Essex Town (part 22 of 26)

Mr. Brown was married in 1868 to Lydia A. Dodge, a daughter of Herbert and Mary J. (Ethridge) Dodge. Their only child, a daughter, is a music teacher in Hamilton. Mr. Brown was a Representative to the General Court in the year that the final and strongest effort was made to have Beverly Farms set off from the town of Beverly; and it is remembered to his credit by his constituents that the failure of the project was due principally to his efforts. His ridicule of the plan and his original way of putting the matter had more effect on the vote of the House than the eloquence of the paid attorneys of the Beverly Farms people who were seeking a division of the town. Mr. Brown has been Town Clerk of Hamilton for many years, and so satisfactory is his work in that important office that he is likely to hold it for as long as he may wish to do so. He has also been Justice of the Peace for nineteen years, and he served for nine years as School Committee. In politics he is a Republican.

OSEPH MERRILL, the historian of Amesbury, was born on his father's homestead at Pond Hills, Amesbury, November 4, 18 14. A son of Joseph and Lydia Merrill, he descended from Nathaniel Merrill, who came from the south of England to Ipswich in 1633, and to Newbury in 1635. With Nathaniel came his brother John, who also settled in Newbury, and whose farm adjoined Nathaniel's on the shore of the Merrimac River. From Nathaniel descended the Massachusetts Merrills, by Abraham,^ Abraham,^ Isaac, ^ Jacob,5 and Joseph.'' Abraham^ settled in Amesbury about the year 1722, bringing with him his sons - ^ Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - and his daughters - Abigail, Elizabeth, and Lydia. Isaac was the only son who left male descendants. Joseph Merrill, the father of the historian, was a farmer of Pond Hills, Amesbury. The ancestors of his wife in this country were: Robert Pike, George Martin, Richard North, John lloyt, and the Rev. Thomas Wells.

Joseph Merrill, the subject of this biography, received his education in the common schools and at an academy. Beginning at the age of eighteen, he followed the occupation of teacher during the winter season for some years. First elected Town Clerk in 1844, he filled the office for thirty-si.x years. He was twenty-four years on the School Board, elected in i860, thus holding town office forty consecutive years. He was first commissioned Justice of the Peace in 1854 by Governor Washburn, and last acted under the seventh commission. Much of his time recently, for some years, was devoted to settling estates, surveying, and writing deeds and wills. In 1 88 1 he published a history of Amesbury, including an account of Merrimac and of the first settlement of Salisbury. Although Salisbury had been settled about two and a half centuries, and Amesbury more than two, yet no history of them had been previously written. Mr. Merrill's great familiarity with town records, localities, incidents, and traditions, enabled him to give much valuable information. In 1888 he wrote a brief history of Amesbury for the valuable and popular work in two volumes, entitled the History of Essex County. In addition to his historical publications, he has annually written for the papers, and for special occasions, with the purpose of perpetuating the memory of the fathers of the nation. When more than fourscore years of age, he still cared for his farm and business, and was engaged in historical work to some extent. He passed away February 9, 1898.

I':ORGE VV. BOYNTON, formerly of \ 1^1 Georgetown and a son of Eben and Elizabeth (Durgin) Boynton, came of an old and well-known Rockport family. The father, a native of Rowley, born in 1795, died there in 1850. He was a dealer and trader. His wife Elizabeth was from West Newbury, Mass. Their son, George W., who was born in Rowley in 1820, received his education in the public schools of his native town and at Dummer Academy in Byfield. After leaving school, he worked in a shoe shop of Georgetown for a short time. Then he went into the livery business, and followed it for fifteen years, at the same time attending to other duties. In 1844 he was appointed Constable of Georgetown. Several years later he was made Deputy Sheriff of Essex County. During the Civil War he was in the I'rovost Marshal's office in Salem. At the close of the war he was appointed Deputy Constable of the State I^olice force, under Major Jones. This position he held until 1871, when Governor Talbot made him Chief of the State I^olice. For many years he held the government contract for carrying mails through New Hampshire and other routes in New England. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Danvers; also of the chapter and commandery at Charlestown.

Boynton had two children - George N. and William K. The elder, George N., in 1S62 enlisted in Company K, Fiftieth Massachusetts Volunteers, under Captain John Barnes. After serving in New Orleans and Baton Rouge with General Banks's army, he died of fever on July 3, 1863. While his father was in the South, with the purpose of bringing the body home, the younger boy, William K., died of diphtheria. The brothers were buried in the same grave. Mr. Boynton died March 23, 1877- His widow was married in i88g to Theodore Elliot, a blacksmith by trade, who died in 1893. Mrs. Elliot is now living in Georgetown.

EORGE C. PIKE, a well-known yp'T agriculturist of Salisbury, was born here, June 6, 1856. The genealogy of the family from which he springs is traced back to the Norman Conquest of England. Among its representatives were: the Bishop of Lichfield, who was consecrated in 11 27; Richard, consecrated Bishop of Coventry in 1 162; Harmon, 12 16; Gilbert, 1261 ; Robert, 1321; Alexander, 1329; Nicholas, 1332; and John, 1385, who went to Spain with the Duke of Lancaster. In the line was the Rev. G. Pike, followed by Thomas, Sheriff of London; John, 1462, Baron of London; John, who married a grand-daughter of Sir Thomas More; the Rev. William, 1591, who died a Roman Catholic martyr; Attorney John, 1635, the first of the family in America, who went to Ipswich.

George C. Pike was educated in the common schools of his native town. After leaving school, he went as a farmer on the old homestead until 1886. In 1888 he bought his present fine residence, which is beautifully located at the corner. For two years he drove a barge from Seabrook to Amesbury, and for one year from Seabrook to Newbury - port, and carried a large quantity of materials for shoemakers. Since that time he has been engaged in general farming. Last season he cut meadow grass from one hundred and twenty-four acres of salt marsh land. He has been Road Commissioner for five years, and his executive ability is well known and recognized. He is a member of the United Order of American Mechanics, Caleb Cushing Council, and has held various offices in that organization. He also belongs to the American Order of United Workmen, Robert Pike Lodge of East Salisbury. For three years he was the financier and examiner of that organization, and he is now Master Workman.

On August 17, 1885, Mr. Pike married Mary D. Pike, a daughter of W. H. Pike, of Salisbury, and now of Amesbury. W. H. Pike was a son of Jacob Pike, and his wife was a daughter of Joseph Pike. The children of George C. Pike and his wife are: Annie M., aged twelve years; James H., aged ten years; Clinton T., aged eight; and George D., aged four. Mr. Pike was one of the jurors who tried the celebrated Williams case at Salem in the winter of 1898.

ILLIAM R. USHER, of Newburyport, a well-known boot and shoe manufacturer, was born in Boston, Mass., July 4, 1S45. The Ushers trace their family genealogy back to the time of Roger Neville. Ambroise Usher, father of William R., was born in England, and came to America about 1842. He engaged in the tailoring business in Boston. His death occurred in Stoneham about ten years ago. His wife died in the same place a few years later.

sketch, was born in East Boston, and received his education in Stoneham, Mass. He began to learn the boot and shoe business before he was ten years old. About 1S76 he assumed the management of the Stoneham Co-operative Shoe Company, and continued there until 1884, when he formed a copartnership with Daniel S. Burley, under the name of Burley & Usher. In 1885 they started a shoe factory at Milton, N. H., and in 1887 moved their Stoneham plant to Beverly, Mass. In the spring of 1889 they established another factory at Springvale, Me. ; and in the fall of 1890 they removed the Beverly factory to Newburyport. In 1894 this latter factory was burned, and the partnership was dissolved. Since that year Mr. William A. Usher, son of William R., has been connected with his father in the management of two factories at Springvale, Me., carrying on the business under the firm name of W. R. Usher & Son. These factories are able to manufacture from fifteen to eighteen hundred pairs of boots in a day. Their shipments cover every part of the United States, being principally, however, to the Western and Middle States. They employ in their factories about two hundred and twenty-five workmen.

Mr. Usher, Sr. , is a member of the Nevvburyport ]5oard of Trade and director of Ocean National Bank. He was formerly director of Lake National Bank of Wolfboro, N. H.^ In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M., and formerly belonged to Melrose Chapter, R. A. M. He is also a member of the Baptist church and of the Y. M. C. A. of Newburyport. He has had two children, of whom William A. Usher is the only one living.

ness life by entering the Stoneham Co-operative Shoe Company managed by his father, with whom he has remained associated up to the present time. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of King Cyrns Chapter, R. A. M. ; and of Newburyport Commandery, K. T. In the spring of i8S6 Mr. Usher married a daughter of John Brown, of Somerville, Mass. He has a family of two children - Helen G. and Abbie M. He is one of the progressive, enterprising business men of Newburyport, of unimpeachable character and recognized ability, an active citizen, and interested in every movement for the welfare of the imblic.

LIAS ANDREWS, whose ancestors were among the original settlers of Esse.x County, was born March 8, 1S42, in the town of Essex, where he now resides. A son of Elihu end Mary (Hatch) Andrews, he descended from Captain Robert Andrews, master of the ship "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked upon the rock-bound coast of Maine in 1635. Captain Andrews settled in Ij^swich, Mass., where he kept the White Horse Inn, and became an extensive real estate owner. His descendant. Lieutenant John Andrews, was the father of Joseph, who was the greatgreat-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Joseph Andrews owned and cultivated a fahii located about one and a half miles east of where the present Elias Andrews lives. He married and reared four sons; namely, Elias, Moses, Levi, and Joseph.

