Norfolk Town (part 11 of 23)

Isaac Kimball, third, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in New Ipswich, N. H., April 19, 1789, just eleven days prior to the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States. He early learned the trade of blacksmith, and, settling in Mason village, N. H., lived there until 1829. During that year he removed to the neighboring town of Temple, where he engaged in farming in conjunction with his trade, making his home there until his death, which occurred at the advanced age of ninetytwo years. He was a skilful and thoroughgoing farmer, familiar with all branches of agriculture. He was held in high regard as a man of intelligence, integrity, and honor, and wielded strong influence in local affairs, serving in different town offices, and in 1846, 1847, and 1848 as a Representative to the New Hampshire legislature. In his early years he was a Whig, although in 1844 he cast his vote for James G. Birney, the anti-slavery candidate for president. On the formation of the Republican party he joined its ranks, and until the day of his death he was a stanch supporter of its principles. He retained both his physical and mental vigor to within two years of the end of his life, when he met with an accident which caused him thereafter to be bed-ridden. But a short time before the accident he had picked the apples from his orchard by hand, climbing to the tops of the highest trees. His wife, whose maiden name was Lucinda Tenney, was born in Hollis, N.H., the daughter of William Tenney, a prominent farmer. She died at the age of seventy years, having borne him twelve children, eight of whom grew to maturity, four being yet alive, namely : Charles F. ; Sarah F. , widow of Luther C. Clement; Henry H. ; and Mrs. Hattie M. Haynes. Both parents united with the Congregational church while living

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Charles F. Kimball was brought up on the home farm in Temple, obtaining the rudiments of his education in the district school, and at the age of twenty-two was preparing to enter college; but his eyes failing him he was forced to relinquish the design. He taught school in the years 1849, 1850, 185 1, and 1S52, afterward remaining on the farm four years. In 1857 he resumed his professional labors, teaching in Townsend, Fitchburg, and Attleboro, being principal of grammar schools in the two last named towns, and continuing as principal in different schools until 1863. Going then to West Dedham, Mr. Kimball taught there three years, and afterward had charge of the Avery School in Dedham two years. In 1868 he was elected usher in the Rice School, Boston; and in 1878, two years after it was made a training-school in connection with the Boston Normal School for Girls, he was made submaster of the school, a position which he has since held. Mr. Kimball has a long and honorable record as an instructor, having first taught in New Hampshire in 1849, and for the past twenty-nine years having been connected with the Rice Training School, being now the oldest teacher in the building. He served one term as a member of the School Board of Attleboro, Mass., and for nine years was one of the members of the Dedham School Board. In politics he is a stanch Republican.

Mr. Kimball was married August 25, 1859, to Juliet A. Stanley, of Attleboro, a daughter of Deacon Seneca M. Stanley, a man of high character and standing in the town. Mr, and Mrs. Kimball are the parents of six children, two of whom have passed away: Elsie M., the eldest, having died June 7, 1885; and Mabel F., the third child, on May 29, 1887. Their natural gifts and eminent Christian virtues had led their friends to anticipate for them a career of great usefulness. The four now living are: Evelyn S., a graduate of the Dedham High School, who is at present at home; Anna M., who is attending the Massachusetts Normal Art School; Charles H. J., who is in the insurance business in Boston; and Frank W. , who is a graduate of Boston University,

1894, and now the principal of the high school and director of music in all the schools of Hardwick, Mass. All of the family are greatly interested in music, and Mr. Kimball has been chorister in various churches much of the time since twenty years of age. Both of the sons are now occupying similar positions. The family are all members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Dedham, except Frank W. , who has transferred his church relations to Hardwick. They are active in all departments of church work, the youngest daughter being primary superintendent in the Sunday-school, of which the elder of her brothers is superintendent. The son Charles is likewise active in town affairs, and he has for the last two years been president of the Dedham No-license League.

,OBERT WINTHROP CARPENTER, of Foxboro, Mass., a lawyer with a large and important practice, and an extensive dealer in real estate and mortgages, was born June 4, 1853, in South Walpole, Norfolk County, a son of James E. Carpenter. In his veins is mingled the blood of several of the ancient and honored families of New England, including the Carpenters, Sweets, and Boydens. The emigrant ancestor on the paternal side was William Carpenter, who was born in England in 1576, and died in Weymouth, Mass., in 1659. His son William, born in 1606, was the next progenitor, the line of descent being continued through William, third, born in 1631; Obadiah, Sr., born March 12, 1678; Obadiah, Jr., born February 16, 1707; Nehemiah, born October 20, 1731; Peter, born September 24, 1 77 1 , and his son Edson, born December 5, 1802, in Foxboro, who was the father of James E. Carpenter.

Nehemiah Carpenter, of the sixth generation, was the very first settler of Foxboro village, coming here from Attleboro in 1749. On a ledge near the centre of the town he built a rude cabin on the site of the present residence of John T. Carpenter; and the land of which he took possession has since been owned by his descendants, who have preserved the building spot in its original state. In

1750 he erected a frame house, which for several generations was known as the Carpenter Tavern. This building stood until 1880, when it was taken down and the frame removed to Carpenter Street, where it was incorporated into the lumber shed of Joseph W. Carpenter. Nehemiah Carpenter married Elizabeth Sweet, a member of a noted family, whose genealogy may be found in the historical novel, "One Thousand and One," recently published.

James E. Carpenter was born and reared in Foxboro; and there he died, the date of his birth being January 30, 1829, and that of his death January 30, 1S80. He obtained the rudiments of his education in the district schools, later attending Day's Academy at Wrentham and the old Pierce Academy in Middleboro. He subsequently read law with the late Judge Maine, and after his admission to the bar, in 1857, was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in this town with offices in Washington, New York, and Boston. He married Miss Rowena A. Boyden, the daughter of Jeremiah Boyden, the representative of an old Medfield family of prominence, which originated in the north of England. They reared four children, as follows: Robert W., the subject of this sketch; Charles E. , a resident of Campello, a suburb of Brockton; Eugene M., who died May 13, 1886, aged twenty-seven years; and Anna Isabel, wife of Edwin A. Booth, of Mansfield, Mass.

Robert W. Carpenter was educated in the public schools, completing his course of study in the high school, and at the age of eighteen entered his father's office as a law student. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on the twentyfirst anniversary of his birth, June 4, 1874, and, going into law partnership with his father, the firm being James E. Carpenter & Son, with offices in Foxboro and Boston, practised law with him until December, 1877, when the firm was dissolved. Mr. Carpenter is a man of superior abilities, natural and acquired, and has often been called to serve in official positions. He has been Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of Insolvency for the county of Norfolk; presiding officer of the local Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodges, town council ; clerk of the Board of Selectmen ; chief engineer of the Fire Department; and clerk of several fund and building associations. He was clerk of the Executive Committee of the Foxboro Centennial Celebration, and published a record of the same in 1879. He compiled the town history, which was published in 1890; and he was also editor, at different times, of the Foxboro Journal, Courier, Gazette, and Times. In recent years he has been one of the foremost in securing the location of business industries in the town. He also takes a leading part in town and county politics. At present he holds the offices of Justice of the Peace and Notary Public.

Mr. Carpenter and Miss Etta M. Chandler, of Foxboro, daughter of Isaac G. Chandler, a veteran of the late war, and Amelia A. (Ells) Chandler, were united in marriage on June 10, 1877. They have one son - Frank C, born May 9, 1878, now in the employ of a local electric light company of Foxboro.

In religious belief Mr. Carpenter is liberal. He is actively identified with the Republican party, having been secretary of the Norfolk . County Republican Convention a number of years, and in 1896 its chairman. He is a member of St. Alban's Lodge, F. & A. M., and Keystone Chapter, R. A. M., both of Foxboro ; Bristol Commanderv, K. T. , of North Attleboro, Mass., in which he has held the office of Senior Warden ; and he also belongs to Excelsior Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Victory Lodge, K. of H., both of Foxboro. He is an active and able business man, and at the present time is secretary of the Foxboro Board of Trade.

§ WALTER BRADLEE, of Milton, an auctioneer and a dealer in real estate and mortgages, was born here, January 27, 1867. A son of J. Walter and Nellie M. (Morse) Bradlee, he comes of English origin. On the paternal side he is a descendant in the seventh generation of Captain John Bradlee, who commanded a Dorchester regiment in the Revolutionary army, and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. From Captain John the line of descent comes through Stephen Bradlee, of Dorchester; Stephen's son John, the first of the family born in Milton; and John's son, John D., who also was a native of Milton. John D. Bradlee was an auctioneer and nurseryman. In 1858 he founded the business now managed by his grandson, the subject of this sketch. He was one of the originators of the Fairmount Land and Improvement Company, the promoters of the town of Hyde Park, and for a number of years was Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County.

J. Walter Bradlee, Sr., was a lifelong resident of Milton. He was educated in the public schools of this town and at Milton Academy. Subsequently, taken into partnership by his father, he was for some time a member of the firm of J. D. Bradlee & Co. In 1881 he became sole proprietor of the business, which since that time has been conducted under the name of J. Walter Bradlee. A prominent resident of Milton and a stanch Republican, he held a number of important offices. He was Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County for ten years, chairman of the Milton School Committee for the same length of time, and chairman of the Selectmen for thirteen years. He represented Milton and Canton in the General Court of Massachusetts two terms. In the Civil War he served for nine months as Corporal in Company I, Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, with General Banks's division. He died in December, 1892. His wife, who is also a native of Milton, is still residing in this town. Of their children six are living; namely, J. Walter, Charles, N. Marion, Eva M., Leonard M., and Roger W.

