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Bathsheba Churchill, wife of Thomas Long. was a daughter of Zadoc Churchill, born 1747 ;
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son of Stephen Churchill, born 1717, son of Stephen Churchill, born 1685 ; son of Eleazer Churchill, born 1652; son of John Churchill, who came from England to Plymouth, Massa- chusetts, 1643, and married, 1644, Hannah, daughter of William Pontus.
Zadoc Churchill married Bathsheba Rider, born 1750, concerning whose ancestry author- ities are at variance. One writer says: Rich- ard Warren, of the "Mayflower," 1620, son of Christopher, of Kent county, England, mar- ried widow Elizabeth Marsh, who came over in the "Ann," 1623; had Mary Warren, who married, in 1628, Robert Bartlett, who came in the "Ann;" had Sarah Bartlett, who mar- ried 1656, Samuel Rider (second wife) ; had Samuel Rider, born 1657; married, 1680, Lydia Tilden; had Joseph Rider, born 1691, married, 1740, Elizabeth Crossman, (second wife) ; had Bathsheba Rider, born 1650, mar- ried Zadoc Churchill.
On the other hand Mr. Bowman, secretary of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, says that James Chilton, of the "Mayflower," 1620, had a daughter Mary, who married John Winslow (brother of Governor Winslow) ; and had Mary Winslow, who married, 1650, Edward Gray, of Plymouth, and had Desire Gray, born 1651, married Nathaniel South- worth, son of Alice Southworth, second wife of Governor Bradford; and had Mary South- worth, born 1676, married Joseph Rider, and had Joseph Rider, Jr., who married (second wife) Elizabeth Crossman; and had Bath- sheba Rider, born 1750, married Zadoc Churchill, and had Bathsheba Churchill, who married Thomas Long.
(VII) Zadoc, son of Thomas and Bath- sheba (Churchill) Long, was born in Middle- boro, Massachusetts, July 28, 1800, and died in Winchenden, Massachusetts, February 3, 1873. He was a man of considerable promi- nence in his native state, and in 1638 was the Whig candidate for congress. He received a plurality but not a majority of votes, hence failed of election. He married, August 31, 1824, at New Gloucester, Maine, Julia Temple Davis, born in Falmouth, Maine, February 17, 1807, died in Buckfield, Maine, September 19, 1869. Children: 1. Julia Davis, born August 16, 1825, died October 31, 1882; married Nel- son D. White. 2. Persis Seaver, born Febru- ary 14, 1828, died April 27, 1893; married Percival W. Bartlett. 3. Zadoc, Jr., born April 26, 1834, died September 14, 1866; married Ruth A. Strout. 4. John Davis, born October 27, 1838.
Julia Temple Davis, wife of Zadoc Long, was a descendant in the seventh generation of Dolor Davis, born in Kent, England, about 1600, and came to Boston in May, 1634, with Simon Willard. He settled in Cambridge, then in Duxbury, about 1643, then at Barn- stable, where he died in 1673. Meantime he lived in Concord from 1655 to 1666, where his sons settled and lived. Dolor married, about 1624, Margery Willard, born in 1602, daughter of Richard Willard, of Horsemonden, Kent, England. She died in Concord, Massachusetts, after 1655 and before 1666. Their son Samuel married, January II, 1665, at Lynn, Massa- chusetts, Mary Meads (or Meadows), who died in Concord, 1710. Their son Simon, known as Lieutenant Simon, born 1683, died in Holden; married, 1713, Dorothy who died at Holden, 1776. Their son Simon, born 1714, died 1754; he lived in Rutland, Massachusetts, and married Hannah Gates of Stow, who died in 1761. She was a descend- ant of Stephen Gates, one of the early settlers of Hingham. Their son, Deacon David, born 1740, lived at Paxton, and married Abigail
Brown, 1764. Their son Simon, born in Paxton, September 2, 1765, died in Falmouth, Maine, March 17, 1810. He married, 1802, at West Boylston, widow Persis Seaver, maiden name Temple, born 1766, at Shrewsbury, a descend- ant of the Temple family. Their daughter, Julia Temple Davis, married Zadoc Long, Au- gust 31, 1824.
