Norfolk Town (part 14 of 23)

George Robert Russell, son of the Hon. Jonathan Russell by his first wife, Sarah Ammidon, was graduated at Brown University in 1821, founding the commercial house of Russell & Sturgis, and engaged in trade with China and Manila. His wife was a daughter of the eminent Boston merchant, Robert Gould Shaw, first, and a sister of Francis George Shaw, the father of Colonel Robert G. Shaw, of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, to whose honored memory the beautiful St. Gaudens monument, which fronts the State House, was dedicated in May, 1897.

The following paragraph from Mr. Frothingham's "Life of Theodore Parker" is interesting reading in this connection : "Of Special value was the society he found at West Roxbury, a small but choice circle of elegant, graceful, cultivated people, accomplished in the arts of life, of open hearts and, better still, of humane instincts, who lived in such near neighborhood that a path from Mr. Parker's gate led directly to their gardens and welcoming doors. The fine grounds of Mr. George R. Russell lay adjacent to his own modest domain; and adjoining those, again, was the estate of Mr. Francis G. Shaw. In both families he was at home on the heartiest terms. All there were his friends, faithful, sympathetic. " slavery people. Henry Sturgis Russell, the special subject of this biographical sketch, was the second-born of a family of seven children. His parents removed to West Roxbury when he was a little child: and there he was reared and educated, fitting for college. He entered Harvard in 1856, and was graduated in the class of i860. In the spring of 1 86 1, shortly after the outbreak of the Rebellion, filled with patriotic enthusiasm, he offered his services for the defence of the Union, and on May 1 1 was appointed First Lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first new regiment to be organized in the State for three years' service. Six months later Lieutenant Russell was promoted to the rank of Captain in the same regiment, and he was subsequently commissioned Colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry. He was in the army nearly four years, in active service most of the time, and was in the Shenandoah Valley and in Southeastern Virginia. While bearing the rank of Captain, he was taken prisoner at the battle of Cedar Mountain, and was incarcerated in Libby Prison for two months; and for gallant conduct at the siege of Petersburg, Va., during the first day of which he was wounded, he was brevetted Brigadier-general. On receiving his discharge, he returned to Milton. For six years he was in the East India trade, as a member of the firm of J. M. Forbes & Co. He afterward settled on a farm in Milton, and for thirty years was engaged in stock farming. Colonel Russell's summer home is now in Milton.

In 1863 he was united in marriage with Mary H. Forbes, daughter of the Hon. John Murray and Sarah S. (Hathaway) Forbes, of Milton, and sister of the late Colonel William Hathaway Forbes. The Forbes family, like the Shaw family, is of Scottish origin, both being distinguished for patriotism, public spirit, and philanthropy. Colonel and Mrs. Russell have a promising family of five children. Colonel Russell was Selectman of the town of Milton six years, Assessor seven years. Overseer of the Poor six years, and was on the School Committee two years. A Republican politically, he was a member of Governor Bullock's personal staff three years. In

1878 he was appointed chairman of the first police commission organized in Boston, and he presided over that body two years. In January, 1895, he was appointed to the Board of Fire Commissioners of the city of Boston, then consisting of three members; anil in July following, under the new law, he was made sole Fire Commissioner of the city.

^eJT^ARLLL J. WILLIS, cashier of the Blue Hill National Bank of Milton, was born in Dorchester, Mass., on September 11, 1830, son of Solomon H. and Mary A. V. (Cripps) Willis. The family is said to be of English extraction. Jedidiah Willis, grandfather of Sarell J., was a soldier in the War of 181 2, and was for a time stationed at Sackett's Harbor. He was born in Easton, Mass., as was also his son Solomon, above named.

Solomon H. Willis learned his trade of carpenter in Milton of the veteran builder, James Campbell, serving for many years, as was the old-fashioned custom, and mastering every detail of the business. He was thorough and precise, and many of the buildings put up by him are still standing in excellent preservation. For several years he was employed at the custom-house in Boston. He resided for some time in Dorchester and subsequently in Somerville, where he died in his eighty-eighth year. His wife's father, James Cripps, who was of French descent, was in the British Naval Service under Admiral Nelson, and was in the battle of the Nile, at the siege of Naples, the bombardment of Copenhagen, and the battle of Cape St. Vincent, and at Trafalgar, where the gallant Nelson fell, and was on the flag-ship "Victory." He subsequently joined the American navy, and fought on board the "Constitution" in the fight with the "Java," a British frigate that was captured off the coast of Brazil. After leaving the service he settled at Damariscotta, Me., where he purchased a small farm. He died there at about seventy-five years of age. His wife was Hannah Savery, of Marblehead, descendant of an old family.

teen years old he began to learn the tinsmith's trade with J. P. & C. P. Tolman, of Dorchester, and after serving an apprenticeship of over four years was employed by the Tolmans for a short time as journeyman. In 1856 he engaged in business for himself at Dorchester as a worker in tinplate and sheet iron; but after working steadily for two years his health failed, and he was obliged to retire from business. Me subsequently followed his trade in Boston for three years. In 1S61 he returned to Dorchester, and engaged as journeyman with his former employer, J. P. Tolman, who had dissolved partnership with his brother and had located in Harrison Square. Mr. Willi.- worked there for over four years, covering the war [ieriod. In September, 1X65, he formed an engagement with Jarrett & Palmer, proprietors of the Boston Theatre, to go on the stage as an actor. He was in this profession for six seasons, playing during the winters in the large cities of New England and in New York, Albany, Troy, and elsewhere, and in the summer in the British Provinces, at Halifax, St. Johns, and Fredericton, and often serving as prompter and stage manager. In May, 1870, Mr. Willis went to Dorchester Lower Mills and took a position as book-keeper in a lumber business located at Harrison Square, remaining there until January, 1876. On March 1, 1876, he entered the Blue Hill National Bank, then at Dorchester, Mass., as cashier, succeeding L. J. Bispham, who had been elected president. In 1882 the bank was removed to Milton, and incorporated as the Blue Hill National Bank of Milton.

Mr. Willis is a Republican in politics, but is somewhat independent in his views. He is a well-known and public-spirited citizen of Milton, interested in town affairs and in all matters of general importance. Many years ago he served as assistant engineer in the Dorchester Fire Department.

Mr. Willis married Mary \V. , daughter of the late E. J. Bispham, former president of the Blue Hill National Bank. The Bispham family is an honored one in this section, and is said to be of English extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Willis have three children, namely, Benjamin C. ; Howard B. ; and Mary E., wife of Dr. Homer Emerson, dentist at Milton. Mr.

OVLBERT SULLINGHAM PAIGE, Inf^\ spector of Police in Brookline, Mass., _/J|A has been connected with this de- - partment of the municipal government for more than two decades, being, with but one or two exceptions, the oldest man in point of service on the force. He was born April 16, 1846, in Wellrleet, Barnstable County, this State, and reckons among his ancestors three of the prominent early families that settled at Cape Cod - the Holbrooks, the Lombards, and the Bacons. His paternal grandfather, John Barnard Paige, spent a lifetime of sixty-five years in Thornton, X.H., where he was a successful farmer. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Sullingham, lived to the age of threescore and ten years, and was the mother of fourteen children, seven of whom are now living.

John Sullingham Paige, father of Albert S. , was born in Thornton, N.IL, where he lived until eighteen years of age. Coming then to Boston, he worked in a hotel a number of years, and then engaged in business on his own account, continuing active until his death, which occurred at the comparatively early age of fiftynine years. He married Hannah Lombard, who was born in Wellfleet, Mass., the daughter of Ephraim and Eliza (Holbrook) Lombard. Her grandfather, Captain Joseph Holbrook, was one of the early and well-known pilots of that locality, and a prominent man of his times. Mrs. Hannah L. Paige is still living, a very bright and active woman of seventyseven years, and makes her home with Albert S. Paige, her only child. Both parents became members of the Universalist church in their younger days, and were active workers in that denomination. Mrs. A. S. Paige is an active member of the Baptist church.

Albert S. Paige spent the greater part of the first twelve years of his life in Boston, and obtained the rudiments of his education in the Phillips School of that city, completing his studies in the public schools of Brookline. He began earning his living as a clerk in a provision store, and was afterward engaged in a wholesale business some years, continuing in the latter until May, 1876, when he was appointed patrolman. A little later he was assigned to special duty with the rank of sergeant; and in 1888 he was promoted to the office of inspector with the rank of lieutenant, a position which he has since filled. Besides his work as a detective he has charge of all court cases, having received his appointment as court officer in 1882. He was made a Mason in Beth-Horon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Brook] ine, and is also a member of the Knights of Honor, which he joined in 1876.

On September 5, 1870, Mr. Paige married Miss Carrie E. Spencer, who was born in Eastport, Me., being one of the three children of William S. and Mary A. (Low) Spencer. Mr. Spencer conducted the business of a house painter in Eastport for several years, but removed from there to Brookline when Mrs. Paige was a young girl, and for many years was employed by B. F. Baker, of whom a brief sketch appears on another page of this volume.

Mr. Spencer was interested in all matters affecting the welfare of the town, and took part in the movement for the present public library building. Mr. and Mrs. Paige have one child, a son, Walter W. Paige, who is engaged in the real estate business in Boston.

R. SAMUEL STILLMAN WHITNEY, for many years prominent in Dedham and the surrounding towns as a leading physician, was born in Mass., son of George and Esther Whitney. George Whitney, also a native of Natick, was a farmer and a large landed proprietor. He died at the age of seventy years. His wife, who was a daughter of one of the leading families, bore him eight children, and died at the age of sixty.