Elias Andrews, the grandfather of the present bearer of the name, was an industrious farmer of Essex in his day. He wedded Martha Lufkin of this town, and had a family of eight children; namely, Achsah, Hiram, Joseph, Martha, Horatio, Elias, Miles, and

Elihu, none of whom is living. Elihu Andrews, who was a lifelong resident of Essex, spent his active period in general farming, which he pursued with prosperity. He died October 31, 1876. His wife Mary, whose father was a resident of Wells, Me., became the mother of four children. Of these, one died in infancy; and a daughter, Mary Louise, died young. The others are Elias and Elihu B. Elihu B. Andrews, who is a successful dairy farmer and has a milk route in Gloucester, wedded Mary Andrews, of Essex, and has one daughter. His only daughter, Mary Louise, is now the wife of James Warren Butler, a native of Gloucester, and has one daughter, Nellie W. Mrs. Elihu Andrews resides in Essex with her son, Elihu B.

Elias Andrews, the subject of this biography, was reared and educated in his native town. Since reaching manhood, he has been an industrious tiller of the soil. Remaining upon the homestead farm, he managed it during his father's last days. When the propeity was divided, he settled upon the farm he now occupies. He has seventy-five acres of fertile land, which he devotes to dairy and truck farming, producing and selling a considerable quantity of milk. A Republican in politics, he takes much interest in public affairs, while averse to entering office.

On July 28, 1864, Mr. Andrews married Elizabeth Hardy Prince. She was born in Peabody, March 31, 1845, daughter of the Rev. John and Mary Parker (Burnham) Prince. Her father, formerly a prominent Universal ist minister, subsequently held a government position in Washington, and is now living in retirement at the home of his daughter in this town. Her mother died January 28, 1897. The other children of her parents were: Mary, John, Sarah, and Parker B. Mary is the wife of J. Leverett Story. Parker B. Prince mar- ried Emma Gough, and for several years filled the position of chief law clerk to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have had six children. Of these, the only survivor is Lizzie, the wife of iM-ank G. Gilbert, who is the shipping clerk at Hill & Green's shoe factory in Athol, Mass., and by whom she is the mother of two children, P>ancis and Howard. The others were: Martha Liifkin; Elias, who was a prominent yoimg man in Essex when he died I"ebruary 24, 1890; John Prince (first); John Prince (second) ; and I'^lihu.

Tt^^EV. SAMUEL JONES SPALDING I S^ was an esteemed clergyman of New- _l^ V^ _j buryport. Born December 20, 1820, at Lyndeboro, N. H., he was a descendant in the eighth generation from lulward Spalding, the first of the family in this country, who arrived in America about 1619, and came to Massachusetts in 1630. Two of his ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, designated respectively as Samuel the elder and Samuel the younger. The elder Samuel was enrolled in 1776 by Abiel Abbott, and was in the battle of White Plains, being at that time Lieutenant. Another ancestor was Roger Conant, who was appointed first governor of Cape Ann Colony in 1625, and was the founder of Salem.

Samuel J. Spalding fitted for college in Nashua, N. II., under the well-known teacher David Crosby. Subsequently he entered Dartmouth College, and graduated therefrom in the class of 1842. In this year he entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he studied for the ensuing three years. On October 26, 1846, he was ordained pastor of a new parish in Salmon l-'alls, N. H. A few years later, having accejited a call from the

Whitefield Congregationali.st Church at Newburyport, he was dismissed from his first charge, and was installed in this city June 30,^ 1851, where he served as pastor for thirty-two years. On December 29, 1862, having procured a leave of absence from his people, he was mustered into the P'orty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment, hoUling the commission of chaplain. With his regiment he served in the First Brigade and First Division of the Army of the Gulf, under Major General Auger. This regiment was at the battle of Plains Store, May 21, 1863; at the siege of Port Hudson, where it was actively engaged in the first and second assaults on May 27 and June 14; and in the fight at Donald.sonville on July 13. It was mustered out of service August 30, 1863.

The Rev. Mr. Spalding was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and a corresponding member of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He was also a member of the Esse.x North Association, of which he prepared a history that was published in Boston in 1865, under the title "Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Essex County, Massachusetts." He was twice married. The first marriage was contracted June 27, 1848, with Sarah Lydia Metcalf, of Medway, Mass., who was born August 3, 1829, daughter of the Hon. Luther Metcalf and his wife, Sarah Brown (Phipps) Metcalf. Her death occurred September i, 1849, at Salmon Falls (Rollinsford), N. H. The second marriage, on September 16, 1851, united him with Sarah Jane Parker Toppan, of Hampton, N. H. She was born September 7, 1S22, daughter of the Hon. Edmund and Mary (Chase) Toppan. Her children, all born in Nevvburyport, were: Mary T., Annie T., and lulmund .S. The first two live at home. Annie T. was married July. 11, 188S, to Na- thanie! D. Chappin, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Spalding is a descendant of Christopher Toppan, who was settled as pastor of the Oldtown Church at Newburyport for forty years; and of Judge Pepperell, the father of Sir William Pepperell. Other ancestors of hers were Colonel Wingate, who commanded at the siege of Louisburg; the Hon. John Frost, who was in the Governor's Council in 1727; and Judge Parker, the father of Bishop Parker, who was formerly the rector of Trinity Church of Boston, being the only Episcopal clergyman that remained at his post during the Kevolution, and who died in 1804, soon after he was elected bishop.

Mr. Spalding died at his residence in Green Street, April 10, 1892. At that time he was a trustee of Dummer Academy in Byfield, Mass., and of Hampton and Seabrook Academies in New Hampshire. He was much beloved as a friend ; and, as a citizen, he occupied a warm place in the hearts of his townsmen. In the discharge of his pastoral duties his tenderness and care were unfailing, and his zeal for the church and for the welfare of the community was constantly exercised.

V»,if^,..^ well-known farmers of Rowley, sons of Nathaniel and Maria (Proctor) Mighill. They are descendants of Thomas Mighill, who came to Rowley with the first settlers in 1639. He brought with him his wife Ellen and two sons Samuel and John. Thomas, Jr., was born in 1640, whose mother died the same year, being the first person buried in Rowley. Thomas later married Ann, a sister of Francis Parrat. By this union he had si.x children, one of whom was Stephen.

The direct line of ancestry to the present generation is as follows: Stephen, born 1651; Nathaniel, born 1684; Jeremiah, born 1724; Thomas, born 1765; Nathaniel, the father above named, born in iSoi.

Stephen married in 1680 Sarah Phillips, whose father was also the ancestor of the late Phillips Brooks, D.D., and of Hon. Wendell Phillips. Thomas built the large two-story, four-room house which stood east of the present residence of Charles P. Mighill. Stephen Mighill died in 1687, leaving three young children, namely: one son, Nathaniel, and daughters, Sarah and Ann. His widow married (second) March 6, 1688, Robert Greenough, who became the guardian of her children.

Nathaniel Mighill was an influential man and the owner of large estates. He married in 1705 Priscilla Pearson, daughter of Jeremiah, a miller of Rowley. Nathaniel and Priscilla Mighill had five sons and five daughters, all of whom were in prosperous circumstances. Stephen, second, their eldest son, had more land assigned him than the others, with the understanding that he should live at "Bald Pate," now in Georgetown, then a part of Rowley, and at that time an undesirable place of residence, being uninhabited. Ezekiel, the second son, settled in Newburyport (then Newbury). Nathaniel, second, the third son, settled in Rowley. His was the house still standing at the south-westerly corner of the common, a typical house of "ye olden time," with timbers hewn from the solid white oak.

Thomas, the fourth son, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. He raised his own company, and served three years. He was for many years a clerk and Deacon of the church, and Town Clerk. He was a Representative to the General Court eleven years.

We quote from his Autobiography, now in possession of his grand-daughter, in which is contained an extended account of his religious experience: "I, Thomas Mighill, married to Hannah Northcnd, daughter of Ezekiel and Elizabeth his wife, November, 26th day, 1747. Had no child by her. She deceased September 25, 1748, in the hour of travail taken with extreme pain in her head, fainted away and died within the space of three or four minutes from the time she was seized. This happened in the dead of the night on Saturday; and I was very much surprised, and found it hard to say 'Thy will be done.' But when I thought more wisely on this sudden stroke of Divine Providence, who it was that ordered it, I felt more calm and submissive to the will of Heaven, knowing he had and ought to have all his creatures at his control and disposal. She was born July 29, 1728. When she deceased she was twenty years, one month, and twenty-eight days. My second wife was Sarah Northend, daughter of Captain John Northend and Bethiah his wife. I was married to her November, 13th day, 1750. I had three children by her : first, Hannah, born on Saturday, half after one o'clock in the morning, January, i8th day, 1752; second, Sarah, born Wednesday, four o'clock afternoon, February 20, 1754; third, son, born August 6th and deceased as soon as born, 1761. My wife after a spell of weakness was seized on Lord's Day, between seven and eight o'clock in the morning, on the last day of May, 1778, and had upward of sixty fits of the convulsive kind, and deceased June the first, at two o'clock in the morning, 1778. This was soon after I served in the Continental army almost two years.

"God's ways are wonderful and past my conception; and, whilst I passed through many changing scenes, he that orders all things in wisdom - I am ashamed that I am no more resigned to his all-wise disposing providence. She was born November 24th, 1721. She was, when she deceased, fifty-six years and half one year."

"My third wife was Rachel Lane, a widow woman, daughter of Captain John Row, of Gloucester. I was married to her October the 15th, 1778. The children I have by her: first, Elizabeth, born on Saturday morning, October 23, 1779; second, Dorothy, born Saturday, at nine at night, August, 18th day, 1781 ; third, Anna, born on Monday about sun-rising, September 29th, 1783; fourth, Thomas, born Monday at night, July loth, 1786."

A family record says: "Deacon Thomas Mighill deceased August the 26th, 1807, aged eighty-five years, four months, and thirteen days. Rachel, widow of Deacon Thomas Mighill, deceased June the 17th, 1S24, aged eighty years. Thomas, son of Deacon Thonias Mighill, deceased April the 9th, 182S, aged forty-one years. "

Jeremiah, the fifth son of Nathaniel and Priscilla, settled on the old homestead. He married Sarah Lambert, and by her had two sons and three daughters. The elder son, Nathaniel, third, born 1759, was a remarkably bright lad. Specimens of his handwriting at the age of fourteen are now in the possession of Mr. Charles P. Mighill, and show at that early age a plain and masterly hand.

