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Dr. William S. Birge is the author of an interesting book of West India travel entitled "Tropical Isles of Southern Seas"; also "In Old Roseau, depicting Life as I found it in the Island of Dominica, and Life among the Carib Indians," published by Wright & Co., New York, 1900; and "What became of the 'Nancy,' and Other Stories of the Unusual," 1900. He has also contributed quite extensively to medical and literary journals. He was mar- ried May 12, 1882, to Ella Freeman Kendrick, of West Barnstable, a special sketch of whom appears below. They are the parents of two children - Amy and William David. As an index of the popularity of Dr. Birge, it may
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he mentioned that, on account of a rapidly in- creasing practice, he has associated with him- seli C. P. Curley, M. D., formerly of Fair- t.x, V't.
ELLA FREEMAN BIRGE, M. D., wife of Dr. William S. Birge, of Provincetown, is the daughter of Captain Zemira and Julia A. Ken- drick, of West Barnstable,. Mass., where she w.is born, January 4, 1857. She was educated in the schools of Barnstable; and before her marriage, which, as above mentioned, took place in 1882, she taught several terms of school. Mrs. Birge began the study of medicine with her husband some years after the birth of their children, and she was graduated with honors from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891. She has had service in the following hospitals : New York Post-graduate Hospital, 1892; Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital, 1897; Wells Eye Hospital, 1897; Boston Eye and Har Infirmary, 1899; New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, 1899. Dr. Ella F. Birge is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety. She has fitted herself particularly for eye work, of which she makes a specialty, and is said to be the best skilled in that depart- ment of medicine, outside of Boston, of any one in South-eastern Massachusetts. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
ARRY T. GERRISH, of Melrose Highlands, Middlesex County, successful business man, member of the firm of Thorndike & Gerrish, North Market Street, Boston, was born in Chelsea, Mass., April 25, 1863, son of Hiram A. and.Charlotte (Toppan) Gerrish. He is a descendant of Captain William Gerrish, born in Bristol, Somersetshire, England, who, it is said, received a mercantile education in the house of "Percival Lowle [Lowell] & Co.," Bristol, England. Captain William Gerrish came to America with Mr. Lowell and his family, and settled at Newbury, Mass., in 1639. He removed to Boston in 1678, and died in Salem, Mass., in 1687, when on a visit to his son Benjamin, who was Collector (! that port. He married April 17, 1644,
Mrs. Joanna Oliver, widow of Mr. John Oliver and daughter of Percival Lowell. He married, second, Anne Manning, widow of Mr. John Manning and daughter of Richard Parker.
The next in line of descent was Captain John Gerrish, who settled in Dover, N. H., and married August 16, 1667, Elizabeth Waldron, daughter of Major Richard Wal- dron, who was killed by Indians in the mas- sacre at Dover in 1689. He died December 19, 1714. She died December 7, 1724.
Colonel Timothy Gerrish, son of John, born in Dover, N. H., April 21, 1684, married Sarah, daughter of Robert Elliot, of New- castle, N.H., November 14, 1706, and died November 19, 1755. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and a Royal Council- lor of Massachusetts. John Gerrish, son of Colonel Timothy, was born in Dover, N. H., on February 6, 1710, married Margery Jack- son, of Kittery, Me., November 21, 1734, and died at his home in Dover, N.H., in 1749. His son George, born in Dover, April 9, 1737, married Mary James, of Portsmouth, and settled in Lebanon, Me., in 1776.
The next in line of descent, Captain George Gerrish, was born in Dover, N.H., October 19, 1775. He married Elizabeth T. Furbush, of Lebanon, Me., on February 21, 1799, and died in Chelsea, Mass., January 26, 1850. His son, George Washington Gerrish, born in Lebanon, Me., on January 20, 1809, mar- ried in 1831 Sarah H. Hanson, of Dover, N. H., daughter of Israel and Sarah ( Howard) Hanson. He settled in Chelsea, Mass., in 1836, and died in that city on April 24, 1876.
