Norfolk Town (part 6 of 23)

John Twigg was educated in the public schools of his native town, graduating from the high school in 1886. Upon leaving school, he entered the drug store of E. J. Williams at Newton Highlands, where he was engaged as clerk. Two years later he obtained a similar position in the drug store of C. E. Coombs on Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. After working there for one year, he went back to his former employer. Six months later he bought out the store. He had carried on the business for one year when he sold out, and started a drug store in Needham, where he is established at the present time. In 1890 he received a certificate from the State Board. He joined the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Society some time ago. In politics he is an independent. He is a member of the Norfolk Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Needham, in which he holds the office of Senior Deacon: of the Newton Chapter, R. A. M. ; of the Gethsemane Commander)' at Newtonville, K. T. ; and of Eliot Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Newton Highlands.

-*- associated with the mercantile interests of Dedham as one of its leading grocers and hardware dealers, was born in Medfield, this county, September 25, [822, son of Joel Baker. The paternal grandfather, Joseph

Baker, was born, lived, and died in West Dedham, where he was prosperously engaged in lumbering during his active life. While highly respected, he was familiarly called "Uncle Joe." In his earlier years he made a specialty ot getting out ship timber, which he sold in Boston, using oxen in transporting it to the city. He lived to the age of eightyfive.

Joel Baker was one of a family of eight children born to his parents. He was a natural mechanic, and when quite young learned the trades of a boat-builder and carriagemaker. The latter he made his principal occupation, locating in Medfield, where he established a factory, and carried on an extensive business, being an especially skilled workman. He married Abigail lleaton, a native of Sutton, Mass., whose father, Joseph Heaton, was a farmer and for many years a Deputy Sheriff. She bore her husband threechildren - Joseph Heaton, Thomas Joel, and Julia A. Of these the subject of this sketch is the only one now living. The father died at the age of seventy-five years, and the mother when eighty-four years old. Both were faithful members of the Baptist church.

Thomas J. Baker left home when a boy of twelve years to attend school in Charlestown, N.H. Three years later he returned to Medfield, where he pursued his studies for a time. He was subsequently employed for some years in general merchandise stores as a clerk, first in Medfield, and then in Sherborn, Mass. In 1863 he opened a store in Framingham, Mass., where he carried on a substantial business until after the close of the late war. Disposing of his store there in 1865, he came to Dedham, where he has since been located. Here, by his sturdy industry, enterprise, and honest methods of transacting business, he has won the confidence of the public, and built up an extensive and profitable trade. He has a well -stocked store, including a complete assortment of staple and fancy groceries, hardware of all descriptions, and crockery. In the selection of his goods his aim is to please his numerous patrons, both as to quality and price.

dren of Joseph Breck, a well-known farmer of Medfield. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have five children, namely: Frederick ]., now a cotton broker in Texas, who married Miss Fannie E. Draper; Edward F. , who is in partnership with his father; Julia A.; Sarah B. ; and Moses E. In his earlier life Mr. Baker was a -Whig in politics, but since the formation of the Republican party he has been one of its strongest adherents. He takes an active interest in all matters concerning the welfare of his town; and for the past eighteen years he has held the office of Tax Collector, a longer period of continuous service than is recorded of any other incumbent.

Park, president and general manager of the H. B. Humphrey Company, Boston, was born in Braintree, Mass., November 27, 1865, son of Edward I. and Olive W. (Curtis) Humphrey. His paternal grandfather, John Humphrey, was a shoemaker by trade, and later was a manufacturer of boots and shoes in Milton and Braintree, Mass. He died November 1, 1862. John Humphrey was probably a lineal descendant of Jonas Humphrey, who settled at Dorchester, Mass., in 1637, and whose son, Deacon Jonas, removed to Weymouth soon after 1650.

Edward I. Humphrey was born in Brockton February 15, 1837. After completing his education in the common schools, he entered the service of the Chickering Piano Company, with whom he has remained for the past fortyfour years, being now salesman at their warerooms in Boston. He has resided in Hyde Park since 1872, and is actively interested in public affairs, having served upon the School Board and in other town offices. He is. a member of the Royal Arcanum. Olive W. Curtis, his first wife, who was a daughter of Ira Curtis, a lumber dealer of Weymouth, Mass., died at the age of twenty-six years, leaving two children : Henry B., the subject of this sketch ; and Olive C. , wife of Charles E. Putnam, who is with L. I. Thompson, a grocer of Hyde Park. Edward I. Humphrey wedded for his second wife Mary Dorety, and by this

Henry B. Humphrey was educated in the public schools of Hyde Park, including the high school, and at the age of fifteen began work as a clerk in the wholesale dry-goods house of Jackson, Mandell & Daniels, Boston. A year later he entered the advertising business, first with T. C. Evans; and a year or so after he became the representative of a large list of circulating mediums. He next entered the employ of the Boston Post, where he remained until September, 1886, when he became connected with the Davis Advertising Agency, which he purchased July 1, 1887, shortly afterward changing it to the Humphrey Advertising Agency. Under his able and energetic direction, this concern has greatly increased its business. Incorporated January 1, 1894, as the H. B. Humphrey Company, it now covers a wide field, and represents leading advertisers, constructing and placing their announcements in any and all newspapers, magazines, and periodicals of the United States and Canada. Several assistants are employed, the company occupying spacious quarters at Nos. 72, "j^, and 74 International Trust Company Building, 45 Milk Street. Mr. Humphrey is a director in several other companies of Boston.

Politically, he is a Republican. He is a member of Hyde Park Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Norfolk Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hyde Park Council and Cypress Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the encampment, being Lieutenant Colonel of Underwood Canton, No. 61. He is a charter member of the local historical society, was its first Recording Secretary, and, when the twentieth anniversary of the incorporation of Hyde Park was observed, he published the history of the town. He is also interested in music, the drama, and, as an amateur photographer, is a member of the Boston Camera Club.

On August 20, 1888, Mr. Humphrey married Jennie B. Sears, daughter of Eben T. Sears. Her father, who was formerly a sea captain and vessel-owner, retired from the sea,

Suther Orlando Emerson

SUTHER ORLANDO EMERSON, composer, "whose name has been as- ^ sociated with the musical delights of many years," was born in Parsonsfield, Me., August 3, 1820. His parents were Luther and Elizabeth Usher (Parsons) Emerson; and on the paternal side his ancestry is traced to Thomas Emerson, who settled in Ipswich, Mass., about 1635, having come over from Durham, England, where lived the noted mathematician whose heraldic arms were those of Sir Ralph Emerson. The lines from this coat-of-arms, we are told, are the same that are carved on the tombstone of the emigrant's son Nathaniel, who died at Ipswich in 1712, aged eighty-three.

The second in the ancestral line now being traced was another son of Thomas - namely, the Rev. Joseph Emerson, the first settled minister of Mendon, Mass.; the third was his son Edward, who was the great-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the great-greatgrandfather of Luther Orlando Emerson; the fourth was Edward Emerson's son, the Rev. John Emerson, for forty-six years minister of the church in Topsfield ; and the fifth was Joseph, who married Lydia Durrell, and lived in Alfred, Me.

Luther Emerson, above named, son of Joseph and Lydia D. Emerson, and grandson of tin' Rev. John, was a man of pronounced views, a strong Whig and abolitionist. In religious belief he was a Congregationalist. He was married in 1807 to Elizabeth Usher Parsons, daughter of Thomas Parsons, of Parsonsfield, Me. (The Parsons family history includes many distinguished names. John Parsons was Mayor of Hereford in Herefordshire, England, in 1481. A Parsons coat of arms, it is said, was granted by Charles I. in 1634. An early emigrant, Joseph Parsons

Mrs. Elizabeth U. Emerson's father, Thomas Parsons, was born in Bradford, Mass., September 18, 1735. He married first Anna Poor, of Andover, who died May 24, 1783; and second, Lucy Bradbury, of Saco, Me., who died November 10, 181 1. By his first wife he had nine children, by his second, ten. Mrs. Kmerson died in 1857. She was the mother of five sons and two daughters, namely: Thomas, a clergyman: Joseph Pratt; Lucy B., wife of the Rev. Calvin Chapman, of Saccarappa, Me.; Sylvester; Charles 1L, a clergyman, now seventy-nine years of age, living in California; Luther Orlando; and Elizabeth, who was married first to the Rev. Abram J. Bourn, and second to Dr. John Moore, of Quincy, 111. Now a widow for the second time, she resides in Quincy, 111.

Luther Orlando Emerson remained on the home farm until twenty-one years of age, in the meantime attending the common schools of his native town, the academy in that place, and the academy in Effingham. He then obtained employment in the Quincy Market, Boston, and shortly after, intending to qualify for the medical profession, entered Dracut Academy, near Lowell, Mass. ; but the passion for music was so strong that he finally decided to perfect himself in that art. Returning to Boston, he obtained a position in the market again, and saved as much of his earnings as possible.

In the spring of 1844, he resolutely turned his whole attention to music. With his first teacher in Boston, I. B. Woodbury, he studied vocal and instrumental music - piano, organ, and composition - for two years; and he subsequently studied with other teachers of note. He began his work of teaching in Salem, Mass., and also took charge of a church choir. His compositions were so highly appreciated by the choir and congregation that he felt encouraged to prepare a book of church music, which was published in 1853. One of the tunes in the book was "Sessions," named for Mr. Emerson's pastor. This melody was destined to have perennial popularity; but the book, like most first attempts, was not a flattering success. Mr, Lmerson resided in

Salem eight years, removing then to Boston, and accepting the position of organist and musical director in the Bulfinch Street Church. This position he held four years. He was subsequently organist in Greenfield, Mass., and teacher in Powers Institute, Bernardston. While in Greenfield his sec- .ond book of psalmody, "The Sabbath Harmony," was published. It was well received by the better class of teachers, and gave him a high reputation as a composer of church music. In 1857 he formed the connection with Oliver Ditson & Co. which has continued up to the present time, only one of his books having been brought out by another firm. The "Golden Wreath," forty thousand copies of which sold the first year, was the initial volume in a long series issued by the Ditsons. In 1863 this firm published his first thoroughly successful church-music book, "The Harp of Judah." Thirty thousand copies were sold in the first three months.

