Barnstable County, Massachusetts - Biographical sketches (4 of 12 so headed), 1890 (part 1 of 2)

Biographical sketches

Harrison G. Alexander was born in 1815, in Hyannis. His father, Sylvanus, a sea captain, came from Plymouth to Hyannis, where he married Harriet, daughter of Sylvanus Hinckley. Harrison G. has been a carpenter since sixteen years of age. He was married in 1837 to Rosanna, daughter of Cornelius Baker. Of their six children three are living: George, Harriet and Elizabeth.

William AUister was born in 1829, in Liverpool, England. He went to sea at the age of nineteen, and two years later settled in Dennis, where, since that time he has been a carpenter. He was married in 1852 to Susan, daughter of Edward and Joanna (Crowell) Baker. Their children are: George H. and William F. Mr. Allister is a member of Mount Horeb Lodge, also of Sylvester Baxter Chapter.

Alexander Baker, son of Sylvester Baker, and his wife Jemima, daughter of Elisha Baker, was born in 1826. He began to go to sea at the age of nine years, continuing until 1880, the last thirty-five years of the time being captain. He was married in 1850 to Mary, daughter of David and granddaughter of David Lewis. Her mother was Jane, daughter of Joshua Crowell. They have lost two sons and

Browning K. Baker, jr., born in 1839, is a son of Browning K., grandson of Heman, and great-grandson of Judah Baker. He began going to sea at the.age of fourteen, and since twenty-two years of age has been captain of coasting schooners, and is now a member of the Marine Society of Boston. He was married, in 1870, to Abbie F., daughter of Obed Baxter. They have four children: Browning K., Adelbert, John G., and Ralph H.

Calvin F. Baker, born in 1840, is a son of Calvin and grandson of Zenas Baker. His mother was Polly, daughter of Matthias Taylor, of Chatham. Mr. Baker, the only survivor of seven children, followed the sea from nine years of age until 1883, and for the last twenty-one years was master of coasting and foreign vessels. He was married, in 1861, to Sarah B., daughter of James Snow. Of their seven children three are living: James T., George A. and Allen S. Mr. Baker is a member of Mount Horeb Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of the Boston Marine Society.

Francis Baker and his Descendants. - On the 17th of June, 1641, the marriage of Francis Baker to Isabel Twining, of Yarmouth, established, in the Nobscusset territory, a family destined to play an important part in the afifairs of the infant settlement, and the town of Dennis, of which it became a part. He was then thirty years of age, and probably had lived at Boston since the good ship Planter, in 1635, brought him from his birthplace, in Hartfordshire, Eng., to that port. Sixteen days before his marriage the Plymouth court gave him permission to take in Old Yarmouth " any land not already occupied." Under this authority they settled near Follen's pond - at the head of Bass river - when the first white man's house at Nobscusset was less than two years old. Here they lived - he until 1696 and she until 1706 - rearing a family of eight children. Their descendants are scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.

The fourth of their six sons was Daniel Baker, bom September 2, 1650, who, on May 27, 1674, married Elizabeth Chase. While some of his brothers and nephews found homes in other parts of New England and the West,' others perpetuated the family name on the Cape. Thus far in the development of what is now Dennis the settlements were chiefly on the north side ; but Daniel and his wife made their home to the southward, where he built the original part of what is now the oldest building on the south side of the town, and which has long been known as the Judah Baker house. The second son of Daniel and Elizabeth Baker was Samuel, who was born in 1676, and on the 30th of July, 1702, married Elizabeth Berry. Their oldest son was Judah, born August 19, 1705, was married February 16, 1727, to

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Marcy Burgess, and died April 14, 1794. She died January 25, 1796. His grave is by that of his wife in the old cemetery near the South Dennis depot. Timothy Baker, born April 21, 1732, whose descendants, including John and Joshua, the Boston merchants, have mostly lived atHyannis, was their oldest son. Their second son, Barnabas, was born February 23, 1734, removed to Maine, and became the progenitor of a numerous family. The third son of Judah and Marcy Baker, born March 23, 1743, bore his father's name, and lived in the ancestral home above mentioned, departing this life September 29, 1810. His wife, whom he married in February 1765, was Mary Look, of Marthas Vineyard. She was born September 3, 1744, and died July 29, 1810.

It is not our purpose to trace their eleven children and their numerous descendants, except to notice their second son, Judah, who remained at the homestead, and, with some of his descendants, maintained their identity with the town of Dennis, although four of his six sons settled in the city of Boston. This Judah, the third of that name in the direct line, is better distinguished by the title of Captain, which alludes to his relation to the militia during the war of 1812, as well as to his command of vessels. He was born October 2, 1771, and on March 6, 1798, married Mercy Howes, of North Dennis, born March 18, 1779, she being in direct line from Thomas Howes of 1639. Captain Judah was an important character in his time, and was educated beyond the average of his day. He taught others the art of navigation, and was himself a successful master mariner. On land he was a practical surveyor, and in a day when the average seaman was not so well educated as now, he was often useful in the community in adjusting the accounts of their voyages. He was drowned in Vineyard sound June 10, 1830. His wife died October 7, 1865. They had six sons and four daughters, of whom Philander is the only survivor. Their oldest son, Howes Baker, was born September 12, 1801, and at the age of twenty-two married Persis Allen, of Harwich, bom January 21, 1803. She was a daughter of Elisha, and granddaughter of John Allen, whose father, Rev. Allen, a Scotchman, once pastor of a church in Salem, was lost at sea on a voyage to Edinburgh. This Howes Baker followed the sea from boyhood until his early death- October 30, 1849. His children were nine daughters and two sons- Captain Howes Baker, now of South Dennis, and Alpheus H. Baker, of Brooklyn, N. Y. These eleven children were born near the historic old house, on land that belonged to their ancestors since previous to 1680.

Howes Baker, the oldest son, a descendant through his mother from Stephen Hopkins, of the Mayflower, was born there February 8, 1828, and here his early years and first school days were passed; then until eighteen years of age he had the advantages of other schools at Brunswick, Me., and Andover, Mass.; but in March of 1846 he commenced a sea-faring life, and from 1850 was for six years in command of various vessels. He then went into business in Philadelphia, where he remained until January, 1859, when he removed to New York city, and with William Crowell, of Dennis, formed the firm of Baker & Crowell, ship chandlers, grocers and general commission merchants. In February, 1871, this firm was dissolved, and Captain Baker embarked in a shipping business and general trade in the same city, until ill health led to his retirement in 1880, since which time he has lived retired at his native village, where his widowed mother and his only surviving sister, Persis, reside.

Ezra Howes Baker. - Judah Baker, of South Dennis, a descendent of Francis Baker, married March 6, 1798, Mercy Howes, of North Dennis, a descendent of Thomas Howes. Their third son was Ezra Howes Baker, named for his mother's brother, born on August 17, 1811. When ten years of age, he began his seafaring life with his father, and at the age of sixteen was put in charge of a schooner, and sent to the coast of Maine to buy a cargo of lumber.

On January 31, 1832, he married Esther May Hinckley, of Barnstable, making his home in South Dennis. He followed the sea, buying and selling his own cargoes, iintil 1838, when he moved to Boston and entered into partnership with Alpheus Hardy, of Chatham, under the firm name of Hardy & Baker. Charles J. Morrill, of Boston, became, in 1845, a member of the firm, which was then known as Hardy, Baker & Morrill. In 1848 Mr. Hardy withdrew from the concern, which was thereafter known as Baker & Morrill; Mr. Baker's son, Ezra H. Baker, jr., becoming a partner in 1863, from which time the concern remained unchanged until Mr. Baker's death.

Under its several names this firm was actively engaged in many branches of foreign and domestic shipping trade, and was a considerable owner of ships. In the early days of its existence it did a very large corn business, and later, entered into trade with the East Indies, China, South America, San Francisco, and Mediterranean ports. As the shipping business gradually declined, the firm disposed of its vessels and became interested in several of the pioneer western railroads, notably the Union Pacific, of which Mr. Baker was always an earnest supporter, and of which he was a director at the time of his death. " Captain " Baker, as he was generally called, was distinguished as a businessman, for great energy and sagacity. He never wished to remain idle, and his business interests were always widely extended; but, if this active spirit sometimes led him to attempt more than would seem prudent to many people, his strong courage always carried him through the most trying times in safety, though sometimes with loss.

His early education was acquired at the common schools, which he was able to attend in winter only, after having reached the age of ten years; but, being fond of reading, he, in later years, made up to a great extent for his lack of opportunities as a boy. He was kind, generous and unassuming, and his sense of right and wrong was developed to an unusual degree; as a consequence, his business transactions were conducted on a higher plane than is generally considered necessary in matters of dollars and cents. His religion was expressed in his daily life, and his uniformly manly, upright and genial bearing won the affection as well as the respect of his associates, to whom his sudden death was the cause of genuine grief.

He died at his home in South Boston, January 28, 1876, of pneumonia, after an illness of only a few days, and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. His wife died July 25, 1850. Their children who reached maturity, were: Ezra H., jr., Esther H., Helena M. (Kent), and Sarah C. (Barstow).

Joseph K. Baker, jr. - Joseph Kelley Baker was theeighth in the line of descent from Francis Baker, who was born in Great St. Albans, England, in 1611, came to Yarmouth soon after the settlement, and married Isabel Twining, of that town, it being the first marriage there of record. He settled on the eastern side of Bass river, near Follen's pond, and died in 1696, at the age of eighty-five, being one of the last survivors of the first comers. The line of descent is as follows: Francis", John^ Peter", Richard', Ulysses', Richard', Joseph K.', Joseph K., jr.' The first Joseph K. Baker, who was born in 1801 and died in 1870, was extensively engaged in fitting and managing vessels for the fisheries. He was a member of the house of representatives from Dennis in 1845 and 1846, and of the board of selectmen, in the years 1855, 1856 and 1857.

