Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1901, Part 25

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Publication date: 1901
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In 1851 Mr. Kingsley became a resident of Cambridge. He is widely known and much esteemed as a public-spirited citizen and a man of high moral worth. He has served as a member of the School Committee and the Board of Aldermen, also twenty-nine years on the Water Board of Cambridge, his services during this long term of office bringing him the title of "Father of the Cambridge Water Works." Ile was in the State Legislature five years in the eighties; namely, as a Repre-


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sentative in 1882, 1883, and 1884, and as Senator in ISSS and 1889. He is a trustee of the Worcester Academy, Colby University, the Newton Theological Institution, the American Baptist Education Society, and the Massachusetts Baptist State Convention, and was three years president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. He has been one of the executive committee of the Ameri- can Baptist Missionary . Union and president of the Boston Baptist Social Union. He is a member of the Cambridge, the Colonial, and the Massachusetts Clubs. In politics he is a Prohibitionist and Republican. He has given much time and money to two causes whose in- terests he has greatly at heart, education and religion, among his beneficiaries being the Worcester Academy, Colby University at Waterville, Me., and the Newton Theological Institution. In March, 1898, he presented twenty-five thousand dollars to each of the above, and also to the American Baptist Missionary Union, the American Baptist Publication Society of Philadelphia, Amer- ican Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, the Massachusetts Baptist Convention, and later to Brown University of Provi- dence.


He married May 12, 1846, Miss Mary Jane Todd, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Worcester) Todd, of Brighton, and a grand- daughter of Israel L. Worcester. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley was blessed by the birth of seven children: Ella Jane, born in Brighton, December 24, 1847; Chester Henry, born in Brighton, October 29, 1850, who died December 8, 1854; Addie May, born May 4, 1854; Chester Warren, born November 11, 1856, who died January 4, 1858; I.uceba Dorr, born June 26, 1859, who died October 25, 1897; Elmer Glover, born December 10, 1861, died January 7, 1863; Chester Willard, born March 19, 1872.


Ella Jane, the eldest child, married October 20, 1870, M. Clinton Bacon, of Cambridge, Mass. They have had two children - Alice May, born October 18, 1871, who married Fred Jouett in April, 1897; and Moses Clin- ton, born April 29, 1876, who died in Septem- her, 1896. Addie May, the third child, mar-


ried December 24, 1873, D. Frank Elfis, of Cambridge, and has two children - May Helen, born December 8, 1874; and Parker Kingsley, born May 23, 1897. Luceba Dorr Kingsley, the fifth child, married Parker F. Soule, February 26, 1886, leaving at her death one child, Priscilla Bradford, born October 25, 1897. Chester Willard Kingsley married Rose Bacharach, of Rondout, N. Y., May 16, 1893, and died at Colorado Springs, Septem- ber 26, 1895. Ile left one child, Chester Ward Kingsley, second, born July 30, 1895.


AUL WILLARD, A. M., counsellor- at-law, for a number of years a resi- dent of Roxbury, where he was City Solicitor in 1861 and 1862, and where he died August 15, 1868, was a native of Charlestown, Mass. Born September 26, 1824, son of Paul and Harriet (Whiting) Willard, he was of the eighth generation in descent from Major Simon Willard, his immi- grant progenitor, the line being: Simon,1 Henry,2 Henry, 3 William, + William,5 Paul," Paul, ? Pauls.


Simon Willard was baptized April 7, 1605. at Horsmonden, Kent County, England. He joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. and was one of the founders of Concord, Mass. Henry Willard, born at Concord, Mass .. June 4, 1655, son of Major Simon by his third wife, Mary Dunster, married first Mary Lakin, of Groton, Mass., and second Dorcas Cutler.


Henry Willard, Jr., son of Henry and Mary. born at Groton in 1675, married first Abigail Temple, and second Sarah Nutting. He re- moved from Groton to Lancaster. His son William, baptized at Lancaster in 1713, mar- ried Sarah Gates, of that town, and settled at Harvard, where William, Jr., born in 1737. married in 1760 Mary Whittemore, of Con- cord. Paul Willard, first, born at Lancaster in 1764, married, December 18, 1792, Martha, daughter of Colonel Henry llaskell of the Revolutionary army, and after her death married in 1810 Polly Damon.


