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engineer of Lynn, was born in the V>? ^ South Parish of Dedham, now Norwood, Mass., April 28, 1848, son of Ebenezer Fisher and Sarah A. (Webster) Gay. His father and five generations of paternal ancestry were natives of Dedham ; and his mother was born in Georgetown, Mass. Ebenezer F. Gay was a grocery merchant and Postmaster in South Dedham for a number of years, and during the last twelve years of his life he carried on a leather and shoe finding business in Boston. He was prominently identified with public and religious affairs and with the temperance cause in his native town, where he died in 1871, aged fifty-one years. A memorial window bearing his name was placed in the First Universalist Church of Lynn by the late Samuel M. Bubier.

Charles Webster Gay completed his school education in the Dedham High School at the age of eighteen years. Entering the office of John B. Henck, professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he remained with him for a year and a half. He then continued his studies under Colonel H. W. Wilson, of Boston, until 1872, during which year he was in charge of engineering work under the Board of Public Works in the District of Columbia. At the same time he conducted an office in Lynn, where he has since practised his profession. In 1 888 he was elected City Engineer, and has held that office for eight years - planning and supervising the construction of notable public improvements, which have involved the expenditure of more than half a million dollars of public funds. Pie is a member of the American and Boston Societies of Civil lingineers.

On January 27, 1873, Mr. Gay was joined in marriage at Andover, Mass., with Rosamond Abbott McLaughlin, a native of Georgetown. He has one daughter, Florence W. Mr. Gay has been quite active in public affairs, and was a member of the Common Council in 1884. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and is connected by membershiji with Golden P^leece Lodge, of which he is secretary ; Sutton Chapter, R. A. M. ; Olivet Commandery, K. T. ; Salem Council, R. & S. M. ; and Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston. He is also a member of the O.xford and Park Clubs.

IT B. BROWN, cashier of the 'owwow National Bank, Amesbury, IS born in this town in 1849, son of Bailey C. and Frances (Cogswell) Brown. His paternal ancestry were people of high standing, and his mother's family is a notable one in Essex County. Bailey C. Brown learned the tailor's trade in Georgetown, from which place he moved to Manchestcr-by-the- Sea, afterward locating in Amesbury. He was active in political affairs, represented this town in the legislature in the early si.xties, and for many years held the appointment of Deputy Internal Revenue Collector at Newi

William 1'. Colby

Albert B. Brown has been connected with the Powwow River National Bank since he was sixteen years old. First appointed as clerk, he served in that capacity until he was elected cashier in 1877. He is also a director of the Powwow River Water Company and a trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings in the towns of Salisbury and Amesbury. He is capable and trustworthy, and has an excellent reputation in business circles. Mr. Brown married Hattie N. Godsoe, of Amesbury.

ILLIAM P. COLBY, a retired litterateur, who is now residing in Merrimac, was born in West Amesbury on October 23, 1821. A son of Joshua Colby, he is a descendant in the eighth generation of Anthony Colby, who accompanied Governor Winthrop to Salisbury in 1638. The line of descent is traced directly from Anthony, through Samuel (first), Samuel (second), Samuel (third), Barzilla, and Joshua (first), to Joshua (second), William P. Colby's father. The family has furnished governors to both Maine and New Hampshire.

Barzilla Colby served as a minute-man in 1776. William Williams, the father of William P. Colby's grandmother, was prominent among the New Hampshire patriots during the struggle for independence. Joshua Colby (second), was a prosperous carriage manufacturer of Amesbury. For upward of twenty years he served as a Selectman, represented his district in the State legislature, and was a member of Governor Marcus Morton's Council in 1843. In the capacity of Justice of the Peace he transacted much legal business, including the settlement of estates. When he died in iSSi he was eighty-six years old. He

William P. Colby is indebted for his early education to both the Kingston and Andover academies. After preparing himself for the ministry, he labored as a Universal ist preacher for ten years. Subsequently he served for three years in the Civil War as chaplain of the Seventeenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. After the war he engaged in literary work in Boston. Being a versatile writer, he found constant and lucrative' employment until about i88o, when he was summoned home by the illness of his father. The latter left him a comfortable estate, upon which he has since lived in retirement, but keeping in touch with current events.

Mr. Colby's wife, who was a daughter of Samuel Bancroft, of West Amesbury, died on April 29, 1859. She was the mother of three children, one of whom died in infancy. The others were: Joshua Harlan, who was the proprietor of a hotel at Salisbury Beach, and died at the age of thirty years; and Abbie Irene Colby, who is residing at home. Mr. Colby is a comrade of C. R. Mudge Post, G. A. R., No. 114. He attends and supports the Universalist church.

Alter Osborne Faulkner

ALTER OSBORNE FAULKNER, of the firm of F. J. & W. O. Faulkner, morocco manufacturers of Lynn, Mass., is an energetic, capable business man and an esteemed resident of this city, in which he was born November 10, 1863. His father, Joseph Faulkner, who was born in Maiden, Mass., spent his earlier years on a farm. Learning the morocco dresser's trade, Joseph Faulkner first engaged in business in Danvers, and in 1856 removed to Lynn, where he carried on the same business until his re- tircment from active pursuits in 1889, his sons then succeeding him. His wife, whose maiden name was Margaret E. Osborne, was born and educated in Salem.

Walter O. Faulkner obtained a practical education in the public schools of Lynn. During his early manhood he was connected with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company as travelling electrician in this and foreign countries for a period of seven years. This position was one of great advantage, bringing him into close contact with many leading men and prominent enterprises. In 1889, in company with his brother, Frank J. Faulkner, he succeeded his father in the morocco business, in which he has since been profitably engaged. He is a natural mechanic, happily endowed with inventive genius of a high order, and during the morocco dressers' strike in 1891 made good use of his time, vi^ith his brother's assistance, inventing and putting on the market a machine for seasoning leather. This invention, known as the "Faulkner Seasoning Machine," has been well tested, and is now generally used in all the large morocco factories of the State.

A stanch Republican in his political affiliations, Mr. Faulkner has served his fellowcitizens in various responsible positions. In 1894 and 1895 he was a member of the Common Council, and the following year was an Alderman of the city. In 1894 he served on the Committees on Public Grounds, Street Lights, Revision of Charter, and on the Electrical Committee. In 1895 he was on the Street Light, the Electrical, and the Public Property Committees. While an Alderman he served on the Street Light and Electrical Committees, and was chairman of the Committee on Claims and of Street Sprinkling. In 1897 he was elected as School Committee for a term of three years. In 1894 he was made a trustee of the Lynn Public Library, and the same year was elected its treasurer, a position which he still holds. He is now serving on the Building Committee, and has been elected to erect the new Shute Memorial Library. He is a valued member of both the Oxford and the Park Clubs.

Mr. Faulkner was married September 26, 1888, to Miss Emma J., daughter of the Hon. H. B. Lovering, e.x-Congressman and now (1896) Pension Agent. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner have one child - a son, Joseph H.

RANK P. TODD, a leading resident and a prominent agriculturist of Rowley, was born March 3, 1853. A son of George A. and Ruth Ann (Payson) Todd, he is the only living descendant of the famous Elder Payson in Rowley, Aunt Payson having been the last bearer of the name. The maternal line of descent is traced to Elliot Payson, born March 1 1, 1699, fourth son of the Rev. Pldward and Elsie (Phillips) Payson. On November 17, 1722, he married Mary, daughter of James and Mary (Hopkinson) Todd. Born April 15, 1700, she died September 8, 1758. She had a large family of children, all born in Rowley, as follows: Elizabeth, July 23i '723, who married Joseph Burpee; I{dward, January 14, 1727, who married widow Hannah Pearson; a child that died in infancy, January i, 1729; James, born June 20, 1730, who married Elizabeth Boynton ; I^lliott, baptized December 9, 1733, who died July 16, 1736; Mary, born January 18, 1735, who died July II, 1736; Elliott, May 16, 1737, who married Mary Hazeltine Bradford; David, November 11, 1739, who was killed July 20, 1758; Moses Paul, January 26, 1742, who on April 26, 1758, married Deborah Gage, and had six children; and Mary, March 11, 1744, who was the youngest. Moses Paul Payson, great-grandfather of Frank P. Todd, had a son David, born April 5, 1777, who died September 12, 1873. David married Ruth Pickard Harris, and became the father of two sons and four daughters. The sons were Elliot and Moses Paul. Of the daughters, Ruth Ann, born June 23, 1818, married George A. Todd. A picture of the old Pickard house, which was recently torn down, is in' the possession of Frank P. Todd.

The Todd family began with John Todd, one of the early settlers. Captain Moses Todd, grandfather of Frank P., a farmer and a very prominent man in the county, had a large family of children. The children were still young when their home was burned. With considerable difficulty and sacrifice, it was rebuilt; and, when the boys became old enough to work, they assisted in paying the indebtedness incurred at that time. Captain Todd lived in a part of Rowley called Kittery, about a mile and a quarter from where his grand.son now resides. He commanded a company of militia for some years, and died near the close of the Civil War. George A., born in 1812, learned the shoemaker's trade. At the age of twenty-one he went to Georgetown, then a part of Rowley, and worked as foreman in the shop of John A. Levering. His health failing, he returned to Rowley in 1838 or 1840, and there for some years drove a cart. He then settled upon a farm, and was engaged in agriculture during the rest of his life. Many improvements were made by him on the estate, which comprised a part owned by his first wife and a part bought by him. He was active in town affairs, serving for twenty years as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor. A Republican in politics, he was a strong supporter of the government throughout the Civil

Frank Todd was educated in the common schools of Rowley, the Putnam P'ree School, and Dummer Academy. Having taken charge of the farm in 1883, he has given especial attention to dairying and the raising of fruit and hay, and largely increased the live stock. He has about one hundred and fifty young orchard trees and many older ones. His new barn, which was completed in 1895, is one of the best equipped in New England. Built in accordance with Mr. Todd's suggestions, it is especially adapted to his business. The main building is forty by seventy-two feet, and contains two improved silos, with a capacity of seventy-five tons each. The cattle L, thirtysi.x by fifty-si.x feet, is equipped with the Prescott stanchion. The whole is well lighted and ventilated, and supplied with water, which is led into the cattle stalls. As the cattle are kept in a separate part, no odors from the stalls can penetrate to the hay, which is thus kept fresh and wholesome. The cellar is carefully cemented, and is water-tight. All his farming implements are of the modern type. The milk produced is sold in Lynn.