Samuel Stillman Whitney passed his boyhood in Natick. His general education was received in the common schools of the town, at Leicester Academy, and at Amherst College. He had been in college two years when his health gave way. After a rest he began the study of medicine, reading first with Mrs. Whitney's father in South Natick and later with Dr. John Fisher, of Boston. He then matriculated at the Harvard Medical School. After duly graduating from that institution, he began the practice of his profession at Newton Upper Falls, where he remained for six years. He then spent a year in Europe studying and perfecting himself in medical knowledge, and acquiring practical experience in French and German hospitals.

Solicited by many of the best people to settle for practice in Dedham, he came here in 1844. He was one of the most successful physicians in this section of the State, and gained a widespread reputation for skill and ability. His practice covered a wide area and absorbed his whole time. He owned five horses, and was kept constantly active. His death at the age of forty, undoubtedly hastened by his devotion to his profession, was deeply lamented by a large circle of friends. His rare qualities of mind and heart made him the most charming comrade at all times, and in domestic life an ideal character.

Mrs. Sarah Spaulding Whitney was not only the wife but the daughter of a physician. Born in. Littleton, January 6, 1816, she comes of a family that was among the earliest to settle in Chelmsford. Her father, Dr. Spaulding, was born there, and was graduated from the Boston Medical School. He practised in Littleton and later in South Natick, where he spent the last part of his life, dying at the age of seventy-six. Mrs. Whitney's mother, Sally Whitney, was a daughter of Dr. Timothy Harrington, a practising physician of Chelmsford for many years. She was one of two children, and had only one child of her own, Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney was educated in the schools of Littleton and Natick, and in a private finishing school at Cambridge. She afterward taught school in Cambridge and in South Natick for two years previous to her marriage, which took place in 1839. She removed with her husband to Dedham, and has since resided here. Dr. and Mrs. Whitney lost two children - one who died in infancy; and Stillman Spaulding, who grew to maturity. The latter was educated in the common and high schools, and later graduated from the Boston Homceopathic School of Medicine. He settled for practice in Allston, where he remained, worthily representing his profession until his death at the age of thirty-six years. Dr. Samuel S. Whitney, the father, was a Republican in politics. He was a devout and consistent member of the Orthodox church. To keep in touch with the times, little as his leisure was, he was a constant student. He also wrote a number of valuable papers, some of which were widely copied in the English medical journals, and were read before societies of physicians and surgeons.

LLEN C. BATES, proprietor of the stove and tinware business formerly carried on in Cohasset by his father, was born in Boston, September 4, 1844, son of Samuel and Sarah (Collier) Bates. His parents were natives of Cohasset, as was also his grandfather, Samuel Bates (first), who was a prosperous merchant. Samuel Bates (second) established the stove business here in 1844, and continued it until his death, which occurred in 1S88. Naturally modest and unassuming, he preferred to devote his entire time to his business, and as a result he enjoyed an ample degree of prosperity. Politically, he supported the Republican party, and in his religious views he was a Unitarian. Of his children four survive; namely, Samuel P., Allen C, Elizabeth C, and George C. Elizabeth C. is a resident of this town, and George C. resides in Boston. The Bates and Collier families are both of Colonial ancestry, and have long been identified with Cohasset and the vicinity.

Allen C. Bates grew to manhood in this town, and was educated in the common and high schools. At the age of sixteen he began to learn the tinsmith's trade, and he continued in his father's employ until succeeding to the business in 1888. He has since added plumbing to his other business, and also carries a large stock of stoves, furnaces, tin and hardware, kitchen furnishings, glassware, and other household requisites. He is also Sealer of Weights and Measures. He is a member of Konohasset Lodge, F. & A. M. ; and Nantasket Lodge, Knights of Honor. In politics he is a Republican.

the late Paul Bates, of Cohasset, and has three children living - Paul J. and Samuel C. (twins), and Henry B. The first-born child, an infant named Allen C, died in 187-1.

HARLES H. WHIPPLE, one of the successful farmers of Bellingham, was born here, September 8, 1S45, son of James R. and Caroline C. (Cooper) Whipple. His father, a stonecutter by trade, and in later years a farmer, is now eighty-four years of age, and resides on a farm in Cumberland, where he has lived all his life. The mother, who was a native of Rehoboth, Mass., died in 1879. James R. Whipple subsequently contracted a second marriage with Catherine Gallagher, a native of Ireland. His children, all by his first wife, were: Marcus E., now residing in Cumberland; Artemus L., a farmer of Cumberland; Augustus, who died in infancy; and Charles H., the subject of this sketch. There were no children by his second marriage.

Charles H. Whipple received a commonschool education. At the age of fifteen, when the Southern Rebellion broke out, he ran away from home, and enlisted in Company I, Fourth Rhode Island Regiment, under Colonel J. I. McCarty and Captains Lapham and Morse. With his regiment he fought at Roanoke Island and Newbern; participated in the siege and capture of Fort Macon ; was at Blackwater and the capture of Fort Hill; and fought at White House Landing, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, second Bull Run, and the battle of the Wilderness. After the last-named battle he was with the Army of the Potomac at Petersburg. In the battle of Antietam Mr. Whipple received a ball in the thigh. At the battle of Fredericksburg he was wounded by a shell fragment, which struck him on the head, disabling him for five weeks, without forcing him into the hospital. After his discharge in Providence, R.I., in October, 1864, he re-enlisted in the Second United States Veteran Volunteers, Company G, and was finally discharged on March 7, 1866. After a short stay at home he went to Woonsocket, and was engaged in teaming there for about eight years. In 1877 he removed to Blackstone, Worcester County, where he spent seven years employed in driving a butcher's wagon through the country. In 1884 he removed to his present place of residence at Bellingham, continuing to deal in meats for about two years, afterward devoting his entire time to farming and teaming.

In September, 1869, during his residence in Woonsocket, Mr. Whipple married Miss Carrie J. Lapham, who was born in 1849, daughter of Lawton and Laura (Darling) Lapham. Her father was a machinist by trade. She died December 28, 1875, leaving two children: Rupert L., who married Nellie Webster, resides in Providence, and is a fireman on the railroad; and Ethel, who lives at home with her father. Mr. Whipple married again on September 1, 1880, Miss Julia M. Toomey, of Jefferson County, New York, who was born June 25, 1859, daughter of Thomas and Anna M. (Gilson) Toomey. Her father was a shoemaker of Woonsocket. The present Mrs. Whipple has had seven children - Carrie L. , Bertha M., Clara, Mabel, Charles, Frederick, and Hazel. Clara and Hazel are dead. The others reside at home.

Mr. Whipple now owns one hundred and thirty acres of land, which he has improved with new buildings, etc. He is one of the most enterprising farmers in the vicinity, in addition to his general farming carrying on a large dairy business and dealing largely in poultry. He runs a cart daily to Woonsocket, and has an extended milk route. He is an Independent in politics. A member of the Masonic order, he belongs to Blackstone River Lodge, No. 4, of Blackstone, Mass. ; to the Knights Templar Commandery of Woonsocket ; and to the Royal Arch Chapter, No. 5.

Me. Born in July, 1846, son of Joseph S. and Mary E. (Alexander) Drinkwater, both natives of Maine, his paternal great-grandfather was a naval officer in the war of the Revolution, while his maternal grandfather took an active part in the War of 18 1 2, and was at the battle of Plattsburg. The father manufactured leather, owning a tannery at Brunswick, Me., and was prominent and active in the politics of his county.

After attending the high school of Topsham for a time, A. C. Drinkwater finished his early education at the Edward Little Institute in Auburn, Me. In 1863 he enlisted for service in the Civil War in Company K of the First District of Columbia Cavalry, which in 1864 was added to the First Maine Cavalry. He afterward fought in the Wilson raid, took part in the action before Richmond and Petersburg, and assisted in the capture of the Weldon Road. Taken prisoner by the enemy at the last-named place in November, 1864, he was subsequently confined in Libby Prison until March, 1865, when he was duly exchanged. Shortly after he joined his regiment at Annapolis, and was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. He was mustered out of service July 6, 1865, and received his honorable discharge. After spending some time in his native State, he came to Braintree in 1868, and established the business which he has since prosperously carried on in this town. His tannery is located on the Monatiquot River, which is well adapted for tanning purposes. Having learned the business in his father's factory, he thoroughly understands every branch of the industry. He tans fine sole leather after the method known as the "Drinkwater process."

Colonel Drinkwater married Susie H. Brocklebank, of Bridgton, Me., and has four children now living. These are: Milard F., Horace R., Elsie E., and Helen V. Since 1867 he has been identified with the Masonic order. He was a delegate to the State Democratic Convention for twenty consecutive years, and during that time he served as treasurer and chairman of the State Committee. In the years 1880 and 1884 he was delegate to the National Democratic Convention, and in 1883 he served as Aide-de-camp, with the rank of Colonel, on the staff of General Butler, then the Governor of Massachusetts. He has served on various committees of the town of Braintree, is a Water Commissioner, a member of the School Committee, and a mem-

ILLIAM QUINCY FISHER, who was a carpenter by trade and a tarmer in Medfield for many years, was born here, July 27, 1809, son of Quincy and Ame (Allen) Fisher, both of whom were descendants of old families here. Quincy Fisher, son of John, was a man of much mechanical ability, whose principal occupation was that of carpenter. He died in Medfield in 1824, aged forty-eight years. His wife died in 1870. They were the parents of eight children, namely: Ame, born in 1802, who died in the same year; William, born in 1803, died in 1806; and Ame (the second of the name), born in 1807, died in the same year; William Quincy, the subject of this sketch; Ame A., born in 181 1, who married John Ellis, and died in i860; Miriam, born in 1814, who died in 1815; Miriam (second), born in 1S17, who married Henry P. Bruce, and died in 1895; and John, born in 1S20, who died in 1820.

