Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 49

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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Mr. Kimball is a member of the Nayasset and Springfield Country clubs; of Springfield Lodge of Free Masons ; of Morning Star Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Springfield Coun- cil, Royal and Select Masters; of Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar ; and of Melha Temple, Mystic Shrine. For two years he was president of the New England Hotel Men's Association. In politics he is a Republican. Since 1907 he has been a member of the Springfield school committee.


(For first generation see Richard Kimball 1).


(II) Caleb Kimball, son of KIMBALL Richard Kimball, was born in Ispwich, Massachusetts, in 1639, died in 1682. He married, November 7, 1660, Anna Hazeltine, born April 1, 1640, died April 8, 1688, daughter of Robert and Ann Hazeltine, of Rowley, Massachusetts, and


sister of the wife of Benjamin Kimball, his brother. Caleb Kimball resided in Ipswich and was a prosperous farmer. He owned at various times many tracts of land. He bought his brother Richard's house in Ipswich, July 6, 1665. Children, born in Ipswich: I. Caleb, born September 8, 1662; mentioned below. 2. Anna or Hannah, born December 1I, 1664; married Christopher Martin, of Bradford. 3. Elizabeth, born June 3, 1666; died August 17, 1728; married, January 4, 1687, Jeremiah Jewett. 4. Abigail, born June, 1668; died May 30, 1758; married, January, 1693, Nathaniel Adams. 5. Mary, born about 1671 ; married, June 16, 1695, Thomas Palmer. 6. Robert. born 1674; died in England, June 27, 1703. 8. Abraham, born June 29, 1676; died young. 9. Benjamin, born March 22, 1678; died 1764 s. p. 10. Sarah, born May 19, 1680; married, December 17, 1701, Joseph Fellows. There was a son Richard, died April 10, 1678.


(III) Caleb (2), son of Caleb (I) Kimball, was born in Ipswich, September 8, 1662, died there February 4, 1736. He married, Novem- ber 23, 1685, Lucy Edwards, born February 28. 1666-67, died August 13, 1714. He mar- ried (second) (intentions dated May 21, 1715), Elizabeth Rindge. He married (third) Hannah who died January 3, 1721. He married ( fourth) April 14, 1722, Mary Burley, who died November 23, 1743. He re- sided in Ipswich. His will was dated Febru- ary 28, 1736. Children of Caleb and Lucy Kim- ball: I. Caleb, born August 18, 1686; died 1715. 2. John, born March 6, 1687-88; men- tioned below. 3. Lucy, born August 12, 1690; died young. 4. Thomas, born September I, 1691. 5. Lucia, born September 10, 1693; died February 12, 1715; married, November 24, 17II, Stephen Kinsman. 6. Anna, born November 21, 1695; died August 2, 1785; married, 1720, Nathaniel Lord. 7. William, born June I, 1700; died 1760. 9. Mary, mar- rid Thomas Waite. 10. Benjamin, born No- vember 13, 1704.


(IV) Captain John, son of Caleb (2) Kim- ball, was born in Ipswich, March 6, 1687-88, died December 6, 1754. He married, Decem- ber 22, 1715, Elizabeth Lord, who died De- cember 6, 1762, daughter of Nathaniel Lord and granddaughter of Robert Lord, who was clerk of the courts of Essex county, Massa- chusetts. John Kimball was a tailor by trade and lived at Ipswich. He was captain of the military company there. Children, born in Ipswich : I. Jeremiah, born January 20, 1717 ; died Jan- uary 9, 1785 ; married Sarah Lord, 1747. 2.


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John, born March 8, 1719; died April 17, 1757. 3. Lucy, born March 31, 1722; mar- ried, May, 1741, Charles Boles. 4. Mary, born November 15, 1724; married, 1745, Dan- iel Rindge. 5. Elizabeth, born October 22, 1727 ; died December 26, 1729. 6. Nathaniel, born July 8, 1733; mentioned below.


