Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 17

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924


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(VII) Hon. George William, son of Samuel (2) Johnson, was born in Boston, December 27, 1827. He was educated in the famous old Chauncy Hall school and at the Boston Latin school. In his seventeenth year he entered the importing and jobbing house of Deane & Davis, Boston, and upon attaining his majority became a partner in the firm, the name becoming Deane, Davis & Company, and later Davis, Johnson & Company. In 1850 this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Johnson having accepted a proposition to engage in the Mediterranean trade; and soon afterward he sailed for Smyrna and other parts of the Levant. Upon his return eight months later he found the firm with which he was con- nected had become insolvent, and he was obliged to change his plans. During the next five years he was abroad the greater part of the time, partly for pleasure, partly for busi- ness, visiting England, China and South America. In April, 1856, he went to Brook- field, the home of his maternal ancestors, to which he was much attached, for a temporary residence ; and the following year, after his marriage, he decided to make his permanent


home there. In 1860 he decided to study law and for that purpose entered the law office of J. Evarts Greene, of North Brookfield, late the editor of the Worcester Spy, and at the time of his death postmaster at Worcester. Mr. Johnson completed his studies in the office of that distinguished Boston lawyer, Peleg W. Chandler, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863, and immediately opened his office in Brookfield. To his law business he added that of negotiating loans for eastern capitalists on real estate in Chicago. For a time the two branches of his business were conducted to- gether comfortably, but in course of time his frequent absence from home to attend to Chi- cago matters interfered with his law practice, and in 1868 he closed his Brookfield law office and devoted all his attention to financial oper- ations. In 1870 he entered the manufacturing field, engaging in the manufacturing of shoes and boots in Brookfield, in partnership with Levi Davis, under the firm name of Johnson & Davis. Two years later the firm name was changed to Johnson, Davis & Forbes. The business was continued until 1878, when the factory having been destroyed by fire and the shoe trade depressed, the firm was dissolved and its affairs wound up. Mr. Johnson re- sumed his law practice and the Chicago loan business. A few years later he retired from professional work, and has since then lived in the enjoyment of a well earned ease. In the local affairs of Brookfield Mr. Johnson has always taken an active part, and was for many years prominent in state affairs. He was chairman of the board of selectmen of Brook- field and of the school committee for a long period. He has been one of the trustees of the Merrick Library since its foundation. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Republican Na- tional convention in Chicago and twelve years later was an alternate to the convention which nominated Garfield. He has served in both branches of the state legislature, beginning as a senator for the third Worcester district in 1870, and was member of the house in 1877 and 1880. In the senate he was a member of the committees on probate and chancery, on the library, on woman suffrage; and was especially active in opposing the state grant to the old Hartford & Erie railroad, later the New York & New England, now operated by the New York, New Haven & Hartford com- pany. In the house during his first term he served on the committee on finance, and in his second term on finance, and also on rules and orders, and as house chairman of the commit-


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tee on fisheries. In 1877, by appointment of Governor Rice, he became one of the inspect- ors of the state primary school at Monson, and under the act of 1879, organizing the board of state charities, he was appointed a trustee of the state primary and reform schools, and served several years as chairman of the board. In 1887 he was a member of the executive council, and was twice re-elected ( for 1888 and 1889), and served the entire length of Governor Ames's term in the govern- orship, taking a leading hand in a number of important matters. He was on the committee on pardons and on the special committee for the purchase of land and making plans and estimates for the state house extension, since carried into effect. On the latter committee his services were especially efficient. Owing to the illness of the governor, who was on the committee, and the early retirement of the third member, the entire work of carrying through a number of delicate business trans- actions fell upon him ; and all interested bore testimony to his satisfactory conduct of them. Every purchase made without the intervention of brokers, thus saving to the state the cost of commissions. In 1889 he was a leading candidate in the Republican state convention for the nomination for lieutenant governor, with the endorsement of a strong list of sup- porters, and on the first ballot received three hundred and thirty-seven votes, a good por- tion of them coming from Boston delegates, but the choice of the convention finally fell on another candidate, and in the campaign following he gave his successful competitor the heartiest support. In December, 1889, he was appointed to the state board of lunacy and charity, on which he has served faithfully for many years, occupying the position of chairman since 1892, which he resigned on account of sickness. In the presidential elec- tion of 1892 he was chosen one of the presi- dential electors, and as a member of the elec- toral college cast his vote for Benjamin Har- rison.