J. Walter Bradlee, the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools of Milton, and graduated at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, Boston. For some six years he was employed as travelling salesman for Hosmer, Codding & Co., wholesale boot and shoe jobbers of Boston. His connection with this firm ended when he accepted the position of Assistant Superintendent of Police in Milton. This office he held for a number of years. At the death of his father he took charge of the real estate business, and the enterprise started in 1858 still continues to prosper. Mr. Bradlee deals in city and suburban property, negotiates mortgages, and takes full charge of estates when desired. His office is Room 201, Adams Building, 23 Court Street, Boston.

Mr. Bradlee was married in 1S88 to Miss Clara F. Lyons, of Milton. They have a family of three children - -John B., Robert S., and Ernest A. Like his father, Mr. Bradlee is a Republican. He served for'three years as Assessor of Milton; and in March, 1897, he was elected Selectman.

YLER THAYER, a retired builder of 4 1 Norwood and an ex-member of the Massachusetts legislature, was born in Mendon, Mass., October 2, 1822, son of Otis Wales and Sena (Thayer) Thayer. A representative of an old Norfolk County family, he is a direct descendant of Fernando Thayer, who settled in Mendon in 1698. His greatgrandparents were Benjamin and Sarah Thayer; and his grandparents were Amos and Millie Thayer, all residents of Mendon. Otis Wales Thayer was a native of Mendon. When a young man he engaged in farming and butchering in Medfield, Mass. His wife, Sena, whom he married in 1820, was a daughter of Dexter and Esther Thayer, of Mendon. She became the mother of six children; namely, Emily M., Tyler, Emeline, Harrison, Sena E., and Esther H.

Tyler Thayer was two years old when his parents moved from Mendon to Medfield, and he acquired a common-school education in the last-named town. At the age of fifteen he began to learn the carpenter's trade, serving about half of his apprenticeship in Medfield and the remainder in Boston, to which city he went when eighteen years old. In 1847 he commenced business as a carpenter and builder in West Dedham (now Westwood). In 1855 he removed to South Dedham. For over thirty years he was the principal builder in this town. He erected many of its finest edifices, including the Everett school, the Baptist church, and the Universalist church, that was afterward destroyed by fire. In 1886, he sold his business, and retired from active pursuits. In 1872, when the town of

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Norwood was incorporated, its name was adopted by the committee at Mr. Thayer's suggestion. He was Selectman for thirteen years, a member of the Board of Assessors for sixteen years, and he represented the town in the legislature in 1879 and 1885. His public services have been very beneficial to the community. During his last term in the legislature the charter for the Norwood Water Works was obtained. For eight years he was a director of the Norwood Co-operative Bank and the chairman of its Security Committee, and he acts as a Justice of the Peace. Since his first vote was cast for General Fremont, he has been an active supporter of the Republican party.

Mr. Thayer has been twice married. The first marriage was contracted in 1S47 with Nancy L. Shattuck, who died in 1851, leaving no children. His present wife, Lucy E. Adams, a daughter of John Adams, of Andover, Vt., has had six children, three of whom are living. These are: Alice E., the wife of James A. Hartshorn ; Norman A. Thayer, of Norwood; and Nettie, the wife of Donald B. Smith, of Provincetown, Mass.

§OSEPH SMITH, a retired farmer living at Unionville, in the town of Franklin, Mass., a son of Joseph and Mary Ann (Wallace) Smith, was born in Smithfield, now Lincoln, R.I., January 5, 1830.

Edwin Smith, progenitor of this branch of the Smith family, was a member of the Rhode Island Colony; and his son Benjamin was born in Smithfield. Benjamin Smith, Sr., had four children, namely: Sarah, born April 9, 1743, who died February 23, 1 7 5 1 ; Benjamin, Jr., born October 14, 1744; Ruth, born September 7, 1746; and Amy, born September 7, 1748. The son was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch.

Joseph Smith, Sr. , the fourth son of Benjamin, Jr., was a prosperous farmer and one of the prominent men of Smithfield. He served in the war of 1812, and was in his later years a Quaker preacher. His wife, Mary Ann, daughter of Matthew Wallace, was bom in Ireland, April 30, 1 79 1 , and was a descendant of William Wallace. By her first husband, a Mr. Lannon, she had four children, of whom the only one now living is Margaret, the widow of James Pilkington, of California. The others were: Mary A., who married a Mr. McDonald; Elizabeth, who married Daniel McDonald; and John, who married Margaret Veitch. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, Sr. , had four children : Mary Ann, born June 6, 1824, who died October iS, 1855; Benjamin, born September 12, 1826; Ruth Hopkins, born February 2, 1828, now dead; and Joseph, of whom we shall speak further below. Mrs. Smith died on the ninetieth anniversary of her husband's birthday.

Joseph Smith, the youngest-born, received but a limited education, attending a select school for a short time, as did also his brothers and sisters. He was brought up as a Quaker; and he lived at the parental home until his father's death, when he went to Illinois, where he remained ten years. In 1857 he went to Indiana, and worked as baggagemaster on a railroad for two years. Then he removed to Northern Missouri, where he carried on farming, and taught school at the same time. When the war broke out, he enlisted in Company H of the Second Missouri Cavalry, and for one year had charge of a drug store, was employed as a clerk in the Provost Marshal's office, and was detailed to enroll the militia. Being then taken sick, for three years he was unfit for work. On his recovery from his illness he bought a sorghum-mill, and carried it on while working at harnessmaking. After a few years his health broke down again; and he was obliged to leave his work in Missouri, and turn his attention to fanning. Going to Kansas in 1.S71, he took up a homestead at White Rock, which he carried on for seven years. While there he held the positions of Town Assessor and Justice of the Peace; but early in 1878, finding his health much improved, he sold out, and returned to his native town of Lincoln, R.I., where he was married June 2, 1878.

After his marriage he bought his present homestead at Unionville, known as the "Indian Island Farm," formerly owned by Charles Rowell. Being a progressive man and an intelligent farmer, Mr. Smith has made many improvements on his place, which now contains one hundred acres of good land. He was the first Postmaster and station agent at Unionville; and he still holds the former position, although he is retired from outdoor labor, and rents his farm. Mr. Smith has been a successful man in business, and owns considerable property in real estate, including several buildings in Cary village. He is a stanch Republican in politics, and has been a member of the I. O. O. F. He is a man of quiet and studious habits, and is somewhat of an antiquary, being the owner of many rare and valuable relics.

Mr. Smith's wife was before marriage Elizabeth H. Meader. Her father, Ephraim Meader, a farmer and blacksmith of Sandwich, N.H., died there, April 21, 1871 ; and her mother, Hannah Cook Meader, died May 21, 1878. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Friends' Meeting of Providence, R.I., and Mr. Smith is liberal in religious belief.

"ON. JAMES H. FLINT, the present Senator for the First Norfolk District, is a native of Middleton, Essex County, born June 25, 1852. He is a descendant of Thomas Flint, who came from England in the seventeenth century, and settled in Essex County. James Flint, his father, who was a native of Middleton, and an agriculturist by occupation, married Almira Batchelder, of North Reading, Mass.

After attending the common schools for the usual period, James H. Flint in 1S72 graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., carrying off the highest honors of his class. Then he entered Harvard University, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1876. He was at once appointed principal of the Marblehead High School, where he remained for nearly four years. Subsequently he spent six months in the office of Charles L. Flint, then the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. In 1 88 1 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Boston University Law School; and, going to New York City, he spent one year in the office of Stanley, Clarke & Smith, a prominent law firm of that city. Returning to Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk County bar in 1882, and began his law practice in Boston, subsequently opening an office in Weymouth, Mass. In 1889 he was appointed by Governor Brackett Special Justice of the District Court of Fastern Norfolk held at Quincy, in which capacity he officiated for several years. In politics he is a Republican, and he is now serving his third term as chairman of the Republican Town Committee of Weymouth. In 1887 and 1888 he was the secretary of the Republican League of the State of Massachusetts. During the legislatures of 1894, 1895, and 1896 he served as Representative from the Fifth Norfolk District, comprising Weymouth and Quincy, and during these three years was a member of the Probate and Insolvency Committee, the Committee on Street Railways: and he was House chairman. In the fall of 1896 he was elected State Senator from the First Norfolk District by a majority of forty-five hundred votes. At the present time he is chairman of the Insurance Committee and a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and on Probate and Insolvency.

Mr. Flint is a trustee of the Weymouth Savings Bank and a director of the South Shore Co-operative Bank. He belongs to the Phi Beta Kappa, one of the leading secret societies of Harvard University; to the Masonic order; to the Knights of Pythias, in which he was the State Grand Chancellor in 1895 and 1896; and to the New England Order of Protection. An able writer, he is the author of the book entitled "The Law of Trusts and Trustees," and was the editor of the wellknown American edition of "Lewin on Trusts," in two volumes. Mr. Flint has also been engaged in literary work unconnected with law. In 1889 he married Abbie E. Pratt, of Ouincy, Mass.

\ORTER S. BOYDEN, a well-known and prosperous carpenter and builder of Walpole, was born in this town, September 21, 1838, son of Maynard His paternal grandfather, Harvey Boyden, who was born in the southern part of Walpole about the time of the Revolution, served as a soldier in the War of 181 2, although no definite record of his service therein has been preserved.

