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John2 Abbot, born March 2, 1648, married in 1673 Sarah Barker, daughter of Richard Barker. He became prominent in town mat- ters, often serving as Selectman, and on the organization of the South Parish Church in 17II was chosen Deacon. His children were : John, Joseph, Stephen, Sarah, Ephraim, Joshua, Mary, Ebenezer, and Priscilla.
Deacon John3 A. Abbott, born November 2, 1674, served as Selectman of Andover a num- ber of years, and for thirty-four years as a Deacon in the church. He married Elizabeth Harnden, of Wilmington, who bore him six children, five of whom attained adult age, namely : John; Barachias; Elizabeth; Abiel, who was graduated from Harvard College in 1737, and died in 1739; and Joseph.
Barachias+ Abbott, born May 14, 1707, mar- ried in 1733 Hannah Holt. Their children were: Barachias; Captain Moses; Hannah ; Barachias, second; Elizabeth; Rhoda; Pris- cilla; Lydia; Timothy and Rhoda, second (twins) ; Phebe ; and Abigail.
Captain Mosess Abbott, born August 20, 1735, lived to the age of ninety years. In
1761 he married Elizabeth Holt. They had a large family of children; namely, Rebecca, Moses, Elizabeth, Noah, Hannah, Enoch. Rhoda and Anna (twins), Henry, Jacob, Abi- gail, and Phœbe.
Noah6 Abbott, born May 11, 1770, married in 1806 Hannah Holt, and was the father of Noah, Jr., who was born January 2, 1810. being the seventh in this ancestral line, and died in September, 1840. Noah Abbott, Jr., married January 1, 1834, Eliza Augusta Man- ning, daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Simonds) Manning, and had three children, namely : Eliza Augusta, who married Henry C. Higgins ; Hannah H., who died in infancy ; and Noah B., who married Hattie Harnden, and now resides in New York City.
George Arthur Higgins was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in the class of 1884. The ensuing two years he was local editor of the Lawrence American and the An- dover Advertiser, both printed in Lawrence: and he was subsequently connected in a similar capacity with the Andover Townsman for five years. In May, 1896, desiring to become per- manently established in business, he opened his present store, and has since conducted it successfully. He carries a general line of books and stationery, and supplies Phillips Academy, Abbot Academy, and the Punchard High School with text-books. He is quite active in town affairs, having been Town Auditor two years, Warden of election officers three years, and for a number of terms has served on election boards. He belongs to the Free Congregational Church, and is clerk of the parish. Fraternally, he is a member and the treasurer of St. Matthew's Lodge, F. & A. M., of Andover, and a member of Lincoln Lodge, No. 78, A. O. U. W.
Mr. Higgins was married October 20, 1894, to Agnes Christina, daughter of Alexander and Christina (Walker) Morrison. They have two children : Gladys Abbott Walker Higgins, born November 7, 1895; and Helen Christina, born June 23, 1900. Alexander Morrison was born in Hawick, Scotland, whence he came to Mas- sachusetts in 1841, settling first in Ballardvale, and removing to Andover in 1853. His first wife, whose maiden name was Jane Wilson, .
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died in early life, leaving no children. He subsequently married Christina Maxwell Walker, daughter of McNeil and Elizabeth (Wheeler) Walker. Of this union were six children, namely : Helen Elizabeth, born Oc- tober 25, 1854; Alexander W., born in 1856, who died young; Mary, born December 31, 1860, now living in Andover; William H., horn November 4, 1862, who married Elizabeth Phillips, and lives in Merrimac; John L., born June 17, 1866, who resides in Andover; and Agnes Christina (Mrs. Higgins), born February 27, 1870. Helen Elizabeth is the wife of John W. Bell, of Andover, and mother of two children : Alice Morrison, born April 19, 1879; and Howard Withy, born August 22, 1885. Mrs. Higgins's grandfather, Alexander Morrison, Sr., spent the larger part of his life in Scotland, where he married Nellie Bigger, and where their twelve children were born. He finally emigrated to this country, bringing with him his entire family. Christina M. Walker, the maternal grandmother of -Mrs. Higgins, was born in Scotland, a daughter of McNeil Walker, who spent his entire life in Scotland, dying in Edinburgh. After his death his widow came to this country with her family, Christina, then eighteen years old, being the youngest child.
