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Warren Lynde, like his father, made agri- culture his life occupation. In the War of 1812 with Great Britain he shouldered a mus- ket and went to join in the defence of Boston. He died in 1888, at the age. of eighty-nine years. His wife, Nancy, was born in Tewks- bury, Mass., a daughter of William Scarlett. They had three children - Henry, Winfield, and Herbert, of whom the two latter are now deceased.
Henry Lynde received his education in the schools of Melrose, and at the age of sixteen years he went to work in the Charlestown navy- yard to learn the trade of machinist. Having remained there four years, he returned home and worked on the farm for his father one year. Hle then took the farm on shares, and thus con- ducted it till ISSo, after which he rented it until his father's death in 1888. His principal products were milk, hay, and vegetables. Be- coming the owner of the farm by inheritance on the death of his father, Mr. Lynde continued to carry it on, making a specialty of market- gardening, and selling his produce in Melrose and Malden. He now has about fifteen acres chiefly devoted to that business. In 1883 he suffered a severe sunstroke, and has since con- fined his labors to a general supervision of his business. Mr. Lynde is a Democrat, politi-
cally, but has never sought public office. He attends the Universalist church.
He was married in 1870 to Sarah A., adopted daughter of Dominicus Hanson, of Lebanon, Me. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lynde, namely : Frank W., who was edu- cated in Melrose, and is now employed on his father's farm; Alta Ethel, Bessie M., and Harold A., who reside at home with their par- ents; and Olivia, who died in infancy.
AMES MONROE DALY, a prominent member of the dental profession of the city of Boston, and a resident of the Dorchester District, was born in Salisbury, Vt., December 23, 1829, son of James W. and Sarah (Owen) Daly. He is a grandson of James Daly, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, who when a young man emigrated to Canada, and there engaged in the lumber busi- ness. James Daly married Debora McKellup, who was born in Connecticut, and who previ- ous to her marriage resided in Henniker, N. H. After the death of Mr. Daly she married a Mr. Stephen Barber. By her first hushand she had six children, of whom the eldest was James; and of her second union she reared five chil- dren. She lived to the advanced age of ninety-six years. James Daly died at the age of sixty. He was a thirty-third degree Mason.
James Washington Daly was born in Corn- wall, Addison County, Vt., in the month of August 26, 1806. He became a miller, and was engaged in that business during the entire active period of his life, owning a large flour- ing-mill in Bristol, Vt. He married Sarah Owen, daughter of Abner and Lucretia Owen, of Middlebury, Vt., and of Scotch ancestry on the paternal side. Her mother, whose maiden name was Lucretia Severy, was of Dutch descent, it is said, and of old Colonial stock, some of her ancestors having taken an active part in the Revolutionary War. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Daly were the parents of three children : Sarah Lucretia, who married Almon Thomas, and died at the age of thirty- two years; James Monroe, the subject of this sketch; and Martin II., who was killed at the
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age of twenty-one years by the falling of a tree in the Adirondacks. James W. Daly died in 1888, at the age of eighty-two years. His wife died a year later at the same age. Iler father, Abner Owen, died at the age of one hundred years.
James M. Daly was educated in Boston, of which city he became a resident at the age of sixteen years, his studies being pursued mostly at an evening school. In 1846 he began the study of dentistry under Dr. John Sabine on Franklin Street, then a residential street, and six years later, in 1852, began the active prac- tice of his profession, in which he has since been constantly engaged. He was graduated at the Boston Dental College in 1870 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Dr. Daly has kept full pace with all the marvellous progress of dental science in the last half cen- tury, and his reputation for careful and skilful work brings him a large and lucrative practice.
He was married in 1852 to Miss Amelia S. Churchill, a daughter of Thomas and Sally (Sprague) Churchill, of Hingham. Of this union were born two children : James Harlow Daly, D. D.S., a resident of Milton Lower Mills, and a professor in the Boston Dental College; and Grace Amelia, who died at the age of eight months. Mrs. Amelia. Daly died in 1860; and Dr. Daly married for his second wife, in 1864, Miss Elizabeth Tolman Bisp- ham, a daughter of Eleazer J. and Mary E. (Tolman) Bispham, of Dorchester, and a rep- resentative of an old Colonial family. Of this second union there is one child, Dr. M. Ordway Daly, who is associated with his father as a partner in the practice of dentistry.
Dr. Daly attends the Unitarian church. Politically, he was in early years a member of the Whig party, but has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He be- longs to the Royal Arcanum.
