Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Part 56

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 768

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Wyman Chadbourne, born February 14, 1867, (married Edgar C. Mills, and had Edgar G. Mills, born December 10, 1890, and Reed C. Mills, born June 23, 1895), and Charles Edgar Chadbourne, born July 13, 1869, died Novem- ber 17, 1877; ii. Susan Hardy Chadbourne, born April 22, 1835, married November 27. 1856, Nathan Smith, of Waltham, and had Mabel Edna Smith, born August 20, 1857, died August 3, 1876, and Nathan Ellsworth Smith, born January 31, 1866 (married January 31, 1898, Susan Russell Lincoln, of Waltham, and had Mabel Edith Smith, born August 3, 1898, and Nathan Smith, born November 1I, 1900) ; iii. Susan (?) Hardy Chadbourne, born Sep- tember 18, 1841, married November 20, 1861. Francis Smith, of Waltham, and had Josephine Smith, born April 4, 1864, died February 14. 1865, Frank Clark Smith, born February 21, 1866, (married March 27, 1891, Francis Jane Grogan, and had Grace Chadbourne Smith, born December 25, 1892, Ernest Smith, born and died September 9, 1894, and Marion Clark Smith, born July 4, 1898), Alice May Smith, born April 12, 1870, died August, 1872, Alfred Chadbourne Smith, twin, born April 20, 1873. (married Alice V. Westwood, of Waltham, and had Dorothy Isabel Smith, born August 16, 1900), and Converse Smith, twin, born April 20, 1873. died August. 1873; iv. Mary Hardy Chadbourne, born March 20, 1843, married July 15, 1872, John Day Smith, of Litchfield, Maine, and had Mary Chadbourne Smith, born May 1, 1874 (married W. Almont Gates, and had John Chadbourne Gates, born January, 1905) ; v. Willard Francis Chad- bourne, born March 14, 1849, married June, 1868, Milee T. Fuller, of Elk River, Minne- sota. 4. Susan Bemis, born February 6, 1813, died unmarried, February 6, 1858. 5. Dexter Davis, born April 27, 1815, died November 29, 1823. 6. Lowell James, born July 3, 1817; died May 9, 1900; married first, Matilda Sproule : second, Mary Dillon (March, 1870;) children by first wife: Lowell James, Jr., Eliza, Frank Dexter, George Wallace, Wil- lard and Mary. 7. Jane Elizabeth, born Oc- tober 30, 1819: died unmarried, January 12, 1877. 8. John Kirk, born February 21, 1822; mentioned below. 9. Julia Sophia, born May 30, 1824 ; died February 9, 1893. 10. Adeline Frances, born March 6, 1827; died March 6, 1828.

(VII) John Kirk Hardy, son of Nahum Hardy, born at Waltham, February 21, 1822, died September 13, 1905. He attended the Pond End district school in the winters, and

afterwards took a course of instruction in the academy kept by his uncle, Lewis Smith. During this time he assisted his father on the farm, and at the early age of nine used to drive horses and oxen. As soon as he had finished school his father gave him fifteen acres of land on the farm, and he began to cultivate it, still living at home. Before his marriage he built a house where his daughter Martha and son Isaac now reside. He added land from time to time to his father's gift until his farm consisted of eighty acres. He was enterprising and industrious and believed in carrying on his farm in the most up to date manner. He had a herd of some thirty head of cattle and sold the milk to nearby dealers. Under his efficient management and with the help of his sons, all of whom remained at home until they were of age, the farm yielded a handsome income. In politics he was a Republican, and although he kept in touch with the affairs of the day he did not care to hold office. He attended the Orthodox Congrega- tional Church at Waltham, and was upright and honorable in all his affairs. Like his father he was inclined to be reserved with strangers, but all who knew him intimately loved him. His life in some way seemed to be charmed- he met with no less than twenty serious acci- dents which required the services of a physi- cian or surgeon, yet lived to a good age. He married, April 20, 1852, Mary Wood, born at Lexington, April 19, 1827, died at Waltham, February 4, 1900, daughter of Leonard and Polly (Thorning) Wood, of Lexington. Her father was a farmer. Children : 1. Nahum, born May 24, 1853; married March 1, 1888, Carrie J. Hanscomb, of Waltham ; children : i. Law- rence Norman, born January 7, 1889, died January 16, 1898; ii. Bertha Mabel, born March 16, 1892 ; iii. Edna May, April 29, 1893 : iv. Alfred Kirk, April 16, 1897. 2. Mary Smith, born July 19, 1854 ; married January I, 1879, William Davis Ward, of Stoughton ; children: i. Ethel Talbot Ward, born No- vember 7. 1881, died December 28, 1887; ii. Eugene Hardy Ward, born January 19, 1883, died May 28, 1885; iii. Talbot Ward, born June 17, 1890. 3. Edward Kirk, born Novem- ber 4, 1855, died January 29, 1873. 4. Cyrus Wood, born March 21, 1857; mentioned below. 5. Susan Bemis, born April 18. 1858; died January 9, 1897 : married May 27, 1887, Elijah Davis, of Birmingham, England; chil- dren: i. Prescott Linzee Davis, born June 17, 1888; ii. Albion Davis, May 12, 1891; iii. Charlotte Davis, February 19, 1893 : iv. Louise

