masonic fraternity, having ad- 
 vanced as far as the Commandery. He is a 
 member of the Baptist church. 
 
 ILLIAM TURNER CHADWICK,* 
 a successful farmer of West Ded- 
 ham, was born at the North End, 
 Boston, May 8, 1823, son of William Chad- 
 wick. His father was a native and lifelong 
 resident of Boston. The grandparents came 
 from England, where two of their daughters 
 were born. William Chadwick had. three 
 children: William Turner, the subject of this 
 sketch; Joseph H., the founder of the Chad- 
 wick Lead Works, a large Boston concern ; 
 and Rhoda Elizabeth, wife of I'rancis Free- 
 man. 
 
 William Turner Chadwick spent his early 
 years in Boston. He commenced when quite 
 young to be self-supporting, finding employ- 
 ment at the age of eight with a Mrs. Brewer, a 
 dressmaker, for whom he delivered bundles, 
 working outside of school hours. Afterward 
 he worked in a store until ten years old, at 
 which time he returned to the shelter of his 
 parents' roof, and for two years was a regular 
 attendant at school, first at the Mayo and 
 later at the Dudley Street School. He next 
 secured a position with an omnibus line as 
 conductor, which occupation he followed about 
 a year. After that he clerked in different 
 stores until sixteen years old, at which time 
 he began learning the shoem.aker's trade. 
 This did not prove a congenial occupation; 
 
 and, an opportunity offering, he learned the 
 trade of a tannner and currier, which he fol- 
 lowed. during the rest of his minority, board- 
 ing at home with his widowed mother. The 
 next three years he bought and curried leather 
 on his own account, selling the finished prod- 
 uct; and when about twenty-seven years old 
 he became a confidential clerk in the large es- 
 tablishment of his brother, the Chadwick Lead 
 Works, where he remained about ten years. 
 Close confinement to office work injuriously 
 affecting his health, he bought and conducted 
 a shoe store in Chelsea, Mass., for about three 
 years. He also dealt to some extent in real 
 estate, buying and selling land and houses in 
 Boston, Everett, and other places. In 1863 
 he came to Dedham, and settled on the farm 
 where he has since resided. 
 
 At twenty-five years of age Mr. Chadwick 
 was joined in marriage with Miss Mehitable 
 C. Sloman, daughter of Captain John Sloman, 
 of Wiscasset, Me., who was of I'"nglish parent- 
 age. One son has been born of their union, 
 William Edward, who married Bessie M. 
 Lyon, and has four daughters. This son with 
 his wife and family reside on the farm, the 
 business of which he sujierintends. 
 
 Mr. Chadwick has long taken an active in- 
 terest in the temperance cause. He is also 
 interested in the Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation, with which he c -lected himself 
 when a young man. He is Republican in 
 his political views. 
 
 ILLIAM JONES GRIGGS, a prom- 
 inent citizen of Brookline, residing 
 on the old Gri.ggs homestead, was 
 born there on Jtme 6, 1821, son of Deacon 
 Thomas and Harriet (Fuller) Griggs. The 
 Griggs family, which is one of the oldest in 
 this section of the State, traces its origin to 
 Thomas Griggs, who settled in Roxbury in 
 1635. Thomas had two wives. The first was 
 Mary, who died in 1639, leaving three chil- 
 dren — John, Joseph, and a daughter. The 
 maiden name of the second was Mary Green, 
 whom he married on August 26, 164O. 
 Thomas died on May .23, 1646. 
 
 Joseph Griggs, youngest son of Thomas and 
 Mary, a native of England, born in 1625, died
 
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 February lo, in 1714 or 1715. He was a very 
 prominent man, having been Selectman of 
 Roxbury for five years, Deputy to General 
 Court in 1681, and an important man in the 
 church. He was first married to Mary Crafts, 
 of Roxbury, who died June 30, 1653. His 
 second marriage was contracted with Hannah 
 Davis on November 8, 1654. She died Janu- 
 ary 9, 1683. Ichabod Griggs, son of Joseph, 
 was born September 27, 1675. Nine chil- 
 dren were born to him and his wife, Margaret. 
 Their son Thomas, who, born in 171 5, died 
 July 7, 1782, on September i, 1743, mar- 
 ried Margaret Williams, who bore him ten 
 children. A cordwainer by trade, Thomas 
 worked at that calling for many years in what 
 is known as the Downer house, which was 
 built by him. He afterward sold this estate, 
 and purchased one on Harvard Street. 
 Thomas's son, Samuel C, the grandfather of 
 William J. Griggs, was born on December 23, 
 1753, and died on January 16, 1814. Samuel 
 was a farmer, carrying on an extensive trade, 
 and spent his entire life here. His wife, who 
 was Beulah, daughter of Daniel and Lucy 
 (Jones) Hammond, of Newton, died August 
 21, 1847, having been the mother of nine chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Deacon Thomas Griggs, father of William 
 J., was born April 5, 1788, on the Griggs 
 farm, where he resided until the death of his 
 father. He had a part of the original farm. 
 Later he purchased more land, and in 1845 
 built upon his property the house now stand- 
 ing. Some time after he removed to a house 
 on Washington Street, situated on a part of 
 the same farm, and there spent the last years 
 of his life, dying at the age of ninety-nine 
 years. He was one of the most prominent 
 and influential citizens of Brookline, having 
 served the town in various capacities, and 
 always caring for the public interests with 
 sound judgment and with a high order of ex- 
 ecutive ability. He was Selectman for many 
 years and Overseer of the Poor and Assessor. 
 His wife, Harriet, was a daughter of Jonathan 
 Fuller, of Needham. The first-born of a 
 family of six children, she was the first of 
 them to die, which event occurred August 13, 
 1867, at the age of seventy years; and the 
 deaths of her brothers and sisters followed in 
 
 the order of their respective ages. Deacon 
 Thomas Griggs and his wife had a family of 
 seven children, six of whom are living. 
 They were: Caroline, born January 27, 1820, 
 now the widow of the late David Sullivan 
 Coolidge; William J., the subject of this 
 sketch; Mary Jane, born September 18, 1822, 
 now the wife of Hezekiah Shailer, of Had- 
 dam, Conn.; Ellen, born May 5, 1824, now 
 the widow of Charles Jewett Saxe, of High- 
 gate, Vt. ; Thomas B., born May r, 1826; 
 Amanda, deceased, born May 26, 1828, who 
 married Hezekiah Smith Chase, of Boston; 
 and Francis Henry, born November 14, 1834, 
 who is now a prominent man in Davenport, la. 
 
 William J. Griggs attended the common 
 schools and later Worcester Academy. From 
 Worcester he returned home to assist his 
 father. When the latter removed to the house 
 on Washington Street, Mr. Griggs took pos- 
 session of the old home and some fifty acres of 
 land, which he cultivated as a vegetable 
 garden. He subsequently sold a number of 
 building lots, and has now but about twenty 
 acres of the original farm. He deals in real 
 estate, and does market gardening. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican. The first town office 
 to which he was elected was that of Highway 
 Surveyor, which he held for four years. In 
 1862 he was elected Selectman, and he held 
 that responsible position for eight consecutive 
 years. He has also been Overseer of the 
 Poor, and was a member of the Board of Water 
 Commissioners during the first ten years sub- 
 sequent to the formation of the board. It was 
 during his term of office that the high service 
 was introduced. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Griggs was united in marriage 
 with Mary Gipson, a native of South Boston. 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Griggs, three of whom, Mary, Sarah, and 
 Lucy, are living. Mary, who married Dr. 
 Scott Dow, of Allston Street, died at the age 
 of thirty, leaving two children — William and 
 Edmund. Sarah married Charles Dyer, a 
 provision dealer, and has one daughter, 
 Louisa. Lucy married Dr. Bowker, of Brook- 
 line, a Harvard graduate, and has one child, 
 William H. Mr. Griggs and his family at- 
 tend and support the Baptist church, and his 
 daughters are members of the church.
 
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 LONZO VV. DUNBAR,* painter and 
 decorator of Hyde Park, was born May 
 4, 1850, in Springfield, Mass. He 
 is a son of Marvin and Sophiia 
 (Gritman) Dunbar, his father being a native 
 of Vermont and his mother a native of New 
 York. 
 
 Marvin Dunbar was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Vermont, living on the pa- 
 rental farm through the years of his boyhood 
 and early manhood. On leaving home he 
 went first to Connecticut, where he spent a 
 few years, going thence to Springfield, Mass. 
 Later he came to Norfolk County, taking up 
 his abode in that part of the town of Dedham 
 now included within the corporate limits of 
 Hyde Park. He learned the trade of a 
 painter; and in 1885 he removed to New 
 Hampshire, where he is still working at his 
 chosen vocation. Four children were born to 
 him and his wife, Sophia; and three of them 
 are now living, one being a daughter, MaryH. 
 The parents are connected with the Baptist 
 church. 
 
 Alonzo W. Dunbar attended the public 
 schools of Springfield until he was fifteen 
 years old, when he entered the United States 
 Navy, and went to sea under Admiral P'arra- 
 gut. He was thus engaged for three and one- 
 half years, being in European waters two 
 years. Returning to Springfield, he learned 
 the moulder's trade; and later he worked with 
 his father as a painter, continuing with him 
 after the removal of the family to this town. 
 In 1872, some years before his father went to 
 New Hampshire, Mr. Dunbar assumed the 
 management of the business which he has 
 since conducted. He carries on a very exten- 
 sive business in painting and decorating, em- 
 ploying about thirty men, and has won an e.x- 
 tended reputation as an artistic and skilful 
 workman, having had charge of the decorating 
 and painting of some of the finest buildings in 
 Hyde Park and surrounding towns and cities. 
 
 Mr. Dunbar was first married in 1875 to 
 W. Dora Stevens, who was born in West Ded- 
 ham, and was a daughter of John Nelson 
 Stevens. Her father was for many years a 
 noted teacher in West Dedham, whence he re- 
 moved to Readville, where he spent his de- 
 clining years. At the age of twenty-three, at 
 
 a comparatively short time after her marriage, 
 Mrs. Dora S. Dunbar passed to the life im- 
 mortal. Mr. Dunbar afterward married Miss 
 Hannah McCloskey, his present wife, who is a 
 native of Boston. Of the five children born 
 to them three are living; namely, Alonzo 
 Conness, Gertrude S., an(l Louisa A. 
 
 In politics Mr. Dunbar is a straight Repub- 
 lican. Lraternally, he belongs to Allyn 
 Lodge of Hyde Park, also to the Neponset 
 Tribe of Red Men, No. 132, and was formerly 
 connected with the Waverly Club. He is an 
 active member of the Union Evangelical, or 
 Congregational, Church, and has been clerk 
 and treasurer of the society. 
 
 FENTON BULLOCK,* president of 
 the South Weymouth Co-operative 
 Bank and manager in the South 
 Shore district for P'leischmann & 
 Co. , manufacturers of compressed yeast, has 
 been a resident of South Weymouth for the 
 last quarter of a century. He was born June 
 14, 1837, in Stanstead, P.O., Canada, where 
 his father. Noble Bullock, was a farmer and 
 an early settler. 
 
 Mr. A. Fenton Bullock lived in his native 
 county until about twenty-one years of age, 
 acquiring a limited education in the schools 
 of the neighborhood, his book knowledge 
 being supplemented in after years by observa- 
 tion and business experience. At twenty-one 
 he came to South Weymouth, and for a time 
 engaged in general work for Deacon Josiah 
 Reed, being also employed in a shoe factory. 
 Afterward he was employed for a period of two 
 years in general work about the store and 
 stables of J. Austin Rogers, merchant and 
 livery stable proprietor. Mr. Rogers then 
 sold out his business; and Mr. Bullock was 
 engaged for a time by his successor, Freem.an 
 Curtis. The next five years were spent in his 
 native place, where for two years he carried on 
 an e.xpress business between Stanstead and 
 Derby Line, Vt. ; and then, in company with 
 his brother, Francis F. Bullock, he established 
 himself in general mercantile business, the 
 firm of A. F. Bullock & Co. existing for 
 about three years. After that the brothers 
 went West to Cloud County, Kansas: and Mr.
 
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 A. F. Bullock there devoted some attention to 
 agriculture, and was also engaged for two 
 years in mercantile business at Glasco, Kan., 
 in partnership with J. M. Copeland. In 1872 
 he returned to South Weymouth, and for about 
 twelve months was employed in the shoe fac- 
 tory of C. & P. H. TirriU, of South Wey- 
 mouth. He then entered his present busi- 
 ness, first as salesman for N. & E. Rosenfeld, 
 general agents for Fleischmann & Co., of 
 New York, with whom he was associated 
 twenty-one years: and since that time he has 
 been employed directly by Fleischmann & 
 Co., the Boston office having been given up. 
 
 Mr. Bullock is a trustee of the South Wey- 
 mouth Savings Bank and one of the incorpo- 
 rators of the Co-operative Bank, of which he 
 has served as president since its organization. 
 He is a director of the South Weymouth Agri- 
 cultural and Industrial Society. He is a 
 member of Wildey Lodge, I. O. O. F"., a Past 
 Grand of the order, and is now serving as 
 chaplain. He is also a member of Orphans' 
 Hope Lodge, A. F. & A. M. , at East Wey- 
 mouth, and has served as a trustee in that 
 lodge. Mr. Bullock, as is seen from his rec- 
 ord, is a public-spirited citizen. He married 
 Hattie M. Farrington, daughter of Jason P"ar- 
 rington, of this town. He is a member of the 
 Universalist church, and is on the Prudential 
 Committee of the society. 
 
