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(IX) Samuel May, third son and fourth child of Moses and Katherine ( Earle) Farnum, was born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, May 25, 1862. His early education was acquired in a private school in his native town, and at the age of seven years he removed to Cambridge with his parents, and two years later to Bos- ton, in both of which places he attended the public schools. Later they removed to Frank- lin, where the family finally settled, and where he attended the public schools and the Dean Academy until he was about seventeen years of age. He then took a course at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in Boston, and was thus well equipped for his varied business career. He was engaged in the manufacture of jewelry at Plainville with George Ryan and James Joyce, the firm name being Joyce, Far- num & Ryan, and at the end of eighteen months sold out his interests to his partners. For a year he was then in the employ of the Franklin Rubber Company. Subsequently he removed to Boston where he took up the art of plate printing in the old-established firm of J. A. Lowell & Company, of Boston, and at the end of two years, after he had thoroughly master- ed this art, was employed by the Robinson En- graving Company. Later he associated himself in business with J. F. Whalen, the firm name being Whalen & Farnum, with business
quarters at No. 43 Milk street, and later at No. IOI in the same street. After four years Mr. Farnum purchased the interest of Mr. Whalen and conducted the business under the style of S. M. Farnum & Company, which he carried on for two years at No. 13 Avon street, removing from there to No. 46 Temple Place. Storer F. Jones was his partner at this time, the firm being S. M. Farnum & Company, and they then removed to No. 131 Tremont street, where Mr. Farnum purchased the interest of Mr. Jones. In October, 1907, the business again changed its quarters, this time locating at No. 110 Tremont street, where it is at pres- ent situated, and enjoys the patronage of the highest classes in Boston. Mr. Farnum makes a specialty of the engraving of steel and copper plates, and of dies and color stamping. He resides in Watertown, is a member of the Republican party and of the Ancient Order of Workmen of the World. He was married, October 19, 1896, to Jessie Frances, daughter of Franklin and Mary A. (Meek) Jones, of Watertown, Massachusetts. Franklin Jones was a civil war veteran and a government em- ployee at the Watertown arsenal. Mr. and Mrs. Farnum have children : Paul Jones, born May 24, 1898, and Virginia, born June 5, 1908.
(IX) Frederick Lamb, youngest child of Moses and Katherine (Earle) Farnum, was born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, April 6, 1867. He was but a few years of age when he removed with his parents to Franklin, Mass- achusetts, removing from thence after a short residence to Cambridge, and subsequently to Boston, where he attended school, then again removed to Franklin, where he attended the public schools and Dean Academy. He went to the Friends' school in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1882, remained there for two years, and then entered the employ of the Franklin Rubber Company. After holding a position for a time in the engraving establishment of John Andrew & Son, leading engravers, of Boston, he was in the employ of a paint and chemical house for seven years. At the ex- piration of this time he spent a year in Cali- fornia, and in 1905 removed to Grafton, Mass- achusetts, where he purchased the beautiful homestead of the late Henry F. Wing, and has since resided there, having retired from active business. He is affiliated with the Republican party, and from 1897 until 1900 was a member of the First Corps Cadets, M. V. M. Mr. Far- num married, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 16, 1901, Caroline, daughter of James Patterson and Caroline ( Mendell) McCon-
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aughy, the former a brick manufacturer and prominent in the affairs of Johnstown. The children of this marriage are: James Mc- Conaughy, born January 1I, 1905, and John Earle, December 25, 1908.
(For ancestry see preceding sketch).
