Lowell City (part 6 of 11)

(VII) John Allen, son of Gilbert Allen (6), was born at Royalton, Vermont, June 5, 1808, and removed 1812 with his parents to Pomfret, Vermont, where he attended the district school, but he was self-educated for the most part. In 1830 he left his father's farm and began on his own account on a farm he bought. He was a typical Vermont farmer, raising cattle, horses and sheep, and making something of a specialty of maple sugar. He was large and powerful frame and much force of character, sometimes rather brusque of speech, but always upright and _ straightforward in all his dealings. He was a justice of the peace, and transacted much of the legal business of the community. He was a Universalist in religion, and a Democrat in politics. He died May 22, 1893. He married, March 4, 1830, at Pomfret, Eliza Fuller, born at Sharon, May 28, 1807, died April 29, 1861, at Pomfret, daughter of Joseph Fuller. Children: 1. Edwin, born February 23, 1831, died December 16, 1832. 2. Edwin, born December 16, 1832, mentioned below. 3. Edgar John, born August. 21, 1835, died August 7, 1905; married (first), October 10, 1858, Rosina Moore; married (second), November 10, 1883, Alice Barrows, of Bridgewater, Vermont. Children of first wife: i. Eliza Chloe, born October 15, 1859; ii. Rose Marion, bern December 18, 1869; ili. Fred Edgar, born April 14, 1878; child of the second wife; iv. Truman. 4. Henry Charles, born March 7, 1838; married Anna E. Colvin, of L[llinois; child: Byron, died in 1883, aged thirteen. 5. Rey. Truman Follett, born June 18, 1840; married, August 1, 1864, Hattie A. Coates, of Omro, Wisconsin; children: 4. Mantie Helen, born December 12, 1868; ii. Myrtie Louise, born May 2, 1870; iii. Flow' Evangeline, born November 4, 1871. 6. James Monroe, born September 28, 1848. James Monroe Allen is a well educated man; married, and has three very promising boys, the eldest, Warren, being a piano and organ player and a music teacher of note. The family live in Berkeley, California, 2738 Regent street, and are an interesting family. John Allen married for his second wife Mrs. Ruth Childs (Leonard) Perry.

(VIII) Edwin Allen, son of John Allen (7), was born at Pomfret, Vermont, December 16, 1832, and died September Q, 1899. He was. brought up on the farm of his father, and educated at the district schools and at Royalton Academy and Thetford Academy. While attending the academy he taught school in various towns on Cape Cod. In 1852 he bought the farm on which he was born, and was assisted by his father in establishing his home. He lived on this farm of one hundred and fifty acres all his life. It is located in the northwest part of Pomfret, on what is called "Allen Hill." He made a specialty of Spanish merino sheep, and in later years raised much Jersey stock for his own dairy and for sale. His own herd numbered twenty-five or more, and was reckoned among the best in the state. He made butter of excellent quality, and had a cider mill which he operated during the season. He wasa man of much ability and some legal education, transacted much legal business, was the leading auctioneer and conveyancer of the community for forty years, and settled more estates than any other man in the section. He was of social disposition, well beloved and highly esteemed by his townsmen. He was a member of the Universalist church, a constant attendant and an officer of the society. He was a Democrat in his younger days, but in his later life became a Republican. He was an assessor, selectman, member of the school committee; constable, cemetery commissioner and road commissioner. His position as justice of the peace brought him the title of "Squire Allen. He was a member of Woodstock Lodge, No. 31, Free Masons, of Woodstock, Vermont. He married, November 18, 1852, Ruth Lull Keith, born February: 16, 1830, at Pomfret, daughter of Vergene and Calista (Lull) Keith, of Pomfret. Her father was a farmer. Chil-.

(IX) Dr Clarence' Jéan Allen,'son, of Edwin (8), was born at Pomfret, Vermont, July 24, 1853. In early youth he began to work on his father's farm, and he attended the common schools of his native town until fourteen years of age. He then attended the Green Mountain Perkins Institute at South Woodstock, Vermont, and took a two year course in the Randolph state normal school, from which he was graduated in June, 1873. He had, however, been teaching school for four winters between terms at Sharon and Woodstock, Vermont. He was for two years after graduation in charge of the graded schools of Barrington, Illinois, and for the next three years had charge of the graded schools of Wauconda, Illinois, and for five years had the schools of Marengo, Illinois. In the meantime he had been studying medicine under Dr. George D. Carnes, and in the spring of 1883 became a student in the Dartmouth Medical School, continuing at the University of Vermont in the winter and spring courses, and graduating there in the summer of 1884 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was one of five who in taking post examinations received examination honors. He began to practice his profession at Waitsfield, Vermont, but after five years entered the New York Post Graduate Hospital to take a postgraduate course of three months. During the next nine years he practiced medicine in Peterborough, New Hampshire, taking from time to time during the summer months courses and hospital work at the Massachusetts General Hospital, City Hospital, and the Infirmary at Ash and Bennett streets, all in Boston. In 1898 he removed his office to Winchester, Massachusetts. After two years he removed his office from Winthrop street to 38 Church street, where he is at present located in a house that he built for office and residence. Dr. Allen joined the Congregational church at Waitsfield, and is now a member of the Winchester Congregational church. He was chairman of the parish committee while at Peterborough, and is director of the Sunday school at Winchester. In politics he is a Republican, and served his party as delegate to the Vermont state convention some years ago. He was town auditor for several years in Peterborough, seven years on the board of health, and five years chairiv - 15 man of the board of trustees of the Peterborough public library, and superintendent ot schools at Waitsfield, Vermont. He is at present president of the British American Land and Development Company of Boston. He is a member of Waterfield Lodge, No. 231, of Odd Fellows, at Winchester, Massachusetts, and past noble grand of that lodge. He is a member of Aberjona Council, Royal Arcanum; of the Massachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution; Vermont Association of Boston; Calumet Club of Winchester; the Cheshire County Medical Society of New Hampshire; the New Hampshire State Medical Society; the Massachusetts State-

He married, August 31, 1875, Eva Ophelia Joslyn, born March 5, 1853, at Waitsfield, Vermont, daughter of Cornelius Emerson and Josette (Dumas) Joslyn, of Waitsfield. Her father was a farmer. Their only child, Clara Jean, born June 1, 1880, at Marengo, Illinois, married, June 28, 1905, Arthur Everett Joslin, of Chicago, Illinois, and they have a child, Jean Joslin, born May 6, 1906.

(1) Edmund Freeman, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1590, and came in the ship "Abigail" in July, 1635, with wife Elizabeth and children, Alice, Edmund, Elizabeth and John. He settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, as early as 1635. Mr. Lewis in his history of Lynn said: 'This year (1635) many new inhabitants appear in Lynn, and among them worthy of note Mr. Edmund Freeman, who. presented to the colony twenty corslets or pieces of plate armor.' He was subsequently in the Plymouth colony, and with nine associates was soon recognized by the government as a suitable person to originate a new settlement. He was admitted freeman at Plymouth January 2, 1637, and after being for a short time a resident of Duxbury, he settled in what was incorporated later as the town of Sandwich. Most of the grantees of this town were formerly of Lynn. Mr. Freeman had the largest grants and was evidently the foremost man in the enterprise.

He was elected as assistant to the governor and commissioner to hear and determine causes within the several contiguous townships. He was one of the first judges of the "select" court of Plymouth county. During the persecution of the Quakers he opposed the course of the government and was fined ten shillings once for refusing to aid in the baiting of Friends under pretense of law. '""Pre-eminently respected, always fixed in principle, and decisive in action, nevertheless quiet and unobtrusive, a counsellor and leader without ambitious ends in view, of uncompromising integrity and of sound judgment, 'the symmetry of his entire character furnished an example:that is a rich legacy to his descendants." He died in 1682 at the advanced age of ninety-two. His will is dated June 21, 1682,.and was offered for probate November 2, 1682. He was buried on his own land on the hill in the rear of his dwelling at Sandwich. It is the oldest burial place in the town. His grave and that of his wife are marked by two boulders which he placed in position after her death and called from fancied resemblances "'the saddle and pillion."' His home was a mile and a quarter west of the town hall and near the junction of the old and new county roads to the Cape.

He married Elizabeth - , who died February 14, 1675-76. Children: 1. Alice, born in England, married Deacon William Paddy, November 24, 1639. 2. Edmund, born in England, married, April 22, 1646, Rebecca Prence; (second) Margaret Perry. 3. Elizabeth, born in England in 1625, married John Ellis. 4. John, born in England about 1627, mentioned below. 5. Mary, married Edward Perry.

(11) Major John Freeman, son of Edmund Freeman (1), was born in England about 1627. He bought land at Sandwich on Skauton Neck, December 30, 1649-50, also called by the Indians Aquidneck. He removed to Eastham, where he was one of the early settlers with his father-in-law, Governor Prence. He was conspicuous in military service in the Indian wars. He was a wealthy landholder. and is properly regarded as one of the founders of the town of Eastham. He was deputy to the general court from 1654, eight years; selectman from 1663, ten years; assistant to the governor from 1666, several years, and late in life, December 7, 1692, was appointed to the bench of the court of common pleas. Through a long period of years he was deacon of the Eastham church. He married. February 13, 1649-50, Mercy Prence, daugh- ter of Governor Prence. She died September 28, 1711, aged eighty. He died October 28, 1719, aged ninety-seven, according to his gravestone, the inscription of which reads: "Here lies the body of Maj. John Freeman who d. October 28, 1719, in the 98th yr. of his age." The grave of his wife is also marked by a stone. His will was dated June 1, 1716, and proved November 4, 1719, bequeathing to his surviving children; emancipated his negro slaves. Children:. 1. born February 2, 1650, died in infancy. 2. John, born December, 1651. 3. Thomas, born September, 1653, married Rebecca Sparrow. 4. Patience, married Lieutenant Samuel Paine, January 31, 1682-83. 5. Hannah, married, April 14, 1681, John Mayo. 6. Edmund, born June, 1657, married Ruth Merrick. 7. Mercy, born July 1659, married Samuel Knowles. 8. William, mentioned below. 9g. Prince, born February 3, 1665-66, died young. to. Nathaniel, born March 20, 1669. 11. Bennet, born March 7, . 1670-71, married Deacon John Paine.