 ■OHN L. WAKEFIELD,* of the Bos- 
 ton law firm. Rand, Vinton & Wake- 
 field, resides in Dedham, Mass., where 
 he was born, July 3, 1859, son of 
 Thomas L. and Frances A. (Lathrop) Wake- 
 field. On the paternal side he comes from a 
 long line of American ancestry of English 
 origin, the branch of the family to which he 
 belongs having been represented in this coun- 
 try more than two hundred years. His grand- 
 father, Thomas Wakefield, was a pioneer 
 farmer of Londonderry, Vt., where he died at 
 a venerable age. He reared five children, one 
 of them being Thomas L. Wakefield, the 
 father above named. 
 
 Thomas L. Wakefield was born in London- 
 derry, Vt. , June 15, 18 1 7, and was brought up 
 on the home farm. Having fully determined 
 
 to enter upon a professional career, he fitted 
 for college at the academy in Chester, Vt., 
 and entering Dartmouth was graduated with 
 the class of 1843. He first practised law in 
 Bordentovvn, N.J., and later in New York 
 State, where he was admitted to the bar in 
 1845, '"'"' f'^i' ^ time was associated with A. S. 
 Gannon. He subsequently went to Allen- 
 town, N. Y., and from there to Fulton County, 
 where he was District Attorney two years. 
 He was well known throughout Eastern and 
 Central New York, as he served some years 
 while in that State as Dean of the Albany 
 Law School. In 1850 he removed his office 
 to Boston, where he continued his practice 
 as long as he lived, having his home for a 
 while in Chelsea, but the greater part of the 
 time being a resident of Dedham. On first 
 locating in Boston he was in partnership with 
 his brother, John H. Wakefield, and from the 
 time of his brother's death until 1884 he was 
 alone. In that year he took into partnership 
 his sons, Thomas H. and John L. , the busi- 
 ness being subsequently carried on until his 
 death, in 1S88, under the firm name of T. L. 
 Wakefield & Sons. In 1865 and 1866 he was 
 a Representative to the General Court and in 
 1 87 1 and 1872 State Senator. While in the 
 Senate he was chairman of the Judiciary Com- 
 mittee, and also of the commission to build 
 the State Reformatory at Concord, Mass. In 
 his legal practice he made a Specialty of pat- 
 ent cases, acting as auditor and referee in 
 many important cases. Among the young 
 men who pursued the study of law under his 
 instruction, and who have since attained emi- 
 nence in the profession, may be mentioned, 
 besides his two sons, George Fred Williams, 
 Charles W. Carrow, and Frank W. Shorey. 
 
 Thomas L. Wakefield was twice married. 
 His first wife, formerly Miss Jane Perry, was 
 born in Fayetteville, Vt., a daughter of Dr. 
 W'illiam Perry. She died in 1853, having 
 borne him three children, namely: Gertrude, 
 who died in childhood; Thomas H., who died 
 November 9, 1896, having been for many 
 years a prominent lawyer in Boston; and Jane 
 Maria, wife of Clifton D. Ba.xter, of Dedham. 
 His second wife, Frances A. Lathrop, who 
 was born in Boston, was a daughter of the 
 Rev. John P. and Maria M. (Long) Lathrop.
 
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 Her father was an ordained minister of the 
 Methodist cinireh in J?urlington, N.J., and 
 was for many years a chaplain in the Unitetl 
 States Navy. His union with Miss Long was 
 solemnized in British Guiana; and they after- 
 ward settled in Philadelphia, where Mr. 
 I^athrop died December 29, 1843. Of the 
 second marriage of Mr. Wakefield there were 
 four children, as follows: John L., the special 
 subject of this biographical sketch; Frank 
 M., a cotton broker in the office of Ste])hen 
 Wells in Boston; Julius Ross, who is in the 
 office of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Com- 
 pany; and Ella Marguerite. The mother, 
 Mrs. Frances A. Lathrop Wakefield, is still 
 living, making her home in Dcdham. 
 
 John L. Wakefield in his boyhood and 
 youth attended successively the common 
 school, a private school in Dedham, the high 
 school, and Harvard College, where he was 
 graduated in 1880. He subsequently pursued 
 his law studies with his father, and in 1884 
 was admitted to the bar. He accepted the 
 position of assistant manager of the Massachu- 
 setts Title and Guarantee Company, with 
 which he was connected in a legal capacity 
 until 1895, when he resigned to become a 
 member of the enterprising and well-known 
 law firm of Rand, Vinton & Wakefield, which 
 is located on Milk Street, Boston, and carries 
 on an extensive business. 
 
 Mr. Wakefield is one of the foremost men 
 of his community. For nine years he has 
 rendered the town efficient service as a mem- 
 ber of the School Board. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Dedham Historical Society, and is 
 president of the Dedham Boat Club and a 
 member of the University Club of Boston. 
 He is a stanch Democrat in politics. He is a 
 vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 
 with which his father was connected as vestry- 
 man, warden, and treasurer for thirty years. 
 
 "ON. LOUIS T. GUSHING, attor- 
 ney and counsellor at law, was born 
 irf Boston, May 31, 1849, ^o" ^^ 
 Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Bald- 
 win) Gushing. His immigrant ancestor, 
 Matthew Gushing, came to this country in the 
 
 ship "Diligent" in 1638, and settled in Hing- 
 ham, Mass. One of his ancestors on the pa- 
 ternal side, Colonel Henry Lee, was a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary army. His mother's 
 grandfather also, Enoch Baldwin, took part in 
 the battle of Bunker Hill, and subsequently 
 fought under Wrishington. Thomas Gushing, 
 father of Louis T., was a well-known teacher, 
 anil for half a century was identified with the 
 Chauncy Hall School in Boston. 
 
 Louis T. Gushing grew to manhood in Bos- 
 ton, and fitted for Harvard College at the 
 Chauncy I4all School. Entering Harvard in 
 1866, he was graduated with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1870. After 
 spending three years in Wisconsin, raising 
 grain and live stock near Madison, he re- 
 turned home, and entered Boston University 
 Law School, at which he graduated in 1S75, 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. That 
 same year he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, 
 and began to practise at Cohasset, then as 
 now his place of residence. He later opened 
 an office in the John Hancock Building, Bos- 
 ton; and his place of business is now at 423 
 in that building. 
 
 In 1 87 1 Mr. Gushing was married to Mary 
 R., daughter of Major William B. and Sarah 
 A. (Fabens) Johnson. Major Johnson, who 
 died in 1872, was born in Boston. His wife 
 was a native of Salem, Mass. Si.x children, 
 all living, have blessed the union of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Gushing; namely, Thomas J., Charles 
 B., William F., Robert L., Richard W., and 
 Sally F'abens Gushing. Mr. Gushing is an 
 ardent Republican, his first I^residential vote 
 having been cast for General U. S. Grant. 
 He has served on the Republican Town Com- 
 mittee since 1874 as chairman or secretary, 
 and is at present chairman of the P'irst Plym- 
 outh Senatorial Committee and a member of 
 the Republican State Committee for that dis- 
 trict. During the long session of 1883 Mr. 
 Gushing was in the legislature, representing 
 Cohasset, Scituate, and South .Scituate. He 
 has served as a trustea»of the Cohasset I^ublic 
 Library since its establishment, and has been 
 an earnest friend to the library. He is deeply 
 interested in the schools of his town, and is 
 always ready to aid the cause of education, as 
 shown by his twenty years" service as a mem-
 
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 ber of the Cohasset School Committee, during 
 which time he has held every office on the 
 board. Mr. Gushing is a member of the F'irst 
 Church (Unitarian) of Cohasset. 
 
 "ENRY ELIJAH FARNSWORTH,* 
 proprietor of a large bakery in Nor- 
 wood, Mass., was born in Halifa.x, 
 Vt., October i6, 1843, son of 
 Elijah B. and Abigail (Woodard) Farnsworth. 
 The family is said to be of Scotch origin, and 
 ancestors of Mr. Farnsworth were early set- 
 tlers in the Green Mountain State. His 
 great-grandfather, Joseph Farnsworth, who 
 was probaljly a native of Vermont, served as 
 an officer in the Continental army during the 
 Revolutionary War; and the sword that he 
 wore is still in the family's possession. 
 Thomas Farnsworth, son of Joseph and grand- 
 father of Henry E., was a lifelong resident of 
 Halifax, Vt. , and followed the blacksmith's 
 trade. 
 
 lilijah B. l'"arnsworth, son of Thomas, was 
 born in Halifax, and learned the blacksmith's 
 trade with his father. He followed this occu- 
 pation in connection with farming in Vermont 
 for a number of years; and then, moving to the 
 northern part of New York State, he operated 
 a saw-mill for the rest of his life. He died 
 at the age of sixty-three years. His first 
 wife, Abigail Woodard, who was a daughter 
 of Benjamin Woodard, of Halifax, became the 
 mother of two children, namely: Henry 
 Elijah, the subject of this sketch; and Abi- 
 gail Woodard, wife of R. J. Wallace, of 
 Kansas. Elijah B. P"arnsworth married for 
 his second wife Martha Briggs, and by this 
 union had one daughter, Lizzie, who married 
 William Bosworth, of Mooers, N.Y. 
 
 Henry Elijah Farnsworth was educated in 
 his native town, and when seventeen years 
 old he accompanied his parents to _New York 
 State. He assisted his father in the mill 
 until he was twenty-o^, when he went to 
 Essex, Vt., and for the next two years was 
 there employed as a farm assistant. After 
 that he resided in Weston and Lexington, 
 Mass., for a short time; and in May, 1868, he 
 began work in his cousin's bakery at Hyde 
 
 Park. After an experience of fourteen years, 
 he, in December, 1882, established his pres- 
 ent bakery in Norwood, where he has since 
 resided, his business being both extensive and 
 profitable. He is a member of the Business 
 Men's Association, and takes an active inter- 
 est in all measures relating to the growth and 
 prosperity of the town. In Masonry he is 
 well advanced, being a member of Orient 
 Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; Hebron Chapter, 
 R. A. M. ; and Cyprus Commandcry, Knights 
 Templar, of Hyde Park — having filled va- 
 rious important chairs in each of these organi- 
 zations. He is also connected with the An- 
 cient Order of LTnited Workmen, and is a 
 charter member of Tiot Lodge, I. O. O. F. 
 
 Mr. P'arnsworth married Miriam Parker, 
 daughter of George Parker, of Hyde Park. 
 Of four children born to this union three are 
 living; namely, Frank Henry, Gertrude Eva- 
 line, and Ruth Parker. In politics Mr. 
 Farnsworth supports the Republican party, 
 and in his religious views he is a Congrega- 
 tionalist. 
 
 l^VI LADD. It is not the purpose of 
 this sketch to write a history of the 
 Ladd family in America. But to 
 note a few facts and incidents along 
 the pathway of the generations from father to 
 son, that two hundred and sixty-five years ago 
 had in America a beginning, may, to the biog- 
 rapher of the future, to him who chases facts 
 for the information they contain, and to the 
 descendants of the emigrant, be of interest. 
 Also to make a brief record of Appleton, the 
 ancestors of Mrs. Ladd, and of Nancy Young, 
 the mother of Levi Ladd. 
 
 One of the pioneers in the great work of 
 founding this free and prosperous nation was 
 Daniel Ladd of County Kent, England, the 
 progenitor of the Ladd family in America, 
 who took the oath of supremacy and allegiance 
 to pass to New England in the "Mary and 
 John" of London, Captain Robert Sayres, 
 Master, March 24, 1633. He first settled at 
 Ipswich, Essex County, Mass., wfaere he built 
 a house; in 1639 he moved to Salisbury and 
 in 1645, Daniel Ladd, William White, Sam- 
 uel Gile, James Davis, Henry Palmer, John
 
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 695 
 
 Robinson, Christopher Hussey, John Will- 
 iams, Richard Littlehale, Abraham Tyler, 
 Joseph Merrie and Job Clements ascended the 
 Great (Merrimack) River to the Wild Woods 
 ot Pentucket (Haverhill) and were the origi- 
 nal settlers of that town. 
 
 Chase, in his History of Haverhill, says: 
 "Daniel Ladd doubtless found farming quite a 
 different thing from what most farmers of the 
 present day find it. His house lot was in the 
 village, his planting-ground in two places, a 
 part of it on the Great Plain, from one to two 
 miles east of the village, and the other part up 
 the Great River as far on the west of the vil- 
 lage; while his meadow lands were in seven 
 lots and as many distinct meadows. East 
 Meadow was in the easterly part of the town, 
 three miles from his home lot; while Spicket 
 Meadow was at least eight miles in the oppo- 
 site direction. Pond Meadow was two miles 
 north-east, Hawkes Meadow some three miles 
 west, Primrose Swamp two miles north-west, 
 and Mistake Meadow somewhere in the west- 
 erly part of the town. When we reflect that 
 in those days highways were at best but primi- 
 tive cart-paths through the woods, with stumps 
 still standing, hills ungraded and streams un- 
 bridged, and that the land was new, rough, 
 and worked only by great labor, we may have 
 a faint idea of some of the hardships of our 
 first settlers. Had they not been men of iron 
 nerve, tireless muscle, and indomitable energy 
 and perseverance, our now beautiful town, 
 with its unsurpassed mosaic of cultivated 
 fields, green hills, smiling lakes, its majestic 
 river, and murmuring streams, would still be a 
 waste and howling wilderness, the home of 
 wild beasts and the hunting-ground of the 
 miserable aborigines." 
 
