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(11) William Briggs of Taunton, Massachusetts, thought to be son of Clement Briggs and mentioned by Savage as probably brother of Clement's son Jonathan, settled with others of this family in Taunton. He married in November, 1666, Sarah Macomber. Children, born in Taunton: 1. William, born January 25, 1667-8. 2. Thomas (twin), born September 9, 1669; mentioned below. 3. Sarah (twin), born September 10, 1669, a day later than her twin brother. 4. Elizabeth, born March 14, 1671. 5. Hannah, born November 4,1672. 6. Mary, born August 14, 1674. 7. Mathew, born February 5, 1676. 8. John, born March 19, 1680.

(II1) Thomas Briggs, son of William Briggs (2), was born September 9, 1669, and married Abigail Thayer. Children: 1. Thomas, born October 9, 1690; mentioned below. 2. Sarah, born December 10,.1693. | 3. Nathaniel, born June 18, 1695.

(IV) Thomas Briggs, son of Thomas Briggs (3), was born October 9, 1690, at Taunton, Massachusetts. He married Hannah He and his brother Nathaniel Briggs settled in the adjoining town of Rehoboth. Children, born at Rehoboth: 1. Deliverance, born June 11, 1712; died March 1, 1731. 2. Joshua, born November 25, 1714. 3. Sarah, born January 5, 1717-8. 4. Hannah, born May 25, 1724. 5. Silence, born July 5, 1729; died July 6, 1729.

(V) Joshua Briggs, son of Thomas Briggs (4), was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, November 25, 1714. He married at Norton, Massachusetts, November 6, 1735, Sarah Luther. The residence of both husband and wife is given as Rehoboth, however. dren, born in Rehoboth: 1. Anna, born January 16, 1736. 2. Joshua, born March Io, 1738-9; settled in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, about 1770, with his two brothers. 3. Deliverance, born September 26, 1740. 4. Caleb, born February 27, 1743-4; mentioned below. 5. Moses, married February 27, 1778, Deborah Corbin, of Taunton; was soldier in the Revolution, a corporal in Captain John Cole's company, Colonel Ashley's regiment, from Westmoreland, in 1777. 6. Ephraim, settled in Westmoreland, head of a family there in 1790, according to the federal census, as were also his brothers Moses and Joshua; births of seven children recorded at Westmoreland. 7. Aaron. 8. Rhoda. g. Philander. 10. Sarah: 15. Jemima °(?)...(Seesp: 215 of the old Briggs Genealogy, letter of Philander S. Briggs of this sketch).

(VI) Caleb Briggs, son of Joshua Briggs (5), was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, February 27, 1743-4. He removed to Attleborough, an adjoining town, and thence in 1770 with his brothers, to Westmoreland, New Hampshire, 'and cleared his farm in the wilderness. He married, in 1765, Anna Luther. They had three children, one of whom was Lemuel, born 1767, mentioned below.

(VII) Lemuel Briggs, son of Caleb Briggs (6), was born in Rehoboth or Attleborough, Massachusetts, December 14, 1767, and was a young child when the family removed to Westmoreland. He became a farmer in that town, and died there of old age, September 25, 1868, aged one hundred years nine months and nine days. (State Records, Concord, New Hampshire, copy of town record). He married at Westmoreland (by Samuel Works, Esq.,) January 16, 1792, Polly Stevens; second, December 10, 1826, at Westmoreland (by Rev. Allen Pratt); third, October 9, 1832, Nancy Kimpton, widow. Children: 1. Lem uel Jr., born 1796; died March 31, 1873, aged seventy-seven; married March 10, 1817, at Westmoreland; son Bradley, born 1823, died January 26, 1899, aged seventy-six. 2. Amasa, married Sally Leonard; children, born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire: Lucy, deceased, Oliver Leonard, who has one child, Fred; Ortinsia A., born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, married John Veazey, one child, a son; lived in later life in Putney, Vermont. 3. Luther, born 1801; married at Westmoreland, June 15, 1828, Caroline Bennett; he died September 24, 1888, aged eightyseven. 4. Philander S., born December 7, 1809 ; mentioned below.

(VIII) Philander Stevens Briggs, son of Lemuel Briggs (7), was born December 7, 1809, in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. His ancestors were among the early settlers of his native town, and came from old colonial stock. He attended the public schools of his native town, and worked during his minority on his father's farm and taught school. When he came of age he left home with only enough money to pay his fare.to Boston on the stage coach. He found employment in Boston, how- ever, as clerk in a grocery store, and soon mastered the details of the business. With his first savings he engaged in the grocery business on his own account, starting in a small 'and modest way in a store in Charlestown. His energy and foresight soon bore fruit, and his trade grew rapidly, and he became one of the most prominent and successful merchants of the city of Charlestown. Later he engaged in the manufacture of New England rum, then regarded by all classes of people as a prime necessity of life. His distillery also proved profitable. He was in partnership with Daniel C. Willis, and his distillery was conducted under the firm name of Briggs & Willis. So successful was Mr. Briggs that at the age of forty-two he retired from mercantile life with a competency and invested his capital in real estate, devoting his time to the care and improvement of his property. He continued, however, to be a power in the financial and business circles of Charlestown. He was active in public affairs, a member of the common council of the city of Charlestown, and alderman for many years; one of the commissioners appointed to introduce the water of the Mystic river for domestic uses in Charlestown; trustee, vice-president and member of the board of investment of the Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank up to the time of his death. He was a member and liberal supporter of the Unitarian church of Charlestown. He took a great interest in the work of the Webster Historical Society, of which he was a member. Mr. Briggs ranked among the foremost citizens of the city of Charlestown in business, social and political life. He had those qualities of mind and heart that attract men and create friendship. He possessed a great capacity for work, an energy and industry that accounted in large measure for his success. He was upright, public-spirited and charitable. Conservative, of sound judgment, strict integrity and strong convictions, he was often consulted by his townsmen when advice and counse! were needed. He died February 1, 1889.

He married Dorothy Scott, born October 11, 1809, died December 10, 1855, of Leominster, New Hampshire. Children: 1. Lydia Jane, born June 23, 1839; married Horace C. Briggs. 2. Charles Gerome, born February 7, 1841, died July 21, 1842, aged seventeen months and fourteen days. 3. Melissa E., born at Charlestown, December 6, 1843; married Francis E. Downer. with). Mr. Briggs for his second wife mar- ried in May, 1857, Mrs. Zilpha Cobb (Hopkins) Needham, widow, of Sardinia, New York. She was born November 12, 1810, died November 10, 1884.

ROBINSON of the several early immigrants of the same name, was born in England and settled in Salem. He was admitted a freeman May 18, 1642, and was a proprietor as early as 1637. He and his son had another grant of land at Salem in 1649 and sold land in 1660. He was a tailor by trade. John Robinson, probably his brother, settled about the same time in the same town; died 1653, leaving his property to his wife Eleanor during life; then to the "first one of his kindred that shall come to seek it;" bequeathing also to Elder Samuel Sharpe and John Jackson, of Boston.

William Robinson died at Salem in 1678. His will was dated February 9, 1676-77, and was proved November 29, 1678, mentioning his son Joseph at Barbadoes ; sons Samuel and Timothy, executors; daughter Sarah Newpury; grandchild Timothy Robinson. His wife Isabelle joined the church in 1637. Children: 1. Ann, born 1637, baptized December 3, 1637. 2.. Samuel, born January 2, 1640, died 1678. 3. Mary, born March 12, 1643. 4. Timothy, born April 28, 1644, died 1668. 5. Mark, born and died 1645. 6. Esther, born May 2, 1646. 7. Martha, born February 2, 1647. Also mentioned in the will: 8. Joseph, eldest, then in Barbadoes - evidently a mariner

(II) John Robinson, son of William Robinson (I), was born in Salem or England, in 1630-35, and died in Salem in 1678. He lived at Salem; was one of the executors of his father's will. There is good reason to believe that Timothy Robinson (3) was his son.

son of John Robinson (4), was born October 17, 1739, died August 18, 1794, at Ipswich, Massachusetts. He married Catherine , born 1740, died October 14, 1812. He removed to Boston from Ipswich and followed his trade as shipwright there. Child: John, born in Ipswich in 1775, mentioned below.

(V1) John Robinson, son of John Robinson (5), was born in Ipswich in 1775. He removed to Boston and followed his father's trade as shipwright, until he was eighteen years old when, owing to an accident that disabled him for that trade) he engaged in the bakery business in Boston. He died there May 23, 1822. He married, March 1, 1801, Mary Clark, who was born in Boston in 1777, and died there March 5, 1826, daughter of Samuel and (Cary) Clark. He was educated in the common schools. The following records of the birth of children of John and Mary (Clark) Robinson are from the family Bible: 1. John Taylor, born November 29, 1801. 2. Mary, born January 23, 1802, died August Io, 1806. 3. Catherine, born September 11, 1804. 4. Robert Gutteridge, born January 23, 1806, died March 27, 1806. 5. Mary, born February 1, 1807, died February 14, 1807. 6. Mary, born July 10, 1808, died September 2, 1809. 7. William, born January 5, 1810, mentioned below.

(VII) William Robinson, son of John Robinson (6), was born in Boston, January 5, 1810, and died at Melrose Highlands, January 4, 1899. He was educated in the common schools of his native city, but left school and went to work at the age of thirteen years. He learned the painting and glazing trade and followed it for a number of years, but succeeded his father eventually in the baking business and conducted it successfully in the same location until 1860, when. he retired from active labor and business. His residence until 1855 was at the corner of Ship street (afterward North) and Clark street, Boston, and then he removed to a house on Sheafe street, Boston, where he resided until 1881. He lived at Somerville from that time to 1894, when he went to Melrose Highlands and lived there the remainder of his days. He left a widow and one son, William Parker. He married (first), March 29, 1838, Caroline Amanda Jones, of Weston, Massachusetts. She died December 15, 1844. He married (second), September

17, 1847, Olive Garrett Parker, of Boston, daughter of David Parker, and granddaughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Pitcher) Parker, (whose other children were: William, a sailor lost at sea, unmarried; Thomas Parker lived at Eastport, Maine, and had children: i. Ashley Parker, of South Boston; ii. Robert Parker, of Eastport, Maine; iii. Charles Parker, died in Libby prison, Richmond, a prisoner in the Civil war; iv. Rebecca Parker; v. Sophronia Parker; vi. Mary Parker.) Mary Parker; Robert Parker, left no issue.

