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Governor Ames, receiving fifteen dollars per month, and boarding himself. This was good pay, as eight dollars a week was the highest price then paid to skilled laborers. He remained with Mr. Ames until 1849, saving meanwhile several hundred dollars from his monthly stipend. One of his brothers at that time borrowed money of him in order to go to California with a company that were to start for the gold fields; but at the last moment the brother was prevented from going, and Mr. McAvoy took his place with scarcely twentyfour hours' notice. The company, consisting of one hundred and fifty men, sailed in the good ship "Edward Everett," manned with a crew of twenty-five sailors, on January 10, 1849, and, after a delightful voyage around the Horn, arrived at San Francisco the 10th day of July.

Hundreds of vessels were in the bay, and five dollars an hour was willingly paid to all who would assist in unloading vessels. The main body of the company left 'two days later for the mines, the captain with six or seven others remaining behind to look after the cargo, as well as to convert the "Edward Everett" into a steamer. This they did by putting in an engine and boiler which they had brought with them. The boat was a flatbottomed side-wheeler. Mr. McAvoy, N. A. Proctor, Samuel Baker, and a Mr. Perkins, who were the most active in the work, arc all now living in Eastern Massachusetts. In the early part of August they made a trial trip with the steamer into Suisun Bay, going as far as Benecia Bay, now known as Atlantic City.

Its mining ventures proving unfortunate, the company broke up; and the vessel was run up Sacramento Bay, and afterward disposed of for six thousand dollars, the cargo being loaded on to an ox wagon, and taken to the mines on Moquelumne River. The trip was in every way a discouraging one. There was a great scarcity of water, sickness universally prevailed among the men, and, being heavily overloaded, the oxen gave out, and another pair had to be purchased to complete the fourox team. On a foot-hill the cattle evidently scented water, and made a dash for the stream. Mr. McAvoy, sick and exhausted, left the company, and proceeded on foot to the

On recovering his health, Mr. McAvoy crossed the river to Willow Bend, where he worked with shovel and pan, "picking" up from thirty to forty dollars a day. Becoming dissatisfied, he started with his pack mule for the South, going along the Calaveras River to General Fremont's claim, "Mariposa," and was away six months, but never found as good picking as he had left. In 1850 he returned to Sonora, where there were good "dry diggins," but was again taken with fever and ague. He dosed himself with whiskey and quinine, but remained sick for some time, going to work, however, in a store at sixteen dollars a clay, until he should be well enough to resume mining. All articles of merchandise sold high, potatoes and vegetables bringing a dollar a pound. In the fall of 1852 he decided to return home, and wrote to the brother whose place he had taken in the company to collect the thirteen hundred dollars due him from the Ames Company, and come at once to California. The brother was thirteen months on the voyage out, being so sick when he arrived that Mr. McAvoy remained to nurse him, and afterward gave him one thousand dollars in gold dust, advising him to return to Massachusetts. Since that time he has not been definitely heard from. He was once reported to have been seen in San Francisco, and as the cholera was raging there at the time it is very probable that he became its victim. Mr. McAvoy came East, and, thinking his brother dead, never returned to the mines as he had intended.

In the fall of 185 1, very soon after coming from California, he stayed for a short time in Sharon, Mass., where he was offered nine dollars a week to run a trip-hammer, but declined the job. He accepted instead a position with Mr. Schenck, of Mansfield, agreeing to give a week's notice before leaving, and was with him just two weeks. Going then to Canton, he began to make trowels, working as a journeyman at one dollar and a quarter per day, afterward earning as much as seven dollars a day at piece work. At length he secured a water privilege in Cumberland Hill, R.I., and started in business for himself as a trowel manufacturer, becoming senior member of the firm of McAvoy & Co., taking in as an equal partner his former employer, J. B. Schenck, and, competing with other trowel manufacturers in the Boston market, continued fourteen months to manufacture trowels from steel imported from England, he having charge of the inside work, and Mr. Schenck attending to the outside management. By bad policy his partner involved the company to a fearful extent, and disappeared. He was subsequently arrested in New York, but only one hundred and forty dollars of the company's money was recovered; and it took Mr. McAvoy two years to pay off the debts contracted by his absconding partner. He next located in Foxboro, Mass., where he manufactured trowels, at the same time running a grist-mill nights, continuing until 1861, when he disposed of his factory. For fifteen years thereafter he operated his grist-mill, and in addition carried on a grocery business, in which he made money rapidly, his business becoming sufficient to warrant him in opening a second store.

In 1876 he came to Hyde Park, then a thriving village, and established a grain store in the old government building. He met with excellent success from the start, and a few years later added coal, brick, lime, and cement to his stock, continuing in active business until 1S89. In 1890 Mr. McAvoy was one of the party of one hundred "fortyniners" to make a pleasure trip to California, being accompanied by his wife and daughter. This party, which was away forty-five days, received marked attention along the entire route, and, carrying letters from the Governor of Massachusetts to the Governor of California and to the Governors of the intermediate States, was royally entertained at every stopping-place. At San Bernardino they literally walked on flowers, a foretaste of their reception being given them some hours before they reached the city, when a special car, bearing representatives from that place, met them, bringing fruit, wine, and other choice delicacies for the inner man.

rector since its organization, and of which he was president from 1890 until his resignation in October, 1896. In September, 1896, he was elected president of the Norfolk Suburban Electric Railway Company, an office which he still holds. He has for some years been largely interested in real estate matters, and in 1884 he erected his present elegant house on Milton Street in Readville. He has taken a very prominent part in local affairs, having been Selectman four years, one year serving as chairman of the board; and during the entire time he was also Highway Surveyor. He is now one of the State Board of Park Commissioners. In politics he is a strong gold Democrat.

Mr. McAvoy was married June 1, 1851, to Miss Mary Morrison, a native of Sharon, Mass. Of their four children but one is living, a daughter, Nellie L.

ENTON P. CROCKER, M.D., a young and prominent physician of Foxboro, was born March 13, 1867, in Hyannis, Mass., son of Benjamin E. Crocker. The latter was born in Barnstable, Mass., where he is now actively engaged in business, being one of the foremost residents of the place. For many years he has been profitably engaged in lumber dealing and brick-making. He has also cultivated cranberries with success. His wife, whose maiden name was Caroline P. Pulsifer, was born in Eden, Me., daughter of the late Dr. Moses R. Pulsifer, who was a prominent homoeopathic physican of Ellsworth, Me. They have reared four children, namely: Willard C, a former physician of Foxboro, but now of Springfield, Mass., who married Anna Pond, of this town; Augusta P., who is the wife of James V. Turner, a designer of woollen fabrics; Bertha, a school-teacher in Springfield, Mass.; and Benton P., the subject of this sketch.

Benton P. Crocker received his elementary education in the district schools of Cape Cod. Afterward he pursued a course at Amherst College and at the medical department of the University of Vermont. He subsequently attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of. 1891. He then obtained experience and a practical knowledge of his profession at the New York Lying-in Hospital, where he remained as assistant resident physician for nearly a year. In September, 1894, Dr. Crocker came to Foxboro, where he has made rapid strides in the practice of his profession. The share of patronage he has already won in Foxboro gives promise of a very successful future.

The Doctor is a member of the medical societies of Massachusetts and Norfolk County. He was made an Odd Fellow in Excelsior Lodge, No. 87, of Foxboro. He is also a member and the medical examiner of the United Order of the Golden Cross, and of the United Order of Pilgrim Fathers, Cocasset Colony. Taking much interest in agricultural questions, he also belongs to Foxboro Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. A member of the Universalist church, his religious creed is liberal.

/STeORGE E. HOLBROOK, one of the \ -) I most prominent farmers in Norfolk, ^ - was born December 14, 1839, uPon the farm he now owns and occupies, son of George E. and Clarissa (Turner) Holbrook. The paternal grandfather, Daniel Holbrook, who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, was a resident of Norfolk for the greater part of his life and the original owner of the Holbrook homestead. His death occurred April 17, 1839. He wedded Mary Edwards, and reared three children, namely: Eliza E., born in 1802; Mary B.( born January 13, 1804, who married Silas J. Llolbrook; and George E. , father of the subject of this sketch. None are now living.

George E. Holbrook (first) was born in Norfolk, September 13, 1806, and died in 1859. He inherited the home farm, which he had helped to clear; and he cultivated it successfully during his active years. He was active in military affairs, serving as a Major in the State militia. His wife, Clarissa, who was a native of Medfield, Mass., became the mother of three children, as follows: Silas

P., M.D., who married Jennie Campbell, and is a practising physician in East Douglas, Mass.; George E., the subject of this sketch; and Mary E., who married Edwin F. Cowell, a veteran of the Civil War, and a conductor on the New England Railroad, residing in Dorchester, Mass. The mother died in 1889.

George E. Hoi brook, the subject of this sketch, attended schools in Norfolk and Wrentham, completing his studies at the age of eighteen. He has always resided at the homestead, assisting his father in its cultivation. After caring for his mother during her declining years, he succeeded to the farm. The property contains eighty-seven acres of well-improved land, located in one of the most fertile districts of the State, and is devoted to general farming, dairying, and fruitgrowing. In 1873 Mr. Holbrook engaged in the provision business in Boston, but withdrew from that enterprise a year later, preferring to give his entire attention to his farm. Politically, he is a Republican, and has for years been identified with local public affairs. He served with ability as Highway Surveyor for five years, was Collector of Taxes for eight years, Constable for two years; and he has been on the Board of Assessors in all for over sixteen years, having been the first Assessor of Norfolk after its incorporation. At the present time he is special police officer, and he fills other town offices. He is Master of Norfolk Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and a charter member of Mount Nebo Council, Royal Arcanum of Medfield.

