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Mr. Colby belongs to Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M. ; is a charter member of Wingaersheck Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men; a mem- ber of Constantine Lodge, Knights of Pythias, with which he has been officially connected ; a member of Neptune Lodge, Temple of Honor; and of Cal Allen Post, No. 45, G. A. R. He is a regular attendant of the Independent Christian Church, and for several years was a teacher in the Sunday-school.
OHN P. RUNDLETT, a veteran of the Civil War, now serving as Postmaster at Groveland, Mass., was born in this town, March 6, 1839, son of Edmund P. and Catharine H. (Stickney) Rundlett. His father, who was a native of Exeter, N. H., born in 1813, and was by trade a tanner and currier, died in 1887. His mother was a daughter of Joseph M. Stickney, of Grove- land, and a niece of Captain Thomas Stick- ney, who served in the Continental army dur- ing the Revolutionary War.
John P. Rundlett was educated in the com- mon schools and at the Merrimac Academy. He then learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for a livelihood until 1862. On July 29 of that year he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirty-third Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteer Infantry, under Captain James Farson and Colonel Maggi.
He was prevented by an attack of fever from being with his regiment at the battles of
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Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, and Gettys- burg in 1863. He was with the army sent to re-enforce Rosecrans at Chattanooga in Octo- ber, 1863. He participated in engagements in Lookout Valley and on Mission Ridge, No- vember 24 and 25, 1863, and was with his company in the Atlanta campaign from May 2 to September 2, 1864. On July 2, 1864, the Thirty-third Regiment, which originally had a roster of twelve hundred men, was dwindled down to ninety muskets present for duty, and his company to six muskets present for duty. He was with Sherman on his March to the Sea; also through South and North Carolina to Goldsboro, and was at Raleigh, N.C., when General Johnston sur- rendered; then through Richmond, Va., to Washington, D.C., participating in the grand review of Sherman's army in May, 1865. He arrived home in Boston June 14, 1865, and was paid off and discharged as a Corporal at Readville, Mass., July 2, 1865.
After the close of the war he resumed his trade in Groveland, and followed it until 1889, when he was appointed Postmaster. This office he has since held.
Three months previous to his enlistment Mr. Rundlett was joined in marriage with Sarah L. Hale, daughter of William W. Hale, of Boxford, Mass. Mrs. Rundlett is the mother of two children : Edith E., born Janu- ary 29, 1867; and David L., born March 25, 1873. Edith E. is now the wife of E. S. Higgins, and resides in Wollaston, Mass. David L. is head clerk of a drug store in Roxbury, Mass.
Politically, Mr. Rundlett is a Republican. He is a member of Pentuckett Lodge, No. 171, Knights of Honor; and he was one of the organizers of Charles Sumner Post, No. IOI, G. A. R., which was chartered in 1869. He has served as Senior and Junior Vice-
Commander, and has been Adjutant of the post for sixteen years. He has never fully recovered from the effects of the fever con- tracted while in the army, and his name is upon the pension roll of the government.
REDERICK TODD was one of the ยท most progressive men in Rowley in his time. Born there in 1814, he was a son of Captain Moses and Elizabeth (Todd) Todd. On the paternal side he is of English descent. At the age of eighteen he went to Salem to learn the carpenter's trade. Four years later he removed to Lynn, where he and his elder brother, Charles, carried on a pros- perous business for a time. During one year of that period he was in South Carolina, superintending twenty men in the erection of a large hospital for surgical purposes. From Lynn he went to Lynnfield about the year 1869, and there settled upon a farm. After- ward he bought the farm in Rowley where his widow now resides. There he lived until his death, which occurred January 17, 1894. Ac- tive and energetic, he was always interested in making improvements and in bettering his condition. More or less in politics, he was a strong Republican. He was so fond of read- ing that it is said he neglected his business to gratify his tastes in this direction. Public life was somewhat distasteful to him.
Mr. Todd's wife, Fannie (Dow) Todd, born in 1819, whom he married June 5, 1844, was a daughter of Abner Dow. Her father, a farmer of Baldwin, Me., came to Lynn at the age of twenty-three, and there made his home. Her mother's great-grandfather was Lord John Hays, whose coat-of-arms is now in the pos- session of Mrs. Todd. A portrait, chair, and other heirlooms inherited from this branch of the family were burned in the great Port-
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land fire. Mrs. Todd's grandfather, Dr. Isaac Snow Thompson, was a cousin of Lord Rum- ford. The family has always mingled with the best society in town. Mrs. Todd has been active in literary circles, and she as- sisted her husband in establishing a book club at Lynnfield. They gave entertainments for the latter purpose; and Mrs. Todd bought books for the club until they had collected quite a library, which was kept in their house for fourteen years. When the library was presented to the town, they both felt as if they had buried a friend. Mrs. Todd was in- terested at all times in lists of new publica- tions, and it was a pleasure to her to do the buying for their club. In religion Mr. Todd leaned to the Unitarians.