After receiving a district schooling, William Quincy Fisher began learning the carpenter's trade. Subsequently he worked with his father until the latter's death. Then he took charge of the old farm, and carried it on for the rest of his life. He died here, October 15, 1886, in his seventy-eighth year. His was a well-spent life, and he was highly respected by all with whom he came in contact. He took much interest in politics, supported the Democratic party, and cast his first Presidential vote for Andrew Jackson in 1832. He served the town in the capacity of Selectman for a number of years.

On February 4, 1841, Mr. Fisher married Miss Mary L. Harding. She was born in Medfield, June 7, 1S17, daughter of Oliver and Sarah (French) Harding, who were natives respectively of Medfield and Dedham. Her father, whose chief occupation was marketing, died in 1822, at the age of fortysix. The mother died in 1877, aged ninetysix years. They had five other children, namely: Nathan, born in 1809, a brush manufacturer, who married Mary Harmstead, and died in 1895; Henry, born in 181 1, who married Mary Russell, and died in 1881; Sarah, born in 1812, who became the wife of William Forbes, and died November 2, 1896; Joseph, born in 18 14, who married Ellen Hastings, and is now deceased; and Hannah, born in 1820, who married Amos W. Shumway, of Dover, and now lives in South Natick. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher had two daughters: Mary E., born December 24, 1841, who has always resided in Medfield; and Sarah H., born September 26, 1843, who married George W. Bruce in 1876. They all live with Mrs. Fisher. Three great-grandfathers of these ladies fought in the Revolutionary War. Miss Mary E. Fisher is a member of the Medfield Historical Society, in which she takes great interest. Mrs. Fisher attends the Unitarian church of Medfield, to which her husband used to accompany her before his decease.

Ev. Charles Edward Beals

EV. CHARLES EDWARD BEALS, pastor of the Congregational Church of Stoneham, Middlesex County, Mass., is a native of Stoughton, Norfolk County, where his great-grandfather Beals settled seventy years ago and more, and where his grandfather, Jedediah Beals, is now living, a venerable octogenarian, born in 1813, he being of the seventh generation of the family in New England.

An examination of the historical data relative to the Beal (or Beals) name brings us face to face with one of the oldest families in America, for among the builders of the western republic must be reckoned the Beal progenitor and his offspring.

The early home of the Beals was England. Aside from tradition, which affirms the existence of the name in the days of William the Conqueror, aside from certain facts which seem to indicate that the family name was contemporaneous with, if, indeed, it did not antedate the Norman Conquest, there is an abundance of authentic historic evidence sufficient to establish indubitably the high antiquity of the family. We find traces of the name in some of the oldest public and official documents extant in England. But it is with

Two hundred and thirty years ago William Stoughton, afterwards Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and whose name this town now bears, in his famous election sermon of 1668 said, "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness." Among the choice spirits of his day, whom the God of nations had called to leave home and native land to battle with the austerities of bleak New England's wilderness, was the venerable John Beal, of Hingham, since famous as the patriarch of an almost innumerable tribe which has overspread America.

The fourth town clerk of Hingham, Mass., Daniel dishing, left on record the following: "A list of the names of such persons as came out of the town of Hingham and towns adjacent in the county of Norfolk, in the kingdom of England, into New England, and settled in Hingham in New England . . . 1638. John Beal, shoemaker, with his wife and five sons and three daughters and two servants, came from Old Hingham, and settled at New Hingham." (New England Historic Genealogical Register, vol. xiv. p. 26. See also History of Hingham.) It was on the 10th of August, 1638, that the ship "Diligent," of which John Martin was master, arrived at Boston, having on board the above-named persons.

No doubt John Beal was led to select Hingham as the place for his new home, by the fact that his brother-in-law, the Rev. Peter Hobart, a fearless and devout man, was located there as pastor. Soon after taking up his abode there, John Beal received a grant of land from the town, and on March 13, 1639, took the "freeman's oath" and was admitted to the freedom of the Massachusetts Colony. In 1649 and again in 1659 John Beal represented the town of Hingham in the General Court of the colony, as we may learn from the public records of those early days.

That this pioneer sire lived to a ripened age may be inferred from the following entry in Judge Samuel Sewall's well-known "Diary": "April 1, 1688. Father Beal, of Hingham, dies, at. 100"; and under the same date David Hobart, son of the Rev. Peter Hobart, writes, "My uncle, John Beal, died suddenly." From the above, it would appear that John Beal was born in England about 1588. As has already been intimated, he married into the Hobart family: for his first wife, who was the mother of his ten children, was Nazareth, the daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Hobart. She was born in England about 1600, and died in Hingham, Mass., September 23, 1658. For his second wife John Beal married, March 10, 1659, Mrs. Mary Jacob, widow of Nicholas Jacob.

The fourth child and eldest son of John and Nazareth (Hobart) Beal was John Beal, Jr., who was born in England about 1627. He married, first, January 6, 1658-9, Elizabeth - . who died February 1, 1659-60.

He married, secondly, November 14, 1660, Mary Gill, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Otis) Gill. John Beal, Jr., died September 12, 1695, aged sixty-seven years. He was a carpenter by trade. Eight children were born to John Beal, Jr., one only by his first wife.

Thomas Beal, the youngest son of John and Mary (Gill) Beal, was born in Hingham, March 15, 1671-2. His wife, whom he married June 13, 1 7 10, was Jael Remington, daughter of Thomas and Remember (Stowell) Remington. About 1726 Thomas Beal removed with his family to Newton, where he died September 14, 175 1. Old-time families were heroic in size. That of Thomas Beal was no exception. An even dozen of children came into his home, nine being born in Hingham.

Israel Beal, the ninth child and third son of Thomas and Jael (Remington) Beal, was born in Hingham, April 25, 1726. By the removal of his father to Newton in the same year, he became one of the rising young inhabitants of that place. In 1748 he took for his wife Eunice Flagg. It is said that Israel Beal at one time was of Waltham. In 1770 we find that he was a resident of Dorchester, and in 1790 the Braintree records narrate the fact of his being "warned from town." A portion of the town of Braintree was incorporated as the town of Randolph in 1793. Israel Beal thus became a resident of the new town, for his home was in the easterly part of the town, near the Weymouth line, in what is now known as the town of Holbrook. Here he toiled as a farmer. Here, too, may be found his gravestone, erected by his great-grandson, Colonel Eleazer Beal, third, of Randolph, bearing the date of 18 10 (though Alden, in his Sketches of Randolph, fixes the time of his death a year later). These were the days that "tried men's souls." Israel Beal and his sons faithfully shared the perils and privations of the Revolutionary patriot's lot; and their honorable records may be found in the Massachusetts archives and in the first volume of "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," recently issued by the old Bay State.

Eleazer Beal, the second son and fourth child of Israel and Eunice (Flagg) Beal, was born in Newton, July 9, 1758. We find in the official documents of Dorchester the intention of marriage of Eleazer Beal and Sarah French recorded March 17, 1778. Sarah French was the daughter of Joshua and Esther French. She was born December 14, 1760, and died February 21, 1825. Eleazer Beal died March 28, 1819. During the latter part of his life he lived on Main Street, Randolph, in the Linfield neighborhood. By occupation he was a farmer and shoemaker. A perusal of the official Revolutionary documents previously mentioned reveals the fact that Eleazer Beals was in most active service in the patriot ranks for a long period of time. The sacred number seven represents the number of children of Eleazer and Sarah Beal. Of these one daughter married Isaac Blanchard, and they became the ancestors of the wellknown Blanchard family of Avon.

With the children of Eleazer Beal comes the introduction of the name into Stoughton, and, we may also note, the additional letter in the patronymic. Isaac Beals born in Randolph, December 7, 1783, removed to Stoughton, "and was the first man to introduce the manufacture of boots in that town, which business he followed a number of years. It is now largely carried on at the present day. At the introduction of the manufacture of boots at Sing Sing State Prison, N. Y. , he was called to take charge of the establishment, and oversee the business. He continued there until ill health compelled him to leave. He served in the War of 1S12" {New England

Historic Genealogical Register, vol. xiii. p. 1S1). He died January 14, 1859. He was twice married, and a number of the residents of Stoughton are descended from him.

Jedediah Beals (Eleazer,5 Israel,4 Thomas,3 John,2 John'), the fifth child and third son of Eleazer and Sarah (French) Beal, first saw the light of day in Randolph, March 17, 1787. He settled, perhaps about 1825, in Stoughton. He married Phebe Wales, daughter of Joshua and Sally (Porter) Wales. Jedediah Beals was a shoemaker. After coming to Stoughton, he resided first in the "Light-house" neighborhood, then in a house adjoining what is now C. A. Brown's fancy and dry-goods store. Later his home was on Prospect Street. He was a kind-hearted gentleman, attaining the age of ninety-three years and six months, passing away September 17, 1880, at the home of his son, Jedediah Beals, Jr., on Prospect Street, where his declining years had been spent in tranquillity. His wife was born June 21, 1793, and died April 13, 1872. Jedediah Beals was a remarkable old man, and after he was ninety years old delighted in the use of rod and gun, putting the younger Nimrods and disciples of good Isaac Walton to shame by bringing down rabbits and squirrels with unerring aim and invariably securing the largest strings of fish. In his younger days he "trained" with the militia, and no doubt covered himself with glory at those famous musters of ye olden time. His greatgrandchild vividly recalls his fascinating tale of the excitement in 1812. The alarm being given, as the people were assembled in church in Randolph on the quiet Sabbath, that the British were about to land at Hingham, this young militia-man responded with his comrades to the call of duty. The hasty march to Hingham was marked with tears and doughnuts, for the women along the route, while feeding the gallant heroes, bemoaned the fact that perhaps they should never behold them again. But most of the troubles anticipated in this life never come to us, and it was so in this case; for, after all, the redcoats deemed discretion to be the better part of valor, and prudently sailed away.

a well-known and respected citizen of this town. Born in Randolph, January 26, 1813, he early learned the trade of shoemaking. The removal of his father to Stoughton brought him hither. By his industry, frugality, and unswerving integrity he gathered together a sum sufficient to establish himself as a manufacturer of boots and shoes. He also entered the dry-goods and grocery business in the store now occupied by Mr. Henry Albert Drake on Pleasant Street. By his excellent business sagacity, his sterling honesty and unflagging attention to the needs of his customers he attained a competency, and retired from business about 1865. He built the large house on Prospect Street in which he has made his home for more than thirty years. In 1879 he began the manufacture of knit goods, which business he carried on with success until recently, when he retired on account of advancing years. He married September 16, 1838, Laura Ann Gay, daughter of Jesse and Susan (Howard) Gay. She died June 8, i860.