(VI) David Farnum, son of
FARNUM Moses Farnum, was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 29, 1753, died at Grafton, February 29, 1844. He married, December 7, 1781, Ruth Southwick, born March 4, 1762, died March 17, 1851. daughter of Lawrence and Hannah (Osborne) Southwick. Moses Far- num and his wife were buried in the old Far- numsville cemetery. He was a farmer at Northbridge. During the latter part of his life he lived at Farnumsville (Grafton), in a house built for him by his son, Mowry. He was a genial companionable man, and stored with a fund of anecdote and story. He was a Whig in politics. He was a Quaker in relig- ion, and was cut off from meeting because he sued a brother Quaker. He was large of stature, very powerful, and of sandy complex- ion. Children : I. Hannah, born December 22, 1782 ; died May 29, 1860 ; married Humph- rey Taylor ; reside in Grafton. 2. Daniel, born November 22, 1784; see forward. 3. Moses, born January 29, 1789; settled in the state of Michigan. 4. Phebe, born April 15, 1791 ; died October 3, 1852: unmarried. 5. Jesse, born June 7, 1795; died July 10, 1877, in Grafton, Massachusetts. 6. Mowry, born December 23, 1799; see forward. 7. Samuel Judson, born November 8, 1805; removed to Poughkeepsie, New York ; married Sally Ann Swartout ; re- sided at Newburgh, New York.
(VII) Daniel, son of David Farnum, was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, November 22, 1784, died December 10, 1879, in North- bridge, the town adjoining. He lived in North- bridge, near the Uxbridge line, through all the mature part of his life. We quote from Hurd's history: "David Farnum was born with a good constitution, which he preserved well by regular and temperate habits, experiencing but little sickness, and retaining his faculties in remarkable vigor till within the last year of his life. He was emphatically a sound mind in a sound body; he was characterized for sound common sense, a strong sentiment of justice and honesty, insistence on his own rights, and respect for those of others; econ- omy, simplicity and hospitality in domestic affairs ; was provident, faithful and kind in
the family circle ; a serviceable, judicious and trustworthy townsman, honored with the prin- cipal municipal offices, including those of select- man and representative to the general court ; a reliable counselor in financial matters ; a lover of his country and its liberties ; a firm opposer of slavery and oppression ; sparing in religious profession, of broad tolerance toward all de- nominations ; liberal in theology, and a stead- fast hoper in the final triumph of good over evil. These were qualities and characteristics which in Mr. Farnum overshadowed the inci- dental inper fections common to human nature. He was warmly attached to the interests of the town, and was a constant attendant on the town meetings, the last one he attended being in 1878, when in his ninety-fourth year. Among the positions of public financial trust he occu- pied was that of director of the Blackstone National Bank, of Uxbridge, over twenty years. He had been expecting his departure for three years, expressed his entire resigna- tion to the Divine disposal, and passed away in the confident assurance of life everlasting, December 10, 1870, aged ninety-five years and eighteen days."
He married, February 28, 1811, Mary South- wick, of Uxbridge. Their children: I. Jona- than, born October 15, 1812; died July 14, 1814. 2. Joseph S., born August 21, 1814; died December 22, 1873, at Worcester; mar- ried Lois N. Stoddard. 3. Luke S., born Jan- uary 20, 1817 ; see forward. 4. Ruth M., born August 29, 1819; resided at Uxbridge and Northbridge. 5. James M., born April II, 1822.
(VIII) Luke Southwick, son of Daniel and Mary (Southwick) Farnum, was born January 20, 1817, died August 23, 1883. He attended the district school at "Rice City," about a mile away, until about seventeen years of age. In early manhood he learned the trade of shoe- maker. He and his brother James followed this trade, and the little shoe shop prevalent in those days was on the opposite side of the road, in front of the homestead. They em- ployed several workmen. The shops in Mil- ford, then a large shoe town, furnished them their stock to be finished by the two brothers. After a few years Luke married, in Uxbridge. and soon after bought his father's farm and began life as a farmer. He was a progressive, active man, and enterprising. He dealt exten- sively in wood and lumber, buying up wood lots and cutting them off, finding a market in Milford. He continued on the farm until about 1880, when owing to impaired health he
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sold his property and removed to Uxbridge Center, where he spent the remaining years of his life. He was a man of broad common sense of the upright type. He enjoyed the respect of his citizens and neighbors. He was a Unitarian in religion and a Republican in politics. He succeeded his father as director of the Blackstone National Bank, of Uxbridge. He married, March 7, 1849, Chloe Maria. daughter of Luke and Nancy ( Wood) Taft, of Uxbridge. Children: I. Elizabeth South- wick, born April 10, 1852; married, August 30, 1877, Jerome Prentiss, of Whitinsville. 2. Ella Francis, born January 6, 1855 : married, January 18, 1876, George Fisher, of Grafton. 3. Moses Taft, born April 14, 1858 ; mentioned below. 4. Walter James Taft, born August 25, 1862; died April 12, 1884.
