Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 2

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008

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(VIII) John Stuart, eldest son of Albert H. and Elizabeth A. (Trask) Kirkham, was born in Springfield, August 24, 1852, and was edu- cated in the public schools of that city. After completing his studies, at the age of sixteen, he engaged with the old firm of Lee & Baker, carriage and saddlery hardware merchants, as clerk and bookkeeper, and remained with them in that capacity for a period of seven years, at the end of which time he accepted a position as bookkeeper with the Hampden Paint and Chemical Company which he filled for four or five years. He then entered the employ of W. L. Wilcox & Company, one of the oldest stove concerns in Springfield and filled the position of clerk until Mr. Wilcox. on account of fail-

ing health, found himself obliged to dispose of his business and retire. Mr. Kirkham then formed a partnership with George R. Esta- brook, and this firm which was known as Kirkham & Estabrook, became successors to the large established business. After about three years of successful trade, the partner- ship was dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Kirkham disposing of his interest to his part- ner and with E. C. Hazen bought the store of Wilson & Patterson, who were in the same line of business on State street. The firm of Kirkham & Hazen rapidly developed a pros- perous business which continued until 1893, when the business was consolidated with that of C. S. Whitcomb, a rival in business, and the combined enterprise was established at 140 State street, under the firm name of Whit- comb, Kirkham & Hazen. The business sub- sequently changed hands and Mr. Kirkham retired in September, 1908. He is interested in the public welfare and is a member of vari- ous organizations for the benefit of society. He is a member of the Connecticut Valley Congregational Club, the Economic Club, the Connecticut Valley Historical Society, George Washington Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, and of the South Congregational Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the following named orders of that great fraternity: Hampden Lodge; Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Springfield Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar ; Massachusetts Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret ; and Melha Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. John Stuart Kirkman married, at Springfield, June 15, 1880, Emma Lillian Wil- cox, born in Springfield, October 12, 1857, daughter of William Linus and Emily Hatch ( Collins ) Wilcox (see Wilcox).

WILCOX The family of Wilcox is of Saxon origin, and was seated at Bury St. Edmunds, in the county of Suffolk, England, before the Nor- man Conquest (1066). Sir John Dugdale, in his visitation of the county of Suffolk, men- tions fifteen generations of this family previ- ous to 1600. In the reign of King Edward III., Sir John Wilcox was entrusted with several important commands against the French, and had command of the crossbowmen from Nor- folk. Suffolk and Essex. John William Wil- cox, of Bury Priory in Suffolk, an eminent Queen's counsel, was a representative of this

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ancient family forty years ago. William Wil- cox, who was chosen lieutenant governor in the early times of the Massachusetts Colony, was the first of the name who is recorded on the list of the early officers.

(I) John Wilcox was an original proprietor of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1639, and was surveyor of highways, 1642 and 1644, juror, 1645, called senior in 1648, and selectman in 1649. He died before October, 1666, when his widow makes her will. He had three chil- dren: John, Ann and another.

(II) John (2), son of John (I) Wilcox, was born in England, and probably came to America with his father. After his second marriage he removed to Middletown. He died May 24, 1676, and March 1, 1677, the court ordered distribution of his estate. He married (first) September 17, 1646, Sarah, daughter of William Wadsworth. He married (second) January 18, 1650, Catherine Stough- ton. He married (third) Mary, widow of John Farnsworth, of Dorchester; before that widow of a Mr. Long, who died in 1671. He married ( fourth) Esther, daughter of William Cornwell. He had one child, Sarah, by wife Sarah; John, Thomas, Mary, Israel and Sam- uel by wife Catherine; and Ephraim, Esther and Mary by wife Esther.

(III) Israel, third son of John (2) and Catherine (Stoughton) Wilcox, was born in Middletown, June 19, 1656, died December 20, 1689. He married, March 28, 1678, Sarah, daughter of John Savage, of Cromwell, Con- necticut, born July 30, 1657, died February 8, 1724. They had : Israel, John, Samuel, Thomas and Sarah.