In 1870 Mr. Holbrook married Estella L. Pond, daughter of Henry E. and Louisa B. Pond, of Franklin, Mass. Her father, now deceased, was an inventor, and for some time a depot agent in that town. Her mother resides in Holliston, Mass. Mrs. Holbrook is the mother of five children; namely, Estella L. , George P., Warner Howard, Sarah Fisher, and Louisa, all of whom are residing at home. All the members of the family are musicians, and frequently furnish music for dancing parties, receptions, and other social functions. Mr. Holbrook has taught music and led orchestras, and Mrs. Holbrook spent some time in Germany studying music. She is a member of the Congregational church.

,HARLES N. MORSE, of Foxboro, is engaged in the Christian work of bringing up children placed under his protection by the Boston Children's Aid Society. He was born in North Foxboro, Mass., March 5, 1833, son of Newell Morse. His great-grandfather, Amos Morse (first), took up land here at an early day, and erected thereon a saw-mill in the place now occupied by Boynton's grist-mill. He cleared a part of the land, carrying on farming and milling until his demise.

Amos Morse (second), the grandfather of Charles N., was born on the old homestead, which subsequently became his by inheritance. During his active life he was likewise engaged in lumbering and farming, and he improved the property in many ways. His wife, Submit Paine Morse, belonged to a family that was founded here in Colonial times. Newell Morse, his second-born child, succeeded to the occupations of his ancestors, and with his brother Leonard inherited the ancestral acres. During the later days of his life, which was closed at the age of sixty-two years, Newell was exclusively engaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Miss Sally F. Mann, who bore him six children, namely: Charles N. , the subject of this sketch; Helen F., who died in childhood; Edson A., who lives on the old homestead near the Neponset Reservoir; Eliza A., who married A. J. Daniels, of this town, and has four children; Julius E., of Wrentham; and Elwin C, a real estate dealer in Boston.

Charles N. Morse obtained his education in the district schools. Beginning when quite young, he was employed in the Union Straw Works for twenty consecutive years. Subsequently, in Milford, Mass., he had charge of the straw department in a factory for four years. Returning then to Foxboro, he purchased the Hartshorn farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, where in recent years he has cared for the boys sent to him by the benevolent organization above referred to. Twenty-three boys are now there. They are trained so that they may be able to do for themselves in due time, and become worthy citizens of the republic.

Clifford Belcher

to Miss Hester Maria Maybury, of Otisfield, Me. They have two children - Frank A. and Mabel E. The latter is a student at Wellesley College. Frank A., after attending Amherst College, graduated from the Harvard Medical School, and has since been prosperously engaged in the medical profession at Lynn, Mass. He married Miss Blanche Boardman, of Lowell, Mass., and has one child, Beatrice Morse. Mr. Morse, Sr., has been an advocate of Republican principles since he cast his first Presidential vote in 1856 for John C. Fremont, and has served as a member of the School Committee. He has recently united with the local society of the Knights of Honor. In 185 1 he joined the Congregational Church of Foxboro, and since then has been twice elected a Deacon. He was also a Deacon of the Congregational Church of Milford.

(Willson) Bird. His grandfather, Seth Bird, was engaged in teaming in Portland, Me., for a number of years; and in that city Harrison Bird was born, reared, and educated. When a young man, Harrison Bird came to Boston, and was employed for some time in a market as clerk for his uncle. He then established a stall of his own, and was for sixty years in the provision business in Faneuil Hall Market. He was one of the oldest marketmen in Faneuil Hall, and was widely known and very popular. In 1847 he moved to Brookline, where he lived thirty-five years, and erected a handsome residence. He died at the age of eighty-five. He attended the Swedenborgian church. His wife, a native of Boston, died at the age of seventy-two. She was the mother of three children, two of whom have passed away.

Albert H. Bird passed the first seven years of his life in Dorchester, now a part of Boston. He acquired his education in the public schools of Brookline, and on leaving school went into business with his father. After the death of the latter he sold out the business, and has since been retired. He built his present handsome residence at 246 Harvard Street, Brookline, in 1888.

Mr. Bird was married in 1864 to Eliza A., daughter of William Churchill, of Brookline. Mrs. Bird was born in Dorchester, Mass. Her father, a wealthy fish merchant, with a place of business at Long Wharf, Boston, died at the age of sixty. Mrs. Bird died at the age of fifty-five. Mr. Bird is a gentleman of culture, interested in literature and art. He is an extensive reader, and is conversant with the best English authors.

1821, and was the third in direct line to bear that name. He came of substantial English stock, represented in the Massachusetts Colony before 1640 by Edward Belcher, of Boston; Andrew Belcher, of Cambridge; Gregory Belcher, of Boston and later of Cambridge; and Jeremy Belcher, of Ipswich. Mr. Belcher's grandfather, Clifford Belcher, first, was born, lived, and died in Canton, spending his long years in useful activity.

His son, Clifford Belcher, second, was bom and reared in Canton, and for many years was known as one of the most energetic, industrious, and valued citizens of the place. He owned a small farm, which he carried on in connection with carpentering. He built in 1845 the house now owned by his son Clifford, and there spent his last days in comfort and plenty, passing away at the venerable age of eighty-six years. In his earlier life he was an adherent of the Democratic party, but in later years was a strong advocate of the principles of the Republican party. He was for some years Selectman, and held other offices of minor importance. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary McKendry, seven children were born, only one of whom is now living; namely, Sarah, wife of A. W. Kinsley.

Clifford Belcher, third, attended the common schools of Canton until eighteen years of age. He then went to Easton and learned the moulder's trade in the foundry with his brother, Daniel Belcher. In 1X45 lie re- turned to Canton, and entered into the service of the Kinsley Iron and Machine Company. In 1866 he established a foundry of his own on Walnut Street, which he conducted successfully for many years. For the last seven years Mr. Belcher lived retired from active pursuits, enjoying a well-deserved leisure, a much respected citizen. He was a Republican in politics, but was never an aspirant for office. Mr. Belcher was twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth B. Spair, died in 1S81, leaving four children, namely - Fred C, Charles E., Addie L., and Elmer A. Mr. Belcher married September 10, 1883, Miss L. Arvilla Dean, of Easton, Mass. With his wife he attended the Congregational church, to whose support he was a liberal contributor.

f STeORGE HOLLISTER BROWN, an y '*) I alert, enterprising, and far-sighted ^ - business man, engaged in dealing in real estate and mortgages, conveyancing, and insurance business in Quincy, Mass., was born in Detroit, Mich., March 17, 1870, a son of Charles Hall and Georgianna (Newcomb) Brown.

His paternal grandfather, Nathan Hollister Brown, was born and bred in Charlton, Saratoga County, N.Y., the date of his birth being May 10, 181 5. He was active in town affairs, holding the office of Supervisor for several years, and was familiarly known as "Squire" Brown. After the close of the Civil War, in which he served as Captain of Company H, New York Seventy-seventh Regiment, State Volunteers, he removed to Detroit, Mich., where he carried on business as a contractor and builder. He was subsequently appointed as an officer in the House of Correction at Detroit, serving there for some time. He was a man of much mechanical ingenuity and the inventor of a freight-car roofing. He attained the age of sixty-eight years and seven months, passing to the life eternal February 20, 1884. His wife, whose maiden name was Amanda Hall, was born in Southeast, Putnam County, N. Y., August 19, 18 1 5, and died in Detroit, October 23, 1876.

at Charlton, Saratoga County, N.Y. Having completed his schooling in his native State, at the age of sixteen years he secured employment at Dr. Spence's drug store in Detroit, whither his parents had removed and at seventeen he was putting up prescriptions, being the youngest prescription clerk the proprietor had ever known, proving himself efficient and trustworthy. Marrying in 1868, he continued to live in Detroit up to the date of his appointment, in 1 87 1, as the general Western agent of the Frederick Stearns's Drug Company, in which capacity he was engaged in travelling most of the time for about fifteen years, having his headquarters at St. Louis, the home of the family being in Detroit as before. Removing to Little Falls, Minn., in 1888, he established a drug store in that city, and has since conducted a satisfactory business, having built up an extensive trade. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife, who was a daughter of Dr. George Newcomb, of Quincy, Mass., died December 24, 1881, leaving three children, as follows: Charles Frederick, proprietor of the Brown Electrical Construction Company of New Haven, Conn.; George Hollister; and Herbert Stanley, professor of mathematics at the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Conn. Both of the parents were endowed with musical talent; and for some years the mother was the principal alto singer in one of the large churches of Detroit, and afterward officiated as organist in an Episcopal church in that city. Mrs. Brown was also an instructor in a music school, and had a large class of private pupils.

George H. Brown, the special subject of this sketch, obtained the rudiments of his education in the Coddington School, Quincy, which he attended in 1875, afterward continuing his studies at a private school in Detroit and in the public schools of that city. At the age of twelve vears he obtained a situation in the office of the Michigan Central Railway Company, and continued in the railroad business until coming to Quincy three years later. He secured work in Boston as a clerk in the office of an insurance publication, with which he was connected a year. In 1886 he opened an office as public stenographer and typewritist, but closed it three months later when he was appointed an assistant in the secretary's office of the New England Insurance Exchange. He remained there a year, and in the meantime formed a partnership with Alfred E. Cram, under the firm name of George H. Brown & Co., and opened offices in the Chadwick Building, Boston, for shorthand work, continuing until 1888. Prior to that time he had formed a liking for insurance work, and in the winter of 1887 had taken out an insurance broker's license, and had solicited fire risks, confining his operations to Ouincy chiefly. In 1888 he opened an office in the Durgin & Merrill Block, and soon, in addition to his insurance business, added that of real estate, mortgages, and kindred matters, removing to his present offices in the Adams Building in 18S9. Frequently requested by his numerous customers to prepare legal instruments, he determined to fit himself for that work, and accordingly took a two years' course of study at the Boston University Law School, continuing his business here at the same time.

