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son of Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke. llis father was born in Cumberland, R. I., April 30, 1801, and his mother in Barring- ton, that State, September 6, IS05. On the maternal side he is of the twenty-seventh gen- cration in direct descent from John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire, a knight, and of the seventh generation from Joseph Peck, who emigrated from old Hingham, England, to llingham, Mass., in 1638, on the ship " Dili- gent.
Paternally he traces his ancestry to one Nicholas Drury, who accompanied the British expedition to Spain under John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in 1386; and "A Seynt .Antony crosse, a tau crosse of gold," worn by Nicholas Drury, was added by the latter's great-grandson, Thomas Clarke, of Bury St. Edmund's, Gentleman, to the Clarke family coat of arms prior to the year 1 506.
Dr. Clarke's original American ancestor, of whom he is a descendant in the ninth gen- eration, was Joseph Clarke, first, who was born in Suffolk County, England, and with his wife, Alice Pepper, a native of London, em- barked at Plymouth, March 20, 1630, on the " Mary and John" with the Dorchester com- pany, landing at Nantasket, Boston Harbor. He settled in Dorchester. Mass., but ten years later went to Dedham, Mass., and in 1652 removed to Medfield, where he was made a freeman the same year. He was the f.ither of nine children. The eldest of these Joseph Clarke, second, who was born in Ded- ham, July 27, 1642, married Mary, daughter of James Allen, of Medfield. They had twelve children, the eldest being Joseph, third, born in Dedham in 1664.
Joseph Clarke, third, learned a trade, but devoted much of his life to manufacturing at Medfield, operating a grist-mill and carrying on other industries. For his first wife he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Wight, Jr. Thomas Wight, Sr., her grandfather. married for his second wife Mrs. Lydia Penni- man, widow of James Penniman and a sister of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. Joseph Clarke, third, had seven children by his first wife. His second wife was Mrs. Abi- Rail Smith, widow of Samuel Smith.
Joseph, fourth, fifth child of Joseph and Mary (Wight) Clarke, was born in Medfield in 1697. He married Experience Wheeler, of that town, who bore him six children. His second child, Joseph, fifth, whose birth took place at Medway, Mass., in 1720, was a black- smith. In 1739 this fifth Joseph Clarke mar- ried Elizabeth Puffer, who was born in 1714. daughter of Eleazar Puffer. The third of their seven children was Ichabod Clarke, Dr. Clarke's great-grandfather.
Ichabod Clarke was born in Mendon. Mass .. February 1, 1745. A stanch patriot during the Revolutionary War, he raised a company of mounted rangers, which he commanded in General Sullivan's Rhode Island campaign. He married Phoebe Sprague, daughter of Amos Sprague, of Smithfield, R.I. They had five children, the eldest of whom was Edward, Dr. Clarke's grandfather, who was born in Smith- field, June 1, 1772. Edward Clarke served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Lurania Darling, a native of Cumberland, R. I., and the only child of this union was Seth Darling, Dr. Clarke's father.
Seth Darling Clarke, after residing for a while in Pawtucket, removed in 1835 to East Providence, R.I., and became widely known as a horticulturist. He was a leading spirit in local public affairs, serving as a Selectman. and was prominently identified with the Bap- tist church. He died January 28, 1885. out- living his wife, whose death occurred Decem- ber 21, 1875. They were the parents of six children, four of whom are living: Augustus Peck, the subject of this sketch; Diana: George Edward; and William Seth.
Augustus Peck Clarke was fitted for college at the University Grammar School, Provi- dence, and was graduated from Brown Uni- versity in 1861, with the degree of Master of Arts. While pursuing his classical course he devoted his spare time to professional study under Lewis L. Miller, M.D., a noted Rhode Island surgeon of his day. He took his medi- cal degree at the Harvard Medical School with the class of 1862. The breaking out ci the Civil War caused him to hasten his studies in order to avail himself of the opportuni- ties for professional advancement to Le ob-
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tained in active military service; and a favor- able examination by a medical board as to his qualifications in the summer of 1861 enabled him to obtain an appointment as Assistant Sur- geon of the Sixth Regiment, New York Vol- unteer Cavalry. He was made a Surgeon of his regiment May 5, 1863; was appointed Surgeon-in-chief of the Second Brigade, First Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, in the spring of 1864; and shortly afterward pro- moted to the rank of Surgeon-in-chief of the entire First Cavalry Division. He was pres- ent at the surrender of General Lee at Appo- mattox, and remained in the service until mustered out on October 4, 1865, having par- ticipated in over eighty engagements, includ- ing some of the most memorable battles of the war; and, besides being complimented many times by his superior officers in their reports, he was recommended for promotion to the rank of Colonel for faithful and meritorious conduct on the field. After leaving the army Dr. Clarke went to Europe, and continued the work of professional preparation by studying under I'rofessors Lemaire, of Paris, Crede, of Leipzig, Sir James Y. Simpson, of Edin- burgh, and at other noted medical centres. These foreign studies were pursued upon lines calculated to perfect his knowledge of surgery, particularly gynæcology and obstetrics, which have been his specialties for over thirty years. Upon his return to the United States he settled for practice in Cambridge, Mass., where he has ever since resided.
