Norfolk Town (part 18 of 23)

In politics Mr. French is a Republican, faithful to the principles in which he was reared. He has succeeded his father as president of the Neponset National Bank, is also president of the Braintree & Weymouth Street Railway Company, and is a member of the Canton School Board. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Blue Hill Lodge, F. & A. M., of Canton; to Mount Zion Chapter, R. A. M., of Stoughton; and to Cypress Commandery, K. T., of Hyde Park. He is of the liberal type in his religious belief and a regular attendant of the Unitarian church.

Mr. French was married September 13, 1875, to Miss Theresa I. Noyes, daughter of Samuel B. Noyes, of Canton. Mr. and Mrs. French have three children, sons, namely: Charles Howe, who was named for his grandfather; Malcolm B. ; and Norman B.

RANK ALDRICH FALES, one of the most prominent residents of Norwood, the chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and an ex-member of the Massachusetts legislature, was born in South Dedham, October 13, 1848, son of Eliphalet and Lucy Bullard (Weatherbee) Fales. The founders of his family originally came from Chester, Eng- land. His paternal grandfather, also named Eliphalet, was a native of Walpole, Mass., as was also his father. Both were farmers, and their last days were spent in Norwood. The father married Lucy Bullard Weatherbee, a daughter of Joel and Betsey (Sumner) Weatherbee. She became the mother of six children - Henry U., Frank A., Walter, Frederick A., Susan E. , and Albert.

Frank Aldrich Fales was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of eighteen he apprenticed himself to a carpenter. After learning the trade, he followed it as a journeyman for five years. At the end of that time he entered the employ of Clark & Leatherbee, lumber dealers of Boston, and was later advanced to the position of superintendent of their wharf. He remained with that concern four years. Returning to Norwood in 1877, he purchased the flour, grain, and feed business of William Fisher, then located on Washington Street. In 1880 he built his present mill on Railroad Street, the only grist-mill in town, and which has a large and profitable business. In politics Mr. Fales is a Republican. His public services have been greatly beneficial to the town. He has been a member of the Board of Selectmen since 1882, and is now its chairman. He was a member of the first Board of Fire Engineers and of the committee appointed to secure the construction of the water-works, which were completed in 1885. He was mainly instrumental in securing the abolition of grade crossings on Washington and Guild Streets, represented the First Norfolk District in the legislature during the sessions of 1886, 1887, and 1888, and he is now serving his second term as a Justice of the Peace. He also belongs to the Business Men's Association, and is a director of the Norwood Cooperative Bank and a member of its Finance Committee. He is prominent in the fraternal orders, being a member of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M.; of Hebron Chapter of Norwood; and of Cyprus Commandery, Knights Templar, of Hyde Park. He is a charter member of Tiot Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of which he was the first Noble Grand, has been chairman of its Board of Trustees, and served for two terms as District Deputy Grand Master; was the first

Sachem of Nahatan Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, serving it for a time in the capacities of chairman of its Board of Trustees and District Deputy; and he is a member of the Norfolk Club of Boston.

^'OHN ALLEN NEWELL, a lifelong resident of Dover, Norfolk County, Mass., who at the time of his death, September 21, 1894, was the oldest citizen in the town, was born here, June 29, 1803, youngest son of Jesse and Mehitable (Allen) Newell. The original ancestors of the family in this country, from whom Mr. Newell traced his descent in direct line, were Abraham Newell and his wife, Frances, who came from Ipswich, England, in 1634, and settled in Roxbury, Mass. They each lived, it is said, to be ninety-one years old. Other instances of remarkable longevity among Mr. Newell's ancestors, on both the paternal and maternal side, are on record. A great-grandfather and his wife lived to be ninety-seven and one hundred and three years old respectively; a grandmother lived to be ninetyeight; and an uncle, who died in i860, was upward of ninety years of age. Many of Mr. Newell's progenitors were men of note, some of them rendering important service to the country in the Revolutionary War, while others were prominent in local affairs. Eleazer Allen, great-great-grandfather of Mr. Newell on his mother's side, and his brother Hezekiah, were two of the first settlers in Dover, then a part of Dedham, known as the "Springfield District," Dover not being incorporated as a separate town until 1784.

Jesse Newell was born in Dover. At an early day he settled upon the farm where the two daughters of his son, the late John A. Newell, now reside. He spent his life in this town; and besides being engaged in agriculture he followed the trade of weaver, at which he was an adept. This was before the advent of modern machinery, and his methods as well as implements would be regarded as curiosities nowadays. When old age came upon him, they were consigned to the garret, where they served to interest and perplex the inquiring minds of the younger generation. He and his wife, Mehitable, who was also a native of Dover, became the parents of nine children, namely: Rebecca, who was born October 8, 1792, and died August 16, 1827; Charles, born May 7, 1794, died October 19, 1872; Mehitable, born October 7, 1795, who married Sherman Batelle, of Dover, and died July 14, 1842; Jesse, born August 13, 1797, died November 16, 1879; Amy, born May 18, 1799, died July 13, 1827; Dolly, born October 19, 1801, died May 8, 1824; John A., principal subject of this sketch; Betsey, born January 8, 1807, who married Obed Allen, and died November 23, 1883; Sarah M., born January 9, 18 10, who married Mason Brown, of|Dover, and died April 7, 1843.

John Allen Newell received such education as was afforded by the district school of his native town. His limited amount of book knowledge was compensated for in his mature years by his great natural intelligence and habits of close observation. At an early age he was trained to the useful and invigorating work of tilling the soil, which he continued through the active period of his long life. He was a fine specimen of the successful farmer of the type of a generation ago, harvesting crops of Indian corn, rye, oats, and potatoes, taking great pride in his horses and cattle, felling trees from woodland acres, and working them up in various ways, such as making charcoal for city customers, cutting hoop-poles and getting out railroad sleepers. But whether engaged in farm work, in business lines, serving in town office, on the jury, or in matters of arbitration, he was always considered a man of unusually good judgment.

In politics he was a true Democrat, casting his first vote for the Democratic ticket in 1824, when just twenty-one years of age, and his last one a few months before his death, thus giving almost seventy years of unswerving loyalty to his party. He took an active interest in all the town meetings, and was quick to recognize and support all practical measures for the public good. He was optimistic in temperament. His happy disposition, noticeable when a child, expanded in later years, and led him constantly to look upon the bright rather than on the dark side of life. Perhaps this characteristic, combined with his lifelong temperance, had much to do with prolonging his years, as it doubtless had with his wonderful health and vigor. His sense of duty was of the highest type, as was his personal integrity. He was noted besides for his excellent business ability, great strength of character, tenacity of purpose, and rare presence of mind. An instance of the latter occurred in the early fifties, when he saved his dwelling-house from being destroyed by fire. It was as follows: On a windy day in midwinter, when, as it chanced, house and farm help were away from the place, Mr. Newell, happening to open an outer door while preparing food for the swine, discovered that the roof of the main part of the house was in roaring flames. Quick as lightning he seized the axe and pail, filled the latter from the pump, ascended two flights of stairs to the attic, slashed a hole through the roof, and emptied his pail, returning again and again for water. With agility and strength almost superhuman, he battled with the flames unaided until he finally succeeded in subduing them, thus saving his home.

Once when in the prime of manhood he narrowly escaped a violent death. He had started in the small hours of the morning with a load of hay to market in the city. Returning home late in the afternoon, sleep overcame him as he drove along. Suddenly he awakened in front of the railroad track, to see his horse struck down and swept away by the locomotive, directly before his face. Although a man of "iron nerve," it could not be otherwise than that he should experience a feeling of horror as he discovered his own narrow escape.

In 1832 Mr. Newell married Miss Caroline Allen, only daughter of Colonel Obed Allen, of the adjoining town of Medfield. Five children were the result of this union: John A., Harriet, Sarah, William, and Caroline. John A., who was born October 28, 1835, married Alvira Diana Willard; and they now reside in Medfield, this county. Harriet, born January 8, 1840, resides with her sister Caroline on the old Dover homestead. Sarah, born February 19, 1843, is the wife of Alden Derby, and lives in Elmira, N.Y. William, born May 9, 1847, died in August, 1884. Caroline, born February 3, 1850, resides on the homestead, as above stated. She is a lady who combines the best and strongest qualities of her father with the softer graces of refined womanhood.

Before the infirmities of age came upon him, Mr. Newell attended and helped support the Unitarian church in his native town, where his parents and grandparents worshipped before him. When, a few years ago, within the short space of two weeks, death stole from his side his aged wife and his youngest son William, then in the prime of young manhood, and on whom he had allowed family cares to devolve, there was something truly heroic in the manner in which the aged man bowed to the divine decree. After this double bereavement he went calmly on directing his affairs and waiting in patience for the Master's call. Most tenderly was he cared for in these declining years by his youngest daughter Caroline. His departure was the cause of wide-spread sorrow, and his memory is held in tender regard by those he left behind.

AVID T. HAGAN, a retired business man of Canton, Mass., was born in Ireland, the son of Francis and Ann (Lennon) Hagan, and came to this country in his boyhood, about fifty years ago, 1847 or 1848, with his father, Francis Hagan, Jr., who also was a native of Ireland, being son of Francis, Sr., a lifelong resident of the Emerald Isle. Francis Hagan, the emigrant, settled in Canton, where he had charge of Messinger's farm for about thirtythree years, and also worked in the Messinger Silk Factory. His wife, Ann Lennon, bore him four children, only one of whom, David T., the subject of this sketch, is now living. The father died in 1886, at the age of eighty years. In politics he was a stanch Democrat. David T. Hagan was educated in the public schools of this town. When he was sixteen he took a course at Comer's Commercial

College in Boston, and was subsequently bookkeeper for P. F. Logan, of that city, for three years. In 1S65 he returned to Canton, and engaged in the woollen business, which he followed for four years; and then in 1869 he, in partnership with P. F. Brady, opened a general country store, which they conducted until November of 1881, when the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Hagan assumed the entire management, carrying it on for about six years more. The store being burned out in 18S7, he retired from business, and for the next seven years held the position of Town Librarian. Since 1895 he has been practically retired from the activities of life. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never been specially interested in political affairs. He and his family attend the Roman Catholic church.

