Essex Town (part 16 of 26)

Betsey Bayley, the eldest of these, born November 7, 1806, became on July 3, 1832, the second wife of William J. Boardman, son of Joseph and Anna Boardman. His grandfather was Nathaniel Boardman, of Salisbury, Mass. William J. was for many years prominent in town and church affairs, being connected with the Main Street Congregational Church of Amesbury. He died twenty or more years ago. His children by his wife Betsey were: Joseph, now a Congregational minister in Barnet, Vt.; Anne Morrill, deceased; Elizabeth, who died aged four years; and three others who died in infancy. Abigail Bayley, born July 16, 1808, married August 8, 1831, Daniel Currier Bagley, son of William and Sarah (Worthen) Bagley. The children of Daniel C. and Abigail Bagley were: Edward Stimpson, deceased; Abby, who married the Rev. Rufus King, now pastor of a church in Cairo, N. Y.; and Ella Maria, who married Edward A. Childs, a leading dry-goods merchant of Amesbury at the present time. Hannah Ordway, born March 25, 1813, now residing in Toronto, Canada, married the Rev. Harrison O. Howland, a Congregational or Presbyterian minister, who died in Kinderhook, N.Y., about 1870. Their children were: Elizabeth Phyfe, who married James T. Harris, now living in Missouri; William Bayley, born June 10, 1849; Mary, who died in childhood; Abby Bagley, now assistant principal of Demill College in Toronto, Canada; and Ellen Maria, residing in Toronto, Canada. William Bayley Howland, founder of the Outing magazine, formerly owner and publisher of the Cambridge (Mass.) Tribune, is now manager and treasurer of the Outlook, New York. His residence is Montclair, N.J. Orlando Sargent Bayley (or Baley, as he spelled his name), was born April 5, 18 18. In young manhood, after a short time spent as a clerk in his father's store, he entered the Salisbury Mills, and became overseer of the wool-sorting department. He was later employed for some years as accountant, and in 1862 was elected to the legislature to fill the unexpired term made vacant by the death of E. G. Colby. He was subsequently appointed Trial Justice, which office he held for many years; and he was afterward appointed by President Hayes to a clerkship in the appraiser's department of the Boston customhouse. He was again elected to the legislature from the First District, He was a meni- ber of the Board of Selectmen at the time of the separation of Merrimac from Amesbury, and for three terms was an associate of W. H. 15. Currier and William D. Lowell at the time of the annexation of Salisbury. He served on the School Board for many years, and was appointed probation officer under the new law to try persons arrested for drunkenness, filling this office satisfactorily until the time of his decease. He was originally a Whig, but early indorsed the anti-slavery movement, and was one of the few political associates of John Greenleaf Whittier at a time when the men and principles of that party were derided and scorned. He was one of the original members of the Free and Easy Club, organized in the town fifty years ago. In religious faith he was a Congregationalist. In all the various phases of his life Mr. Bayley showed devotion to duty and earnestness of endeavor. He married May 5, 1839, Mary, daughter of Charles Gove. They had four children: Charles William, who married a daughter of David Batchelder, of Newburyport, and is now a bookseller and stationer; Elizabeth Boardman ; Ralph Origen, the subject of this sketch; and Austin.

Mr. Ivalph O. Bailey after acquiring his education in the Amesbury schools, entered a carriage shop, where he worked industriously for ten years. In 1884 he was elected Collector of Taxes, which position he held for six years. He then formed a partnership with the late Benjamin L. Fifield, and established a large furniture business. Mr. Fifield being shortly afterward appointed Postmaster of Amesbury, the business from that time on was conducted by Mr. Bailey; and two years later, at the death of Mr. Fifield, he bought out the interest of the heirs. He now occupies two floors in the block, and carries a large stock of goods, an energetic and successful business man. He succeeds his father as probation officer for the Second Essex District. He married Hannah Matilda Hill (born Trussell), daughter of John L. and Hannah Trussell, both of whom were born in Amesbury, as were, jirobably, their ancestors for generations back. Mr. Bailey has no children.

Illiam Henry Newhall

ILLIAM HENRY NEWHALL, formerly Town Clerk of Saugus, was born in Groton, Mass., February II, 1821, son of Captain David and Phoebe (Kimball) Newhall. The father plied the calling of shoemaker in Saugus and Groton, when boots and shoes were made by hand. A prominent man in his day, he held various town offices, and served as Captain in the State militia. He died in Saugus Centre at the age of eighty-one years. Of his large family of children, five sons lived to maturity, namely: John E;dwin Newhall, now a resident of Saugus; Charles Addison, who served in the Civil War, and now resides in Chelsea, Mass. ; Hiram Harrison, also a veteran and now a resident of Reading, Mass. ; David Kimball, who died in Lynn in January, 1897; and William Henry, the subject of this sketch.

William Henry Newhall was educated in Saugus. After completing his studies he engaged in the manufacture of shoes. He is a prominent man, and has taken an active part in public affairs. In 1852 he was elected Town Clerk, and he had filled that position for forty-three years when he was succeeded by his son. He was chairman of the Board of Selectmen and Assessors for twenty - seven years, was Ta.x Collector five years, and represented his district in the legislature in 1856. Originally a Democrat in politics, he joined the Republican party in i860. He first married Harriet L. Fisk, of Saiigus. She died, leaving two sons: George Francis, who resides in Lynn, Mass. ; and Henry L., a resident of South Durham, Me. His second wife was Lucinda H., daughter of Abijah and Sarah (Sargent) Boardman, and grand-daughter of Aaron and Mary (Cheever) Boardman. The Boardman family is one of the oldest in the county, and the house now standing on the old homestead at Oakland Vale was built at an early day. Mrs. Newhall's maternal ancestors came from Hillsboro Bridge, N. H. A cousin of hers was the late Mayor John Sargent, of Cambridge, a prominent man in his time and a native of that place. Jonathan and Sarah (Booth) Sargent, ancestors of Mrs. Newhall, were married August 13, 1774, and moved from Bradford, Mass., to Hillsboro, N. H. Mr. Newhall has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for fifty-three years, has occupied the important chairs of the local lodge, and has represented it in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.

Elmer Boardman Newhall, the only son of William H. and Lucinda H. Newhall, was born in Saugus, December 3, 1863. He was educated in his native town, and graduated from the high school with the class of 1879. He then engaged in the grocery and provision business in Melrose, where he remained two years. At the expiration of that time he returned to Saugus; and, having previously learned the carpenter's trade, he started as a contractor and builder. He is now conducting a profitable business in that line, and his work extends to all the adjoining towns. He has erected many fine residences in Wellesley, Newton, Cambridge, and Lynn, and employs from ten to forty men. He is also a manufacturer of finishing material, and operates a steam planing -mill for that purpose. For many years he assisted his father in the duties of Town Clerk. Since he succeeded to that office in 1894 he has proved a most capable public official. In politics he is independent. Mr. Newhall, Jr., is unmarried; and his parents reside with him at the old homestead. He is a member of the Nanepashmet Club, a social organization of this town.

fOHN E. DUSTIN, a prominent manufacturer of machinery in Lawrence and a resident of Methuen, was born January 3, 1836, in Derry, Rockingham County, N. H., son of William and Lydia (Corliss) Dustin. On the paternal side he is of Scotch and English descent. His grandparents were Beniah and Sarah (Rowel I) Dustin, of Salem, N. PL Mrs. Sarah Dustin was a daughter of William Rowell, a Revolutionary patriot who fought at Bunker Hill. She and her husband are buried in Salem. They reared five sons and four daughters, who all reached an age between those of seventy-five and eighty years. William Dustin, born in Salem, N. H., followed the trade of ship-carpenter in Boston, Portsmouth, and Newburyport, and died in 1856. He was married in 1821 to Lydia, daughter of Dr. Joseph Corliss. Dr. Corliss was married twice, and had a family of twelve children. Mrs. Lydia Dustin's mother, of French parentage, was born on the ocean during the voyage from France to America. Lydia was born in Windham, N.H., in 1801. She died in 1881, and lies buried with her husband in Salem, N. H. They had a family of six sons and three daughters, namely: William C, now an ice dealer in Stoneham, Mass. ; Adelia, now the widovv of William Marshall, in New York City; John E., the subject of this biography; Beniah C, residing in Worcester, Mass., and in the baking business; Joseph J. A., a ma- chinist and the siiperintenclent of John E. Dustin's shop; Elijah, a farmer in Billerica, Mass., who died at the age of fifty-six, leaving a widow, two sons, and two daughters; Susan, who was the wife of William Marston, and died in Boston at the age of sixty-four; Lydia A., who died at the age of sixty-four, being then the widow of Charles A. McGinley; and Archibald E., who died at the age of nineteen. Mrs. Marston left a daughter and a son, and Mrs. McGinley left two sons and a daughter.

John li. Dustin was educated in the district school and in an academy of his native town. He came to Lawrence in 185 1, when he was fifteen years old, and began to learn the machinist's trade in the works of Aratus Blood, a wealthy locomotive manufacturer, now of Manchester, N. H. Having served an apprenticeship of three years, he was subsequently employed for two years in the locomotive works of Seth Wilmarth in Boston, and then returned to Lawrence for a while. In 1871 he went to Whitefield, N. II., where he was connected for five years with the Brown Lumber Company as master mechanic. In 1876 he started his present business in Lawrence, at 30 Adams Street; and in 1893 he i)urchased the property. In financial matters he has been very successful. Starting without capital, he has built up a prosperous business, which has sometimes amounted to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. While he has met with reverses, he has never been harassed by debt, and has always paid one hundred cents on the dollar. He is a stockholder of the Merchants' Bank of Lawrence. The handsome residence of his family on Prospect Street, in Methucn, was erected by him in 1891.