Maynard Boyden was born in Walpole in 1 810. In his earlier years he was employed as a carder and spinner in this and neighboring towns. Afterward he worked at the trades of carpenter and millwright in Walpole until his death, which occurred in 1885, at the age of seventy-five years. A man of sound judgment, honorable and upright in all his transactions, he became one of the foremost men of the place, and took an active part in town matters. For six years he was Selectman, being elected on the Republican ticket, which he invariably supported. By his wife, Mary, who was born in Bedford, N.H., he became the father of four children, of whom Porter S. and Susan E. are living.

Porter S. Boyden received his education in the district schools of Walpole, in which he was a pupil until nearly seventeen years old. He then learned the carpenter's trade of his father, with whom he worked for five years. Afterward he spent an equal length of time with the firm of Willard, Everett & Co., cabinet-makers of Norwood. In 1867 he returned to Walpole to begin carpentering on his own account; and he has since continued here, having for the past thirty years assisted in erecting some of the largest and finest residences and business buildings of the vicinity. A strong Republican in politics, he is much interested in local affairs, and has served his fellow-townsmen as Assessor for six years.

Mr. Boyden was married December 30, 1866, to Julia, daughter of Asa Hartshorn, of this town. She died after a comparatively brief wedded life, leaving one daughter, Bertha E. Boyden. On July 22, 1875, Mr. Boyden married Miss Julia Ella Hale, of Lowell, Mass., who has borne him three children - Maynard H., Ella B., and Dana E. He is a member of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M., of Norwood, in which he was Junior Warden for two years ; of Keystone Chapter, R. A. M., of Foxboro; and of the A. O. U. W. He is also a member of the Unitarian parish, of which he was the treasurer for twelve years, taking a great interest in the work of that denomination. His family also attend the Unitarian church, and are active workers therein and faithful contributors toward its support.

Hyde Park, was born June 7, 1846, in Lebanon, York County, Me. His father was Simon F. Chick; and his ancestry is traced back to Thomas Chick, who probably came from England as early as 1652.

Prior to 1674 Thomas Chick married Elizabeth Spenser, grand-daughter of William Chadbourne, one of the founders of the Laconia Company's settlement at Newichawanick, now Berwick, Me. Thomas Chick, Jr., father of Aaron Chick, first, was a son of this marriage. He held lands at Kittery in 1703, and afterward in Berwick. Aaron Chick, first, was settled at Berwick as early as 1733 on lands formerly of his father Thomas. His wife was Elizabeth Clark, daughter of Samuel Clark, of Portsmouth, N. H. She became a member of the Berwick church in 1755. Aaron Chick, second, who was one of the leading citizens of his time, was born in Berwick in 1742. He served in the war of the American Revolution as First Lieutenant in the Fifth Berwick Company of the Second York

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County Regiment. In 1763 he married Mary Keays, of Salmon Falls, N. H. Among their children was Aaron Chick, third, grandfather of Charles G. Chick.

He was born in Berwick, and there grew to man's estate. In 1791 he took up a tract of wild land in the adjoining town of Lebanon, and, clearing a space in the forest, erected a log cabin for himself and little family, and began the pioneer labor of redeeming a farm from the wilderness. He bore all the privations and hardships of his rough life with brave fortitude, and in course of years had a well - improved and comfortable homestead, and was surrounded with pleasant and prosperous neighbors. He with others erected a mill, and in addition to general farming was for some years engaged in the manufacture of lumber, continuing in active pursuits until a short time prior to his death, which occurred at the age of eighty-four years. He reared eight children, Simon F. being the next in line of descent.

Simon F. Chick was born in Lebanon, probably in the log house in which his parents began housekeeping, and spent his long and busy life on the homestead, dying in 1862, at the age of sixty-five years. He succeeded to the ownership of the parental acres and to his father's occupation, carrying on lumbering and farming successfully. His second wife, whose maiden name was Ann B. Pray, was born in Lebanon in 1S10, a daughter of Chadbourne Pray, a farmer, who died in that town when Ann was about six years of age. She became the mother of five children, of whom three sons are still living, namely: Ansel; Almon H., who owns and occupies the old homestead in Lebanon; and Charles G. , the special subject of this sketch. The mother, a woman of strong Christian character and an active member of the Free Will Baptist church, died at the age of sixty-seven years. The father was for many years a town official, serving as Selectman and Tax Collector.

Charles G. Chick was brought up on the home farm, and until eighteen years old attended the winter terms of the district school. He then worked for a time at the carpenter's trade with his brother Freeman (now deceased), but at the end of two years gave it up, and, entering the Farmington Normal School, pursued the course of study and was graduated in 1868. He was then engaged for two years in teaching and reading law, and it was during this time that he established and opened the East Lebanon Academy, which he conducted for a year. Going thence to Somersworth, X.I I., for two terms he had charge of the grammar school there, at the same time being a student in the law office of Wells & Eastman, with which office he became connected in 1869, and also working as he found leisure at the carpenter's trade. Mr. Chick subsequently pursued his studies at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge until May, 1 87 1, when he entered the office of Judge Charles Levi Woodbury, of Boston, with whom he read law until admitted to the bar in December, 1871, and since that time has been associated with the Judge, who is one of the most distinguished members of the legal profession. Mr. Chick has been connected with a great many corporation cases since he began practising, and has done a good deal of Probate work. He has been the attorney in the settling of many extensive estates, among others worthy of note being the estate of Thomas W. Peirce, who left over ten million dollars' worth of property, and the million and a quarter estate of the late Harvey D. Parker. In 187 1 Air. Chick removed to Hyde Park, and has since been actively identified with the highest and best interests of this town.

He has been one of the warmest supporters of the various beneficial enterprises inaugurated in the town, and has served as one of the committee in nearly every movement of note for the past twenty-five years, often being chairman or secretary. For nine years he was chairman of the Board of School Committee and its secretary four years, and during the period of his seventeen years of consecutive service was absent from but four regular meetings, a record scarcely equalled in any city or town of the Commonwealth. He has often been called to serve as Moderator of town meetings. He assisted in organizing the Hyde Park Historical Society, of which he is curator, and has for eight years been its president. This is a rapidly growing society, having now a library of fifteen hundred books and a membership of over two hundred. Mr. Chick is a member of various fraternal organizations, including the Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Norfolk Chapter, R. A. M. ; Hyde Park Council; Cypress Commandery, K. T. ; Allon Lodge, I. O. O. F ; Knights of Honor, in whose lodge he has passed all the chairs; and the Society of Good Fellows, of Boston.

On December 16, 1874, Mr. Chick married Miss Eliza A., daughter of Edward and Eliza A. (Mayo) Marshall. Her father was a native of Milton, Mass., and lived there until 1840, when he removed to Dedham, where his death occurred in 1895, at the age of seventy-seven years. Mrs. Marshall was born in Dorchester. Her daughter, Eliza A., was born in Dedham, May 7, 1848, and was there reared and educated. After her graduation from the high school Miss Marshall taught in Hyde Park seven years, resigning the principalship of one of the largest schools of the town to become the wife of Mr. Chick. Of the two children born to them, but one is now living; namely, Francis Marshall.

Mrs. Chick is a working member of the Congregational church, being actively engaged in missionary and Sunday-school work. Mr. Chick, though not a member of this church, takes an active interest in its welfare, and is a regular attendant at its services.

The attractive home of Mr. and Mrs. Chick is ever open to receive their many friends, who are welcomed with a generous and genial hospitality.

EORGE FREDERICK BAGLEY, a \\s> I successful contractor and builder of Norwood, and a Civil War veteran, was born in Boston, July 29, 1843. His father, Perkins H. Bagley, a native of Belfast, Me., and a carpenter by trade, spent his last years in Boston, where he died at the age of seventy-three. Mr. Bagley's maternal grandmother was a lifelong resident of Maine, attaining the age of nearly one hundred years.

George Frederick Bagley acquired his education in the public schools of Boston. When his studies were completed, he learned the carpenter's trade. On May 25, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company E, First Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. The regiment arrived at Georgetown, D.C., on July 15 following, and participated in the first battle of Bull Run. Afterward Mr. Bagley was at the battle of Williamsburg, through the Peninsular Campaign, in the battle of Fair Oaks, the Seven Days' Fight, second Bull Run, and Chantilly, and, having arrived at Gettysburg on the night of July 1, 1863, participated in the memorable struggle that ensued on the following clay. From July to September his regiment was on duty in New York City to quell disturbances caused by the draft. In the spring of 1864 the First Massachusetts joined the Army of the Potomac under General Grant, passed through the battle of the Wilderness, and followed General Lee until after the battle of Spottsylvania, when, on account of the expiration of its term of service, it was ordered to Massachusetts, and mustered out on Boston Common, May 25, 1864. Mr. Bagley followed his trade in Boston until May 9, 1872, when he came to Norwood. Here, after acting as foreman in the employment of a Mr. Robbins for a time, he was engaged by Tyler Thayer, for whom he worked during the ensuing fourteen years. For nearly ten years he has very successfully conducted business as a contractor and builder upon his own account. In 1889 he erected a pleasantly located residence for his own occupancy, and his shop is situated upon an adjoining lot.

In 1866 Mr. Bagley married Lydia L.' De- Luce, a daughter of Reuben G. DeLuce, of South Boston. Of his six children, George F., Jr., Cora, and Lottie Frances are living. Cora is the wife of Lee Warren; and Lottie Frances is the wife of J. E. May, Jr. Mr. Bagley is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and he attends the Universalis! church.

ATTS H. BOWKER, a prominent lilder and contractor of Norfolk County, residing at 224 Aspinwall Avenue, Brookline, was born December 29, 1826, in Machias, Me., which was also the birthplace of his father, Watts Bowker.