Of the seven children born to Jedediah and Laura Ann Beals, but one attained to years of maturity. This was Charles Emery Beals. He was born in Stoughton, February 5, 1843. At an early age he became a merchant, entering into partnership with Mr. Henry Albert Drake. He married July 30, 1865, Miss Susan Fisher, daughter of Henry and Mary Tilden (Upham) Fisher. Two children resulted from this union. Charles Emery Beals died May 23, 1869. Mrs. Susan Beals, surviving her husband, resides in the home of Mr. Jedediah Beals on Prospect Street.

Susie Laura Beals, daughter of Charles Emery and Susan (Fisher) Beals, was born in Stoughton, September 23, 1866. As a student in the public schools of her native town, she gave unusual promise, easily leading her classes and commanding alike the admiration of her classmates and the love of her teachers. She was the valedictorian of the class of 1884, Stoughton High School. She also graduated from the Girls' High School of Boston, in which school she likewise pursued a postgraduate course. She married April 20, 1890, William Harvey Clifford, son of Kilborn R. and Arminda (Eames) Clifford, of Stoughton.

One child was the fruit of this marriage; namely, Charles William Clifford, born in Stoughton, December 22, 1893. After nearly three years of suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, from which relief was sought in vain by a Southern trip, she passed away August 16, 1897. Hers was a rare, beautiful character, ripened and mellowed by the months of weary agony. During her protracted illness her thoughts were constantly for the welfare of others. Many were the helpful, sympathetic, cheering letters which emanated from her sickroom, and which remain to testify to the depth and genuineness of her Christian character.

Charles Edward Beals, the younger child of Charles Emery and Susan Beals, was born in Stoughton, July 15, 1869. Educated in the public schools of Stoughton, he graduated from the high school in 1885 as salutatorian. For four years he studied mechanical engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He was graduated from Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N.J., in

1892, being selected as one of the commencement speakers. During the summers of 1889, 1890, and 1 89 1 he supplied the Methodist churches of Washington, R.I., Hingham, Mass., and West Abington, Mass., respectively. Entering the New England Southern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in April, 1892, he was appointed to the Emmanuel Church, Mansfield, Mass., which pastorate he filled for four years. During one of these years he also served as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Foxboro. He was ordained Deacon at Plymouth in April,

1893, and Elder at Brockton in April, 1894, passing the four years' examination in two years. He was secretary of the Providence District Ministerial Association for two years. He was first vice-president of the Providence District Epworth League for one year and president of the same association for one year. He was appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Phenix, R.I., in April, 1896. In July of the same year he resigned from the ministry and membership of the Methodist Episcopal church on account of dissatisfaction with its polity. He at once accepted the pastorate of the Maverick Church Chapel, East Boston, becoming assistant to the Rev. Smith Baker, D.D., of the Maverick Congregational Church of that city. In July, 1897, receiving a unanimous call from the Congregational Church of Stoneham, Mass., he accepted, assuming the pastorate August 1, and being formally installed by an ecclesiastical council, September 16, 1897.

Mr. Beals is a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society and of the Stoughton Historical Society. He married June 30, 1892, Miss Nellie Vernon Drake, daughter of Ebenezer H. and Phebe S. (Limn) Drake, of Stoughton. They have two children: Helen Drake Beals, born in Mansfield, January 5, 1895; and Charles Edward Beals, Jr., born in East Boston, July 20, 1896.

LBERT HEDGES and CLIFEORD J. HEDGES, machinists and bicycle manufacturers, are among the most energetic and enterprising young business men of Foxboro. Both were born in the town of West Upton, Worcester County.

James Hedges, the father of these gentlemen, was born and reared in England. He came from there to Massachusetts when about twenty-nine years old. Locating in West Upton, he was engaged at his trade of machinist in Knowlton's straw shop, having charge of the machines and the general supervision of the works for a number of years. In 1882 he went to Adrian, Mich., becoming the junior member of the firm Royston & Hedges, workers and dealers in straw goods. Very prosperous for a time, this firm, which was one of the first of the kind in the West, eventually sunk owing to the methods of Mr. Royston. James Hedges then went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he was the superintendent of the large straw works of Mr. Slocum for about a year. Not liking the place very well, he then returned East, coming direct to Foxboro, where he has since been employed in the straw manufactory of Caton Brothers & Bixby, one of the leading firms of the county. He and his family are stanch Republicans, and he belongs to the fraternities of Masons and Knights Templar. On July 23, 1859, he was married to Miss Sarah J. Mullings. She has had seven children; namely, Annie, Jennie,

Emma, Albert, Flora, Clifford J., and James. James is deceased. Annie is the wife of Henry Drake, and lives in Winslow, Ariz. Jennie is the wife of Edward Cleveland, of Adrian, Mich., and has one son, Oil ie. Clifford J. was born September 19, 1876. The father recently erected a fine residence on Central Street, not far from the machine shop of his sons.

Albert Hedges married Bessie Butterworth, of Foxboro, and has one child, Barbara. In 1893 he opened this shop for the building of bicycles. Here the brothers make a wheel known as the "Hedges," which has found great favor in the market. Besides repairing they execute all kinds of light work, and have an extensive trade in custom-made bicycles. Albert was one of the swiftest riders in the country on the old high wheel. In Michigan he was the champion of the State, and he has been the leading rider of Norfolk County. He was known all over the country as a daring and fearless bicyclist; and at one time he beat the world's champion, Zimmerman, in two races, one a scratch race and the other a handicap. He has a large number of medals and trophies won in bicycle races, a part of them having been gained when he rode in the racing circuit for the Pope Manufacturing Company.

TEPHEN T. ROCKWOOD, who owns and cultivates a productive farm in Norfolk, was born in this town, January 18, 1841. A son of Benjamin and Sarah R. (Pond) Rockwood, he belongs to one of the oldest families in this section. His farm was formerly a part of that occupied by his grandparents, Benjamin and Lucy M. (Ware) Rockwood, who were natives of Wrentham. The former served as an Assessor for a number of years.

The father of Stephen T. was born at the homestead, November 4, 181 2. He followed the trade of carpenter for many years, and tilled the soil of the home farm, which he purchased from the original homestead. He died March 27, 1855. Sarah R. Rockwood, his wife, who was born in Wrentham, Mass., January 18, 1 81 5, became the mother of seven children, as follows: Benjamin H., born February 20, 1839; Stephen T., the subject of this sketch; Sarah M., born August 5, 1843; Nathan H., born March 22, 1846; Eunice A., born October 27, 1848; Elisha born March 16, 1851; and Elijah C, born October 9, 1853. Benjamin, who is a box-maker, and resides in Westboro, Mass., wedded Mary D. Fuller; Sarah, now deceased, was the wife of Horace Briggs, who resides in California; Nathan, who successively married Sarah E. Pond and Hattie Louisa Barden, is residing in Norfolk; Eunice is the wife of James T. Adams, a merchant in Medway village, Mass. ; Elisha, who is a miller, and resides in Norfolk, married Louisa Clark; Elijah died March 2, 1858, in his fifth year. The mother, who is now eighty-three years old, resides with her son, Stephen T.

Stephen T. Rockwood attended the common schools. He has not been absent from the homestead for any length of time, with the exception of two seasons spent as a farm assistant in his younger clays. At the age of twenty-two he took charge of the farm, which eventually came into his possession. He has since devoted his fourteen acres of land to dairy purposes and the raising of poultry. He also deals in fertilizers and agricultural implements, acting as local agent for several well-known manufacturers.

On January 4, 1863, Mr. Rockwood contracted his first marriage with Caroline E. Hill. She was a daughter of William A. and Henrietta (Lawrence) Hill, prosperous farming people, both of whom are now deceased. She received a severe shock from lightning, August 29, 1868, from the effects of which she died April 7, 1869. She left two children - Cora F. and George P. Cora F. is the wife of Harry S. Mason, of Medfield, Mass., and has one child, Marguerite. George works in a straw factory in Wrentham, Mass. Mr. Rockwood's second wife, whom he wedded September 27, 1870, was Mary E., daughter of Russell and Adeline E. (Babcock) Haynes, born in Acton, Mass., November 27, 1848. Her father died in 1859, and her mother on July 19, 1897. To this union were born three children, namely: Bernard R., on March 12, 1872; Harold S., December 24, 1884, who died August 4, 1887; and Marion S., on August 6, 1892. Bernard R., who is a bookkeeper in Franklin, Mass., married Ada Lawrence. Their children are: Mildred L., born in April 14, 1893; Marjory E., born June 29, 1895; and Arthur L., born June 5, 1897. Mr. Rockwood has served with ability as an Assessor and a member of the School Board. In politics he is a Republican. He is connected with Norfolk Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Both he and Mrs. Rockwood are active members of the Congregational church.

DWARD L. UNDERWOOD, a highly esteemed resident of Canton, Norfolk County, is one of the corps of instructors in the private classical school of J. P. Hopkinson on Chestnut Street, Boston. He was born in that city, July 23, 1859, being a son of Edward Dana and a descendant, in the seventh generation, of Richard Dana, who settled in Brighton, Mass., in 1640.