HARLES HITCHCOCK MAR- LAND, the Postmaster at Ballard- vale, was born in Andover, Mass., April 5, 1843, son of William S. and Sarah (Northey) Marland. His grandfather, Abra- ham Marland, an Englishman by birth, came to this country in the early part of the last century, and, settling in Andover, established there one of the first woollen-mills in this country. Travelling on horseback, Abraham carried the finished product to Boston, and brought the raw material with him on his return.
William S. Marland, also a native of An- dover, was engaged for years in the manufact- ure of woollen goods in that town. His wife, Sarah Marland, was a member of the Northey family of Scituate, Mass., on whose farm was " The wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it,"
described by Samuel Woodworth in "The Old Oaken Bucket." Her immigrant ancestor,
John Northey, who was born in England about the year 1607, was in Marblehead, Mass., in 1648. His marriage is not on rec- ord; but he was probably the father of John Northey, of Scituate, who became a member of the Society of Friends. The latter, John, was married in 1675 to Sarah, daughter of Henry Ewell, who bore him four sons and two daughters. These children were born as follows: John, on March 6, 1675; Daniel, April 6, 1678; Samuel, July 19, 1680; Brutiah, December 18, 1682; Sarah, July 16, 1685; and James, October 2, 1687. Descend- ants of James, who was married July 9, 1717, to Mary Stockbridge, are now living in Scit- uate. The third John Northey, who was a glazier, went to Boston. His wife, Sarah, bore him four sons: John, on June 25, 1703; Joseph, March 15, 1704; John, April 4, 1707; and David, March 30, 1709. David, the youngest, who was a pewterer and gold- smith, and manufactured clocks and watches in 1732, purchased the Essex Street half of the house in Salem, on the corner of Essex and Summer Streets. He had a son named Abijah, born August 12, 1741. Abijah's son, Abijah, who was born in 1774, was Charles H. Marland's grandfather, and the last male descendant in this branch of the Northey family. In 1830 Abijah Northey, Jr., bought the Summer Street half of the house in Salem. In this house died Mr. Mar- land's great-great-grandfather, his great- grandfather, and his grandfather; and here were born his great-grandfather, his grand- father, and his mother. Mr. Marland has in his possession, besides letters and a journal covering many years, left by his grandfather Northey, a bill of lading signed in 1705 by David Northey, who was a son of the first John and a sea-captain.
Charles Hitchcock Marland attended the
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public schools in Andover and Phillips Acad- emy. He went to work first in the woollen- mills controlled by Nathan Frye. In Sep- tember, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Forty-fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- teers, for ninc months' service. From the camp at Readville he went to Newbern, S.C .; and he was soon in active service. He was in the engagements at Kingston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, and the siege of Little Washing- ton, which lasted seventeen days. When his term of service expired, he returned home, and was mustered out in May, 1863, in Boylston Hall. Subsequently he was overseer in the Milton Mills.
In 1874 Mr. Marland was appointed Post- master at Ballardvale, and at the same time he was made station master on the Boston & Maine Railroad. He has since efficiently performed the duties of both offices, and is widely known and very popular. He was married in 1867 to Laura E., daughter of Syl- vester and Dorcas (Hanson) Lowd, and now has two sons - Charles Northey and Harry Freeman Marland. Having joined St. Matthew Lodge of Andover in 1864, he has been a Mason for thirty-three years.
LONZO B. FELLOWS, a leading farmer and one of the foremost citi- zens of Ipswich, Essex County, son of the late Joseph Fellows, was born in this town, November 25, 1829, on the farm now owned and occupied by Daniel W. Appleton. He is of English Colonial stock, said, how- ever, to have originated in Holland, the name in very carly times having been spelled "Felles."
William Fellows, the founder of this branch of the family, came over from Eng- land in the "Planter" in 1635. In March,
1639, he bought a house and a house lot of an acre; and twenty years later, in February, 1659, he bought from John Andrews the farm now owned and occupied by Alonzo B. Fel- lows, his descendant in the seventh genera- tion.