His services were now in constant demand as a director and leader in musical conventions, and he gave up teaching to devote his whole time to directing and composing. Mr. Emerson stands in the front rank as a conductor. His first great triumph in this capacity was at the convention in Keene, N.H., in 1862. At the convention at Concord, N.H., with nine hundred singers, he carried immense audiences captive to the splendid harmonies evoked under his baton. Mr. Emerson has a magnetic personality and wonderful control over his singers. He was for several years associated with Carl Zerrahn in conducting the Worcester Musical Festival. He has conducted three hundred and fifty musical festivals, and has had under his direction all of the famous singers of America during the past thirty years. In festival and convention work he has been associated with Dudley Buck, W. O. Perkins, Solon Wilder, and H. R. Palmer, of New York, names famous in musical circles. He is still teaching vocal music, and has several musical works begun.

Among his compositions, "Sessions," "Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah," and "Oh, praise the Mighty God, all ye Nations," it may be said, will live forever. The lastnamed number was composed for the grand

Worcester Festival, and was sung by five hundred voices, under the author's leadership. Among his secular compositions perhaps the best known is "Star of Ascending Night." He has completed sixty-seven works in all, has written twelve church music books, ten singing-school books, eight anthem books, fifteen public-school singing-books, four Sabbath-school books, two glee books, four books of selections for male voices, two instruction books for the voice and one for the organ, several chorus books, and one mass published ami two in preparation.

He was married March 4, 1847, to Mary J., daughter of John and Mary (Burgess) Gove. Mr. Gove was a prominent Boston merchant. Six of the seven children born of their union are living. The eldest, Mary Gove, married first Edgar Clark, of Framingham, by whom she had two children; and, second, William Jones, of Framingham, Mass. Sheis now again a widow. She is a writer on the Boston Herald staff, and is a talented musician. John G. Emerson resides in Ouincy, Mass. Luella P., wife of the late Robert Davie, of New York, is a music teacher, and has been remarkably successful as a leader of ladies' choruses. Charles W. Emerson is in business in Boston. Abbie died in infancy. Elizabeth, also a talented musician, received a diploma and bronze medal at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. She has written two books for schools which are very popular. The youngest daughter, Mabel H., is highly cultured, and had she had the physical strength would have made her impress upon the literature of the clay.

On March 4 of the present year, 1897, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson celebrated their golden wedding at their pleasant home in Hyde Park. Mrs. Thomas Green, of Chelsea, Mass., who acted as bridesmaid fifty years ago, received with Mrs. Emerson. The Rev. Alexander Archibald, of Hyde Park, read a poem written for the occasion by the Rev. Minot J. Savage, of New York; and other poems were contributed by Mrs. S. H. R. Giles, General H. B. Carrington, and Miss Harriet Wheeler, of Florida, N.Y. There was also a wedding song, composed ami set to music by Mrs. Clara Sothy, of Chicago, legree of Doctor of Music was recently ed upon Mr. Emerson by the faculty of Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio. Successful to a remarkable degree, his relations with all have always been tempered with singular .. thoughtfulness, and benevolence. He is kindly, charitable, liberal, with a strong brain, a warm heart, and a brave and generous personality.

)|"ON. JOSIAH GARDNER ABBOTT, LI.. D., sometime Judge of the Superior Court of the city of Boston, and later for many years a leading member of the Suffolk County bar, was born at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Mass., November i, 1814, and died at his summer home at Wellesley Hills, Norfolk County, July 2, 1 89 1. He was the second son of Caleb and Martha (Fletcher) Abbott, and on both paternal and maternal sides was of English Puritan and early Colonial stock. His father was a son of Caleb, Sr., and Lucy (Lovejoy) Abbott, and was sixth in lineal descent from George Abbot, who settled at Andover, Mass., in 1643, the intervening ancestors being: Timothy; Timothy, Jr.; and Nathan, father of Caleb, Sr. William Fletcher, the immigrant progenitor of his mother's family, settled in Chelmsford in 1653. He owned a large part of the territory now included in the city of Lowell. Judge Abbott's grandfathers both fought in the Revolutionary War.

The best of home influences, a village library, and a classical school taught for a time by Ralph Waldo Emerson and afterward by the Rev. Abiel Abbot of honored memory, contributed to develop the mind and form the character of Jos i ah G. Abbott. He was graduated it Harvard in 1832, began the study of law in the office of Joel Adams, of Chelmsford, in 1834 entered the law office of Nathaniel Wright in Lowell, and in January, 1837, was admitted to the Middlesex bar. He served as Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Suffolk County from 1855 till January 1, 1858, when he resigned to resume the more lucrative practice of law, being from that time on a distinguished member of the Suffolk County bar. His first law partner was Amos

A Jacksonian Democrat in politics, a firm believer in the principles of self-government, he was a strong Union man and ever faithful to the duties of citizenship. He served as a Representative in the State legislature in 1837, as Senator in 1842 and 1843, and as delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853; was elected to Congress in 1874, and chosen a member of the Electoral Commission in 1877. In 1840, as editor of the Lowell Advertiser, he advocated the re-election of President Van Buren ; in 1848, as a "bolter," he supporter the Free Soil nominees, Van Buren and Adams; and in i860, "as a choice of evils, he voted the Douglas ticket." He was a delegate to seven Democratic National Conventions, and in six of them was chairman of the Massachusetts delegation.

Judge Abbott served as an overseer of Harvard College, 1859-65, his removal from Lowell to Boston occurring in 1861. In 1862 he received from Williams College the degree of Doctor of Laws. Among the business enterprises with which he was connected may be named the Hamilton Manufacturing Company at Lowell, of which he was president, 1860-62; the Atlantic Cotton Mills at Lawrence, of which he was president, 1861- 76; the Hill Manufacturing Company, Lewiston, Me., of which he was a director thirty-five years and from 1874 till his death its president; the Union Power Company at Lewiston; and the Boston & Lowell Railroad, of which he was a director, 1857-85, and president, 1879-84.

For the foregoing facts and for the following estimates of the character and career of this eminent jurist we are indebted to the "In Memoriam " volume containing the memoir of Judge Abbott by the Hon. Charles Cowley and tributes from notable contemporaries.

"Judge Abbott's reputation as a lawyer was won in the court-room, not in the closet. Endowed by nature with a body and mind of great vigor, with never-satisfied ambition and untiring powers of work, he early came in conflict with the most prominent lawyers of the

"' I lis power of statement of mixed questions of law and facts was unrivalled. None knew better than he how to elicit facts from a reluctant or dishonest witness; and his appeals to juries were always forcible and judicious, and .met with merited success. For many years he was "lie of the most trusted counsellors and advocates of the Suffolk bar." - Hon. L. J. Stockpole.

"In his bearing to the court he was always respectful, and in his relations to the bar he never forgot those coitrtesies which give grace to professional intercourse and lighten professional labors. In the conduct of business he was always controlled by the highest principles of honor and fair dealing. When filling the high position of judge, he discharged its difficult and laborious duties to the satisfaction of the profession ; for he possessed, in an eminent degree, those valuable judicial virtues - -patience, impartiality, and industry." - Hon. F. O. Prince.

"So, too, in political action, he was faithful and firm. He was pre-eminently a man for a crisis. This is proved by many points in his career, notably in 1861 and 1877. In such limes he never hesitated or faltered. He loved his party, but he loved his country more. . . . On the altar of his country he offered up with the firmness of a Roman father the children he loved with more than Roman tenderness." - F. T. Greenhalge.

He was married July 21, 1838, to Miss Caroline Livermore, daughter of the Hon. Edward St. Loe Livermore. Eleven children were born of this union, and nine grew to maturity, two sons having died in childhood. Two sons, Edward G. and Henry L. , laid down their lives for their country on Southern battle-fields; and one daughter, Caroline Mercy, died after marriage. The survivors are: Fletcher Morton; Samuel Appleton Brown; Franklin Pierce; Grafton St. Loe; Holker Welch : and Mrs. Sarah Abbott Fay, widow of William P. Fay. Mrs. Caroline L. Abbott died in the autumn of 1887. A superior woman, of great sweetness and strength of character, in her loss Judge Abbott "suffered the greatest affliction of his life."

Fletcher Morton Abbott, born in Belvidere, Mass., February 18, 1843, was educated in the Lowell public schools and St. Paul's Academy, Concord, N.H. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, under Captain Savage, Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in which he served three years, being in engagements at Harper's Ferry and in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. He entered the medical department of Harvard University in 1874, and took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1875. He has since lived retired.