Edward Dana, a son of Aaron Dana, was born and bred in Boston, where, until his death in 1866, he was a commission merchant in Quincy Market. He married Elizabeth Hopkins Saunders, a daughter of Samuel Little Saunders and Mehitable Saunders, the only child of their union being Edward Livingston, the special subject of this brief biography. The father was a Democrat in politics until 1859, but after that time he was a firm adherent of the Republican party.

Edward Livingston Dana was adopted a few years after the death of his father, by Dr. William E. Underwood, his step-father, a prominent physician and active politician of Boston, who was for two years in the legislature and for many years a trusted and honored member of the Boston School Board. His name was at that time legally changed to Edward Livingston Underwood, by which he has since been known. He attended the public schools of Boston, the primary, grammar, and Latin, afterward entering Harvard College, from which he was graduated in 1882. The following two years he was engaged with E. Allen & Co., jobbers of wool. In 1884 he began his professional career, teaching first for a term of three months at Rockport, going from there to Bernardston, Mass., as a teacher in Powers Institute, in which he remained until 1890. Coming then to Canton, Mr. Underwood was principal of the high school of that town two years, when he accepted his present position with Mr. Hopkinson. In addition to this regular work he is actively engaged in private tutoring for college preparation, in which occupation he has been eminently successful.

Mr. Underwood has been identified with the Republican party since attaining his majority, and takes genuine interest in local and national affairs. In the advancement of educational and literary matters he has taken an active part, and is a member of the Canton School Board and a trustee of the public library. He is an enthusiastic worker in Masonic circles, being secretary of Blue Hill Lodge, F. & A. M. ; a member of St. Matthew's Chapter, R. A. M., of Boston; of Hyde Park Council of Royal and Select Masters; of St. Omer Commandery, K. T. , of Boston; and of Aleppo Temple, A. O. M. S., of that city.

Mr. Underwood was. married July 23, 1885, to Lucy Merrill, a daughter of William Whittle Merrill, of Roxbury. They have three children; namely, Edward Dana, Helen Dana, and Robert White Dana. Mrs. Underwood is a direct descendant of Peregrine White, distinguished as being the first child of the Pilgrims born after their arrival in America, his birth having occurred on board the "Mayflower." Mr. Underwood and his family attend the Unitarian church.

"ON. MILTON METCALF FISHER, the eldest son of Willis Fisher, Esq., and Caroline Fairbanks, was born at South Franklin, Mass., January 30, 181 1. His ancestry on both sides is purely English, and is traced through his grandparents, Joseph and Susan, both Fishers, in two lines: through the latter and her father, the Hon. Jabez Fisher, to Thomas Fisher, a native of Winston in Suffolk County, England, who emigrated to Cambridge, Mass., with wife and three children in 1634; and through the former to Anthony

Fisher, of Syleham in the same county, who did not emigrate, but sent his son Anthony, wife, and five children, with three young grandsons - Joshua, Jr., John, and Daniel - all of whom came to Dedham in 1637, while Joshua, Sr., and wife and three children, coming in 1640, settled in Medfield in 1650. Thomas and his family removed from Cambridge to Dedham; but their exact relationship to the Dedham Fishers is not yet known, though probably it was not very remote.

From this nucleus of nineteen Englishborn Fishers, with few stray exceptions perhaps from the British Provinces, have descended all the Fishers of the Northern and most of the Western States. The history of Captain Daniel Fisher, of Dedham, as Speaker of the General Court and Governor's Assistant, and of his son Daniel in his arrest of the famous Sir Edmund Andros, is well known. The twenty years' public service of the Hon. Jabez Fisher as Councillor, member of the Provincial Congress, Representative and Senator, are matters of record in the archives of the State.

The subject of this article was fitted for college at Day's Academy, Wrentham, Mass., and in 1832, with a view to the ministry, entered Amherst in a large class with the future Governor Bullock, the Hon. E. H. Kellogg, Judge Kellogg, of Vermont, Dr. Nathan Allen, of Lowell, and the Hon. and Rev. Edmund Dowse; but on account of ill health he left college the next year. He began teaching school at the age of sixteen. In 1832 he taught the first classical school in Randolph, preparing in part some twenty young men for college, many of whom are leading men in various parts of the country, four each in the three common professions.

In 1835 he was a trader in Franklin. Removing in 1836 to Westboro, he continued the business there and in West Upton, having married the eldest daughter of the Hon. Luther Metcalf, of Medway, in 1836. In 1838, after a most persistent contest on the ground that he was an abolitionist, he was appointed Postmaster of Westboro. Mr. Fisher, having voted for Van Buren in 1836, and being indorsed by the Democratic Committee and others as "honest and capable," Amos

Kendall, then Postmaster-General, for once sadly disappointed the proslavery element. In 1840 Mr. Fisher removed to Medway, and, establishing the manufacture of straw goods, continued the same until 1863. He was the first secretary and treasurer - and for many years - of the American Straw Goods Association, and was deputed to Washington to adjust the revenue tax upon the straw goods business with Governor Boutwell, the first Revenue Tax Commissioner, in 1861.

On retiring from this business, he established an agency for insurance, officially representing the leading companies, both American and foreign, and controlled the largest risks in the vicinity for many years, his son, F. L. Fisher, being associated with him since 1878 to the present time.

In 1840 he was elected a Deacon in the village church, a title and an office by which he has been familiarly known through life. As pupil, teacher, and superintendent he has been connected with the Sunday-school since 1 8 19, and has often conducted religious services in his own and other churches as a layman. He was active in the organization of the Washingtonian Home, and director for many years. He was connected, in some cases officially, with the leading religious and benevolent organizations, State and national, and was a regular contributor to their support.

In Medway he served upon all the boards of town officers for several years. By executive appointment he has held the offices of Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum for all the counties, Notary Public, Commissioner of the New York & Boston Railroad, and commissioner for the division of the old town of Danvers. In 1848 he was a county delegate with Charles Francis Adams from Norfolk County to the Buffalo Convention, and Free Soil candidate with him and Judge Wilkinson for Senator in 1850. After an illness of several years he was elected Senator for the West Norfolk District in 1859 and i860. In both terms he resisted as a specialty the annexation of Roxbury to Boston, with so much enthusiasm, as charged by Mr. Worthington of the Traveler and member of the House, as to delay the measure for eight years, for the benefit of Norfolk County, as estimated by the

He was elected County Commissioner for Norfolk from 1863 to 1872, serving three years as chairman of the board. Two reports made by him, involving large amounts laying out highways, were sharply contested in the higher courts; and, although made by a layman, both reports were sustained by the courts in every point. In one case Judge Gray decided that it was very proper to withhold a payment of ten thousand dollars to the town of Brookline, in case the town had been annexed to Boston before the highway was completed. He was contemporary with the earliest in the temperance and anti-slavery causes.

While in college, in 1832-33, he was the first to break silence in the chapel by an original essay upon slavery, and was called from the platform by the professor of rhetoric, but was sustained by the faculty; and the college was revolutionized for the anti-slavery cause. Though failing to graduate with his class, he afterward received the honorary degree of Master of Arts. In 1834 he attended as a delegate the first anniversary of the American Anti-slavery Society. In 1844 he first introduced the subject of slavery in the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and their refusal to take high anti-slavery ground led to the new organization of the great American Missionary Association.

Since 1830 he has been a frequent and often a regular contributor upon miscellaneous subjects to the daily and weekly press. He has delivered lectures upon temperance, slavery, and other subjects upon various occasions. He was one of the earliest and is now one of the oldest of the pioneers in the abolition of slavery. In i860 he obtained a charter for the Dean Library Association, of which he was president for many years. In 1861 he was active and liberal in war measures, and he has been present with ready speech to the Grand Army every Decoration Day from the' beginning to the latest. Oakland Cemetery, which he established in 1865, he gave in 1888 to the Congregational Society of Medway, with some provision for its care. He was present at burials for thirty years. In 1872 he inaugurated the Medway Savings Bank, and has been its president from the first. In 1875 he was prominent in the erection of Sanford Hall, and in 1881 he initiated and promoted the erection of the Sanford Mills. These and the Straw Works are the largest of the substantial and most valuable structures in Medway. Mr. Fisher has held many important trusts and appointments under the Probate Courts, and has been a conveyancer and manager of estates for many years. He has held for himself and with others much real estate, and has erected buildings in Medway village, which have now increased more than fivefold since his residence there. His name appears as grantor in the Norfolk Registry upon nearly one hundred conveyances in various forms.

Mr. Fisher married Eleanor Metcalf, daughter of the Hon. Luther Metcalf, of Medway. He has two sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Dr. Theo. W. Fisher, is well known in Boston as a late superintendent of the Lunatic Hospital and in other official and private relations. His youngest son, Fred L. Fisher, late treasurer of the Medway Savings Bank, has been connected with him many years in insurance business, having an office in Boston. His eldest daughter was formerly a private teacher of French and German, and his youngest is married, and lives in Tennessee.

