Essex Town (part 15 of 26)

On June 13, 1 866, Mr. Marsh was married to Sarah K. King, of Saco, Me., a descendant of the noted King family that produced Governor King, of Maine, Rufus King, who was United States Minister to England, and other well-known men. Seven children have been born of this union, five of whom are living. The latter are: Stephen E. , William A., Alice M., Charles L., and Frank M. Alice is now the wife of T. C. Crowther, of Lynn. Mr. Marsh is a charter member and for five years was the treasurer of Sagamore Tribe of Red Men, No. 12. He is also a member of Providence Lodge, No. 171, I. O. O. F. , and of Palestine Encampment, No. 37. I'"rom 1887 to 1889 and from 1895 to 1896 he was a member of the Lynn Common Council. Upon the organization of the ]5oard of Aldermen for this year he was assigned to the Committees on Water Supply, .Street Lighting, and l'2n- of Thomas C. and Martha T. (Carter) Mills. The father, who is a native of Concord, N.H., has followed agriculture in l?ovv since he was a young man, and is still residing there. The mother was born in Bow, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Robertson) Carter, of the same town. Colonel John Carter, great-grandfather of Henry James, served as an officer in the Revolution and in the War of 1S12.

Henry' James Mills has resided in East Saugus since 1865, and was educated in the public schools of this town. At the age of eighteen he took a position as clerk in a general store conducted by Mrs. Martha B. Hawkes, with whom he remained until her death in 1885. Then he purchased the business, and has since carried it on energetically and with success. Although a Republican in politics, he was appointed Postmaster by President Cleveland in 1885, and has since held office under the different administrations. He has been a member of the School l^oard for the past eight years, and is now its secretary. An attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church, he is one of its trustees.

Mr. Mills was made a Mason in William Sutton Lodge, of Saugus, in 1875. Since then he has advanced to the Thirty-second degree. He was Worshipful Master of the Blue Lodge in 1882 and 1883; was Most Excellent High Priest of Sutton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Lynn, in 1889 and 1890; and is connected with Melrose Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Maiden; Olivet Commandery. Knights Templar, of Lynn; Boston Lodge of Perfection; Mount Olivet Chapter of the Rose Croi.v, Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem; and the Massachusetts Consistory. In 1887 he was appointed, by Grand Master Henry Endicott, Deputy Grand Master for the Seventh Masonic District, a position which he occupied for three years; and he served as Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1895. He is also a trustee of the real estate and charity fund of William Sutton Lodge, and is secretary and treasurer of the District Deputy Grand Masters' Association of Massachusetts.

;;^OHN F. GARDINER, e.x-City Marshal of the city of Newburyport, was born in Franccstown, Hillsboro County, N.H., April 15, 1829. The father, with two brothers, came from Charlestown, Mass., where they had been employed in the navyyard ropewalk. The father bought a farm in Francestown, and lived there during the remainder of his life, dying at the age of fifty years. His wife died in 1873. She was Miriam, daughter of Stephen Davis, of West Amesbury, and a neighbor of Horace Greeley. Of their five children, John F. and Stei)hen D. are living. In 1861 Stephen D. enlisted as Sergeant for three months in Company A, Eighth Regiment, which went from Newburyport at the first call. Upon his return he recnlisted and was promoted to the rank of Captain of the same company, going through Baltimore with Butler just after the Sixth. Subsequently he was a patrolman for twentyfour years, during which period he refused promotion. He died June 25, 1894.

Mr. Coleman left New bury port to become the superintendent of the Metropolitan Railroad in Boston, young Gardiner went with him as driver, in which position he remained for nine years. On April 27, 186S, he became a patrolman, was rapidly promoted, holding the position of Sergeant for three years and that of Lieutenant for twenty-seven years. In the fall of 1894 he returned to Newburyport, and was almost immediately elected City Marshal, in which capacity he served for two years. Mr. Gardiner married, and has a son in the West, another residing in Haverhill, and a daughter at home.

/^TTrDNER S. morse, an enter- \ 5T prising general merchant of West Bo.xford and a Civil War veteran, was born in this town, October 14, 1837, son of Samuel and JVIary (Parker) Morse. The grandfather, also named Samuel Morse, who was a native of Maine, followed the business of truckman in early life. Later he became a shoemaker, and passed his last years in Bo.xford. The father was born in Industry, Me. During the active period of his life he was a shoemaker in this town and vicinity. Possessing considerable natural ability outside of his legitimate calling, he was elected to some of the important town offices, and rendered valuable service to the community. He died at the age of seventy-two years. Mary Morse, his wife, who was a daughter of Jacob C. Parker, became the mother of eight children ; namely, Charlotte N., Pxiwin C. , Sylvester P., Henry M., Mary K., Gardner S., Herbert C, and Susan A. The living are: Charlotte N., who resides in Georgetown, Mass. ; Sylvester P., of Bradford, Mass. ; Henry M., now in Colorado; and Gardner S., the subject of this sketch. It is much to the credit of this

Gardner S. Morse began his education in the district schools. After completing his studies at Atkinson Academy, he went to Haverhill, where he lived until the breaking out of the Civil War. In i86i he enlisted in Comjjauy ¥, Seventeenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, of which he was appointed Sergeant. In the service he was struck in the shoulder by a piece of a shell. Having recovered from the wound, he rejoined his company, and thereafter remained with it until honorably discharged at the expiration of three years and three months. Afterward for about eight years he followed the business of photographer in the coal districts of Pennsylvania. Upon his return to Massachusetts he taught school two years. Since 1S87 he has conducted a general store in West Bo.xford.

Mr. Morse married Mary E. Sager, a native of Pennsylvania. He has no children. He has served with ability as superintendent of schools and upon the School Committee, and was a member of the State legislature in 1893. An honorary membcrshiii connects him with the Junior Order of Ameiican Mechanics, and he was one of the organizers of Post No. 5, G. A. R., of Lynn, and was its third Commander. Mr. Morse is now a comrade of I'ost No. 108, of Georgetown. In politics he is a Republican. He cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in i860.

fff^OSHUA BRAGDON, a well-known box manufacturer of Danversjiort, was born in Cornish, Me., March 21, 181S, son of Joshua and Lavinia (Brooks) Bragdon. When he was ten years old his father removed to Wells, Me., the parents' native town.

Gardner S. Morse

wliere young Joshua lived until he was sixteen. Then he went to Lynn and bound himself to Mr. Buffum in the lumber and mill business for one year, for the sum of one hundred dollars and his board. At the end of the year his duties and responsibilities were increased, and his salary raised. The running of the planing machine was in his charge, and he also kept the books. When Mr. Buffum sold out his business in Lynn, and started in Salem, Mr. Bragdon went with him, taking entire charge of the new enterprise. In 1853 he came to Danversport and engaged in the same business in company with his brother Nathaniel and James Staples. The firm lost Mr. Staples by his death in 18G0. It had an extensive business in the manufacture of bo.xes. Finally it sold the lumber and planing business, restricting itself thereafter to box-making, in wiiich it was very successful. Mr. ]5ragdon also owned two vessels. He sold his box manufacturing interest in 1879 to Woodman ]?rothers & Ross, and has since lived retired.

Since 1879 ^'''"- I^rag'tlo'i 'i^s served for twelve years on the Board of Selectmen. During one term, in which was adopted the water-works system, the original cost of which was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, he was chairman of the board. In that period, also, extensive road improvements were made by the Telford system, especially upon the Danversport turnpike, where a poor road was converted into a substantial one. Having been for sixteen years a Justice of the Peace, he is now holding his third commission. He has been a trustee of the Danvcrs Savings Bank for twenty-five years, was a vice-president of it for five years, and served for several years on its Investment Committee. Mr. Bragdon is a Republican in politics, and takes much interest in the welfare of his town.

In 1840 he married Isabel Littlefield, of Wells, Me., who died in Danvers in 1864. A second marriage in 1865 united him with Mary Frances Twiss, of Beverly, his present wife. Born of the first marriage were: Charles Edward, who died at the age of four and a half years; and Clara A., who died in her twelfth year. His second wife has adopted a daughter, Ida Twiss Bragdon, who is a music teacher. Mrs. Bragdon is a teacher in the Congregational church Sunday-school and a regular attendant of the church. Mr. Bragdon is a member of the Mosaic Lodge, F. & A. M., of Danvers, and has been connected with the fraternity for over thirty years.

one of the foremost contractors and builders of Lynn, was born April 23, 1822, in Effingham, N.H., son of Alvah Dearborn. His grandfather, James Dearborn, who was a native of Greenland, N.H., fought for independence in the Revolution. The father, a native of Lee, N.H., born in September, 179S, who died in Saiigiis, Mass., in 1869, served in the War of 1812. He married Sarah Leavitt, who was born and reared in Effingham, N.H. They became the parents of five children; namely, Carr L., James W., Benjamin, Adoniram J., and Sarah L. James W. Dearborn completed his school period at the age of sixteen years in North Hampton, N.H. In 1841 he came to Lynn in search of employment, and afterward worked at various occupations in this locality for three years. Going then to Salem, he was employed in a chemical factory for three years. The following year was similarly spent in Roxbury. He subsequently learned the trade of mason in Andover with Hiram Tuttle, and for two or three years after fol- lowed it in Salem and Saiigus. Having settled permanently in Lynn in 1866, he and his brothers, Iknjamin and Adoniram J., in the firm Dearborn I5rothers, have since carried on an extensive and flourishing business as contractors and builders. He has acquired a wide reputation for substantial and durable work, and is often called upon to superintend the erection of buildings in other cities. After the great fire in Portland, Me., he put up seven large structures. Likewise he erected many buildings in St. John, N.B , after that city had been devastated by fire. Among other public buildings of note erected by him is Kent's Hill College, in Augusta, Me.