Joseph K. Baker, the youngest son of the above named and Sabrina (Hall) Baker, was born in Dennis Port October 8, 1827. His education was acquired in the common schools up to his tenth year, after which time for several years, he had three months' tuition in these schools and the academy at West Harwich. At nine years of age he commenced going to sea in the summers, continuing until he was nineteen years of age, when he was employed in his father s business, packing and curing fish. In 1850 he became a partner with his father, under the firm name of J. K. Baker & Son. In 1855 he became a partner in the firm of R. Baker, jr. & Co., in the ship chandlery and grocery business. In 1860 he bought out the latter firm, and continued the business in all its branches, owning and fitting about twenty-five vessels, until the year 1870, when the firm of Baker, Ellis & Co. was formed, of which he was the senior partner, and which continued in existence until 1871. Mr. Baker was also engaged in many

Other business enterprises. About the year 1870 he was chosen secretary of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company, and in 1872 its president. He was a member of the first board of directors of the Cape Cod Central Railroad Company, and afterward successively its president and treasurer. He was a trustee, and subsequently president of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank of Harwich, and director and president of the First National Bank of Harwich. He was also a director of the Marthas Vineyard Railroad Company; and treasurer and director, and afterward president, of the Red Bank Mining Company of Pennsylvania. This recital gives an idea of the engrossing business connections of Mr. Baker, but it by no means exhausts the list of his avocations. In 1861 he was appointed deputy collector of the port of South Dennis, continuing in oflBce for ten years. In 1862 he was chosen one of the board of selectmen, of the town of Dennis, and in 1863, and for many years subsequently, he was on the board of school committee. From 1864 to 1869 he was a trial justice for the county of Barnstable. In 1870 and 1871 he was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives, and in 1872 and 1873 of the state senate, and took rank among the first of the business members of those bodies. In 1875 he was chosen a member of the executive council of the state, being reelected in 1876-77-78. In 1884 he was appointed by Governor Robinson a member of the state board of commissioners on harbors and public lands, which position he occupied at the time of his death.

Mr. Baker was widely and intimately connected with the Masonic fraternity. After a service of several years in its subordinate positions, he was elected worshipful master of Mount Horeb Lodge, of West Harwich, and subsequently for six years he was deputy grand master for the fifteenth district of Massachusetts. He was also king and high priest of Orient Chapter of Hyannis, and also afterward occupied the position of king in Sylvester Baxter Chapter of West Harwich. He was elected junior grand warden of Massachusetts Grand Lodge; grand king of Massachusetts Chapter, and deputy grand high priest of this district for the same organization. He also received the degree of Knights Templar in the Boston Commandery; from 3° to 32° in Boston Lodge of Perfection; and Councillor degrees in Boston Council. The fraternal, helpful and sympathetic traits which are the underlying characteristics of these organizations were well illustrated in the life of Mr. Baker. His native town, the religious society in the faith of which he was reared, and the entire county of his birth are witnesses to his public spirit, broad intelligence and unremitting efforts for their welfare. The public bodies, fraternal societies and business organizations with which he was connected, expressed and put on record, with more than accustomed emphasis and depth of feeling, their appreciation of his character and services on the occasion of his death, which occurred with startling suddenness November 13, 1886.

Mr. Baker married, December 7, 1848, Miss Hannah F. Small, daughter of Arunah and Hannah (Baker) Small, who survives him. Their children are: Samuel Small, bom in 1849, married Julia A. Baxter in 1871; Ella Foster, born in 1851, married John B. Taylor in 1876; Joseph Lincoln, born in 1854, married Lucy J. Hutchinson in 1882; and Lilla Dale, born in 1868.

Ira S. Baker, a son of Joseph K. and Sabrina (Hall) Baker, and grandson of Richard Baker. He went to sea until 1872, was captain the last twenty-one years of this time, and from 1872 to 1882 was a sailmaker. He carried on a shoe store at Dennis Port from 1882 until his death in January, 1890. He was married in 1856, to Eliza A., daughter of Allen Studley. They had two daughters: Alice - Mrs. Nathan Robbins, and Maria - Mrs. S. B. Kelley.

Oliver K. Baker, the oldest son of Joseph and Susan (Kelley) Baker, and grandson of Francis Baker, was bom in 1827. He followed the sea from twelve years of age until 1886, and was master of a vessel for thirty years. He was married in 1848, to Harriet K., daughter of Benjamin Crowell, and has two children: Horatio B. and Flora H. Mr. Baker is a member of West Dennis Methodist Episcopal Church, and of Mount Horeb Lodge, A. F. & A. M.

Horatio B. Baker, bom in 1861, is a son of Oliver K. Baker. He was married March 6, 1879, to Laura B., daughter of Benjamin P. Sears, and has two children: Horatio L. and Florence M. He was clerk in a store until 1872, and since that time has been a commercial traveler.

Reuben A. Baker', (Reuben', Reuben*, Reuben', Reuben', Ebenezer') was born in 1853. His mother, Polly H., was a daughter of Otis Baker. Since 1876 Mr. Baker has carried on a wholesale fruit, nursery, and ice business. He was married in 1878 to Anna B., daughter of Nathan B. Burgess. They have two daughters: Hannah S. and Irene W.

Watson F. Baker was bom September 20, 1847. He traces his ancestry back to David and Thankful Baker, whose son, David, jr., was bom June 1, 1746, and was the eldest of eight children. David, jr., and his wife Jane had eight children. Their fifth child. Free- - man, was born June 14, 1777, and died August 22, 1841. By his wife, Susan, who died August 13, 1842, he had eight children. Freeman, jr., his eldest child, was born September 3, 1799, and died December 31, 1841. By his wife, Diana, who died November 12, 1826, he had one son, Watson Freeman, born April 24, 1826, lost at sea December 13, 1854. Watson Freeman and wife, Sarah A. (Studley), had three children: Watson F., jr., Diana, born April 27, 1849, died December 13, 1863; and Diana R., born February 11, 1865. John Baker, second son of the first named David and Thankful, died August 16, 1822. By his wife. Patience, who died January 14, 1840, he had ten children. Watson, his fourth child, was born December 21, 1778, and died in November, 1811. By his wife, Huldah, who died March 23, 1867, he had four children, of whom the second, Diana, born November 13, 1804, married Freeman Baker, jr., mentioned above. Lemuel Studley, died March 20, 1857, by his wife, Polly, who died July 4, 1846, had ten children. Their oldest child, Richard, was born September 2, 1794, and died in Charleston, S. C, September 4, 1830. He married Abagail, daughter of Moses and Sally Burgess. She was bom February 26, 1801, and died May 23, 1886. Their only daughter, Sarah Ann, married Watson Freeman Baker, mentioned above. Their son, Watson F., has been a merchant at South Dennis since October 1874. He has been town clerk and treasurer since 1886, and is justice of the peace and trial justice. He married Hannah D., daughter of Caleb and Cynthia Kelley. They have two children: Mary Abba, bom September 3, 1884; and Watson F., jr., bom March 19, 1889.

William E. Baker, for several years deacon of the Congregational church of South Dennis, was born in 1828, and is the only surviving son of Josiah, and grandson of Jeremiah Baker. His mother was Polly Eaton. Mr. Baker followed the sea from the age of fifteen, until he was forty-five years old. He has been freight agent at South Dennis depot five years. He was married in 1861, to Sarah A., daughter of Freeman and Sally (Myric) Snow.

Captain Edwin Baxter. - Early in the last century, this family name was prominent in the affairs of Yarmouth, and when Dennis was incorporated from the territory, here resided Reuben Baxter and his brothers. John, the son of Reuben, married and resided at South Dennis, rearing a family, among whom was Heman, who married Mary L. Baker, granddaughter of Judah Baker, and reared a large family, one of whom is the Captain Edwin Baxter, whose portrait accompanies this article. His birth occurred January 8, 1833, at South Dennis, where he received a common school education, and at the age of twelve he shipped as cook on a coasting voyage. At seventeen he engaged before the mast, and following the business earnestly and steadily, arose to mate at twenty, sailing on foreign voyages the most of the time while acting in that capacity. In 1864 he was promoted to a captaincy, and for twenty -one years commanded various sailing vessels, without serious accident. He retired with a competency in 1885, and resides in his pleasant home at West Dennis.

daughter of Joseph and Paulina Eldridge, and has one daughter, Ada, living at home, born July 24, 1867. Joseph Eldridge, the son of Thomas, was born and reared in a house situated back in the field to the east of Captain Zebina Small's, on the road between Harwich Port and the Center.

Since he left the sea Captain Baxter has mingled in the business, the social and the religious affairs of the town, enjoying a charter membership in Mount Horeb Lodge of Masons, and attending and supporting the services of the Methodist church of his village. In civil affairs he takes a keen interest, and in February, 1887, was elected by the republicans to the oflBce of selectman; and in February, 1889, he was reelected to a third term. He is a director in the shoe factory in West Dennis, and is counted as being ever ready to assist in building up the interests of the community. Now in the meridian of life, after two-score years on the sea, he enjoys with his happy family, the fruits of his industry, possessing to the highest degree the confidence of his townsmen.

John Baxter, son of Heman Baxter and brother of Thacher T. Baxter, was bom in 1836. He went to sea eight years, and at the age of twenty-one he began to learn the jewelers' trade, and has been engaged in it since that time. Since 1879 he has kept a jewelry store at West Dennis. He is a member both of the Masonic and Odd Fellow orders. He was married in 1860, to Mary E., daughter of William Douglas, and has one son, John E.

Thacher T. Baxter' (Heman', John', Reuben', Thomas*, Thomas', Thomas', Thomas Baxter',) was born in 1840. His mother was Mary L. Baker. Mr. Baxter learned the trade of a harness maker. He kept a hotel on the European plan at Cottage City, and in 1868 he built the Baxter House there. In 1871 he returned to West Dennis, where he has since been a furniture dealer. He was married in 1863 to Mary P. Crowell. They have three children : Alpheus T., Lavina M. and Charles T. He is a member of the West Dennis Methodist Episcopal Church, has been Sunday-school superintendent about twenty years, and is President of Yarmouth Campmeeting Association.

