Adams, George Zaccheus, son of Charles and Nancy (Robbins) Adams, was born at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, April 23, 1833. Previous to the age of fourteen he was educated in the public schools of his native town, when he went for one year to the academy at Westford. At the age of sixteen he went to […]
For over half a century the Rev. Linville J. Hall devoted himself to bringing spiritual consolation to the soul-weary and those fearful of the after-life, for he was blessed with unusual sweetness of spirit and tactful sympathy. At the same time he was effective in the more militant side of a minister’s duties, in condemning
Howe, Charles Sumner; college pres.; born, Nashua, N. H., Sept. 29, 1858; son of William R. and Susan D. Woods Howe; B. S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Boston University, 1878; post-graduate course, mathematics and physics, Johns Hopkins; Ph. D., University of Wooster, 1887; (Sc. D., Armour Institute Tech., Chicago, 1905; LL. D., Mt. Union College,
DWELLY (Fall River family). The name Dwelly is an uncommon one and the family not numerous in New England annals. The Fall River Dwelly family is a branch of the Rhode Island family and it of the Scituate (Mass.) family, the immediate Fall River family here considered being that of Dr. Jerome Dwelly, who for
WILLIAM P. WHITMAN, president and treasurer of the well-known shoe manufacturing concern of the Whitman & Keith Company, of Brockton, and one of that city’s successful and progressive business men, as was his father before him, is a descendant of distinguished and historic New England ancestry. Mr. Whitman is a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of the “Mayflower,” 1620; of Rev. James Keith, the first ordained minister of Bridgewater; and of John Whitman, who settled in Weymouth, Mass., as early as 1638, from whom descended many persons eminent in professional life and otherwise, among them Dr. Marcus Whitman, who saved the vast territory of Oregon to the United States; Hon. Ezekiel Whitman, for many years chief justice of the Superior and Supreme courts of the State of Maine; and Hon. William E. Russell, twice governor of Massachusetts.
Names Date Town Richard Williamson & Margaret Burgis Jan. 1,1754 Thomas Smith & Delight Tayler Jan. 3, 1754 James Masters & Rebecca Fowle Jan. 3, 1754 Lemuel Holmes & Prudence Henderson Jan. 3, 1754 Richard Sayward & Jennet Furrest Jan. 3, 1754 Luke Ryan & Sarah Sale Jan. 5, 1754 John Kimball & Elizabeth Patch
CYRUS F. CLAPP. – This leader in the business circles of the Lower Sound was born in Piscataquis county, Maine, July 29, 1851, and was the son of Stephen and Alvina Hunt Clapp. He lived in Maine until 1865, receiving the foundation of an education at the public school and continuing his studies at Hanover
Adams, John Gregory Bishop, son of Isaac and Margaret Adams, was born in Groveland, Essex County, October 6, 1841. He obtained a common school education, and spent the greater part of his boyhood and youth in that locality. In the early summer of 1861 he enlisted in Major Ben; Perley Poore’s rifle battalion, which later
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Thomas Webb & Abigail Mason Jan. 4, 1799 Joseph Wade & Mary Stockbridge of Scituate Jan. 10, 1799 George Gosnold & Priscilla Nodle Jan. 12, 1799 Thomas Tobiss & Elizabeth Briget Jan. 12, 1799 Ebenzer Elms & Mary Coffin Jan. 18, 1799 Thomas Field & Jane Hadley Jan. 20, 1799 Anthony Chapovil & Suky Neal
Nathaniel Ridgway Jr. & Lucy Rust Jan. 5, 1780 Majr. Edward Carnes & Mrs. Mercy Scollay Jan. 26, 1780 Joshua Berry & Elizabeth Quincy Jan. 24, 1780 Benjamin Homans & Hannah Colman Feb. 3, 1780 Samuel Pierce & Dorcas Sanderson Feb. 11, 1780 John Lewis & Susannah Lincoln Feb. 12, 1780 Sclpeo Peters & Mary