Mr. Hagan and Margaret E. Galligan, of Canton, were married October 5, 1875. Eight children have been born to them, and five are now living; namely, Francis, Margaret, Joseph, John, and James, all of whom are in Canton, and with the exception of Francis, third of the name, all at the parental home.

DWARD JULIUS SANDBERG, a well-known contractor of Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., was born October 21, 1866, in Helsingborg, Sweden, that town being also the birthplace of his father, Neils Sandberg, who lives there at this day, and is a prominent citizen.

Neils Sandberg learned the trade of a watchmaker when a boy, and as soon as old enough started in the watch-making business for himself. He has met with good success, and is still carrying on the business, employing a number of men in his factory. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Sophia Nelson, eight children were born, five of whom are now living; namely, Edward Julius, Adolph Siegfrid, Amanda Geneveva, and Gustaf Anton, all of this city, and Oscar. The parents are members of the Lutheran church.

school went to Denmark, where he was employed two years as coachman for Mr. Ostrop, a man well known throughout that country. Returning to Sweden, Mr. Sandberg was a member of the engineering corps connected with the Skone & Hallands Railway Company two years. He subsequently worked as a gardener a year, and then came to America, settling in Quincy in 1S86. Securing a situation with Henry Barker, he remained with him two years; and then, having become familiar with the customs and methods of this country, he started in business on his own account as a teamster and contractor. He began on a modest scale, and, as his business has increased, has added to his equipments, keeping now eight horses and two drivers, at times employing from thirty-five to forty extra teams. He makes a specialty of building streets, cellars, and walls, being one of the leading men in that line of industry in the city.

Politically, Mr. Sandberg is an earnest advocate of the principles of the Republican party. He has been one of the Ward and City Committee five years, and has served as special police for an equal length of time. Fraternally, he is a member of Mount Wollaston Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of Manet Encampment; and of Philedian Senate, A- E. O., of Quincy.

On the thirteenth day of June, 1891, he married Hanna Marie Dorum, daughter of H. Dorum, a former resident of Quincy. Three children have been born of this union, and two are now living; namely, Henry Siegfrid and Edward Julius, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sandberg attend the Lutheran church.

§OHN CLARK, of Millis, was born October 2, 1816, prior to the setting off of this town from Medway, in the old Clark homestead, his present residence. A son of Lemuel and Deborah E. (Newton) Clark, he is a descendant of one of two brothers, Joseph and John Clark, who emigrated from England, and settled in Medway at an early date in the town's history. They located upon an eminence in Millis, called Chestnut II ill. The majority of their descendants have been engaged in agricultural pursuits in this vicinity; and the farm which is now owned by the subject of this sketch was cultivated in turn by his great-grandfather, Nathaniel, and his grandfather, Stephen Clark. Stephen, who died January 29, 1820, married Eunice, daughter of David Clark, a blacksmith of Medway, and was the father of eight children, namely: Chloe; John; Asenath, who married E. Haven; Stephen; Eunice; Lemuel; Nathaniel ; and Rebecca.

Lemuel Clark, born here in 1780, besides carrying on the homestead farm, was engaged in the manufacture of brick. He died in 1858. His wife, Deborah, who was a native of Framingham, became the mother of four children, namely: David, born May 17, 1807; Sarah, born October 22, 18 10, who died October 27, 1857; Elbridge, born September 11, 1812; and John, the subject of this sketch. David, who successively married Huldah Barton, Harriet Danforth, and Harriet Mann, died in September, 1891. Elbridge, now deceased, married for his first wife Lydia Newton and for his second Mary Mansfield. His widow is residing at Millis. Mrs. Lemuel Clark died in 1864.

At the age of eighteen, having obtained his education in the common schools, John Clark began to serve an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade in West Medway. Subsequently, after working as a journeyman for some years in East Medway, Rockville, and the place now called Millis village, be returned in 1844 to the homestead, where he has since resided. In 1845 he engaged in the manufacture of brick, running two yards, and carrying on a thriving business in that line until 1890, at which time he sold out. He is still actively engaged in the cultivation of the home farm, of which nine acres are under tillage and fifty are timbered. In politics he is a Republican.

On May 24, 1837, Mr. Clark wedded Martha Maria Dairy, who was bom in Attleboro, Mass., daughter of a prosperous farmer of West Medway. She became the mother of eleven children, as follows: Albert L., born May 27, 1838; John Addison, born February 12, 1840, who died February 19, 1842; Sarah Louisa, bom November 10, 1841; David Addison, born October 9, 1843; Frederick Fran- cis, born June 6, 1846; Rhoda Isabella, born July 22, 1848; John Edwards, born September 16, 1850, who was drowned July 1, 1854; Mary Adeline, born December 17, 1852; Jennie Maria, born July 28, 1S55; Abbie Eliza, born March 3, 1858; and Carrie F. , born September 4, 1859, who married George R. Hill, and died July 25, 1884, of injuries received in an accident. Albert L. , who married Harriet Rice, is a grain dealer in Leominster, Mass. Sarah Louisa is the widow of George B. Fisher, and resides in Millis. David Addison married Rose Roberts, and is a member of the firm Clark & Roberts, bottlers, at No. 221 State Street, Boston. Frederick Francis, who resides in New York City, married Florence E. Collins. Rhoda Isabella is the wife of Charles H. Russell, and resides in South Framingham, Mass. Mary Adeline married William F. Harding, a grocer of Fitchburg, Mass. Jennie Maria married Daniel Adams, of Waltham, a mason by trade; and Abbie Eliza is the wife of Francis H. Russell, and resides in Roxbury, Mass. The mother died December 2, 1881. A second marriage, contracted on March 8, 1883, united Mr. Clark to Abbie L. Russell. She was born in Medfield, Mass., August 30, 1834, daughter of Daniel P. and Polly P. (Hammant) Russell, who were prosperous farming people and natives of Medfield. Her father died May 26, 1875, and her mother on January 1, 1892. Mr. Clark is a member of the Congregational church, while Mrs. Clark is a Unitarian.

born March 5, 1S35, in Somerset County, Maine, son of Mark Haley. He comes of good old pioneer stock, being the lineal descendant of one Thomas Haley, who in 1653 was a resident of Saco, Me., a city which has been the abiding-place of some member of the Haley family ever since. The great-grandfather of Charles Haley had charge of the lower ferry in that town for several years, being succeeded by a Mr. Weddock.

and after his marriage with Margery Scammon, the descendant of an old and respected family of York County, Maine, he settled on a farm near his birthplace, and was afterward engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, at the age of threescore and three years.

Mark Haley was born on the parental homestead in Saco in December, 1799, and for more than thirty years lived there, being employed from his youth up as a tiller of the soil. In 1832 he removed to Somerset County, where he took up a tract of heavily timbered land, consisting of one hundred acres, from the government, and, having cleared a space, erected a rude log cabin, in which he and his wife began housekeeping. She also was born and brought up in Saco, in her early years unused to the privations and hardships which she in common with her few neighbors bravely endured in her new home. Her maiden name was Lydia Hill; and she inherited in a high degree the determination and force of character that marked her ancestors, making her a true helpmate to her husband in his pioneer labors. He worked with energetic perseverance, clearing and improving the land, eventually replacing the humble log structure with a substantial frame house, in which he afterward lived in comparative luxury until his death, at the age of fifty-three years. His widow survived him, dying at the age of sixty-seven. Both were members of the Congregational church, in which he served as Deacon some years. He was also quite prominent in local affairs, and was Superintendent of the Highways at a time when many of the roads of the county were being laid out. Mark and Lydia Haley reared six children, of whom three are living, namely: Malinda, who is unmarried; Charles, whose personal history is here outlined; and Lydia Ann, wife of J. H. Fogg, of Biddeford, Me.

Charles Haley spent the first eighteen years of his life in St. Albans, Me., his boyhood being passed in the log cabin, which was so rudely constructed that the snow sifted in through the cracks, he often finding a quilt of this fleecy material on his bed on a winter's morning. After obtaining a district-school education, and supplementing it by a brief term of attendance at the high school, he went to Biddeford, and began working for his cousin, Thomas Hill, of whom he learned the carpenter's trade. On attaining his majority, he came to Boston, and for ten years worked as a journeyman carpenter, four years of the time being spent in Watertown ; and four years at the Back Bay. Mr. Haley then established himself in business as a contractor and builder in what is now Hyde Park, which was not then incorporated as a town, he being one of the first to build in this locality. Buying a piece of ground on Mount Neponset, he erected a house on the site now occupied by the residence of Mr. Henry Miner; and he has since built some of the largest and finest dwellings in Hyde Park, Attleboro, Canton, Jamaica Plain, Brookline, and Newton, the number being in the hundreds. He has been eminently successful in business, having amassed a good property, including ten or twelve houses, of which he was the architect as well as builder. For a year he owned and conducted a lumber yard in this vicinity, but then sold out, concluding that his time was better occupied in contracting and building.

On December 25, 1864, Mr. Haley married Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of Joseph and Emeline (Moore) Farnsworth, and one of a family of eleven children. She was born in Lincoln, Mass., in the house in which her marriage was solemnized on that beautiful Christmas Day, thirty-three years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Haley have never had any children. Both are active members of the Methodist church, of which he was a trustee fifteen years. He is a strong Republican, but has never aspired to political office, although he did serve one year as Assessor.