Mr. Fisher has been too much devoted to business and secular matters of a miscellaneous kind to attain a high literary position. He was chairman of the Town Committee to prepare a town history of Medway, a work which the town voted to publish upon his suggestion and plan, and which has many articles from his pen. A brief sketch of him may be found in the History of Franklin, his native town, and in the Histories of Medway and the County of Norfolk.

iHAUNCEY C. CHURCHILL, a former resident of Dedham, who was for is _ years the honored Treasurer of Norfolk County, was born in West Fairlee, Vt., September 26, 181 5, son of William L. and Eliza (Lanphear) Churchill. After receiving his education in the common schools of his native town, he taught school for four years, working on a farm during his vacations. In the winter of 1839 he went to Salisbury, Mass., where he was employed in the Salisbury mills. He remained there until 1842, when he came to Dedham, and entered the employ of what is now the Merchant Woollen Companies' Mills, where he worked for thirteen years. His absolute trustworthiness had become duly recognized, as also his ability to administer responsible positions; and in 1855 he was chosen by the people of Norfolk County as County Treasurer. He was successively re-elected fourteen times, and held the position until 1889. In 1864 he was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, in which capacity he served for five years. He was also a member of the Dedham School Committee for nine years, beginning in 1 87 1. These offices he filled with entire credit to himself and to the full satisfaction of his constituency. An active member of the Allen Evangelical Society of Dedham, he served it as treasurer and collector for many years. On June 7, 1842, he was united in marriage with Permelia, daughter of Deacon Benajah Sabin, of Salisbury. He died in 1889, at the age of seventy-four years. Mr. Churchill was always ready to expend personal effort in forwarding any movement for the welfare of his townsmen. The efficient way in which all his obligations were discharged, whether public or private, won for him a wide circle of friends.

Mrs. Churchill is descended from an old and esteemed family. Her paternal grandfather, John Sabin, was a farmer and a prominent man of his time. Her father, Deacon Benajah, was Selectman for many years, a member of the School Committee, and a valued officer in the church. He had a family of three children, of whom two - Betsey and Permelia - reached maturity. Mrs. Churchill has spent her life in Washington, N.H., and Fairlee, Vt., and in Dedham, Mass. Since 1856 she has lived in the house built by Mr. Churchill. Her two children are: Chauncey S. and Isadora Maria. Isadora is the widow of Charles H. Leland, who was a clerk in the Baker, Hunnewell Company, a prominent man in the community, and belonged to one of the old Dedham families. Chauncey S. Churchill is one of the prominent dealers in coal and lumber in this town, and has been in business for nineteen years. The firm of which he is a member, Fisher Churchill Company, who also deal extensively in ice, is one of the most important in town. He has three children - Ethel, Marion S., and Carroll C.

fHOMAS E. FAUNCE, president of the Co-operative Bank of Hyde Park, Norfolk County, was born in South Boston, Mass., February 8, 1848, a son of Thomas Faunce. He is the representative of an early and prominent family of Eastern Massachusetts, being a lineal descendant of John Faunce, who came over in the "Ann," one of the forefather ships, in 1623, and settled at Plymouth. He was the father of Elder Thomas Faunce. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Faunce, of Hyde Park, was Thomas Faunce, Sr., who died when a young man, leaving his widow, whose maiden name was Sally Savory, with but one child, Thomas. Mrs. Sally S. Faunce survived her husband many years, living to the age of seventy-six.

Thomas Faunce was born and educated in Plymouth, where in his early manhood he worked several years at the carpenter's trade. He subsequently removed to Boston, and established a broker's office. He married Mary A. D. Gerrish, daughter of Thomas Gerrish. They became the parents of six children, two of whom are living, namely: Arabella A., wife of Wilmot E. Broad, of Chama, N.M.; and Thomas E., the special subject of this sketch. The father died at the age of fiftyfour years, and the mother at the age of sixty-nine.

Thomas E. Faunce was educated in the public schools of Boston, being a Franklin Medal graduate, and also a graduate of Comer's Commercial College. At seventeen years of age he entered the employ of William H. S. Jordan, at that time a prominent insurance agent, with whom he remained ten months. He was afterward connected with the Manufacturers' Insurance Company of Boston nineteen years, most of the time being at the head of his department. In 1883 he established himself in business on his own account as an insurance agent and real estate dealer, and three years later organized the bank of which he is now president. The grand success of this organization is almost entirely clue to the efforts of Mr. Faunce, who has labored with untiring zeal in its behalf. He is also agent for eight large insurance companies, deals extensively in mortgages, and does a great amount of work as an appraiser of real estate, of the value of which he is considered an excellent judge. He is auditor of the Norfolk Suburban Street Railway, chairman of the Board of Assessors, a member of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts League of Cooperative Banks, and a valued member of Forest Lodge of Odd Fellows, Monterey Encampment, Royal Society of Good Fellows, and Neponset Tribe of Red Men. In politics he is a Republican. He has been a resident of Hyde Park for more than thirty years, is one of the active business men of the town, and has a host of friends.

Mr. Faunce was married in September, 1870, to Miss Josephine Allen, who was born in Cambridge, Mass., where her father, Orville Allen, was a piano maker, removing to Leominster, Mass., when a child, and coming to Hyde Park in 1S66.

T^HARLES A. FAAS, one of the influ- I V-' ential men of Wrentham, Mass., was ^ls bom in Wiirtemberg, South Germany, April 6, 1827. He came to this country in a sailing-vessel, landing in New York after a voyage of forty days. Here he soon found employment as an engraver in the jewelry business. After working in New York for a short time, he moved to New Britain, Conn., and then to Newark, N. J., where he started in business for himself at die cutting. He had been three years in New Jersey when he moved *to Wickford, R.I., whence, soon after, he went to Providence, R.I. Subsequently he came to Wrentham, and settled in the village of Plainville, where he has made his home ever since.

In 1 86 1 Mr. Faas enlisted in the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment as a private. Afterwards he was promoted to the rank of Fourth Sergeant. He was at the battle of Fair Oaks when he was wounded by a rifle ball and taken to the rear, where his right leg was amputated. He remained on the battle-field four days, and was then taken to the hospital at Philadelphia, where he stayed twenty-two days, after which he was sent home to Wrentham. On account of his good nature and genial spirits, he was popular in his company. With the exception of four years, which were spent in New York, Mr. Faas has lived since the war in Plainville. In politics he is a stanch Republican. He was naturalized in 1858.

Mr. Faas first married Margaret Neff, a native of Germany. They had three children, namely: Charles A., who married Addie Meeks, of Brooklyn; Paulina, who married William Gregory, and lives in Boise City, Idaho; and F ranees, who died leaving a husband and seven children. Mr. Faas was married a second time to Emma Cheever, and they have three children - Edwin, George, and Florence. Edwin married Eva Anthony, and has one daughter, Josephine; and Florence is the wife of William Greenhalge, of Phenix, R.I.

'TEPHEN B. BALKAM is a wellknown business man of Hyde Park, engaged as a dealer in coal, lumber, wood, and cement, on Pierce Street, where he has one of the oldest established and largest yards in this section of the State. He was born October 4, 1842, in Robbinston, Washington County, Me., a son of Gilbert Balkam, who was born in the same town. His paternal grandfather, John Balkam, removed to that State from Attleboro, Mass., and became prominent as a Brigadier-general of the Maine militia.

Gilbert Balkam, one of a family of ten children, was brought up to the trade of a carpenter, which he followed for some years in his native town. While yet a young man he spent six or seven years in Boston, and then returned to Maine, and was there engaged as a ship builder and finisher throughout his active years. Coming to Massachusetts after his retirement, he spent his declining days at the home of one of his sons in Jamaica Plain, dying at a good age. He married Mrs. Susan Brewer, a daughter of John Dutch, and widow of William Brewer. She bore him eight children, as follows: Stephen B., Henry, William F., Sewell D. , Mary, Hannah A., and two that died at an early age. The mother is still living, being now eighty-two years old. The father was a member of the Congregational church.

Stephen B. Balkam remained with his parents until eighteen years of age, acquiring his early education in the district schools. Coming then to Boston, he obtained employment with the firm of William Pope & Sons, lumber dealers, with whom he remained as a clerk five years. On the 1st of May, 1874, he located at Hyde Park as agent for a lumber company; and three years later he embarked in the coal business on his own account. In 1883 he took William H. Harlow, his present partner, into company with him, enlarging his business at the same time; and in 1885, having outgrown the dimensions of their former yard, this firm removed to their present fine location, where they have built up an extensive trade in their line of merchandise. Since Mr. Balkam came here, the town has grown with surprising rapidity; and in the erection of the large number of buildings he has furnished his full share of the lumber, of which he carries a fine stock, and of all other materials used.

Mr. Balkam was married May 11, 1868, to Miss Alice B. Crandon, who was born at Columbia Falls, Me., where her father, the late Joseph Crandon, was a prosperous shipbuilder. Mr. Crandon was twice married, Mrs. Balkam's mother, who bore him three children, having been his second wife. Mr. and Mrs. Balkam are the parents of seven children, one of whom, Marion May, died at the age of seven years. The others are as follows: Elizabeth G., who married William Flett, a foreman in the Rand Avery Supply Company, and has two children - Alice Gertrude and Helen Hendry; Charles Herbert, who is in the lumber business with W. R. Chester; Ralph W., a student in the Harvard Veterinary College; Alice C, living at home, a kindergarten teacher in Boston; Gilbert, a Dartmouth student; and Helen, a pupil in the Bridgewater Normal School.

party, and has served on the Hyde Park Board of Selectmen several years. He was made a Mason in Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A. M., in which he has been Steward, Warden, and Master. He is also a member of Norfolk Chapter, R. A. M., and of Cypress Commandery, K. T., of which he is Past Commander. He takes a deep interest in religious matters, being a Deacon in the Congregational church, of which his wife and their children are members, Mr. and Mrs. Balkam being also teachers in the Sunday-school. In 1882 he built his handsome house, which is a centre of social activity and the abode of hospitality.

LEV. RUFUS KENDRICK HARLOW, the pastor of the Evangelical Congregational church at Medway Village for the past twenty-five years, was born in Middleboro, Mass., March 28, 1834, son of Major Branch and Lurany (Keith) Harlow. The father, who was a native of Halifax, Mass., spent his early years in Pocasset, and later settled in Middleboro, where he was engaged in the manufacture of hollow ware. He was widely and favorably known both as a business man and a public official, having served as High Sheriff of Plymouth County. His wife, who was a native of Middleboro, became the mother of twelve children ; namely, Hope, Bradford, Branch, Ivory (first), Lurany, Ivory (second), Chester, Elizabeth, Foster, Rufus K., Louisa, and Benjamin. Of these Hope, Bradford, Elizabeth, Foster, and Rufus K. are living. Major Branch Harlow died in August, 1861; and his wife died in May, 1878.