(VIII) John Davis, only surviving child of Zadoc and Julia Temple (Davis) Long, was born in Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, October 27, 1838. He acquired his earlier literary education in public schools and the academy at Hebron, in the latter fitting for college under the principalship of Mark H. Dunnell, afterward a member of congress from Minnesota. He entered Harvard, taking the academic course, and graduated A. B. 1857, second in his class. He wrote the class ode which was sung on commencement day. For two years after leaving college he was principal of the Westford Academy, and at the end of that time entered Harvard Law School. He also studied law in the office of Sidney Bartlett and Peleg W. Chandler, of the Boston bar. In 1861 he was admitted to prac- tice, and the same year began his professional career in Buckfield. He remained there six months, then came to Boston, and became partner with Stillman B. Allen. Alfred Hem- enway was afterward a partner, a relation which was maintained until November, 1879,
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when Mr. Long was elected governor of Massachusetts. He and Mr. Hemenway still hang out the sign of Long & Hemenway.
Soon after he had become a member of the Boston bar, Governor Long took up his resi- dence in Hingham, where he still lives. In 1875 he was elected representative from the Second Plymouth district to the general court, was re-elected at the end of his first term, and twice afterward; during the legislative ses- sions of 1876-77-79 he was speaker of the house, and the unanimous choice of the house in 1877. At the Republican state convention in Worcester in 1877 he was mentioned for the governorship, but his name was with- drawn. At the convention of the next year he received 266 votes in his candidacy for the gubernatorial office, but when his name was presented for the lieutenant-governorship he was nominated by a large majority and elected to that office. In 1879 he was nominated and elected governor, succeeding Governor Talbot. In the campaign of that year his Democratic opponent was General Butler, with John Quincy Adams and Rev. Dr. Eddy as nomi- nees of minor political factions. In 1880 he was the unanimous choice of the convention, and at the polls in November he received a vote as gratifying as it was unprecedented in a gubernatorial contest in this state in any other than a presidential year. In November, 1881. he was re-elected for another term, and served in all three years. In 1884 he was elected rep- resentative in congress, and twice re-elected, serving during the 48th, 49th and 50th ses- sions of that body. On March 6, 1897, he was appointed the Secretary of the Navy in Presi- dent McKinley's cabinet, and retired from that office May 1, 1902. At the close of the last session of his six years in congress, Governor Long returned to Boston and resumed his law practice, and with the exception of the years in the president's cabinet he has not been particularly identified with the public service. For several years he was a member of the state house construction commission. He is president of the board of overseers of Harvard College, member of the Massachu- setts Historical Society, fellow of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences, and presi- dent of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society. The Zadoc Long Free Library at Buckfield, Maine, was presented to the town by Governor Long in 1901 as a memorial of his father.
"As a man of letters," says one of his recent
biographers, "Governor Long has achieved a reputation. Some years ago he produced a scholarly translation in blank verse of Virgil's Aeneid, published in 1879, in Boston. It has found many admirers. Among his other liter- ary productions may be mentioned his After- dinner Speeches, The Republican Party, Its History, Principles and Policies, and The New American Navy. His inaugural addresses were masterpieces of art, and the same can be said of his speeches on the floor of congress, all of them polished, forceful and to the point. * * * Mr. Long is a very fluent speaker, and without oratorical display he always suc- ceeds in winning the attention of his auditors. It is what he says, more than how he says it, that has won him his great popularity on the platform. *
* Amid professional and offi- cial duties, he also has written several poems and essays which reflect credit upon his heart and brain."
In 1880 Governor Long was honored by his alma mater with the degree of LL. D. and later with the same degree by Tufts College.
On September 13, 1870, he married (first) Mary (Woodward) Glover, born in Roxbury, June 29, 1845, died in Boston, February 16, 1882; married (second) May 22, 1885, Agnes Peirce, born at North Attleboro, Massachu- setts, January 3, 1860. His children are: 1. Margaret, born in Hingham, January 26, 1872, died same day. 2. Margaret, born in Boston, October 28, 1873. 3. Helen, born in Hingham, June 26, 1875, died October 4, 1901. 4. (By second wife) Pierce, born in North Attleboro, December 29, 1887.