Thomas Mighill, son of Jeremiah and the grandfather of Charles P. and Benjamin P., married Mary Scott, daughter of Lieutenant Moses Scott, who served in the War of the Revolution. The first three generations of tiie family were farmers and maltsters. Their malt probably took the place of the tea and coffee of our day. On the estate on which Thomas lived had been the malt-yard of the first three generations. East of the yard, across the way, stands the old house, probably built by Ezekiel prior to 1680; and near by stood the house built by the first Thomas. The grandfather was a farmer in high standing in the community. His children remembered that he entertained the entire council when the minister was settled in the parish. He was also guardian of some boys of the town. He was a large real estate owner in Rowley. He died at the age of fifty-five years.

Nathaniel, son of Thomas, was born, as before mentioned, in iSoi. He received a good common-school education, and, though not a college-bred man, was especially proficient in mathematics, and, with his fine intelligence and attainments, ranked for years among the foremost citizens. He was very popular, and was held in high esteem, commanding the fullest confidence of his fellow-townsmen. He represented Rowley in the General Court in 1838-39, and for seventeen years was Deacon of the church. At the time of his death he was Town Clerk, Selectman, Overseer of the Poor, Assessor, and had served on the Prudential Committee, being given the authority to engage the teachers of the district. In 1S27 he married Maria Proctor, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Proctor. Her father and his son Charles were the leading physicians in the town for a period of eighty years, a record scarcely to be duplicated in New England.

Deacon Nathaniel and Maria (Proctor) Mighill had four sons - Charles P., Thomas, Nathaniel, and Benjamin P. - and two daughters - Elizabeth and Julia Maria.

Charles P., the eldest son, born in 1830, received in his boyhood a common-school education. At the age of fifteen years the entire care. of his father's farm devolved upon him, and this responsibility he continues to carry. He has been employed in settling estates. His present residence was built by his father seventy years ago, and at the time was called "the finest house in town."

Thomas, the second son, was born in 1836. He is a contractor and builder in Haverhill, Mass. By his first wife, Jane Dovvnes, whom he married in 1861, he has one son, Thomas Arthur, a college-educated young man, who, having studied chemistry in Germany, is now teaching it in Tufts College, Medford, Mass. By his second wife, Maria H. Johnston, of Bremen, Me., Thomas Mighill has a son, Charles Frederic, now a student in the Haverhill High School.

The Rev. Nathaniel Mighill, the third son of Deacon Nathaniel and Maria (Proctor) Mighill, was born in Rowley, Mass., August 25, 1839. He was graduated from Dummer Academy in Newbury, Mass., and from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., and afterward studied at Union and Andovcr Theological Seminaries. He was ordained at East Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 1S64; dis missed September 24, 1867; installed at Brattleboro, Vt., October 3, 1867; dismissed August 31, 1875 ; .installed at First Church, Worcester, Mass., September 15, 1875; dismissed June 15, 1877. He married Fannie H. Allen, formerly of Chelsea, Vt. , and by her had two sons - Ralph Scott and Hugh Nathaniel. The former has recently completed his education at Amherst College. The latter is now an undergraduate at the same institution. The Rev. Nathaniel Mighill died February 3, 187S, in his thirty-ninth year. He was a man of unusual cultivation and refinement. His untimely death was greatly mourned.

and at Dummcr y\cademy. He has spent his life upon tlie home farm, and has risen to a prominent position in the town, serving at present as Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace. For many years he has held offices of trust in the church, being clerk of the same, and has been superintendent of the Sundayschool nearly twenty-eight years. He married August 13, 1 88 1, Catherine N. Adams, daughter of John C. and Sarah J. (Noyes) Adam.s, of Newbury, Mass. Mrs. Mighill is librarian of the Rowley Free Publiq Library.

The Foster family were early settlers in Tewksbury. They have always been active and prominent in public affairs, and in every generation, almost without exception, members and stanch supporters of the Congregational church.

Amos Foster, great-grandfather of Joel, was killed by a band of Indians when on his way home from the French and Indian War, in which he had been a soldier. His son Amos, Joel's grandfather, who was born about 1750, fought in the battle of Bunker Hill, and after the war drew a pension of ninety-six dollars a year. The younger Amos Foster died and was buried at Tewksbury in 1S35.

1 1 is first wife, lieulah Kittredge, died in 1776, at twenty-one years of age. His second wife, born Clark, bore him three sons and two daughters.

Zephaniah Kittredge Foster was born at Tewksbury in 1793, and died there at the age of forty-five. His wife Mercy, to whom he was married in 1822, was the daughter of Jesse Trull, of Tewksbury, and graiul-daughter of

Ca].)tain John Trull of the army of the Revolution. On the morning of the Lexington alarm Captain Trull was one of the first to fire the minute-gun to arouse the patriots of the Merrimac Valley, and later in the day he led his company to battle. Mrs. Mercy Trull Foster died in 18S0, aged eighty-seven years. She was the mother of four sons and two daughters; namely, Mary Ann, Zephaniah Parker, John Trull, Joel, Enoch, and Elizabeth O. Mary Ann married Joseph S. Farmer, of Tewksbury. At her death she left a son and daughter. Zephaniah Parker Foster resides in Alameda, Cal. John Trull P'oster, who was a farmer of Tewksbury, died from the effects of a fall in his barn. Joel is the special subject of this sketch. His personal history is outlined below. Enoch, for many years engaged in the manufacture of furniture, now retired, lives at Tewksbury. Elizabeth O. married Nathaniel P. Cole, and lives in San Francisco.

Their children are : Harry, who died in infancy; Alice Gray, who married Charles W. Mann, and died June 11, 1898, leaving a daughter, Alice Rachel, born June 5, 189S; Frederick W. , who married Alice Russell, has one son, Russell Joel Foster; Leona E. , who married Edward D. Taylor, and has a daughter, Ruth Leona; Thaddeus Cole and Helen G., residing with their parents at Methuen.

In 185 1 Joel Foster became associated with his brother Enoch and brother-in-law N. P. Cole for the manufacture of furniture, under the firm name of Fosters & Cole, with shops at Tewksbury, and subsequently in San Francisco, under the name of N. P. Cole & Co., since Mr. Foster's retirement from Inisiness, in 1871, known as the California I'^nrnitme

Manufacturing Company. Two years later Mr. Foster bought the farm where he now lives, in the easterly part of Methuen on the How Road, commonly known as How Street. His home is beautiful for situation, commanding an extensive view of lake and forest, bounded on the west by the grand Monadnock and the sunset, l^ehind his buildings his broad acres stretch up over the higiiest hill in the town, on the summit of which is the reservoir of the town water-works, and on the farther side another house and barn belonging to his farm of two hundred and fifty acres. This farm is a part of the original grant of land made by King George to one of the first settlers in this section by the name of How, and conveyed from one generation to another in that name until purchased by Mr. Foster. The sons are associated with their father in the management of the farm, and the daughters who married are still in his neighborhood. And here, surrounded by his family and commanding the respect and good will of his neighbors, long may he live, until, like a shock of corn fully ripe, he is gathered into the last great harvest.

OHN P. S. MAHONEV, a promising and pojjular young attorney of Lawrence, Mass., was born October 21, 1869, in the adjoining town of North Andover, a son of Cornelius Mahoney.

John P. S. Mahoney was graduated from the Johnson High School, and, after taking a full course in the Boston University Law School, received his diploma in 1893. On August 8, 1893, he was admitted to the Suffolk County bar, and at once began the practice of his profession in the office of DeCourcy & Coulson, of Lawrence, Mass. In January, 1S94, the first day of the month, he severed his connection with that firm, and established him.self in the Merchants' National Bank Building, where he had an office until the completion of the New Central Building, when he took possession of his present handsome suite of rooms on the fourth floor. Since his residence in this city he has built up a fine practice, and has made himself known in legal, educational, political, and social circles. The past four years he has been principal of the Oliver livening School, which employs some thirty-five teachers, and each season proves itself a blessing to hundreds of young men and women by opening unto them a way for adding to their stock of knowledge.

Mr. Mahoney has been identified with the Democratic party as one of its stanchest supporters since coming of age, and, when but twenty-four years old, was chosen chairman of the Democratic committee of North Andover. During the first year of his residence in Lawrence he represented Ward 2 in the Common Council, which he served as president one term.

On June 26, 1897, Mr. Mahoney married Miss Mary E. Bradley, of Cambridge, Mass., a daughter of Daniel and Eunice Bradley. Mrs. Mahoney is a woman of broad culture, a graduate of the Somerville High School and of Radcliffe College, and prior to her marriage was a teacher of French in the I^awrence High School. Sailing from Boston on July 3, 1S97, on that beautiful steamer, the "Canada," Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney spent their early honeyn)oon travelling in the British Isles and on the continent of Europe. After visiting the former homes of both their parents and the noted places of interest in Scotland and lingland, they made an extended trip through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and iM-ance, devoting two weeks of their time to the city of Paris. Returning thence to Liverpool, they again took passage on the "Canada," and after a pleasant ocean voyage of seven days disembarked in ]5oston on the second day of September. Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney are valued members of St. Mary's Church of this city, and their cosey home on Custer Street is a centre of social activity.

T^APTAIN JAMES O. KNAPP, a rc- I >| tired shipmaster of Newburyport, ^^ ^ Mass., was born in the town of Newbury, September 25, 183S. Son of J. J. and Mary (Pierce) Knapp, he is of the eighth generation in lineal descent from William Knapp, who came to Massachusetts from Bury St. Mary, Suffolk County, liiigland, about 1630, it is said, and who settled at Watertown.