The emigrant ancestor came to Massachusetts in Colonial days, locating not far from the coast. A James Bowker was living in Scituate in 16S0. Levi Bowker, the grandfather of Watts H., was born and brought up in Scituate, and served as Major in the Revolutionary War. He subsequently removed to Machias, Me., where he carried on a successful business as carpenter and joiner for many years, living there until his death, at the age of eighty-eight. He married Betsey Watts, whose sister Hannah assisted in the first naval engagement of the Revolution by carrying ammunition to the soldiers when all others refused the perilous undertaking, and later received a pension from the government for her brave services. Hannah Watts married Levi Weston, and lived to the age of one hundred and two years. The grandparents reared five daughters and three sons. Both were firm believers in the doctrines of Universalism ; and both lived to be quite old, the grandfather passing away at the age of eighty-six years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and took an active interest in the lodge to which he belonged.

Watts Bowker spent the greater portion of his life in Machias, where for a good many years he was extensively engaged as a lumber dealer and manufacturer. Afterward removing to Nova Scotia, he died there at the age of seventy-five. His wife, whose maiden name was Lydia L. Stickney, was born and reared in St. John, N.B. She survived him, living to the venerable age of ninety-four years, retaining to a notable degree her mental and physical vigor. Of her six children, all of whom lived to be more than sixty years of age, Watts H., the subject of this sketch, is now the only survivor.

Watts H. Bowker worked at the carpenter's trade with his brother from the age of fourteen years until he was twenty-one, and then was employed as a journeyman a year or so. From 1858 until 1861 he carried on business for himself in Machias, giving it up when he became a member of Company C, Sixth Maine Volunteer Infantry, in which he served as a private a short time. He subsequently joined the band of the Sixth Maine Regiment, with which he was connected two years, being honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment. Resuming work at his trade, he was engaged as a carpenter in Machias until 1869, when he came to Massachusetts. After spending a few months in Boston, he settled in Brookline, then a village of six thousand inhabitants, and has since built up an extensive and lucrative business in this vicinity. He has erected a large number of dwelling-houses in Brookline, Newton, Jamaica Plain, and Boston, and many of the large public buildings, including schoolhouses, a portion of the public library of this town, the Harvard Veterinary College in Boston, Keith's palatial residence, and the Charles Williams Building in Brookline, also the fine plant of the Brookline Gas Company.

Mr. Bowker is a Republican in politics, and takes an active part in the management of town and county affairs, rendering efficient service to the public. He was elected a member of the Board of Selectmen in 1889, reelected the following three years, and in 1894 was elected County Commissioner for a term of three years. While he was Commissioner, the beautiful county court-house in Dedham, which is one of the finest buildings of the kind in New England, was ei_ected under his supervision at a cost of four hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Bowker is a member of the Brookline Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; and Post No. 143, G. A. R.

In 1856 Mr. Bowker married Miss Julia M. Lyon, who was born in Machias, Me., a daughter of James Lyon, a well-known lumberman of that place. Her grandfather, James Lyon, who was known as Parson Lyon, was a soldier of the Revolution. Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bowker, two died in infancy, and the eldest son, Philip, at the age of twenty-one years. The three living are: Edwin P., Arthur, and Everett. Edwin P., who is in business with his father, married Miss Caroline Howe. Their only child died when young. Arthur, a druggist in Brookline, married Edna Crane, of Machias, and they have two children - Elizabeth and Julia. Everett, a prosperous physician in this town, married Miss Lulu, daughter of William J. Griggs, of whom a brief sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Their only child, William Henry Bowker, was graduated from the Harvard Medical College, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession four years. Mrs. Bowker attends the Baptist church.

SULIUS GUILD, a prosperous and wellknown farmer and dairyman of Walpole, was born in this town, March 30, 1850. A son of Samuel Guild, he is a grandson of Aaron Guild and a descendant of John Guild, the first member of the family to locate in this section of Norfolk County. Reared to agricultural pursuits, Samuel Guild spent his active life in farming and dairying. In his later years he lived in retirement, and died on the old homestead in 1892, at the venerable age of eighty-six years. He was a strong advocate of the principles of the Republican party, and for some years served as Highway Surveyor. His wife, whose maiden name was Orra Fisher, was born in Walpole. She bore him six children, of whom five are living, as follows: Samuel E., residing in Walpole; William, of Medfield; Mary J., the wife of George H. Ware; Frederick, a resident of Walpole; and Julius, the subject of this biography.

Julius Guild grew to manhood on the old home farm, acquiring a good common-school education, and becoming familiar with agriculture. He received the entire management of the farm at the age of twenty-five years. On the property, which contains one hundred acres of land, he has since carried on general farming, making a specialty of dairying. His regular crops include oats and hay. That of the latter averages about forty tons. While keeping fifteen cows, he collects milk in the neighborhood, and sells it, together with the product of his own dairy, by wholesale in Boston. For three years he was engaged in the ice business, but gave that up, preferring to attend to his dairying.

In politics Mr. Guild is an adherent of the Republican party and an active worker in local affairs. His first town office was that of Superintendent of the Streets, after which he was Selectman for eight years, serving as chairman of the board for two years. At the present time he is a member of the Walpole School Board. He is a member of Reliance Lodge and King Mount Encampment, I. O. O. F. ; of the Royal Arcanum, Spring Brook Council, No. 732, in which he has passed all the chairs, and is now chaplain; of the A. O. U. W., in which he has filled all the offices; and of the Walpole Grange, P. of H., of which he is Master. In each of these organizations he is a helpful brother, and contributes much to the advancement of their interests. He is a member of the Congregational church, of which he and his family are regular attendants. On September 9, 1875, he married Mary Ella Pillsbury, of Nashua, N.H. They have two sons - Henry E. and Waldo J.

AVID PERKINS was born at Hampton, N. H., December 27, 1827, son of David and Asenath (Batchelder) Perkins. The family is of English The first Abraham was in Hampton in 1640 at the first division of land of that town. He was noted for his fine penmanship, and was employed on public documents. The maternal ancestors were direct descendants of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, the first settled minister in Hampton, and the Rev. Seaborn Cotton, the fourth minister of the town.

Mr. Perkins, having acquired his education in the public schools of Hampton and at Hampton Academy, came to Massachusetts at the age of eighteen, and learned the carpenter's trade in Boston. He went into business in 1854, and remained a contractor until 1886, when he retired on account of poor health. In 1865 he moved to Hyde Park, where he still resides.

He was an active member of the First Congregational Society for many years, and was a member of the Building Committee for the parsonage and church. He has been a trustee and one of the Board of Investment of the Hyde Park Savings Bank since 1873. He served on the Board of Selectmen two years, the Board of Assessors three years, and on the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, also serving on many other important committees of the town. He has been a director of the Water Board since its organization, and at present he is serving as one of the Sewer Commissioners.

He has been a member of Mount Lebanon Lodge of Masons of Boston since 1862, was a member of Siloam Lodge of Odd Fellows for many years, and is now a member of Forrest Lodge of Odd Fellows of Hyde Park. When engaged in business, he was a member of the Mechanics' Exchange and Master Builders' Association of Boston.

He married in 1858 Hannah S. Dunn, of Dixfield, Me., and has had four children, three of whom are now living: Dr. John Walter Perkins, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Sarah J. Johnson, of Hyde Park; and William D. Perkins, of Seattle, Wash.

- Medfield, was born here, June 18, 1832, son of Orin and Charlotte (Adams) Wight. The father, who was also born in Medfield, always made his home in this town, carrying on the farm that his father settled in 1760. He was a man of influence, and he served his town as Selectman and in other offices. He died in 1869. The mother died in 1879. They had thirteen children, of whom eight are living in Massachusetts. These are: Mary J., the widow of William H. Colburn, in Newton; Eliza, the widow of Emery A. Wheeler, in Worcester; George H., the subject of this sketch; Margaret, the widow of William B. Hewins, in Medfield; Sarah, also in Medfield; Jonathan G., now in Medfield; Harriet H., in Wayland ; and Frederick, in Natick. Some of the children were educated in the schools of Bridgewater, Mass.

George H. Wight attended the common schools of Medfield. He lived at home for several years after coming of age, and worked with his father. In August, 1S62, he enlisted for one year in Company D, Forty-second Regiment, Roxbury City Guards. He was captured in the engagement at Galveston, Tex., and kept in prison for two months. After his discharge, at the expiration of his term of enlistment in August, 1863, he returned to Medfield. In the following year he took charge of the homestead farm, which is still his home. Besides this place, which contains about eighty acres, he owns other land. He carries on general farming with success. For several years he was employed as a land surveyor.

On January 11, 1866, Mr. Wight was joined in marriage with Miss Mary R. Adams, of Millis, Mass. She was born October 24, 1838, daughter of Edward and Keziah L. (Clark) Adams. Mr. Adams, who was born in Millis, and died September 23, 1870, followed farming as an occupation. Mrs. Adams, who was born in Milford, Mass., died January 15, 1 89 1 . Mr. and Mrs. Wight have one child, Anna M., living at home. They are attendants of the Unitarian church. Mr. Wight has always voted the Republican ticket. He belongs to Moses Ellis Post, No. 117, G. A. R.

KRANCIS EUGENE EVERETT, an enterprising provision dealer in Norwood, was born in Walpole, Mass., January 24, 1855, son of Charles Francis and Hannah Maria (Pierce) Everett. He traces his descent through a long line of ancestors to the first of them, who arrived in Massachusetts at a remote date in the Colonial period. His grandfather, Charles Everett, who was a native of Walpole, was engaged in teaming and farming.