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Thorning Davis, February 1, 1895. 6. Abbie Jane, born June 2, 1860 ; married February 22, 1901, Elijah Davis, as his second wife. 7. Charles Lowell, born June 18, 1861. 8. Henry Francis, born April 4, 1863: mentioned be- low. 9. Lewis Smith, born November 21. 1864: married June 12. 1891, Sarah Black- hall. 10. Isaac Wood, born October 8, 1866; mentioned below. II. Martha Eliza, born August 26, 1868. 12. William Thorning, born November 17, 1870; married December 16, 1893, Annie Carr, who died August 14, 1908; children : Eunice Augusta, Beatrice Thelma, Nelson Carr, Thorning Wood. 13. Mabel Thorning, born December 30, 1874.

(VIII ) Henry Francis Hardy, son of John Kirk Hardy, was born at Waltham, April 4. 1863. He received his education in the public schools of his native town, and began early in life to work on his father's farm. He remain- ed at home, associated with his father in farm- ing, until 1892, when he entered the employ of Walter Smith, a prominent milk dealer of Waltham, driving a milk wagon on routes in Brookline and Boston for the next seven years. He then purchased the business of his en- ployer and continued it four years. lle con- tined in this line of business in the employ of varous milk dealers of Waltham for two years more, and then returned to his father's home- stead to assist in the work of the farm. Since January, 1907, he has been associated with his brother Isaac and sister Martha on the homestead. The brothers make a specialty of the dairy. He has worked at the carpenter's trade also from time to time and has built two dwelling houses near the homestead within a few years. Mr. Hardy was reared in the Or- thodox Congregational Church, but he and his family attend the Waltham Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Republican in pol- itics, but has never sought public office. He married, September 2, 1891, Annie Maria Con- nell, born March 9. 1865, at Prince Edward Island, daughter of James and Sarah (Gay) Connell, of Prince Edward Island. Her father is a farmer. Child: Gladys, born Sep- tember 30. 1892.

(VIII) Isaac Wood Hardy, son of John Kirk Hardy, was born at Waltham, October 8, 1866. He was reared on his father's farm in his native town, and attended the public schools there, graduating from the Waltham high school in the class of 1885. He learned the trade of machinist in the shops of Van Nor- man Brothers, of Waltham, and removed to Springfield when his employers changed the

location of their business to that city. After a few years he went to New Haven, Connec- ticut, where he followed his trade as a jour- neyman several years. He went thence to Bellows Falls, Vermont, to work for the B. F. Farming Tool Company for a year, and then returned to Waltham and bought part of his grandfather's farm. He assisted his father in conducting the farm until his father died, when he and his brother continued on the home- stead. Their sister has made her home with them. The farm supports some thirty head of cattle and is considered one of the best in that section. He attends the Trinitarian Congre- gational Church of Waltham. He is a Repub- lican in politics. He is unmarried.