(V) Deacon Nathaniel, son of John Kım- ball. was born in Ipswich. July 8, 1733, died June 3, 1819. He was a farmer and resided at Ipswich. He was a deacon in the church. He married, January 1, 1756, Elizabeth Low, born 1736, died October 25, 1819. The fol- lowing inscription is on their tombstone at Ipswich :


"In faithful love full threescore years they passed, True friends to all, respected to the last.


In hope they parted soon to meet again


Clothed with white robes, released from every pain."


Children, born in Ipswich: 1. Nathaniel, born January 28, 1759; died August 2, 1820. 2. David, born December 22, 1760; died Janu- ary 7, 1761. 3. Jonathan, born August I, 1762: died July 13, 1820; married (first) Hannah Rowe; (second) Elizabeth Rowe. 4. Elizabeth, born July 13, 1764; died August 4, 1764. 5. David, born February 4, 1766; men- tioned below. 6. Elizabeth, born December 30, 1767; died April 20, 1849; married, October 12, 1788, Joseph Lord. 7. James, born August 9, 1770; died April 16, 1828. 8. Sarah, born March 21, 1773; died April 23, 1849; mar- ried, September 22, 1798, Captain Ammi R. Smith, of Gloucester. 9. Lucy, born April 17, 1776 ; married Edmund Coffin, April, 1809. IO. Aaron (twin). born July 30, 1779; died September 14: 1779. II. Moses (twin), born July 30, 1779; died December 23, 1867 : mar- ried Lavinia Barnard.


(VI) David, son of Deacon Nathaniel Kim- ball, was born in Ipswich. February 4. 1766, died April 10, 1843. in Cambridge. He re- sided in Newburyport, in that part of Glou- cester that is now Rockport, and in Cambridge; Massachusetts. He married (first) February 27, 1789, Mary Morse, of Newburyport, who died September 29, 1798. He married ( sec- ond ) Nancy Stacy, of Gloucester. Children : I. David, born June 5, 1792; died June 23, 1793. 2. Mary, born July 14, 1794; died Janu- ary 2, 1828. 3. Nancy, born May 27, 1801 ; died July 25, 1801. 4. David, born May 9, 1802; died March 16, 1873. 5. Nathaniel, born February 3, 1804; died September 26, 1807. 6. Nancy Stacy, born November 25, 1805; died March 25, 1808. 7. Ann Stacy,


born November 26, 1807; died April 23, 1880. 8. Moses, born October 24, 1809; mentioned below. 9. John Stacy, born January 20, 1812; died March 9, 1850. 10. George, born Novem- ber 16, 1813; died November 23, 1817. II. Eliza Pierce, born September 1, 1815; died January 21, 1895; married Reeder Smith, of Appleton, Wisconsin.


(VII) Moses, son of David Kimball, was born October 24, 1809, at Newburyport. He spent his youth at Rockport, whither his par- ents removed when he was quite young, and attended the district school. At the age of fifteen he went to Boston, where his elder brother was in business as a merchant, and worked in his store. This business, however, was not to his taste, and he embarked on sev- eral ventures with indifferent success. In the first of these he shared in the ruin which came to many in the disastrous "Eastern Land" speculation. The second venture was the pur- chase of the New England Galaxy in 1833, one of the earliest weekly newspapers of Bos- ton, founded by Joseph T. Buckingham. He took as partner William J. Snelling, and under the new management the paper took on new life. It made itself conspicuous by its fearless attacks on gambling, and reached a large sale, but the enterprise did not pay, and after a few months was sold at a serious loss. In 1836 Mr. Kimball formed the New Eng- land Printing Company for the publishing of engravings, chiefly of historical interest. Among the pictures which became well known, which was published by this company, was Trumbull's picture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and Stuart's Washington. In 1837 came the financial panic, and Mr. Kimball, with many others, found himself without business or prospects. Dur- ing the next year, however, with the help of his brother David. he bought the greater part of the collections of the old New England Museum, and in 1841 opened the Boston Museum, on Tremont and Bromfield streets, later the site of the Horticultural building. In 1843 the theatre was added to the attractions of the Museum, the auditorium being called a "lecture room" in deference to the prejudice against the theatre, and on account of the same prejudice, no performances were given on Saturday evenings. This was successful from the first and he and his brother then erected a fine new building, which included a large hall for the museum proper and a well- appointed theatre in the rear. In November, 1846, the building was opened, and brought


