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EORGE S. JUNKINS, a former Mayor of Lawrence, was born in North Berwick, York County, Me. May 10, 1846. A son of Daniel and Louisa (Weymouth) Junkins, he is of the fifth genera- tion in America descended from his immigrant ancestor, who came from Scotland and settled in old York, Me. From York the family subsequently moved to Berwick, Me. Jotham Junkins, the grandfather of George S., born in 1791, was a farmer in North Berwick. He married a Miss Ingraham, of Portland, Me., who bore him one son and three daughters.
Daniel Junkins, born in North Berwick in 1821, who was a meat dealer in South Ber- wick, died in his native town in 1893. His first wife, Louisa, also a native of North Ber- wick, died in 1855, aged thirty-seven. She was the mother of five children, namely : Mary Ellen, who died at the age of seventeen ; Oscar W., who became a sea captain, and whose residence is in Lawrence; Daniel E., now a farmer of Buxton, Me .; George S., the subject of this sketch; and Sarah A., who be- came the wife of Charles H. Lindsay, and died without issue in 1895. The maiden name of Daniel Junkins's second wife, who
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came from Smithfield, was Olive Merrill. A most estimable lady, she has been a kind mother to the orphaned children. At present she is living in Somersworth, N. H. Her children by her late husband are: Louise, the wife of Alvin H. Stevens, of Dover, N. H. ; Mary, the wife of Frank Malory, of Somers- worth, N. H. ; and Frank, a resident of Leba- non, Me.
George S. Junkins acquired his early educa- tion in the common schools of South Berwick and Lebanon. At the age of sixteen he went to work in a flannel factory in North Berwick, where he was employed for six years. He then opened a meat market in Lawrence in company with A. L. Mellen. Since that time the firm has established an extensive and pros- perous business. Mr. Junkins has ranked prominently among the business men of Law- rence for over thirty years. He is active and popular among the Lawrence Republicans. In 1890 he was in the Common Council, in 1891 and 1893 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen, and since 1893 he has been serv- ing on the Water Board, of which at present he is the President. Elected Mayor in 1896 and re-elected in 1897, he proved a progres- sive and able chief magistrate.
Mr. Junkins was married April 2, 1870, to Josie M. McDuffee, of this city, a daughter of Charles and Sarah (Hopkinson) McDuffee. Some time ago Mr. McDuffee, who was a car- penter and builder, fell from a building, and died one week after from the injuries he then received, aged fifty-nine years. His wife had died at the age of twenty-nine, leaving Josie M., her only child. Mr. and Mrs. Junkins have three children: Bertha L., an accom- plished young lady, who, having completed the classical course in Boston University, graduated therefrom June 1, 1898; Helen M., who is a teacher in Dr. Sargent's School of
Physical Culture in Cambridge, Mass. ; and Marion W., now sixteen years of age, who . graduated in June, 1898, from the Lawrence High School. Mr. Junkins is a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church and a member of several fraternal organizations. The family resides in a handsome home at 6 Greene Street, which Mr. Junkins pur- chased in February, 1875.
DWARD BAILEY, a retired builder of Rowley, was born January 13, 1834, son of Ezekiel P. and Sally (Hobson) Bailey.
The first record of the family appears in 1642. James Bailey was prominent in the affairs of the town, was Constable in 1649, Overseer in 1653; in the years 1661-67 was judge of the delinquents who failed to attend town meeting; in 1667 served on a jury in Ipswich; and was Selectman during the years 1665, 1666, and 1667. He died at the age of fifty-one. His wife Lydia bore him seven children. The first child, John, born Decem- ber 2, 1642, married, June 16, 1668, Mary Mighill, daughter of Deacon Thomas Mighill. John died in 1690, when coming from Canada. His widow Mary was administratrix of the estate, April 22, 1691 ; and there is an inven- tory on file giving names of children. She died March 14, 1694.
Nathaniel, the next in descent, born April 4, 1675, married Sarah Clark, of Ipswich. He died July 21, 1722, in the forty-eighth year of his age. His gravestone is in Rowley Cemetery, number two in the fourth row west.
Deacon David, fourth son of Nathaniel, born November 11, 1707, married Mary Hodg- kins, December 7, 1727. She died in Au- gust, 1759. He married second Mehitable Smith, 1760. He was Deacon of the church,
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and lived on Weatherfield Street. The old house is still standing, and was probably built as long ago as 1680, his children, grandchil- dren, and great-grandchildren having lived there. The stone erected to his memory is little more than a foot square, made of clay, and stands now near the enclosed lot where rest the first ministers of the town. He died May 12, 1769, in his sixty-second year.
