Suffolk County MA

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1769

Marriage Intention

Joseph Dorr & Anna Ruggles of Roxbury Jan. 5, 1769 Walter Jack & Ann Parcill Jan. 14, 1769 Charles Bainbridge & Mrs. Mary Hennesy Jan. 19, 1769 Edward Mulloy & Fanney Farnum Jan. 22, 1769 Jacob Buckman & Elizabeth Ridgway Jan. 26, 1769 John Trott & Mary Edy Jan. 25, 1769 Benjamin Richardson & Ann Brintnall Feb. 2, 1769 William Crawford & Anne Hartwell Mar. 1, 1769 Benjamin Ross & Mary Still Mar. 16, 1769 James Reuken & Thomson Charlton Mar. 18, 1769 John Avery Jr. & Mary Cushing Mar. 23, 1769 David Burrell & Susannah Dorr Mar. 29, 1769 … Read more

Biography of Oliver Quincy Claflin

Oliver Quincy Claflin is a prominent young lawyer at Kansas City, Kansas, and is now serving as United States commissioner of the First Kansas District. Mr. Claflin is devoted to the law, is not an office seeker, and his appointment to his present position was based entirely upon merit and exceptional qualifications. Mr. Claflin was born at Chanute, Kansas, July 4, 1882, the only child of Otis Quincy and Mary J. (Blair) Claflin. His father was born in Massachusetts and his mother in Canada, the latter going to Massachusetts and living there at the time of her marriage. Oliver Q. … Read more

Emma Louise Todd Parshley of Charlestown MA

PARSHLEY, Emma Louise Todd9, (Henry D.8, Caleb7, Jehiel6, Stephen5, Stephen4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born July 4, 1862, in Charlestown, Mass., married Dec. 11, 1889, Frederick Alonzo Parshley. Children: I. Marion, b. Aug. 3, 1891. II. Esther, b. Feb. 15, 1894. III. Louise, b. Nov. 18, 1895, d. Aug. 13, 1898.

Biography of Herman Wells Greene

Herman Wells Greene, formerly a lawyer of considerable note in Hopkinton, was born here, April 11, 1836, son of Herman H. and Ellen Chase (Little) Greene. His only brother died at the age of fourteen years; and his only sister is now the wife of a Mr. Roberts, of Philadelphia, Pa. After receiving his early education in the public schools of Hopkinton and at Pembroke and Gilmanton Academies, he became interested in the legal profession, and read law with George & Foster, of Concord, and later with Beard & Nickerson, of Boston, Mass. On his twenty-first birthday he was admitted … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1764

Marriage Intention

Isaac Gamberto & Elizabeth Calf Jan. 5, 1764 Thomas Holland & Hannah Thompson Jan. 12, 1764 Joseph Edes & Mary Murrell Jan. 16, 1764 Jonathan Sewall Esq. of Charlestown & Mrs. Esther Quincy Jan. 21, 1764 Thomas Davis & Elizabeth Bennison Feb. 7, 1764 Robert Lash & Joannah Brown Feb. 9, 1764 Samuel Obar & Susanna Trevor Feb. 13, 1764 William Pitts & Elizabeth Clements Feb. 21, 1764 John Caralle & Sarah Young Feb. 23, 1764 Benjamin Mayhew & Rebecca Moore of Lynn Mar. 8, 1764 John Kenny & Mary Homes Mar. 8, 1764 Samuel Eddy & Lucy Clarke Mar. … Read more

Biography of Cyrus F. Clapp

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 Academy of Massachusetts. Still ambitious for further acquirements, he crossed the Atlantic and spent two years at the Royal Institute of Belfast, Ireland, and completed his course at Saint Andrews College in Scotland. Returning to his home in America, he soon found a business situation … Read more

Biography of W. L. Adams A.M., M.D.