In [891 Mr. Brown was appointed by the late Governor Russell Justice of the Peace, ami in 1893 he received his appointment as Notary Public. His business has greatly increased, his dealing in realty and mortgages being extensive; and as a fire insurance agent he represents several of the old and reliable stock and mutual insurance companies. He is a trustee of several estates, and has the management of a number of trust estates, making a specialty of the care of property. He collects rents and incomes, settles estates of deceased persons, etc.

u Mr. Brown is a Republican, and, although interested in politics, has never held public office. He is a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows, of which he has been secretary since its formation in 1889; is a director in the Young Men's Christian Association, which he assisted in organizing; is a director in the Ouincy Board of Trade; is a member of the Ouincy Board of Fire Underwriters; and in 1891 assisted in the organization of the Ouincy Musical Club, and became its first president. He has inherited some of the musical talent of his parents, and, while attending the law school, was a member and the manager for one season of the Boston University Glee Club. He is one of the Wardens of the Episcopal church, and takes an active interest in church work. Mr. Brown is a member of the Ouincy Historical Society, the Yacht Club, and the Wollaston Golf Club.

On the 22d of February, 1893, Mr. Brown married Miss Mabel Lewis Pollock, daughter of Allen F. Pollock, of Ouincy. Three children have been born to them, and two are living; namely, Madeleine Pollock and Francis Irving.

ALTER S. WESTON, a Boston contractor and builder, was born in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., November 12, 1852, son of Augustus Weston and Elmira White Weston, and belongs to an old Massachusetts family of English descent. His paternal grandfather, Galon Weston, a ship-builder of Duxbury, married Judith Frost. They were Unitarians; and their six children - -Samuel, Judith, Seth, Margaret, Augustus, and Caroline - were brought up in that faith.

The son Augustus learned the shoemaker's trade in his youth, but afterward became a butcher, and also engaged in agriculture. He enlisted in the Union Army, in Company I of the Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, December 6, 1862, was made Sergeant of his company, and served until the close of the war. After his return to Duxbury he devoted his time to farming and to the publicaffairs of the town. He was a Republican, and represented the district in the legislature. He also held the office of Assessor, always taking a lively interest in the political questions of the day. His death occurred October 18, 1873. His wife was a daughter of Bartlett White, of Duxbury, and was one of a family of three children. Mr. White, who was a butcher by trade, carried on the express business between Duxbury and Boston. He was a man of influence in the town. The offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Weston were twelve in number, of whom seven are now living, namely: Walter S. ; Amelia, who married James Walley, and resides in Hyde Park; Samuel; Henry; Harry; Thomas: and

Walter S. Weston lived at home until fourteen years old. At that early age he went to Boston to learn the mason's trade, which he followed as a journeyman until able to go into business for himself. In 1872 he decided to try his fortunes in California, and journeyed thither by way of the Isthmus of Panama. For some time he was employed on the Capitol Building in Carson City, Nev., setting stone which was cut from the quarries by the inmates of the county jail. He spent a year in the State of Nevada, and returned to Boston upon the death of his father in the fall of 1873. As the eldest son he undertook the entire support of his widowed mother and her large family, and cheerfully supplied their every need. He built extensively in St. John, N.B., after the great fire of 1877. Going South in 1890, he was located for a year in Cardip, Tenn., and subsequently in Alabama. Upon his return to Boston he was placed upon the police force, and remained a patrolman in the South Cove district for three years. Again making a change, he was employed as foreman in the establishment of Messrs. Weston & Sheppard, of which firm his uncle was the senior partner. During his business career in Boston many fine hotels have been erected by Mr. Weston, notably one on the corner of Marlboro and Exeter Streets, the fine structure on the corner of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue, also that on Massachusetts Avenue and Haviland Street. Fourteen houses on Haviland Street, between Massachusetts Avenue and Parker Street, various apartment houses on Commonwealth Avenue, also Hotel Ludlow, opposite Trinity Church, and the remodelled Hotel Plaza, are specimens of his business achievements.

He married July 3, 1876, Minnie Calder, of Nova Scotia. Of this union two children have been born - Walter A. and Minnie B. Since 1887 Mr. Weston and his family have resided in Hyde Park.

Politically, he is a Republican, and for the past two years has been a member of the Board of Selectmen. He is a charter member of the Knights of Malta; a member of the Aberdour Lodge, F. & A. M., of Boston, and of the Norfolk Royal Arch Chapter, Hyde Park Council, R. & S. M. ; and Cyprus Commandery, K. T. ; also of Mount Forest Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 148, of Hyde Park; was formerly a member of the Independent Order of Red Men, now a member of the Royal Arcanum, Alpha, No. 1, and was at one time a member of the Lancers of Boston. He has also been connected with the Boston Builders' Exchange and with the Mechanic Exchange of the city of Boston. An influential member of the Universalist church, Mr. Weston at the present time holds the president's chair of the Board of Trustees in that society.

Sohn Flavel Jenkins Mayo

SOHN FLAVEL JENKINS MAYO, better known as John F. J. Mayo, for many years a prominent manufacturer of Norfolk County, was born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1819, and died at his home in Needham, August 11, 1893. He belonged to an old Massachusetts family, dating from early Colonial times.

"The Roxbury Mayos," says Francis S. Drake in his history of the town, "are descended from John, a young child brought over in 1633 by Robert Gamblin, Jr., and who was the son of his wife by a former husband. He married in 1654 Hannah, daughter of John Graves." "Thomas, son of John Mayo, was born in 1673." A later Thomas Mayo, father of the late Mr. John F. J. Mayo, was born at Roxbury in 1765, and was for many years a merchant in Roxbury and in Boston. He died at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife, who was the daughter of Deacon Davis, of Roxbury, died in 1856.

Having received his education in the Roxbury schools, John F. J. Mayo began his working life as an assistant in a jewelry store, where he remained for some time. Not liking the business, however, he left it, and learned the trade of carpenter and builder, at which he worked for many years. He then engaged in the business of manufacturing glue in Roxbury, removing his plant in 1855 to Needham, and operating for some time in this town. His partner for sixteen years was Edwin Evans, and the business was carried on under the name of Evans & Mayo. At the end of that time Mr. Mayo began to work at his trade again as a member of the firm of Gould & Mayo, which continued for eight years. He then retired from active business life.

On April 20, 1848, Mr. Mayo was married to Ellen E. Eaton, daughter of William and Sally (Johnson) Eaton, of Needham. Mr. Eaton represented one of the old and honored families of this region, and was himself a broad-minded, public-spirited citizen, and for some years Selectman of the town. He had a family of nine children, as follows: George Eaton, born in 1819, now residing in Needham; Emily, born in 1821, who died in 1885, wife of George H. Gay; Augustus, born in 1823, a resident of Needham; Charles, born in 1824, who died in infancy; Ellen E., now Mrs. Mayo; Mary J., who was born in 182S, and died in 1889; Adeline, born in 1830, who was married in 1864 to John Morton Harris, late resident of Needham, whose life is sketched on another page of this work; Charles VV. Eaton, born May 30, 1833, who married Lucetta Hunt, of Sudbury, and is now in the clothing business in Boston; Everett J., the youngest son, born in 1837, who married Lydia Fuller, of Wellesley, lived in Needham until his death in June, 1896, and was well-known in the express and livery business and as a prominent politician.

Mr. Mayo is survived by his wife and one child, a daughter, Alice E., who was born in 1859, was married to Charles Atherton Hicks in 1883, and resides in Needham.

Mr. Mayo was deeply interested for many years in the work of the First Parish Church, Unitarian Congregational, both he himself and Mrs. Mayo being members thereof. He was one of the Parish Committee, and one of the Building Committee when the church edifice was removed. In politics Mr. Mayo was a Republican, and ever ready to work for his party or to contribute liberally for the advancement of its interests. In 1850 he was elected member of the Council of Roxbury for two years, and he was also for many years a member of the Roxbury Artillery Company. He took an active interest in all town improvements, and was a generous promoter of reforms.

HARLES W. THAYER, a prominent farmer of Bellingham, was born in this place, October 22, 1824, son of Willard and Rhoda (Sherman) Thayer, both natives of Bellingham.

Willard, son of Ebenezer Thayer, was a carriage-maker in early life, afterward devoting himself to farming. In 1837 ne built the house now owned by his son; and he died there, December 17, 1878, his wife surviving until November 28, 1889. They had nine children, namely: James A., a mechanic by trade, who spent much of his life in Bellingham, and died in Providence, R.I., March 4, 1887; Charles W. ; Henry Franklin, who died February 16, 1833, at the age of four years; Barton D., who married Laura Bancroft (deceased), and who lives in New York City, where he has charge of the Cornelius Vanderbilt place; Olney S., who died in 1887; Mary Frances, the wife of Edward F. Light, a machinist of Providence, R. I. ; Adeline, who married John W. Randall, of Providence; William Henry, who is married and resides in Providence; Rhoda Mandella, who is the wife of William Brittin, a carpenter, and resides in Milford, Mass.

Charles W. Thayer, the second son, was well educated at the common and high schools of the county, and lived at home with his parents until he married, at twenty-one years of age. He then purchased the entire interest in the old homestead farm of thirty acres at South Bellingham, where he now resides. He has made all the improvements on the place, including the erection of new buildings. He has also engaged in different real estate transactions, and he is now the owner of other houses and lands in the vicinity. He has devoted most of his attention to farming, but, owing to somewhat failing health during the past few years, has been obliged to take a less active part in the farm work than formerly.

He married October 23, 1845, Betsey W. Aldrich, who was born in Mendon, Mass., July 7, 1826, daughter of Allen and Sarah (Scott) Aldrich. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich had four children: Betsey W. ; Phoebe, wife of C. Cooper, a retired merchant of New York City; Sylvanus; and Allen - the last two being de- ceased. The father was a farmer of Mendon, and died there in 1834. The mother married a second husband, James Burchard, and had five children; namely, Daniel, Francis (deceased), Joseph, Charles, and George, deceased. She died in Killingham, Conn.