(IX) Moses Taft, son of Luke Southwick Farnum, was born at Northbridge, Massachu- setts, April 4, 1858, on his grandfather ( Daniel Farnum's) farm. He received his education in the district schools of Northbridge and Ux- bridge, and the Whitinsville high school, work- ing on his father's farm up to the age of eighteen. He then entered the mill office of Lee & Murdock, at Douglass, Massachusetts, where he remained three years, subsequently coming to Uxbridge, where he was six months in the office of Capron & Haywood. After a time he went to Putnam, Connecticut, where he was about five years in the office of the Putnam Woolen Company. He subsequently engaged in trading in woolen rags and shoddy at Uxbridge, but soon went to "Ironstone," in the south part of Uxbridge, and was engaged in the manufacture of shoddy on his own be- half, furnishing mills in Uxbridge and the Put- nam Woolen Company. The mill here was burned, and he removed to the northeast part of Uxbridge ("Happy Hollow"), where he continued the business a year, subsequently going to the Charles Capron Mill, where he ha 1 his stock manufactured. selling direct to his customers. In December, 1892, he removed to Wrentham and started in the same line Jan- uary, 1893. Here he conducted a prosperous business until the mill was burned, in 1905. After six months a new mill was erected, where he resumed the manufacture of shoddy and felting. In September, 1908, the Glenwood Manufacturing Company was incorporated under Rhode Island laws, with Charles W. Green, of Warren, Rhode Island, president ; Mr. Farnum, vice-president, and G. L. Church, treasurer. The business is the making of felt padding for upholstering and other uses.
Mr. Farnum is a Unitarian in religion, but now attends the Wrentham Congregational church. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Wampum Lodge, No. 195, Odd Fellows, of Wrentham. While in Put- nam, Connecticut, he was a member of Com- pany G, Third Regiment, Connecticut Volun- teer Militia. He is unmarried.
HAMBLEN The name of Hamblen is sup- posed to be of German origin, perhaps derived from the town of Hamlin, in Lower Saxony, at the junc- tion of the river of Hamel with the Weiser. The name of Hamelin is still common in France, whence some have come to this coun- try and to Quebec, where they have become numerous. In England the name was spelled Hamelyn, Hamlin, Hamelin, Hamlyn, etc., and in America it is also spelled Hamlin. As the name is found in the Roll of Battle Abbey, it was probably brought to England by a follower of William the Conqueror. Many Hamblen families bore arms.
(I) John Hamelyn was of Cornwall, was living in 1570, and married Amor, daughter of Robert Knowle, of Sarum.
( II) Giles Hamelin resided in Devonshire, and married a daughter of Robert Ashay. He had two sons, Thomas and James, mentioned below.
(III) James Hamlin or Hamble, was living in London in 1623. He came to New England and settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor. He was admitted a free- man March 1, 1641-2, and was on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. He was a town officer. He married Ann His will, dated January 23, 1683, proved October 22, 1690, bequeathed to wife, Anne ; children, Bartholomew, Hannah, John, Sarah, Eleazer and Israel. The parish records of St. Law- rence, Reading, Berkshire, England, contain what are probably the baptisms of his children born in England, as follows: 1. James, Octo- ber 31. 1630; buried October 24, 1633. 2. Sarah, September 6, 1632; died young. 3. Mary, July 27, 1734. 4. James, April 10, 1636; mentioned below. Children, born in Barn-
stable : 5. Bartholomew, baptized April 24, 1642. 6. John, baptized June 30, 1644. 7. Infant, buried December 2, 1646. 8. Sarah, baptized November 7, 1647. 9. Eleazer, bap- tized March 17, 1649. 10. Israel, baptized June 25, 1652 ; died young. II. Israel, baptized June 25, 1655.