(111) William Freeman, son of Major John Freeman (2), was born about 1660 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and died in 1687 at the very beginning of his career. His widow was appointed administratrix May 31, 1687. Tradition says that he conceived a settlement at Portanumquit, Pleasant Bay, which after 1694 was a part of Harwich and is now in Orleans. He erected a house there, but his wife not liking the locality, "the frame was taken down and removed to another place.' He married, about 1684, Lydia Sparrow, daughter of John Sparrow. Children: 1. Lydia, married, February, 1701, Richard Godfrey, of Chatham. 2. William, born February 24, 1686, mentioned below.

(IV) William Freeman, son of William Freeman (3), was born in Eastham, February 24, 1686. Married, October 16, 1711, Mercy Pepper, of Eastham. He lived in that part of Harwich which in 1726 was the school district adjoining Eastham. He was for many years selectman of Harwich and was a magistrate. His wife Mercy died 1769, aged seventy-eight ; he died March 13, 1772, aged eighty-five years. His will was dated September 24, 1770, and proved April 7, 1772. Children: 1. Mercy, born March 6, 1712-13. 2. Apphia, born April 15, 1714, died young. 3. William, born May 12, 1715, married Hannah Atwood. 4. Daniel, born December 30, 1717, married Mercy Freeman. 5. Mercy, born February 19, 1719-20, married Nathaniel Knowles and Job Crocker. 6. Apphia, born March 12, 1721-22, married Eben Mayo. 7. Isaac, born December 22,

1725, married Ruth Hatch. 8. Jonathan, born August 3, 1728, married Ruth Freeman. 9. Lydia, born February 7, 1730-31. 10. Solomon, born January 30, 1732-33, mentioned below. 11. Simeon, born September 28, 1735. (V) Hon. Solomon Freeman, son of William Freeman (4), was born January 30, 1732-33. Married December 30, 1756, Mercy Foster, daughter of Chillingworth Foster, who died May 4, 1760; (second), October 22, 1761, Desire Doane, daughter of Joseph Doane. He died March 11, 1808, aged seventy-five ; she died November 20, 1807, aged seventy-eight years, eleven months, five days. "He was highly esteemed for his excellent qualities of mind and heart; was called to many important trusts, and always acquitted himself with honor." He was at the time of his death state senator, having represented the county for a period of twenty years. He had also been selectman, representative and judge of the court of common pleas. His residence was in Brewster. Children: 1. Thankful, born December 17, 1757, died young. 2. Isaac, born 1762, died young. 3. Solomon, died young. Children of second wife: 4. Mercy, born August 15, 1765, married William Crosby. 5. William, born January 10, 1768, married Elizabeth Sparrow. 6. Solomon, Jr., born May 22, 1770, mentioned below. 7. Desire, _born June 5, 1774, married Benjamin Foster. (VI) Hon. Solomon Freeman, son of Hon. Solomon Freeman (5), was born in Brewster, Massachusetts, May 22, 1770. Married, September 11, 1793, Abigail Clark, daughter of Reuben Clark. He was like his father prominent in public life and held various positions of trust and honor. He was a state senator. He died November 9, 1820; his wife March 3, 1851. Children: 1. William, born November 13, 1794, in Brewster, married Martha Simonds, of Newburyport. 2. Jonathan, born August 20, 1796, married Mary Winslow and Julia Kendrick. 3. Thankful, born March 21, 1798, married Thomas Dalton. 4..Solomon, born February 17, 1800, married, June 22, 1824, Huldah Crosby. 5. Abigail, born December 24, 1803, married, December 28, 1825, Elijah Knowles. 6. Hannah, born June 15, 1806, married, May 7, 1829, Isaac Doane. 7. Jerusha, born August 19, 1808, married J. G. Ward, of Provincetown. 8. Varnum, born February 5, 1812, married Mary G. Irwin, of Scotland. 9. Henry, born November 30, 1817, married Mary B. Bangs. ~ (VII) William Freeman, son of Solomon Freeman (6), was born in Brewster, November 13, 1794. Married, in 1819, Martha Si- monds, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. He resided in Brewster, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Captain William, born January 27, 1820, married, September 28, 1845, Phebe Hurd and had: Willard K., born June 20, 1846, in Orleans, and Clara D., born January, 1862, in Brewster. 2. Charles, born June 15, 1822, married Mehitable Ryder. 3. Caroline, born April 13, 1824, married John Freeman, of Maine. 4. George, born April 20, 1826, mentioned below. 5. Abigail, born April 25, 1828.

(VIII) Captain George Freeman, son of William Freeman (7), was born April 20, 1826. Married, March 14, 1852, Mary Hurd, born July 25, 1825, of Orleans, Massachusetts. He lived in Brewster. His children: 1. Charles H., born June 29, 1853. 2. Florence, born June 28, 1855, married Granville M. Thomas (See sketch).

John Thomas, the progenitor of the Thomas family of Yarmouth, Maine, nephew or near relative of General John Thomas (4), probably grandson of John Thomas (3), was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1754, and was buried at North Yarmouth, Maine, July 24, 1843, aged eighty-eight years, ten months and twenty-two days. He had a pottery on the west side of Main street a little retired from the street which was removed thither from the site of Joseph Greenleaf's house. Thomas began business there in 1791, and was succeeded by Joel Brooks, who carried it on many years. Among his children was Captain William, mentioned below.

(Il) Captain William Thomas, son of John Thomas (1), born August 8, 1780, lived in the same enclosure in which the pottery was established on Main street in a cottage. He married Mercy Gooding, February 26, 1807, who died April 22, 1847. He died November 4, 1873, aged ninety-three years. He followed the sea and commanded a ship which was captured by the British navy during the War of 1812 and he was confined in Dartmoor Prison, England. Children: 1. Joseph, mentioned below. 2. John, born February 8, 1810. 3. Mercy Ann, born November 21, 1813. 4. Elizabeth Morss, born December 1, 1817. 5. Hannah S., born October 8, 1820. 6. George William, born August 7, 1824.

(III) Joseph Thomas, son of William Thomas (2), was born at Yarmouth, Maine, May 23, 1808, died in 1872. Married Abigail Lane. He lived in Melrose, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Julian A., born March 18, 1849, at. Melrose. 2. Granville M., mentioned below. 3. Inez M., born May, 1853, at Melrose. (IV) Granville M. Thomas, son of Joseph Thomas (3), was born January 6, 1851, at Melrose, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools. He married, June 15, 1880, at Brewster, Massachusetts, Florence Freeman, daughter of Captain George Freeman, of Brewster. (See Freeman sketch). Children: 1. Charles Melville, born at Melrose, March 8, 1881, dentist, living in Malden. 2. Joseph Irving, born November 16, 1882.

(II1) Thomas Holt, son of Nicholas Holt (2), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, August 16, 1686; married first, December 14, 1708, Alice Peabody, who died July 29, 1726; married second, Abigail : November 29, 1766, aged eighty-eight. He died January 12, 1767, aged eighty-one. Children: 1. Child, born at Andover, September 5, 1709, died young. 2. Thomas, born March, 1712; mentioned below. 3. Lydia, born at Andover, January 2, 1714; married January 30, 1734, Benjamin Holt; he died July 19, 1784, she September 30, 1778. 4. Joseph, born -February 28, 1716; married Mary Abbot; removed to Lunenburg. 5. Abiel, born April 25, 1718; died September II, 1744. 6. William, born December Io, 1720; removed to Hampton, Connecticut ; married Hannah Holt; second, Sybil Durkee. 7. Alice, born September 18, 1723; married John Barnard, Jr. 8. Jonathan, born May 18, 1726; died. June 2, 1726.

(IV) Thomas Holt, son of Thomas Holt (3), was born at Andover, Massachusetts, March, 1712; married August 15, 1734, Hannah Kimball, of Boxford, who died June 12, 1748; married second, January 26, 1749, Dorcas, daughter of Nicholas and Dorcas Holt. He was reputed to be the largest landholder in Andover, owning land a mile or more in every direction from his residence. His wife Dorcas was the first owner of a gig in the village. It created no little wonder, as she drove to meeting at a rate not quite orthodox, the young people exclaiming: "Clear the road; Aunt Dorcas is comin'! He died November 21, 1776; his widow afterward removed to Wilton, New Hampshire, where she died. Children of Thomas and Hannah Holt: 1. Nathan, born at Andover, July 17, 1735. 2. Hannah, born February 11, 1739; married Daniel Holt. 3. Daniel, born September 11,

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1740; married Alice Holt. 4. Asa, born May 3, 1743; married Dinah Holt; second, Lydia Patten, widow. 5. Mehitable, born February 8, 1744; married Samuel Lafkin and Abner Wilkins. 6. Abiel, born April 3, 1746, mar- ° ried Lydia Lovejoy. Children of Thomas and Dorcas Holt: 7. Thomas, born June 15, 1750. 8. Dorcas, born March 19, '1753. 9. Mary, born March 11, 1758; married Lieutenant John Adams. 10. Lois, born October 29, 1760; married Moses Pearson. 11. William, born September 7, 1763; mentioned below. 12. Joseph, born September 29, 1766; married Abigail Holt.

(V) William Holt, son of Thomas Holt (4), was born at Andover, Massachusetts, September 7, 1763; married July 29, 1784, Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Jacob. She died at Weld, Maine, 1829. He removed to Wilton, New Hampshire, subsequently returned to Andover, and died December 23, 1810. Children: 1. Jacob, born at Andover, December 13, 1784; married Hannah Raymond. 2. Stephen, born at Andover, April 11, 1786. 3. William, born at Andover, March 6, 1788; married Lucy Woodbury. 4. Elizabeth, born at Wilton, March 12, 1790; died 1797. 5. Joseph, born January 28, 1792; mentioned below. 6. Asa, born at Wilton, May 5, 1794, married Alethenia Butterfield, of Weld, Maine. 7. Nathan, born at Wilton and lived at Weld. 8. Elizabeth, married February 16, 1818, Benjamin Houghton.

(VI) Joseph Holt, son of William Holt (5), was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, January 28, 1792; married, 1814, Betsey, daughter of Uriah Smith, of Wilton. He was for a time a carpenter, then a proprietor of the first line of stages running through Wilton, but for the greater part of his life was an itinerant merchant. Children: 1. Varnum Sawtelle, adopted son, mentioned below. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born August 18, 1817; died September 26, 1837. 3. Olivia A., born February 11, 1820; died March 7, 1820. 4. Joseph Smith, born at Wilton, May 27, 1823; married July 31, 1853, Hannah Celestia, daughter of Moses Merriam, of Mason; resided at Keene. 5. Helen Jane, born July 16, 1829; married August 31, 1853, Philander Ring.