Samuel Appleton Brown Abbott, born in 1846, was graduated at Harvard in 1866; studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868; has since practised in Boston and in the United States Courts; was for ten years trustee of the Boston Public Library and six years president of the board. He is married, and has four children. Edward Gardner Abbott, eldest son of the Hon. Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was born in Lowell, September 29, 1840. Remarkably active, both physically and mentally, before he was ten years old he had read all the Waverley novels. He was fitted for college at the Lowell High School, and, entering Harvard, was graduated in i860. A diligent student, he was also a good oarsman, and belonged to the 'Varsity crew. Entering the law office of S. A. Brown in Lowell, he applied himself from ten to twelve hours a day to the study of law, continuing thus engaged till the breaking out of the Rebellion. He then recruited a company, called the Abbott Grays, of which he was commissioned Captain on May 24, 1861, the company being attached to the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Major in August, 1862, and was killed August 9, 1862, at the -battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. It has been said of him that he was a "born commander, cool, intrepid, self-reliant, indomitable," a man who "took to leadership of affairs as naturally as an eagle takes to the air."

in i860. He was of a social, genial nature, and a general favorite. Like his elder brother, he took a good deal of interest in athletic sports. He also began the study of law, but early laid aside his books to engage in the war for the Union. In July, 1861, commissioned Lieutenant in Company A of the Twentieth Ma s, he took part in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and was soon afterward in command of his company. He was present and active in nearly all the principal battles of the Army of the Potomac, and his military genius and ability were pronounced of the highest order. He was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, aged twenty-two years, and after his death was brevetted Brigadier-general. His company, it is said, was the pride of the regiment. "Had he lived and continued the profession of arms," said General Hancock, "he would have been one of the most distinguished commanders."

|NOCH HALL DOBLE, a well-known and prominent business man of Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., who is senior member of the firm of E. H. Doble & Co., and is also a partner in the firm of A. H. Doble & Co., was born March 13, 1S21, in Livermore, Me., son of Aaron and Abigail (Hall) Doble, and a grandson of William Doble.

Aaron Doble was born, bred, and educated in Sumner, Oxford County. Me., growing to man's estate on the home farm. He learned the carpenter's trade; but, having much natural ingenuity, he gave much of his time to the making of a variety of articles, including wooden ploughs, which, it was said, were the best used in that locality. One of the first to espouse the cause of the Free Soil party, he continued a stanch supporter of its policy. He was actively interested in the welfare of his town, and served in some of its minor offices. On March 1 r, 1809, he married Abigail Hall, who was born December 3, 1790, in Buckfield, Me., daughter of Enoch Hall. Their children were: Miriam, deceased, born August 2~, [810, who became the wife of John Godding, of Livermore, Me. ; Sarah, deceased, born July 2, 1812, who married

Nathan Beals; John, deceased, born August 23, [814; Mary, deceased, born December 11, 1816, who became the wife of Joshua Spear, of Quincy, Mass.; Henry Parsons, deceased, born January 25, 18 19; Enoch Hall, the subject of this sketch; Delphina Parish, deceased, born March 13, 1821, who married John II. Ward; William, deceased, bom September 24, 1826; Cynthia Green, born July 27, 1829, who married Daniel Ward, oi Wellington, Me. ; Vesta Jane, deceased, born August 20, 1 83 1 ; and Elvira Varnum, born July 22, 1833, who is the wife of Frank Gordon, (if Livermore, Me. The mother died May 27, 1855. The father died Febru 1 86 1. Both parents were regular attendants of the meetings held each Sunday in the district school-house, but neither was a church member.

Enoch Hall was born November 10, 1763, in either Falmouth or Windham, Me. In 1780 he enlisted from the latter town in the Continental army as a private, and served until the close of the war of independence. Soon afterward, for five hundred dollars, he bought a tract of almost wild land in Buckfield, on which were a rude log cabin, ten acres of felled trees, and a yoke of oxen. In the spring of 17S4 he removed the trees already felled, and in the ensuing season raised, on the ten acres they haxl occupied, two hundred bushels of corn. From Windham, in the fall of 1784, he brought his wife, Miriam Furbish Hall, together with his household goods, including a bushel of salt, upon the backs of two horses, arriving at the little log cabin on his twenty-first birthday. He wore a tow frock all the following winter. Next spring, he having invested two dollars that he had saved in two sheep, his wife made from the fleeces of the latter a piece of "waled cloth," and from the cloth a new suit of clothes. Enoch wisely made it one of the rules of his life never to buy anything for which he could not pay at the time of purchase. In the spring of 1785, working day and night while the season lasted, taking turns in sleeping and laboring, he and his wife made three hundred pounds of maple sugar and twelve gallons of maple molasses, boiling the sap in a new iron kettle in the cabin. In the spring of 17S6 he built a barn, covering it with long shingles made by himself. At the end of nine years he replaced the humble cabin with a substantial frame house, which was thereafter his residence until his death, December 10, 1835. His widow survived but a few years. The only school he ever attended was one kept in his own house for a period of three weeks by Elder D. Hutchinson, he and his three elder children, Dolly, Ruth, and Abigail, being the pupils. Here he gained some knowledge of arithmetic, and learned to write. With this slight aid he subsequently educated himself, becoming qualified to instruct his younger children, and to hold many important and useful positions in his after life. For many years he was one of the Selectmen of Buckfield, and served repeatedly in other offices. It is said of him that lie exercised a remarkable influence among his townsmen, who seemed to consider his judgment almost infallible. He was several times sent to Boston as a member of the General Court while Maine was a province of Massachusetts. He was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of Maine in 18 19 and 1820, and represented Buckfield in the first legislature of the State in 1821. Nine children were born to him and his wife, namely: Dolly, who died at the age of twelve years; Ruth, born February 17, 1788, who married Hollingsworth Hines; Abigail, who became the wife of Aaron Doble; Andrew, born January i), 1792; John, born November 14, 1795; VVinslow, born June 16, 1798; Dolly (second), born August 24, 1 80 1, who married Daniel Brown; Zilpha, born June 8, 1804, who married Simon Brown; and Hiram, born September 29, 1806.

Enoch Hall's father, Hatevil Hall (third), was born in Dover, N.H., March 24, 1736. He lived at various times in Windham, Buckfield, and Brooks, dying in the latter place May 10, 1804. In 1754 he married Ruth, daughter of Job and Margaret (Barbour) Winslow. She died June 11, 1798, leaving among other children a son named Enoch. The maiden name of the second wife of Hatevil Hall (third) was Ann Jenkins. Hatevil Hall (second) who was born in Dover, N.H.,

February 15, in either 1708 or 1709, died November 28, 1797, leaving four hundred and seventy-five descendants. He was either a turner or chair-maker by trade, and a prominent member of the Society of Friends. On April 1, 1733, lie married Sarah Furbush, who died March 2, 1790. Both he and his wife were remarkably open-hearted, generous, and hospitable people. Hatevil Hall (first), the father of the preceding bearer of the name, married Mercy Cornwall, and lived at Black River. According to tradition, he was drowned in early manhood, leaving but the one child. John Hall, the immigrant founder of the Hall family, was born in 1617. He served as Town Clerk, Lot Layer, Commissioner, and Selectman. His son, Hatevil (first), was his third child.

Enoch Hall Doble was educated in the public schools of Livermore, Me., and remained beneath the parental roof until twenty years of age. Coming then to Boston, he shipped for one summer with his brother John, who ran a packet between Boston and Cohasset. In the following summer he worked on the farm of his brother-in-law, Joshua H. Spear, in Ouincy. Going thence to Braintree, he started in the meat business on his own account, continuing about a year. Returning then to Livermore, he bought a farm, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits six or more years. Having disposed of his farm at the end of that period, he came again to Ouincy, purchased the store of his brother Henry, and with the exception of four years has since continued in mercantile business at the stand now occupied by the firm of E. H. Doble & Co. This firm was formed in 1874, when Mr. Doble admitted into partnership his son Herbert. It carries a fine line of general merchandise, including hay and grain, and employs about sixteen hands, their trade being both wholesale and retail. In 1890 Mr. Doble's son, William H. Doble, opened the store now occupied by the present firm of A. H. Doble & Co.; and in 1S93 the firm of W. H. Doble & Co. was incorporated. In February, 1896, the stock of that firm was purchased by Mr. Doble ami his son, Arthur 1L, with whom he formed a partnership under the name of A. II. Doble & Co. This firm

In politics Mr. Doble lias been actively identified with the Republican party since he cast his first Presidential vote for General J. C. Fremont. He married Rachel, daughter of James Timberlake, of Livermore, Me. Of his six children Herbert F., Ernest E., William H., and Arthur H. are living. Ernest E. is a physician in Boston. Arthur H., who was born January 5, 1870, after graduating from Adams Academy in 1888, en- 1 red his lather's store, and is now in partnership with him. He married Lucy, daughter of William N. Eaton, of this city; and they both attend the First Church. Mr. and Mrs. Doble are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has been for several years a trustee.

fOSEPH FISHER, late a prominent citizen and lifelong resident of Dedham, was born here, July 21, 1805, son of Benjamin and Nabby (Baker) Fisher, and died on August 13, 1880.

He was of ancient and honorable Colonial stock, on his father's side tracing his lineage back through six generations in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, to Anthony Fisher, who owned and occupied the estate in Syleham, Suffolk Count}-, England, called " Wignotte, " and on his mother's side counting among his ancestors prominent members of the "Mayflower" company. Anthony Fisher1 married Mary Fiske, of St. James, South Elmham, Suffolk County, England. Their son Anthony,2 the emigrant, was baptized in 1 591, and came to the Massachusetts Colony in the ship "Rose" in 1637. He first settled in Dedham, but subsequently removed to Dorchester, where he died April 18, 1671. He had a son Anthony,' who married Joanna Faxon on September 7, 1647. She was born in. Braintree, now Quincy, in 1626, and died October 16, 161)4, her husband having died the year before his father. The next in line was their son Eliezer, 4 born September 18, 1669. He was married on October 13, 1698, to Mary Avery, who was born in Dedham, August 21, 1674, daughter of Deacon William and Mary (Lane) Avery. He died February 6, 1722, and she on March 25, 1749.

Benjamin,5 their youngest son, was born in Dedham in May, 1721. He married in 1742 Sarah Everett, who was born in Dedham, June 7, 1718, daughter of William and Rachel (Xewcomb) Everett, and grand-daughter of Captain John Everett, whose father, Richard Everett, was one of the founders of Dedham. Benjamin Fisher died January 18, 1777, and his widow on August 2, 1795. The next in line was their son Asa,6 born April 30, 1745, who-was well educated, and amassed a considerable fortune for his day. On July 2, 1767, he married Elizabeth Draper, whose birth occurred in Dedham, January 16, 1747. Her parents were Daniel and Rachel (Pond) Draper. Asa Fisher died April 2, 1823, and his wife on October 26, 1813.