(VI) John Hardy, son of Phineas Hardy (5), was born in Northborough, Massachu- setts, April 15, 1794. The death of his mother when he was less than eight years old made it necessary that he earn his own education and his way through life. He attended school during the winter and worked out, doing a boy's part on the farm during the warm months ; but always was an attentive reader, and came to be a man posssessed of an excel- lent understanding on general subjects. He began his active life as a farmer, having bought a farm in Westborough before he was thirty years old. His father was a member of his household and died April 28, 1831. After his second marriage Mr. Hardy sold his lands in Westborough and removed to Windham, New Hampshire, in October, 1836, and bought what was once a part of the original George Clark tract. There he built a house and spent the remaining years of his life. His farm comprised seventy acres of good land and was devoted largely to fruit growing. Mr. Hardy himself was a thrifty farmer, a man of influence in the town, a consistent member of the Congregational church, and in politics originally was a Whig, a strong and uncom- promising Abolitionist and ultimately a Re- publican. During the war of 1812-15 he en- tered the service and was on duty at Fort War- ren. He died in Windham, August 6, 1873. He married first, March 9, 1824, Betsey Bar- ker, born in Marlboro, New Hampshire, June 10, 1799, died in Northborough, Massachu- setts, September 20, 1833, daughter of Francis and Lucy (Derby) Barker. He married sec- ond, September, 1834, Mary Barker, sister of his first wife, born September 3, 1792, died June 28, 1866. Children, all born of his first marriage: 1. Dexter Warren, February 22, 1825. died April 19, 1849. 2. Eliza Whitney,

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born January 9, 1827, died January 7, 1846. 3. John Loring, born October 25, 1828; see for- ward. 4. Mary Ann, born April 28, 1830. died August 24, 1847. 5. Joseph Franklin, born May 20, 1832, died November 7, 1861 ; enlisted early in the civil war in Company A, Seventh Fowa Volunteer Infantry, and was killed in battle at Belmont, Missouri. 6. William Bar- ker. September 20, 1833, died October 17, 1833.

(VII) John Loring Hardy, son of John and Betsey, born in Westborough, Massachusetts, October 25, 1828, died March 8, 1892. He received a common school and partial high school education, in the latter taking the classi- cal course and showing an especial interest in history and literature. Always a close, care- ful student, his interest in solid reading seemed to increase and broaden with the years. Hav- ing a wonderfully retentive memory, he sel- dom forgot anything which he had read, hence derived much benefit from reading. After leaving school he spent the next five years in working for farmers near Boston, and in the course of that time became a practical farmer : but in 1851 he followed the tide of emigration which was setting so strongly to the western country, and went to Chicago. There the de- mand was for mechanics rather than farmers, so he set out at once to learn the carpenter's trade, also bridge carpentry. He was em- ployed in Stone & Boomer's shops, and was sent out by that firm to superintend the con- struction of bridges; and in that capacity he had charge of the work of construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi at Minne- apolis, Minnesota, then called St. Anthony's Falls. Having determined at some time to re- turn to farming, Mr. Hardy purchased two hundred acres of land in Franklin county, Iowa, but before he could arrange to occupy that land and begin its development, he was called back to New Hampshire on account of his father's failing health. Soon afterward he married. settled on the old home farm in Windham and lived there during the next twenty years, until after the death of both his father and mother. He then sold the farm in Windham and removed with his family to Storm Lake, Iowa, where he purchased a quarter-section of land, began its development and settled down to the quiet, independent life of the farm, free from the turmoil and strife and uncertainties of business in com- mercial centers. There he lived nearly ten years, then removed to Sioux City and with his son engaged in building operations.

Throughout the period of his life, with all of its changes in scene and vocation, Mr. Hardy ever held fast to the good things taught him at his mother's knee, and for sixty years he was a member of the Sunday school. At the time of his death he was senior deacon of the Mayflower Congregational Church. In politics he was first a Free-soiler, and later a staunch Republican. He also was a Royal Arch Mason. While living in Windham, in 1874-76-77, he was one of the selectmen of the town.