ORRIS BAILEY HALL, a prosper- ous real estate dealer of Everett, was born at Gates, N. Y., June 25, 1843, son of Stephen and Eliza- beth (Bailey) Hall. He traces his ancestry back eight generations to John Hall, a native
of Kent, England, who came to the Massachu- setts Bay Colony in 1633, lived for a short time at Cambridge and at Roxbury, was made a freeman in Boston in 1635, and, removing with his family to Connecticut in 1639, be- came proprietor of a house lot at Hartford, whence in 1650 he removed to Middletown, where he died in 1673, in his eighty-ninth year. He left four children - John, Richard, Sarah, and Samuel. He was a man of influ- ence in the new settlement, holding various public offices, including that of Recorder.
Daniel Hall, Sr., of Middletown, said to have been a descendant of John through his son Richard, was the father of Daniel, Jr., who married Rachel Blake, and was the father of Seth, who married Hepzibah Savage. Seth Hall, Morris B. Hall's grandfather, a farmer by occupation, died in Middletown, Conn., at the age of eighty-four years.
Stephen Hall, son of Seth, was brought up in Middletown on the home farm, to the ownership of which he subsequently succeeded. After his marriage he settled in Gates, N. Y., but subsequently, when his son Morris was a young man, returned to Middletown, where he died November 15, 1851, at the age of thirty years. His first wife, Elizabeth, died March 9, 1844. She was a daughter of Captain Morris Bailey, and a direct descendant of old Mother Bailey, who acquired fame as a heroine at the burning of New London, Conn. By his second wife, Adeline Haling, Stephen Hall had four children; namely, Charles C., Eliza- beth A., Thomas L., and Stephen.
Morris B. Hall was educated in the pub- lic schools of Middletown and at the Middle- town Institute. Subsequently, having learned the trade of jeweller, he established himself in business at Essex, Conn., and was thus en- gaged for twenty years. In 1888 he came to Everett, and engaged in the real estate busi- ness, which he has since followed successfully here. In 1895, 1896, 1897, and 1898 he served on the Board of Aldermen of Everett. He is a Past Master of Mount Olive Lodge, F. & A. M., and a member of Burning Bush Chapter, R. A. M., both in Essex, Coun.
Mr. Hall was married on October 26, 1864, to Miss Carrie Delia House, daughter of
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Edwin and Mary House, of Hartford, Conn. He has one son, Edwin Morris, born March 24, 1867, who married November 7, 1888, Annie Elizabeth Pierce, a native of Hartford, Conn., born July 17, 1866, a daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth (Main) Pierce.
Mrs. Edwin Hall is a descendant of John Pierce, of Norwich, Norfolk County, England, who emigrated to America in 1637, and was one of the early proprietors of Watertown, Mass. He died in 1666, leaving a son John, who was born in England in 1609, and who ac- companied him to America. John Pierce, second, was father of John, third, born in 1644, who married Ann Huthwitt, described in the records as "of gentle blood." They were the parents of Sergeant John Pierce, who served in the Colonial Army. He was the father of Joseph, born in 1725, whose son Joel was born in 1755. Joel's son, Joel Pierce, second, who was born in 1794 and died in 1846, married Nancy Sherman; and they were the parents of Elijah Sherman Pierce, Mrs. Edwin Hall's father. Mr. Edwin Hall is associated in business with his father. He has two children living - Edwin Sherman, born in November, 1896, and Norman Pierce, born August 3, 1898.
A™ SHTON. HOMAN THAYER, a well- known citizen of Wakefield and an ac- tive business man, was born in South Boston, Mass, July 19, 1849, a son of Charles E. Thayer. He comes of English ancestry, and represents one of the earlier families to settle in Norfolk County, Massa- chusetts, being a descendant in the eighth generation of Richard Thayer. The line is traced in the Thayer Family Memorial thus : Richard,' Richard,2 Richard, 3 Richard, + Rich- ard,5 Richard,6 Charles E.,7 and Ashton H. 8
Richard Thayer, first, emigrated from Eng- land with his family of eight children, in- cluding three sons, Richard, Zachariah, and Nathaniel. He was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640, and settled permanently in Braintree, where his death occurred on August 27, 1695. Richard Thayer, second, who came to New England
with his parents, married in 1651 Dorothy Pray. Their eldest son, Lieutenant Richard Thayer, born in 1655, was a lifelong resident of Braintree, where he married in 1679 Rebecca Mycall. Richard Thayer, fourth, was born in Braintree, January 26, 1685. His first wife, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Anna White, died in early womanhood, leaving seven chil- dren. His second wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Ford, bore him four children, one being a son, Richard, fifth of the name in direct line. Richard Thayer, fifth, born March 18, 1731, married Esther, daughter of Moses and Esther French, and was the father of eleven children. The sixth son was Richard Thayer, sixth, born March 21, 1769, who settled in Boston. He married in 1798 Martha Apple- ton, daughter of Thomas and Martha ( Barnard) Appleton, of this city, and had seven children.