Mr. Johnson married, February 24, 1857, Mary Ellen, daughter of E. C. and Mary (Abbott) Stowell, of Chicago, Illinois. Chil- dren: I. Clara S., born June 7, 1860, edu- cated at home, in high school of Brookfield and Abbott Academy; married, June 7, 1882, Loammi C. Thompson, of Springfield; chil- dren: i. Philip S., born September 14, 1883, died August following ; ii. Abbot Howe, born July 5, 1885, attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now connected with F.


B. Holmes's shoe factory in Chelsea; iii. George William, born December 6, 1886, died January 21, 1906. 2. Mary, born October 22, 1862, died August 1, 1864. 3. George H., born September 15, 1864, see forward. 4. Alice R., born March 9, 1867, attended Brook- field high school, Mrs. Quincy Shaw's school, Boston, and Smith College, from which she was graduated with the class of 1899; studied in Berlin, Germany ; married, September 30, 1897, William A. Clark, of Northampton, Massachusetts ; children : i. Alan R., born Feb- ruary 16, 1900; ii. Marion, March 25, 1903. 5. Ethel, born March 14, 1869, educated at home and attended Brookfield high school two years ; Mrs. Quincy Shaw's school, Boston, three years; went abroad and studied lan- guages in Berlin. 6. Harold A., born Septem- ber 15, 1873, see forward. 7. Marion P., born August 26, 1875, attended Brookfield high school and Miss Capen's school at North- ampton for two years ; entered Smith College, leaving it in his senior year on account of ill health, and spent the winter months in Florida and Colorado; died at Brookfield, June 22, 1899.


(VIII) George H., son of Hon. George William Johnson, was born in Brookfield, September 15, 1864, died of typhoid fever in Columbia, Mississippi, December 6, 1903. He attended the public and high schools of his native town, and Phillips Academy at An- dover for three years He then entered the employ of his uncle, John Roper, of Chicago, wholesale dealer in groceries After about three years he engaged in the lumber business in Arkansas. He remained there and in Louis- iana several years, going to McHenry, Mis- sissippi, as general manager for the Fullerton Brothers, remaining about four years, then one . year in Columbia, Mississippi, where he died. In these several places he was general man- ager of the saw mills connected with the lum- ber business of the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company. He married Mrs. Eliza Amsden Fletcher, widow of William Fletcher, daugh- ter of Francis and Elizabeth Cotton Amsden, of Mansfield, Louisiana. She had three chil- dren by her first and three daughters by her second marriage, namely: 1. Mary Ellen, born April 14, 1899. 2. Clara S., August 17, 1900. 3. Ethel, November 8, 1902.


(VIII) Dr. Harold A., son of Hon. George William Johnson, was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, September 15, 1873. He at- tended the public and high schools of that town, fitted for college in Phillips Exeter


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Academy, and entered Williams College, from which he graduated in the class of 1895 with the degree of A. B. He then took up the study of medicine in Harvard Medical School, and was graduated in 1899 with the degree of M. D. He volunteered during the Spanish- American war and was made assistant sur- geon of the United States navy. He has made a specialty of surgery and was surgical house officer at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was resident surgeon at the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, one year, and then took up the practice of his profession in San Francisco, California, removing after two years to Lynn, where he has his office at 70 Broad street. He is a successful practitioner. He married Cora V. Meyerstein. They have one child, Harold Stowell, born January 21, 1905.


