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(V) David Smith, second son and child of Joseph Smith, was a farmer in Stratham, he was born and died. The name of his wife is not known, but he had children: 1. Susan, married John Taylor. 2. David, settled in Newington, New Hampshire. 3. Lydia, died single. 4. Sarah, married (first) Joseph Scan- nell, and (second) Langley. 5. Me- hitable, married Edward Scammon. 6. De- borah, married Reuben Smith. 7. Rachel, mar- ried Nathaniel Knowles. 8. Abigail, married Hiram Wetherill. 9. John, never married. 10. Clara, died young, lockjaw, sliver in foot. II. Mercy, married Reuben Stockbridge; died April 30, 1842. 12. Joseph. 13. Jonathan.
(VI) Jonathan Smith, youngest son and child of David Smith, born in April, 1800, died May 21, 1843. He was a farmer by principal occupation. He was in war of 1812 as drum- mer boy (age thirteen ) ; a drum was presented to him by state of New Hampshire, and it is now in possession of his grandson, Thornton A. Smith. He married Betsey Nutter, and by
her had four children: 1. David. 2. Joseph H., married Janette Emery, died May 6, 1852. 3. Benjamin Franklin, died single, October 5, 1880. 4. Alonzo Jewell, married (first) Lizzie Morton, (second) Cora Shattuck.
(VII) David Smith, eldest son and child of Jonathan Smith, born in Stratham, New Hampshire, May 14, 1820, was a carpenter and joiner, having learned the trade with Squire Jewell, of Northampton, New Hamp- shire. He came to this state when a young man and was a well known figure in business circles in Everett, for more than twenty-five years. He was prominently identified with the business life and the institutions of that city, and came to be regarded as one of its sub- stantial men, his business life having been re- warded with gratifying success. He always took an unselfish interest in town and city af- fairs, and while he frequently was asked to stand as a candidate for public office, he as frequently declined all such offers of political preferment. He was a Republican in politics and a firm beliver in the principles of his party. He also was an exemplary member of the Baptist church, a regular attendant at its ser- vices and a generous contributor to its sup- port. He was one of the charter members of Everett Lodge, No. 36, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Smith died in North- ampton, New Hampshire, February 16, 1903. He married Mary K. Tozier, of Waterville, Maine. She was born in 1823 and was a daughter of Stephen and Joanna Tozier. David and Mary (Tozier) Smith had four children: 1. Mary Estelle, born June 6, 1848, married Marcellus B. Parker. 2. Thornton Adams, born January 2, 1850. 3. Lizzie Me- dora, born May 7, 1852. married Gouverneur Kent. 4. Cora Allison, died in infancy.
(VIII) Thornton Adams Smith, only son of David and Mary K. (Tozier) Smith, born in Greenland, New Hampshire, January 2, 1850, received his early education in the public schools of Chelsea, Massachusetts, where his father lived at one time, and also in Boston ; but he left school when about fifteen years old and started out to make his own way in life. During the next several years he worked as clerk in various mercantile business houses, and from 1872 to 1900 was connected with the following companies: New York and Boston Despatch Company as general cashier and auditor, also treasurer several years; with the Armstrong Transfer Company, as general cashier and auditor, also treasurer of Boston Cab Company several years. Since 1900 connected
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with the dry goods commission business. Like his father, Mr. Smith takes considerable inter- est in public affairs in Everett, is a firm Re- publican, and has been a member of the city sinking fund commission. He is a member and master of Palestine Lodge, F. and A. M., and past grand of Everett Lodge, No. 36, I. O. O. F. He serves as vestryman at Grace Epis- copal Church, Everett. He married, October 31, 1878, Carrie L. Wallace, born in Malden, Massachusetts, July 27, 1856, daughter of James A. Wallace, born in Dover, New Hamp- shire, and Abbie J. Currier, his wife, and granddaughter of James Wallace, who mar- ried Dorothy Pray, of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Hugh Wallace Smith, born in Everett, August 15, 1884, educated in public and high schools, Everett, graduated class 1903; entered Tufts College, September 17, 1903, class 1907, degree A. B. ; entered Berke- ley Divinity School ( Episcopal), Middletown, Connecticut, graduate class 1909. Mrs. Thorn- ton A. Smith is a graduate of Everett high school, class of 1875, and has been a member of the board of management of the Whidden Memorial Hospital of Everett since its incor- poration. She is an active member of the Fri- day Club of Everett, member of Ladies' Aid Society of the church with which she is identi- fied, active in various charitable societies, and treasurer of Hospital Guild.