William H. Baxter, born in October, 1857, is a son of Heman and grandson of Heman Baxter. His mother was Julia A. Baker. Mr. Baxter has been telegraph operator at South Dennis since October, 1875, and since 1886 he has been both operator and station agent for the Old Colony Railroad Company. He was married in 1887, to Nellie S., daughter of Ahirah Kelley. They have two children : Louise and Thomas.

grandson of Edmund Bray. He has been to sea since the age of fifteen, and since 1870 has been master of coasting and foreign vessels most of the time. He was married in 1876, to Lucy Isabel, daughter of George C. and Mary A. (Baker) Rogers. She was bom in South Dennis in 1850. They have one son, Edwin Newell, born in 1883. Mr. Bray is a member of the Hyannis Masonic Lodge and of the Boston Marine Society.

William B. Brooks, born in 1853, is the eldest son of Calvin, and a grandson of Calvin Brooks. His mother was Mary J., daughter of Heman Baxter. Mr. Brooks was a mason for eleven years prior to April, 1883, when he bought the stage and mail route from West Dennis to South Dennis, and since that time has run the stage and kept a livery stable. He was married in 1876, to Mary, daughter of Joseph A. Baker. They have two sons : William D. and Henry W.

Alonzo Capron, born in 1838, is the eldest son of Luther A. and Delia (Howes) Capron, and a grandson of William and Betsey (Baker) Capron. He has one brother, Martin L. Mr. Baker followed the sea from fourteen to thirty years of age, and since that time has been a carpenter. Since 1883 he has kept a lumber yard at Dennis Port. He was married in 1869, to Eleanor Baker, and has two children : Alonzo E; and Nellie B. He is a member of the West Harwich Baptist Church.

Captain David S. Chapman was born December 31, 1822, at Barnstable, and departed this life September 17, 1882, at East Dennis, in the pleasant home where he had lived the last twenty years of his life. His father, Rev. Nathan Chapman, son of John, married Eliza Hopkins, and four of their ten children survive to perpetuate this line of descent from Ralph Chapman, the first of the name in Barnstable county. With the limitations that surrounded the large family of a countrj' pastor, the little son, David S., like a true Cape Cod boy^ went to sea at an. early age, and, taking his place at the foot of the ladder, he patiently bided his time. Rapidly rising in the scale to commander of vessels, he engaged in important trade, and retired in 1862.

On the 18th of September, 1851, he married Sallie E. Sears, daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Eldridge) Sears, he being a descendant of the original Richard Sears, along the line of Paul, Paul, Edmund, Edmund, and Jacob. They had no children of their own, but cared for those of other parents. About the year 1858, while the captain was on a voyage to Spain, a Spanish lad wished to accompany him to America. He was taken into the captain's faruily, was cared for by his kind foster parents, grew to manhood, was naturalized in the Chapman name, married Mary E. Sears - one of the old family - and is now a prosperous merchant in Brockton, Mass. The captain's wife accom- panied him, in 1861, on a voyage to Florida, which at that time was attended with other than maritime dangers. The vessel, loaded with lumber, encountered difficulty in leaving Pensacola, and dared not on the passage home touch along the southern coast. When the captain reached Boston, Sumter had received its baptismal fire. Other vessels, loaded later, were retained by the confederates.

The beautiful home where the captain passed his last days was erected in 1859. Here he lived in that quiet and unostentatious manner which characterized him as the firm and successful shipmaster. He was intelligent and trustworthy, ever ready to accord to others the right he claimed for himself in the exercise of honest, individual opinion. His loss was deeply felt by a community who had learned to love him. On his monument in the cemetery is this tribute, by one who knew him best - his wife :

' ' Bound by no sect or creed yet good at heart, He strove through life to act ;in honest part ; He thought he saw in God's eternal plan. That he fulfills it best who helps his fellow man."

Time may efface the inscription on the monument - even crumble the marble itself - but never the monument erected from his virtues. Horace Chase, son of Neri, and grandson of John Chase, was born in Harwich in 1828. His mother was Sabrey, daughter of Samuel Smith. Mr. Chase began going to sea at ten years of age, and from 1848 to 1887 was captain of coasting schooners. He was married in 1850, to Sophia A., daughter of Bangs and granddaughter of David Kelley.

Samuel A. Chase, the only son of Benjamin T., and grandson of Henry Chase, was born in 1851. His great-grandfather was Owen S., son of Deacon Abner Chase. His mother was Adaline, daughter of Samuel Ryder. Mr. Chase followed the sea six years and at the age of nineteen he began to learn the tinning and plumbing trade. In 1876 he opened a store in West Dennis, where he has since continued tin and plumbing and general hardware business. He was married in 1880, to Louisa H., daughter of Charles W. Weysser. They have two sons: Albert T. and Charles E.

Van Buren Chase, born at South Dennis May 9, 1844, is a son of James and Betsey Chase. The year before reaching his majority he began his life at sea, from which he retired in 1887 to take an appointment as collector of customs in the Barnstable district, which position he filled until 1889. He was married in 1866 to Mary Ella Crowell of West Dennis. They have one daughter - Carrie May Chase.

Mrs. Rose B. Cobb is a daughter of Sylvester and Sarah (Kelley) Chase. She was married in 1858, to Theodore S. Cobb. They have four children: Grace S., T. Clifton, Annie S. and Charles P.

Jonathan Collins, born in 1821, is the eldest son of Seth, grandson of Seth, and great-grandson of Samuel Collins. His mother was Betsey, daughter of Thomas Crowell. Mr. Collins went to sea at the age of sixteen, continuing until 1863, the last eighteen years as captain of vessels. From 1853 to 1861 he was commission merchant in Philadelphia, and thirteen years a farmer, in Sandwich. In 1874 he came to the old homestead in West Dennis and is engaged at the present time in making cranberry barrels and raising cranberries. His wife, deceased, was Elijah Baxter's daughter, Polly, to whom he was married in 1842.

Albert C. Crandall, born May 24, 1852, in New London, Conn., is a son of Clark D. Crandall. He began going to sea at the age of ten and continued until 1876, since which time he has been engaged in sailing yachts - since 1879 as master. He received a patent in 1888, on an extension spanker-boom, of his invention, which is now in use on several of the fastest yachts afloat. He was married in 1878, to Susan M., daughter of John and Susan B. (Whittemore) Perry. Mr. Perry died in 1888, leaving three daughters: Mrs. Crandall, Annie M. and Lillie B. Mr. Crandall is a member of Mount Horeb Lodge and Sylvester Baxter Chapter.

Calvin S. Crowell, son of Elisha and Olive C. (Howes) Crowell, and grandson of Elnathan Crowell, was born in Dennis, and is the eldest of four surviving children. He has been twenty-two years a commission merchant in Philadelphia. He was married in 1862, to Caroline M. Cornwell, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Their children are: R. Herbert, Arthur H. and Calvin F.

Captain Edward E. Crowell. - We have already noticed John Crow as associated with Anthony Thacher and Thomas Howes in the purchase of old Yarmouth in 1639. Among the many descendants of this original John was Edward Crowell, brother of Thomas, who was born in 1763, after the family name had assumed the present form - Crowell. His son Edward, born in 1789, married Thankful, daughter of James Sears, of Yarmouth, and reared six children, of whom four - Sears, Edward E., Freeman, and Cyrus Crowell - are living.

Edward E., the third of the six, was bom at Dennis, December 14, 1823, and is the Captain Crowell of this sketch. He attended the schools of his section of the town until twelve years old, when he went to sea! At sixteen he was before the mast, and at twenty was first mate under Captain Orrin Lewis, who died of yellow fever on a return voyage from San Domingo. After the captain was committed to the deep, the command and return of the vessel, with its precious cargo, devolved upon the young mate. Having himself been ill, the ship having lost its superior officer and several of the crew, and his seemingly helpless condition, were circumstances to have daunted a young man of less resolution. He, however, hired men and resolved to deliver the vessel to her owners. The wreckers of the islands assured him he could not navigate the Crooked Island passage alone, but he declined their assistance. When they offered him a thousand dollars for the privilege of piloting the vessel, thus revealing their designs, he determinedly informed them that he would do his duty, even though he. should go down with the vessel. He was forty-five days making the passage that usually occupied twenty-two, but safely delivered the cargo of coffee and specie to the proper owners. This circumstance reveals the fiber of the man, and is illustrative of the crises which arise in the mariner's career.

He continued his coasting and foreign voyages as master seventeen years longer, and in 1860 built a tug at Philadelphia for towing vessels loaded with cotton over the bar at Charleston, S. C. This tug was sold to the merchants of the latter city, and subsequently was used in the rebel service. Returning in 1861 to West Dennis, he purchased the interest of Elisha Crowell in a store, which he successfully managed six years, and sold in 1867. With Obed Baker, jr., he went that year to Buffalo, N. Y., to engage in the shipping business by canal to New York city, and after three years returned to his former home, where he has since been actively and variously engaged. With others, he has built and fitted out many vessels, they having recently launched at Camden, Me., a four-master, which will carry twentyeight hundred tons.

Captain Crowell has found time to fill the office of director in the Cape Cod National Bank, of Harwich, several years, and is now its president. He was at the head of the Dennis & Harwich Insurance Company, and was at one time president of the Cape Cod Savings Bank. He has steadily declined preferments of a political nature, although a prominent member of the republican party, and keenly interested in civil affairs. He is at present conspicuous as the heaviest stockholder in the large she manufactory in the town, having been a prime movcT- i' ts es«^abli.'~'^ment in 1887, and its president and treasurer.

Captain CroweP has for th'e p,i=t forty-five years proved himself an efficient membe, ir.d suppci^ - of the Methodist church in its every relation, o ^lasonic Ln ige and Chapter, and has been an important factor ] tht social, ir< rai and business development of his community. Mj v young met' e by him been fitted out for their first voyage to and thus enc raged and started on a prosperous voyage over th ?a of life, and return the captain's cardinal virtues seem to h gfuided hirr .nnels favorable to prosperity.