Mr. and Mrs. Thayer have one child, a daughter, Ella F., born August 15, 1855. She married Charles E. Delmage, who is in the fruit and confectionery business, and resides in Providence, R.I.

Mr. Thayer is a Republican in politics, and has always cast his vote for the candidates of that party. Though he belongs to no secret orders, and has always refused public office, he is a well-known, popular, and influential citizen. His farm is well improved and a credit to his industry. The products of his dairy are well known to the people of the vicinity.

kERRITT S. KEITH, one of the foremost provision dealers of Wellesley Hills, and a son of Samuel and Mary (Price) Keith, was born in Havelock, N.B., in 1850. The father was born in New Brunswick in 1792, and was engaged in farming there until the time of his death in 1868. By the first of his two marriages there were four children - John, Charles, Noah, and Hattie. Born of the second marriage, which was contracted with Mary Price, of New Brunswick, were eight children - Elizabeth, Isaiah, Ezekiel, David, Victoria, Jane, Theodore, and Merritt. Isaiah died in 1887. The mother was eightyone years old at her death in 1888.

Leaving the public schools of Havelock when he was eighteen years old, Merritt Keith went to work on the farm. In 1872 he came to Massachusetts, and was employed in the express business with Everett J. Eaton, of Needham, during the ensuing six years. Then he was engaged in the provision business at Highlandville for one year, after which he moved to Needham village. In 1887 he came from there to Wellesley, and engaged in the same business. He has a good business now, supplying customers in Needham and Wellesley Hills with general provisions,

Mr. Keith is a member of the Eliot Lodge, No. 158, I. O. O. F., of Needham; and of Wellesley Grange, P. of H. In politics he is a thorough Republican, and he is a regular attendant of the Congregational Church at Wellesley Hills. He was married March 1, 1877, to Ida, daughter of William Herring, who belongs to one of the old families of Needham. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Keith are: Eva, born in 1878, now attending the high school; Harold F., born in 1880, a student of the Burdett Commercial College; Laura Pearl, born in 18S4, who attends the grammar school ; and Malcomb, born in 1886, who is a pupil of the intermediate school.

- manufacturers of Sharon, are sons of George Harvey and Rhoda (Fisher) Mann ; and their father was a pioneer in the cotton industry of New England.

They are descendants in the seventh generation of William Mann, who was born in the county of Kent, England, in 1607, and emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony at an early date, settling in Cambridge. In 1637 he married Mary Jerauld and on June 11, 1657, he married for his second wife Alice Teal. William Mann died March 7, 1662. Samuel Mann, only son of William, was born July 6, 1647, and was one of the early students of Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1667. He settled at Wrentham, Mass., in 1673, and died May 22, 17 19. His wife, Esther Ware, of Dedham, Mass., whom he married on Mjfy 13, 1673, died in September, 1730. Samuel and Esther Mann were the parents of eleven children; namely, Mary, Samuel, Nathaniel, William, Theodore, Thomas, Hannah, Beria, Pelatiah, Margaret, and Esther.

Nathaniel, the next in line, was born in Dedham, April 8, 1677. On December 19, 1704, he married Elizabeth Georges, and his children were: George, John, Nathaniel, Marv, Robert, Jeremiah, Joseph, Ezra, Richard, and Timothy. Ezra Mann, great-grand- father of the subjects of this sketch, was born in Wrentham, October 13, 17 19. On July 16, 1752, he married Esther Newland. They reared a family of four children - Otis, Rufus, Esther, and Jeremiah.

Rufus Maun, grandfather of the present generation, was born in Wrentham, August 26, 1755. He was Sergeant in Captain Sabin Mann's company of minute-men, who marched from Medfield to Boston, April 19, 1775; and he also rendered further service, for which he received a United States pension near the close of his life. He followed the blacksmith's and cooper's trades during his active years, and died August 26, 1837. On January 25, 17S1, he married Sybil Allen, who was born in Medfield, Mass., April 13, 1757, and died November 10, 1838. Rufus and Sybil Mann lived in Medfield until [814, when they moved to Wrentham. They were the parents of five children: Sarah, born January 2, 1782; Rodney, born March 15, 1784; Susanna, born September 7, 1785; George Harvey, born September 16, 1793; and Jerauld Newland Ezra, who was bom June 20, 1796, and married Betsey Kingsbury, of Walpole, February 16, 1822. Receiving the appointment of Sheriff for Norfolk County in 1835, he held that office and that of jailer for twenty-one years, and then resigned on account of his health. He moved to Vernon, Conn., and died there in April, 1857. Sarah Mann married Daniel Everett, January 1, 1807; and she died March 16, 1808. Rodney died in Buenos Ayres, South America, April 16, 1826. Susanna became the wife of Timothy Palmer Whitney, who was for a number of years Sheriff of Norfolk County.

George Harvey Mann, second son of Rufus, and the father of George R. and William R. Mann, was born in Medfield, and lived there until he was sixteen years old. He then went to Mansfield, and was apprenticed to Messrs. Otis and Oliver Allen to learn the trade of a carpenter. In 1814 he went under an agreement with others to Greenwich, Conn., to work in a machine shop. While there he was one of a number of men that were called out to throw up fortifications to resist the British, who were ravaging the coast. From Greenwich he went to Medway village, and was engaged in the manufacture of cotton machinery and cotton goods, being associated with John and Peter Smith, Dean Walker, and Oliver Dean. He stayed there until 1822, when he removed to East Walpole, and took charge of the Neponset Cotton Manufacturing Company factory, where he remained until 1826, when he went to Amoskeag, N. H., taking his family with him. While there he changed the works from sheetings to bed-tickings, and established the reputation of the celebrated Amoskeag tickings. Not finding it for his interest to remain, he returned to his old position in East Walpole. In 1831 he purchased of Joseph \V. Revere a water privilege in Sharon, erected a factory, and commenced the manufacture of bed-ticking that held the first price in the market, the business continuing until March 10, 1840, when his factory was destroyed by fire. In 1841 he erected a building on another site, and commenced the construction of machinery for the manufacture of cotton duck for sails. In 1843 he filled the building with machinery, and started on his new venture in company with his eldest son. His health failing, in 1844 he sold out his interest in the concern to his youngest son. He died October 25, 1847. George H. Mann always took an active part in everything that related to the best interest of the town. He was elected to the General Court in 1837. He was one of the early advocates of the temperance cause in this locality, and was actively interested in the Congregational church, of which he was a member. His wife, Rhoda Fisher, whom he married May 10, 1820, was born in Medway, Mass., June 18, 1798. She became the mother of four children, namely: George Rodney, born in Medway, June 30, 1821 ; William Rufus, born in Walpole, October 30, 1823; Caroline Frances, born in Walpole, June 18, 1829; and Sarah Elizabeth, who was born in Sharon, February 5, 1834, and married William Curtis Mills, November 2,

George R. and William R. Mann continued the manufacture of sail duck until the fall of 1845, when they contracted with Henry Edwards, of Boston, to manufacture belting duck for the foundation of rubber machine belting under the Goodyear patent, the firm being afterward known as the Boston Belting Company; and for them they have for over fifty years been engaged exclusively in producing that fabric. In 1856 they enlarged their business, and erected a brick factory building on a new site.

On June 6, 1843, George Rodney Mann was united in marriage with Laura C. Johnson, of Sharon. She died in November, 1886. They had an adopted daughter, Emma May, who was born in 1850, and died in 1888. He was always found on the right side in advancing the public interest.

William Rufus Mann has figured quite prominently in public affairs. He served as a Selectman in 1854, was again elected for the years 1872 and 1873, was Town Treasurer in 1856, and has ably filled other positions of public trust. He received his first appointment as Justice of the Peace, April 27, 1858. Prevented by physical incapacity from taking an active part in the defence of the Union, he rendered much valuable aid to the sick and wounded soldiers in this vicinity during the Civil War. He received the appointment of United States Enrolling Officer; and he enlisted and filled the town's cpiota of soldiers, and visited all the hospitals in Maryland and Northern Virginia, procuring furloughs for the wounded. His deeds of kindness are still fresh in the memory of many citizens. He is a member of the New England and the Dedham Historical Societies and a life member of the American Pomological Society, and takes an active interest in these organizations, as well as in subjects kindred to those with which they deal.

William R. Mann has been three times married. On June 7, 1849, he wedded Mary Hewins, of Sharon; and she died March 7, 1878. On July 13, 1881, he was again married to Esther E. , widow of Richard Fletcher Ladd, late of Boston, the daughter of Christopher C. Barney; and she died January 10, 1892. His present wife, whom he married December 5, 1893, was before marriage Julia A. Barney, of Fall River, Mass. Mr. Mann has two children by his first union: Mary Ella, born July 9, 1850; and George Hewins, born February 28, 1856. Mary Ella is the wife of James E. Greensmith, a native of Derby, England, and now superintendent of the Portland (Me. ) Locomotive and Marine Engine Works. George Hewins married December 5, 18S3, Elizabeth Cass Stowell, born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1863, and has three children; namely, Esther Stowell, Ruth Hewins, and William Rufus. The Mann brothers are Republicans in politics.

Rank Clark Granger, M.D.

RANK CLARK GRANGER, M.D., of Randolph, Norfolk County, Mass., physician and surgeon, was born in Randolph, Vt., April 8, 1849, a son of Noah and Caroline (Clark) Granger. He comes of an old New England family, being descended from Launcelot Granger, who emigrated from England in the first half of the seventeenth century, and is known to have been living in Ipswich, Mass., in 1648. From Ipswich he removed to Newbury; and thence he migrated to Suffield, Conn., where the remaining years of his life were spent. He died in 1689, leaving a large family.