Ezekiel, the next in descent, son of Deacon David, was born January 5, 1747, married Lois Brocklebank, twin sister of Eunice, and daughter of Nathan and Anna P. Brocklebank (great-grand-daughter of Captain Samuel Brocklebank of Sudbury fame of September, 1769). He was in the army in 1775. Pierce, his brother, was in the army, and died at Albany, N. Y., in 1760 of small-pox.
David, Jr., was the drummer in the first foot company of Rowley. He was born Feb- ruary 15, 1735, and married Hannah Kil- bourne, 1756.
Jacob, the third son, was born April 16, 1731. He graduated from Harvard College, 1755. He then went to England to obtain orders in the Established Church (Episcopal), walking all the way to Boston, and stopping one night at Norwood tavern, Lynn. He preached at Marblehead, Mass., Pownalboro (on the Kennebec), and Georgetown, Me., where he was persecuted and driven to Nova Scotia for persisting in the prayer of "God save the king." He married Sally, daughter of John Weeks, of Hampton, N. H., and died at Annapolis Royal, July 26, 1808. His first son, Charles Percy Bailey, was a remarkably handsome lad; and, when the Duke of Kent visited Annapolis, he observed the youth, in- quircd as to his parentage, and prevailed upon his father to let him take the boy. He put him into the militia, and afterward gave him a commission in the duke's own regiment, where
he served with honor until the breaking out of the Revolution, when he was ordered to Canada with the regiment. He was killed in the battle of Chippewa, July 5, 1814, at the time holding position of Captain in command of his com- pany. John Bailey, son of Deacon David, was born September 9, 1741, and married Hannah Dresser. He died of small-pox while in the army of the Revolution.
·Ezekiel Pierce, son of Ezekiel and Lois Brocklebank Bailey, was born August 31, 1789; married Sally, daughter of Moses and Sarah Jewett Hobson in 1815; died July 27, 1859. Sally, his wife, died in Rowley, June 30, 1880. Their children were: Charles Jew- ett, born January 8, 1816; Ezekiel, born Au- gust 22, 1818; Sarah Gage, born March 7, 1821; Sophia, born August 22, 1823; Fred- erick, born March 8, 1826; Henry, born May 30, 1829; Mary Ann, born July 2, 1831; Ed- ward, born January 13, 1834; Olive, born July 17, 1836; and William Albert, born March 13, 1839.
Edward Bailey, the direct subject of this sketch, was educated in the common schools and at Dummer Academy. He has passed his life up to the present time in Rowley, where he was long engaged in business as a carpenter and builder, but is now retired. February 7, 1860, he married Martha Georgia Peckham, a representative of the old Peckham family of Newport, R. I. She was born June 12, 1839.
Their son, Albert Edward, was born Janu- ary 19, 1896, was educated in the common schools of Rowley, the Putnam School at New- buryport, and at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, graduating therefrom in the class of 1886. He married Lucy Lauriat, of Medford, December 25, 1889. Their children were : Lauriet, born August 19, 1891, died February 17, 1892; and Beatrice, born February 19, 1894. James Guy was born May 8, 1863,
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died April 11, 1865. George Guy was born March 14, 1865. He attended the schools of Rowley, the Putnam School of Newburyport, graduated from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1888, entered the Harvard Medi- cal School the fall of the same year, and grad- uated in the class of 1892. He has since been in active practice in the towns of Rowley, Ipswich, and Hamilton. In the fall of 1897 he was appointed by Governor Wolcott medical examiner of the Second Essex District. He married, in 1894, Grace Foster Damon, of Ipswich, and by her has two daughters, Grace Kimball and Martha Peckham. Charles Peck- ham was born November 13, 1873, attended the schools of Rowley and Dummer Academy, and entered the banking-house of Tower, Gid- dings & Co., of Boston, in 1893.