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graduated at Harvard College in 1817 and ad- mitted to the bar in 1821. He was Postmas- ter at Charlestown, September, 1822, to July, 1829, and clerk of the Massachusetts Senate seven years from May, 1823. A resident of Charlestown, he there practised his profession, and long took a leading part in the conduct of local public affairs. He married, October 10, 1821, Harriet, daughter of Captain Timothy and Lydia (l'helps) Whiting, of Lancaster, and at his death, March 18, 1856, was survived by his wife and five children - Sydney A., Paul, Timothy W., Ellen M., and Mary E. Mrs. Harriet Whiting Willard died December 25, 1879. Her father, Captain Timothy Whiting, a Revolutionary officer, born in 1758, son of Timothy, Sr., and Sarah (Osgood) Whiting, was a grandson of Deacon Samuel and Deborah (Hill) Whiting, of Billerica, and was of the sixth generation from his first American ancestor, the Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, the descent being through the immigrant's eldest son, the Rev. Samuel, Jr., of Billerica, born in England in 1633, who married in 1656 Dorcas Chester, and their son Oliver, who married Anna Danforth, daughter of Captain Jonathan Danforth, Oliver being the father of Deacon Samuel Whiting above named.


The Rev. Samuel Whiting, A. M., was born in 1597 in Boston, England, where his father, John Whiting, was mayor of the city in 1600 and 1608. After his graduation at Emanuel College, Cambridge, he took orders, and for a number of years officiated as a clergyman of the Anglican Church. Repeated complaint of his non-conformity led at length to his final re- moval early in 1636 to the Massachusetts Bay Colony ; and in November of that year he was settled as pastor of the first church at Lynn, where he continued in the work of the ministry till his death in December, 1679. His second wife, Elizabeth St. John, whom he married in 1629, died at Lynn in 1677. She was a sister of Oliver St. John, Chief Justice of England, who married an own cousin of Oliver Crom- well. Records published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for Jan- uary, 1860, show that Elizabeth St. John was a member of the twentieth generation of the family founded by William de St. John, who


went to England as grandmaster of artillery in the invading army of William the Norman, from whom also she was descended in two dis- tinct lines; that she was "sixth cousin to lIenry VII.," and numbered among her royal ancestors King Henry I., the Empress Ma- tilda, King Henry II., King John, Henry III .. and Edward I., a notice in the Register for July, 1861, adding to the list, among lesser names, Alfred the Great, Charles the Bold ot France, and Charlemagne.


Paul Willard, third, the special subject of this biographical sketch, was fitted for college at Blake's Classical School in Charlestown, and was graduated at Harvard with high honors in 1845. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He studied law two years at the Harvard Law School and one year in his father's office, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and thenceforth devoted himself assid- uously to the duties of his profession, having his office at first in Charlestown and afterward in Boston. In December, 1855, he was ad- mitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, and in 1862 he was appointed by Governor Andrew a Justice of the Peace and Quorum throughout the Commonwealth. For a long period he was Commissioner of Deeds for New England, and for ten successive years he was one of the committee for visiting the Dane Law School. In 1847 he was chosen clerk of the common council of Charlestown, and in 1857 and 1858 he was a member of the council. He was a Representative to the General Court in 1857. The office of City Solicitor of Roxbury he resigned in February, 1863. A Democrat in politics, in religion he was a Unitarian, and an attendant of the Eliot Church of Roxbury. He belonged to the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; and the organ of that society, the Register, con- tained (January, 1870) a brief memoir of Mr. Willard, with genealogical notes on the Willard and Whiting families, whence we have derived most of the foregoing information, and from which we quote the following appreciative analysis of his character : -


"When Mr. Willard removed to Roxbury, he had few intimate friends there; but very soon there were many, among the first citizens


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JOHN READ, AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN. FROM A PAINTING BY COPLEY.