(VII) Varnum Sawtelle Holt, adopted son of Joseph Holt (6), was born January 22, 1815. His parents were named Sawtelle. He lived at Henniker and Wilton, New Hampshire, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a well-to-do merchant. He died January 28, 1869, at Vicksburg, now Lakewood, New Jersey. He married, May 5, 1837, Caroline

Susan, third child of John and Susannah (Hale) Gibson. She was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, February 21, 1815. Her father was born at Henniker, October 22, 1772; died there June 5, 1836.

Captain Joseph Gibson, father of John Gibson (6), was born at Stow, Massachusetts, July 8, 1750; died at. Henniker, May 23, 1801; married, 1772, Olive Randall, of Stow, born August 26, 1749, died December 30, 1816. Captain Gibson was a settler in Henniker in 1774; selectman there 90-91-96-97-99 ; captain for Henniker alarm list 1776, later commander of the town company, one of the so-called "slam-bang'' companies; but 'was prevented by disability from doing active service in the war.

Captain Timothy Gibson, father of Captain _ Joseph, was born in Stow, January 20, 1702-3; died at Henniker, January 18, 1782; married December 29, 1725, Persis Rice, born in Sudbury, January 10, 1706-7, died at Henniker, March 22, 1781, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Rice; granddaughter of Joseph Rice, and great-granddaughter of the immigrant, Edmund Rice, of Sudbury, Captain Timothy Gibson was brought up in Stow by Abraham Holman ; his boyhood and early manhood were spent in Sudbury; removed to Groton, Massachusetts, and thence to Stow; was selectman in Stow 1734-35-360-39, constable in 1745, and captain in militia; removed to Henniker when' seventy-one years old, with his son, in 1774; signed the association test, and was an earnest patriot.

Deacon Timothy Gibson, father of Captain Timothy Gibson, was born in Cambridge, about 1679; died at Stow, July 14, 1757; married first, at Concord, November 17, 1700, Rebecca Gates, of Stow, born in Marlborough, July 23, 1682, died in Stow, January 21, 1754, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Woodward) Gates. Deacon Timothy married second, Submit Taylor, widow, of Sudbury. Deacon Gibson was brought up by Abraham Holman; settled in Stow; was a large land owner in Lunenburg, Massachusetts ; selectman of Stow 1734-35-36 and 309.

John Gibson, Jr., father of Deacon Timothy, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1641; died October 15, 1679; married December 9, 1668, Rebecca Errington (Harrington), born at Cambridge, died there December 4, 1713, daughter of 'Abraham and Rebecca (Cutler) Errington; a witness in the witchcraft case ; soldier in King Philip's war under Captain Thomas Prentice, in the Mt. Hope Expedition.

John Gibson (1), father of John Gibson, Jr., was born in 1601, in England; settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1631; died 1694; married first, Rebecca' - , who was buried December 1, 1661, in Roxbury; married second, July 24, 1662, Joan Prentice, widow of Henry Prentice of Cambridge; was admitted freeman May 17, 1637. (See Gibson family).

Children of Varnum Sawtelle and Caroline Susan (Gibson) Holt: 1. Joseph Gibson, born at Henniker, March 9, 1839, died June 18, 1907, at Boston; a lawyer residing in Cambridge, practicing in Boston; married first, June 14, 1863, Mary A. Drake, of Leominster, who died September 1, 1877; second, January 27, 1880, Carrie C. Smith; children: i. Mary. Gibson, born at Cambridge, August 4, 1868, married January 7, 1889, Alfred H. Burlen, of Malden, manufacturer, and have two children: Gertrude Frances Burlen, born February 16, 1891, and Robert A. Burlen, January 29, 1893; ii. Charles Joseph, born at Cambridge, October 22, 1880; iii. Carroll Varnum, born at Cambridge, February 25, 1884, died June 12, 1895; iv.. Caroline Josephine, born at Cambridge, December 1, 1887, married Charles H. Bowers. 2. Lieutenant Charles Varnum, born at Wilton, New Hampshire, February 7, 1841; died at Cambridge, September 1864; married Sarah Fiske, of Cambridge; enlisted in Union army September 14, 1861, mustered September 18, as commissary sergeant First Massachusetts Cavalry, promoted second lieutenant July 25, 1862, first lieutenant February 3, 1863, transferred August 4, 1863, to Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, discharged for disability July 26, 1864, and died soon after. 3. Homer C., born April 4, 1846; mentioned below. 4. Caroline E., born at Wilton April 4, 1851; died October 27, 1851. 5. Edward Hale, born at Wilton July 9, 1854; residence, New York city; he died in Philadelphia in 1903.

(VIII) Homer C. Holt, son of Varnum Sawtelle Holt (7), was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, April 4, 1846. He removed to Cambridge in 1858. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated at the Cambridge high school. He studied law in the office of his elder brother, Joseph Gibson Holt, Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 1867 at the age of twenty-one. He followed his profession as a lawyer in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, for a period of thirty-one years and took high rank in the profession. For the past eighteen years he had been interested chiefly in the real estate business. His firm laid out the township of Lakewood,

New Jersey, formerly called Bricksburg, and have handled many large transactions in Boston and vicinity. Mr. Holt was a justice of the peace and notary public for many years. He was a member of the Free masons and a Knight Templar, Cambridge. In religion he was a Congregationalist; in politics a Republican.

He married (first), July 9, 1879, Alice M. Dresser, born at Portland, Maine, September 12, 1857, died August 24, 1896. Edward K. Dresser, her father, married Mary L. Whiting and had: Fannie E. Dresser, married Robert A. Hancock; and Alice Dresser, married Mr. Holt. Robert Dresser, father of Edward Kk. Dresser, was born in Scarborough, Maine, 'December 3, 1799. Wentworth Dresser, father of Robert Dresser, and wife Sophia resided in Scarborough; children: i. John, born March 27, 1795; ii. Israel, October 14, 1796; ii. Robert, December 3, 1799, mentioned; iv. Daniel, August 31, 1802; v. Lydia, February 12, 1805; vi. Asa, April 27, 1807; vii. Joseph, October 27, 1811. Jonathan Dresser, doubtless the father of Wentworth Dresser, was a member of the First Church of Scarborough, Maine, July 17, 1743. Nathaniel Dresser, father of Jonathan Dresser, according to the best evidence at hand, and certainly grandfather of Wentworth Dresser, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, August 27, 1681; married there November 13, 1707, Elizabeth Wentworth, born August 27, 1689. He received a gift of land from his father in Rowley in 1711-12. She was the daughter of Sylvanus and Elizabeth (Stewart) Wentworth, and granddaughter of Elder William Wentworth (See Wentworth sketch) and Duncan Stewart, of Rowley. Sylvanus Wentworth resided in Rowley and in Dover, New Hampshire. Lieutenant John Dresser, father of Nathaniel Dresser, born about 1640; married, November 27, 1662, Martha, probably daughter of Richard Thorley. She died June 29, 1700; he married (second), January 7, 1701-02, Rebecca Dickinson, widow of James Dickinson, and she died April 2, 1718. Lieutenant Dresser died March 14, 1723-24, Newbury or Rowley (records at both places). John Dresser (1), father of Lieutenant John Dresser, was one of the pioneers of Rowley, Massachusetts, where he had a house lot as early as 1643: his wife Mary came with him; he died 1672, leaving a will, mentioning his children and others.

1898, Elizabeth V. McCallum, born at Saco, Maine, July 4, 1856, daughter of John and Mary A. (Johnson) McCallum, whose children were: Elizabeth V., Jane, Lucy, Sarah, John, James, George, Mary, Fannie, Annie, William, the latter being the only one surviving; he resides in Saco, Maine, and has sons, John and Paul McCallum. William McCallum, father of John McCallum, married Nancy Buchanan, and had children: Robert, John, William, Alexander, Andrew, James, Margaret, Elizabeth, Nancy McCallum. There were no children by the second marriage of Mr. Holt.

(IX) Alice Louise Holt, daughter of Homer C. Holt (8), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 20, 1882, She was educated in the public and high schools of her native city. She married, June 5, 1905, Walter L. Reynolds, born February 20, 1878, at Lamoine, Maine. He was educated in the public schools and took up a mercantile career. He is at present a wholesale confectionery dealer of Boston, residing at 5 Hammond street, Somerville, Massachusetts. The only child of Walter L. and Alice Louise Holt is: Homer Holt Reynolds, born at Somerville, April 13, 1906. Charles A. and Mary Ellen (King) Reynolds, parents of Walter L. Reynolds, had also: i. Arthur W., married A. Gertrude Hutchins; ii. Persis M. Reynolds, who married Sumner W. Foster; iii. Louise Reynolds, unmarried.

Robert Lane, the English progenitor, lived at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. His will, dated July 4, 1542, proved June II, 1543, provides that he be buried in the churchyard of Our Blessed Lady in Rickmansworth, and gives to daughters Annes (or Agnes) Page and Margaret Thorpe each one acre of wheat, one cow and ten sheep, and various articles of household furniture; to John Page, son William Page, and John Thorpe, son of Edward Thorpe, each one sheep; and to Elyne, his son's daughter, one bullock. His son Thomas was executor and residuary legatee. Children: «I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Annes, married William Page. 3. Margaret, married Edward Thorpe.

(II) Thomas Lane, son of Robert Lane (1), was born about 1515. He was a yeoman of Rickmansworth. His will, dated December 9, 1586, proved June 14, 1587, provides that his body be buried in the churchyard at Rickmansworth, and bequeathed ten shillings to the poor of the parish; to his son George "the table in the hall, and the form and settles about the window, and the horse mill standing in the barn, with all\things belonging to the said mill; also a brass pot which was his grandfather's, after the death of his wife; to son John; son Richard; daughter Joan Wynchfield; to Elizabeth Culverhouse; to Mary Page; to James Lane, house and land at Croxley Green, on condition that the aforementioned George Lane, father of James pays to testator's daughter Dorothy ten pounds at the time of her marriage; to sister Thorpe. His wife Alice was executrix and residuary legatee. Children: 1. Elyne, mentioned in her grandfather's will in 1542. 2. George, mentioned below. 3. John. 4. Richard: 5. Elizabeth, married Culverhouse. 6. Dorothy, perhaps wife of Thomas Hull.