ILLIAM ALBERT CUTTER, who is carrying on an extensive and lu- crative grocery business in the cown of Wakefield, Mass., was born in Boston, De- cember 8, 1849. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Charlestown, whither the family removed in 1850; and at the age of thirteen years he went to West Acton, Mass., where he was employed for four years by W. H. Teel, a farmer. The ensuing year he worked in the machine shop of Cutler & Hastings in West Acton, and afterward he there served an ap- prenticeship at the blacksmith's trade with Delette H. Hall.
Going then to Waltham, Mr. Cutter worked for Anderson Brothers, carriage builders, six months, being subsequently employed at the same trade in Malden for six months, working successively for William Keen and for David
Putnam. From Malden he went to Reading and entered the employ of Lucius Turner, re- maining as a clerk in his grocery store two years. Mr. Turner then sold out to Nelsou Stone, of Auburndale, for whom Mr. Cutter worked the following year and a half. In the spring of 1873, having gained a thorough in- sight into the business, he formed a partner- ship with Edgar Holbrook, of Winchester; and, having purchased a grocery store in Wake- field from its former owner, W. K. Perkins, he established himself in business as senior member of the firm of Cutter & Holbrook. Three months later he bought out the interest of his partner, and has since carried on a thriv- ing business in his own name, remaining at his first location until January, 1898, when he re- moved to the old post-office building, on the corner of Albion and Main Streets. Having conveniently repaired and fitted up his store, he is now doing a heavy business in staple and fancy groceries, of which he carries a complete stock.
In politics Mr. Cutter affiliates with the Republican party. For a number of years he has been a member of the town board of Over- seers of the Poor, of which he is now chairman, a position to which he was chosen in 1899. He occupies a place of prominence in fraternal and religious circles. At the quarter-centen- nial of Wakefield he served as chief marshal, and was chairman of the Committee on General Affairs. At the two hundred and fiftieth an- niversary of the ancient town of Reading he was a member of the General Committee, of the Executive Committee, and of various sub- committees, and was also commander of the third division in the parade.
Fraternally, Mr. Cutter is a member of Gol- den Rule Lodge, F. & A. M., of Wakefield ; is a member of Souhegan Lodge, No. 38. I. O. O. F., of Wakefield, to which he was transferred from Columbian Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Stoneham; of Columbian Encampment, I. O. O. F., of Stoneham, of which order Mr. Cutter has completed his thirtieth year; of Quannapowitt Council, R. A., of Wakefield, in which he has served as District Deputy; is a charter member of Crystal Lodge, A. O. U. W .. of Wakefield, and has there acted as District
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Deputy ; and has also been District Deputy of the Royal Society of Good Fellows. For twenty-two years he has belonged to the Good Will Lodge, Daughters of Rebecca, at Wake- field. Mr. Cutter is now president of the Wakefield Veteran Association, and is foreman of the Old Yale, No. 1 ; a contributory member of the H. M. Warren Post, G. A. R. ; an hon- orary member of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Association ; a member of the Massa- chusetts Relief Association of Overseers of the Poor and of the Boston Retail Grocers' Asso- ciation, in which he has been particularly prominent ; and a charter member of the Wake- field Mutual Relief Association. He is like- wise an honorary member of the Volunteer Hose Company of Wakefield and of the Rich- ardson Light Guards, and one of the Red Jacket Veteran Firemen, of Cambridge; a member of Crystal Chapter, of the order of O. E. S., of Malden ; and associate member of the Army Nurses' Association.