Charles Francis Everett, Francis E. Everett's father, was born in Walpole. In his earlier years he followed the trade of an iron moulder. Subsequently he carried on a provision business until his death, which occurred when he was fifty-eight years old. His first wife, Hannah Maria Everett, who was a daughter of Amos Pierce, of Fitchburg, Mass., became the mother of three children, namely: Minnie, who died young; Ida Josephine, now a professor of rhetoric and literature in Oakland, Cal. ; and Francis E., the subject of this sketch. The second wife, Eldora Frances (Adams) Everett, bore him two sons - Henry Irving and Herbert Perry.

to assist his father in the provision store. After the death of the latter he succeeded to the business. In 1878 he moved to Norwood, where he has since carried on the same business very prosperously. He is active in public affairs, and in politics is a Republican. He is a member of the Business Men's Association; is a Past Master of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M.; is connected with Hebron Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Cyprus Commandery of Knights Templar; a charter member of Tiot Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F. ; and he belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He married Agnes M. Pratt, a daughter of Elias E. Pratt, of Norwood, and has one son, Eldon Francis.

DVVIN P. LINFIELD, M.D., of Avon, physician and surgeon, is a native of Randolph, Mass., born January 7, 1856. A son of John P. and Louisa (Fisher) Linfield, he is of English ancestry. John P. Linfield, who also was born in Randolph, was a farmer. He died December 18, 1891. His wife, a native of Walpole, Mass., died January 29, 1 87 1.

Edwin P. Linfield attended the public schools of Randolph, remaining on the home farm until his mother's death, which occurred when he was fifteen years old. Ambitious and energetic, he was not afraid to work for his education. While further acquiring it in a grammar school and an academy of Rochester, N.Y., for a period of three years, he acted as janitor of the school building. In his eighteenth year he returned to Massachusetts, locating in East Stoughton (now Avon), and took up the study of medicine with Dr. S. S. Gifford. After spending three years with Dr. Gifford, he took his medical lectures at Dartmouth College, graduating in November, 1875. He worked also to pay his college fees. Immediately after receiving his degree, he began to practise in Avon, which has now been his field of labor for nearly twenty years. An able and popular physician, he has a large practice in Avon and the adjoining towns. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

only child is George G. Dr. Linfield served for a year on the Republican Town Committee of Avon. Although he was for a year a member of the town Board of Registrars, he is not considered an aspirant to office. A member of the Baptist church, he has served as treasurer of the society and as a member of its Prudential Committee.

(S>TLBERT E. MILLER, M.D., one of h^\ the representative professional men of yd [A Norfolk County, Massachusetts, re- - ' siding in Needham, was bom in the town of Covert, Seneca County, N.Y., July 7, 1833, son of Ezekiel and Polly (Hogaboom) Miller. He is a descendant of the old New England family of Miller, among whom are a number of noted physicians and surgeons. His grandfathers were both soldiers in the Revolutionary War, and his father was in the War of 1812.

He attended the schools of his native town, spent a year at Cortland Academy; and then, being selected by the superintendent of schools to receive the benefit of the State Normal Department at Homer Academy, he spent three years in that institution. When about nineteen years of age he began the study of law with Judge Duel in Cortland, N.Y. Taking up the study of medicine a year later, he was graduated from the Syracuse Medical College in 1855, and in 1864 from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He was a private student of H. H. Smith, M.D., professor of surgery in the University, and also of the celebrated D. Hayes Agnew, M.D. At an early period in his professional career he began to lecture on public health ; and he has travelled extensively, delivering lectures in the principal cities and towns throughout the country. His lectures to pupils of public and normal schools have been especially popular. He has the finest apparatus in this country with which to illustrate these discourses, consisting of four beautiful French manikins, thirteen skeletons, and a great variety of models, plates, and drawings. For several years he has lectured regularly before the New England Chautauqua Assembly. He is professor of physiology and hygiene in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, and medical examiner of the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. The Doctor is still in active practice, having an office at his residence in Needham, and also one at 1 10 Tremont Street, Boston.

As a resident of Needham he is actively interested in all questions concerning the welfare and progress of the town. He is president of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, and has been one of the officers since its organization. He has been president of the Needham Co-operative Bank since it was chartered. He was one of the foremost in starting the Village Improvement Society, and was its first president. He has beautified and rendered fertile a portion of the town reclaimed from waste land, and built twenty-five fine houses. He was largely instrumental in obtaining from the legislature the act allowing the town of Needham to supply its inhabitants with pure water, and was chairman of the Water Committee. He has been superintendent of the First Parish Sunday-school for twelve years. Active in the temperance cause, he has been president of the Union Temperance Band for three years, and is vicepresident of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, is on the medical staff of the De Molay Commandery of Knights Templars, is Past Master of Norfolk Lodge, and member of the Eastern Star. He is also Past Grand of Elliot Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; a member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; and has several times held the office of D. D. G. M.

He is also connected with various medical societies, notably with the Gynaecological Society of Boston, the American Medical Association, and the Internationa] Medical Congress. He is also a member of the Chautauqua Literary Scientific Circle.

In politics Dr. Miller is a Republican. In 1888 and 1889 he represented the Ninth Norfolk District in the legislature, and was chairman of the Committee on Public Health. He was one of the organizers of the Home Market, Norfolk, and Massachusetts Republican Clubs, and also of the Edward Everett Hale Club, of which he is president.

to Miss Vesta Delphene Freeman, of Newark Valley, N.Y. In 1890 Dr. Miller, in company with his wife, attended the International Medical Congress at Berlin, after which they travelled extensively through Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France, and England.

Esta Delphene Miller, M.D.

ESTA DELPHENE MILLER, M.D., fe> daughter of Alonzo and Vesta K. Freeman, was born in Ketchumville, town of Newark, Tioga County, N.Y. Her maternal grandfather, the Rev. Ithamar Ketchum, a noted divine, and the Rev. Seneca Ketchum, were among the early settlers of Cortland, N.Y., where the mother of the subject of this sketch was born. The Rev. Ithamar Ketchum with his family subsequently removed to Tioga County, and there founded the village of Ketchumville and built a church, in which he preached for many years. Her paternal grandfather, Bicknel Freeman, who came from Taunton, Mass., was a teacher. Her father, Alonzo Freeman, was also a celebrated teacher. Among the Freemans are many noted physicians and surgeons.

Dr. Vesta D. Miller's brother, Dr. Alonzo Rudolph Freeman, was a private student of Dr. Hamilton, the noted surgeon; and, after graduating from Long Island Medical College, he settled in New London, Wis. He was surgeon of the Green Bay & Winona Railroad and Milwaukee & Lake Shore Railroad, and was the founder of the North-western Medical Society. A half-brother, Dr. E. F. Eldridge, is located at Grand Junction, Colorado. Their mother, the Rev. V. K. F. Eldridge, possessing in a high degree the mental and moral faculties that made her father a leader among men, and eminently fitted her for a preacher, was ordained an Elder in the Reformed Methodist Church, Springfield, Vt. Her labors in the temperance field were extended as far West as the Mississippi River.

As a child Dr. Miller was noted for decision nf character and retentive memory. At the age of ten years she could give the names, capitals, and government of all the countries in the world, the rivers of note and their length, the mountains and their heights. She was well versed in the history of the United

States, knew the names of all the Presidents, the native States of all the great men, the square miles of the lakes, the number of inhabitants of each State, and the government of each. In her girlhood she pursued a course of study at Susquehanna Seminary, Binghamton, N.Y., and later graduated from Dr. Dio Lewis's Normal Institute, Boston, and from the School of Oratory. Beginning to teach at sixteen, during vacations she taught a private school for girls. She was also a very successful teacher in the public schools.

She attended her first course of medical lectures at the New England Female Medical College in Boston in 1S65; she also attended the medical college in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her degree of Doctor of Medicine was received from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, and from the Post-graduate School in New York City. She had the benefit of special instruction in surgery and the treatment of diseases of women in the hospitals of New York. In 1890 she made the tour of England, France, and Germany, during which she visited the principal hospitals.

Dr. Vesta D. Miller is a member of the International Medical Congress, the American Medical Association, and of the Gynaecological Society of Boston. She has been professor of gynaecology and pediatrics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons since 1893, and gave the address to the graduating class two years, in 1895 and 1S96. She is a graduate of the Chautauqua Literary Scientific Circle, class of 1888, and was one of the committee to get up the class banner; is prominent also in temperance work; and has been president of the Needham W. C. T. U. since its organization. She has given lectures at the county and State conventions in the different towns and cities of the State on food, dress, heredity, effect of alcohol upon the human system, and kindred subjects. She is president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the New England Baptist Hospital, is vice-president of Board of Trustees of the Hospital, member of the King's Daughters of the Baptist church, and is connected with a number of other charities. She is a member of the Eastern Star, having been the first to join this order in Massachusetts.

Dr. Vesta D. Miller has contributed to medical literature. A paper read by her before the Boston Gynaecological Society on dysmenorrhoea was published by the society in the New York Medical Examiner. She has an extensive practice in Needham and an office at 110 Tremont Street, Boston, where she devotes two days of each week to the treatment of diseases of women.

ERBERT LINCOLN BROWN, a prosperous general merchant and the Postmaster of Beech wood, was born in Cohasset, Mass., November 9, 1855, son of Ezra and Harriet Sanford (Lincoln) Brown. His grandfather, Timothy Brown, removed from Barnstable County to Cohasset, where he followed the occupation of a fisherman and a farmer for the rest of his active period. The maiden name of Timothy's wife was Mary Wood.