 In 1646 Daniel Ladd was taxed forty pounds 
 (£40)- At a town meeting, July 12, 165 i, it 
 was ordered that Hugh Sherratt, Theophilus 
 Shatwell, Bart Heath, James Fiske, and Dan- 
 iel Ladd shall view the upland that is fit to 
 plough by the last of March or the loth of 
 April ne.xt, and that they bring in their intelli- 
 gence to the town at that time. In 1659 Dan- 
 iel Ladd and Theophilus Shatwell, having 
 received liberty from the town, erected a saw- 
 mill on Spiggot (Spicket) River. It was 
 built within the present limits of Salem, 
 
 N. H., and was the first one erected upon that 
 stream. The proprietors were required to pay 
 the town five pounds (^S) per annum for the 
 privilege. In 1668 Daniel Ladd was one of 
 the Selectmen of Haverhill. In 1675 Daniel 
 Ladd, Peter Ayers, and Thomas Whittier were 
 appointed to designate what houses should be 
 garrisoned. In 1683 Daniel Ladd voted 
 against building a new meeting-house upon 
 the lot where the old meeting-house stands. 
 He was a very energetic and enterprising man, 
 and held many positions of trust and responsi- 
 bility. The records indicate that he was an 
 extensive farmer, and that he dealt largely 
 in land. He died at Haverhill, July 27, 
 1693. His wife, Ann, died Pebruary 9, 1694. 
 
 Nathaniel Ladd, son of Daniel' and Ann 
 Ladd, was born at Haverhill, March 10, 1651; 
 and when a young man he removed to Exeter, 
 N. H. He married July 12, 1678, Elizabeth, 
 daughter of the Hon. John Gilman, who in 
 1679 was appointed by the Crown one of the 
 Council for the government of the Province of 
 New Hampshire, and was later a Delegate to 
 the Assembly and "Speaker of the House. In 
 the summer of 1690, an expedition was fitted 
 out in Massachusetts 'with a contingent from 
 New Hampshire to protect the more eastern 
 settlements, in which Nathaniel Ladd was one 
 of the volunteers from Exeter. On Septem- 
 ber 22, the party landed at Maquoit, near Cape 
 Elizabeth, and soon fell into an ambush, and 
 in the fight which ensued were compelled to 
 retreat to their boats. These being aground, 
 the Indians made a bold effort to take them ; 
 but after a hard fight they were repulsed, with 
 a loss to the English of eight killed and 
 twenty-four wounded. Of the latter was Na- 
 thaniel Ladd, who died of his wounds at Exe- 
 ter, N.H., August II, i6gi. 
 
 Captain Daniel Ladd, son of Nathaniel - and 
 Elizabeth (Gilman) Ladd, born at Kingston, 
 N.H.,* March 18, 1686, married Mehitable 
 Philbrook, of Kingston, N. H., Stephen Ladd, 
 son of Captain DanieP and Mehitable (Phil- 
 brook) Ladd, born at Kingston, N.H,, August 
 30, 1728, married Abigail Webster, of Kings- 
 ton, N.H. Samuel Ladd, son of Stephen-* 
 and Abigail (Webster) Ladd, born at Brent- 
 wood, N.H., April 7, 1765, married Comfort 
 Dow, of New Hampton, N.H.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 Samuel Ladd, son of Samuel ^ and Comfort 
 (Dow) Ladd, was born in New Hampton, 
 N.H., December 12, 1803— where he lived 
 the life common to former boys of his time 
 until he was thirteen years of age — when his 
 father died, leaving a large family of children 
 — and on him at this tender age, guided by 
 the counsels of his loving mother, fell the 
 burden of care. In 1818 the family removed 
 to Tuftonborough, N.H., where they pur- 
 chased a tract of land on the easterly side and 
 adjoining Lake Winnipiseogee, on which they 
 erected buildings. Success followed hard 
 work and good judgment, more land was added 
 to the farm, an island in the lake was pur- 
 chased, a new house was built, and additions 
 to the barn were made, until it was the town 
 saying that Sam Ladd owned the best farm in 
 town. He was a very energetic man, of strong 
 mind, adhesive to principle, a teetotaler, a 
 Christian gentleman by profession and daily 
 practice. He married June 24, 1830, Nancy, 
 daughter of John and Hannah (Ham) Young. 
 (It may in this connection be interesting to 
 note and worthy of record that four Ladd 
 brothers married four Young sisters, showing 
 quite conclusively that the brothers were fond 
 of young company.) She died September i, 
 1840, he died June 26, 1891, and was buried 
 in the family burying-ground upon the farm, 
 which when a young man he set apart and 
 dedicated to this sacred use. He married for 
 second wife, Mary Moulton, who survives him. 
 
 Children by First Wife: 
 
 John A. born September i, 1832. Levi, born 
 May 20, 1834. Lyman S. born January 25, 
 1836. He was a shoe manufacturer in Hamil- 
 ton, Canada West, when President Lincoln is- 
 sued the call for six hundred thousand men. 
 He was so incensed at the secession talk of 
 the Canadians that he closed up his business, 
 came over to the States, and enlisted at 
 W'orcester in the Thirty-sixth Regiment, Mas- 
 sachusetts Volunteers. But his strength was 
 not equal to a soldier's life. His health 
 began to fail soon after leaving Washington ; 
 and he became a victim of the Convalescent 
 Camp at Alexandria, Va. , and was discharged 
 when just ready to die. He reached home 
 January 27, and died February 9, 1863. 
 
 Children by Second Wife: 
 
 Nancy, born June 12, 1842; Eliza E., born 
 June 21, 1844; Sarah, born February 9, 1846; 
 Matilda, born April 8, 1848; Mary E., born 
 April 19, 1850; and Martha A., born May 31, 
 1853- 
 
 Levi Ladd, the subject of this sketch, is the 
 second son of Samuel'" and Nancy (Young) 
 Ladd; was born at Tuftonboro, N. H., May 20, 
 1834. His youth up to eighteen years of age 
 was passed upon the farm ; and like most New 
 Hampshire farmer boys of his time, except on 
 those never-to-be-forgotten occasions, "the 
 husking party, " "the spelling bee", "the old 
 singing-school", "the annual fall muster", 
 and the "circus," — when it came, — his life 
 was not much varied. His education was ob- 
 tained in the public schools of his town. 
 
 In the spring of 1853 he obtained a clerk- 
 ship in a wholesale store in Boston : and on 
 Monday morning, March 28, he bade the fam- 
 ily, the neighbors, and the old home good-by, 
 and commenced his journey upon the stage- 
 coach to the great city of Boston, then with a 
 population of one hundred and fifty-one thou- 
 sand. It was during this journey, at Dover, 
 N. H., that he made his first acquaintance 
 with and had his first ride upon the steam- 
 cars. This clerkship of nearly eight years 
 was very enjoyable; but the great change 
 from the outdoor life of the boy to the indoor 
 life of the clerk was slowly but surely under- 
 mining a strong constitution, and had to be 
 given up. 
 
 After recruiting about a year, he again 
 entered mercantile business, this time as 
 travelling agent, selling goods in the New 
 England and New York States, remaining here 
 until August, 1865, when he, with Charles M. 
 Clapp and Robert D. Evans, formed a copart- 
 nership for the manufacture and sale of rubber 
 goods, then a comparatively new industry, Mr. 
 Ladd's department being to look after the 
 Western business, which necessitated much 
 travel over a large area, embracing most of the 
 States in the Union. This copartnership, 
 after seven years of successful business, was 
 terminated October i, 1872; and the Ameri- 
 can Rubber Company, consisting of Mr. Ladd, 
 Mr. Evans, and John H. Rogers, was formed.
 
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 The success of this company was, indeed, 
 flattering to the founders, the sales increasing 
 in a few years from a small beginning to over 
 a million dollars annually. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Evans, Mr. Ladd, Henry W. 
 Burr, and George H. Hood formed the I"3agle 
 Rubber Company, a corporation expressly es- 
 tablished for the manufacture of vvringing- 
 machine and print cloth rolls, this continuing 
 until its consolidation in 1879 with the Amer- 
 ican Company. Mr. Ladd's department in the 
 American Company, of which he was the 
 senior member, necessitated much close con- 
 finement, the result of which was to bring 
 back with increased force the old troubles that 
 in 1 861 compelled obedience to fate, and 
 which had many times during the past year, 
 given the unmistakable warning that either 
 health or business must be surrendered. Act- 
 ing upon the advice of his physicians, he chose 
 the latter, thus with much reluctance termi- 
 nating a profitable business with pleasant asso- 
 ciates. 
 
 In the winter of 1869 he purchased a farm 
 bordering on the Charles River in Needham, 
 Mass., and the following spring moved to it 
 from his home in Cambridge. It was here, 
 after his retirement from business, that much 
 pleasure was enjoyed ; and no less so was this 
 the case with Mrs. Ladd and the children. 
 He is much interested in everything that 
 tends to the improvement of his town, of 
 which he has been the Treasurer with one 
 intervening year from 1881 to the present year, 
 1S98. 
 
 Mr. Ladd became a member of the Prospect 
 Street Congregational Church of Cambridge in 
 1868, and has since been a member of this 
 denomination. In early life he was a Demo- 
 crat. Casting his last vote in this party 
 for James Buchanan for President, since that 
 time he has been a Republican. He is a 
 firm believer in high tariff, reciprocity, and 
 protection to American workmen as the 
 true and only sure foundation for permanent 
 prosperity. 
 
 From the family records on his mother's 
 side tbe following is obtained: Willi^n 
 Young, born April 25, 1728, was a soldier in 
 the Revolutionary War; John Young, son of 
 William, born December 12, 1776; Nancy 
 
 ARMORIAL BEARINGS 
 
 OF 
 
 APPLETON. 
 
 Young, daughter of John and mother of Levi 
 Ladd, was born June 18, 1807. 
 
 Mr. Ladd married at West Newbury, Mass., 
 June I, 1859, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. John 
 and Elizabeth (Mes.ser) A])pleton. Dr. Apple- 
 ton comes of a very ancient and distinguished 
 ancestry. 
 
 The following is from 
 the Appleton Family 
 Genealogical Register 
 and Monumental Me- 
 morials. 
 
 John Apulton of Wald- 
 ingfield Magna, Suf- 
 folk, England died 
 1414. 
 John Appulton of Wald- 
 ingfield, England, son 
 of John' living 1459. 
 John Appulton of Wald- 
 ingfield, England, son 
 of John- died 1481. 
 Thomas Appulton of Waldingfield, England, 
 
 son of John^ died 1507. 
 Robert Appulton of .Waldingfield, England, 
 
 son of Thomas-t died 1526. 
 William Appulton of Walding, England, son 
 
 of Roberts died 1538. 
 Thomas Appleton of Waldingfield, England, 
 
 son of William'' died 1603. 
 Samuel Appleton of Waldingfield, England, 
 son of Thomas^ born 1586. 
 
 He emigrated to New England in 1635, 
 settled at Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. He 
 died in 1670. 
 
 Captain John Appleton, the eldest son of 
 Samuel Appleton"*, the emigrant, was born in 
 Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England, in 
 1622, baptized November 17, and came with 
 his father to America in 1635, being then 
 thirteen years of age. He was a Deputy to the 
 General Court for many years, between 1656 
 and 1679, was the Treasurer of Essex County, 
 and one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of 
 Pleas. A petition signed by the freemen of 
 Ipswich in 1667 represents him as a gentle- 
 man fully orthodox in his judgment as to mat- 
 ters of faith and points of religion professed 
 among us, right, good, honest, pious, and pru- 
 dent in his conversation, true and friendly,
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 faithful to the interests of the colony and 
 government. He died November 4, 1699. 
 
 Colonel John Appleton, son of Captain 
 John", was born in Ipswich, October 17, 1652. 
 He married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of 
 President John Rogers, of Harvard College. 
 
 The Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, D. D., son of 
 the Hon. John'° and Elizabeth (Rogers) 
 Appleton, was born at Ipswich, December 9, 
 1693. He graduated from Harvard College 
 in 1 71 2, at the age of nineteen years. He 
 was ordained over the First Church in Cam- 
 bridge, October g, 1717; and after an emi- 
 nently successful ministry of sixty-seven years 
 and useful service as a member of the corpora- 
 tion of Harvard College for si.xty-tvvo years, 
 1717-79, he died February 9, 1784. He 
 received the second degree of Doctor of Di- 
 vinity conferred by the college in 1771. 
 Appleton Chapel, Harvard University, has 
 since been erected by the trustees under the 
 will of Samuel Appleton. 
 
 John Appleton,'^ son of the Rev. Nathan- 
 iel," D. D., was born in Cambridge, March 
 29, 1739. O. S. He graduated from Harvard 
 College in 1757. About the year 1761 he be- 
 came engaged in the importation of European 
 merchandise at Salem, in which business he 
 continued until within a few years of his 
 death, which took place March 4, 181 7. His 
 son, John Sparhawk Appleton, '^ A.M., Salem, 
 for many years kept a book-store on Essex 
 Street, Salem. John Appleton,'* M.D., son 
 of John Sparhawk and father of Mrs. Ladd, 
 was born at Salem on January 9, 1809. In 
 February, 1833, he graduated from the Har- 
 vard Medical School, taking the Boylston 
 prize. He was actively and most successfully 
 engaged in his profession until 1855, when he 
 relinquished the practice of medicine and de- 
 voted the remainder of his life to literary 
 pursuits. At one period of his life he was 
 a successful lecturer, not only upon subjects 
 relating to his profession, but upon biography 
 and temperance, of which he was an ardent 
 advocate, and also upon music. 
 