(IV) Samuel, third son of Israel and Sarah · (Savage) Wilcox, was born in Middletown, September 26, 1685, died January 19, 1728. He married, March 3, 1715, Hannah Sage, of Cromwell, born December 21, 1694. They had five children.

(V) Daniel, eldest child of Samuel and Hannah (Sage) Wilcox, was born December 31, 1715, died July 29, 1789. He married, March 16, 1738, Sarah White, born April 22, 1716, died June 28, 1807, daughter of Daniel and Alice (Cook) White. They had thirteen children: The sons were Daniel, David, Ste- phen, Josiah, Samuel, Isaac and Jacob.

(VI) Stephen, third son of Daniel and Sarah (White) Wilcox, was born October 29, 1746, died December 21, 1843. In the revolu- tionary rolls of Connecticut are three entries of service of Stephen Wilcox. A "Company of de- tached Militia to serve under command of Lieu-

tenant Colonel Nathan Gallup stationed at Fort Griswold, Groton, July 11, 1779," John Will- iams, captain, was made up from New Haven, Middlesex and Hartford counties, but the town from which the privates of the company came are not given. It is believed, however, that the Stephen Wilcox above mentioned was the son of Daniel Wilcox. Stephen Wilcox mar- ried, January 30, 1771, Mary Kelsey, born in 1749, died in 1856. They had five children.

(VII) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (I) and Mary ( Kelsey ) Wilcox, was born July 30, 1775, died July 4, 1845. He married, October I, 1795, Lucy Plumb, born May 28, 1777, died August 26, 1856. Children : Sophronia, Philip, Philo Franklin ( Bible record says Philemon ) and Henrietta.

(VIII) Philip, eldest son of Stephen (2) and Lucy ( Plumb) Wilcox, was born in Ber- lin, Connecticut, September 2, 1800, died in Springfield, Massachusetts, November 19, 1842. He was a stove machinist and resided on Bliss street. He married, June 26, 1823, Eliza Parmalee, who died January 12, 1847. Their children: William Linus, Eliza Plumb, John Philip and Henrietta Bailey.

(IX) William Linus, eldest child of Philip and Eliza (Parmalee) Wilcox, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, January 1, 1826, died in Springfield, December 24, 1890. He resided in Springfield, where he was engaged in the stove business. He married, September 8, 1852, Emily Hatch Collins, born Decem- ber 7, 1831, at Huntington, Massachusetts, died December 4, 1900, at Springfield. Her parents were Daniel and Emily (Hatch ) Collins, of Huntington, Massachusetts. Will- iam L. and Emily H. (Collins) Wilcox had one child. Emma Lillian, born October 12, 1857, married, June 15, 1880, John Stuart Kirkham ( see Kirkham VIII).

SEARS The first edition of the Sears Gene- alogy gave what purported to be the English ancestry of the family, but the second edition by Samuel P. May, in 1890, shows that the ancestry was conjectural and erroneous. The parentage and ancestry of Richard Sears, the American immigrant, have yet to be established. (See also New Eng. Hist. Reg., vol. 40, p. 261). The surname was spelled Sares, Seares, Sayer, Sayers, Seers and Seir, in this country, and many other variations in England are to be found in the records. The surname Sawyer and Sayer furnish almost identical variations in spelling and make the work of the genealogist very difficult. There

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is a belief in the family that the Sears family is of Norman origin. The eastern parishes of London and vicinity had many families of this name about 1600. The name is common in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey from which many emigrants came with the early settlers at Marblehead and vicinity. The ancestry of the family being in doubt, the identity of the coat- of-arms to which the family is entitled is also unsettled.

(I) Richard Sears, immigrant ancestor, was a taxpayer in Plymouth Colony as early as 1632. He removed to Marblehead, where he was a land owner in 1637, but returned to Plymouth Colony about 1638 and settled at Yarmouth. He took the freeman's oath June 7, 1653. Commissioners were appointed to meet at his house on Indian affairs, October 26, 1647. He was one of the settlers and founders of Yarmouth. He was buried August 26, 1676, and his widow Dorothy was buried March 19, 1678-9. Children: I. Paul, born 1637-8 ; men- tioned below. 2. Silas, died at Yarmouth, Jan- uary 13, 1697-8. 3. Deborah, born at Yarmouth September, 1639, died there August 17, 1732; married Zachary, son of Robert and Mary Pad- dock.