While Mr. Todd has not aspired to political honors, he has been a delegate to numerous State, county, and Senatorial conventions. In 1887, 1888, and 1889 he was on the Board c.f Selectmen, and for two years of the time he was chairman. He is a member of the A. O. of U. W., Housatonic Council, of Pomona Grange, and of the Esse.x County Agricultural Society. He and his wife, Mrs. Fannie Todd, have eight children, namely: Ruth Payson, born May 14, 1879, "ow attending school in Newburyport ; John Harris, born September 8, 1880; George Albert, born June 14, 1884; Harland Kendall, born August i, 1886; Laura Francis, born January 20, 1889; most successful business men of New England, was named after the Rev. Edward Payson, a celebrated clergyman of Portland, Me., whose eloquent sermons electrified a bygone generation. He was born September i, 1 84 1, in Newburyport, son of Major Samuel and Abigail (Bartlett) Shaw. His father, a knight of the whip from early boyhood, was one of the best-known drivers of the Eastern Stage Company, which was formerly engaged in the business now conducted by the Eastern Railroad Company. He held the rank of Major in the militia when the contingent of Esse.x County was commanded by General Lowe; and he was a contemporary of Colonel Daniel Adams, Colonel Jeremiah Colman, and Major David Emery. His death, which occurred in March, 1S68, was regretted as the loss of a man of piety and integrity. He was three times married, his third wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, being in maidenhood Abigail Bartlett, a daughter of Richard ]5artlett, and a grand-daughter of the Hon. William Bartlett, who was a millionaire, and was alleged to have been the wealthiest man in the State at one time.

After attending the public schools, Edward Pay.son Shaw spent a year under the instruction of the well-known teacher, Master George Titcomb, and then was a jiupil of the Loudon Academy in New Hamjishire. At the age of twenty-two he liought out Lovett's I^oston Express, and conducted it under the name of Shaw's ]5oston Express for the ensuing eight years. Selling his express business in 1871, Mr. Shaw succeeded William H. Swasey in the firm of Sumner, Swasey & Currier, an old and well-established house doing a large business in flour and produce, having numerous connections in other States and owning several vessels engaged in domestic and foreign trade. In 1879 he purchased Commercial Wharf in Newburyport, together with the business interest attached thereto. A few years later he established the People's Line of steamboats. In 1884 he organized the company which built the Black Rocks & Salisbury Beach Railroad, connecting it by steamboats with the Newburyport & Amesbury Street Railroad, and with others running east, west, and south. Mr. Shaw was the first contractor engaged by the United States government in building the jetties at the mouth of the Merrimac and deepening the water on the bar, with the object of making Newburyport a " harbor of refuge." In the performance of this work he furnished about one hundred thousand tons of stone, which he took from a quarry opened by him in tlie upper part of the city in 1882. Having sold his interest in the Newburyport & Amesbury Street Railroad to parties in Boston and Salem in 1886, he immediately proposed to build a similar road to Plum Island and upon it. The project was undertaken. He was chosen president of the corporation ; and in thirty days he had completed three miles of the road on the island, had constructed a steamboat pier extending into the Merrimac River, had the cars running, had remodelled and enlarged Plum Island Hotel, had rebuilt the bridge and draw connecting the island with the mainland, and was ready to begin laying the three miles of track necessary to reach Market Square and connect with tiie Amesbury trains. About that time, also, taking for the nucleus of a system the Black

Rocks & Salisbury Beach Railroad, which had proved one of the most pofitable lines in the Commonwealth, he extended it up the beach, nearly to the Hampton River, and then built a line back to Salisbury, from which point Amesbury was soon tapped, Seabrook at the New Hamjjshire line, and afterward Newburyport. The system has been still further developed recently by connecting Amesbury and Merrimac with Haverhill, and now covers thirty-three miles of road. He organized and has since been the president of the Newburyport Car Company, which is engaged in the manufacture of street cars. For several years he was president of the Newburyport Board of Trade. He was a director of the First National Bank of the city for fifteen years, and is now its president. Among the pieces of real estate improved by him is the Merrimac House, now bearing its original name, the Wolfe Tavern, which in 1887 he purchased, repaired, and refurnished. Another valuable piece is Shaw's Hall, a large block erected by him upon the site of the house in which he was born, and now tenanted by nine social organizations. Woodland Place, which has been his residence since 1875, is one of the finest estates in the city. The rest of his property consists of dwellings in the city.

On December 24, 1867, Mr. Shaw was married in Cambridgeport, Mass., t(j Annie Payson Trott, a daughter of James Fullerton and Frances Jane Trott, of ]?ath. Me. Born of their union were seven children, of whom one, Grace Hodgdon, is deceased. The others are: Edward Payson, Annie Bartlett, James Fullerton, Lizzie Sumner, Samuel Jaques, and Pauline. A Republican in politics, Mr. Shaw has taken a prominent part in public life. After serving in the Common Council of Newburyport for two years, he represented the city in the State legislatures of 1881, 1SS2, 1888, and 1889, and was a member of the State Senate for the terms respectively beginning in 1892 and 1893. In 1895, when H. M. Phillips resigned the office of State Treasurer, Mr. Shaw was chosen by the legislature to serve in that capacity for the remainder of the term; and in November, 1895, 1896, and 1897 he was successively elected to the office on the Republican ticket for the current term. No doubt the future has still higher honors for him. A self-made man, his career is a remarkable illustration of what can be achieved by native ability.

EORGE W. HOOPER, a leading \p I merchant of Manchester, was born in this town, December 9, 1855, son of William and Sallie (Colby) Hooper. An account of his ancestry and family may be found in the sketch of Franklin K. Hooper, which appears on another page of this work. The subject of this sketch received the elements of a practical education in the public schools of Manchester. At the age of fifteen he obtained employment as clerk in the store of W. V. Crafts, grocer. After working in this capacity for about four years, he became a member of the firm, the style of which was then changed to Crafts & Hooper. The firm continued in business until the death of Mr. Crafts, when Mr. Hooper became sole proprietor. He deals in groceries, hay and grain, kitchen furnishings, and smallwares. A man of strict business habits, he has been highly successful. He uses three delivery teams, and takes orders from house to house. His patrons are sure of fair treatment, and know that anything bought in his store will be exactly as represented.

three sons - Alfred C, George, and Lewis S. He is a Republican in politics, and fraternally a member of Magnolia Lodge, I. O. O. F. Mr. Hoopei's success has been due partly to his possessing a natural aptitude for business, but chiefly, perhaps, because he has concentrated his energies upon one thing, instead of dissipating them upon various successive objects.

-AMES H. PERKINS, Selectman of Wenham, was born here, October 29, 1828, son of Nehemiah Perkins, Jr., and Eliza (Edwards) Perkins, who were natives respectively of Wenham and Beverly. The Perkins family is an old and highly respected one in this section. The original ancestor in America was John Perkins, who came from England in 1638 or 1639, and settled in Ipswich. John Perkins, brother of Nehemiah, grandfather of James H., was a soldier of the Revolution; and Edward Perkins, another brother, was a privateersman in the War of 1812. Nehemiah Perkins, Jr., was engaged in the manufacture of shoes, and conducted a farm. He spent the greater part of his life in Wenham, but lived for a time in Hamilton, Mass. P'or some years he served as se.xton and undertaker.

James H. Perkins grew to manhood in Wenham. His early education was limited to what he could acquire in the district schools, but close observation of men and affairs in later life largely extended his knowledge. He early began shoemaking; and upon reaching his majority he engaged i.n the retail boot and shoe trade in Lewis Street, East Boston. In 1857 he sold out his business in order to go into that of manufacturing boots and shoes in Wenham. Subsequent to this he was occupied with farming for a time, and later he successfully carried on a meat and provision business in Wenham. About 1889 he retired from active business life, and has not since returned to it.

Mr. Perkins married Mary E. , daughter of Abraham Dodge, of W^enham, who is now deceased. Mrs. Perkins died in January, 1S92, having been the mother of eight children : Edward A. ; Frank E. ; P'red F. ; Emma A. ; Charles A. ; James H., Jr. ; Alonzo C. ; and George H. Emma, the only daughter, is the wife of George W. Patch, of Wenham. Mr. Perkins has served for a number of years on the Board of Selectmen, also as Assessor and Overseer of the Poor of Wenham. He has been a member of the Republican Town Committee, and has taken an active part in local politics. The family spend the summer at Baker's Island, where Mr. Perkins has a cottage.

sifP^OULTON BATCHELDER, a corporation officer and a popular citizen of Lawrence, was born in Plainfield, Washington County, Vt., December 7, 1836. A son of Jonathan and Wealthy (Ketchum) Batchelder, he is a grandson of Moulton Batchelder, an Englishman, who was an early settler of the Green Mountain State, and who reared three sons. Jonathan Batchelder, also a native of Vermont, was a farmer. He died about the year 1843, in the prime of life, leaving a widow and seven children. Widow Batchelder died in 1S63, and was buried in Plainfield, beside her husband. Of their family - three sons and four daughters - two sons and two daughters are living.