Mary Woodward Glover, first wife of Gov- ernor John Davis Long, was a daughter of George Stephen Glover, born Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1816, and married, about 1841, Helen Paul, of Sherborn. George Ste- phen Glover was a son of Captain Stephen Glover, born in Dorchester, January 9, 1729, died October 11, 1811; master mariner and deep sea navigator ; married (first ) Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Clough) Glover ; married (second) October 15, 1759, Jerusha Billings, born in Dorchester Septem- ber 22, 1743, died in Quincy, April 2, 1807, daughter of John and Miriam (Davenport) Billings. Captain Elisha Glover was son of John Glover, born in Dorchester, September 18, 1687, died in Braintree (Quincy ), July 6, 1768; was land holder ; married (first) Janu- ary 1, 1714, Mary Horton, of Milton, died December 19, 1776. John Glover was a son
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of Nathaniel Glover, born in Dorchester, Jan- uary 30, 1653, died there January 6, 1723-4; married, 1672-3, Hannah Hinckley, of Barn- stable, born April 1, 1650, died in Dorchester, April 30, 1730, fourth daughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley by his first wife Mary Rich- ards. Nathaniel was son of Mr. Nathaniel Glover, born 1630-31, died in Dorchester, May 21, 1657 ; married. March 22. 1652, Mary Smith, born at Toxeth Park. Mary (Smith) Glover married (second) March 2, 1659-60, Thomas Hinckley, of Barnstable, afterward governor of Plymouth colony. Nathaniel Glover was fourth son of John Glover, Esq., of Prescott, England, and of Dorchester and Boston, New England, born in Rainhill parish, Prescott, Lancashire, England, August 12, 1600, died in Boston, December 11, 1653.
Agnes Peirce, second wife of Governor John Davis Long, was born January 1, 1860, daugh- ter of Rev. Joseph D. Peirce, born November 15, 1815, died in North Attleboro, Massachu- setts, November 16, 1880; married, November 30. 1858, Martha S. Price, born 1830, died 1885. daughter of George Price. Rev. Joseph D. Peirce was son of John Peirce, born Scit- uate, Massachusetts, October 29, 1776, died at sea, May 16, 1816: married, November 10, 1810, Mercy Merritt, born January 24, 1784, died April 4, 1838. John Peirce was son of Seth B. Peirce, born Scituate, September 7, 1728. died December 9, 1810 ; married Septem- ber 6, 1766, Jemima Turner, died April 19, 1814. Seth B. Peirce was son of Thomas Peirce, born November 14, 1692, died before March 28, 1786. Thomas Peirce was son of Captain Benjamin Peirce, born 1646, died 1730; married (first) February 5. 1678, Martha, daughter of James Adams; mar- ried (second) July 21, 1718, Mrs. Eliza- beth (Adams) Perry. Captain Benjamin Peirce was son of Captain Michael Peirce, born about 1615, in England, came to America about 1645, and was first of Hingham and afterward of Scituate. He was killed in battle while leading his company against King Philip's savage warriors, on Sunday, March 26, 1676. His first wife died in 1662, and he married (second) Widow Anna James.
Jemima Turner, above named, was a de- scendant of Elder William Brewster of the "Mayflower." She was daughter of Richard Turner, son of John Turner, who was son of John Turner and Mary Brewster, who was daughter of Jonathan Brewster, son of William Brewster.
BOWNE The surname Bowne ( formerly Bohun and Bowyn) is of Nor- man-French origin, Humphrey de Bohun, of Bohon in Normandy, coming into England with the Conqueror in 1066. Of recent years the English branches have largely dropped the final e, spelling it Bown.
(I) Thomas Bowne, immigrant ancestor, was baptized May 25, 1695, at Matlock, Derby- shire, England, and died September 18, 1677, at Flushing, Long Island. He came to Boston in New England in 1648-9, with his son John, aged twenty-two, and a daughter Dorothy, aged eighteen, leaving in England a daughter Truth, who was living in 1674. He was an early settler of Flushing, Long Island, about 1651. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Dorothy, born August 14, 1631; married Edward Farrington. 3. Truth, remained in England.