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of the place, who gladly held that relation to him. One of his leading traits was the social magnetism by which he won and retained friendships. Certainly, he never seemed to be in a more joyous and congenial element than on these occasions in his own house when he was dispensing hospitality and diffusing the cheer- tul influence of his simple presence among a small circle of near and attached friends. . . .


A. a public speaker, Mr. Willard always com- manded attention by the animation of his delivery, and a clear and musical utterance that made him easily heard even among a crowd in the open air. . . . He was always ready to aid in any good public cause. His general refine- ment and purity of life, his generous impulses and his unswerving fidelity, his noble indus- try, his unselfishness, his uprightness, and his high sense of honor -these may be regarded as among his negative traits, so naturally did he seem to assume that it was no merit in a gen- tleman to manifest them. But in their posses- sion we may perhaps find the secret of that sweetness which tempered the manly traits of his character, so harmonious and well rounded, and which made him at once respected and beloved."


Mr. Willard married, April 9, 1849, Maria Louisa, only daughter of Samuel F. and Maria (1.ynde) McCleary, of Boston. She died in Charlestown, February 11, 1851. He married second, July 6, 1859, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Read Weld, daughter of George and Rebecca (Pierce) Read, of Roxbury, and widow of George Weld. From this time forth he made his home in Roxbury. By his first wife he had one child, a son, Arthur Walter, born Decem- ber 26, 1850, now living in Dorchester.


Mrs. Mary E. R. Willard, who still resides in Roxbury, now a district of Boston, has one son, Clifford Read Weld, by her first husband, Mr. George Weld, who died on December 21, 1855.


Mr. Willard left a manuscript, bearing date January 1, 1866, containing genealogical notes, with memoranda prepared by himself at the evrense of much time and labor, on the Whit- ing. Read, and Weld families. To this we are indebted for the following lineages of George Reid and his grandson, Clifford R. Weld : -


GEORGE READ was born in Boston, July 25, 1789, and died at Roxbury, March 27, 1856. He was the second son of John and Marcia (Goodwin) Read, and was of the seventh gen- cration in descent from William Read. the founder of this branch of the family in Amer- ica. The line was: William,' Ralph,? Jo- seph, 3 Joseph,4 John,5 John,6 George.7 In England there were, it is said, three in suc- cessive generations bearing the Christian name Thomas before Thomas, fourth, father of the immigrant.


William Read was born in 1587. With his wife, Mabel Kendall, and four children. he arrived at Boston in the "Defence" in Octo- ber, 1635. After living in Dorchester, in Scituate, and in Brookline, he removed to Woburn, where he bought a farm. Returning to England, he died at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1656. He had three children born in America. His son Ralph, born in England in 1630. mar- ried Mary, daughter of Anthony Pierce, of Watertown, and settled in Woburn. Their son, Joseph, Sr., was the father of Joseph. Jr., of Woburn, who married for his first wife Sarah Rice, of Sudbury, a descendant of Ed- mund Rice.


James Read, eldest son of Joseph, Jr., was an officer in the French and Indian War and in the Revolution, being the "first brigadier- general appointed by the Provincial Congress. "


John Read, second son of Joseph, Jr., and Sarah (Rice) Read, was taken when he was two years old by his mother's sister, Mrs. Daniel Bugbee, who carried him on horseback to her home in Roxbury. Ile became a distinguished citizen of the town, being known as Major Read. ITe was in the Legislature from 1785 to 1799, and at one time was on the gover- nor's council. He was a Justice of the Peace and Quorum throughout the State, was land agent for Massachusetts, and also one of the commissioners on the setting off of Maine from Massachusetts. For a number of years he owned and occupied, dispensing therefrom an elegant hospitality, the stately mansion at Roxbury built by Governor Shirley, which was Washington's headquarters for a time during the siege of Boston. The estate, after passing through several hands, was bought by Gover-