William Fellows was probably married in England to the sister of John Ayres, her Christian name being unknown. They had eight children, the eldest of whom, a son, Isaac, it is thought, was born in England. A son, Ephraim, born in I 39, probably re- moved to Western Massachusetts or Connecti - cut in 1700. Samuel died unmarried. Jo- seph, the youngest son, remained on the Ipswich farm until his death in 1693. On April 19, 1675, he married Ruth Fraile, who died April 14, 1729. They had six children, Joseph, Jr., the eldest, born in 1678, being the next in line of descent. On December 17, 1701, he married Sarah Kimball, who was born May 19, 1680, and died September 2, 1720, leaving him with five sons. He mar- ried for his second wife Widow Mary Story, by whom he had one daughter. He died Sep- tember 8, 1762. His youngest son, Nathan, was baptized October 13, 1717, and was drowned in Mile Creek, March 15, 1743, leav- ing an infant son named Nathan, who was baptized February 26, 1743.
Nathan Fellows, Jr., who was born in 1743 and died in 1829, was a sailor, often making voyages to the West Indies. He was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary army, and at the surrender of Burgoyne hc was given charge of a squad of prisoners. His first wife, Anna Start, died after having borne him seven chil- dren, none of whom lived to maturity. On October 27, 1785, he married Hannah Brown, who was born March 11, 1765, and died June 4, 1835. Of this union were born thirteen children, including Joseph, the father of
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Alonzo B. and Nathan W., a blacksmith by trade, who survived the others, dying in 1887, aged eighty-four. Nathan W. Fellows took care of his parents in their declining years. He afterward removed to Gloucester, where he carried on an extensive business, owning quarries and vessels, and resided there until his decease. In 1849 he sold the old homestead, which was eight years later repur- chased by his nephew Alonzo B., the present occupant.
Joseph Fellows was born January 6, 1796, in the house where his son Alonzo B. now lives, and died February 13, 1883, on an ad- joining farm, now the home of his daughter, the wife of Henry H. Walls. . On May 21, 1821, Joseph Fellows married Elizabeth A. Dennison, who was born July 5, 1799, and died July 23, 1871. She was a daughter of Isaac and Tamasen (Rowe) Dennison, of Gloucester. Joseph Fellows and his wife had seven children, namely: Elizabeth, who was born in 1822, and died in September, 1843; Sarah Jane, born in 1824, who lives with her brother Alonzo B .; Frances Dane, born in 1827, who is the wife of Henry H. Walls, and occupies her father's old farm, as noted above; Alonzo Brown, born in 1829, the special subject of this sketch; Mary Abby, wife of Elijah Emerson, of Cambridge; Jo- seph Edward, who died at the age of three years; and Julia Maria, who died at the age of two years.
Alonzo B. Fellows, when sixteen years old, went to Gloucester with his uncle Nathan, and remained there for a short time in his uncle's employ, returning then to the parental home. In 1857 he purchased the old Fellows farm, which, with the exception of eight years, had been in the family ever since it was deeded to his emigrant ancestor, as men- tioned above. He carries on general farming,
making somewhat of a specialty the raising of a variety of fruits, in which he has had excel- lent success. He is actively interested in the Essex County Fair Association, of which he has been a trustee several years.
In politics Mr. Fellows is a stanch Repub- lican, and has served as delegate to numerous conventions. He has been prominently iden- tified with the best and highest interests of the town and county, and has rendered valu- able service as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer. In 1881 he was a member of the State legislature, representing the towns of Ipswich, Rowley, and Boxford, and served on the Committee on Estimates. At the extra session of the legislature held at that time the statutes were revised. Mr. Fellows was reared a strict orthodox in religious faith, but he and his family are now regular attendants of the Episcopal church.
Mr. Fellows was married November 15, 1876, to Henrietta Wheeler, of East Boston, who was born February 22, 1854, a daughter of John and Catherine (Hemenway) Wheeler, of Roxbury, Mass. Left an orphan at the age of eleven years, she afterward made her home with an aunt in Boston. She was educated in Framingham and Bridgewater Normal Schools, and subsequently taught school for a while in Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Fellows have six chil- dren, namely: Elva Atkinson, a graduate of the Salem Normal School in 1897, and now a teacher at South Hadley; Joseph Edward; Irene Franklin; Nathan Warren; Elizabeth Bradbury ; and Reginald Alonzo.
RS. KATE FRANCES KIM- BALL, of Lawrence, Mass., is the widow of the late William Addison Kimball, of whom a brief personal and ancestral history is given in connection
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with the sketch of his son, William T. Kim- ball, on another page of this volume. Mrs. Kimball was before her marriage Miss Kate Frances Chandler. She was born in Bosca- wen, N. II., a daughter of Abiel Rolfe and Eliza Jane (Morrison) Chandler, and is partly of English and partly of Scottish descent, the Morrisons having originated in Scotland.