The surname Skinner is like a SKINNER large class of English trade and business names, adopted about the twelfth century as family names, like butcher, baker, chandler, merchant, brewer, etc. Skinner means simply a dealer in furs and hides. The Skinners Company of London received a charter of incorporation as early as the reign of Edward III and has a coat-of- arms of ancient date. The families of Skin- ner are found in all parts of England. The Skinners of Le Burtons and Ledbury, county Hereford, descended from Stephen Skinner (1557), elder son of Stephen Skinner, of county Hereford. Arms: Sable a chevron or between three griffins' heads erased argent a mullet for difference. Crest : A griffin's head erased argent holding in the beak a hand couped, gules on the breast a mullet for differ- ence. The families at Cowley, Devonshire ; in London; in county Essex; in the Isle of Wight ; in Dewlish, and various other locali- ties also bear arms. Thomas Skinner was lord mayor of London in 1596. A common device
in various Skinner coats-of-arms is: Sable three griffiins' heads erased argent.
(I) Sergeant Thomas Skinner, immigrant ancestor of the Essex county families, born in 1617 in England, died March 2, 1703-04, in Malden, Massachusetts. He came from Chi- chester, county Sussex, England, bringing with him his wife and two sons. He lived at one time at Sundeanerie parish. Chichester. He was a victualler, and May 31, 1652, was licensed to keep an inn at Malden. His house at Malden was occupied later by Thomas Call. He married Call's widow and again came into possession of his first homestead, which was situated at the southeast corner of Cross and Walnut streets, Malden. Call may have been a tenant, however. The old place was given to Skinner's son Abraham, March 15, 1694-95. Skinner was admited a freeman May 18. 1653. He married (first) in England Mary who died April 9, 1671. He married (second) Lydia (Shepardson ) Call, widow of Thomas Call. She died December 17, 1723, aged eighty-seven. Children, born at Chichester, England: I. Thomas, July 25, 1645, married Mary Pratt ; removed with family about 1700 to Colchester, Connecticut (see N. E. Reg. vol. 53. p. 401 ). 2. Abraham, mentioned below.
(II) Abraham Skinner, son of Thomas Skinner. ( I), was born in Sundeanerie parish, Chichester, and baptized in Pallant Parish church, September 29, 1649. He had the homestead in Malden, Massachusetts, paying certain sums to his brother and mother Lydia. He died before his father. Sergeant Thomas Skinner deeded to his widow, Hannah, lot 75 in the second division, in consideration of her maintaining the grantor and his wife, May 27, 1698. He served in King Philip's war in 1675 under Captain Prentice, and his son Abraham was a grantee on account of liis service in Narragansett township, No. 2. A large rock at the corner of Cross and Walnut streets on the old homestead was known as Skinner's Rock and was not removed until 1887. Chil- dren, born at Malden : 1. Abraham, born April 8, 1681, had the homestead at Malden. 2. Thomas, born December 7, 1688 (given 1691 in the printed Malden records, but 1688 in various other good authorities) ; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born September, 1690.