(IV) James (2), son of James (1) Hamb-
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len, was born in England and baptized April 10. 1636, at St. Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire. He came to New England with his mother and sisters prior to 1642. He was a farmer at Barnstable and resided at first on his father's farm, later removing to West Barnstable. He was a proprietor of Falmouth, but did not live there any length of time. His name appears on a list of freemen, May 29. 1670, and he was appointed as "inspector of ordinarys" for the town of Barnstable. He and his wife were members of the church in 1683. He was deputy to the general court in 1705. Late in life he removed to Tisbury, where his will was dated, September 13. 1717, and where he died May 3. 1718. He married, in Barnstable, November 20, 1662, Mary Dunham, born 1642, died April 19. 1715. daughter of John and Abigail Dun- ham. Children, born in Barnstable: 1. Mary, July 24, 1664. 2. Elizabeth, February 14, 1665-6. 3. Eleazer, April 12, 1668; mentioned below. 4. Experience, twin with Eleazer. 5. James, August 26, 1669. 6. Jonathan, March 6. 1670-1. 7. Son, March 28, died April 7, 1672. 8. Ebenezer, July 29, 1674. 9. Elisha, March 5, 1676-7; died December 20, 1677. 10. ' Hope, March 13, 1679-80. 11. Job, January 15. 1681. 12. John, January 12, 1683. 13. Benjamin, baptized March 16, 1684-5. 14 Elkanah, baptized March 16, 1685.
(V) Eleazer, son of James (2) Hamblen, was born in Barnstable, April 12, 1668, and died in 1698. He resided in Yarmouth. He married Lydia. daughter of Paul and Deb- orah (Willard ) Sears. She was born October 12, 1666, and married ( second ) September 30, 1705, at Harwick, Thomas Snow. Children : I. Benjamin, born 1692 ; mentioned below. 2. Lydia, 1694. 3. Mary, 1696. 4. Elisha, Janu- ary 26, 1697-8.
(VI) Benjamin, son of Eleazer Hamblen, was born in 1692. He married, October 25, 1716, Anne, daughter of Samuel Mayo, of Eastham. The inventory of his estate was made July 5, 1738. His widow married ( sec- ond ) September 7, 1738, - Lewis. Ben- jamin Hamblen was a mariner engaged in the whale fisheries at Wellfleet. The Boston News Letter of August 25, 1737, records an account of his death: "We hear that some time in the beginning of July, Captain Atherton Hough, master of a whaling vessel, being in the Streights, killed a large whale and brought he to the vessel's side as usual to cut her up : and as the hands were hoisting the blubber into the hold, the runner of the block gave way, and fell with great force on the head of a man
who stood underneath-Benjamin Hamblin, of Eastham-and instantly killed him." Chil- dren : 1. Cornelius, born 1719; mentioned below. 2. Joshua, born about 1721. 3. Ben- jamin, baptized July 2, 1727. 4. Lydia, born about 1724. 5. Isaac, born about 1728. 6. Mary. 7. Eleazer, born about 1732. 8. Eliza- beth.
(VII) Cornelius, son of Eleazer Hamblen. was born in 1719, perhaps in Eastham. He joined in the settlement of his father's estate in 1738, and was then living in Eastham, in that part which is now Wellfleet. He served as selectman, and died there November 8, 1791. He married (first ) June 23, 1748, Jane Young, born July 26, 1723, died January 3, 1780, daughter of Barnabas and Rebecca ( Young) Young. He married (second) October 18. 1780, Mrs. Ruth Cole, of Truro, widow of Joseph Cole and Benjamin Gross. She was baptized April 2, 1738. Cornelius Hamblen's will was dated November 4, 1791. Children : I. Benjamin. 2. Ruth, born 1751. 3. Cornelius, 1752 ; mentioned below. 4. Rebecca, 1753. 5. Eleazer, drowned at sea. 6. Joshua, born 1759. 7. Mercy, March, 1760. 8. Jane, July 5, 1763.