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steady prosperity. Mr. Kimball retained the proprietorship and control of the business until a few years before his death, although the personal management was intrusted to others in 1860. This museum, for so many years a part of the life of Boston, was subsequently torn down. The first appearance of Mr. Kim- ball in public life was in 1844, when he was chairman of a convention which nominated Thomas A. Davis for mayor of Boston, in opposition to the Whig party. After a con- test of nearly three months, after eight elec- tions or attempted elections, Mr. Davis was chosen mayor as the candidate of the Native American party. The next year the party nominated Henry Shaw for governor, and Mr. Kimball stumped the state for two months, but the movement had no success. In 1848 he was a member of the common council and in 1851 served the city as alderman. One incident during his term of service on the latter board made Mr. Kimball extremely un- popular with the Webster Whigs. This was the refusal of the board of aldermen to grant permission for the use of Feneuil Hall for a reception to Daniel Webster. The hall had been refused to Samuel Hoar, Wendell Phillips and others for a meeting of those outraged by Webster's course, and the feeling of the ald- erman was that a like refusal should be given to Webster's friends. Partly to this circum- stance, without doubt, was due the defeat of Mr. Kimball in 1858, 1860 and 1868 for the mayoralty. But the public record of Mr. Kim- ball was so fearless and he was so formidable an enemy of all forms of graft, that he was unpopular with many. Mr. Kimball's most important service to the city was in the various charities. He was ten years the president of the directors of public institutions, and was the first chairman of the board of state char- ities in 1869, and a member of the board of health, lunacy and charity in 1879. His energy, business capacity, talent for organization, and vigilance, made his services of great value, and all his work was done without remuneration, no salary being attached to any of the posi- tions.


Mr. Kimball achieved a wide reputation in the Massachusetts legislature. His service in the house of representatives began in 1850 and continued with occasional interruptions until 1876, and he was senator in 1854. From the first he was an influence to be reckoned with. His keen interest in all the important measures led him to mingle often in debate. His speak- ing was forcible and vivacious, sharply sea-


soned with wit, ancedote and sarcasm. One of his colleagues says of him: "When I was a member of the Senate, and Mr. Kimball still a member of the House, I remember how quickly the Senate lobbies would be cleared when the word was passed round-'Kimball is speaking.' As chaiman of the finance com- mittee of which I was a humble member, Mr. Kimball did Massachusetts a service which should never be forgotten. He was in a con- stant fight, fighting all sorts of jobs and schemes, and he won every battle. He saved the state an immense amount of money."


In 1882 Mr. Kimball removed to Brookline, and he took no further part in active political life, devoting his energies to other interests. He was five times elected a state director of the Boston & Albany railroad, beginning in 1864, and later became a member of the reg- ular board, holding that position until his death. Mr. Kimball took a lively interest in everything which concerned the general wel- fare of the community. As early as 1850. through the Boston Society for Medical Ob- servation, he offered a prize for the best essay on the treatment and prevention of croup ; and twenty years later, prizes to the Rockport Agricultural Association for the best exhibit of shade trees set out in the streets of that town, for the best loaf of bread exhibited at the annual fair, and kindred things. In 1879 he commissioned Thomas Ball to make a replica of his bronze group of the Emancipation which had been set up in Washington, and presented it to the city of Boston. After a long and bitter debate in the common council, in which the personal enemies of Mr. Kimball revived old feuds, the gift was accepted by the city. Inter- esting exercises accompanying its formal acceptance were held in Faneuil Hall, in which Governor Talbot, Mayor Prince, Rev. Phillips Brooks, John G. Whittier and others took part.