Rufus Kendrick Harlow prepared for his collegiate course at the Pierce Academy, Middleboro, and was graduated from Amherst College with the class of 1865. His theological studies were pursued at the Bangor (Me.) Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1868. After his ordination to the ministry, which took place at Middleboro in October of that year, he officiated as the pastor of the St. Lawrence Street Congregational Church, Portland, Me., for thirteen months. He next occupied the pulpit of the

Congregational church in Belfast, Me., for the same length of time. His call from the Congregational Society in Medway village was received in October, 1871 ; and he was installed as pastor February 13, 1872. The Village Evangelical Congregational church was erected in 1838, on land donated to the society by David Whiting, a resident of New York and a native of Medway. On October 3 of that year the Rev. David Sanford, Mr. Harlow's predecessor, was installed as its first pastor. The church has a total membership of one hundred and ninety-eight. The Deacons are M. M. Fisher and James F. Adams; its Standing Committee is composed of James T. Adams, Sumner H. Clark, and Alvin Clough; the Parish Committee are: Frank Cummings, J. P. Plummer, Alvin Clough, and the pastor. The officers of the Ladies' Benevolent Society are Mrs. J. P. Plummer, president; Mrs. Mary Fisher, secretary; and Mrs. J. F. Adams, treasurer. Charles R. Adams is the superintendent of the Sunday-school. On September 7, 1888, the society fittingly observed its fiftieth anniversary.

Mr. Harlow is unmarried. During the quarter of a century that has elapsed since his installation he has labored zealously and successfully for the moral welfare of the community, gaining the friendship and esteem of a large number of people outside of his own congregation. He is deeply attached to his church, takes special pride in the decoration of its grounds, and is exceedingly partial to flowers. On February 17, 1897, as more convenient than the 13th, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his installation was celebrated by a public service; and on the occasion he was presented with a loving-cup of solid silver appropriately engraved.

§OHN EMORY HOAR, an ex-master of the Brookline High School, was born in Poultney, Vt., November 22, 1828. A son of Hiram and Sarah (Smith) Hoar, he belongs to the ninth generation of his family in this country. The first generation was the family of Charles, son of Charles Hoar, of Gloucester, England. The second Charles, who was Sheriff of Gloucester, died in his native country. His widow, with her five children, sailed for America in 1640, and landed in Boston. From Boston she moved to Braintree; and in 1660 she was living in Concord, Mass., where several generation- of the family were born. The name Hoar has been borne by several men of note, including senators, judges, and prominent lawyers. The line of descent is traced through John Hoar, son of Charles (second) ; Daniel, bom in Scituate, Mass., in 1650; John, born in Concord, Mass., in 1678; Josiah, born in Sudbury in 1717; Jonathan, born in Sudbury in 1747; and David, born in Sudbury in 1773. Jonathan Hoar, who was John E. Hoar's great-grandfather, commanded a company of minute-men at Concord when the Revolutionary War began. The greater part of his life was devoted to farming in Sudbury, where he died in 181 3. David Hoar, the grandfather, who was born in 1773, passed his early years in Sudbury and the latter part of his life in Poultney, Vt. He died in 1862. He married Miss Angelette Pierce, who, born in 1782, died in 1846. She was a native of Holliston, Mass., and a member of one of the old families of that town. The pioneer of her family in this country, John Pierce, came from Norwich, England, in 1637, with his wife and four children, and settled in Watertown, Mass. From him the descent of Mrs. Angelette Hoar is traced through Anthony, Joseph, John, John (second), Seth, and Nathaniel, the last named being her father. Her children were: Hiram, Sarah, Eliza, and Lucius Augustus, all of whom have passed away. Hiram Hoar was reared on a farm, and received a common-school education. Afterward he settled on a farm in Poultney, Vt., near his birthplace, and there was engaged in agricultural pursuits during a great part of his life, retiring when he began to feel the infirmities of age. In politics he was a Jacksonian Democrat. He was interested in town matters, and served in some town offices. His death occurred on October 2^ 1886, in Pawlet, Rutland County, Vt., at the age of eighty-three. His wife, a native of Sudbury, Mass., was a daughter of Josiah Smith, whose English ancestors settled in New Ipswich.

The Smith family originated with Richard Smith, who came from Shropham, Norfolk County, England, to this country about 1639 or 1640. The generations succeeding him were represented by Richard, Joseph, Ephraim, and Josiah, the last named being Mrs. Sarah Hoar's father. Josiah Smith, who was a farmer of Sudbury, reared three other children - Mary, Ephraim, and Elbridge. Sarah Hoar died March 18, 1872, at the age of sixty-five. Her children, all living, are: John Emory, the subject of this sketch; Sarah A., the wife of Walton Blakely; and Richard R., a shoe dealer of Sudbury. She was a member of the Congregational church.

John P^mory Hoar passed his early years on the farm, attending the public schools of his native town. At the age of fifteen he entered Castleton (Vt. ) Seminary, where he took the college preparatory course; and he took a year's course in Middlebury College, then entering Harvard. From Harvard he graduated in 1852. He began work as a teacher in the district school of his native town, and taught for a while in Castleton Seminary. After finishing his course of study at Harvard, he was submaster in the Cambridge High School for two years. In 1854 he was appointed master of the Brookline High School. In this reponsible position, the duties of which he ably discharged for thirty-five years, he saw one whole generation pass away and another grow up ; and he trained many brilliant scholars and prominent men. Since his resignation in 18S8 he has lived in retirement.

In 1854 Mr. Hoar was married to Ann Borrodaile Blakely, who was born in Pawlet, Vt., daughter of David Blakely. She died at the age of thirty-seven, leaving one child, David B., now living. A graduate of Harvard, David B. Hoar has been practising law in Boston since 1879, making his home with his father. The latter's second wife was Lucy A., daughter of the Rev. Elijah Demond, of Newbury, Mass. She died at the age of severity; and Mr. Hoar subsequently married Mary Tuck Jones, of Baltimore, born in Prince George County, Maryland, daughter of Henry Jones. In politics Mr. Hoar is independent. He is a member of the Brookline

School Board, and has been on the Board of Trustees of the public library for a number of years. He has held all the offices of the Norfolk County Teachers' Association. He -also belongs to the American Institute of Instruction and the Brookline Historical Publishing Society; to the Thursday Club since its organization - some twenty-six years - in which he has held all the offices; and to the Union Club of Boston. He is a member of St. Paul's Church, Brookline.

LIVER DEAN, M.D., formerly a well-known physician and prominent citizen of Franklin, Mass., was born in the town of Franklin, Mass., February iS, 1783, and died December 5, 1871, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. He was the son of Seth and Edna (Pond) Dean. The father, Seth Dean, who was born in Franklin in 1761, was a member of one of the oldest families of that town. He died in 1834, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife, Edna, survived him, dying in 1852, aged eighty-eight years. They had three children, of whom Oliver was the eldest. The others were: Sylvester and Edna. The latter died in early womanhood.

Oliver Dean, the subject of this sketch, began his education in the district schools of his native town, and also attended different academies in the vicinity. He subsequently studied medicine in the offices of Dr. Mann, of Wrentham, and Dr. Ingalls, of Boston. He first started in the practice of medicine at Medway, where he remained until forty years of age, and was very successful, but on account of ill health was obliged to give up his profession. He then became interested in a manufacturing business at Manchester, N. H., to which place he removed before it was known by its present name, and when it contained very few inhabitants. He remained there for some time, bought real estate, erected mills, and carried on similar enterprises to such an extent as to become known as the "Father of Manchester." Later in life he removed to Boston and thence to Franklin, where he founded the well-known preparatory school (Dean Academy) which bears his name. Dr. Dean was twice married, his first wife being Caroline Francour, the daughter of a French gentleman who had to fly from his native country during the French Revolution. She died leaving no children. He married for his second wife Mrs. Louisa Cobb Hawes, the daughter of Joseph and Sally C. (Jillson) Cobb, of Wrentham and Attleboro respectively. By this marriage there were no children. Mrs. Dean still survives her husband, and is a much respected resident of this town. Dr. Dean was a useful, enterprising, and philanthropic citizen, and, though long passed away, has a lasting memorial in the school which he founded.

OHN MORTON HARRIS, for many years a well-known civil engineer of Norfolk County, residing in Needham, - was born in Charlestown, Mass., in He was the eldest son of John and Eliza (Whittemore) Harris, and was a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas Harris, one of the earliest settlers at Charlestown, Mass. The second in this line was John Harris, who married Amy Hills; the third, their son Thomas, who married Hepzibah Croswell; the fourth, Thomas, third, who married in 1708 Mary Dowse; the fifth, John, second, who married in 1740 Mellicent Rand; the sixth, Thomas, fourth, who married Mary Frothingham in 1776, and died in 1 8 14 ; the seventh, John, born in 1781, who married Eliza Whittemore. (See "Charlestown Genealogies and Estates.")

John Harris, above named, son of Thomas and Mary (Frothingham) Harris, born in Charlestown, February 17, 1 78 r , was a merchant, sea captain, and ship-owner. He married Eliza, the daughter of Nathan Whittemore, and had a family of six children, as follows: John M., Helen E., Harriet B., William B. , Charles S., and Henry C. Of these only one son and a daughter are living. Harriet B. was born in 1823, and was educated in Charlestown and in Boston. She married in 1853 the Rev. James F. Hicks, then pastor of the First Parish Church of Needham, and had one son, Charles Atherton Hicks, born December 21, 1853.