Hiram A. Gerrish, son of George Washing- ton and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 1837. He married Charlotte Toppan, of Dover, N. H., a daughter of Stephen and Lucy (Barden) Top- pan. The first American progenitor of the Toppan family was Abraham Toppan, a car- penter, who came from England in the ship " Rose " in 1637, and settled at Newbury, Mass. From Abraham the line of descent is thus traced to Mrs. Charlotte E. Gerrish : Abraham's son Jacob, born in 1645, married in 1670 Hannah Sewall, a sister of Chief Jus- tice Sewall. Their son Abraham, born in
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1684, married. Esther Sewell in 1713. This second Abraham was the father of Edward, born in 1715, who married Sarah Bailey in 1743. Edward was the father of Stephen, born in 1756, who married Edna Little, Janu- ary 1, 1786. Stephen's son Stephen, born December 26, 1803, married Lucy Barden, 1826, and they were the parents of Charlotte Toppan, born in 1836, who married Hiram A. Gerrish in 1858.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram A. Gerrish had four children; namely, Harry Theodore, Helen Isabel, Lucy Frances, George Albert.
Harry T. Gerrish received his education in the public schools of Chelsea, being gradu- ated at the high school in the class of 1881. After leaving school he entered the wholesale provision business in Boston.
Mr. Gerrish married Harriet I. Willey, born in 1863, a daughter of George and Annie (Harrington) Willey, of-Chelsea. Her father was ninth in descent from Governor Thomas Roberts, of Dover Neck, Dover, N.H. Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish have one child, Helen W., who resides with her parents.
R" UFUS LEAVITT, a well-known and respected resident of Melrose, now retired from active business life, was born at Hingham. Mass., June 22, 1822, a son of Martin and Tirzah Pratt (Thomas) Leavitt.
The family name, spelled sometimes in England Levett, is said to be derived from the French words le vite - the speedy, the quick. The ancient coat of arms of the fam- ily is thus described in heraldic terms: "Argent, a lion rampant between three cross crosslets fitchée sable; a bordure engrailed azure charged with four cross crosslets fitchée, and four fleurs-de-lis alternately or; crest, a demi-lion argent ducally crowned or collared azure, in dexter paw a cross crosslet fitchée sable, sinister paw resting upon an escutcheon azure charged with a fleur-de-lis."
Mr. Leavitt's first progenitor in this coun- try was John Leavitt, or Levett, who came from England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1634,
and settled in Ilingham in 1636. He died November 20, 1691. Ile was twice married. and had thirteen children.
Josiah Leavitt, eighth child of John, above mentioned, was born May 4, 1653, and mar- ried Margaret Johnson, October 20, 1676. He had eight children.
Hezekiah Leavitt, youngest son of Josiah. was born September 17, 1697. He married January 31, 1723, Mary Beal, who died April 13, 1742, leaving six children. He married for his second wife, December 12, 1742, Grace Hatch, by whom he had three children who grew to maturity.
Joshua Leavitt, fourth child of Hezekiah and Mary (Beal) Leavitt, was born February 2, 1733. Ile married in 1753 Deborah Fear- ing. She died in 1781, leaving nine chil- dren. He married in 1791 Sarah Gilbert. who bore him one son, Martin, father of Rufus Leavitt. Joshua Leavitt was Town Treasurer of Hingham for thirty years. Dur- ing the Revolutionary War he was one of the most ardent American patriots, and was only prevented from joining the Continental army by the fact of his being a cripple. He con- tributed, however, in all possible ways to the success of the American cause.
Martin Leavitt was born in Hingham on July 9, 1793. lle inherited and carried on the old farm that had been in possession of the family from the time of John, the pioneer ancestor. By his first wife, Tirzah Pratt Thomas, the mother of the subject of this sketch, he had eight children. By his second wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Jones. he had one child, Lydia Thomas, born May 13, 1835.