(III) Thomas Skinner, son of Abraham Skinner (2), born December 7, 1688, died June I, 1737, at Malden. He married, December 16, 1708, Mehitable Durrant, who died April 20, 1777, aged eighty-eight. He lived at Mal- den and vicinity. Their first four children
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were baptized at the church of North Chelsea, September 20, 1719. Children : I. Rev. Thomas, graduate of Harvard College in 1732, minister at Colchester, Connecticut ; married Mary Newhall, of an old Lynn family, June 15, 1740. 2. Abraham, blacksmith at Malden, married, January 8, 1738-39, Dorothy Wade. 3. John, married, December 22, 1743, Martha Whitmore ; resided at Woburn : died May 2, 1751. at Medford, Massachusetts. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Mehitable, was in her nineteenth year in 1742. 6. Hannah, born 1730. (Three more children were born at Malden ). 7. William, married Priscilla Hobbs.
( IV) Joseph Skinner, son of Thomas Skin- ner ( 3), was born at Malden or Chelsea about 1715-17. He was taxed in Charlestown, 1737- 41-48. He settled in Lynn. He married
( first) -; (second), at Lynn, March 2, 1743-44, Abigail Brown, (intention also re- corded at Lynn). She died at Lynn, October. 1808, aged eighty-five years. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and died in the service. December 2, 1756. Children : I. Peggy, born 1736, died 1813. 2. Susan, born 1740, died 1805. 3. Lois. born 1746, died August, 1821. 4. William, mentioned below. (\') William Skinner, son of Joseph Skinner (4), born in Lynn or vicinity, December, 1756, died at Lynn. December 24, 1800. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Simeon Brown's company. Colonel Jacob Ger- rish's regiment in 1778 at Winter Hill; also in Captain Samuel Huse's company. Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment, later in 1778 at Cam- bridge. Other service credited to a William Skinner, of Marblehead, apparently also be- longs to him. Ile married, December 16. 1777. Peggy Collins, of Lynn, born 1754, died Feb- ruary 27, 1806. Children, born at Lynn: 1. William, Jr., born July 4, 1779, married, Au- gust 30, 1807. Martha Cheever, of Malden; children: i. Susannah, born March 5, 1809, (lied March 6, 1809; ii. John W., born Octo- ber 6, 1810, married a Miss Oliver, of Saugus, Massachusetts; iii. William C., born Novem- ber 7. 1812, married, August 17, 1836, a Miss Breed, of Lynn : iv. Benjamin, born October 27. 1814, died April 4, 1822 : v. Jacob C., born October 17, 1816; vi. Martha C., born August 17, 1818; vii. Lavinia P., born July 16, 1820; viii. Harriet, born November 25, 1822; ix. Sally C., born August 22, 1824, died August 18, 1829; x. Sarah, born August 25, 1829. 2. Hepzibah, born May 14, 1784, died September 15, 1804. 3. Benjamin, born October 16, 1786, died July 22, 1809, a soldier in the American
army, at Springfield, Massachusetts. 4. Joseph, born December 18, 1789, married, February 13, 1812, Deliverance Breed, born July 13. 1793; children : i. Mary Ann, born December 16, 1812, married, May 10. 1832; ii. Joseph, born January 16, 1815; iii. Martha J., born March 7. 1817, married, June 25, 1835. Na- than P. Boynton; iv. Mehitable, born May 5. 1819: v. Margaret, born July 28, 1821 ; vi. Louisa. born July 3. 1824; vii. Warren, born November 19. 1827; viii. Alfred, born Sep- tember 3. 1830; ix. Daniel C., born September 2, 1833; x. Nathan (twin), born April II, 1836; xi. Emeline (twin), born April 11, 1836. 5. John, born February 26, 1792, mentioned be- low. 6. Jacob, born August 16, 1794, married, November 16, 1816, Clarissa Sweetser ; chil- dren: i. Elisha, born August 24, 1817; ii. Edwin, born April 5. 1819. died September 8. 1819: iii. George E., born December 2, 1820, died April 8, 1823: iv. Sarah A., born Febru- ary 22, 1823: v. Emana, born July 22, 1825, (lied October II. 1825: vi. Eurana A., born October 23. 1827, died January 31. 1832 ; vii. Clarissa E., born March 13, 1835.