(II) Captain Paul, son of Richard Sears, was born probably at Marblehead, in 1637-8, after February 20, and died at Yarmouth, Feb- ruary 20, 1707-8. He took the oath of fidelity in 1657. He was captain of the militia com- pany at Yarmouth and was in the Narragan- sett war. He was one of the original proprietors of Harwich, which was laid out between Bound Brook and Stony Brook as Wing's Purchase. He married, at Yarmouth, in 1658, Deborah Willard, baptized at Scituate, by Rev. William Witherall, September 14, 1645, died at Yar- mouth, May 13, 1721, daughter of George Wil- lard. Her mother was probably Dorothy Dun- ster. Children, born at Yarmouth: I. Mercy, July 3, 1659. 2. Bethia, January 3, 1661-2, died at Chatham, July 5, 1684; married John Crowell, Jr. 3. Samuel, January, 1663-4. 4. Daughter, 1666; perhaps Lydia, who married Eleazer Hamblin. 5. Paul, June 15, 1669; mentioned below. 6. Child, October 24, 1672; probably Mary, married Colonel John Knowles, of Eastham. 7. Ann, March 27, 1675, died November 14, 1745 ; married, January 28, 1703, John Merrick, of Harwich. 8. John, born 1677-8, died May 24, 1718. 9. Daniel, born 1682-3, died August 10, 1756.

(III) Paul (2), son of Captain Paul (I) Sears, was born at Yarmouth, June 15, 1669, and died February 14, 1739-40. His grave-

stone is in the West Brewster cemetery. He married, in Harwich, 1693, Mercy Freeman, born in Harwich, October 30, 1674, died Au- gust 30, 1747, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Rebecca (Sparrow) Freeman. Children, born at Yarmouth: I. Ebenezer, August 15, 1694. 2. Paul, December 21, 1695. 3. Elizabeth, Au- gust 27, 1697, died February 28, 1728-9; mar- ried, February 10, 1725-6, Nathaniel Crosby. 4. Thomas, June 6, 1699. 5. Rebecca, April 2, 1701, died 1791 ; married, October 15, 1719, Joseph Hall, Jr. 6. Mercy, born February 7, 1702-3; married, January 9, 1724-5, by Rev. Peter Thacher, to Joseph Blackmore. 7. Debo- rah, March 11, 1705-6; married Thomas Howes. 8. Ann, December 27, 1706; married, Decem- ber 18, 1727, Ebenezer Bangs. 9. Joshua, No- vember 20 1708; mentioned below. 10. Daniel, July 16, 1710. II. Edmund, August 6, 1712. 12. Hannah, March 6, 1714-5 ; married, July 4, 1734, Thomas Howes.

(IV) Joshua, son of Paul (2) Sears, was born at Yarmouth, November 20, 1708, and died at Middletown, Connecticut, September 27, 1753. He was constable of Harwich in 1745. In 1746 he removed to Middletown and bought land on the east side of the Connecticut river, in that part of the town later set off as Chatham. He was a man of large stature and of great strength and hardihood. He married, at Eastham, Massachusetts, February 10, 1731-2, Rebecca Mayo, born October 10, 1713, daugh- ter of John and Susanna ( Freeman) Mayo, of Eastham. She was admitted to the church at Harwich, May 27, 1739, and with her husband dismissed to the East Church at Middletown, February 5, 1748. Children: I. Rebecca, born at Yarmouth, November 14, 1732. Born at Harwich : 2. Elkanah, April 12, 1734. 3.

Joshua, February 14, 1735-6. 4. Betsey, June 19, 1738; married, October 20, 1773, Samuel Hitchcock. 5. Paul, November 7, 1739 ; men- tioned below. 6. Simeon, January 14, 1742-3. 7. Thomas, removed to Sheffield, Massachu- setts, and was killed by the fall of a tree; was in the revolution. 8. Sarah, married Hitchcock. 9. Hannah, baptized October 26, 1746; married Elisha Sheldon. 10. Willard, baptized March 24, 1774-5. Born at Middle- town : II. Theophilus, April 2, 1749. 12. Benjamin, November 3, 175I.