At the age of sixteen years Rufus Leavitt, having received his education in the public schools of Hingham, went to Boston, where he entered the shop of Otis Tufts to learn the machinist's trade, remaining with him four years. Then at the age of twenty-one, in 1843, he entered the employ of Edwards & Holman, of Boston, manufacturers of bank locks, with whom he remained until 1849. when he engaged in business for himself on Devonshire Street, on the site of the present post-office. After continuing there for some
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time he removed to Congress Street, where he carried on a machinist's business till 1853. He then removed to Haymarket Square, and about this time took a contract of Elias Howe to manufacture the first sewing machines ever made. Continuing in business at Ilaymarket Square till 1857, in that ycar he removed to the Gore Block on Green Street, where he con- ducted the same business in company with his brother Martin for a period of ten years. In 1867 he sold out his interest to a company, and then in company with a Mr. Brant took a shop at 50 Bromfield Street, where he sold and repaired the Howe and other sewing ma- chines. The firm also opened an office on Washington Street for the sale of sewing ma- chines. October 21, 1870, Mr. Leavitt went to Bridgeport, Conn., where he was at the head of the inventing department of the Howe Machine Company, and where he remained till 1886. During this time the repairing shop on Bromfield Street was discontinued. For a few years subsequent to his return from Bridgeport Mr. Leavitt worked for his brother in a machine shop in Boston, but retired from active business in October, 1893. During the time that Mr. Leavitt was with the Howe Machine Company at Bridgeport he invented a number of important improvements in sew- ing machines. He came to Melrose in 1856, and rented the property on which he now re- sides, purchasing it in 1867.
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In early life Mr. Leavitt was a Whig in politics, and while a member of that party he marched to Bunker Hill to hear Daniel Web- ster read his "second Declaration of Indepen- dence." He became a member of the Republi- can party on its formation, and has not since changed his politics. lIc is a member of Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M., which he joined in 1861; also a member of Waverly Chapter, R. A. M.
Mr. Leavitt was married January 20, 1853. to Helen Elizabeth, daughter of David and Eleanor (Gross) Blaisdell, of Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. Leavitt died November 22, 1893. She was the mother of five children, and is survived by three, namely: Helen May, born May 10, 1862, in Melrose; Clara Belle, born in Melrose, May 1, 1868; and
Alice Gertrude, born September 2, 1877, in Melrose - all residing at home with their father. They were educated in the public schools of Melrose. Alice Gertrude attended the normal class, preparing for kindergarten work. Helen May is a teacher of the piano. Two others - Rufus Howard, born August 4. 1860, and Emma Frances, born July 10, 1869 -- died in infancy. Mrs. Eleanor Blais- dell, Mrs. Leavitt's mother, is still living. being now in her eighty-eighth year.
OHN FRANCIS DWIGHT, A. B., master of the Thomas N. Hart School. South Boston, was born in Plymouth,
Mass., August 20, 1844, son of the Rev. John and Sally Ann ( Hastings) Dwight. Both paternal and maternal ancestors of Mr. Dwight were residents of Boston and the vi- cinity during the Colonial period,
His great-grandfather, John Dwight, Jr., who was born in Boston in 1740, son of Cap- tain John Dwight, thought to have been a descendant of John of Dedham, Mass , settled in Shirley, Mass., where he followed the trade of a stone-cutter and was in comfortable cir- cumstances. While serving as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, he received at the battle of White Plains a severe wound in the head, which permanently affected his hearing. About the year 1770 he married Mrs. Susanna Moore, of Shirley, a widow, whose maiden name was Harris, and who was born in 1741. His wife died September 6, 1816. He died October 6, 1816, and it is related that, "within six weeks' time" of his own death, that of his wife and the deaths of his son Francis and wife, all residing under the same roof, oc- curred one after another, the result, as was then supposed, of accidental poisoning, it is now said of yellow fever.