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nor Eustis, who there entertained Lafayette in 1 824. Major John Read died January 13, 1813, aged eighty-five years; and his wife, Hannah Goddard, died July 15, 1815, aged eighty-one. Their mortal remains rest at Mount Auburn. Their son John, Jr., a wine merchant of Boston, was a resident of Rox- bury, where he owned large tracts of land. He is spoken of as a man of elegant manners, quick and ready wit, learning and varied ac- complishments. Ilis portrait as a youth of seventeen, by Copley, is now in possession of Mrs. Paul Willard, his grand-daughter. Ile died in 1826, having survived his wife, Mar- cia, nearly seventeen years. Mrs. Marcia Goodwin Read was daughter of Nathaniel Goodwin, of Plymouth.


George Read, whose ancestry we have thus traced, was the last male of his line. He was a merchant of Boston, and a citizen of acknow]- edged position in Roxbury. Genial and social, he was very fond of animals and birds, and was an accomplished sportsman. For twenty- six years he was the owner of the bald eagle which Audubon took for portraiture in his great work, and which is now in the Natural History Rooms in Boston, being the first one of that species placed there. He married, December 2, 1819, Rebecca Pierce, daughter of Benjamin Pierce, a large ship-owner of Newburyport. She was a woman of remark- able beauty, and very popular in her native city, as well as in the city of her adoption. She died May 9, 1834, leaving three children : Caroline P., born in Boston, February 18, 1821; George P. ; and Mary Elizabeth, born April 2, 1824. Caroline P. married, January 6, 1842, George Drew, of Duxbury, and died November 5, 1892.


Mary E. Read was married December 14, 1848, to George Weld, of Roxbury. They had three children : George R., born November 25, 1849, died in infancy ; Percy R., born Novem- her 2, 1852, died August 18, 1853; and Clif- ford Read, born in Roxbury, August 16, 1854, who married, September 6, 1898, Clarissa Lyon.


CLIFFORD READ WELD is of the ninth gen- eration in descent from the Rev. Thomas


Weld, pastor of the first church at Roxbury. The line is: the Rev. Thomas, ' Thomas, 2 Ed- mund, 3 Edmund, + Samuel, 5 Samuel,6 Samuel WV., 7 George, " Clifford Read.


The Rev. Thomas Willard, a clergyman of the Church of England, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, having been excommuni- cated by Archbishop Laud, left London in March, 1632, with his wife and three children, in the ship "William and Francis, " arrived at Boston in June, and was settled at Roxbury in November of the same year. He was a man of great influence in the colony. His son, Thomas, married Dorothy Whiting, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn (thus making Clifford R. Weld a Whiting descend- ant of the ninth generation). Edmund Weld, Sr., married Elizabeth White; and their son, Edmund, Jr., born in 1695, married Clemence Dorr, and was the father of Samuel, born in 1726, whose first wife was Hannah Rogers. Samuel Weld, Jr., married, May 27, 1817, Nancy Sumner, and was the father of three children : Samuel, third, Elizabeth W., and George. Elizabeth W., born April 24, 1820, married, May 10, 1848, Epes Sargent. George Weld, the younger son, was born June 26, 1823. For a short time in the latter part of his life he resided with his wife and their only surviving child, Clifford R., in North- boro; but on account of illness he was taken to his mother's home in Roxbury, where he died, as above noted, December 21, 1855. Ilis burial was in Forest Ilill Cemetery, in the Weld lot on Cherry Avenue.


TON. CHARLES EDWARD FOL- SOM, one of the principal Assessors of the city of Boston, and formerly a member of the Massachusetts Sen- ate, was born in Boston, February 24, 1855, a son of Charles Edward and Mary A. (Pay- son) Folsom. He comes of a long line of New England ancestry, being a descendant in the ninth generation of John Folsom, who was baptized in Hingham, England, in 1615, and who came to America in 1638, settling at llingham, Mass., and in 1650 removed to Exe- ter, N. H. John Folsom was married October