§OSEPH WILLARD HEATON, who was an influential resident of Franklin, Mass., was born October 26, 1829, in this town, son of Samuel and Tirzah Heaton. His father was born July 17, 1798; and his mother, whose maiden name was Tirzah Carleton, was born in Acworth, N. H., April 23, 1806. They were married in July, 1823, and became the parents of thirteen children. Of these one died in infancy. The others, of whom five reside in Franklin, are: William, George, Sarah, Joseph, Henry, Samuel, Halsey, Melansa, Francis, Melansa (second), Ellen, and Charles.

Joseph Willard Heaton attended the public schools of his native town. When he was fourteen years of age, he began to work on his father's farm. At the age of twenty he went to Hopkinton, to learn the shoemaker's trade. After a comparatively short time he was appointed the superintendent of the establishment. He held this position until 1867, when he and his brother-in-law started in the provision business in Franklin. After five years Mr. Heaton sold his interest to his partner, and then went into the hay, grain, wood, and coal business. He retired in 1S92 with a comfortable income, and afterward lived quietly at his home in Franklin. Mr. Heaton filled several town offices, where he exercised for the benefit of the community the same good judgment that made him so successful in business.

He was married August 17, 1853, to Ellen Francis, a daughter of Addison and Sally (Hancock) Thompson, of Wrentham, Mass. His only child, Ella Flora, who was born in 1855, died in 1856. Mr. Heaton died August 22, 1897, aged sixty-seven years.

§EDEDIAH P. PLUMMER, of Medway, one of the best known artisans connected with the straw industry in this section, was born in Monmouth, Me., August 31, 1 8 19, son of John and Rebecca (Johnson) Plummer. The founder of the family, which is of English origin, settled in Newburyport ; and several of his descendants were identified with the early growth of that town. Jabez Plummer, grandfather of Jedediah P., was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and is supposed to have been killed in battle, as he never returned from the service.

John Plummer, who was born in Hampstead, N. H., in 1777, passed his early life in Litchfield, N.H. Then he moved to Monmouth, Me. ; and the rest of his active period was spent in tilling the soil. He lived to the age of ninety-four years and six months. His first wife, Rebecca, who was a native of Hillsboro, N.H., died at the age of fifty-eight. A second marriage united him to' Mrs. Bates, a widow of Dr. Bates, of Greene, Me. She is now deceased. Of his nine children, all by his first union, the survivors are: Dianna, now residing in Monmouth, the widow of Shepard Pease, who died in the army; Jedediah P., the subject of this sketch ; and Rebecca, who married Joseph Spear, and resides in West Gardner, Mass. The others were: John, who died in 1885; Judith, who died in 1838; Jabez, who died in 1892; and Mary, William, and Alden, the last-named of whom died in 1887.

Jedediah P. Plummer acquired a commonschool education in his native town, and resided there until he was nineteen years old. He then went to Boston and later to Walpole, Mass., where he worked as a farm assistant for three years. He next entered a straw factory in that town, three years later going to Springfield, Mass., where he was engaged in the same business until 1S52. From Springfield he went to Nevada County, California, and there worked in the mines for nine months. Upon his return to Massachusetts in the following year he resumed his former occupation in Medway, where he has since resided. He has been the superintendent of the bleaching department of a factory in this town for many years. Having spent considerably over half a century in the straw business, and being at the present time the oldest active artisan in the locality, he is about to retire. He has been thrifty as well as industrious, and owns considerable real estate, including a farm. He is connected with Medway Lodge, No. 163, I. O. O. F., and with the Sons of Temperance. Formerly a Whig in politics, he has acted with the Republican party since its formation.

In August, 1S49, while residing in Springfield, Mr. Plummer was united in marriage with Sophia L. Spear, of Gardiner, Me., daughter of Nathan Spear. She died in 1858, having been the mother of Charles, who died at the age of nine months, and another child that died unnamed. Mr. Plummer's present wife, whom he wedded October 14, 1860, was before marriage Sarah Frances Benner, born in Waldoboro, Me., April 24, 1834. Her parents, both now deceased, were John A. and Hannah (Storer) Benner, the former a native of Nobleboro, Me., and the latter of Waldoboro, Me. Mr. Benner resided for the greater portion of his active period in Waldoboro, where he followed ship-building and farming. Mrs. Plummer is the mother of two children : Frank Prescott, born February 19, 1868, the superintendent of the sizing department of a straw factory in Medway ; and Mary L., born December 9, 1S71, who is the wife of Charles R. Adams, a manufacturer of straw goods and a farmer in North Franklin. The family are all members of the Congregational church, and take an active interest in religious work. Since 1893 Mrs. Plummer has been president of the Ladies' Benevolent Society of Medway, connected with the Congregational church.

REDERICK LEONARD FISHER, a prosperous farmer and business man of Norwood, was born in South Dedham, January 29, 1862, son of William Curtis and Emily E. (Atkins) Fisher. He is a descendant of David Fisher, who was familiarly known as "King David," and who was an early settler in Dedham. David Fisher had six sons; and the line of descent of the subject of this sketch is through Oliver (son of David, first), David (second), Leonard, and William Curtis. The family is one of the oldest in this locality, and six generations have resided within sight of the present homestead. Grandfather Leonard Fisher tilled the soil of a good farm, and, previous to the advent of railroads, was engaged in teaming from Boston to New York by way of Providence and New Haven.

William Curtis Fisher, father of Frederick L. , has been engaged in agriculture since his youth, and was formerly an extensive dairyman. He married Emily E. Atkins, daughter of John and Emily (Perry) Atkins, and has reared four children; namely, Frederick L. , Emily C, Nettie M., and Alibv S.

Frederick Leonard Fisher attended the common schools of his native town, and at an early age began to assist his father upon the farm. He has made agriculture his chief occupation, but has also engaged in other branches of industry. His first business venture was the leasing of a clay pit, the product of which he sold to the paper mills. He has been a member of the fire department for a number of years, was Highway Surveyor from 1885 to 1890, and has served upon the Board of Selectmen since 1894. Politically, he is an independent Republican. He is a member of Orient Lodge, F. & A. M. , was one of the organizers, and first Vice-Grand of Tiot Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F. , and is connected by membership with the Royal Arcanum.

In 1888 Mr. Fisher was joined in marriage with Harriet D. Blackmail, daughter of Cyrus F. and Mary E. (Babb) Blackman. He has three children - Curtis B. , Leonard C. , and Emily. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher attend the Congregational church.

MMONS LEONARD, a retired manufacturer of Sharon, was born in the adjoining town of Foxboro, May 17, 1825, son of Hartford and Betsey (Shaw) Leonard. His parents were natives of Foxboro. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Leonard, who was a blacksmith in that town, married Mille Blake, of Wrentham, Mass. They had twelve children, as follows: Pattie, Hartford, Polly, Ellis, Robert, Amelia, Samuel, Sanford, Harvey, Ann M., and Williams and Warren (twins). Harvey married Emeline Skinner, and is still residing in Foxboro; but his wife is no longer living.

Hartford Leonard learned the blacksmith's trade in his native town. In 1829, about four years after the birth of his son Emmons, he removed to Franklin, in the same county, and resided there until his death, which occurred August 31, 1855. For several years he was a Selectman, and in 1851 he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. His wife, whose maiden name was Betsey Shaw, died March 1, 1846. She was the mother of five children, namely: Elizabeth, who was born December 18, 1820, and died September 29, 1S41 ; Hartford P., who was born May 3, 1822, was graduated at Amherst College, and died November 27, 1S92; Emmons, the subject of this sketch; George Shaw, born September 29, 1833; and Mary Louisa, born January 6, 1836. George Shaw, who is a machinist in Quincy, Mass., married Emma Leonard. Mary Louisa was married June 9, 1870, to Hiram E. West, of Attleboro, Mass., a machinist. They have one daughter - Mille Louise, born August 16, 1876.

Emmons Leonard acquired his education in the common schools, and when nineteen years old he began work in a straw factory. He was thus employed for thirteen years, when on account of failing health he went to Madison, Jones County, la., and bought a farm. He followed agricultural pursuits in the West until 1866, when he sold his farm and returned to Massachusetts. Purchasing a mill in the north part of Sharon, he engaged in the manufacture of packing-cases, the greater part of his product being used by the Morse Brothers. He continued in business until January 8, 1897, at which time he sold his plant to Captain H. A. Blackstone. He is now living in retirement.

On March 14, 1850, Mr. Leonard was united in marriage with Henrietta Dunbar, daughter of Amasa Dunbar, formerly an extensive shoe manufacturer of Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard are the parents of one daughter - Lizzie N., who was born in Madison, la., January 10, 1861, and is now residing at the parental home in Sharon.

In politics Mr. Leonard is a Republican, but he would never accept office. He has always attended strictly to business; and his leisure time has mostly been devoted to the affairs of the Congregational church, with which he has been officially connected, and of which he is still a member.

Ev. George Walter Nead

EV. GEORGE WALTER NEAD, the pastor of the First Baptist Church at Norwood, Mass., was born January 7, 1845. He is the son of James and Mary (Smith) Nead. His father and mother were both of English parentage. Their five children were: James, Albert, James (second), George Walter, and Charles.

Emmons Leonard

enlisted at Berea, Ohio, in Company E, Sixtyfifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and, joining the John Sherman brigade at Mansfield, went with his regiment to the front. He participated in the battle of Shiloh. At the siege of Corinth he was stricken with fever, and remained in the hospital for two months, after which he was discharged on account of disability. Upon the recovery of his health in 1S64 he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry, and saw five months of active service under General Curtis in Kansas and Missouri. At the expiration of his term of service he was mustered out at Springfield, 111. ; and immediately upon re-entering civil life he continued an uninterrupted pursuit of knowledge. He first went to Knox College, at Galesburg, 111., and subsequently to the Chicago University, receiving from that university the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in due course. The following three years, 1870-73, were passed in preparation for the ministry at the Theological Seminary in Chicago. He there received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, and was ordained at Chicago, when he at once organized the Union Stock Yards Baptist Church, of which he was pastor for three successive years. The following five years were spent at Medina, Ohio, which pastorate he resigned to accept a call from the Baptist church at Oberlin, Ohio, where he remained for five years; and after a pastorate of four years at Avon, Ohio, he came to New England, and spent a year in study at the Newton Theological Institution. He received a call to Norwood in 1892, and hereby became the spiritual leader of the Baptist church in this pleasant New England village in the vicinity of Boston.