Benjamin Fisher,7 son of Asa and Elizabeth, and the father of Joseph FisheC of this sketch, was born February 23, 1777, and was united in marriage with Miss Nabby Baker on May 13, 1801. She was born November 5, 1778, daughter of Joseph and Monica (Gay) Baker. Monica Gay, who was born in Attleboro, Mass., in 1754, daughter of Jabez and Hannah (Bradford) Gay, was a descendant of Governor Bradford, also, it is said, of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. One ancestral line is thus briefly given : her mother was a daughter of Perez and Abigail (Belcher) Bradford, and a grand-daughter of Samuel Bradford, of Duxbury, who was a grandson of William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth Colony. Benjamin Fisher7 died July 5, 1829, aged fiftytwo years.

In early life Joseph Fisher, the subject of this sketch, began business as a manufacturer of carriages and harnesses in West Dedham. He had followed the business but a few years when on account of his health he was advised to seek an occupation that would permit of his spending more time in the open air, and he afterward dealt in horses quite extensively. He purchased his father's homestead on High Street, West Dedham, and subsequently lived there.

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union being with Miss Hannah Baker, by whom he had one son, George Fisher. His second wife, who survives him, was Mary Elizabeth Campbell before marriage. She was born in Harrington, now Millbridge, Washington County, Me., daughter of Colin Campbell, who was a native of the same town. His father, James, born February 9, 1761, was a son of Alexander Campbell, Jr., one of the early settlers in Maine, who in turn was the son of Alexander and Frances (Drummond) Campbell.

Alexander Campbell, Jr., was a Brigadiergeneral in the Revolutionary War. In 1758 he married Elizabeth Nichols, with whom he lived almost fifty years, his death occurring in 1807, and hers four years later, in 181 1. James Campbell, Mrs. Fisher's grandfather, was very prominent in public affairs, and served several terms as a member of the Massachusetts legislature, making the journey to and from his home in Maine on horseback. He was also a Judge in the local courts. On August 24, 1788, he married Susanna Coffin, of Nantucket, Mass. He died July 7, 1826, and she on September 24, 1833. Colin Campbell, after completing his school education at Blue Hill Academy, taught school for awhile. As a life work he chose farming; but much of his time was given to official duties, including those. of Town Clerk and other local offices. He married Sally Griggs Ricker, who was born in Cherryfield, Me., daughter of Amaziah and Susanna (Baker) Ricker, the last named a native of West Roxbury, Mass.

Four children were born to Joseph and Mary E. (Campbell) Fisher: Hattie Smith; Joseph Lyman; Elizabeth Campbell; and May Campbell, who died at the age of twelve years. Hattie S. Fisher married George Henry Smith, a native of Halifax, England, who is now a manufacturer in Halifax, England. Joseph Lyman Fisher is a farmer, and has a handsome house on Main Street, West Dedham.

In politics Joseph Fisher was a lifelong Republican. He was a trustee of Dedham Savings Bank, a director of Dedham National Bank, also of Norfolk Insurance Company and the Mutual Insurance Company of Dedham. He was a prominent member of the Unitarian church, and a man of pronounced public spirit.

(sTVLBERT MONROE MILLER, M.D., a L^A well-known and esteemed physician of /j|\ Needham, nephew of Dr. Albert E. - Miller, was born in the town of Virgil, Cortland County, N.Y., August 30, 1857, son of George W. and Lucinda (Woodard) Miller, and grandson of Ezekiel Miller. His father was a farmer, born in the town of Covert, Seneca County, N.Y. ; and his mother was a daughter of Archibald and Betsey (Benton) Woodard, of Virgil.

Albert M. Miller received his first school training in his native town, and when only thirteen years of age came to Massachusetts, and attended successively a grammar school in Weston, Middlesex County, where he spent about a year, and Willow Park Seminary in Westboro, where he was graduated in 1875. Returning to his old home in Virgil, his father having died during his absence, he then attended the Cortland State Normal School for a year, and at the end of that time came to Needham to make his home with his uncle, Dr. Albert E. Miller, and to begin the study of medicine. For about five years he travelled much as advance agent for the lecture tours of his uncle, and at the same time pursued a regular course of study. He then attended medical lectures at the Maine Medical College in Brunswick and at Dartmouth College, graduating from the last-named institution in 1881, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After several months' experience as an assistant physician in the McLean Asylum Hospital and a brief period in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Mass., he came back to Needham, and was with his uncle until 1883. In that year he removed .to Waltham, where he practised until the latter part of 18S4, when he returned to Needham. The thirteen years that have since elapsed have been years of useful activity and progress.

Dr. Albert M. Miller is a physician of the regular school, and by his skill and natural aptness for his profession has gained a large and steadily increasing practice. Pie has been a member of the Needham Board of Health for ten years, and in this position has served the town with the utmost faithfulness. In politics the Doctor is a Republican. He is a member of Norfolk Lodge of F. & A. M., having joined the organization in 1883; also a member of Eliot Lodge, No. 58, I. O. O F., of which he is Past Grand; and member of the U. O. G. C, an insurance society. He was graduated from the C. L. & S. C. of New England in 1888.

Dr. Miller and Isabelle B. Mann, daughter of Daniel F. Mann, of Needham, were married on January 26, 1887. They have one child, Harold Lionel Miller, born January 7, 1895.

- *~ Mass., was bom in the adjacent town of Hingham, August 9, i860, being the only sun of Thomas and Caroline (Penniman) Magee. His father, a native of Rraintree, Mass., was born March 14, 1825, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Magee; and his mother is a daughter of Stephen Penniman. An account of her ancestry may be found following this sketch under the title of " James Penniman. "

Mr. Magee has two sisters: Susan Caroline, born in Quincy, May 21, 1S52; and Eliza Maria, born in Hingham, May 19, 1856. Susan Caroline Magee was married at Hingham, December 2, 1875, to William Howard North, who was born in Watertown, Mass., January 1, 1853, son of Richard and Rebecca (Tupper) North. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. North have two children : Grace Caroline, born in Quincy, January 23, 1877; and Howard Manning, born in Quincy, June 28, 1S79. Eliza Maria Magee was married in Quincy, November 7, 1883, to Charles Barrett Tilton, who was born in East Boston, May 16, 1858, a son of Thomas Barrett and Maria Melvina (Amsden) Tilton. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Tilton have one child - Irma Caroline, born in Quincy, June 5, 1S87.

George Thomas Magee' s parents moved to Quincy when he was a child ; and with the exception of three years in the seventies, which were spent in Hingham, and five years in the eighties, when he lived in East Weymouth, he has had his home in this town. He was educated in the public schools of Quincy and Hingham. After leaving school, he was first employed as an operator by the Telephone Despatch Company of Boston, with whom he remained until 1886. Having a taste for newspaper work, he seized the first opportunity of entering upon that sphere of activity by accepting a position on the staff of the Weymouth Gazette as local reporter. In 1891 he severed his connection with the Gazette to take the position of city reporter for the Uuincy Daily Ledger ; and this position he still holds. In the fall of 1892 he was engaged to represent the New England Associated Press in Quincy and Milton; and he was thus occupied something over four years - until April, 1897, when the association retired from business. Immediately offered the post of correspondent in Quincy and Milton for the Boston Transcript, Mr. Magee entered on his duties May 1, 1897. He is affiliated with several wellknown secret organizations, being a member of the Essenic Order and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, etc.

On June 15, 1887, he married Fannie, daughter of Charles Granderson and Mary Frances (Merrill) Jackman. Mrs. Magee was born in Boston, January 14, 1864. One of her ancestors, Eli Conant, was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary army. Mr. and Mrs. Magee have no children.

James Penniman, ancestor of the Penniman family in America, was born in England. He was admitted a freeman in the Massachusetts Colony, March 6, 163 1. He married Lydia Eliot, a sister of the "Apostle to the Indians, " the Rev. John Eliot, with whom he came to America on the ship "Lion" in 1631; and the earliest known of him was in Braintree, Mass. His descendants in direct line were: Joseph,2 James,3 James,4 Major Stephen,5 Stephen,'' and Stephen.7

Stephen Penniman5 was born in Braintree, June 4, 1743, a son of James and Dorcas (Vinton) Penniman. The Braintree town reports and the Massachusetts archives at the State-house are the sources from which his military history has been complied. It is in part as follows : -

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25 that same year. On August S, 1776, he marched as Captain to join Colonel Ebenezer Francis's regiment ; and he was ordered to be commissioned September 26, 1776. He was at one time Captain in Colonel Dike's regiment, stationed at Dorchester Heights; and, to quote directly from the archives, " Stephen Penniman appears with the rank of Major on the muster and pay roll of the field and staff officers of the Massachusetts regiment, Colonel Benjamin Gill for services in re-enforcing General Gates at Northward in 1777. Engaged September 15, 1777; discharged November 29, 1777." In 1779 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel (Pattee's History of Old Braintree). He married Sarah Holbrook, January 25, 1765. They both died in Washington, N. H.

Their son, Stephen Penniman,6 was born in Braintree, January 15, 1768, and died in that town, January 5, 1849. He was married in 1792 to Relief Thayer, of Braintree, who was born July 19, 1774, and died August 26, 1861.

Stephen Penniman,7 son of Stephen and Relief, was born in Braintree, August 25, 1800, and died in Quincy, March 25, 1864. He married Caroline Veazie, who was born in Quincy, April 26,1805, and died in the same town, May 5, 1842. The following is a brief record of their children : George was born in

1827, died about 1855; Caroline, born February 22, 1830, was married to Thomas Magee in Quincy, August 5, 1851 (the parents of George T. Magee) ; Stephen, born November 12, 1 83 1, married Melinda D. Bridgham, October 28, 1858; Henry, born in 1837, married Mary Batchelder; William Wood, born September 1, 1836, married Eliza A. Giles, November 25, 1858; Martha Ann, born September 1, 1836, is the wife of John W. Moore.