In 1890 Mr. Dearborn was a member of the Board of Aldermen, serving efficiently in the Committees on Street Lighting, Public Property, and Police, being the chairman of the second committee. In 1897 he was a member of the Common Council, in which he was assigned to the Committees on Sprinkling and Incidental P^xpenses. A straight Republican in politics, he is a member of .the West Lynn Republican Club. He is also a member of West Lynn Lodge, No. 65, I. O. O. F. In Masonry he has taken the thirty-second degree, and belongs to William Sutton Lodge, of Saugus; Sutton Chapter, R. A. M., of Lynn; Mount Olivet Commandery, K. T., of Lynn; Lafayette Lodge of Perfection and Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem, both of Boiiton; and to the Massachusetts Consistory. He supports all measures tending to advance the moral and material welfare of the community. A faithful member of the South Street Methodist Church, he is one of its trustees, and serves on its ]?oard of Managers. In 1843 he married Miss Clara H. ILstcs, of Salem, Mass., who died in June, 18S4. Of their eight children, but two arc living.

namely: Clara IL, who is the wife of the late William T. Parker; and Benjamin A. Dearborn. A second marriage on April 20, 18S7, united Mr. Dearborn with Miss Mary E. Webster, of Lynn.

Aptain John M. Anderson

APTAIN JOHN M. ANDERSON, a former Harbor Master of Gloucester, was born in Bergen, Norway, on September 27, 1825, son of Andrew and Caroline (Dahll) Anderson. His father was taken prisoner by the English during the trouble between luigland ami Denmark, and was held by them for five years in Dartmouth Prison.

Captain Anderson received his early education in the common schools of Norway. When his father died he was- obliged to leave school and become self-supporting, being then about fifteen years old. Naturally his thoughts turned to the sea as a means of livelihood; and he secured a berth as cabin boy on the "Olaf Cyre," which was bound to New York with passengers. After two years spent as cabin boy and ordinary seaman he came to Gloucester. Here he attended the public schools, and at the same time studied navigation. Some time later lack of funds obliged him to discontinue his studies for a space and take a fishing trip. After a short time he had saved siifficicnt money, not only to continue his studies, but to purchase an interest in a fishing-vessel. Disliking this business, he eventually sold his interest and made a present of the proceeds to his present wife. He then embarked for Surinam as second luate. Thereafter, until he became the master of a vessel, he sailed in the trades. When first officer of the "Manton," a bark owned by Edward ]?abson, of Gloucester, the vessel took fire while lying in the harbor of Surinam, and was burned to the water's edge. In 185S he was given command of the brig "Nereiis," owned by George B. Rogers, of Gloucester. With this vessel he made trips back and forth to Surinam until the slaves were freed in that country, when trade there became no longer profitable. As a consequence the " Nereus " was sold by her owners. During the Rebellion, Captain Anderson found opportunity to sail under the flag of Holland, making voyages to Liverpool, London, and other points, but not in command of the vessel. After the war he secured an appointment as first mate on the "R. A. Allen," hailing from Boston, and at the end of his first trip in her he was made captain by the owners. When starting on his first voyage as captain in this craft, he loaded with ice at Boston for New Orleans, and upon reaching that place reloaded with cotton for Providence. From Providence he was sent to Bangor, thence to Matanzas, from which he returned northward to Boston with sugar. After this trip he was given Cf)mmand of the "Mary E. Dana," which was chartered for a coasting voyage to Philadelphia. Subsequently he made several trips to Cuba in the "O. C. Clara," after which he had command of the "Poincett." On one of the return trips in the last named vessel, while the captain was ill of yellow fever, and the vessel was navigated by the mate, he suffered shipwreck on Nantucket Shoals, when the vessel and cargo were a total loss. The captain and crew escaped with their lives. The owners did not blame Captain Anderson for the disaster. After about three weeks of confinement on account of his illness, he received command of the "Acacia," which was owned by the same parties, he having a quarter interest. For the next ten years he visited in this vessel nearly every port in the North Atlantic. In 1SS3, he met with a severe accident that incapacitated him from further active service at sea. Accordingly he gave up his vessel and settled in Gloucester, engaging in the fishing trade. This, however, proving uncongenial to him, he soon sold out. Since then he has been very successfully engaged in the ship brokerage business. Captain Anderson served fifteen years as Harbor Master, and during the administration of Governor Russell he was appointed Port Warden of Gloucester.

Captain Anderson was married to Clara Prentice Saville, a daughter of Fritz and Lydia Ann (Stanwood) Saville. Of this union three children have been born - Clara, John E., and Oline. Clara, born in 1859, married Preston Friend, who is a book-keeper in Gloucester. She has one child, Louisa, who was born in 1877. John ]-:. Anderson, born in 1862, is in business with Davis Brothers in tiiis city. Oline, who was born in 1869, is the wife of Albert Maddocks, a druggist of Gloucester. She is the mother of three children, namely: Harold, who was born in 1889; Albert S., who was born in 1893; and Lelia P., who was born in 1S94. Captain Anderson is a member of Tyrian Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; of Martha Washington Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star; of the Boston Marine Society; and of the Gloucester Historical Society.

HOMAS EMERSON COX, formerly a leading farmer of Lynnfield, was born on the home farm, July 28, 181 3, son of Benjamin and Clarissa (Eir.erson) Cox. The father, who came to Lynnfield from Boston when only eight years of age, lived with Deacon Evans for six years. At the age of fourteen he began to learn the shoemaker's trade from Joshua Burnham in the house that was afterward his son's home. After finishing his apprenticeship he remained in Mr. Burnham's employ until he was twenty-two years of age. Then he married and removed to South Reading, the home of his wife's parents. Returning to Lynnfield in 1S12, he bought of Mr. Burnham the place in which he had served his apprenticeship, and which had been mortgaged. In 1824 he added forty acres to the estate, which originally contained some sixty acres. The old house, erected prol)al)ly before the Revolution, is still standing, though it has received additions. Benjamin Cox carried on farming, and at the same time did considerable work at his trade. He died on March 3, 1S73, at the age of ninety-one. His wife, who survived him, died on January 17, 1SS9, at the advanced age of one hundred and one years and three months. Their family comprised eleven children, five of whom are still living; namely, Thomas E., Hubbard, George, Hannah, and Harriet. Hubbard resides in Reading, and George at Wakefield. Hannah is now Mrs. Irenas W. Newcomb, and Harriet is Mrs. Charles Leonard Bayrd, of Wakefield. Clarissa, who married Reuben Weston, of Reading, recently died at the age of ninetyone.

Tliomas Emerson Cox grew to manhood on the farm, and learned the shoemaker's trade with his father. After working for a few months in Cambridge he went to Hartford and suhsetpiently to Union, Conn. Later he returned to Massachusetts, but soon went to Maine, spending two or three years in .Saccarappa and Portland. Returning then to his native town, he took up his residence at the farm, and in 1857 increased the estate by buying a tract of one hundred and twenty acres, much of it being woodland. lJ]ion the death of his father he bouirht out the interest of the other heirs, and now owns about three hundred acres. While carrying on general farming, he devotes the greater part of his time to milk producing; and since 1881 his son, Thomas E., Jr., has given his time to the farm management. On October 6, 1839, Mr. Cox was married to Lucy, daughter of William and Sally (Burnham) Gould. Mrs. Gould, who was a daughter of Joshua Burnham, the original owner of the Co.x farm, was born and married in the old house. Lucy, now Mrs. Cox, was iiorn in South Reading on December 22, 18 18, and hence was twentyone years of age at the time of her marriage. She has been the mother of six children - Lucy Albina, Benjamin Franklin, Abbie Jane, Caroline Pamelia, Henry Bancroft, and Thomas Emerson. Lucy Albina, who is unmarried, resides with her parents. Benjamin F. and Henry B. dietl in childhood. Abbic Jane was instantly killed at the age of nineteen on an occasion when her horse, taking fright, jumped upon a railroad track in front of an on-coming train. Caroline P. is Mrs. Everett Noyes, of Wakefield. Thomas E. Cox, Jr., who resides on the farm, married Elizabeth Rebecca Leavis, of Wakefield, a lady of English birth. They have two children - Harold Childs and Ralph I'.merson Cox. Their son, Thomas iLmerson, died at the age of sixteen montiis. In politics Mr. Cox, Sr., was a stanch Democrat, and he faithfully atteudcd and supported the Universalist church at Wakefield. He died May 7, 1898.

§011N ]\. JUDKINS, founder of the carriage-building house of J. B. Judkins & .Sons Company, was horn in Freedom, N. IL, in 1S35, son of John and Mary (Lovcring) Judkins. His grandfather was Samuel Judkins, who held a Major's com- mission in the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. The grandfather was a prosperous farmer of Freedom, N.H., where he died at the age of forty-five; and each of his sons - John, Peter, and Daniel - inherited a farm. John Judkins, father of John B., settled in Melrose in 1855, and retired from business.

In 1852 John H. Judkins came to Merrimac (then West Amesbury), and at the age of seventeen began an apprenticeship of five years as a carriage-trimmer. In 1857 he commenced the manufacture of carriages, which he continued in several different factories in the town until 1866, when the factory now occupied by the Judkins Company, and which has been enlarged several times to accommodate the steady increase of business, was erected. The present, company was incorporated in 1891 with Mr. John B. Judkins as president; F. B. Judkins, treasurer; and C. H. Judkins, secretary. In 1884 Mr. Judkins was elected to represent the towns of Amesbury, Merrimac, and West Newbury in the legislature, and was appointed on the Committee of Manufactures. He has been for many years a director of the First National Bank, and also vice-president and trustee of the Merrimac Savings Bank. He has been identified with the Masonic and Odd P'ellowship interests of the town for tiie past quarter of a century. Mr. Judkins married Laura J. Haskell, daughter of William H. Haskell, one of the most prominent citizens and leading business men of the town.