(III) George Lane, son of Thomas Lane (2), was born about 1550. His will, dated November 6, 1627, proved September 27, 1628, bequeaths to son Henry; son Symon, a life annuity towards the bringing up of his children, upon condition that he shall not return his children to his kindred, otherwise the legacy to be void; to daughter Isabel Lane; sons Jerome and James; to Edward, James's son; to Anne, daughter of Thomas Hull, and other children of Thomas Hull. Thomas and John were executors and residuary legatees. Children: 1. Thomas, executor of father's will and trustee under the will of his brother Symon in 1629, probably died before 1646, in England. 2. John, ancestor of one branch of the American family. 3. Henry. 4. Symon, died in England. 5. Jerome. 6. James; mentioned below. 7. Isabel. 8. George, married and had children.

(IV) James Lane, born in Rickmansworth, England, was the father of Job, James and Edward Lane, of Malden, Massachusetts, 1650. He died possessing a landed estate, before the year 1654. His wife's name was Katherine. Children: 1. John, the eldest, remained in England and received joint inheritance with his brother James in the parental estate prior to 1654. 2. Job, born about 1620, in England; settled in Malden, Massachusetts; ancestor of the Billerica and Bedford Lane families. 3. James; mentioned below. 4. Edward, an early settler of Malden; bought real estate there in 1651 of Robert Harding; visited England, returning 1656; settled as a merchant in Boston.

craftsman and member of the guild of Turners, London, 1654. That same year James, and John Lane, his brother, had joint ownership in real estate at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, received from their parents. Job Lane, their brother, also claimed a share. James had paid debts on the property, "a good sum," and was reduced in circumstances. The brothers - -Job, James and Edward - settled in Malden about 1656, in some kind of partnership which did not continue long. James Lane soon removed to Casco Bay, Edward Lane to Boston, and Job to Billerica, about 1664. James Lane was called an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1658; in 1660 he was at Malden, according to a power of attorney given his brother Job. At North Yarmouth he acquired by purchase and improvement large estates in different sections. He gave his name to a point of land and an island off the east coast of Royall's river, which still bear his name. The Indian headquarters for fishing the streams and coves along the shores of Casco Bay seems to have been on Lane's Island. Lane was living in Falmouth in 1658, when he signed the petition to come under the Massachusetts government. He received a legacy from his uncle, John Lane, August 7, 1661. In 1665-6 and probably afterward for some time he was sergeant of the military company. In King Philip's war Lane was killed by the Indians, and his family had to leave North Yarmouth. The inventory of his estate was dated August 18, 1681. James Lane married first, Ann , and second, Sarah White, daughter of John and Mary White. Mary (White) married first James Phips, and by her two husbands became the mother of twenty-six children. Sarah White was halfsister of Governor William Phips. James died intestate and left six children to share his estate. Children: 1. Ann, lived in Billerica in 1678; married John Bray, son of Richard Bray - perhaps a Quaker marriage, as an attempt was made by some party to prove tthe marriage illegal. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, resided at North Yarmouth. 4. Henry; lived at North Yarmouth; died at Boston, June 4, 1690. 5. Job, married Mary Fassett. 6. James, was living August 25, 1679.

(VI) John Lane, son of James Lane (5), born about 1652, died 1738. He testified July 2, 1733, that "fifty-two or three years since, he went to live at Falmouth in Casco Bay, and there lived till he removed from thence in the second Indian war." Other records show that he was at Cape Elizabeth, under President Thomas Danforth, in 1680. He married Dor- cas Wallis, daughter of John and Mary (Shepard) Wallis. John Wallis bought his property at Cape Elizabeth in 1667 of Nicholas White. The locality was known as Papoding, in Casco Bay. In the' attack upon Casco Bay, August 11, 1675, Wallis had his dwelling house burned. In this attack eleven men were slain and_ twenty-three women and children killed or taken captive. Wallis returned to Falmouth, where he was selectman in 1681. Compelled to leave again in the second Indian

September 23, 1090. Nathaniel Wallis, father of John, was a native of Cornwall, England, and was with his son among the twenty-nine inhabitants of Black Point and Casco Bay, as early as 1658. John Lane was living near his father-in-law, John Wallis, at Purpooduck Point, in 1687 and May 26, 1689. King William's War, "the second Indian War" mentioned in Lane's deposition, broke out in 1686. Falmouth was again abandoned May 17, 1690, three forts there, killed and captured one hundred inhabitants, and destroyed the town. The slain had no funerals, and were left unburied until the next vear. From Casco Bay to Pemaquid not one single English plantation remained. The families of John Wallis and John Lane, of Cape Elizabeth, and of Samuel Lane of North Yarmouth, are found soon afterward at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Here the Lane family gave the name of Lanesville to a . village of the town. He sold his land at Falmouth in 1700 and bought land in Gloucester. In 1714-5 he presented claims for six parcels of land of his father at North Yarmouth, and also claimed in his own right fifty or sixty acres of land at Pond Cove, Cape Elizabeth. These claims were established. John and Dorcas Lane shared in the division of the Wallis estate at Falmouth, February 19, 1723. In the records of the commission appointed to establish the land titles after the danger of Indian attack had passed, several important depositions of John Lane are on file. Lane was a member of the First Church of Gloucester ; also an original member of the Third Church at its organization in 1728, at Annisquam Harbor. Lane died January 24, 1737-8, aged eighty-six years. His wife Dorcas was admitted to the church January 14, 1730, and died February 2, 1754, in her ninety-third year. Of the children, five were born at Cape Islizabeth and six at Gloucester; nine were baptized at the First Church of Gloucester before 1703, by Rev. John White: 1. James, born 1682; mentioned below. 2. John, born

16088; married Mary Riggs. 3. Josiah, married January 15,1713, Rachel York. 4. Dorcas, married January 8, 1713, William Tucker, born May 11, 1690. 5. Sarah, born about 1690; married, December, 1713, Thomas Riggs; he married second, Sarah Hunt, of Ipswich. 6. Hepzibah, born at Gloucester July 20, 1694, married November 27, 1718, Caleb Woodbury. 7. Mary, born August 8, 1696; married first, Thomas Finson, who was klled by the Indians at Fox Island, June 24, 1724. 8. Joseph, born October 15, 1698; married Deborah Harraden. 9g. Benjamin, born July 25, 1700; married Elizabeth Griffin. Io. Deborah, born February 19, 1703; died May 9g, 1729. 11. Job, born February 8, married Mary Ashby.

(VIIIL) Deacon James Lane, son of John Lane (7), was born at Cape Elizabeth, in 1682; married first, October 25, 1710, Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth (Wheeler) Riggs ; granddaughter of Thomas Riggs, who was educated as a scrivener in England, was in Gloucester by 1658, school master, town clerk 1065 to 1716, fifty-one years, selectman over twenty years, representative in 1700. Mrs. Lane was born in Gloucester, November 4, 1690, and died August 18, 1711, aged twenty years. Deacon Lane married second, Judith Woodbury, widow of William Woodbury. She was admitted to the church November 13, 1739, and died August 29, 1770. Lane resided at Lanesville, Gloucester, where he was a prominent citizen of wide influence. He bought much land. James, John and Samuel Lane were among the forty petitioners in 1726 for the Third or Annisquam Parish, incorporated June 11, 1728, and they, signed the original covenant. James Lane was chosen deacon of this church at its organization; was selectman of Gloucester 1726, 1727, 1730 to 1735 inclusive. He died intestate April 20, 1751. His estate was divided February 20, 1771. Children: 1. James, born August 8, 1711; died May 14, 1729. Children by second wife: 2. William, born June 24, 1716; married Lydia Griffin and Deborah (Lane) Langsford. 3. Ruth, born December 27, 1718; married April 6, 1738, Paul Morgan. 4. Josiah, born March 29, 1721, mentioned below. 5. Mary, born June 25, 1723. 6. John, born August 8, 1725. 7. James, born October 9, 1729; master of fishing schooner, lost at sea in 1753.

(IX) Josiah Lane, son of James Lane (8), born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 209, 1721; married March 20, 1743, Abigail Norwood, born March 28, 1723, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Andrews) Norwood.

Francis Norwood, father of Thomas, was one of Cromwell's soldiers, and after the restoration of Charfes II he fled from England. Joshua Norwood was a fisherman, and engaged in getting out mooring stones and millstones, the first man in Gloucester to quarry stone, an industry that has flourished in later years. Mr. Lane and his wife were members of the Third Church in Annisquam. He died 1766, and administration was granted to his widow Abigail, November 3, 1766. The inventory included half a schooner, a pew in the meeting house, and a third of another pew, and one-third of one-eighth of the vacancy in the gallery. His widow seems to have married second, Joseph Caffareen, the schoolmaster, who died September 6, 1814. The house formerly occupied by Josiah Lane is still standing at Bay View, Gloucester, though changed in appearance. Six or seven of his sons were soldiers in the Revolution. Children: 1. Ruth, born October 8, 1743. 2. Judith, born June 23, 1745. 3. James, born June>

8, 1747; married Hannah Robinson. 4. Josiah, born December 6, 1748; mentioned below. 5. Isaac, born November 4, 1750; married Dorcas Bennett and Jerusha 6. Theophilus, born July 9, 1752; married Susannah Davis. 7. Levi, born November 3, 1754; married Elizabeth Gyles and Susannah (Newman) Lane. 8. Francis, born December 12, 1756, married Esther Griffin, Hannah Wyman and Betsey Gammon. g. Abigail, born October 19, 1759; married Nathaniel Bennett, resided at Mount Desert. 10. Mark, born January 8, 1762; married Esther Gott. 11. Ammi, born June 17, 1764.

(X) Josiah Lane, son of Josiah Lane (9), was born December 6, and baptized December 11, 1748, at Annisquam, Gloucester, Massachusetts. He married (intention dated December 19) 1769, Jerusha Stevens. He settled with others of the family at New Gloutcester, Maine. His only child was Josiah, mentioned below.

(XI) Josiah Lane, son of Josiah Lane (10), born in New Gloucester, Maine, January 15, 1771; died there January 19, 1833, aged sixtytwo years; married (intentions dated March 30) 1795, Abigail (Rowe) Cleaves, who was born October 3, 1773, and died July 25, 1834, daughter of Jonathan Rowe, of New Gloucester. Josiah Lane settled at New Gloucester on a farm that he bought of Cotton Tufts and Samuel Tucker in 1799. This farm he bequeathed to his wife, and it was sold by his heirs to Benjamin Rollins, May 1, 1838. Children: 1. Isaac, born October 1, 1795. 2. Dr.