]DWIN C. JENNEY, the Postmaster at Hyde Park and an attorney-at-law, is a most popular public official, having won by his courtesy, accommodating spirit, and attention to his responsible duties, a host of friends and well-wishers. Born December 14, 1865, in Lakeville, Plymouth County, son of

Charles E. Jenney, he is a descendant of John Jenney, who came to the Plymouth Colony in 162 1, or, as is perhaps more correctly stated, in 1623, in the ship " Little James," accompanied by his wife Sarah (whom he married in Leyden in 16 14) and three children - Samuel, Abigail, and Sarah. On May 22, 1627, there was a division of the cattle into twelve lots, which were assigned in just proportion to the colonists, who were divided into a corresponding number of companies. The twelfth lot fell to John Jenney and his company. Some of the descendants of John Jenney are living in Plymouth at the present clay.

Edwin Jenney, the grandfather of Edwin C, was born in New Bedford, where he was engaged during the larger part of his active years as a cooper. He subsequently removed to Lakeville, where he died at the age of eighty years. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Howland, bore him four children, all of whom are still living.

Charles E. Jenney was born in New Bedford, where he was educated, and afterward learned the trade of a shoemaker. In his young manhood he was engaged for a time as a manufacturer of shoes in Middleboro, Mass. Thence he removed to Brockton, accepting the position of Chief of Police, which he held many years. In 1882 he came to Hyde Park to act in a similar capacity in this town, continuing at the head of the police force here for about ten years. In 1889 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk County, an office in which he has since served to the satisfaction of all concerned. He married Alvira F. Clark, who was born in Middleboro, one of the four children of Zebulon Clark, a farmer of that place. She reared four children, namely: Charles V., an attorney, with offices in Hyde Park and Boston ; Edwin C. ; Mabel C. ; and Lizzie K. Both parents ore members of the Baptist church. In politics the father is a straightforward Republican.

Edwin C. Jenney obtained his elementary education in the public schools of Middleboro and Brockton. After graduating from the Hyde Park High School, he went to work in the post-office as a clerk, under Henry C. Stark, remaining with him three years. He subsequently took up the study of law, gradu- ated from Boston University School of Law in 1890, and was duly admitted to the bar. Soon after beginning practice in Hyde Park, he opened an office in Boston also, and conducted both until appointed Postmaster in October, 1894. Since then Mr. Jenney has given undivided attention to his official duties. Under his management the Hyde Park postoffice, which is one of the second class, has greatly facilitated the business interests of the place. His present force of assistants numbers ten carriers, five substitutes, four clerks, and one special delivery messenger, as against six carriers, two substitutes, and three clerks when he took the office. Within the past two years stations have been established at Clarendon Hills, Readville, and East River Street, and stamp agencies at 140 Fairmount Avenue and in the Hazelvvood district. The territory over which he has postal charge covers five square miles, with a population of about fourteen thousand people, which is rapidly increasing, the town being one of the most prosperous and important in the vicinity of Boston.

Mr. Jenney was married June 24, 1891, to Miss Lora J. Pattee, who was born in Newton, Mass., daughter of Alonzo H. and Mary B. (Brooks) Pattee. Mr. Jenney is a Democrat in politics, being one of the strongest and most active members of his party in this locality. In 1 89 1 and 1892 he was a candidate for the State legislature on the Democratic ticket.

- " 1823, son of Henry and Caroline M. (Enslin) Blackman. The family came originally from England, and settled in Dorchester, in which town Jonathan Blackman, grandfather of Henry, was born, lived, and died. Henry Blackman, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Dorchester in 1803. He was engaged for some time in the junk business there, and carried on the same business in Boston after becoming a resident of Needham. He was also engaged in farming. He died January 26, 1863. His wife, Caroline, who was born February 8, 1804,

Their son, Henry Blackman, was educated in the public schools of Dorchester, pursuing his studies until he was fifteen years of age, when he came to Needham with his father, and began working on the farm. He now owns a farm of twenty-eight acres on Green - dale Avenue, in the eastern part of Needham. He makes a specialty of milk and pork, and has also dealt quite extensively in wood. He served the town as Selectman for two years, has been Surveyor of Highways, was a fire engineer for ten years, and also served as fire warden. He attends the First Parish (Unitarian) Church, and was a member of the Standing Committee for a number of years.

Mr. Blackman married in 1870 Jane C, a daughter of David Young, of Loudon Centre, N.H., and has had two children: Carrie M., born in 1871, who married William Tilton, and died in December, 1895; and Henry D., born in 1874, who was educated in Comer's Commercial School, married Mabel A. Dodge, and now resides on the farm.

'ARRY W. SOUTHER, Postmaster at Cohasset, his native place, was born on November 29, 1862, son of Andrew J. and Mehitable C. (Hartwell) Souther. The family is one of the oldest in this town. Probably the first of the name in Massachusetts was Nathaniel Souther, who was at Plymouth in 1636, and afterward removed to Boston.

Andrew J. Souther, father of Harry W., was in his earlier years in the employ of the South Shore Railroad as book-keeper, a vocation which he followed until a few years ago. He is still residing in Cohasset, his native town, and is now in his sixty-eighth year. He was formerly active in public affairs, having served as Town Clerk and Treasurer, and is a highly respected citizen. His wife, whose maiden name was Mehitable C. Hartwell, was born in Middleboro, Plymouth County, this State. Her father was a lineal descendant of William Hartwell, who settled in Concord, Mass., in 1636; and her mother was a descendant of

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Seven children were born to Andrew J. and Mehitable C. Souther, namely: Harry W., the special subject of this sketch; Eleanor G. ; Abide H. ; Edward E. H. ; George W. ; Ray M. ; and Blanche M.

Harry W. Souther was educated in the common and high schools of Cohasset. After completing his studies he entered the employ of Charles A. Gross & Co. as a clerk, and gained the esteem and confidence of his employers, with whom he remained several years, during which time he acquired a wide circle of friends anil acquaintances. He has been a member of the Republican Town Committee for a number of years; was formerly Town Auditor; was nominated Postmaster on July 2, 1897, and confirmed three days later.

Mr. Souther is a Past Master of Konohasset Lodge, F. & A. M. He is connected with Pentalpha Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and South Shore Commandery, Knights Templars; and is a member of Cohasset Lodge, No. 192, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

r HAVEN DEARING, M.D., a wellknown and popular physician of Braintree, was born in Kittery, York County, Me., son of Captain Roger and Lucinda (Boston) Dearing, both of Maine. His father was of English descent. He was for many years a sea captain, afterward carrying on commercial pursuits at Kittery and at Portsmouth. Members of the family in England have sat in Parliament and held high offices. The town of Deering, N.H., was named by Governor Wentworth, who married one of this family.

Thomas Haven Dearing received his early education in the common schools of Kittery and in different New England academies, and continued it under special tutors in special college courses. His father met with financial reverses; and, in order to provide himself with funds necessary to further study, the young man taught school for some years in Maine and New Hampshire. Ill health also interrupted his student life, and obliged him to take two sea voyages. He studied medicine at the best colleges of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, and visited the principal hospitals of Europe. First settling in Boston, he was professor of surgery and dermatology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, for nearly six years was dean of the college, and was assistant surgeon of a Boston regiment. In the late war he was surgeon in one of the largest hospitals of Washington; and he is now an honorary member of Company K, Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Militia.

Since May, 1863, Dr. Dearing has been a resident physician of Braintree, and to-day controls a large local practice, with a firmly established reputation as physician and surgeon. He is president of the South Norfolk Medical Society, a member of the American Medical Association, ex officio vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and a member of the Harvard Alumni Association. While a resilient of Boston he was placed upon the School Board of that city, has since been for many years a member of the Braintree Board, and for five years its chairman. He has taken an active interest in the local politics of the town, and is at the present time a member of the Board of Water Commissioners. He is, and has been for a number of years, vice-president and a director of the Braintree Co-operative Bank. In 1889 he was elected to the House of Representatives. He has always been associated with the Republican party, and is a member of the Norfolk Republican Club, Boston.

He married Mary J. Jenkins, daughter of the late Deacon Solon Jenkins, of Boston. Four children were born of this union, namely: Mary J., wife of C. E. Belcher, a real estate dealer of Braintree; H. Flora (deceased); Frank H., with the firm of Barry, Thayer & Co., well-known cotton merchants of Boston; and Dr. Henry L., who is a general practitioner of Braintree, also making a specialty of diseases of women and children. The younger son is also a member ot the Braintree School Board. His present (second) wife, Helen A., is the daughter of J. W. Nevers, an engineer of Charlestown.

musical circles, is a member of the Union Musical Choral Society of Braintree and its president, and is also identified with the Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical society in the country and one of the largest, of which he has been president. He was for many years the chorister of the Congregational church. The Doctor is identified with the Masonic order, and with the Knights of Honor, and is a member of the Boston and the Braintree Pine-tree Clubs, being president of the latter organization: also at the present time vice-president of the Massachusetts Society of that name. Needless to say, both professionally and socially, he enjoys a very wide and extended acquaintance. He has always been a strong advocate of temperance, and upon appropriate occasions has delivered lectures on this subject, thus gaining an added reputation in the vicinity.

LBERT DAVENPORT, of Hyde Park, one of the largest retail milk dealers in this section of Norfolk County, was born November i, 1855, in the neighboring town of Canton, which was also the birthplace of his father, Charles Davenport. His grandfather, John Davenport, who was born and brought up in Milton, Mass., removed to Canton, where, until his death at the age of eighty years, he was engaged in agricultural pursuits on the farm that now forms a part of the J. M. Forbes estate.