David Parker married Olive Garrett, daughter of Major Andrew Garrett, of West Barnstable, Massachusetts; married (second) Sophia Marston, daughter of Benjamin Marston, of Barnstable; married (third) Susan Shaw Howland, of West Barnstable, daughter of Josiah Bodfish, of West Barnstable; was wharfinger of City wharf, Boston, until about 1850 when he removed to West Barnstable where he died April, 1866; was ten years of age when he located in Boston, living with a Mr. Davis from Shelburne, Nova Scotia, who brought him up and educated' him; employed him as clerk in his fish and salt store on Codman's wharf and finally left him the business; he was master of the Lodge of St. Andrews, Free Masons, Boston. Children of David and Olive (Garrett) Parker: 1. Rob- , ert Parker, died in San Diego, California. 2. Olive G. Parker, married William Robinson, as mentioned above. Children of David and

Children of William and Caroline Amanda (Jones) Robinson: 1. William Henry, born January 8, 1839, died April 14, 1839. . 2. Henry Franklin, born July 9, 1841, died September, 1881. Children of William and Olive Garrett (Parker) Robinson: 3. Olive Garrett Parker, born January 7, 1849, died March 22, 1852. 4. Robert Parker, born February 19, 1851, died March 26, 1852. 5. William Parker, born August 13, 1854, mentioned below. 6. Mary Amanda, born April 11, 1856, died October 1, 1866.

(VIIT) William Parker Robinson, son of William Robinson (7), was born in Boston, August 13, 1854. He received his education in the public schools and the Chauncy Hall School of Boston, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He resided in Boston until his marriage, when he made his home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. In 1890 he removed to Melrose, where he has ever since resided. He was associated with a wholesale clothing business in 1874, and with the retail clothing business in Boston in 1891. In 1908 he established a retail clothing business at No. 5 Bromfield street. He is well advanced in Masonry, being affiliated with Zetland Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Waverly Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar.. He married, August 1, 1878, Mary Eunice Webster, born October 11, 1854, daughter of Charles Edward and Lydia A. (Sanderson) Webster, of Chelsea. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have children: 1. Alice Webster, born July 30, 1879, is wife of Samuel Everett Eldridge, of Melrose; one child, Samuel Webster. 2. Mary Parker, born November 19, 1880, died May 23, 1881. 3. William Carleton, born March 1, 1882, is associated with his father in business. 4. Reginald Gerrish, born March 23, 1892. The family attend the Universalist church.

was born in Portland, Maine, November 10, 1763. He married January 24, 1791, Rebecca Beard, of Portland, Maine, born July 23, 1768. They had eight children: Rachel, born October 14, 1791; Sewall, March 17, 1794; William, September 30, 1796; Mary, March 22, 1799; Elijah, March 30, 1802; Simon, November 18, 1804; Nathan, June 8, 1807; Rebecca, July 11, 1812. In the war of ~ the American Revolution both the Carvills and the Beards were well represented in the patriot army, and three of the brothers of William Carvill were captured and carried to Canada as prisoners of war, and thtee or more of his wife's brothers took part in the same struggle.

(II) Sewall Carvill, eldest son and second child of William and Rebecca (Beard) Carvill, was born in Lewiston, Maine, March 17, 1794. He served in the army in the war with England in 1812-15. He was married, March, 1817, to Tamar Higgins of Lewiston, Maine, born November 13, 1797, and they had children named in the order of their birth: Milton, Mary, died in infancy; William, Elijah, Submit, Rebecca, Mary, Jefferson, Wesley, infant stillborn; Jerusha Ann, Alonzo G. and Alphonso H., all born in Lewiston, Maine.

February 4, 1843. He attended the district school at No Name Pond, the Maine State Seminary (now Bates College), the Edward Little Institute, then Lewiston Falls Academy, matriculated at Tufts College in 1862, and was graduated A. B. 1866, A. M. 1869. He then took a course in medicine at Harvard University and received his M. D. degree in 1860. He practiced medicine in. St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1869-73, and in Somerville, Massachusetts, from 1873, where he was a member of the school board for ten years and city physician two years. He was a member of the commission that drew up the new charter for the city of Somerville.

Dr. Carvill was married, August 18, 1869, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Jemima Swanson Gray, of St. Margaret's Hope, Scotland, born November 16, 1842, and their children were: Sewall Albert, born in Kingston, Minnesota, July 31, 1870; Lizzie Maud, born at Lewiston, Maine, April 27, 1873.

Sewall Albert Carvill was a pupil of the grammar and high school of Somerville; graduated from the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, in 1890, and martriculated at Tufts College, and after two years left college to take a course in medicine at Harvard University Medical School. He was married, November 17, 1897, to Alice, daughter of Simon and Madeline (Lincoln) Goldthwaite, of Somerville, and their children were: Arthur Lincoln, born March 18, 1902; Ralph Sewall, born October 14, 1906. Sewall A. Carvill was a salesman for the North Packing Company.

Lizzie Maud, daughter of Dr. Alphonso H. and Jemima Swanson (Gray) Carvill, was born in Lewiston, Maine, April 27, 1873. She graduated at the Somerville high school; at the Chauncy Hall School, Boston; at Tufts College, A. B. 1899; at Tufts College Medical School, M. D., 1905; at Sargent's Normal School in Physical Training, 1895, and became a practicing physician as an eye specialist, and was teacher of physical training at Tufts College from 1897. She was president of the Powder House Club, a member of the Heptorian Club, and the Delta Sigma fraternity.

Dr. Alphonso Holland Carvill was a member of John Abbott Lodge, F. A. M., of Somerville Royal Arch Chapter; a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological So-

MARSHALL born about 1800 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was educated in the public schools. He was married at Portsmouth (by Rev. I. W. Putnam) January 16, 1828, to Lucretia S. Hall, who died there April 30, 1875. He was a cabinet maker by trade. He had twelve sons and two daughters, all of whom were born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, excepting his son, George E. Marshall. Among his children were: 1. Orlando Frederick, born October 19, 1828; mentioned below. 2. Mary Lund, died August 19, 1895; married Edwin Storrs, of Boston; no children. 3. Hamilton A., died May 30, 1854. 4. Alvin Hamilton, died May 3, 1864. 5. Albert Gillian, died June 18, 1864. 7. Ellen Lucretia, died May 30, 1854. 8. Horace Almander, married Ellen Runlet, of Newburyport; no children. 9. George Edwin, born October 6, 1848; died January 29, 1907; married January 14, 1875, Margaret Atwood, of Somerville; children: i. Ernest, born April 12, 1876; married Josephine Bruce, of Medford, and have: Marjorie Frances, born June 8, 1903, and George Hamilton, born November 21, 1906; 11. Edith, born October 7, 1877, married Joshua H. Baker, of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and have Lorenzo Dow Baker, born July 24, 1900.

(II) Orlando Frederick Marshall, son of Hamilton A. Marshall (1), was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 19, 1828. He attended the common schools of that town until he was eleven years old, when he removed to Boston, Massachusetts, with his parents, and completed his schooling in the public schools of that city. He learned the trade of carpenter and followed it many years in the employ of B. D. Whitcomb, a prominent Boston contractor, and was his superintendent for many years. Among the important contracts of which he had charge under the contractors were: the new Old South Church; the Museum of Fine Arts; the residence of Hollis Hunnewell, and the Boston Theatre' arch. Later he engaged in business as a carpenter and builder on his own account. He lived on Rochester, Seneca and Perry streets while in Boston. About 1880 he removed to Pownal, Maine, where he continued in the building business. He built the town hall and school houses there, and many of the fine residences. He conducted a farm also, making a specialty of poultry. He.died October 18, 1904, aged seventy-five years eleven months and twentynine days. He attended the Unitarian church, and was a Republican in politics. While liv- ing in Boston he was foreman of Ladder Company No. 3, Boston Fire Department. He was a member of the Bear Brook Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, at New Gloucester, Maine, and of Granite Grange No. 14, at Pownal.

He married, at Boston, Mary Louisa Small, born June 30, 1835, and died January 4, 1892, daughter of Joseph W. and Deborah (Watts) Small, of Portland, Maine. Her father was a sea captain, and later in life had a meat and provision market. Children: 1. Geraldine Louise, born July 26, 1852, died September 19, 1953: 2. Prances Emeline, born January 22, 1855; died July 21, 1856. 3. Ellis Homer, born June 10, 1837: mentioned below. 4. AL bert Gilman, born February 28, 1862; died June 16, 1864.

(111) Ellis Homer Marshall, son of Orlando Frederick Marshall (2), was born at Boston, June 10, 1857.. He attended the Rice grammar school, Boston, until he was fourteen years old. Before he left school he worked from time to time for Knowles, Freeman & Co., dealers in fish... Afterward he entered the employ of Joseph F. Paul & Son, dealers in lumber, corner of Dover and Albany streets, as surveyor of lumber, remaining seven years. He entered the employ of the Highland street railway, and worked for several years as conductor and starter. During the next ten years he carried on the farm that had been his grandfather's. In September, 1891, he purchased the Teel farm at Woburn, consisting of forty-three acres, on Cambridge street, in the west part of Woburn, and since then has devoted his attention to market gardening. He has enjoyed a prosperous business, making a specialty of peppers, celery, cucumbers, and lettuce. His market is in Boston, where he sells to commission houses and for his own account. He is enterprising and progressive and his farm is among-the most tidy and wellkept in that section. He attends the Unitarian Church at Woburn. In politics he is a Republican. He was made a member of Mount Horeb Lodge of Free Masons, at Woburn, March 5, 1902. He was formerly a member of Bear Brook Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of New Gloucester, Maine, and held offices in that body. He served five years as private in the Roxbury City Guards, Company D, First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.

He married May 25, 1881, Emily Louise Chamberlain, born at Boston, March 8, 1864, daughter of John L. and Lavina (Burke) Chamberlain, of Boston. Her father was salesman in a grocery store. Children: 1. Albert - Lincoln, born August 3, 1882. 2. Walter Fredht ict

July 28, 1843. He was the son of Jeremiah Donovan, who was born in Ireland, and came among the first of the Irish whom famine drove to America in the forties, making his home in Yonkers, where he died in 1846. After his father's death in 1846 his mother removed to Lowell, Massachusetts, where Mr. Donovan lived all the remainder of his life. He attended the Lowell public schools and graduated from the Washington grammar school and the Lowell high school. After a term in Farnsworth Academy he entered the employ of David Gove, 223 Central street, Lowell, and when he came of age he was admitted to partnership by his employer. When Mr. Gove retired a few years later Mr. Donovan took full control of the business and retained it to the time of his death, although during his last years he entrusted the active management to John T. Seede.