OMAS H. LORD, a grocer of Ipswich, is one of the best known business men of the place. Born here March 3, 1829, son of Asa Lord, he is of good old English ancestry, the first of the

Asa Lord, whose father, Asa, was drowned at sea when he was a young man, was born and reared in Ipswich. Besides working at his trade of shoemaker he was also engaged in a mercantile business. In 1825 he opened a store on the site of the present grocery, not far from Lord Square, and having his dwelling, shop, and store connected. Besides conducting these he was interested in the coast trade as part owner of vessels bringing lumber from Maine ports. He lived to the good age of ninety-one years, passing away in October, 1890, having been able until the previous year to be in the store most of the time. He married Abigail II. Hodgkins, a daughter of Captain John Hodgkins, .who, now in her ninety-seventh year, has been confined to the house for some time. Asa was not active in politics. While he was a regular attendant of the First Congregational Church, his religious beliefs more nearly coincided with the Universalist creed. He was an extensive reader, keeping well informed on the current topics of the day. To him and his wife were born the following children: Lucy Ann, a maiden lady, who lives with her mother; Thomas H., the special subject of this sketch; two children that died in infai'cy; and Mary Abbic, who died in 1886, and was Lhe wife of John A. Brown, of Ipswich.

Thomas H. Lord began to serve as clerk in his father's store when a boy. At the age of nineteen he received charge of the books. Of late years he has had entire charge of the business which, until the death of the father, was carried on under the name of Asa Lord. As a man of integrity, straightforward character and purpose, he has won the confidence of all with whom he has had dealings, and is respected throughout the comnuuiity. A stanch Republican in politics, he is active ill the party, attending most of the local conventions. From 1865 until 1872 he served as Selectman, Overseer, and Assessor, and one term in the same capacity since then. He is a member of the First Congregational Church, toward the support of which he contributes liberally.

Mr. Lord was married November 13, 1S59, to Miss Lucretia Smith, who was born in Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Lord have no children of their own. An adopted daughter, Anna Louise Lord, has been a member of their family since she was four years old. She graduated from the Manning High School and later, in 1890, from Wellcsley College. Subsequently she taught in Indianapolis, and was for three years a teacher of modern languages in the University of Denver, Colorado. She has spent two years abroad in the Universities of Leipsic and Gottingen, pursuing her special work, Germanic philology. Miss Lord is now in the high school at Jersey City, where she is the teacher of the German language.

Ll^' \^ ^ nity of Essex County and a prominent citizen of Lynn, is noted for his mental attainments, professional ability, and literary accomjilishments. He was born November i, 1843, in Lynnfield, formerly a part of Lynn, a son of Nathan D. Hawkes. He comes of a long line of honored and distinguished ancestry, being an eighth generation descendant of Adam Ilawkes, who was born in T-"ngland in 1608, came to America with Winthrop in 1630, and died in Lynn in ifjyt. In 1631 he married Ann Hutchinson, by whom he had two children - John and Susanna. (.Susanna married in 1649 William Cogswell, of Ipswich.) After her death he married Sarah Hooper, by whom he had one daughter, Sarah. Adam Hawkes first located in Charlestown. In 1638, at the time of the first division of lands in Lynn, he received a grant of one hundred acres, and settled in that part of Lynn now known as North Saugus, on the homestead which has since been in the family, descending from one generation to another in unbroken succession. His son John, the first male member of the family horn in America, was born in 1633, and died in 1694. - He first married in 1658 Rebecca, daughter of Moses Maverick, the first magistrate of Marblehead, and Sarah (Allerton) Maverick, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton, who came over in the "Mayflower," and for his second wife married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Cushman, Ruling Elder of I'lymouth, and his wife, Mary, who was also the daughter of Isaac Allerton.

Moses Hawkes, the next in line f)f descent, was born in Lynn on November 29, 1659, and died there February i, 1709. On May 10, 169S, he married Margaret Cogswell, of Ipswich, this county; and their eldest child, Moses Hawkes, the second, born on March 4, 1699, was the succeeding progenitor. He was a man of prominence in his day and one of the original founders of the town of Saugus. On April 9, 1730, he married Susanna Townsend, a relative of Daniel Townsend, a minute-man, who was killed by the l!ritish at Lexington, April 19, 1775. Tiieir son Nathan, who was born in Lynn, July i, 1745, and died in Saugus, October 17, 1824, was the great-grandfather of Nathan M. Hawkes, the special subject of this sketch. He was very active in tlie management of town affairs, serving as Selectman in 1805, 1806, and 1S07, during the contention between tlie town and the First Parish as to the use of the old Tunnel Meeting-house, and was for several years parish clerk. He was one of the leading petitioners for the formation of the towns of Lynnfield and Saugus. On September 3, 1769, he married Sarah Hitchings, a descendant of Daniel Hitchings, a soldier in King Philip's War, who held the title to his lands under a deed from the Indian Sagamores. Nathan Ilawkes was Ensign of Captain David Parker's company of Lynn minute-men at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; and his great-grandson has the sword which he wore on that day of days, and under the sword stands the chair in which he sat when he told the story of how

Nathan Hawkes, the second, grandfather of Nathan M., was born in that part of Lynn now Saugus, January 22, 1775, and died in Saugus, August 22, 1862. On January 22, 1805, he married Elizabeth Tarbell, a daughter of Jonathan Tarbell, a minute-man of Danvers, whi was at the battle of Lexington, April ig, 1775, and a descendant of John Tarbell, of Salem Village, the leader in removing the Rev. Samuel Parris from his pastorate of the Salem Village Church after the witchcraft trials of 1692.

Nathan D. Hawkes was born in Lynn, May 4, 181 1, and died in that city, April 23, 1S50. On November 10, 1842, he married Tacy Pratt Hawkes, daughter of Ahijah and Theodate (Pratt) Hawkes, who was born on the old Hawkes homestead, which has been in the family since it came into the possession of the immigrant ancestor, Adam Hawkes, in 1638.

Nathan M. Hawkes acquired his early education in the public schools of Lynn, and was graduated from the Friends' School in Providence, R.I., in 1861. He immediately began to read law in the ofifice of Perry & Endicott, of Salem, and on the twenty-first anniversary of his birth, November i, 1864, was, on motion of Judge Endicott, admitted to the Esse.x County bar. He has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, and in local affairs has been prominently identified with the highest interests of his city, county, and State. From 1867 until 1879 he was Special Justice of the Lynn Police Court. From 1869 until 1872, inclusive, he was a member of the Common Council of Lynn, three years of the time being president of the board. He was also a member of the School Committee and a trustee of the public library.

In 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878 he was a member of the General Court, and in 1879 was State Senator. At present he is a member of the Lynn Park Commission, which controls the Lynn Woods, that the late Charles Eliot called "the largest and most interesting, because the wildest, public domain in all New England." He is also a member of a commission appointed by the City Council, consisting of the Mayor, the City Clerk, and himself, to secure the publication of the early records of the town.

He has ever been deeply interested in literary pursuits, and his frequent contributions to the press have proved a source of pleasure to innumerable readers. In 1S87 and 1888 the Boston i?^c:^;v/ published a series of sketches entitled, "The Best Town to live in." Mr. Hawkes showed his appreciation of his native town by writing an article setting forth the natural and acquired charms of Lynnfield and its desirability as a place of residence. He has since published a work entitled, "In Lynn Woods with Pen and Camera, 1893." The Esse.x Institute has also published his "Gleanings Relative to the Family of Adam

Havvkes" and "Semi -historical Rambles among the lughteenth-century Places along the Saiigus River." The Magazine of Avurican History and the New Engiatid Magazine have printed some of Mr. Hawkes's local historical studies, including "The Lynn Iron Works" and "Captain Robert ISridges, Founder of the Iron Works."

He is a forcible and eloquent speaker, and is often called upon in this capacity on public occasions. Many of his addresses of this character have been published, among them being an "Address at the Dedication of the New Town Hall " at Lynnfield, January 28, 1892; an address delivered before the Essex Agricultural Society at Haverhill, Mass., September 21, 1S93; a memorial address commemorative of James Robinson Newhall, given before the Lynn Press Association, January 17, 1894; and an address delivered before the Bay State Lodge, No. 40, I. O. O. F. , on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Mr. Hawkes is the holder in fee of one bit of real estate in Lynnfield, which has to him a peculiar interest. It is the little enclosure which contains the mortal remains of some of his kin, including his great-grandfather, Jonathan Tarbell, the Danvers minute-man, who was on Lexington Green, A])ril 19, 1775.

Mr. Hawkes was married December 2, 1867, to Mary, daughter of Benajah and Cynthia Buffum, of North Berwick, Me., at tlie Buffum homestead. They have one child, Alice Hawkes.

Mr. Hawkes is a member of the Essex Institute and of the New England Historic- Genealogical Society, his taste for historic research and investigation making him a most desirable member of each. He is an Odd I-'ellow, belonging to the Bay State Lodge, No. 40, I. O. O. F., of which he is a Past Grand. He was a charter member of the

Since the immigrant Englishman, Adam Hawkes, pitched his tent in the wilderness outskirts of Lynn, each succeeding generation to the time of the subject of this sketch has tilled the soil on the baiiks of Saugus River; and possibly he, too, looks with longing ej'cs upon the scenes familiar to his fathers, and craves the serenity of rural life that may come after the treadmill drudgery of office work is over.