On August 27, 1872, Mr. Cutter was mar- ried to Clara, daughter of Bradley Stone, of West Acton, Mass. Mr. Stone was promi- nently identified with the Masonic party for sixty-five years, and was one of the best known and most influential men of his town. He was very active in local affairs, and took an impor- tant part in the building of the Fitchburg Rail- road. He was a "forty-niner," following the tide of emigration to California in that year. Mrs. Cutter died in 1894, leaving two chil- dren, of whom the following is the record : Frederick Bertram, born May 27, 1873, re- ceived his early education in the Wakefield public schools, was graduated from the Insti- tute of Technology in 1898, and is now with the Thompson-Houston Company, formerly in Lynn, Mass. In 1899 he was promoted and sent to their works in Schenectady, N. Y. Marion, born in August, 1879, partly com- pleted the course of study in the Wakefield schools, and is now attending a private school in Waltham, Mass. Mr. Cutter is a member of the Baptist church, in the management of which he takes a prominent part, having served for several years on both the Music and the Finance Committees. lle was for ten years a teacher in the mission Sunday-school at Mont-
rose (a part of the town of Wakefield), then superintendent of the school six years, and afterward he started a mission school at Wood- ville, where he served as superintendent two years. Mr. Cutter has been a close ob- server of men and events. He is to-day a firm specimen of the self-made man, and holds the respect and esteem of the citizens of Wakefield and of all who know him.
OYAL WHITON, a retired railway official, residing in the Dorchester District, Boston, was born July 28, 1846, in Hingham, Mass., the birthplace of six generations of his ancestors, son of Royal and Rebecca Allen (Lothrop) Whiton. He is eighth in descent from James Whiton' or Whiting, who was an inhabitant of Hingham as early as 1647. The line is James,' Matthew,2 Isaac, 3 Stephen,+ Israel,5 Royal,6 Royal,? Royal. $
James Whiton was a farmer by occupation, was made a freeman in 1660, and resided at "Liberty Plain," South Hingham. In 1657 he received a grant of land from the town, and at subsequent dates other lots of meadow and upland. At his death, April 26, 1710, he possessed mueh landed property in the neigh- boring towns of Scituate, Abington, and Han- over, as well as in Hingham. On April 20, 1676, his house, with several others, was burned by the Indians. He married on De- eember 30, 1647, Mary Beal, daughter of John and Nazareth (Hobart) Beal. She was born in Hingham, England, in 1622, and died in Hingham, Mass., at the age of seventy-four years.
He writes his name James Whiton, but some of his descendants wrote the family name Witon and Wyton, and it has also been writ- ten Whiting. He had nine children. (See History of Hingham, vol. iii, 1893.)
Matthew Whiton,2 born in Hingham, Oc- tober 30, 1653, the third of a family of nine children, died intestate, July 22, 1725. He was a cooper by trade, and in 1701 held the office of Constable. He married, December 27, 1677, Mrs. Deborah Pitts Howard, widow of Daniel Howard, and daughter of Edmund
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and Ann Pitts. She was born in Hingham in 1651, and died September 19, 1729. He had nine children, all born in Hingham.
Isaac Whiton, 3 by occupation a weaver, born in Hingham, March 25, 1695, married March 17, 1720, Lydia Garnett, or Gardner, who was born in Hingham, January 22, 1694- 95, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Warren) Gardner. He also had nine children, all born in Hingham.
Stephen Whiton,+ a cooper, born in Hing- ham, October 13, 1722, died January 14, 1812. By his first wife, Mercy, daughter of Caleb Campbell, he had three children; and by his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Jere- miah and Sarah (Macvarlo) Stodder, he had two. Mrs. Sarah S. Whiton was born in Hingham, June 25, 1739, and died September 30, 1823.