His advancement to the high position he now occupies in the medical profession was unusually rapid. In 1893 he was summoned to the chair of gynæecology and abdominal sur- gery at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Boston, and in 1894 was made dean of that faculty. Dr. Clarke was among the first American surgeons to recognize the beneficial results obtainable from the use of antiseptics in surgical operations, having been thor- oughly convinced of the value of such treat- ment by his observations while a student in Europe in 1865-66. Some years ago he again visited the principal European hospitals for study and observation. In 1868 he was in- strumental in organizing the Cambridge Soci-
ety for Medical Improvement, and he served as its secretary from 1870 to 1875.
Professor Clarke is a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society, and has been a member of its Board of Councillors; a mem- ber of the Boston Medical Library Associa- tion and a member of the American Public Health Association; a member of the Ameri- can Academy of Medicine; of the American Medical Association, and was vice-president of that body, 1895-96; a member of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynæcologists ; was president of the Gynaxco- logical Society of Boston, 1891-92; a mem- ber of the Committee of Organization and vice-president of the Pan-American Medical Congress in Washington, 1893, and vice- president of that body in Mexico, 1896; mem- ber of the Ninth International Medical Con- gress, Washington, D.C., 1887; of the Tenth at Berlin, 1890, of the Eleventh at Rome, 1894, and of the Twelfth at Moscow, Russia, 1897. Before the sections on gynæcology at these several congresses he presented accepta- ble contributions for consideration. He was elected to the distinguished position of honor- ary president of the section on gynæcology of the Moscow Congress, and was called upon to preside at different times during the reading and discussion there of important papers. He was a delegate to the British Medical Asso- ciation in 1890 and to medical societies in Paris the same year. His non-professional affiliations are with the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, he having served upon its Board of Officers in 1894 and 1895 ; a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; the Cambridge Art Circle, of which he was president for the years 1890 and 1891 ; several fraternal and Masonic bodies, including Boston Commandery, Knights Templar, the Grand Army of the Republic, Boston Brown Alumni Association, Ilarvard Medical Alumni Association, and the Cambridge Club. For the years 1871-73 he served in the Cambridge Common Council, in which he was chairman of the Health Depart- ment, member of the financial and other im- portant committees, and in 1874 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen. Politi-
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cally, he is a Republican. His religious connections are with the First Baptist Church of Cambridge, and he has been a member of its Standing and other committees. His contri- butions to medical literature are numerous, covering a wide range of subjects, which are treated in a comprehensive as well as a scholarly manner, and afford much valuable information to the medical.student.
On October 23, 1861, Dr. Clarke was joined in marriage with Miss Mary Hannah Gray, author and poet, daughter of the late Gideon and Hannah Orne (Metcalf) Gray. Mrs. Clarke is a descendant in the seventh generation of Edward Gray, who arrived at l'lymouth, Mass., prior to 1643. Dr. and Mrs. Clarke have two daughters: Inez Louise, born June 26, 1868; and Genevieve Clarke, born February 14, 1870. Inez Louise is a graduate of Radcliffe College, class of 1891. Genevieve also completed her academic work in that institution, and both of them are now pursuing their professional studies in the medical schools of Boston.
2 EORGE G. GLOVER, now living in Mattapan, was for many years iden- tified with the manufacturing inter- ests of Dorchester as a paper-maker. He was horn May 29, 1839, in Dorchester, Mass., a son of William and Maria (Fuller) Glover. Itis descent from Mr. John Glover, a native of Lancashire, England, who was an inhabitant of Dorchester as early as 1631, and was a citi- zen of influence in the colony, serving as Se- lectman, as Deputy to the General Court and a> . Assistant, is through Nathaniel,2 who mar- tied Mary Smith; Nathaniel, 3 who married Hannah Hinckley, daughter of Governor Hinckley of the Plymouth colony; Thomas, + who married Elizabeth Clough, of Boston ; Thomas, s who married Rebecca Pope, of Stoughton; Thomas, 6 whose second wife was Abigail Hewins, of Sharon; William, his father, above named, who married, in Ded- him, September 12, 1832, Maria, daughter of 1.Ficha and Sarah (Bartlett) Fuller, of Newton.