Moulton Batchelder was reared on the home farm, and received a common-school education. He worked for a blacksmith during one winter. With that exception he was on the homestead until 1856, when he became a resident of Lawrence. Here he was a watchman in the Bay State and the Washington Mills until 1862. In July of that year he enlisted as a private in Company C, Fortieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, for three years. In the service he was made successively Corporal, Fifth Sergeant, Orderly Sergeant, and Second Lieutenant. Resigning his commission in February, 1864, he returned to Lawrence, and took up again the duties of watchman in the mills. A few months later, however, he enlisted in Company K, Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, for one hundred days. Commissioned First Lieutenant, he completed his term of service, guarding Confederate prisoners at Fort Delaware and defending Washington. He was mustered out, and came back to Lawrence in October, 1864. Soon after he was apjjointcd patrolman here, and he subsequently acted in that capacity for a number of years. He was Assistant Marshal for several years, was for two years the keeper of the jail under Sheriff Herrick, and was City Marshal for five years. In 1881 he resigned the last-named office to accept a government appointment to the State district police. In this body he had served for twelve years and nine months when he resigned to accept his present position, which he has efficiently filled for the past three years.

In 1859 Mr. Batchelder was married to Miss Mary Jane Rowe, of Plymouth, N.H., who died December 6, i8g6, aged sixty-two. She was the mother of two children: Lillian, who died in infancy in 1863; and Chase M., who is now a shipper in the Everett Mills. Mr. Batchelder is a Republican in politics He is a member of Needham Post, No. 39, G. A. R. ; of the Massachusetts Coramandery; of the Loyal Legion since May i, 1894; and of the Home Club for over twenty years, having been a director thereof for several years. The Home Club is a model organization, with a membership limited to one hundred and seventy-five. In its rooms good order always prevails, for no ardent spirits are allowed on the premises. Neither politics nor religious belief debars a man from membership. The rooms are at 306 Esse.x Street, and Mr. Batchelder's office is on the same floor and connected with them. Since his wife's death the most of Mr. Batchelder's leisure time is spent in the club-rooms. He has a cabinet filled with the trophies captured xluring his professional life. Among these are three fine game-cocks, stuffed, which were captured before they engaged in the battle for which they were pitted. A man of striking appearance and genial character, he is one of the most popular public men in the city of Lawrence.

OHN BECKFORD HILL, senior member of the firm of John B. Hill & Son, dealers in watches and jewelry, is Beverly's oldest merchant now in active business, having opened his store here in 1844. He was born in this city, September 25, 1824, son of James and Sally (Beckford) Hill. The paternal grandfather, also named James, born in Ireland, town of Carrickfergus, Antrim County, with two brothets, Hugh and Peter, and two sisters, came to this country in 17SS. He settled in Beverly, where he began as a fish merchant. Having been very successful, he was later the owner of a number of vessels. The maiden name of his wife is ncit known.

James Hill, youngest son of James, Sr., and the father of John B., born in Beverly in 1792, died in 1829, aged thirty-seven years. Like his father, he was interested in the fishing business, and owned many vessels. He married Sally I3eckford, who was born in Beverly in 179S, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Ruth (Obear) Beckford. Her father, a Revolutionary patriot and a sea captain, who settled in Beverly after the war, made many voyages between Salem and Russia, and died ill iSio. After the death of her husband Mrs. Sally Hill taught school, both jniblic and [jrivate, in Beverly for a number of years. She died in i S49, aged fifty-one years. Her children were: James, Nancy S., Benjamin B. , Sally B., and John B. James, who was a shoemaker by trade and Town Clerk of Beverly for a quarter of a century, died in April, 1879. He married Mary Curtis, of Beverly, and had two children : James Arthur, who married Kate Pease, of Salem, and has one son, Walter; and William Curtis, who married Georgia T. Town, of Beverly, and has two children - William Webster and George Jackson. Nancy S. Hill, who died in November, 1896, married William P. Friend, now also deceased, and left four children - William S., James PI., Nan S., and Charles H. Friend. Benjamin B. Hill, who died in March, 1879, married Elizabeth A. Perkins, who is also deceased, and left one daughter, Elizabeth A., now the wife of Pierce Bell, of ]5everly, and the mother of one child, Grace P. Bell. Pfis only son, Benjamin B. , Jr., who was a soldier in the Civil War, is now deceased. The only survivors of James and Sally Hill's children are Sally B., who was born in 1821, and John lieckford Hill.

John Beckford Hill acquired his education in the public schools of Beverly, after which he went to Salem and learned the jewelry and watchmaker's trade of P'dmund Currier, with whom he remained four years. In 1844 he opened a store for himself in Beverly, where to-day he is the only merchant still in trade of those who were then in business here, and with one exception the only survivor. He took in his scjn, John Franklin Hill, as partner in 1870, and since that time the firm name has been John B. Hill & Son. His son now has charge of most of the business. He was the treasurer and secretary of the Beverly Gaslight Company for twenty years, and he is now a trustee of the Danvers Savings Bank. On December 30, 1852, Mr. Hill was united in marriage with Caroline 1{. Perkins, daughter of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Murray) Perkins. Of the four children born of the union, three are living - Sarah Elizabeth, John Franklin, and Charles Flanders. Sarah E., who is the wife of Theodore Taylor, of Beverly, has no children. John F. , who married Anna B. Adams, of this place, has three children - Marjorie B. , Karl Franklin A., and John B. (second). Charles F. , who married Liefa T. Perry, of Beverly, Mass., has no children, and now resides in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Hill is an Independent in politics. He was Assessor of Beverly for twentyone years. Overseer of the Poor for many years, and Town Auditor at one time. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and was Master of Liberty Lodge of Beverly for twelve years. He has also been a member of the Sons of Temperance for twenty-seven years, and he belongs to the Knights of Pythias of Beverly. Both he and Mrs. Hill are members of the I'^irst Baptist Church, of which he was clerk from 1856 to 1876.

Lliam Henry Severance

LLIAM HENRY SEVERANCE, Lynn, who represented the Twelfth Esse.x district in the State legislature of 1897, was born January 12, 1857, in Bangor, Me. His parents, Howard K. and Jennie (Severance) Severance, were both natives of that city, and there spent the larger part of their comiaaratively brief lives. In 1S62 the father enlisted in a Bangor company of volunteers, and was at the forefront in some of the battles of the Civil War. He never returned to his home, having, without doubt, met death while bravely facing the enemy. His wife, completely jirostrated by thi.s belief, died within a short time.

Left an orphan at an early age, William H. Severance was thus prematurely thrown upon his own resources. Prior to the age of eleven years, he attended the district schools of Bradford, Me., and that vicinity for a part of each year. Thereafter he began to earn his living. During the first three years he worked in a brush factory at Pushshaw Falls, Me. Then he followed the cooper's trade in different places for ten years, being principally employed in Cambridge, Mass. In 1880 he came to Lynn; and, opening a meat and provision market on Pratt Street, he carried on a thriving business there until 1895. He then established a steamboat express business between Lynn and Boston, which he has successfully carried on since.

Since coming to Lynn, Mr. Severance has had an active part in municipal affairs, his sound judgment making him a most useful official. In 1S93 and 1894 he was a member of the Common Council, serving during the first year on the Committees on Incidentals, and Laying out and Altering the Streets, and in 1895 on the Drainage and Claims Committees. In the fall of 1896 he was elected to the State legislature for the term of 1S97. P"raternally, he is a member of Winnepurkit Tribe of Red Men, Lodge No. 55; of Peter Woodland Lodge, K. of P., No. 72; and of Glenmere Lodge, No. 139, I. O. O. F. P'or the past three years he has been a director of the Lynn Co-operative Bank. On August 8, 1 883, he was married to Miss Lizzie J. Meade, jJT proprietor of the oldest baking busi- - I, ,11 - ness in the city of Lynn, is a son of Nathaniel Holder, who was born in Marblehead. After his marriage with Hannah D. Morgan, of Salem, Nathaniel located in Lynn. In 1848 he opened a bakery, beginning on a modest scale. Before his retirement from active life in 18S2, he had built up a thriving trade.

Langdon H. Holder was born in Lynn, March 10, 1846, and was here reared and educated. At the age of sixteen he began assisting his father. Finding the occupation congenial to his tastes, he continued at it, learning the details of the business. Since 1882 he has had the entire charge of the establishment. The bakery has been located on its present site for forty-eight years, and is a well-known landmark of the city. Mr. Holder, who believes that anything worth doing is worth' doing well, takes especial pains to have all his goods pure, healthful, and otherwise of the best quality; and his numerous patrons have not been slow in recognizing this fact. He has an extensive trade in the community where his life has been spent.

Mr. Holder has served his fellow-citizens in important offices of trust and responsibility. In 1887, 1888, and 1889 he was a member of the Common Council, in the latter year being chairman of the Committees on Fuel, Street Lights, Public Property, Almshouse, and the Poor. In 1890 and 1891 he was a Representative to the State legislature, in which during his first term he was a member of the Com- niittee on Pay-rolls, and during his second term he was on the Prisons Committee. He was appointed by the Speaker of the House to attend the New York Centennial in 1S90, being the only member from Essex County thus honored. In 1892 and 1893 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen. In his first year in that capacity he was chairman of the Committee on Drainage, F"uel and Street Lights, and Public Property; and in 1892 he was chairman of the Committee on Drainage. In politics he is an unswerving Republican and a faithful worker in its ranks. In 1893 and 1894 he was a member of the Republican City Committee, and he is now a member of the Republican Club of Ward Six.

On October 28, 1868, Mr. Holder was married to Miss Ella M. Jackson, who died April 15, 1893. She bore him six children, of whom five are living; namely, Alice J., Amy L., Ernest W., Bessie D., and Everett T. Amy L. is the wife of William Morrison, of Lynn. On June 12, 1894, Mr. Holder married Miss Anna S. Nutter, of Lynn. They have no children.