He has been twice married. His first wife was Orisy Villa, the daughter of Orman and Mary Crocker, of Galesburg, 111. By her he had one son, Benjamin, born January 6, 1880. His second marriage was to Miss Julia Etta Tryon, daughter of Robert Tryon, of Bedford, Ohio. They have had six children, five of whom are now living - Bertha Evangeline, Goldwin Whittier (deceased), Raymond Marker, Gladwin Murl, Carol Plimpton, and George Washington. Mr. Nead is a member of the George K. Bird Post of the G. A. R., and has been chaplain of the post a number of years. He is also a member of the Business Men's Association of Norwood. He is an easy yet impressive speaker, evangelistic as well as scholarly in the presentation of gospel teaching. He is also of a social nature, and thoroughly enjoys his pastoral work, is popular with the people of the town, and is much sought after to attend weddings, funerals, memorial occasions, and so forth. A goodly degree of success has thus far attended his faithful ministry in each of his fields of labor. At present he is vice-president of the Boston Baptist Ministers' Conference which meets in Chipman Hall, Tremont Temple, each Monday morning.

IRA BARROWS CUSHING* M.D., a well-known physician residing in Brookline, was born in Providence, Bureau County, 111., November 12, 1846, son of Caleb and Malinda Peck (Barrows) Cushing. The father, who was born in Massachusetts in 1793, removed in 1836 to Illinois, where he became a farmer on an extensive scale. He died in 1876. The mother, bom in Pawtucket, R.I., in 1806, died in 1870. A daughter of William Barrows, she was a sister of Dr. Ira Barrows, of Providence, R.I., and Dr. George Barrows, of Taunton, Mass. , both distinguished medical practitioners and pioneers in the school of homoeopathy. She was united with the Congregational Church of Providence, 111., in which two of her sons are Deacons; and a grandson of hers is a minister. The Doctor is one of a family of nine children, of whom his own mother, the second wife of his father, bore seven. Five of the children are still living, and all are in the West.

Ira Barrows Cushing attended the common schools of his native town until sixteen years of age. In 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry for three years, and was mustered out at the close of the war in 1865. Subsequently he spent about two years in the English High School at Princeton, 111. In 1869 he came to Taunton, where he began the study of medicine in the office of his uncle. As has been stated, Dr. Barrows was a skilful exponent of the principles of homoeopathy. In the fall of 1869, through his influence, his nephew entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia. Having a liking for chemistry, he took a special course in that subject with Professor Barker, of Yale University, and subsequently, in 1872, during the vacation of the medical school, a full course. In the winter of 1871-72 he was a student at the New York Homoeopathic College, and in the spring was graduated from that institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After this he returned to Taunton, and during the summer of that year was engaged in practice with his uncle. In the following winter and spring he took a post-graduate course in the New York Ophthalmic Hospital and College, graduating in 1873. He then returned to Taunton, and resumed his practice there, making a specialty of treating diseases of the eye and ear. In the spring of 1875 he removed to Brookline, becoming the successor of Dr. Warren Sandford, who had succeeded Dr. Wilde, the first physician to practise homoeopathy in this vicinity. During the three years preceding that of 1875 Dr. Cushing had served as assistant surgeon to the Third Regiment of Militia, having been appointed in 1872 by Governor Washburn, and being the first of the new school called to the service of the State. The Doctor is the inventor of the well-known "Cushing Process" for purifying and refining distilled liquors. This process consists of forcing through the liquors heated atmospheric air, previously freed from living germs by Professor Tyndall's method, thus thoroughly oxidizing the fusel-oil and eliminating the poisons. This discovery, which was made known to science in 1882, was the result of Dr. Cushing's investigations, begun some years before, upon the effect of air upon spirituous liquors. He has been examining surgeon for several benevolent organizations, and he has reached a position of eminence in his profession that has caused his services to be sought from far and near. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Society, of the Boston Medical Society, and of the Gynaecological Society. In Masonry he is a

Master and a charter member of the lodge of Brookline. He also belongs to the Royal Arcanum ; and he is a comrade of the Brookline Grand Army Post, No. 143.

On October 27, 1874, Dr. Cushing was united in marriage with Miss H. Elizabeth Alden, of Bridgewater, Conn., daughter of Elijah and Harriet (Bassett) Alden. Mrs. Cushing's family has been known and honored in Bridgewater for many years. She is a direct descendant of John Alden, who came from England in the " Mayflower," and landed at Plymouth. The male line of descent comes through Joseph, John, Joseph, and Ebenezer Alden, the last-named being Mrs. Cushing's grandfather. Elijah Alden, who was born January 17, 1800, died at the age of seventynine years. He was a skilled workman in iron, his particular craft being the manufacture of hand-made augers from pig-iron. His wife, Harriet, a native of Bridgewater, belonged to an old and influential family. One of a family of eight children, six of whom are still living, she also had eight children, and died at the age of seventy-one. Both she and Elijah were Baptists, and the latter was a Deacon in the society. Mrs. Cushing is a lady of refinement, and in every way a fitting helpmeet for her husband. She is the president of the Ladies' Sewing Society, an auxiliary organization connected with the Baptist church ; and both she and Dr. Cushing are members of the Baptist church. They have three children, namely: Ira M., born August 26, 1875; Maude E., born December 27, 1877; and Arthur A., born January 17, 1881.

§OSEPH W. WATTLES, a manufact urer of Canton, was born in Chaplin, Conn., in 1824, son of Andrew and Margery (Sterry) Wattles. Andrew Wattles Was a native of Lebanon, Conn., where he spent the most of his life. He was a hatter by trade, which he carried on in the different towns. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was quite a prominent man in his day. Lie married Margery D. Sterry, of Norwich, Conn. ; and they had eleven children. Of these three are living, namely: Joseph W., the subject of this sketch; Benjamin, who went to California in 1S49; and Thomas B., now of New Hampshire. Andrew Wattles died in Canton, at the home of his son Joseph, after reaching the age of seventy-one years.

Joseph W. Wattles, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the common schools of his native town. When fifteen years of age he obtained employment in the cottonmills at Norwich, Conn., where he remained for a period of six years. In 1846 he came to Canton, Mass., where he was employed in the Neponset Cotton Mill as foreman for thirty years. In 1870 he started manufacturing cotton goods at Neponset Cotton Factory, which he sold out after ten years. He was then connected with the cotton-mills of Pembroke, N. H., for a number of years, and with the mills at Newburyport, Mass., for three years. He then returned to Canton, Mass. In politics he is a Republican, and he was a Selectman for three years.

Mr. Wattles married Fannie D. Marden, of Newburyport. They had a family of four children, namely: Ella F. , now deceased; Arthur S., of Canton; Joseph W., Jr.; and Margery S. Margery is the wife of Dr. Porter. The family attend the Unitarian church.

RTHUR WALLACE POPE, a prominent resident of Needham and senior member of the well-known firm of A. W. Pope & Co., High Street, Boston, was born in Brookline, March 9, 1850. He is the third son of the late Charles and Elizabeth (Bogman) Pope. Charles Pope was born in Dorchester in 18 14, was a merchant in Boston, though retired from active business pursuits for some years before his death in 188S. Mrs. Pope was daughter of Captain James Bogman, and was born in Boston. She died in 1885. They were the parents of eight children - four sons and four daughters. Their oldest living son is Colonel Albert A. Pope, president of the Pope Manufacturing Company. Two of their daughters were physicians, though now retired from practice. Arthur was educated in the public schools of Brookline. While in his teens, he became a clerk in the store of his brother, who was then in the wholesale shoe-findin<r business on Pearl Street. In 1S72 he was admitted as junior partner of the firm, the style being changed to Albert A. Pope & Co. Six years later the senior partner retired, in order to devote his whole attention to the Pope Manufacturing Company. For several years the business was carried on by the junior partners, later by A. W. Pope, under the firm name of A. W. Pope & Co. The house is now located at No. 45 High Street, and does a large wholesale business in shoe manufacturers' goods and leather. Mr. Pope is vice-president of the Lincoln National Bank in Boston, treasurer of the J. Alston Newhall Company, wholesale leather dealers, and treasurer of the Shawmut Manufacturing Company of Boston. He is also trustee of a large estate in Boston, director in several trust companies in New York City, and director in three large mercantile companies, of one of which he is president. He is a member of the Boston Merchants' Association, also of the Algonquin and of the Commodore Clubs. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs to Lucias Lodge of Boston. In politics he is independent.

Mr. Pope was married in 1892 to Miss Lilla M. Whittredge, daughter of Mr. Myron Whittredge, of Lynn. They have two children. Their summer home is in Needham, close to the Wellesley town line, on the estate known as the Ridge Hill Farms.

UGUSTINE SHURTLEFF, M.D., a retired physician of Brookline, Mass., residing on High Street, was born August 24, 1826, on Pemberton Hill, Boston, a son of Dr. Samuel A. Shurtleff. He is closely connected with many of the prominent families of early Colonial days in Massachusetts. Among his ancestors were eight of the passengers by the "Mayflower " in 1620; others by the "Fortune," which arrived in 1621 ; and still others by the "Ann," which came in 1623. Through his grandmother Shurtleff, whose maiden name was Abigail Atwood, he traces his lineage to Richard Warren, who was born in Devonshire, England, son of Christopher and Alice (Webb) Warren.