(\'T) John Skinner, son of William Skinner (5). was born in Lynn, February 26, 1792. He married Tamesin Shaw, born September 24, 1704, of Danvers, Massachusetts. They lived at Lynn, where he followed the trade of shoemaker, and manufactured shoes and boots during his active life. Children, born at Lynn : I. Henry, born December 19, 1812, married Harriet Brown, of Sudbury, June 25, 1837. 2. Mary, February 3, 1813, married Bryant Howard, November 8, 1837. 3. John. Febru- ary 1, 1817. 4. Benjamin Shaw, February 21. 1819, mentioned below. 5. Edward, December 30, 1820. 6. George, August 19, 1823. 7. Lydia Ann, May 5, 1826. 8. Charles W., July 16, 1831, now living in Lynn, retired ; married Lydia A. Bacheller, a native of Lynn. 9. Sarah E., August 7, 1833. 10. Susan Jane, November 17, 1834. 11. Oliver L., July 21. 1837, died September 10, 1838.
(VII ) Benjamin Shaw Skinner, son of John Skinner (6), was born in Lynn, February 21. 1810. Ile received his early education in the public schools of his native town, but when only twelve years of age began to work in the shoe shop of his father and followed the trade of shoemaker until he was twenty-two. He then learned the carpenter's trade and follow- ed it in Lynn for sixteen years. In 1856 Mr. Skinner engaged in business as a manufacturer of heels for boots and shoes and he found a ready market for his product among the manu-
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facturers of Lynn and vicinity. He built up a large and prosperous business. In later years his sons became associated with him in the business, and when he finally decided to retire in 1889 he placed his sons in charge as his suc- cessors. Although nearly eighty-nine years of age, Mr. Skinner is still one of the most famil- iar figures on the streets of Lynn (1908), known to all the older citizens and respected by everybody. He is well preserved physically and mentally. In politics Mr. Skinner was first a Whig, then a Republican. He cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison and has never missed voting at a general election since then, nor has he ever ridden to or from the polling place on account of sickness or lack of interest. Though never a candidate for public office, he has always taken a keen inter- est in public men and public questions. He is a member of the Boston Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
He married, June 1, 1841, at Salem, Massa- chusetts, Sarah Mansfield, born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, June 27, 1821, died at Lynn, May 12, 1874, aged fifty-three, daughter of Elisha and Sally (Whitman) Mansfield. Chil- dren: I. Sarah Angeline, born in Ashburn- ham, January 20, 1843, married Lysander Ful- lerton, of Whitman, Massachusetts, where they reside ; children : Willard E., Benjamin Franklin, Sarah Lizzie, Carrie Newton. 2. John Henry, born in Lynn, December 14, 1848, married Frances Bacheller, of Lynn. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born at Lynn, October 9, 1853, re- sides at home with her parents. 4. Benjamin Warren, born in Lynn. December 16, 1859, resides in Lynn ; is collector and financial man of the firm of Hill, Welch & Company ; mar- ried Emily M. Atwood, of New Boston, New Hampshire ; children : Florence Mansfield and Benjamin Atwood. An adopted daughter, Annie Mansfield Skinner, married George William Brown, of Lynn.
Ezekiel Hale, the earliest known
HALE ancestor of this branch of the Hale family, was born at Newbury, 1762, married. 1785, Phoebe Coburn, of Dracut. He moved from Dracut to Derry, New Hampshire, and thence to Haverhill. He was a pioneer in the manufacture of textiles, making cotton goods at a very early period, and in 1804 established a woolen factory at Little River. He was a successful business man, and was esteemed in the communities in which he resided.
(H) Ezekiel Hale, son of Ezekiel and
Phoebe (Coburn) Hale, was born at Dracut in 1788. He succeeded his father as a manu- facturer, and his business career was noted for straightforward transactions and the strictest integrity. He married Hannah Church, daugh- ter of Samuel Crookson, a retired merchant of Boston.