Mr. J. J. Kna[)p, father of the Captain, was a well-known merchant of Newburyport, and owned ships, brigs, and schooners. He was at one time part owner in four ships, and did a large importing business in the West India molasses trade. He was one of the oldest directors in the Merchants' National Bank, and had been in that position for fifty years at the time of his death. He was also director of the Institution for Savings, was secretary of the Newburyport Mutual Fire Insurance Company for fifty years, and secretary of the Newburyport Marine Insurance Company for twenty years. He was naturally reserved, fond of his home, and not attracted by ijublic life. He had many friends in the insurance business, Brewster, Skott, and others, and was highly respected for his ability and integrity. He owned a considerable library of books in Spanish, which language he read fluently; and he was also a good I'Vcnch scholar.

His wife, the mother of Captain Knapp, was a daughter of Captain Benjamin and I^lizabeth (Gerrish) Pierce, of Newburyport. Her father, when only twenty-two years of age, owned many brigs and barks. He built the brig "Alert," and during the War of 18 12 made a present of her to the United States government. A model of the "Alert" may be found to-day in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Her maternal grandfather was William Gerrish, a wealthy ship-builder of Newburyport, who married Mary Brown.

Through this ancestor Captain Knapp is descended from Richard Brown, who came from Alford, England, wintered in Ipswich in 1634, and the following year, sailing up Parker River, came to Newbury. In 1645 Richard Brown received a grant of land on the banks of the Parker River, and later he removed to the training green. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Edward Greenleaf, who came from England in the ship "Mary and John," and was one of the first settlers to come by water to Newbury. In 1636 Richard Brown was chosen one of the seven Selectmen; and April 14, 1638, he was elected Constable. His son Richard, born at Newbury, I-'ebruary 18, 1657, married Mary Jacques, antl in turn had an only son, the Rev. Richard Brown, born Sejitember 12, 1675. The third Richard was graduated at Harvard in 1697. He was Town Clerk of Newbury, and taught the parish school, instructing a class in Latin, and receiving the sum of twenty jwunds a year for his services. He married Martha Whipple, of Ipswich. His son William had a daughter Mary, born November 27, 1733, who married William Gerrish, as above mentioned.

Mr. J. J. Knapp had six children, two sons and four daughters. One daughter, Elizabeth Knapp, is now Mrs. Lanman, of Hartford, Conn. The other living daughter is Mrs. Walker, who resides with her son-in-law.

James O. Knapp, leaving the Newburyport High School at sixteen years of age in 1854, shipped on board the ship "Merrimack," Captain Isaac A. Bray, of Newburyport. They sailed from New York to Akyab on the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal. From there they went to Antwerp, and thence home by way of New Orleans. His second voyage was in the same ship to New Orleans and back to Boston. On his third voyage he went as second mate in the "Oliver Putnam," Captain Smith, to Liverpool, thence, loaded with salt, to Calcutta, and returned with hides, gunny-bags, and castor oil to Boston. On his fourth voyage he shipped as first mate of the "Clarissa Currier" from Boston to Melbourne, Australia, thence to Calcutta, then with a cargo of hides, gunny-bags, antl castor oil to London, and returned by way of New York. The fifth voyage saw him first officer of the ship "Merrimack," with coal from New York to "'Frisco," and thence to London with wheat, returning with iron and steel bars and some passengers to Boston from Liverpool. Ujaon his arrival home he was given the command of the "Susan Howland," and started for "'Frisco"; but the ship caught fire one night, when about fifty miles from the island of Fernando de Noronaha, and Captain Knapp with thirty-two men escaped in two life-boats, and made land by rowing to the island, where they remained for forty-three days. They were finally rescued by a steamer, and taken to Pernambuco, and thence home.

On his seventh voyage our hero was Captain of "Ship Agnes " that sailed from Boston, and touched at Melbourne, Batavia, Cheribon, Singapore, and at Prince Wales Lsland in the Straits of Malacca, where he shipped a cargo of nutmegs, cloves, tin, pepper, and gambler, worth two hundred thousand dollars. On his eighth voyage, as master of the same ship, he went to Port Louis (capital of the Mauritius Islands), Batavia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Manila, returning to Boston after an absence of two years. The ne.xt voyage he loaded coal from New York to Hong Kong, going by the Eastern route via the Malay Archipelago. Captain Knapp next sailed in the "King Fisher," owned by Samuel G. Reed. He sailed from New York; but the ship was disabled on the voyage, and was sold at auction at Montevideo.

This was his last voyage, and during the ne.xt ten or twelve years Captain Knapp managed his real estate investments in Boston. He is now retired. He owns a nice summer residence on Parker River, near the place where his ancestors first landed. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M., and was visiting member of lodges at Hong Kong and at Melbourne, Australia. He is interested in genealogical studies, and has written three volumes of three hundred pages each on the Knapp, Gerrish, Pierce, and Brown families, with a view to j^ublishing in the future.

Captain Knapp married Emily, daughter of William H. Whitmore, and has two children, namely: Orithyia W, ; and Joseph W., who is a bright boy of ten years, and is atteniling the Kelley Grammar School.

;sjtAMES C. CROMBIE, of Lawrence, well known as a public servant for many years, was born in Lowell, May 20, 1854. A son of James C. and Harriet (Heald) Crombie, he comes of New England Revolutionary stock. His immigrant ancestor, James Crombie, who was a son of John Crombie, left the north of Ireland about 1720, and settled in Londonderry, N.H. On November 17, 1721, James married Joan Rankin, who bore him four sons and five daughters. The sons were: Hugh, William, James, and John. Of these, James settled in New Boston, N.H., in 1783. Before this he had married Jane, daughter of Robert Clarke, of Londontlerry, and had a family of six sons. Their son Robert, who is next in the line of descent, married Mary Patterson.

Clark Crombie, James C. Crombie's grandfather, was born in New Boston, September 14, 1784. He resided for some time in South Reading (now Wakefield), Mass., in Lowell, and in Baltimore, Md. His death occurred in Baltimore, and his remains were carried to Lowell for interment. His wife, who was Lucy Dane Crombie, a niece of the founder of the Dane Law School at Harvard University, also died in Baltimore, and was buried with her husband in Lowell. They reared the following children: Jane, the wife of Butler Trull, of Goffstown, N.H. ; James C, the father of the subject of this sketch; Daniel D., who was a prominent manufacturer in Lawrence; Sarah E.,, the wife of John P. Ammidon, a Baltimore merchant; and Albert D., a business man, residing in Maiden, Mass. Daniel D. Crombie was the first agent of the Everett Mills in Lawrence, and was for eight years the treasurer of the corporation. He was well known as a business man of high integrity and marked ability. He died in Kennebunkport, Me., in March, 1886. James C. Crombie, Sr. , was born in New Boston, N.H., September 4, 1814. He was a manufacturer, and for a number of years was connected with the Merrimack Manufacturing Company of Lowell. He died in Lowell in June, 1854. About 1843 he was married to Harriet Heald, of Carlisle, Mass., a daughter of the Hon.

John Heald and grand-daughter of John Heald, who was an officer in the Revolutionary Army. The Hon. John Heald was a typical New Englander, strong-willed and sensible. He held a number of town offices in Carlisle, and represented the district in the legislature. Of the eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Heald, seven daughters and three sons attained maturity.

James C. Crombie, the only son of his i)arents, was an infant when his father died. After that event his mother moved to Lawrence, and he was educated in the public schools of that city. Subsequently, at a private academy, he prepared to enter college; but ill-health compelled him to relinquish his purpose. Advised by Dr. Garland, who is now deceased, to seek outdoor employment, he obtained from Major Merrill the appointment of letter-carrier, and subsequently spent thirteen years in the postal service. A stanch Republican, he took an active interest in municipal affairs from the time of his first vote; and, to quote a local paper, "his knowledge of the various city departments is probably greater to-tlay than any person's not officially connected with them." Mr. Crombie was elected ex-Mayor Rollins's successor on the School Board, when that gentleman moved from Lawrence. During his connection with that body he has never failed to attend a meeting. It was largely through his efforts that the handsome modern school building on Prospect Hill was secured. In 1890 the State Firemen's Relief Commission was established, and Governor Brackett appointed Mr. Crombie a member of the board. In the first year he served as secretary. Afterward, reappointed by Governor Russell, he was unanimously elected chairman, which office he still holds. He made several arguments before Legislative Committees in behalf of the annual appropriation of ten tliousand dollars, which his efforts were largely instrumental in securing. He is serving his third year as president of the ]?oard of Trade. In 1 892 he was advocated for Mayor of Lawrence ; and the Sunday Tclcpam of November 13 of that year thus speaks of him: "His integrity is unquestioned, and his conduct of his own affairs proves that the city finances would be handled prudently, though not niggardly. He has a mind of his own, and, once having decided a question to be right, could not be swerved in the least." Mr. Crombie is a member of the Home Club of Lawrence. He was married July 17, 1895, to Miss Lillian E. Larrabee, of that city.

EORGE WASHINGTON SARV p I GENT, a native of Merrimac, born November 25, 18 19, and a prosperous farmer of this place, is a descendant of the old Sargent family, whose name since the days of the early settlement of the country has figured prominently in the history of the town and State. The extensive and well-cultivated farm owned by Mr. Sargent is located at historic Bear Hill, where, besides carrying on large farming operations, he is profitably engaged in lumbering. His remarkable success in business shows him to be a man of energy and executive ability combined with perseverance and good judgment.

On December 3, 1S54, he was united in matrimony with Myra, daughter of Richard W. and Sally Sargent, of West Amesbury. The union has been blessed by the following children: Walter Heman, who married Lizzie, daughter of B. F. Huntington, of Amesbury; Homer R., who married Lydia A., daughter of George W. Hoyt, and has three children; Edgar Porter; and George Allen.