(VIII) Cornelius (2), son of Cornelius (I) Hamblen, was born in 1752, at Wellfleet, and died there May 30, 1811 (gravestone). He lived at Wellfleet, and was the executor of his father's will. He was drafted to serve in the revolution in 1777 (p. 145, vol. vii., Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of Rev.). He married, November 9, 1775, Ruth Brown, born 1755, died September 20, 1814. The inscription on her gravestone reads: "This amiable woman was an affectionate companion; a tender & loving mother : presevering in the discharge of her duty ; beloved and respected in her family & acquaintances ; possessing great fortitude in affliction : resignation to death & departed in peace." Children, born in Wellfleet : 1. Mary, born August 17, 1776; died unmarried, March 12, 1862. 2. Benjamin, born May 5, 1778. 3. Ruth, May 22, 1780. 4. Joshua, January 23, 1783. . 5. Child, died young. 6. Jane, born January 30. 1787. 7. Hope, October 6, 1789. 8. Cornelius, May 5, 1792 ; mentioned below. 9. Eleazer, December 3, 1795. 10. Perez, Sep- tember 15, 1798 ; died August 30, 1800.
(IX) Cornelius (3), son of Cornelius (2) Hamblen, was born in Wellfleet, May 5, 1792, and died there April 25, 1876. He was a prom- inent man, and removed in 1851 to Boston, where he engaged in the oyster and salt trade with the firm of Hamblen, Baker & Company. He served in the war of 1812. In religion he
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was a Methodist. He married, December 10, 1812, Sarah Baker, born June 7, 1794, died in Somerville, November 25, 1855, daughter of Captain Isaiah and Hannah A. ( Ballard) Baker. Children, born in Wellfleet: I. Joseph Brown, December 9, 1813. 2. Cornelius, June 24, 1818. 3. Sarah Baker, May 5, 1820. 4. Ruth Brown, April 29, 1822. 5. Lucinda, De- cember 3, 1824. 6. Anna Lewis, October 20, 1826. 7. Hannah Baker, April 22, 1828. 8. Benjamin, October 2, 1829. 9. Lewis, Septem- ber 18, 1832. 10. Isaiah Baker, June 23, 1835; mentioned below. II. Franklin Benjamin, No- vember 25, 1837.
(X) Captain Isaiah Baker Hamblen, son of Cornelius (3) Hamblen, was born at Wellfleet, June 23, 1835. In 1851 he removed with his parents to Boston, and was educated in the public schools of Wellfleet and Boston, and went two years to Wilbraham Academy. He took charge of the canning business of his father's firm at Westover, Maryland, remain- ing there until 1858, where he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to take charge of the canning business there. In 1860 he took the place of his father in the firm of Hamblen, Baker & Company. Six years later the firm shipped a large bill of canned lobsters to Cross & Black- wood, of London, England, this being the first consignment ever transported across the ocean from Nova Scotia. In 1867 he lived at Som- erville. The following year he travelled in the west and located a branch house in Detroit, Michigan. He removed to Boston in 1870, and retired from the firm to engage in tailoring in the firm of Robert Judge & Company. In 1879 he removed to Prince Edward Island, and again engaged in the canning business, in the firm of I. B. Hamblen & Company, consisting of himself and sons. Later, in 1882, he removed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, and erected several factories on Northumberland Straits, market- ing their goods in Europe. He visited Eng- land and the continent in 1885 on business, and in 1890 built a steamer for their trade, which was afterwards put on to the route between Pictou, Antigonish and Cape Breton, receiving a subsidy from the provincial government. In 1896 he returned to Boston and started in the coal trade at Roslindale, the firm being I. B. Hamblen & Sons. His home is in Roslindale. He is president of the Roslindale Co-operative Bank. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of John Abbott Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and is also a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of Granite Rock Divi- sion, Sons of Temperance. He is warden of
the twenty-third ward. In religion he is a Methodist. He married, in Hingham, Septem- ber 10, 1855, Maria Grey Gardner, born in Hingham, July II, 1832, daughter of Giles and Eliza ( Abbott) Gardner. Children: I. Norton Newcomb, born August 12, 1856, at Westover, Maryland ; married (first) Decem- ber 12, 1877, Abbie E. Wilden; (second) Millie Agnes Cameron, February 25, 1891 ; children: i. Nellie Gould, born December 14, 1885; ii. Mary Mildred, February 19, 1892 ; iii. Marie Elsie, February 26, 1893; iv. Alex- ander Alfred, June 13, 1894; v. Jessie Louise, October 8, 1896; vi. Georgie, June 9, 1899 ; vii. Walter Cameron, December 10, 1900. 2. Lewis Franklin, born at Westover, March 6, 1858 ; married ( first ) December 27, 1883, Eliz- abeth R. Johnson ; ( second) January 31, 1895, Ellen Augusta Humphrey ; children: i. Grace Havilah, born October 29, 1885; ii. George Lorimer, September, 1891, died December, 1891. 3. Edward Herbert, born June 11, 1860; mentioned below. 4. William Abbott, born at Halifax, October 22, 1866 ; married, December 17, 1889, Herriet Wright King. 5. Walter Phipps, born at Somerville, May 10, 1869; married, January 28, 1891, Alice Maude Quackenbush and Harriet Maria, born Decem- ber 25. 1891.