The immigrant progenitor of her father's family was William Chandler, who, with his wife Annis and their son Thomas, came to Massachusetts from England in 1637. Will- iam Chandler settled in Roxbury. Thomas was "one of the proprietors and early pioneers in the settlement of Andover," which was the home of his son John and of their descendants for several generations.
Nathan Chandler, the grandfather of Mrs. Kimball, was born in Concord, N. H., April 14, 1782, and died April 1, 1835, while in the prime of a vigorous manhood. On April 16, 1804, he married Jane Rolfe, who was born in Concord, N. H., January 21, 1783, and died June 5, 1863, aged fourscore years. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Rolfe, who died in Concord, N. H., November 15, 1829, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. The wife of Nathaniel Rolfe was born December 4, 1744, and died in 1806. Her maiden name was Judith Walker. At the time of her mar- riage with Mr. Rolfe she was a widow, her first husband having been Captain Abiel Chandler, formerly of Andover, Mass., but later of Concord, N. H.
Abiel Rolfe Chandler was born in Con- cord, N. H., August 25, 1805. On October 29, 1829, he married Eliza Jane Morrison, who was born in Derry, N. H., October I, 1803. She was a daughter of John Holmes and Mary (Paul) Morrison. John Holmes Morrison, who was born in Londonderry, N. H., June 4, 1779, was a wheelwright by
trade. In 1804 he removed to Boscawen, N. H., where he resided till his death, August II, 1858. His wife, Mary Paul, was born in Londonderry, N. H., December 26, 1779, a daughter of David and Jane (Anderson) Paul. She died at Boscawen, July 14, 1863, aged eighty-three years and six months. Abraham Morrison, the father of John Holmes Morri- son, was born in 1743, and died in Derry, N. H., June 14, 1833. He was a son of Joseph, and grandson of John Morrison, the immigrant ancestor of many of his name in New Hampshire. Abiel Rolfe Chandler and his wife resided in Boscawen, N. H., until 1852, when they removed to Lawrence, Mass., where he was employed by the Essex Company as tender of the locks and canal nineteen years. Later he engaged in real estate business. A citizen of Lawrence for thirty-five years, he was greatly interested in its growth and pros- perity. Of his union with Eliza Jane Morri- son there were three children born, namely : Henry Walker Chandler, who died of con- sumption, August 15, 1850, aged twenty years; Kate Frances, now Mrs. Kimball; and Annie Rebecca, widow of the late Nathaniel Phillips Houghton, who died at his home, 233 Broadway, Lawrence, August 1, 1897. Mr. Houghton was born at South Deerfield, N. H., September 20, 1829, and from 1852 until 1867 was connected with the Bay State Bank of Lawrence. The ensuing five years he was ticket agent of the Boston & Maine Railroad at the north station, and was afterward em- ployed in the general ticket office in Boston nineteen years, when he retired. Mr. Chand- ler died May 28, 1887, aged eighty-one years and nine months; and his wife, who survived him until August 11, 1895, reached the vener- able age of ninety-one years and ten months.
Miss Kate Frances Chandler was married to William Addison Kimball on December 30,
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1874, becoming his second wife. No children were born of this union. By his first wife, Caroline L. Smith, Mr. Kimball had two chil- dren, namely: William T., whose sketch is referred to above; and Edward Payson, who is cashier of a bank in Malden, Mass. Mr. William A. Kimball died on March 6, 1880. In religious belief the family are Congrega- tionalists.
ALBERT TRUE, one of Salis- bury's best known and most influen- tial citizens, was born in this town, June 17, 1839, son of Jabez and Annie (Fitts) True. He comes of a family that has been prominent in Salisbury since the settlement of the town in 1638, and has produced men of unblemished character and firm religious prin- ciples, and many brave soldiers who have haz- arded their lives in defence of the country.
The genealogy is traced back through seven generations to Henry True, Esq., who was one of the prominent citizens in this section in military and civil affairs. He was one of the first commoners of Salisbury, one of the larg- est land-owners, and was a Captain of militia. His wife, Israel, was sister of the famous Major Robert Pike, of Newbury. Captain True's original commission, dated October 29, 1696, and many other valuable records, especially accounts of his active service in the militia, are in the possession of Mr. P. Albert True. Some of these tell of his scouting ex- peditions "to give warning of the enemy," of his "pressing men into service," and of "hold- ing his force ready to march at a half-hour's notice." He wrote a flowing hand, and did much writing of legal documents.