John, Jr., and Susanna Dwight had eight children - Susanna, John, (third) Sally, Betty. Francis, Priscilla, Pamelia, and Sullivan. John Dwight, third, A. M., who was graduated at Harvard in ISoo, was the father of the late John Sullivan Dwight, founder of Dwight's Journal of Music, editor and music critic of
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high rank, sometimes spoken of as the father of the Boston Symphony Concerts.
Francis Dwight, the fifth child, Mr. John F. Dwight's grandfather, was born in Shir- ley, June 17, 1780. His occupation was that of a stone-cutter, but he also taught music. He was actively interested in military affairs, and commanded a local company. In 1804 he married Marie Blanchard, who was born in Jaffrey, N. H. They had five children, and the Rev. John, Mr. Dwight's father, was the eldest son. Francis Dwight died September 29, 1816, and his wife died October 19 of the same year.
John Dwight was born in Shirley, January 2, ISIo. Graduating from Amherst College with the class of 1835, he studied theology with the Rev. Jacob Ide, a Congregational elergyman of Medway, Mass., and was or- dained to the ministry at North Bridgewater, April 12, 1837. He subsequently held Con- gregational pastorates in Campello, Plym- outh, Blackstone, North Wrentham, and other places in Massachusetts, and was re- garded as an able, earnest, and effective preacher. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Feb- ruary 5, 1869. His wife, Sally Ann Hast- ings, whom he married April 14, 1837, was born in Boston, October 29, 1815. daughter of Benjamin and Sally (Jarvis) Hastings. Her father was born June 8, 1783, and died July 24, 1836. Her paternal grandparents were Samuel and Nancy (Lush) Hastings, the lat- ter of whom was born in Boston, February 17, 1750, daughter of George and Mary (Allen) Lush. Her great-grandparents were Benja- min and Mary (Tainter) Hastings, and through Samuel and Sarah (Coolidge) Hastings she is a descendant of Thomas and Margaret (Cheney) Hastings, Thomas Hastings being her first American ancestor.
On April 10, 1634, Thomas Hastings and his first wife, Susanna, aged twenty-nine and thirty-four years respectively, sailed from Ips- wich, England, on board the ship "Eliza- beth," William Andrews master, bound for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and on their arrival settled in Watertown. Thomas was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635 ; was Seleet- man froin 1638 to 1643 and again from 1650
to 1671; was Town Clerk from 1671 to 1677 and again in 1680; Representative to the General Court in 1673; and he was also a Deacon of the church. His first wife died February 2, 1650, and in April of the follow- ing year he married Margaret, daughter of William and Martha Cheney, of Roxbury, Mass.
Samuel Hastings, youngest son of Thomas by his second wife, was born in Watertown, March 12, 1665-6. He was twice married; and his second wife, Sarah Coolidge Hast- ings, of Watertown, whose death occurred in January, 1724, was the mother of Benjamin Hastings, the next in line of descent, who was baptized in 1702. On April 14, 1726, Ben- jamin married Mary Tainter, who was born November 27, 1703, and died in Boston in 1782. Samuel, youngest child of Benjamin and Mary (Tainter) Hastings, was born in Watertown. He received such education as was afforded by the common-school system of his day, being obliged to walk more than two miles to the school-house, which was located in what is now the town of Belmont. When Samuel was quite young, his father died; and under the inheritance laws then in force his eldest brother was given a double share, while his mother received the homestead for her por- tion of the estate. At the age of sixteen years he was apprenticed to a Scotch tailor, and later he opened a small store in Water- town. In 1777 he was sent to Philadelphia as a special messenger bearing important papers to General Washington, whom he found seated upon a fallen tree in a field surrounded by offi- cers and soldiers; and, having faithfully per- formed his somewhat hazardous mission, in order to expedite his return he was furnished with a pass signed by John Hancock, dated May 27, 1777. In 1778 he established himself in mercantile business in Boston at a point on Washington Street opposite Frog Lane, now Boylston Street, his dwelling-house being lo- cated three doors south of his store. His mother died while visiting at his home, and, having inherited from her a considerable amount, he subsequently purchased property in the vicin- ity of his store, including the Eliot estate at the corner of Washington and Essex Streets,
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where had formerly stood the Liberty Tree, which the British cut down during the siege. His first wife, Nancy, died August 17, 1807; and his second wife, Frances, daughter of James and Desire (Thompson) Lamb, died in October, 1832. Mrs. Sally Ann Hastings Dwight died on March 26, 1896. She was the mother of six children, all of whom are living: Maria, wife of William Davis, of Acton, Mass. ; Annie, widow of Louis F. Dupée, late of Norfolk, Mass. ; Mary Elizabeth, widow of Jason Wilson, late of Medway, Mass. ; Celia Adelaide, widow of Joseph B. Thomas, late of North Weymouth, Mass .; Ellen Sebra, widow of Charles E. D. Olmstead, late of St. Paul, Minn. ; and John Francis Dwight, the subject of this sketch.