/ SJeORGE CANNING HOWARD, \J5 I M.D., a popular physician of Lawrence and a son of Samuel and Amanda (King) Howard, was born in Pomfret, Windsor County, Vt., August 24, 1840. The paternal grandfather, Adam Howard, who was born in the town of Braintree, Mass., enlisted as a soklicr in the Revolutionary army when a youth. His brother, Benoni, who settled in Connecticut, also served in the Revolution. Separated by the war, neither knew whether the other was alive or dead when it was over. On his release from military service, Adam, taking a pack on his back, walked to Vermont, crossing the Connecticut River at Lebanon or West Lebanon. He was urged to settle at West Hartford; but, the land being too level to suit him, he sought the hilly part of the State, purchasing a tract of timber land in Pomfret. At his death he was about fourscore. He married a Miss Polly Mann, of Randoljjh, Mass., who is buried with him in the family cemetery on the old farm. They reared a family of six sons and three daughters. Of these, two settled in St. Lawrence County, New York. Four stayed in Pomfret, Samuel and Seth remaining on the old home-

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Stead, and Benoni and Daniel making settlements on either side. The first of the family to pass away was Adam, Jr., who died in Messina, N. Y., at the age of forty.

Samuel Howard, born in Pomfret, June 15, 1800, was engaged during his active life in farming on the homestead. He died February 24, 1874. In 1825 he was married to Amanda King, also a native of Pomfret, born in March, 1S07. She died January 20, 1875, eleven months after her husband's demise and at exactly the same hour of the day. Both rest in the Pomfret cemetery. They were members of the Methodist lipiscopal church. All their children, two sons and six daughters, attained maturity, and were well educated; and all but the youngest married. August in S., having graduated from Dartmouth in 1858, went West in 1861, obtained a diploma from the law department of Ann Arbor College in 1862, and settled on a tract of land. The daughters living are: Jane, the wife of Chauucy Childs, who lives in Pomfret; Ann, the widow of Carlos Tenuey, residing in Hartfonl, Vt. ; and Emma, the wife of Austin Howard (no relation), residing in West Hartford.

George Canning Howard was a student at the New London (N. H.) Academy, one of the oldest institutions in the State. During the Civil War, from P'ebruary, 1863, to June, 1865, he served in the medical department of the Union army. Graduating from the medical department of Dartmouth College in 1865, he began to practise almost immediately in North Attleboro, Mass. Three years later he went to Salem, N.H., where he was in active professional work for thirteen years. In July, 1882, he opened an office on the corner of Jackson and Essex Streets, Lawrence, where he is still to be found during office hours. He has a large practice, and is highly esteemed in this city. His handsome residence at 145 Haverhill Street was purchased by him in 1887.

On September 5, 1865, he was married to Georgiana Smith, of North Attleboro, daughter of Isaac and Georgiana (Butterfield) Smith. Mr. Smith kept a country store in early life, and was later in the jewelry business in Boston with W. D. Whiting, the husband of his wife's sister. He died in 1854, leaving, besides a widow, Georgiana, who was then eight years old. Dr. and Mrs. Howard have two children - Florence and Fred A. The former is the wife of James Hasbrouck Le Fevre, who is a son of a Presbyterian clergyman in New Jersey, comes of Huguenot descent, and is the superintendent of the rolling-mill of the Pennsylvania Steel Company at Steelton, Pa. Fred A. Howard is the superintendent in a manufactory of sterling silverware in North Attleboro, Mass. The Doctor is a stanch Republican and sound money man. He is a Knight Templar of Bethany Connnandery, Lawrence; a member of Phoenician Lodge of Lawrence, Mass.; and he was D. D. G. M. of the Second Masonic District of New Hampshire in 1881 and 1SS2. Both he and his family attend divine worship at Grace Episcopal Church.

'sffOII'^ FRENCH JOHNSON, stationer, t)ne of the leading business men of Amcsbury, was born in this town, September 22, 1845, a son of F-leazer A. and Mary A. (I'Vench) Johnson. He is connected with many of the old families of Massachusetts and of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, among which may be named the Weares, the Austins, the Bartletts, the Dows, the P'renches, the Greens, the Greenleafs, the Morrills, the Storys, the Coffins, and the Cur- ricrs. On the paternal side he is a descendant in the ninth generation of Captain Edward Johnson, who was born in Canterbury, England, in 1599, and with his family settled in VVoburn, Mass., in 1636.

A prominent figure in Church and State, Edward Johnson was a man of unusual literary habits and attainments. He wrote the first history of New England published, an account of the colonies from 1628 to 1650. A member of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts for a number of terms, he was Speaker of the Mouse one term. He was Captain of the train band at Woburn and one of the original twenty-four members who in 1637 formed the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He had seven children, all born in Canterbury. His son Edward died in Woburn in 1692.

Edward Johnson, Jr., was married early in 1650 to Catherine Baker, who bore him four children. Edward, third, son of Edward and Catherine (Ikiker) Johnson, was born in Woburn in November, 1650. He was Captain of a company that took [hUt in the early Colonial wars. He married Miriam Holbrooke, by whom he had five children. His daughter Susanna represents the fourth generation in the direct line connecting the subject of this sketch with the immigrant ancestor above named. Susanna Johnson married Captain lileazer Johnson, who was of the third generation in descent from another immigrant ancestor, William Johnson, counting down from whom John French Johnson is eighth in the male line.

William Johnson was born in Canterbury, England, in 1C02, and died in Charlestown, Mass., in 1677. He lived to see one hundred and twenty towns settled, with a quota of si.xteen thousand fighting men. He was married in 1632-34 to Elizabeth Story, and by

His son Isaac, born in Charlestown in 1649, fought in King William's War (1688), when the Indian allies of the French made such savage raids on the settlements in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He died in Charlestown in 171 I. Isaac Johnson was married in 1671 to Mary Stone. Their son. Captain Eleazer Johnson, was born in Charlestown in 1676. A master mariner, he made many long and successful voyages, and acquired considerable wealth. He died in Charlestown, Mass., at the advanced age of ninety-two. His marriage to Susanna Johnson took place in 1698.

Their son Eleazer, Jr., representing the fifth generation from Cajjtain Edward and the fourth from William Johnson, the pioneers of the family, was born in Charlestown in 1699. Married to Elizabeth Austin in 1722, he had a family of seven children, one being a son, Isaac, second, who was born in Charlestown in 1729, and whcjse house in that place was tiestroyed during the battle of Bunker Hill. His jjrother or, more probably, his eUlest son, Eleazer, a lad in his teens, was taken prisoner at that time and carried to New York. He died in the Jersey prison .ship in New York Harbor. Isaac Johnson, second, was married to Elizabeth Cofifin in 1760. He died in Newburyport in 1S17.

Daniel C. Johnson, son of Isaac ami Elizabeth, and grandfather of John FVench Johnson, was born in Newburyport in 1770. He was a man of modest, retiring disposition; and, aside from his jirivate affairs, his chief interest centred in his church, in which he was prominent all his life. He died in 1828. Daniel C. Johnson was married in 1794 to Sally Avery. He had a family of nine children, Eleazer A. being the eldest son.

Eleazer A. Johnson was born in Newburyport in 1797. For a number of years he was engaged in manufacturing shoes, and he was connected with the Amesbury woollen-mills for more than a quarter of a century. A man of deep religious feeling, he devoted much of his time to religious affairs, and was Deacon of the Congregational church in Amesbury forty years. He died in 1885. Deacon Johnson was married to Ruth Butler in 1821 and to Mary A. French, above named, in 1838. Through his mother Mr. John F. Johnson is eighth in line of descent from Ensign Abraham Morrill, who came to this country in 163S. The six intervening generations are represented respectively by the Hon. Isaac Morrill, Jacob Morrill, Elizabeth Morrill, Jacob Barnard, Sarah Barnard, and Mary French.

John French Johnson is one of a family of ten children. He was educated in the public schools of Amesbury and Davis Academy. After leaving school he entered the employ of Scribner's Sons & Co. in New York City, with whom he remained ten years. Returning then to Amesbury, he bought out a small stationery and book store on Main Street, a few doors from his present place of business. He had a constant and rapid increase in trade; and four years ago, his old store being too small, he moved to his present commodious quarters in the Hamilton Block. He carries a large stock, and has one of the best equipped stores of the kind in Essex County, occupying two floors ninety by eighteen feet. Mr. Johnson is a man of literary tastes, and has devoted much of his leisure in the past ten years to tracing the history of his family.

Mr. Johnson was married in 1876 to Frances A. Keniston, who died in 1895. He is a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, and enjoyed the famous European tour in the summer of 1896. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston, Mass. ; has been through the chairs in the subordinate lodges and the chapter; is Thrice Illustrious Master of the Amesbury Council, Royal and Select Masters; secretary of Trinity R. A. Chapter; and for twelve or more years has been Bast Commander of Newburyport Commandery, K. T. , the oldest commandery in this section, if not in the country. He is a charter member of Attitash Lodge, Ancient Order of Red Men, and has been trustee since the lodge was organized. He is also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, eligible through twentyeight distinct lines; of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society; and of the Bureau of American Ancestry. Actively interested in the welfare and progress of the community, he was a charter member of the Village Improvement Society and its first secretary; and he is now corresponding secretary of the society. He is also a member of the Wonnesquam Club, the leading and practically the only business and professional men's social club in Amesbury.

OHN C. M. BAYLEY, one of Newburyport's most prominent lawyers, was born in this city, July 8, 1850. He is a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of this part of Essex County. His great-grandfather Bayley and his grandfather Bayley both bore the name Robert. The former was a sea captain and a ship-owner. In war time a brother of the elder Robert fitted out many privateersmen.

eventful life. In the prosecution of his business, which was the importation of West India goods, he made many voyages to the West Indies. Upon one occasion, with fourteen companions, he resorted to the extraordinary expedient of allowing himself to be buried in the ground up to his neck in order to escape the contagion of a terrible fever that was devastating the land. During the War of 1 81 2, while on one of his voyages, the ship he was in was captured by a British frigate, and he was placed in irons and conveyed to Dartmouth Prison, where he was confined for six years. Starting in business alone, he afterward took his brother and son into the firm, which was then carried on under the style of Robert Bayley & Son. He was a Deacon in the Prospect Street Church, and was one of its most active and influential members. He married Abigail Chase.