Dr. Granger's great-grandfather, Captain John Granger, was an officer in the Revolutionary army. Having raised a company of minute-men at New Braintree, Mass., he was chosen Captain, and was in command at Bunker Hill and during the siege of Boston. The Doctor's grandfather, Roger Granger, was a farmer.

Frank Clark Granger, after attending school in Randolph, Vt., in his early years, entered the Vermont State Normal School at Randolph, where he was graduated in 1867. In the meanwhile, however, his father having met with financial reverses, he was obliged to earn the money to meet the expenses of his professional training; and at the age of sixteen he began to teach, taking charge of a school at Tunbridge, Vt. He subsequently taught at Cresskill, N.J. After graduating from the Normal School, he taught for two years and a half in California; and he then taught in Belmont, Nev., until 1876. The study of medicine he began in 1874, under the direction of Dr. S. Grant Moore; and he continued it under Dr. L. C. Butler, of Essex, Vt. Matriculating at Dartmouth Medical

Lyman K. Putney

College, in 1876 he there took a course of lectures; and he later took a course at the medical department of the University of Vermont. From the latter institution he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1877. He pursued a post-graduate course in the University of the City of New York ; and during the year 1877 he did special work in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary, under Dr. William Oliver Moore, of New York City. In 1 888 Dr. Granger spent four months in post-graduate work in the General Hospital at Vienna, Austria, and three months more he devoted to travel in Europe. In December, 1877, he settled in Randolph; and he now has a large and lucrative practice in Randolph and the adjoining towns. Dr. Granger is a member of the American Medical Association, also a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and since 1890 has been on the Board of Censors.

On August 13, 1873, he was married to Alice M., daughter of Dr. Lucius C. and Hannah D. (Page) Butler, of Essex, Vt. The following children have blessed their union: Frank Butler, Lucius Dwight, and Roger Gordon. Dr. Granger is Master of Norfolk Union Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Randolph; is a member of Santucket Chapter, R. A. M., of Brockton ; and of Bay State Commandery, K. T., of Brockton. He is also a member of Norfolk Lodge, No. 119, Knights of Pythias. In 1875 he was elected superintendent of public instruction in Nye County, Nevada. He has contributed some valuable papers to medical literature, notably "Jaborandi as a Galactogogue " (1880), and "Chloroform in Labor" (1891).

2YMAN K. PUTNEY, one of the prominent residents of Wellesley, was born ^ in Troy, N. H., in 1835, son of Joseph M. and Mary (Winch) Putney. His grandfather, Jedediah Putney, who was born in Putney, England, came to this country when about twenty years of age. After following the occupation of farmer in Ashfield, Mass., and in Troy, N.H., he died in Troy at the remarkable age of one hundred and three years. His wife, formerly Abigail Knight, of Fitzwilliam, N.H., died in 1832. Their son, Joseph M., born in Ashfield, who has also been a farmer, is now leading a retired life in Lancaster, Mass., having already passed his ninety-fourth birthday. His wife, Mary, who came from Fitzwilliam, and was born in 1812, is also living.

Leaving the public schools of Troy when he was eleven years old, Lyman K. Putney started out in life for himself. He first worked on farms in various towns in the interior of New Hampshire for three years. Then he went to Clintonville, now Clinton, Mass., with the intention of learning the woollen maker's trade; but, finding the work very distasteful, he abandoned it at the end of the first year. He was next employed in Boston, first in a stable and then in a market. After staying in the market for a year and a half, he began driving teams in the city for another man. Four years later he started in the teaming business for himself. In 1854 he helped to form the firm of Whipple & Co., and became the junior partner. This firm still does business under the same name. Located first on Kilby Street, they moved later to their present location on Lincoln and High Streets, where they have been doing a large business for the last twenty-five years, chiefly for the shoe and leather trade. Although Mr. Putney has not been actively engaged in the business since 1876, he retains his interest in the firm. In 1873 he purchased a farm, put up buildings, and carried on farming for the next fourteen years. Then he sold out his land, and engaged in the real estate business. He has put up some of the public buildings at Wellesley Hills, and owns a number of houses and blocks in the village. In 1868 he moved from Boston to West Newton, and two years later to Grantville, now Wellesley Hills. Ever since he has lived in Wellesley, Mr. Putney has taken an active part in the life of the town. He served as Town Assessor for two years. In 1877 he was elected Selectman of the old town of Needham, and served for four years in that capacity, being the chairman of the board for three of those years. He was elected to the General Court from the Ninth Norfolk District in 1879, and served on the Claims Committee. Made chairman of the

Board of Selectmen again in 188 1, he served for five years. During the two following years he was Water Commissioner. He was again elected to the General Court in 1882, and he served on the Committee on Charitable Institutions. He was also on the committee appointed to investigate charges made against the management of the Tewksbury Almshouse by General Butler, who was then the Governor of the State. Once more elected to the Board of Selectmen in 1887, he served for four years, making fourteen years in all that he has been on this board. He has also been on the committee elected by the town to look after public buildings, etc.

In 1S60 Mr. Putney joined the Bethesda Lodge, No. 30, I. O. O. F., and passed through all the chairs. In 1861 he became a member of Mount Washington Encampment. Nine years later he was made Master Mason in the Dalhousie Lodge and a member of the R. A. Chapter, both of Newtonville. He was a charter member of the Sincerity Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Wellesley, and subsequently was its first Noble Grand, to become which he withdrew from the lodge in Boston. In 1878 he was made Deputy of the Twentyeighth District of the I. O. O. F.; and in 1895 he took the degrees in the Natick Commandery, K. T. In politics Mr. Putney is an Independent, although tending toward Republican principles. Mr. Putney has been abroad three times, in 1895, 1896, and 1897, when he travelled extensively through Europe. He was married in 1858 to Abbie A., daughter of William Marshall, of Troy, N.H., and has had four children. These were: Alice M., born in 1859, married, and living in Needham; Henry Marshall, born in 1864, now a partner in the teaming business, and in charge of it; Herbert W., born in 1868, who died in 1879; and Ethel W. , born in 1881, now attending the Wellesley High School.

Enry Beebee Carrington

ENRY BEEBEE CARRINGTON, lawyer, soldier, author, born at Wallingford, Conn., March 2, 1824, son of Miles M. and Mary (Beebee) Carrington, is a grandson of James Carrington (partner of Eli Whitney in the manufacture of rifles for the United States, inspector of Harper's Ferry and Springfield arsenals, inventor of the coffee-mill) and a great-grandson of Captain Jeremiah Carrington, by whom Washington was entertained at Wallingford during his trip to New England after the war. His grandfather and great-grandfather Beebee were graduates of Yale College, and the latter served in the French and Canadian War of 1758 - 59. His great-grandfather, Captain Caleb Atwater, was president of the Connecticut Land Company which settled "New Connecticut," known as "the Western Reserve," where several towns retain family names given at their settlement.

Early education largely shaped his political future. While at Torringford, Conn., 1836, at the boarding-school of the Rev. Epaphras Goodman and Dr. Erasmus D. Hudson (afterward noted abolitionists), John Brown, of Ossawatomie, visiting the school, took pledges from the scholars that, when they became men, they would work for the extinction of slavery. Among these were W. W. Patton, afterward president of Howard University, and Thomas K. Brace, afterward Mayor of Hartford. Later, at Farmington, Conn., where the escaped slaves of the "Armisted" (slaver) were cared for by the United States pending the question of their return to slavery, the prayer-meeting of the venerable Noah Porter was mobbed because he prayed that the slaves might remain free. A few days later his old teachers, Goodman and Hudson, were mobbed at West Hartford during an anti-slavery lecture. The impressions thus made were never effaced. Lender date of March 10, 1886, the poet Whittier thus wrote to the subject of this sketch: "In my way, I have tried to serve the cause of Liberty and Humanity by speech and pen, while others like thyself enforced their stern and righteous lessons in the dread arbitrament of the battlefield. The incident of John Brown's address to thee and thy schoolmates is noteworthy. One boy, at least, took to heart the lesson, and made it the rule of his life."

drews, then member of Congress from Cleveland, during the half-day's sail sat upon the knee of Daniel Webster, and listened with intense interest to his discussion of the slavery question and that of protection to American manufactures. The lesson made an earnest impression. He graduated at Yale College in 1845; and, of his classmates, William B. Woods (Union), and Richard Taylor, Isaac Monroe St. John, James C. Tappan, and William Connor (Confederate) also became Generals during the Civil War. As optional studies during the Junior and Senior years Carrington took drawing, surgery, and French, all of which became factors in subsequent engineering and military life. When the famous firemen's riot occurred, his room, No. 1 South College, on Chapel Street, was a point of the students' defence. On the 17th of June, 1S87, during the Soldiers' Monument celebration, while awaiting the advance of the military column, Generals Sherman and Sheridan left the reviewing stand near by, and accompanied him to No. 1, to witness the theatre of his "first skirmish."

Upon graduating, Carrington, at the request of Washington Irving, was selected by Professor B. Silliman, Sr., for the professorship of natural science and Greek at the Irving Institute, Tarrytown, N.Y. There he instituted military drill, erected a gymnasium, and for a while acted as amanuensis for Mr. Irving in work upon his "Life of Washington." He also acted as usher at Mr. Irving's reception upon his return from Spain, when the widow of Alexander Hamilton, James Harper, Philip K. Paulding, Hiram Ketchum, Commodore Perry, Commander McKenzie, and others were guests. On one occasion, while accompanying Mr. Irving to White Plains, the latter pointed out Chatterton Hill as the spot where the nominal battle of White Plains was fought. After a survey of the position a map was drawn, which became the starting-point for "Battles of the American Revolution," completed thirty years later. Among the pupils under his instruction were: William (afterward Governor and Senator) Sprague; Amasa Sprague ; Adam C. Badeau (afterward of Grant's staff), Hobart C. Herrick (New York Corn Exchange), Thomas

A course at the Yale Law School followed, he at the same time serving as professor of mathematics and natural science at Root's Collegiate Institute. A daily diary was maintained during his college course, embracing current data as to the political and military events of Europe; and these were tabulated when the revolutions of 1848 occurred. Dr. Baird's lectures upon Russia were also copied, and utilized when events made Russia a factor in the subsequent campaigns.