(VII) Dr. Amos Howe, son of Samuel (2) Johnson, was born August 4, 1831. He re- ceived his education at the Chauncy Hall school, in Boston, and at Phillips Academy at Andover from 1847 to 1849. He graduated at Harvard College in 1853, and from the An- dover Theological Seminary in 1856. He was five years pastor of the Congregational church at Middleton, Massachusetts, and then studied medicine at the Harvard Medical School from 1862 to 1865. He settled in Salem as a medical practitioner, and studied at Berlin and Vienna in 1869-70. He was secretary many years and president two years of the Essex South District Medical Society. He has written many medical papers for the learned societies, and was orator of the Massachusetts Medical Society for its anniversary in June, 1883, and was president of the society for two years. He served two years in the general court, and three years on the Salem school board. He was secretary of the Essex Institute, deacon of the Congregational church, and former president of the Essex Congregational Club. He was vice-president of the Harvard Alumni Association in 1892-93. He married, Septem- ber 22. 1859, Frances Seymour, daughter of Nathan, of Williamstown, and Mary A. ( Wheeler ) Benjamin, of New York, mission- aries to Athens, Greece and Constantinople. Children: 1. Samuel, born July 16, 1860, see forward. 2. Meta Benjamin, May 7, 1862, married Francis H. Bergen, of Staten Island, New York. 3. Amy H., July 23, 1865. 4. Captain Charles A., July 13, 1868, resides in Denver ; member of National Guard; real estate and rental broker. 5. Philip S., Febru- ary 26, 1872, see forward. 6. Ralph S., May 16, 1878. died September 1898, in Spanish-


American war ; enlisted in Denver City Troop, which later became Troop B, Second United States Volunteer Cavalry, and attached to "Torrey's Rough Riders."


(VIII) Samuel, eldest child of Dr. Amos Howe Johnson, was born July 16, 1860. He was a student in the Salem grammar and high schools, and took a three years' course at Will- iams College. He entered the employ of C. F. Hovey & Company, in the capacity of clerk, and in 1899 became a member of the firm. He married Josephine, daughter of Edward W. Forbush (see Forbush VII).


(VIII) Philip Seymour, son of Dr. Amos Howe Johnson, was born February 26, 1872. He graduated from the Salem high school with the class of 1890, entered Harvard Col- lege with the class of 1894, leaving in 1895 to go into business with the Francis A. Foster Company, with whom he remained nine years as traveling and local salesman, and was with the same company in Chicago for a year and a half, afterward with C. W. Whittier & Brother, Boston, and now (1908) with Sar- gent & Fairfield. He is a Republican in poli- tics. He married, February 19, 1905, Edith, daughter of George E. Atherton, of Brook- line.


(VII) Rev. Francis Howe, clergyman and author, son of Samuel (2) Johnson, was born in Boston, January 15. 1835. He was graduated from Phillips Andover Acad- emy in 1852, from Harvard in 1856, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1860. After a somewhat brief pastorate in Hamilton, Massachusetts, he spent a year abroad, travel- ing in Europe and the East ; and in 1867 went to live at Andover, which he made his home. From that time on he devoted himself to the interests of country life, interspersed with study, and occasional preaching and writing, mainly on philosophical subjects. In 1882-83 he contributed to Bibliotheca Sacra a series of articles entitled "Positivism as a Working System," and from 1883 to 1891 he was on the editorial staff of the Andover Review, to which he contributed eighteen articles. In 1891 he published a volume (Houghton & Mifflin, pp. 510) entitled "What is Reality-An Inquiry as to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion, and the Naturalness of Revealed Religion.' Since 1880 his summer home has been Bar Harbor. Maine, and during the last ten years he has spent many of his winters in Rome. He married, June 6, 1867, Mary A. Dove, daughter of John and Helen ( McLaggan) Dove, of Andover. Ile has two sons :


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Grahame Dove Johnson, and Reginald Mans- field Johnson. His second marriage was Oc- tober 24, 1894, to Mary Beach, daughter of Hunn Carrington and Mary C. de Koven Beach, of New York.