Captain Eleazer Kelley *Crowell. - The grandfather of this branch of that ancient family was Freeman, the son of Hersey Crowell. Eleazer Crowell, born September 29, 1804, was the son of Freeman Crowell and was married December 4, 1828, to Mehitabel, a daughter of Ebenezer Paine, of Harwich, and resided on the east bank of the Bass river, where they reared four children: Emeline, Perry P., Mehitabel C, and Eleazer K. Emeline was first married to Leroy B. Baker, December 18, 1852, and second to Seth A. Howes, November 1, 1860, and survives both husbands. She had two children: Mary E. Baker, who lived to marry, and Eleazer C. Baker - both of whom are dead. Perry P. married Rosalie, daughter of Francis Small, and has one daughter, Sophia. Mehitabel C. married David A. Crowell, and at her death left one daughter, Lora May, who resides with her uncle Eleazer K.

Eleazer K., the subject of this article, was born in 1836, he married Laura A. Kelley, daughter of Bangs Kelley, December 15, 1859. The only child of this marriage, Eleazer H., born February 29, 1869, died May 25, 1870. The mother died January 7, 1879. The captain was again married February 8, 1881, to Mary D. Chase, daughter of Benjamin F. Chase, of Harwich. At the age of twelve, he went to sea in the fishing business, as did his brother Perry, to helpsustain a widowed mother, who was herself sick and surrounded by her small children. He early desired a knowledge of navigation and while young studied industriously, and by diligence in the. forecastle he soon became proficient. At eighteen he was mate, and at twenty-one was captain, which position he filled until his retirement in 1882.

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Ezra Crowell, born 1823, is the eldest and only surviving son of Ezra, and grandson of Hersey Crowell. His mother was Tamsen, daughter of Zachariah Long. Mr. Crowell has followed the sea since he was twelve years old, and has been master mariner since 1846. He was married in 1847, to Caroline, daughter of Samuel Chase. They have two children: Mary E. and Euphema.

Freeman Crowell, 3d, born in 1830, is one of the ten children of Freeman and Elizabeth (Sears) Crowell, a grandson of Freeman and Sarah, and great-grandson of Hersey and Jerusha Crowell. His father and grandfather were fishermen, and he began going to sea at the age of ten, and since 1850 has been captain. He was married in 1852, to Desire, daughter of Elisha Kelley, granddaughter of Amos and Desire (Crowell) Kelley. They had one son, Elisha K., who died in August, 1887.

Hon. Joshua Crowell is the only survivor of that branch of that numerous family to which the good name of the Cape is largely indebted. The descent in the male line from the original settler of 1639 is: John". John', John', Christopher*, Christopher', Nathan", Joshua', Joshua". Joshua Crowell' married Olive N. Hamblin, of Sandwich, leaving at their death one son, the subject of this sketch, born October 24, 1843, on the home farm at East Dennis, where he passed his boyhood attending the common school and assisting on the farm. At the age of twenty-three, January 3, 1867, he married Sophronia H. Chapman, daughter of Isaac Chapman, a descendant of the first Isaac Chapman on the Cape; and their five children are: Olive H., born September 6. 1869; Seth, born March 12,1872; William H., March 1, 1877; Edith, January 9, 1879; and Nathan, born December 11, 1880.

Mr. Crowell's life has diflFered materially from most of his townsmen who early in life engaged in seafaring pursuits. He chose the social advantages of a life on land to those of the forecastle, and his earliest recollection is of wrestling with the cares of cranberry culture, which he continues largely and successfully. He has consequently become conspicuously interested in, and conversant with the affairs of the body politic, and being a true republican politically and in his nature, his services have been sought by his townsmen. He is not a seeker of ofl&cial trusts, but having once demonstrated his superior ability he has been steadily advanced to the highest offices of his representative district.

For eight years he served as selectman, acting as chairman of the board a portion of the time. In 1884 he represented his district in the legislature and for the next term of 1885, not a single ballot was cast against him at his reelection. Again in 1888, after a chang-e was made in the territory of the district, he filled this responsible position and was returned in 1889 for a fourth term. He is a director in the Yarmouth National bank, has served his town seven years as one of the school committee, and is always ready to promote the welfare of his community in social and moral advancement. In the various offices filled by him he has indicated that strong sense and practical knowledge which enables him to maintain an influential position and retain the confidence of his townsmen.

Hon. Seth Crowell. - This was a man of more than average ability, who occupied a prominent place in the public service of Dennis and the Cape for nearly forty years. He was a brother of the late Joshua Crowell, above mentioned. Swift, in his Old Yarmouth, says of him: " At the age of eighteen Mr. Crowell commenced life, as many a Cape Cod boy did in those times, upon a vessel's deck; he steadily rose, by industry, application to duty and fidelity to the interests intrusted to him, to high estimation by his fellow citizens. He was captured by the British, in the war of 1812-15, and made a prisoner at Dartmoor. In 1835, and three years thereafter, he was elected a representative from the town; in 1841-2 a senator from the Cape, and afterward, for nine years, a member of the board of county commissioners, most of the tiine its chairman. He was, in the meantime, a director of the Barnstable Bank, and its successor, the First National Bank of Yarmouth, for several years its president, and a director of the Barnstable County Mutual Fire Insurance Company for a long succession of years; also a member of the constitutional convention in 1853, and again a representative from Dennis in 1868. Mr. Crowell's death occurred April 1, 1873, and during his whole life the confidence of the public was never withdrawn from him.

Heman B. Crowell, one of a family of twelve children, was born in 1836, and has followed the sea some sixteen years. His father, Edward, was a son of Thomas, and grandson of Edward Crowell, and his mother was Sarah, daughter of Heman Baker. He was married in 1859, to Maria P., daughter of Leonard Crowell, and granddaughter of Freeman Crowell. Their daughter, Jessie A., married Ezra F. Howes, and died in March, 1888, leaving two sons. Mr. Crowell is a prohibitionist, and a member of the West Dennis Methodist Episcopal church.

James Crowell, born in 1832, is a son of Zeno and Desire (Long) Crowell, and a grandson of David and Thankful (Eldridge) Crowell. Mr. Crowell was a mariner until 1880, having been master of a vessel twenty-four years. Since then he has kept a grain store and coal yard at West Dennis. He was married in 1852, to Mercy F., daughter of Harvey Crowell, whose father, James, was a son of David Crowell. Their children are : Eugene, Anna M. and Louise M.

Orin L. Crowell, son of George W., grandson of Allen B., and great-grandson of Lott Crowell, was born in 1851. His mother was Almira, daughter of Orin Lewis. Mr. Crowell has been at sea since 1859, and since 1876 has been master of a vessel. He is a member of the Boston Marine Society. He was married in 1873 to Esther D., daughter of Henry Graves.

Captain Luther Crowell. - This worthy representative of one of the first comers on the Cape traces his ancestry along the generations of the past through James, David. Jonathan, Thomas, John (of Bass ponds, as there was another of that name,) and Thomas, back to that John Crow who came to Old Yarmouth in 1639 and built his house near Nobscusset pond, on the lot a little to the northeast of the present house of Calvin S. Crowell. James Crowell, father of Luther, married Ruth, daughter of Elisha and Sarah (Nickerson) Crowell, and she was one of fourteen children, all born in a house northwest from the present West Dennis church.

Luther Crowell was born in 1818, the son of poor parents, and was early thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood and an education. In the small country schools of that day the question was asked each pupil at commencement of the term : " Who is to pay your tuition ?" Some would answer, " my father." " this uncle or that friend;" but the lad Luther's answer had to be " I'll pay," and he did. At ten years of age his penchant for the sea induced him to ship as cook in the fishing and coasting trade. His anxiety to rise and excel could hardly brook the delay of reaching a suitable age in which he should consummate his wishes. The airy castles of future greatness, and the fairy ships built by the aspiring cook, were often wrecked by the gruff voice of the mate asking down the hatchway if

Thus the actual life a man may lead grows up from the ideal life a boy may dream of, and success comes but to him who is born capable of dreaming of success and daring to labor for it. His zeal and faithfulness earned rapid promotions, and from October, 1839, until 1852, he commanded coastwise packets between Boston and Baltimore and in the West India trade. In the latter year he commenced with R. W. Ropes & Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., as captain and part owner in vessels engaged in an extensive South American trade, which he continued until 1866, when, for three years, he commanded a steamer in the Winsor line, between Boston and Philadelphia, and then returned to the command of a ship for Ropes & Co. in their important trade. In this firm was Ripley Ropes, the recently deceased president of the Brooklyn Trust Company, and his elder brother, Reuben W., still the head of the firm. Their appreciation of Captain Crowell as master, agent and factor, increased with the years of their pleasant business relations. This mutual regard between the three, ripening with time, became a permanent friendship.

In 1871 Captain Crowell renewed his connection with the Winsor line, which relations have continued to the present moment. Although widely and favorably known from his ancestral connections, and for those genial social qualities which have always marked him, he is doubtless destined to be best known and longest remembered by his position as a favored captain in the Winsor steamship line.

The captain's home is at West Dennis, where he has surrounded his family with appointments in keeping with their high social position. He was married in 1841, to Rebecca, daughter of Asa and Edith Kelley. Their children are : Luther B., Rebecca, Ruth Ina and Grace M., the latter deceased. Of these Luther B. Crowell, born in 1841, has been a successful sea captain since 1865. In that year he married Esther, daughter of Anthony and Priscilla Kelley, and has four children : Charles B., Luther A., Arthur R. and Grace M. He is closely following the footsteps of his father, being in command of a ship in the same line. Rebecca married Captain George H. Baxter, a native of South Dennis. He was commander of the schooner Allie Bur?iham, which was lost with all on board in April, 1886, while on the passage from Cuba to Philadelphia. Besides his widow he left one son, George L. B., and a daughter, Rebecca M. Baxter. Captain Baxter was a promising young man, with great possibilities, the sorrow for whose untimely fate is a shadow that must long abide.

midst of a bright career, and popular as a master. Still in vigorous life, he has just passed his semi-centennial as a master mariner. With a character unblemished, his ability, energy and carefulness have gained for him a position seldom equaled among the many noted seamen of Cape Cod.