1 86 1, with Harriet J. Thompson, of Solon, Me., who died in 1882, at the age of fortyeight. She bore him two children: Carrie F., a beautiful and lovable girl, who died at the age of seventeen; and John Edgar, born twelve ycai;s later than his sister, who lived but seven days. The second marriage was made in 1884 with Mrs. Ellen M. Cummings, of Littleton, N.H., the widow of Jonas M. Cummings, by whom she had one son. She died in 1892, aged forty. On April 18, 1894, the third marriage united Mr. Dustin with Emily J., daughter of Jerome and Mary (Sargent) Cross, of this city. Mrs. Emily J. Dustin, one of ten children, was born in Methuen. Her father, who died in 1880, was a farmer in early life, and served for a time in the Civil War. Later he had a prosperous coal and wood business. A strong Republican in politics, Mr. Dustin has served on the Lawrence Common Council, and is now one of the Water Commissioners of Methuen. In the Masonic fraternity he has attained the degree of Master. He is not a church member, believing that deeds avail witliout creeds.

SCAR ANDREWS, of the well-known firm of Ayer & Andrews, fish dealers of Gloucester, was born in Lanesville, December 25, 1843, son of Joseph L. and Hephzibah (Sargent) Andrews. His first ancestor in this country, Robert Andrews, was made a freeman at Ijjswich, Mass., in 1635. As Robert was an innkeeper there, it is quite probable that he opened the first public house or tavern in that town. William Andrews, another ancestor, was wounded while serving in the expedition against Louisburg, and died upon the passage home. Several of the family enrolled themselves among the patriots during the Revolutionary War,

Stephen Andrews, the grandfather of Oscar, was a native of Essex. He removed to Lancsville somewhere about 1800, and there married Mary Lane. They had four children - Stephen, Amaziah, Joseph L. , and Mary J. Joseph married Hephzibah Sargent, who was a daughter of Henry Sargent and a granddaughter of VVinthrop Sargent. She was a descendant of William Sargent, a native of Bristol, England, whose son, Epes Sargent, was the common ancestor of several distinguished Americans and of the Sargents of Gloucester. Joseph and Hephzibah Andrews were the parents of two sons and one daughter. Joseph H., the first-born, now an Assessor of this city, married Martha J. Woodbury, and has one son - Edgar W. , who was born in 1 87 1. Edgar is now in charge of the store of the Rockport Granite Company. The daughter, Mary O. , married Charles H. Sargent, of Reading, who served in the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, during the Rebellion. He was formerly a civil engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad, and is now residing in Garrison, Neb. His children are: Joseph S., Marianne, Charles R., Helen M., and Grace.

After receiving his education in the Gloucester public schools Oscar Andrews entered his father's employ in the fishing business, and when twenty-one years old he was admitted to partnership. He carried on a wholesale fish business on his own account from 1878 to 18S8. Then he associated himself with Benjamin Low, a partnership that continued until 1894, in which year the present firm of Ayer & Andrews was organized. He married Susanna Lane, of Folly Cove, Rockport, a daughter of Nathaniel and Esther (Sargent) Lane and a grand-daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Lane. Mrs. Andrews is the mother of five children, namely: Will O., born in 1870, who married Edith L. Favor, has two children, and is in business with his father; Josephine, born in 1S72, who resides at home; Ralph, born in 1876, who is bookkeeper for Ayer & Andrews; Esther S. , born in 1879; Earl, born in 1895; and Doris, born in 1897. Mr. Andrews has long occupied a prominent place in the fishing industry of this city, and is highly esteemed both in business and social circles. He is a member of Constantine Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

IDNEY F. NEWMAN, a highly respected farmer of Newbury, was born here, February 18, 1843, ''O" of John and Henrietta (Woodbury) Newman. The great-grandfather, Captain John Newman, died in Guadeloupe at the age of thirty-one. Samuel Newman, son of Captain Newman, married Phoebe Hale, and in 181 2 moved to Newbury from Newburyport, where he had kept a store. He afterward bought a farm and built the house which is now standing on the old estate. Punctuality and vigor were his chief characteristics. Subsequently appointed the agent for the Eastern Stage Company, conducting the line between Newburyport and Boston, he was obliged to take up his residence again in Newburyport for the period of seven years. He was frequently employed to settle estates, and he served in the State legislature for three terms.

John Newman, the father of Sidney F. , was educated in Newbury and at the Bradford Academy. His principal occupation was farming, and at one time he served on the School Committee. He first married Rebecca B. Danforth, of Newbury, whose children by him were: Edna D., who married Jeremiah Allen, a merchant of Newburyport; and John H., who married Abby A. Tenney, and has two daughters. Mrs. Rebecca Newman died soon after the birth of her secoiul child. A second marriage subsequently united Mr. Newman with Henrietta Woodbury, of Gloucester, who became the mother of Sidney F.

Sidney F. Newman was educated at the public schools of Newbury. As soon as his school days ended he began a farmer's life on a farm of three hundred acres. He has devoted most of this property to the production of milk, hay, and fruit. He keeps forty cows, the milk of which he sells at wholesale to the milkmen of the place; and he sends a large cjuantity of fruit to market in the season. For si.x years he was Selectman, and at the same time served on the School Committee. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Quascacunquen Lodge, No. 39, of Newburyport; of the Essex- County Society and the Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural Association ; and of the Newbury Farmers' Club, of which he was the first president. On December i6, 1867, Mr. Newman married Mary Jeanette Bayley, who was born November S, 1S41, in Pennsylvania. Her father, William Bayley, belongs to the old Newburyport family which for six generations has occupied the old house at the head of Summer Street, on High Street. He was one of the party that wont in ox teams from Haverhill and the surrounding towns, intending to settle near Ithaca Lake. He settled at Moosic Mountains, near Elk Lake, Pa., taking up about one hundred acres of land in a place which has since become a noted summer resort.

Mr. and Mrs. Newman have had five children - George Edward, John William, Mary, Lillian, and Ada Elizabeth. George Edward, who is now in California, graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst in 18S8, and spent some years in Utah. John William graduated from the Putnam High

School in Newburyport, and went to Boston in 1888 to engage in the wholesale fruit commission business. Mary graduated from the same high school in 18S8, from the State Normal School at Salem in 1891, took one year's course at Radcliffe College, and is now a teacher in Detroit Seminary at Detroit, Mich. Lillian graduated from the high school in 1892, taught f(jr two years in Newbury and West Newbury, and has since attended the Normal Art School in Boston; and Ada Elizabeth, who graduated from the high school in 1894 and lives at home, is teaching the lower grammar school in Newbury.

USTIN W. STORY, a prosperous general merchant, the Postmaster of Pigeon Cfive, and an ex-member of the State legislature, was born February 20, 1829, in what is now Rockport, son of John and Abigail (Walen) Story. The grandfather, James Story, who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, came from Essex, Mass., to Rockport when this town was a part of Gloucester, and resided here for the rest of his life. John Story, father of Austin W., was a fisherman during his active period, and for many years the master of a schooner engaged in that industry. He served in the War of 1812, and in his later years he received a pension from the government.

Having acquired his elementary education in the common schools, Austin W. Story attended the Liberal Institute at Waterville, Me., and studied for one term at the academy in Thetford, Vt. Subsequently he taught two terms of school. At the age of twenty-four he engaged in business at Pigeon Move, where he has since resided, having occupied his present store for the past forty-two years. He has served as a Selectman, Asses- sor, and Overseer of the Poor nine years; was chairman of the Board of Selectmen one year; was a member of the School Board for two years; a Representative to the legislature in iS6i and 1864; and he has held the office of Postmaster for nearly thirty-nine years, having been originally appointed by the Buchanan administration. In politics he is a Republican, and was so at the time of his appointment as Postmaster.

Mr. Story married Frances E. Hovcy, of Gloucester, who had five children, two of whom are living, namely: Mrs. Edward VV. ]?anks, of Pigeon Cove; and Mrs. David L. Durgin, of Lcwiston, Me. Mrs. Story died August 2, 1894. Mr. Story is one of the best known men in this section, and has had a long and successful business career. He is connected with Ashler Lodge, F. & A. M., of Rockport, and was for thirty years the superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Univcrsalist church.

ANIEL WEBSTER, a popular town official of Amesbury, was born in Salisbury (now Amesbury), August 23, 1838. His parents were Ezekiel F. and Betsey M. (Low) Webster. His paternal grandfather, Daniel Webster, was a merchant of Salisbury Point, where he was a lifelong resident.

Azor Webster, son of Azor, Sr. (brother of Ezekiel), and cousin to Daniel of the same generation, is president of the Amesbury and Salisbury Savings Bank. He settles estates, makes wills, and attends to other legal matters. He was Town Clerk of .Salisbury many years, and is a very public-spirited man. He married Idaletta True, of Salisbury. His son and only child, Alfred C, is treasurer of the savings-bank.

Daniel Webster, the direct subject of this sketch, was in the provision business for twenty years. On the death of his father in 1872 he sold out, and since that time he has dealt in real estate. He filled the office of librarian for some time, and has been trustee of Mount Prospect Cemetery fifteen years. He is also a trustee of the Amesbury and Salisbury Savings Bank. All the Websters have been good citizens of Amesbury, and it may be truthfully said that Daniel Webster has not an enemy. At the election last year he received a thousand votes out of thirteen hundred. In 1882 he was elected Selectman, and spent much of his time in the office in the bank. He was Selectman four years in Salisbury and two years in Amesbury. He has also been a member of the School Committee of Salisbury and a Constable. Mr. Webster has served as delegate to a number of State and Senatorial conventions. He is a member of the Village Improvement Society and of the Literary and Historical Society.

On January 5, 1872, he was married to Helen M. Collins, of Amesbury. They have one child, Annie E., who is attending the Russell Home School in Merrimac. Mr. and Mrs. Webster are members of the First Baptist Church.

HARLES L. AYER.S, a Deputy Sheriff and a prominent resident of Newburyport, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., January i, 1838. He is a descendant from one of the old families of Portsmouth. The grandfather, Johnathan Ayers, was also born in the same town, and was a butcher. His wife (who was a Miss Tutherly, of Maine, before her marriage) bore him five sons and four daughters.

