Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 1

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886

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GENEALOGICAL

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PERSONAL MEMOIRS

RELATING TO THE FAMILIES OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.

Historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public of Arlington," "Bibliography of Woburn," etc., etc. Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History

ASSISTED BY

WILLIAM FREDERICK ADAMS,

President of Connecticut Valley Historical Society; Publisher of Pynchon Genealogy, "Picturesque Hampden," "Picturesque Berkshire," etc., etc.

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GILBERT John Gilbert, immigrant ances- tor, was a resident of Dorches- ter, Massachusetts, as early as 1636. He is spoken of as a "grave, honest gentleman," and brought to this country with him two "well grown youths," his sons Thomas and John. He and his two sons were among the first purchasers of Taunton, and removed there. He was admitted a freeman December 4. 1638, and was chosen constable in 1640. He was over sixty years of age in 1643, as he was excused from military duty then. In 1641 he received a grant of forty acres from the town, with others, "for their great charges in attend- ing courts, laying out lands aud other occasions for the town." He was deputy to the general court. His house was in the meadow on the westward side of Taunton great river. In his will, dated May 10, 1654, directs his "body to be buried near my house at Pondsbrook upon the hill near the pine tree." He bequeathes to son Gyles, his farm of one hundred acres at Pondsbrook, together with buildings and cer- tain live-stock; to sons Joseph and Thomas, daughter Mary Norcross and granddaughter Mary Norcross ; to Nicholas Street and Rich- ard Williams, overseers; wife Winifred; he gives "Io bushels of Indian corn unto such as have most need of corn in the town to be dis- posed of at the discretion of the deacons of the church at Taunton." His wife Winifred was executrix, and the inventory was filed June 3. 1657. Children : I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. John, returned to England ; was a first pur- chaser of Taunton. 3. Joseph. 4. Gyles. 5. Mary, married Norcross.

(II) Thomas, son of John Gilbert, was born in England, in county Devon, and came to this country with his father. He settled in Taun- ton. where he was one of the first purchasers, and was admitted a freeman in 1643. He served as constable in 1648 and 1649; as select- man 1648 and 1651 ; was deputy to the general court in 1651. In 1653 he returned to Eng- land, and died there in 1676. He married March 23, 1639, Jane, daughter of Hugh Ros- siter, being the second marriage celebrated in Taunton. She and her children remained in Taunton, where she was a proprietor of the North Purchase, and she died there June 9, 1691, aged seventy-seven. Children: I. En- sign Thomas, prominent man in Taunton ; con-

stable in 1677; surveyor, 1679-90-94; select- man, 1699, 1707-13-15-18; died April 20, 1725, aged eighty-two. 2. Mary, married Samuel Williams. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Jean. 5. Eliezer, mentioned below.

(III) Eliezer, son of Thomas Gilbert, was born at Taunton about 1655. His wife's chris- tian name was Elizabeth ; among their children was Eliezer, mentioned below.

(IV) Eliezer (2), son of Eliezer (1) Gil- bert, was born in Taunton about 1680, died at Sharon about 1760. He bought the land of Samuel Smith, Jr., and lived in that part of Taunton called the North Purchase, later Nor- ton, on what has since been called the Gilbert place. It is situated a little to the west of the Bay road, a few rods northwest of the pond hole, and up the hill. He also owned eighty- three acres of land in Dorchester (now Shar- on), "a gore of land which Dorchester line cuts off from the lot of land which Jeremiah Willes house stands upon." He married Mercy Wilmarth, November 13, 1712; she was born May 2, 1689. Children: 1. Joseph, born Sep- tember 22, 1713 ; baptized August 31, 1718. 2. Eliezer, born January 20, 1715; died young. 3. Lemuel, born 1715-16; resided in Norton ; served in Nova Scotia in 1735, as sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Perry's company, aged thir- ty-eight. 4. Timothy, born March 2, 1717, bap- tized August 31, 1718; mentioned below. Eliezer, baptized August 31, 1717-18; died Au- gust 20, 1726. 6. John, born October 5, 1719; resided at Norton ; died at Pomfret, Connecti- cut, 1790. 7. Ruth, born 1721. 8. Seth, born about 1725. 9. James, married, December 28. 1749. Rebecca Wethrell; (second), June 24, 1761, Elizabeth Williams, who died a widow, November 12, 1789, in her fifty-ninth year. IO. Nathaniel.