Captain Peter H. Crowell. - The grandfather of this representative of one of the branches from John Crow, the original ancestor, was Isaiah Crowell, whose father was Jonathan, son of Thomas. Of the six children of Isaiah, Peter Crowell was born January 24, 1808, at West Dennis, and was married July 26, 1834, to Reliance, a daughter of Peter Coleman, of Hyannis. She was born November 1, 1813. Of their twelve children four died in infancy. The eight who reached maturity are: Peter H., born April 1, 1837; Emaline F., born October 18, 1839; Mary S., February 20, 1843; Philena H., July 28, 1845; Erastus B., September 25, 1847; Osborne E., August 7, 1850; Alva C, April 20, 1855; and Sylvia C, July 2, 1868. Of these, Osborne E. died July 23, 1871, and Alva C. November 19, 1874.

Peter H. Crowell, the eldest of the survivors, was educated at the schools of West Dennis until he went to sea at the age of thirteen. He rapidly rose in the scale, acting as mate at seventeen, and was in command of a coaster when nineteen years of age. For thirty years he was the master of various vessels in the coastwise and West India trade, retiring in 1886. During the period he was in command he did not call upon the underwriters for a dollar. He always owned a share in the vessel he commanded, and since his retirement has been part owner, agent and general manager of a fleet of seven sail, five threemasters, one four-master, and, one bark.

In 1865, March 21st, the captain was married to Isabella, daughter of James Chase, whose father was also James, son of Job Chase. Her father was born July 29, 1807, and died December 3, 1880. Her mother was Betsey T., daughter of Jeptha and Thankful Nickerson, and a descendant of William Nickerson. Six of the ten children of James Chase survive: Otis D., Isabella, Moses N., Van Buren, Helen F.,and Eunice B., who is now traveling in Europe. Captain Crowell has seven surviving children: Addie F., born December 29, 1865; Grace B., born August 22, 1869; Etta R., January 18, 1873; Peter H., jr., November 28, 1874; Charles S., December 8, 1875; Edgar P., January 9, 1878; and Katie C, born February 14, 1880. Bessie T. and Mary E. died in infancy, and Jennie S. died March 8, 1883, aged fifteen years.

The captain started life a poor boy, sailing the first few years with his father, to whom he gave his services. At his majority he began for himself, still assisting his father in his needs: and with the aid of friends in Boston, was enabled to sail the first vessel, the Frank Herbert, in which he was part owner. For the command of this schooner he declined the captaincy of the ship Nor zvaj, owned by Sears Brothers, of Boston, they being part owners in the Frank Herbert. His energy, ambition and economy soon placed him in the front rank of masters and ship owners.

His social and business relations are preferred to political honors. With characteristic liberality, he assists in the enterprises of his village, is a director in the shoe factory, a warm supporter of the Methodist church, and of every good work for the welfare of the community. The firm principles that kept him from the use of intoxicating beverages and tobacco, while on shipboard and ever since, have assisted to a life of success in every phase. In the meridian of his life, he now enjoys the pleasures of his home at West Dennis, within sight of that element upon which he so long lived, and for which he has such fondness.

Prince Sears Crowell. - History says that Mrs. John Crow came to this continent in 1634, and John Crow in 1636. They were in Charlestown, Mass., in 1638, and settled in old Yarmouth in 1639. Among the spellings for this family name, Crowell has prevailed for many generations. The male lineage of the subject of this sketch is: John, John, John, Christopher, Christopher, David and Prince S. Crowell. His father David, married Persis, a descendant of Richard Sears, and of their five children the younger three - Evelina, Persis S. and a son - died in early childhood; Betsey H.. the second, attained womanhood and married Christopher Hall. Prince S., the oldest, born November 13, 1813, at East Dennis, went to sea at the age of eighteen and remained in the coasting and packet business with an occasional foreign voyage until he was thirty-three, when, in 1846, he commenced business on shore. He purchased shares in the vessels built by the Shivericks and others, fitting them out in the coasting and foreign trade, then gradually selling them out during the war of the rebellion. In 1856 he went west, and with others invested largely in railroads then building.

He married, July 26, 1835, Polly D., daughter of Nathan Foster, who was a son of John, of Brewster. From this marriage the children named in the succeeding seven paragraphs have descended:

Prince F., born May 11, 1839, married Mary F., daughter of Marshal S. Underwood, of South Dennis, on the first of January, 1863.' Prince F., living in Omaha, Neb., was a lumber merchant at Wisner, where he died, November 8, 1874. He left, besides his widow, two children living; one, Henry J., dying in childhood: Prince M., born October 25, 1863. and Nellie L. Crowell, M. D., born November 14, 1866.

Christopher C, born May 19, 1844, married Polly D. Foster, went West in 1869, and resides in Blair, Neb., where he is in the grain and lumber business. Of their eight children, six are living.

Azariah F., born June 21, 1846, has been twice married and resides in Boston, spending a portion of his time in Falmouth, where he was formerly the chemist of the Pacific Guano works.

Edwin D., the youngest son, was bom January 8, 1851. On the 20th of January, 1876, he married Louisa M., born July 12, 1862, the adopted daughter of Captain Joshua and Minerva Sears. Their children are: Minerva E., bom May 6, 1877; Louisa A., bom September 14, 1878; Gertrude, Januarj' 10. 1882; and Edwin D. Crowell, jr., bom July 25, 1886.

During the lifetime of Prince S. Crowell, after retiring from the sea and its business, he was actively engaged in many pursuits. He started, with others, the first salt mill at Boston; was the agent and largely interested in building up and managing the Pacific Guano works, at Woods Holl, and at Charleston. S. C; was the president of and prime mover in the company for building the Woods Holl railroad; and president of the Cape Cod National and Cape Cod Savings banks. He was an ardent republican in every sense of the term, but declined political trusts. He preferred his social and business relations, and in these was conspicuous. He largely assisted in establishing the Lecture Association of East Dennis. In his views and with his means he was proverbially liberal, leaving to his name never decaying monuments.

A contemporary, himself conspicuous in affairs of state, says: " Prince S. Crowell must be ranked among the ablest business men of the county. He was at the time of his death the wealthiest man in Dennis, as he was one of the most liberal. He had a hand open to every call of charity, and always responded to any move toward public improvement. Dennis had no nobler son. His aid was always given to the anti-slavery cause and was not withheld from the church."

Willard Crowell, born in 1820, is a son of Allen E., and grandson of Lott Crowell. His mother was Olive, daughter of Francis Baker. Mr. Crowell went to sea for fifty-seven years, the last forty as captain, and retired in 1887. He is a member of the Boston Marine Society. He married in 1842, Marian, daughter of Simeon Crowell. She died in 1866, leaving eight children, of whom three survive : Erastus, Lavina and Olive. He was again married in 1868, to Anna M. Lewis, who died in 1888.

Captain William CROWELi^The sixth generation of Crowells, from John Crow of 1639, is well represented in Dennis to-day by Captain William Crowell* (Aaron*, Aaron*, Aaron', John', John'), who was t)orn where he now resides, on the seventh of November, 1814. He is the third of the five survivors of the twelve children of Aaron and Polly (Howes) Crowell, she being the daughter of Noah, in direct line from Thomas Howes, one of the grantees of Old Yarmouth. The other four of the survivors are : Aaron, Huldah, Edwin, and Mary Howes Crowell. Aaron Crowell married Fear, daughter of Jesse and Eunice (Howes) Hall, and their five children are : Daniel S.,of Dennis; Aaron L., of New York, who married Ida Wisewell ; Eunice H., who married Jacob S. Howes, a lighthouse keeper, who died, and she kept the light at Sandy Neck two years ; Cynthia H., who married John M. Stone, of Dennis ; and Mary H., who married Charles E. Howes, of Dennis, now deceased Huldah Crowell married Samuel Paddock, and they have one daughter, Hannah H. Paddock. Edwin Crowell married Rhoda, daughter of Kimball Howes, for his first, and Sarah, -daughter of Edward Baker, of South Dennis, for his second wife. Mary H. Crowell, in 1849, married Samuel Crowell, a sea captain, who, during the twenty years preceding his death, in 1870, was a commission merchant in New York city. Of their two children, Samuel Cro- M. D., of Boston, survives.

Captain William Crowell, whose portrait accompanies this article, received as a lad the education given by the common schools, and at eleven years of age he went to sea, where, steadily rising in his profession, he became master in 1841. He has cause to remember that year, not only from the loss of his brothers. Captain Noah H. and Urbana, in the bark Bride, off Race Point, October 3, 1841, but he expected the same fate for his crew and vessel, which he managed to run into Provincetown harbor. He left the sea in 1849, and for eight years was fish inspector in Dennis, where he was in business with Joshua C. Howes and Jeremiah Hall. He then went to New York, -where he engaged in the ship chandler and grocery business with Howes Baker, as Baker & Crowell, which business he followed seventeen years, and returned to Dennis, where he has spent the summers ior the last eighteen years, returning to the city winters. In 1856 Baker & Crowell commenced receiving cranberries from the Cape on commission, being the only cranberry dealers in that city for many years. Captain Crowell has continued to deal in this fruit since the dissolution of the firm, shipping from the Cape in the autumn of 1889 forty-seven carloads.

He was married January 19, 1845, to Sarah Howes, daughter of Zoeth and Sally Howes. She died December 19, 1846, fifteen days after giving birth to a son, who survived but a short time. He mar- ried June 28, 1869, Cynthia H., daughter of Freeman Hall, and they have one son, William Crowell, jr. born July 27, 1870, residing -with them.