(VIII) Grahame Dove, eldest son of Rev. Francis Howe Johnson, was born in Leaming- ton, England, October 8, 1870. He was gradu- ated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1888; was with the 1892 class of Harvard till the senior year, when he entered the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. After practicing a short time in New York, he went with his wife to Europe, where he spent some five years, study- ing some of that time in Berlin and Vienna. In 1907 he returned and established himself in Andover, Massachusetts, where he became much interested in farming. He married, June 28, 1894. Julia Keim, daughter of Murray (M. D.) and Mary (Keim) Weidman, of Reading, Pennsylvania.


(VIII) Reginald Mansfield, son of Rev. Francis Howe Johnson, was born February 5, 1876, in Andover, Massachusetts. He gradu- ated at Phillips Andover Academy in 1894; from Harvard College, 1898, A. B., and Har- vard Law School, LL. B. in 1891. He spent one year after graduation in the law office of Messrs. Ropes, Gray & Gorham, Boston, and there, October, 1902, formed a partnership with Theodore Hogue (Hogue & Johnson), 60 State street, Boston. This continued till July I, 1908, when he took an office, in the same building, on his own account. He married, ยท July 2, 1902, Julia Pierrepont, daughter of J. Pierrepont and Antoinette Livingston ( Water- bury) Edwards, of New York. His children are: Helen Pierrepont, born April 13, 1903; Elsie Livingston, October 23, 1904; Reginald Francis, April 5, 1907. Since his marriage his residence has been Milton, Massachusetts.


(VII) Edward Crosby, son of Samuel (2) Johnson, was born November 1, 1839. He attended the Boston Latin school, graduating in 1856, and from Harvard College in 1860 with the degree of A. B. He entered the store of C. F. Hovey & Company as clerk in Sep- tember. 1860, and about 1869 was admitted to the firm, of which he has been a member since. He enlisted in the civil war as first lieutenant in Company H, Forty-fourth Mas- sachusetts Volunteer Militia, in August, 1862, served full time with his regiment, and was promoted to the rank of adjutant in May, 1863. For fifteen years he was trustee of the Suffolk Savings Bank, resigning in 1905. He


is director of the Home for Aged Men, and the Home for Intemperate Women. For a number of years he has been treasurer of the Old South Society, of which he is a zealous member. He married, October 14, 1864, Alice T. Robbins, born April 29, 1842, died Febru- ary 3, 1891, daughter of Rev. Chandler, D. D., and Mary Eliza ( Frothingham) Robbins. Children: 1. Charlotte Howe, married Gov- ernor Curtis Guild Jr. 2. Alice Cornelia, married John Lavalle, two children: John; Alice, died aged one year ten months. 3. Mary Frothingham, married Vittorio Or- landini, child, Edward, born August, 1907.


FAXON Thomas Faxon, immigrant ances- tor, was born in England about 1601. He came to New England with his wife Jeane and three children, before 1647. His name first appears at Dedham, when his daughter Joanna was married to Anthony Fisher Jr., September 7, 1647. He settled at Braintree, Massachusetts, and was a prominent citizen there. He was selectman in 1670-72 and deputy to the general court from Brain- tree in 1669. He married (second) September 5, 1670, Sarah Savill, widow of William Savill, of Braintree. He died November 23. 1680. Children : 1. Joanna, born about 1626 in Eng- land, married, September 7, 1647, Anthony Fisher Jr. 2. Thomas, born about 1628-29 in England, married, April 1I, 1653. Deborah Thayer, daughter of Richard Thayer. 3. Rich- ard, mentioned below.


(II) Richard, son of Thomas Faxon, was born in England about 1630. He came with his parents to New England and married Eliza- beth He died December 20, 1674. Children: I. Elizabeth, born March 26, 1655, died April 3, 1673. 2. Mary, September 7, 1656, died September 14, 1657. 3. Mary, December 19, 1657. 4. Sarah, March 13, 1659. 5. Josiah, September 8, 1660. 6. Thomas, August 2, 1662, mentioned below. 7. Lydia, September 1, 1663, died 1663. 8. Hannah, September 1, 1663 (twin). 9. Ebenezer, De- cember 15, 1664, died March 27, 1665. 10. Richard, June 21, 1666. II. John, April, 1667, died April 12, 1668. 12. Joseph, August 26, 1669. 13. Abigail, September 18, 1670.