Charles E. Thayer, son of Richard and Martha, was born in Boston, Mass., May 28, 1812, and died April 9, 1875. A brush-maker by trade, he worked successively in the employ of John J. Adams and of John L. Whiting, both prominent brush-makers of Boston. Prior to the late Civil War, Charles E. Thayer was a stanch Democrat in his political affiliations, but he was afterward identified with the Re- publican party. He married Nancy, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Verte) Homan, of Marblehead. Her father, it is supposed, was lost at sea, as the ship on which he set sail from Charleston, S.C., was never again heard from. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Thayer, the record being as follows: Susan S. married Edwin Pratt, and died in 1864; Mary II., the widow of the late Joseph A. Pratt, resides in Lakeville; Charles E. died in 1869; Samuel died in early life; Ashton H. is the special subject of this sketch, his personal history being outlined below; and Nancy H. is a resident of Wakefield.
Ashton H. Thayer was educated in the com- mon schools of Boston, Reading, and Wake- field. At the age of fifteen he found employ- ment with Degen & Estes, who were engaged in the book trade on Cornhill, Boston. He had been there but a short time when he had the misfortune to lose his leg by an accident which befell in this wise: jumping from a moving
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train at the Greenwood station on the Boston & Mune Railroad, he slipped upon the icy plat- tum, and fell under the wheels of the car. For four years he was unable to work, but in isin-74 he learned the trade of a sign painter under W. F. Halsall, now a well-known muine artist, at the same time having charge at the books. He subsequently accepted a po- sition with Barlow & Bancroft, insurance sur- severs, in New York City, and remained in their employ twenty-three years. In May, 1996, he purchased the news-stand, periodical, und stationery store of C. A. Cheney, on Main Street, Wakefield, and has since conducted it successfully, his patronage being large and lu- ciative. He is also doing a good fire insurance business, having bought the interests of Dr. J. D. Mansfield, and being the representative of a number of prominent fire insurance com- pinies. With the exception of three years in New York, he has resided in Wakefield since 1857.
Mr. Thayer is a public-spirited man, never shirking his duties as a faithful citizen, and, in addition to having served on various town com- mittees, has been a member of the local School Board fifteen consecutive years, eight years of the time being its chairman. He has also served several years on the Board of Trustees of the Public Library. Politically, he is a sound Republican. He attends the Congrega- tional church.
INGATE PAYNE SARGENT, who was at the head of one of the largest wholesale houses of Boston, is a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Mel- rose, which has been his home for more than forty years. He was born March 22, 1822, in West Amesbury, now Merrimac, Mass., which was likewise the birthplace of his father, Robert Sargent, and the home of his ancestors for several generations. He is of the seventh generation in descent from William Sargent, of Salisbury and Amesbury, the founder of this branch of the family in New England, the line being : William,' Thomas,2 Thomas, Jr.,3 Ste- phen, + Amasa,5 Robert, 6 Wingate Payne.7
William Sargent, who came from England,
is said to have been an inhabitant of Agawam, now Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1633, after- ward living successively in Newbury, in Hamp- ton, Salisbury, and in Amesbury, where he was one of the original settlers. After the death of his wife, Elizabeth Perkins, who was the mother of several of his seven children, if not of all of them (some authorities saying that he had a former wife, Judith Perkins), he married in 1670 Joanna Pindor, widow of Valentine Rowell. No children were born of this union.
Thomas Sargent, his eldest son, born in Salisbury, June 11, 1643, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity before Magistrate Robert Pike in 1677, and afterward became one of the town officers and a man of prominence in the community. He married Rachel, daughter of William Barnes. Thomas Sargent, Jr., born in Amesbury, November 15, 1676, was a well- to-do farmer, and often served in public offices. On December 17, 1702, he married Mary Stevens, also of Amesbury, who bore him six children. Stephen Sargent, born in Ames- bury, September 14, 1710, was a Captain in the French and Indian War. He was a Deacon of the church; and it is said that he prayed with his company while stationed at Crown Point, a proceeding not approved by the higher officers. He married September 26, 1730, Judith Ordway, of Newbury. Amasa Sargent, born in Amesbury, December 11, 1744, married in 1770 Mary Webster. She died very young, and on October 18, 1774, he married Sarah Sargent, daughter of Robert Sargent, of Ames- bury.