Avid Lowell Dearborn

AVID LOWELL DEARBORN BALCH, a retired carpenter and builder ot Amesbury, was born in this town, October 13, 1828, son of Dr. Israel and Nancy (Goodwin) Balch. The father was a graduate of Dartmouth College and one of the most successful physicians and surgeons of his day in this locality. His reputation extended far beyond the limits of Amesbury and its vicinity, his opinion and advice being frequently in demand by his brother physicians throughout the county. He was especially noted for his charitable disposition. Electricity, then a new object of investigation, had a keen interest for his mind. His mechanical ingenuity enabled him to invent several valuable electrical appliances as well as to construct many of his surgical instruments. In his younger days he taught in an academy, thus acquiring an interest in educational matters that he retained throughout the rest of his life. He assisted many young men in their college preparations. Earnestly devoted to his profession, the long rides and constant exposure to all kinds of weather it demanded from him gradually undermined his constitution ; and he died July 7, 1858. Dr. Balch was prominent in public affairs, was connected with the Masonic fraternity and various medical societies, and was an active member of the Unitarian ciiurch.

David Lowell Dearborn Balch was educated in Amesbury, and has always resided here. He was for a number of years engaged in business as a carpenter and builder, and he served as Road Surveyor for twenty-five years. Some time since he retired after a prosperous business career, and he is now jiassing his time in quiet leisure. On January 10, 1854, he was united in marriage with Judith A. Boardman, daughter of Offin Boardman. Her father was a representative in the sixth generation of an old Essex County family, members of which were active in Colonial and Revolutionary affairs. Mrs. Balch is a direct descendant of Captain Ofifin Boardman, who with others formed the boat's crew that captured a British vessel off Newburyport Harbor during the struggle for independence.

/^^Teorge WALDRON WORCES- \^5T TER, M.D., a well-known physician of Newburyport, was born in Windsor, Vt., September i, i860. A son of Chauncy and Adeline (Waldron) Worcester, he IS descended in the eighth generation from the Rev. William Worcester, one of the first settlers of Salisbury, the first pastor located there and a County Commissioner. The Worcester family is one of the oldest in the county, and has produced men noted for honesty and integrity, and eminent in professional and literary lines.

Chauncy Worcester, also born in Windsor, was a farmer in that town. Held in high esteem by his fellow-townsmen, he was chosen to fill various offices of responsibility and trust. A Unitarian in religious belief, his creed was well expressed in the constant helpfulness and kindliness of his daily life. He married Adeline, daughter of Samuel Walden, of Windsor. Novi' seventy-seven years old, she is the eldest of nine children, all of whom are still living. One of her sisters has recently celebrated her golden wedding. Chauncy and Adeline Worcester had five children, of whom three are living. These are: a daughter, who is a trained nurse in Boston ; Frank D., who is a practising physician at Keene, N.H. ; and Dr. G. W. Worcester, the subject of this sketch. George Waldron Worcester fitted for college at the Green Mountain Academy in South Woodstock, Vt., and then entered the University of Vermont at Burlington. Later he studied at the Hahnemann College in Chicago, graduating therefrom in 18S3 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Since that time he has taken two post-graduate courses, one at the Polyclinic Institute of New York in 1891 and one in 1894 at the Post-graduate Hospital of New York City. Also he has taken a course in microscopy, and has given much attention to surgery. After spending four years at Springfield, Vt., where he had a large practice, he came in 1887 to Newburyport, succeeding to Dr. Bolton's practice. He was subsequently associated with Dr. B. G. Clarke, ophthalmologist, for nearly a year. Since coming to Newburyport he has built up a large practice. His unquestioned skill and the large number of cures he has effected have gained a reputation that might be envied by a much older man. He is a member of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Vermont, of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic State Medical Society, of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, of the Gynaecological and Surgical Society of Boston, and of the Essex County Homttopathic Medical Society. Of the last named he was the president for one year and the secretary and treasurer for two years.

Fraternally, Dr. Worcester is a member of St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of King Cyrus Royal Arch Chapter; of Amesbury Council, of Newburyport Commandery of Knights Temjilar; and of the Knights of I'ythias of Newburyport. He is medical examiner of both the American Order of United Workmen, of Newburyport, Lodge No. 31, and the New England Order of Protection. He served on the Board of Trade, and he was on the Board of Health from 1890 to 1896. Since 1891 he has been a member of the School Board. On March 10, 1885, he married Miss Hattie C. Morrison, of Windsor, Vt. , who is the mother of a son, Chauncy M.

born in Newbury, December 30, 1824, is a son of William and Jemima (Davis) Rogers. Gideon Rogers, the paternal grandfather, a prosperous farmer and a trader in cattle, was distinguished for his strong common sense. His son William, described as a good scholar and musician, was a favorite pupil of Master Longfellow, a connection of the poet Longfellow. A kindly man, William was generally liked. He married

Jemima Davis, and by her became the father of a large family. She was a daughter of Levi Davis, of Maine, who removed to Ohio, settling in Belmont County, where he became a successful farmer and a highly respected member of the community. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and his life was characterized by great energy and activity. In religion he was a leading member of the Society of Friends.

Captain Rogers commenced life in Newbury, in the shoe business with his brother Gideon. Some time afterward, in company with C. M. Noyes, he started in the grocery business. From this he changed to farming. He was a Selectman, and from time to time he served on the Prudential Committee of the School Board. He was deeply interested in educational matters, and his faithful service was most acceptable to the community. For twelve or fifteen years prior to the Civil War he was Second Lieutenant in Company B of Major Ben Perley Poor's Rifles. When the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment was called out, Mr. Rogers took command of Company B, and went to Poolesville, Md., in iS6i. Out on detached service when the skirmishing began at Ball's Bluff, Companies B and C at once returned ; and the captains reported to their superior officers that there was about to be fighting further up the river, and that they would like to join the regiment. Captain Rogers reached Harrison Island just as General Baker received his death wounds, and assisted in carrying the body of the dead general to the rear. At dusk of that day the company, searching for food, discovered a box of bread, which all began eating. It was noticed that the bread was soft, as if moistened by the rain; but upon examination it proved to be soaked with human blood. This horrifying discovery did not, however, deter the hungry men from consuming the bread. From Harrison Island the company marched to Muddy Branch. P'rom there the Captain was sent out with his company to take charge of the construction of a log fort on Seneca Heights, where he spent two or three weeks of the winter. Once, when upon his round of inspection, a light fall of snow covering the ground, the Captain fell from the toj) of the fort, and was badly injured. This caused him to return to his regiment and remain under the doctor's care for many weeks, after which he returned home on leave of absence. He went back to his regiment at Yorktown, Va., while still in a very weak state of health, and in this condition went heroically through his duty amid many deterring circumstances. He afterward did duty with Captain Noyes outside of Washington in the Heavy Artillery. His health prevented him from taking command, and from this time until the close of the war he remained senior First Lieutenant of Heavy Artillery. They were placed at twenty-three different forts, and had most varied and exciting experiences. In the winter of 1864 Captain Rogers encamped at P'alls Church, Va. , on the site of the present Camp Alger.

After returning from the war he took charge of a shoe shop in Haverhill, and was also in charge of a room in the Charlestown State prison for some years. P'inally, he withdrew from business because of feeble health. He built a house after this, and dealt more or less in real estate. Then he spent a long period of time in the hospital, and underwent a successful operation, since which he has had somewhat better health.

Mr. Rogers has been twice married, first to Jane J. Noyes, a daughter of Colonel Samuel M. Noyes. After her death he married Susie K. Church, of Boston. He had three children by the first wife - Nellie P., Wins- low H., and Lewis M. (the two latter are deceased). Norman P., who was educated at the Putnam High School in Newbury and College of Pharmacy of Boston, is in business at Canton, Mass.

iRRY WYLDF:, the superintendent of the print works of the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, residing on Tower 1 1 ill, at 979 Essex Street, was born in February, 1857, in Middleton, Lancashire, England, which is the birthplace also of his father, Robert Wylde. The paternal grandfather, Peter Wylde, born in Tydsley, Lancashire, England, in 1789, when old enough served in the press gang under Wellington, and was afterward with Admiral Nelson on the high seas. A block-printer by trade, he was employed for many years in the Lancashire Print Works. He married Ruth Aitkins, and with her reared si.x children, all of whom except one daughter are still living in the old country, the eldest being now eighty-three years of age. He attained the age of fourscore and four years, and his wife that of seventy-three.

Robert Wylde, born April 21, 1S27, was employed as a calico printer during his active period. He is now spending his declining years in retirement, enjoying a well-earned leisure. On the first day of June, 185 1, he married Sarah Thorp, of Lancashire. They reared eight children, as follows: Anne, who resides in England; William, who is an engraver in England, and has a wife and three children; Francis, a textile printer in Lawrence, Mass. ; Harry, the subject of this biography; Elizabeth, the wife of Henry Coogan, of England ; Cornelius, who is an engraver, lives at North Adams, Mass., and has a wife and three children; Arthur, who is

Harry Wylde left school when a young lad, to become a block boy in the machine printing room of a textile-mill. Here he rose rapidly to the coloring department, of which he was an employee from 1876 until 1879. At the age of twenty-two years, being desirous of bettering his circumstances, he came to America, a step that he has never regretted since. During the first three years of his residence in Massachusetts he was employed as second hand in the Hamilton Print Works at Lowell. In 1 883 he came to Lawrence as second hand in the coloring department of the Pacific Mills. Here in the following November he was promoted to the position of overseer of the department; and in June, 1893, he was made assistant superintendent of the print works. After three years' faithful service as assistant Mr. Wylde was appointed superintendent of the print works, a responsible office, which he has since ably filled. The company employs from forty-three hundred to forty-five hundred hands in its various rooms. Of this large number, nine hundred are under the supervision of Mr. Wylde, who has won the sincere respect of those above and below him.