(III) Sergeant Thomas (2), son of Richard Faxon, was born in Braintree, August 2, 1662, died in 1690, and was buried at Weymouth. He was a farmer and inherited part of the estate of his grandfather. He was a member of the Phipps expedition to Canada, and was a victim of small pox, which broke out before


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the expedition sailed. His will was dated August 4, 1690, and bequeaths to his two minor children all his property ; but if they die before they come of age, he bequeaths "to my Honored Mother Elizabeth Hubbard" and to "my hon- ored mother Basse-Mrs. Susanna Basse;" to sisters Mary, Abigail and Hannah Faxon; to "Benjamin Hubbard, my loving brother" and to others. He married Mary Blanchard, born December 1, 1662, daughter of Nathaniel and Susanna ( Bates) Blanchard. She must have died before 1690, as she is not mentioned in the will. Children, born in Braintree : I. Richard, September 4. 1686, mentioned below. 2. Mary, 1689, married, May 7, 1707, Joseph Deane.


(IV) Richard (2), son of Sergeant Thomas (2) Faxon, was born in Braintree, September 4, 1686, died May 5, 1768. He was chosen town clerk of Braintree March 7, 1736, and held the office seventeen years. He was cap- tain in the militia, town treasurer, justice of the peace. He and his wife were members of of the Middle Precinct Church, and he was called "Gentleman" in the records. He and his wife are buried in the graveyard near the church. He married, December 29, 1709, Anna Brackett, born July 18, 1687, died October 16, 1769, daughter of James and Sarah Brackett. Children, born in Braintree: I. Thomas, Octo- ber 29, 1710, married (first) September 22, 1746, Elizabeth Hobart; (second) September 14, 1753, Mrs. Anna (Porter ) Clark; (third) December 26, 1756, Phebe Hayden. 2. Mary, March 8. 1712, married, April 3, 1735, Nathaniel Thayer. 3. Abigail, July 26, 1715, married, February 20, 1746, Caleb Thayer. 4. Richard, November 2, 1718. 5. James, Novem- ber 7, 1720, mentioned below. 6. Sarah, April 12, 1724, died unmarried November 2, 1748. 7. Anna, June 3, 1726, died unmarried Novem- ber 2, 1748. 8. Azariah, March 23, 1731, mar- ried, November 1, 1753, Dorcas Penniman.


(V) James, son of Richard (2) Faxon, was born in Braintree, November 7, 1720, died June 21, 1797. He was a captain in the militia, a man of influence, high social position, and independent character. He was refused admis- sion to the Middle Precinct Church at a time when there was trouble in the parish, on account of some difference with a neighbor. The following sentiment on his gravestone expresses his feelings regarding the slight :


"Blest in the promised Seed, supremely blest, His ransomed sonl hath entered into rest;


Now insolence of pride, and priestly spite,


Shall strive in vain to rob him of his right."


He married (first) March 15, 1744, Relief Thayer, born March II, 1723, died 1774, daughter of Nathaniel and Relief (Hyde) Thayer. He married (second) August 19, 1775, Mary Denton, widow, who died April 3, 1805, aged seventy-three. She was a school teacher and taught school in Braintree after her marriage, in 1765-72-75-77. Children, born in Braintree: 1. James, October 6, 1744, men- tioned below. 2. Richard, November 10, 1746, married, September 3, 1771, Susanna Spear. 3. Nathaniel, February, 1750, married, Decem- ber 31, 1770, Mary Vose. 4. Relief, January, 1752, married, July 9, 1784, Caleb French. 5. Eleb, January 9, 1756, married, November 28, 1782, Ruth Ann Hathaway. 6. Caleb, October 6, 1758, married, January 14, 1794, Lydia Hathaway. 7. Mary, August 29, 1760, died unmarried 1827. 8. Elizabeth, July 26, 1763, married, February 3, 1791, Caleb Hobart. 9. Eunice, June 19, 1765, married, March 25, 1792, James Gridley.