Richard Warren came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and his wife Elizabeth came in 1623 in the " Ann." They had five daughters, one of whom, Mary, married Robert Bartlett; their daughter, Mary Bartlett, married Jonathan Morey ; their daughter, Mary Morey, married Nathaniel Atwood ; their son, Nathaniel Atwood, Jr., married Abigail Shaw; their daughter Abigail (see above) married Benjamin Shurtleff, Jr. ; their son, Samuel Atwood Shurtleff, married Eliza Carleton ; and their son Augustine is the subject of this sketch.

Francis Cooke came in the "Mayflower." His wife Hester came in the "Ann." He was born in the parish of Blythe, 1577, in the nineteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and is the oldest authenticated ancestor of Augustine Shurtleff. Jacob Cooke, the son of Francis and Hester, married Damaris Hopkins in 1646. She was the daughter of Stephen Hopkins and his wife Elizabeth, and parents and daughter came over in the " Mayflower." Martha Cooke, daughter of Jacob and Damaris, married Elkanah Cushman, who was the son of Elder Thomas Cushman and his wife Mary Allerton, daughter of Isaac Allerton. Mary Allerton came over with her parents in the "Mayflower." She lived till 1699, and died at the age of ninety, being the last survivor of the passengers by the "Mayflower. "

Robert Cushman, the father of Elder Thomas Cushman, came over in the " Fortune" in 1621, but returned to England, and died there in 1626. He preached the first printed sermon in New England. William Shurtleff, the progenitor of all of the name in America, came from Sheffield, in England, in 1634. The name was originally spelled Shiercliffe, and is spelled both ways to-day in Sheffield. He married October 18, 1655, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lettice. William, as did his son Abiel after him, became a considerable owner of real estate in Plymouth, where they each in turn built a number of houses. William was killed by lightning, which struck the house where he was visiting in Marshfield, June 23, 1666. His son William, who was sitting on his father's knee, escaped unhurt, living to be the ancestor of many descendants. Abiel, his younger brother, the great-great-grandfather of Augustine, was born in June, shortly after his father's death. He dwelt in Plymouth, where he married January 14, 1695-96, Lydia Barnes, and was the father of seven sons and three daughters. He was a Selectman of Plymouth, and held other offices. He spent the last years of his life in that portion of Plympton now Carver, and died there October 28, 1732, aged sixty-seven. Lydia, his wife, died September io, 1727, aged fifty-three. Benjamin, son of Abiel, was bom April 17, 1710. He married March 25, 1745, Susanna Cushman, daughter of Lieutenant Josiah Cushman, and grand - daughter of Elkanah (see above). He was largely interested in iron works, being part owner of the old Charlotte Furnace in Sampson's Pond in Plympton, of which he was clerk and treasurer. He lived on the old estate, which he inherited from his father Abiel, and which he largely added to from time to time, and which, with its three hundred acres, now belongs to his great-grandson Augustine, the subject of this sketch. Benjamin died November 23, 1788. His son Benjamin, grandfather of Augustine, was born October 14, 1748. He was a farmer by occupation on the old place, which he inherited from his father, adding in his turn fields and meadows; and, with the exception of the time passed by him in militia service at the siege of Boston under Washington, he lived there all his life, dying July 8, 182 1. Benjamin married June 7, 1773, Abigail Atwood (see before). She was born October 7, 1755, and died November 29, 1826.

Benjamin's son, Samuel Atwood Shurtleff, was born and bred in Carver on the old place, but in early manhood went to Boston to study medicine with his elder brother, Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff. In 1815 he began the practice of his profession in that city, remaining there until 1S38, when he removed to Brookline, where he lived until his death in 1 87 1, aged nearly eighty-one years. He was a successful physician, having enjoyed a large and remunerative practice while in Boston, which at the date of his removal had a population of about eighty thousand. He married Eliza Carleton, who was born in Haverhill,

Mass., in 1800. Her father, Jonathan Carleton, removed to Boston in 18 12, and was thereafter engaged as an importer of sugar and molasses and an exporter of hats and boots until his death in 1832. He was one of the original proprietors of Central Wharf, and built one of the fifty-four stores, No. 5, in 1816, which still remains in the possession of Augustine and his two sisters. Eight children were born to Dr. Samuel A. and Eliza Shurtleff, and, of these, four grew to mature years, and three are now living, namely: Augustine, the subject of this sketch; Helen, wife of Dr. T. E. Francis, the oldest active practitioner of Brookline; and Isabella, wife of David H. Coolidge, of Boston, a member of the Suffolk Bar. One son, Carleton Atwood, a graduate of Harvard College, served in the regular army as medical cadet in the late Rebellion, and died from disease contracted at the siege of Vicksburg in 1864, aged twentyfour years. The mother died in 1878. Both she and her husband were at one time connected with the Baptist church in Boston of which Dr. Baldwin was the pastor, but were afterward members of the Swedenborgian church, which stood in Phillips Place, opposite King's Chapel on Tremont Street. The father was for a while assistant surgeon of the State militia, and was at one time vice-president of the State Horticultural Society, in which he always felt a deep interest. His house was opposite the head of Hanover Street, on what is now called Scollay Square, then known as Pemberton Hill; and his garden, filled with fruit-trees and grape-vines, extended up to where the new court-house stands on Pemberton Square.

Jonathan Carleton, the maternal grandfather of Augustine Shurtleff, was a son of Elijah and Rebekah (Webster) Carleton. He traced his lineage to Edward Carleton, Esq. (from the Carletons of Chertsey, Surrey, England), who came over and settled in Rowley, Mass., in 1638, and was appointed Judge in 1647. He returned to England some time earlier than 1656. His wife was Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Denton. They had two sons and two daughters. John, the elder son, "Lieutenant Carleton," was born in England in 1630, and died in Massachusetts, 1668. He moved from Rowley to Haverhill, where he was Selectman and Town Clerk. He married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Jewett, Esq., of Rowley. They had four sons. Edward, the third son, was born in Haverhill, March 22, 1664. He married Elizabeth Kimball, and had seven sons and four daughters. He was killed by an Indian in 171 1. Ebenezer, sixth son of Edward and Elizabeth, was born in 1705 or 1706. He moved to Methuen and married Elizabeth Saunders. He died in 1761. Elijah, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth, was born October 20, 1746, and died June 14, 1 8 16. He married Rebekah Webster, July 31, 1770. His name appears with rank of Corporal on the Lexington alarm-roll of Captain James Jones's company of minute-men, which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, from Methuen to Concord.

Jonathan Carleton, their son, married Hannah Sawyer, daughter of Amos and Hannah Sawyer, of Beverly, Mass., a grand-daughter of Nathaniel, Jr., and Tryphena (Haseltine) Duston, great-grand-daughter of Nathaniel, Sr. , and Mary (Ayer) Duston, and great-greatgrand-daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Emerson) Duston. The latter mentioned maternal ancestor, Hannah Duston, daughter of Michael and Hannah (Webster) Emerson, was born in 1657, in Haverhill, Mass., and in 1697, being the wife of Thomas Duston, was captured by the Indians. After seeing her week-old babe killed, she was forced to march to the Indian camp near the present site of the city of Concord, N. H. There, learning that she and the other captives were to be killed on reaching their destination in Canada, she quietly arose in the night, and, with the aid of her nurse, Mary Neff, and a young boy, killed ten of the sleeping Indians, and made her escape to the Merrimac River, where they unloosed a canoe, and soon after rejoined her astonished family in Haverhill. Pier brave act is recorded in history, and her name occupies an honored position in the list of America's heroic women.

Augustine Shurtleff attended private schools in Boston until eleven years old, when he came with his parents to Brookline. He was fitted for college by a private tutor, and in 1842 entered Brown University, where he was graduated in 1846. After pursuing the study of medicine three years at the Medical School of Harvard University, where he received his diploma in 1849, and subsequently, for nearly two years, following the hospitals in Paris and London, he began active practice in Essex Street, Boston, where he remained about one year. In 1852 he removed his office to Brookline, and since that time has here made his home. The old stone house that his father owned on Boylston Street, and which was the family homestead for forty-three years, is still standing; but in 1881, shortly after the death of his mother, Augustine erected and removed to his present dwelling on the corner of High and Allerton Streets.

Dr. Shurtleff is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society, of the Norfolk County District Medical Society, of the Boston Natural History Society, and for a quarter of a century was a member of the Union Club. Since 1869 he has been one of the trustees of the Brook! ine Public Library.

'AMUEL E. GUILD, a representative of one of the oldest and most respected families of Walpole, Mass., was born in this town, at the North End, April 20, 1835, a son of Samuel Guild. The family is of Scotch extraction, three of its members - John, Samuel, and Ann - having come from Scotland to America in 1636, the same year locating in Dedham, Norfolk County, where the descendants of the ancestor of this branch of the Guild family lived for some years, Samuel E. Guild being of the seventh generation in Massachusetts. John Guild, the great-great-grandfather of Samuel E. , became a pioneer of Walpole, and here brought up his son Samuel, the next in line of descent ; and here Aaron Guild, son of Samuel and grandfather of Samuel E., spent his years, being an industrious and esteemed member of the farming community.

Samuel Guild succeeded to the occupation of his forefathers, and, having inherited fine physical powers and the habits of temperance in all things that characterized the former generations, attained a ripe old age, dying on his homestead farm in 1892, aged eighty-six years. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Orra Eisher, six children were born, namely: Orra E., who died in i860; Samuel E., the special subject of this brief biographical record; Mary J., living in Jamaica Plain, the widow of the late George H. Ware; William E, of Medfield, Mass. ; Erederick, of Walpole; and Julius, of whom a sketch may be found on another page of this volume.