In 1877 Mr. Donovan began the manufacture of paper at Dracut and he built up a large and prosperous business there. In 1884 he organized the Atlantic Telegraph Company and established lines as far east as Bangor, Maine. He was treasurer of the company from its organization until his death. In 1891 he was one of the founders of the Lowell Trust Company and was its president from the first. He was also a trustee and president of the Washington Savings Institution. In 1894 he was one of the organizers of the Fifield Tool Company, the largest engine lathe manufactory in the country, and he was the treasurer from the first. From 1894 to the time of his death he was the active manager of the Coburn Shuttle and Bobbin Company.

During the time that Mr. Donovan took an active part in politics, he was very prominent in public life. He was on the board of overseers of the poor in 1882, and in the fall of that year was elected mayor of the city on the Democratic ticket. He was re-elected the following year and during both years of his administration gave the city a conservative and economical administration. While he was mayor the large intercepting sewer was constructed, the Aiken street and Central bridges were completed and the Taylor street bridge practically completed as well as the new buildings at the City Farm. The Pawtucket grammar school building and the Powell street school building were erected. It was through his recommendation and influence that the public library was made free and the public reading room established. In 1886 he was nominated for congress in the eighth district, and he made an energetic campaign, reducing the Republican plurality from three thousand to about four hundred. In 1888 he was chairman of the Democratic state convention, and his speech was received by the Democrats of the state with enthusiasm and by his opponents with much favorable comment. He was a brilliant public speaker, and was constantly in demand at occasions of public gatherings in Lowell.

Among his more notable addresses were those at the dedication of various public buildings and especially that at the Washington Centenary. Mr. Donovan's home was in .the Highland ward and gave evidence of his interest in literature and art. He died there April 21, 1905.

He married, 1869, Mary E. Seede, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was daughter of Augusta and Sarah Seede. Children: 1. Katherine S., 2. John A., graduated from Institute of Technology at Boston. 3. Sarah E. 4. Grace D., educated at Sunapee College. 5. Marianna, educated at Sunapee College. Ail his children are living in Lowell. Mrs. Donovan, mother of these children, died March 2, 1908. ;

Daniel Webster Bullard, son BULLARD of Enoch and Olive (Gilbert) Bullard, was born in Medfield, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, January 5, 1824. He was brought up on his father's farm, where he became accustomed to the tasks at discipline incident to New England farm work as performed in those days by very young boys. His father was a man of considerable local reputation, being for twenty years deputy sheriff of Norfolk county, keeper of a country store, and selectman for the town of Medfield. He married Olive Gilbert, and they had six children, of whom Daniel Webster Bullard was the only survivor in 1907. After attending the public schools during the winter terms, he left the farm and accepted a position in a store in Roxbury, where he was employed in 1861, when the call came from President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand men to put down the rebellion in the southern states. He enlisted for two years service, and was assigned to Company E, to which W. S. Cogswell had been assigned by

Governor Andrew as captain and Nelson Appleton Miles as first lieutenant. The regiment was under command of Henry Wilson, and known as the Twenty-Second Massachusetts Volunteers, but the regiment was mustered in the United States service September 9, 1861, with Lieutenant Miles as captain, and he was so enrolled on the paymaster's muster, and to avoid conflict between the state of Massachusetts and the United States authorities, Colonel Wilson, on November 9, 1861, obtained for the future lieutenant-general of the United States army to staff duty on the staff of General Oliver O. Howard, and it is worthy of note that General O. O. Howard and General Nelson A. Miles were both living in 1907, while most of their companions in arms holding commissions of the highest rank were at rest in Arlington cemetery. The Twenty-second Massachusetts passed to the command of Colonel Jesse D. Gore on the resignation of of Colonel Wilson to resume his seat in the United States senate in December, 1861, and Company FE reverted to the command of Captain W. S. Cogswell under commission from Governor Andrew." The regiment saw service on the Peninsula in the Army of the Potomac under General McClellan; at Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862; Gaine's Mill, June 27, 1862; Savage Station, June 29, 1862; White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862; and Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862. He was mustered out of the United States volunteer service in March, 1863, at Boston, Massachusetts, with his regiment, its term of service having expired, and he received an honorable discharge. He returned to Cambridge, and in August, 1865, was appointed assistant clerk of the supreme court, civil service, at Boston, which position he held for nearly thirty years, retiring in 1894, he having reached the age of seventy years. He assisted in founding Grand Army Post No. 186, in Boston, and was a charter member of the organization, and was largely instrumental in having it transferred to Cambridge.

He was married to Martha Frances, daughter of Francis and Martha (Morrill) Curtis and their children were: Fannie Bullard, deceased. Enoch Herbert Bullard; he gave his time largely to the personal care of his father and of the property owned by him at No. 20 Maple avenue, Cambridge, where he had established his home in 1880; he now resides at Raynham, Massachusetts, where he owns a farm. Martha Bullard, deceased. Florence, married Albert F. Rivard, a jeweler of Taunton, Massachusetts, and they had in 1907 one child, Alwin Curtis, born November 11, 1890. Frank Bullard, deceased. Nellie Bullard, married Charles E. Palmer, of Waltham, Massachusetts, employed in the Waltham Watch Company establishment of that place. Their only child was Bulal W. Palmer, born September 21, 1882.

Elicom Robinson was born in Limington, York county, Maine, was a farmer and the father of five children: William, Albert, Edwin Allen, Alrida and Henry.

Edwin Allen Robinson, son of Elicom Robinson, was born in Limington, Maine, April 3, 1842. He was instructed in the public schools of his native town, and while not at school worked on his father's farm. He left the farm in 1862 to enlist on September 10, in Company A, Twenty-seventh Maine Volunteers for nine months service; at the end of the term of his enlistment he was honorably discharged, and after recuperating from the effects of nine months service in the south he re-enlisted September 17, 1863, in the Fifth Battery, First Regiment: of Artillery, recruited in Portland, and he served in the artillery up to the close of the war. He then settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was employed by the Suffolk corporation, where he learned the textile manufacturing business, and for twenty years was overseer of the weaving rooms, serving in that responsible position from 1884 to 1904. In 1904 he retired from active business by reason of ill health brought on by close confinement . to the unhealthy conditions in which he labored after leaving the army. He was prominent in the councils of the Republican party, and served his district in the board of the common council of the city of Lowell for two years. His military service won him recognition in the Ladd Whitney Post, No. 185, Grand Army of the Republic, Lowell, Massachusetts, in which he held responsible office and was much esteemed by his comrades. He was married October 9, 1866, to Cornelia Ann, daughter of William Godfrey and Jane Fitzherbert (Drummond) Taylor, of New Portland, Maine. Her mother was born in Livermore, Maine, September 17, 1818, and lived with her daughter who was born in New Portland, Maine, July 1, 1844, and the Widow Taylor was still living in Lowell, Massachu-_ setts, in 1907, having reached the eighty-ninth

Charles Edwin Robinson, son of Edwin *Allen and Cornelia Ann (Taylor) Robinson, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, May 12, 1872. He was instructed in the public schools of Lowell, and learned the trade of compositor and printer, becoming the founder and _ sole proprietor of the Robinson Printing Company of Lowell, Massachusetts. He was married September 22, 1894, to Carrie Huyck, of Michigan, and their son, Howard E. Robinson was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, November 22, 1897.

William Drummond, grandfather of Cornelia Ann (Taylor) Robinson, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, February 9, 1772, of Protestant parents. He married Martha Clark, born in county Tyrone, Ireland, June 12, 1771, and they immigrated to the United States in the ship "North Star," landing at Bath, Maine, in June, 1812. The children of William and Martha (Clark) Drummond were: Samuel, born December 23, 1800, died in 1845. Catherine, born April 9, 1803, died January 17, 1898. Eliza, born August 14, 1806, deceased. Mary, born August 1, 1809, died December 3, 1903. John, born June 26, 1812, deceased. Matilda, born May 8, 1815, deceased. Jane Fitzherbert, born September - 17,1818, living in 1907. She married William Godfrey Taylor, and had children as follows, in the order of their birth: Charles, Cornelia Ann, Martha, Myra and Laronia Taylor. The mother, Martha (Clark) Drummond, died February 5, 1849.

BEALS name of great antiquity, derived from the, name of a place. It means literally a narrow pass. The Scandinavian giant Beli, from whom the name may descend, was slain by Freyr. The French form de /a Beale is found in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth century. There is a hamlet of this name-in the detached portion of Durham, England, and the family is numerous in Herefordshire and Northamptonshire. Their coat-of-arms: Argent a chevron between three pheons sable the two in chief lying fesseways point to point. Another ancient coat-of-arms of this family was derived from William Beale, port reeve of Maidstone in the fourteenth century; his descendant, Sir John Beale of Farmington Court, Kent, was high sheriff of County Kent in 1665. Arms: Sable on a chevron or between three griffons' heads

(1) John Beal, the immigrant ancestor, came from the parish of Hingham, county Norfolk, England, where he was born, 1588, to Hingham, Massachusetts, with his wife, five sons and three daughters and two servants. This fact is stated in so many words on the town clerk's records by Daniel Cushing, fourth town clerk of Hingham. He had a grant of land at Hingham, Massachusetts, September 18, 1638, six acres for a house lot on what is now South street, near Hersey street. He was a shoemaker. He was admitted a freeman in 1639, and was deputy to the general court in 1644 and 1659. He married first, Nazereth Hobart, born in England, about 1600, died at Hingham, September 23, 1658, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Hobart. He married second, March 10, 1659, Mary, widow of Nicholas Jacob; she died at Hingham, June 15, 1681. In noticing his death, David Hobart, son of Rev. Peter Hobart, made full record "April 1, 1688 my uncle John Beal died suddenly." Judge Sewell also made a record on the same date "Father Beal of Hingham died aged one hundred years." His will was dated September 27, 1687, and bequeathed to his children and grandchildren. Children, all by first wife: 1. Martha, born 1620; married March 16, 1640, William Falloway, of Plymouth; married second, June 29, 1649, Samuel Dunham; died April 26, 1690. 2. Mary, born 1622; married December 30, 1647, James Whiton, of Hingham; died December 12, 1696. 3. Sarah, born 1625; married March 22, 1648-9, Thomas Marsh; second, September 5, 1662, Edmund Sheffield, of Braintree; died at Braintree, November 9, 1710. 4. John, born about 1627. 5. Nathaniel, born 1629. © 6. Jeremiah, born about 1631; mentioned below. 7. Joshua, born about 1633. 8. Caleb, born 1636. 9. Rebecca, baptized at Hing-

(II) Jeremiah Beals, son of John Beal (1), was born in England about 1631. He came with his parents to America, and settled in Hingham. He was a blacksmith; was constable in 1672; selectman in 1671, 1673, 1684; deputy to the general court in 1691, 1692 and 1701. He resided on Bachelor street, near Main street, near the meeting house of the First Parish, but late in life removed to East street, near Hull street. He married, November 18, 1652, Sarah Ripley, born in England and died in Hingham, June 29, 1715, daughter

(1V) Samuel Beals, son of John Beals (3), was born at Hingham, February 2, 1704-5; died 1750. He settled at East Bridgewater, on the Eleazer Kieth place. He married, 1725. Mary, daughter of Elnathan Bassett. Children, born at Bridgewater: 1. Samuel, born 1726; married, 1745, Elizabeth Blackman; settled in Medford; had David and Samuel. 2. Nathan, born 1727; married Bathsheba . 3. Daniel, born 1729; married Mehitable Byram, daughter of Joseph Byram, and settled in Medford. 4. Jonathan, born 1730; mentioned below. 5. Joseph (twin), born 1733. 6. Benjamin (twin), born 1733; married Sarah ; settled at Medford. 7. Seth, born 1736. 8. Mary, born 1742. 9. Joseph, born 1743.