Charles Davenport, one of a family of seven children, with them was reared on the parental homestead. Like his father, he has followed the occupation of farmer; and now, a hale and hearty. man of seventy-two years, he resides on his homestead, Green Lodge farm, one of the most attractive estates in Canton. His wife, in maidenhood Mary Davenport, a daughter of Jesse Davenport, has borne him five sons and two daughters, of whom the daughters are deceased. The sons are: Charles E. , who is engaged in the ice business at Readville; Albert, the subject of this sketch; Jesse E. ; Roger S. ; and Warren J. Both the father and mother are exemplary Universalists.

Albert Davenport obtained a practical education in the common schools of Canton. In his boyhood he became familiar with farm work. When a young man he entered into the ice business in company with his brother Charles, continuing ten years, when the partnership was dissolved. In 1891 he established his present business, commencing on a modest scale. His route at first covered but a small territory, and thirty-one eight-quart cans were sufficient to supply milk to his customers. He is now one of the largest of the eleven dealers in Hyde Park, as far as trade is concerned, running two wagons in Hyde Park alone. In the business he disposes of the milk product of nine dairy farms, or eight hundred quarts per day.

On June 1, 1879, Mr. Davenport married Miss Annie E. Forknall, who was born and bred in Boston, where her father, William S. Forknall, now a resident of Needham, was then engaged as a woollen manufacturer. They have a family of six daughters; namely, Edna F., Hattie E., Myrtle F., Annie M., Norma A., and Alberta E. Mr. Davenport is a steadfast Republican in politics. He is a member and one of the trustees of Forest Lodge, No. 148; and Monterey Encampment, No. 60, I. O. O. F. ; a member of the American Legion of Honor; of the Ridley Protective Association of Worcester; and of the Waverly Club of Hyde Park. Both he and his wife are in communion with the Evangelical Society of Readville.

ON. JAMES T. STEVENS, a wellknown manufacturer of South Braintree, was born in this town, June 20, 1835, son of Benjamin Stevens, an Englishman, and Elizabeth (Austin) Stevens, who was a native of Nova Scotia.

At the age of twelve years, after attending school in Braintree for a time, and taking a short course at the Hollis Academy, he began to work for his living in a tack factory of South Braintree. He industriously followed this line of occupation afterward until he was able to go into business for himself. In 1870, in company with George D. Willis, he established himself as a manufacturer of tacks and nails at South Braintree, under the firm name of J. T. Stevens & Co., which was afterwards changed to that of Stevens & Willis. This enterprise has proved most successful. The factory, well situated on the Monatiquot River, is fitted up with the best of machinery. He is also interested in the Co-operative Bank of Braintree, of which he was one of the incorporators, and has since been the president; and he is a trustee of the Braintree Savings Bank.

For several years before the breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. Stevens was connected with the State militia, and held the rank of First Lieutenant. He responded to President Lincoln's first call for troops, and, as First Lieutenant of his company, saw service for three months at different stations in Virginia. He was subsequently made Captain of Company I, Forty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served at the front in Virginia. As a young man Mr. Stevens developed strong musical tastes, and was long an active member of the Braintree Glee Club. During Gilmore's Peace Jubilee in Boston he served as the president of the Braintree Musical Society, an organization which aided materially in the success of the great Jubilee. A strong Republican, he has been before the public eye in various offices of trust for many years past. He has served as chief engineer of the fire department. In 1876 he was Braintree's Representative to the General Court ; and he has been for many years the chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners and of the Board of Trustees of the Sinking Fund. In 1888 he was elected State Senator, and served for two terms.

Mr. Stevens married Myra F. Willis, a daughter of George W. Willis, late of Braintree, and by her has two children - George W. and Idella F. His daughter is now the wife of Louis W. Thayer. Mr. Stevens is an esteemed Mason of Delta Lodge of Weymouth, having membership with the Pentalpha Chapter and the South Shore Commandery. Fleeted First Commander of General Sylvanus Thayer Post, No. 87, G. A. R., he held that office for three consecutive terms. Mr. Stevens is also one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church.

ERMON B. MILLER, one of the leading farmers of Franklin, Mass., a son of Elkanah and Isabella (Battles) Miller, was born in the house where he now lives, March 23, 1823. His father, Elkanah Miller, son of Jesse Miller, lived in Franklin for a time after marriage; but in 1824 he moved to Augusta, Me., where he continued his labors as a tiller of the soil. His first wife, Isabella Battles, of North Bridgewater, now Brockton, Mass., bore him seven children, namely: Hermon, the subject of this sketch; Catharine, the widow of Eliphalet Cooper, now living in Augusta; and Harriet Richardson, William, Adeline, Thurston (who went to California), and Charlotte Skillings, all of whom have passed from earth. Mrs. Isabella B. Miller died in 1840; and Mr. Elkanah Miller married for his second wife Mrs. Deborah Gleason, now deceased. He died in Augusta in November, 1880.

Hermon B. Miller was taken by his parents to Augusta when he was but one year old: and he there grew to maturity, and received his education in the public schools. Learning the blacksmith's trade at the age of eighteen, he subsequently worked at the anvil in Augusta and elsewhere in Maine for about two years. When he was in his twenty-first year he went to New Bedford, Mass., where he remained about three years. After that he worked at his trade for three years in West Medway, a year in VVoonsocket, R.I., and for seven years in Blackstone. Obliged then on account of his poor health to change his occupation, he bought his present farm 'in Franklin, Mass. Industrious and enterprising, he has made many improvements on the place, which contains about seventy-five acres of land. He now works at farming altogether.

While living in Blackstone. Mr. Miller held the office of Constable: and since he has lived in Franklin he has served on the police force of the town. In politics Mr. Miller is an Independent, believing in putting the best man in office.

Mr. Miller was married September 4, 1845, to Mary Wadsworth, a daughter of Seth and Olive (Metcalf) Wadsworth, of Franklin. Mrs. Miller died April 10, 1897. She was the mother of five children, as follows: Mary I., born August 25, 1848, now the widow of George F. Wadsworth, and living at the paternal home; Olive W., born June 1, 1858, and George H., born May 25, i860, both living at home; and twins, Arthur O. and Alice O., born March 2, 1863. Alice O. died May 10, 1896; and Arthur is working in a straw shop in Boston.

§ ALBERT SIMPSON, of East Milton, the treasurer of the Granite Railway Company, whose headquarters are at 166 Devonshire Street, Boston, was born in Quincy, Mass., November 12, 1848. He is a son of John A. and Mahala L. (Wiggin) Simpson. The Simpson family is of Scotch origin. John A. Simpson, who was born in Greenland, N.H., resided in Quincy for a number of years, and was there engaged in the transportation of granite. He served on the Building Committee under whose direction the present city hall in Quincy was erected. A Democrat before the Civil War, he became a Republican after it. He died in 1862. His wife, a native of New Market, N.H., is still living. Of their family five are living, namely: John A., in Newfields, N.H. ; Mary E., the wife of Jonas W. Jewett, of Hartland, Me. ; Emma L. , the wife of Charles Leavitt, of Quincy, Mass. ; Addie L. , the wife of Thomas L. Pearce, of East Milton, Mass. ; and Charles F.

J. Albert Simpson was educated in the public schools of Quincy, finishing with the high school. When he was fourteen years of age his parents moved to Fast Milton, where he has since resided. At the age of fifteen he obtained a position as clerk in a millinery store of Boston. There he remained three years, and then for some time he was clerk in a Quincy store. During the ensuing four years he worked at paper-hanging and painting, and for several years after he was a clerk in East Milton. In 1882 he was employed as book-keeper by the Granite Railway Company. He served in this capacity until 1890, when he was elected the treasurer of the company. An able business man, he is well fitted for his important position.

Married in 1882 to Ela M., daughter of William Balch, late of Boston, Mass., Mr. Simpson has two sons - George A. and William B. In politics he is a Republican. For nine successive years he was Selectman of Milton, and for five years he was chairman of the board. During the first six years of his service on the board he was Assessor, Surveyor of Highways, and Overseer of the Poor. For two years he was Sewer Commissioner of Milton. An esteemed Mason, he. belongs to Macedonian Lodge, F. & A. M., of Milton; and he is an Odd Fellow of Dorchester Lodge, No. 158. He is a member of the Baptist church at East Milton, and was chairman of the Building Committee that had charge of the erection of the present church edifice.

§'OHN ADAMS TILTON, a leading business man of Needham, is a native of the Granite State. Born on the Tilton farm at Deerfield in the year 1861, he belongs to the fifth generation of the family that has occupied the Tilton homestead. His first ancestor in this country, who settled in New Hampshire, was one of three brothers that came from Tilton, England. The others severally settled in Maine and Massachusetts. The grandfather of John A., Josiah B. Tilton, was a prominent farmer of Deerfield, engaged extensively in market gardening. He married Nancy Adams, who was a cousin of John Adams, the second President of the United States. Grandfather Tilton was prominently identified with all public movements in his native town, and was Deputy Sheriff and Justice of the Peace for many years. Albert Tilton, son of Josiah, born in 1835, has always been engaged in agriculture. He married Emma, daughter of George W. Manning, a retired business man of Newburyport, Mass., and with his wife is now living at Needham.

John A. Tilton was educated in the town schools of Deerfield. After leaving school, he worked on his father's farm until he was sixteen years of age. Then he began learning the blacksmith's trade with Edward F. Manning, of Newburyport, Mass., remaining with him for three years. Afterward he car- ried on a general blacksmith business for some five years at Deerfield. In 1883 he came to Needham, where he has since resided. For about three years he worked at farming. In 1 So 1 he went into the grain business, which he has since followed. He deals extensively in grain, flour, hay, coal, and wood. By his fair dealing and prompt delivery he has built up a prosperous and growing business.