 He was an accomplished musician, one of 
 his highest ideals being his church choir, 
 often performing his own compositions and 
 alike affording much pleasure to his audience 
 and profit to the church. His lectures upon 
 
 the organ were interesting and entertaining, 
 as also was his performance upon this instru- 
 ment ; he had great love for sacred music, 
 especially oratorio. He was a linguist of 
 rare ability and an unusually well-informed 
 antiquarian, and was the author of several 
 works upon this subject; indeed, if he had an 
 "ism", it was antiquarianism. He was an 
 honorary member of the Massachusetts His- 
 torical Society and for a time a member of 
 the Cambridge School Board. He was a 
 Christian gentleman of rare possessions, and 
 his kind and genial companionship was a con- 
 tinual benediction. 
 
 Children of Levi and Elizabeth Ladd: 
 
 Elizabeth Appleton, born February 26, 
 1S60; Georgania Young, born April 24, 1865, 
 died March 9, 1869; Alice Welling, born De- 
 cember 24, 1869; Samuel Appleton, born No- 
 vember 15, 1872; Martha Eleanor, born 
 January 12, 1875; John Lyman, born August 
 24, 1879. 
 
 Total number of children in the seven gen- 
 erations, sixty-one; male, twenty-six; female, 
 thirty-five. Married males, twenty-two; fe- 
 males, twenty-eight. 
 
 son 
 
 -AMES McGILL,* proprietor of Fair- 
 view Farm, Dover, and a member of 
 the Board of Selectmen, was born in 
 Lawrence, Mass., September 16, 1857, 
 of Thomas and Jane (Smiley) McGill. 
 His parents were both natives of Scotland, his 
 father of Edinburgh and his mother of Glas- 
 gow. Thomas McGill emigrated to the 
 United States when he was twenty-two years 
 old, and for a time was employed upon a farm 
 in Keene, N.H. He then went to Lawrence, 
 where he was engaged in the furniture mov- 
 ing business until 1864, when he came to 
 Dover, and bought the farm which is now 
 owned by his son James. He tilled the soil 
 for the rest of his life, and died February 11, 
 18S5. His wife, Jane, whom he wedded in 
 this country, became the mother of ten chil- 
 dren, as follows: James, the subject of this 
 sketch; Jonathan, his twin brother, who died 
 in infancy; Martha, who resides at the home- 
 stead; Catherine, a nurse; Jeanette, who
 
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 699 
 
 forms one of the family circle at the home- 
 stead; Annie, wife of A. P. Morse, of Sher- 
 born, Mass. ; Agnes, who married William 
 Dale, a coal dealer in South Natick; Mar- 
 garet, a school teacher in Natick; Thomas, a 
 farmer in Sherborn ; and John A., who is re- 
 siding at the homestead. The mother died in 
 April, 1894. 
 
 James McGill acquired a common-school ed- 
 ucation, and at an early age began to make 
 himself useful upon the farm. He took 
 charge of the property after the death of his 
 father, and has since made a specialty of deal- 
 ing in milk. He owns one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land, keeps an average of thirty 
 cows; and milk from Fairview Farm is deliv- 
 ered by him to regular customers in this and 
 the adjacent towns. Mr. McGill is an earnest 
 advocate of the temperance cause, and sup- 
 ports the Prohibition party in politics. He 
 is now Third Selectman, and has been a mem- 
 ber of the board four years. He takes an ac- 
 tive interest in all movements relative to the 
 improvement of the town, and is at the present 
 time Master of Dover Grange, No. 117. He 
 and his sisters, Martha and Jeanette, are 
 members of the Congregational church. Mr. 
 McGill is unmarried. 
 
 -OSEPH R. TOTMAN,* a retired shoe 
 manufacturer of East Weymouth, was 
 born in this town, October 2, 1839, son 
 of Joseph and Lucy (Burrell) Totman. 
 The father was a native of Scituate, and the 
 mother of Hingham, Mass. The paternal 
 grandfather, l^enjamin Totman, moved from 
 Scituate to East Weymouth, where he spent 
 his later years. 
 
 Joseph Totman, father of Joseph R., was 
 educated in the common schools. At the age 
 of fourteen he began to learn the shoemaker's 
 trade, which he followed as a journeyman for 
 several years; but eventually he engaged in 
 manufacturing upon his own account, and be- 
 came one of the foremost business men of his 
 time and locality, employing an average force 
 of two hundred men. His death occurred 
 about 1886. A public-spirited citizen, he did 
 his utmost to develop the general resources of 
 the town, and was one of the founders of the 
 
 I'^ast Weymouth Savings Bank, of which he 
 served as president for some time. Politi- 
 cally, he was in his earlier years a Whig and 
 later a Republican, lie was a member of the 
 Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, and was a generous contrib- 
 utor toward the sujjport of the Congregational 
 church, of which he was a member. lie was 
 also superintendent of the Sunday-school for 
 sixteen years. There are but two of his chil- 
 dren living, namely: Clarissa P., wife of 
 Avery S. Howe, of South Weymouth; and Jo- 
 seph R., the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Joseph R. Totman attended the town 
 schools, and at the age of fourteen entered his 
 father's shop as an apprentice. As a jour- 
 neyman he did the first stitching on a shaving 
 machine, which his father was the first to in- 
 troduce into this town. When twenty -eight 
 years old he became a partner in the enter- 
 prise, which then took the firm name of Tot- 
 man & Son; and he remained in business until 
 1890, at which time he retired. He owns a 
 farm of one hundred acres, besides other real 
 estate, and is actively interested in all move- 
 ments calculated to increase the general pros- 
 perity of the town. He is connected with the 
 Odd Fellows Lodge in East Weymouth, and 
 is both prominent and popular socially. Mr. 
 Totman married Lucinda Pratt, daughter of 
 the late Solomon Pratt, of Weymouth, and 
 has one son, Silas B., a resident of East Wey- 
 mouth. 
 
 /j^o 
 
 EORGE T. STAPLES,* super! ntend- 
 \ '*) I ent of the Dedham Water Works and 
 a highly respected citizen of this old 
 Norfolk County town, was born in the city of 
 Boston, December 25, 1846, son of John and 
 Abbie (Barrell) Staples. 
 
 John Staples was born in Assonet, now 
 called P'reetown, l^ristol County, Mass. His 
 parents had four other children, two sons 
 named David and Gilbert, and two daughters 
 named Bettie and Sarah. John Staples was a 
 machinist and engineer, and lived for a num- 
 ber of years in Cuba, where he was employed 
 on a large sugar plantation. He died there. 
 His wife, Abbie, was a native of Bridgewater, 
 Mass., and a daughter of Thomas Barrell, who
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 was born in Scituate, Mass. Eight children 
 were the fruit of their union. Two of them 
 died in childhood, and three sons and three 
 daughters grew to maturity, namely: John, 
 Jr., who, like his father, was an engineer on 
 a sugar plantation in Cuba, and died there; 
 Charles, a draughtsman, living in Cambridge, 
 Mass.; Mary; Abbie; Emma, the wife of 
 Rufus W. Gifford, of Sturbridge, Worcester 
 County, Mass.; and George T., of Dedham, 
 further mentioned below. 
 
 The boyhood years of George T. Staples 
 were spent in South Boston, where he was a 
 pupil in the day and night schools, afterward 
 attending Comer's Commercial College two 
 terms. When seventeen years old he began 
 learning the machinist's trade with Aquila 
 Adams in South Boston, under whom he 
 worked two years; and the third year of his 
 apprenticeship he served with John Souther. 
 From that time he was employed in a number 
 of different machine shops until 1881, when 
 he came to Dedham as engineer on the Ded- 
 ham Water Works, where in 1893 he was ap- 
 pointed superintendent. He has since filled 
 the position very satisfactorily. 
 
 In 1 868 Mr. Staples was joined in marriage 
 with Miss Sarah L. Kingman, the only child 
 of William T. and Sarah (Smith) Kingman. 
 She was born in Boston, as were both her 
 father and mother. Her maternal grand- 
 father, William Smith, came to this country 
 from England. Three of the eight children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Staples died in child- 
 hood. The living are: John F., who married 
 Miss Minnie Vanbuskirk, of Nova Scotia; 
 Grace M. ; George T. ; Florence S. ; and 
 Sadie K. 
 
 Mr. Staples is independent in politics. 
 He is a Mason of long standing, having joined 
 King Solomon Lodge of Charlestown, Mass., 
 thirty years ago. He and his family are at- 
 tendants of the Unitarian church. 
 
 REDERICK W. TIRRELL,_ a car- 
 riage and harness manufacturer of 
 Ouincy, Mass., was born in this town, 
 March 31, 1865. He is the elder son of the 
 late Charles Philip Tirrell, and belongs to the 
 old Weymouth family of Tirrells, descended 
 
 from William, Boston, who married in 1655 
 Rebecca, daughter of Captain Nicholas Simp- 
 kins, first commander at the Castle, had four 
 children, including two sons — William, Jr., 
 and Gideon — and removed to Weymouth. 
 (See Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.) 
 
 Nathan Tirrell, of a later generation (son of 
 Joseph and grandson of Samuel, son of Will- 
 iam, Jr., if we mistake not), married Abigail 
 Hunt, she like himself being a native of 
 Uuincy. Their children were as follows: Ed- 
 ward Church Tirrell, who married his cousin 
 Miriam, daughter of Thomas Tirrell; Re- 
 becca; John Adams; George Washington; 
 Nancy and Jane, twins; Job; and Charles 
 Price, the grandfather of Frederick W. 
 Tirrell. 
 
 Charles Price Tirrell was born in the old 
 fort-house on Fort Hill, Ouincy, in 1800, 
 and in this town spent his fourscore years. 
 When a young man he was employed as a 
 coachman by John Ouincy Adams, who took a 
 friendly interest in him because of his intelli- 
 gence and natural ability, and paid the ex- 
 penses of his apprenticeship as a carriage- 
 maker. In 1822 he had acquired the trade, 
 and started in business for himself; and this 
 business, having been since continued by his 
 descendants, is one of the oldest established 
 in the town. He was a man of fine business 
 capacity and a noted singer, having a pure and 
 rich voice, which for many years was heard in 
 the different church choirs of the place. He 
 married Jerusha Field, and had three children, 
 but two of whom grew to mature years; 
 namely, Ouincy and Charles Philip. Ouincy 
 married for his first wife, Anna Moulton, who 
 bore him two sons — Charles Edgar and 
 George Guilford; and by his second wife 
 also, Harriet Dunbar, he had two sons — 
 Harry Dunbar and Henry. 
 
 Charles Philip Tirrell was born in Ouincy, 
 Mass., January 28, 1837. Having completed 
 his education in the public schools of this 
 town, he learned the trade of carriage-maker 
 with his father and brother, later forming a 
 partnership with them under the name of Tir- 
 rell & Sons, continuing in the same business 
 until his death, February 20, 1892. He was 
 a man of broad and liberal views, taking an 
 intelligent interest in all the leading questions
 
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 701 
 
 of tlie day, ami was a regular attendant of the 
 Unitarian cluirch. He married Laura, daugh- 
 ter of Lemuel and Eliza (Bonney) Dunbar, 
 and they became the parents of four children, 
 of whom three are living, as follo\^s: A. Cora, 
 wife of Jesse V. Curtis, of Ouincy; P^rederick 
 W., subject of the present sketch; and 
 Charles F. , also of Ouincy. 
 
 Frederick VV. Tirrcll, after obtaining his 
 early education in the public schools of 
 Ouincy, served a four years' apprenticeship at 
 the saddlery and hardware business in Boston. 
 He then took a commercial course of study at 
 Bryant & Stratton's Business College, subse- 
 quently learning his trade of woodworker. 
 Having served his time at this, he became 
 superintendent of his father's factory; and 
 after the death of his father, in 1892, he suc- 
 ceeded to the business, which had been started 
 seventy years before by his grandfather. Mr. 
 Tirrell is an independent thinker, well en- 
 dowed with native sense, and a man of firm 
 and decided views. 
 
 He married Miss Riah E. Dennen, daugh- 
 ter of Joseph W. and Sadie A. (Johnson) 
 Dennen, of Ouincy. Joseph W. Dennen was 
 born in Gloucester, Essex County, Mass., 
 February 1 1, 1843. He was a son of Nathaniel 
 and Mary (Bray) Dennen, and a grandson of 
 Joseph Dennen, a lifelong farmer of Glouces- 
 ter. Nathaniel Dennen was a ship-carpenter 
 by trade, and followed that occupation in con- 
 junction with tilling the soil the greater part 
 of his life, his farm being located in the west 
 part of his native town. He married Mary, 
 daughter of Jeremiah P. Bray, the representa- 
 tive of one of the old families of Gloucester. 
 Nathaniel and Mary Dennen reared six chil- 
 dren, namely: Mary; Joseph W. ; Julia, wife 
 of George A. Parsons, of North Beverly; 
 Lucy A., wife of Alvin Parsons, of Salem, 
 Mass. ; Emma; and Howard, of West Glouces- 
 ter. The mother was a member of the Uni- 
 versalist church. 
 