Charles M. Bayley, son of Robert and Abigail (Chase) Bayley, went into the West India trade with his father, and made one hundred trips to the islands during the course of his life. He owned many vessels, and continued in business with his father until 1878. His death occurred in 1892. His wife, whose maiden name was Charlotte Clark, survives him. She is now eighty-four years of age. They had seven children, of whom four, including the subject of this sketch,' are still living.

John C. M. Bayley was educated in the public schools of Newburyport and at Dumnier Academy, Byfield, Mass. At the age of eighteen he went abroad, seeking to benefit his health, which had been poor for some time, and during his absence visited different parts of Europe, Calcutta, India, and other places. After his return, when twenty-five years of age, he began the study of law with Judge Pike, of Newburyport. Later on he was for one year the private secretary of Caleb Cushing, under whom he continued his legal studies. He had been admitted to the bar the year previous, 1878: and he was the law ])artner of Frank W. Hale for three years thereafter, or until Mr. Hale went to Colorado Springs. In 1886 Mr. Bayley became associated with General Benjamin F. Butler, with whom he was engaged in practice in Boston, enjoying with him the most friendly relations until the General's death. Since his return to Newburyport Mr. Bayley"s practice has consisted largely of mercantile and probate court work. He is also a member of the United States Court. A strong Republican, like the other members of his family, Mr. Bayley has been urgently requested to enter politics, but has declined. In earlier manhood, however, he was for three years a member of the Common Council, and he served as City Solicitor during the years 1882 and 1883.

On October 31, 1888, Mr. Bayley married Sarah Frances, daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah F. Colt, of Cohasset. He has three children, all girls, namely: Marion Hortense, who was born March 16, 1892; Charlotte Colt, born November 14, 1893; and Josephine Lawrence, born December 10, 1896.

chairman of Rockport's Board of Selectmen, was born here, September I, 1844. A son of Nathaniel F. S. and Frances A. (Hamilton) York, he is of linglish extraction on the paternal side and of Scotch on the mother's side. The father, who was born in Yarmouth, Me., came in his earlier years to Rockport, where he served the community for periods of varying length in the capacities of Selcctniiin, chairman of the Selectmen, a member of the School Board, and a Trial Justice. On the School Board he spent eighteen years, being the chairman for a part of that time. In politics he was a Republican, and took much interest in public affairs. A prominent member of Ashler Lodge, A. F". & A. M., at Rockport, he was its Master for several terms, and also served as chaplain for a time. By his death on March 7, 188S, Rockport lost a valued citizen. His wife, Frances A. York, was born on Chebeague Island, Cumberland County, Me., near Portland. Their other children are: Sumner D., who is at present Assistant District Attorney of Esse.x County, lives in Rockport, and has his law office in Gloucester; and Rebecca F., the widow of the late Howard Wheeler, of this place.

Charles F. York attended the public schools of Rockport, including the high school. Upon completing the course of the latter institution he entered French's Commercial College at Boston, Mass., from which he also graduated in due time. Subsequently for a period he studied law, which interested him as a science. In 1867 he engaged in the fishery business with the firm of John Low & Son, of Gloucester. Having spent several years with that firm, he was employed for three years by John Pew & Son, of that place, in the same line of business, for the greater part in the capacity of travelling salesman. Then he was a travelling salesman for Marshall & York; and later he was employed for several years by Parmenter & Co., both of which firms were fish dealers and packers in Gloucester. While still retaining an interest in the fishing business at Gloucester on a ommission basis, he afterward acquired a profitable connection as a local insurance agent, and represented a number of the standard companies.

On November i, 1871, Mr. York married Mariett, daughter of Amos and Martha Lufkin, of Rockport. Two sons have been born to them, namely: Charles F. York, Jr., now a graduate of the Harvard Dental School and engaged in business here in Rockport; and Amos C, living at home. Mr. York is practically a self-made man, having had to do for himself since he was about fourteen years of age. He is a Republican in politics. In 1894 he was first chosen a Selectman of Rockport. Re-elected in 1895 to serve until March, 1898, he has since been the chairman of the board. He has been a Justice of the Peace for some time. For six years he served as a trustee of the Rockport Public Library. He attends religious services at the Congregational Church of Rockport.

is one of the old and respected residents of Newbury, Mass. He was born in Dunbarton, N.H., June 27, 1835, a son of David Story and Abigail (Newman) Caldwell. He traces his descent from Alexander Caldwell, who was born in Ireland in 1690, and died in Litchfield, N. H., January 5, 1766. Alexander's wife, Margaret, was born in Ireland in 1709, and died January 6, 1791.

Their eldest son, Thomas, the next in line of descent, was born in Ireland in 1733, and died at Dunbarton, N.H., February 20, 1816. Thomas married in 1759 Elizabeth Holmes, who died March 23, 1805. Their children were: Mary, who married Thomas Mills; Margaret, who married John Mills, of Dunbarton; Alexander, second, who married Mary Moore, of Bedford; William, who married Thankful Burnham ; Betsey, who never married; and Thomas, Jr., who was born May

December 17, 1793, to Thankful Story, daughter of David Story and a relative of the renowned Judge Story. She was born in Ipswich, Mass., in 1773, and died in Newark, N.J., September 10, 1836.

Many members of the Caldwell and Story families served in the early Indian wars and in the Revolution. Mr. S. Newman Caldwell has in his possession an antique gun which was one of the best smooth-bore weapons of its day, and did good service as an offensive and defensive arm in the hands of Cald wells during the Colonial wars.

The children of Thomas and Thankful (Story) Caldwell were: Thankful Story, born February 20, 1796, who died June 16, 1803; Sarah Story, born February 12, 1798, who was married to Thomas Mill on December 28, 1 8 19; David Story, the father above mentioned; Margaret Mills, born February 27, 1 802, who was married on December 26, 1826, to Putnam Ingalls, of Merrimac, N.H., and died about two years ago in Newark, N.J.; Thankful Story, born June 30, 1804, who was married June 21, 1841, to Frederick A. Morgan, of Hartford, Conn. ; Eliza, born October 27, 1806, who died April 29, 1834, and is buried in Dunbarton, N.H.; Serene, born July 13, 1809, who died in Newark, N.J., about two years ago, the wife of Walter Harris, Jr. ; and Mary Ann, born July 17, 1 81 3, who died unmarried in Orange, N.J., February 15, 1872.

David Story Caldwell was born March 22, 1800. He was engaged for a number of years in farming and orcharding, making a specialty of apples; and he dealt some in real estate. For a number of years he was Selectman of Dunbarton, and he was Overseer of the Poor for an extended period. He was married December 5, 1827, to Abigail Newman, of Newburyport, Mass., who bore him eight children. Wallace, the eldest, was one of the fortyniners in California. He acquired a claim in Nevada, for which he was offered seventy-five thousand dollars. He died in Boston, November 2, 1896, leaving one daughter, who is the wife of Herbert Newton, of Haverhill, Mass. John H., the second son, died in 1878, thirteen years after his marriage, lilizabeth, the third child, who died July 17, 1891, in Newbury, Mass., was the wife of Judge Addison C. Niles, of Nevada City, and left one son, who is in San Francisco. S. Newman is the subject of this sketch. Thomas Alexander, his twin brother, now residing on a farm in Newbury, was in California a number of years, and was engineer at Truckee and Wadsworth. David A., the sixth child, was one of the ablest teachers in the city of Boston, also in the Boston Reform School. He died February 7, 1886. His wife was Mary Anna Payson. Their only daughter, Anna Payson, was married August 2, 1885, to William L. Vinal, who was killed at the terrible explosion of the Boston Subway, March 4, 1897. They had a little girl, Molly, eleven years old. The seventh child, George, lived but four years and a half. The youngest, Charles, twin brother of George, graduated at Dartmouth and Harvard, and is now practising medicine in Chicago. He served in the army and navy during the war, entering the service as a member of the Dartmouth College cavalry that fought at Gettysburg. He married an Ohio lady, who had been engaged in teaching the Indians at Fort Arbuckle.

venture. After leaving school he went to sea, and he was subsequently engaged on the survey from Madison to Milwaukee, and was for a while in Iowa. Returning home, he was for some time at Deer Island, Boston Harbor, engaged as a boatman and in other capacities. His father's sickness made it necessary for him to return to the farm in Newbury, and there he has since resided. He was married in 1878 to Mary Anna, daughter of Jonathan H. and Nancy (Mudgett) Johnson. Her family gave to the Union several brave defenders at the time of the war, her father, three of his brothers, and two of his sons being in the army. Her father, who was Captain of a company, was brought home to Deerfield, N.H., from New Orleans, and died shortly after his arrival; and one son, Mrs. Caldwell's eldest brother, who was in the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment, was brought home dead within seven months. He was killed at Spottsylvania, and his body was shot three times while being carried from the field. An uncle was wounded at the same time. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have three children - Mary Newman, Annie Alden, and David Story.

(^^OSEPH COLBY, an esteemed resident of Methuen and a salesman in the wholesale dry-goods house of Bradford, Thomas & Co., Boston, was born in Concord, N.H., October 18, 1840. His father, Timothy Colby, who was born and reared among the granite hills of New Hampshire, after attaining manhood settled in the city of Concord. Here the father was prosperously engaged as a builder and contractor until his death, which occurred in 1880. He married Sarah Kimball, also a native of New Hampshire, who is now living in Concord. They became the parents of three children, as follows: Joseph, the subject of this sketch; Annie, who is now the wife of A. P. Fitch, of Concord, N.H.; and George H., now a resident of Concord.

In 1858, after completing his education, Joseph Colby went to Boston as a clerk in a dry-goods store. He continued in that capacity until familiar with the details of the business, when he entered upon a mercantile career on his own account. A few years later he accepted a position with the firm with which he is now connected, and has since remained in their service as one of their most faithful and trustworthy employees.