,ALVIN W. POOL, Town Clerk of Rockport, is a native of this town, born May 29, 1834. A son of Colonel William and Sophia (Tarr) Pool, he is a descendant of John Pool, who came to America from England, and was the second permanent settler in Rockport. John had a son Caleb, whose son. Deacon Abraham Pool, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Colonel William Pool, who was also born in Rockport, was an officer in the Cape Ann Regiment. He followed the business of surveyor, and took contracts for building roads. In politics he was a Republican. He served for two terms as Special Commissioner of Essex County, and was the first Town Clerk of Rockport elected after its incorporation. After he was in the ofiRce twenty-nine years, his son succeeded him, so that the Town Clerkship has never been out of the Pool family.

Calvin W. Pool attended the public schools of Rockport, and graduated from the Massachusetts State Normal School at Westfield in i860. He taught for several years in Rockport, then, on account of poor health, engaged in surveying, having learned the art from his father. During the Civil War he served in both the army and the navy. In the army he belonged to Company F, Thirty-fifth, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, attached to the Ninth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. During the six months he spent in the service he held the rank of Sergeant, was in the Maryland campaign, and fought at South Mountain and Antietam. In the navy he served for about ten months as paymaster's clerk on the monitor "Mahopac." This vessel was engaged in the bombardment of Fort Fisher, took part in the operations on the James River during the fall of 1864 and the spring of 1865, and was in Charleston Harbor when the city was evacuated. Since he returned to civil life, Mr. Pool has made surveying and engineering his principal business. He entered upon the duties of Town Clerk in 1S69.

In ])olitics Mr. Pool is a Republican. While serving for several years on the Rockport School Committee, he has taken an active interest in educational matters here. In 1870 he was married to Ellen E. Tarr, a native of Rockport and a daughter of Asa Tarr, late of this town. Of his four children, William A. and Mary M. are living. The others, Helen B. and Bessie G., are deceased. Mr. Pool is chaplain of O. W. Wallace Post, No. 106, G. A. R., and has been Commander of the post. He is Deacon and clerk of the Congregational church, and has served for several years as superintendent of the Sunday-school. A well-known and popular man, he has the esteem and good will of his townsmen.

"ON. SYLVANUS SMITH, a prominent business man of Gloucester, son of William Smith, was born in 1829, in what is now the town of Rockport. The father, an old-time fisherman and master mariner, was the owner and manager of different vessels during his active life. He subsequently lived in retirement for a period before his death, which occurred at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. His wife, Charlotte, a daughter of Caleb Pool, of Gloucester, bore him twelve children, of whom eight attained maturity, and one daughter and five sons are living.

When ten years old, Sylvanus Smith began making short fishing tri]is. At the age of fifteen he went on long voyages ; and, when twenty, he was made master of the schooner "Eliza Ann," which he commanded during one season. When twenty-two years old, he had a vessel built for himself. Four years later he had another built, in which he was engaged in fishing and trading. In 1S64 he gave up seafaring; and in company with Josejih Rowe, forming the firm of Rowe & Smith, he was in business on Main Street for three years. Since 1867, as the head of the firm of Sylvanus Smith & Co., he has been prosperously engaged in the fishing business and that of real estate. He is also interested in the First National Bank and the Safe Deposit & Trust Company, of which, respectively, he is a director, and in the Gloucester Net and Twine Corporation, of which he is vice-president. He is the treasurer and a director of the Gilbert Hospital. For thirtythree years prior to his retirement from the board in 1897, he was a director of the Gloucester Mutual Fishing Insurance Company ; and he was the president for seven years of the local Board of Trade.

A Mason of high standing, Mr. Smith belongs to the local lodge, chapter, and commandery. While he has persistently declined all municipal offices, he was a Representative to the State legislature in 1892 and 1893, when he was chairman of the Fishery Committee. In 1894 and 1895 he was a member of the State Senate, in which he was also chairman of the Fishery Committee, serving also on the Committees on Railroads, Liquor Laws, Harbors, and Public Lands. While he was in the Senate occurred the memorable fight regarding the withdrawal of the water charter from the old company, and in which the bill was pushed through by hard work. After that he served as chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners, and the treasurer for two years. In 1896 he was Presidential Elect(;r, being the first person to be chosen to that office from Cape Ann. In December,

1855, he married Miss Eliza Rowe, of Rockport. Of his twelve children, the survivors are: Mrs. E. E. Bradley, Howard, Eliza, Horace, and Sylvanus. Howard is in business with his father; Eliza is the wife of F. A. Fisher; Horace is the teller of the Safe Deposit & Trust Company; and Sylvanus is engaged in the coal business in this city.

ARON LORD, a prosperous and progressive agriculturist of Ipswich, Essex County, Mass., his native town, was born on High Street, March 7, 1S40, a son of Joshua and Martha (Willett) Lord. His father was a son of Captain Nathaniel Lord and a brother of Caleb Lord, who recently died in the village. Further interesting ancestral history may be found in connection with the sketch of George Augustus Lord, elsewhere in this biographical work, he being the present occupant of the old Lord homestead, at the head of Manning Street.

Joshua Lord was born in Ipswich in 1806, and here spending his entire life of about forty-two years, dying in 1848. He was a farmer and fisherman. He married Martha Willett, who was born on the farm adjoining the one now owned by Aaron Lord, Oliver Smith being the present proprietor of that estate. They had eight children; namely, Martha W., Margaret B., Elizabeth B., Moses W., Aaron, Mary R., Hannah Ellen, and Edmund B. Martha W., who died in 1864, was the wife of George W. Langdon, now of Salem; Margaret B. is the wife of Henry F. Russell, of Salem; Elizabeth B. is the wife of Warren B( ynton, of Ipswich; Mary R. is the wife of John M. Dunnells, of Ipswich; Hannah Ellen married John W. Newman, of Ipswich; Moses W. died in 1848, aged ten years; and Edmund B. died in 1848, aged

Aaron Lord early became dependent upon his own resources, his mother having been left a widow with several young children. At the age of eight years he began working for an uncle, George Willett, an e.xpressman, delivering papers and packages, making his home with this uncle, who was also his guardian, until sixteen years old, attending school a small portion of the time. He subsequently worked in a restaurant four years for William Lord, and he was afterward a clerk in the store of Asa Lord. He was next employed for some time as sui)erintendent of a railroad section, being foreman of the section hands. Learning the shoemaker's trade, Mr. Lord worked awhile for Lynn shoe firms; and he then worked in the ship-yards of Lewis and Edward W. Choate three winters. Went from ship-yards to work for Ross & Lord, remaining in their employ six or seven years, becoming foreman for them in the building of several wharves and bridges. May 15, 1877, while shingling a barn, he fell from the roof, breaking all the bones in one ankle, this accident preventing him from doing any more bridge work; and he therefore gave up his situation. In the spring of 1S78 he worked for Edward W. Choate, assisting in building the last boat built in this town, the little steamer,, the "Carlotta, " now running on the river.

On February 27, 1878, Mr. Lord married Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver and Catherine (Parkhurst) Underbill, and in June following settled on his present farm, previously owned by his wife's father, then deceased. Mrs. Lord's paternal grandfather, Jeremiah Underbill, came to Ipswich from Chester, N.H., when a young man, and, marrying a Miss Appleton, settled on this farm, which is a part of the original Appleton homestead. Mere Oliver Underhill and his wife spent their entire wedded life, he dying in 1S77, at the age of seventy-six, and she in 1880, aged seventy-four. They had nine children, namely: the Rev. John Winn Underhill, who was educated at Amherst and Andover, Mass., and settled as pastor of the Congregational church of Amherst, where he died two years later in 1862, aged thirty-three years; Sarah Winn, who died at the age of twenty -nine years; Susan Appleton, who died at the age of forty-eight years; Jeremiah Choate, a coal and grain dealer in Hamilton; Laura Parkhurst, wife of William Willcomb, of this town; Oliver Appleton, who died at the age of fifteen years; Catherine E. , now Mrs. Lord; Nathaniel R., a farmer in Ipswich; and William Perley, who died in childhood. Sarah Winn was the wife of the late Peter Byers ; and Susan Appleton was twice married, her first husband being James Byers, and her second, Henry Kendrick. Mr. and Mrs. Lord have four children. Martha Underbill, the eldest, now eighteen years of age, was graduated from the Manning High School in June, 1896, and has since been teaching; Everett Raymond, sixteen years old, is a student in the high school. The younger children are: Myra, aged twelve years; and Arthur Russell, ten years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Lord are active members of the Methodist PZpiscopal church. In politics he is a strict adherent of the Republican party. He has been prominent in local affairs from 1888 until 1894, serving as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor. Fraternally, he is a member of Syracuse Lodge, No. 30, K. of P. Mr. Lord has but a small farm now, having within a few years disposed of a portion of his estate to Francis R. Appleton, of New York, who is anxious to secure as much

Halibut Company, was born in Manchester, Mass., October 6, 1S44, son of John and Sarah L. (Ingersoll) Robinson. On the paternal side he is a descendant in the eighth generation of Abraham Robinson (first), who, it is supposed, was a son of the Rev. John Robinson. Abraiiani (first) settled at Squam, and died February 23, 1645. Abraham Robinson (second), who was born about the year 1638, is thought to have died in 1740, at the advanced age of one hundred and two years. He married Mary Harrandaine, who, born in 1649, died September 28, 1725.