Captain Crowell is a worthy member of the United Religious Society of his village, and gives it hearty support. He has always declined civil trusts, although an earnest republican and possessing the confidence of his party. His has been a life of varied and, at times, dangerous activity, and he still continues the active management of an extensive business. His social qualities and upright dealings have made him conspicuous wherever he is known, and his industry and economy, guided by his good judgment, have been crowned with a fair degree of success.

Jonathan P. Edwards, bom in 1864, is a son of Nehemiah, grandson of Isaiah, and great-grandson of Asa Edwards. His mother was Mary C. Phillips. Mr. Edwards followed the sea until 1882, and then was a traveling salesman until 1885. In January of that year the Dennis Port Fishing Company was organized, and since that time he has been agent for the company. He was married in 1876 to Emma W. Baker. They have six children: Emma B., Albert J., Hattie N.. and Lottie G. (twins), Jonathan P., jr. and Edna C.

Henry H. Fisk, youngest son of Nathan and Polly (Baker) Fisk,. was born in 1843. He followed the sea for about twenty-two years prior to 1882, and was master of a vessel for the last fifteen years. He was selectman from 1882 to 1886, as a republican. He has been master of the Mount Horeb Lodge, A. F. & A. M., for two years. He was married in 1866 to Cynthia J. Baker, and has four children living: Jennie M., Sadie A., H. Frank and Herbert A. They lost one son, Luther.

Luther Fisk was born in Dennis, Mass., in 1831. He has at diflferent times been elected to the oflBce of selectman, and also to other local ofi5ces. In 1875, and again in 1876, he was elected member of the state legislature. He was elected sheriff in 1883, taking office January 1, 1884, and was reelected in 1886.

Captain Uriah B. Fisk, the eldest of four surviving sous of Nathan and Polly (Baker) Fisk, was bom June 22, 1827. At the age of eleven he went to sea, serving as cook, then before the mast, then as mate until he was twenty-two, when he was in command. He followed coasting, with an occasional foreign voyage, and was master of ten different sailing vessels between the time of majority and the close of the rebellion in 1865. He always owned an interest in each vessel. That dangers should befall him in a term of thirty-five years on the sea would be expected, but the most serious accident occurred off Montauk in a December night of 1857, when a Philadelphia steamer struck his schooner, bows on, sinking her in a very iew minutes. Captain Selick Matthews was in command of the steamer and rendered all the assistance possible. Captain Fisk, who was below when his vessel was struck, rushed on deck and saw at a glance the state of affairs. Seizing a rope to swing off with, he was allowed to settle between the two vessels just as they veered alongside of each other and was caught between them, crushing him terribly, the effects of which he still feels. When loosed from the perilous position he fell into the sea and drifted fifteen or twenty fathoms astern. He clung to the rope and was hauled aboard the steamer by his brother, Luther, who had escaped to its deck before him.

Since his residence on land he, with his brothers, has builttwelve sailing vessels in various localities, and in 1889 he was constructing a four-master of fifteen hundred tons. These brothers have owned as many as twenty vessels at a time, one-half of which they manned and sailed. The first three-masted schooner constructed at Bath, Me., was for Uriah B. Fisk.

He was married in 1858, to Margaret A., daughter of Nehemiah Baker, and has one daughter, Maggie B. Captain Fisk prefers the channels of business and the domestic peace of his own fireside to the paths leading to political ofl&ce, and in the membership of Mount Horeb Lodge of Masons, in that of the Methodist church, and in his own home circle the evening of life is being pleasantly passed. His home at West Dennis, shown in the accompanying plate was purchased in 1859, and by his taste at various times has assumed its present beautiful appearance.

Lucius M. Gage, son of Zeno and Sarah (Farris) Gage, and grandson of Freeman Gage, was born in 1850. Since June, 1888, Mr. Gage has kept the Gage House and stables, near West Dennis. He has been married three times: first in 1872, to Anna M. Hilton; second in 1877, to Ida F. Robbins, who died in March, 1885; and third, in November, 1885, to Mrs. Cordelia A. E. Bearse, daughter of Samuel D. Clifford, of Chatham. Mrs. Gage has two children by a former marriage: Lilian A. and Winfield M. Mr. Gage is one of seven children, four of whom are living.

Sylvanus L. Gage, bom in 1860, is the only child of Sylvanus, grandson of Sylvanus, and great-grandson of Prince Gage. His mother was Mary A. Howes. Mr. Gage was engaged in the meat business in Brockton, from 1879 to 1887, when he came to West Dennis, where he has since carried on the same business. He was married in 1883, to Sarah B. Snow. They have one son, Lloyd L.

Puella F. Gage, is a daughter of Captain Ellis Norris, bom in 1822, in Hyannis. He was a son of Thomas and grandson of Ellis Norris. Mr. Norris has been captain of vessels since he was twenty-three years old. He was married in 1846, to Margaret G., daughter of Alfred Swift,

M. D. She died in 1884, leaving four children: Puella Francis, Alfred S., Elizabeth J. G. and Margaret B. Puella Francis was married May 31, 1868, to Freeman Gage, son of Zeno, and grandson of Freeman Gage. Mr. Gage was a sea captain from twenty-three years of age until his death, which occurred March 22, 1886, aged forty-seven years.

William Garfield was born in 1830, in Ohio. He is a son of Joseph R., and he a son of Benjamin Garfield, and a near relative of the late James A. Garfield. Mr. Garfield came from Ohio to Dennis, in November, 1844, and has been a sailor since that time. Since 1853 he has had charge of coasting and foreign vessels. He was married in 1849. to Mary J., daughter of Elkanah H. Baker. They have eight children: Lydia L., Eliza A., William W., Jerusha B., John D., Ada B., Roger N. and Millie.

Charles Hall was a son of Christopher Hall. He died in May, 1886, in Oregon. He had been in business in the West for twenty years. He was married in 1865, to Lydia H., daughter of James S. Howes. They have two children: Blanche E. and Susie H. One son died - Joshua Brenard. Mrs. Hall has built a residence at East Dennis, where she now resides.

Cyrus Hall, born in 1833, is a son of Hiram and grandson of Henry Hall, who was a revolutionary soldier. Mr. Hall is a house carpenter by trade. He was in the war of the rebellion from July, 1862, to June, 1863, in Company A, Fortieth Massachusetts Volunteers. He also had two brothers in the service. He has been married three times. His first wife was Lovica A. Taylor. By his second wife, Rebecca S. Rogers, he had four children, two of whom are living: Wilfred A. and Hiram H. He was married in 1869 to his present wife, Mary O. Marsh.

Edward F. Hall, son of Edward and Paulina (Howes) Hall, and grandson of Edward Hall, was born in 1842, and followed the sea from 1859 to 1868. He is a tinsmith by trade, and now keeps a hardware store at Dennis. He was married in 1866, to Martha A. Lamar. They have two children : Charles E. and Freeman B. Mr. Hall is a member of James Otis Lodge of Masons, at Barnstable.

Isaiah B. Hall', the eldest son of Hiram' (Henry', Edmund', Joseph', Joseph', John', John Hall',), was born in 1828, and is a contractor and builder. He was selectman in Dennis for eleven years. He was married in 1855, to Susan G. Hedge. They have three daughters: Chloe C, Susan E. and Emma G.

Luther Hall, born in 1842, is a son of Thomas, who was the oldest son of Jesse, and grandson of Josiah Hall. His mother was Hepsa, daughter of Barnabas Hall. Mr. Hall was in a store at Dennis twenty -five years, and was postmaster ten years of the time. Since selling the store, in 1885, he has been a cranberry grower and cran- berry commission merchant. He is now agent for the Nobscusset House. He has been a member of the school board twenty years. He was in the war of the rebellion, in Company E, Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, nine months ; then re-enlisted, in the same regiment, for one hundred days. He was afterward commissioned a captain of militia by Governor Andrew. He was married in 1869, to Minerva, daughter of Howes Chapman. They have three children : Frank B., Nernie A. and Howard L. They lost one child.

Joshua Harding, son of Thomas, and grandson of Sylvenus Harding, was born in 1825, in Chatham. His mother was Betsey, daughter of Matthias Taylor. Mr. Harding followed the sea from 1834 to 1881, the last twenty years as master of a steamer. He was married in 1847, to Lois B. Crowell, who died in 1879. He was married in 1885, to Mrs. Susan F. B. Whelden, daughter of Elphenus Baker. Mr. Harding has been a resident of Providence, R. I., since he was nineteen years of age.

Milton P. Hedge, born in 1825, is a son of John and grandson of Daniel Hedge. His mother was Nabbie, daughter of Joshua Sears. Mr. Hedge began going to sea in 1838, continuing until 1878, and was captain at the age of twenty-one. He is a member of the Boston Marine Society. He was married in 1848, to Elizabeth L. Sears. They have three children : John M., Joseph and George 8.

James B. Hopkins, son of Isaac and Polly (Jarvis) Hopkins, was born in 1836, in Orleans. He went to sea at twelve years of age, and continued until 1872. He was acting master's mate in the naval service from 1863 to 1865, in the war of the rebellion. From 1872 to 1883, he was on the railroad in the postal service. He was married in 1867, to Georgianna, daughter of Doane Kelley. Mr. Hopkins is secretary of the Mount Horeb Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and junior vice^ commander of Frank D. Hammond Post, No. 141, G. A. R.

Carlton Howes, son of Moses Howes, was born in 1812, and died 1871. He was a master mariner from 1836 to 1860. He was married in 1836, to Eunice C, daughter of Eben Paddock. They had two children, both of whom are deceased.

David P. Howes, born in 1815, is a son of William, grandson of Levi and great-grandson of David Howes. His mother was Lydia, daughter of Joseph Howes. Mr. Howes went to sea about twentyfive years, and has since been a farmer. He was married in 1836, to Temperance L., daughter of Eben Lothrop. They have three children: George P., Eben L. and Deborah B. (Mrs. C. W. Hall). Mr. Howes owns the homestead where his father and grandfather both lived. George P. Howes, son of David P. Howes, was born in 1840. He followed the sea for seventeen years. Since 1871, he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was married in 1873, to Carrie A..