Mr. Kimball made three visits to Europe, in 1867, 1872 and 1877-78. A man of vigo- rous health, he retained to the last his inter- est in affairs. He was a constant reader and retained much of what he read. During his later years his correspondence with friends whom he had met abroad was of much inter- est. An English friend of distinction writes to him : "I learn a great deal from your letters -your own internal politics, your opinions on public events in this old country worded in the best and clearest language, so that no reading can be more interesting and instructive. I am so alive to this fact that I take the liberty of circulating your letters among two or three


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of my friends who are capable of appreciating them." In 1883 Mr. Kimball met with an accident which came very near costing him his life. He attempted to board a train which was in motion, and was dragged a quarter of a mile before the train could be stopped. Although he made a remarkable recovery, this accident probably hastened the gradual decline of his health due to advancing years. But only those nearest to him could observe the last two or three years of his life any decline of his powers. The death of his wife in 1894, after a union of sixty years, was a shock from which he did not rally, and he died soon afterward, February 21, 1895. He was for seventeen years a member of the New Eng- land Historic Genealogical Society. Mr. Charles A. Cummings, in a memorial printed in the New England Historical and Geneolo- gical Register, says of him: "Mr. Kimball's salient characteristics were incorruptible in- tegrity, quick intelligence, strong good sense, right judgment, inflexible resolution, direct- ness, a habit of methodical and systematic work. These were the qualities which kept him so long at the head of the finance com- mittee of the House and of the various boards of the city and state, and which would have made him invaluable as mayor. With these, however, there went a certain impatience of opposition, and lack of disposition to concili- ate, which kept him from being popular in the political sense, and which awakened in many quarters, as we have seen, a bitter and lasting enmity. But they also drew to his side mul- titudes of strong and constant friends, whose loyal affection made ample compensation for the trials which came to him. His own affect- ions were quick, warm and enduring."


Mr. Kimball married, June 25, 1834, Fran- ces L. A. Hathaway, of Boston. (See Hatha- way family.) Children: I. Moses, born Jan- uary 25, 1835, died January 26, 1835. 2. Helen Frances, born May 30, 1836. 3. Moses, born August 8, 1838, died January 31, 1841. 4. Margaret, born October 19, 1841, married October 13, 1869. Charles Amos Cummings, of Boston. 5. Hannah Hathaway, born De- cember 15, 1843. 6. Elizabeth Power, born March 19, 1845, died October 6, 1849. 7. Lulu Stacy, born July 13, 1847.


(The Hathaway Line).


John Hathaway, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and came to America at the age of ten, with his father, Nicholas, in 1639. He must, therefore, have been born in 1629.


He was living in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1649. He was a member of the Plymouth military company in 1643. Once he was ar- raigned before the court at Plymouth for "lending a gun to an Indian." He was ad- mitted a freeman in 1670, and bought a tract of land at Freetown, lot No. 18, in 1671. He was constable in 1676 and 1690 at Taunton. He was often on the grand jury. He was selectman of Taunton in 1680 and 1684, and deputy to the general court at Plymouth from 1680 to 1684 and in 1691, and to the general court of Massachusetts in 1696-97. He had a brother, Joseph Hathaway, living in Taun- ton, admitted a freeman in 1657. The home of John Hathaway was in what is now Berke- ley, known as the Farms, just north of where the land abuts on the Great river. The site of the house was marked by an iron tablet in 1889 by the Old Colony Historical Society. He married (first) Martha -; (second) Duth Dyer, a widow, of Braintree, Massachu- setts, November 25, 1692, who died Septem- ber, 1705. The Old Colony Historical Society Records, vol. vi., page 80, in an article on the Hathaway family gives sons : I. John, Jr., born 1650, married Hannah Burt. 2. Abraham, born 1652, married Re- becca Wilbore. 3. Isaac, born 1655, married Mary Pitts. 4. Ephraim, mentioned below. A daughter Abigail, who married James Phil- lips, and Rebecca, who married Jared Talbot.


(II) Ephraim, son of John Hathaway, was born in 1668, died before 1719. He resided at Dighton, Massachusetts, and married, about 1690, Elizabeth Talbot. Among his children was Ephraim, mentioned below.


(III) Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim (1) Hathaway, was born in 1692, died in 1771. He married, about 1716, Ann - -. Among his children was a son Ephraim, mentioned below.