(XIL) Addison Lane, son of Josiah Lane (11), was born in New Gloucester, Maine, March 1, 1821. In 1838 his guardian, Jesse Hayes, sold his share in his mother's estate to Benjamin Rollins. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. At the age of thirteen he began to earn his own living. He learned the trade of cabinet making. He removed to Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1851, and followed his trade in Boston until 1870, when he opened a place of business in Melrose. After about a year he was appointed superintendent of the Melrose Water Works, and he sold his store. He was at the head of the - water department of Melrose for a period of seventeen years, and had much to do with the development and extension of the system in that rapidly growing municipality. When he left this position he engaged in the real estate business for four years. During the next eight years he served the city of "Melrose as collector of taxes, a position in which he gave the utmost satisfaction to both taxpayers and city officers. When he retired from this office it was to give up active business, and he hassince then lived quietly in Melrose. In politics Mr. Lane is a Republican. He was somewhat active in party affairs in his younger days, and often served as delegate to nominating conventions. In religion 'he is a Baptist, an earnest and faithful member of the Melrose Baptist Church, and for many years a deacon.

He married twice: first Lucy A. Morrison, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; he married second - - - - ._ Children of Addison and Lucy: A. Lane: 1. Emily W.; 2. Alice M. 3. Adelaide L., married Edwin H. Downing, of Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. 4. Hattie

William Chandler, who came to New England in 1637, with his wife Annis and four children - Thomas, Hannah, John and William. He died of consumption January 26, 1641, after a lingering illness of nearly a year, having "lived a very religious and godley life." Two years later his widow married John Dane, of Ipswich and Roxbury.

(II) Thomas Chandler, born in 1630, died in 1703. He came to Roxbury with his parents when seven years old. He married Hannah Brewer, of Roxbury. They were among the pioneers and early settlers of Andover. He was proprietor of an iron foundry, as well as farmer, and was also captain of the military company. He was representative to the general court in 1678 and 1679.

(IIl) Captain Joseph Chandler, born August 3, 1669, married Sarah Abbott, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Stewart) Abbott. He had a saw mill in Andover in 1695, but sold his property there and removed to Amesbury, then a new town. In 1709-10 he was surveyor, and like his father was captain of a military company.

nine children. He married Mary Tucker, of Amesbury, December 28, 1717. He worked at blacksmithing and iron making, and lived many years in Salisbury, but removed to Southampton, New Hampshire, in 1753, and to Epping, New Hampshire, in 1755. _ (V) Captain Joseph Chandler, second of seven children, was born in Salisbury, in 1725, and married Lydia Eastman, of Epping, January I, 1746. He was a blacksmith by trade, as well as farmer. He served in the French 'and Indian war, and was captain of a company in the Revolutionary war, and died at Fort Independence, September 17, 1776. His estate was valued at £849 os 3d. After his death his wife married John Bartlett, and outliving him she went to live with her son, John Chandler, at Monmouth, Maine.

(VI) Nathaniel Chandler, the oldest of ten children, was born September 22, 1748. He married Ann Prescott, of New Hampton, New Hampshire. She was a descendant of James Prescott, of Hampton, New Hampshire, previously of Dryby, England. Her father was Major Joseph Prescott, born November 17,

1725, of Epping, who was a major in Colonel Stephen Evans' regiment, and was in the battles of Bennington and Ticonferoga, and at the taking of Burgoyne. Mr. Chandler was a blacksmith, and lived in Sanbornton several years, and removed to New Hampton. He died in 1795 in his forty-seventh year.

(VII) Joseph Prescott Chandler, the second of nine children, was born December 29, 1776, in New Hampton. February 22, 1816, he married Hannah Cram, daughter of Jonathan Cram, of Hampton Falls, New. Hampshire. He had charge of the light house on Burnt Island, Boothbay, for several years, and then settled down as a farmer at Exeter, Maine. He died January Ist, 1864.

(VIII) Joseph Cram Chandler, born in Monmouth, Maine, February 5, 1819, married, in 1851, Mary Elizabeth Hicks, daughter of David Hicks, of Corinna, Maine. He died December. 3, 1905, in Medford. She died August 17, 1888, in Medford, Massachusetts. He lived in Corinna for quite a number of years, and was chairman of the board of selectmen for several years. At that time he owned and operated a large cornmeal and flour mill in that town. He made a specialty of erecting mills for the manufacturing of lumber, also grist mills and tanneries throughout New England and Canada, - was afterwards associated with his son in the coal business at Medford, and in later years they were together in the milling business, having bought the City Flour Mills at Lawrence, Massachusetts. He belonged to the Republican party. Only one son, our subject.

(IX) Frank Eugene Chandler, born in Exeter, Maine, September 14, 1852, fitted for college at Kent's Hill Academy. He did not go to college, preferring a business career, and came to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1873, and went into the coal business, which he followed for twelve years. In 1885 he bought the City Flour Mills of Lawrence, which were destroyed by fire July 23, 1907. He is treasurer of the Dillon Machine Company of Lawrence, for the manufacture of machinery for paper mills. He is in the grain and lumber business, with office at the Chamber of Commerce building, Boston. He has never held an elective office, but is one of the trustees of the Medford Savings Bank, and was a member of the board of investment fourteen years. He was chairman of the Medford water board twelve years, resigning two years ago. For his services on the water board the city of Medford is greatly indebted to him. His intimate knowledge of the water supply and his sagacity as an adviser enabled the city of Medford to realize more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars after all expenses were paid, beyond what had been expected from the sale of the Spot Pond water system. It is understood that Malden and Melrose benefited equally financially by his advice to Medford in the sale of their part of the same water supply. Mr. Chandler was president of the Malden and Melrose Gas Light Company for seven years. He belongs to the Odd Fellows' Association of Medford, is a member of Mt. Vernon Lodge of Masons, a life member of the Medford Historical Society and a member of the Medford Club. In politics he is a Republican.

(1) William Thompson, the first settler of this family, was born, according to tradition, on the passage from England to America. The names of his parents are unknown. He settled in Sudbury, and we find him on the muster roll of Captain Wright's company of Sudbury, June 17, 1724. He was born about 1685. The old Thompson house in which his descendants and possibly he himself lived, was at South Sudbury, just west of the Massachusetts Central railroad tracks, at its junction with the county road. Part of the old house was moved to the Thaddeus Moore place, west of Hayden's Bridge. The "History of Sudbury" informs us that while he was living in Sudbury, but absent from home, his house was attacked by Indians. His wife and her infant child escaped to the woods, but in her flight she was wounded in the leg by a musket ball, and suffered greatly during the night which she spent hidden in the forest. Their children: 1. James, mentioned below. 2. John, appears in the early history of Sudbury; married February 26, 1735-36, Abigail Farnsworth.

(II) James Thompson, son of William Thompson (1), was born about 1720. He married November 14, 1754, Mary Vorce. He served in the French and Indian wars as private in Captain Josiah Richardson's company and in the Revolution in Captain Rice's company, 1778. He was at one time town clerk of Sudbury. Children, born in Sudbury: 1. Captain Abel, born May 26, 1755; died June 19, 1811; married August 25, 1782, Sarah Brown. 2. Molly, born January 17, 1757; married December 10, 1776, Jonas Holden, Jr. 3. Ann, born December 3, 1758. 4. Lucy, born June 6, 1760; married December

(III) Jedediah Thompson, son of James Thompson (2), was born in Sudbury, about 1766. He was a farmer, living in Sudbury. He learned the carpenter's trade also in his youth, and followed it through life in connection with his farm, finding employment in surrounding towns as well as his own. He used to raise hops for brewers in his later years. His farm was at South Sudbury, the homestead already described. He was active in town affairs, and was at one time town clerk. He was a member of the Sudbury church. He married April 21, 1790, Mary Goodnow, who was born 1766, and died at Sudbury, of apoplexy, May 23, 1848, aged eighty-one years six months, daughter of John and Martha Goodnow. Children: 1. Mary (Polly), born July 10, 1791; married Christopher G. Cutler, of Sudbury. 2. Jedediah, born November 23, 1793; died November 24, 1802. 3. Nahum, born December 13, 1796, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, born February 24, 1801; married Stephen Morse of Marlborough. 5. Sally, born February 22, 1804; married January 7, 1823, James Moore of Sudbury. 6. Lucinda, born May 20, 1806; married September 26, 1836, Samuel S. Hunt, of Sudbury. 7. Emily, born February 6, 1812, unmarried. ;

(IV) Nahum Thompson, son of Jedediah Thompson (3), was born in Sudbury, December 13, 1796. He attended the public schools, and was fitted for college under the tutorship of Rev. Rufus Hurlburt, but owning to the untimely death of his father when he was about eighteen years old he had to forego a liberal education and go to work. He taught school first at Dorchester and later at Sudbury. While teaching he bought out a general store at North Sudbury of Lewis Brown, and continued it until his death in 1855. For several years he continued to teach school during the winter term. He invested in good land in the vicinity of his store, and was prosperous and highly respected and trusted. He was town treasurer and town clerk for many years, and justice of the peace and magistrate by virtue of this office; overseer of the poor and school committee many years. In politics, during his later years, he was a Whig. He belonged to the Orthodox church, and was superintendent of the Sunday school.

He married July 5, 1824, at Sudbury, Abigail Hunt, who was born at Sudbury, August 23, 1800, and died at Framingham, August 20, 1883, daughter of Jonas and Sally Hunt, of Sudbury. Children, all born in Sudbury: 1. Aroline Emily, born July 3, 1825, married October 9, 1849, Dr. Otis E. Hunt, of Sudbury. 2. Charles, born March 6, 1827; married Emily A. Barrett, of Concord, New Hampshire. 3. Mary, born February 18, 1829; married John Johnson, Jr., of Framingham; children: i. John Waldo Johnson, born June 14, 1856; u. Charles T. Johnson, born -August I, 1862, died June 29, 1885; i. Ralph S. Johnson, born May 5, 1865. 4. Alfred Nahum, born May 22, 1832. 5. Ann Maria, born November 17, 1834; died unmarried August 6, 1886. 6. Sarah Elizabeth, born December 9, 1836; died unmarried May 4, 1905. 7. George Hunt, born April 26, 1839; died unmarried April 16, 1905. 8. William Haven, born September 25, 1841; died August 20, "1842.