William Glover was born in Sharon, Mass., in 1806, and died in Dorchester, Mass., in
1875. In his youth he served an apprentice- ship at the paper-maker's trade, at which he worked in both Sharon and Walpole. In 1834 he removed to Dorchester, where he subse- quently remained in the employ of Tileston & Hollingsworth, paper manufacturers, for forty consecutive years. Politically, he was a Whig until the formation of the Republican party, when he became one of its stanchest adherents. His wife, Maria Fuller, was born in Phillipston, Mass., in 1811, and died in Dorchester in 1891. They were consistent members of the Village Church of Dorchester. They had two children : William F., who was born April 3, 1833, and died October 2, 1856, at the age of twenty-three years; and George G., the subject of this sketch.
George G. Glover was educated in the Dor- chester public schools, and subsequently learned the house-painter's trade, at which he worked until some time after the breaking out of the Civil War. Enlisting in September, 1862, in Company B, Forty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Charles R. Codman, he went to the front, and participated in the battles at Kinston, White- hall, Goldsboro, and in other minor engage- ments in North Carolina, remaining with his regiment until the expiration of his term of enlistment early in July, 1863. On returning home, Mr. Glover engaged in paper manufact- uring. He is a member of the Village Church, and in politics is a sound Republican.
On May 19, 1867, Mr. Glover was married to Miss Mary E. Knox, of Dorchester, a daughter of Joseph Knox. They have one son living; namely, Edwin C., a book-binder, born April 19, 1868. A younger son, Frank- lin F., born April 26, 1871, died in infancy.
BENEZER STACEY TWISDEN, for- merly of the firm of Humphrey & Twisden, Marblehead, was born in that town, September 24, 1818, son of Eben- ezer and Catherine (Goss) Twisden. His father, who also was a native of Marblehead, carried on the fish business in Lynn, Mass., for many years until his death. His mother,
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who was born in Ipswich, Mass., died about 1827.
Left motherless at the age of nine years, Ebenezer S. Twisden went to live with his uncle, Major Joseph Green, who cared for him during the rest of his minority, and with whom he continued to reside for several years after becoming of age. His education was acquired in the Marblehead public schools. After leaving school, he was for a short time in the dry-goods business at North Adams, Mass. ; but subsequently, returning to Marble- head, he engaged in the coal and wood busi- ness there in company with William Hum- phrey, under the firm name of Humphrey & Twisden. This concern continued in business until Mr. Twisden's retirement, which oc- curred in 1881. His death occurred April 22, 1888. An able business man and public- spirited citizen, he possessed the confidence of his fellow-townsmen; and his demise was not only a severe biow to his family and imme- diate friends, but was sincerely regretted by the entire community.
On December 25, 1847, Mr. Twisden was joined in marriage with Miss Hannah Pickett Snow, who was born in Marblehead, February 5, 1824, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Cross) Snow, her parents both being natives of that town. Of this union there were two daughters: Mary C., who is no longer living; and Frank Snow. Mary C. married William S. Bowden, and had three children - William Eben, Mary Ingalls (now deceased), and Frank Chester Bowden. Frank S. Twisden is now the wife of Benjamin F. Stacey, of Marblehead. Mrs. Hannah P. Twisden re- sides on Gregory Street, Marblehead. She is a member of the Universalist church, and highly respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
EORGE O. WOOD, an extensive dealer in real estate, well acquainted with the more desirable properties for investment in the Dorchester and Roxbury Districts, is a wide-awake business man, and represents Ward Twenty in the city council. He was born in Hopkinton, Mass., June 18,
1869, a son of the late Owen Wood. Ilis grandfather, Robert Wood, a native of Middle- borough, Mass., born November 16, 1796, was a shipbuilder in his early days, but was after- wards engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred October 12, 1867. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Trask, was born in Cumberland, R. I., in 1802, and died December 15, 1884. They were the parents of ten children, of whom their son Owen was the fifth in order of birth.