Israel Whiton,5 born in Hingham, Septem- ber 20, 1758, son of Stephen and Merey, married January 14, 1781, Hannah Stowell, daughter of Adam and Deborah (Cowen) Stowell. She was born in Hingham, January 9, 1761, and died August 12, 1827. He died August 2, 1840, at the age of eighty-two. He was a cooper by trade and a soldier of the Revolution. He had seven children, all born in Hingham.
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Royal Whiton,6 son of Israel and grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Hingham, February 22, 1792, and married, July 3, 1811, Esther Cleverly, of Quiney. She died in Hingham, April 19, 1867, at the age of eighty years. He died August 18, 1877, at the age of eighty-five. A trader, he was also interested in shipping. His resi- dence was on South Street near Thaxter's bridge, Hingham, Mass .: whereas his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had resided on Main Street, nearly opposite Hersey. He was a Mason and Knight Templar. His chil- dren, all born in Hingham, were as follows: Elizabeth Devina, who married Dr. T. Larkin Turner, of Boston, and died December 20, 1879; Hannah Stowell, who married Captain Jairus Beal, and died March 24, 1878; Cathe- rine Cushing Andrews, who died in infancy; Catherine Cushing Andrews, second, who died in 1838, at the age of nineteen years; Royal,
of whom a more detailed record is given be- low; Hiram, whose first wife, Lydia Loring, died in 1847, he himself dying in 1857, sur- vived by his second wife, Abigail Hyland, who died in 1882; James, who died in in- fancy; Henry Jackson, born in 1826, who was killed on the railroad at Dorchester, October 24, 1848; and Rebecca Cleverly, born 1830, who died in 1832.
Royal Whiton, second of the name and father of the present Royal, was born in Hingham, July 26, 1820. He completed his school education at the Derby Academy in his native town, and for a short time subse- quently was a clerk in his father's store. Then coming to Boston, he was employed for some time by Dr. T. Larkin Turner, his uncle by marriage, who kept an apothecary's store. He next became a member of the firm of Chapin, Whiton & Co., dealers in drugs, paints, and oils, in which business he contin- ued until his retirement in 1872. He belonged to the Masonic order, and was a member of the Unitarian church. His wife, Rebecca Allen, was a daughter of Peter Lothrop, of Cohasset, Mass., of the well-known Massachu- setts family of that name. In 1847 Mr. and Mrs. Whiton removed to Dorchester. He died there on August 20, 1889, having sur- vived his wife ten years, the date of her death being August 6, 1879. They were the parents of five children - Esther Cleverly, Royal, Thomas Larkin Turner, Esther Rebecca, and Henry Jackson Whiton. Esther C. and Thomas L. T. Whiton are no longer living. Henry J. Whiton was married on February 20, 1895, to Miss Charlotte A. Dodge, of Jamaica Plain, Mass. He was a member of the Congregationalist church.
Royal Whiton, third, was reared and edu- cated in Dorchester. After leaving school, he took the position of shipping clerk for Messrs. Stone, Wood and Company, Franklin Street, Roston, where he remained three years; and he was subsequently in the employ of Messrs. C. E. Folsom & Company, dealers in paints and oils. In the spring of 1876 he entered the service of the Ogdensburg Transit Company, operating between Boston and western points. Two years later he ac-
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cepted a position in the general freight office of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway at Topeka, Kan., where he remained two years; and on May 17, 1880, he was ap- pointed general eastern agent of the Ogdens- burg Transit Company, office, Boston, Mass., in which capacity he continued until August 15, 1899.
Mr. Whiton resides on Melville Avenue, Dorchester. He was made a Mason in 1885, in Revere Lodge, Boston, of which he is a Past Master. He has advanced through St. Andrew's Chapter, R. A. M., Boston Council, R. S. M., De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfec- tion; Giles F. Yates Council, Mount Olivet Chapter of the Rose Croix, and the Massa- chusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree, of all of which orders he is a life-member. He belongs to the Old Dorchester Club and Rail- road and Steamboat Agents Association.