(V) Timothy, son of Eliezer (2) Gilbert, was born in Taunton, or Norton, March 2, 1717; baptized August 31, 1718, in Norton ; died at Enfield, May 2, 1798. He settled in Easton, and served in the French and Indian war in 1758; re-enlisting April 2, 1759: on duty eighty-five weeks and six days, and was also in the train band in 1757. He married, February 14. 1744, Mary Kieth, born at Eas- ton, Massachusetts, February 13, 1726, died 18II : she was the granddaughter of Rev. James Kieth, first minister of ancient Bridgewater.

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From the probate records of the estates of his sons, Lemuel and Timothy, we get most of our knowledge of the family of Timothy Gilbert. He refers to his share of the estate of his brother Lemuel. A letter is on file with the papers relating to the estate of Lemuel that will be of interest to all of the family, viz: "As God in his providence hath called us to mourn together I hope we shall be so happy as to be united in our measures in settling the estate of our deceased brother ( Lemuel). It is my wish that you should take the administration upon yourself, if you are willing and it be agreeable to the widow, or if it should be more agreeable to you and her to take the administration with her I will be perfectly satisfied, and if you can- not take it. I wish you would be so good as to name some proper person and inform me by a letter and I will acquiesce in anything which can be consistent that you shall point out. As you known my infirmities and the distance from the place, I hope you will excuse me and take the business upon yourself. Let us live as brethren, and let no little thing break our friendship, that we may die in peace and reign with Christ in that world where sin, sorrow and Death shall disturb no more. If the widow agree to take a certain sum and give a quit- tance, I should be glad, but you will consult her and adopt the best plan." Dated Enfield, March 22, 1817, and signed Lewis Gilbert. The widow Sarah declined to administer, April 17, 1817. Her dower was set off April 4, 1817, and the document had the signed approval of Timothy Gilbert : Jonathan Webb was administrator. The judge of probate signed a decree October 26, 1819, ordering the residue of Lemuel's property divided among his six brothers and sisters. Unfortunately the names are not given. But Lewis sold to Increase Gilbert his share in the estate, May 12, 1819. Increase lived at Leveratt, Massachusetts. Some of the children, therefore, were : 1. Timothy, mentioned below. 2. Lemuel, born 1749 ; lived in Hardwick ; mar- ried, February 15, 1768, Bethia Grover, at Nor- ton; served in the revolution, as sergeant in Captain Macy William's company, 1775; died March 9, 1817. 3. Lewis, born April 4, 1754. 4. Increase. The others were daughters : Eunice, born May 27. 1765: died February, 1847, the wife of Daniel Shaw ; and Mehit- able.

(\'1) Timothy (2), son of Timothy ( 1) Gilbert, was born in Easton, January 25, 1747 ; died at Hardwick. December 11, 1825. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain

Macy William's company, 1775, and in Captain James Perry's company, Sixteenth Regiment, 1776. He deeded land in Hardwick to Will- iam Oakes. This land had been conveyed to him by deed of Seth Gilbert, November 21, 1777. Seth also deeded land in the west part of Hardwick to Timothy, June 7, 1785. Timo- thy gave some of the Hardwick land to his son Joseph by deed dated August 14, 1808. Timo- thy's will was dated April 22, 1817, and filed January 3, 1826. He bequeathed to children, Timothy, Charles, Lemuel, William, Joseph (deceased) ; grandchildren Fanny, Jonathan and William Collins, children of his daughter Patty ; the heirs of Seth Pebbles by his wife Rhoda ; children of daughter Polly by Ebenezer Collins ; all his Greenwich property to his son Jolin and some in Hardwick. He disposed of what he was to receive from the estate of his brother Lemuel, mentioned above. He married, April, 1771, Martha Rogers, born at Willing- ton, Connecticut, March 7, 1747, died at Hard- wick, January 30, 1824. He died February I. 1825. Children, born in Hardwick: I. Timo- thy, March 13, 1772; mentioned below. 2. Charles, April 6, 1773; married (intentions (lated February 25, 1790) Lydia Warner. 3. Joseph, May 1, 1774. 4. Patty, February 20, 1776; married, June 21, 1798, Gamaliel Collins. 5. Rhoda, April 12, 1778 ; married, September 25. 1803. Seth Pebbles, of Greenwich. 6. Polly, February 13, 1780; married (intentions dated September 28, 1800) Ebenezer Collins. 7. Me- hitable, August 7, 1781. 8. Lemuel, August I. 1783. 9. Abner, March 20, 1785. 10. William, January 14, 1787. II. Jason, January 19, 1789. 12. John, April 1I, 1792; selectman of Hard- wick : removed to Prescott, Massachusetts, and died there April 4, 1862; married, May 26, 1816, Fanny Cummings.