Ayers, was the third-born child of his parents. He received a public-school education. In company with a Mr. Roach, under the firm name of Roach & Ayers, he was successfully engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes. His death occurred when he was thirty-one years of age. In religion he was a Universalist and a prominent member of the society. His religious creed voiced itself in his daily life through his many acts of benevolence. He married a daughter of Samuel Goodwin, a well-known citizen of Newburyport ; afid three children were born to them, two of whom are now living.

Charles L. Ayers, the eldest child of his parents, attended the graded schools of Newburyport, finishing his education at the high school. Then he went into the provision store of Mr. Knight, for whom he worked from his sixteenth to his twenty-first birthday. Next he became a partner in the firm of John L. Knight & Sons, and remained with them until 1864. He enlisted in the Third Unattached Company of Infantry, and became its Second Lieutenant in 1863; and on May 3, 1864, the company was ordered for service. In August of the same year, having been mustered out at the end of his term of three months, he re-enlisted, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant of the Fourth Heavy Artillery Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, which was stationed on the Virginia side of the Potomac, in the very heart of the great struggle. On July 17, 1865, he was able to leave the army; and he then returned to his native city. Thereafter he was in business, in company with Knight & Sons, until 1870, when he was made City Marshal. When he had been in that position for a year, he was appointed l^eputy State Constable, which office he held from 1871 to 1873. Upon the death of Mr. Knight, Sr. , he went into the provision business with that gentleman's halfbrother, forming the firm of Knight & Ayers. This partnership lasted until 1876, when he was again appointed City Marshal. In the following year he was appointed on the State force as Constable. This he resigned in 1878, to become keeper of the jail and Deputy Sheriff. He entered the militia in March, 1866. Elected Captain of his company, he served in that capacity until 1874, when he was chosen Lieutenant Colonel of the Eighth Regiment. In 1882, upon the promotion of Colonel Peach to the rank of Brigadiergeneral, Mr. Ayers was elected Colonel. This rank he held with distinguished ability until December, 1885, when he was forced to resign on account of ill health. Mr. Ayers's political creed is that of the Republican party. He has been twice in the Common Council and once in the lioard of Aldermen. He was a charter member of A. VV. Bartlett Post, No. 49, G. A. R., and was its first Adjutant. For three years he was Commander of the Newburyport Veteran Artillery Company, and is still an honored member. He is a member of Eighth Regiment Veteran Association, which he helped to reorganize, and was then its Commander. He belongs also to the military order of the Loyal Legion of Massachusetts, and is the secretary and treasurer of Company M, Fourth Heavy Artillery Veterans' Association. A member of the city fire department from 1862 until 1875, he was captain of one of the steam-engine companies for five years, and the chief marshal in a number of parades. Fraternally, he is a member of Quascacunquen Lodge, No. 39, I. O. O. F. , and of Merrimack Encampment, of which he was Chief Patriarch in 1871 ; and he is connected with the New England Order of Protection. In religion he is a Universalist. He was married to Miss Adams, a daughter of Richard Adams, of Newbury, Mass., and subsequently to a daughter of Joshua W. Lincoln, of Charlestown. By his first marriage there are two children : Charles W. , who is a telegraph operator; and Edward R. Aycrs, an engineer and the day officer at the jail.

ILLIAM N. AMES, one of the prominent business men of Amesbury, was born in this town, March I, 1858, son of William H. and Dolly Colby (Baglcy) Ames. The paternal grandfather, Nathaniel Ames, who was born in Parsonfield, Me., died when his son, William H., was about nine years old. He married Miss Stickney, sister of John L Stickney.

William H. Ames, a native of St. Andrews, N. B. , learned the carpenter's trade in Haverhill, Mass., and was subsequently in the employment of Robert Morrill for a number of years. In 1856 he moved to Amesbury, where he worked at carpentry and in the Mcrrimac hat factory. He eventually started in the manufacture of boxes, and built up an extensive business, furnishing all the boxes for the Merrimac Hat Company and the Bailey Hat Company, of Ncwburyport, for some time. In 1872 the former company began to make their own bo,\cs, and the other company finally closed up their business. The loss of two of his best customers having made a serious deficit in the accounts of William H., he started in the coal business in 1880, establishing a yard at Bailey's Wharf, at the ferry. This venture of his, which became increasingly profitable, has now flourished for nearly twenty years. He was on the School Board for a number of years, and he was in the legislature in 1870. A member of Warren Lodge, F. & A. M., he is a charter member of Timothy Chapter, R. A. M., and is a Knight Templar of Ncwburyport Commandery. He also belongs to Powow River Lodge, I. O. O. F. He was at one time a Knight of Honor. His wife was a daughter of William H. Bagley, of Amesbury, who lived at "Hackett's, " made famous by Whittier. Mr. Bagley was a charter member of Warren Lodge, of Amesbury. Mr. and Mrs. Ames had two children: William N., the subject of this sketch; and Horace T. , born November 22, 1S72. The latter, a graduate of the Amesbury High School, is in business with his brother.

William N. Ames was educated in his native town, completing his studies in the Amesbury High School. He early became associated in business with his father, and was in control of the box business until within a few years. Since 1887 he has been a member of the firm of W. N. Ames & Co., manaeins the coal trade. The company carries about five thousand tons of coal per annum, which is shipped directly frcm New York to the yards at Amesbury Ferry; and it has a number of delivery teams. Mr. Ames is a charter member of the Amesbury Co-operative Bank, and has the first book issued by that institution. He has been a member of several political committees, and has served as delegate to a number of conventions. A Mason in good standing, he belongs to Warren Lodge, F. & A. M., Trinity Chapter and Amesbury Council. He is a charter member of Josiah Bartlett Lodge, O. U. A. M. ; and he is connected with Wonnesquam Yacht Club.

^|KV. JOHN WESLEY ADAMS, a supernumerary of the New Hampshire Methodist' Episcopal Annual Conference, is an esteemed resident of Methuen, Mass., his pleasant home being at the corner

The branch of the Adams family to which he belongs is that founded by Henry, of Braintree, the roll of whose posterity includes among other distinguished names two Presidents of the United States and the stanch patriot, Samuel Adams.

Henry Adams came from England with his eight sons probably between 1630 and 1634, and settled at Braintree (now Quincy), where he died in 1646. Joseph, born in 1626, seventh son of Henry, resided in Braintree. He married Abigail Baxter, and was the father of Joseph, Jr., who by his second wife, Hannah Bass, had a son John, born in February, 1691-2. This John Adams, grandson of the first Joseph, was the father of President John Adams.

From Henry of Braintree the Rev. John W. Adams of Methuen thus traces his descent: Henry'; Joseph'; Jonathan,' born in 1671; Jonathan,' born in 1725, died in Lunenburg, June 17, 1813; Jonathan, 5 born at Lunenburg in 1759, died in December, 1S43; John Adams, Sr.,*" born in Lunenburg, April 5, 1782, died in Townsend, Mass., December 20, 1845; John Adams, Jr.,M3orn in Lunenburg, October 5, 1807, died in Chelsea, Mass., Novemher 9, 1889. Jonathan Adams-'wasa soldier in the Revolutionary War. At one time he owned one African slave.

John Adams, Sr. , was a prosperous liusbantlman, and accumulated considerable property for his time. He married Mary Russell, who was born in Townsend, December 24, 1785, and died August 31, 1855. They had fifteen children, twelve of whom grew to adult life and married, namely: Thomas, jjorn March 11, 1805; John, Jr.; Sophia, born

June 2, 1809, now deceased; William, born February 28, 181 1, who was for many years a Captain in the State militia, and who died in Minnesota, December 2, 1895; Mary, born June 28, 1 81 3, now the widow of Asa Tyler and living in Townsend; Lovisa, born June 15, 1 81 5, now deceased; Eli, born July 7, 1817, who died in Townsend in 1897; Eri, a twin brother of Eli, residing in Townsend; Plooma, born June 19, 1819, who lives in Minneapolis, Minn. ; Fannie, born September 27, 1821, now deceased; James, born January 12, 1825, now deceased; and Stephen, born January 2, 1827, who resides in Lunenburg.

John Adams, Jr., learned the cooper's trade in his youth, but on removing to Boston was there a pressman in a newspaper office. Going thence to Temple, Me., he was at first foreman in a printer's establishment and afterward a merchant. In 184S he opened a boarding-house in Lawrence, Mass., and at the same time bought ten acres of land on Clover Hill as an investment. Selling later at an advantage, he built a house on Newbury Street, where he lived until his removal to Chelsea, when he bought a fine residence, which he occupied until his death, of la grippe, as above mentioned. His wife nine days later succumbed to the same disease. Her maiden name was Mary Taggart. She was born January 28, 1808, in Goffstown, N.H., a daughter of John and Hannah (Hawcs) Taggart. Her parents subsequently removed to Temple, Me., where she was married to John Adams, Jr., October 7, 1S30. They reared but two of their five children, namely: John Wesley, the direct subject of this sketch ; and Lucy I'.Ivira, wife of I-'rank A. Hardy, station agent at Amherst, Mass.

at the age of eighteen years began life for himself as a clerk in a Lawrence bookstore. He was afterward employed in Lowell as an assistant in the office of the Daily News, later being engaged in the grocery business with his uncle, the Rev. John Taggart, a retired Methodist minister. In 1S57 Mr. Adams, having determined to devote himself to the ministry of the gospel, assumed the pastorate of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rye, N.U. He has since continued in the work with the exception of two years, 1889 and 1890, when he travelled extensively in foreign countries. He visited England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, from whence his mother's family, the Taggarts, came to New England, they having been Scotch-Irish Protestants; and he also went to Greece, Palestine, Egypt, France, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland.