Abraham Robinson (third), born October 15. 1677, died December 28, 1724. On February 10, 1703, he married Sarah York, who, born in 1682, died August 9, 1718. Andrew Robinson, son of Abraham Robinson (third), and the next in line, was born in Gloucester, November 16, 1710. On January i, 1736, he married Martha Gardner, who was born November 5, 171 3. Jonathan Robinson, son of Andrew and great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, born in Gloucester, April 21, 1742, died January 30, 1S21. On January 10, 1765, he married Anna 13atting, who was born in July, 1744. John Robinson, grandfather of David I., was born in Gloucester, July 10, 1784. He was a mariner, and died in the West Indies, September 27, 1S09. On December 21, 1802, he married Sally Riggs, who, born Sejitember 4, 1771, died in Alton, 111., October 26, 1858.

son's father, was boni in Gloucester, April 4, 1806. He acquired a good education, and learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for several years. About the year 1851 he moved to Alton, 111., where he was engaged as a teacher in the public schools for a number of years, and finally returned to Gloucester. For some time previous to his retirement he was engaged in missionary work under the "Saunders Legacy," being an active member of the Baptist church. He took a deep interest in temperance work, and at one time was Grand Worthy Templar of .the Teniple of Honor of the State of Illinois. John Robinson died August iS, 1892. On April 8, 1S30, he married Sarah L. Ingersoll, who, born in Gloucester, January 26, 1807, was a daughter of David Smith and Sally (Butler) Ingerst)ll. She was a descendant of George Ingersoll, through his son Samuel, who was baptized July 12, 1696, when he was fifty years old, and was probably a twin brother of Joseph, born October 14, 1646. Josiah Ingersoll, son of Samuel, baptized June 10, 1694, on December t,o, 1712, married Mary Stevens, who was born February 2, 1694. Josiah Ingersoll (second), the great-grandfather of Mrs. John Robinson, born July 21, 1716, died January 13, 1789. On April 11, 1740, he married Bathia Sargent, who was born June 18, 1724. John Sargent Ingersoll, the grandfather of Mrs. John Robinson, born July 6, 1751, on November 22, 1772, married Lydia Smith, who was born November 8, 1754. David Smith Ingersoll, Mrs. John Robinson's father, who was baptized March 13, 1774, in February, 1803, married Sally Butler. Mrs. John Robinson died in Alton, 111., September i, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson were the parents of six children, five of whom grew to maturity, namely : John Smith Robinson, who served as a Lieutenant in the Seventh Illinois Regiment, and was mortally wounded at the battle of Altoona Pass, Ga. ; Sarah Ann, who married Sylvester Lowe, both now deceased; Mary Eliza; William Lamson ; and David Ingersoll.

David Ingersoll Robinson was educated in Alton, 111. After teaching school for two years, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, which was stationed at Rock Island, III. After leaving the military service, he was in a mercantile business in the West until 1869, when he came to Gloucester. Here he was engaged in the halibut business with Seth Stockbridge and William T. Smith, first as book-keeper and subsequently as a partner, under the firm name of Stockbridge & Co. He continued thus with a number of changes in the company until October 24, 1895, when the Atlantic Halibut Company was incorporated, with Mr. Robinson as its treasurer. This concern is one of the largest dealers and shippers of halibut upon the coast, handling in 1896 five million, five hundred thousand pounds, which was marketed in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and other places. He is also the manager of the Gloucester Fresh Fish Company, a corporation that commenced business on December 6, 1897, and which handles upward of five million pounds of fresh fish annually.

In politics Mr. Robinson is a Republican, and believes in prohibiting the liquor traffic. He served as clerk of Ward One when Gloucester became a city, and was later elected to the Common Council, and became the president of that body. He was chosen Mayor in 1886, re-elected in 1887, and was again elected in 1895. The city having voted to license the liquor saloons, he demonstrated his consistency by resigning the Mayoralty in April, 1888, simply because he was averse to issuing the licenses which would legalize the sale of liquor in Gloucester. He has been a member of both the Independent Order of Good Templars and the Sons of Temperance, and was formerly Most Worthy Templar, the highest officer in the Temple of Honor. He is also connected with the Masonic fraternity, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the United Order of the Golden Cross; and he is commander of St. Angelo Commandery, No. 224, Knights of Malta. For eight years he has been the superintendent of the Sundayschool connected with the First Baptist Church, of which he was formerly Deacon; and he was one of the founders of the Gloucester Fisherman's Institute, a philanthropic organization established for the purpose of maintaining a reading-room and chapel, and promoting the moral and religious welfare of the thousands engaged in the fishing industry of this city. On January 21, 1869, Mr. Robinson was united in marriage with Helen Amanda Smith, who was born June 6, 1841, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Gott) Smith. Mrs. Robinson is the mother of three children, namely: Will Austin, born March 8, 1874; Emma J. C, born November 8, 1S75; and Helen Dunford, born November 9, 1882.

rERRY COLLIER, Mayor of Beverly, was born in the neighboring city of Salem, October 28, 1838. A son of John and Hannah (Trofifiter) Collier, he is of Scotch lineage on the paternal side. John Collier, his grandfather, who was likewise a native of Salem, spent many years of his life there as a rope-maker. He and his wife Eunice were the parents of five children, two sons and three daughters. The elder son, John, father of Perry Collier, was born in Salem in 1794. He, too, was a rope-maker by trade; and the active years of his life were silent in that calling with the exception of a period during the War of 18 12, in which he served aboard a privateer. He was in France when peace was declared. In politics he was a Democrat. Hannah Trofifiter, whom he married, was born in Salem in 1796, being two years his junior. He died at the age of si.xty years, she at eighty-eight. Their union was blessed by the birth of thirteen children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the youngest.

Perry Collier attended the public schools of Salem. After completing his schooling, he worked for a short time in a tobacco shop, next in a provision store, and after that as a salesman for twelve years in a furniture store. During the succeeding eight years he was employed in the upholstery department of Willard Goldthwaite & Co. He travelled through New England and New York State as salesman for a Salem house from that time up to 1868, when he started in a small way in the real estate business in Salem. Ten years later, in 1878, he removed to Beverly, since which time both these cities have profited by his operations in real estate, he retaining his interests in Salem, where he still owns property.

The first one in this vicinity to see the advantage of houses sold on the instalment plan, he built many residences in these places ; also factories, aggregating in value over one hundred thousand dollars. In 1888 he purchased an estate in Wenham, on which he erected a fine building, which he occupies during the summer season. In 1894 he labored untiringly to awaken public interest and prepare the petition to the Massachusetts legislature for a city charter for Beverly, and the success of the movement was largely due to his efforts. While Beverly was still a town, he was elected to many offices of trust, including that of Selectman in 1893 and 1894. In December, 1S97, he was elected Mayor of the city for the year 189S, and is the fourth occupant of the chair. Fraternally, Mr. Collier is a member of the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment ; of the .Salem Encampment and of Essex Lodge, I. O. O. P., of Salem, in which he has held all the offices; of the Royal Arcanum of Beverly ; of Cabot Lodge, A. O. U. W. , of Beverly ; and of the Grand Lodge of the A. O. O. W. He was the organizer of the last two. He is the president of the social organization known as the board of Salem. On October 23, 187S, Mr. Collier married Emma F. Kimball. She was born in Charlestown, Mass., daughter of James and Alice (Foster) Kimball, now of Beverly. They have had three children, of whom Alice Gertrude and Franklin Perry Collier are living.

AVID TULLAR PERLEY, who was for many years a prominent agriculturist of Ipswich, was born January 17, 1824, in Linebrook, Ipswich. Representing one of the oldest families in this town, he was descended in the seventh generation from Allan Perley, who came from London in the "Planter" in 1635, and settled in Ipswich, where he died in 1675, aged seventy-five years. Timothy Perley, son of Allan, born in 1653, died in 1719. His son Stephen, born in 1684, died in 1725. The line of descent was continued through Stephen's son Allan, born in 1718, who died in 1804; Allan's son Allan, who, born in 1763, died in 1S43 ; and the son of the latter Allan, Abraham, born in 1793, who died in 1861, and was the father of David Tullar Perley.

schooling than most farmers' sons of his day. He succeeded to his father's home and business, and had one of the largest and most improved homestead estates in the west part of Ipswich. He added land by purchase to the original tract, increasing its extent to two hundred acres, which he devoted to the general purposes of agriculture, including stockraising and dairying. He was also extensively engaged in cattle dealing, doing a large business as a trader, and supplying both dairymen and marketmen. In all he owned five farms, aggregating about one thousand one hundred acres of land. While enterprising and thrifty, he was esteemed for his upright dealings. Though a stanch Republican in politics, he took no active part in local affairs. Mr. Perley was three times married. Miss Sophronia A. Plummer, of Newbury, became his wife in 1851. She died in 1853, leaving one son, Oscar Wentworth Perley, now of South Omaha, Neb. In 1861 Mr. Perley married Mrs. Abigail Scarl Kent Stevens, whose previous husband had died, leaving her with one son, William Henry Stevens, now of West Newburry. Of this union there were three children, namely : David Sidney, born February 21, 1862; Roscoe Damon, born August II, 1864; and Carrie Sophronia, born October 18, 1865. The mother died in 1879. In 1880 a third marriage united Mr. Perley with Miss Elizabeth Ann Lavalette, who was , born in the same house that he was, she being a daughter of Nathaniel H. Lavalette. They had five children - Chester Garfield, Mabel Alice, Bertha Cheever, IJarrison Otis, and Helene Louise. Harrison Otis died in childhood. Mr. Perley died at his home August 16, 1 891. A successful business man and a typical citizen, he was esteemed by all. Mrs. Perley resides in the village with her children, who are attending school. David Sidney Per- ley is successfully conducting the business left by his father, having a commodious residence, a fine barn, and a large amount of stock. He is recognized as a keen, wide-awake man, well endowed with the progressive spirit and tenacity of purpose that is sure of winning the best results. He married Miss Louise Hart, of New Hampshire, and has four children - Marion, Carrie Abbie, Sidney Harold, and Eveline Louise. Roscoe Damon Perley, a young man of good mental attainments, graduated from the Harvard Medical School with the class of 1896, and is now one of the staff of the Boston City Hospital. His success thus far as a practitioner gives flattering promise of a brilliant career in the future. Miss Carrie S. Perley, who is living at the family home, has studied music with private tutors in Boston, and is an accomplished and talented artist in her chosen profession.