(IV) Captain Ephraim (3), son of Eph- raim (2) Hathaway, was born in 1719, died in 1818. He married (first) Hannah Talbot in 1740. In 1752 married (second) Hannah (Shaw) Walker. In 1786 he married (third) Hannah Andrews. He served in the revolu- tion as captain of the Third Company, Second Bristol County Regiment, on duty in Rhode Island, commissioned April 26, 1776; also in Rhode Island in Captain Thomas Carpenter's company in 1777. He had a son John, men- tioned below.


-(V) John (2), son of Captain Ephraim (3) Hathaway, was born in Dighton in 1757, died in 1830. He served in the revolution in 1775


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in Captain Peter Pitt's company, Colonel Tim- othy Walker's regiment ; also in his father's company, Colonel Pope's regiment ; and as drummer in the same company under Colonel John Hathaway ; also in Captain Philip Hath- away's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment in 1777. His name appears on the rolls as serving in Rhode Island, the compan- ies being raised in Dighton and Taunton. He had son John.


(VI) John (3), son of John (2) Hatha- way, was born in Dighton, September 5, 1786, died in Watertown, December 27. 1857. He removed to Boston. He married, June 13, 1809, Hannah (Coen) Sherman. His second daughter, Margaret, was born at Dighton, March 1, 1817, and married, at Boston, August 17, 1847. Francis Kendall, re- siding at Watertown. She died December 30, 1892. The elder daughter, Frances Lavinia Angier, married Moses Kimball (see Kim- ball family). Hannah (Coen) (Sherman) Hathaway was a descendant of the first min- ister of the Dutch church in the settlement at New Amsterdam, Dominie Everardus Bo- gardus.


WOOD Thomas Wood, ancestor of this family, was born in England, in 1635, and was one of the original settlers of Rowley in 1655. He married, April 7. 1654, Ann Todd, of Ipswich; they lived and died in Rowley. Children : 1. Mary, born January 15, 1655. 2. John, September 2, 1656. 3. Thomas, August 10, 1658. 4. Ann, August 8, 1660. 5. Ruth, May 21, 1662. 6. Josiah, September 5, 1664; see for- ward. 7. Elizabeth, September 5, 1664 8. Samuel. December 26, 1666. 9. Solomon, May 17. 1669. 10. Ebenezer, December 29, 1671. 11. James, June 22, 1674.


(II) Josiah, son of Thomas Wood, was born in Rowley, September 5, 1664. He married (first). March 5. 1685, Sarah Elli- thorp, who died January 9, 1688; child: Jo- seph, born 1687. He married (second), in Rowley. October 17, 1689, Mary Felt. They were dismissed from Rowley church to Con- cord, January 15, 1710, and went from Con- cord to Milford in 1715. Children: 1. Sam- uel, born November 4. 1691. 2. Sarah, Feb- ruary 15, 1692. 3. James, April 9, 1695; see forward. 4. Mary, January 28, 1698. 5. Jo- siah. March 14, 1700. 6. Ruth, June 4, 1704. 7. Elizabeth, May 26, 1706. 8. George, Au- gust 13, 1708. 9. Anne, December 21, 1710. IO. David, March 15, 1713.


(III) James, son of Josiah Wood, was born April 9, 1695. He married (first) Bridget, born 1696, daughter of Elder John and Sarah Jones. Children : 1. Sarah, born January 14, 1718. 2. Mary, April 8, 1720. 3. Martha, February 18, 1723. He married (second) Grace, born December 20, 1684, daughter of Jonathan Sr. and Elizabeth (French ) Thayer. Children: 1. Hezekiah, born February 21, 1724. 2. Susannah, February 25, 1726. 3. James, June 25, 1728; see forward. 4. Ben- jamin, July 6, 1730. 5. Sarah, September 6, 1732. 6. Amos, October 28, 1734. James Wood married (third) Elizabeth Haseltine. Children: 1. Edward, born December 22, 1738. 2. Thomas, September 12, 1740. 3. Elizabeth, November 13, 1742. 4. Grindall, February 3, 1745. 5. Hezekiah, September I, 1749. 6. Stephen, April 11, 1751.