John Francis Dwight pursued the regular preparatory course at Phillips (Exeter) Acad- emy, and took his bachelor's degree at Har- vard with the class of 1870. Turning his attention to educational pursuits, he became principal of the Rahway (N. J. ) Institute, where he remained for six years, at the expira- tion of which time he returned to Massachu- setts, and for the ensuing year was master of the John Cummings School in Woburn. He then entered the public school service of Bos- ton as sub-master of the Lincoln School in South Boston, and remained there for about eleven years. On December 7, ISS9, he be- came sub-master of the Thomas N. Hart School in the same district, and in September, 1895, he was advanced to its mastership, which he still retains. Devoted to his pro fession, he is widely and favorably known in educational circles as an efficient and progres- sive teacher.
On December 18, 1873, Mr. Dwight was united in marriage with Miss Helen Louise Woodruff, daughter of John and Joanna ( Row- land) Woodruff and a representative of an old New Jersey family. They have had four chil- dren, two of whom are living: Edith Marion, born August 13, 1883; and John Francis Dwight, Jr., born October 20, 1885. The two deceased were: Helen Hastings and Bernard Woodruff. Mr. Dwight resides in Weymouth, Mass., and is a member of the local lodge, Knights of Pythias.
UCIUS HENRY CHANDLER ROGERS, a respected citizen of Chelsea, Suffolk County, holding the city position of Truant Officer, was born in Lincolnville, Waldo County, Me., September 14, 1840, son of Atherton Wales and Susan (Miller) Rogers. His first American progenitor was the early settler known as John Rogers, of Marshfield, Mass., who came from England and was living in Scituate as early as 1643, removing thence to Marshfield about 1647.
Timothy, son of John, born in Scituate, Mass., married Eunice Stetson, a daughter of Cornet Robert Stetson. They were the par- ents of Timothy Rogers, second, born in Marshfield about 1690, who married Lydia Hatch in February, 1719-20. This second Timothy was the father of Adam, born in Marshfield in February, 1732-3, who was a blacksmith. Adam Rogers married Lydia Rogers, daughter of Samuel, Jr., and Experi- ence (Thomas) Rogers and grand-daughter of Samuel Rogers, Sr., who was a brother of the second Timothy.
The next lineal ancestor was Samuel, of the fifth generation, son of Adam and Lydia, born in Marshfield in 1761. This later Sam- uel Rogers, grandfather of Mr. Rogers of Chelsea, was a blacksmith by trade and also a ship-builder. He married in 1786 Patience Little, and settled in Castine, Me., whence in 1807 he removed to Lincolnville, where he carried on the business of ship-building. He and his wife, Patience, had eleven children, of whom Atherton Wales was the fifth.