"ON. CHARLES O. BAILEY, of Newbury, son of William P. and Ll^ ^^ Ursula (Larkin) Bailey, is a descendant in the eighth generation of one of the three brothers - John, Richard, and Josiah Bailey - who came from England in 1635. His ancestors were prominent in the old Colonial days, both as citizens and as soldiers. The family traditions tell of seven members who fought in the War of the_ Revolution. The Baileys were farmers for many generations. On the mother's side Charles O. Bailey is descended of Thomas R. Larkin, who loaned to Paul Revere the horse on which the latter made his famous ride. His paternal great-grandfather owned a large tract of land in what is now West Newbury. His grandfather, Joseph ]5ailey, who died in 1865, is remembered i)y his townspeople as "a fine old gentleman. "

William P. Bailey, the father of Charles O., was born in Newbury, June 17, 1S42. He was in business in Haverhill for many years. In 1862 he enlisted in Company K, Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment, and was with General Banks in the assaults on Port Hudson and in the battle of Plains Store. After more than two years of active service he re-enlisted in the Seventeenth Massachusetts, unattached company, stationed at Salem. He married Ursula, a daughter of Samuel R. Larkin, of the old manufacturing firm of Larkin & Morrill. They have four children, the eldest of whom is Charles O. His twin brother, J. Edmund, who died at the early age of seventeen, just after passing his examinations for Harvard, was a graduate of the Putnam Free High School at Newburyport. Maud C, who married M. B. Bailey (no relation), now resides at Topsfield, Mass. Grace L. married Howard F. Morrill, the junior partner of Larkin & Morrill.

Born in Newbury, January 24, 1863, Charles O. Bailey was educated at the Putnam Free High School, Dummer Academy, and Bryant & Stratton's Business College. In 1884 he entered into partnership with his father. Under the firm name of Bailey & Co. they did business for ten years in Haverhill, residing during this period in Newbury, Mass. In 1894 he and his father went into business in Newbury, under the same firm name. He was Selectman in the years 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1895; and during the last two years he was the chairman of the board. He has served for nine years on the School Board, and in 1896 he was an alternate delegate from the Sixth Congressional District to the Republican National Convention held at St. Louis. A member of the State legislature in 1895, he represented the double district comprising Newburyiiort, Newbury, Ipswich, and Rowley.

Henry C. King

He was re-elected in 1896, and in 1897 was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, representing the Third Essex District. In both branches he served on the more important committees.

Mr. Bailey is a member of the C. C. Dame Lodge of Masons of Georgetown ; of the Sons of Veterans; the Junior O. U. A. M. ; and the I. O. O. F. In 1884 he married Elizabeth T. Brickett, of West Ne\vbur)^ They have one son, Harold L. , a bright, active lad, ten years of age, and said to be a "chip of the old block." An ardent sportsman, Mr. Bailey, in the midst of his active public life, still finds an occasional opportunity to slip away with rod or jjun.

Street, was born at Tunbridge, Vt., August 30, 1852. A son of Nathaniel King, he is a grandson of the Rev. Nathaniel King, who was a well-known preacher in the early part of the century, and in many ways a man of note. The Rev. Mr. King was of remarkable physique, standing six feet, two inches, and weighing two hundred pountls. Physically built upon a noble plan, his moral nature was correspondingly large. In the olden time, when ministers labored solely for the good they might do in their Master's vineyard, he always preached without any stated compensation. He married Lydia Noyes, of Vermont, and on the farm to which he took his bride their thirteen children were born and reared. The latter were: Dilly, Lydia, Hannah, Harty, Abigail, Nathaniel, Eliza, Sally, Daniel, Philip, Nancy, Harvey, and Aaron. All of these sons and daughters married and reared families, one having brought up a family of ten children. The father attained the age of eighty years, and the mother that of ninety-one.

Nathaniel King was born in 1805, either in Tunbridge or Northfield, Vt. Brought up to farming, he followed it until about fifty years of age, serving for a time as Assistant Judge of the local court. His first wife, whose maiden name was Hunt, bore him si.x children, of whom four sons grew to maturity, and two are now living. The latter are: Simeon, of Plymouth, Vt. ; and Orlando, of Lawrence, Mass. His second wife, Rebecca F. Whitney King, was born at Tunbridge, Vt. , daughter of Aaron and Betsey Whitney. The children born of this union were: Amanda, who lived but ten years; and Henry C. King.

Upon leaving the district school when thirteen years old, Henry C. King became a clerk in the general store of his uncle in Tunbridge. After six years, in which he gained valuable experience, he came to Lawrence, and for six months thereafter was a salesman for Shattuck Brothers. He then accepted a position with M. & H. D. Manahan, who had a large grocery store. Having purchased this store in 1882, he has conducted it successfully since, adding a line of provisions, wood, coal, hay, grain, lime, cement, and other articles. To meet the demands of his present business he employs from thirty to forty men. He has also large interests in other enterprises. In December, 1893, he became one of the incorporators and a third owner of the D. W. Pingree Company, which is doing a general lumber business, daily cutting about twenty-five thousand feet of lumber to be used in its box factory. In 1894 he was made the treasurer and general manager of the Dillon Machine company, which is carrying on a lucrative business. He is likewise the treasurer of the

American Mason Safety Tread Company, which manufactures a metal matting for stairs and thresholds from corrugated steel or iron with a lead filling. This matting, for which a great demand is anticipated, has already been adopted for use in the United States navy and the government buildings in Washington. Also, Mr. King is the president of the Lamson Store Equipment Company of Lawrence, having offices in Boston, Mass.

Politically, Mr. King affiliates with the Republican party, but has never been an aspirant for official honors, his time, outside of his business, being entirely given to his home and family. Fraternally, he is a Mason, belonging to Grecian Lodge and Bethany Commandery, K. T. ; and to Monadnock Lodge and Kearsarge Encampment, L O. O. F. He is a member of the Congregational church, and when its present house of worship was erected he was chairman of the Building Committee. He was married October 17, 1876, to Nellie F., daughter of Milton and Mary Abbott, of Lawrence. Mr. Abbott, who was a merchant in this city, died at the age of fifty years. Mrs. Abbott and four of her sons are still living. Mr. and Mrs. King have three children - -Carl, Philip, and Helen. Carl and Philip, respectively aged eighteen years and si.xteen and a half, are attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Helen is a winsome child of eleven years.

'RANCIS PROCTER, the senior member of the firm Procter Ikothers, publishers of the Cape Ann Advertiser ^v\(\ Gloucester Daily Times, was born in Gloucester on March 16, 1833, son of Francis E. and Ann (Allen) Procter. His immigrant ancestor was John Procter, who arrived with his family from England on board the "Susan and

Ellen" in 1635, and settled in Salem. John Procter (second), who was born in England in 1633, was tried with his wife for witchcraft; and he was executed at Salem, August 19, 1692. Benjamin Procter, the next in line, died in Salem in 1720. He left a son, John, aged fifteen years, who married Lydia Waters, and died in 1771. Joseph Procter, son of John and Lydia, removed from Danvers, and settled in Gloucester on March 3, 1768, there establishing the fish business which is still carried on by his descendants. He was also interested in other enterprises, and was one of the prominent residents of his day and an active business man. He married Elizabeth Epes, through whom the Procters of Gloucester arc descended from the Rev. I-'rancis Higginson, the first minister in Salem, and related to the descendants of Colonel Prescott of Bunker Hill fame, as well as to William LI. Prescott, the historian. Joseph and Elizabeth Procter had a large family of children. Among them was Daniel Epes Procter, grandfather of the subject of this sketch. P'rancis \\. Procter, the father, who was a sea captain engaged in the South American trade, died at the age of forty-two years. He married Ann Allen, daughter of Thomas Allen, of Gloucester, and a descendant of the Rev. John White, who was ordained to the ministry here April 21, 1703, and served as pastor of the First Parish for fifty-eight years.

After the death of his father, Francis Procter, at the age of thirteen years, assisted in the supjiort of his two brothers and widowed mother, who shortly afterward lost her eyesight. He attended the public schools when the opportunity jjermitted. The necessity of helping to keep the homestead and support the family prevented him from learning a trade, which could yield little or no income during an apprenticeship. ' His first effort in this di- rection was to borrow a dollar of his mother, and buy thirty-three copies of the Flag of our Union, at that time a favorite wgekly, and dispose of them. Little by little he added to his stock of newspapers and books until he obtained a good business foothold. Then, in 1S54, he and his brother, George H. Procter, formed the firm of Procter Brothers, which has since advanced rapidly in prosperity and importance. Their enterprise now embraces printing and publishing, besides an extensive business in books, stationery, newspapers, and miscellaneous fancy goods. The firm started in a store fitted up under the old homestead. This was destroyed by fire on February iS, 1864; but they immediately rebuilt, erecting the substantial Procter Building known as the Old Corner, and still occupy the same location. In 1858 the senior partner, assisted by his brother, launched his first newspaper venture, which consisted of a monthly sheet. This was soon enlarged, and, as the Cape Ann Advertiser, in 1856 was issued weekly. In 1888 they established the Gloucester Daily Times, which is now in the full tide of success as the result of the liberal and progressive methods of Francis Procter, the general manager, and George H. Procter, the editor.

Francis Procter is the chairman of the Gloucester Board of Trade, and of the Committee on City Improvement, and a director of the Co-operative Bank. He was a delegate to the first Free Soil Convention; was Town Auditor in 1861 ; Warden of Ward Four; and a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1876. He is now one of the Park Commissioners and the secretary of the board. He married M. Melissa Rice, a native of Marlboro, Mass., daughter of Solomon Rice. She is a grand-daughter of Thomas Rice. Mrs. Procter is the mother of three children, namely: F"rank R., born in 1857; William A., born in i860; and Mary

Melissa, born in 1873. Mr. Procter is widely known among editors and publishers, having been the secretary of the Massachusetts Press Association for two years, its vice-president for five years, and its president for three years. He has also been a frequent delegate and member of the Executive Committee of the National Editorial Association Convention, contributing papers on advertising for the past fifteen years, and as such has been an extensive traveller over various sections of the United States, extending also, in one of its excursions, as far as the City of Mexico. He spent the winter of 1879 and 1880 at Bermuda to recover his broken health, and also was a member of the first Raymond excursion across the continent to California in 1881. He is a Master Mason, and was secretary of Tyrian Lodge for two years. He is also a member of the Independent Christian Society, and was chairman of the Parish Committee for seven years.