 Joseph W. Dennen was reared and educated 
 in Gloucester, remaining with his parents 
 until nineteen years of age. He then learned 
 the trade of currier, but, not liking the occu- 
 pation, soon abandoned it ; and on the 3d of 
 October, 1S63, he began driving a milk cart 
 for E. S. Poor, of Peabody, Mass. Being a 
 
 young man of jnish and energy, he attracted 
 the attention fif his employer; and three 
 months later he was appointed to the position 
 of superintendent of the large farm belonging 
 to Mr. Poor. Mr. iJennen remained there 
 until 1873, when he came to Ouincy as super- 
 intendent of the Mount Wollaston Farm of 
 three hundred and thirty-nine acres. Fifty 
 acres of this arc tilled, and on it he cuts from 
 two hundred and fifty to three hundred tons of 
 hay per annum. He keeps seventeen horses 
 and one hundred cows, em]jloying thirteen 
 regular hands, besides hiring extra help in the 
 summer. He has two large milk routes, one 
 in Boston and the other in Ouincy; and he 
 also raises large quantities of garden truck, 
 which he markets in Ouincy. In politics he 
 is independent. Fraternally, he is a member 
 of Mount Wollaston Lodge, L O. O. F., and 
 of the Knights of Honor. Mr. Dennen mar- 
 ried Sarah, daughter of Alexander Johnson; 
 and their only child is Maria E., wife of Mr. 
 Frederick W. Tirrell. 
 
 His 
 
 OSEPH D. TUFTS,* who owns and 
 cultivates a productive farm in Med- 
 field, is a native of Nathan, Somerset 
 County, Me., born May 25, 18 16. 
 parents were John and Sally (Hight) 
 Tufts, the former of whom was born in Lee, 
 N.H., July 25, 1779, and the latter in Maine, 
 October 6, 1784. John Tufts settled upon a 
 farm in Nathan when he was twenty-one years 
 old, and resided there until his death. His 
 wife, Sally, became the mother of twelve chil- 
 dren, three of whom are living, namely: 
 John, a resident of Grinnell, la. ; Joseph D., 
 the subject of this sketch; and Clymena, who 
 is a resident of San Francisco, Cal. Those 
 deceased are: Nancy, Sally, Hannah, Zacha- 
 riah, Hanson, Horace, David, Benjamin, and 
 Jackson. 
 
 Joseph D. Tufts acquired a common-school 
 education, and resided with his parents until 
 becoming of age. He then went to Roxbury, 
 Mass., where he drove an ox team for a time. 
 He subsequently secured employment upon a 
 farm in Canton, Mass., which was owned by a 
 lawyer of Boston. After remaining there 
 eight years he went to Jamaica Plain, Mass.,
 
 702 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL ?vEVIEW 
 
 where he resided for quite a number of years. 
 In 1875 he settled upon his present farm in 
 Medfield, whieh consists of twenty-four acres 
 of excellent tillage land, which he has since 
 improved and brought to a high state of culti- 
 vation, and on which he carries on general 
 farming with success. 
 
 On December i, 1852, Mr. Tufts was joined 
 in marriage with Mary A. Abbott, a native of 
 Norway, Me., and daughter of Isaac and Eliz- 
 abeth Abbott, prosperous farming people of 
 that town. She died November 10, 1882, 
 leaving two daughters, namely: Mary E., 
 born October 7, 1855; and Alice, born Au- 
 gust 21, 1865, both of whom reside at home 
 with their father. Mr. Tufts retains his 
 mental and physical powers to a degree re- 
 markable in one who has passed the age of 
 fourscore, attending to his every-day duties 
 about the farm with the energy of a much 
 younger man. Politically, he is a Republi- 
 can; and he and his daughters attend the Uni- 
 tarian church. 
 
 fJ^AMES R. WILD, a carriage manufact- 
 urer of Ouincy, Mass., was born in 
 tliis town, August 13, 1849, ^ ^O''' °f 
 John 0. A. Wild. He is the direct 
 descendant of John Wild, an early settler of 
 Ouincy, who married Sarah Hayden, grand- 
 daughter of Richard Thayer, who purchased 
 the land now included within the limits of 
 Ouincy from the Indians. Samuel Wild, son 
 of John and Sarah, was born in old Braintree, 
 March 18, 1693, and married Bethiah Cope- 
 land. Micah Wild, their son, was born May 
 5, 1734, and during the war of the Revolution 
 was a soldier in the American army, taking 
 'part in several battles. His son Barnabas, 
 born October 20, 1770, was the great-grand- 
 father of James R. Wild, of Quincy. Barna- 
 bas Wild married his second cousin, Eunice 
 Wild, a daughter of Jonathan Wild, who mar- 
 ried Hannah 15ass, a direct descendant of John 
 Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Jonathan Wild 
 was al.so a patriot soldier of the Revolution, 
 and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 
 Barnabas Wild, Jr., son of Barnabas and 
 Eunice Wild, was born May 10, 1791, in Ran- 
 dolph, Mass., but spent a large portion of his 
 
 life in the town of Milton. He had large 
 landed possessions, and for many years man- 
 aged a large dairy farm, running a milk route 
 from Milton to Boston. He lived to the age 
 of seventy-one years and eight months, dying 
 January 15, 1863. The maiden name of his 
 wife was Susan Stoddard. She was born in 
 Hingham, Mass., a daughter of Cai)tain Sam- 
 uel Stoddard, an officer in the Revolutionary 
 navy. He was captured by the British, and, 
 being conveyed to Dartmoor, England, was 
 confined there two years, while his brother 
 Reuben died in Dartmoor. Captain Stod- 
 dard's wife was Susan Mansfield, a daughter 
 of Joseph Mansfield, who likewise fought in 
 the Revolution. Captain Samuel Stoddard 
 was of the fifth generation in descent from 
 John Stodder, or Stoddard, who had a grant of 
 land in Hingham, Mass., in 1638, the line 
 being: John," Samuel,^ Jeremiah, ' Reuben," 
 Samuel. 5 Reuben Stoddard, the Captain's 
 father, married Elizabeth Glover. Samuel 
 Stoddard^ married Elizabeth Gill, a daughter 
 of Thomas Gill, whose wife, Hannah Otis, 
 was the daughter of John Otis, one of the first 
 settlers of Hingham. 
 
 John O. A. Wild was born in Milton, 
 Mass., May 6, 1824. He obtained his educa- 
 tion in the common schools of that town, and 
 learned the trade of a carriage-maker in Bos- 
 ton. He subsequently followed his chosen 
 occupation in Taunton for a time, but soon 
 after his marriage came to Ouincy, where he 
 continued in the same employment for a num- 
 ber of years. He subsequentl}' embarked in 
 the granite business, operating one of the fin- 
 est quarries in this loca4ity, and making a 
 specialty of monumental work of all descrip- 
 tions. He not only quarried the stone, but, 
 taking the material in the rough, turned out 
 completed monuments and tablets at his own 
 works, employing about forty men. He was 
 very successful in this business, which he car- 
 ried on until his decease, August i, 1880. 
 He married Caroline A. Thrasher, a daughter 
 of Elkanah Thrasher, of Taunton, Mass. Of 
 their ten children six grew to mature years, 
 as follows: Lucy Caroline; James R. ; Frank 
 M. ; Susan U., wife of Robert Johnson, of 
 Boston; Sarah A. ; and Emily C. 
 
 James R. Wild received his education in
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 703 
 
 the public schools of Ouincy, and, having 
 learned the trade of a carriage-maker from his 
 father, subsequently succeeded him in the 
 business. He keeps a force of fifteen or 
 twenty men employed at his works, having 
 especial departments for the wood work, for 
 the painting, and for the blacksmithing. He 
 makes a specialty of the latter industry, being 
 the leading horseshocr in the city. He is a 
 man of great push and energy, and since ob- 
 taining control of the business he has added to 
 his stock a complete line of harnesses and 
 trimmings of all descriptions. He also 
 handles bicycles of different makes and 
 grades. 
 
 Mr. Wild married Miss Jeannie M. John- 
 son, daughter of Robert Johnson, of Boston, 
 Mass. They have four children; namely, 
 Ruth, Jeannette, Eleanor Pierce, and James 
 R., Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wild attend the Uni- 
 tarian church. 
 
 HERBERT WOODSUM,* a tack 
 and nail manufacturer of South 
 Braintree, a member of the firm of 
 B. H. Woodsum & Co., was born in 
 Randolph, October 4, 1857, son of Rufus and 
 Caroline (Clark) Woodsum. His father was 
 a native of Sumner, Me., and his mother of 
 Randolph, Mass. The Rev. William Wood- 
 sum, the paternal grandfather, was a well- 
 known Baptist clergyman in the State of 
 Maine for a period of more than fifty years. 
 
 Herbert Woodsum removed to South Brain- 
 tree with his parents when he was six years of 
 age, and he was eckicated in the grammar and 
 high schools of that place. When in his six- 
 teenth year the death of his father obliged 
 him to earn his living, and he began work in 
 the tack factory of Messrs. Stevens & 
 Willis, where he remained employed for about 
 eleven years. In 1883 he became a partner 
 in the firm of Simmons & Woodsum, tack 
 manufacturers at East Braintree, which firm 
 existed for several years, the business being 
 subsequently carried on under the name of 
 B. H. Woodsum & Co. In December, 1S90, 
 the business was removed to South Braintree; 
 and in 1893 it was incorporated under its 
 present title of B. H. Woodsum Company. 
 
 Mr. Woodsum is in the truest sense of the' 
 term a self-made man, his success in life hav- 
 ing been due primarily to his own industry 
 and enterprise. His factory is located on the 
 Monatiquot River, and has a capacity of forty- 
 five hands, being well equipped with the best 
 machinery for the manufacture of tacks and 
 small nails. He married Mina E. Mansfield, 
 a native of Camden, Me., by whom lie lias 
 three children — ^ Benjamin H., Edna K., and 
 Edith F. 
 
 Mr. Woodsum is a Republican politically, 
 and at the present time is chairman of the Re- 
 publican State Committee. For the past ten 
 years he has been chairman of the Republican 
 Town Committee of Braintree. He served as 
 Representative from Braintree during the 
 legislative sessions of 1891 and 1892, during 
 his first term acting on the Committee of 
 Printing, and in 1892 as chairman of the 
 Committee on Liquor Laws. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Puritan Lodge, No. 179, I. O. O. F., 
 of which he is a Past Grand. He is also 
 identified with the Royal Arcanum, and is one 
 of Braintree's best known and most respected 
 citizens. 
 
 LFRED O. CRAWFORD,* of the 
 firm of A. O. Crawford & Co., manu- 
 facturers of folding paper boxes at 
 South Weymouth, was born in 
 Thomaston, Me., June 6, 1853, son of Captain 
 Rufus and Isabella (Edgerton) Crawford, both 
 parents being natives of Maine. The father 
 was a well-known sea captain of his time, sail- 
 ing mostly from Thomaston, Me. The subject 
 of this sketch was reared and educated in his 
 native State. In 1871 he came to South Wey- 
 mouth and obtained employment with E. Ro- 
 senfeld, a dry-goods merchant here, as sales- 
 man, which position he held for several years. 
 He subsequently left Mr. Rosenfeld to go into 
 the dry-goods business in-Holbrook, where he 
 carried on a store for two years, or until the 
 great fire which occurred in that town on 
 Christmas Eve, 1887, when he shared in the 
 common misfortune of being burned out. 
 Returning to South Weymouth, he bought out 
 the dry-goods business oi A. H. Wright, and 
 engaged again in the dry-goods and notions
 
 704 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 business, in which he continued for a time. 
 His next venture was in the job printinj^ 
 business, and while thus engaged he began the 
 manufacture of folding paper boxes, eventually 
 selling out his interest in the printing estab- 
 lishment, and devoting all his energies to the 
 development of his present business. His 
 plant is situated on Central Street, SoLith 
 Weymouth, includes the latest improved ma- 
 chinery, and employs from fifteen to thirty 
 men, according to the season of the year. 
 
 Mr. Crawford married Mary N. Wade, daugh- 
 ter of David N. and Mary (Hudson) Wade, of 
 .South Weymouth, and has three children — 
 David N., George O., and Frank W. Mr. 
 Crawford is a Republican in politics, but with 
 independent proclivities. He served the town 
 for eight years as Tax Collector, and is one of 
 the stockholders of the South Weymouth Co- 
 operative Bank. He is a member of the Order 
 of the Golden Cross. He belongs to the Old 
 South Congregational Church at South Wey- 
 mouth, in which at the present time he is 
 serving as clerk. 
 
 /^^TkORGE D. bullock, M.D.,* a 
 \ 3 1 leading, physician and surgeon of 
 ^ — Weymouth, was born in Taunton, 
 Mass., December 6, 1859, son of Dr. Andrew 
 D. and L. Frances (Robinson) Bullock. His 
 father was a native of Taunton ; and his mother, 
 who was born on Cape Cod, was a descendant 
 of Elder John Robinson, a member of the 
 Plymouth Colony. Dr. Andrew D. Bullock 
 was educated for the ministry, but not or- 
 dained. Entering the field of journalism, he 
 was for a time, during the war, connected with 
 the editorial department of the Springfield 
 Republican. Subsequently fitting himself for 
 the medical profession, he practised it in 
 Providence and Hopkinton, R.L, for a number 
 of years, or until his death, which occurred in 
 1874. 
 