On March 9, 1887, Mr. Whiton was united in marriage with Miss Ella C. Rice, who was born March 9, 1857, a daughter of Alvin Au- gustus and Mary (Woodbury) Rice. Mrs. Whiton's father was born April 17, 1818, and died December 11, 1865. Her mother, who was born October 26, 1821, is still living.
Mrs. Whiton has been for a number of years actively engaged in club work. She has been very efficient in securing the building of the beautiful club-house of the Dorchester Woman's Club House Association - of which association she is now president. She is also a charter member of the Dorchester Woman's Club and filled the position of treasurer for the Club for five years.
FORGE HERBERT DUNHAM, a widely known and respected citizen of Chelsea, Suffolk County, promi- nent in local affairs, was born in Paris, Me., September 30, 1858, son of Henry Butler and Ruth Chase (Curtis) Dunham. He comes of good old New England stock, being a repre- sentative of the ninth generation of the family founded by John Dunham, of Plymouth, 1633. The line of descent is through Joseph Dunham, who married in 1657, at Plymouth, Mercy,
daughter of Nathaniel Morton; Eleazer, whose wife's Christian name was Bathsheba; Israel. of Plymouth, born 1689, who married Joanna Rickard; Sylvanus, born 1714, who married Rebecca Crocker, daughter of Abel, and resides in Carver, Mass. ; Asa, born 1759; Samuel. born 1794; and Henry B., Mr. Dunham's father.
Asa Dunham, great-grandfather of the sus- ject of this sketch, removed from Carver, Mass .. to Norway, Me. He married Lydia Cobb. == aunt of the Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, of Norway. Me. Asa Dunham enlisted in Captain Balle: Bodwell's company during the War of 1812. and died of disease at Burlington, Vt., white performing military service on the frontier. His family afterward lived in Paris, Me., and in Woodstock.
Samuel Dunham, a farmer, son of Asa. was born in 1794, probably in Norway, Me. The maiden name of his wife was Maria Conant. Henry B. Dunham, son of Samuel and Maria. was born in 1833 in Sumner, Me., to which place his parents had removed from Paris, that State. He came to Chelsea, Mass., aber: 1855, and entered the produce business, and is still carrying it on in Boston.
His wife, Ruth, was a daughter of Dante: Curtis, of Woodstock, Me., born 1798, who resided in the southern part of that town. Daniel Curtis was a son of Noah Curtis, bora 1750 in Plymouth, Mass., who, according to the History of Woodstock, Me., married Des- orah Luce, of Cape Cod. (Davis's "Ancie :: Landmarks of Plymouth" has it Noah. c: Pembroke, married Deborah Lucas, 1781. Noah Curtis enlisted from the town of Pem- broke in the Continental army as a private in Captain Thomas Turner's company, Colone: Anthony Thomas's regiment, and marched cz April 20, 1775, on the Lexington alarm. He also served in Colonel John Cushing's regi- ment, re-enlisted September 21, 1776, and marched to take part in the Rhode Island cam- paign. Subsequently he enlisted again for service in Rhode Island, September 28, 1,77.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Dunham were the parents of four children - George Herbert. Henry Ellsworth, Frank Edmund, and Flera Edith. Henry, who is an insurance agent. re-
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,iding in Revere, married for his first wife Elvira C. Fifield, of Deer Isle, Me. ; and for his second wife he married Edith L. Morrison, of Chelsea. Frank Edmund, who is in the in- surance business, married Myrtle I. Shepley, of Chelsea. Flora Edith, who is unmarried, resides in Chelsea.
In December, 1858, at the age of three months, George H. Dunham came to Chelsea, Mass. In his boyhood he attended the public schools of Chelsea, and, after leaving school, obtained employment with Cobb, Bates & Verxa of Boston, where he has been continu- ously employed. He is now manager of the Chelsea store of Cobb, Bates & Yerxa, whole- sale and retail grocers.