On September 5, 1871, Mr. Colby married Miss Mary Ada, daughter of Kimball and Mary Esther (Neal) Gleason, of Methuen, and has since resided at 147 Broadway, the Gleason homestead. Kimball Gleason, born in Haverhill, Mass., April 30, 18 19, died May 21, 1S70. A member of the Gleason family, who were known far and wide as most successful manufacturers of hats, he learned the trade of hatter in early life, and afterward carried on a thriving business. Possessing good business ability, notwithstanding some reverses, he met with success in his operations, acquired considerable property, and at his death left a good estate. A large-hearted, generous man, and kind to the poor, he had the sincere esteem of the community in which he lived. In religious belief he was a strong Universalist. Although not an aspirant to political ofifice, he served in the State legislature for one term. His widow, who survived him fifteen years, died at her home in Methuen on January 12, 1885, aged si.\ty-si.x years. They reared three children, namely: Georgiana, who became the wife of the late M. VV. Hodgdon, and died January 31, 18S9, leaving one daughter, Mary; Mary Ada, now Mrs. Colby; and Florence May, the wife of William Oswald, of Lawrence. Mary Hodgdon first married Harry F. F"oss. After his death she became the wife of Henry G. Powning. Mrs. Colby was educated in the public schools of Mcthuen, at the Abbott Academy in Andovcr, and at Doctor Gannett's School in Boston. She is much interested in literature. Kimball Gleason Colby, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Colby, has had excellent educational advantages. After receiving a diploma at Phillips Academy in Andover he went to Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 1895.

OHN DWINELL, who resided all his lifetime on the old Dwinell homestead in Topsfield, was born in 1782. A son of John Dwinell, Sr. , he was a lineal descendant of one of the earliest settlers of this part of Essex County. The emigrant ancestor of the family, Michael Dwinell, was probably a F'rench Huguenot, the name having been originally spelled Du Enniel. He located in Topsfield in 1660, receiving a large tract of land, on which he built a dwellinghouse not far from the present home of Charles Pcabody. He reared nine children, and died about the year 1713, his will having been proved in 17 17. His son Michael, born in 1670, became a physician, and died in 1762. Dr. Dwinell had seven wives and twelve children. His son, Jacob, by his wife Hannah, born in 1715, died September 16, 1784. Jacob succeeded to the original homestead, the whole of which has always been kept in the family, and built the present house on a part of the land granted to his grandfather, erecting it in 1761. He married Kezia Gduld, of Hoxford, who bore him seven children. His son Israel was a soldier in the

French and Indian War, and died while on the march to Crown Point in 1760. A letter written by Israel to his parents, dated June i, 1760, is still preserved by his niece. Miss Sarah P. Dwinell.

John Dwinell, Sr. , another son of Jacob, born on the old home farm in 1747, died in 1 81 8. He inherited the family estate, on which he made substantial improvements, each year clearing some part of the land. He served in the Revolution, as did his brother Jacob. He married Esther Richards, who, born in Southboro, Mass., was reared on the Pierce farm, which adjoins the Dwinell homestead. She lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and one years, eight months, and ten days, passing away on the homestead in 1847. Many articles of value left by her are preserved by her grandchildren. She was one of those strong, heroic women of olden times, who shared their husband's daily toil, and with them received the respect of the community. Her husband, broad-minded and liberal, was especially noted for his benevolence to the needy, and usually had several women without natural protectors under his care. Of his children, John Dwinell, Jr., and Esther reached maturity. The latter married Moses Wilds, whose son, Moses, recently died in Topsfield.

John Dwinell, the subject of this biography, inherited the old homestead of his forefathers. A practical and progressive farmer, he kept well abreast of the times in general matters. Though modest and unassuming in manner, he was highly esteemed by his neighbors and friends for his brotherly spirit, sound judgment, and strict integrity. The first of his two marriages was contracted in 18 10 with Sarah Perkins. She died in 1813, leaving no chilihen. The second marriage, in i.SiS, united him to Louisa Richards, who, Imrn in

Southboro, Mass., in 1798, died in 1S79 on the home farm. She was a member of the Congregational church, of which he was a regular attendant. They had eight children, the following being their record : John, born in 1819, died in 1859; David Holt, who always lived on the homestead, remained unmarried, and died in 1896; Sarah Perkins, born in 1822, is unmarried, and resides on the home farm; Louisa Richards, born in 1824, dieil in i8g6, unmarried; Hepsibah Sophia, who was born in 1S26, and died in 1897, married James Henderson, of Topsfield, but had no children; Esther Mehitabel, born in 1828, is unmarried, and also lives on the homestead; Willard Adolphus, born in 1831, now carrying on the old homestead, where he resides, married in May, 1864, Ruth Ann Stickney, of Salem, and has two children (Annie Cole, the wife of Fred \V. Harnes, of North Brookfield, Mass. ; and John Willard Dwinell, living at home) ; and George Winslow, born in 1S34, lived on that part of the old Dwinell tract now occupied by Loren Rust, and died there, unmarried, in 1890. The father died on the homestead in 1864.

)N. CHARLES CHASE DAME, prominent lawyer and an esteemed resident of Newburyport, was born June 5, 1819, at Kittery Point, then in the Maine District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, son of Joseph and Statira (Chase) Dame. On the father's side he belongs to the eighth generation descended from John Dame, who came from England with Captain Thomas Wiggin in 1633, and settled on territory now within the limits of the town of Dover, N.H.

was one of the first Deacons of the first church organized in Dover, and one of the signers of the celebrated protest of 1641. Among his descendants were Judge Dame, of Rochester, N. H ; Jonathan Dame, for many years a bank cashier in Dover; and Harriet F. Dame, who received the thanks of the New Hampshire legislature for heroic services rendered to the sick and wounded in the field throughout the late war. The line of descent from the founder of the family was continued to Charles C. Dame by John Dame (second,) John (third), Richard, Benjamin, Samuel, and Joseph.

Samuel Dame, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, resided in Wakefield, N.H. His eldest son, Joseph, by his wife, Olive Tuttle Dame, was born in Wakefield, May I, 1784. Joseph followed the profession of schoolmaster for several years in New Castle, N.H. He was the first man from his native town to enlist for service in the War of 181 2, during which he was stationed at Fort McCleary on Kittery Point. His wife, -Statira, whom he married December 2, 1 8 14, was a daughter of Joshua Tufts Chase, of Kittery. The latter was a man of note, and had the confidence of the community. He was a member of the General Court at Boston for the seven years preceding the severance of his district from Massachusetts, and of the Maine House of Representatives for the nine years succeeding that event. Joshua Tufts Chase was a direct descendant of Aquila Chase, who was one of the settlers that located in Hampton in 1639, and who removed in 1646 to Newbury, where he received several grants of land. Aquila was the first pilot of the Merrimac River, and subsequently followed the calling of ship-master. Thomas Chase, son of Aquila and Anne (Wheeler) Chase, resided in Newbury, and was the father of the Rev. Josiah Chase, born November 30, 171 3. The Rev. Mr. Chase was ordained September 19, 1750, as the first minister over Spencer Creek Parish in Kittery, where he labored for thirty-eight years. In 1743 he married Sarah Tufts, a great-grand-daughter of Governor Eradstreet, and afterward had a son who was the father of Joshua Tufts Chase. The children of Joseph and Statira (Chase) Dame were: Mary Ann, born April 10, 18 17; Charles C, the subject of this sketch ; Loammi B. , born November 17, 1821; Joseph Calvin, born March 19, 1824; Luther, born March 3, 1826; Marshall Morrill, born July 9, 1828; Statira A., born December 20, 1830; and Anna Chase, born May 14, 1833. Both parents were members of the Baptist church. The father died September 23, 1S73, and the mother's death occurred in her eighty-third year.

Charles Chase Dame was seven years of age when his parents removed to New Castle, N.H. Upon the return of the family to Kittery four years later, he began to work for his living as a farm hand, clerk, or at whatever honorable employment offered in the summer season, while he attended school throughout the winter months. At the age of fourteen he became a pupil of the high school at Portsmouth, N.H., and thereafter attended it for one year. In the winter of his seventeenth year he took up his father's profession, that of teacher, and followed it throughout that season in Kittery. Then, to further qualify himself for this calling, he took a course at the South New Market Academy. After this he taught for some time in Brentwood, N.H. In June, 1839, complying with a request for his services, he came to Newbury, the home of his matc-rnal ancestors, and took charge of the school at the "Upper Green." He had spent nearly two years in this position when.

on February 7, 1841, he accepted the charge of a grammar school at Lynn, Mass. On May 2, 1842, he was elected principal of the South Male Grammar School in Newburyport. His stay here was of short duration, as he was soon after transferred to the Brown High School, where he taught for about six years, displaying rare abilities as an instructor. Then, his health having given way under the strain of his daily duties and private studies, he resigned his position in the high school, February 22, 1849, 'i"'^' made a voyage to the Pacific coast, making a short stay in South America. After an absence of two years he returned to Newburyport with his health fully restored. In the following fall he took charge of the English department of Chauncy Hall School, Boston, then as now one of the most successful private schools in the country.

During the nine years he passed here he qualified himself for the legal profession, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Massachusetts, September 8, 1859, and in the United States District Court on the 17th of the following October. His admission to the Supreme Court was granted March 22, 1876. In 1S60, resigning his position in Chauncy Hall School, he opened a law office in Boston, where he prosperously followed the profession until 1875. President Andrew Johnson appointed him Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of Massachusetts, and he filled that office continuously, under the succeeding administrations of Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur, until August i, 1883. In 187s the duties of the office were largely augmented by the consolidation with the Fifth District, of the Sixth, Seventh, and apart of the I'ourth; and he abandoned his legal business. Throughout the fifteen years of his Collcctorship, during which his collections averaged one million dollars annually, the government did not lose a dollar through any shortcoming of his. Upon vacating the office his accounts, which were found entirely free from discrepancies, were promptly adjusted, and left in such good order as to prove that he had been a model official. Resuming his profession soon after, he has since followed it in Newburyport, where he had retained his residence since 1839. He is interested in the Merchants' National Bank, of which he is a director, and in the Institution for Savings, of which he is a trustee.