Owen Wood, born in Franklin, Mass., in 1831, embarked in business as a shoe manu- facturer when a young man, and continued thus engaged during the larger part of his life, locating first in Hopkinton, Mass., and later in Detroit, Mich. Active and influential in local politics, he served as chairman of the Board of Selectmen eight years, was Town Treasurer six years, and for two years repre- sented the Twenty-seventh Middlesex District in the lower branch of the Massachusetts Legislature. His popularity with the general public is proven by his record, which shows that in the thirty-two times that he was a can- didate for official honors he was not once de- feated. Ile was a prominent Mason, and one of the founders of the John Warren Lodge, A. F. & A. M., in which he passed the chairs, taking the degree of Knight Templar. At the time of his death, which occurred July 17, 1891, he was a trustee of the Hopkinton Sav- ings Bank. In 1853 he married Emily Maria Mansfield, who was born May 1, 1836, and died April 12, 1891. She was a daughter of Franklin Brown and Eliza (Loomis) Mansfield, and a grand-daughter of William and Mary (Piper) Mansfield, the former of whom was born February 23, 1786, and the latter August 7, 1791, in Camden, Me. Of the six chil- dren that constituted the parental household four are now living, as follows: Everett Eu- gene, a druggist in Millbury, Mass. ; Charles I., of Richmond, Va. ; Theron T., of Milford, Mass. ; and George O., the special subject of this sketch.
George O. Wood acquired his early educa- tion in Hopkinton, and after leaving school was employed for a year and a half by the firm of Claflin, Colburn & Co. Going then with
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his brother, Charles I. Wood, to Putnam, Conn,, he was there engaged in the grocery business for five years. In 1893 he estab- lished himself in the real estate business in Boston ; and he is now carrying on a substantial business in that line, built up through his untiring efforts, pluck, and ability. In polit- ical affairs Mr. Wood is a Republican, and has served on both the Ward and City Com- mittee, and the Ward and Republican Com- mittees, having been a member of the former three years and of the latter one year. In 1SOS he was elected to the city council, in which he has served on important committees, including the following : Collections; Contin- gent Expenses, of which he was chairman; In- stitutions; and Legislative Matters. He is also a member of various fraternal organiza- tions, belonging to Aabadour Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and to the Eastern Star; to Eagle Lodge and Daughters of Rebekah, I. O. O. F. ; to Putnam Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; and to the Dorchester Council of the Royal Arcanum. Ile is also a member of the old Dorchester Club of Dorchester.
On June 10, 1891, Mr. Wood married Miss Grace L., daughter of Amos R. Adams. They have three children : George Amos, born Sep- tember 27, 1892; Carl Adams, born August 10, 1895; and Katherine Louise, born March 22, 1899.
HOMAS LORING CUSHMAN, music teacher of Melrose and Boston, was born on May 11, 1851, in Somers, Conn. Son of Polycarpus Loring and Rhoda (Atherton) Cushman, he comes on the paternal side of old Plymouth Colony stock, and num- bers among his ancestors not only Robert Cushman, who came over in the "Fortune "- the second forefather ship - but two passengers in the "Mayflower," 1620; namely, Isaac Allerton, fifth signer of the Compact, and Mary Allerton, the Pilgrim's daughter. The Cushman line is: Robert,' Elder Thomas, 2 the Rev. Isaac, 3 Lieutenant Isaac, + Nathaniel, 5 Dr. Polycarpus,6 Seorim, ? Polycarpus Loring, 8 Thomas Loring. 9
Robert Cushman was one of the band of
English Separatists who, in the early part of the seventeenth century, with their pastor, John Robinson, to escape religious persecu- tion, fled to Holland. As a representative of the Pilgrim church at Leyden, Robert Cush- man, with John Carver in 1617, and with William Brewster in 1619, went to London to petition the king and to concert measures and devise ways and means for accomplishing the proposed emigration to America. In the summer of 1620 arrangement was made with the London company of merchant adventurers for their transportation. Mr. Cushman, it is said, secured the "Mayflower " for the voyages and awaited at Southampton the arrival of the "Speedwell " from Leyden. On these two vessels the emigrants set sail ; but, the "Speed- well " proving unseaworthy, a number of those who had embarked were obliged to return. One of these was Robert Cushman, who re- mained in England as agent of the colony until July, 1621, when, with his son Thomas, he sailed in the "Fortune," which arrived at Plymouth November 21, and departed on December 13. On December 9 Mr. Cushman preached at Plymouth a sermon which was published in London in 1622. Returning to England in the "Fortune," Mr. Cushman left his son Thomas, then a lad of fourteen, in the family of Governor Bradford, whose confiden- tial friend he became.