(VI) James (2), son of James (1) Faxon, was born in Braintree, October 6, 1744, died October 5, 1829. He was in the revolution in Captain Moses French's company, Colonel Pal- mer's regiment, in 1776, and in the company of Hon. Thomas Cushing for the defense of the Castle and Governor's islands from July 26, 1783, to January 24, 1784, and probably saw other service. He was a shoemaker by trade. He married (intentions dated May 20, 1775) Mary Field, born 1754, died May 6, 1839, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (New- comb) Field. Children, born in Braintree: I. Nathaniel, February 17, 1777, mentioned below. " 2. Joseph, January 21, 1779, married, April 9, 1806, Hepsy Adams. 3. Job, September 5, 1780, married, October 25, 1812, Judith B. Hardwick. 4. Charles, March 1, 1783, married, 1805, Rhoda Morrill. 5. William, February 22, 1784, married, February 18, 1811, Martha Adams. 6. Mary, March 27, 1787, unmarried. 7. James, 1788, dicd October 14, 1807, by falling from a tree. 8. John, January 17, 1791, married, April 13, 1822, Lucy Hardwick. 9. George, September 15, 1796, married, June 5, 1820, Abigail Baxter.


(VII) Nathaniel, son of Jamcs (2) Faxon, was born in Braintree, February 17, 1777, died August 17, 1861. He went to Boston in 1800 and engaged in the boot and shoe trade which he continued until 1836, and then resigned to his eldest son. The sign of the "big boot" was a prominent object over the door of his store at the corner of Merchant's Row and Market Square, and afterwards at 53 North


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Market street. He acquired wealth but was always modest and unassuming, esteemed for his high character and blameless life. He mar- ried, October 15, 1801, Eunice Bass, baptized November 3. 1782, died January 26, 1855, daughter of Seth and Mary (Jones) Bass, of Quincy. Children: I. George N., born No- vember 8, 1803, married, October 18, 1855, Cornelia T. Cutter. 2. Francis E., October 5, 1807, married, December 20, 1837, Lois M. Knox. 3. Eunice Maria, February II, 1810, mentioned below. 4. James O., August 3, 1812, married, October 17, 1837, Harriet Fair- field.


(VIII) Eunice Maria, daughter of Nathaniel Faxon, was born February II. 1810, in Boston. She married (first ) October 5, 1827, Dr. Will- iam Grigg, born May 30, 1805, died 1836, son of John and Maria ( Pell) Grigg. She mar- ried (second) May 31, 1838, William A. Weeks, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 30. 1812, died June 20, 1854, son of William and Abigail (Hubbard) Weeks. She married (third) June 25, 1856, James H. Weeks, born in Portsmouth, May 5, 1810, brother of her second husband. Children, born in Boston : I. Mary Pell Grigg, born May 31, 1834, adopted by her grandfather, Nathaniel Faxon, and her name changed to Mary Josephine Faxon ; mar- ried Edward W. Forbush. (See Forbush and Johnson). 2. Eunice Maria Weeks, born July 28, 1839, married Horace H. Coolidge ; chil- dren: William W. Coolidge, married - Mills ; Lulie, married Alfred Hurd; two chil- dren : Marjorie, graduate of Radcliffe College, and John, now at Harvard College; Alice, unmarried ; Charles H., deceased.


(The Forbush Line).


Daniel Forbush, immigrant ancestor, is be- lieved to have come from Kinellar, Scotland, the son of Daniel Forbush, who died there in 1624. He was born about 1620 and was prob- ably one of the Scotch soldiers defeated by Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar, and sent by him to the American colonies, where he escaped with his brother William to Maine. The first record of Daniel Forbush (Forbes or Farra- bus) in this country is found in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he married, March 26, 1660, Rebecca Perriman, who is supposed to have been a sister of Thomas Perriman, of Weymouth, an apprentice in 1652 of Mrs. Dorothy Hunt, and of Frances Perriman, who married, June 8, 1654, Isaac Andrew, of Cam- bridge. On February 27, 1664, and March 17, 1665, Daniel Forbush was granted land at




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