Politically, Mr. Wylde is a stanch Republican. P^raternally, he belongs to the Masonic order, in which he is a Knight Templar; to the A. O. U. W. ; and to the Royal Arcanum. He was chairman of the first meeting of the organizers of the Lawrence Co-operative Rank, which was founded in April, 1888, and of which he was formerly the president and is now a vice-president. He is a member of the St. John's Episcopal Church of Lawrence, with which he united soon after coming here. On the second day of May, 18S9, he was married in Lawrence to Alice I. McClary.

One of the three daughters of Andrew J. McClary, formerly of Strong, Me., now residing in Chicago, 111., she is descended from a prominent family of Maine, Fort McClary, in Kittery, having been named in honor of one of her near kinsmen. Mr. and Mrs. Wylde have five interesting children, namely: Russell Arthur, who is in his eighth year; Oliver Andrew; Anna Elizabeth; Paul Linton; and A. Francis, an active little fellow in his second year.

AVID E. SMITH, a well-to-do resident of Rowley, was born September 1 8, iSio. A son of Moses and Mary (Jcwett) Smith, he is a descendant of Hugh Smith, who emigrated from England to this country at an early day. The line of descent comes to him through John, Benjamin, Benjamin (second), Isaac, and Moses. Isaac Smith, who lived on the old Smith place, on the Georgetown road, had a large family of children. Three of his sons settled in Rowley, three in Salem, and one in Hopkinton. Moses Smith, the father of David E. , born October i, 1773, died in 1855. His wife, Mary, who was born in 1776, died on June 10, 1855. She was well on Monday, yet she expired on the following Saturday. Their children were: Oilman H., Henry W., Moses, David E., Jacob J., Isaac E., and a daughter that died in infancy. Of these Oilman H. and David E. arc living. Henry W. , who was a carpenter, died in New Orleans, unmarried, on January 4, 1841, aged thirty-four years. Moses, a shoe cutter, died unmarried, in Rowley, at the age of eighty-eight. Jacob ]., who was a farmer in Rowley, died in 1894. Isaac, who was a shoe manufacturer of Haverhill, died on January 15, 1879.

worked for his father at farming. Thrifty and prudent, he has always lived in comfortable circumstances. There has never been a member of the Smith family here who could not earn his own living, and none ever found it necessary to give a mortgage to raise money or for any other purpose. Mr. Smith's health has always been good, this fact being due, no doubt, to his regular habits and total abstinence from intoxicants and tobacco. He says he is as well now as he was forty years ago. Habitually an early riser, he always retires early. Having never failed to pay his debts, his word has been as good as his bond.

Mr. Smith is connected with the Orthodox (Lower) Church, and recently presented to the society a handsome church organ, costing thirteen hundred dollars. Now eighty-eight years of age, he is as keen and active as a man of thirty. Possessing a remarkably retentive memory, he can give dates and events connected with his boyhood with wonderful accuracy, and he can read and write readily without the aid of glasses.

RETAS R. SANBORN, Registrar of Deeds for the Northern District of Essex County and an esteemed citizen of Lawrence, was born August 6, 1834, on the family homestead in Sanbornton, now Tilton, N.H., son of Jonathan Sanborn, Jr. He has sprung from an English family that traces its lineage back to the time of William the Conqueror. The emigrant ancestor, William Sanborn,' came from I'2ngland to America with his widowetl mother and his brother John in 1632. After living in Massachuscttts for a while, he took up a large tract of wild land in Hampton, N.H., which now includes three townships. The next in line of descent was William Sanborn,^ whose son, William San- born, 3 was the succeeding ancestor. The line was continued through Simon Sanborn and his son, Jonathan Sanborn, Sr. ,5 who was the grandfather of Aretas R.

Jonathan Sanborn, Sr., succeeded to the ownership of a portion of the original homestead; and there he and his wife, whose maiden name was Judith Crane, reared their family of three sons and four daughters. Of these children, all of whom married and reared families, Shadrach settled in Vermont, and Woodbridge was for many years a mechanic and liveryman in Boston. The mother, who survived her husband, attained the good old age of fourscore years. Jonathan Sanborn, Jr., was born on the Sanborn homestead in 1792, and until his death, in 1866, was engaged in cultivating the soil. He married Polly Rowe, of Gilmanton, N.H., who survived him two years, (lying in 1868, in the sixty-eighth year of her age. They had six children, namely: Augusta, now deceased; Jane, who resides in Tilton, N.H., the widow of the late Benjamin M. Durgan; Isaac S. R., who was a railway engineer, and died at Concord, N.H., in 1894; John C, a resident of Lawrence; Aretas R., the subject of this sketch; and Adoniram J., who, together with his wife and child, is now deceased. The homestead is still in the possession of the family, and is occupied by the sixth generation from the original proprietor.

Aretas R. Sanborn, having graduated from ]?owdoin College in 1859, studied law with VV. H. P. Wright, of Lawrence, Mass., and was admitted to the Essex County bar in 1864. Beginning the practice of his profession in this city, he continued it until 1894, when he was elected to his present position as Registrar of Deeds. In iSgo he built his present residence at 9 Kendrick Street, and soon after its completion removed to it from

173 Jackson Street, where he had lived fifteen years. He is Past Regent of the Royal Arcanum, Past Dictator of the Knights of Honor, and was for some time the president of the Lawrence .Society of Natural History and Archaeology, subjects in which he is greatly interested. A Republican in politics, he formerly served as clerk of the Police Court. He is a member of Grace Episcopal Church, of which he was the treasurer during the rectorship of Bishop Lawrence.

In November, 1864, Mr. Sanborn married Miss Clara P. Black, of Danvers, Mass., a daughter of James D. and Sally (Fowler) Black, neither of whom is living. Respectively a brother and sister of Mrs. Sanborn are: Arthur M. Black, of Providence, R.I.; and Maria H., the wife of Frederick H. Lowell, an apothecary in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn have lost four children. Of these, two died of scarlet fever, and were buried in one casket. The death of James B., a lad of eight years, occurred April 5, 1873, and that of Norman P. on the following day. The others were: Robert H., who died of diphtheria when eight years old; and Louis, a bright and promising lad of sixteen years, who died October 18, 1894. Agnes Rebecca Sanborn is the only surviving child.

ORING GRIMES, the president of the Rockport National Bank, is a native of this town. A son of James P. and Clarissa (Hoyt) Grimes, he was born March 10, 1840. His grandfather, Mark Grimes, who was also a resident of Rockport, came from England. The father spent his life in Rockport, which was also his native town. P'or a number of years he held the office of Tax Collector. Of his eight children, seven are now living; namely, James,

George, William U., Loring, Moses H., Luther B., and Clarissa. William H. resides in Gloucester; Moses H., in Ipswich, Mass.; and the others in Rockport. The daughter, Clarissa, is the wife of William Grover, of this place.

Loring Grimes attended the public schools of Rockport for a time. Beginning at the age of twelve, he was engaged in various employments until 1868, when he started in business for himself in Rockport. He then established a wholesale fish and oil business, which he has since successfully carried on. For several years he has been the president of the Rockport National ]5ank. He is also the president of the Cape Ann Isinglass Company at Rockport and a director severally of the Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Company, the Lanesville Granite Company, and the Sandy Bay Pier Company.

On New Year's Day, 1867, in his twenty - seventh year, Mr. Grimes was united in marriage with Rebecca N. Rowe, who was born in Rockport, daughter of Amos and Rebecca N. Rowe. Her paternal great-grandfather, John Rowe, was a Major in the Revolutionary army; and two of his sons, one of them a Lieutenant, also fought for independence. All three were at the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes have one daughter, Clara R., the wife of T. T. Hunter Harwood, of Rockport, Mass. In politics Mr. Grimes is a Republican. He is a member both of the Masonic Society and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

(s^OIIN Q. ADAMS, M.D., of Amesbury, a member of the Adams family of Ouincy, was born in Lawrence, this county, March 13, 1848. A son of Benjamin G. and Sophia (Nutter) Adams, his genealogy for three generations in this country is identical with that of President John Ouincy Adams. The Rev. Joseph Adams, who was the grandson of the Rev. Henry Adams, an English clergyman, graduated from Harvard in 1 7 10, and was ordained in Newington, N.H., in 1715. He was pastor in that town for sixty-eight years, dying May 26, 1783. It will be seen that a part of the family went from Quincy and Braintree to New Hampshire, and later returned to Massachusetts. The Rev. Joseph Adams and his sons had large grants of land in New Hampshire, but were driven off by the Indians. The sons later retook possession of them. Joseph, sr.n of the Rev. Joseph Adams, was a practising physician of Barnstead, N. H. His son, Ebenezer, who was Dr. John O. Adams's great-grandfather, served throughout the Revolutionary War, and at the time of the surrender of Cornwallis was far in the South. From there, with other Continentals, he walked home. It is inferred from the fact that he must have been a young man then. He died in Barnstead in 1832.

James Adams, son of Ebenezer and the grandfather of Dr. Adams, spent his life on a farm in Barnstead. Though not a large man, he had remarkable muscular power, according to the many interesting tales told of his athletic feats. He was a leader in all sports, taking an interest in them even late in life; and he had no match in wrestling. It is related of him that, long after he had passed middle age, he was challenged to wrestle by a young man. Going into the old muster field, they took their positions. The old gentleman placed his foot easily on his opponent's shoulder, and, starting in that awkward position, easily threw his opponent. It is said that he could reach over backward and pick up a pin from the floor without touching hands. Benjamin G. Adams went to Portsmouth when in his teens, and there learned the ship-carpenter's trade. He was subsequently employed in the mills in Lawrence, and was overseer in a room on the lower floor of the Pemberton Mill in February, iS6o, when the great disaster occurred. His knowledge of carpentry probably saved his life at that time. By the aid of an axe and a saw which were reached to him, he cut his way out; and with two sticks as support he reached home unassisted, though he was not able to stand again for si-x months. His wife, whose "maiden name was Nutter, was a member of an old New Hampshire family. They had three sons - George G., Frank H., and John Q. George G., now an architect in Lawrence, married Miss May S. Leslie. Frank H., who is a shoe manufacturer in Amesbury, married Miss Fannie Pike, of New Hampshire.