On September i, 1842, Mr. Dame was united in matrimony with Frances A. Little, of Newbury, who bore him four children. These were: Frances Chase, born August 25, 1843, now deceased; Charles Little, born May II, 1845, deceased; Frances Maria, born August 2, 1848; and Charles Wallis, born February 23, 1855.

Originally a Whig in politics, Mr. Dame has been a Republican since the formation of the latter party, and he has taken an active interest in national and State affairs. He had been a member of the Republican State Committee for several years, when, complying with the order of President Hayes requiring F'ederal officials to keep free of party organizations, he resigned. In 1886 he was replaced on the committee, which has had the advantage of his services since. After serving Newburyport successively in its School Committee, Common Council, and Board of Aldermen, he was sent to the State Senate in 1 868 by the Fourth Essex District. In 1886 he was elected Mayor of the city, and in the following year his administration of its affairs was characterized by a conservative policy and a studied regard for the best interests of the citizens. Desirous of promoting the welfare of Newburyport when out of office as well as when in office, he is a member of several educational and charitable associations, has been a Water Commissioner since 1894, and is a director of the public library. He also belongs to the Veteran Artillery Company, of Newburyport, and to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston. Of the former organization he was the Commander in 1870, and he is now the Judge Advocate.

Finally, he is prominent in the Masonic order, his connection with which furnishes a most creditable and interesting chapter of his life. He joined the fraternity in 1857, when he was received as a member of Revere Lodge, Boston. In the following year he was admitted to St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter and the Boston Commandery of Knights Templar and in 1859 to the Boston Council of Royal and Select Masters. Three years after in Raymond Lodge of Perfection at Lowell, Mass., he received the Ineffable Degrees and was admitted to the Council of Princes of Jerusalem, to Mount Calvary Chapter of Rose Croix, and to the Massachusetts Consistory. Next year, on May 22, he was made honorary member of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-general of the Thirty-third Degree, an honor to which his services in behalf of Mason-ry well entitled him. He was introduced and crowned an active member ad vitam, September 23, 1S97, of the Supreme Council for the State and District of Massachusetts, and is now Deputy for the State of Massachusetts.

He was Worshipful Master of Revere Lodge in i860 and 1861. After filling subordinate offices in St. Andrew's Chapter, he was Scribe in 1859, King in i860, and High Priest in 1861 and 1862. Also in 1862 he was elevated to the dignity of Grand King of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Massachusetts. Having received orders of Knighthood in the

IJoston Commamlery of Knights Templar in 1858, he was the Eminent Commander in 1866 and 1867. He was Commander of Hugh de Payens Commandery of Knights Templar at Melrose, Mass., while that organization was conducted under a dispensation, and he has been retained on its roll as an honorary member since then. He is now an honorary member of all the Masonic bodies in Newburyport, incUuiing lodge, chapter, and commandery. In 1867 a new lodge established in Georgetown, Mass., was named the Charles C. Dame Lodge in his honor. He was the Illustrious Commander in thC Boston Consistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the years 1863, 1864, and 1865; was De[Hity Grand Master in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1862, 1863, and 1864; and was elected Grand Master of Massachusetts Masons in 1865, 1866, and 1867. By a unanimous vote in 1881 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts for two years, and he has been regularly reelected since. On December 10, 1884, when the Masonic Education and Charity Trust was established, Mr. Dame was elected a trustee thereof for the term of seven years, reckoning from the first day of tiiat year; and when the ]5oard of Trustees organized he was chosen secretary, an office which he has held up to the present time. He has also served on important special committees of the Grand Lodge. The superintendence f)f the erection of the Masonic Temple in Boston, at the corner of Tremont and Boylston .Streets, fell to his lot while he was Grand Master of the Masons of Massachusetts. L^ndertaken after a business depression that had lasted two years, this was a herculean task; but it was accomplished, thanks chiefiy to the tireless efforts of Grand Master Dame, assisted by Rifrht Worshipful .Sereno D. Nickerson; and the building was duly dedicated in 1867, in the presence of President Andrew Johnson, distinguished Masons from different States, and an immense concourse of Massachusetts brethren. The occasion was one of exultation to Mr. Dame, and was only of less importance to the Grand Lodge than the day of 1873, when its entire debt was wiped out.

"'l!>\__^ the Cogswell homestead in this town, September 23, 1852, son of Albert and Elizabeth (Edwards) Cogswell. He is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of John Cogswell, who was born in 1592 'in Westbury Leigh, Wilts County, England, son of Edward and Alice Cogswell and grandson of Robert Cogswell. An earlier member of the family in England was Lord Humphrey Cogswell, who received a coat of arms in 1447.

On September 10, 161 5, John Cogswell married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. William and Phillis Thompson; and in May, 1635, he with his family sailed for America on board the "Angel Gabriel," commanded by Captain Andrews. The ship, which was wrecked on the coast of Maine in August, 1635, brought other passengers, who settled in Essex; and among them were John and Thomas liurnham, ancestors of the lUirnham family of this town. John Cogswell settled in ICssex, and engaged in the manufacture of woollen cloth. He owned three hundred and seventy-five acres of land; and the family homestead, where eight generations have resided, is a part of his original tract. He died November 29, 1669; and his wife died June 2, iC>yC>. Their children were as follows: a daugiiter who married in luigland and lived in

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London; Mary, who in 1649 married Godfrey Armitage; William, who was born in England in 1619; John, born in 1622; Hannah, who in 1652 married Deacon Waldo; Abigail, who married Thomas Clark; Edward, born in 1629; Sarah, who married Simeon Tuttle, and died in 1692; and Elizabeth, who on July 31, 1657, wedded Nathaniel Masterson.

William Cogswell, son of John and the next in line, was united in marriage in 1649 with Susannah Hawkes, who was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1633, daughter of Adam and Anna (Hutchinson) Hawkes. William Cogswell died December 15, 1700, a few years after the death of his wife. They were the parents of ten children, namely: Elizabetli, born in 1650; Hester; Susannah and Ann, twins, born January 5, 1657; William, l)orn December 4, 1659; Jonathan, born April 26, 1661 ; John, born May 12, 1665; Adam, born January 12, 1667; Sarah, born February 3, 1668; and Edmund, who died young.

Lieutenant John Cogswell, son of William, married Hannah Goodhue, who was born in Ipswich, Mass., July 4, 1673, daughter of William, Jr., and Hannah (Dane) Goodhue. The following children were the fruit of this union: Hannah, born March 27, 1693; William, born September 24, 1694; Susannah, born March 10, 1696; John, born December 2, 1699; Francis, born March 26, 1701; Elizabeth, who married Colonel Joseph Blaney, October 20, 1 7 1 7 ; Margaret, born March i, 1722; Nathaniel, born January 19, 1707; Joseph, who died in 1728; and Rethiah, who was married January 15, 1730. Lieutenant John Cogswell died in 1710; and his wife was again married in 1713 to Thomas Perley. She died December 25, 1742.

engaged in agricultural pursuits. The family residence was built by him in 1732. On September 24, 1719, he wedded Mary Cogswell, who was born in 1699, daughter of Captain and Elizabeth (Wainwright) Cogswell. She died at the homestead in Essex, June 16, 1734. On March 13, 1735, he married for his second wife Mrs. Elizabeth Wade Appleton, widow of Penjamin Appleton, V.sq. William Cogswell died July 19, 1762. He was the father of sixteen children. Those by his first union were as follows: Elizabeth, born June 13, 1720; John, born February 23, 1722; Mary, born September 15, 1723; Jonathan, born May 9, 1725; Jacob, born May 18, 1727; Lucy, born June 28, 1728; Sarah, born February 5, 1729; William, born in May, 1731; and Sarah, born March 3, 1733. His children by his second union were: Hannah, baptized in December, 1735; Hannah, second, baptized June 7, 1737; William, second, born March 5, 1740; Susannah, born April 19, 1741 ; Samuel, born March 15, 1742; Susannah, second, born July 9, 1743; and William, third, born May 31, 1745. Deacon Jonathan Cogswell, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was married on March 16, 1748, to Mary Appleton, who was born March 25, 1729, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wade) Appleton, of Ipswich. Deacon Jonathan died F'ebruary 11, 1812, and his wife died June 30, 1S13. Their children were: Nehemiah, born in 1749; William, born August 26, 1750; Jonathan, born January 4, 1754; Elizabeth, born June 7, 1756; Joseph, born December 20, 1757; Benjamin, born June 27, 1759; Mary, born December 19, 1760; Hannah, born August 12, 1762; Benjamin, second, born October 17, 1764; Benjamin, third, born August 15, 1766; Nathaniel, born May 17, 176S; Sarah, born January 13, 1770; Aaron, born December 28,

Aaron Cogswell, grandfather of Albert E., was an industrious and successful farmer. He married Lucy Kinsman, who was born October 14, 1781. They reared four children, namely: Aaron, born February 21, 1807; Albert, born October g, 18 10; Lucy, born July 17, 1 81 3; and Jonathan, born March 5, 1820. Aaron Cogswell died July 20, 1847.