November, 1848, Mr. Carrington settled at Columbus, Ohio, first as partner of A. F. Perry and then for nine years with William Dennison, until the latter became Governor of Ohio. During the winter of 1849 ne participated with Henry C. Noble and others in the rescue of Frederick Douglass, when his opponents tried to drown out with a fire-engine his attempted delivery of an anti-slavery lecture in the old Ohio State-house. In 1S51 he visited Henry Clay at Ashland, Ky., in furtherance of a purpose formed while in college, and secured a copy of the " Memorial to Washington," which contains the autographic signatures of the members of the United States Senate in 1840. His address upon Russia, just before the arrival of Kossuth, in whose reception he participated, was the last delivered in the old State-house, which burned that night. In conference with the patriot he prepared a detailed map of the Hungarian struggle up to and including the camp where Georgey surrendered to the combined armies of Austria and Russia.

An incident occurred in 1852 which made permanent friendship with General Scott. On his arrival at Columbus, while candidate for the Presidency, during the firing of a salute at the station a premature discharge killed two and blinded a third of the gunners. Sending medical aid to their relief, he seated General Scott in a carriage, without advising him of the accident, introduced him to the people at the Neil House, reported for the Whig Review his protest to the assembled Germans against the current report that he shot German deserters at Mexico because they were foreigners, and the next morning accompanied him to visit the afflicted families of the victims. Besides liberal gifts of money General Scott exhibited the most tender sympathy, and afterward wrote more than once, inquiring as to their welfare. He supplied books from time to time for military study, and in 1861 sent him through the fortifications about Washington to make observations likely to be useful in his army career.

In 1854, with J. W. Andrews, Joseph R. Swan, Henry C. Noble, B. F. Martin, Lorenzo English, and others, a plan was devised for a State conference as to the condition of affairs in Kansas and Nebraska. A State convention was called for July 13; and Henry S. Lane, of Indiana, started a similar movement in that State. More than a thousand delegates attended. A Committee of Resolutions from each district included leading men of all parties. At noon Mr. Dennison produced a Detroit paper suggesting the name "Republican" for the fusion movement. Mr. Giddings opposed this, preferring "Republican Confederacy." No name was adopted, but the fusion was so complete that a State ticket was elected by more than a hundred thousand majority. A permanent committee was appointed to correspond with lovers of liberty throughout the land, to make the movement national; namely, H. B. Carrington, Joseph R. Swan, Dr. J. B. Coulter, J. H. Baker, and Rufus P. Spaulding. Of the Congressional Committee, William Allison alone survives. Henry S. Lane telegraphed from Indianapolis, "The Indianapolis Convention repudiates the Nebraska swindle, and has organized for a victorious conflict." Lane and Dennison were president and vice-president of the Philadelphia Convention, which first introduced the Republican party to national suffrage.

During this period Mr. Carrington was an Elder of the Second Presbyterian Church, and for a time was superintendent of its Sundayschool. He organized the first Y. M. C. Association of Central Ohio, secured the subscription and superintended the building of the stone church still used by the society, and was also a trustee of Marietta College.

instituted. His annual report for 1859 showed thirty companies at one encampment, and sudden calls were made to test their discipline. The First Regiment (Colonel Ed. A. King, afterward killed at Chickamauga, as Lieutenant Colonel, Nineteenth United States Infantry) rallied seven companies at night in thirty minutes. On a dark and stormy night the Columbus battalion reported more than half its strength in twenty-seven minutes. Major-generals Walcott, Mitchell, and Jones were from these companies. Such was the trend and character of the Ohio militia as war drew near.

Until war began, he was attorney of all railroads in Central Ohio, and two cases reported in Sixth Ohio Reports (New Series) became authority. He was appointed by Justice Mc- Lain, upon recommendation of the Ohio bar, Special Commissioner to dispose of certain admiralty cases during the illness of District Judge Leavitt, and was counsel with Thomas Corwin in the case of Driscoll v. Parish, where the alleged participancy of the defendant in the rescue of a fugitive slave gave importance to the issue. He accompanied Mr. Chase in his election canvass, alternating the opening address at various county seats; accompanied him to the opening of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and spoke at the Maryland Institute in honor of the event; and, under the Governor's direction, negotiated with President Buchanan and his cabinet a plan, carried into effect, for the joint dismissal by Federal and State Courts of conflicting processes in the Greene County fugitive slave case. In the subsequent Langston case he placed the militia under arms to support the Supreme Court and prevent the rearrest of the defendant in case the court, under writ of habeas corpus, should order a discharge.

As Adjutant-general he escorted the Prince of Wales from Cincinnati to Columbus, the legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee as well, and took part in the escort of Presidentelect Lincoln from Illinois to Columbus. A volume of military regulations and tactics, published in 1859, was revised the following year; nearly twenty bronze guns were rifled; and, as the result of a State convention of officers, new laws were enacted to make the organization more complete. Trips to New York and Massachusetts encampments and to Generals Scott and Wool were annual. The Adjutant-general of New York, Frederick K. Townsend, afterward became a Major in the Eighteenth United States Infantry; and William Schouler, Adjutant-general of Massachusetts, had been for a time Adjutant-general of Ohio while Carrington was Judge Advocategeneral of the State.

When his partner Dennison became Governor, new impetus was given to the militia. The dedication of the Perry monument at Cleveland brought the force again together. Wood's (afterward Barnett's) battery had already been inspected by General Scott and pronounced "excellent." The sham battle on the lake was arranged to correspond as nearly as possible with the rig, tonnage, and armament of vessels engaged in the battle of Lake Erie; and the survivors of Perry's men, with the Marine Artillery and Providence Light Infantry, formed the escort of Governor Sprague from Rhode Island.

In January, 1861, Senator Chase wrote: "Our most sober thinkers and those best informed, as well as conservative men from the South, predict war. Our militia should be officered by the wisest and best men. How soon they may be needed, no man can tell." Secretary Cass also wrote, "We have, indeed, fallen upon evil times, when those who should preserve seem bent upon destroying our country."

On the nth of April the Adjutant-general delivered an address, entitled "The Hour, the Peril, and the Duty," predicting the war and its result. At the request of Senators Garfield, Cox, and others, it was repeated twice; and Fort Sumter fell before the last delivery. The call for seventy-five thousand men followed. Two regiments were despatched for Washington within sixty hours. Sixty Senators and members were uniformed as a company, and drilled under the State-house dome. Garfield, being tallest, was assigned to the right, and made acting First Sergeant. Upon his demanding why the "left" and not the "right" foot was uniformly advanced, the Adjutant-general gave him a musket, with the order, "Charge Bayonet!" The Sergeant accepted the lesson amid the merriment of his associates. Senators Cox and Sleigh, representing the two parties, were selected for vacant militia brigadierships, to make them eligible for appointment in the three months' service; and, upon suspension of the rules before midnight, a bill was passed authorizing the Governor to appoint a Major-general from citizens at large, and the commission of McClellan was made out and delivered to him.

A plan of campaign in the contingency of war had been submitted to General Wool and approved by him. A foundry was opened on the Sabbath, and solid shot cast for Barnett's battery, which had been ordered to Columbus. The State militia were placed in various fair grounds for quick concentration. General Wool supplied ten thousand stand of arms; and the militia were ready for service before a regiment of volunteers, other than those sent East, had been mustered into the United States service.

A despatch from Senator Carlisle, of West Virginia, reported that hostile forces would be upon the Ohio border, if not anticipated by the immediate presence of troops. Doubtful of his right to pass militia beyond the State line, Governor Dennison authorized the Adjutant-general to report to General McClellan, and execute any orders he deemed necessary at such a juncture. The result was telegraphic orders given on the train at various stations, so that the eight regiments of militia were put in motion within eight hours. A section of Barnett's battery and Steadman's regiment crossed to Parkersburg, and occupied the heights at midnight, just in time to cut off the Confederate advance. Bridges were rebuilt, and the whole line restored as far as Grafton. The battle of Philippi was fought, Barnett's battery firing the first shot of the war in the West. Confederates occupied Huttonsville Pass with one small iron gun; and Colonel Steadman, Colonel Milroy, of Indiana, and Barnett favored the proposition of the Adjutant-general to advance, without transportation except ambulances, receipt for supplies, and live on the country. This was overruled by General Morris, in command at Grafton, and Colonel Kelly, of the West Yir- ginia regiment, who was too seriously wounded to join his command. But Grafton and its communications with the Ohio were never afterward disturbed.

The thanks of the President and the Secretary of War were followed, upon the request of Generals Scott and Wool, seconded by Secretary Chase, by the appointment (unsolicited) of the Adjutant-general as Colonel of the Eighteenth United States Infantry. This was the only three-battalion regiment filled to its maximum during the war. It took to the field two thousand, four hundred and forty-three officers and men, containing during the war four thousand, seven hundred and seventythree men, of whom three thousand, one hundred and ninety were American by birth, and two thousand forty-nine, citizens of Ohio. By permission of the Secretary of War the Adjutant-general, while commanding the regular army rendezvous at Camp Thomas, near Columbus, was permitted to continue duty for the State until July 1, 1S61. He therefore signed the commissions of McClellan, Cox, Garfield, Rosecrans, Sill, Hayes, Matthews, Steadman, Beatty, and others afterward distinguished in the war. One detachment of colored volunteers for Massachusetts received from him a set of silk colors before their departure. No other Western State presented a militia organization which had been drilled in both battalion and brigade movements.