Daniel Willis Howes, bom in 1835, is descended from Daniel', Reuben', Daniel', Thomas*, Ebenezer', Jeremiah", Thomas Howes'. He went to sea until 1873, as master of steamships, and has since been special agent for the underwriters. He was married in 1862, to Abbie J., daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Howes) Nye, of Sandwich. Their children are: William N., Mona J., Willis N. and Joseph N.

Ezra Howes, was born in 1813, and died in 1872. He was a son of Zachariah Howes. He married Lydia A. Clark. Seven of their eight children are living: Ezra Thacher, Willis N., Lydia H., Herbert A., Charles F., Bessie E. and Fanny M.; one daughter having died. The residence built in 1805, by Zachariah Howes, was rebuilt in 1838, by Ezra T. Howes and his business associate, Edward H. Cole, and very appropriately named Bleak House (as it stands on an eminence with Scargo lake on the south, and Cape Cod bay on the north). Here these two gentlemen with their families spend the summer months. Mr. Cole is a native of Orleans, being the only survivor of Nathan and Caroline (Kendrick) Cole, and a grandson of Joel Cole.

James F. Howes', born in 1847, is descended from James S.', Lothrop', Sturges', Samuel*, Ebenezer', Jeremiah", Thomas Howes'. His mother was Lydia, daughter of William Howes. Mr. Howes is engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was married in 1870, to Sarah E., daughter of Nathan Stone, whose father, Nathan Stone, for many years held t^e office of town clerk, and was the first postmaster at Dennis. His father, Rev. Nathan Stone, was for forty years minister of the church of the East precinct of Yarmouth, now Dennis. He graduated from Harvard College in 1762, and died in 1804. The father of this eminent divine was Rev. Nathan Stone, of Southborough. Mr. and Mrs. Howes have four children: Susie B., Jessie S., Freeman and Lydia.

James P. Howes', bom in 1826, is descended from Eli', Stephen*, Amos', Joseph", Thomas Howes', who came from England to America in 1637. His wife was Mary. Mr. Howes is a farmer, and owns a part of the farm which has been in the Howes family for about two hundred years. He was married in 1852, to Margaret Jones. They have one daughter, Sarah, married to F. J. Prouty, and they lost one daughter..

Joshua C. Howes. - This esteemed citizen of Dennis was bora November 12, 1816, and is the only surviving child of Elkanah Howes and Lucy Crowell. The direct lineage of the subject of this paper can be traced back along the generations of the past to Thomas, the primogenitor of this name on the Cape. Beginning with Joshua C, it is then Elkanah, born 1778; Elkanah, born in 1761, and married Desire Eldridge; Stephen, who married Thankful Hall in 1739; Amos, who married Susanna Hedge in 1701; Joseph, who married Elizabeth Mayo; and Thomas, the pioneer of 1639.

Joshua C. Howes, like his neighbors' children, went to sea at ten years of age, which vocation he continued twenty years, the last ten as a master. He soon after embarked in a mercantile life that was continued twenty -five years, a history of which is given in another connection. In 1870 he was chosen director of the Yarmouth National Bank, in 1876 its vice-president, and in 1879 its president, which position he now holds. He represented his district in the legislature during the years 1865 and 1856, and held the appointment of deputy assessor in 1862, and continued as assessor and collector of internal revenue for the district until 1876.

He married Priscilla, daughter of Abner and Hannah (Sears) Howes, on the 11th of January, 1844, she being a descendant from the same Thomas Howes along another line, also the seventh in direct descent from the Pilgrim, Richard Sears. The fruit of this marriage has been four children: Flora, who survives; and Priscilla, Wallace and Florence, deceased.

Captain Moses Howes was born September 18, 1817, and when at the tender age of ten years he went forth to fight life's battle singlehanded, he could hardly have anticipated the measure of success which he subsequently achieved by his persistent, well directed industry. Bom of poor parents he early felt the importance of earnest efifort on his part if he would succeed. His father, Moses, a son of Joseph Howes, a desce^idant of Thomas Howes, married Priscilla Sears. After one summer as cook on board a mackerel smack, with Captain Christopher Howes, the subject of this sketch, although young, resolved to take a better position, and so shipped before the mast on a foreign voyage from Boston. This his father opposed, but his answer was " I'll be master of a ship some day and a good one too - no smack." He was not content with a life of fishing and coasting as his father had long been, and his ideal in the shipmaster's profession was rapidly realized. From sailor to mate, and then master, and while yet young to the command of a fine clipper ship, were steps to which his determination led him, and he never, during his long career, lost a ship or was compelled to make a port he was not bound for. The year he was married he went as captain for Thomas B. Wales & Co., of Boston. He was at home one winter, after some years of active duty, when he was offered a clipper ship in the California trade. On this voyage a strife arose between his ship and one commanded by Captain Frederick Howes, of Yarmouth, as to which should arrive first. On the voyage, Boston to San Francisco, they arrived at the latter port within five hours of each other. The last voyage he made was as master of the Belvidere, in the California, China and India trade, thence home, in 1870, by the Cape of Good Hope.

On the 28th of September, 1841, he married Jerusha S., daughter of Ezra and Jerusha (Sturgis) Hall. Ezra was a son of Isaiah and grandson of Edmund Hall. Mrs. Howes, who was born September 12, 1818, accompanied the captain five years on his voyages, including a trip around the world, taking pride in his superior seamanship, and she still retains as memorials the books of the voyages so well kept in his beautiful, bold chirography. In 1854, while he was absent, Mrs.- Howes superintended the erection of their fine residence at Dennis, of which a view appears. Here, on the 29th of January, 1887, Captain Howes closed his earthly career, leaving her to complete the voyage of life alone.

Thomas Howes, son of Thomas, grandson of David, and greatgrandson of Thomas Howes, was born in 1829. His mother was Hul- ^ah, daughter of Seth and Ann Allen. Mr. Howes has been a member of the school committee twenty-four years, justice of the peace sixteen years, commissioner to qualify civil officers nine years, is a trustee of the Bass River Savings Bank, and a director in Barnstable Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was married in 1862, to Esther D., daughter of Shubael Nickerson, jr. They have one daughter, Phebe D. Mr. Howes has been deacon of West Harwich Baptist Church for nine .years.

Captain Thomas Prince Howes is the seventh in the line of descent from Thomas Howes, one of the grantees of Old Yarmouth, in the following order: Thomas'; Jeremiah', his youngest son, who married Sarah, daughter of Governor Thomas Prince; Prince'; Lot'; Jeremiah', a lieutenant in the revolution, afterward justice of the peace; Prince'; Thomas Prince'. He was bom in the year 1817. At the age of thirteen years he commenced his vocation by going upon summer voyages. After that age he had no summer schooling, and none in winter after he was eighteen years old. He was master on voyages to the West Indies in 1841 and 1842, and to Europe until in 1850, when he commenced upon longer voyages - and in years succeeding he made many long voyages in the California and East India trade, retiring from life at sea in 1871.

After his retirement, his services were sought by his fellow-citizens in the civil aflfairs of the town. He was chosen a member of the school oommittee of Dennis for nine successive years, in six of which he occupied the position of superintendent of schools - the third incumbent of that office in the town. His labors to advance the educational standard of the schools bore good fruit, and marked improvement resulted from his efforts. He was elected a representative from the

Third Barnstable district - comprising the towns of Yarmouth and Dennis - for the years 1878 and 1879, and took an active and intelligent part in the debates and committee work of that. body. Since 1881 he has filled the position of pilot commissioner for the port of Boston, receiving several reappointments. He is a working member of the Boston Marine Society, and is in frequent request in its business deliberations, and upon all its social and festive occasions.

Captain Howes has repaired the deficiencies of his early education by reading, study and observation. There are very few men engaged in business pursuits who have a better knowledge and higher appreciation than he of the best literature of the age; and he has traveled with open eyes, receptive mind, and habits of investigation in whatever portion of the world his voyages have carried him.

Captain Howes married Deborah Bassett, of Ashfield, Mass., who died in 1860. He has two sons: Thomas B., a master mariner in the East India trade, and William C, engaged in business in Florida; and a daughter, Martha P., wife of Richard R. Hefler, of Dennis.

Captain Howes retains his homestead, near the site of the house of the original Thomas Howes, and upon soil that has never been alienated from the Howes family since it was granted to the first of the name by the colony court, in 1639. His place as a literary man is farther noticed by Hon. C. F. Swift, at page 256 of this work, where his portrait appears.

Captain William F. Howes was bom October 8, 1813. He was the descendant in the fourth generation of David Howes, who about 1728 removed from Nobscusset, now North Dennis, to Sesuet Neck - in the common vernacular " Suet neck." This ancestor David, was a son of Lieutenant Jonathan Howes, whose father was Captain Thomas Howes, who several times led the Yarmouth contingent in the Narrag^n?ett war. His father Thomas Howes, sr., was one of the original grantees of Yarmouth.

The subject of this sketch was one of five sons of William Howes, who spent his later years cultivating the hereditary acres. These five sons all, sooner or later, took to the sea. William F. remained longer on shore, working on the farm and attending school, than most boys. In fact he was eighteen' before he left home. Once commenced, he followed his calling closely. His home was literally on the deep for the greater part of his sea life. He was an active and eflBcient seaman and officer, and after numerous voyages, and passing through all the grades of seamanship, took command of a vessel in 1840. From that time on to his retirement in 1862 he was almost constantly at sea on distant voyages to most of the seaports of the world. It is worthy of notice that in eighteen years of his service he only changed ships once - sailing nine years each in two ships.

On retiring from the sea with somewhat enfeebled health, he devoted his time mainly to his private affairs, but he was interested in all matters that concerned the public good. He was an earnest promoter of the East Dennis library, and all measures for social improvement. He was a person of somewhat reserved manners and taciturnity of speech, but his heart was sincere and kind, and his hand open when his judgment approved. He had a high character as shipmaster and as a man of business, and his firmness, perseverence, honesty and integrity were worthy of his sturdy ancestry.