 George D. Bullock attended the New 
 Hampton (N.H.) Literary Institute, at which 
 he was graduated in 1S81. After jnirsuing 
 his preliminary medical studies with Dr. John 
 D. Kenyon, of Ho)ikintnn, R.I., he attended 
 lectures at the Jefferson Medical College at 
 Philadelphia, from which he was graduated 
 
 with the class of 1886. While preparing him- 
 self for his profession he paid his way by 
 clerking in a drug store. Locating in Ports- 
 mouth, \\.\., after receiving his diploma, he 
 practised in company with Dr. Benjamin 
 Greene until January, 1887, when he came to 
 Weymouth, where he has since resided. He 
 has acquired a large and lucrative practice, 
 and has the esteem and confidence of the citi- 
 zens of Weymouth and vicinity. He is a 
 member of the Knights of Pythias, of Wey- 
 mouth, and also of the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 In November, 1890, Dr. Bullock was united 
 in marriage with l'"va F. Macauley, of this 
 town, by whom he has had one daughter- — 
 Leila E., who is no longer living. 
 
 RRIN T. LEACH,* a well-known 
 citizen of Norwood, Mass., and a vet- 
 eran of the late Civil War, was born 
 in Bridgewater, Vt. , on May i, 1842, 
 son of Henry W. and Roxelane (Thompson) 
 Leach. His paternal grandfather, John Leach, 
 was a farmer in Bridgewater, Vt. ; and his 
 father, Henry W. Leach, was born in that 
 town, but died in Pomfret, aged eighty-three 
 years. His wife, Roxelane, was the daughter 
 of David Thompson and a grand-daughter of 
 Noah Thompson, a descendant of John Thomp- 
 son, who was born, it is said, in 1616 in 
 the north of Wales, and came to this coun- 
 try, as some have thought, in 1623. John 
 Thompson married in 1645 Mary Cooke, whose 
 father, F"rancis Cooke, came over in the "May- 
 flower" in 1620. Henry and Roxelane Leach 
 were the parents of four children ; namely, 
 Samuel, Orrin T. , Austin K., and Henry C. 
 Orrin T. Leach passed his boyhood in 
 Bridgewater, Vt. , and after completing his 
 term of schooling worked on a farm until Au- 
 gust 15, 1862, when he enlisted in Company 
 C, Sixth Vermont Regiment. They were 
 sent to the front, and their first experience of 
 active service was on December 1 1 at the first 
 battle of Fredericksburg. After this the men 
 were in camp until spring. During the fight 
 at Gettysburg, they were ordered to advance, 
 and arrived at the scene of battle on the second 
 day of the engagement, but were not called 
 into action. Shortly after this was the skir-
 
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 70s 
 
 mish at Beaver Creek, Mel, in which Mr. 
 Leach took part. He was then sent North, 
 and for three weeks was encamped in Tomp- 
 kins Square, New York City, and subsequently 
 for a week was in Kingston. Returning 
 to the front, he rejoined the Union army in 
 Virginia, and in October of that year look 
 part in the engagement at I'iappaliannock, his 
 regiment being then part of the Second Divi- 
 sion of the Si.xth Army Corps. Going into 
 camp again, he remained until May, 1S64, 
 when the campaign was organized which cul- 
 minated in the battle of the Wilderness, Spott- 
 sylvania Court-house, and the other memorable 
 engagements that followed. Mr. I. each was 
 in active service during all this time, and 
 vividly recalls the thrilling experiences of 
 those days. He was then assigned to the 
 Army of the Potomac, massed for the defence 
 of the national capital, and took part in vari- 
 ous engagements that followed. Near the 
 close of the war he was at Brookville Junction 
 for a week, then at Danville, Va., for three 
 weeks, and later for a few days at Richmond. 
 From that city he took up the line of march to 
 Washington, and upon arriving there was 
 mustered out under general orders on June 19, 
 1S65. 
 
 Returning to the restful quiet of his old 
 home, he remained there until October, when 
 he came to Massachusetts, and was engaged in 
 farming in Bridgewatej" for a year and a half. 
 He afterward learned the carpenter's trade, 
 and subsequently worked at that for about fif- 
 teen years. In 1880 he came to Norwood and 
 began work in the tannery, in which he has 
 been employed up to the present time. 
 
 Mr. Leach married Sarah B., daughter of 
 H. H. Alden, of Bridgewater, Mass. Four 
 children have been born to them, and of these 
 two are living; by name, Emily A. and Viola 
 ' B. Mr. Leach is a Baptist in religious faith. 
 He is a member of the American Order of 
 United Workmen, and is Commander of 
 George K. Bird Post, G. A. R., of Norwood. 
 
 /^jTo 
 
 I-:ORGE W. WHITE,* of Weymouth, 
 \ [5T Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County, 
 was born in this town, January 18, 
 1 819. His parents, George W. , Sr. , and 
 
 Betsey (Burrill) White, were both natives of 
 Weymouth. His father, who was a profes- 
 sional musician, died in the eighties. He 
 was a son of Captain Jonathan White, who is 
 said to have been a soldier of the Revolution. 
 
 George W. White, second of the name, 
 whose course in life we are now tracing, grew 
 to manhood in Weymouth, and obtained his 
 educati(jn in the common schools of the town. 
 When about fifteen years of age he began to 
 work at tiie shoemaker's trade, which he fol- 
 lowed for some fifteen years. He received 
 his first commission as Deputy Sheriff on 
 March 10, 1855, and has since served continu- 
 ously in that cajjacity, by his ability and effi- 
 ciency having gained the entire confidence of 
 the public. For twenty-four years also he 
 was Postmaster of Weymouth, and the length 
 of his term of office amply demonstrates that 
 the public was well and satisfactorily served. 
 
 Mr. White has been twice married. His 
 first wife, Hannah Hayden, of Weymouth, 
 bore him si.\ children: Lorenzo; Sarah A.; 
 Ann R., wife of John E. Hunt; Ada, wife of 
 Walter C. Gutterson ; Herbert L. ; and George 
 L. The present Mrs. White was formerly 
 Mrs. Mary E. Wales. Her father, Hervey 
 White, of Williamsburg, Mass., was the son 
 of Nehemiah, a soldier. Drum Major and later 
 Sergeant in the Revolutionary War. He was 
 a noted musician, as have been many of the 
 family, a talent for music being, as it would 
 seem, a birthright inheritance. Hervey White 
 was an axe manufacturer in Cleveland, Ohio, 
 had an extensive trade throughout the West, 
 and was widely known in his line of business. 
 By her first husband, Samuel Wales, Mrs. 
 White has two children: Sarah W., wife of 
 George March, a banker of Chagrin I""alls, 
 Ohio; and Charles A., an oil refiner in Wash- 
 ington, Pa. Mrs. White has been president 
 of the W. C. T. U. at Weymouth for six 
 years, and is an active and leading member of. 
 the Union Literary Society of Weymouth. 
 
 Mr. White is identified with the Univer- 
 salist church. During the Civil War he 
 served for about three years as Deputy Provost 
 Marshal. He has been for many years a Jus- 
 tice of the Peace; and during the war he held 
 the position of Deputy Collector of Internal 
 Revenue in his Congressional district, under
 
 7o6 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 
 
 the Hon. B. W. Harris, then Collector of the 
 district. About i860, when Judge White was 
 Probate Judge of Norfolk County, Mr. George 
 W. White was by him appointed as an officer 
 in his courts, and has continued to hold this 
 position. He is one of the leading citizens of 
 this town, and enjoys the csteeni and full con- 
 fidence of the business community as well as 
 of a large number of warm personal friends. 
 
 Yp) shannon DAVIS,* a progressive 
 I [[ and enterprising business man of Nor- 
 J ^ • ^ folk County, residing in Brookline, 
 is engaged as a real estate and 
 mortgage broker, with his office in the Ames 
 Building, at i Court Street, Boston. He was 
 born January 28, 1857, in Brookline, a son 
 of Robert Sharpe Davis, second. The first 
 progenitor of the family in this country was 
 William Davis, who came from Wales when 
 a young man, and settled in Roxbury, Mass., 
 where he was three times married. He was 
 a member of the Apostle Eliot's church, as 
 was also his wife and most of his children. 
 He died December 9, 1683. His grandson, 
 Ebenezer Davis, a blacksmith by occupation, 
 was the first of the family to settle in Brook- 
 line, where he made large purchases of land, 
 and settled on property which he had previ- 
 ously purchased in 1746. He died in 1776. 
 He had a grandson, lilbenezer, who was the 
 father of Robert Sharpe Davis, first, the 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Rob- 
 ert Sharpe Davis, first, reared five children — 
 Samuel Croft, Robert .Sharpe, Phineas Stearns, 
 Sarah, and Lucy. 
 
 Robert Sharpe Davis, second, was born in 
 Brookline, February 18, 181 1. About 1825 
 he entered the employ of the well-known pub- 
 
 lishing firm (jf Crocker & Brewster, of Boston, 
 with whom he remained a few years. He then 
 became a partner in the firm of Lincoln, Ed- 
 munds & Co., in 1835 becoming sole proprie- 
 tor of the business. Among his publications 
 were the mathematical works of Benjamin 
 Greenleaf. He remained in business for 
 many years, and was very successful. He 
 was a lifelong resident of Brookline, where he 
 died February 23, 1873. He married in 
 1837 Mary Harriet Shannon, of Portsmouth, 
 N. H., and their children were: Mary Shan- 
 non, Lucy Stearns, Sarah Comstock, Laura 
 Wood, Caroline I'llizabeth, and Langdon 
 Shannon. 
 
 L. Shannon Davis was educated in the com- 
 mon and high schools of Brookline. He left 
 school abruptly on the death of his father, 
 and succeeding to the business of the elder 
 Davis carried it on until able to dispose of it 
 advantageously. In 1883 he began dealing in 
 real estate, both in Boston and in Brookline, 
 opening an office on State Street, Boston. 
 He has since gradually enlarged his opera- 
 tions; and to meet the demands of his con- 
 stantly increasing business he removed, not 
 long ago, to his present office at Room 52, 
 Ames Building. He is connected with some 
 of the largest land companies in New England, 
 being agent of the Goddard Land Company, 
 and agent and manager of the Brookline Land 
 Company. He also transacts much business 
 for M. P. Kennard and other men of promi- 
 nence in the financial world, and he is a mem- 
 ber and one of the directors of the Real Estate 
 Exchange. In Brookline he has built a large 
 number of houses of the better class, which he 
 has sold to people of means, in this manner 
 helping greatly to improve and develop the 
 town. He is a member of the Merchants' Club 
 of Boston. In politics he is independent.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 A 
 
 Abbott, J. Varnum 35 
 
 Abbott, Josiah G 184 
 
 Adams, Moses C 250 
 
 Alden, Abner 386 
 
 Alden, Lewis 625 
 
 Allen, Cyrus M 52S 
 
 Allen, Joseph A 441 
 
 Ambler, Francis 83 
 
 Ames, Robert E 659 
 
 Anderson, Luther S 675 
 
 Arnold, E. Watson 230 
 
 Arnold, Henry F 161 
 
 Austin, Henry C 509 
 
 B 
 
 ' Babcock, Francis L 299 
 
 Bacon, George W 557 
 
 Badger, Charles L 223 
 
 Bagley, George F 368 
 
 Baker, Benjamin F 379 
 
 Baker, M. Wales 225 
 
 Baker, Thomas J 178 
 
 Balkam, Stephen B 473 
 
 Barker, William P 18 
 
 Barnicoat, Frederick .... 39 
 
 Bateman, George H 545 
 
 Bates, Allen C 459 
 
 Bates, Edmund G. .... 136 
 
 Bates, Leavitt 103 
 
 Bates, Philander 319 
 
 Beals, Charles E 461 
 
 Beals, Isaac 497 
 
 Belcher, Charles H 590 
 
 Belcher, Charles Henry ... Si 
 
 Belcher, Clifford 259 
 
 Belcher, Henry A 37 
 
 Belknap, George E 516 
 
 Bennett, Alonzo F 239 
 
 Bicknell, Henry F 38 
 
 Bicknell, Zechariah L 78 
 
 Bigelow, Chester A 631 
 
 Bigelovv, Henry C 536 
 
 Bigelow, John P 48 
 
 Bigelovv, Joseph S 14 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Bird, Albert H 259 
 