(V) Jonathan Beals, son of Samuel Beals (4), was born 1730, and died 1813, aged eighty-three. He married, 1751, Abigail Harlow, who died 1779, aged fifty. He married second, Abigail (Snow) Edgerton, widow of

John Edgerton, and daughter of James Snow, in 1780. He removed with his brothers to Mendon (now Medford), Massachusetts. Children, born in Bridgewater: Joseph, born 1752; removed to Abington. 2. Azariah, born 1753; mentioned below. 3. Abigail, born 1755; married, 1779, Josiah Hull. 4. Jonathan, born 1758. 5. Hannah,.born 1760; died young. 6. Hannah, born 1762; married, 1780, Noah Hull. 7. Molly, born 1770; married, 1793, Bela Reed.

(V1) Azariah Beals, son of Jonathan Beals (5), was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts ; married, at Bridgewater, 1776, Bathsheba Bisbee, born April 21, 1753, died March 24, 1844. He removed to Cummington and Plainfield, Massachusetts, and thence to New York State. He had extended service in the Revolution ; in an independent company under Captain Joseph Trufant, 1775; in Captain Thomas Nash's company, Colonel Solomon Lovell's regiment at Dorchester Heights, 1776; under the same captain in Colonel Josiah White's regiment, at Hull, £776 and 1777; in Captain Thomas Nash's company, Colonel David Cushing's regiment, 1777 and 1778, in Rhode Island; and in Captain Nathan Alden's company, Major Eliphalet Cary's regiment, in Rhode Island, 1778. Children: 1. Daniel, born 1779; probably died young. 2. Ezra, born February 20, 1781; married January 29, 1807, Lucena , born January 4, 1789; children: i. Bathsheba, born March 16, 1808; ii. Delilah, November 28, 1809; iii. Ralph, May 11, 1812; died April 1, 1834; iv. Orphia, born June 26, 1814; v. Badoura, September 12, 1816; vi. Horatio, January 23, 1819; vii. Rush, March I, 1821; viii. Leroy, September 17, 1823; ix Horace, June 16,1829. 3. Levi, May 18, £789; mentioned below. 5

(VII) Levi Beals, son of Azariah Beals (6), was born May 18, 1789, at Bridgewater, and died August 31, 1861, at Moline, Illinois. He was brought up on his father's farm, and learned the trade of a tanner, which he followed for some time. He also learned the trade of shoemaker, and worked at his trade all his life. He removed to Moline, Illinois, and made it his home until his death. He was a man of excellent judgment, and was prominent in the town. He married Catherine Smith, who died December 30, 1833. Cnhildren: 1. Morel Bisbee, mentioned below. 2. Patty M!, born August 25, 1826; married Horatio Beals, of Bear Lake, Pennsylvania ; one child. 3. Austin M., born September 22, 1828; married Julia Wells,. of Meadeville, Pennsylvania. 4. Charles James, born July

12, 1832; died June 6, 1865; married December 24, 1853, Henrietta Prosser, born March 10, 1837, died January 26, 1884, of Girard, Pennsylvania; children: i. Bird Prosser, born October 17, 1855; married Ida V. Blood of Monroe, Ohio; had Marie Henrietta, born July 26, 1889, Prosser Blood, February 9, 1890, Gilson Willis, October 10, 1892, Cary Chamberlain, September 26, 1894, Edith Cornelia, April 2, 1896; ii. Mary Jane, born December 25, 1857, married Edgar R. Skinner, of West Springfield, Pennsylvania, five children; iii. Charles Bartlett, born May 7, 1859, died March 20, 1901; iv. Emma Ruth, born August 22, 1861, married April 4, 1894, Charles H. Dixon, of Cleveland, Ohio, had Charles H. Dixon, Jr., born April 23, 1808, died April 29, 1898, and Lelia Alberta Dixon, born April 28, 1899, died April 28, 1899. (VIII) Dr. Morel Bisbee Beals, son of Levi Beals (7), as born in Pharsalia, New York, September 18, 1822, and died at Muskegon, Michigan, November 26, 1889. He fitted for college in his native town, and graduated at Williams College at the age of twenty-five. He studied medicine and took an allopath degree. He went west and - taught school several years, being teacher _and school superintendent at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, Iowa City, Iowa, Moline and Rock Island, Illinois; also several years at Flint, Michigan. In 1868 he became interested in the theory and practice of homoeopathy, and in 1877 he received a diploma from the Hahnemann College in Chicago. He located at Muskegon, Michigan, where he built up a large general and surgical practice, and remained there until his death, November 26, 1889. He was a scholarly man, of fine intellect, one of the foremost teachers of his day, and a powerful public speaker, although he was not generally speaking a public man. He was a close follower of the Swedenborgian religion for forty years, having become acquainted with the works of Swedenborg while at college, and always admired and studied them. He was a member of the Masonic order, and was a Republican in politics. He married Caroline Wells, born October 25, 1827, died in New Mexico, June 7, 1897, daughter of Joab and Edna (Long) Wells, of Meadeville, Pennsylvania. Her father was a farmer. Children: 1. Dr. Guy William, born March 21, 1853; resides in Hillsboro, New Mexico; married Ida M. Morrish, of Flint, Michigan; children: i. Pattie, born October 31, 1889; ii. Ethel, born June 13, 1891; iii. Morel Morrish, born June 6, 1893. iv. Carin book work.

(IX) Erl Vinton Beals, son of Dr. Morel Bisbee Beals (8), was born at Topeka, Kansas, June 17, 1867. At the age of four he removed with his parents to Moline, Illinois, where he attended the public schools, later removing to Ovid, Michigan, and thence to Muskegon, Michigan, where he received the greater part of his education, going to the high school until 1886. He then became a reporter forthe Muskegon Chronicle, where he remained ten years. He became interested in type-setting machines before any practicable machines were on the market and later turned his attention to the problem of improving the machinery for type-setting. In 1891, when he took up the work seriously, there were several type-setting machines on the market. The Thorne machine set type and distributed it again by an ingenious device. The Mergenthaler machine casts each line separately, and after using the slugs the metal is melted and used again. The Monotype machine, which in later years has become a strong rival of the linotype, casts each letter separately and is used extensively The Rogers and Mergenthaler companies each had devices advantageous to the other's machine, and finally the Mergenthaler obtained a monopoly of them. Since 1893 the Mergenthaler company has equipped amost every newspaper office of importance in the United States and many foreign countries with its machines, changing the whole character of the press, enormously increasing the size of newspapers. The New York Sun uses the Monotype machine. The original type-setting machines have not held their own in the race - the type casting machines have the -field. Mr. Beals studied the. problem of simplifying the mechanisms which require skilled machinist's care all the time,' and which are costly to make and to keep in repair. The linotype costs from three to four thousand dollars, and some offices have more than fifty of these machines in use. He secured the financial support of such men as Chief Justice Charles D. Long, Colonel Frank J. Hecker, of the Panama Commission, and M. S. Smith, of Detroit, where he began his experimenting. He has developed a machine entirely different from all others, more efficient, less complicated and less expensive. He had the machine well worked out in 1897 when he came to Boston to complete it, the mecHanical facilities for developing the more complicated parts being obtainable best in that city. After two years in Boston he made his home in Arlington, Massachusetts, occupying the Piper estate. In 1901 he purchased the Sampson estate, which overlooks the city of Boston and-its harbor. He has converted a portion of the buildings into a laboratory and workshop for his experiments, and has installed an electrical plant that lights all his buildings and supplies power for his shop. His machinery is of the most delicate and expensive sort. The three floors of his laboratory have an area of four thousand square feet. The Beals machine will be placed upon the market within a year. It has at least double the capacity of any other machine for setting or casting type. It is operated entirely by electricity. The keyboard has the one-magnet system, a device of Mr. Beals that is being applied to church organs, typewriters, leather measuring machines and similar mechanisms. Mr. Beals has also invented an area-meter for measuring leather sides, a device that is indispensable to tanners and concerns buying large quantities of leather. This machine is built by the Beals Area-meter Company, a corporation organized under state of Maine laws. a follower of the Swedenborgian religion, and a radical thinker. In politics he is a Republican.

He married, June 27, 1899, Marguerite (Bammel) Cook, born July 4, 1860, adopted daughter of John and Mary (Franauer) Bammel, of Marine City, Michigan. Her father was a farmer and stationary engineer.

Vermont. He was graduated at Harvard College, A. D., 1769, and received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale College in 1772. He was installed pastor of the

Joseph Whiting, son of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, and grandfather of William Clark Whiting, was born in Rockingham, Vermont. He married Ann Webb, and lived in Rockingham during his lifetime.

Samuel Whiting, son of Joseph and Ann (Webb) Whiting, and father of William Clark Whiting, was born in Rockingham, Vermont. He married Lucy Ann Clark, of Springfield, Vermont, and they had children.

William Clark Whiting, son of Samuel and Lucy Ann (Clark) Whiting, was born in Springfield, Vermont, May 20, 1858. He was prepared for college at the Springfield (Vermont) high school, and was graduated at Dartmouth College, A. B., 1882. He took up the profession of teaching at once, and his first school was at Holden, Vermont, where he taught for one. and one-half years, 1882-83. He then went to Webster, Massachusetts, as principal of the high school, and in 1888 resigned to fill a similar position at Milford. After one and one-half years at Milford he accepted an offer to become head master of the high school at Chicopee, where he gave acceptable service to the school board, parents and pupils for eight - years. In 1899 he resigned to accept the Melrose high school mastership, which position he still holds in "1907, having sustained and in many ways largely improved the standard of excellence already acquired by that school. Professor Whiting was married at Holden, Massachusetts, November 25, 1886, to Sarah F. Perry, of Marlboro, Massachusetts, and they had no children.