Aptain Benjamin A. Follans

APTAIN BENJAMIN A. FOLLANS- ])EE, a well-remembered master mariner of Amesbury, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Kenney) Follansbee, was born in Pittston, Me., December 25, 1S16. The paternal grandfather, Benjamin P'ollansbee, was a pioneer shiiD-builder on the "Back Landing " on Powow River at Amesbury. The father settled at Pittston, on the Kennebec, in 1896, and became a pioneer ship-builder of the place. His ship-yard was on the site of the present great houses of the Knickerbocker Ice Company. He had extensive business interests. While an active member of the Congregational church, he held very liberal views. An able public speaker, and appearing frequently before his townspeople, he exercised much influence with them. He married

Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Kenney, of Ilallowcll, Me., who was a soldier in the Revolution. Her sister, Mrs. Hannah Robinson, died at Augusta in August, 1897, in the one hundred and third year of her age.

Captain Follansbec spent almost his entire life upon the sea, making frequent voyages to foreign shores in the command of ships owned in part by himself. The three quickest trips made by clipper ships were sailed by the "Greenfield" under his command. A short time before the Civil War began he retired from a seafaring life, and opened a store in Amesbury. The hearty, genial captain, too liberal for a successful storekeeper, could not refuse people credit for the necessities of life; and, accordingly, he found the venture anything but profitable after a trial of two years. The life was also dull for him, whose temperament called for energetic action, to which he had been so accustomed. The result was that he went to sea again. In the winter of 1872 he was lost off the coast of England in the ship "Sardis. " Captain Follansbee circumnavigated the globe several times, and visited all the principal ports of the civilized world. He was accompanied by his wife when he went to China and to some other countries. On one of his voyages, and wliile in port at Yokohama, his entire crew, with the exception of the mate, mutinied. He was compelled to put them in irons, and did not release them until the vessel was on the high sea.s. At the time the New York papers contained an extended account of the incident. During the Civil War he was shut up in Singajiore Harbor for several months, fearing capture by the "Alabama," which was there at the same time. The only serious mishap that befell the Captain throughout his entire career was the loss, off the New Jersey coast, opposite Long Branch, of the "Tartar," a new shij) Ijiiilt at Portsiunutli,

N.H., on her maiden trip from England to New York, under his command. Among the other vessels commanded by him were the "Skylark" and "Uncowah." His reputation was that of an able and successful navigator, and he was widely known to ship-owners and seafaring men.

In 1843 Captain Follansbee married Miss Aphia Ann Russell Tyler, of Amesbury, who now resides in this town with her daughter. His children are William Tyler and Alice Cushman. William Tyler Follansbee, who is a carriage-maker of Amesbury, married Miss Annette Pettingell. They have a daughter, Helen Leslie, eight years of age. Miss Follansbee, a graduate of Bradford Academy, is the present librarian of the Amesbury Public Library, which position she has held for several years past. She is connected with the Elizabeth H. Whittier Club and various other social literary societies of the town.

RANK SAVAGE, the efficient chairman of the Amesbury School ]?oard, was born in Boxford, Mass., on September 2, 1833, son of Johnson and Mary (Hardy) Savage. Johnson Savage, son of a sea captain, was a carpenter by trade, and resided during the greater part of his life at Bo.xford, where he died at the age of fifty-six years. By his wife, Mary, who was born in Georgetown, there were five children - William Johnson, P'rank, Leonard, Mary J., and Sarah. William Johnson has been the master of almshouses in various places, including those of this State at Ipswich, Topsfield, and Boxford. He is now in poor health, and resides in Georgetown. Leonard enlisted in 1 86 1, in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, and served for three years in the Civil War. When this term exi)ire(l.

he re-enlisted, was shortly afterward captured with a part of his regiment in the Shenandoah Valley, and was sent to Salisbury Prison, where he died of starvation. Mary J. married Mr. O'Dowd, and lives in Amcsbury. Sarah, the youngest daughter, now a widow, married a Mr. Emerson, and made her home in Bradford, where she still resides.

When nineteen years of age, Frank Savage entered Atkinson Academy, where he spent three years in preparing for college, teaching school for a part of the time. In 1859 he entered Dartmouth College, graduating therefrom with the class of 1863. Subsequently he taught school at Haverhill for some time, was a teacher in the public schools of Amesbury for two years, and for three years was principal of the high school at Bradford. He spent the following three years teaching in the Reform School at Westboro, and for the next ten years was the principal of the Salisbury High School. About fifteen years ago the delicate state of his health obliged him to retire from the teaching profession. Since then he has served for twelve years on the School Board of Amcsbury, being for the past ten years the chairman of the board. He is a member of the Democratic Town Committee, and at one time was the Democratic candidate for State Representative. His popularity was attested by the fact that he lacked but twentytwo votes to secure his election in a strong Republican district. He is a member of Powow River Lodge, No. go, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all the chairs; and is connected with the Essex County Teachers' Association, one of the oldest societies in the State.

In 1873, March 27, Mr. Savage married Anna M. J. Lawrence, a daughter of the Rev. John J. Lawrence, of New York State. Mr. Lawrence was one of the early missionaries sent out by the A. B. C. F. M. to the Madura Mission, where, after spending twelve years in his high calling, he passed to his reward. Mrs. Savage, who was born in Hindostan, was brought to America in infancy by her mother, who taught school successfully in Troy, N. Y., and other places. Mrs. Lawrence afterwartl carried on a flourishing boarding-school in Ballston, N. Y., until loss of health compelled her to retire. She could not be prevailed upon to accept the help to which she was entitled from the A. B. C. F. M. Mrs. Savage received her education at Mount Holyoke Seminary, graduating in 1866. She taught school successfully until the time of her marriage, the most of these years having been spent as teacher of a high school in Tecumseh, Mich. She has, until recently, taken an active part in the work of the Union Evangelical church. Her only daughter, Miss Pahel A. Savage, an energetic and capable young lady and a graduate of the Newburyport Training School, has been a successful and popular teacher in the Amcsbury schools since she was eighteen years old.

DWARD A. LANE, a prominent business man of Manchester and secretary of the School Board, was born in Annisquam, a part of Gloucester, Mass., on December 4, 1847, his parents being Allen and Charlotte (Sargent) Lane, both natives of that town, and both representing old Gloucester families.

Mr. Lane passed the early part of his life at Annisquam, and attended the public schools there. At the age of sixteen he began learning the painter's trade, with K. L. Cook, of Gloucester, with whom he worked six years; and soon after reaching his majority he entered into partnership at Lanesville with Al- bcrt Lane, luidcr llie firm name of Albert Lane & Co. At the end of about two years he came to Manchester, and started a business for himself, this being in March, 1872. He carries on the painting business in all its branches, his contracts in most cases including painting, glazing, sash, blinds, and paperhanging. He employs on the average the year round a force of twenty-five men, in busy times the number reaching as high as fifty. Mr. Lane has finished the greater part of the fine summer residences in and about Manchestcr-by-the-Sea, and has had several large contracts in different places in the State, also in the White Mountain region of New Hampshire. I'^or ten years prior to 1896 he had an office in Boston, and did a large amount of work in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge. At the present time he has an office and store at Hamilton; and since September, 1896, he has built up quite an extensive trade in that growing town.

Although well occupied with his own business affairs, Mr. Lane has found some time to devote to the interests of the town and of his fellow-citizens. He has served one term as Selectman, and has been for several years an active and efficient member of the School Committee. He belongs to the Congregational church of Manchester. Of a social temperament and interested in fraternal organizations, he is a member of Magnolia Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being Past Grand of the same and present treasurer; also member and Past Master of North .Shore Lodge, American Order of United Workmen.

Mr. Lane has been twice married. His first wife, Amanda Sargent, of Annisquam, Mass., bore him three children: Grace G., a graduate of Smitii College, in the class of 1894, now a teacher in tlie high sciiool at I''almouth, Mass. ; E. Percy Lane, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, in the class of 1898; and Henry Phillips, who died at the age of sixteen months. Mr. Lane's second wife, Annie E. Leighton, of Hopkinton, Mass., is the mother of a daughter, Annie L. Mr. Lane is a popular man in his town, and carries on a very successful business. He has the full confidence of the public at large and of his numerous patrons.

LEXANDER CALDWELL, the senior member of the firm Alexander & George J. Caldwell, distillers, is one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Newburyport, where he was born and where he has always made his home. He represents the third generation of his family in this city, being a son of Captain John Caldwell, who was a lifelong resident, and grandson of Alexander Caldwell, of Scotch-Irish stock, who came here a young man in the latter part of last century from Dunbarton, N.H.

The Caldwells in earlier times were strict Calvinists. They have all the Scottish characteristics of industry, frugality, and integrity. From the History of Dunbarton, N. H., we learn that a James Caldwell and a Samuel Caldwell were among the original grantees of that town in 1752; also that Thomas Caldwell, a kinsman of the Caldwells of Newburyport, distillers, removed from Litchfield, N.H., to Dunbarton, and there became a wealthy farmer. Thomas died in 18 16, aged eighty-three, having been born in 1733 in Ireland - if we mistake not - son of Alexander, first (elsewhere recorded as born in 1690), who a few years later emigrated with his family, and settled in New Hampshire, probaldy at Litchfield. David S. Caldwell, of