On January 20, 1859, Mr. Hardy married Rebecca Kimball Witham, born April 7, 1837, daughter of Joshua and Marjorie ( Rundlette) Witham of Bangor, Maine. Children, all born in Windham, New Hampshire : I. Stella Frances, born January 2, 1860; married De- cember 11, 1883. James Edward Emerson, of Windham, who died May 18, 1901 ; children : James, born September 16, 1884; Chester How- ard, November 8, 1885; Clara Almeda, June 27, 1887; Martha Frances, January 25, 1889; Carl Edward, September 22, 1892: Jesse Al- bert, February 27, 1895. 2. John Loring, Jr., born September 6, 1862: married first, December 5, 1888, Bertha Simpson, of Lowell, Massachusetts, died August 22, 1895 ; married second. March II, 1897, Anna Gertrude Ster- ling, of Sioux City, Iowa; children by first marriage: Evan A., born October 1, 1890; Loring Thomas, April 14, 1893; by second marriage : Mary Frances, December 21, 1897 ; Grace Mildred, August 16, 1899: Clara Gert- rude, November 28, 1901; Arthur Sterling, November 1, 1903: Charles Ellsworth, No- vember 23, 1905 ; Helen Elizabeth, March 21, 1908. 3. Clara Edna, born July 1, 1865, died June 23, 1887; married December 24, 1885, John R. Croot, of Iowa Falls; child, Clara Edna, born September, 1886, died November, 1886. 4. Alice Lora. born March 1, 1868, died July 16, 1894: married March 1, 1887, Archi- bald J. Cone, of Storm Lake, Iowa; child, Sarah Alice, born August 30, 1889. 5. Ada Grace, born July 2, 1870, in Windham, New Hampshire : married, October 25, 1898, Cyrus Wood Hardy ; see forward. 6. Edith Agnes, born September 30, 1876; a public school teacher in Sioux City.

Cyrus Wood Hardy ( see above) was born in Waltham, March 21, 1857, received his edu- cation in public schools and under private in- struction, and then turned his attention to practical farming. At the age of twenty-two years he went to Baldwin, Minnesota, and for the next two seasons worked C. H. Chad-

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bourne's farm. During the winter and spring seasons he carried on logging operations on Rum river. He then returned to Waltham, remained there a single year, and in the early part of 1882 went to St. Louis, Missouri, bought a stock of horses there, and sold them in St. Paul, Minnesota. Having returned to Minnesota, Mr. Hardy again began logging on Rum river, but later on went to Herman, Grant county, and took up a quarter section of land for general farming purposes. He lived there nine years, and in the meantime acquired another quarter section, which he sowed with wheat. His lands there included three hundred twenty acres, and he continued to live in Grant county several years more, then returned to Waltham, and for the next fifteen years took charge of his father's farm. He then became manager of the H. B. Pratt farm in Waltham and now lives on an adjoin- ing estate. Mr. Hardy is a practical and suc- cessful farmer. His present splendid resi- dence, just above the site of the old dwelling where he was born, was built in 1899. In politics he is an active Republican, having served frequently as delegate to local and county conventions of his party. While living in the northwest he was a member of the Farmers' Alliance; in Waltham he is a men- ber of Lexington Grange, No. 233, P. of 11.

KENDALL The Kendall family is of ancient English origin. Among its early representatives was John Kendall, sheriff of Nottingham, who was killed in the battle of Bosworth, 1485, fighting in the army of Richard 111. Francis Kendall, of a much later generation, was banished to the Barbadoes in 1687 by Bloody Judge Jef- fries, for participating in the Monmouth re- bellion. Ile is believed to have been a near relative of Francis Kendall, the immigrant ancestor, who came to America before 1640.

(1) Francis Kendall, immigrant ancestor of all of the name in America, came from Eng- land before 1640. In December, 1658, he de- posed that he was about thirty-eight years old, and April 2. 1662, he deposed that his age was about forty-eight. Possibly the date of his birth was between the two dates indicated by these statements, say 1618. With thirty-one others he signed the town orders of Woburn, December 18. 1640. He had been living in Charlestown, of which Woburn was then a part, and was a taxpayer there in 1645. He had a brother Thomas living in Reading, where he was a proprietor in 1644. Thomas Kendall

had ten daughters, but no descendants in a direct line. The father of Francis and Thomas Kendall is believed by some writers to be John Kendall. A curious characteristic of the family of Francis Kendall and his descendants is the occasional birth of a child having five fingers or toes. Down to the present generation this peculiarity of the family has survived.