His son, Henry, Jr., born March 8, 1645, married on March 15, 1668, Jane Bradbury, who was born March II, 1645, and died June
24, 1729. She was a daughter of Thomas Bradbury, Salisbury's first and famous teacher. Thomas Bradbury was a son of William and Elizabeth Bradbury. He held many offices of importance at that time. He was long identi- fied with the early history of the town, and his influence was potent in moulding public opinion. His wife, Mary Bradbury, was sen- tenced to be executed for witchcraft.
Henry True, Jr., died September 8, 1735. His son Jabez was the eighth child, and was born in October, 1685. His wife, to whom he was married January 8, 1707, was Sarah Tappan, born 1680. She died February 7, 1767, having married for her second husband on December 11, 1756, Joseph French. Jabez True died May 22, 1749. Of his ten chil- dren, the youngest was Samuel, . afterward widely known as Deacon Samuel True. He was born December 16, 1728, and died No- vember 10, 1815. He first married widow Hannah Kimball Hazeltine, of Haverhill, who was born May 21, 1729, and died July 28, 1768. For his second wife he married in 1772 Sarah Mials, who died February 17, 1812.
Deacon Samuel's fifth child was Jabez, sec- ond, born January 23, 1764, died May 2, 1835. Like his father, he was of a very religious nat- ure. Feeling himself called to the ministry, he began his education for the work by read- ing the Bible; and at the age of twenty years he had read it through thirteen times in course, besides his promiscuous reading, which was quite a little. He had a vigorous memory and a very loud voice, and was able to an- nounce his text, giving chapter and verse, and preach an hour without any book or paper before him. Also all notices he gave without paper. Later in life he had become so used to speaking extempore that he could always win his case by the use of Scripture, and could
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always correct any Scripture if misquoted. He was appointed Elder in the Baptist church, and preached at Hampstead, Amesbury, Exe- ter, and occasionally at Salisbury. He began at a salary of thirty dollars a year, and in 1812 was ordained Deacon by request of the Church Ecclesiastical Council.
Many men of the True family were found among the soldiers of the Revolution: Aaron True, private, enlisted October 14, 1779, for one month and twenty days under Captain Stephen Jenkins; and Lieutenant Bradbury True was with Colonel Edmund Wortley, April 24, 1775, probably at North Yarmouth, Me., and was later commissioned by General Washington. Daniel True, seaman, was in the naval service. Dudley True was a private on Captain Henry Merrill's list in Colonel Caleb Cushing's regiment, which marched from Salisbury on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. Ezekiel True also was a private on the Lexington alarm roll, in Captain Stephen Merrill's company. His name appears on various receipts all along from 1775 to 1777; and he was evidently in at least two regi- ments, his second enlistment being on August 17, 1777, from Middlesex County. Jabez True, private, was in Captain John Evan's company, in camp at Cambridge, May 17, 1775 ; also in Captain Harris's company of the Guard regiment at Winter Hill and in Cap- tain Stephen Jenkins's company. He enlisted October 14, 1779, and was discharged Novem- ber 27, 1779. He was in detached service to re-enforce General Washington, October 9, 1779; also in Captain Moses Newal's com- pany, Colonel Titcomb's regiment, from May 4, 1777, to July 4 of the same year; and in Captain Huse's company from April 12, 1778, until his discharge, July 4, 1778. Jacob True was on the Lexington alarm roll, and marched on April 19, 1775, from Newburyport. He
also enlisted in Colonel Little's regiment, May 2, 1775, at the age of twenty-one years, and went to Quebec. John True enlisted July 4, 1780, in Captain Richard Titcomb's company, Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment, and served until October 10 of the same year. He was Corporal on warrant to pay men in Captain James Pierce's company, March 17, 1783, and was the same in Captain Samuel Huse's company, November 10, 1777, receiv- ing his discharge February 3, 1778. Later he was stationed at Winter Hill in the regi- ment of the Guards. He was also Corporal in Captain Jeremiah Putnam's company in the Rhode Island service, where he remained for four months and three days. Jonathan True, of North Yarmouth, Me., was in Colonel Vase's regiment for three years, was in the expedition at Penobscot, and performed many missions which required a man of courage and discretion. Moses True was on the Lexington alarm roll and in the famous 19th of April march. Nathaniel True was in the seacoast service from Cumberland County. Obadiah True took part in the capture at West Point. Samuel True was at Lexington, and later a member of the Winter Hill Guards and also in the coast service. Thomas True was also at Lexington, and William True was in the list of officers of the Massachusetts militia, being Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Company of the Second Essex County Regiment, and a part of the time in the seacoast service. Zebulon True was in Colonel Benjamin Tupper's regi- ment, and served with credit.
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