(V) Alfred Nahum Thompson, son of Nahaum Thompson (4), was born at. Sudbury May 22, 1832. He received his education in the public schools of his native town, at Lawrence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, and in a private school at Weston, Massachusetts. His early life in Sudbury was spent in the usual tasks of the farmer's son, when not in school, and in his father's store at North assistant most of the time until his father's death in 1855. He continued in thé store in association with his brothers for a short time afterward, then the business was sold. He carried on the homestead for a time, and worked the farms of Samuel Puffer and Dr. Dakin on shares, before his father's death. After his father died he took a course in Comer's Commercial College, Boston, and afterward entered the employ of English and Morrison, dealers in provisions, 199 Hanover street, Boston, where he remained but a short time. He and his brother Charles bought his present farm in Sudbury in 1868. It had descended from William Hunt, the great grandfather of his wife. A few years later he bought out his brother, and since then has carried on the farm alone. It consists of a hundred acres in North Sudbury on the road to Sudbury Village, known generally as the old Squire Hunt place. He attends the Orthodox church, at Sudbury. He has been a Republican since the party was organized, and has been selectman, overseer of the poor twelve years; assessor; school committee six

He married Ellen Lucretia Dakin, born at solton, Massachusetts, January 3, 1839, daughter of Levi and Ruth (Hunt) Dakin. Levi was a farmer. Children: 1. William Haven, born August 9, 1859; married May 24, 1892, Emma Clapp of Newton; North Carolina; children: i. William Haven Jr., born April 23, 1893; 11. Charles Crawford, born September 23, 1894; iii. Ruth Frances, born September 21, 1896; iv. Dorothy Lewis, born January 10, 1899; v. Marjorie Emma, born June 28, 1901. 2. Ellen Frances, born July 8, 1861; married February 2, 1888, William Moore, of Sudbury; child, Helen, born November 3, 1889. 3. Alfred Nahum, born August 28, 1863, mentioned below. 4. George Hunt, born October 30, 1865; married January 20, 1897,.Lizzie Jacobs, of Gloucester, Massachusetts; children: i. Arthur Jacobs, born March 15, 1898; ii. Roger Burton, born April 25, 1904. 5. Mary Almira, born December 1, 1866; died May 20,. 1874. 6. Alberto Frederick, born August 26, 1869; married February 14, 1900, Lucy Haynes, of North Sudbury; child, Esther, born May 23, 1902. 7. Elizabeth Maria, born December 20, 1871; married October 12, 1898, Joseph B. 'Howe, of Sudbury; child, Mary Thompson, born April 12, t901. 8. Emily Mehitable, born October 12, 1874, living at home with parents. 9. Florence Abigail, born July 18, 1877, living at home with parents.

(VI) Alfred Nahum Thompson, Jr., son of Alfred Nahum Thompson (5), was born at Sudbury, August 28, 1863. He attended the public schools of his native town, and worked with his father on the homestead until he was fourteen years old, when he went to live with his uncle George Hunt Thompson, in Framingham. He assisted his uncle with the work of the farm, and attended the high school, from which he graduated in 1882. Afterward he continued in partnership with his uncle until the latter's death, April 16, 1905, when under the terms of his uncle's will the farm came to him. The farm has been known fora long time as the Socrates Fay place. It is situate in the western part of the town, and contains a hundred and ten acres of land. Mr. Thompson also owns the adjoining farm. While associated with his uncle he conducted an extensive milk business and dairy farm for a period of twenty years. He does consider-_ able teaming besides his farming. He is a member of the Framingham Congregational church, and has been superintendent of its Sunday school. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to Framingham Grange, No. 113, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he is an officer. He married December 2, 1891, Elizabeth Williams Lord, daughter of Henry M. and Carolyn (Williams) Lord of Framingham. Children: 1. Carolyn Williams, born September 22, 1892. 2. Alfred Nahum, born February 24, 1895. 3. Charles, born January 9, 1897. 4. Ellen Lucretia, born November 18, 1900. 5. Elizabeth Williams, born October 14, 1904.

DOLE was born in England. The surname Dole was formerly de Dole, indicating the home of the family, and was derived, it is said, from an ancient city of the name. The Dole family is found on the English records to the time of the Norman conquest. It is one of the few names in England that have been spelled the same for fully five hundred years.

(1) Richard Dole is the progenitor of most if not all of the families of Dole in this country. He was son of William Dole, and grandson of Richard Dole, and was baptized at Ringworth, in Gloucestershire, England, December 31, 1622, old style. His father inherited the Dole homestead in Ringworth. Richard was apprenticed in his youth to John Lowell, glover, of Bristol, and when his employer, his brother, Richard Lowell, and their father, Percival Lowell, came to New England in 1639, they brought Dole with them. The Lowell family settled in Newbury, and for a time Dole was a clerk for them. He entered upon a business career early, and displayed great activity and enterprise, and became a prominent merchant and extensive land-holder. He was wealthy for his day; his inventory at death shows an estate valued at eighteen hundred and forty pounds, a large property compared with the possessions of the colonists in general. He built his house and resided on the north bank of the Parker river, just below where the old town bridge is now located. He was active in town and church affairs, upright in his dealings with men, influential and able. His inventory was dated July 26, 1705, soon ofter his death in his eighty-third year... He married May 3, 1647, Hannah Rolfe, daughter of Widow Rolfe; she died November 16, 1678. He married second, March 4, 1679, Hannah Brocklebank, widow of Captain Samuel Brocklebank, of

(IL) William Dole, son of Richard Dole (1), born at Newbury, Massachusetts, April It, 1660; died there January 29, 1718. He lived in Newbury, near the homestead of his father. He married October 13, 1684, Mary Brocklebank, daughter of his father's second wife by her first marriage. Children, born in Newbury: 1. William, born 1684; mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born 1685; married Kelly. 3. Mary, born February 1, 1688; married April 30, 1708,-Joshua Boynton. 4. Richard, born December 1, 1689. 5. Jane, born January 23, 1692; married August 17, 1711, Joseph Noyes. 6. Patience, born April 8, 1694; married July 25, 1716, John Hale. 7. Apphia, born May 13, 1696; died unmarried in 1754. 8. Samuel. 9g. Benjamin, born July Qt L702

(III) William Dole, son of William Dole (2), born in Newbury, in 1684, died there August 8, 1752; married January 8, 1714, Rebecca Pearson, of Rowley. He resided in that part of Newbury called Oldtown. Children, born in Newbury: 1. Anna, born February I, 1715; died 1810; married Moses Coffin, of Epping, New Hampshire, September 30, 1732. 2. Daniel, born September 28, 1716. 3. David, born August 25, 1718; lost at sea. 4. William, mentioned below. 5. John, born August 14,'1722, died young. 6. John, born November 27, 1724; died June 14, 1729. 7. Jonathan, born March 23, 1727. 8. Rebecca, born August 30, 1729; died unmarried. 9. Mary, born September 13, 1731; married April 8, 1755, Samuel Plumer; their son was Governor William Plumer, of New Hampshire. 10. Eunice, born June 18, 1733.

(V) William Dole, son of William Dole (4), was born in Newbury about 1760. Children: 1. William, mentioned below. 2. Paul, settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts; a grocer and partner of his brother William in making

(VI) Wilham Dole, son of William Dole (5), was born about 1790, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He had a common school education, and learned the trade of wheelwright and carriage maker. In 1832 he was a partner in the firm of Dole & Kimball of Haverhill, chaise makers, and later was in partnership in the same line of business with his brother Paul Dole. He married Betsey Robinson of Haverhill.

(VII) William H. Dole, son of William Dole (6), was born in Haverhill, Massachu- "setts, November 17, 1830. He was brought up in Haverhill, but settled in Manchester, New Hampshire and Melrose, Massachusetts. He married Eliza Jane Andrew, born at Bradford, New Hampshire, January 22, 1833.

(VIII) William A. Dole, only child of William H. Dole (7), was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, July 22, 1859. He attended the public schools of his native town and .of Melrose, whither his father's family went in 1870. He graduated from the Melrose high school in the class of 1878. After spending a year in travel, he entered the employ ot the firm of John A. Andrew & Company, as traveling salesman and other positions. John A. Andrew was a brother of Mr. Dole's mother. In 1902 Haskell, Adams & Company bought the business of John A. Andrew & Company, retaining Mr. Dole as their head salesman. Mr. Dole is a Republican in politics, but independent in municipal elections. His family belongs to the Melrose Unitarian Church.

commanding the esteem of all his townsmen, Mr. Dole has devoted his time almost entirely to his business and his family. He married, December 6, 1893, Grace Soper, daughter of John Soper, of Waltham, Massachusetts. Chil- ' dren: 1. Prescott, died in infancy. 2. John S., born April 13, 1896. 3. William A., Jr., February 26, 1898. 4. Malcolm (twin), March 4, 1903. 6. Kenneth (twin), March 4, 1903. 7. Alice Virginia, December 8, 1904. All were born at Melrose.

No list of the representative citizens of Middlesex county, compiled from the general walks of life, would be complete that did not contain the name of Mr. John F. Danskin, of Cambridge.

which it was once the ambition of the proud Roman soldiery to possess, for at the outskirts of the town are to be seen to this day the ruins of a very old wall built in the days of the Roman invasion of Britain. It is always with a commendable pride that Mr. Danskin speaks of the stock from which he came. He comes of an ancestry resident in the land of Burns since early in the thirteenth century, for it was at that time that the early forbears left Denmark, where the family was known as Danski, to take up their abode in the land of the thistle and heather. There is a small river in the old Fatherland still known as the Danski, and the change in name from Danski to Danskin is, as all familiar with the evolution of English names know, is the stamp of England's adoption.

Spending his boyhood days in a home of mercantile pursuits, he early became _ possessed of an ambition to some day be a factor in the business world. After attending the parish school of his natal town he went to Glasgow to visit an aunt, and there enjoyed the great boon of a term or two at that city's matchless opportunities for education and self improvement; but being the second oldest of a large family, he soon aspired to be self-supporting, and so, giving up his studies, he was apprenticed to the trade of a baker, which craft he has uninterruptedly pursued up to the present day. It was during those days of his apprenticeship that the solid rock foundation of the present successful manufacturer of necessity and delicacy was laid, and it is often with a feeling expressive of regret that he speaks of what a great loss to American industrial life has been the neglect and discontinuance of the apprenticeship system - of producing master workmen as it is practiced in the old world.

His father, Robert H. Danskin, now deceased, was a successful merchant for many years in the native town, and only left the home-land under the stress of the village's declining industries. Other branches of the family of both mother's and father's relationship had come to America and become successful in their chosen fields. Especially was this true of an uncle of Mother Danskin's, named John Aitken, who, after managing an important department in the firm of Andrew Mitchell & Company, of Canal. street, New York City, started in business for himself and built up one of the largest silk and tapestry importation houses in that city. The concern is still conducted under the founder's name, on lower Broadway, New York City.