Albert Cogswell, his second son and the father of Albert E., was one of the able farmers and prominent residents of this town, widely known and sincerely respected. His energetic and prosperous life ended July 3, 1885. His wife, Elizabeth Edwards, whom he wedded December 26, 1849, was born in Wenham, Mass., June 11, 1820, daughter of Benjamin and Susan (Roberts) Edwards. She became the mother of two sons: Albert E., the subject of this sketch; and Aaron, born July 20, 1858. Aaron Cogswell has been a prosperous farmer and a successful provision dealer in Esse.x, and is now living here in retirement. He is an active Republican, and is now serving as secretary and treasurer of the Republican Town Committee. He is a Past Chancellor of Starr King Lodge, No. 81, Knights of Pythias, of this town; is a member of J. T. Hurd Lodge, F. & A. M., of Ipswich; of Ocean Lodge, No. 91, L O. O. F. ; and Cape Ann Encampment, No. 33, of Gloucester, Mass. On July 20, 1886, Aaron Cogswell married Emma Dade, born in this town, June 28, 1864, daughter of Sylvester and Mary Jane Dade, the former of whom is a gardener and fruit-grower of Esse.x. Mrs. Albert Cogswell died January 2, 1897.

Albert IC. Cogswell began his education in the common scliools, and completed his studies with a business course at the Boston Commercial College. He has always resided at the

On January i, 1890, Mr. Cogswell was joined in marriage with Sally A. Wright, who was born in Marshfield, Mass., December 25, 1852, daughter of Ezra and Sally (Holmes) Wright, of Plymouth, Mass. Ezra Wright was born April 4, 1S24; and his wife, Sally, was born in February of the same year. She died February 23, 1858, leaving four children, namely: Ruth 15., now wife of Richard A. Windsor, telegraph operator at Duxbury, Mass.; Josephine, now widow of Henry W. Swift, late of Plymouth, Mass. ; Sallie A., who is now Mrs. Albert E. Cogswell; and Emma, wife of Philip Adams, a railroad engineer of Newburyport, Mass. Ezra Wright's second wife was Rebecca S. Phillips, born March 13, 1836, daughter of James and Martha (Perkins) Phillips, the former of whom was a manufacturer of musical instruments in Boston, and the latter a native of Lancaster, N. H. James Phillips died in 1878, and his wife died in January, 1870. By his second union Ezra Wright had one son, Ezra, wiio was born December 13, 1S62, and married Emma Cole, of Kingston, Mass.

Politically, Mr. Cogswell is an active supporter of the Republican party. He is a member of Starr King Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and is both prominent and popular amonfr the leadinsj residents of Essex.

ENO A. APPLETON, of Rockport, an insurance broker, Justice of the Peace, and Notary Public, is a native of Ipswich, Mass., born January 22, 1824. A son of Captain Oliver and Anstice (Cogswell) Appleton, both of whom were born in Ipswich, he comes of an old Ipswich family that traces its genealogy to Little Waddingfield, England. The founders of the Appleton family in this country were three brothers, who came from said English town and settled in Ipswich. These ancestors owned a large tract of land lying between and along the Ipswich and Miles Rivers, and which included a portion of the estates now owned and occupied by the wealthy New York Appletons, together with the fine residence and mill site of C. J. Norwood, Esq., on I])swich River. Remarkable instances of longevity in the family were Zeno A. Appleton's father and grandfather, who respectively attained the ages of ninety and ninety-three years, and his grandmother, who was one of twelve sisters named Patch, and who was ninety - nine years old when she died. Captain Appleton, who obtained his military title in the local cavalry, spent his life in Ipswich and Hamilton, chiefly occupied in agriculture.

Zeno A. Appleton lived in Ipswich until he was ten or twelve years of age. Then he removed with his parents to Hamilton, where the rest of his minority was passed on his father's farm. He obtained his education by attending the public schools of Ipswich and Hamilton, and spending a few terms at the Hampton Falls Academy in New Hampshire and the Gorham Academy in Maine. Soon after, he began teaching in the town of Ipswich. Subsequently he taught in Hamilton, Essex, and Wenham for periods covering about ten years in all. He also spent portions of several years in shoemaking; and later he carried on a general mercantile business at Hamilton, where he was living at the outbreak of the Rebellion. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the Putnam Blues of Charlestown ; but after a short time he was transferred, to enable him to engage in the recruiting service in Rockport and other towns. After several months spent in that occupation he was transferred to the Third Company of Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Volunteers, which was first assigned to the forts in ISoston Harbor. Afterward it was engaged in fort duty in the vicinity of Washington, where it was in 1864, when Mr. Appleton was honorably discharged. Having entered the army as a private, he received a commission as Second Lieutenant from War Governor Andrew, when he joined the Heavy Artillery; and, after he left the recruiting branch of the service in the latter part of 1863, Governor Andrew commissioned him as First Lieutenant. After returning to civil life he settled in Rockport, and for a time was a clerk in the Rockport Savings Bank. While holding that position he acquired an interest in the insurance business, which finally became so large that he was able to resign his position in the bank and devote his time exclusively to insurance. He writes both fire and life insurance policies, and represents in both lines some si.xteen of the leading companies. For twenty-five years he has been a Justice of the Peace and for a number of years a Notary Public. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the P'irst Congregational Church of Rockport. He was first married to Adeline A. Choate, of Rockport, whose only daughter by him is now deceased. A second marriage united him with Mrs. Eliza G. Plenderson, uf this place. Their home, pleasantly situated oii High Street, is one of the finest in Rockport.

,ALPH ORIGEN BAILEY, one of the prosperous business men of Amesbury, was born here, June 24, 1849, son of Orlando Sargent and Mary (Gove) Bayley. The family is traced back to the early settlement of the county, and tradition tells of a pedigree traced from the time of William the Conqueror. The ancient coat of arms which hangs in Mr. Bailey's hall, bears the following inscription : "The most noble Robert Daily, Duke of Rossteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindsay, and Baron of Bresby, L. great chamberlain of England and one of ye P. C, so created July 26, 1353, in ye 7th of Ed'' ye 2"^. This antient and noble family is descended from Leopold Baily, who was constable of Dover Castle in the time of King Ethelred and owner o a town in Kent now called Bersted, but having quarrelled with ye monks of Canterb*", his oldest son was killed therein, whereupon he solicited Swene, King of Denmark, to invade ye realm, and was assisting therein. Besieged Canterb^ and took the archbishop prisoner, and ye death of his son was avenged in ye year 10 14."

John Bayley was one of the first settlers in Salisbury, Mass. He came from Cheltenham, or, as some say, Chippenham, a place about twenty miles from Bristol, England, embarking with his son John, Jr., in May, 163s, on the "Angel Gabriel," a vessel of two hundred and forty tons. An interesting account of the voyage of this and the sister ship "James," which brought Richard Mather, ancestor of all the New England Mathers, and many other settlers, has been published. The "Angel Gabriel" anchored at Pemaquid, Me., was entirely destroyed by a great storm in August, and cattle and goods and several seamen on board were lost. Owing to this terrible experience John Bailey never recrossed the ocean, and his wife and daughters and a son Robert died in England. John, Jr., born in 1613, settled in Newbury in 1650. Me was one of the party who opposed the Rev. Mr. Parker for arbitrary conduct. He married Eleanor Emery, sister of John Emery and of Ann Emery, who married James Ordway, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. John Bayley, Jr., had eleven children. Their son Joseph, born in 1648, removed in 1700 to Arundel, Me., near Bristol. He was killed by the Imlians in October, 1723, at the age of seventy-five years. Joseph Bayley married Priscilla Putnam, daughter of Captain John and Rebecca (Prince) Putnam, of Salem Village. John Bayley, the third of the ten children of Joseph and Priscilla, was born September 16, 1678. His first wife was Mary Bartlett ; his second, a widow, Sarah Giddings.

Captain William, son of John and Sarah l^ayley, was born in 1719. lie married Anna Lowell, who died in 1774, at the age of fifty years. He died August 23, 1788, at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife was a daughter of Gideon Lowell. Their children were: Daniel: James; Sarah, who married Elijah Clough ; Hannah Lowell, who married Daniel Currier; Ann or Abigail, who married Amos Atkinson; Betsy, who married Daniel Worthen; and Mary, who married Captain John Blaisdell, of Amesbury.

James Bayley, the second son of Captain William, born September 30, 1746 (old style), married Abigail, daughter of Deacon Orlando Sargent. They had ten children, namely: John, who died at the age of twenty-five; Jonathan, who married a Miss Stevens, and died in his twenty-seventh year; Sally, who married Captain Stephen Webster; James, who went to sea and died at Surinam, May 24, 1796; William, grandfather of Ralph O., born March 20, 1779; Betsey Sargent, who dieil January i, 1801; Orlando Sargent, born December 22, 1784, who married ]5etsey Lowell, grand-daughter of Captain Abner Lowell, and died in 1S17; Daniel, who died at sea December 5, 1805; Charles Worthen, born February 17, 1790; and Moses, born in 1792, who married Susan Leach. Charles Worthen Bay- ley went to sea, was impressed, and served on board a British ship of war for some time. In consequence of the efforts made by his brother William, who in iSio went to Halifax for that purpose; he was released, and came home after an absence of many years. He afterward went to sea again, and was never heard from. Mrs. Abigail Sargent Baylcy died June 20, 1800. On September 14, 1801, James Bayley married a second wife, Dorcas Bartlett, daughter of Francis and granddaughter of John Bartlett. By this union he had another son, James, born in 1804.

William Bayley, the grandfather, married July 19, 1801, Anna, only daughter of Adams and Anna Morrill. She died July 2, 1802. He married for his second wife, December 19, 1805, Elizabeth Ordway, who was born June 5, 1779, and died March 2, 1S62. William Bayley owned the property now held by the Catholic Society, and upon the present site of the St. Joseph's Church the old Bailey house used to stand. He was one of the prosperous merchants of his day. He died June 2, 1857. By his first wife he had a daughter, Anna, who in 1828 married William J. Boardman, and died a year or two later; and by his second wife he had four children - Betsey, Abigail, Hannah Ordway, and Orlando Sargent.