(II) John, son of Thomas Bowne, was bap- tized at Matlock, Derbyshire, England, March 9, 1627, and died December 20, 1695. He came to Boston with his father in 1648-9, but returned to England in 1650 .. He came back to America in 1651, arriving at Boston, August 15, of that year. He visited Flushing, Long Island, with Edward Farrington, his brother- in-law, the same year, and settled in that town. He built there in 1661 a house which is still standing on Bowne avenue, and in good repair. About 1656, he embraced the religious doctrines of the Society of Friends, and was severely persecuted by the Dutch authorities therefor. In 1662, by order of Governor Stuyvesant, he was taken from his family in Flushing, and after several months confinement in old Fort Amsterdam was banished to Holland and tried before the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam. His acquittal and return in 1664 marked the close of Quaker persecutions in New Netherland. On his death in 1695 the following minute was made upon the records of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends : "He did freely expose himself, his house and his estate, to ye service of Truth, and had a constant meeting in his house near about forty years : he also suffered much for ye Truth's sake." George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, made his home at the Bowne house during his visit to America in 1672. John Bowne was engaged largely in farming and trading, and was a man of considerable influ- ence in the Dutch and English colonies. He was treasurer of Queens county, New York, in 1683, and was elected to the colonial legis-
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lature in 1691, but his principles debarred him from taking the oath of office and he did not serve. He married (first) May 7, 1656, Han- nah, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth ( Fones- Winthrop) Feke. She was a minister in the Society of Friends, and a gifted woman. In 1674 and again in 1676 she made extended tours among the Friends' meetings of England, Ireland and the Netherlands. While on one of these tours she died at the house of John Elson, in London, February 2, 1677-8. He married (second) February 2, 1679-80, Han- nah Bickerstaff, who died June 7, 1690; and (third) June 26, 1693, Mary, daughter of James and Sarah Cock, of Matinecock, Long Island. Children of first wife, Hannah Feke : I. John, born March 13, 1656-7, died August 30, 1673. 2. Elizabeth, born October 8, 1658, died 1721 ; married (first ) November 2, 1678, John Prior ; (second) Samuel Titus. 3. Mary, January 6, 1660-1; married, 1680, Joseph Thorne. 4. Abigail, February 5, 1662-3, died June 16, 1688, married, March 25, 1686, Rich- ard Willits. 5. Hannah, April 10, 1665 ; mar- ried, 1691, Benjamin Field. 6. Samuel, Sep- tember 21, 1667; mentioned below. 7. Doro- thy, March 29, 1669; married, 1689, Henry Franklin. 8. Martha Johannah, August 17, 1673: married, 1695, Joseph Thorne. Chil- dren of second wife, Hannah Bickerstaff : 9. Sarah, born 1680, died 1681. 10. Sarah, Feb- ruary 17, 1681-2, married Ford, and died in 1699. 11. John, September 10, 1683, died October 25. 1683. 12. Thomas, Novem- ber 26, 1684, died December 17, 1684. 13. John, September 9, 1686; married Elizabeth Lawrence, July 21, 1714. 14. Abigail, July 5, 1688, died July 13 following. Children by third wife, Mary Cock: 15. Amy, born 1694; married, 1717, Richard Hallett, and died 1759. 16. Ruth, born 1695-6, died young.
(III) Samuel, son of John Bowne, was born September 21, 1667, and died May 30, 1745. He was a minister of the Society of Friends- "a man serviceable in his day ; bore a public testimony in meeting, and his house always open for ye entertaining of Friends." He married ( first) October 4. 1691, at Flushing, Long Island, Mary Becket, who died August 21, 1707, daughter probably of John and Mary ( Brundett ) Becket, of Middlewich, Cheshire, England. She was a ward of Eleanor Lowe of Newton, Cheshire, and in 1684 of Phineas Pemberton, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He married ( second) December 8, 1700, Han- nah, daughter of Jasper Smith, of Flushing, who died October 11, 1733. He married
(third) November 14, 1735, Grace, widow of Hugh Cowperthwaite, of Flushing, who died in 1760. He died May 30, 1745. Children of first wife, Mary Becket: I. Samuel, January 29, 1692-3, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, born April 7, 1694; married Hannah Underhill, 1716. 3. Eleanor, April 20, 1695; married, October 9, 1718, Isaac Horner. 4. Hannah, March 31, 1697-8; married, April 6, 1717, Richard Lawrence. 5. John, September II, 1698; married, 1738, Dinah Underhill. 6. Mary, October 21, 1699; married, January 14, 1719-20, John Keese. 7. Robert, January 17, 1700-1 ; married, November 6, 1724, Margaret Latham. 8. William, April 1, 1702, died April 15. 1702. 9. Elizabeth, October 11, 1704, died young. 10. Benjamin, March 13, 1707, died April 13, 1707. Children of second wife, Han- nah Smith : II. Sarah, September 3, 1710; married, March 12, 1729-30, William Burling. 12. Joseph, February 25, 1711-12, married (first) November 13, 1735, Sarah Lawrence ; (second) June 13, 1745, Judith Morrell. 13. Amy, October 17, 1715 ; married, July 4, 1734, Stephen Lawrence. 14. Benjamin, August I, 1717 ; married Mary Rodman. 15, Elizabeth, November 26, 1720; married Thomas Dobson.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Bowne, was born in Flushing, January 29, 1692-3, and died May 31, 1769. He married, September 20, 1716, Sarah Franklin, born Au- gust 31, 1700, died August 7. 1767, daughter of Henry and Sarah Franklin, of Flushing. Children: 1. William, born March 6, 1719- 20; married Elizabeth Willett. 2. Samuel, May 14, 1721, mentioned below. 3. Mary, March 3, 1723-4: married, 1749, Joseph Far- rington. 4. Abigail, 1724; married George Embree. 5. Sarah, 1726; married, 1753. Will- iam Titus. 6. James, 1728; married Caroline Rodman.