(VII) Timothy (3), son of Timothy (2) Gilbert, was born in Hardwick, March 13, 1772 : died May 24, 1838. He removed to En- field, Massachusetts. He married, September 22, 1794. Fear Shaw, born July 3, 1768, died January 14. 1852, a descendant of John Al- den. Children : 1. Mary, born May 22, 1795 : died June 12, 1870; married, December 13. 1819. Increase Gilbert. 2. Timothy, born January 5. 1797; died July 19, 1865 ; married ( first ), December 1, 1825, Mary Weatherby ; ( second) Alice Davis, of Buxton, Maine. 3. Asahel, born November 27, 1798; died De- cember 2, 1870; married, December 2, 1827. Charlotte Thorndyke. 4. Eunice, born Janu- ary 29. 1801 : died March 17, 1892; married,

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Henry Safford. 5. Lemuel, born February IO, 1804, died February 27, 1864; married, September 23, 1829, Louisa Levenseller. 6. Adelia, born November 23, 1810, died April 30, 1890; married, January, 1850, Ransom Dickinson. 7. William Shaw, mentioned be- low. Timothy and Lemuel Gilbert were cele- brated piano manufacturers.

(VIII) William Shaw, son of Timothy (3) Gilbert, was born in Enfield, Massachusetts, May 24, 1813, died May 10, 1884. He was educated in the public schools, and later en- gaged in business. He was a member of the Congregational church, and in politics a Re- publican. He married (first) May 26, 1839, Emily, daughter of Cyrus Cowles, of Had- ley, Massachusetts ; she died October 1, 1840, aged twenty-two years. He married (sec- ond) December 23, 1841, Martha Cummings, born October 5, 1807, died April 25, 1894, daughter of John G. Cummings ; she was a resident of Warren. Child by first wife : Tim- othy Warren, mentioned below. Children of second wife: I. Emily Maria, born De- cember 9, 1842 ; married, April 19, 1865, Giles Blodgett, of .Warren; he died July 6, 1895, leaving three children : i. Emma Marie, born January 26, 1866; ii. Edith Frances, born July 8, 1875 ; iii. Ralph Gilbert, born March 23, 1882. 2. Mary Louisa, born November 17, 1846, died June 5, 1908.

(IX) Timothy Warren, son of William Shaw Gilbert, was born at Enfield, March 20, 1840. When he was twelve years old his father moved to the adjacent town of War- ren, Massachusetts, and he attended school there as well as in his native town. As a boy he was attracted to a sailor's life, and ran away in order to gratify his desire to go to sea. He was seventeen years old when he came home. He attended school at Sunderland the following winter, and then learned the painter's trade at Warren. He came to Springfield as a journeyman painter, and worked about seven years for the firm of T. M. Walker & Company. In 1870 he engaged in business as a painter and decorator on his own account under the name of T. W. Gil- bert, and has continued with uninterrupted success to the present time. He is the oldest man in this line of business in Springfield. He stands high in the esteem of his towns- men. He is a member of Hampden Lodge of Free Masons; the Springfield Board of Trade; Winthrop Club, and the Springfield Auto Club. He is a prominent member of the Baptist church. In the civil war he en-

listed in the Thirteenth Heavy Artillery for three years in 1863, and served until the end of the war. He is a member of Wilcox Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He married, January 10, 1868, Jennie F. Cobleigh, daugh- ter of Rufus N. and Mary E. (Gleason) Cob- leigh, of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. They had one child, Alice, died in infancy.