 Bird, George K 651 
 
 Bisbee, Benjamin 654 
 
 Blackman, Henry 196 
 
 Blanchard, David H 3S7 
 
 Blasdale, Henry 443 
 
 Bleakie, Robert 534 
 
 Bonney, Daniel 12S 
 
 Bowdish, Sanford P 71 
 
 Bowers, Edgar H 210 
 
 Bowker, Watts H. . y. . . 368 
 
 Bowman, Alonzo ...■''... 245 
 
 Boyd, Alpheus P 151 
 
 Boyd, Moses 489 
 
 Boyden, Benjamin 13 
 
 Boyden, Porter S 364 
 
 Boyden, LIriah W 531 
 
 Brackett, Albert A. . . ' . . . 504 
 
 Bradlee, J. Walter . . -'. . . 360 
 
 Bragg, Francis A 313 
 
 Brainard, Amos H 296 
 
 Breed, Walter R. ..... 97 
 
 Brett, Frank W 39 
 
 Bright, Warren H 306 
 
 Britton, Emery C. . . •'. . . 155 
 
 Britton, Joshua . . . -i . . 435 
 
 Brooks, John F 569 
 
 Brooks, William W. . < . . 162 
 
 Brown, Daniel 250 
 
 Brown, George H 260 
 
 Brown, Herbert L 37S 
 
 Bullard, John 310 
 
 Bullock, A. Fenton 6S9 
 
 Bullock, George D 704 
 
 Bullock, Francis F 491 
 
 Bunton, Henry S. . -^ . . . 168 
 
 Burdakin, John H. . -i . . . 425 
 
 Burgin, Clarence 14 
 
 Burt, John H. . . . .- . . . 171 
 
 Byam, Raymond S. . .^ . . . 329 
 
 C 
 
 Callanan, P. H. . - 4S3 
 
 Candage, Rufus G. F. . ». . . 447 
 
 Capen, Oliver 74 
 
 Capen, Samuel H. . . '. . . 510 
 
 Carpenter, David 304 
 
 Carpenter, Erastus P. . .* . . 390 
 
 Carpenter, Robert W. . .' . . 359 
 
 Carrington, Henry B 272 
 
 Carter, William 21 
 
 Cashman, John . . . / . . 119 
 
 Cassell, Edmund P 677 
 
 Chadwick, William T 687 
 
 Chapman, George ...... 667 
 
 Chapman, George W 412 
 
 Chase, Augustus L 78 
 
 Chase, John W 99 
 
 Chase, Joseph, Jr 676 
 
 Chase, Samuel D 164 
 
 Cheever, Horace C 651 
 
 Chick, Charles G. . . t . . 364 
 
 Churchill, Amos 50 
 
 Churchill, Chauncey C. . . . 471 
 
 Clafiin, Rupert F 109 
 
 Clark, Edmund N 541 
 
 •Clark, John 576 
 
 Clark, Stanley A 681 
 
 Clark, Willard P 249 
 
 Clifford, Oliver H 1 1 I 
 
 Cobb, Jonathan . . '. . . 230 
 
 Colburn, Allen ...... 343 
 
 Colburn, Bernard F. . ■; . . 672 
 
 Comey, William M. . . . . . 409 
 
 Cook, Louis A. ...:•.. 292 
 
 Cook, Whitman 507 
 
 Cook, William T 668 
 
 Coolidge, Henry S 423 
 
 Corey, Timothy F. . . .- . . 646 
 
 Cousens, John E. . . -i . . 535 
 
 Cowing, Francis H 333 
 
 Craig, Robert 610 
 
 Cram, Arthur N. . . . ^ . . 498 
 
 Crane, Charles T 491 
 
 Crane, Orlando B. ..... 316 
 
 Crawford, Alfred 703 
 
 Crehore, Jeremiah 122 
 
 Crocker, Benton P 255 
 
 Crocker, Luther 223 
 
 Crocker, William B 596 
 
 Cunningham, Richard . . . . 515 
 
 Currier, Charles H. . . . . . 667 
 
 Gushing, Ira B. ...;'. . 585 
 
 Gushing, Joseph A 103 
 
 Gushing, Louis T 691
 
 7o8 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGB 
 
 D 
 
 Dana, William J 633 
 
 -Daniels, Albert J 216 
 
 Daniels, James W 347 
 
 Daniels. Lucius W 320 
 
 Daniels, Thomas J 4SS 
 
 Darling, P^rancis W 353 
 
 Davenport, Albert 200 
 
 Davis, David L I77 
 
 Davis, L. Shannon 706 
 
 Dean, Oliver 4/6 
 
 Deans, Charles H 614 
 
 Dearborn, George F 601 
 
 Dearing, T. Haven 199 
 
 Dexter, Charles B 437 
 
 Dinegan, John H 32 
 
 Doane, Ephraim H 127 
 
 Doble, Enoch H 188 
 
 Drake, Edgar F 610 
 
 Drake, Frederick P 326 
 
 Drake, W. A 152 
 
 Draper, Henry S 149 
 
 Draper, Leonard 319 
 
 Drew, Eugene 381 
 
 Drinkwater, A. C 460 
 
 Drugan, William F 619 
 
 Dunbar, Alonzo W 689 
 
 Dunbar, Francis D 403 
 
 Dunbar, John H 528 
 
 Dunbar, Thomas 150- 
 
 Durgin, Alonzo G 17 
 
 Dyer, Jacob S 28 
 
 Dyer, Joseph 74 
 
 E 
 
 ■ Eager, Edward R 12 
 
 Eastman, Julia A 241. 
 
 Eaton, William N 67 
 
 Elliott, Samuel T 522 
 
 Ellis, Charles H 156 
 
 Emerson, Luther O iSz 
 
 Everett, Francis E 371 
 
 "Everett, John 285 
 
 Everett, Oliver 413 
 
 F 
 
 Faas, Charles A 472 
 
 Fairbanks, Calvin 338 
 
 Fairbanks, Henry 88 
 
 Fales, Frank A 570- 
 
 Fales, Silas E 411 
 
 Farnsworth, Charles L. . . . 131 
 
 Farnsworth, Henry E 692- 
 
 Faunce, Thomas E 472 
 
 Faunce, Winslow 541 
 
 Fegan, Walter R 631 
 
 Field, George H 663 
 
 Field, John Q- A 115 
 
 Fisher, Albert F 394 
 
 P'isher, Amory 65 
 
 Fisher, Frederick L 58i--Hartshorn, James A 420 
 
 Fisher, Gilbert C 672 
 
 Fisher, Joseph 190 
 
 Fisher, Milton M 469 
 
 Fisher, Nathan W 436 
 
 Fisher, William Q 461 
 
 Flint, James H 363 
 
 Fogg, Ralph M 94 
 
 Folan, James M 6S3 
 
 Foreman, William 659 
 
 Foster, George W 84 
 
 Frampton, Robert L 149 
 
 French, Bela I ifr-Henry, Charles C 
 
 French, Charles H 570 
 
 French, Zenas A 98-j-Hewins, Joel P 
 
 Friguglietti, Francis .... 632 
 
 Fuller, Charles M 664 
 
 Furnald, Napoleon B 47 
 
 G 
 
 Gale, James A 429 
 
 Gannett, Benjamin 638 
 
 Gay, George W 532 
 
 George, Thomas A 343 
 
 Gibbs, Emery B 430 
 
 Gill, George L 9 
 
 Gillett, Nancy D 246 
 
 Gleason, Willard F 605 
 
 Glover, Frederick F'. . ' . . . 444 
 
 Glover, Joseph M 155 
 
 Glover, Theodore R 167 
 
 Gorse, William 658 
 
 Gould, Clarke S 449 
 
 Gove, Andrew J 106 
 
 ■Granger, Frank C 268 
 
 Gray, Lewis E 501 
 
 Greene, Charles 314 
 
 Gridley, George F 562 
 
 Griggs, William J 687 
 
 Gross, Charles A 226 
 
 Grover, Luther R 661 
 
 Guild, Julius 370 
 
 Guild, Samuel E 590 
 
 Guild, William F 508 
 
 Gurney, Edwin P 527 
 
 Hartshorn, Charles H. 
 Hartshorn, George W. 
 
 399 
 606 
 
 Hastings, Charles W 132 
 
 Hawes, Bradford ..•-... 59 
 
 Hawes, Elisha 40 
 
 Hayden, Joseph W 73 
 
 Hayes, Jared N 684 
 
 Hayward, J. Parker .... 554 
 
 Hazelton, Isaac H 326 
 
 Heaton, Joseph W 578 
 
 Hedges, Albert 467 
 
 Hedges, Clifford J 467 
 
 Henderson, David F 548 
 
 482 
 
 Hewett, Walter 623 
 
 645 
 
 Higgins, Eben 334 
 
 Higgins, Jedediah W 423 
 
 Fuller, Chauncey G 535--Hill, George 355 
 
 Hitchcock, George H 56 
 
 --Hoar, John E 474 
 
 Hodge, Dvvight M 351 
 
 Hodges, Charles W 212 
 
 Hodges, Marcus P 211 
 
 ;|Hodges, William L 542 
 
 Holbrook, E. Everett .... 120 
 
 Holbrook, Elihu A 123 
 
 Holbrook, George E 255 
 
 Holbrook, George H 164 
 
 HoUis, Alvin 546 
 
 Holmes, Joseph 163 
 
 Holmes, William B 142 
 
 Holtham, William 520 
 
 Home, Irving W 2S3 
 
 Houghton, Ralph 60 
 
 Howard, C. Elbert 481 
 
 Howard, Charles F 649 
 
 Howard, Dorus F 417 
 
 Howard, Milton H 496 
 
 Howard, Richard 386 
 
 Howe, Oliver H 612 
 
 Howland, Charles A 286 
 
 Humphrey, Henry B 181 
 
 Hussey, George F 38 
 
 H 
 
 Hagan, David T 575 
 
 Hale, Jeremiah B 305 
 
 Haley, Charles 577 
 
 Hall, William F 551 
 
 Hamant, Francis D 557 
 
 Hancock, William H. H. . . . 62 
 
 Harding, Joseph iii 
 
 Harlow, Rufus K 474 
 
 Harris, John M 476 
 
 Jenckes, Arnold A 602 
 
 -Jenks, Henry F 431 
 
 Jenness, Charles M 55 
 
 -■Jenney, Charles F 539 
 
 Jenney, Edwin C 195 
 
 Johnson, Benjamin 68 
 
 Johnson, George H 418 
 
 Jones, James S 682 
 
 Keith, James 419 
 
 Keith, Merritt S 266
 
 INDEX 
 
 709 
 
 Kelchei', Daniel J. . . 
 Keniick, lieiijamin . 
 Kimball, Charles F. 
 King, William F. . . 
 Kingsbury, Frederick H. 
 Kittredge, Jeremiah C. 
 Knowlton, Charles F. . 
 
 249 
 
 324"Miner, Henry B. 
 
 Milne, Andrew 
 
 Moffette, Edward 
 Morey, (George F. 
 
 Fadd, Levi ... 
 
 Lake, Flavins J. . , 
 
 Leach, Orrin T. . 
 
 Lennon, James T. . 
 
 Leonard, Emmons . 
 .-Leslie, Freeland D. 
 
 Lewis, Bradford . . 
 
 Lewis, Joshua F. 
 
 Lincoln, Charles \V. 
 
 Lincoln, Louis N. 
 ■ Lincoln, William E. 
 
 Linfield, Edwin P. . 
 
 Littlefield. Loring G. 
 
 Lothrop. Caleb . . 
 
 Loud, Oilman B. 
 
 Lovell, Asahel F. 
 
 SSf' 
 
 S2I 
 
 337«'Morse, Albert F. 
 634 Morse, Charles N. 
 i5<S--Morse, Elijah A. 
 
 Morse, Franklin G. . 
 
 Morse, Richard . . 
 
 Morse, Winslow I.. . 
 
 Morton, Geoige W. . 
 6924'Moseley, Randolph P. 
 624--Moseley, Samuel K. 
 
 Murphy, Cornelius J. 
 
 ■Murphy, James H. . 
 
 704 
 569. 
 5S2 
 241 
 620 
 609 
 
 65 
 105 
 
 389 
 
 372 
 
 77 
 
 93 
 
 215 
 
 503 
 
 M. 
 
 Mackintosh, James . . 
 
 Magee, George T. . . 
 
 Mann, Charles S. . . 
 
 Mann, Elbridge L. . . 
 
 -Mann, George R. . . 
 
 I\lann, Roval T. . . . 
 
 -Mann, Wi'lliam . . . 
 
 Mann, William E. . . 
 
 Mann, William R. . . 
 
 Mansfield, Henry T. . 
 
 Marsh, Louisa . . . 
 
 Mason, George P. . . 
 
 Mayberrv, Edwin N. . 
 
 Mayhew,' Will W. . . 
 
 Mayo, John F. J. . . 
 
 McAvoy, James D. . 
 
 McDonnell, Thomas 
 
 McDonnell, Thomas H. 
 
 McGill, James . . . . 
 
 McGinnis, Lawrence 
 
 Mcintosh, Davis G. 
 
 McKay, James . . . 
 
 ■ Melcher, William K. . 
 
 Melius, John T. . . . 
 
 Merrill, John F. . . . 
 
 Metcalf, Alfred G. . . 
 
 Metcalf, Francis . . . 
 
 Metcalf, Lewis D. . . 
 
 -Miles, George . . . . 
 
 Miller, Albert E. . . 
 
 Miller, Albert M. . . 
 
 Miller, Hermon B. . . 
 
 Miller, Vesta D. . . . 
 
 251 
 66 
 
 38S 
 
 547 
 628 
 
 309 
 139 
 245 
 232 
 509 
 141 
 372 
 193 
 203 
 
 377 
 
 N. 
 
 Nash, Elbridge . . . 
 
 Nash, Henry A. . . . 
 
 Nash, Thomas J. . . . 
 
 Nash, William . . . 
 
 Nead, George W. . . 
 
 Neal, Burton W. . . . 
 Neal, David .... 
 
 Nelson, George . . . 
 
 Nevin, Edward B. . . 
 Newcomb, Thaddeus H. 
 Newell, Albert J. 
 
 Newell, John A. . . . 
 
 Newell, Stillman E. . . 
 
 Nickerson, George K. . 
 
 Norcross, Ellis T. . . 
 
 Norris, Andrew J. . . 
 
 Norris, William H. . . 
 
 Noyes, Samuel B. . . 
 