(V) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Bowne, was born in Flushing, May 14, 1721, and died in New York City, April 24, 1784. He was a very successful merchant. He married, No- vember 22, 1741, Abigail Burling, born Febru- ary 25, 1723-4, died December 6, 1785, daugh- ter of James and Elizabeth Burling, of New York. Children: 1. Edward, born September 3. 1742, died September 22, 1742. 2. James, March 20, 1743-4. 3. Samuel, August 4, died August 21, 1746. 4. Elizabeth, November 19, 1748, died January 22, 1752-3. 5. Samuel, June *25. 1750, died September 23. 1752. 6. Matthew, July 19, 1752, mentioned below. 7. Abigail, October 21, 1754: married William Kenyon. 8. Sarah, January 14, 1757, died No-
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vember II, 1759. 9. Samuel, September 5, 1758, died May 22, 1760. 10. Mary, August 8, died August 24, 1761. II. William, March 9, 1763; married Sarah Newbold. 12. Samuel, April 5, 1767 ; married Hannah Pearsall.
(VI) Matthew, son of Samuel (3) Bowne, was born July 19, 1752, in New York City, and died at Salem, New Jersey, September I, 1797. He was a New York merchant. He married, December 20, 1775, Elizabeth Quinby, born September 29, 1753, died January 3, 1808, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Cornell) Quinby, and granddaughter of Josiah and Mary (Mullineux) Quinby and of Richard and Hannah (Thorne) Cornell. Children : I-2. Charles and Aaron, twins, born October 10, 1776, both died young. 3. Richard Matthew, September 25, 1779; married, August 2, 1804, Penelope Hull. 4. Robert Martin, December 29, 1781, died unmarried, on Island of Java. 5. William, July 3, 1784 ; married Ann Ferris ; he was master of one of the first New York and Liverpool regular line packet ships, and was the first to use the chronometer in the merchant service of the United States. 6. Abigail, Sep- tember 5, 1786, died May 20. 1787. 7. Sidney Breese, mentioned below. 8. Josiah Quinby, August 27, 1793 ; died unmarried, 1818, in Cal- cutta.
(VII) Sidney Breese, son of Matthew Bowne, was born at Nine Partners, New York, June 19, 1788, and died at Westchester, New York, November 5, 1865> He was a merchant of Westchester. He married, January 30, 18II, Jemima Honeywell Hunt, born at Yonkers, New York, August 10, 1790, died in New York City, January 25, 1863, daughter of Major David and Phebe (Oakley) Hunt, and granddaughter of Aaron and Rebecca (Haydock) Hunt. Major David Hunt served in the revolution from 1778. Children : I. William Hunt, January 2, 1812 ; married (first ) 1839, Sarah L. Hendricks, (second) 1844, Mary A. Clement. 2. Robert Matthew. born September 21, 1813, died May 4, 1818. 3. Josiah Quinby, March 25, 1815, died unmar- ried, October 10, 1859; sea captain in New York merchant service 1842-52; later wreck- ing agent for the board of marine insurers and underwriters of port of New York. 4. Richard Matthew. mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth Honeywell. July 27, 1819, and married Janu- ary 5, 1848, Ellwood Walter, of New York City : she died January 23, 1863. 6. Honey- well. February I, and died September 8, 1821. 7. Sarah Matilda, born September 14, 1822, married September 27, 1845, Henry Crom-
well, of New York City. She died April 13, 1875. 8. Maria Phebe, April 9, 1824; mar- ried, April 20, 1854, John Thomas, of New York City, died July 5, 1887. 9. Phebe Ann, 1825 ; died 1826. 10. Catherine Haviland, born and died 1826. 11. Sidney Franklin, 1827; died 1828. 12. Sidney Franklin, November IO, 1829; died unmarried, February 4, 1855. 13. Thomas Burling, June 11, 1831; married, March 27, 1856, Rebecca Leggett Watson, died August 29, 1880. 14. Amelia Crane, January 5, 1834; died unmarried, November 16, 1883.