After attending the Lawrence city schools and the Pittsfield Academy, John O. Adams studied for his degree at Harvard Medical School, and graduated at Bellevue Medical College, New York, in 1872. Starting in professional work in Lawrence, he practised there for five years, serving as city physician for two years. In 1881 he located in Amesbury, where he now has a large and very successful practice. Dr. Adams is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the North Essex Medical Association. While carefully keeping out of politics, he served on the Town Board of Health for a year. He is a member of Warren Lodge, F. & A. M., of Amesbury.

In 1876 the Doctor was married to Miss Charlotte Morris, of Cheshunt, England. A musician of more than ordinary merit, she has led choirs in Catholic and Episcopal churches for a number of years. At present she is the leader of the choir in the Episcopal church in Amesbury. Her friends declare that she can sing all day without tiring her voice. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have two children: Charlotte F., a beautiful girl of fifteen, attending the high school; and Benjamin G., a lad of ten, in the intermediate school.

AMUEL G. SARGENT, the wellknown real estate dealer of Methuen, son of Edmund and Betsy (Gile) Sargent, was born in Amesbury, now Merrimac, on April 3, 1827. The paternal grandfather, a cooper by trade, spent the latter part of his life in Vermont, engaged in farming, and died there at the advanced age of ninety years. He is buried near Barre, Vt. His wife, a Miss Patten, of Amesbury, before marriage, bore him twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. These, all now deceased, reared families, and lived to the age of seventy or more years.

Edmund Sargent, who was born in Amesbury in 1790, was in early life a grocer and by trade a cooper. Later he became interested in agriculture, and for many years conducted a large farm. He was also engaged in brickmaking. In the early part of his life, he lost considerable property through too much kindness of heart. At his death, however, which occurred in this place in 1880, he left a comfortable fortune to his heirs, as well as the record of an honorable and useful life. His wife, Betsy, a native of Alfred, Mc, and a daughter of Richard Gile, died in Methuen in 1876. They came to this town from Amesbury in 1835. Both were devout and earnest members of the Congregational church. Of their children, four sons and five daughters, all of whom attained maturity, four are living. These are: Samuel G. , the subject of this sketch ; Lucy, who is the wife of Joseph Fulton, of Sunapce, N.H. ; Calvin Sargent, who resides in Methuen ; and Nathan B., a teacher in West Boxford, Mass. The other children were: Sarah, who died at the age of twenty-three; Lodicy J., who died at the age of forty-four; Betsy J. Laney, who died in 1881, aged sixty-five; Mary J. Ilibbard, who died in Montreal, leaving two daughters and two sons, one of the latter being now a lawyer in Pittsfield, Mass. ; and Edmund P. Sargent, who died in Methuen, aged si.xty-eight years.

Samuel G. Sargent attended the district schools of Methuen. He subsequently graduated at Atkinson Academy, after which he taught school in Methuen and elsewhere. Many persons recall with pleasure his able and energetic management of the Methuen Grammar School, of which he was the master for thirteen years. In 1S69 he was appointed Postmaster of the village, which office he subsequently held for si.xteen years. During the past twenty years he has been interested in the real estate business, and has done considerable probate work in settling estates. He has bought and sold a large amount of real estate in Methuen and vicinity, and owns several places at jirescnt, is a director of the Broadway Savings Bank and a stockholder of the Methuen Bank.

Mr. Sargent was married in 1S57, November 27, to Sarah W. I'2merson, of Methuen, daughter of Joseph and Sarah W. (Clement) Emerson. Of their seven children, Edward died at the age of eight; Alice, at the age of seven; Annie, at the age of five; and May, who was a teacher of much promise, at the age of twenty-two. The others are: Sarah, who is the wife of William McGonagle, a jirominent railroad official living in Duluth, Minn., and has two sons and one daughter; Charles, yet unmarried, and at i)rcsent in the Klondike gold region, who is a man of remarkable physique, standing six feet two inches high, and correspondingly proportioned; and l^essie, the youngest daughter, who is a student in Mount Holyoke Seminary at South Hadley, Mass. Mr. Sargent is a member of the grange. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious faith he is a Congregationalist. He has been one of the Deacons of the Congregational church for some time. His residence at 5 Tremont Street, which was built in 1869, stands on a lot measuring about one acre and containing a fine apple orchard. A man of remarkably good health from his birth, reckoning from when he was sick of measles at the age of seven, he did not require the services of a physician for sixty years. Since he recovered from an attack of the "grippe" in i8g6, his health has been unimpaired np to the present time, and it bids fair to continue so for many years to come.

for the past five years city solicitor of Lawrence, Mass., was born in Exeter, N.H., February 26, 1S43, son of the Hon. James and Judith A. (Upliam) Bell. On the paternal side he is of Scotch-Irish stock. His immigrant ancestor, John Bell, was one of the early settlers of Londonderry, N.H., arriving there in 1720.

John Bell, Jr., born in Londonderry, N. H., son of John and his wife, Elizabeth, who was a sister of Colonel Andrew Todd, was the father of Samuel Bell, LL. D., grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Samuel Bell was a Dartmouth graduate, class of 1793, a member of the New Hampshire bar, and Justice of the Sujireme Court of the .State. He was Governor of New Hampshire four successive years, being first elected in 18 19; and he was twelve years a United States Senator from New Hampshire. He married first Mehitable Dana, who bore him five children. She dying, he married Lucy Smith, by whom he had four sons and five daughters. These all attained maturity. The Hon. Samuel Bell died at his home in Chester, N.H., in 1850, aged eighty. His eldest son, Samuel D. Bell, was Justice and Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

James Bell, son of the Hon. Samuel and Mehitable (Dana) Bell, was born in Francestown, Hillsboro County, N.H., November 13, 1S04. A graduate of Bowdoin, he, too, was a member of the New Hanipsliire bar. He began to practise at Gilmanton Iron Works, and a few years later, in 1832, went to E.xeter. In 1847 he settled permanently in Gilford (now Laconia), N.H. An able lawyer, he established a good reputation, and accumulated a competency. In 1855 he was elected to the United States Senate. He died on May 27, 1857. About 1S32 he was married to Judith, daughter of Nathaniel and Judith (Cogswell) Upham, of Rochester, N.H. Nathaniel Upham, who was born in Dcerfield, N.H., was a prominent merchant and a member of Congress. His father was the Rev. Nathaniel Upham, a well-known and highly respected Congregational clergyman. The Hon. James and Mrs. Bell had a family of five children, namely: Mary, widow of Nathaniel G. White, of Northampton, N.H.; Eliza U., in Exeter, at the home of her parents; Lucy, in the same place; James D., an extensive farmer of Hawthorn, Fla., where he settled twenty years ago; and Charles U., the subject of this sketch. James D. Bell has one son, Frank U.

Exeter, and took a course in the Harvard Law School. In February, 1866, he was admitted to the bar of Rockingham County at Exeter. For five years he conducted an independent practice in Exeter. In November, 1871, he moved to Lawrence, and engaged in practice as a member of the firm of White & Bell. His partner, Nathaniel G. White, who had married Mr. Bell's sister, was a man of prominence in the legal profession, and was president of the Boston & Maine system some fifteen years. He died in 188S. In 1878 Mr. Bell became a member of the firm of Sherman & Bell, which was in existence about ten years. His partner, Edgar J. Sherman, was in 1 888 appointed Judge of the Superior Court, and is still acting in that capacity. From the time of Mr. Sherman's appointment until 1897 Mr. Bell was without an associate. He then took as partner Mr. Fred H. Eaton, a recent graduate from the Boston Law School. Mr. Bell has been very successful in his professional work. He is a prominent member of the Republican party, and has been honored with nomination as Mayor. He has served in the Common Council of the city; and he is one of the commission of three appointed to revise, consolidate, and arrange the Public Statutes of the Commonwealth. He has been for several years a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College, and he is one of the trustees of Brewster Free Academy. He is a trustee of the Essex Savings Bank. An upright lawyer and a business man whose integrity is unblemished, he has the confidence and esteem of all who know him.

On November 21, 1873, he was married to Helen M. Pitman, of Laconia, N.H., daughter of Joseph and Charlotte A. (Parker) Pitman (both deceased). Mrs. Bell died March 26, 18S2, leaving four children: Alice L., who was three years in Smith College, now at home; Mary W. , who has been three years in Smith College; Joseph P., a Junior of Bowdoin College; and Helen P., in the Lawrence High School. Mr. Bell was married April lO, 1883, to Elizabeth W. Pitman, sister of his first wife. He has a pleasant home at 1 17 Jackson Street, into which he moved soon after his first marriage. At the time of the war he was a volunteer in the Forty-second Massachusetts Infantry, a hundred-day regiment. He is a Grand Army man, and was in 1888 Commander of Needham Post, No. 39. Mr. Bell has been a Deacon of Trinity Congregational Church for twenty years.

(^OHN F. JACKSON, dealer in furniture and undertaking goods in Georgetown, was born in this town, January 9, 1853, son of Caleb Spofford and Hannah (Foster) Jackson. His grandfather was Caleb Jackson, a prosperous farmer and a lifelong resident of Rowley, Mass.

Caleb Spofford Jackson was born in Rowley, September 25, 1823. His trade was that of a shoemaker, and he followed it in Georgetown until his death, which occurred in 1876. His wife, Hannah Foster, whom he married in May, 1850, was born in Georgetown, and was a daughter of John and Hannah (Clark) Foster. She is still living.