(XI) Edward Herbert, son of Captain Isaiah B. Hamblen, was born at Sambro, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 1I, 1860. He had a common school education and when a young man was associated with his father in the lobster packing industry in Pictou from 1878 to 1887, and was a member of the firm of I. B. Hamblen & Sons, owners of five large canning factories. He resided two years in Suffield, Connecticut, and from 1889 to 1905 he lived in Springfield. He was engaged in the provision business, and put into operation the first strictly cash market, known as the Springfield Public Market, in 1905. He retired until 1908, when he built the eight-story office building, 318 Main street, where he is located in the real estate business with his son, R. L. Hamblen, the firm name being E. H. & R. L. Hamblen. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Congregationalist.
Hle married, at Springfield, October II, 1882, Georgianna Swasey Hitchcock, daughter of Levi and Mary Jane ( Parkhurst) Hitch- cock (see Hitchcock). Children: I. Julia Marion, born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, Septem- ber 29, 1884; graduate of Miss Porter's School, Springfield ; married John Peterson, of North Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2. Edward Harold,
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Jr., born January 29, 1887 ; clerk in the bank- ing house of Hornblower & Weeks, Boston. 3. Raymond Levi, born at Suffield, March 4, 1889.
(For preceding generations see Luke Hitchcock 1).
(IV) John Hitchcock, son
HITCHCOCK of Ensign John Hitchcock, was born in Springfield, December 14, 1692, and resided there. His will was dated March 14, 1774, and proved May 7, 1777. He married, August 1, 1717, Abigail Stebbins, born November 30, 1695, daughter of Samuel and Joanna ( Lamb) Steb- bins. Children : 1. Abigail, born June 1, 1718 ; married, May 27, 1741, David Hoar. 2. Miriam, born July 14, 1720 ; married ( second) August 19, 1748, Jedediah Bliss, died November 19, 1793. 3. John, born April 21, 1722 ; mentioned below. 4. Reuben, born December 20, 1723; died 1745. 5. Josiah, born November 29, 1726 ; married Martha Hitchcock. 6. Simeon, born July 22, 1728 ; married Rachel Chichester. 7. Benjamin, born September 2, 1730; died January 5, 1780. 8. Isaac, born June 7, 1732 ; died July 30, 1781. 9. Levi, born March 20, 1734-5 ; married Lucy .Adams.
(V) Deacon John, son of John Hitchcock, was born April 21, 1722, in Springfield, and died October II, 1807. He was the first dea- con of the South Parish church of Wilbraham. He served in the revolution as lieutenant in Captain James Warriner's company at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; also at Ticonderoga in Captain Caldwell's company, Colonel Danielson's regiment, from December 5, 1776, to April 2, 1777 (180 miles travel, 7 pounds 7 shillings bounty ; 99 days' service, wages 60 shillings per month). He was a man of great physical strength. "A man stopped by the field where he was at work and boasted of the speed of the horse he was riding. The deacon told him he could go to Springfield quicker than a horse. The man resolutely denied it. The deacon gave a challenge. It was accepted and the deacon won. He ran ten miles, beating the horse. He would lift a load of hay, such loads as were drawn then (in two wheeled carts) by getting under the axletree of the cart and taking it on his shoulders in a stooping posture. He would turn a cart over by taking one end of the axle- tree with one hand. When he was seventy years old he came in to dinner as usual, hung his hat on a nail on the 'summer' (a beam in the middle of the ceiling). He said to his wife, 'I am seventy years old today; you re-
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