Ezra Brown, who was born in Cohasset, in early life followed the carpenter's trade in this town. He established the business in Beechwood now carried on by his son, and after conducting it for some years resumed his trade. P"or about two years he worked in a casket factory at Whitman, Mass. ; and he was employed in Quincy for a year. Then he returned to this town, and was engaged in business with his son for the rest of his life. He died at the age of sixty seven years. When the post-office was established here, he was appointed the first Postmaster. He was a member of the Board of Selectmen for some time. In politics he supported the Republican party from the time of its formation. His wife, Harriet, was born in Cohasset, daughter of Thomas and Almira (Marble) Lincoln. She is a descendant of Daniel, or Sergeant, Lincoln, who was a resident of Hingharri in 1644 or 1645, who was one of the proprietors among whom the public lands were divided, and who served as a Selectman. The death of this ancestor occurred in 1699. His son, Ephraim, the next in line, who married Mary Nichols, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Whiston) Nichols, resided upon a farm at Fort

Hill. Ephraim Lincoln (second) settled on the Jerusalem Road, reclaimed a farm, and resided thereon for the rest of his life. He married Lydia Marshall, a daughter of John and Lydia (dishing) Marshall, and whose maternal grandfather was the proprietor of the estate in Hingham known as "The Big Elm." Urbana Lincoln, son of Ephraim (second), and the maternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled on Beech wood Street in Cohasset, and was there engaged in fishing and farming during his active years. Twice married, his second wife, Mary, was a daughter of John and Silence (Tower) Wheelwright. Thomas Lincoln, Herbert L. Brown's maternal grandfather, in his younger days was a fisherman and later a farmer. He married Almira Marble, (if this town, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah (Pincin) Marble. Their children were: Priscilla J., Levi, Harriet Sanford, and Thomas Lincoln. Priscilla J. and her two brothers occupy the old Lincoln homestead, and Mrs. Ezra Brown resides at Beechwood. She has reared two children - Herbert L. and Marion S.

Herbert Lincoln Brown was educated in the public schools of Cohasset. At an early age he began to assist his father in the store. About the year 1880 he became the proprietor of the business. He also succeeded his father in the office of Postmaster, and, with the exception of a short interval, has conducted both the store and post-office since that time. In politics he acts with the Republican party. He is connected with Konohasset Lodge, F. & A. M., and with Cohasset Lodge, No. 192, I. O. O. F. He married Flora Edith Wood, of Cohasset, a daughter of Charles B. and Ellen G. (Litchfield) Wood. Mrs. Brown is the mother of three children ; namely, Ethel Marion, Nellie Edith, and Ezra Harold Brown.

ENJAMIN F. BAKER, a wellknown and honored citizen of Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., is in length of service the senior Town Clerk of the Commonwealth. He has been identified with the leading interests of the town of Brookline for more than half a century, taking an active part in the establishment of its educational and literary institutions and fraternal organizations. He was born August 28, 1820, in Kennebunk, Me., being a son of John Baker, Jr., and grandson of a hero of the Revolution, John Baker, Sr., who spent the larger part of his active life in York, Me.

John Baker, Jr., was born and reared in York, Me. In the town of Kittery he learned the trade of a shipwright, which he subsequently followed for a time in Kennebunk. He afterward engaged in business on his own account as a boat-builder, continuing in this employment until his death in 1825, at the age of fifty-six years. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Towne, nine children were born, of whom Benjamin F. is the only survivor. The mother outlived her husband many years, passing away at the venerable age of eighty-eight. Both parents were members of the Congregational church.

Benjamin F. Baker was but five years of age when his father died. He remained with his widowed mother three years, but the following five years he lived with a neighboring farmer. From the age of thirteen until attaining his majority, he served an apprenticeship, after which he worked two years as a journeyman. Leaving the scenes of his childhood, he came to Massachusetts, and in 1843 settled as a painter in Brookline, purchasing a business that had been established in 181 5, and which is now one of the oldest in this part of the State. His selection of a permanent location proved very advantageous in every sense, Brookline having each succeeding year made rapid strides in regard to improvements and growth in both population and valuation. When he became a resident, the number of inhabitants was placed at twelve hundred, a small per cent, of the seventeen thousand revealed by the last census. Much of the land was devoted to agricultural purposes, two tanneries represented the manufacturing interests of the town, and two stores only were to be found within its limits. Communication with Boston was by an omnibus, which ran twice a day, making the round trip morning and afternoon.

herents of the Republican party since its formation. In 1884 he represented the town in the State legislature; and in 1852 he was elected Town Clerk, a position to which he has been re-elected each year since, giving him a record of continuous service equalled by no one in the State. For forty-six consecutive years he has served as Justice of the Peace, and during the late Rebellion he was active in recruiting soldiers for the army. In the various contests arising from the attempt to annex Brookline to Boston he was one of the most sturdy opponents of the movement, the anti-annexationists being victorious in each instance, for which the town is duly thankful. He has been an earnest supporter and oftentimes the originator of various beneficial enterprises, and was the promoter and earnest advocate of the Brookline Public Library, which is the very first established by the people known in the United States. This library has now forty-eight thousand, two hundred and fifty well-selected books, that for general reading and reference are highly appreciated, as proved by their large circulation. Of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Baker has been a member from the beginning, excepting one term, and is now secretary, a position which he has held seventeen years. He was also much interested in the formation of the Brookline Historical Society.

Fraternally, he is a Mason, belonging to Beth-horon Lodge, of which he is a charter member; and has been Master of Mount Vernon Chapter, R. A. M., and St. Omar Commandery, K. T. , of South Boston. He is also a member of Sagamore Council, Royal Arcanum. He was a charter member of the old society known as the Master Painters' Association, and also of the new Master Painters' and Decorators' Association, of which he has been president. He is likewise a trustee of the Brookline Savings Bank. In May, 1842, he united with the Baptist church, of which he has been clerk eighteen years, besides serving sixteen years as secretary of the society. He has ever taken a deep interest in the work of the Sunday-school, for sixteen years being one of its teachers.

of the six children of Nathaniel Libby, the representative of a prominent family of that State. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Baker, and three are now living; namely, Anna L, Harriet Moore, and Edward W. Anna I. married the late Harry H. Adams, who was wounded while fighting for his country at Petersburg, Va., and after the close of the war was for some years an officer in the custom-house. Harriet Moore Baker married Aaron D. Whitney, and has one child, Harry H. Whitney. Edward W., formerly a purchasing agent of the Mexican Central Railway Company, is now private secretary for the Hon. Charles F. Sprague, Representative in Congress. He married Miss Alice Souther, and has one child, Dorothy Baker.

ARON E. TUCKER, a retired merchant of Canton, Mass., was bom in this town in 1 8 1 3, son of Samuel and Caty (McKendry) Tucker. His father was the third in direct line to bear the name Samuel. His great-grandfather, Samuel Tucker, first, who was of the fourth generation in descent from Robert Tucker, of Weymouth and Milton, settled in Canton in 1752, nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. (See Tucker Genealogy.) Samuel Tucker, third, son of Samuel, second, and grandson of the first Samuel, was bom in Canton. For the greater part of his active life he carried on the trade of carpenter, being also a contractor to some extent. In his politics he was a Whig, but never held public office. He married Caty McKendry, and had nine children. A very hard-working man, he died at the age of fifty-five years.

Aaron E. Tucker, the subject of this sketch and the only one living of the nine children mentioned above, received his education in the common schools of his native town and at Middleboro Academy, which he attended two years. In his early manhood he taught school for two years in the town of Carver and later for two years in Canton. He afterward went into business with his cousin, Mr. Darius Tucker, carrying on for a year a general store in connection with tailoring. In 1841 he started for himself, opening a store for the sale of general merchandise. This business he continued with gratifying success until 1880. While thus engaged he built a large block on the main street of the town, also the house in which he now lives, and several other dwellings. After he retired from active mercantile life he built other houses and blocks, thus adding to his real estate interests.

In politics he is a Republican. He was a member of the Water Board when the waterworks were first laid out through the town, but aside from this he has never accepted public office. For twenty-five years he has been an active and influential member of the Baptist church and for a number of years a Deacon.

Mr. Tucker has been twice married, and by his first wife, Eliza A. Taber, of Randolph, he has four children, as follows: Annie E. , married to W. F. Colby; Lucius E., who married Etta P. Ropes, of Danvers ; Addie A., the wife of S. H. Capen ; and Isabel, who married A. E. De Normandie. Mrs. Eliza A. Tucker died in 1863. By his second wife, Ellen Kenrick, of Canton, he has no children. Though at an advanced age, Mr. Tucker is still hale and hearty. He has been a good citizen of the town, is widely known, and enjoys the respect of all.

Among the many interesting experiences that have enriched his long life and helped to mould and strengthen his character, may be mentioned two that stand out in his recollection with peculiar vividness.

When he was at Middleboro Academy he had a rare treat in listening to the far-famed Daniel Webster, who delivered an address on the court-house steps in Plymouth, the hall being too small to accommodate the large gathering. The subject was "The Currency of the United States." It was a masterly effort, and did much in putting him on the right track, as that was the year his name was added to the voting list.

In the year 1861, when the Rebellion had become a fearful reality and the rebels were preparing to capture Washington, he joined a party of twelve of the prominent men of Canton to visit Washington, learn more of the situation, and see the fortifications and other preparations to meet and repel the enemy.