HALL Oliver Hall, immigrant ancestor, came from England and settled in Brookline, New Hampshire. He was a soldier in the revolution. He had sons : I. Uriah, lived in Patroons Manor, Al- bany, New York, and was engaged in the ice business. 2. Oliver, mentioned below.

(II) Oliver (2), son of Oliver (1) Hall, was born April 7, 1776. He married, November II, 1800, Rebecca Spaulding, born May 31, 1779, daughter of Daniel Spaulding. (See Spaulding, VI). She died September 18, 1828. He married (second) July 7, 1831, Louise Edmands, born July 15, 1798, died August 4, 1850. He died July 17, 1850. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Oliver, born February 2, 1802, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, September 4, 1803. 3. Ozias, January 6, 1805. 4. Amaziah, June 15, 1807. 5. Son, born and died January 18, 1809. 6. Almenia, born May 16, 1810. 7. Adaline, June 15, 1814. 8. Livona, May 31, 1817, died May 4, 1818. 9. Rosilla, September 14, 1821. 10. Marinda, October 31, 1823. Children of sec- ond wife: II. Elizabeth, February 3, 1833. 12. Rosella, May 5, 1834. 13. Louis, No- vember 8, 1835. 14. John, August 4, 1837. 15. Child, February 5, 1839. 16. Child, Au- gust 16, 1840.

(III) Oliver (3), son of Oliver (2) Hall, was born in Brookline, February 2, 1802. His parents removed to Bradford, New Hampshire, when he was an infant. He was educated there in the public schools. A few years after his marriage he came to Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, where he was em- ployed by Eliphalet Davis, the well-known soap manufacturer, for many years. He mar- ried Jane S. Brown, who was descended from President John Quincy Adams through his mother, Sally (Adams) Brown. Children : I. Angeline, born October 16, 1827; mar- ried Daniel Lewis ; had no children. 2. Sam- uel M., December 20, 1830; married (first) Anna Ross, of Portland ; (second) Eliza Gib- bons, of Connecticut ; children of first wife : Henry; Walter ; Edwin Franklin (died Sep- tember 7, 1908. had two children): Jennie

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M .; George W. 3. Adaline, October 12, 1831 ; married William A. Johnson, of Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, a cousin of President James A. Garfield ; had no children. 4. Jack- son E., October 8, 1833; married Lizzie T. Tilden, of Portland; children: Henry, Fan- nie, Winnie and Etta ; married (second) Ag- nes Davis; four children; married (third) Charlotte Loomis, of Pennsylvania, and had no children ; (fourth) Mrs. Buck. 5. William Van Buren, November 29, 1835; married Sarah Sleeper, of Portland, and had thirteen children. 6. George, 1838, died young. 7. Abbie Bryant, January 19, 1841, died Sep- tember 26, 1909; she was a well known resi- dent of Cambridge, and a member of Old South Chapter, Daughters American Revo- lution ; married Melvin B. Ricker, of Somer- ville ; no children. 8. Edwin Adams, March 12, 1846; unmarried; was janitor of Horti- cultural Hall, Boston, fourteen years ; he is now engaged in farming at Lunenburg, Mas- sachusetts ; he is a life member of Cambridge Chapter, Sons of American Revolution, also member of Boston Janitors' Mutual Benefit Association.

(The Spaulding Line; see Edward Spaulding 1).

(IV) Jacob Spaulding, son of Andrew Spaulding, was born in Chelmsford, Massa- chusetts, September 6, 1703, died March 4, 1776. He lived in Chelmsford, and all his children were born there. He married, in 1726, Susanna Pierce, born November 15, 1705, died August 10, 1787. Children : 1. Ja- cob, May 3, 1727. 2. Eleazer, November 12, 1728, mentioned below. 3. Susanna, Septem- ber 28, 1730. 4. Rachel, June 22, 1732. 5. Abigail, August 31, 1735. 6. Joseph, May I, 1737. 7. Joanna, March 29, 1739. 8. Benja- min, January 6, 1741. 9. Sybil, January 19, 1743. 10. Olive, August 14, 1745. II. Jesse, September 14. 1747.