Captain Howes was married December 31, 1838, to Captain Parker Miller's daughter, Betsey H., who died June 17, 1859. On the second of August, 1860, he married Margarette J., daughter of Stephen Homer. Mr. Homer, born in 1796, received a christian name which was born by his paternal ancestors for several generations. He was in his day a leading local man, a justice of the peace, school commissioner, master mariner, and for years an active salt maker at Quivet neck, where he lived and died in the house where his daughter, Mrs. Howes, was bom.

Of Captain Howes' seven children, two died in infancy; William F., jr., born in 1844, was second mate in a merchant ship, and died in Calcutta, May 30, 1865; Benjamin P., born in 1849, was first mate on a merchant ship, and died in the West Indies, in 1876, and was buried at sea; his twin sister, Hannah, died in 1872; Stephen M.,born December 31, 1852, went into the stove business in 1872, at Rockland, Mass., and seven years later, at Boston in a wholesale stove business. His children are William F., Frank M. and Evelyn Howes. The only other surviving child of Captain Howes is his daughter. Bertha, born April 12, 1862, who with her widowed mother, resides at the homestead at East Dennis, where he died November 4, 1878.

Captain Levi Howes, the eldest of the four brothers of Captain William F. Howes, above mentioned, was born February 20, 1812, and died May 11, 1874. He was the oldest of the five sons, all of whom retired safely after a seafaring life. At the age of twelve he went to sea, first serving as cook on a packet between East Dennis and Boston, and within ten years he was himself a master mariner. His career at sea was somewhat eventful. At the age of twenty-eight he commanded the ship Harold, of Boston, on a voyage from Calcutta, when the vessel was burned, barely allowing the escape of the crew to the boats. After several successful years in foreign merchantmen, he was interested with Christopher Hall and Prince S. Crowell in ships built at East Dennis, where, in 1845, he erected the residence now the summer home of his widow. The financial crisis of 1857 having effectually impeded this business, he again went to sea for a few years, retiring in 1865, having several times circumnavigated the globe.

Captain Howes was a well-known shipmaster, standing high in his profession as a practical mariner, while as a business man he was highly respected in commercial circles. His first wife, Myra, daughter of Isaiah and Thankful Howes, died in 1860, leaving a son - Levi A. Howes, now of Woods Holl. The captain was again married, December 28, 1852, to Eliza J. Davis, of Chatham, daughter of Samuel Davis, whose father was also Samuel. Her mother was Jane King, daughter of Roger King, of Brewster. The three children by the second marriage, are: Austin P., who married Mollie Cook, and is a lumber and grain dealer at Blair, Neb.; Myra E., who married Nathan C. Sears, and resides at Wisner, Neb., and Helen L., who married Zebina K. Doane, and resides at Blair, Neb.

Captain Howes in his lifetime was deeply interested in the advancement of the schools of his town, to which he gave several years of his personal attention. He was characterized by his strong will, industry and conservative business habits, which assured his success in all undertakings on land and sea. His ability made him conspicuous for the oflBcial positions within the gift of his townsmen, but he declined all such honors, save the few years he was superintendent of their schools. The social relations of life and the scattering of blessings in the paths of others pleased him best.

Thomas S. Howes, 2d,'' born in 1852, is descended from John', John*, Edmund', Amos', Amos', Joseph', Thomas Howes'. His mother was Sabra Sears. Mr. Howes is a cranberry grower. He was married in 1886, to Annette, daughter of Freeman G. Hall. They have two daughters: Annette S. and Elsie G.

Ebenezer B. Joy, eldest son of Ebenezer B. and Rhoda Joy, and grandson of John Joy, was born in 1833. Mr. Joy is a seafaring man. He was married in 1856, to Melissa D., daughter of Enos Rogers, of Harwich. Their children are: Allen B., Lulie E., E. Lincoln (died February, 19, 1890, aged Iwenty-two years,) Enos Rogers and Winifred Mary. Mr. Joy has been secretary and treasurer of the West Harwich Baptist Society for thirteen years.

Charles G. Kelley was born in 1823, in North Harwich, and died October 31, 1889. He was a son of Isaac, grandson of Anthony, and great-grandson of Ebenezer Kelley. His mother was Hannah, daughter of Theophilus Burgess. Mr. Kelley first went to sea at the age of twelve, and at twenty-two took charge of a vessel. He was a member of Mount Horeb Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He was married in 1845, to Chloe, daughter of Peter Coleman. They have had two children: Charles H. and Flora B. The latter is deceased.

Elihu Kelley was born in 1817. He is a son of Elihu and grandson of Elihu, whose father was Eleazar Kelley, who was a large land owner in the southwestern part of the town of Dennis. His mother was Betsey, daughter of Jabez Howes. Mr. Kelley was a seafaring man from the age of thirteen until 1882, and was master of vessels forty years. He was married in 1840, to Anna C, daughter of Gideon Crowell. They have four children: Gideon C, Ruth A. (Mrs. I. N. Baker), Faustina H. (Mrs. R. P. Kelley) and Ada A. (Mrs. George A. Nickerson).

Fernandes G. Kelley, son of Isaiah and grandson of Patrick Kelley, was born in 1821. His mother was Sally, daughter of James Downs. Mr. Kelley began going to sea at fifteen years of age and from 1843 to 1887 was captain. He was married in 1843, to Susan, daughter of David Howes. They have four daughters: Ellen, Susan H., Adelia C. and Lura M. Mr. Kelley is a member of the West Harwich Baptist church.

Howard Kelley, son of Ahirah, and grandson of Amos Kelley, was born. in 1850 and is a seafaring man. He has been master of a schooner since 1884. He was married in 1876, to Amelia L., daughter of Richard Nickerson. They have three children: Celia D., Obed B. and Irving W.

James Kelley, the only surviving child of Samuel E . and Eliza (Covil) Kelley, grandson of Ebenezer, and great-grandson of Oliver Kelley, was born in 1837. At the age of twelve he began going to sea and since 1860 has been master of coasting and foreign vessels, and is now a member of the Boston Marine Society. His first wife, Mary H. Kelley, died, leaving one son, Edwin T. The present Mrs. James Kelley, is Mary L., daughter of Sears Howes. They have three daughters: Lizzie M., Sarah T. and Mary H.

Jonathan E. Kelley, son of Jonathan, grandson of Nehemiah, and great-grandson of Joseph Kelley, was born in 1849. His mother was Tabitha Hawes. Mr. Kelley has followed the sea since he was twelve years old, as master since 1877, and is a member of the Boston Marine Society. He was married in 1872, to Eliza, daughter of Sylvester Baker. They have two children: Thacher T. and Almena.

Joseph B. Kelley, born in 1819, is the only surviving child of Asa and grandson of Jeremiah Kelley. His mother was Hannah, daughter of Joseph Kelley. Mr. Kelley began going to sea at the age of nine years, and from twenty-two years of age until 1878, went as captain. He was married in 1840, to Abigail Howes. They have six children: Leander, Esther H., Abbie, Joseph H., Isaac R. and Albert C. Mr. Kelley is a member of the West Harwich Baptist church.

Nathan Kelley, born in 1815, is a son of Bangs and grandson of David Kelley. His mother was Priscilla Small. Beginning at nine years of age, Mr. Kelley followed the sea until 1882, and was master thirty-five years. He was married in 1837, to Mebitabel Gage. They have two children living: Nathan B. and Phebe - and have lost two.

Otis E. Kelley, born in 1855, is the youngest son of John and Eliza Ann (Kelley) Hawes. Mr. Kelley 's father died when he was a small boy and he was adopted by his mother's brother, Ebenezer Kelley, son of David Kelley, and his name was changed from Hawes to Kelley. He was married in 1879, to Lydia, daughter of Sears Howes. They have two children: Otis E., jr. and Athelia L.

Royal P. Kelley, born in 1848 in Harwich, is a twin son of Nehemiah D., jr., and Mary (Doane) Kelley, and a descendant of Jeremiah Kelley, who was the first one of the name that settled on the Cape. Mr. Kelley has been engaged in the meat business at Dennis Port since 1875. Prior to that he was a sailmaker with his father. He was married in 1873, to Faustina H., daughter of Elihu Kelley. They have two children: Sarah H. and Inez M. Mr. Kelley is a member of the West Harwich Baptist church.

Stillman Kelley. - This venerable gentleman, now a resident of East Dennis, is a descendant in the third generation from Patrick Kelley, who had a son of the same name, both residents of Harwich in the last century. Oliver, the next in the male line of this branch of the family, was born December 31, 1795, and married Priscilla Chase, born November 28, 1796. Of their seven children four survive: Stillman, the subject of this sketch; Lorenzo, Priscilla and Mary A. Of these, Lorenzo, born January 9, 1820, married Fanny Small, of Brewster, and resides at Harwich; Priscilla, born December 15, 1822, married Zebina S. Doane, a ship broker in Boston; and Mary A., born February 17, 1834, married Anthony Megathlin, a mariner of Harwich.

Stillman Kelley was born February 16, 1816, went to sea at twelve years of age, coasting and fishing until 1840, and subsequently for nine years was captain of a packet from East Dennis to Boston. In 1849 he engaged in a fishing and mercantile business, as given in the East Dennis history. On December 22, 1836, he married Olive Howes Sears, daughter of Heman and Abigail Sears. She spent, years in originating and perfecting the Sears family tree. She was born December 29, 1818, and at her death, February 1, 1879, left ten children: Heman Sears, born October 26, 1837; Olive Frances, July 18, 1840; Abbie Sears, September 18, 1842; Hannah Salisbury, February 13, 1844; Ellen Maria, January 27, 1846; Fannie Lavinia, April 19, 1848; Stillman Francis, February 28, 1851; Zebina Doane, November 17, 1852; Elsie Mary, March 17, 1857; and Carrie Walton, born April 29, 1860.