On July 16, 1861, the war party, so called, left Canton; and, arriving in Washington, they were escorted to the White House by Charles Francis Adams, Representative in Congress, who introduced the party individually to President Abraham Lincoln. They also had an interview with General Scott, commander-in-chief of the army at that time, General Mansfield being commander of the forces at Washington, D.C. Each one of the party had a permit to visit the public buildings, and also the fortifications on Arlington Heights. They were there during the clay of the Bull Run battle, leaving for home that evening. On their arrival at New York that night, a despatch was there ahead of them saying the rebels had been brought to a standstill by our forces and fortifications, and our national capital was safe beyond their reach. The party were loud in their acclamations of joy at the result, and renewed their journey for Canton with a deep-down determination to do all in their power to prosecute the war and subdue the rebels.

Mr. Tucker has enjoyed the sea-breeze to its full extent, having visited the glades at Cohasset during the fall months for duckshooting and fishing, and passed the summer months at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, in his snug cottage, each year for the past thirty years or more.

UGENE DREW, the well-known grocer of Avon, was born in East Stoughton (now Avon), March 6, 1S45. His parents were John and Eliza A. (Haynes) Drew, the former of whom was a native of Canton, Mass., and the latter of the locality now called Holbrook. John Drew settled in East Stoughton some fifty years ago, and for a time was employed as a cutter in a shoe factory. Later he was engaged in the manufacture of boots upon his own account, and had a thriving business for a number of years. lie died January 1, 1888. A man of strict integrity, whose judgment and advice were highly valued, he was frequently called upon to settled estates. In politics he was Republican, and he figured prominently in the public affairs of Stoughton.

Eugene Drew was reared and educated in East Stoughtnn. At the age of nineteen he began to work for wages in a shoe factory. In time he acquired a good knowledge of the business. He was one of the first persons to operate a McKay sewing-machine. For several years he was foreman of the stitchingroom in the factory of Charles Smith; and for three years he was associated with his father in the manufacture. of boots, under the firm name of John Drew & Son. He relinquished manufacturing to enter the grocery business. After conducting stores in East Stoughton and Brockton for a number of years, he retired from active business for a time. In January, 1895, he again engaged in the grocery business in Avon, and is now carrying on a flourishing trade. In politics he acts with the Republican party, and is in favor of all measures likely to benefit the town.

Mr. Drew married Anna K. Hawes, of Brockton, and now has one daughter, Clara H. One of Avon's most energetic and progressive men, he has the esteem and confidence of the community.

§AMES MACKINTOSH, market gardener, a prominent citizen of Needham, the son of Ebenezer VV. and Hannah (Pratt) Mackintosh, was born in Needham, Mass., April 9, 1838. His great-grandfather, William Mackintosh, was a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary War, bearing the title Colonel. The family have in their possession a letter written by General Washington, in which Colonel Mackintosh is ordered to move his regiment to support Washington at the battle of Yorktown. One of the Colonel's sons, Ebenezer Mackintosh, was born in Roxbury, Mass., and was a hotel - keeper. His son, Ebenezer W. , born in Needham in 1798, was a farmer, and was for many years a member of the Prudential Committee of the town. He died in 1878. His wife, Hannah, who was the daughter of Paul Pratt, of Weston, was sixty-three years old at the time of her death in 1876.

with his father on the farm until he was twenty-five years of age, when he bought the place where he now lives. He makes a specialty of market gardening, selling his produce in Brookline and Boston; and he also deals in wood, which he sells principally in Brookline and Boston. Mr. Mackintosh is a publicspirited man, and has served the town in jnany different offices. In 1866 he was elected one of the four Superintendents of Streets, a position which he held for twelve years. In 1871 he was made Selectman, and served one year; and, being re-elected in 1874, he served four more years. He was chairman of the board one year, but declined a re-election. In 1881, when the town of Wellesley was set off from the town of Needham, Mr. Mackintosh was again Selectman, and helped decide the questions that arose concerning this important step. Since 1882 he has served as Selectman four years. He was chosen to represent the Ninth Norfolk District in the legislature in 1876, and was re-elected in 1877 and in 1880. During the first term he served on the Committee upon Agriculture; during the second term he was chairman of the same committee and a member of the committee on the question of woman suffrage; and during the third term he was on the Committee of Agriculture and on the Committee of Public Service. During the session of 1881, when the question of the division of the town of Needham came up, Mr. Mackintosh secured the passage of an amendment to the bill, by the terms of which the old town of Needham obtained a large appropriation under the school laws to be paid by the new town of Wellesley. Elected Water Commissioner in 1890, he served in this capacity for six years, and was chairman of the board during the construction of the waterworks. Mr. Mackintosh is an Independent in politics. He attends the First Congregational Church.

He was married in 1864 to Lizzie, a daughter of John B. Hall, of Boston. She died in 1885, leaving two children: Herbert B., born in 1874; and Wendell Phillips, born in 1879. Both of the sons acquired their elementary education in the public schools of Needham, and, fitting for college and entering Harvard, were graduated in the class of 1897. Mr.

Sidney C. Putnam T3Fographical Review

IDNEY CALEB PUTNAM, late general freight agent of the Old Colony Railroad, who died June 26, 1892, at his home in Hyde Park, December 22, 1828, in Calais, Vt. the son of Caleb S. and Elvira Putnam, and was of the ninth descent from John Putnam, who came from England with his wife Priscilla and their children, including three sons - Thomas, Nathaniel, and John - about the year 1634, and settled at Salem village, now Danvers, Mass. The line is as follows: John,1 Thomas,2 Edward,3 Edward,4 Edward,5 Caleb,6 Caleb/ Caleb S.,s Sidney Caleb.9

Thomas Putnam, son of John, born in England, married first, in 1643, Ann Holyoke, by whom he had eight children, the fifth being the first Edward named above. His wife, Ann, died in 1665 ; and he married in 1666 Mrs. Mary Veren. Joseph Putnam, the only child born of this union, was the father of General Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame. Deacon Edward Putnam, son of Thomas and Ann, born in 1654, married Mary Hale, and had ten children, the eldest, Deacon Edward, Jr., being born in 1682, whose son, Edward/ born in 1711, married Ruth Fuller, of Middleton, and shortly removed to Sutton, Mass., where he died in 1800. His son Caleb, born in Sutton in 1754, married Judith Sibley, of that town, in 1776, and removed to Croydon, N. H. Their son, Caleb, Jr., who was a native of New Hampshire, removed thence to Vermont, where he followed the trade of a blacksmith in connection with farming. He lived to an advanced age.

Caleb Sibley Putnam, son of Caleb Putnam, Jr., and father of Sidney Caleb Putnam, was born in Vermont, and resided there for many years. He finally removed to Canaan, N.H., occupied the position of railroad station agent for upward of a quarter of a century, and died there at the age of seventy. His wife, Elvira, was born in Calais, Vt., where her father was a hotel-keeper for many years. She became the mother of eight children; and Sidney Caleb, the subject of this sketch, was the secondborn. Mrs. Elvira Wheelock Putnam died in Manchester, N.H., at the age of eighty-one years. She was a Universalist in religious faith.

Sidney C. Putnam was educated in the common schools, and for some time after completing his course of study was employed as a clerk in a stove and tinware store in South Reading, Mass. He later drove a stage, but relinquished that occupation to become assistant to his father at the railroad office in Canaan, and still later was made receiving clerk at the Lowell Railroad station in Boston, where he remained over eight years. He was next employed by the Vermont Central Road to look up lost property, and while engaged in that work he travelled about one thousand miles per week. He was general freight agent of the New York & New lingland Railroad for four years, at the end of which time he became connected with the Old Colony Railroad in a similar capacity, and for twenty-two years had charge of the entire freight department, including the Fall River Line. About the year 1867 he settled in Hyde Park, and during the rest of his life he was actively identified with the town and its institutions. He was a trustee of the savings bank and a director of the water board. Sidney C. Putnam was respected for his many estimable qualities as a man and a citizen ; and his death, which occurred when he was sixtythree years old, was sincerely regretted by his fellow-townsmen and his large number of acquaintances in business circles.

On December 14, 1S51, Mr. Putnam married Hannah A. Morse, who survives him. She was born in Croydon, N.H., daughter of Samuel and Chloe C. (Carroll) Morse, the former of whom was a native of Dublin, N. H., and the latter of Croydon. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Morse, went from Sherborn, Mass., to Dublin as a pioneer, and resided there the rest of his life. John Morse, Mrs. Putnam's paternal grandfather, inherited the homestead which his father Thomas had cleared from the wilderness, and passed his entire life there. He was the father of sixchildren. Samuel Morse, Mis. Putnam's father, was a graduate- of Dartmouth College, and practised law in Croydon for fifty years, being a well-known and influential man of that region in his clay. He lived to be eighty-one years old. His wife, Mrs. Chloe C. Carroll Morse, now at the age of ninety-four years, is residing with her daughter in Hyde Park. She is a member of the Congregational church, as was also her husband. Mrs. Putnam has one daughter - Alma H., wife of Henry Stone, a clerk in the New York & New England Railway Company's service.

(An interesting account of the early generations of the Danvers family of Putnams, with copious notes in regard to distant English kin, may be found in Volume I. of the Putnam Genealogy, now in course of publication by Eben Putnam, of Salem, Mass.)