Mr. Dunham was a member of the City Council of Chelsea in 1885, 1886, and 1887; and at the present time (1900) he is serving as a member of the School Committee. He is also a member of the Republican State Central Committee from the First Suffolk District, and was elected an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896. In these different public capacities he had per- formed efficient service both for his party and for the city of his adoption. He is a member of several fraternal associations, belonging to Star of Bethlehem Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; Winnisimmet Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is a trustee; and to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the New England Order of Protection, the Royal Arcanum, and the Im- proved Order of Red Men.
Mr. Dunham was married August 28, 1883, to Augusta Winchester Dowling, daughter of Richard and Adeline (Pike) Dowling, of Cam- bridge. They have one child, Edith Winches- ter, born June 3, 1884, who is attending high school in Chelsea.
REDERICK WALTER FARWELL, Representative in the Legislature from the Sixteenth Suffolk District, 1898 and 1899, was born in Boston, Mass., Novem- ber 29, 1854, a son of George Washington and Almira Marther (Simpson) Farwell. His pa- ternal grandfather was Foster Farwell, of Nel- son, N. Il. The family to which he belongs
was represented in New England at an early date in the period of settlement, the records showing that Henry Farwell, the immigrant progenitor of a numerous posterity, was one of the first planters of Concord, Mass.
George W. Farwell was born in Nelson. N. H., and came to Boston when a young man. He engaged in the coal and wood business on what was later known as Ward's Wharf, on C Street, and continued it at that location for a period of forty years. In 1870 he removed to Dorchester Street, and established the business now carried on by his sons, George R., Frank F., and Frederick W., they succeeding to it at his death, which took place January II, 1871. He married Almira M. Simpson. a daughter of Captain Benjamin Simpson, for- merly of Winslow, Me., but later a resident of Boston. They had three children, all sons, as above mentioned; and all were educated in the public schools of Boston. Mrs. Farwell died in 1884, at the age of seventy-two years.
George R. Farwell was born in IS43. After completing his studies he entered industrial life as clerk in a mercantile house, and was thus occupied for fifteen years. He then be- came associated with his father, and eventu- ally, as noted above, succeeded to the business with his brothers. He was married in 1885 to Miss Harriet C. Copeland, a daughter of Joseph Copeland, of South Easton, Mass., and has one child - Richmond C., born in 1883. Mr. Farwell is a member of the Masonic order and a resident of Dorchester.
Frank F. Farwell was born in 1849. For some time he was associated with his father in the coal business, in which he is now engaged with his brothers. He married Miss Ella Chase, of Medford, Mass., a daughter of Alonzo Chase, of that town. He has four children - Lorenzo Chase, George Henry, Frank Foster, and Gladys Williams. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the city government of Bos- ton. As a Mason he belongs to Raboni Lodge, F. & A. M.
The business career of Frederick W. Farwell. whose name begins this sketch, has been simi- lar to that of his brother Frank. The business has now been carried on in the family for sixty-four years, it having been established in
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1836. As already indicated, Mr. Frederick W. Farwell has taken an active part in public life. He served in the city government of Boston in 1897 and 1898. He was elected on the Republican ticket to the House of Repre- sentatives from the Sixteenth Suffolk District in 1898, and was re-elected in 1899. While in the House he served during both terms on the Committees on Harbors and Public Lands.
He was married January 1, 1879, to Miss Emma M. Lovering, who was born in Sudbury, Mass., a daughter of George Lovering. Of this union there are three children - Howard Lovering, Helen Elizabeth, and Harris Fred- erick. Mr. Frederick W. Farwell is a member of Massachusetts Lodge, F. & A. M., of Bos- ton. He belongs also to the Dorchester Club. He may safely be classed among the successful and progressive young business men of Dor- chester. The sound judgment and administra- tive capacity that he has shown in the positions which he has held in the city government have been exhibited in a more public sphere, and will doubtless open to him the door of further opportunities for advancement.
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