Boston Massachusetts

Biography of Gordon Rollin Joslyn

No name is more prominently and actively associated with the automobile mercantile industry in Western Massachusetts than that of Mr. Joslyn, who is the executive head of the Franklin County Dealers’ Exchange, and who within a very few years has expanded the garage and agency interests of which he has charge throughout a territory that is not bounded by the county. Mr. Joslyn performs the business in which he has made himself a leader thoroughly and well, and centralizing his forces as president of the Joslyn Motor Company at Greenfield, he has found therein the rewards of a lifelong career … Read more

Descendants of Jonathan White, Brockton, MA

HON. JONATHAN WHITE, for sixty years a member of the Plymouth county bar and a citizen of note in what is now Brockton, Plymouth Co., Mass., was born Aug. 22, 1819, in that part of Randolph called East Randolph (now Holbrook), Norfolk Co., Mass., son of Jonathan and Abigail (Holbrook) White. The Whites have lived in this section of Massachusetts from the time of the earliest settlements, and the members of the family in every generation have upheld the honorable name. Mr. White’s lineage from the immigrant ancestor follows: Thomas White, probably from England, was in Weymouth as early as … Read more

Descendants of David E. Harding of Mansfield, MA

DAVID E. HARDING, deceased, who for more than a half century was a leading business man and manufacturer of Mansfield, Mass., was born there May 6, 1826. He was a descendant of an old Cape Ann family, the founder of the family in America being Edward Haraden, who came from Ipswich, England, to Gloucester. The name is found variously spelled, appearing as Haraden, Hardon and Harding, etc.

Biographical Sketch of Maurice F. Boland

Maurice F. Boland, proprietor of Boland’s Cigar Store and Billiard Room in San Mateo, and for eleven years Chief of Police of San Mateo is well known throughout the county. As police chief, Boland had an enviable record. In addition to preserving order in the community, Chief Boland figured in the capture of many famous criminals. So satisfied were the citizens of San Mateo with his work, that he was re-elected several times and was in office at the time his business interests forced him to retire from public life. Of powerful physique Boland was a splendid athlete when a … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1766

Marriage Intention

William Sergent Hawse & Sarah Hunstable Jan. 30, 1766 Thomas James & Mary March Feb. 6, 1766 Thomas Hall & Sarah Griggs Feb. 15, 1766 William Brown & Mary Newhall Feb. 20, 1766 Edward Richardson & Sarah Quinor Feb. 20, 1766 John Hendley & Sarah Smith Feb. , 1766 Charles Dabney & Mary Bass Mar. 6, 1766 Henry Collins & Priscilla Clark Mar. 15, 1766 Mr. Caleb Blanchard & Mrs. Mary Bruce Apr. 3, 1766 Bristo, svt. of Joseph Brock & Rose, svt. of John White Apr. 3, 1766 The Rev. Mr. Nathan Davis of Dracutt & Mrs. Susannah Gee … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1774

Marriage Intention

Nathaniel Fellows & Lydia Stanton of Charlestown Jan. 3, 1774 James Sumner & Abigail Byles Jan. 5, 1774 John Campbell & Mary Bouchannon Jan. 5, 1774 Benjamin Starr Jr. & Anne Cooper Jan. 12, 1774 Todd Wynter & Rebecca Ingraham Jan. 18, 1774 Daniel Warner & Deliverence Brinton Jan. 28, 1774 Michael Flinn & Lattice Stevens (forbid) Feb. 2, 1774 Lemuel Horton & Fanney Farnum Feb. 9, 1774 Mr. John Coffin Jones & Mrs. Mary Lee Feb. 17, 1774 Mr. Ebenezer Sayer of Wells & Mrs. Elizabeth Checkley Feb. 17, 1774 John Hendsly & Mary Etheridge Feb. 24, 1774 Scipio, … Read more

Biography of Andrew McGregor

This doughty end intrepid frontiersman, now one of the leading farmers and stock men of his vicinity, having a tine estate eight miles west from Ontario, which is the family home, and being a man of prominence and capabilities, has accomplished much in the development of the County and we are pleased to accord to him a representation in the history of Malheur County. Mr. McGregor was born in Glasgow, Scotland on June 28, 1845, being the son of Duncan and Marguerette (McIntyre) McGregor. The father was born in Inverness, north Scotland, on February 14, 1800 and the mother was … Read more