BNER ALDEN, one of the oldest exemployees of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway Company, was born in Dedham, his present place of residence, January 29, 1821. He is a son of Francis and Sarah (Crehore) Alden, and claims to be a lineal descendant of John Alden, of "Mayflower" and Plymouth Colony fame. Mr. Alden's father and grandfather were born in New Hampshire. Francis Alden, his father, for some years kept a hotel in Dedham, one of the finest in the county. He was married on June 7, 181 8, to Sarah Crehore. By this union he had eleven children; namely, Emily, Abner, Clarissa, Maria, Francis, Henry C, Sarah Jane, Elisha, Amasa, and two who died in early childhood. Francis Alden died in 1876, aged eighty-two years.

Abner Alden acquired his education in the Dedham schools, and also in his youth made himself useful by assisting in his father's hotel. In April, 1840, when he was about nineteen years old, he was appointed conductor on the Dedham branch of the Boston & Providence Railroad. This road was a primitive affair with wooden rails, the cars drawn by horses as far as Readville, where they were connected with the steam-cars running to Boston. Mr. Alden had charge of three trains per day, carrying from one hundred and fifty to two hundred passengers. He was employed in this way until 1843, when he was made railroad station agent at Dedham; and he was in office there continuously until December, 1895. In the fifty-five years of his service he saw many improvements in locomotives and cars, and witnessed the development of the enormous system of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.

Mr. Alden was married in 1855 to Miss Maria Blodgett, a native of Saco, Me., where her father was a ship-carpenter. She died leaving one son, William Herbert, born in 1857, who is now a conductor in the employ of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. He married Hattie Coombs, and has a son and a daughter. Mr. Abner Alden contracted a second marriage October 11, 1881, with Miss Adeline Blake, daughter of Henry Blake, a carpenter of Deering, Me. Her mother was before marriage Nancy Barber; and she, too, was a native of Deering. Mr. and Mrs. Blake had a family of nine children - Almira, Alexander, Charles, Jason, Edward, Martha, Elizabeth, George, and Adeline. Mr. Alden has no children by his second marriage. Politically, he favors the Democratic side. In religious belief and affiliation he is a Unitarian.

^ jICHARD HOWARD, who died at his home in Canton, Mass., January 31, 1895, left to his family the inestimable inheritance of a good name. A man of unusual steadfastness of character and purpose, industrious, capable, and trustworthy, for fifty-seven consecutive years he was connected with one of the manufacturing establishments of Canton, filling successively various positions, working his way from the lowest to the highest, in each being faithful to the duties thereof. He was born February 12, 1816, in England, and was a son of William Howard.

In 1828 William Howard sailed from England with his wife and children, and soon after his arrival in Massachusetts settled in Canton, being the first member of his immediate family to cross the ocean. He had been a gardener by occupation while in his native land; but on coming here he sought other labor, and for some years worked for Mr. Lincoln in the Revere Copper Works, remaining there until his death in 1850, at the age of sixty-six years. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Susan Beaumont, fourteen children were born, of whom but one, George Howard, of California, now lives.

Richard Howard obtained his early education in England, and coming to this country when a boy of twelve years was afforded the privilege of two years' attendance at the Canton schools. At the age of fourteen he began working in a woollen-mill, but being dissatisfied with the labor stayed there two months only. He then began working in the Revere Copper Works in a subordinate capacity, and, having served a full apprenticeship, was promoted from one department to another, finally being appointed superintendent of the works, serving in this high position for forty years. In politics he uniformly supported the principles of the Republican party.

Oh October 8, 1841, Mr. Howard married Miss Mary A. Crane, who was born in Milton, Mass., a daughter of Jesse and Susan (Brooks) Crane. Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard, three have passed to the life immortal, namely: Mary T. , who married Henry Merrill, and died in 1896; Grace A., who died in childhood; and Amelia F., who died in infancy. The survivors are: Susan VV. , the first-born, living with her widowed mother; William; and George E. The sons are highly esteemed residents of Canton, and are both employed in the Revere Copper Works, with which their father was so long associated, and in which their grandfather was also an employee. Fraternally, Mr. Howard was a member of the Blue Hill Lodge, I. O. O. F. , in which he had passed all the chairs; and of the Rebeccas. For many years he was an active member and the treasurer of the Congregational church, to which Mrs. Howard likewise belongs.

AVID H. BLANCHARD, a prominent resident of Avon and an exmember of the Massachusetts legislature from the Seventh Norfolk District, was born in East Stoughton (now

Avon), May 28, 1834, son of Henry and Susannah (Packard) Blanchard. His grandfather, Isaac G. Blanchard, was a prosperous merchant of East Stoughton. The family is an old and highly reputable one in this locality. Henry Blanchard was a lifelong resident of East Stoughton, and for many years engaged in the manufacture of boots. After a successful business career he died January 20, 1874. His wife, Susannah, was a native of what is now Brockton.

David H. Blanchard began his education in East Stoughton, later attending academies in Brockton and Woburn, Mass., and completing his studies at the age of eighteen. For several years he was associated in his father's factory, finally becoming a partner under the firm name of H. & D. H. Blanchard. When the senior partner retired, he became associated with his brother, Hiram Blanchard. The firm of D. H. & H. Blanchard dissolved in 1870, after which David H. was for a time associated in business with Bradford Blanchard. He was subsequently engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe trade in Boston until his place of business was destroyed by fire. He has dealt quite extensively in real estate. His homestead and the surrounding grounds are worthy of comparison with some of the finest rural estates in this county. Politically, he is a Republican; and his public services have been very beneficial to the community. He was formerly a member of the Board of Selectmen in Stoughton ; was active in securing the setting off and incorporation of the town of Avon ; was elected to the legislature in 1882 ; and has been a member of the Board of Water Commissioners since its organization, and is now the chairman of that body. In religious belief he is an Episcopalian. He is a member of the Commercial Club of Brockton. He married Sarah F. Lawton, of Taunton, Mass., and has one son, Henry L. , who is a graduate of Harvard University and now a student at the Harvard Law School.

Hiram Blanchard, formerly associated in business with his brother, David II., was born in East Stoughton, November 12; 1840. After reaching his majority he became a member of the firm of D. II. & Hiram Blanchard; and when that concern dissolved he was for four years engaged in the furniture and carpet business in Boston, as a member of the firm of Swan, Basford & Co. He was a Selectman in Stoughton from 1879 to 1889; and, excluding the year of 1896, since the incorporation of Avon he has served in the same capacity up to the present time, having been the chairman of the board for several years. He also served as Tax Collector and as a member of the School Board in Stoughton, and he is the present Superintendent of Streets in Avon. In politics he supports the Republican party. He wedded Mary E. Demuth, of Chelsea, Mass., and has had three children - Wallace; Mary F. ; and Gertrude. Gertrude died in infancy. Mr. Blanchard was a charter member of the Knights of Honor. He is widely and favorably known both as a business man and a public official, and is highly esteemed for his many commendable qualities.

I APT. DAVIS GRANT McINTOSH, eldest son of the late Charles Mcintosh, of Needham, Norfolk County, Mass., was born in this town in and died at Shanghai, China, on October 13, 1897. On the paternal side he was of Scottish descent. His father, Charles Mcintosh, by occupation a farmer, was born in Needham in 1829, and died here in 1893. His wife was Frances Elizabeth Mills. They reared a family of five children, namely: Davis Grant, above named ; Theodore and Charles Otis, both married and living in Needham ; Mabel Frances, a teacher of shorthand in Comer's Commercial College, Boston, living at the parental home in Needham ; and Carleton G., now in Comer's Commercial College.

Davis Grant Mcintosh in his boyhood attended the public schools of the town, graduating from the high school in 1881. A year later, yielding to his desire for a seafaring life, he set sail from Philadelphia as a cabin boy on the ship "Henry Failing," commanded by Captain Merriman and bound for Tacoma by way of Cape Horn. From Tacoma he sailed to San Pedro, Cal., then went on three voyages as able seaman, and afterward sailed to Liverpool, where he was made third mate.

Returning to San Francisco, he went back to Liverpool with another load of wheat, and was promoted to the position of second mate. When the "Henry Failing" again reached San Francisco, Second Mate Mcintosh took the opportunity to make a visit home, journeying overland to Needham. He rejoined his vessel in Liverpool; and, coming on her to Philadelphia, he was raised to the position of first mate. From Philadelphia the "Henry Failing" sailed to Japan, back to Tacoma, from there to San Francisco, and then to Australia, where she took on a cargo of coal for San Pedro. From that port she sailed for Tacoma, where she loaded up with wheat for Havre, France, and, having delivered the wheat, took on a cargo for Cardiff, Wales. From Wales she sailed to Rio Janeiro, thence to Philadelphia, from there to Japan, from Japan to the Philippine Islands, and back to Philadelphia. She then sailed for Liverpool with a load of oil ; from there to San Francisco, where she was loaded with wheat for Liverpool, and back to Philadelphia, where First Mate Mcintosh was made master of the vessel.

It was in 1892 that he made his first voyage as captain, going from Philadelphia to Japan with a cargo of oil, from there to Manila, and back to New York with sugar and hemp. In New York he left the "Henry Failing " ; and at Portland, Ore., he took command of the bark "Western Belle," owned by the same company, and returned with a cargo of spars and lumber to New York. He next went as navigator on the yacht "Alaska," owned by John A. Brooks, of New York, bound for Glasgow, Scotland. On his return to New York he went overland to California, and there, taking command of the ship "St. Nicholas," sailed to Yokohama, to Hiogo, again to New York, from there to San Francisco with a general cargo, back to New York, and then to San Francisco, where the vessel was sold, Captain Mcintosh returning home overland.