Among the eminent men of the northwest whose life records form an integral part of the history of Idaho was numbered Hon. Edward J. Curtis. In his death the state lost one of its most distinguished lawyers, gifted statesmen and loyal citizens. As the day, with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of
Thomas Fox & Elizabeth McMullan Feb. 21, 1792 David Mill Bennett & Mary Cutter Feb. 26, 1792 Job Atkins & Jauna Smith, blacks Mar. 10, 1792 Jeremiah Beals & Ruth Cutter Mar. 15, 1792 David Potter & Nancy Griggory, blacks Mar. 26, 1792 John More & Elsey Lamb Mar. 25, 1792 Joseph Francis & Polly
The McCullough family is of Irish extraction. Patrick McCullough, grandfather of John McCullough, was a native of the parish of Altacamicussey, County Tyrone, Ireland, where he lived and died. He followed farming. He married Mary Conway, who was a native of the same county, and their son, John McCullough, was born on a farm in Altacamicussey, County Tyrone, June 15, 1821. There he grew to manhood, and what little education he received was obtained in the local school. Meantime he worked at farm labor and also obtained some knowledge of the mason’s trade. He there married about 1845 Alice Devlin, who was a native of the parish of Pallough, County Tyrone, and daughter of Michael and Annie Devlin. In the spring of 1847, with his wife and an infant son, he sailed for the New World, making the trip on a sailing vessel bound for New York. After a passage of six weeks they landed at that port, where they remained three months, during which time they lost their first-born, the infant son mentioned.
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Adams, William T., son of Laban and Catharine (Johnson) Adams, was born in Medway, Norfolk County, July 30, 1822. He was educated in the public and private schools of Boston and vicinity, and when a mere lad displayed a talent for writing, his first article being published in the “Social Monitor.” For three years Mr.
Latty, Samuel D.; sec’y and gen. mgr. The Kirk-Latty Mnfg. Co.; born, Boston, Mass., Sept. 12, 1864; educated in the public schools; began career in the tack business with A. Fields & Son, Taunton, Mass., 1881-1883; Tack Dept., Cincinnati, O., 1883-1885; came to Cleveland and worked for the W. Bingham Co., 1885-1887; took charge of
John F. Bartlett, Postmaster of Suncook and an ex-member of the New Hampshire legislature, was born in Newton Upper Falls, Mass., November 15, 1836, son of George W. and Jane (Nickelson) Bartlett. His grandfather, Abijah Bartlett, who served as a sailor in the War of 1812, was a rope-maker in Salem, Mass. Abijah married Elizabeth
Benjamin Horton & Mary McLane Jan. 17, 1788 Richard Fox & Rachel Payson Jan. 31, 1788 David Sanger & Grace Sanger Feb. 13, 1788 James Kelley & Elizabeth Diskel Feb. 13, 1788 Abraham Frost & Phebe Jennison Feb. 13, 1788 Silas Ramsdell & Betsy Tupper Feb. 14, 1788 William Pitt & Sarah Rust Feb. 28,
WILLIAM EDWARD BENSON, who is at the head of a flourishing real estate and insurance business in Greenfield, is the descendant of a family originally settled in Vermont. His grandfather, John Ellis Benson, was born in 1809, in Brookline, Vermont, and died in 1892 in Brattleboro, Vermont. He lived in different places in Vermont and
William Andrews & Christian Hays Jan. 3, 1779 Samuel Richards & Mary White Jan. 7, 1779 William Summer & Abigail Warden Jan. 7, 1779 Samuel Harris & Abel Leley Jan. 13, 1779 Joseph Edmunds & Sarah Freeman Jan. 14, 1779 James Ivers & Elizabeth Hews Jan. 14, 1779 Samuel Smalledge & Elizabeth Tucker Jan. 14,
Joseph Faxon & Ann Welch Jan. 1, 1760 Edward Gray & Mary Pulling Jan. 1, 1760 Thomas Taylor & Mary Floyd Jan. 2, 1760 Joseph Vinal & Ruth Osborn Jan. 3, 1760 Thomas Turner & Mary Hoskins Jan. 3, 1760 David Bell & Eliza. Wakefield Jan. 3, 1760 John Wheeler & Margt. Holland Jan. 8,