On the breaking out of the Civil War Mr. Adams was active in securing enlistments, addressing many meetings for that purpose, and fanning the flames of patriotism wherever he went. December 5, 1S63, he was commissioned chaplain of General Gilman Marston's original command, the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, otherwise known as "The Fighting Second," and immediately joined his regiment, which was then guarding the rebel prison camp at Point Lookout, Md. He served until December, 1865, and not only performed his sacred duties in the camp, but was under fire in every battle in which the regiment was engaged and frequently at the extreme front. As a mark of appreciation of his services in the army he has a testimonial written on parchment, with the signatures of the officers of his regiment, headed by that of the Colonel, J. N. Patterson, who was then Brevet Brigadier-general. This testimonial speaks not only of his faithful chaplaincy, but of his soldierly bearing, his valor in action, his sympathy for the sick and wounded, his personal character, and the eminent respect and affection in which he was held by the officers and men. Since the war he has been in yearly demand on Memorial Days, giving lectures and making camp-fire speeches. In 1S83 he was the poet of the Veterans' Reunion at Weirs, N. H. Aside from his regular pastoral duties he devotes some time to literary work, and has written some poems of more than average merit, including one very humorous and taking one, entitled "The Nile Mosquito," which was read by a scholarly critic at a public dinner in London, and published subsequently in Zion s Herald of Boston, Mass.

For four years Mr. Adams was Presiding Elder of the Concord District of New Hampshire Conference, and in 1876 he was a delegate to the General Conference. He was secretary of the Committee on Personal Statistics for his conference for thirty consecutive years, and for twenty-two years was a trustee of the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College, the last twenty years being also president of the board. He belongs to the Colonel Green Post, No. 100, G. A. R., and is now department chaplain of the New Hampshire Union of the Veterans' Union. He likewise belongs to the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and is a member of the Massachusetts Commandciy, K. T. , also of the local grange.

The Rev. John W. Adams has twice married. On February 20, 1854, he married in Lawrence, Mass., Rebecca Hardison. She died December i, 1857, leaving two children, namely: John F., who was killed at the age of fifteen years by the cars; and Mary Estelle, now widow of the late R. I. Stevens and mother of four children. On August 24, 1858, Mr. Adams married Lydia M. Tref- cthoii, of Rye, N.ll. 'Iwci of the five children Ixirn to Mr. and Mrs. Adams died in infancy. The three now living are: Lydia Viola, wife of Lewis H. Fos.s, of Rye, N. H. ; Wilbur Fisk Adams, a merchant tailor in Denver, Col., who is married and ha.s one daughter; and Charles Wesley Adams, M. D., a physician in Franklin, N. H., and the present Mayor of the city, who is married and has two children - Ruth and Charles Wesley Adams, Jr. The Doctor's son, it will be noted, is the only male representative in his generation of his grandfather's family.

"REDERICK W. KORH, an enterprising and prosperous business man of Lawrence, was born March 5, 1845, in Saxony, Germany, which was also the birthplace of his father, Charles Korb. Charles Korb, who was born in 18 19, was until 1862 engaged as a baker in Saxony. In that year he came to America, and located in Philadelphia. His wife, whose maiden name was Adeline Spenler, remained in the Fatherland until 1866, when she, too, crossed the ocean, and joined him in Philadelphia, where he had established a good business as a baker. Their four children are: Frederick W. , the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Augusta West, of Lawrence, and Emily Kretzchmar, twins; and Emil B. , who also resides in Lawrence.

Frederick W. Korb served in the German army for fifteen months. At tlie battle of Koniggrjitz, July 3, 1866, he was twice \vo\mded by bullets, one of which penetrated his left leg, and once by a bayonet thrust. In 1867 he came to America, going directly to Philadelphia, and there worked at the baker's trade with his father. In 1869 he started in business as a baker on Chestnut Street, Lawrence, where he continued for fifteen years.

In August, 1SS2, he bought three acres of land, on which was the house in which he now lives. In a short time he built a bakery on the corner of Ferry and Prospect Streets. He subsequently erected other houses, and has now a two-and-a-half-story dwelling, four cottages on Berkeley Street, besides tenement houses. He has in all eleven tenements, which bring him in a handsome annual income. Also he has considerable stock in a brewery which was established on the South Side in i S96.

In politics Mr. Korb votes independent of party restrictions. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow. Both he and his wife worship at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Korb, whose maiden name was Frederika Petzold, has reared two children, namely: Alma, who married Edward Claus, of Lawrence, and died in 1893, leaving one daughter; and Olga, who is the wife of Alfred Schlcgel, of Lawrence, and has one son and two daughters.

'sitOSEPH STOWELL, one of the oldest business men of Lawrence, was born in Grantham, Sullivan County, N.H., April 10, 1824, son of Amisa and Betsey (Spalding) Stowell. His grandfather, Ebenezer Stowell, was in the American army during the entire Revolutionary struggle, and was honorably discharged at the close. Ebenczer was a well-to-do farmer of Grantham. His wife, who survived him many years, was over ninety at her death. Both were buried in the Grantham cemetery. They reared five sons and one daughter. Some of their children settled in Michigan and other Western States. Amisa Stowell, who was born near his son's birthplace in Grantham, and was princi]ially occupied in farming in that town, died in 1858. His wife, who was horn in 1794 in

Plainfield, N.H., a town adjoining Grantham, and was left an orphan at an early age, died in 1854. They reared a family of six sons and four daughters, who all married. These were : Sylvester, the eldest, now about fourscore, who is a farmer of Unity, N.H. ; Whitney, who died in Acton, N.H., when about seventy-three, leaving a wife and two daughters; Lucinda, who was the wife of Albert Harlow, and died at the age of forty; Joseph, the subject of this sketch; Martha, who died unmarried in 1851; Emelinc, the wife of Henry Hughey, in Springfield, Vt. ; Caroline, who was the wife of Henry Adams, of Springfield, Vt., and died in 1896, aged about sixty; S. Austin, who has been working in his brother's place of business in this city forty years; DeWitt Clinton, who died about i860, leaving two daughters; and George H., a hardware merchant in Claremont, N.H., who has a wife and one daughter.

Joseph Stowell remained on his father's farm until about eleven years old. From that time until he reached the age of twenty he was on the farm of Oliver Burr, the husband of his father's only sister. He then worked for two years in a bobbin shop at Acton, N.M. In March, 1846, he came to Lawrence, where, having acquired some experience in harnessmaking with his brother, he worked in a harness shop for a month. He then purchased the stock of his employer, whom he then employed both as a workman and an instructor for himself in the trade. The shop was on the corner of Haverhill Street and Broadway. Five years later Mr. StowcU moved to Amesbury Street, near Essex, where he also remained five years. Early in the fifties he effected his first purchase of real estate, paying eleven hundred dollars for a lot thirty-five feet front by ninety-three feet deep. To tliis land he mc^ed his building from Amesbury

Street. In 1S65 he added carriage-making to his harness work, and built a three-story frame structure, ninety-three by twenty-three feet, which he still occupies. Adjoining the building is his harness shop, 311 Common Street, which he purchased about 1S75. His buildings now extend for seventy-five feet front on one side of the street and for fifty feet front on the other, where are the livery stables. One of these lots he purchased in 1870, the other in 1879. The stable on the north side, a frame structure erected by himself, is eighty-seven by ninety-three feet. The other, a brick building, was on the land when he purchased it. He started in the livery business in 1862 with a stable on Jackson Street, near Essex Street, which is now owned and managed by Orville L. F. Stowell; and in 1867 he opened a large stable on Common Street, of which he had control some twenty years, selling it in 1S87. He has owned fully one hundred horses, including a good stock horse. In 1866 he purchased his pleasant home on Tower Hill, at 29 Forrest Street, corner of Crescent.

On October 15, 1849, Mr. Stowell was married to Miss Jane Nesmith, of Londonderry, N. H., who died without issue in 1852. In 1855, March 16, Marion, daughter of William and Hannah (Boyce) Dickey, of Londonderry, N.H., became his second wife. She has borne him three children: Frank E., who keeps a livery in this city, resides and carries on an undertaking business in Lowell, and has one son, Joseph, now eight years old ; Hattie E., now the wife of Clarence Williams, a commercial traveller of New York City; and Orville L. F., who, as already mentioned, conducts a livery stable in this city, and is married, but has no children. Mr. Stowell, Sr., is an independent voter. He served on the Common Council in 1890, although he docs not seek office. He has independent views on religious matters, but frequently attends church service. Robust and active, he is well-preserved, and appears much younger than he actually is. A good judge of horse-flesh, he loves a fine horse.

Yp)HANDER M. RASKINS, the piopric- |JT tor of nn isinglass factory in Rock- -*- - " jiort, was born here, June 20, 1842, son of Moses and Betsey D. (Clark) Haskins. Ancestors of Mr. Ma.skins nn both sides of the family took an active part in the early Colonial wars. His father came of old Virginia stock of English origin. The grandfather, Bennett Haskins, was the first of the family to settle in Rockport, locating here in ante-Revolutionary times. One of the patriots who went up from Rockport to join the Continental forces mustering at Boston, he served eight months in the siege of Boston, under General Washington, and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. One of his sons, Joseph T. Haskins, was a soldier in the War of 1812.

Moses Haskins, the father of Leandcr M. Haskins, was born in Rockport, and passed much of his life there. He was a director of the Rockport National Bank and a director and one of the incorporators of the railroad between Gloucester and Rockport. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was for a time a Selectman of Rockport and a member of the School Committee. He died in 1863. His wife, Betsey, belonged to the fifth generation descended from Daniel Thurston, a soldier in King Philip's War; to the fifth generation descended from y\bel Platts, who died at tiic siege of Quebec; to the third descended from Moses Platts, who died of wounds received in the siege of Louisburg; and to the fourth descended from John Pool, the second settler upon the Cape. Her death occurred in 1882. She was a member of the Congregational Church of Rockport. Of the children born to her and Moses Haskins, the following attained maturity: Moses W. , who died in 1 86g ; Martha W., the wife of John N. Choate, of Rockport; Jose]ih T. , of Portland, Me.; and Leander M.