(VIII) Richard Matthew, son of Sidney Breese Bowne, was born in Westchester, New York, March 14, 1817, and died June 5, 1899. He was a merchant of Glen Cove, New York. He married, March 17, 1846, Mary Margaret Titus, born May 21, 1823, died December 23, 1884, daughter of Jacob and Hannah ( Mott) Titus, and granddaughter of Jacob and Martha (Keene) Titus and of Samuel and Margaret ( Kershow) Mott. Children: 1. Jacob Titus, born February 12, 1847, mentioned below. 2. Josiah Quinby, born 1848; died 1851. 3. Sid- ney Breese, December 5, 1849; married, No- vember 3, 1871, Martha Valentine Willets. 4. Samuel Titus, born and died 1851. 5. Josiah Quinby, born 1852, died 1858. 6. Han- nah Titus, 1854, died 1855. 7. Ella Frost, August 25, 1855 ; married June 16, 1875, Henry Townsend Smith, died December 17. 1905. 8. Mary Margaret, 1857 ; died 1858. 9. Richard Franklin, November 17, 1859; married (first) October 25, 1882, Minnie Cornelius Under- hill; (second) May 28, 1890, Agnes Wood. IO. Mary Titus, born 1861, died 1862. II. Elizabeth Walter, January 3, 1863: married William Henry Zabriskie, M. D. 12. William Hunt, January 27, 1864; married, September 24, 1890, Adelle F. Greene.
(IX) Jacob Titus, son of Richard Matthew Bowne, was born at Glen Cove, Long Island, February 12, 1847. He attended the public schools of his native town and of New York City, and entered the Free Academy, now the College of the City of New York, but did not graduate, because of illness. He was a clerk in his father's general store at Glen Cove from 1863 to 1871, when he went into the flour and grain business on his own account at Salina, Kansas, returning in 1873 to Glen Cove, and again became associated in business with his father. In 1877 he entered upon what proved to be his life work, accepting the office of general secretary of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association at Hudson, New York. In 1878 he came to Brooklyn as assistant secre-
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tary of the Young Men's Christian Association of that city, and continued there until 1880, when he became secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Newburgh, New York. After three years he resigned to take charge of the Secretarial Bureau of the Inter- national Committee of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association. In 1885 he came to Spring- field to take charge of the Association Depart- ment of the School for Christian Workers, now the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School. In this institu- tion he is librarian and instructor in association methods at the present time. He founded the historical library of the American Young Men's Christian Associations in 1877, and the Secretaries Insurance Alliance in 1880. He was joint editor of the Y. M. C. A. Handbook from 1887 to 1892; author of the "Decimal Classification for Y. M. C. A. Publications," in 1891 ; and joint author of "Decimal Classi- fication for Physical Training" in 1901. In 1906 he published a "Classified Bibliography of Boy Life and Organized Work with Boys," and the same year received the degree of Master of Humanics from the Training School. Outside his chosen profession he has been much interested in historical and archae- ological studies. Since 1868 he has been en- gaged in collecting material for the Bowne family in England and America. In 1869 he compiled and published the proceedings at the bi-centennial celebration of the settlement of Glen Cove, Long Island. From 1868 to 1871 he contributed various articles on the early history of Glen Cove and its institutions to the local papers. Since 1900 he has published several articles on aboriginal life in the Con- necticut river valley, and made archealogical investigations on the coast of Maine, in the Chesapeake-Potomac section, on the east coast of Florida, and on the Pacific coast.
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