With the failing industries of Cumbernauld, it soon became apparent that an enforced change of residence. was imminent. The question was discussed, 'Since we must change, why not try the States?" After much deliberation it was decided by the head of the family | to make the venture, but the one serious obstacle in the way of migrating to the New World was, what would be the attitude of those members of the family who by this time had become old enough to shift for themselves. But true "to their instinct of clannishness for which the Scotch have attained world-wide reputation, all agreed to be together, whether in the Old World or the New. It was impossible for the entire family to come together, gow, October 6, 1871 - the others leaving at other times - and after a rough voyage of fourteen days landed at Point Lewis, Canada, October 20, arriving in New York City three days later. After making short stops in Staten Island, New York, Paterson, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he finally secured what proved to be a somewhat permanent situation in a very prosperous baking establishment*conducted by a Mr. Frank Moore. It _ was during his employment there that he became acquainted with Mrs. Danskin, then Ella Reed, who was a niece of Mrs. Moore's, the proprietor's wife. The acquaintance soon ripened into affection, and on the 11th of March, 1877, they were married, in Bowdoinham, Maine, which was the home town of the bride's parents, Captain Hiram and Aurillia Stinson. Of this marriage were born the following children: 1. Robert H., born December 15, 1877; married Lizzie Parsons, of Cambridge; children: Mildred, died young; Harcourt, Helen and Arnold.. 2. Aurelia Mazie, born April 23, 1880; married, April 3, 1902, Leroy Williams, of Bowdoinham; graduate of Bates College, and is principal of high school at Lisbon Falls, Maine; children: Hope, Ella, and Frances, last named deceased. 3. Clarence Leroy, born December 13, 1882; married, September 4, 1905, Flora Mae Swayne, of Cambridge; children: One died in infancy; second, Jeannette.

In the spring of 1877 Mr. Danskin started in business for himself on Third avenue, New York City, but owing to a fault in his choice of location. as to possibilities of securing patronage, he soon found the degree of success for which he yearned and felt confident of his capability of attaining was an impossibility in that extremely cosmopolitan population environment. ~

On the 15th of February, 1888, he landed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and eight days later, the 23rd, opened for business at the corner of Auburn and River streets, the establishment known as the Riverside Bakery. During all of his residence in Cambridge he has always been actively interested in all that pertains to the betterment of the municipality in general, and the well-being of individuals in particular. For two years as a member of the common council, and serving on many important committees, besides rendering efficient service to the city, he won the lasting respect and esteem of those associated with him in shaping the city's policies; and has only been deterred from holding further office in the gift of his fellow-citizens by the great demand made upon his time and attention by his business, which is one of the severest exactitude in these respects.

In politics he has always been an enthusiastic advocate of the non-partisan policy in conducting a city's affairs. "From every man according to his ability, to every man according to his needs," has been his motto, as a true disciple _of American Democracy - always placing the greatest possible value on his citizenship, in the land of his adoption, which he secured as soon as possible after the lapse of the necessary time for naturalization. An incident illustrative of the high estimate he placed upon citizenship is related by one familiar with the occasion. When the time for registration had arrived, after his coming to Massachusetts from New York, he presented himself -at the registrar's office, and on being questioned as to his eligibility to the voting list, informed the clerk that he was a naturalized subject of the United States, and that he had voted in New York. The clerk, as is customary, requested to see his papers of naturalization. Not knowing it was necessary to have his papers with him, he had to go home for them. When he presented to the clerk in charge his guarantee of citizen rights, neatly framed, he was warmly commended for his action, which called forth the remark from the officer in charge that how few there be who ever think to frame their naturalization papers. "Tnstead," he said, "We are continually confronted with dirty crumpled up documents." Always an unostentatious influence in ward, municipal and state -politics, he is frequently in council with those who have the management of affairs. No-license has no more ardent well-wisher than Mr. Danskin. When possible he takes his place at the polls to use his influence to secure as large as possible a vote in the district in which he lives. A few years ago, when there was a perceptible lack of interest in the no-license policy, together with others he went about visiting factories during the noon hour and the churches in the evening, exhorting the voters to cast their votes so as to continue to keep Cambridge a saloonless city.

Becoming identified with the Young Men's Christian A'ssociation when it was under the presidency of the late Oliver W. Durrell, by whom so much was accomplished for that institution in Cambridge, he has never ceased in his devotion to.the cause, often serving on the board of directors, where his counsel and financial helpfulness have been greatly appreciated.

Ever since the day he bid adieu to his native land he has dreamed of that time when he might return and live again the days of his boyhood ; but any shape of reality that dream might dare assume was always disorganized by the memory of those fourteen days of awful storm and seasickness experienced when he came to the country. During the winter of 1906 and 1907 he managed to get his courage up to the point of determination. On the 28th day of May he left Boston on the,Cunard liner "Tverna," in partial realization of his long cherished dream, and according to all accounts a full realization of the nightmare of his seasickness forebodings. His visit abroad resulted in an intensified feeling of endearment for the Mother Country, and more thai ever is he enthusiastically appreciative of British culture, statesmanship, patriotism and hospitality, and it were safe to say that his continued residence in America is attributable to the fact not that he loves Britain less, but the United States more. "I would that every one in America could visit England, and every one in England could visit America. I think the benefit would be mutual and far reaching in its international consequences," is a statement he made to many of his acquaintances on his return.

have been a brother or closely related to Thomas Brooks of Watertown and Concord, and to Joseph Brooks, who was an inhabitant of Concord April 12, 1641. As many as ten immigrants of this surname came to Massachusetts before 1650. Henry Brooks settled first at Concord, and was admitted a freeman March 14, 1639, but soon afterward settled in

Woburn. He became a prominent citizen; was selectman.in 1669, 1671 and 1672. He married first Susanna - , who died September 15, 1681; second July 12, 1682, Annis ° Jaquith. He died April 12, 1683-4. His will was dated July 18, 1682; he left estate to his wife. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Timothy, married, December 2, 1659, Mary Russell; lived in Billerica. 3. Isaac, married January 10, 1665-6, Miriam Daniels; he died September 8, 1686. 4. Sarah, married, May 13, 1650, John Mousal. 5. Lester. 6. Joseph, born at Concord, April 12, 1641.

(IV) Timothy Brooks, son of John Brooks (3), born February 14, 1699, at Woburn, died there October 13, 1686; married Abigail Wyman, of Woburn, January 19, 1725, and settled in Woburn. His wife died March 16,.

1780, and he married second, Sarah Converse, widow, of Woburn, who died February 22, 1789. Children of Timothy and Abigail Brooks: 1. Timothy, mentioned below. 2. Abigail, born October 5, 1720.

(VI) Samuel Brooks, son of Timothy Brooks (5), born at Woburn, December 27, 1758, died there November 28, 1805; married December 22, 1791, Elizabeth Gill, of Salem. She died May 13, 1811. They settled at Salem, where he died November 28, 1805. Children, born at Salem: 1. Samuel, born July Doer7ooe2>-e liza, born December, 7794; died October 9, 1813. 3. Nancy, born May,

(VII) John Edwards Brooks, son of Samuel Brooks (6), was born in September, 1805, at Salem. His name was originally Edward, changed to John Edwards. in the public schools, and for many years had a retail milk business in that city. He also learned the trade of baker and followed it several years. He married (intention dated Lynn, August 22), 1824, Dolly Butters, of Wilmington, October 10, 1824, born February II, 1801, daughter of James, Jr., and Betsey Butters. Her father was born January I, 1777, son of James and Abigail Butters. James Butters, Sr., born February 22, 1746, was son of William Butters of Wilmington.

public schools of his native town. He worked for the Hamilton Corporation when a boy and at the age of fifteen was made an overseer of the napping department. About 1856 he engaged in the undertaking business in Lowell, and for a period of fifty years was a successful and leading member of that line of business in his section. On account of failing health he retired from active business in 1906. Mr. Brooks has an extensive acquaintance and a host of friends in Lowell. He has the utmost confidence and respect of his townsmen. He is very fond of flowers and plants, and has an expert knowledge of floriculture. The poor and sick of the city have been for years the recipients of the choicest products of his gardens and greenhouses. Mr. 3rooks attends the Universalist church.

He married, June 24, 1850, Lydia Barsheba Burns, of Andover, Massachusetts, born June 24, 1830, died in 1897. Children, born at Lowell: 1. Addie Augusta, married Lucien K. Leach, of Lowell, a contractor and builder. 2. Josephine: Maria, married John - Bartlett Sawtelle; they live in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

of twenty years he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment of New York Volunteers, at Waterloo, New York, in August, 1862, and was commissioned second lieutenant the following month. He was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in October, 1863, and captain in December, 1864. He was in active service to the end of the Civil war and was at the McLean House and witnessed Lee's surrender. He was breveted major by the | concurrent vote of both house and senate of the state of New York for meritorious service and gallantry on the battle field. He was mustered out with his regiment at Elmira, New York, July 2, 1865. He had learned the trade of machinist, and at the close of the war returned to Auburn, New York, where he formerly lived, and became foreman of the Halladay machine shop. In 1867 he came to Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he has resided ever since. He began the manufacture of steam engines, elevators and shoe machinery of his own invention and found a market for his product all over the world. He has built up a large and prosperous industry.

in military and business life, but in public affairs. He served three years in the city council of Marlborough and two years in the board of aldermen, 'acquiring a familiarity with city affairs and demonstrating exceptional ability as a member of the city government. In 1897- 98 he was state senator from his district and served with credit as chairman of the committee on federal relations and member of the committees on banks and banking, on drainage and on military affairs. He secured the first appropriation for state roads in Marlborough ; was the prime mover in securing state roads from Hudson; and secured legislation reimbursing the city for rebuilding Bolton street and other county roads. Hg is an influential Republican in the city and county. He was mayor of the city in 1905-06. He was elected mayor of the city for the third term by the largest majority that any mayor ever received in the city. He gave the city a thorough and capable business administration. Many new streets were built and others reconstructed, repairs were made on every road in the city, especial care being taken with those of the outskirts, new sewers and sidewalks were built and in every department an effort made to raise the standards and improve the city. Through Mayor Parsons' influence a steam roller for the city was secured without expense to the municipality, and an appropriation of two thousand dollars from the county commissioners for the completion of West Main street. It is calculated that in repairing Main street alone General Parsons effected a saving of thirty thousand dollars for the city. General Parsons displayed his well-known executive ability to exceptional advantage in the office of mayor and won the approval of the business men and large tax-payers of both parties. - -

General Parsons is president, and has been for several years of the board of trade, and was a leader in securing new industries. After Marcy Brothers had informed a committee of the board of trade that they had decided not to come to Marlborough, General Parsons succeeded in persuading them to come, making personal inducements at a sacrifice of over three thousand dollars. He accepted a commission as first lieutenant in Company E, of Marlborough, in the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, August 11, 1873, a few years after he located in that town. He was chosen captain January 28, 1879; major Aipril 9, 1879 ; lieutenant-colonel May 16, 1884, and promoted colonel of his regiment in 1889. He was retired with the rank of brigadier-general in 1899, after a long and faithful service in the militia of the state, following a brilliant record in the Civil war. He is a member of Grand Army Post, No. 43. He is a member of United Lodge of Free Masons; Houghton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Trinity Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar, and of Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Boston.