Having attended the ]iublic schools of Rockport and Phillijis Andover Academy, Leander M. Haskins graduated from Dartmouth in 1862. While attending school he taught for four winters and one spring term. The salaries so earned and the proceeds of one fishing season supplied the funds in part necessary for his collegiate course. After receiving his diploma he was for a portion of two seasons engaged under J. Herbert Shcdd, a wellknown e.\pert in civil engineering. In 1863 he was appointed clerk in the commissary department, and assigned to the Nineteenth Army Corps, under Captain William F. Young, of Winchester, Mass. In the service some si.x months, he was at Port Hudson and at Donelsnnville, Miss. A fever contracted by him incapacitated him from further service for a while. Then from December, 1863, to October, 1868, he was employed as clerk in the Navy Department at Washington. On returning to New England he engaged in business with his brother, Moses W. Haskins, under the firm name of Haskins Brothers. They dealt in all kinds of fish products, and had their headquarters in Boston. The firm was in existence twenty years. Soon after its dissolution Leander M. Haskins disposed of all the branches of the business except the manufacture of isinglass. The works in which this industry is carried on are in Rockport. During the busy season fifty men are enqdoyed here. The main office is at 10 and 11 Long Wharf, Boston. Mr. Haskins is also connected with a luiniber of financial institutions. He is a director of the Faneuil Hall National Bank of Boston, one of the strongest institutions in the East; and he was a director of the Rock- National Bank. He is also a director of the Rockport Street Railway.

In politics Mr. Haskins is an Independent, under which designation he was elected to the State legislature for 189S and appointed to the Railroad Committee. In 1S71 he was married to Gertrude Davis, a native of Springfield, Vt. ; and he now has one child, Louise. Mrs. Haskins died at the Charlesgate Hotel in Boston on January 15, iSgS. Mr. Haskins is a member of the Boston Art Club, of the Boston University Club, of the Boston Athletic Club, and of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. A Mason in good standing, he belongs to Ashler Lodge, F. & A. M., of Rockport, and Boston Commandery, K. T. He is also a member of Wingaersheek Lodge of Red Men, of Rockport. Both he and his daughter are members of the Old South Church in Boston, as was also Mrs. Haskins. Mr. Haskins has a handsome summer residence in Rockport, which stands on high land, commanding a fine view of land and sea. His business is now so firmly established that he is able to take an e.xtended vacation occasionally. In 1892 and 1894 he visited Europe, travelling through the British Isles and over a greater part of the - continent. A man of pleasing personality, well-read, in touch with the times, and a good speaker, he is qualified to fill almost any position in public life.

'OHN HUME, of Amesbury, Mass., an old-time neighbor and friend of the poet Whittier, of whom he has the tenderest recollections, is a native of Scotland.

His boyhood and youtli were spent in the vicinity of places long famed in song and story. He served as a tailor's apprentice five years in Melrose, close by Abbotsford, and he distinctly remembers Sir Walter Scott, whom he often saw. Many times when a lad he climbed the stairs of the Abbey with the old se.xton on a Sunday, to ring the bells. After finishing his apprenticeship he obtained a situation at Galashiels, where he remained five years; and from that place he went to Stow, whence every Saturday night he returned to his home. One evening he was met about a mile from his destination by several friends of his own age, who were eager to start for the United States. The idea pleased Mr. Hume, and a week from the following Monday he was en voyage, a younger brother taking his situation. That was in 1847. Amesbury was then a small straggling village, and the dam at Lawrence was just being laid out. In the mills then in operation at Amesbury the hours of labor were from five a..m. to seven p.m. in the summer time, and the wages averaged from si.xty-seven to seventy-five cents, very few employees receiving as high as a dollar and a quarter. At the time of the "great potato disturbance," the famine in Ireland, Mr. Hume applied to ti;e superintendent of a woollen-mill for a situation for a friend in the carding or spinning room, and the following passed between them : -

"Where are you from?" "From Scotland." "You know you are lying: you're from Ireland. Now tell me how many people are starving over there." Hume's eyes flashed indignantly, and thrusting his hand in his pocket (he had a hundred gold sovereigns with him) he drew out a handful of gold, crying,

"That don't look much like starvation, does it?" The superintendent turned around and remarked, "You'd better give the young man a position." Mr. Hume was employed about si.\ weeks in a mill, but did not like the work. The superintendent of the mill was anxious to get new patterns; and Mr. Hume, who was a designer, had drafts of a number of designs, which he taught to the operatives.

In 184S he opened a tailor shop in Ames- Iniry, where he managed a successful business for nearly thirty years. His back office, which he supplied with the leading periodicals of the day, was a centre for the discussion of literary and political questions. The poet Whittier usually spent an hour or two there every day in social chat. Mr. Hume early invested in the carriage business, and during the depression of 1 871, when he realized little as a tailor, he engaged with his brother in the manufacture. In 1883, the year of the big fire, their plant was burned to the ground. It was rebuilt as soon as possible; but the following year Mr. Hume retired, having soUl out to the firm then known as Hume & Walker, who are now managing the business under the name of the Hume Carriage Company. Mr. Hume, however, still owns a woollen-mill in Ohio.

In 1857 he was married to Helen Jane Fielden, a member of one of the stanch old abolition families of this section. Mr. and Mrs. Hume have two daughters. The elder, Isabelle, lives in Ohio, where her father's woollen mill is. She is the wife of George li. Batchelder, and has four children, two daughters and two sons. The other daughter, Elizabeth, a graduate of Wellesley, is a young lady of high literary and musical attainments, and is closely identified with the social, literary, and musical clubs of the village.

Mr. Hume has no personal political aspirations, but has often been "the power behind the throne" in local movements. In 1848, at the special request of the poet Whittier, he was a delegate to the first Free Soil National Convention, at Buffalo, when Van Buren was nominated. Travelling extensively, he was frequently in Washington, and was often the guest of the great lobbyist, Sam Ward. Mr. Hume was in the national capital when the attem.pt was made to impeach Andrew Johnson, and was presented to the President. He said: "I am on my way from Ohio to my home in Mas.sachusetts. I simply wanted to shake hands with President Johnson." "What!" said the President, "don't you want anything at all?" "No, nothing." "Well, that is remarkable. Don't go: sit right down here. I want to talk with you." Mr. Hume sat down and passed sOme time in pleasant conversation. Mr. Hume was early allied with the abolition movement, and with Whittier he was closely interested in the underground railroad. Many a fugitive slave has sought and found shelter beneath his roof. In the State legislature as Representative from the First Essex District in 1870 and 1871, he was prominently identified with several important measures before the House.

AMUEL A. BOYNTON, one of the most successful business men of Rowley, was born in that town, February 16, 1842, son of Henry and Elizabeth W. (Chamberlin) Boynton. The Boynton family originated with two brothers of the name, who came from. I^ngland to Rowley in 1639. Major Ebenczer Boynton, the grandfather of S. A. Boynton, was one of the unique characters of his time. He was for many years the proprietor of the old tavern on the western side of the common, opposite the present Eagle Hotel, which was then owned by the Smiths. His characteristic tavern sign read: "Major Ebenezer Boynton. Take your choice." Report says that a majority of travellers chose the Major's cheery hostelry. His business was a prosperous one for those days, and he was in very comfortable circumstances. His seven sons - John, Ezekiel, Daniel, Eben, William, Charles, and Henry - all became successful merchants. John had three children, namely: John, who is engaged as hacknian for S. A. Boynton ; Frank, a well-to-do tailor in Haverhill; and William, who is also in Haverhill, where he owns a large livery and sale business. Ezekiel never married. Daniel left four children : Warren, who is in business in Ipswich; Charles, residing in Chelsea; Hannah, who married Daniel Appleton and lives in Ipswich; and Harriet, who married Daniel Merrill and lives in Rowley. Eben had three sons and two daughters, namely: George, who was well known for many years as captain of the State police, and died recently at his home in Georgetown; Eben, who lives in Rowley; John Henry, who is a farmer in Rowley; Mary, now deceased, who married Moses Dodge and lived in Albany, N.Y. ; and Elizabeth, who married Edward Parker and lived in Rowley, where she died in 1886. William, who resided in Melrose and died there in 1S91, besides one daughter, had a son, Justin, who lives in New York. Henry Boynton left three children, of whom Lizzie died nearly twenty years ago. The others are: Henry P. and Samuel Augustus, the subject of this sketch. The father owned a large amount of real estate in Rowley. He died in April, 1888. The mother, who was the only surviving member of her generation, died in Rowley at the age of ninety-one.

Samuel A. Boynton attended the schools of Rowley until he was twenty-one years of age. He then opened a livery stable in his native place, where he is also extensively interested in the manufacturing of heels. Besides the hands in his large factory he employs the inmates of the Lawrence jail and of the house of correction at Ipswich. He also has a blacksmith shop, a mail business, a depot livery, a leather concern in Boston, a heel factory in Dover, N.H., and a skating rink. Likewise he carries on a farm of fifty acres, on which he cuts from thirty to forty tons of hay annually.

Mr. Boynton has been Tax Collector, Town Treasurer, and Selectman. A Mason in good standing, he is a member of the John T. Heard Lodge, of Beverly Chapter, at Salem, and of Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a charter member of the O. U. A. M. , in which society he has held office. In 1872 he married Sarah M. Howe, of Ipswich, a daughter of George Howe. Mrs. Boynton has made him the father of one son, Augustus Bennett, now twenty-three years of age, and residing with his parents.

agriculturist of Topsfield, was born on his present homestead, October 4, 1832. He is a descendant of John Perkins, who emigrated from England to Boston in 163 1, and located in Ipswich in 1633. John's son. Deacon Thomas Perkins, born in England in 1616, married Phebe Gould, also a native of England, and in 1638 settled in Topsfield, where he died in 16S6. The present farm of Josiah Peabody Perkins was a part of the estate acquired by Deacon Thomas. His son Thomas, born in Topsfield in 1659, died here in 1722, having married Sarah

Wall is. Thomas was a man of some note, and served on the jury during the witchcraft trials. His son Samuel, born in Topsfield in 1699, married Margaret Towne, and diet! in 1764. Their son Samuel, born here in 1730, married Dorothy Perkins, and died in 18 10. The next in descent was their son Elijah, the grandfather of Josiah Peabody Perkins.