Samuel E. Guild attended the district schools until nearly seventeen years old, obtaining a practical knowledge of the studies there pursued. Being possessed of some mechanical ingenuity and skill, he then began the development of his natural talents by learning the machinist's trade, at which he worked until 1864. Enlisting that year in defence of the Union, he became acting third assistant engineer in the United States Navy, and remained in service until the cessation of hostilities. On returning home, Mr. Guild resumed work at the machinist's bench, and has since followed his chosen vocation with great success. Politically, he is a zealous supporter of the principles of the Republican party, in which he is an active worker, for three years having been chairman of the Republican Town Committee.

Mr. Guild was married April 7, 1859, to Miss Jane Earl, who was born in Hollis, Me., a daughter of Winthrop Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Guild have one daughter - Alice Maria, wife of James B. Lewis, of this town. Fraternally, Mr. Guild belongs to the E. B. Piper Post, No. 157, G. A. R. , of which he is the present Commander; and he is a member, and for the past year has been Master, of the A. O. U. W. For a quarter of a century he has faithfully served as Deacon of the Second Congregational Church, and has been superintendent of the Sunday-school.

HARLES H. BELCHER, a successful merchant of Randolph and a veteran of the Civil War, was born in this town, April 25, 1841. He is a son of Charles and Hannah (Spear) Belcher, both of whom were natives of Randolph, the father being a carpenter by trade. ^_The paternal grandfather, Ephraim Belcher, was a lifelong resident of this town; and the family has long been a prominent one in Randolph and the vicinity. Three of the children of Charles and Hannah (Spear) Belcher survive, namely: Mary F., now Mrs. Henry Nichols; Florence A., now Mrs. Daniel B. White - both of whom are residents of this town; and Charles II., the subject of this sketch.

Charles H. Belcher was educated at the Stetson High School and at Pierce's Academy in Middleboro. At the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company D, Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and served under. General Banks in the Department of the Gulf, participating in the battle of Franklin and siege of Port Hudson. In the last - named engagement Mr. Belcher received a severe scalp wound, which confined him to the hospital for some time. Upon completing his term of service, he was honorably discharged with the rank of Corporal. After his return from the army he went to Taunton, Mass., where he was employed as a clerk in a grocery store until 1874. He then formed a partnership with Daniel B. White, of this town, with whom he was associated for some time, finally becoming sole proprietor of the business. He carries a large and varied stock of goods, including groceries and other family necessaries, and is numbered among the prosperous merchants of Randolph. He is a comrade of Horace Niles Post, No. 1 10, G. A. R., and a member of the Knights of Honor. In 1866 Mr. Belcher married Eliza A. Williams, of Taunton, who died, leaving one daughter - Clara W., now Mrs. William B. Mason, of Brockton. In 1885 he married Emma Howe King, a native of Randolph. Mr. and Mrs. Belcher are members of the Congregational church.

;AMUEL SUTTON, for many years one of the most respected residents of Needham, Mass., was born at Alfreton, England, February 24, 181 2. On account of an accident that it was thought would render him unable to do manual labor, he was given a good education, becoming very proficient in mathematics and penmanship. He recovered his physical powers, however, and subsequently developed into quite an athlete. He came to America in 1833, and settled in Boston, afterward removing to Brookline and later to Roxbury. He was one of the pioneers of the hand loom knitting business in this country, in which he was very successful. In 1856 the Mechanics Charitable Association awarded him a gold medal for the superior quality of his hosiery, and for many years thereafter goods bearing his name commanded the highest market prices. In 1868 he moved to Needham, and added to his business the manufacture of yarn, occupying the mill now known as the Union Cyle Factory, and also several smaller establishments in other parts of the town. The business was to be# still further enlarged and made into a stock company, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, the majority of which was subscribed, when the Boston fire in November, 1872, swept away the accumulation of years.

During the last twenty years of his life Mr. Sutton resided at "The Farm," living a quiet although an active and industrious life. After the death of his wife, in 1886, his two youngest daughters kept house for him, anticipating his every need. Domestic in his tastes, he loved his children with the devotion of a true father, and realized the truth expressed in David's psalms, "Children are an heritage of the Lord; . . . happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them." He died June 6, 1897, aged eighty-five years, three months, and fifteen days. He was twice married, the last time in 1846, to a beautiful and accomplished lady, Ann, daughter of Joseph Hills, of Boston. This union was blessed with eleven children, eight of whom survive, who, with their wives, children, and grandchildren, number all together thirty-four persons.

The surviving children of Samuel Sutton are: George Hills Sutton, a resident of New York City, president of the Lenox Republican Club and member of the Board of Supervisors of Public Schools; Thomas Sutton, of whom a special mention is made elsewhere in this sketch; Frederick D. Sutton, a carpenter of Needham and Master of Norfolk Lodge,

A. F. & A. M., in this town; Eliza A., now Mrs. Thomas J. Crossman, and a resident of Needham; Samuel F. Sutton, of Yonkers, N.Y. , a salesman of hosiery in the West and South; Mary M. Sutton, who resides in Needham, and is a school teacher in the public schools of this town; Charles H. Sutton, a farmer of Needham ; and Emma L. Sutton, who resides in Needham, and is employed in Boston as a stenographer.

In politics Mr. Sutton was a Republican. He cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison, and voted at every election from that time until his death. He kept well abreast with the times, and was a close student of the political and economical problems affecting the welfare of the United States. Although never holding a town office, he was much interested in local affairs, and seldom failed to attend a town meeting. He was decidedly musical in his tastes, and was a prominent figure in Brookline musical circles for many years. A singer of no small ability, his happiness seemed never so complete as when a difficult anthem or chant had been successfully rendered.

Thomas Sutton, son of Samuel and Ann (Hills) Sutton, was born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1850. He is one of the prominent business men of Needham, where he is engaged in the provision business. He is quite active in town affairs, having served as Auditor, Selectman and trustee of the public library, and is at the present time Town Clerk. He was married February 22, 1873, to Margarette A., daughter of John H. M inch in, of Braintree, Mass., a descendant of John Alden. They have one daughter, Clarissa May.

e^fONATHAN R. PACKARD, of the H. A. Lothrop Manufacturing Company, Sharon, was born in North Easton, Mass., January 3, 1828, son of Tillson and Millie (Randall) Packard. He is a descendant in the sixth generation of Samuel Packard, who came from England in the "Diligent " in 1638, and settled at Hingham, whence he removed to Bridgewater. His son Zacheus, baptized at Hingham in 165 1, married Sarah Howard. Their son, Abiel, who was born April 22, 1700, married Sarah Washburn Ames, of West Bridgewater, Mass., January ii, 1722; and he died in 1776. Timothy Packard, of North Bridgewater, son of Abiel and great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was bom in 1735, and became a prosperous farmer. He married Miss Sarah Alden, of Bridgewater, a direct descendant of John Alden, of the Plymouth Colony. Their son, Calvin Packard, grandfather of Jonathan R., was born in 1762; and the greater part of his life was spent upon a farm in Easton, Mass., where he died in 1823. The maiden name of his wife was Betsey Dunbar. She was a daughter of Peter and Relief (Curtis) Dunbar, of Easton.

Tillson Packard, son of Calvin and Betsey (Dunbar) Packard, was born in North Easton in 1792. He followed agricultural pursuits, giving his undivided attention to the cultivation of his farm during the active period of his life, which terminated December 16, 1847. His wife Millie, who was a native of North Easton, and a direct descendant of Thomas Randall, one of the first settlers of Easton, bore him three children, namely: Jonathan R., the subject of this sketch; Louisa; and Dexter. Louisa married John F. Long, a merchant of Sharon, and became the mother of two sons - Frank P. and Fred D. Her husband died in 1884, and she died in 1888. Dexter Packard, who was born August 28, 1834, was connected with the H. A. Lothrop Company until his death, which occurred October 28, 1896. He was for many years identified with public affairs in Sharon, serving as a Selectman and in other offices; and in politics he was a Republican. He is survived by his wife, who was before marriage a Miss Phinney, and three children, namely: Alvin Dexter, connected with the cutlery works in Sharon; Warren S. , cashier of Mount Vernon National Bank, of Mount Vernon, Washington ; and Loring Bradford, who is now a student at Yale College. Mrs. Millie Randall Packard died in 1882, aged eighty-two years.

Jonathan R. Packard attended school until he was fifteen years old, when he began to learn the cutler's trade with John Ames in North P~aston, continuing for some time to go to school in the winter months. He remained there until 1S47, and after the death of Mr. Ames he accompanied his late employer's widow to Sharon, where, with his assistance, she established the present factory. The business was managed by him and his brother Dexter until 1848. In that year was founded the firm of H. A. Lothrop & Co., and later was formed the corporation known as the H. A. Lothrop Manufacturing Company. This concern produces butcher, shoe, and bread knives for both the domestic and export trade, and employs an average of from fortyfive to fifty workmen.

In 1861 Mr. Packard was joined in marriage with Madeline Holmes, daughter of the late Otis and Mira Holmes, of Providence, R.I., Mr. and Mrs. Packard have four children, namely: Charming R., born January 22, 1862; Marshall B., born September 25, 1863; Mildred L., born April 12, 1874; and Susan A., born May 29, 1877. Charming R. Packard has charge of the office and shipping department of the cutlery factory. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Boston, and the Improved Order of Red Men in Canton. Marshall B. is also employed in the factory. Mildred L. is the wife of John W. L. Cram, of Newtonville, Mass. Susan A. Packard is residing at home with her parents.

Politically, Mr. Packard is a Republican, but has never sought or held public office. His long business career has been attended with gratifying success, and he is highly esteemed both in business and social circles.