Thomas Cushman, on the death of Brewster in 1649, was chosen ruling elder of the Plym- outh church. He married Mary, daughter of Isaac Allerton by his wife Mary, who died in February, 1621. The Rev. Isaac Cushman, son of Thomas, born at Plymouth in 1648, was ordained in 1698 as pastor of the first church at Plymouth, where he had begun to preach in 1695, and where he died in 1732, in the thirty- seventh year of his ministry. His wife was Rebekah Rickard. Their son, Lieutenant Isaac, born at Plympton in 1676, married for his first . wife a widow, Mrs. Sarah Gibbs, daughter of Nathaniel Warner, and by her was the father of Captain Nathaniel Cushman (of Plympton, Lebanon, Conn., and Bernardston and Montague, Mass.), who married for his first wife Sarah Coomer, daughter of William Coomer, of Plympton.
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Dr. Polycarpus Cushman, seventh son of Captain Nathaniel and Sarah (Coomer) Cush- man, was born in 1750. He studied medicine at Lebanon, Conn., and in 1772 settled at Bernardston, Mass. He had an extensive practice, was industrious and enterprising, and accumulated a large property. He married in 1774 Rachael, daughter of Aaron Field, of Bernardston. Their children, beside two boys that were twin born and died unmarried, were : Sophronia, who married George Alexander ; the Hon. Polycarpus Loring (named after Dr. Polycarpus Loring, of Plympton, a friend of his grandfather), who married Sally Wyles, and was the father of the Hon. Henry Wyles Cushman, Lieutenant Governor of Massachu- setts from 1851 to 1852; Simeon; Ralph; Seorim; Rachael; and Isaac.
Seorim Cushman, the next in this line, was born at Bernardston on May 30, 1785, and died at the age of ninety-two years. His chil- dren by his wife Huldah, who was a daughter of Elias Parmenter, of Bernardston; were: Robert S., Emerancy J., Fanny, Huldah P., Isaac E., Roxana H., Polycarpus Loring, So- phronia R., and Field Wells.
Polycarpus Loring Cushman, son of Seorim and Huldah, born November 8, 1822, still resides at the old homestead in Bernardston, which has been the birthplace of six genera- tions of the Cushman family. He has been a farmer and a hotel-keeper. For many years he took a prominent part in town affairs. He was chairman of the Board of Selectmen during the Civil War and long served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Powers Institute and as a trustee of the Cushman Free Library, which was founded by Lieutenant Governor Cushman and other public-spirited citizens. He has been a lifelong member of the First Congregational Church at Bernardston. He married on April 14, 1847, Rhoda Atherton, daughter of Horace Atherton. They have three children, namely: Ellen Sophia, now Mrs. L. Z. Cutler, of Springfield; Thomas Loring, whose personal history is outlined be- low; and Arthur Isaac, who is salesman in a wholesale boot and shoe store in Springfield.
In 1852 the parents of Thomas Loring Cush- man removed from Somers to Bernardston; and
there he was educated in the public schools At the age of eighteen he became a clerk :: the employ of Cutler, McIntosh & Co., whoic- sale manufacturers of boots and shoes, with whom he remained nineteen years, for fourteen years being a member of the firm. He soldi _: his interest in the shoe business in 1883, a =. has since devoted himself to the profession : music, both as a public singer and as a teachc: of singing. From boyhood he has been for- nected with church choirs. He is a member of the Congregational church at Springfield. : s are also his wife and eldest son. He is a R :- publican in politics.' As a Mason. he is a member of the Roswell Lee Lodge and Mc ::- ing Star Chapter at Springfield; of the Spring- field Commandery, K. T. ; Springfield Count :: of Royal and Select Masters; and of the Ros- ton Consistory of thirty-second degree Mastas.
Mr. Cushman married, July 8, 1873. May Belle, daughter of Lemuel and Nancy Trasy. of Windsor, Vt. He has two children - L -- ing Tracy and Thomas Atherton. Tracy Cushman, born in 1874, was educa :: at schools in Springfield, Bernardston. ani Melrose, and is now in the wholesale ciza: business at Boston. Thomas Atherton C:si - man, born in 1884, and educated in the Me :- rose schools, is residing at home.
NDREW MITCHELL MYRICK treasurer of the Nantucket Gas Li. .: Company, is a native residen: the island. He was born Joly =. 1823, a son of George and Eliza (Mitche !! Myrick. His paternal grandfather, also name: George, was a son of Andrew Myrick. George Myrick, Sr., who was a merchant, passed .... life in Nantucket, which was his birthplace. The maiden name of his wife was Lydia Ray.
George Myrick, Jr., son of George, Sr., ar - Lydia Myrick, was for many years a sat .... being first employed in whaling and later in the merchant service. After retiring from :: sea, he was engaged in mercantile business. He died at the age of seventy-five years.
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