John F. Jackson was educated in the common and high schools of Georgetown. He served a thorough apprcnticeshijD to the shoemaker's trade, and was employed as a journeyman by Little & Moulton for ten years, the Little & Co. Corporation for one year, and A. B. Noyes & Co. for three years. He also worked upon ladies' fine footwear in Haverhill, Mass. In 1887 he purchased the furniture, upholstery, and undertaking business

On June 28, 1888, Mr. Jackson was united in marriage with Lucy R. Goodwin, daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Merrill) Goodwin, of this town. He has three children, namely: Ardelle May, born May 27, 1889; Richmond Merrill, born August 12, 1894; and Herbert Andrews, born May 24, 1898.

Mr. Jackson is a member of Protection Lodge, No. 147, I. O. O. F. ; Bethany Lodge, No. 105, Daughters of Rebecca; and of Pentucket Lodge, No. 73, Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a Deacon of the Peabody Memorial Church, in which he was superintendent of the Sunday-school for ten years; and he is at the present time acting as secretary and treasurer. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought public office.

-fgTARTWELL SUMNER FRENCH, r^rl an esteemed and highly respected J-^ \^ ^ resident of Lynn and for several years past its Tax Collector and Treasurer, was born June 17, 1S39, in Turner, Me., the birthplace of his father, Sumner French. He is of English ancestry, the P'rench family having been first represented in Massachusetts by three brothers of lliat name, who came from England to this country in 1631. The father was one of the leading agriculturists of Turner for the larger part of his active career. He married Nancy Reynolds, who was born in Brockton, Mass. Her grandfather and greatgrandfather, both named Ichabod Reynolds, were soldiers in the Revolutionary army.

Hartwell Sumner French acquired his education in the district schools of his native town and in the academies of Hebron and Lewiston F"alls. He subsequently taught school and assisted in the labors of the farm for two years. On September lo, 1862, in Portland, Me., he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-third Maine Volunteer Infantry. After nine months of service he was mustered out at Portland, July 5, 1863. On the sixteenth day of the following December he reenlisted at Augusta in the Twenty-ninth Maine Volunteer Infantry, in which he subsequently served as Second Lieutenant, F'irst Lieutenant, and Captain. In the spring of 1864 he participated in the Red River expedition and in the engagements at Sabine Crossroads, Pleasant Hill, and Kane River Crossing. In July, 1864, the corps to which his regiment was attached was ordered to Washington, D.C. ; and later in the season he took an active part in the Shenandoah campaign, under General Sheridan, being in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. On June 29, 1865, the Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment was sent to Savannah, Ga., and thence to Georgetown, S.C. Later it served for three months in Kingstree, S.C, Captain French being appointed to Provost Marshal duty. In September, 1865, he was made Assistant Commissary of Musters in the Department of the Carolinas, a capacity in which he served until July 12, 1S66, when he was mustered out of the service. On returning North, Captain French came almost immediately to Lynn, where for the ensuing seventeen years he was employed in the shoe business, first with 13. V. Doak & Co. and later with the firm of J. S. Bartlett & Co. In July, 1885, he was elected Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for the city of Lynn, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of B. F. Peach. Less than a month after, on August 5, he assumed the duties of his responsible position. At the close of his first term, having given general satisfaction, he was re-elected to the office, and has been honored with a re-election every year since. He has been a director of the Lynn Safe and Deposit Trust Company since its organization.

In politics Mr. French is a stanch Republican and an active worker in the party. He is a member of the Lynn Republican Club, and was chairman of the Republican City Committee in 1883 and 18S4. In 1877 he was an Alderman, and in 1881 and 1882 he was a Representative to the State legislature, serving on the Committee on Military Affairs and as chairman of the Labor Committee. He is also a member of the Oxford Club and the Park Club; of the General Lander Post, No. 5, G. A. R. ; of the Abraham Lincoln Lodge, K. of P. ; of the Lynn Board of Trade ; and he was the president of the Massachusetts and Maine Veteran Association in 1895. The first of his two marriages was contracted June 17, 1873, with Miss Abbie R. Barrel!, who died in September, 1882. The second, on November 11, 1884, united him with Miss Josephine Tufts, of Lynn, who has one child, Dorothy French.

;s^OHN PAGE BATES, a retired farmer of Danversport, Mass., was born near his present home, November 4, 1829, son of John and Martha (Page) Bates. The grandfather died in Dedham when his son John was a child. His widow married for her second husband Mr. Fale.s, of Dedham. John Bates worked in the Danvers Iron Works for some years. After marrying he settled on the farm now owned by his son John P., where he lived for the rest of his life. He died November 4, 1890, in the ninety-fourth year of his age, his wife having passed away several years previously. He was an extensive grower of Danvers onions, then the best known variety in the market. Mis farm produced from one thousand to twelve hundred barrels of this article yearly. He was a Unitarian in his religious opinions, his wife, Martha, being a Baptist. They had six children, namely: Edward W., who was the captain of a packet steamer running from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands, and who was lost at sea about 1852, with his vessel and all on board; Albert A., who lives in Danversport ; John Page, whose name appears at the head of this sketch; Martha E., who married Andrew J. Elliott, of Salem; Ellen M., who became the wife of Francis Dodge, of Danvers; and William, who died at the age of ten years.

John Page, the third child of his parents, has resided since birth upon his father's farm, which he has continued to improve, growing vegetables and garden produce. He is a Republican, but takes no active part in politics beyond casting his vote. March 26, 1854, he married Miss Adeline W. Pickett, daughter of Joseph and Prances Pickett. She died November 16, 1889, leaving four children, namely: John Henry, who resides with his parents; William E., a contractor, who died in Salem, Mass., at the age of thirty-seven, leaving three children - Carlton, Adeline, and Page; Frank, a policeman of Salem, who has two children - P'rederick and Mildred; and Joseph E., a mason of Danversport.

L151:RT CLARK, a retired contractor and builder of Rockport, was born at Sandy Bay, April 28, 18 16, son of Henry and Sally (Lane) Clark. The family is an old one in this locality. Henry Clark, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, served in both the army and navy during the

Revolutionary War, and was lost on the privateer "Gloucester" in 1776. Henry Clark, Albert Clark's father, was born in Rockport, P"ebruary 15, 1772, and for many years was engaged in the fishing industry at Cape Ann.

Albert Clark in his youth attended public and private schools. At the age of sixteen he began his apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade with Jacob Dodge, of Wenham, Mass. Upon attaining his majority he returned to Rockport, where he worked at his trade as a journeyman for some time. P'inally establishing himself in business as a contractor, he was prominently identified with building operations in this section for many years, or until his retirement, which took place several years ago.

Mr. Clark contracted the first of his two marriages with Ora Norwood, daughter of Charles and Susannah Norwood, of Rockport. Of that union were born three children, two of whom - Charles H. and Albert F. - are still living, both being residents of this town. His present wife, whom he married in 1S66, was in maidenhood Mary L. Lakeman, daughter of Daniel D. and liliza (Shepard) Lakeman, of Hallowell, Me. Mrs. Clark's maternal grandfather, Levi Shepard, of Salisbury, and one of her great-grandfathers, James Lord, third, of Ipswich, were both Revolutionary soldiers, the latter serving as a Lieutenant in the battle of Bunker Hill. Mrs. Clark is therefore eligible for membership in the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, for which she has made application.

Mr. Clark has five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He has long been interested in all matters relating to public education, and under the old district-school system he served upon the School Committee. He is a member of Granite Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is Past Noble Grand, and the only surviving member who was present at its organization in 1848. He and Mrs. Clark attend the Universalist church. They occupy a iileasantly located residence overlooking the ocean, and are highly esteemed in social circles.

lEWIS GARRISON HOLT, ice dealer of Lawrence, Mass., has been prominent for a number of years in this vicinity as a business man and a member of society. He was born in Andover, Mass., November 15, 1839, son of Jonas and Pamelia Porter (Fry) Holt. He is of the eighth generation in descent from Nicholas Holt, the immigrant, who arrived in Boston in June, 1635, lived for some years at Newbury, Mass., and about 1645 settled in what is now Andover.

In the first company that went from Andover to join the Revolutionary army were fifteen men named Llolt, and one was Captain of the company. Ezekiel Holt, Lewis G. Holt's great-grandfather, lived and died on a farm in Andover quitclaimed to him by the heirs. This farm was in the family until 1873. The original house, erected by a Holt, is still standing.

Isaac Holt, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in this house in 1773. A farmer and cooper, he made a number of water barrels for vessels. He died at the age of seventy. He was married in the house where he was born to Abigail Blunt, a member of an old Andover family which settled in that town shortly after the Holts. Ezekiel Holt and his wife had ten children, who all attained maturity. There were si.\ sons and four daughters. One daughter and all the sons married. The youngest of the

Jonas Holt, son of Isaac, was born at the ancestral homestead in Andover, in December, 1800. He, too, was a cooper and farmer, and spent his days on the old farm. He died in the fall of 1869, aged nearly seventy. His wife was a descendant of Colonel James Frye, who fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. The Andover company was in his regiment. He served throughout the Revolutionary War, and was one of Washington's trusted officers. Mrs. Pamelia P. Holt died in 1868, aged sixty-two. She had been the mother of nine sons and one daughter. Two of the sons died young. The rest attained maturity, were married, and all but one had children. The eldest son, Warren E. Holt, served throughout the Civil War. He went to the front in the Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry, which was changed early in 1862 to the First Heavy Artillery. A man of fine physicjue, tall and broad-shouldered, and with intrepid courage, he was a shining mark for the foe. At Spottsylvania his hat was pierced by two bullet-holes, his canteen by three, and his clothing riddled; but not a drop of his blood was spilled. He lived to be nearly si.xty years old, and, dying, left two sons and two daughters. His brother, Horace P., died in the prime of life, leaving a widow, who became the wife of his brother Albert. Si.x of the family are living, namely: Brooks Frye Holt, in the ice business in Andover; Lewis G. ; Albert N., manager of a summer resort house in North Andover; Albion F"rancis, a druggist in Lawrence; Charles Abbee Holt, M.D., in Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, a graduate of Harvard Medical College; and Caroline C, widow of James Fleming, in

Tewksbury, Mass. Dr. Charles A. Holt's wife and son reside in Lawrence. Mrs. Fleming has three sons, two daughter.s, and fifteen grandchildren.