ACHARIAH J. CHASE, of the firm of Z. J. Chase & Sons, ice dealers, Lynn, Mass., was born in Danville, Me., January 20, 1830, son of Moses and Lo- rena (Sawtelle) Chase. Both parents were na- tives of Maine. They removed from Danville to Poland, Me., and later to Brookside, Wis., where they lived during their last years. But two years old when his father and mother went to Poland, Zachariah was there until he was eight years old. Then he lived with an uncle in Bangor for three years, after which he re- turned to Poland. When about sixteen years old, he went to Lowell, Mass., to work in the Suffolk County Cotton Mills, and was em- ployed in the spinning-room for four years. At the end of that time he went to Newbury- port, Essex County, where he learned the shoemaker's trade, making shoes by hand. A year later, in 1851, at the age of twenty-one, he came to Lynn, where he has since resided. Here, for the ensuing four or five years, he
worked at his trade. Then he began to drive an ice-cart, at which he worked for several years. After that he was associated in the ice business with George Townes, of Swamp- scott, for a year. In 1867 he bought out the entire business, and conducted it alone until he received his sons into partnership. At first he had but one team, and did business on a small scale, buying his ice of others; but after a time the increase in his trade war- ranted more outlay, and he began building the ice-houses on Flax Pond. For seven years he was a director and the manager of the Lynn Ice Company. He put his entire business into this venture when it was started in 1879; but, as it proved a losing investment, he with- drew, and formed the firm of Z. J. Chase & Sons. Since then he has given the business his personal attention, to which fact may be attributed the success of the enterprise. In the summer he runs six double teams, and em- ploys about twenty men. Some three years ago Mr. Chase bought a farm of one hundred acres in Albany, Carroll County, N.H., on which his family has since spent the summer every year.
On November 24, 1853, Mr. Chase was married in Lynn to Miss Harriet Moon, a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Cheever) Moon. The house in which she resides, and the site of which was her birthplace, was built when she was three years old, about the time of her father's death. The latter was a meat dealer. Mrs. Moon died four or five years ago. They had one other daughter, Hannah M., the widow of George Wells, who was killed in the Civil War. This place, which contains about twenty acres, is now owned and occupied by the two daughters, Mrs. Chase having come here since her mother's death. Mr. and Mrs. Chase have four children - George Merrill, Edward Elmer, Charles Ever-
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ett, and Mial Woodbury. George Merrill, Edward Elmer, and Mial Woodbury arc in the ice business with their father. Georgc Merrill marricd Julia D. Abbott, and has five children - Hattic Maud, William Q., George Elmer, Mial D., and Lena Abbott. Edward Elmer married Myra Crowell, and has two children - Alma Crowell and Robert Merrill. Mial Woodbury inarried Maud D. Hollis. They have no children. Charles Everett,; un- married, lives at home. The two eldest sons are in the Lynn Fire Department. Mr. and Mrs. Chasc are members of the Maple Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she has been a member since she was a girl. Mr. Chase is also a trustee of the church.
AWRENCE JENSEN,* the well-known boat-builder of Gloucester, Mass., is a native of Germany. Born July 13, 1858, he attended school until sixteen years old, when he went to China, and for the succeeding five years was engaged in the coasting trade. Returning to Germany, hc studied navigation ; and at the age of twenty- five years he emigrated to the United States. After visiting various parts of the country, hc settled in Gloucester, where he turned his attention to the building of pleasure-boats. His first yacht, the "Sparhawk," is now owncd in Dorchester. Becoming known as an expert builder of models, he was employed by the United States government to construct fifty models, comprising the various kinds of fishing-vessels in use from the beginning of the trade in Gloucester in the Colonial period to the present day; and these were cxhibited at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893. He also completed a set of models illustrating the advance made in steamboat building from the days of Ross, Fitch, Ful-
ton, and Stephenson down to the palatial pas- senger steamer of the present time, which together with the others made a most inter- esting display at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895. The entire collection has since been deposited in the National Museum at Wash- ington, D.C.
Having finished his work for the govern- ment, Mr. Jensen resumcd boat-building, and has since completed some speedy crafts of the knockabout class, from designs made by E. B. Stearns, a naval architect of Marblehead, thc last onc to leave his yard being the ninth boat in succession built for the Westchester County Club, New York. The knockabout called the "Torment," built from his own de- signs, is acknowledged to be the fastest of her kind in or around Gloucester; and he is about to construct a similar boat, to be named the "Traveller." His natural ability, training, and experience make him the equal of any yacht-builder in this country, and he has every reason to be proud of his work.
Mr. Jensen married Mary Peterson, a native of Germany, whose immediate relatives are now residing in this country. He is a mem- ber of Ocean Lodge, I. O. O. F.
HARLES DANFORTH,* the popular and efficient Postmaster of Manches- ter, Mass., is a native of this town, born February 11, 1841, son of Jeremiah and Mary A. (Allen) Danforth. His parents werc also natives of Manchester. The Dan- forth family has been resident in Manchester for several generations. Jeremiah Danforth was for many years a furniture manufacturer here, having a salesroom in Boston and em- ploying a large number of men.