JDWARD E. WENTWORTH, Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County, whose home is in Cohasset, was born in VVaterville, Me., July 27, 1845. Son of the late William Wentworth and his wife, Nancy Kidder Wentworth, both of English ancestry, he is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of William Wentworth, who came to New England about 1637, was an early settler at Exeter, N.H., lived at Wells, Me., 1642 -49, and removed thence to Dover, N.H., where he served as Selectman, and held the office of Ruling Elder in the church more than forty years.

His fourth son, Ezekiel,2 was the father of John,3 whose son, Ezekiel,4 was the father of Samuel5 and grandfather of Timothy,6 who married Abigail Black, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier. (See Wentworth Genealogy, an elaborate and interesting work in three volumes.)

William Wentworth, son of Timothy and Abigail, was born in Lewiston, Me. He was a millwright, and followed his trade in his native State and in Massachusetts, making his home during the last twenty years of his life in Cambridge, Mass. He died March 21, 1892. His wife, who was a native of Waterville, Me., now resides at North Scituate, Mass.

Edward E. Wentworth was educated in the public schools of his native town. On December 15, [861, in his seventeenth year, he enlisted in Company F, Seventh Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry ; and, joining the Army of the Potomac, he participated in Mc- Clellan's Peninsular Campaign, taking part in the siege of Yorktown and the battles of Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, and Antietam. He was afterward transferred to the Army of the South-west, and was in Nashville at the time that city was besieged. In the Army of the Potomac Mr. Wentworth served as a private for eighteen months, and in the Army of the South-west he was post quartermaster's clerk for twenty-one months. Honorably discharged in the spring of 1865, he returned to Lewiston, where his parents were living; and he subsequently spent a year recuperating at the headwaters of the west branch of the Penobscot, his health having been undermined by the hardships of army life. When he had fully recovered, he went to Indianapolis to learn the trade of carriage-building. He was in the employ of one firm for several years, and became familiar with all the branches of the work. Returning to New England, he started in business as a carriage manufacturer in Deny, N.H.

Early in the seventies, having closed up his business in Derry, he removed to Cohasset, and entered the employ of Charles F. Tilden, for whom he worked as a journeyman for a number of years. He then began to manufacture carriages on his own account in North

Scituate, and was in control of a fairly prosperous business until 1896, when he retired. During all this time his home was in Cohasset, where he served as Constable for twentytwo successive years. In 1895 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County; and on the second day of November last, 1897, he was elected, on the Republican ticket, Representative to the General Court from Cohasset, Hingham, and Hull.

In 1874 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary H. Nickerson, sister of George K. Nickerson, a prominent citizen of Cohasset. Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth have one daughter, Abbie E., who is the wife of J. Murray Cann, of Yarmouth, N.S. Mr. Wentworth is a member of Henry Bryant Post, No. 98, G. A. R. , of Cohasset, and was Commander of the post for seven years. He is a member of Konohasset Lodge, F. & A. M., of this town ; and Past Grand of Cohasset Lodge, No. 192, I. O.O. F. He is widely known and highly esteemed.

KRANCIS BAYLIES RAY, late of Franklin, Mass., son of Joseph and Lydia (Paine) Ray, was born in South Mendon, now East Blackstone, Mass., May 15, 1823, and died November 29, 1892. His father was for many years a manufacturer of mill machinery at East Blackstone, and was a Colonel in the State militia; and his mother was a native of Smithfield, R.I. Joseph Ray came to Franklin with his family in 1839, and settled in the village of Unionville, where he resided until his death in 1847. He had three sons who grew to manhood, namely: James P. ; Francis B., the subject of this sketch; and Joseph G. - all extensive and well-known manufacturers in cotton and woollen lines.

Francis B., having received his education in the public schools, started in the wool and cotton trade at eighteen years of age, and in the course of his career was a large manufacturer of satinets and feltings and dealer in woollen stock, owning or being connected in the proprietorship of factories in Franklin, Norfolk, Caryville, South Milford, Blackstone, and Millbury in Massachusetts, and Stafford

Springs in Connecticut. He was fond of farming, and was one of the earliest citizens in Massachusetts to become interested in Jersey cattle. He was also an excellent judge of and always owned fine horses. Of an active and cheerful temperament, he became very prominent in his residential town, holding at different times several town offices, and serving as a Representative in the State legislature of 1865. He belonged to the Franklin Lodge of Masons. In politics he was a Republican. He was a generous and public-spirited man, and did a great deal toward building up and improving the community. He was an earnest member of the First Congregational Church of Franklin, and one of the committee to build the beautiful church edifice that was erected in 1872 and was burned in 1893. Mr. Ray married Susan Bailey Rockwood, who was born in Franklin, March 17, 1824, being the daughter of Asa Rockwood, a well-known general storekeeper, and Julia Thurston. Mr. and Mrs. Ray had but one child, William Francis Ray, born March 2, 1854. He married Harriet P. Richardson, of Chelsea, Mass., and is now living in Franklin, engaged in woollen manufacture. A graduate of Brown University in 1874, he is an active business man, and has been State Representative and Senator, each for two years. Mrs. Susan B. Ray lives in the old homestead dwelling at Unionville, on the farm which her husband so much improved.

ILLIAM B. CROCKER, a prominent and prosperous dry-goods merchant of Foxboro, was born October 1, 1836, in Sandwich, Barnstable County. A son of Nathan N. Crocker, he is a descendant of an early settler of Cape Cod. His paternal grandfather, Prince Crocker, was a lifelong resident of the Cape, where he was engaged in farming, and died at the venerable age of ninety-two years.

Nathan N. Crocker, who was born and brought up in Barnstable, Mass., after attaining his majority settled in the neighboring town of Sandwich as a merchant, and was for many years its leading storekeeper. He mari ried Miss Harriet E. Boyden, a daughter of Jesse Boyden, of Walpole, and with her reared four children. These were: N. Henry, of Brookline, Mass., who married Cornelia Lincoln, and has four children - Harry H., Lincoln, Richard, and John; Ariel B., who married Anne Lincoln, and died January 12, 1892, leaving four children - Marian, Edith, William, and Albert; William B., the subject of this sketch; and Harriet M., who is unmarried.

William B. Crocker was bred and educated in Sandwich. He obtained his first knowledge of business at the general store of Brett & Kingman in Brockton, where he remained three years as a clerk. At the age of twenty years he came to Foxboro, and during the following three years was a clerk in the drygoods store of George T. Ryder & Co. In 1 861 he embarked in business for himself at the stand he now occupies, entering into partnership with his former employer, under the firm name of Ryder & Crocker. A new member was subsequently added to the firm, a Mr. Shepard; and after a time the senior member was bought out. On the death of Mr. Shepard, in February, 1885, Mr. Crocker purchased the interest of his heirs in the business, which he managed for a time alone. He has recently admitted John W. Richardson into copartnership, and a large and lucrative business is now carried on under the name of W. B. Crocker & Co.

Mr. Crocker has been three times married. His first wife, whose maiden name was Laura A. Carpenter, died, leaving no children. His second marriage was contracted with Miss Emma (Leonard) Wheaton, of Foxboro, Mass., who also died childless. He next married Miss Margaret E. Littlefield, who was born in Zanesville, Ohio, daughter of Mrs. Olive B. Spear by her first husband, Joseph Littlefield. Mr. Crocker is a steadfast Republican in politics, has always taken an active interest in local affairs, and served the community in the capacity of Selectman. He is the treasurer of the Foxboro Cemetery Company, and he has been the treasurer of the Water Works Company since its organization. In the Masonic fraternity he is a Past Master and a Past High Priest of Keystone Chapter; the treasurer of St. Alban's Lodge; the treasurer of Keystone Chapter; and Worthy Patron of the Order of the Eastern Star since its organization. A man of recognized financial ability, he is serving most acceptably as vice-president of the Foxboro Co-operative Bank and as president of the Foxboro Savings Bank. In i860 he cast his first Presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln.

LLIS THAYER NORCROSS, a retired farmer of Bellingham, Mass., residing near South Milford, the son of Silas T. and Sallie (Hixson) Norcross, was born in Bellingham, March 24, 1823.

The Norcross family is of English colonial stock that has long been rooted in American soil. Jeremiah Norcross, the immigrant progenitor, settled at Watertown, this State, as early as 1642. Bond in his History speaks of him as a large proprietor, and as Selectman in 1649. Sons Nathaniel and Richard are mentioned in his will; also Anna, daughter of a brother supposed to have been John Norcross, of whom no more is heard.

Asa Norcross, great-grandfather of Mr. Ellis T. Norcross, removed from Watertown to Hopkinton, Mass. ; and his son, Asa, Jr., who was a farmer and a man of quiet tastes and industrious habits, settled in Franklin, Mass. He was a member of the Congregational church and a great church worker. Asa Norcross, Jr., married Sylvia Thayer, of Bellingham, and had three children - Silas Thayer, Asa G., and Sylvia. Asa G. Norcross married Irene Fisher. Both he and his wife are now deceased. Sylvia Norcross died at the age of sixteen. Silas Thayer Norcross, father of the subject of our sketch, was born in 1800. He died at the age of twenty-eight years, in 1828; and his wife, whose maiden name was Sallie Hixson, died at the same age, in 1829. They had three children - Ellis Thayer, Sylvia, and Sarah. Both of the girls died in childhood.

Ellis T. Norcross, the only son and now the sole survivor of his father's family, was left an orphan at the age of six years. He was brought up by his uncle, Silas Hixson, of Bellingham, where he stayed until he was twenty years of age, when he started out for himself. He first settled on a small farm near where he now lives; but in 1865 he bought his present place of about twelve acres, besides some outlying lots. He was for some time engaged in making boots, and also as a band leader; but his later working years were devoted wholly to his farm. He has now retired from active pursuits, and lives very quietly at his pleasant home. In politics Mr. Norcross is a stanch Republican. He has held the office of Highway Surveyor, Overseer of the Poor, and has also served on the School Committee.