 PAGE 
 
 650 Pierce, Frank O. . . 
 
 540 Pitcher, Ellis J. . . 
 
 3 1 5- -Pitman, John T. . . 
 561 Plimpton, I'Aigene C. 
 
 539 Plummer, Jedediah P. 
 
 256 Pond, Eliab M. . . 
 
 24o--Pope, Arthur W. . . 
 230 -Porter, Charles L 
 
 442 Porter, Elbridge F. . 
 
 664 Porter, Frank H. . . 
 
 207 Porter, F'ranklin . . 
 
 136 Porter, George W. . 
 
 354 Post, ( ieorge E. . . 
 
 633 Pottle, Charles L. . 
 
 625-)-Powers, Wilbur H. . 
 
 Pratt, Aaron . . . 
 
 Pratt, Charles H. . . 
 
 Pratt, Ira B. ... 
 
 Pring, James F. . . 
 
 Pulcifer, John . . . 
 
 Putnam, Sidney C. . 
 
 Putney, Lyman K. . 
 
 683 
 
 to6 
 
 3> 
 
 IDS 
 582 
 56. 
 142 
 411 
 
 6S7 
 27 
 60 
 
 573 
 533 
 
 552 
 
 599 
 146 
 48 1 
 567 
 
 382 
 194 
 49S 
 
 514 
 266 
 
 84 11 
 300 
 560 
 266 
 2S3 
 
 82--Owen, Timothy 145 
 
 552 
 207 
 
 525 
 262 
 
 Packard, Abner B. . . 
 
 Packard, Frank C. . . 
 
 Packard, James H. . . 
 
 698'"Packard, Jonathan R. . 
 
 627--Paige, Albert S. . . . 
 
 Palmer, Walter L. . . 
 
 Parmenter, Freeman A. 
 
 Pattee, William G. A. . 
 
 Penniman, James T. 
 
 Perkins, David . . . 
 
 Perkins, Elias A. . . . 
 
 Perrin, Marshall L. . . 
 
 Perry, John W. . . . 
 
 Pettee, Franklin A. . . 
 
 Phillips, Francis O. . . 
 
 Phillips, Hiram W. . . 
 
 Pickering, Henry W. 
 
 Pierce, David J. . . . 
 
 605 
 
 309 
 661 
 
 5'3 
 
 370 
 61 
 219 
 492 
 652 
 300 
 617 
 611 
 
 Radford, Frank H. . . 
 Randall, Davis D. . . 
 Ray, Francis B. . . . 
 Raymond, John A. . . 
 Reamy, Milton H. . . 
 Reed, George E. . . . 
 Reynolds, Stephen H. . 
 Rhodes, Orville C. . . 
 Rice, Charles . . . . 
 Richardson, Edward B. 
 Richardson, George V. 
 Riley, Charles H. 
 Ripley, Walter H. . . 
 Robbins, George W. 
 Robinson, Frederick E. 
 Rockwood, .Stephen T. 
 Rogers, Orville M. . . 
 Russell, Henry .S. . . 
 
 229 
 158 
 568 
 
 594 . 
 
 455^-Sandberg, Edward J. 
 
 S. 
 
 Sampson, Josephus 
 
 Sanford, George 
 Sawin, Benjamin N. 
 Sawyer, R. Kinsman 
 Scott, William W. . . 
 Sears, William B. 
 Shatswell, Henry K. 
 Shaw, Robert G. . . . 
 Shepard, Addison S. 
 Sheppard, Joel F. . . 
 Sherman, George B. 
 Sherman, Roscoe J. 
 Shumway, Benjamin F. 
 
 i72-(-Shurtleff, Augustine 
 
 PAGE 
 
 548 
 225 
 
 395 
 487 
 578 
 635 
 587 
 286 
 
 87 
 617 
 612 
 220 
 
 405 
 
 425 
 600 
 414 
 
 23 
 
 424 
 176 
 502 
 
 385 
 271 
 
 419 
 
 28 
 596 
 
 55 
 430 
 
 48 
 
 639 
 344 
 490 
 290 
 330 
 135 
 410 
 
 565 
 220 
 467 
 4'3 
 453 
 
 426 
 
 575 
 526 
 404 
 606 
 157 
 396 
 681 
 
 643 
 316 
 
 420 
 
 495 
 
 93 
 
 3°3 
 
 587
 
 7IO 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PACK 
 
 Simmons, Charles 49 
 
 Simons, Stephen li 503 
 
 Simpson, J. Albert 204 
 
 Slafter, Carlos 99 
 
 Smith, Alfred C 678 
 
 Smith, Charles H 4S6 
 
 •Smith, Daniel P 560- 
 
 •Smith, J. Everett 175 
 
 Smith, Joseph 362 
 
 Smith, Nathaniel 11 
 
 Smith, Timothy 112 
 
 Smith, William K 330 
 
 Snell, Eugene 71- 
 
 Snow, J. Lewis 437 
 
 Souther, Edward B 31 
 
 Souther, Harry \V 196 
 
 Southgate, George A 323 
 
 Southworth, Gurdon .... 496 
 
 Spear, Charles H 232 
 
 Spear, Horace B 348 
 
 St. John, Joseph 492 
 
 Standish, Lemuel W 72 
 
 Staples, George T 699 
 
 Stearns, Charles H 432 
 
 Stearns, William 323 
 
 Stetson, Arthur \V 3j 
 
 Stetson, John H 54 
 
 Stevens. James T 200 
 
 -Stone, Silas A 636 
 
 Sutton, Samuel 593 
 
 Swan. Reuben S 39S 
 
 Swithin, John 220 
 
 S within, Thomas 220 
 
 T. 
 
 Tailby, Joseph 338 
 
 -Talbot, George B 626 
 
 .Terry, Henrv B 284 
 
 Thayer, Charles W 265 
 
 Thayer, E. Newton 613 
 
 Thayer, Elisha 44 
 
 Thayer, Franklin D 235 
 
 Thayer, Ruel F 502 
 
 Thayer, Rufus A 121 
 
 Thayer, S. Austin 92- 
 
 Thayer, Tyler 361 
 
 Thayer, William M 438 
 
 Thomas, Henry A 24 
 
 Thompson, James 660 
 
 Thorndike, Samuel W. ... 280 
 
 Tilton, John A 204 
 
 Tirrell, Frederick W 700 
 
 Tirrell, James 22 
 
 Tirrell, John W 562 
 
 'I'otman, Joseph R 699 
 
 Tower, Abraham H 21 
 
 Tower, Daniel N 47 
 
 Tower, Frederick 53 
 
 Tower, Newcomb B 1 tO 
 
 Tucker, Aaron E 380 
 
 Tucker, Nathan 44-[-White, W, 
 
 Tucker, William H 24 
 
 Tufts, Joseph D 701 
 
 Turner, Salmon 652- 
 
 Turner, Willard W 342 
 
 ■Tuttle, Samuel A 236 
 
 Twigg, John L 178 
 
 U. 
 
 -■Underwood, Edward L. 
 
 468 
 
 66 
 
 Van Ness, Henry .... 
 Vorse, Albert B 513 
 
 W. 
 
 Wade, William H 310 
 
 Wadsworth, Edwin D 291 
 
 Wadsworth, Dexter E. . . '. . 131 
 
 Waite, Enoch 325 
 
 Wakefield, John L 690 
 
 Wall, John F 341 
 
 Wallace, William J 553 
 
 Ward, Henry S 637 
 
 Warner, Samuel 546 
 
 Warren, Daniel 334 
 
 Wattles, Joseph W 586 
 
 Webster, Irving C 485 
 
 Weeks, Benjamin J 654 
 
 •Deceased January 20, 1898. 
 
 Wentworth, Edward E. . . . 595 
 
 Weston, Walter S 261 
 
 Whelan, Timothy J 620 
 
 Whetton, John J 553 
 
 Whipple, Charles H 459 
 
 Whitaker, Arthur 226 
 
 White, Adoniram J 53 
 
 White, Carroll E 645 
 
 White, Daniel B 215 
 
 White, Edmund 104 
 
 White, George W. . . . . 705 
 
 White, Henry 74 
 
 White, Newton 121 
 
 iradford .... 636 
 
 While, William 124 
 
 Whiting, Edward 627 
 
 •Whiting, George E 479 
 
 Whitney, Samuel S 456 
 
 Whittemore, Augustus . . . 678 
 
 Whittier, David H 668 
 
 Wight, Frederick H 344 
 
 Wight, George H 371 
 
 Wild, James R 702 
 
 Wilde, George T 92 
 
 Willard, John K 123 
 
 Williams, Francis D 525 
 
 --Williams, Fred H 507 
 
 Williams, George F 450 
 
 Williams, Peter J 653 
 
 Williams, Silas G 618 
 
 Williams, Thomas L 43 
 
 Willis, Sarell J 454 
 
 Willis, George D 497 
 
 Wilson, Charles 82 
 
 Wilson, Ephraim 400 
 
 Woodsum, B. Herbert .... 703 
 
 Worster, Edwin P 119 
 
 * Worthington, Erastus . . . 406 
 
 Worthington, Erastus, Jr. . . 443 
 
 Young, Arthur F 643 
 
 Zirngiebel, D. Denys 
 
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 Abbott, J. Varmim 34 
 
 Anderson, Luther S 674 
 
 Bacon, George W 556 
 
 Badger, Charles L 222 
 
 Bates, Leavitt 102 
 
 Belcher, Clifford 258 
 
 Bennett. Alonzo F 238 
 
 Bicknell, Zechariah L 79 
 
 Bigelow, Henry C 537 
 
 Bigelow, Joseph S 15 
 
 Blacknian, Henry 197 
 
 Boyden, Benjamin F 530 
 
 Brackett, Albert A 505 
 
 Brainard, Amos H 297 
 
 Britton, Joshua 434 
 
 Bunton, Henry S 169 
 
 Capen, Samuel H 511 
 
 Carpenter, Erastus P 391 
 
 Carpenter, Robert W 358 
 
 Carter, William 20 
 
 Caslinian, John 118 
 
 Chase, Samuel D 165 
 
 Chick, Charles G 365 
 
 Claflin, Rupert F 108 
 
 Comey, William M 408 
 
 Cook, Louis A 293 
 
 Cook, William T 669 
 
 Coolidge, David S 422 
 
 Cram, Artliur N 499 
 
 Crocker, William B 597 
 
 Deans, Charles H 615 
 
 Doane, Ephraim H 126 
 
 Draper, Henry S 148 
 
 Dyer, Joseph 75 
 
 Fairbanks, Henry 89 
 
 F'ield, John C). A 114 
 
 Fisher, Amory 64 
 
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 Fogg, Ralph M 95 
 
 Fufler, Charles M 665 
 
 Gill, George L 8 
 
 Glover, Frederick P 445 
 
 Glover, Joseph M 154 
 
 Griggs, William J 686 
 
 Guild, Samuel E 591 
 
 Hartshorn, George W 607 
 
 Hastings, Cliarles W 133 
 
 Hawes, Elisha 41 
 
 Hazelton, Isaac H 327 
 
 Heaton, Joseph W 579 
 
 Henderson, Uavid F 549 
 
 Hitchcock, George H 57 
 
 Hodges, Charles W 213 
 
 Hodges, William L 543 
 
 Holbrook,Mr.and Mrs. George E. 254 
 
 Howard. Charles F 64.8 
 
 Howland, Charles A 287 
 
 Humphrey, Henry B 180 
 
 Jolinson, Benjamin 69 
 
 Keleher, Daniel J 24S 
 
 Kingsbury, Frederick H. . . . 336 
 
 Ladd, Levi 693 
 
 Leonard. Emmons 583 
 
 Lewis, Bradford 621 
 
 Mann, Royal T 85 
 
 Mansfield, Henry T. '. . . . 282 
 
 Melcher, William K 629 
 
 Merrill, John F 138 
 
 Metcalf, Alfred G 244 
 
 Metcalf, Francis 233 
 
 Miller, Albert E 373 
 
 Miller, Albert M 192 
 
 Miller, Vesta D 376 
 
 Morton, George W 206 
 
 Nash, Thomas J 30 
 
 Neal, David 143 
 
 Newell, John A 572 
 
 Packard, Frank C 159 
 
 Parmenter, Freeman A. . . . 308 
 
 Perrin, Marshall L 2r8 
 
 Pratt, Aaron 415 
 
 Putnam, Sidney C 384 
 
 Putney, Lyman K 270 
 
 Robbins, George W 564 
 
 Rockwood, Stephen T. ... 466 
 
 Sampson, Josephus 427 
 
 Shepard, Addison S 317 
 
 Sherman, George B 494 
 
 Shumway, Benjamin F. . . . 302 
 
 Smith, J. Everett 174 
 
 Smith, William R 331 
 
 Spear, Horace B 349 
 
 Stevens, James T 201 
 
 Thayer, Charles W 264 
 
 Thayer, Elisha 45 
 
 Thayer, William M 439 
 
 Thomas, Henry A 25 
 
 Tower, Frederick 52 
 
 Wade, William H 311 
 
 Wadsworth, Dexter E. ... 130 
 
 Wall, John F 340 
 
 Weeks, Benjamin J 655 
 
 Whipple, Charles H 458 
 
 Wliiting, George E 478 
 
 Whittemore, Augustus .... 679 
 
 Wight, Frederick H 345 
 
 Williams, Francis D 524 
 
 Williams, George F 451 
 
 Wilson, Ephraim 401 
 
 Young, Arthur F 642
 
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