Lewis Garrison Holt was reared on the farm in Andover, and educated in that town. In 1861 he enlisted in the same comjwny with his brother Warren E., and he served in the ranks three years and two months. At Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864, he was seriously wounded by a niinic ball in the neck. A slight deviation in the course of the ball would have caused it to enter the spinal column with fatal result. Mr. Holt has been engaged in business since he was seventeen years old. On January i, 1873, he sold the family homestead in Andover, which had been owned and occupied by Holts for over two and a quarter centuries, and removed to Lawrence. Here he embarked in the ice business with his brother Brooks; and in 1886 they formed a stock company, Mr. Lewis G. Holt being made secretary and treasurer. The company has a flourishing business, owning twelve icehouses on the Merrimac River in Lawrence and ten in Methuen on Mystic Pond. They retail some thirty thousand tons of ice annually. Mr. Holt is a trustee of the Pacific National Bank and a trustee of the Lawrence Savings Bank.

He was married November 10, 1869, to Emily A. Jenkins, of Bradford, Mass., daughter of Albert and Nancy (Giles) Jenkins. Four children have been born of this union. The eldest son, Louis Albert, is cashier of the ice comi)any. He has a wife and a charming boy. The second son, Edgar Garrison (named for William Lloyd Garrison), a youth of si.x feet two, is in the class of 1900 in Princeton College. The youngest living, Ernest Le- Koy, a boy of nineteen, six feet three inches in height, is a student in Phillips Academy,

Mr. Holt was Selectman and Overseer of the Poor in Andover. In Lawrence he was four years Postmaster under Harrison, was two years on the Common Council, three years on the School Committee, and is now chairman of the Board of License Commissioners. A prominent Knight Templar,he has been Senior Warden and Generalissimo in the Commandery. He is Past Commander of Needhani Post, No. 39, G. A. R. ; and he was twelve years payma.ster of the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, holding the rank of Lieutenant under three colonels in succession. In religious belief he is a Universalist.

(gTr-LFRED W. ALLYN, formerly a sucliiiA cessful builder and contractor of /"Jlij^^ Lawrence, was born April 2, 1824, in Boston, Mass., son of David Allyn. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Allyn, born August 5, 1757, died in Seekonk, R.I., in 1813. His widow subsequently removed with her family to Pennsylvania, where she lived to a ripe old age. The father, born in Seekonk, August 15, 1785, who died in Chelsea, Mass., in 1861, lived in Boston during a part of his early life. Shortly after his marriage with Elizabeth McAllister, who was a daughter of a master mariner named Symonds, he removed to one of the suburban agricultural towns, and there carried on farming throughout the remainder of his life. He was an industrious and well-to-do husbandman, though not considered wealthy. Of the four sons reared by him, two sons are living - David and Thorndike. David resides with his widowed sister-in-law, Mrs. Caroline C. Allyn. Thorndike lives in Chelsea. The mother, after surviving the father some time, died at the

Alfred VV. Allyn learned the carpenter's trade in Chelsea, Mass. Subsequently, in 1846, after working for a while in different towns, he settled permanently in Lawrence with his bride. In November of that year he bought an acre of land on Clover Hill, paying twelve hundred dollars for the house and grounds. There were then but four houses on the hill. On land which he afterward purchased he used to pasture his cows and raise garden vegetables. His first contract in Lawrence was the building of a fine residence for John Graves, on the estate more recently owned by the late John Fallon. Soon after he became the junior member of the firm Briggs & Allyn, which carried on a substantial business during the rest of his life.

On April 28, 1846, Mr. Allyn married Miss Caroline C. Chandler, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Dickerman) Chandler, of Canton, Mass. Mr. Chandler was a lifelong farmer of Canton, where his birth occurred March 4, 1784, and his death April 14, 1874. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, having been Master of his lodge; and at his death he was buried with Masonic honors. His wife, who was born July ig, 1785, died June 3, 1852. She reared six daughters, of whom Mrs. Allyn, the fifth child, is the only survivor. Two other daughters married, one of whom, at her demise, left two daughters. Lewis Chandler, an uncle of Samuel Chandler, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Of Mr. Allyn's three children, one died in infancy. Those living are: Mary and Warren C. Mary married Warren F. Taylor, resides on Clover Hill, and has five children. Warren married Miss Abbie Doland, and has one son, Alfred W. Allyn, a promising young man of nineteen years, now in school. Mr.

Allyn, Sr., died on January 9, 1894. Mrs. Allyn has occupied her present home since 1858. The two acres of ground surrounding it are laid out with a variety of ornamental and fruit trees and a handsome flower garden, which is well taken care of by her brother-inlaw, David Allyn, who delights in gardening. Mr. and Mrs. Allyn were among the founders of the Lawrence Street Congregational Church, which has recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. She is now the only survivor of the founders.

Ohn Clarkson Houghton

OHN CLARKSON HOUGHTON, librarian of the Lynn Public Library, was born in this city, July i, 1823, a son of Cyrus Houghton. His father was born in Harvard, Worcester County, Mass., on a farm that had been in the possession of the Houghton family for si.x generations, his ancestors as far back as the records extend having been agriculturists. Cyrus Houghton married Miss Elizabeth S. Martin, who was born in Marblehead, Mass., but removed to Lynn in early life. They reared five children; namely, Harriet C, John C, Cyrus W. , S. Ellen, and George H.

Mr. Houghton was educated in the public schools of Lynn and at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and began the active duties of life as a teacher, engaging in that profession in Lynn for six years. In 1855 he entered a shoe factory, and for the next twenty-two years he was engaged in the shoe business, being connected with Lynn firms. He has always held a rank among the leading, public-spirited, and useful citizens of the place, and has devoted himself to its interests and advancement. In 1858 he was a member of the Common Council, and from 1863 till 1870 was one of the School Committee, one year of the time being secretary of the board. For ten years, from 1858 to 1868, he was on the Pine Grove Cemetery Commission. He belongs to the Lynn Historical Society, and he has been one of the most enthusiastic members of the Exploring Circle of Lynn ever since its formation in 1850.

In politics Mr. Houghton is a faithful adherent of the Republican party. He represented Lynn in the State legislature in 1865 and in 1867, serving as a member of the Educational Committee in the first term, and the last term as one of the Committee on Roads and Bridges. In 1877 he was chosen to his present responsible position, for which his literary qualifications and administrative ability eminently fit him: and he has since filled the office with credit to himself and to the honor of the city. Previous to being appointed librarian, he had served as one of the trustees of the library for fourteen years, or from the date of its organization, making thirty-four consecutive years for which he has been connected with this institution. When sixteen years old he united with the South Street Methodist Church, of which he is a trustee, and for fifty-eight years has been one of its active and valued members.

Mr. Houghton married June 5, 1850, Miss Susan Maria Tufts, of Lynn, a daughter of Deacon Richard Tufts. Mr. and Mrs. Houghton have had four children, of whom but one, Rodney W. Houghton, is now living.

L^ V^ ^ Bank, was born in Rockport, September 3, 1840, son of the Rev. Nathaniel and Martha P. (Tarr) Richardson. The Richardsons are of English origin, and are connected with the Peregrine White stock. The

Rev. Nathaniel Richardson, a Congregational clergyman, who was also a native of Rockport, died December 3, 1896, aged ninety years. His wife's grandfather, Jabez Tarr, was a Revolutionary soldier, and participated in the battle of Bunker Hill.

Nathaniel Richardson, Jr., acquired his education in the different towns of New England to which his father was called during his educational ])eriod. When he was twentyone years of age he returned to Rockport to live. From here on P'ebruary 26, 1864, he enlisted for service in the Civil War. He was enrolled in Company G, Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which regiment was incorporated with the Ninth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. During the year he spent in the service he took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and some minor engagements, and was promoted to the rank of Corporal. ]?y that time the hardships of army life had undermined his health to such an extent that he was discharged for disability. On returning to civil life he was unable to work for some time. When his health began to mend, he engaged as clerk for an uncle named William Pickett, who was in trade in Waterbury, Conn., and with whom he remained about two years. He was then for two years a clerk for Daniel A. Wheeler, of Rockport, and a clerk in the Rockport Granite Company's store for three years. Then for twenty-two years he was in the grocery business in Rockport. In 1885 a savings institution, called the Granite Savings Bank, was started in connection with the grocery store, and Mr. Richardson was elected its treasurer. In the spring of 1S95 he closed up his grocery business, since which he has given his whole attention to the business of the bank.

Nathaniel Richardson

ried to Laura E. Witham, of Rockport, daughter of the late William Witham. They have had four children, - Ethel M., Henry A., Elsie G., and Arthur S. Arthur S. Richardson died in 1884. A Republican in politics, Mr. Richardson represented Ruckport in the General Court of Massachusetts in 1881. For two years he was the secretary of the Rockport Board of Selectmen, and he is now serving his fourth year on the School Committee. An esteemed comrade of O. W. Wallace Post, No. 106, G. A. R., he has been Commander of the post for one year. He is also a member of the Order of the Golden Cross. The Rockport Baptist church has had the advantage of his services in the capacity of treasurer for twenty-eight years and in that of superintendent of the Sunday-school for eighteen years.

^i^ ^ rence twenty-seven years and more, was born in Barre, Washington County, Vt., November 10, 1832. His j^arents were the Rev. Nathan W. and Dorothy Bean (Phillips) Scott. His paternal grandparents, Luther and Esther (Whitney) Scott, were natives of Vermont, and lived in Hartford, Windsor County, that State, for a number of years.