He was always a student of pedagogy, and was president of the Hampden County Teachers' Association for two years, and president of the Western Massachusetts Head Masters' Association, and his position as head master of the Melrose high school brought him in touch with the eminent educators in and about Boston, by all of whom he was held in high esteem as an able master. He was by faith and inheritance a. Congregationalist in religious belief, and was with his wife active in all the church works carried on by the First Congregational Church of Malden. His political faith was Republican, and while not a partisan or political worker in local elections at the polls, and on all reasonable occasions that demanded public expression of party affiliation. His educational life was however, uppermost, and he felt that he could always

Mansfield, Connecticut, April I, 1818, youngest of twelve children born to Horatio and Sarah (Sargent) Topliff, and grandson of Calvin Topliff, a native of Milton, Massachusetts, from whence he removed to the state of Connecticut. Calvin Topliff was the father of eight sons and eight daugh- Lens. ;

Calvin H. Topliff attended the schools in his native town, and the knowledge thus acquired was supplemented by attendance at Brown University, from which he was graduated in 1846, then entering the Newton Theological Institute, where he pursued a course of study. He was ordained at Neck Village Baptist Church, Charlestown, Massachusetts, September 30, 1850, and preached there for two years. Later he had the pastoral charge of churches at Branford, Connecticut; New Ipswich, New Hampshire; and Collinsville, Conneeticut; and for fourteen years was the pastor of the Baptist church of Newton, Massachusetts, after which service he retired from regular pulpit work, but continued to supply churches throughout the state. He was a faithful and conscientious worker in the ministry, striving to the best of his ability to follow in the feotsteps of his Master, and his daily walk and conversation was such as to serve as an example for those who looked up to him for spiritual guidance.

Mr. Topliff was married, in 1849, to Nancy Harlow Mason, of Cambridge, daughter of Samuel Mason, who was a carpenter and builder. Two 'children: 1. Charles Mason, died in Dakota. 2. Annette L., deceased; was wife of George D. Mason, the well known surveyor, and a resident of Cambridge. Mr. Mason is a descendant of Hugh Mason; one of the old settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. Children of George D. and Annette L. Mason: Henry Topliff; graduate of Harvard, class of 1904; now employed by Hood Rubber Works, Watertown; Massachusetts; Ralph Hugh, who is interested in business with his father. Calvin H. Topliff died November 11, 1907, at the residence of his son-in-law, George D. Mason, 385 Washington street, Cambridge, where he had resided for ten years. His wife passed away

Henry Ducachét Wiltbank, bank official, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1840. His position in New York and Chicago involved great financial responsibility, and he filled each with unimpeached fidelity. He is a Republican in political faith; he attends the Protestant Ep@scopal church. He married,- August 10, 1885, Maria. Josephine Manning. They have no children.

Peter White Wiltbank, father of Henry Ducachet Wiltbank, and son of the Rev. John J. Wiltbank, chaplain in the United States navy, was born in Lewes, Sussex county, Delaware, about thirty-five miles southeast of Dover, the capital of the state. His birthplace was located on Delaware Bay, with a fine harbor formed by the United States government building the celebrated Delaware breakwater, 1828-29, at a cost of over two million dollars. He was for many years engaged in the wholesale dry goods business in Philadelphia. He married Julia Vandenbergh, of Troy, New York, who bore him the following children: Charles P., Henry D., Frederick H., Annie and Louis C. Wiltbank.

It is a common belief in the family that the Rev. John J. Wiltbank while in the service of the United States navy was for a time chaplain on board the "Constitution" ("Old Ironsides"), which gallant frigate was restored to its original condition as fitted out in Boston harbor in 1798 by the United States government in response to the petition of all the patriotic societies of America, led by the Boston Chapter, Daughters of 1812, to the congress of the United States, and is now open to visitors at her berth in the Charlestown navy yard.

The heirs of John Wiltbank, the bell founder of Philadelphia, are claimants and rightful if not legal owners of the bell cast in London and received in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in August, 1752, and hung in the Pennsylvania state house, afterwards known as Carpenter's Hall and Independence Hall. The bell, not and recast in April, and again in June, 1753, when the prophetic words 'Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof"? (Lev. xxv. 10) were inscribed upon it. By this process the "Old Liberty Bell" became in workmanship thoroughly American, the metal in the English bell being added to it to improve the tone. This bell announced the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, and was rung every 4th of July thereafter until it was cracked July 8, 1835, when being tolled for the death of Chief Justice Marshall. John Wiltbank, of Philadelphia, was given the contract for furnishing a new bell, and his bill for casting it and putting it in place was eleven thousand four hundred dollars. When his bill was presented to the state government of Pennsylvania the supreme executive cofincil, in consideration of the value of the metal in the old bell which John Wiltbank had chosen not to use in the new bell, cut the bill down to eleven thousand dollars, and this was paid, and the old bell became the property of John Wiltbank at any time he chose to take possession of it. As its value to the bell founder, who thus became the owner of the invaluable relic, was only to be obtained by breaking it up, he patriotically declined to remove it, and it remained in the possession of the city of Philadelphia, stored away as mere junk in the steeple where the workmen ieft it when John Wiltbank removed it from its hangings on the old Pennsylvania state house. It was subsequently placed on exhibition among the other Revolutionary relics in Independence Hall, near the original copy of the Declaration of Independence, the signing of which it announced July 4, 1776, and it was not until the bell was taken from its place and carried to Chicago on the occasion of the Columbian Exposition in 1893 that the heirs of John Wiltbank sought by suit at law to prevent its being harmed by being carried from place to place and made an object of exhibition for gain. Even if the claim of ownership by the Wiltbank heirs is not established, the suit accomplished the object sought, bringing it to the attention of the American public, who are jealous of the few sacred relics they possess, and John Wiltbank's name will ever be associated with the "Liberty Bell" as refusing to allow its destruction, and his heirs will be held in grateful remembrance for preventing the desecration of the historic relic by commercial iconoclasts.

(II) Simeon M. Marshall, son of Joshua and Esther (Moore) Marshall, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, September 17, 1782, married Jeannette L. Berry, who was born in Newburyport, in 1800, and died in Dracut, September 12, 1851.

(III) Jesse Marshall, son of Simeon M. and Jeannette L. (Berry) Marshall, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts. He was a stone mason by trade. He married Dorcas Coburn, of Dracut, Massachusetts, and their children were: Abner Hall, Horatio, Edward, Sarah, Charles, Jessie and Dorcas, twins.

(IV) Abner Hall Marshall, son of Jesse and Dorcas (Coburn) Marshall, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, March 16, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Dracut and learned the trade of blacksmith, which avocation in some of its branches he continued during his entire life. He was employed during the Civil war as an expert tool sharpener at Fort Constitution in Boston harbor, and he was for twenty-four years employed by the Lowell Gas Light Company. He also was connected with the Runels Clough Company of Lowell, stone cutters, as tool sharpener for twelve years. Mr. Marshall is a Republican in national politics but is in no respect a politician, being content to vote with his party on national issues and choosing his men at local elections from both parties. He affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Wantucket Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men.

Mr. Marshall married in 1857, Martha' J. Calkins, of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, and their children were: Alvin A., born in Lowell, Massachusetts, was educated in the public schools of his native city, and engaged in business as a blacksmith in Lowell. Effie L., born in Lowell, Massachusetts, was educated in the public schools of Lowell and married Albert S. Parks, of, Lowell. The Marshalls were members of the Congregational church. in Lowell.

name of Farmer. who settled at Billerica, Massachusetts. This work was printed at Hingham by the firm of Farmer & Brown in the above mentioned year. Mr. John Farmer claimed that this surname was of considerable antiquity, and a name derived from men's occupations, and he even traced it to a Saxon derivation. In the reign of Edward IV they were seated in Northamptonshire, where they remained until John Farmer's day. They appear to have spread from Northamptonshire over several of the con- tiguous counties before the middle of the sixteenth century. John Farmer also gives many facts relating to their former respectability as a race, and his work on this subject displays the same skill which is found in his collections of a genealogical nature in this country.

The common ancestor of the Farmer family was John, of Ansley, whose wife was Isabella Barbage. Ansley is a small village about ten miles from the city of Coventry. He owned houses and land which passed to his posterity through several generations. John died before the year 1669, and Isabella, his widow, came with some of her children to New England. She married for her second husband Elder Thomas Wiswall, of Cambridge Village, now Newton, who died December 6, 1683. She died at Billerica, May .

21, 1686, at an advanced age. For further particulars regarding these ancestors and their children see "Memoirs of John Farmer, M. A.," and the genealogy appeared in volume I, No. 1, of the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register,' January, 1847. Their son,

(1) Edward Farmer, of Billerica, Massachusetts, died there May 27, 1727, aged about eighty-seven years. His wife Mary died there March 26, 1719, aged seventy-seven years. He arrived in New England between 1670 and 1671, and fixed his residence at Billerica; he afterwards lived a year or two at Woburn. In Billerica he was chosen to several of the most important town offices, and was employed in public service until quite advanced in life. He gave the farm on which he resided to his youngest son Oliver. On this farm to 1828 had resided six successive generations of his descendants. His house, which stood until after 1728, was fortified as a garrison. About 1692 the hostile Indians meditated an attack upon it. In the forenoon of a summer day his wife and daughter went into the field to gather vegetables for dinner. Their guard was several of her sons, then young lads. She soon discovered a number of Indians concealed behind the fences and so near that she might almost reach them. With admirable presence of mind she kept her discovery to herself, and said in a loud voice "Boys, guard us well to the garrison, and then you may come back and hunt Indians." The enemy remained in their hiding places, and the other party left the field for the garrison, which they reached safely. An alarm was given, the people gathered, and the Indians fled. The Indians, when peace returned, declared that had it not been for that "one white squaw" they would have effected their purpose of surprising and capturing the garrison. Children: 1. Sarah, married, November, 1692, Thomas Pollard, of Billerica. 2. John, born at Billerica, August 19, 1671; married Abigail Shed. 3. Edward, born March 22, 1673-4; married Mary Richardson. 4. Mary, born November 3, 1675; married John Dean, of Woburn. 5. Barbary, born at Woburn, January 26, 1677- 8, died at Billerica, February 1, 1681-2. 6. Elizabeth, born May 17, 1680; married, May 29, 1707, William Green, of Malden. 7. Thomas, born June 8, 1683; married Sarah Hunt; removed to Hollis, New Hampshire. 8. Oliver, born February 2, 1686; see forward.