Elijah Perkins was engaged in tilling the soil during his active period, having inherited the original homestead. Born in 1765, he married Ruth Fisk, and died in 1851. His son, Dudley Perkins, born in 179S, was reared a farmer, and resided on the homestead until his death, which occurred September 2, 1879. A man of. much ability, Dudley served the community in sundry capacities, including those of Overseer and member of the School Committee. In politics he was a strong Republican, and he was an active member of the Congregational church. He married Miss Sarah Perkins, a daughter of Robert Perkins. Of his seven children two are living, namely: Josiah Peabody, the subject of this sketch; and Samuel Webster, of Topsfield. The mother died December 2, 1S74.

Josiah Peabody Perkins obtained an education in his early days by attending the public schools when he was not needed on the farm. He subsequently carried on farming, and worked at the shoemaker's trade for many years. On his part of the old homestead, which contains one hundred and thirty acres of land, he raises a large crop of hay each season, while devoting a section of it to grazing. He is especially interested in dairying, which he deems one of the most profitable branches of agriculture, keeping from ten to twenty cows. The large measure of success he has met with may be attributed to the practical knowledge and experience he gained while with his parents. A faithful, law-abiding citizen, living in peace with all men, he has the respect of the entire community. He is a member of Topsfield Grange.

Mr. Perkins was married August 10, 1854, to Miss Phebe W. Towle, who was born in Topsfield, Mass., on the ancestral homestead of the Bradstreet family, daughter of Samuel and Cynthia (Bradstreet) Towle. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have had seven children, namely: Mary E., who married first Arthur W. Phillips, of Topsfield, and second Edward S. Towne, of Chicago, III.; Josiah Fremont; Jessie Marion, now the wife of Benjamin F. Paige, of Pembroke, Mass. ; a child that lived but a brief time; Nellie, now the wife of Wilbur Paige, of Manchester, Mass.; Willie, who died in infancy; and Alice Lilian, who is living with her parents.

;^AMES M. FAIRFIELD, a capitalist and a real estate owner in Lawrence, has been actively identified with the business interests of this city since early manhood. He was born November 16, 1823, in Douglas, Mass., which was the birthplace likewise of his father, Simon P"airfield. His grandfather, Abram Fairfield, married Abigail White, who belonged to a prominent Uuaker family. Abram died while yet a young man, leaving two sons, Simon and Reuben. His widow afterward became the wife of a Mr. Walling, by whom she had one son.

Simon Fairfield, born in 1801, died at South Douglas in 1848. A farmer by occupation, industrious and honest, he by his persistent energy accumulated a considerable fortune for his day and generation. In 1820 he married Phoebe Churchill, who, born in 1802 in Scituate, died at South Douglas in i860. Of their ten children, eight sons and two daughters, seven grew to maturity, namely: James M., the subject of this sketch; Charles, a speculator and banker in Kansas; Enos W., a wealthy ranchman of California; Clark, a dealer in grain and lumber in Des Moines, la.; Asa C, a retired merchant and real estate dealer in Waverly^ la.; John N., who resided in Waterloo, la., and died, leaving one son and three daughters; and Albert, who died in Worcester, Mass., leaving one son and three daughters.

James M. Fairfield acquired a good common-school education in his native town. At the age of nineteen he went to Pascoag, R.I., where he served an apprenticeship of two years at the machinist's trade. Having spent the next year working in Pawtucket, R. I., he came to Lawrence in 1848. Here he established himself as senior member of the grocery firm J. M. Fairfield & Co., and continued in business until burned out a year later. During the following six years he carried on a substantial trade in dry goods. Then he changed to ready-made clothing, in which he dealt for eighteen years, first located at the corner of Essex and Newbury Streets and afterward on Essex Street near Lawrence. Having previously become somewhat interested in real estate, he then retired from the clothing business and devoted himself to buying and selling realty. His first venture in this line was made in 1853, when he bought a small cottage on Oak Street. His next was the purchase of the lot on which was his Essex Street store, and which he subsequently traded for a double tenement on Newbury Street. He now owns from 413 to 441 Essex Street, four brick blocks, containing stores, rooms, and offices; a wooden block, 541 to 545 Essex Street; and the Fairfield Block, 563 and 565 Essex Street, a handsome brick structure, five stories in height, with a large store on the ground floor and fine offices above. The last named building was completed in 1896, and is considered one of the most desirable business locations in the city. In 1885 Mr. Fairfield bought his present residence at 339 Haverhill Street. He also owns the buildings numbered from 404 to 412 Common Street, in which there are three stores and twenty-six tenements; two tenements at 230 Tremont Street; and two tenement houses in Methuen. A keen, far-sighted man of business, he has acquired this large property by enterprise and untiring industry.

In politics Mr. Fairfield is a strong Republican. He is an attendant of the Methodist church. Having twice entered matrimony, he is now a widower. His children are: Agenor D., a bright and active Christian woman, living in Methuen, and the treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the New Hampshire Conference; Samuel M., a Methodist Episcopal minister, at present engaged in the church mission work in Tennessee, to which place he went from New York City; and William, a resident of Lawrence. WillianVs first wife died, leaving him two daughters, Anna Marie and Helen, who live with their grandfather, Mr. Fairfield, and are now attending school. William subsequently marriet! again, and by his second wife has had one son, James Albert, a sturdy little lad of six years.

f^OHN F. WOODMAN, a successful business man of Amesbury, was born in this place, March 14, 1840, son of Stephen and Sally (Osgood) Woodman. Stephen Woodman, whose early life was spent in Kingston, N. H., first came to Amesbury in 1830, but removed in 1840 to South Hamp- ton, N. H. Ill 1S45 he rctuined to Amcsbuiy, and' bought a farm at the junction of Winter and High Streets, now a busy and thickly settled portion of Aniesbury village. There he built his substantial residence, now occupied by his widow and daughter. Besides carrying on his farm he conducted a prosperous meat market. He was president of the savings-bank for several years and a director of the Powow River National Bank. A leading member of the Baptist church for many years, he was especially active in its affairs; and at the time of his death, which occurred in May, 1884, he was a Deacon and its treasurer. With the poet Whittier, he was an old Free Soiler and abolitionist. He married Sally Osgood, of Amesbury, of whose children Stephen F., Ellen, Mary A., and John Francis (the last named the subject of this sketch) are now living. Stephen F. , who is a general agent of the Travelers' Insurance Company, corner of State and Kilby Streets, Boston, and the president cf the Underwriters' Life and ¥\ic Insurance Association,' married a daughter of R. W. Fatten,' has two children, Willis Patten and Esther, and resides in Jamaica Plain. Ellen is unmarried, and lives with her mother at the old hoiii'estead. ' Mary A. married George W. Osgood, a prominent carriage manufacturer, located on Carriage Hill, Amesbury. They have a son and a daughter, and occupy a beautiful home in the residential part of the town.

John F"rancis Woodman was educated in the Amesbury schools and at the Putnam Free School in Newburyport. At the age of eighteen he went to work in his father's market, and when twenty-three years of age became a partner in the business under the firm name of S. Woodman & Son. Since the retirement of his father in 1881 he has conducted the store. He also succeeded his father as a director of the Powow River National Bank. Since 1S69, when he joined the society, he has been devoted to the interests of the Baptist church. He was active in the rebuilding of the church edifice in 1871, and since his father's death he has acted as treasurer.

In 1863 Mr. Woodman married Vandora Rich, of Belfast, Me., who died in 1882. She was prominent in church and social circles, yet devoted to her children and home. Their five children, all of whom graduated from the high school, are: Emmerette R., who lives at home; Mabel, who married Roland C. Eraser, lives in Melrose, and has two children; Myrtie P., who attended school at Andover after graduating from the high school, then [)ursued a musical course in Boston, and is now at home; Wilton V., who graduated from the high school at the age of si.xteen years, and is now in business with his father; and Ernest L. , who graduated from the high school at the age of eighteen, class of 1897. In political belief Mr. Woodman is a Republican.

§OHN G. PLUMMER, formerly a successful fish dealer in Newburyport, was born there, December 25, 1819. A son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Higgins) Plummer, he is descended from P'rancis Plummer, who was born in Wales, at the foot of Snowdon Mountain. This ancestor came to Essex County with his wife and their two sons, Samuel and Joseph, in the year 1635, and settled on the banks of the Parker River. They were farming people, and bought land. Francis built a house, and obtained a license to keep a tavern and run a ferry across the river. He was the first settler to keej) a public house in the eastern part of the State. His son Joseph settled on the south side of the river, on whnt is now called Newbury Neck. Samuel, from whom John G. I'lummer is descended, bought land on the north side of the river, where he built a house. The sons intermarried with the Doles and the Danforths, and had many children and grandchildren, who grew up and scattered through Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, becoming lawyers, doctors, ministers, traders, and farmers, and attaining prominence in their various walks of life. Governor Plummer, of New Hampshire, is a connection of the family. A son of Samuel bought land further u[) the river, near the site of the Dummer Academy.