During November, 1861, he reported with his command to General Thomas at Lebanon, Ky. , leaving a battalion of the Sixteenth United States Infantry at Louisville, after suppressing, at the request of General Buell, a mutiny of volunteers claiming a furlough of thirty days after enlistment. The Ninth and Thirty-fifth Ohio and the Second Minnesota were added to the Eighteenth to complete the brigade ; but peremptory orders from Washington detached the commander to first complete the enlistments at the Regular Army Camp of Instruction at Camp Thomas. The result was the separation of the regiment from its immediate commander.

In June, 1862, he published an appeal to the people of Ohio, urging the formation on Saturday afternoons of a reserve force of one hundred thousand men, closing the appeal with the words, "for this is a war of the people, by the people, and for the people." He was unexpectedly called to Washington. A conference of several Cabinet officers had been called at the suggestion of Secretary Chase, who threatened to surrender the Treasury portfolio unless General McClellan were removed from command; and Colonel Carrington was named as the officer to bear despatches to that effect. Secretary Seward suggested that the relations of that officer with General McClellan had been such as to make such a duty very unpleasant, especially as General McClellan had desired the Eighteenth Infantry to be sent East to join his command. Secretary Welles and William Cullen Bryant, who had been invited to the interview, concurred. Despatches had been received stating that Generals Halleck and Pope would arrive during the night from the West; and Colonel Carrington was instructed to meet those officers upon their arrival, with requests that they would not report at the War Department, but be ready at ten o'clock the following morning to visit the President at the Soldiers' Home. General Pope was met at midnight, and General Halleck at daylight. The latter was unknown to Colonel Carrington, and insisted that the cap ornament "18" was of Ohio, that he was absent without leave, and not an officer of the regular army. The communication was delivered, however; and at ten o'clock the officers of the Cabinet mentioned alighted at Willard's, and were introduced. Halleck accepted the fact, but did not until after the war forgive the incident.

The question with President Lincoln was simply "whether different operations in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee were accidentally harmonious or the result of forecast which included all zones of operation in one systematic conduct of the war." These officers were at once placed in their respective commands, and Colonel Carrington returned to Camp Thomas.

The Kirby Smith campaign opened. Upon urgent appeal of Governor Morton, the Adjutant-general ordered Colonel Carrington to report at once to Indiana and take charge of organizing and equipping its forces for the field. Eleven regiments were forwarded in as many days, including muster, arming, and payment of bounty; and eventually this officer sent into the service nearly one hundred thousand men from that State alone. A battalion of officers was organized. The return of paroled men and new regiments soon placed under drill four brigades, with batteries daily instructed in target practice, and cavalry in sword exercise. The entire force was inspected by Inspector-general Van Rensselaer, and was claimed by General McClerland to be organized for a separate command for himself. It was known that such had been President Lincoln's design - his "castor-oil expedition to open the Mississippi," as he called it. On the 30th of November the commanding officers of the regiments and batteries sent a request to General Halleck that the force take the field under its temporary commander. Gradually the regiments were sent to various points requiring troops, and McClerland's corps ceased to exist. Meanwhile and following the draft of 1862, which was resisted in parts of Indiana, the disloyal Order of the Knights of the Golden Circle, and then that of the Sons of Liberty, became more pronounced in its revolutionary plans. The assignment of Colonel Carrington to command the regular brigade shortly before the battle of Stone River, when Rosecrans called for all his force, brought such a protest from Governor Morton that finally that brigade went into action under Lieutenant Colonel Shepherd of the Eighteenth Infantry. The year closed with troops on duty near the State-house, resisting processes of the State Supreme Court, which were nearly as revolutionary and treasonable as the plans of the more openly disloyal. One judge in Illinois, who instructed a grand jury to find indictments for kidnapping against officers and soldiers arresting deserters, was removed from the court-house, and his court adjourned sine die. The legislature passed an act, removing from the Governor control of the militia, substituting officers of the State to issue commissions and control the militia. The Governor was called upon to surrender to their control the public arms. The following paper was executed by him at midnight, and solved the dilemma: -

Executive Department, January 30, 1863. All arms and equipments belonging to the United States in the arsenal of this city are hereby turned over to your possession and control.

After promotion, as Brigadier-general, Carrington commanded the district, conducted its recruiting service as well as the border defence, and at one time armed eighteen thousand of the militia to supply the need of troops along the Ohio River. When Bragg threatened Louisville, and all public stores were removed to the north shore, the fortification of the banks became a necessity, as the stage of water exposed fording-places below the falls. The domestic treason became so marked that over one hundred were convicted by juries in the Federal Court. One deserter and three bounty jumpers were sent in irons to General Sherman for work in trenches. Attempts to release Confederate prisoners in Camps Morton, Douglass, and Chase became so serious that a howitzer battery was sent by General Rosecrans from St. Louis, and the Sixtieth Massachusetts was sent to increase the guard, which had been depleted for service at the South. Provost Marshal Richard W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, reported a deposit of the rituals of the traitors at an office in that city, and upon seizure sent the entire material to headquarters. A full exposure was made to the government.

Detached for a short time to organize onehundred-day men at Cleveland by request of Governor Todd, General Carrington was ordered back to Indiana during the Morgan raid, and afterward joined his regiment in the Army of the Cumberland. The thanks of the State and a special testimonial from the city of Indianapolis attended his departure. The following is an extract from a letter of Majorgeneral Heintzelman to General Halleck: "To his [General Carrington's] energy, perseverance, and good judgment I am indebted for all the information I have been able to submit. To the information thus obtained and the measures taken in consequence thereof, we are indebted mainly for being

While General Carrington's headquarters were at Louisville, he received the thanks of Governor Bramblett and General Burbridge for services in raising the siege of Frankfort; and he was president of the commission to try guerilla chiefs leaving for the frontier in the fall of 1865. During the fall and winter he commanded the East District of Nebraska, organized a Pawnee battalion under Major North, and operated along the line of the Republican. In the spring of 1866 he was visited by General Sherman at Fort Kearney, and the expedition to open a wagon road around the Big Horn Mountains to Montana was projected. So confident was General Sherman that the Laramie conference with Indians, designated for May, would ensure peace, that families of officers were induced to accompany the command. Upon reaching Laramie the Indian conference was in session, but peremptory orders obliged the troops to proceed without waiting for final action. The treaty was a failure. Members of the conference received presents, and immediately began war upon the new line. Daily conflicts occurred. Forts were built, but only protected their immediate vicinity. Reenforcements, called for and promised, were withheld. The fight of December 6 and the Fetterman disaster of December 21 left the small garrisons with ammunition varying from ten to forty-five rounds per man. A special commission visited the country, and their official report uses this caustic language: "The difficulty is, in a nutshell, that the commanding officer of the district was furnished no more troops or supplies for this state of war than had been provided and furnished for a state of profound peace. In regions where all was peace, as at Laramie in November, twelve companies were stationed; while in regions where all was war, as at Fort Kearney, there were only five companies allowed." For want of timely re-enforcements to retain the country occupied, the forts were dismantled or burned; and the whole line was abandoned for a season by order of General Grant. It was not until more than two years later, and after the then senior colonel of the army had been retired from active service for a wound received in line of duty, that his official report as District Commander, received early in 1867 at Washington, was permitted to be published.

During 1867 he conducted conferences while at Fort McPherson with Chiefs Pawnee Killer, Dull Knife, Spotted Tail, and others, and in 1868-69 commanded Fort Sedgwick, Colorado. His wound disabled him from mounted service; and in December he was assigned as military professor of Wabash College, Indiana. Upon increase of disability that threatened to prove fatal, he was retired the following year. While on this detail he erected the large gymnasium, now the Hovey Museum, raising most of the funds by personal solicitation in Indiana; built the city hall and other structures; assisted at the test of the St. Louis Bridge at request of Captain Eads; and made an examination of the Ashtabula Bridge after that disaster, which vindicated its designer, Amasa Stone, Jr., from responsibility for alleged defects of design and construction.

Meanwhile, in lectures and study, General Carrington completed the text and many of the maps for his "Battles of the American Revolution," and then, under the auspices of the British and American governments, visited Europe to perfect his work. He was placed on assimilated rank with British officers, received the courtesies of the Athenaeum, Army and Navy Club (senior and junior), United Service Club (senior and junior), Huntington Fine Arts Club, The Reform Club, and others, as well as the Royal Geographical Society, in whose rooms he prepared a large map, now held by the society, for illustration of a lecture, before the British Association, upon the American Indians of the North-west. He was a member of several standing committees of the British Association, and at Oxford, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, and Edinburgh Universities was alike welcomed. At the casting of the first eighty-one ton gun at Woolwich he was the only foreigner present except the Duke of Braganza; and at its final test he was called from Paris by General Campbell, Director-general of Artillery, to witness the same, being the only foreigner present.

Each member of Lord Beaconsfield's Cabinet contributed aid in his researches; and, as a member of the United States Supreme Court bar, he was present when the Lord Chancellor announced the end, sine die, of the High Court of English Chancery. Courtesies extended to Major Bridges, of the First Regiment, Queen's Guards, and William Blackmore, of Parliament, while they were on the frontier in 1868, were more than reciprocated by British army circles during his visit.

In Paris, Minister Washburne and Secretary Hitt secured opportunities for research; and ex-President and Madame Thiers, as well as Count Rochambeau and Senators Oscar and Edmund Lafayette, largely contributed to his success. Each of these officials and each member of the British Cabinet took occasion, upon completion of the volume, to recognize its impartiality of research and record. Colonel Hamley, of the Queen's Staff College, and Colonel C. C. Chesney, of the Royal Engineers, especially indorsed its treatment of the art of war in the introduction. Sir Joseph Hooker, president of the Royal Society, wrote, "I was never able before to understand the full character of Washington; and I have read the volume most carefully, with ever-increasing delight and profit." Of the American proof-readers of the manuscript, George Bancroft, Benson J. Lossing, and President Woolsey were equally cordial in its indorsement.