(11) Oliver Farmer, son of Edward Farmer (1), born at Billerica, Massachusetts, February 2, 1686, died February 23, 1761; married, January 24, 1716-17, Abigail Johnson, born June 13, 1697, daughter of Sergeant Ebenezer and Sarah (Winn) Johnson, of Woburn. She married (second), May 27, 1766, Captain James Lane, of Bedford, Massachusetts, and died February 25, 1773, aged seventy-five years. Children: 1. Abigail, born December 22, 1717, died January 11, 1718. 2. Abigail, born January 14, 1718; married February 14, 1740, Jonathan Richardson, of Billerica. 3. Mary, born August 26, 1721; married September 23, 1741, William Baldwin, of Billerica. 4. Sarah, born December 14, 1723; married, 1741, Edward Jewett, of Rowley, Massachusetts. 5. Betty, born May 31, 1726; married, April 11, 1751, Zebediah Rogers, of Billerica. 6. Rebecca, born May 31, 1726; married, April 18, 1751, Samuel Rogers, of Billerica. 7. Oliver, born July 31, 1728; married (first), April 5, 1757, Rachel Shed, and married (second) July 3, 1766, Hannah Abbott. 8. Peter, birth not recorded, see forward. 9. Isabella, born March 2, 1731-2; married January 10, 1754, Benjamin Warren, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. 10. Edward, born February 24, 1733- 4; married November 29, 1759, Sarah Brown. 11. John, born December 7, 1737, married (first) June 5, 1764, Hannah Davis; married (second), March 18, 1789, Mrs. Sarah (Russell) Adams.

(III) Peter Farmer, son of Oliver Farmer (2), born at Billerica, Massachusetts, 1730, died at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, January 24, 1813, aged eighty-four years, gravestone there; married Edna - , who died July 15, 1811, seventy-eight years, gravestone at marched for the relief of Fort William Henry, August, 1757. He also served in the Revolutionary war, as appears by the following entry on the Tewksbury town records: "September..25,.1778, order to Peter) Parmer, at being for part of a shirt which he found for the Continental soldiers and for service done in the war time past £13.5.6.0." Children: 1. Ednah, born March 9, 1759. 2. Eliphalet, born March 21, 1761; see forward. 3. Dolly, born April 14, 1763. 4. Peter, born July 19, 1765. 5. Silas, born October 27, 1767; married January 10, 1796, Rhoda Griffin. 6. Sarah, born March 31, 1770. 7. Dorcas, born May 23, 1772. 8. Sibil, born December 9, 1774; married, October 20, 1797, Henry Gray. 9. Oliver, born December 13, 1777.

(1V) Captain Eliphalet Farmer, son of Peter Framer (3), born at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, March 21, 1761; married (first) May 29, 1787, Abigail Needham, born December 3, 1757, died December 21, 1819, aged sixtythree years (gravestone at Tewksbury) daughter of John and Prudence (Stearns) Needham; married (second), Sarah who died January 15, 1853, aged eighty- -two years, gravestone at Tewksbury. Mr. Farmer was a private in Captain John Moore's company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's. (first) regiment of Guards; enlisted April 1, 1778; joined April 2, 1778; service to July 3, 1778, three months two days at Cambridge, guarding troops of convention, (Massachusetts Archives). Children: 1. Eliphalet, born June 8, 1788. 2. Kimball, born September II, 1790, see forward. 3. Peter, born November 4, 1792. 4. Abigail, born November 28, 1794. 5. Prudence, born January, 1796. 6. Judith, -born April 1, 1798. 7. Jefferson, born December 29, 1799.

(V) Kimball Farmer, son of Captain Eliphalet Farmer (4), born at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, September 11, 1790, died at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 9, 1841, aged fifty-one years; married, June 24, 1818, Rhoda Cutter, born March 31, 1797, died March 6, 1866, daughter of Aaron and Polly (Putnam) Cutter, of West Cambridge. He was a person of means and highly respected. He was honored by his fellow citizens with a number of town offices in his adopted town of West Cambridge, now Arlington, and besides these he was a member of the fire department, which he helped by his subscription to purchase fire apparatus for the town. Besides farming he: also bought and sold grain which he ground in his mill near his house and carried it to the Boston market. Children: 1. Elbridge, born June 23, 1819, see forward. 2. Maria Cutter, born January 25, 1822, died 1891; married, May 13, 1845, Eli Robbins, of Brooklyn, New York, born at West Cambridge, now Arlington, September 22, 1821, died at Brooklyn, New York, June 21, 1883, in his sixty-second year, son of Nathan and Rebecca (Prentice) Robbins. Children: i. Warren (Robbins), born September 21, 1846, died November 12, 1869. ii. Clinton (Robbins), born December 27, 1848, died April 26, 1864. Her magnificent gift of a public library building to the town of Arlington is mentioned in the sketch of her brother, Elbridge Farmer.

(VI) Elbridge Farmer, son of Kimball Farmer (5), born at West Cambridge, now Arlington, Massachusetts, June 23, 1819, died at Arlington, February 4, 1894; married (first) May 7, 1848, Dorcas Wade Smith, of Lexington, Massachusetts, born September 5, 1824, died October 31, 1862, aged thirty-eight years, daughter of Ebenezer and Annie (Underwood) Smith; Mrs. Farmer's untimely death, which occurred in the prime of her career, was a great bereavement to her family and friends; "she was a woman possessed of many fine qualities of both mind and heart," and was greatly missed by those who knew her best in life; married (second), February 22, 1868, Mrs. Nellie Maria (Baldwin) Butler, of Windham, New Hampshire, born May 27, 1845, daughter of Artemas and Betsey (Travis) Baldwin. Mrs. Nellie M. Farmer's first marriage was with D. Rockwood Butler, of Pelham, New Hampshire, April 11, 1862, and of this union was born one child: Ida F. Butler, born March 8, 1865. She was reared and educated in the home of her foster father, of whom she grew very fond, and the mutual attachment between them was sincere as parent and child. Ida F. (Butler) Farmer was an apt scholar; at the age of fourteen years she had graduated from the Arlington grammar school, and at the time of her death she was a member of an advanced class at the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she had given marked promise of a talented artist; she died at Arlington Heights, July 11, 1880, and a wide circle of friends mourned the loss of so young and brilliant a career.

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the early settlers of Billerica, Massachusetts. Her great-grandfather, Joshua Baldwin, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was captain of a company in the war of the Revolution. Her grandfather, Davis Baldwin, also of Tewksbury, was reared to agricultural pursuits and followed these through life. The maiden name of his wife was Susanna Stickney, and he was known to the community as an honorable upright man. Artemas Baldwin, the father of Mrs. Farmer, was born at Tewksbury, February 2, 1806, and in early life removed to Windham, New Hampshire, and followed the occupation of a farmer. He died January 8, 1877, at the age of seventy-one, at the home of his daughter in Arlington, Massachusetts. Betsey Travis, the wife of Artemas Baldwin, was a native of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and daughter of William and Lucy (Sargent) Travis. She died at Windham, New Hampshire, May 6, 1850. Mrs. Farmer resides at No. 53 Appleton street, Arlington, Massachu+ setts. She is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution.

Elbridge Farmer spent his life in his native town, his principal occupation being market gardening. This he carried on on the old homestead where his son Edwin S. Farmer later lived. He was a hard working, industrious man, sparing no pains in conducting his business, using the most scientific methods and giving his personal attention to every detail. He was prominent in town affairs, generous, and public-spirited. He gave an endowment of fifty thousand dollars to the Public Library in Arlington, with the broad view of amply supplementing the endowments which had been made by others, and Mrs. Eli Robbins' (his sister) magnificent gift of the library building. This admirable building is built of Ohio sandstone, and the interior is a marvel of architectural beauty and exquisite finish. It also claims the honor of being the first free public library in Massachusetts, dating its inception. as far back in the past as the year 1835. The homestead which he inherited was built by his father in 1826. After retiring from business in favor of his son, Mr. Farmer bought the house now occupied by John Bryant, No. 6 Appleton street. He lived here until he erected an elegant new residence at No. 53 Appleton street. This was a source of much pleasure and interest to him. In his lifetime, having the means, he made a number of private gifts to various individuals and institutions, and enlisted his sympathy in their welfare. Among others was a generous gift to the , Universalist church of Brooklyn, New

York, a society with which his sister, Mrs. Maria C. (Farmer) Robbins, was connected. Soon after death he endowed the Robbins Free Public Library with fifty thousand dollars, as above stated.

Mrs. Robbins's legacy is represented in the above building, which was erected and given to her native town as a memorial of her husband, Eli Robbins, also a native of the same town. She died before her intention of endowing the library was carried out, and her brother Elbridge Farmer, to honor her wishes, made the liberal gift which we have described. The fund is to be held by trustees who shall invest and pay over the income to the library trustees for the time being for its support. By the generous act Mr. Farmer has set an example worthy of imitation by others under similar circumstances. The present committee for trustees of this fund include such prominent men as ex-Governor J. Q. A. Brackett, William G. Peck, Edwin S. Farmer, William E. Wood, Henry Hornblower, and Hon. John H. Hardy.

Mr. Farmer was a Republican in politics, a Universalist in religious belief, and was one of the original members of Bethel Lodge No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Children: 1. Edwin Smith, born August 31, 1850, see forward. Children by second wife: 2. Elbridge, died in early life. 3. Child died in early life. 4. Ernest Baldwin, born August 21, 1875, died July 21, 1876. 5. Walter Baldwin, born April 5, 1876; married June 9, 1897, Gertrude Saunders Jones, born December 17, 1876, daughter of George S. and Carrie Jones of Leominster, Massachusetts. Children: i. Beatrice, born March 12, Igot. ii. Gwendolyn, born November 21, 1903.

(VII) Edwin Smith Farmer, son of EIlbridge Farmer (6), born at West Cambridge, now Arlington, August 31, 1850; married, December 25, 1876, Abbie Francena Locke, born at Winchester, Massachusetts, June 18, 1854, daughter of Josiah and Harriet Priscilla (Symmes) Locke. He was educated in the public schools of Arlington and at Farmington Academy, Maine, and completed his course at the Arlington high school. He early began his duties as an assistant to his father on the farm, and when he was of sufficient age he drove his father's market produce into Boston. When twenty-one years old he entered the employ of Varnum Frost, a market gardener at Belmont, where he remained four years. Later he worked at the same business for George Hill, of Arlington. After his stay with Mr. Hill he returned to his father's farm and began work on his own account, his father having retired. He conducted the farm with success until about three years ago, when he retired from active work. His farm of sixty acres connected with his present homestead is situated on Massachusetts avenue, in the western part of Arlington. He has generously given the use of his entire land to one of his fellow townsmen who conducts a prosperous business from its products. Mr. Farmer is a very willing disciple of Isaac Walton, and one of his greatest pleasures is with the rod during the season, and in the hunting of big game in the woods of Maine. Many beautiful specimens of the hunt adorn the walls of his home.

