Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 106

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986


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In June, 1896, President Peirce received the degree of L. H. D. from Hobart College ; in 1908 he received the degree of D. D. from Western Reserve. He has served as presi- dent of the Ohio Association of College Presi- dents and Deans, and is now ( 1909) vice- president of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of the County Teachers' Association and of the State Teachers' Association, also of the Society for Psychological and Pedagogical In- quiry, whose membership is limited to twenty- five specialists, and is serving in the capacity of secretary and treasurer.


President Peirce married, June 18, 1891, Lonise Fagan, of Hackettstown, New Jersey, the marriage being the outcome of an ac- quaintance and attachment formed in the Graduate School at Cornell. At the age of eighteen Miss Fagan was graduated from Vassar College. After a year of graduate work at Vassar in philosophy and English she


went to Cornell at the same time as Professor Peirce for further work on these lines.


The family of Trow- TROWBRIDGE bridge derives its name from its ancient inherit- ance, Trowbridge, in Devonshire, England, where it resided for many centuries, and which was the property of Peter de Trow- bridge, in the reign of Edward I. The name was variously spelled : Trobridge, Troubridge, Trowbridge, Throwbridge, Trobblebridge, Strobridge and Strawbridge, the mode gener- ally adopted now being Trowbridge. Thomas Trowbridge, of Devonshire, died March 15, 1570, seized of Loxbear, Tiverton and Cal- wodley in Washfield, Bycott and Easturn.


(I) Thomas Trowbridge. common ances- tor of all the Trowbridges in America, emi- grated from Taunton, Somersetshire, Eng- land, as early as 1636, as Mrs. Trowbridge joined the church in that year, and not im- probably as early as 1634, and located at Dorchester, Massachusetts. His youngest child was born there. In an assignment of land the record reads: "January 2, 1637, It is ordered that the parties underwritten shall have each of them satisfaction in liew of the calves' pasture, from the burying place towards John Phillips, Mr. Trobridge, I acre." Same date, "It is ordered that Mr. Trobridge have two acres of marsh, in Mr. Ludlow's neck, where it is out of propriety." March 18, 1637, "The proportion which each man is to have in the neck, according to estate and number of persons, Mr. Trobridge, 7 acres I rood 20 rods." "The proportion of town pas- ture and other lands this side the river. 7 acres 1 rood 20 rods." The following year we find: "It is ordered that Mr. Clark have liberty to take in four rods of land, next his pale, towards the meeting house, which is near the barn that was lately Mr. Trowbridge's." October 31, 1638, "It is ordered that Mr. Jones shall have one acre of land, near his own, in liew of an acre which he bought of Mr. Trobridge, which was appointed him." He undoubtedly removed late in 1638 or carly in 1639 to New Haven with the carly settlers. His time was mostly spent in making trading voyages between Barbadoes and England. The evidence of his residence in New Haven is the fact that he owned a house and lot there, and his three sons lived there under the care of a servant or steward, named Henry Gibbons, who so neglected his master's affairs that his property was attached for the payment of


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rates and debts as early as November, 1641. The following year Mr. Trowbridge had cattle at large, and in 1643 he is recorded among the planters with a family of five-himself, wife and three sons-and is rated at five hun- dred pounds. In February, 1644, Mr. Cheever was allowed four pounds three shillings six pence for teaching Mr. Trowbridge's children. Mr. Trowbridge went to England probably in the latter part of 1644, and never returned to America. The steward Gibbons neglected matters in so shameless a manner, taking no care whatever of the children, that Sergeant Thomas Jeffries, a friend of Mr. Trowbridge, took charge of the latter. In consequence of Gibbon's neglect of the estate it was attached to satisfy the creditors, December 8, 1645. Mr. Trowbridge wrote frequently from England to his sons and the authorities of New Haven to bring Gibbons to account, and finally, Jan- uary 14, 1664, sent his sons a power of at- torney to recover the property from Gibbons, have it divided equally among them and pun- ish the steward. A settlement could not be effected before the death of Mr. Trowbridge, which occurred at Taunton, England, Febru- ary 7, 1672, and in 1680, Gibbons, for "sundry good causes best known to myself," made over to Thomas Trowbridge. the eldest son, his house and lot and sundry other property, in- cluding "the bed and bolster I lie on." He died in 1686, and his brother, William Gib- bons, refused to take out letters of adminis- tration, and said Thomas Trowbridge was ap- pointed administrator and, as Gibbons had no children, the matter was thus concluded. The sons. after attaining their majority, became men of influence and acquired large estates. There is no record of the name of the wife of Thomas Trowbride, but his children were: I. Thomas. mentioned above, born in Taunton, England. in 1632; married (first) Sarah, daughter of Henry and Sarah Rutherford ; (second) Hannah, daughter of Major John Nash. and widow of Eliphalet Ball. 2. Wil- liam, born in Taunton. England, in 1634, mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Captain George Lamberton, and widow of Daniel Selivant. 3. Tames, see below.