(V) Paul (3), son of Joshua Sears, was born in Harwich, November 7, 1739, and died at Sandisfield, Massachusetts, August 19, 1832. He removed with his parents to Middletown, Connecticut, and was later one of the earliest settlers of Sandisfield, Massachusetts. He was

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in the revolution, in Captain Benjamin Phillips' company, Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment, July 10 to August 12, 1777, department of the north ; also corporal in Captain Samuel Wal- cutt's company, Colonel John Ashley's regi- ment, September 19, 1777, to October 18, 1777, under Brigadier General John Fellows, to rein- force General Gates. He married (first) Eliz- abeth Slawter, of Simsbury, Connecticut, born 1736, died July 18, 1799; married (second) January 20, 1793, Mrs. Lydia (Lyon) Knight, born July 19, 1754, died March 28, 1850, aged ninety-six. Children, born at Sandisfield : I. Elizabeth, February 16, 1763. 2. Nancy, No- vember 12, 1766; married Handy. 3. Paul, February 2, 1769; mentioned below. 4. Huldah. October 22, 1773. 5. Simeon, October 7, 1776. 6. John, November 9, 1779. 7. Esther, June 23, 1782 ; married - Hawley.

(VI) Paul (4), son of Paul (3) Sears, was born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts, February 2, 1769, and died September 25, 1851, aged eighty- three, of consumption. He married Rachel Granger, of Sandisfield, born August 4, 1771, died August 23, 1846. Children, born at Sand- isfield : I. Belinda, August 23, 1793; married Luman Davis; (second) Anson Avery ; ( third) Truesdale, of Youngstown, Ohio; died November 3. 1868. 2. Mary, January 24, 1794 ; married James Burt. 3. Alfred, September 25, 1795. 4. Sally, July 1, 1800; married William Bolles. 5. Barnas, born November 19, 1802; mentioned below. 6. Lyman, September 21, 1804. 7. David G., June 29, 1807. 8. John R., born June II, 1809. 9. Hiram, July 8, 181I. IO. Henry, August 4, 1816.

(VII) Rev. Barnas Sears, son of Paul (4) Sears, was born at Sandisfield, Massachusetts, November 19, 1802; died at Saratoga Springs, New York, July 6, 1880. His funeral was from the Brookline Baptist Church and his remains were deposited in the tomb of Captain Timothy Corey, in the Walnut street cemetery, Brookline. Chief Justice Fuller and Robert C. Winthrop were among the pall bearers. He attended the public schools of his native town, and fitted for college at Granville, Massachusetts. He entered Brown Univer- sity, and was graduated in the class of 1825. He was a student at the Newton Theological Institution during the next two years. His

first pastorate was in the First Baptist Church of Hartford, Connecticut. He resigned to be- come professor of languages in the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution in 1829. This institution is now Madison University. He resigned in 1836. In the years 1833-35 he

spent much time abroad studying in Germany at the University of Halle, and then six months in Paris, France, as the guest of Professor Rostan, the Baptist missionary. He baptized J. G. Oncken, in the river Elbe, at Hamburg. Mr. Oncken was the first person baptized in the Baptist faith in Germany, and he became the founder of the church in that country. In 1836 he returned to the Newton Theological Institution as a professor ; in 1839 he became president and continued his work of instruction as long as he remained at the head of the insti- tution. In 1848 he was appointed by Governor George N. Briggs as successor to Horace Mann as secretary of the State Board of Education of Massachusetts. He contributed largely to the educational system of the state and the improvement of the public school system. He secured the services of Professor Louis Agassiz, who had been his classmate in Germany, to lecture at the Massachusetts Teachers' Insti- tute. He resigned this office to accept the presidency of Brown University, serving in that office from August 21, 1855, to February, 1867. From that time until his death he ren- dered valuable service to the educational inter- ests of the country. George Peabody, Esq., London, appointed Dr. Sears his general agent of the Peabody Educational Fund for the South. Dr. Sears was very successful in securing the harmonious action of the trus- tees of the Fund, as well as the represen- tatives of the South during this interval of great depression resulting from the late civil war. From 1847 to 1877 he was president of the American Baptist Missionary Union. A student by natural inclination all his life, a scholar of scholars, he was well equipped for the high positions to which he was called, and in which he proved so successful. He was one of the foremost educators of his day. Every year he renewed his familiarity with some one language, and he spoke and wrote with comparative ease in Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish, as well as English. He had a thorough knowledge of Sanscrit and Hebrew also. He received the following degrees : D. D., Harvard University, 1841 ; LL. D., Yale University, 1862 ; S. T. D. and LL. D., Brown University.