General Parsons has had a _ noteworthy career in every walk of life. Beginning as a poor boy without the factitious aids of wealth and influence, he has made his way in civil and military life, in business and public life, and achieved distinction. During the forty years in which he has been a manufacturer his relations with his numerous employees have been harmonious and exemplary. No citizen of Marlborough has exhibited more public spirit, given more in time and money, or done more to benefit his fellow-townsmen.

this name came to New England and Virginia among the earliest settlers. The name probably is distinct from Lane, but has always been confused with it, and many Lands spelled their names Lane. Samuel Land settled in the Barbadoes in 1638; George Land came to New England in 1635; Francis Land to Virginia in 1640, William Land had estates at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1732, and Savage gives an Edmund Land of Duxbury in 1666. John Lande was a soldier in the Revolution, and later a chance record shows that Captain John Land, U. S. A., master of the ship "Challenge,' born July 16, 1796, died in Canton, China, July 26, 1852.

(1) Nicholas Land, of Boston, was born about 1800, and died in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1859. He was a sea captain fora great many years. He resided in Lands Court, off North Street, Boston, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn cemetery. He married Augusta - , who died in Boston in 1869. Guardians were appointed for his children after his death: 1. Abbie. 2. Nicholas Lawrence, mentioned below. 3. Katie I. ey

(II) Nicholas Lawrence Land, son of Nicholas Land (1), was born May 16, 1839, in Boston. He resided in Chelsea, and during his active life was a traveling salesman for a hat and cap house, and in the course of his business visited all sections of the country. He was a soldier in the civil war from Chelsea,

Massachusetts, a private in the fourth unattached company of infantry from May 3, 1864 to August 6, 1864. He married, November 11, 1862, Mary Emma Pettingill, born at Boston, July 18, 1840, died September 8, 1882, daughter of Samuel Swanton Pettingill. Her father was born at Bath, Maine, November II, 1807, and died at Revere, in 1880; married Mary Pratt, born December 3, 1805; children: i. Gardner Pettingill, died young; ii. Mary E. Pettingill, already mentioned; iii. Sarah Elizabeth Pettingill; iv. Francis Pettingill. Mrs. Land was an attendant of the Universalist church of Chelsea. She was a teacher in the Boston schools before her marriage. Children of: Nicholas Lawrence and Mary Emma Land: 1. Lawrence Pettingill, mentioned below. 2. Frank Herbert, born November 29, 1865; died January 28, 1904.

(III) Lawrence Pettingill Land, son of Nicholas Lawrence Land (2), was born at Chelsea, Massachusetts, August 2, 1863. He attended the public schools. He has always held a clerical position, and resides in Somerville. He is very active and popular in various fraternal organizations. He is a member of John Abbott Lodge, of Somerville, Free Masons; Somerville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Orient Council, Royal and Select Masters; Highland Chapter, Order of- the Eastern Star; he is past noble grand of Paul Revere Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled all the chairs; a member of Winter Hill Encampment, and of Erminie Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, of the local council of the Royal Arcanum, and at present Exalted Ruler of the B. P. O. of Elks, Somerville Lodge, No. 917. Heisa very popular and energetic worker in all of the societies to which he belongs.

Lewis Ripley, father of Frederick K. Ripley, was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, 1802, and died in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 1885. He spent his active career at manufacture connected with woolen mills, and invented patents and improvements on woolen manufacture which proved of great value. He was a man of enterprise and ability, a loyal and patriotic citizen, and faithfully and conscientiously fulfilled the duties which fell to his share. He married Sophia Gardner, of Temple, New Hampshire, who bore him seven children: Stearns L., Edward H., Royal S., Frederick K., Julia L., Sophia E., Isabel. All are deceased except Frederick K. and Royal S.

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Frederick K. Ripley was born in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 1846. He received a common school education, and later served an apprenticeship with Silver & Gay, machinists, North Chelmsford, and at the present time is connected with the Chelmsford Foundry Company, Boston, Massachusetts. He takes an active interest in the affairs of his town, and enjoys the confidence and respect of the members of the community in which he resides. He attends the Congregational church and, like his father, is a Republican in politics and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Josephine A. Kidder, who was born at Westford, Massachusetts, in 1849, daughter of James O. and Charlotte F. (Bruce) Kidder, and a connection of the Kidder family of Boston. Three children were the issue of this marriage: Gardner Kidder, born August 29, 1878, died January 7, 1903; Carl H., born June 21, 1880. Rupert B., born November 2UTSSS:

The family is of ancient Ger- CASTNER man origin. One branch settled early in New York and New Jersey. Joan Peter Kassener, as the name was formerly spelled, was a widower from the Palatinate, Germany. His name was anglicized to John Peter Castner, and the surname is spelled thus in the New York families. He married in New York, April 2, 1711, Magdalena Paan, widow of Jacob Hoof (sic) from the kingdom Wurtemberg, Germany. Governor Hunter apprenticed a child of this name with other children of the Palatines in 1711-4. The early settlers in New Jersey, progenitors of a numerous family, said on good authority to be sons of this first settler, were: 1. Peter, settled in Somerset county, New Jersey; will dated September 14, 1756, leaving sons Peter and Jacob. 2. Jurgen (George), married Naomi; apprenticed at age of thirteen in New York; member of Lutheran church in New York, 1721. 3. Daniel of New Jersey. John Castner, presumably of this family also, settled in. Schoharie, New York, 1713. Paul Kastner was living in New Germantown, 1694. (See p. 288, "Early Germans of New Jersey.) Samuel Castner, of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, settled there before the Revolution, said to have been from Holland, but likely was of the family mentioned above; he had a son Samuel born 1762, and many descendants are living in Pennsylvania. The Castner family of Maine originated in

Waldoborough, a German settlement. As early as 1739 a few German families located at the site of the present town of Waldoborough, coming in the summer or autumn. These two or three families, whose names even are lost to history, received accessions in 1740. The French and Indians devastated the plantation in 1746, and the settlers left, not returning until 1748. In 1751 twenty or thirty families came from Germany. In 1732 General Samuel Waldo sent his son to Germany to form a colony for this settlement, promising a hundred acres of land and many other inducements to each family. After the movement started, fully fifteen hundred Germans settled at Waldoborough, or Broadbay, as the locality was then known. Some of them were killed in the French and Indian war. They suffered unusual hardship in the early vears of their life in Maine, and to cap the climax their titles to their homes given by Waldo proved worthless. In 1763, when the titles given by Waldo were found defective, some of the settlers bought new titles, but others left in disgust, settling at Londonderry, New Hampshire, and in South Carolina, with a pious Moravian minister. At Broadbay a Lutheran and a German Reformed church (the Zwingli denomination) were established. Though differing in language and customs from the English stock, these thrifty Germans slowly but surely became assimilated in the population. Some of the settlers were from the Palatinate, Germany. Philip Christopher Vogler, one of the leaders, was born April 7, 1725, at Grundelsheim. in the Palatinate, came to Broadbay with his father in 1742, died in 1761, in North Carolina. A contract between Waldo and Sebastian Zouberlinger, of Switzerland, in 1741, indicates that at least three hundred of the families were from Switzerland.

Margaret Bornheimer married Charles Castner, of the family given below. She was daughter of Godfrey and Catherine Elizabeth (Ludwig) Bornheimer. Her father was born in 1763, married, 1787, Mary Magdalena Hofses. daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Kline), was born in Germany; married Godfrey Bornheimer, about 1750, was a_ soldier in the French war and also in the Revolution. Joseph Ludwig, the pioneer, was born in Konderroth, province Dietz, Germany, in 1699; started with wife Katherine (Kline), three children grant ancestor of the Waldoborough family of that name, was a young man when he came with others of his family. He was born in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany, and settled in Broadbay before 1763. When the Waldoborough settlers went to the Carolinas, both of his brothers went with them. According to family tradition one settled in North Carolina and married seven times; the other settled in Virginia. We are told that the three brothers were over six feet in height, and over two hundred pounds in weight each. Ludwig Castner remained at Waldoborough, cleared his farm, and became a farmer, industrious, frugal, temperate, and finally became well-todo. He was a Lutheran in religion. He married Sarah Schwartz, born in Germany. Children: 1. John, left home when a young man and never heard from. 2. Frederick. 3. George. 4. Daniel, died of yellow fever in Tennessee. 5. Jacob, born 1783; mentioned below. 6. Anthony. 7. Charles. 8. Ludwig. 9g. Sally. to. Peggy; married Adam Hight; son Gardner Hight.

(Il) Jacob Castner, son of Ludwig Castner (1), was born in Waldoborough, Maine, March 5, 1783, and died in that town December 2, 1842. He worked on his father's farm during his youth, and his schooling was of a primitive kind. About the time of his marriage in 1811, he bought a hundred acres of land about four miles northeast of the town,. cleared away the forest, and built the first frame house in that section. There he spent his life in lumbering and farming. Although afflicted with lameness, he was an energetic and thrifty farmer. Much of the wool that he raised was carded and spun at home. He was a man of much force of character, fixed in his. opinions and influential in the community. In religion he was a Universalist, and very liberal in his views. In politics he was a Whig. :

He married, July 10, 1811, Sarah Benner, born at Waldoborough, October 10, 1790, died there November 16, 1866, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Sherman) Benner of Waldoborough. Her father was a farmer at Filer's Corner in that town. Children: 1. Calvin Haven, born January 23, 1812; died March 10, 1883; married October 21, 1832, Charlotte Cotton; children: i. Josiah A., born March 22, 1833, died at Raleigh, North Carolina, in the civil war, August 20, 1865, (born with right arm ending at the elbow); ii. James Parker, born October 24, 1834, died at Valparaiso, Chili, of small-pox, February 7, 1877; married first, July 14, 1863; married again at Liverpool; iii. Algernon Enos, born July 12,