Nathaniel Plummer, born September 15, I 76 1, was twice married. His first bride was Mary Greenleaf, born in Newburyjiort, June 27, 1763, who had si.x children. The latter were: Mary Greenleaf, born June 27, 1787; Amos, born September 5, 1789; Dolly, born December 20, 1791 ; Ebenezer, born September 3, 1796; and two who died in infancy. Ebenezer, the youngest son, who served in the United States navy for many years, was with Decatur and Hull on the frigate "Constitution," and was afterward killed by pirates and buried on the island of Juan Fernandez. Nathaniel Plummer's second marriage was contracted with Sarah Higgins, who was born in Augusta, Me., May 24, 1772. ]?y her he became the father of eight children, namely: Jesse Higgins, born September 2, iSoo; Nathaniel Foster, born August 25, 1S02; Sarah Higgins, born March 9, 1805; Nancy Silloway, born October 20, 1807; Fanny Maria, born April 10, 1810; Fmeline, born May 25, 181 3; Catherine Mariott, born March i, 18 16; and John Greenleaf, the subject of this biography.

up an ardent sportsman, being e.xjjert with rod and gun at the age of thirteen. At the age of fourteen he began to learn shoemaking with Eben Rodgers; and a year later he could turn out ten pairs of shoes daily, at the rate of twenty-two cents a pair. In 1S37, business having been dull with him, he tried a fishing trip on a mackerel schooner. This life proved uncongenial; and on his return he attended the Branch Academy, then kept by John R. Rollins. His ne.xt effort to earn an honest penny was keeping the toll-gate on the turnpike, near the Glen Mills. In 1S3S he was able to return to his home and build a shoe shop, where he worked at his trade as the occasion offered. He also acted as pilot for boats going up the river, spending his leisure time in fishing and farming on the old place. After his father's death in 1840 he sold the house, and came with his mother to Newburyport. In this town he worked at shoemaking for several years. Then, desiring a change of occupation he entered the dress department of the James Cotton Mill. Upon leaving this position he began to deal in fish, buying in Gloucester to supply the market in Newburyport. Competition was strong; but by careful buying, honest dealing, and close attention to business, he outsold his competitors, and soon had the route to himself. In 1852 he sold his team and removed to Gloucester, where he went into partnersln'p with Harry Merchant, buying fish and curing and smoking halibut. They hired Five Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor, and continued in business together for three years. At the end of that time Mr. Plummer returned to Newburyport, and engaged in the business of extracting oil from the livers of pollock. Soon after, he entered into partnership with Eben B. Phillips and John Marston, of Boston. This firm is alleged to have obtained the best and purest coil liver oil in the woiicl. In 1857 Moses Stevens joined Mr. riunimer, and in 1S61 Charles W. Hale was admitted into the firm. The three continued in business for several years, until the city railroad company bought their wharf. They then bought some land and built their halibut houses on Victoria Avenue. After the death of Mr. Hale, Mr. Plummer and Mr. Stevens conducted business together until the year 1892, when both retired. Mr. Plummer was the first to smoke salt halibut. He had a large business in this commodity, shipping to E. & C. Nickerson, of New York, and other parties in Chicago and Poston. He also dried pollock, and sold to a firm in Portland, Me. This business was given up in 1892. He was also in the dry fish trade, which he sold out to Tliomas Dennett Aubin, May 10, 18S9.

Mr. Plummer was married November 29, 1842, to Clara, daughter of Samuel H. Poore, of Newburyport. Born of the marriage were two children : Clara Greenleaf, who died young; and Catherine Marriott, who married Hiram Gilmore Janvrin. Mr. Janvrin is chief member of the hardware firm of M. C. Warren & Co., IDock .Square, ]3oston, and resides in Lexington. He and his wife have two children. Mrs. Clara Plummer died in iSSi. Mr. Plummer was an old Free Soiler, one of the first three in Newburyport; and he has been a Republican since the Civil War. Not caring for public life, he has always refused oflfice. He joined the I. O. O. F. , but afterward left the society and became a member of the J. O. G. T., Mountain Rill Lodge, and Sons of Temperance. He is also a prominent Red Man.

Strict attention to business, added to his commercial daring and enterprise, has made Mr. Plummer one of the most prosperous men in his native place.

;ff]YEREML\II J. DESMOND, a leading [iharmacist of Lawrence and the proprietor of the spacious and wellequipped drug store at 565 Broadway, was born November 3, 1867, on Park Street, not far from his present place of business. His paternal grandparents, Patrick and P211en (Sullivan) Desmond, emigrated from Ireland to America in 1847, and with their seven children, four sons and three daughters, located in Lawrence. The death of the grandfather occurred in 1877, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. The grandmotlier, having survived him ten years, died at the home of one of her sons in California, when eightyseven years old. After coming to this city the four sons - Humphrey, Daniel, Cornelius, and Jeremiah - established themselves in business as manufacturers of woollen hats, each cf the brothers assuming the charge of a department. Having but limited means to start with, they began on a modest scale. With the lapse of time they enlarged their operations, and became known as particularly successful manufacturers. In 1867, just after the insurance on their plant had run out, a ilire misfortune befell them. Owing to some unexplainable cause, probably incendiarism, their factory was burned to the ground, and the eighty thousand dollars which by industry and thrift they had accumulated vanished in smoke. Instead of rebuilding the three younger brothers went to California, two locating in San Francisco, and the third going into business in Los Angeles.

Humphrey Desmond, born in 1826, was a native of Irelaml, where he learned the hatter's trade. After coming to Lawrence, as above mentioned, he was in business with his brothers until their factory was burned. Thereafter he worked with Mr. Tenney, a former competitor, as a journeyman hatter until 1873. In that year he was elected Superintendent of Streets for the city of Lawrence, a position which he had held for twelve months when the Republicans came into power. From that time until his retirement from active pursuits in i.SSj, he was engaged in the grocery business with his sons, Patrick J. and Daniel E. A man of excellent judgment, he acquired a large property. In 1859 he purchased about seven acres of land on Park Street, where he built a small house and a hat factory. The house, numbered 316, was the family residence until 1S81, when the present fine residence at 370 Park Street was completed. In 1850 he married Ann Halloran, who came to Lawrence about 1S45 from County Kilkenny, Ireland, with her parents. Ten children were born of the union, namely: Patrick ]., August 27, 1854, who died August 10, i88g, leaving a widow; Daniel E., August 3, 1856, grocer and fruit dealer, carrying on business at the stand previously occupied by his father, corner of Broadway and Park Street; Mary Agnes, who died August 19, 1863, aged five years; Ellen Maria, who died July 15, i860, in infancy; Nora Agnes, born April 29, 1 86c, who was educated at St. Mary's Parochial School of Lawrence, Mass. ; Humphrey Joseph, who died in August, 1865, aged two years; C. Joseph, born December 10, 1865, whose education was completed at Villanova College, Pennsylvania, and who is the junior member of the firm of D. E. & C. J. Desmond, grocers and fruit dealers; Jeremiah J., the special subject of this sketch; Mary M., born May 27, 1S69, who was graduated from the Lawrence High School, class of 1889; and Margaret E. , born May 3, 1871, who, after graduating at the Lawrence High School, class of 1891, became a pupil of the Academy of the Sacred Heart at Manhattanville, N.Y. The father died January 15,

1888, and the mother on October 14, 1891. Having received his early education in the Oliver Grammar School of Lawrence, Jeremiah J. Desmond took a four years' course at Villanova College, Pennsylvania. In 1S87 he entered the United States postal service, and had been mail agent between Troy and New York City for one year when a change of administration deprived him of that position. Then he became an apprentice and clerk in the drug store of H. M. Whitney. After three years spent here, having closely applied himself to the study of drugs, he passed a successful examination in pharmacy. In the fall of 1893 he opened a handsome store in the brick block erected by the Desmond family, which he has since conducted.

Mr. Desmond resides with his brothers and sisters, none of whom are married. An uncompromising Democrat in politics, he has been actively interested in municipal affairs. In 1895 he was a member of the Common Council, when, besides serving on some of the more important committees of that body, be secured the erection of the new engine house, and, with the president, John P. S. Mahoney, was largely instrumental in making the semicentennial celebration of the city the very successful and creditable event it was. He is an esteemed member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks.

/ ^^^TraNVILLE VV. PETTINGELL, for VJ^ I the past sixteen years the undertaker of Amesbury, was born at Rocky Hill, Salisbury, Mass., July 4, 1854. The youngest son of Amos and Mary Pettingell, he is a descendant in the eighth generation from Richard Pettingell, the earliest settler of the name.

tractor and builder, erected many of the best business blocks and private residences now standing in Amesbury and Salisbury. In early life a ship-joiner, he long owned and operated a saw-mill at Clark's Pond, which was destroyed by fire many years ago. When he became an architect he feadily secured orders, and was soon given the largest contracts to be had in the vicinity. He was a member of the Salisbury Point Baptist Church. At his death he left seven children - John S. , Charles F. , Annette L., Roger L., Florence H., Mary E., and Granville W. The first-born served in the Union navy, on board the ship "Young Rover," during the first year of the Civil War. Afterward he enlisted in the famous Forty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, in which he served until the close of the war. Charles F. is the general manager of the C. F. Pettingell Machine Company, of Lawrence, Mass. Annette L. married William T. Follensbee, of Amesbury. Roger L. is in business with his brother, as superintendent of the Machine Company at Lawrence. Mary E., the wife of Worthington G. Paige, resides on the old homestead at Rocky Hill, Salisbury.

Granville W. Pettingell, the youngest of his parents' children, was educated in the common schools of his native place. After leaving school he learned the carriage-trimming trade, engaging for that purpose with the firm of Hume & Morrill in 1874. P'ive years later he went into the grocery business with Benjamin S. Blake, of Amesbury, a connection that lasted three years. Then he returned to his trade of carriage trimmer. In 1882, upon the death of Mr. Blake, he succeeded to the business, the exclusive control of which has since been in his hands.

and Lavonia (Tucker) Blake. Mrs. Pettingell has had two children - -Mildred Blake and Unabelle Alice. Mr. Pettingell is a member of the Powow River Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of the Colfax Lodge of Rebecca; of Amesbury Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; and of the Amesbury Merchants' Association; and the Wannesquam Boat Club. The Village Improvement Society and other organizations formed for public good count him among the most influential members. He is well known as a prosperous and energetic citizen, actively interested in the welfare of the town.