(II) Deacon James. youngest child of Thomas Trowbridge, immigrant, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1636, baptized in 1638, and died May 22, 1717. He was but five years of age when his father removed to New Haven with his family, but returned to Dorchester shortly before attaining his ma- jority, and occupied lands owned by his father


prior to his removal. In 1664 he removed to Cambridge Village (now Newton). After the death of his father-in-law, Deacon John Jack- son, he was elected to succeed him in office in 1675, the duties of which he discharged until his death, a period of forty-two years. In 1675 he purchased of Deputy Governor Dan- forth, eighty-five acres of land with dwelling house and outbuildings, on which the deputy- governor had lived many years, and this estate was since that time occupied by descendants of Deacon Trowbridge, and in 1869 was the property of Nathan Trowbridge, seventh in descent from the first settler. Deacon James was chosen one of the first on the board of selectmen when the town was organized, Au- gust 27, 1679, and continued in office nine years ; also served as clerk of writs, 1692-3, and as lieutenant and representative to the general court, 1700-1703. His will, dated 1709, had a codicil dated 1715 and was proved in June, 1717. The inventory of his personal estate was two hundred and forty pounds seven pence. He bequeathed the right of lands he had in Dorchester, which came of his father, to all his children equally, and all the right to lands that came by his father-in-law. Atherton, to his children by his first wife, equally. He married (first), December 30, 1659. Margaret, died August 17, 1672, daugh- ter of Major General Humphrey Atherton ; children : Elizabeth, married John Myrick ; Mindwell, married Jonathan Fuller; John, married (first) Sarah Wilson, (second) un- known: Margaret, married Hon. Ebenezer Stone: Thankful, married Deacon Richard Ward ; Mary, married --- Stedman ; Han- nah, married John Greenwood, Esq. Deacon James married (second), January 30, 1674, Margaret, born 1649, died September 16, 1727, daughter of Deacon John Jackson; children : Experience, married Samuel Wilson ; Thomas, married (first) unknown, (second) Mary Goffe, (third) Susanna -: Deliverance, married Eleazer Ward; James, married Han- nah Bacon ; William, see forward ; Abigail, probably never married; Caleb, married (first) Sarah Oliver, (second) Hannah Wal- ter.


(III) William, third son and fifth child of Deacon James and Margaret (Jackson) Trow- bridge, was born November 19, 1684, and died November 19, 1744. He was selectman, lieu- tenant, and deacon of the church at Newton. His will, dated 1744, gives five pounds to the church "to be loaned out so as not to depre- ciate," the interest to be given to such poor


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widows as the deacons judged proper ; to son James two hundred pounds; Huldah and Mary, each one hundred pounds; Margaret, two hundred pounds; Beulah, two hundred pounds ; Thaddeus, fifty pounds; children of his daughter Mary Coolidge, three hundred and twenty-five pounds ; his wife Sarah, fifty pounds ; the residue of his estate to Lieutenant Joseph Fuller, Lieutenant William Hyde, Deacon John Stone and Thomas Greenwood, in trust for his wife Sarah during her life. At her decease two-thirds of his real estate and one-quarter of his grist mill to his son Thaddeus, and he to pay his son James one- quarter of its value. William Trowbridge married (first), December 14, 1708, Sarah, died June 1, 1720, daughter of John Ward, Jr., and took the end of his father-in-law's house ; children : Mary, married Richard Coolidge ; William, died young ; Huldah, died young; William, died in infancy ; Huldah, married Isaac Stedman; James, married Je- rusha Park ; and two daughters, stillborn. He married (second), May 30, 1721, Sarah, who was born March 2, 1694, and died September IO, 1787, daughter of Francis Fullum, Esq., and had children : Sarah, died young; Mar- garet, married John Druce and settled in Wrentham, Massachusetts; Beulah. married Stephen Winchester; Thaddeus, see forward ; Abigail, died young.