(III) Ezekiel James Madison Hale, son of Ezekiel and Hannah Church (Crookson) Hale, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 30, 1813. He fitted for college at Brad- ford Academy under Benjamin Greenleaf, and entered Dartmouth College in 1831, graduating therefrom in 1835, and among his classmates were John Plummer Healey, Harry Hibbard and Amos Tuck. He began to read law with Gilman Parker, of Haverhill, but preferring business to a profession he connected himself with his father's mills. As a boy and young man he was quiet and studious, and thus laid the foundation for an active and useful career. Being successful as a manufacturer, he pur- chased extensive woolen mills at Littleton, New Hampshire, where he made flannels. Pur- chasing the mill privileges and factory at South Groveland in 1859, he built two addi- tional structures and concentrated his manu- facturing at that point. The water power was improved and supplemented by steam power. Continually extending his business, Mr. Hale purchased the remaining mill sites on the stream, and up to 1875 constantly increased the size of his buildings and his facilities for conducting his business successfully, and he gave employment to four or five hundred skilled operatives, about one-half the popula- tion of the village. His employees resided in single dwellings and blocks erected by Mr. Hale for that purpose, and the progress and activity in the village was the direct result of his mills being located there. He also donated a lot as a site for a Catholic church and assisted in the erection of the same. Mr. Hale enjoyed the distinction of being the most extensive private manufacturer in the United States, and his business success was proportionate to his abilities.
Mr. Hale was for many years a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and president for several years of the Manchester & Law- rence Railroad. For twenty-three years he was president of the Merrimack Bank of Hav- erhill, retiring shortly before his death, which occurred June 4, 1881. In 1848 he represented his district in the state senate, fulfilling his duties to the satisfaction of all concerned. In his charitable work as in business he was apt
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to be decided and even curt in his responses to the numerous applicants, but those who were in close touch with him declare that his private benevolences were more than the world knew. In his public benefactions he was thoughtful and considerate, taking great care in studying details so that his gifts should work to the best advantage. He took the precaution to provide for the support of the resident clergy- men for the church he had built at South Groveland, the St. James Episcopal Church, he providing the site, erecting the structure and donating the furnishings for the same. In 1873 he donated to the city of Haverhill the means wherewith to erect a building for a library, the same being built in 1874-75 and dedicated November 11, 1875. He left a fund of fifty thousand dollars for the maintenance of the library and an equal amount the interest of which is to be applied annually in the pur- chase of books. He also determined to found a hospital in his native city, and to this end he himself purchased a site and was instrumental in securing the co-operation of the city gov- ernment. The legislature passed an act which was accepted by the city council, February 13, 1882, authorizing the city to erect and main- tain the Haverhill City Hospital. Mr. Hale left by will fifty thousand dollars for a hospital fund.
Mr. Hale married first, February 3, 1837, Lucy Lapham, daughter of Benjamin Parker, a merchant of East Bradford, now Groveland. They were the parents of seven children, among whom were Harry H. and Samuel C., who survived their father. Mrs. Hale died in March, 1856. Mr. Hale married second, Feb- ruary 5, 1862, Ruth C. Parker, sister of his first wife, and they were the parents of one child. Edward, who survived his father.
EDGETT There is no end of all that might be said from the experience and learning of any one who has lived a long and studious life amid the affairs and pursuits of mankind-especially in an age of the greatest progress in arts and sciences. For this reason, or for sake of brevity, the field of law, war, literature, history, science and mercantile work, in which George W. Edgett, B. L., the author of those selections presented in a book he is preparing, will not be reviewed in this narrative.