LsjBEN SUMNER, who was for many years JQ; a prominent business man of Newburyport, was born in that city, March 1 1, 1820, son of Michael and Mary (Bartlett) Sumner. His descent is traced to Roger Sumner, husbandman of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, who died December 3, 1608. In 1 60 1 this ancestor married Joane I'ranklin. Their only child, William, born in 1605, married Mary West and came to New P^ngland in 1636, settling in Dorchester, Mass. William Sumner became a Selectman in 1637. I-'or more than twenty years he was a Commissioner; and he was a Deputy to the General Court in 165S, 1666, 1670, 1672, 167S-81, and 1683-86. His death occurred on December 9, 1688. Of his six children, the eldest was William, Jr., born in Bicester, who became a mariner and married Augustine Clement, of Dorchester. They had ten children, of whom Clement, the ninth child, was born in Boston, September 6, 1671. On May 18, 1698, Clement married Margaret Harris. He lived in Boston, where all his seven children were born. Samuel, the seventh child of Clement, born August 31, 1709, married Ai)i- gail, daughter of Samuel Frothingham, of Cliarlestovvn, who had eight children. Ebenezer, the fifth of these, born in March, 1742, married Elizabeth Tappan, of Newburyport, and lived in that city, where his twelve children were born. Michael, the fifth child, father of Eben Sumner, was born January i, 1780. He was twice married, the first time to Esther Moody, who bore Iiim two children. The second marriage was contracted with Mary Bartlett, whose children by him were: Richard Bartlett, Mary, Eben, William, Samuel, John, Hannah Maria, and Abigail Bartlett Sumner.

Eben Sumner attended the Brown High School. When fourteen years of age he obtained employment in the wholesale grocery store of Mr. Wood, remaining there for nine years and receiving constant promotions. In 1843 he engaged in the retail grocery business, locating the following year on Commercial Wharf with John Wood & Son, importers. Later he and William H. Swasey formed the firm of Sumner & Swasey, commission merchants in the Calcutta and domestic trade. In 1853 Warren Currier was admitted to partnership, when the style of the firm became Sumner, Swasey & Currier. The company did considerable ship-building, and owned the vessels "Reporter," the "Exporter," "Daniel I. Tenney," bark "Signal," "Sea Dog," and the "Bordeaux." They made large importations of salt. In 1871 E. P. Shaw succeeded Mr. Currier without causing any alteration in the firm name. Mr. Sumner was the originator and president of the Towle Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of silverware. At the organization of the First National Bank of Newburyport he was chosen a director. He was its president from iSSg to the time of his death. He was also the president of the Five Cent Savings

Bank, a director of the Merchants' Bank for a number of years, and, having been one of the incorporators of the Newburyport Car Manufacturing Company, he was its treasurer for the remainder of his life.

While a loyal Republican and always warmly interested in the affairs of the city, Mr. Sumner, on account of deafness, did not care to become a candidate for office. A quiet man and of a religious nature, he was a founder of the Whitfield Congregational Church, a Deacon of the society for some years, and a member of the Executive and Parish Committees from 1850. He was widely known and respected in the business community, and beloved by a large circle of personal friends on account of his many admirable qualities of heart and mind.

His wife, Elizabeth A., is a daughter of Samuel Shaw and half-sister of the Hon. E. P. Shaw, State Treasurer of Massachusetts, whose biography appears elsewhere in this work. She has been the mother of five children, of whom two are now living: M. Fannie Sumner, who resides with her mother; and Eben Sumner, Jr. Eben married Miss Hattie Richard, and has one son, Bertram Dale Sumner, who is employed in the office of the Electric Street Railway Company of Wakefield, Mass.

Ohn Alexander Fitzhugh

OHN ALEXANDER FITZHUGH, M.D., a successful physician of Amesbury, Mass., was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, December 4, 1854, and is descended from the famous old Southern family of that name, of ancient Scottish origin.

The well-authenticated papers of which the Doctor has made a valuable collection, at great trouble and expense, trace the line of ancestry back to Malcolm I., King of Scotland 943-54, through his daughter Thora. She married Sigurd, Earl of the Orkney Isles. Their son Bardolph settled in Richmondshire, England, and became the powerful Baron of Ravensworth (Scott's "Rokeby," canto iii. p. 75, and note). Bardolph was not molested in his possessions by William the Conqueror. Barker says he possessed various manors in the time of the Conqueror. The regular pedigree is extant from the first to the fifteenth generation, traced by Robert Knox, of Fredericksburg, Va. The FitzHugh barony is continued seven generations by writ. The direct descent ceased in 1508.

The names of FitzIIugh and HughFitz were interchangeable until the thirteenth century. The name appears on the roil of Battle Abbey, and two of the name signed the Magna Charta of 12 1 5. They were leaders in the Crusades, 1096-1219; were active with the Lancasters in the Wars of the Roses, 1455-85. A FitzHugh of Ravensworth married the sister of the Earl of Warwick, "the King-maker." Hume makes him a leader of the rebellion in the war against Edward IV., 1463-65. In 1508 the estate of Ravensworth and the old baronial castle fell to Thomas Dacres (see again Scott's "Rokeby " ). Catharine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII., was the grandmother of the last Lord FitzHugh, of Ravensworth. Almost the last Catholic Bishop of London was John a great-grandson of Catharine Parr and a son of Lord FitzHugh. In Yorkshire, England, near Thorsgill, is the famous Eglistone Abbey, founded in the reign of Henry II., 1133-1189. It still bears reminders of the FitzHugh family. At Mortham Castle, within a cjuarter of a mile of ancient Greta Bridge, between two majestic elms, still stands an ancient sculptured armorial monument removed fnim Eglistone Abbey, which once marked the last resting-place of many generations of FitzHughs ("Rokeby," canto ii. p. 39, published by Joseph Cushing, Baltimore, Md., 181 3). The name is mentioned by the famous Captain James Cook, who was entertained by FitzHugh while in Canton, China, for whom he afterward named the sound near Vancouver's Island FitzHugh. Two daughters of this famous Virginia family married distinguished abolitionists.

Of the later generations of FitzHugh, William FitzHugh was baptized at Great Barford, England, January 21, 1570. His will, dated January 2, 1632, was proved September 25, 1638. He married Margaret Smith. Their son Henry inherited newly erected buildings in St. Paul, Bedford [J'irgiiiin Hist. l\lag., 1894, p. 415). Henry, son of William and Margaret, born in 1614, died before 1684. He was a lawyer, who removed to London. By his wife, Mary, he had seven children, of whom William, the youngest, was baptized January 10, 165 1 (St. Paul's Register). That he was burgess for 170 1-2 is reported in the William and Mary Hist. Quarterly., 1895-96. He held this position at the time of his death. He defended Robert Beverly in the celebrated case, when prosecuted for his refusal to hand the records over to the Royal Governor.

Colonel William FitzHugh was born in 1650 at "Bedford," England; and his estate, now situated in King George County, Virginia, was so named. His will, dated April 5, 1701, was proved December 10, 1701, in Stafford County, which then included King George. He emigrated from England to Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1670, married May i, 1674, Sarah Tucker, liorn August 2, 1663, eldest daughter of John and Rose Tucker, issue five sons and one daughter. They inherited fifty-four thousand and fifty-four acres of land in Stafford and Esse.x Counties.

Of their six children, the second son, Captain Henry, was born February 15, 1686, died December 12, 1758. His tomb is still to be seen at "Bedford," in King George County. He married February 24, 1718, Susannah Cooke, born December 7, 1693, died November 4, 1749. She was the daughter of Mordecai Cooke, who patented one thousand one hundred and seventy-four acres of land in Gloucester County in 1650. Of the five children of Captain Henry and Susannah Fitz- Hugh, Major Henry, the second son and third child, born September 18, 1723, died in February, 1783. He married October 23, 1746, Sarah Battaille, of "Flintshire," now part of the estate of "Santee, " Caroline County. His title, Major, is supposed to have been received during service in the Revolutionary War; but the records are not complete.

He had eleven children. The second son was William FitzHugh, of "Prospect Hill," Fauquier County, who removed from Stafford County in 1771 (Bishop Meade's "Old Churches and Families of Virginia," vol. ii. p. 192). He was born in 1750. His will is dated February 7, 18 13, and was proved April 29, 181 7, recorded in the Fauquier County Will Book, 181 3-1 7, p. 324. He married in 177s Elizabeth Dcadnam, of Gloucester County, who died of small-pox about the year 1777. He married, second, Sally Diggs, grand-daughter of Governor Edward Diggs, of Virginia; and by her he had nine children.

Dr. William Deadnam FitzHugh, the only issue by the first marriage, and grandfather of Dr. FitzHugh of Amcsbury, was born March 17, 1776, and died May 3, 1838. He was baptized by the Rev. William Stuart, of St. Paul's Parish, King George County, and was reared by his grandmother, Mrs. Sally Battaille FitzHugh, at "Bedford,"" the old homestead. He was first married October 2, 181 1, by the

Rev. Hugh Coran Boggs, to Patsie Julia Talaiferro, second daughter of Colonel Lawrence H. and Sally Dade Talaiferro, an old and prominent Virginian family. She was born May 8, 1782, and died between 18 16 and 1818, leaving one child to survive her. He married, second. Miss Martha Stuart Thornton, daughter of Colonel William Thornton, of Rappahannock County, and his wife, Martha Stuart. The second wife was born about 1785, died December 19, 1861, and was buried at "Elmwood." Dr. William D. FitzHugh was a celeljrated surgeon in his day, and being ambidextrous was thereby able to perform operations with remarkable swiftness and skill. By his second wife he had four children - William D., Jr., Francis T., Thomas T. L., and George W. Thomas graduated in medicine from the University of New York in 1848. His diploma is in the possession of his nephew, the subject of this sketch. He died at Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Va., of typhoid fever in 1849.