Atherton Wales Rogers was born in Castine, Me., in 1793. He adopted a seafar- ing life, and rose to be captain of a vessel. He was lost at sea near the close of the year 1845. He was twice married. By his first wife, Celia Rogers, he had two children, one of whom died in infancy; and by his second wife, Susan M. Miller, whom he married in 1833, he had six, three of whom died in child- hood. His youngest son, Ephraim Wales, born in 1843, died unmarried in 1864. His eldest son, George Atherton, was born in 1834. The second Mrs Rogers was a daughter of Ephraim Miller, Jr., and grand-daughter of
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Ephraim Miller, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary army. As Sergeant in Cap- tain Jesse Stone's company, Colonel Job Cushing's regiment, which marched to Ben- nington in July, 1777, and was in service at that time for one month and nine days, his name appears in the records at the State archives, vol. xxiii.
Lucius II. C. Rogers, second son of Ather- ton Wales Rogers, received his education in the public schools of Boston, to which city he removed with his widowed mother and the family when about six years old. After leav- ing school he learned the trade of frame- maker, at which he worked subsequently for many years as a journeyman. In 1862 he en- listed in Boston in Company G, Forty-fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, com- manded by Colonel Francis L. Lee, and went to Newbern, N.C., where it formed a part of the Eighteenth Army - Corps, under Major- general J. G. Foster. The record of the regiment, printed in 1887, contains, among other interesting and valuable chapters, one on the Tarboro march and another on the Goldsboro expedition, in which the Forty-
fourth was engaged.
Mr. Rogers was dis- charged at the expiration of his term of ser- vice on June 18, 1863. Ile is a member of Theodore Winthrop Post, G. A. R., of Chel- sea, of which he was Commander in 1891. The duties of his position as Truant Officer of the city of Chelsea he has very satisfactorily performed. He is a member of the New Eng- land Order of Protection and the Fraternal Helpers.
Mr. Rogers was married in 1864 to Laura Juliet Eastman, daughter of Hubbard and Mary (Green) Eastman. Ilis children are: Bertha J., who lives with her parents; Atherton Wales, who is employed as a book-keeper in Boston; and Daniel Eastman, who is now a student at Harvard Medical School.
AMES G. WEBBER, of Chelsea, cloth- ing manufacturer, was born in Boston, July 13, 1855, son of Henry and Sarah (Sweetland ) Webber. llis paternal grandfather was Peter Webber. Ilis early
ancestors were English, and there is a tradi- tion in the family that one of the name of a remote generation took a contract to rebuild the tower of London.
Ilenry Webber, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1826, from which place he removed to Boston in 1847. For nearly a quarter of a century, or until I870, he worked as a clothing cutter for some of the leading Boston firms. In that year he started the business of manufacturing flannel shirts, overalls, and other garments, and thus continued until his death in 1894, when he was succeeded by his son James, as indicated above.
James G. Webber was educated in the Will- iams School, Chelsea, his father having re- moved to this city in 1864. He entered his father's employ as soon as he was old enough to work; and, as already stated, when his father died he succeeded to the business, which he has since carried on very success- fully. He has taken rather a prominent part in public affairs, and that his ability is widely recognized and his popularity general is proved from the fact that he has served two years, 1892 and 1893, as a member of the Common Council and three years, 1896-98, as a mem - ber of the Board of Aldermen of Chelsea, and in 1898 was the Republican candidate for Mayor of the city, receiving a most flattering vote in the cancus of his party.
Mr. Webber was married in 1876 to Sarah A. Golding, daughter of Robert P'. and Char- lotte E. (Wendell) Golding. Mrs. Webber comes of several generations of New England ancestry on her mother's side. Her maternal grandfather was John Wendell, a builder of Boston, Mass, who came from Raymond, N. H., where his father, Daniel, lived and died. Daniel Wendell was born in Raymond, a son of William, who was a native of Greenland, N. II., and who in early life settled in Ray- mond, where he married a Miss Todd. Will- iam Wendell was a lineal descendant of Evert Jansen Wendell, who was born in Embden. Ilanover, and emigrated to Amcrica in 1640, settling at New Amsterdam, now New York City. Johannes? Wendel, son of Evert Jan- sen, was the father of Abraham, who died in
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