George W. Edgett was born in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1834. His parents, Henry and Lydia S. (Lapham) -Edgett, both born in 1806, in Dutchess county,
New York, where they were married, were pioneers in the wilderness of Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where they made a farm, to which the enterprising father added a saw mill and made lumber for the New York, Phil- adelphia and home markets. After a few years, in addition to farming and lumbering, the elder Edgett built a store in the village of Prompton, where he carried on trade in all sorts of necessary merchandise, besides dis- charging the duties of postmaster. After a life of hard work, however, in his seventy- fourth year, he died penniless, mostly on account of trusting everybody and being a negligent collector. The mother of George W. Edgett was an incessant economic toiler-a woman of the greatest integrity, tenderness and love, justly proud of her descent from one of the best families. She gave birth to five children, of whom but three lived to grow up. Of these, Alvah B., the eldest, and Frances M., the youngest, married and brought up children. George W., who survived them, has remained single. Born the same year, the parents dicd forty-two days apart, at the ages of seventy- three years three months, and seventy-three years four months, respectively.
George W. Edgett began his academic studies in Bethany University, which is now defunct. He taught school for a time and prepared for college during four years in Wyoming Seminary ; entered Yale College in 1855, studied law, was admitted to the bar of Wayne county, Pennsylvania, in 1859, prac- ticed law in various counties, and was admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor in the supreme court of Pennsylvania, at Phila- delphia, in 1870, making him eligible to prac- tice in the United States courts.
He removed to Boston in 1873, where he pursued a mercantile business until 1880. After this, he resided chiefly in Winthrop, near Bos- ton, where he owned a small estate, and devoted his time to study and travel. Inspired by the lofty ambitions of youth and the highest ideals of professional life at the outset of his career, after having gained the assurance of success in oratory, in forensic debate and the practice of his profession, finally the warlike nature of contention in courts of law became repugnant to him. It was thought by some that his aver- sion to the strenuous work of his profession was on account of indolence ; but the fact was, that when he found the frequent necessity of concealing truth, of making the worse appear the better reason, of meeting artifice with arti- fice and of creating false theories in defence of
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criminals-when he witnessed how the love of money and renown could make men prostitute a power of eloquence to advocate a wrong or defend iniquity ; when he realized the sham, the sophistry, the crafty use of precedents, the ever growing desire of lawyers in a contest, to secure victory instead of truth; or when he saw the Goddess of Justice, the personified spirit of equity and law, in perpetual change -now the executor of savage laws and now the protean ideal of civilized evolution made by the diverse colors of opinions from a world's judiciary, subject to codes unstable, stattites mercenary, and supplied with scales to weigh imperial, financial and legal abilities, instead of actual rights and wrongs-he came to know what hapless lovers feel in the frui- tion of deceptive dreams : after worship, repul- sion ; "after love, ashes." And so, unlike those old worthies who bade good bye in strains of poesy to all other beloved pursuits, and wedded themselves forever to the law, he said farewell to law and having acquired a small compe- tency by other means, he found more happi- ness in the boundless field of cosmology, searching into natural laws, than he could pos- sibly arrive at in the field of human laws. He developed a particular fondness for chemistry, particularly experimental chemistry, and his essay "A New Study of Nature," demonstrates his thorough experience and broad knowledge of that great science, and affords an index to the course of reasoning by which he came to a self-satisfied state of mind in relation to the nature, constitution and laws of creation. Another essay, published in pamphlet form, some forty pages, "Isomorism," combined with a study of "What is Mind?" shows his fond- ness for metaphysical studies. He now has well. nigh completed a volume of considerable proportions entitled "Walks, Talks, Travels and Essays," and various other writings, including frequent interspersion of poetical stanzas which indicate in some degree how his mind trains with the Muses. Mr. Edgett, lib- erally informed on a wide range of topics, and fully up to the thought of the present as well as of the past, is a charming conversationalist whom it is at once delightful and instructive to meet. Despite his advanced years, his mind is in the fullness of its powers, and his physical energies are remarkably well preserved. In the field of politics, Mr. Edgett stands for the highest American ideals. In 1900 he stumped the seven counties of lower California against President McKinley and his policies; and he afterwards wrote and delivered a powerful
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