George E. Whiting

John Morton Harris was educated in the common schools of Charlestown and in private schools, and at the age of twenty-one went into the office of Mr. Samuel Felton, a civil engineer of Charlestown, where he remained, learning the profession. Henry D. Thoreau, of Concord, friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a student in Mr. Felton's office at the same time. While Mr. Harris was in Mr. Felton's office, much of the work upon the designs for the construction of Bunker Hill Monument was done there, Mr. Felton being one of the engineers having charge of the building. After finishing his studies with Mr. Felton, Mr. Harris entered the employ of the Fitchburg Railroad as assistant engineer, and was in that position for a number of years, having charge during that time of the construction of a branch of the Fitchburg system. He built what was known as the air-line road from Brookline to Woonsocket by way of Needham. In 1849 he took up his residence in Needham; and he subsequently did much engineering in Norfolk County, building roads, laying out public lands, and constructing bridges, etc. In 1866 he was employed on the Vanderbilt system, and had charge of the building of the second track of the Hudson River Railroad.

In 1872 he was elected to represent the district in the Massachusetts General Court, and while there was chairman of the Committee on Railroads. Mr. Harris was Town Treasurer of Needham for one year, and for several years a member of the School Board. He was not a politician, but was always interested in any movement for the public good or convenience. Naturally of an exact and scientific mind, he was devoted to the study of astronomy and natural history. As a civil engineer he was thoroughly skilled, and was widely known for his ability and efficiency in his chosen field of work. When he first came to Needham, Mr. Harris lived in the south part of the town on the farm now occupied by the Sutton family; and after his return from New York he built the dwelling on Great Plain Avenue and Webster Street, where he resided until his death in 1884.

Mr. Charles Atherton Hicks, above named, the nephew of Mr. Harris and his successor in business, was educated in the Needham schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was in business for a while in Newton Centre, under the name of Cleveland & Hicks, later was assistant engineer of the Holyoke Water Power Company for five years; and prior to that he was in the United States Coast Survey, working on the Gulf Stream between Cape Cod and the Gulf of Mexico, and was shipwrecked while on board the schooner "Drift." Upon taking charge of Mr. Harris's business, Mr. Hicks settled in Needham; and he now carries on general work in this and the surrounding counties. He is a member of the Boston Society of Engineers, and the accuracy and value of his work are too well known to require any words of commendation here.

Mr. Hicks married in 1882 Alice E., daughter of Mr. J. F. J. Mayo, of Needham, and niece of Mrs. Harris. Mr. Hicks's grandfather, John F. Hicks, of Sutton, Mass., took his family to Western New York, and cut the trees from the land where the city of Syracuse now stands, and was the owner of the Onondaga County Salt Springs. He married Margaret Kaus, and had a family of eight children.

FORGE EDWIN WHITING, a re- \ -) I tired resident of Hyde Park, was born in Dedham, Mass., December 25, 1836, son of Edwin and Rebecca (Dean) Whiting, and comes of an old Norfolk County family, his father having been a lineal descendant of Nathaniel Whiting, who emigrated more than 'two hundred and fifty years ago, and settled in Dedham, and who was also the ancestor of his paternal grandmother.

Nathaniel Whiting was admitted to the church in Dedham in 1641. He died in 1682; and his wife, Hannah, died in 1714. They had fourteen children. The sixth child, Nathaniel, Jr., born November 5, 1653, had eight children by his wife, Sarah; and the sixth of this group, the third Nathaniel, mar- ried Johanna Ellice, their offspring also being eight in number. Joshua, their youngest child, born June 14, 1729, married February 12, 1756, Mary Fuller; and Abner Whiting, born in 1 760, third son of this couple, married Loacada Whiting, by whom he had four children, one being Edwin, above named, father of Mr. George E. Whiting.

Loacada Whiting was of the fifth generation in descent from the first Nathaniel, through his son Samuel, fourth child, born October 20, 1649, wn0 married Sarah Metcalf, and had nine children, the third a son, Jeremiah, born April 12, 1695. He married Ruth Wells; and Joshua, born September 11, 1729, their sixth child, married August 5, 1756, Elizabeth Pond, who became the mother of eight children, the fifth the daughter Loacada, born October 27, 1766. The grandfather, Abner Whiting, was a farmer. He spent his life in Dedham, and died there May 20, 1838. His wife, Loacada, whom he married January 25, 1785-6, died August 28, 1852, at the age of eighty -five years, ten months. Their son, Edwin Whiting, was brought up on the home farm, and was educated in the public schools of Dedham. Later he took the homestead at Green Lodge, where he passed the remainder of his life, attaining the age of eighty years. He married Rebecca Dean, the daughter of Jesse Dean, of Dedham, and had two children - Frances and George E. Whiting. The mother died at the age of seventytwo. Both parents attended the Unitarian church.

George E. Whiting obtained his education in the common schools and at the Green Mountain Liberal Institute at South Woodstock, Vt. Having completed his course of study, he returned to the home farm, where he remained until 1886, diligently engaged in the management of its one hundred and forty acres, bringing his broad fields to a high state of cultivation. He then came to Hyde Park, and built his present beautiful dwelling, which is the finest in the town and most pleasantly located.

Mr. Whiting is a Republican in politics. He was elected to serve on the Board of Selectmen in 1893, and was re-elected in 1894 and in 1895. He was appointed Cemetery

Commissioner in November, 1892, and is now superintendent of the Fairview Cemetery, which is one of the finest in this section. He is also president of the Hyde Park Electric Light Company.

Mrs. Whiting, whose maiden name was Isabell H. Hoadley, is the daughter of Henry C. Hoadley, of South Woodstock, Vt. Thomas Hoadly, her great-grandfather, born in England in 1737, came to Boston and settled near that city. He paid taxes in Brookline in 1771-75, served as a soldier in the Revolution, and drew a pension from April 20, 18 18, until his death, which occurred on January 20, 1829, at the age of ninety-two. Mr. Henry C. Hoadley's father was a farmer, and made his home in Tewksbury during the first part of his life, removing later to Hartland, Vt., where he settled on an unbroken tract of three hundred acres, which he cleared for a farm. He died there in February, 1843, at the age of seventy-three. By his first wife, Sarah French, born in Hartland, who died at the age of thirty-nine, he had six children; and by his second wife, Mrs. Mehitable Marcy Whitney, he had one daughter, Lucy Whitney. Mr. Henry C. Hoadley purchased a farm of his own when he grew to maturity, and spent his life engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he was very successful. Three children were born to him and his wife, Lucy Whitney, a native of Hartland, and two of them are living, namely: Mrs. Whiting; and James H., in South Woodstock on the old homestead.

Mrs. Whiting spent her life in South Woodstock until her marriage, which took place on November 24, 1858. She is the mother of four children, as follows: Sadie Frances, who is married to Joseph W. Wattles, Jr., of the firm of L. R. Wattles & Co., manufacturers of "Dressene" in Canton, and has two children - Joseph, third, and Shirley; Annie R., who married Fred W. Fenno, New England agent for the Royal Baking Powder Company; George H., who is in Boston, a cotton broker, married Bessie Blanche Bleakie, daughter of the well-known and extensive woollen manufacturer, Robert Bleakie; and Edwin, the youngest, who is a book-keeper in Boston, resides at home with his parents.

/T% ELBERT HOWARD, a prominent I \y business man of Sharon, son of Charles ^Hs " T. and S. Josephine (Cobb) Howard, was born upon the farm where he now resides, September 18, 1854. He is a great-grandson of Oliver Howard, formerly of Easton, Mass., and a grandson of George and Abigail (Henshaw) Howard, natives of that town.

George Howard was the first of the family to locate in Sharon, and he settled on the farm that is now owned by his grandson. He died in 1864, and his wife died about two years later. They were the parents of six children - Rebecca, Angeline, George F., Charles T., Abigail, and Newland F. Rebecca Howard married Charles Johnson, of Sharon, and has had two children; namely, one that died in infancy and Annie M. Angeline married William B. King, and her children are: Josephine and George B. George F. Howard married Lavania Wyman. Abigail married for her first husband Sumner T. Palmer, and for her second husband Edward Tisdale, of West Bridgewater, Mass. Newland F. Howard, who married Irene Morrison, was for man\- years a manufacturer of hat blocks in Boston, Mass., and is now retired from business.

Charles T. Howard, father of C. Elbert, was born in Sharon, October 2, 1822. He grew to manhood at the homestead, and succeeding to its ownership he carried on general farming with success. He also dealt quite extensively in wood and charcoal. He was a Selectman for a number of years, and represented this town in the legislature during the years [854 and 1855. He died September 17, 18S5. S. Josephine Cobb, his wife, was born in East Mansfield, Mass., in 1827. She was the daughter of James and Lyntha (Leach) Cobb, the former of whom was a native of Wrentham, and the latter of Raynham, Mass. James Cobb was a prominent cotton manufacturer of his day. He died in 1859, and his wife died in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Howard had five children, as follows: C. Elbert, the subject of this sketch; Ella J.; Walter M., born April 10, 1S59, who died September 17, 1885; Aimee J., born July 30, 1 861 ; and Clarence P., who was born August

20, 1864, and died August 25, 1885. Ella J. Howard is the wife of A. W. Draper, D. D. S., of Foxboro, and has three children - Alice E., Howard W. , and Aimee F. Draper. Aimee J. Howard, who was for fifteen years a school teacher, is now residing at the ancestral home in Sharon.

C. Elbert Howard was educated in the common schools, and has always resided at the homestead. He does general teaming, carries on the farm, deals in wood. Politically, he is independent, and votes for the candidates whom he considers most capable of holding office. He is connected with St. Albans Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Excelsior Lodge, No. 87, I. O. O. F. , of Foxboro; and with the grange in Sharon. Mr. Howard is unmarried.