W.L. ADAMS, A.M., M.D. – The subject of this biography, a pioneer who drove his own ox team across the plains in 1848, is one of the most unique of western characters; and history entitles him to be placed in the catalog of the illustrious men who bore prominent parts in settling Oregon, and in molding public sentiment. To give a full history of his life would require a large book; but our limited space would require a large book; but our limited space forbids anything but a rapid glance at a few waymarks along the road traveled for nearly … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1787

Marriage Intention

Taber Cowen & Deborah Southward of Duxbury Jan. 2, 1787 Edward Curtis & Polly Marshall Jan. 4, 1787 John Thomas & Sarah Love (forbid) Jan. 5, 1787 James Tyler Burchstid & Elizabeth Mason Feb. 1, 1787 Isaac Peirce & Joanna Harris Feb. 5, 1787 John Depaw & Peggy Dunlop Feb. 22, 1787 Bartho. Ballard & Dorcas Peirce Mar. 1, 1787 William Scollay & Rebecca Hassey Mar. 8, 1787 Thomas Chubb of Charlestown & Prudy Burd Mar. 8, 1787 Joseph Andross & Sally Morgan Mar. 14, 1787 George Colder & Nanny Coose Mar. 15, 1787 Nicholas Tysbertus Rousselet & Elizabeth Catherine … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Alden, Lewis

Alden, Lewis, son of Lewis and Abigail (Belcher) Alden, was born in East Randolph, Norfolk County, April 29, 1848. He received a common and high school education. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one he worked in the shoe factory of L. F. Wilde & Co. Later, for nearly five years. He worked for Rufus Gibbs & Co., boot and shoe jobbing house, Boston—most of the time in charge of their factory at South Weymouth. He established himself in business in Holbrook, 1878, entering his present factory (boots and shoes) 1885. Mr. Alden was married in Saugus, June 1874, to … Read more

Biographical Sketch of John Wilson Hollyday

Hollyday, John Wilson; supt. Railway Mail Service; born, Findlay, O.; son of Robert H. Hollyday, D. D.; his mother’s name was Lydia A. Patterson; educated, High School, Findlay, O., and Business College, Cleveland; married, Washington, D. C., Sept. 29, 1886, Mary Elizabeth Larner; issue, one daughter, Eleanor; early life spent in mercantile pursuits; appointed to railway mail service, March 4, 1878; transferred to office Gen. Supt. Washington, D. C., 1885; made chief clerk to Gen. Supt., Aug. 1897; made chief clerk to Second Asst. Post Master General, February, 1907; made supt. Railway Mail Service, Cleveland, Oct. 13, 1911; assumed duties … Read more

Biography of John Shackford Kimball

John Shackford Kimball was an enterprising lawyer of Boston and a business man of Burlington, Ia. A son of David and Abigail (Perkins) Kimball, Pembroke, N.H., April 28, 1812. His descent from Michael Kimball, who married Bettie Runnells, came through David Kimball of the second generation and David Kimball of the third, who married Abigail Perkins. The fifth generation is now represented by John Stevens Kimball. Mr. Kimball’s parents died at Pembroke when he was thirteen years old, leaving nine children-Betsey, Asa, Perkins, John Shackford, Abigail, Sarah Towle (widow of Timothy Colby, of Concord ), Joseph, Mary Lewis (widow of … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1805

Marriage Intention

Abraham Fernald & Nancy Tracy Jan. 1, 1805 James Thompson & Flora Nichols (blacks) Jan. 1, 1805 James Collings & Catharine Stoddard (blacks) Jan. 1, 1805 Peter Brigham & Dandridge Hunt Jan. 2, 1805 Dani^l Atwood & Elizabeth Sanderson Jan. 3, 1805 Eber Whitemore & Abigail Adams of Chelsea Jan. 18, 1805 Bela Clap & Elizabeth Gilbert of Westminster, W Jan. 22, 1805 Benjamin Eaton & Arabella Howard of Bridgwater Jan. 24, 1805 Hopestill Foster & Susan Sawyer Jan. 24, 1805 Isaac Mead of Charlestown & Alice Canton Jan. 24, 1805 Theophilus Lyon & Elizabeth Belcher of Quincy Jan. 24, … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1793