Francis Kendall married, December 24. 1644, Mary Tidd, daughter of John Tidd. In the record he is called Francis Kendall, alias Miles. There are several explanations of this record. It was common with the emigrants to America to take assumed names to avoid vexatious laws, and there is a tradition that Kendall left England against the wishes of his family, using the name of Miles until he was settled in this country. He was admitted a freeman May 10, 1648. Sewall says of him: "Ile was a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence.' He served the town at different times for eight- teen years as selectman, and on important com- mittees, such as those for distributing grants to the pioneers, and on building the meeting house. Ile was tythingman in 1676. He was not entirely in accord with the Puritan church. and was fined for some infraction of church rules about infant baptism, or attendance at communion, or attending meetings of the Ana- baptists. He was a miller by trade, and owned a corn mill, which he left to his sons Samuel and John. This will has been in the posses- sion of the family down to the present time. The mill now or lately on the Kendall place. is one built by Samuel Kendall soon after 1700, and is some distance from the location of the first mill. He died in 1708, at the age of eighty-eight, corroborating the affidavit of 1658. His wife Mary died in 1705. His will was dated May 9, 1706. His sons Thomas and John were executors. Children: 1. John, born July 2, 1646. 2. Thomas, born January 10. 1648-9: mentioned below. 3. Mary, born January 20, 1650-1 ; married, about 1669, Israel Reed. 4. Elizabeth, born January 15. 1652-3; married first, Ephraim Winship : sec- ond, James Pierce. 5. Hannah, born January 26, 1654-5 ; married, as his second wife, Wil-' liam Green, Jr. 6. Rebecca, born March 2, 1657 ; married December, 1706, Joshua Eaton. 7. Samuel, born March 8, 1659; married first, Rebecca Mixer: second, Mary Locke. 8. Jacob, born January 25, 1660-1. 9. Abigail. born April 6, 1666; married May 24. 1686. William Reed.

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dall (1), born at Woburn, January 10, 1648-9, died May 25, 1730, aged eighty-one. He re- sided in Woburn, and was a farmer. His farm adjoined his father's. He married first, Ruth --- -, died December 18, 1695 ; second, March 30, 1696, Abigail Broughton, died December 31, 1716. Children, all by first wife, born at Woburn: 1. Ruth, born Febru- ary 17, 1674-5; married John Walker, son of Deacon Samuel Walker ; resided at Woburn. Lexington and Framingham. 2. Thomas, born May 19, 1677 ; married, 1701, Sarah Cheever ; resided in Sherborn and Framingham. 3. Mary, born February 27, 1680 ; married 1698-9, Joseph Whitcomb. 4. Samuel, born October 29, 1682 ; settled in Athol. 5. Ralph, born May 4, 1685; resiled in Lancaster. 6. Eliezer, born November 16, 1687; mentioned below. 7. Jabez (twin), born September 10, 1692. 8. Jane (twin), born September 10, 1692: mar- ried, 1712, Joseph Russell. 9. Infant, born and died December 16, 1695.

(III) Eliezer Kendall, son of Thomas Ken- dall (2), was born in Woburn, November 16, 1687. He resided in Woburn until about 1725, when he removed to Lexington and thence shortly afterward to Framingham, Massachu- setts. He bought part of the Glover farm of one Drury, sixty acres at Framingham, run- ning from the old fordway on Cochituate brook to Cochituate pond, in part the old Dea- con William Brown place. He sold it April 9, 1733, to John Livermore, and bought a tract of land then covered with wood on the north side of Indian Head, and also part of Jacob's Meadow east of the Head, and all of this estate he conveyed by deed to his son Thomas. Eliezer made a clearing and built his house where A. G. Kendall lived a few years ago. He married, about 1712, Hannah Rowe ( Mun- rowe or Munroe) of Lexington. She died in 1761, and he married second, Sarah Angier, widow of Benjamin. Children, recorded at Woburn: I. Eliezer, born January 6, 1714, died young. 2. William, born December 20, 1715, baptized May 16. 3. Thomas, born Oc- tober 5, 1718, resided at Framingham, having the homestead ; married March 27, 1751, Han- nah, daughter of Ezekiel Rice: she died Janu- ary 28, 1822, aged ninety-five years. 4. Han- nah, born November 9, 1720 ; married January, 1745, Simeon Stone ; died at Rutland, Massa- chusetts. 5. Eliezer, born March 5. 1723; mentioned below. 6. John, probably born at Lexington. Born at Framingham: 7. Jona- than, born January 5, 1728-9 ; married March 14, 1750, Frances Crumpton, of Sudbury, re-

sided at Walpole. 8. Rachel, born March 29, 1730; married Uriah Rice. 9. Samuel, born November 9, 1735, died young.