(IV) James (2), son of James ( 1) Wood, was born in Rowley, June 25, 1728. He mar- ried, in Mendon, February 7, 1750, Unity Goss. They later moved to Buckland. Chil- dren : 1. John, born March 12, 1753; see for- ward. 2. Amos, August 22, 1757. 3. Mary. 4. Sarah. 5. Hannah. 6. Susannah, born December 21, 1764. 7. Jane, December 17, 1766. 8. February 13, 1769.


(V) John, son of James (2) Wood, was born in Buckland, March 12, 1753. He was the revolutionary ancester of this family. At the age of twenty-two he enlisted from Upton as private, on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and re-enlisted several times during the remain- der of the war. He married, May 21, 1779, Susannah Temple. The census of 1790 shows that he had removed to Buckland. Children, born in Upton : I. Nicodemus, March 9, 1871. 2. Hannah, January 1, 1783. 3. Simeon, Jan- uary 31, 1785. 4. Lucretia, November 3, 1786. 5. John, July 27, 1788. 6. Lucretia, June 29, 1790, born in Buckland. 7. Lyman, born September 14, 1793; see forward. 8. Ezra, December 2, 1798; manufacturer of shaving-boxes and combs. 9. Joel, December 2, 1798.


(VI) Lyman, son of John Wood, was born in Buckland, September 14, 1793, and died there October 27, 1867. He learned the trade of carpenter in Major Griswold's shop at Buckland. He had a common school educa- tion. He became a useful and respected citi- zen of his native town. He married Almira, daughter of Captain William and Mary (Ward) Hook, of Buckland. Children, born in Buckland: I. Fanny, died in infancy. 2. Eveline, born February 26, 1825; married


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Justice B. Frost, and had Ida Frost and Er- nest Frost. 3. Theodore, born June 2, 1826; was in the jewelry business in Shelburne Falls, where he died in 1890; married (first ) Lucy Pratt, (second) Martha Ranney ; children by first wife, Juan C., Frank R., Minnie, and Charles. 4. Olive, born April 23, 1828; mar- ried William Townsley ; children: Lena, and Jane. 5. Eugene Wellington, born May 10, 1832; married (first) Lurilla Richmond ; (second) Luna Allis; (third) Theresa Todd ; children by first wife: Emma, Myra, Martha. 6. Amelia, born April 16, 1834; married Alan- son Richmond; children : Herbert Richmond, Nettie Richmond, Arthur Richmond, James Richmond, Loren, Lora, and Burke. 7. Ed- ward Everett, born August 15, 1836; men- tioned below. 8. Almazette, born September 16, 1842, married Charles Day, and had sons : Charles Day, Homer Day, Everett. 9. Mont- rose, born September 3, 1845 ; married Eunice Parsons; children : Lyman, Eugene. 10. Hermione, born January 7, 1850, died unmar- ried. January 22, 1873.


(VII) Edward Everett, son of Lyman Wood, was born in Buckland, Massachusetts, August 15, 1836. He was brought up in his native town, and educated in the public schools. He went to Worcester to learn the trade of machinist and worked at that trade for a number of years. He entered the em- ploy of the Bay State Hardware Company at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1863. He worked for this concern until 1873, the name having been changed in the meantime to the Northampton Cutlery Company. At that time he was superintendent, and later held the offices of treasurer and general manager of the corporation. He embarked in business for himself in 1889, in the factory he bought of the Vernon Paper Company, as manufac- turer of cutlery, continuing with marked suc- cess until 1902, when he sold his business to William A. Rogers, Limited, and retired from active business. Mr. Wood has traveled ex- tensively in this country and abroad. He has been elected to various offices of trust and honor. He was member of the board of aldermen the first three years after North- ampton was incorporated as a city; for sev- eral years an engineer of the fire department ; was president of the Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Agricultural Society for three years, and member of the State Board of Ag- riculture for a like period. He is now a member of the water board and the trust fund committee of the city, and one of the


three trustees of Smith's Agricultural School. He is a Republican in politics.




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