Marriage Intention

John Grohan & Susanna Tucker Jan 9, 1793 William Leveridge & Elizabeth Brown Jan. 9, 1793 John English & Molly Cowell Jan. 16, 1793 Thomas Parker & Abigail Hart Parkman Jan. 15, 1793 John Cholet & Mary Donet Jan. 17, 1793 Cornelius Springsteel & Betsey Berry Jan. 24, 1793 Job Anthony & Mary Purkitt Feb. 7, 1793 Josiah Lamford & Dolly Davis Feb. 7, 1793 John Baptist Bejard & Mary Sanders Feb. 14, 1793 Newport Brown & Jennay Fay, blacks Mar. 7, 1793 Charlestown Blackman & Venus Thompson, blacks Mar. 14, 1793 Thomas Frothingham & Lydia Lynde of Maiden Mar. … Read more

Biography of Hon. Isaac Darwin Merrill

Hon. Isaac Darwin Merrill, a well-known public man of Contoocook, is a son of Isaac and Mary (Wyman) Merrill, born October 1, 1814, in Hopkinton village, N.H. The father, a native of Hollis, Hillsborough County, born June 15, 1784, was a cooper by trade, and worked in Boston, Portland, and Troy, N.Y. When Isaac D. was about a year old, the family moved from Hopkinton to Hillsborough Bridge, where his father was employed at his trade. Later, more than sixty years ago, he settled in Contoocook, built the house where the subject of this sketch now resides, worked at his … Read more

Byam, Susan Mariah Yocom – Obituary

Mrs. Susan Yocum [Yocom] died at the home of her son, Alva, three miles west of town at the advanced age of 79 years, Sunday [December 25, 1909]. She had lived in the valley since 1876. She was loved and esteemed by a host of friends. The following appeared about three months later: IN MEMORY OF GRANDMA YOCUM On Christmas Day, 1909, this good pioneer woman died. She was born on the other side of the continent in hearing of the restless flow of Atlantic’s wave; born in the very heart of education, culture, and refinement; born in the city … Read more

Biography of Calvin Perry Bascom

Calvin Perry Bascom, general manager for the business conducted under the name of the Fayette R. Plumb Company, Incorporated, of St. Louis, was born in Ellsworth, Kansas, October 17, 1876. His father, Daniel Craig Bascom, a native of the state of New York, removed to Kansas in 1868 and there engaged in ranching for a number of years, contributing to the early development and progress of that district. He afterward returned to the Empire state, taking up his abode in Rochester, and has now passed away. In early manhood he wedded Agnes Johnson, a native of Vermont, their marriage, however, … Read more

Biography of Hosea Ballou Carter

Hosea Ballou Carter, son of Susan Shannon (Merrick) Carter and Tappan Sargent Carter, was born at East Hampstead, Rockingham County, N.H., on September 5, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of Hampstead and at Atkinson Academy, where he was a classmate of General William Cogswell, of Bradford, Mass., and later of Salem, Mass. The intrinsic inwardness of modern political and legislative contests has drawn to the service of political managers and corporate magnates the sagacity, shrewdness, and fidelity of a peculiar class of men, not infrequently found in New England, especially in New Hampshire, who, being of humble … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1792

Marriage Intention

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 Dakin Apr. 4, 1792 Nathaniel Jennison & Charity Madden Apr. 5, 1792 Jonathan F. Viccars of York State & Elizabeth Fenno Apr. 11, 1792 Jabez Sumner of Milton & Susannah Withington Apr. 13, 1792 Jube Newell & Mary Owens Apr. 18, 1792 William Chase & … Read more

Atkinson Family Genealogy of Saco Valley

The Atkinsons were English, and the ancestors of the New England families came from Bury, in County Lancaster, in 1634. Theodore Atkinson, the emigrant, settled in Boston and was owner of a good estate there. Atkinson street, where he had land, was named for him, and Berry street, for the place of his nativity. Hon. Theodore Atkinson, a grandson, settled on Great island, in Portsmouth harbor, and engaged in trade and fishing. He was appointed clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the province; was a man of great fidelity, held in high esteem. John Atkinson, son of the … Read more