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:. 1636, to Mary, eldest child of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman. He died at Exeter, N. H., December 27, 168t, his wife surviving him about eight or ten years. The line of descent from John' to the Hon. Charles Ed- ward Folsom is as follows: Deacon John Fol- om, born in 1640, was married November 10, 1675, to Abigail, daughter of Abraham Per- kins, of Hampton. Ile died in 1715. Jere- mich, 3 born in 1680, married in 1705, and died in 1757. Colonel Jeremiah Folsom, ' born July 25, 1719, was married November 28, 1742. to Mary Hersey. He died in 1802. Simeon Folsom,5 born April 7, 1749, was a teacher by occupation. He married Sarah Rust, of Ipswich, Mass., and died January 16, 1810, at Exeter, N. H. The Hon. Simeon Folsom,6 born June 19, 1776, in Newmarket, N. H., married in iSoo Mary Leavitt, daughter of Captain James Leavitt, of Exeter, N. H. Ile died in 1816. He resided in Exeter, N. H., ind served with distinction in the New Hamp- shire Senate. At his death he left eight chil- dien. Isaac Lord Folsom, 7 son of the Hon. Simeon, was born in Exeter, N. H., in 1802. Hle married Lydia Titcomb, of Dover, N. II. ; and they had one son, Charles Edward


Charles Edward Folsom," first, was born in Dover, N. II. Coming to Boston when a young man, he here established himself in the paint and oil business in 1849, and followed it con- tinvously as long as he lived. He was one of the organizers and the first commodore of the Biston Yacht Club, and a prominent member ut the Masonic order. His success in life was due almost entirely to his own efforts, and he was what has been aptly termed a self-made man. lle married in Exeter, N. II., Novem- ber 12, 1849, Mary Ann, a daughter of Jona- thin Clark Payson, of Exeter, N. H. They had several children; namely, Lydia Titcomb, Iane Lord, Charles Edward, Franklin Ros- well, William Sprague, Mary Louise, Freder- nok King, and Ilelen Pratt.


Charles Edward Folsom,? second, received his education in the public schools of Boston. At the age of seventeen he entered his father's store, where he remained as clerk until 1880. In that year he became a member of the firm, and so continued till July, 1898, when he


retired therefrom. Hle first entered into pub- lic life in 1891, when he was elected to the common council for that and the following year. He was Alderman in 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896, and in 1897 and 1898 was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, serving on the Committees on Manufactures, Cities, and Pub- lic Health. In 1898 he was appointed by Jo- siah Quincy, mayor of Boston, to the office of principal Assessor, which office he now holds. In politics he has always been a Republican. In the several public offices that he has held, he has shown a knowledge of affairs, a sound and comprehensive judgment, and a fidelity to principle and to the interests of his constitu- ents, and of the public generally, that have marked him as an ideal publie servant. He belongs to various fraternal associations, as the Royal Arcanum, the Ilome Circle, A. O. U. W .; also to the Dorchester Club, the Dorchester Republican Club, the Franklin Field Club, and Post 68, G. A. R., of which he is an associate member.


Mr. Folsom was married, June 30, 1880, to Miss Annic F. Ordway, a daughter of Joseph M. and Mary A. (Attwood) Ordway, of Boston. They have three children : Mary Ordway, born May 30, 188t ; Robert Morse, born January 14, 1884; and Rufus Coffin, born October 24, 1886.


ILLIAM PRATT, of Chelsea, Suf- folk County, was born in Cohasset, Mass., June 21, 1812, son of Thomas and Lucy (Turner) Pratt. His first progenitor in this country was Phinehas Pratt, ' born in England in 1590, a son of the Rev. Henry I'ratt, a Nonconformist minister. Phinchas Pratt came to America in the "Sparrow," which arrived at the Damariscove Islands, off the coast of Maine, in May, 1622, and shortly after, leaving that vessel in a shallop, landed at Plymouth. He was one of the colonists sent out by Thomas Weston, of London. The other vessels sent by Weston arrived in July; and in one of these, the "Swan," a party of men, including P'ratt. shortly left Plymouth, and began a settlement at what is now Weymouth, Mass. They were