(IV) Eliezer Kendall, son of Eliezer Ken- dall (3), was born in Woburn March 5, 1723, removing when a young child with the family to Framingham. He resided in Framingham until after the revolution, when he joined his son Eliezer at Rockingham, Vermont, and died there July 16, 1813. aged ninety-one years. His home in Framingham was west of Ephraim Hagar's. He married, first, April 13, 1749, Mary Brown, of Sudbury. She was pro- pounded for membership in Rockingham church May 3, 1786, and died there in 1794, according to church records. He married sec- ond, April 7, 1800, Hannah Graves, who was admitted to full communion in Rockingham church. November 9, 1800, and died June 28, 1813, aged seventy-three years. Children of first wife, all born in Framingham: I. Mary, born January 10, 1750; married - Weeks. 2. Rachel, born December 28. 1751 ; married Timothy Darling. 3. Comfort, born May 3, 1753, died young. 4. Eliezer, born October, 1756: mentioned below. 6. Fanny, born July II, 1758, died young. 6. Comfort, born July IO. 1760.

(V) Eleazer (or Eliezer ) Kendall, son of Eliezer Kendall (4), was born at Framingham, October, 1756. His first child, born at Rock- ingham, Vermont, where he settled during the revolution, was born in 1779 according to the records, though it appears to be an error. But about that time he left Framingham and settled in Rockingham. He was a soldier in the revo- lution, before leaving Massachusetts, a private in Captain Joseph Winch's company, Colonel Samuel Bullard's regiment, 1777; corporal in Captain Caleb Moulton's company, command- ed by Lieutenant Eliphalet Hastings, in Col- onel Thomas Poor's regiment; also in same company later in 1778, at Fort Clinton. He was among the freeman of Rockingham in 1781. He was a subscriber to a fund for a sacramental table in the church at Rocking- ham in 1819. He married Sally and

Content Children of Eliezer and Sally: 1. Nathan, born April 5, 1779 (accord- ing to records ; note the date of next birth). Children of Eliezer and Content Kendall : 2. Susannah, born April 11, 1779. 3. Sally, born March 13, 1781. 4. Fanny, born April 25. 1783. 5. Eliezer, born March 28, 1785 ; men- tioned below. 6. Caty, born September 2. 1787. 7. Rebecca, born August 2, 1791. 8. William, born February 16, 1794. 9. James.

Serving Kendall

Melissa (Rice) Kendall

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born March 2, 1796; died February 10, 1797. IO. James, born February 2, 1798. 11. Infant, born December 17, 1800; died December 31, 1800.

(VI) Eliezer Kendall, son of Eliezer Ken- dall (5), born in Rockingham March 28, 1785, died at Granville, Vermont, May 6, 1871, aged eighty- seven years. He spent his boyhood on his father's farm in his native town, and at- tended the district school, remaining on his father's farm until after his marriage. About 1810 he married Fanny Flint, of Rockingham, where his first two children were born. Just previous to 1814 he removed to Rochester, Vermont, where he bought a large farm and became a prosperous farmer and shoemaker. After about five years he sold his farm and re- moved to Hancock, where he farmed about five years, and about 1824 removed to Kings- ton (now Granville, Vermont), where he bought two farms, comprising some three hundred acres at North Hollow, about a mile from the property later owned by his son Lucius. He raised sheep for both mutton and wool. The wool was spun and woven into cloth by his wife, who had a large loom. He traded quite extensively in cattle, sheep and horses, making frequent trips into New York state. In this business he was associated with a Mr. Partridge. It is said that at one time they were offered for sale the site where the heart of the city of Rochester now is, but they did not want it. He was an active, energetic man of powerful physique, and continued in active life up to the time of his death. His genial nature endeared him to his family and companions. In religion he was a Methodist, and of strong temperance principles. In poli- tics he was a Whig, and later a Republican. being a great admirer and supporter of Lin- coln. He trained in the early militia. His wife, Fanny (Flint) Kendall, died September 21, 1867, aged seventy-eight years. Children : I. Lucretia, born in Rockingham, Vermont. August 6, 1811, died September 15. 1865. 2. Charles Schuyler, born in Rockingham. Ver- mont, October 20, 1812; married, July 12, 1840. Fidelie Flint. 3. Lucia Arvilla, born in Rochester, Vermont, July 4, 1814, died April 2, 1885; married, April 9, 1838, Alvin Ford, died July II. 1902. 4. Almira, born in Ro- chester, Vermont. December 12, 1815, died May 15, 1819. 5. Lucius Hubbard, born in Rochester. Vermont, February 12, 1817, see forward. 6. Almira, born in Hancock, Ver- mont, June 24, 1819, died March 9, 1892 ; married first, John Sherman : second.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Part 56

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 768

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 768