Mr. Farmer, while of the Universalist faith, is an attendant of the Baptist church. He 1s a Republican in political belief, and has served his party in the various county and representative conventions. He held the office of selectman of Arlington from 1895 to 1904, and was chairman of that board seven years. He is a trustee of the Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank, a director of the Arlington First National Bank, a trustee of the Elbridge Farmer Memorial fund to the Robbins Library Building, a member of Bethel Lodge No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Arlington, a member of the Arlington Boat Club and the Bay State Automobile Association. He served in the Massachusetts volunteer militia, being a member of Company E (Lawrence Light Guard, of Medford) Fifth Regiment, for five years. Child: Chester Edward, born March 23, 1878, died in early life.

England, in 1591, and came from Tichfield, England, in 1637, with Francis Littlefield, his eldest son. He settled first in Exeter, New Hampshire, and was a supporter of Rev. John Wheelwright, who came to Exeter from Boston on account of disagreement over doctrines with the Puritan authorities. The wife of Edmund Littlefield, Annis (Agnes), came over in 1638, sailing in May in the ship "Bevis," with six younger children and servants John Knight and Hugh Durdal. Littlefield built probably the first house in Exeter, and had a saw mill and grist mill there. He went with Wheelwright from Exeter to Wells, Maine, when religious differences again arose. Some accounts state that his son Francis, preceded him, but both were early settlers there. The fact that Edmund had two sons named Francis needs no explanation. Similar cases are frequently found in English families of that period. Littlefield kept an inn at Wells, and was licensed to sell liquor under great restrictions. To Indians the court allowed inn-holders to sell . but one pint at a time, and many anecdotes are told of the unpleasant results of this law when the redskins wanted more fire-water. He was for many years a citizen of distinction and large influence, and his descendants in Wells, and in fact through all New England, have in every generation since been prominent and quite numerous. Edmund was called in later years "Old Edmund," to distinguish him from his grandson bearing the same name. He died at Wells, December 11, 1661. His will was proved in 1661. Children: 1. Francis, Sr., mentioned below. 2. Anthony, married Mary Page, daughter of Thomas Page, of Saco; died 1662, leaving a widow and only son Edmund, who was bound out to his Uncle Francis, Sr. 3. Elizabeth, married John Wakefield. 4. John, had a grant of land with his brother-in-law, John Wakefield, in 1641 from.John Cleaves at the mouth of the Mousam river and probably lived there. 5. Thomas. 6. Mary, married John Barrett, of Cape Porpoise. 7. Hannah. 8. Francis, Jr.

(II) Francis Littlefield, Sr., son of Edmund Littlefield (1), was born in England at Tichfield, and died at Wells, Maine. He removed to Kennebunk, Maine, soon after his father's death. He lived in Woburn in 1646, and his daughter was born there and wife Jane: died there December 20, 1646. He married (first) Jane Hill, daughter of Ralph Hill, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married (second) Rebecca Children: 1. Edmund, of Wells. 2. Joseph, mentioned below. 3. Mary, born December 14, 1646. Child of the second wife: 4. Dependence, born 1671, selectman, farmer, miller, tavern keeper.

(III) Joseph Littlefield, son of Francis Littlefield (2), was born in Wells, Maine, about 1645. He and his brother Edmund had a grant of land from the town of Cape Porpoise in 1681 of a hundred acres at the upper falls near the Indian planting ground and the privilege of the upper falls and of cutting timber for a mill there for a yearly rental of fifty shillings. The brothers in return agreed to build a grist mill for the convenience of the neighborhood, provided no other mills were allowed in the vicinity. They had to build

(IV) Joseph Littlefield, son of Joseph Littlefield (3), was born about 1680 in Wells, Maine. He was clerk of the propriety from 1715 to 1760. He and Samuel Littlefield seem to have succeeded to the mill of his father. He was on a committee with Joseph the six thousand dollars in bills of credit received from the province in 1728. There were ten heads of families of this surname in Wells in 1726, David, Dependence, Francis, James, Joseph, Samuel, John, Jonathan, Samuel, 'Jr., and Nathaniel. The older citizens are shown by the list of 1716 when Jonathan, Daniel, Dependence, David and Joseph were proprietors. Joseph had a grant of land in 1699 of ten acres of meadow.

(V) Joseph Littlefield, grandson probably 'of-Joseph Littlefield (4), was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain James Hubbard's company, of Kennebunk, with Jotham and Abraham Littlefield. Other Revolutionary soldiers from Wells from this family were Lieutenant Jedediah Littlefield, Major John Littlefield and Lieutenant Daniel Littlefield, all officers of distinction. He was assigned a seat in the gallery of the church at Wells in 1769 among the young men.

1785. He was called Joseph Wells, fifth, there being at one time four others of the name living in Wells, two of whom were doubtless his father and grandfather. He married Mary Among their children was Eleazer, born September 5, 1814.

(VII) Eleazer Littlefield, son of Joseph Littlefield "the fifth " (6), was born at Wells, Maine, September 5, 1814. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of blacksmith. He followed this trade and farming all his active life. He married twice. Children: 1. Oliver Barron, born in Wells, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, married William Wakefield. 3. Mary, married Ladd.

(VIII) Oliver Barron Littlefield, son of Eleazer Littlefield (7), was born in Wells, 1843, and died in February, 1874. He was cgnnected with the Maine Central Railroad for many years. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Unitarian church. He resided in Portland, Maine.

(1X) Howard E. Littlefield, son of Oliver Barron Littlefield (8), was born in Portland, Maine, May 8, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of Portland. He is associated with the American Agricultural Chemical Company of Boston and makes his home in Malden, Massachusetts. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church of Boston, and especially prominent in the musical affairs of that church. He is well known in musical circles as a singer of talent and training.

He married, November 9, 1899, Caroline Stearns Barrett, daughter of Henry Barrett, a prominent citizen of Malden, and Lucy Theodora Gallinean (Stearns) Barrett. Mr. and Mrs. Littlefield have no children.

Farnum Stoddard, father of William Oliver Stoddard, was born in Peterboro, New Hampshire. In early life he located in Wakefield, and later removed to Reading, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of shoemaker of Jonathan Nichols, a shoe manufacturer, and he followed that occupation throughout the years of his active career. He married Emily Larrabee, a native of Wakefield, Massachusetts, who bore him five children: William Oliver, mentioned below; Zenas; Henry, deceased; George W.; Nancy R., died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard were members of the Congregational church. Mr. Stoddard died in Wakefield at the early age of thirty-six years. William Oliver Stoddard, son of Farnum and Emily (Larrabee) Stoddard, was born in Malden, Massachusetts, February 19, 1836. He was educated in the schools of his rative town, and when a young man came to Wakefield and learned the trade of shoemaker, which line of industry he made his life work, achieving therein a well deserved success. He was a Universalist in religion, and a Republican in politics, and was esteemed by all who had the honor of his acquaintance. His death occurred February 22, 1895. "He married, April 25, 1865, Frances Nichols, born in South Reading, March 21, 1836, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Emerson) Nichols. Their children are: 1. Henry Warren, born October 8, 1866; married Ada Edmonds; three children: Helen A., Josephine F., Ada

H. 2. Frank Emerson, born June 6, 1869; unmarried. 3. Fred. Bertram, born November 2, 1871; married Jennie Blythe. 4. Herbert A., born September 29, 1874; married Hattie Moulton; one child, Ruth E. 5. William A., born October 6, 1876; unmarried.

Mrs. Frances (Nichols) Stoddard traces her ancestry to Nicholas de Albioni, alias Nigell or Nicholl, who came to England from Normandy at the time of Edward the Confessor. The next in line of descent was Richard Nichols, who came from England before 1638, when he was admitted a freeman of the town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was a witness before the general court in Ipswich, December 1, 1640, was on the list of Major Denison's subscribers in 1648, and later removed to the neighboring town of Reading. He died at Reading, November 22, 1674. His will was made November 19, 1674, and proved December 11, following. His wife Annas was admitted to the church at Reading in 1666; she died in Reading, 1692. Their children were: Mary, Thomas, James, John, Richard, Hannah or Joannah.

James Nichols, son of Richard Nichols, was born July 25, 1658, at Ipswich. He was admitted a freeman in 1691, and was a farmer of Reading. He married, 1682, Mary Poole, probably daughter of Jonathan and Judith Poole. He died in 1745, aged eighty-seven years, and his wife in 1711. Children: James, Mary, Jonathan, William, Sarah, Ebenezer.

Jonathan Nichols, son of James Nichols, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, 1691. He lived in South Reading. He married, 1716, Phebe Eaton, children: Jonathan, Benjamin. ,

Ebenezer Nichols, son of Benjamin Nichols, was born in Reading, March 14, 1762. Married (first) 1789, Rebecca Howard, of Andover, Massachusetts, and (second) 1790, Betsey Dix. Children: Eben, Betsey, Jonathan, Rebecca, Sally, Jonathan, Rachel, Nancy, Daniel, Mary Ellen. Ebenezer was a private in the company of Captain Cadwalader Ford, Colonel Eleazer Brooks's regiment, 1777-78. He died September 10, 1840. ,

Jonathan Nichols, son of Ebenezer Nichols, was 'born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, March 4, 1800. He received a common school education in his native town, and learned the trade of shoemaker. In 1821 he came to Wakefield, Massachusetts, and engaged in the manufacture of shoes, which he sold to the surrounding trade, and followed this line of work for many years. He then purchased a tract of land, which he farmed during the summer months, and the remaining months of the year he devoted to the manufacture of shoes. He was a Whig and later a Republican in politics. In early life he attended the Methodist Episcopal church, but later his religious views became more liberal. He died at Wakefield, October 20, 1895. He married Elizabeth Emerson, daughter of James Emerson, of an old Reading family, in 1826. Children: 1. Mary E., born August 18, 1827; married David Fairbanks, of Medfield, Massachusetts, four children, only one of whom is living, John, of Wakefield. 2. Hannibal, born in 1830; married Harriet French; children: Elizabeth, Laura, Arthur, Grace, Eben. 3. Abbie E., married Holman Pope; one child, died in infancy. 4. Frances, aforementioned as the wife of William Oliver Stoddard. _5. Warren, born January 31, 1840; married Ellen French, one child, Leroy, born November 8, 1873, died January

The city of Lowell, Massachusetts, generously invited to its municipality citizens of all nationalities, and offered to industry a premium in steady work, the privilege of citizenship, and a chance to accumulate wealth. Among those who accepted this offer and proved the value of the premium, a better example cannot be selected to demonstrate the wisdom of the invitation than Alaric Mercier, who was born and educated in Canada and lived there up to the time of his majority, as established both by law and customs. He came to Lowell when twenty-two years of age, and worked in the mills from 1854 up to the time he found a better place as packer and shipper in the drug department of J. C. Ayer & Company's establishment in Lowell. He remained with this company and corporation for twenty-five years. About 1890 he established a business on his own account in manufacturing and selling an attractive and palatable preparation of potato chips that found a ready market and he invested his profits in real estate in Lowell. He retired from active business in 1904 on reaching his seventy-second year of age, having attained a competence in the fifty years he

He married, before leaving Canada, Mary Lemere, and they began married life in Lowell where ten children were born to them. They attended the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Mercier on becoming a citizen of the United States affiliated with the Republican party then just formed to take the place of the Free Soil party, which it absorbed. Of the ten children born to them only two were living in 1907. Their eldest son, Henry Mercier, was born in Lowell, 1858, was educated in the public schools of his native city, and on reaching manhood engaged in the hotel and restaurant business in Boston. He was married December 209, 1879, to Melinda Demers, of Canada, and they had three children: Edmond Mercier, born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 24, 1880. Chester Mercier, born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 4, 1885. Ingham Mercier, born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 18, 1893.