Edward Danforth, a son of Jeremiah Dan- forth, served in the late Chinese war, under
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General Ward, formerly of Salem, Mass. He lost his life through a magazine explosion. General Ward also was killed during the war. Another brother of the subject of this sketch, John C. Danforth, is a dentist at Bordeaux, France, and has built a fine business there. Captain Joseph Allen, maternal grandfather of the subject of our sketch, was a seafaring man all his life, and was familiarly known as Captain "Joe."
Charles Danforth, who was reared in Man- chester, attended the public schools, and sub- sequently Atkinson Academy in New Hamp- shire and Comer's Commercial College at Boston, Mass. When about seventeen years of age, he began to learn wood carving with Leach, Annable & Co., furniture manufact- urers of Manchester, and successors to his father, Jeremiah Danforth. He subsequently worked as a journeyman until 1895, when he was appointed Postmaster of Manchester by President Cleveland. He still holds this po- sition, and is giving most satisfactory service.
Mr. Danforth married Ellen C. Rowe, of Manchester, daughter of Abram Rowe, who celebrated his ninetieth birthday anniversary on August 25, 1897. Mr. and Mrs. Danforth have one daughter, Mary E., who is the wife of Irving Gannett. Another daughter, Grace C., is now deceased.
A MOS ROWE,* a prominent business man of Rockport, forinerly a member of the legislature, was born in this town, April 1I, 1831, son of Amos and Re- becca N. (Stanley) Rowe. His grandfather, William Rowe, and his great-grandfather, John Rowe, both took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, the latter serving with the rank of Major. They were residents of this sec- tion. Amos Rowe, first, father of the subject
of this sketch, was a native of Rockport, and was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1877. His wife Rebecca was born in Lynn, Mass.
Amos Rowe, the subject of this sketch, was reared and educated in Rockport. In early life he followed farming. At the age of thirty years he engaged in the granite busi- ness, and for the past quarter of a century has been a heavy stockholder in and a director of the Pigeon Hill Granite Company. He is an active and influential factor in local public affairs, having twice represented his district in the legislature, first in 1865, and again in 1879. In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Rowe married Elizabeth Choate, daugh- ter of John S. Choate, a former resident of this town, now deceased. He has two daugh- ters: Lizzie C., wife of William Leighton, of Peabody, Mass .; and Nellie G., who resides at home. Mr. Rowe is a charter member of Wonnasquam Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, and was its first Sachem.
EWIS HENRY BARTLETT,* an ac- tive and enterprising business man of Lynn, Essex County, was born April 2, 1865, in Wareham, Mass. A son of Lewis H. and Hannah J. (Churchill) Bartlett, he is descended by both parents from promi- nent early settlers of the old Bay State, and well illustrates the sterling qualities of his lineage. His father was born in Easton, Mass., while historic Plymouth was the birth- place of his mother.
Mr. Bartlett completed his early education in the public schools of Wareham. From the age of sixteen until he was nineteen years old he was engaged in the retail grocery business with his father. He then spent four years in the wholesale grocery house of F. & F. Rice,
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of Boston. In 1879 he came to Lynn, where for six years he carried on a livery establish- ment, the first four years being a member of the firm of Thomas & Bartlett, and the last two of Wallace & Bartlett. He then em- barked in an entirely new enterprise, the manufacture of machine button-holes - a busi- ness in which he still continues, having met with much success from the start. He was elected a member of the Wareham School Committee as soon as he had attained his ma- jority. At the expiration of three years he was re-elected, but on account of removal to Lynn he was forced to resign the office.
Since he became a resident of this busy city, Mr. Bartlett has been conspicuous in Republican organizations. From 1890 to 1893 inclusive he was a member of the Re- publican City Committee, being its chairman during the last three years. In 1894 and 1895 he was a leading member of the State Central Committee. He likewise belongs to the Lynn Republican Club, of which he has been the treasurer for six years; and he is vice-president of the Essex Club. In 1892 and 1893 he served in the House of Repre- sentatives as one of the Committee on Mer- cantile Affairs and on Railroads. In 1896 he was elected to the State Senate, and in the following year he was honored with a re-elec- tion. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Drainage, and was one of the Committees on Federal Relations and Railroads. Mr. Bartlett has never married.