Besides being a life member of the American Historical Society, General Carrington was made corresponding member of the Massachusetts, Virginia, and other State Historical Societies, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Wabash College in 1870. His literary works, besides more than a hundred addresses before historical and educational societies and conventions at home and abroad, include the following: "The Scourge of the Alps" (a serial, 1847); "American Classics" (1849); "Russia among the Nations" (1851); "Military Regulations and Tactics" (1859); "Crisis Thoughts" (1861); "Hints to Soldiers taking the Field" (1862), of which the United States Sanitary and Christian Commissions distributed more than one hundred thousand; "Absaroka, Land of Massacre"

(1868), enlarged as "Wyoming Opened" (1886); "Battles of the American Revolution" (1876), in its sixth thousand, as revised with the aid of the late Robert C. Winthrop; "The Indian Question" (1884); "Ocean to Ocean" (1886); "Washington Obelisk and its Voices" (1886); "Boston and New York in the Revolution " (1889) ; "Human Liberty Developed," (a patriotic reader, 1888); "Columbian Selections" (1893); "The Six Nations of New York" and the "Cherokees of North Carolina" (1892), published by the government; "Beacon Lights of Patriotism" (1895); and the editing of " Poems of Home and Country" (by the Rev. S. F. Smith, author of the hymn "America"). General Carrington was corresponding secretary of the Boston committee having in charge the testimonial to Dr. Smith at Music Hall, Boston, April 3, 1895.

"The Battles of the Bible " and " Pre-Christian Assurances of Christianity" were in preparation, when the sheets were destroyed by a fire which also destroyed many hundreds of photo negatives of Indians taken in person. "The Rent Veil and Other Poems" is ready for the printer. "The Rose of the Guadalquivir," the data of which Mr. Irving left incomplete, is in process of development.

General Carrington removed to Boston in 1882 and to Hyde Park in 1885. In 1889 he was detailed to make treaties with the Flathead Indians of Montana. In 1890 he made the Indian census of the Six Nations of New York, and in 1891, personally conducted the removal of the Flathead Indians from Bitter Root valley to their new reservation in Northwestern Montana. In 1896 he became member of the Sewer Board of Commissioners of Hyde Park, otherwise avoiding civil office.

He first married at Columbus, Ohio, in 1S51, Margaret McDowell, eldest daughter of Joseph Sullivant, a noted scientist and scholar. Their eldest son, Henry Sullivant, graduated at Wabash College, 1879, had two years of service in the South Seas, and died in 1S94, while in the service of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, leaving one son, Henry B. Carrington, Jr. Of six children by this wife, the only survivor is James Beebee Car- rington, of the editorial staff of Sctibner's Magazine, whose versatile literary work in that duty has given him a well-deserved position among scholars.

On the 3d of April, 1870, General Carrington married Frances Courtney (widow of Lieutenant G. W. Grummond, Colonel of a Michigan regiment during the Civil War). He was killed in battle with Indians, December 21, 1866. She was the youngest daughter of Robert and Eliza J. (Haynes) Courtney, of Franklin, Tenn. , Virginians of noted loyalty to the Union even while surrounded by those opposed to the prosecution of the war. This family, after the battle of Franklin, took personal charge of the Federal wounded left on the field, and nursed them in a church until Federal troops, after the battle of Nashville, again occupied Franklin. General Thomas and other Federal officials officially recognized this service; and the history of the experience of Mrs. Carrington (then Miss Courtney) was published by the United States Sanitary Commission as one of the striking episodes of the war. One son by her former husband, William Wands, adopted by General Carrington, died of consumption at Hyde Park, January 19, 1897. Their son, Robert Chase Carrington, born January 28, 1872, was for two years associated with the mercantile house of Buck & Co., in Montana, and later book-keeper of Bleakie & Co., woollen manufacturers at Hyde Park, until he went to North Carolina in the fall of 1896, to restore impaired health. Two daughters are: Henrietta, born April 28, 1874; and Eliza Jane, born April 27, 1875. Mrs. Carrington's sister, Mrs. Florence O. Cochnower, who participated in the care of Federal wounded soldiers during the war, is in the public service at Washington, and is in receipt of a pension for services rendered.

AMUEL W. THORNDIKE, who was for many years a prominent business man of Boston and during the latter part of his life a resident of Braintree, Mass., was born in Boston, Mass., February 23, 1836, a son of James P. and Martha E. (Hodgdon) Thorndike. His father, James P. Thorndike, a native of Warner, N.H., was one of the leading wholesale leather merchants in Boston, in which city he took up his permanent residence in 1835, having previously been engaged in the tanning business in Salem. About 1856 he began spending his summers in Braintree, and continued to do so for the rest of his life, which closed in October, 1878. His wife, Martha, was a native of Salem, Mass.

Samuel W. Thorndike was reared to manhood in Boston, receiving his education in the public schools and in the institution now known as the Chauncy Hall School of that city. He then became a clerk in his father's office in Boston, in which position he continued for a number of years. He subsequently entered into a partnership with his elder brother in the wholesale leather business, under the style of James D. Thorndike & Co., the firm existing until the great Boston fire of 1872, when it dissolved. After some years more of business life devoted to railroad interests, Mr. Thorndike, owing to ill health, retired, and passed his days as a private citizen of Braintree until his demise on May 20, 1896. He was a Democrat in politics; and, though not an active politician, he took a lively interest in town affairs. He served some time as Justice of the Peace. His religious opinions led him to attend and support the Congregational church, but he was also a generous contributor to other religious bodies and various charitable institutions. Mr. Thorndike was a representative citizen in the sense that he combined the best and most prominent elements of New England character - tenacity of purpose, devotion to principle, and indomitable perseverance in whatever he undertook. Commanding the respect which accompanies success in any legitimate walk in life, he was also esteemed for his personal qualities, which realized a lofty ideal of manhood; and his death was the cause of wide-spread sorrow.

Mr. Thorndike married Elizabeth J. Hayden, daughter of Charles D. and Rebecca T. (Arnold) Hayden, and a member of an old Braintree family, her paternal grandfather, Robert Hayden, having been many years a resident of this town. One of Mrs. Thorndike's ancestors, Nehemiah Hayden, fought for

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American independence in the Revolutionary War. Mr. and Mrs. Thorndike were the parents of one son, Alden A., who now resides, with his own family and his widowed mother, at the beautiful homestead in Braintree.

Enry Tucker Mansfield

ENRY TUCKER MANSFIELD, M.D., a successful medical practitioner of Needham, was born in Boston, February 2, 1838, son of John T. and E. Adeline (Story) Mansfield. As Dr. Mansfield is descended on the paternal side from the Dudleys and Tuckers, and on the maternal side from the Storys, on his family tree may be found some of the most distinguished names of the old Bay State. His paternal grandfather, Daniel Hopkins Mansfield, son of Matthew Mansfield, was a prosperous merchant of Salem interested in the ocean carrying trade; and his grandmother Mansfield was a direct descendant of Governor Dudley of Massachusetts, whose daughter, Anne, married Governor Bradstreet.

John T. Mansfield, above named, was born in Salem in 1799, anc' was a prominent merchant and business man of that town. He was for eleven years United States Consul at Pernambuco, Brazil, South America, and filled the office with eminent credit. He died in 1839. His wife, E. Adeline, was the youngest daughter of Dr. Elisha Story, of Marblehead, and sister to the late Hon. Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Dr. Story was one of the members of the Boston Tea Party of 1773, and Dr. Mansfield has now in his possession a very ancient and interesting document describing that historical event.

In 1862 Henry T. Mansfield, who had been educated in the public schools of Salem, Mass., received a commission as assistant paymaster of the United States Navy. He was stationed off Charleston Harbor, S.C. , and was present at the fall of Charleston. He resigned in 1865, at the close of the war, and returning to Boston began the study of medicine at the medical department of Harvard University; and, graduating in 1869 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he commenced the practice of his profession in

Boston. He removed to Dedham in 1873, and practised there for one year, being during that time both town and county physician. In July, 1874, he came to Needham, and has since resided in this town, where he has made many warm personal friends, and has built up a successful and lucrative practice. For ten years he has been town physician of Needham, and he has served as chairman of the Board of Health.

Dr. Mansfield is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the American Medical Society, and of the Harvard Medical Alumni; is a comrade of Galen Orr Post, G. A. R., of Needham; is connected with the military order, Loyal Legion of the United States; Oriental Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F. , of Boston; and the Veteran Odd Fellows Association. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., in Boston; of Newton Chapter, R. A. M. ; Gethsemane Commandery, K. T., of Newtonville; and of De Witt Clinton Consistory. Dr. Mansfield has been a Justice of the Peace of the State of Massachusetts for nearly twelve years. He is a member of the First Parish Church.

JRVTNG W. HORNE, the popular and efficient Superintendent of Schools in Braintree, was born in Berlin, N.H., July 10, 1859, son of John R. and Sarah (Wheeler) Home, both natives of the State of New Hampshire. John R. Home, a native of New Hampshire, is an extensive land-owner in Berlin, and is said to own the largest farm in Coos County. He has been a successful agriculturist and prominent in local politics. He served for nine years as chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Berlin, was Town Collector for seven years, and he represented the place in the legislature for two terms.

The early education of Superintendent Home was obtained in the schools of Berlin and at the Bridgton Academy of North Bridgton, Me. After graduating from the latter institution in 1882, he entered Bowdoin College. Graduating from Bowdoin four years later, he began his career as teacher, having already gained some experience at different times during his under-graduate days. His first position after leaving college was that of principal of the high school at Topsham, Me. This he subsequently left to become principal of the Gorham High School. He held the same position in the Southboro (Massachusetts) High School for two years and at East Providence for one year; and for the same length of time he was assistant principal of the Chelsea High School. He next accepted the charge of the Ouincy High School, and in 1892 he was appointed Superintendent of the Schools of Braintree.