Robert Sargent, father of Wingate P. Sar- gent, was born January 8, 1788, and died May 15, 1851. He was a lifelong resident of Ames- bury, where he carried on a prosperous business as a carriage manufacturer. He was twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name was Martha Nichols, died in 1812, Icaving one daughter, Martha. Ile subsequently married his first wife's sister Eunice, who was born April 8, 1796, and died October 19, 1861. Of his second marriage five children were born, namely: Amasa, of Melrose, who is in the wholesale grocery business in Boston; Frederick W., living retired at Newton; Win- gate P., the special subject of this biography;
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Sidney, of New York City, who is connected with the Gilbert Manufacturing Company; and Mary Parker, wife of E. K. Knight, of Melrose.
Wingate P. Sargent obtained a practical edu- . cation in the public schools of Amesbury, which he attended regularly until he was six- teen years old. Going then to the neighboring town of Haverhill, he was a clerk in the dry- goods store of Warren Whittier for two years. In 1839 he accepted a similar position in the general store of Anderson & Nichols, in Merri- mac, N. H., where he remained two and one- half years. He was subsequently engaged in teaching for a time, having charge of a school for general studies in the daytime, and in the evenings teaching penmanship. Subsequently, retiring from his educational labors, he went to Bangor, Me., where he was employed for a while as a clerk; and then, in company with his brother Amasa, he established himself in business in Ellsworth, Me., as a dry-goods merchant. In 1846 Mr. Sargent entered the dry-goods store of Anderson & Sargent in Bos- ton, a firm of which his brother was a member ; and he was afterward himself admitted to part- nership, the firm name being changed to An- derson, Sargent & Co., with W. P. Sargent as junior member. When the firm dissolved, Mr. Sargent formed a partnership with his brother Sidney, and established on Winthrop Square a wholesale jobbing house under the firm name of Sargent Brothers, continuing the same until the fire of 1872. This firm had begun operations on a modest scale, and had gradually increased its trade until it did an eight-million-dollar business per annum, the largest ever done by any jobbing house either before or since the fire. The business was closed up a few years later, and in 1877 Mr. Sargent went to California for his health, re- maining there three years. Returning to Bos- ton, he began business again as a dealer in linings and findings, establishing a wholesale store on Bedford Street, under the firm name of W. P. Sargent & Co., and working up a trade that placed him at the head of one of the lead- ing business houses of Boston in that line.
On January 2, 1852, Mr. Sargent married Harriet Newell Taylor, who was born in Hart- ford, Conn., September 17, 1827, a daughter
of William and Ellen F. (Earl) Taylor. She died March 3, 1891, in Melrose, leaving three children : Florence Nichols, who was born No- vember 19, 1855, was educated in Melrose and New York City, and is now at home; William Earl, born April 19, 1858, who died December 20, 1870; and Mary Gilbert, born May 6, 1865, who married William S. Kent, of Mel- rose, and died April 5, 1900. On June 30, 1893, Mr. Sargent married Mary G. Lamson, who was born April 1, 1838, and died January 1, 1894. On December 5, 1894, he married for his third wife, Elizabeth H. Boyd, who was born in Greenfield, N. H., March 6, 1834.
Since 1857 Mr. Sargent has been a resident of Melrose, and has done his full share in promoting the interests of the town. From 1865 until 1869 he was chairman of the local Board of Selectmen. He has been frequently elected as Water Commissioner, and for ten years served as chairman of the board. In 1874 he was one of the organizers of the Mel- rose Savings Bank, and, being elected its pres- ident, served until 1878. In 1885 and 1886 he was a Representative to the General Court, in which he was during the first year a member of the Mercantile Committee, and the second year served on the Committee on Railroads. He attends the Congregational church. Polit- ically, he is a Republican, and, fraternally, is a member and a trustee of Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M., of Melrose.
ON. GEORGE FEARING HOLLIS, of Malden, formerly United States Consul at Cape Town, South Africa, and Minister Plenipoten- tiary for the Orange Free State, was born in Cambridge, Mass., February 13, 1838, son of William Owen and Harriet Swett (Pratt) Hollis. He comes of an old English family that came to this country early in the seven- teenth century; the first settler of whom there is any record being John Hollis, who lived in Weymouth, Mass., and married Eliz- abeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth Priest, about the year 1650. Their son John married Mary Yardley, and removed to
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Braintree, where the family resided through several generations. Thomas Hollis, the next descendant in line, married Rachel Mc- Kurett; and his son Daniel married Esther Owen, and had two sons, Daniel and Will- iam Owen, the latter father of the subject of this sketch.