HARLES EDGAR SPRAGUE,* Alderman of Lynn and the manager of the Charles E. Sprague Box Com- pany, was born in East Taunton, Mass., on September 1, 1845. His father, Caleb C. Sprague, was born in the town of Bridgewater
in 1819; and his mother, whose maiden name was Mary K. Washburn, was born in Belfast, Me., in 1817. Mr. Sprague attended the public schools of Wareham, and subsequently took courses of study at Bridgewater Academy and Powers Institute, Bernardston, Mass. Having finished school when about seventeen years of age, he went to sea in 1863, on board the clipper ship "Highlander," bound from New York to San Francisco. From San Francisco they were on the voyage to Liver- pool, England, when on December 25, 1864, the ship was captured and burned in the Straits of Malacca by the Confederate priva- teer "Alabama." The United States consul at Calcutta, India, sent the crew back to America on the bark " Robert " of Newbury- port. Mr. Sprague reached Boston in August, 1865, and spent the three following months at his home. He then shipped on the clipper ship "Herald of the Morning," bound for San Francisco, but subsequently left her for the "Fair Wind." The latter ship was wrecked on the Irish coast in 1866, the crew taking to their boats, and landing at a place about seven miles from the city of Cork. After spending some time there, they returned to America in the winter of 1867. Mr. Sprague then came back to Wareham, and entered the employ of the Parker Mills Nail Company as clerk in the office. A year later he went to Ottawa, Kan., as secretary to Isaac S. Kal- loch, the superintendent of the L. L. & G. R. R. of Kansas. After remaining there for five years, he again returned to Wareham in 1873, and resumed his former position. At the end of four years he came to Lynn, and engaged as book-keeper for Thomas Brothers, box manufacturers. In 1896 he succeeded Messrs. Thomas under the present firm name.
In Wareham, on November 28, 1872, Mr.
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Sprague was united in marriage with Helen M. Segee, of that place. Mrs. Sprague has three children - Mabel G., Helen L., and Charles F. Mabel G. is now the wife of H. M. Hoague, of Concord, N.H. Mr. Sprague has filled many important public offices. In 1870 he was Deputy Register of Deeds for Osage County, Kansas; in 1874 and for the three years succeeding he was Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor in Wareham; in 1885 and 1886 he was a member of the Lynn Common Council; and in 1887 and 1897, respectively, he was elected to the Lynn Board of Aldermen. For a num- ber of years he was the president of the Lynn Republican Club of Ward Three, and he is a trustee of the Lynn Public Library. He be- longs to the East Lynn Lodge, No. 207, I. O. O. F., of which he is a charter member and Past Grand; to the fraternity of Red Men, Tribe No. 2; to Kirtland Lodge, No. 151, Knights of Honor; and to the Oxford and Park Clubs of Lynn. As a member of the city government, Mr. Sprague has given great satisfaction to his constituency.
T HE ORDWAY FAMILY, of North Essex, has been favorably known in the county for generations. Ever since the first settlement, in 1635, the name has figured prominently in the annals of Newbury, Salisbury, and Amesbury, Mass., and of South Hampton, N.H. The Ordways have been active in war as well as in peace, and the name is enrolled among those of the heroes of 1776.
Dr. Nehemiah Ordway, a relative of French Ordway, the present representative of the family in Amesbury, was a cousin of the Jo- siah Bartlett who signed the Declaration of Independence. Having graduated from Har- vard College with high honors, he figured
prominently for more than half a century among the professional men of Massachusetts. He was a man of unusual ability, and became a skilful physician and surgeon. During a long and successful life he acquired a large fortune, becoming the owner of extensive estates, in- cluding the land sometimes alluded to as Monument Square, that is now the site of the present Catholic church, and extending back to Whittier Hill. On the square is a well where the Improvement Society has had in- scribed "Ordway Well, 1735." Dr Ordway was very generous to the poor, and many public institutions were liberally remembered in his will. During the exciting times of 1775 and 1776 he acted as Moderator at several meetings. His wife, Patience Bradshaw Ord- way, came of an old Colonial family. The Doctor died January 3, 1779. His son, Dr. Samuel Ordway, born February 23, 1746, who died July 6, 1805, was equally well known in his profession. The latter studied medicine under the guidance of his father, and was for many years the leading physician in this sec- tion of the country. During the Revolution- ary period he was prominent in public affairs, and held many public offices. He married Abigail Bartlett, who lived to the advanced age of ninety years. Their son William, an active business man, was engaged in many local enterprises, owned and operated a saw- mill, carried on a buckyard, and at one time was extensively interested in the pottery busi- ness. William married Lucy Fitts, of East Salisbury, whose children by him were: Ruha- mah French, Eliza D., Lucy Ann, Hannah, French (the youngest), and one who died in infancy. Ruhamah French Ordway married Horace Fremont, and had one daughter. Eliza D. married Colonel Everett Horton, and resides at Attleboro, Mass. Lucy Ann, educated at South Hadley Academy, taught
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