The Stevenses represented in this' <atticles (Garé eothes descendants of Colonel Thomas Stevens, of Devonshire, England, who, according to the records, went to reside in London early in the seventeenth century. William Stevens, son of Colonel Thomas Stevens, was the father of three sons and three daughters, four of whom, Thomas, Cyprian, Richard and Mary, came to New England. Cyprian Stevens emigrated about the year 1660 and _ settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where in 1671 he married Mary Willard, daughter of Major Simon Willard. Some of his children, including his son Simon, settled in Marlborough, and their descendants are still to be found in that locality.

Daniel Stevens, Sr., a descendant of Cyprian, was residing in Marlborough prior to the Revolutionary war, and had a son Daniel who weighed more than three hundred pounds. Daniel Stevens, Jr., represented Marlborough in the state legislature and for twenty years acted as a justice of the peace. July 20, 1797, he married Eunice Robinson, of Concord, Massachusetts, who died February 20, 1844, aged sixty-nine vears. Daniel and Eunice were the parents of three children: Isaac Temple, Ann Bent and Eunice C. Ann Bent Stevens became the wife of Issacher Dickerman, and had a family of eleven children.

Marlborough, January 3, 1798. He was married in his native town, October 17, 1817, to Catherine Felton, who bore him seven sons and six daughters. The eldest son, Daniel Waldo Stevens, was graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1846, studied theology and entered the ministry.

Levi L. Stevens, son of Isaac T. and Catherine (Felton) Stevens, was born in Marlborough, October 22, 1824. Learning the shoemaker's trade he followed it in Marlborough until 1880, and when his son Oscar established himself as a dentist he became the latter's assistant. Some fifteen years later he became associated with his son in the manufacture of boxes, and continued in that business until his death, which occurred March 9, 1905. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias. June 30, 1851, he married Ellen Abigail Salisbury, and she became the mother of five children: 1. Waldo L., born May 4, 1852. 2. Oscar Herbert, mentioned below. 3. John S., born May 20, 1858. 4. George H., born June 5, 1863. 5. Harriette, born April 13, 1865, became the wife of Edwin F. Simpson. Mrs. Ellen Abigail Stevens died April 21, 1899.

Oscar Herbert Stevens, second son of Levi L. and Ellen Abigail (Salisbury) Stevens, was born in Marlborough, November 16, 1854. He was educated in the Marlborough public schools, and deciding to enter the dental profession he became a student in the office of Dr. S. J. Shaw. After three years of preliminary study he entered the Boston Dental College, and immediately following his graduation in 1884 established himself in Marlborough, where he practiced his profession successfully for a period of twenty years. In 1896 he engaged in the production of boxes, organizing for that purpose the O. H. Stevens Manufacturing Company, and he is now devoting his attention exclusively to this enterprise, being its treasurer and superintendent.

Mr. Stevens is far advanced in the Masonic Order, affiliating with the United Brethren (Blue) Lodge, Houghton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, all of Marlborough; Massachusetts Consistory (Thirty-second degree) and Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Boston. He is a member of the local lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Union Club.

In 1885 Mr. Stevens was united in marriage with Charlotte Adelaide Howe, daughter of Hon. Simon H. and Harriette (Brigham) Howe, of Marlborough.

descent from Abraham Howe, and of the ninth generation from John Howe, both of whom were among the founders of Marlborough. John Howe was born in England and emigrated to America when a- young man, went to Marlborough from Sudbury in 1657 and was, perhaps, the first white man to locate there. Abraham Howe, who was also an immigrant from England, went to Marlborough, probably from Roxbury, in 1660, and died there June 30, 1695. In 1657 he married Hannah Ward, daughter of William Ward, and she died November 3, 1717, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years. Their children were: Daniel, Mary, Joseph, Hannah, Elizabeth, Deborah, Rebecca, Abraham, Sarah and Abigail.

Joseph Howe, second son of Abraham and Hannah (Ward) Howe, was born in 1660-61. He was an extensive real estate holder, owning land in Watertown, Lancaster and Marlborough, and among his possessions in the last named town was the Felton grist mill, which was probably the first one erected there. His death occurred in Marlborough, September 4, 1700. He married Dorothy Martin and had a family of six children: Sarah, Eunice, Bethia, Joseph, Abraham and Jedediah.

Abraham Howe, second son of Joseph and Dorothy (Martin) Howe, was born in Marlborough, March 21, 1698. May 24, 1724, he married Rachel Rice, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Graves) Rice. She bore him eight children: Eunice, Mary, Persis, Abraham, Asa, Abner, Adonijah and Anna.

Asa Howe, second son of Abraham and Rachel (Rice) Howe, was born in Marlborough, November 30, 1733. He was married March 18, 1762, to Rachel Goddard, who was born June 10, 1734, and she became the mother of children: John, Abigail, Miriam, Lucy, Abraham, Esther and Lydia.

Abraham Howe, son of Asa and Rachel (Goddard) Howe, was born in Marlborough, February 22, 1770. He was known as Captain Abraham Howe, having commanded a local militia company, and he died October 2, 1848. His wife, whom he married November 25, 1793, was Elizabeth Wetherbee, of Boxboro, Massachusetts, and she died August 28, 1853, aged seventy-seven. Their children were: Amory, Eliza, Samuel, Abraham, Ruth W., Alvin P., Mary Ann, Charles, Harriet, Maria, Matthew H. and Lydia Eliza.

Marlborough, March 2, 1800. Learning the cooper's trade he engaged in that business and became very successful, retiring in 1842 with a competency. The remainder of his life was devoted to farming. He possessed an excellent voice and for many years was a member of the Unitarian Church choir. He married Charlotte Howe, daughter of Joseph and Eunice (Howe) Howe, and a direct descendant in the sixth generation of the first Abraham Howe through Joseph (2) and Dorothy (Martin) Howe, Joseph- (3) and Ruth (Brigham) Howe, and Joseph (4) and Grace (Rice) Howe. Ruth Brigham was a daughter of Jonathan and Mary Brigham and a descendant of one of the original proprietors of Marlborough. Grace Rice, who became the wife of the third Joseph Howe, was a daughter of Simon Rice. The fourth Joseph Howe, born March 8, 1775, died September 5, 1851; married Eunice Howe, a lineal descendant of John Howe, the emigrant previously referred to. Samuel and Charlotte Howe were the parents of four children: Charlotte, Clarissa, Lewis A. and Simon Herbert.

Hon. Simon Herbert Howe, youngest child of Samuel and Charlotte (Howe) Howe, was born in Marlborough, December 21, 1835. His education and business training were acquired in his native town. Identifying himself with the boot and shoe manufacturing industry he attained success, organizing in 1888 the S. H. Howe Shoe Company, of which he became president. The facilities of this concern were increased rapidly in order to meet the large demand for their products, and the capacity of their four factories amounts to many thousand pairs of shoes per week. In 1875 Mr. Howe was elected a trustee of the Marlboro Savings Bank and has been its president since 1882. From 1879 to the present time he has been a member of the board of directors in the People's National Bank, of which he was one of the incorporators. He has participated in public affairs, holding several important elective offices during the period of his activities, and his public services have been unusually efficient. January 1, 1857, he married Harriette Brigham, daughter of William Pitt and Lavinia (Baker) Brigham. Of this union there were four children, two of whom are living: Louis Porter, of the S. H. Howe Company; and Charlotte Adelaide, who became the wife of Oscar H. Stevens, as previously stated. Louis Porter Howe married India H. Arnold, daughter of Lorren Arnold, of Marl- borough. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have had three children: Herbert, born April 7, 1888. Oscar Levi, who is no longer living. Louis Waldo, born July 24, 1894.

a good education in the schools of his native town, and then learned the business of manufacturing woolen goods, and rose to a responsible position in the mill where he was employed in Rochdale. He came to America in 1856, and located in Lowell, Massachusetts, as superintendent of the Belvidere Wooien Mills, and during the rest of his life occupied that position. He was an active and influential citizen, and commanded the esteem and confidence of all his townsmen. In politics he was an active and efficient worker in the Republican party on the success of which most of the woolen industries depended for many years. He never sought office. He married, in England, Mary Ashworth. Children: Sarah; George; Samuel E.; Thomas, mentioned below ; Leah; John; Alice; Charles.

(IL) Thomas Stott, son of John Stott (1), was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, July 18, 1846. He attended school at Andover and at Lowell, whither he came with his father in 1856. On finishing his education he entered the Middlesex Mills and learned the woolen manufacturing business from top to bottom. He associated himself with Thomas McGraw & Company of Boston, in the business of grading wool, and remained in that position until 1871, when he became connected with the Kitson Machine Company of Lowell. He left this concern to engage in the manufacture of card clothing in partnership with his brother, Samuel E. Stott, and they have been very successful in their business venture. Mir. Stott is a member of Kilwinning Lodge of Free Masons, and of the Kirk Street Congregational Church.

He married, October 16, 1873, Emma Kitson, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Reynolds) Kitson, of Lowell. Their only child, Lucy Kitson, born November 5, 1874, married, September 28, 1898, Charles L. Stover ; their children: i. Marjorie Stover; ii. Richard Kitson Stover; iii. Lucy C. Stover; iv. Charles L. Stover, Jr.