He was an earnest Christian. Rev. Dr. Cephas B. Crane said of him: "In religion and theology Dr. Sears was conservative, but conservative with an outlook. His first and constant appeal was to the law and the testi- mony. Jesus Christ was Lord of his faith and of his thought. This explains his profound

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admiration, when a student in Germany, for Professor Tholuck. But he believed that the spirit of God has been always and everywhere revealing truth to men, and he did not hesitate in affirming that many true elements of relig- ion exist in paganism. He also exercised his reason in religion, as when he declared miracles to be as much under law as is a crystal or a star. He would say that to us on the earth they are wonders; in a higher plane than ours they are orderly phenomena. He believed in a God who always lives and who always speaks to the mind and heart of man. Nature was to him, as to Wordsworth and Browning, divinely revelatory and sacramental. It is no strange thing, therefore, that his teaching as professor of Christian Theology thrilled with life and power, and that by common consent he has been exalted to the company of elect men who can wisely and safely lead the church forward to larger knowledge and more intelligent faith. He had a broad, liberal spirit, and was neither sectarian nor narrow; in all men he looked for the good and found it. In a little pocket diary found after his death were a few rules for self-government, such as: 'Criticize yourself severely, others mildly,' and 'If not able to say a kind thing of the absent, keep silent.' He inherited from his father a quick temper, but he learned to control it. After he died, an old colored man-servant who had lived with him many years in Virginia, said that he had never heard Dr. Sears speak angrily. All loved him who served him, and in his own home he was revered as a saint as well as a sage."

A tablet was erected by his son in the New- ton Theological Institution, inscribed : "Barnas Sears, S. T. D., LL. D., born in Sandisfield, Mass., November 19, 1802; graduated Brown University 1825; The Newton Theological In- stitution 1825-7 ; Professor Colgate University 1829-33; Professor of Christian Theology 1836-48 and first president of this institution 1839-48; secretary Mass. Board of Education 1848-55 ; President Brown University 1855-67 ; Agent Peabody Fund ; died in Saratoga, N. Y., July 6, 1880 ; interred in Capt. Timothy Corey's Tomb, Walnut Street Cemetery, Brookline, Mass." The tablet was erected by his son, Captain William B. Sears, and the dedicatory address, from which we have quoted, was by Rev. Dr. Cephas B. Crane.

Dr. Sears published: "Nohden's Grammar of the English Language," 1842; "Classical Studies," 1843; "Ciceronia, or the Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin," 1844; "Memoir

of Rev. Bela Jacobs," 1847; "Life of Luther," 1850, since republished in England under the title "Mental and Spiritual Life of Luther," 1850; numerous educational reports and con- tribution to reviews and other periodicals and to Appleton's "American Cyclopedia." In1838 and for twelve years afterward he was editor of the Christian Review and later of Bibli- otheca Sacra. In 1864 he published a discourse on the "Completion of the First Century of Yale College."