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but poorly provided with provisions, and during the following winter some of their number died of starvation. The rest, it is said, were in danger of being cut off by the Ind- ians, and were only saved from that fate by the "courage, adroitness, and endurance of Phineas Pratt," who in March 1623, though closely pursued, made his way to Plymouth, arriving there much exhausted. Hearing his story, Myles Standish and some of his men then went to the rescue. On regaining strength Pratt "went to Piscataqua, and was in skir- mishes with the natives at Agawam and at Dorchester. Hence he sums up his early perils by saying: 'Three times we fought with them. Thirty miles I was pursued for my life in a time of frost and snow, as a deer chased by wolves.'" (See Massachusetts His- torical Collections, fourth series, vol. iv.)


Phinehas Pratt for some years lived at Plym- outh, where in 1630 he married Mary l'riest, a daughter of Digory Priest. ller father, who was a "Mayflower " Pilgrim, died soon after his arrival at Plymouth at the time of the gen- eral sickness. Digory Priest's wife was a sis- ter of Isaac Allerton. She is said to have married for her third husband Cuthbert Cuth- bertson. Phinehas P'ratt died in Charles- town, Mass., in 1680, leaving among other children a son Aaron,2 born in 1654, who died in 1735.


Aaron Pratt2 had a son Aaron,3 born in March, 1690-91, who married Mary Whit- comb, and died in 1767. llis son Thomas, + born in 1736 at Cohasset, married Sarah Neal, and died in 1818, leaving a number of chil- dren, one of them a son Thomas,5 born in 1773, who was the father of the subject of this sketch. This younger Thomas Pratt was in early life a seafaring man, and held the title of captain. About 1813 he removed from Co- . hasset, his native town, to Scituate, where he engaged in farming. llis wife, Lucy, was a daughter of Abel Turner, who lived in that part of Scituate now called Norwell.


William Pratt when a young man learned the trade of cooper, which he followed for some years, working for a while in the island of Cuba. After his return to the United States he went into the house-building and


real estate business in Chelsea in the fall of 1836, and continued successfully until his re- tirement in 1880.


He married in Chelsea, May 26, 1842, Phebe Amelia Clark, daughter of George and Abigail (Hanson) Clark, of Dover, N. H., where she was born February 24, 1814. Her mother was a daughter of Israel Hanson, of that town. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt were four in number. Two of these, Charles Hanson and Allen Thomas, died in infancy. The survivors are: George William and Charles Hanson, second.


George William Pratt was born in Chelsea, July 10, 1843, and was educated in the public schools of that city. He learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed for some years. In 1878 he removed to Stoughton, Mass., where he has since resided, though his time is chiefly spent in the care of the extensive real estate interests of his father in Chelsea. He


enlisted in Company HI, Forty-third Massa- chusetts Volunteers, for service in the Civil War, and accompanying his regiment to New- bern, N. C., took part in the battles of Kins- ton, Whitehall, and Goldsboro. He is a mem- ber of A. St. John Chambre Post, No. 72, G. A. R., of Stoughton, in which he served twelve years as Adjutant and two terms as Commander. He married in Chelsea, May 26, 1868, Clara Isabelle Pierce, who was born in East Boston, Mass., March 2, 1850, daughter of Amos and Delaney (Robinson) Pierce, of West Townsend, Mass. The following is a record of the thirteen children born to Mr. and Mrs. George W. Pratt, the birth date accompanying the name of each: Ida Belle, May 4, 1869; Eugene Forrest, October 19, 1871, who married Etta Parker, July 5, 1898; Walter George, September 7, 1873, who mar- ried Emma Lowe, April 29, 1896, who has one child, Marion Eliza; Mabel Florence, September 3. 1874, who died in infancy ; Albert William, May 5, 1876; Florence Amelia, May 6, 1877, who married Frederic Oxton, January 5, 1898; Oscar Everett, March 3. 1881; Ethel Alice, July 19, 1883; Mabel Gertrude, December 10, 1885: Cora Lillian, June 6. 1887; Stella May, August 23. 1888; Harold Lester, June 29, 1890; and Grace




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