William O. Hollis was born on Washing- ton Street, Boston (opposite the Old South Church), about 1798 or 1799. He learned and followed the trade of whip-maker, for forty years being an employee of the firm of Shelton & Cheever on Brattle Street. He served as private in the War of 1812. Dur- ing the latter part of his life he resided in Chelsea. His wife, Hannah S., was born in Boston in 1803 or 1804. They were the par- ents of eight children, of whom five are now living; namely, William Harrison, Joseph Owen, Charles Frederick, George F., and Eben Harrison.
George F. Hollis was educated in the pub- lic schools of Chelsea. At the age of sixteen years he went to sea, shipping before the mast on a fishing-vessel. Later he made two voy- ages to Mediterranean ports, continuing a sea- faring life for about two years in all. At the age of eighteen, in company with Mr. W. A. Haskell and with a cash capital of fifteen dol- lars, he established the paper known as the Chelsea Herald, which they conducted to- gether for about six months. At the end of that time Mr. Hollis went to Fayal with the Rev. Henry J. Hudson in the capacity of com- panion. Returning in 1860, on the death of Mr. Haskell, which occurred about that time, he again took charge of the Chelsea Herald, and conducted it until. July, 1861. During this second journalistic period he established a private school in Chelsea. In the month above mentioned, giving up at once his school and his paper, he went to Washington, D. C., with the intention of enlisting in the army, but was offered an officer's commission in the navy, and, while waiting for his papers to be made out, went as a volunteer with the Fed- eral army to the first battle of Bull Run. On July 24, 1861, he entered the United States Navy as master's mate on the United States steamship "Louisiana," on which he per-
formed blockade duty on the eastern shores of Virginia, and later participated with the Burnside expedition in the battles of Roanoke Island and Newbern, N.C., and in other en- gagements along the coast. On September 20, 1862, he was appointed Ensign, and join- ing the United States steamship "Octorara," which was attached to the Wilkes squadron, went in search of the rebel privateers " Flor- ida " and " Alabama," cruising in West India waters, and then joined the squadron of Ad- miral Farragut in the Mobile campaign. In 1864 he was promoted to the rank of Acting Master and assigned to the United States steamship "Fernandina," which he com- manded up to the close of the war. While in command of the "Fernandina," Captain Hollis, with twenty men, made a landing at Killkenny Bluffs, forty miles below Savannah, and, after scouting all night, fell in with Gen- eral Kilpatrick's division of Sherman's army, thus being the first to open up communication with that army on its famous march from Atlanta to the sea.
Retiring from the service in 1865, he then returned to Boston, and in company with his brother, Charles F., engaged in the manufact- ure of tin cans, under the firm name of C. & G. Hollis. This business they carried on to- gether up to 1878, in which year he entered the custom-house service at Boston as clerk. Appointed United States Consul at Cape Town, South Africa, in ISSS, he arrived at his destination in August of that year, and soon visited the Transvaal. This was just after the discovery of gold there. He re- ported the richness of the country to the United States government, and, establishing official relations between the United States government and the Orange Free State and Transvaal, he was invested by the former with the office and title of Minister Plenipotentiary for the Orange Free State, being the first diplomat of that rank in South Africa. He remained in that country till 1893, when he returned to Boston, and re-entered the custom- house service as storekeeper.
Captain Hollis was married in 1862 to Eliza Augusta, a daughter of Captain Charles A. Simmons, of Augusta, Me. Of this union
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there are three children - William Stanley, Lucy Gilman, and George Simmons Hollis.
W. Stanley Hollis, who was born in Chel- sea in 1866, went to Africa with his father in 1888 as his clerk, in which position he con- tinued for two years. He was then appointed Consular Agent at Durban and afterward Consul at Lorenzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay, the Portuguese port of entry which is now (Janu- ary, 1900) under discussion as a port of entry for alleged contraband supplies. He is at the present time Acting United States Consul at Pretoria, the Boer capital, pending the arrival of Consul Hay. The recent refusal of Presi- dent Kruger to permit the United States Consul at Pretoria to act officially for British subjects has attracted a good deal of interest as establishing an altogether new international precedent in such cases. Young Mr. Hollis married Lena Cogswell, a niece of the late General William G. Cogswell, of Salem, Essex County, Mass.
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