He was married in 1845 to Ellen E., a daughter of Samuel and Polly (Moore) Hawes, of Cumberland, R.I. Three children were the fruit of this union, namely: Emma F., who married R. C. Metcalf, and is now living in Lynn, Mass. ; Ellen Jeannette, who died in 1864; and Eva Eliza, who married Lewis Aldrich, and is living in Milford, Mass. Mrs. Ellen E. Norcross died in June, 1893; and Mr. Norcross was married a second time, October 18, 1895, to Clarissa, daughter of Amos and Clarissa (Hill) Partridge, of Belli ngham.

Ilbur Howard Powers

His great-grandfather, Ezekiel Powers, was one of the pioneers of Croydon, going there first in 1766 through the trackless forest from Massachusetts with three other explorers to make preparations for a settlement, for which a charter had been granted in 1763, signed by Governor Benning Wentworth. Families were removed thither and homes established in 1767. The story is told that at one stage of their journey they were delayed some time in building a raft with which to cross the river, and while doing this they deposited the charter, which they had brought with them, in a hollow tree for safe keeping. When at length they had reached the other side, and the log raft had been swept away by the force of the current, they discovered that the charter had been left behind. A pistareen was offered to the one who should boldly swim the stream and return with the precious document, and the prize was won by the pioneer ancestor of the Powers family.

Ezekiel Powers was a man of resources and mechanical skill; and by his world-celebrated inventions, the sap-pan and the side-hill plough, he was made rich and successful. He fought in the war of the Revolution, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. He died at his home in Croydon, at the age of sixty-three. The maiden name of his wife was Hannah Hall. They had several children. Major Powers, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, served through the War of 181 2. He died at the age of seventy years. His wife, Hanna Melendy Powers, who bore him five children, died at fifty years of age.

Elias Powers was born in Croydon, and during his school days he lived upon the home farm. He became a civil engineer, and surveyed the whole county. Being possessed of large general information, he was the oracle of the neighborhood. He was highly esteemed, and was honored with election to various positions of responsibility and trust, as that of County Commissioner and Selectman. He took great interest in public affairs, was an original Free Soiler and always a strong partisan. He married Miss White, daughter of Captain James White. Her father was born in Newport, N.H., and was formerly a Captain of the militia there. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Powers had five children, namely: Albina IL, machinist and a fish commissioner of New Hampshire, who died at the age of fifty-five years; Myra A., who married S. H. Bickford of Fitchburg; Abijah, a farmer of Croydon, residing at the old homestead; Elias F., who was a Sergeant-major of Company I, Fourteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, during the late Civil War, and died of pneumonia at the age of nineteen; and Wilbur Howard. The mother died at the age of eighty-four. The father died in the eightythird year of his age.

Wilbur H. Powers spent his early years on his father's farm. He fitted for college at Kimball Academy, where he was graduated in 1 87 1 ; and four years later he finished his course at Dartmouth. He at once began the study of law, and after graduating from the Boston Law School was admitted to the bar in 1878. He has since continued the practice of his profession in the city of Boston. He was at one time associated with W. B. Tanner, Attorney- General of the State of Rhode Island.

He married Emily, daughter of Frederick L. Owen, a farmer of Hanover, N.H. Mr. and Mrs. Powers have two children - Walter and Myra. Since 1881 the family have resided at Hyde Park.

Mr. Powers is a Republican in politics, was Representative to the legislature during 1890, 1 89 1, and 1S92, and has been Town Solicitor for two years. He has been a member of the Republican State Committee and is on the Town Committee, of which he has been chairman; was chairman of the Executive State Committee and Congressional Committees; was presidential elector and secretary of the Electoral College in 1897. As chairman of the Park Commissioners of Hyde Park he was active in advocating the taking of Stony Brook Reservation for a public park. He is a member of Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A.M.; of the Royal Arcanum and of the Order of the Golden Cross, in which he has held all the offices in turn, including that of General Counsel for the United States. He is a Royal Goodfellow, and has been at the head of the local lodge; and he was sent as representative to the Grand Lodge. He has belonged to the Waverly Club for the past fifteen years, was made president of the club in 1895, and has held that office to the present time. Mrs. Powers is a member of the Congregational Church of Hyde Park.

EORGE F. DEARBORN, Lieuten- \ -) I ant of Police in Brookline, was born here, July 22, 1840, son of Isaac Dearborn. His grandfather, John Dearborn, was born and bred in England. In early manhood John came to the United States, settling in Massachusetts, where he spent his last days, although for a few years he was a resident of the Granite State.

When about sixteen years old he came to Brookline, and for some years worked as a farm laborer. Industrious and thrifty, he was able in a few years to buy a farm in the part of the town adjoining Brighton, where he was afterward engaged in agriculture for forty or more years. Selling that property then, he has since lived retired from active business in Allston. Now, though fourscore and four years have passed over his head, he is comparatively hale and vigorous. His wife, whose maiden name was Susan Coolidge, was the only daughter among the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. David Coolidge, of Brookline. She died at the age of forty-nine years, in 1863, leaving four children, namely: George E. and Charles E. ; Laura F., the wife of Samuel Davenport; and Susan E., the widow of the late Edward Leonard. Both parents were members of the Baptist church, in which the mother was for many years the organist.

George F. Dearborn spent his early years on the home farm. Having finished his studies in the district school, he became a clerk in the store of his uncle, at what is now called Coolidge's Corner, remaining there until the breaking out of the late Rebellion. Then he enlisted for nine months in the Eleventh Massachusetts Battery. On returning to Brookline at the expiration of that time, he resumed work in the store and on the farm, continuing thus engaged until 1870. During the following two years he served as patrolman on the police force, and from 1872 until 1878 he was truant officer. In that year he was made sergeant, and then one of the mounted policemen. Afterward he served in the capacity of probation officer until June, 1880. In May, 1891, he was appointed a Lieutenant of Police, in which position he has since served with distinction. He has seen many important changes in the police department of the town government since he entered the service. The force, which now numbers thirty-nine men, then numbered but eight men, all told, and its equipment was of a meagre character.

Abraham Lincoln. He takes a genuine interest in the welfare of the town in which he has spent the most of his life, and which since his remembrance has increased its population more than fourfold. He is an active member of Beth-Horon Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; of Lomia Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and of the C. L. Chandler Post, No. 145, G. A. R. He is also treasurer of the Brookline Police Mutual Aid Association. In November, 1874, Lieutenant Dearborn married Arabella M. McGregor, who was born in Nova Scotia, where her father, James McGregor, was a tanner for many years. She is a most agreeable woman to meet and a member of the Episcopal church.

RNOLD ALLEN JENCKES, of Franklin, Norfolk County, Mass., who has an honorable record as a soldier in the late war for the Union, in which he served nearly three full years, at first as a private and later as Sergeant, and who has since been a patient sufferer from injuries received on Southern battlefields, is of Rhode Island parentage, birth, and breeding, a native of Cumberland, Providence County, and is connected by ties of blood and marriage with not a few of the old families of that State.

He is a lineal descendant of Daniel Jenckes, who married Catherine Balcom, and was the first bearing this surname to settle at Cumberland, R. I., where he built mills. Daniel Jenckes was born in Lynn, Mass., in 1663, youngest son of Joseph, Sr., by his second wife, he having come to Lynn a widower in 1643. His eldest son, Joseph, Jr., whom he left in England, came over a few years later, was granted land at Warwick, R.I., in 1669, and a few years later removed to Pawtucket. He also married and left descendants. (See New England Historic Genealogical Register, vol. ix.) Arnold Jenckes, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native and lifelong resident of Cumberland, R.I. , where he held many positions of public trust. He was a cooper by trade, and was an extensive landed proprietor. His farm, which was a mile and a half long and one mile wide, is now occupied by his descendants, and known as the Jenckes homestead. Arnold Jenckes was a Free Mason. He married for his first wife a daughter of Saul Peck and for his second a Miss Ballou, who was a descendant of original settlers of the Providence Plantation. His children were: Joel P., Eliza, Harriet, Arnold Allen (first), Lois, and J. Lewis.

Joel P. remained at the homestead. He married first Amelia Tallent, by whom he had three children - Alice, Maria, and Frank; and second, Mary Arnold, who survives him, his death having occurred in 1883. Alice married Almon Powers, of Attleboro, Mass., a carpenter, who died in Pawtucket, R.I., leaving her with three children. Maria married Omar F. Currier, of Cumberland, and settled at Pawtucket, where he is proprietor of a general store. They have three children. Frank Jenckes is a farmer on the old homestead. His first wife, formerly Miss Whipple, died soon after the birth of their one child, a son; and he married again.

Eliza Jenckes married Lewis Ingalls, a stone-cutter of Providence, R.I. About 1845 they removed to Augusta, Ga. They had four children - Harriet, Adelaide, Stephen Arnold, and Evelyn. Adelaide Ingalls married a Mr. Averill, who was drafted into the Confederate army, was taken prisoner, sent North and paroled, and became an editor of a New York paper. Stephen A. Ingalls, who married in Georgia, enlisted in the rebel army, and was wounded at Fredericksburg. Evelyn Ingalls married a Mr. Sykes, who also was a rebel soldier. Lewis Ingalls, the father, was drafted into the rebel army, and served as guard at Andersonville until the close of the war.

Harriet Jenckes married Lewis Scott, a farmer of Cumberland, who served in a Rhode Island battery during the war. They had seven children; namely, Lois, Harriet Jane, Oceanna, Walter Allen, Mary Emma, Evelyn, and Edwin. Lois Scott, who married Willard Grant, of Cumberland, and after his death married a Mr. Evans, is now dead, leaving no children. Harriet Jane Scott married Henry Ellis, of Cumberland, and is now a widow with three children. Oceanna Scott married