(V) Eleazer, son of Jacob Spaulding, was born in Chelmsford, November 12, 1728, died in Townsend, November 1, 1812. He was in the revolution and marched to Cambridge on the Lexington alarm, in 1775, and also entered the service June 23, 1775, and served as first lieutenant in Captain Joshua Parker's com- pany. He afterwards put in a petition asking for compensation for a gun lost at the battle of Bunker Hill. He married, October 30, 1753, Elizabeth Proctor, who died October 12, 1804, danghter of Daniel Proctor, of Chelms- ford. . \ private record says her name was Sybil. He settled in Townsend about 1753,

and lived there the remainder of his life. Chil- dren born in Townsend: I. Daniel, August 13, 1754, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, June 18, 1756. 3. Thaddeus, June 1, 1758. 4. Beza- leel, August 3, 1760. 5. Esther, November 12, 1762. 6. Eleazer, August 23, 1764. 7. Sybil, March 3, 1767. 8. Jesse, September 5, 1769. 9. Gaius, October 14, 1771. 10. Luther, Oc- tober 16, 1774.

(VI) Daniel, son of Eleazer Spaulding, was born in Townsend, Massachusetts, August 13, 1754, and resided in Brookline, New Hamp- shire. He married, March 16, 1778, Rebecca Osgood, of Brookline. He was a soldier in the revolution in the company of Captain Far- well, of Milford, New Hampshire. Children : I. Rebecca, born May 31, 1779, married Oli- ver Hall. (See Hall, II). 2. Sally, married Sewell Wetherbee. 3. Betsey, married Dan- iel Gassett. 4. Daniel. 5. Benjamin, born March 22, 1803, in Farmington, Maine, died December 3, 1839, in Madison, Maine; mar- ried Mary McLaughlin, of Stark, Maine, Oc- tober 23, 1826; she was born September 3, 1805 ; children : i. Mahlon Day, born August. 18. 1827, at Anson, Maine; ii. Franklin, born June 13, 1829, died March 2, 1832; iii. John. Perrin, born July 10, 1832, at Stark ; iv. Jus- tin, born February 27, 1838, in Madison, now resides in Chicopee, Massachusetts ; married Sarah Elizabeth Cooley, of Springfield.

This line is said to come from Rich-

HALL ard. and later from Obadiah, Oba- diah (2), Obadiah (3), and Jo- seph.

(I) Joseph, eldest son of Obadiah and Han- nah Hall, was born in Northfield, New Hamp- shire, June 15, 1813, died June 30, 1872. He. was a gun-maker in Laconia and Manchester during the civil war. He married Maria Brad- bury Parker, born April 3, 1813. Children : Marshall Parker, Joseph Newton and Arthur Norman.

(II) Marshall Parker, eldest son of Joseph and Maria Bradbury ( Parker) Hall, was born August II, 1838, in Guilford, now Laconia, New Hampshire, died in Manchester, Febru- ary 12, 1896. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Guilford Academy. On leaving school he served an ap- prenticeship of three years in the office of the Belknap Gasette at Laconia, subsequently working in the offices of the Manchester Dem- ocrat, Daily American, New Hampshire Jour- nal of Medicine and various job printing offi- ces in Manchester from 1856 to 1858. He-

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taught school in Scioto county, Ohio, from 1858 to 1861, and printed the New Hampshire Journal of Agriculture from 1861 to 1862, when his connection with the printing business ceased. At a meeting and banquet of the Press Association, held at Concord, January 19, 1885, Mr. Hall, in a speech incidentally men- tioned that he employed the first women com- positors in the city of Manchester in 1861. From 1863 to 1865 he was city librarian, hold- ing the office three years. In the latter year he entered the counting room of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, where he was em- ployed until his death. He was the chief clerk and the oldest employed there in point of ser- vice with one exception. He bore the distinc- tion of having served the longest period upon the school committee of any member in that branch of the city government, his connection with the board extending over a period of twenty-five years, during a portion of which time he honorably filled the position of clerk and from 1890 that of chairman of the board. He was elected to his first term in the school committee in 1868 and served continuously on the board until his death with the exception of three years.