He married, January 30, 1830, Elizabeth Griggs Corey, daughter of Deacon Elijah Corey, of Corey Hill, Brookline, Massachu- setts, born November 21, 1809, died at Staun- ton, Virginia, March 23, 1883, aged seventy- three years (see Corey). Children : I. Will- iam Barnas, born at Hamilton, Madison county, New York, June II, 1832 ; mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth Corey, born at Newton Centre, Mass- achusetts, October 14, 1838, died January 25, 1890, at Chicago, and buried in Walnut street cemetery, Brookline ; married, May 8, 1862, Robert B. Chapman, of Providence, Rhode Island ; (second) October 12, 1840, Dr. James Hampden Fultz, born May 5, 1840, Staunton, Virginia. 3. Edward Henry, born at Newton Centre, October 4, 1840; mentioned below. 4. Lieutenant Robert Davis, born June 28, 1842, at Newton Centre, Massachusetts ; died April, 1904. 5. Edward Dwight, born June 28, 1852, died at Staunton, Virginia, No- vember 10, 1882.

(VIII) Captain William Barnas Sears, son of Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears, was born in Hamilton, Madison county, New York, June 11, 1832. He received his education in the private school of Ebenezer Woodward and three years in the classical German school of Dr. Carl Sied- hof, in Newton Centre, finishing under Pro- fessor William Russell, President Ebenezer Dodge, D. D., and President Alvah Hovey, D. D. He was instructor in Latin, German and mathe- matics at Pierce Academy, Middleborough, and then entered the office of Gardner Colby, No. 22 Milk street, Boston, and served his apprentice- ship three years and a half. from 1851 to 1854. After a year at Alton, Illinois, and at New Orleans, he entered the employ of Lyman Sears & Company, jobbers of boots and shoes, 12 Barclay street, New York. Later he was with Paton & Company, importers, Park Place, New York; and for three years prior to the civil war, in the silk importing house of Bowen. McNamee & Company, 112 Broadway, New York. Mr. Sears was commissioned June 6, 1861, by Governor William Sprague, of Rhode

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Island, first lieutenant in Company F, Second Rhode Island Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, for three years, and served to the expiration of the term, making a brilliant and honorable record. His regiment opened the battle of First Bull Run, at Sudley Church, on Sunday, July 21, 1861. Captain Levi Tower, of his company (F) being the first to be killed, the command devolved on First Lieutenant W. B. Sears. In this engagement the colonel, major, two cap- tains and one hundred and forty men of the regiment were killed, wounded or captured. On October 28, 1861, Lieutenant W. B. Sears was commissioned captain, and afterward served with his command at Warwick Court House, Lee's Mills, Yorktown, Williamsburg, West Point, Slatersville, New Kent Court House, Mechanicsville, Hanover Court House, Sav- age Station, Seven Pines, Turkey Bend, Mal- vern Hill, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam. Fredericksburg, Marye's Heights, Salem Church, Gettysburg. In July, 1863, immediately after battle of Gettysburg, Captain W. B. Sears was ordered to report to General L. C. Hunt, U. S. A., New Haven, Connecticut, who assigned him to duty in com- mand of U. S. Grant Camp of 2500 Connecti- cut and Rhode Island recruits till relieved to join the Second Rhode Island Regiment, and was at South Anna River, and Cold Harbor battles, Virginia, June 6, 1864. He was honorably discharged on expiration of his term of three years service, at Providence, Rhode Island, June 17, 1864, and subsequently received from Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, Governor Buckington, of Connecticut, and Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, writ- ten commendation for active service at the front. These letters requested President Lin- coln to appoint Captain W. B. Sears major of artillery. He was wounded at first Bull Run, at Seven Pines, and at Hamilton's Crossing, Virginia, Fredericksburg. Captain Sears was one of the first members of the Grand Army of the Republic, joining Post 26, of Roxbury, Oc- tober 17, 1867. In 1871 he was elected senior

vice-commander. While a member of this post he was appointed aide on the staff of suc- cessive Massachusetts department commanders -General William Cogswell, Myron P. Walker, Peter T. Smith, Silas Barton and Lucius P. Field. In September, 1874, he was transferred to Post 143, of Brookline, and in 1875 and 1876 was elected commander of that post. He was appointed by Governor Claflin commis- sioner of disabled soldiers for Massachusetts, with Mayor Samuel Greene and Secretary of

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 2

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 1008

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008