In 1882 Mr. Tilton was united in marriage with Lucy, daughter of Caleb C. Crawley, of East Boston, Mass. He has two children, namely: Marion E., bom in 1 888, now attending the Kimball Intermediate School; and Ruth A., born in 1896. In politics Mr. Tilton supports the Republican party.

DWIN N. MAYBERRY, M.D., a leading physician and surgeon of South Weymouth, was born in Edgartown, Mass., February 18, 1858, son of Dr. Edwin and Leonora (Hall) Mayberry. His father was a practising physician of Edgartown for twenty-five years. He removed to East Weymouth late in life, and there followed his profession for several years previous to his death, which occurred in 1895. Four of his children survive, namely: a daughter, the wife of H. N. Allin, an attorney of Waltham, Mass.; Dr. Edwin N. ; George L. , a lawyer of Waltham and an ex-Mayor of that city; and Dr. Charles B., connected with the State Hospital at Danville, Pa.

Edwin N. Mayberry fitted for college at Edgartown, and began the study of medicine under the instruction of his father. He took the regular course at the Medical School of the University of Vermont, graduating in the class of 1882, afterward taking post-graduate studies at the Harvard University Medical School. After a brief period of professional experience, partly at Saugus and partly at West Warren, Mass., in December, 1885, he came to South Weymouth, where he established himself in a large and lucrative practice. He married Fannie E. Lowry, of Burlington, Vt.

been for several years a Deacon of the Union Congregational church at South Weymouth. He was one of the organizers of the South Weymouth Co-operative Bank, and has from the first been a director of the bank. A member of the Wildey Lodge, I. O. O. F., he is now a Past Grand of that lodge. He is also associated with the Grand Lodge of the State. The Doctor is a medical examiner for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, for the North-western Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wis., for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, the State Mutual Life Insurance Company of Worcester, the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of Springfield, Mass., and also for several other companies in Maine and Connecticut.

EORGE WOODBURY MORTON, a \ -> I naval veteran of the Civil War and a prominent real estate dealer of Ouincy, was born here, May 2, 1842, in the old Morton homestead on the corner of Coddington and Spear Streets. A son of the late William Saxton Morton, he is a lineal descendant of George and Sarah (Bradford) Morton. This George Morton came to America in the ship "Ann," which arrived in Plymouth Harbor from England in July, 1623, being the third vessel after the "Mayflower" to reach this part of the coast. He and a Mr. Hathaway were spoken of by William Pierce, the commander of the "Ann" as two of his principal passengers. With him were his wife, who was . a sister of Governor Bradford, and his four children. One of the latter, Nathaniel Morton, subsequently served the colony as its Secretary, and was the author of the "New England Memorial," a brief historical volume.

William Saxton Morton, a son of Joseph and Mary (Wheeler) Morton, born in Roxbury, Mass., September 22, 1809, died in Ouincy, September 21, 1871. He was well educated, having studied at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and later at Harvard College, from which he was graduated in 1831. Among his classmates at liar- vard were the celebrated Wendell Phillips; the late ex-Mayor Shurtleff, of Boston; and others who attained eminence in business or professional life. After spending a short time abroad, he commenced the study of law in the office of Sidney Bartlett, and subsequently entered upon the legal profession at Amherst, N.H., under the auspices of the Hon. Perley Dodge, then Clerk of Courts in that locality. In 1840 he settled in Quincy, where he continued his professional labors until his demise, becoming one of trte leading members of the bar. He served many years as Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of Insolvency, and he was also Trial Justice for a time. He was one of the prime movers in the formation of many of the leading business and financial organizations of this locality, and through his wise efforts their future success was attained. He was a charter member of the Ouincy Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which was established in 1850, and, being soon after chosen its president, served in that capacity throughout the rest of his life, his activity in its behalf placing it among the foremost offices of the kind in New England. His name also headed the list of incorporators of the Mount Wollaston National Bank, established in 1853, and of which he was for several years a director. In 1850 he was a Representative to the General Court, and during that year he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He took a deep interest in the cause of education, being especially interested in the advancement of the public-school system, and was for some years a member of the local School Board and a trustee of Milton Academy. While at Harvard, the memories of which period he fondly cherished, he cultivated a taste for poetical literature that afterward bore fruit in the form of contributions to the leading periodicals of the day. He was of a sunny, genial disposition, hospitable and generous almost to a fault, with sympathies that were quickly aroused by any call of distress. In him the deserving poor found a friend prompt to alleviate their wants, and few seeking his aid went away empty-handed. At the home fireside, surrounded by his family, in whom was centred his greatest happiness, his endearing qualities of heart and mind shone brightest. When the tocsin of war sounded through the land, his patriotic blood was aroused to the highest enthusiasm; and he bravely surrendered two of his sons to his country, sending them forth to assist in sustaining the nation's honor and flag. While his life was not unmarked by sorrow, it was brightened by a firm belief in a happy future, as expressed by himself in the following stanzas: -

The union of William S. Morton with Mary Jane Woodbury Grimes was solemnized on October 3, 1839, at the Stone Chapel, Boston. She was born in Francestown, N.H., February 19, 1 82 1, daughter of Thomas Grimes. Her children were: Joseph William, born at Amherst, N.H., July 22, 1840, who died at Ouincy, Mass., December 17, 1865; George Woodbury, the subject of this sketch; Mary, born June 17, 1844; Arthur Austerfield, born January 11, 1S47, who died March 24, 1854; Martha Woodbury, born December 25, 1849, who died April 26, 1870; Arthur Austerfield (second), born July 22, 1855, died December 17, 1890; and Sarah Josephine, born August 12, 1858. Joseph William, the first-born, was fitted for college under the tuition of Professor Jenks, of Middleboro, with whom he subsequently visited the principal cities of Europe. In the spring of 1859 he entered the Harvard Law School, in which he pursued his studies until after the breaking out of the late war. Abandoning then his personal ambitions, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Massachu- setts Volunteer Cavalry, which was at once sent to Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico. For meritorious conduct he was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant; and at the battle of Baton Rouge, August 5, 1862, owing to the illness or absence of higher officers, he was commanding officer of the cavalry there engaged, and was soon after made First Lieutenant. On account of sickness the young Lieutenant returned home for a short furlough. Going back to New Orleans before he had recovered his health, he was forced to come home a second time, whereupon he resigned his commission. Governor Andrew subsequently asked him to raise a company of men. Having complied with the request, he was made Captain of Company D, Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, and sent to Hilton Head with his men, arriving there April 1, 1864. He then went to Jacksonville, thence to Gainesville. In Gainesville he was taken prisoner on August 8, 1864; and with other captives he was carried to Macon, then to Augusta, whence he was marched to Andersonville. He was subsequently sent to Charleston, and thence to Columbia, S.C. While here he escaped from prison, and found protection within the lines of Sherman's army. Subsequently he was assigned to duty on the staff of General Blair, of the Seventeenth Army Corps. With his health completely undermined by the hardships of army and prison life, he died a few months after he was mustered out of service.

Mary Morton, the eldest daughter of William Saxton Morton, married Jesse P. Woodbury, of Francestown, N.H., his birthplace. He was a paymaster in the United States Navy during the war. Their children were: Mary Morton, born December 16, 1868; Jesse D., born May 7, 1871; Martha Morton, born July 9, 1872; Edith, born February 5, 1874; and William Saxton Morton, born September 25, 1876, who died June 17, 1880. Sarah Josephine, the youngest child of William Saxton Morton, was married October 2, 1885, to Frederick H. Smith, of Ouincy.

George Woodbury Morton enlisted in the United States Navy when nineteen years old, and on September 25, 1S61, was appointed acting assistant paymaster. On October 10 of that year he reported for duty on board the United States steamer "R. B. Forbes," at Hampton Roads, Virginia, where Commodore S. F. Dupont was fitting out a squadron. A few days later the Commodore, with his fleet, set sail for Port Royal, where he arrived aftei a very stormy passage in which several vessels were disabled and some lost. On November 7 the squadron, headed by Commodore Dupont in the frigate "Wabash," made an attack on Forts Beauregard ami Walker, which they captured after five hours of righting. The "Forbes," being disabled, was towed to New York navy-yard by the steamship "Atlantic" for repairs. On the 23d of February, 1862, her repairs being completed, she was sent to New Orleans to join Admiral Farragut's squadron; but. encountering bad weather on the way, she was wrecked and burned three days after leaving New York. Air. Morton was on board the "Roanoke," waiting orders during the memorable engagement between the "Merrrimac" and the "Monitor" on March 9, 1S62. Three days later he reported for duty to Lieutenant Commander Henry K. Davenport, on board the "Hetzel," at Newbern, N.C. He remained on the "Hetzel" three years, and afterward served under Captain John J. Almy, on the "Juniata," stationed first at Fort Fisher and then at Port Royal, S.C. In May, 1865, the "Juniata" sailed for Bermuda, thence to the Cape de Verde Islands, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, and to the coast of West Africa, stopping at Loanda, Benguela, and at Great and Little Fish Bay. On the homeward trip the "Juniata" put in at St. Helena, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, and Rio Janeiro. In the lastmentioned place Mr. Morton was deta< hed from the vessel, and ordered home, to which he returned by way of London, ami received his honorable discharge June 9, 1867. Since that time he has been actively identified with the real estate interests of Quincy, conducting a successful business.

On February 3, 1S87, Mr. MortGn married Mrs. Lydia Lincoln (Averill) Follett, a daughter of the late Thomas W. Averill. The maiden name of Mrs. Morton's mother was Lydia Lincoln Souther. A further ancestral history of Mrs. Morton's maternal relatives may be found in connection with the sketch of Edward B. Souther, a brother of her mother. The Souther family has been noted for longevity. An aunt of Mrs. Morton's mother, named l.ydia Souther, lived to the remarkable age of one hundred years and three months. Mr. Morton is a stanch Republican in politics. In the years of 1S90, 1891, and 1892 he was a member of the City Council, and served on the Finance Committee of that body. He has served as commodore, secretary, and treasurer of the Quincy Yacht Club, of which he was a charter member. An accomplished sportsman, he is equally expert with the gun and rod. He spends his summers at his residence, called the Red Lion, at Hough's Neck, where he and his many friends find ample amusement and pleasure.