At the time of Mr. Hall's death Superin- tendent Buck of the city schools said of him : "He has ever been foremost in very progres- sive movement for the good of our schools, notably in organizing and establishing the city training school for teachers, the evening me- chanical and architectural drawing school, and the manual training school ; in securing the ap- pointment of a truant officer, in making revi- sions of the course of study and the rules and regulations of the board, and in a plan for util- izing the city library by the public schools. To the accomplishment of these things, he has de- voted his best thoughts and utilized many hours of his time. Mr. Hall was twice a mem- ber of our state constitutional conventions, and author of that amendment to the constitution (of 1876) which forever provides that no pub- lic funds shall be used for the support of de- nominational or sectarian schools. He had been a public school teacher. He well under- stood and highly appreciated the teacher's work; and he was ever kind, considerate and liberal in his treatment of the fraternity. He was unusually well-informed by extensive reading upon all subjects. He might prop- erly be regarded as an expert account- ant, because of his practical experience as well as an accountant and his broad and extended study of the whole sub-

ject. He has left in manuscript a work in three parts, entitled, "Money, Accounts and Bookkeeping," designed especially for use in public schools, and it can safely be predicted that this work will be found exceptionally good, simple, direct, practical-like his way of doing all things. This book was subsequently issued by the publishing house of Silver Bur- dett & Company. In the death of Mr. Hall, the schools of this city have lost the services of a deeply interested, warm and very helpful friend ; and the community, the presence and example of a high type of the Christian gen- tleman ; but his influence for all that is good and noble will long abide. He was a promi- nent member of the Franklin Street Congre- gational Church, which he joined in May, 1864, a devotee of art, and president of the Manchester Art Association, and in politics he was a Republican. March 6, 1896, the school board by a rising vote unanimously adopted the following resolutions : "Resolved, That in the death of Marshall P. Hall, the school com- mittee of Manchester, loses the valuable ser- vices of a man of marked ability, of exalted character, and of cheerful and constant devo- tion to the performance of all the duties that devolved upon him as a member of this board ; that the public schools of the city lose an active and faithful friend who was always interested in every movement which looked to their great- est efficiency and a higher standard of excel- lence ; and that the city itself suffers the irre- parable loss of a respected and honorable citi- zen. Resolved, that a copy of these resolu- tions be spread upon the records of the Man- chester School Board, that they be published in the city papers, and that a copy be sent to the family of our dear brother."

Marshall P. Hall married in Manchester, New Hampshire, December 29, 1862, Susan Maria, born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, October 16, 1833, daughter of Moses and Ja- cintha ( Mason) James, of Tamworth. Chil- dren: Newton Marshall, January 10, 1865; Herbert James, born in Manchester, New Hampshire, March 12, 1870, a resident of Marblehead, Massachusetts; Irving Mason, May 10, 1876, died in infancy.

(III) Rev. Dr. Newton Marshall, eldest child of Marshall P. and Susan M. (James) Hall, was born in Manchester, January 10, 1865. He attended the public schools of Manchester and graduated from the high school in 1883. Entering Dartmouth College, he completed the course there and took the degree of A. B. in 1888, and A. M. in 1891.

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He graduated from Andover Theological Seminary with the degree of B. D. in 1891, and in 1908 received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth College. From 1891 to 1893 he taught English literature in Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. In 1894 he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Oneonta, New York, where he continued un- til 1899. In that year he accepted the pas- torate of the North Congregational Church of Springfield, Massachusetts, which he has now filled for more than ten years. He is a man of very active mind and a prolific writer. He is the author of the following named books: "Critical Study of the Bible", pub- lished by the Quaker Hill Conference, 1891 ; "The Bible Story", published in five volumes by King, Richardson and Company, 1896; "Adult Classes and How to Conduct Them"; "Biblical Dramas": "The Early Days of Is- rael"; "The Days of the Kings of Israel", published by the Pilgrim Press. Dr. Hall has been president of the Connecticut Valley Congregational Club ; is now president of the Springfield Ministers' Association and of the Reality Club; member of the Country Club, the Theta Delta Chi Society; chaplain of George Washington Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, of which he was president for two terms. Newton M. Hall married in North Berwick, Maine, August 20, 1891, Louise Buffum, daughter of Isaac and Phebe (Buffum) Barney, of North Ber- wick, Maine. They have one child, Louise Marshall, born June 19, 1898.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 1

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886