DGAR H. BOWERS, an influential resident of Needham, w-as born in Framingbam, Middlesex County, on the 23d day of May, [837, son of Francis and Elmira (Rice) Bowers. His grandfather, Samuel Bowers, was a native of Groton, Mass. The father, who was also born in Groton, and lived to be seventy years of age, died in 1861. By occupation he was a general farmer. The mother was a daughter of Ezra Rice, and a lineal descendant of Edmund Rice, who came to this country in 1638, bringing eight sons.

Edgar H. Bowers was educated in the public schools of his native town, graduating from the high school in 1S52. Then he went to work at the shoe business in Framingham. In i860 he came to Needham, and was here engaged for six years in the grocery business. He subsequently, with Galen Orr, his fatherin-law, under the name of Galen Orr & Co., went into the manufacture of blind trimmings, their factory being at Needham, and their customers including jobbers and retail dealers throughout New England and as far West as California. Mr. Bowers was elected Assessor of Needham in 1885 and 1887, and. served seven years in all, being for two years the chairman of the board, and for the remainder of the time its clerk. From 1892 to 1895 he served the town as Selectman. He was again elected to that office in March, 1S97, and is now the chairman of the board. In Norfolk Lodge, F. & A. M., he is a Past Master and the present secretary. In politics he is a Democrat, with a tendency to independence. He is a member of the First Congregational Church, and has been a chorister therein for a number of years. Taking a deep interest in the temperance question, he was for many years a member of the Sons of Temperance. Since 1 868 he has been a Justice of the Peace. After serving in the capacity of Postmaster from 1885 to 1889, under President Cleveland's first administration, he resigned in favor of his assistant.

In 1 86 1 Mr. Bowers married Mary E. Orr, eldest daughter of Galen and Alary A. (Smith) Orr, of Needham. Galen Orr, whose name is highly honored in this section, was one of the representative business men of Needham. He was a descendant of Hugh Orr, born in Lochwinnoch, Scotland, on June 2, 1715, who came to this country, and settled in East Bridgewater, dying there on December 6, 1798. Hugh is said to have made the first cannon barrel from a solid casting; and this weapon, it is alleged, was afterward used in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and was a manufacturer of cotton machinery. Galen Orr's parents were Thomas Orr, of Bridgewater, and Rachel (Bullen) < )rr, who belonged to Needham. Galen was born in Shirley, Mass. After receiving a meagre school training, he began in very early life to be self-supporting. He learned the trade of nail-cutting, and then became a blacksmith. In 1839 he established the business which still bears his name. In 1864 he represented the Fourteenth Norfolk District in the General Court of Massachusetts; was Selectman and Overseer of the Poor of Needham for eight consecutive years, dating from 1S55; and was elected again in 1872, and became the chairman of the board. In 1869 he was elected Special County Commissioner, and served for three years; and in 1871 he was elected County Commissioner, and served until 1880. He was president of the Needham Savings Bank and a most liberal supporter of the First Congregational Church Society. Though not a church member, he was deeply interested in the welfare of the society, furnished the church organ, and was for many years the organist. His noble and upright character were recognized and appreciated, and his natural kindliness of heart won for him the lasting gratitude of many whom he had helped. In politics he was a Republican. Mr. Orr was married in 1837 to Mary Ann, daughter of Luther Smith, and had a family of one son and three daughters.

Mr. and Airs. Bowers have had three children - .Howard Francis, Willie S., and Allston Rice. Howard, who was born in 1861, died in 1894; Willie died in 1S72, when four years old; Allston, born in November, 1874, after passing through the grammar and high schools of Needham, took a course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now book-keeper for the Union Cycle Company of Needham.

lARCUS P. HODGES, a successful agriculturist and dairyman of Foxboro, Mass., was born October 13, 1825, on the farm where he now resides; and his father, Benjamin Hodges, Jr., was born on the same place, although the farm was at that earlier time included within the limits of the town of Sharon.

The family is of English extraction, the emigrant ancestor having been William Hodges, who settled in Taunton, Mass., as early as 1643, and died there eleven years later. He was one of the original owners of the Taunton Iron Works. By his wife, Mary, a daughter of Henry Andrews, he had two sons: John, born in 1650; and Henry, born in 1652. From Henry Hodges, who was a Deacon in the church and Captain in the militia, and who married Esther Gallop, Mr. Marcus P. Hodges is descended, the successive ancestors being: Henry, Jr., of the third generation; his son Josiah ; Benjamin, Sr. ; and Benjamin, Jr.

In his early manhood Benjamin Hodges, Sr., son of Josiah Hodges, was a lifelong farmer. By dint of patient and persevering labor he cleared a large tract in what is now

Foxboro, and, having replaced the original log cabin by a substantial frame house, here spent his declining years, dying at the age of threescore and ten. He was a minute-man of the Revolution, was called into service at different times, and was on guard when Dorchester Heights was fortified. His first wife, Esther Allen, whom he married in 1772, was a daughter of Robert and Ruth (Fisher) Allen, of Walpole. She died in 1780, having been the mother of three children - Sewall, Daniel, and Esther. His second wife, married in 1783, was Miriam Pratt, daughter of Josiah and Abigail (Williams) Pratt. She was the mother of six children: Hannah, born 1784; Rachel; Joseph; Benjamin, Jr. ; Anna, born in 1 791 ; and James, born 1794, died in infancy. Benjamin Hodges, Sr. , died in 1 8 14. His wife, Miriam, died December 31, 1825.

Benjamin Hodges, Jr., was brought up on the home farm, and here spent his long and busy life of ninety-three years. He worked at the cooper's trade in conjunction with general farming, and was also a charcoal burner for many years. To him and his wife, Hannah Talbot, six children were born, namely: Benjamin F., who died in 1895; Emeline; Lucy; Lewis, who died in infancy; Marcus Pratt; and Catherine F. Emeline, who lives with her brother, Marcus P., is the widow of the late S. L. Boyden, and the mother of four children: Hannah E. ; Charles L., a private in Company F, Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, who was wounded in battle, and died in New Orleans; Benjamin F.; and Amos. Lucy, the widow of Asahel Dean, has two children - Marcus E. and Anna. Catherine, who lives in Chelsea, Mass., is the wife of Nahum Dunbar, and has three children - Mary Louisa, Charles G., and Annie.

Marcus P. Hodges was educated in the district schools, and on the homestead farm obtained a practical knowledge of the various branches of industry included in agriculture. On leaving school he began working for his brother Benjamin, remaining with him, however, but a short time. He then returned to the old homestead, and at his father's death inherited a portion of the paternal acres. He owns forty acres of tillable land, and has in addition a large and valuable wood lot. He carries on general farming, making somewhat a specialty of dairying, keeping about twenty cows the entire year.

Mr. Hodges cast his first Presidential vote in 1 848' for Zachary Taylor. He is an earnest advocate of the principles of the Republican party, but has never been an aspirant for political honors, although he has served as Highway Surveyor, and has been a member of the jury on several occasions.

business interests of this section of Norfolk County for forty years, and has materially assisted in advancing the growth and prosperity of the town in which he has so long resided. He was born September 12, 1823, on the same farm in Norton, Bristol County, that was the birthplace of his father, Williams Hodges.

Concerning his early ancestors in this country we glean a few particulars from the exceedingly interesting "Genealogical Records of the Hodges Family in New England," compiled by Almon D. Hodges, Jr., published in 1896.

William Hodges was an early settler in Taunton, Mass., his name appearing on the records in 1643. He married Mary Andrews, daughter of Henry Andrews, and had two sons: John, born in 1650; and Henry, who was born in 1652, and died in 1 7 1 7, having been a ''leading man in all the affairs of the settlement." His son Joseph, who was the first of the family to settle in Norton, living at "Crooked Meadow," was a Major in the old French War. He took an active part in the siege of Louisburg in 1745, and died before he could reach home. The Major's eldest son, Captain Joseph, through whom the line was continued, was born in 17 14, and was killed in battle with the Indians near Lake George, N.Y. , in 1756. He left one son, Joseph Hodges, 3d, the grandfather of Charles W., and two daughters - Miriam and Naomi.

and patriotic spirit of his father and grandfather, he served long and bravely in the Revolutionary War, first as private, then successively as Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Captain. He lived to the age of fifty-seven. He married Lurana Williams, and had eight children, seven of whom grew to years of maturity; namely, Miriam, Lurana, Joseph, Sophia, Williams, Clarissa, and Nancy - a son, Simeon, having died in childhood. The old homestead on which they were brought up is still in the possession of the family.

Williams Hodges succeeded to the vocation in which he was reared, being one of the most prosperous farmers and highly esteemed citizens of Norton. He was very modest and retiring, and, with the exception of serving for a time as Selectman and Assessor when he was a young man, steadily refused public office. He married Avis P. Whitmarsh, of Dighton, Mass., and they reared seven children, namely: Charles Williams, the subject of this sketch; Mary Avis; Angelia P., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Joseph F. ; Clarissa; Emma R. ; and Alfred B. Mary A. is the widow of Augustus Lane, formerly a prominent citizen of Norton, and has two children - Helen and Dwight F. ; Joseph F. Hodges, a resident of Hyde Park, married Caroline Andrews, and has one child, George W. ; Clarissa is the widow of the late Benjamin Parker, of Norton; Emma; who has never married, lives in Norton; Alfred, residing in Taunton, married Ellen Pratt, of Norton, and has one child, Bertha.