(IV) Thaddeus, only son and fourth child of William and Sarah (Fullum) Trowbridge, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 20, 1728, and died there January 6, 1777. He took over his father's homestead at about the time of his marriage. He married, May 20, 1749, Mary, born April 1I, 1731, died April 9, 1813, daughter of Lieutenant Moses and Esther (Woodward) Craft, of Newton. Lieutenant Moses Craft was selectman in 1744-45, and in Colonel Choates' regiment at the time of the capture of Louisburg. After the death of her husband Mrs. Trowbridge married, October 1, 1780, Lieutenant John Rogers, a blacksmith, and an ingenious maker of clocks and machines of various kinds ; he came from Boston and resided in Newton, on the Roxbury highway, where he died October 19, 1815, at the age of ninety-one years. Thad- deus and Mary (Craft) Trowbridge had chil- dren : Mary, married Joseph Hall, of Rich- mond, Vermont, son of Stephen and Sarah (Taft) Hall, of Sutton, Massachusetts; Ed- mund, see forward; Esther, married John Wiswall, of Newton, a soldier during the rev- olutionary war; Samuel, married (first) Eliz-


abeth, daughter of Phineas and Thankful (Fuller) Bond, (second) Ruth (Fuller) Trowbridge, widow of his brother Edmund.


(V) Edmund, eldest son and second child of Thaddeus and Mary (Craft) Trowbridge, was born in Newton, October 30, 1752, and died there July 30, 1812. He served during the revolutionary war, as corporal in Captain Amariah Fuller's company, which marched at the alarm of April 18, 1775, to headquarters at Cambridge; also in Captain Abraham Pierce's company, Colonel Eleazer Brooks' regiment of guards, February 3, 1778, to April 3, 1778, at Cambridge ; as sergeant in Captain Edward Fuller's company (First Newton), Colonel Thatcher's regiment, entered camp September 2, 1778, discharged September 4, 1778. October 1, 1798, he paid direct tax of United States on two thousand three hundred sixty-four dollars. January 4, 1801, Captain Edmund Trowbridge, his son, was one of a committee of five appointed to devise such plan as they should think proper in connection with the Hon. William Hull, relative to the es- tablishment of an academy within the town; and in 1833 the widow of Edmund Sr. kept the boarding house in connection with this in- stitution. November 19, 1805, Edmund Trow- bridge purchased a pew in the new church for one hundred and three dollars. He married (first), December 15, 1774, Elizabeth, born in Newton, March 20, 1753, died February 22, 1799, daughter of Captain Jeremiah and Eliz- abeth (Murdock) Wiswall; children: John, born October 14, 1775, married Eunice Stone ; Edmund, July 16, 1777, married Mary Stone ; William, November 23, 1779, married Anna Woodward ; Polly, August 11, 1782, married Timothy Emerson; Nathaniel, July 7, 1784, married Martha F. Hall; Reuben, August 13, 1789, married Eliza Smith, and settled in Bal- timore, Maryland ; Elisha, August 3, 1797, married Margaret Stimson, and settled in Portland, Maine. Edmund Trowbridge mar- ried (second), January 11, 1800, Ruth, born July 19, 1752, died July 11, 1835, daughter of Captain Edward and Ruth (Jackson) Fuller; children : Ruth, born February 8, 1801, mar- ried William Wiswall; Stephen Winchester, see forward ; Elizabeth W., born February 6, 1805, married Luther Davis.


(VI) Stephen Winchester, only son and second child of Edmund and Ruth (Fuller) Trowbridge, was born at Newton, Massachu- setts, June 26, 1802, and died there October IO, 1853. He was very young when his father died, and was adopted by his maternal uncle,


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Deacon Ezra Fuller, a well-to-do farmer, on the road to Waltham. There Stephen was raised, attending the district school and be- coming proficient in his studies. Later he taught school in West Newton, and in the in- tervals between school sessions worked on the farm. He entered into farming for himself in West Newton, in Washington street, near the site of the present depot, and was successful. In 1835 he removed to New- ton, where he established himself as a wheel- wright, having served an apprenticeship with one of the leading carriage builders. He soon opened a shop at the corner of Pearl and Galen streets, where he continued as a manu- facturer of carriages and heavy vehicles up to the time of his death. He also manufactured hay cutters, and many times exchanged these for the products of the district as was the cus- tom of those days. In business and in his home life he was an exemplary man, a de- voted husband and loving father, a true friend to the poor, and the afflicted and despised reckoned upon him as one of their most stead- fast helpers. He was also foremost in the cause of temperance. In politics he was a Whig, and filled many important offices in the gift of the town; he served as assessor for many years, was selectman, overseer of the poor, and chief of the fire department. He was a member of the Newton Freedom Asso- ciation, and a stanch supporter of the anti- slavery movement. He was one of the num- ber who organized the church, and was ever afterward its most punctual attendant. He was deacon from 1840 until his death, was


clerk of the Society for twenty-five years, led the choir for the same length of time, was teacher in the Sunday school and its superin- tendent. He married, May 4, 1826, Sarah Emmons, born in Boston, March 13, 1806, died in Newton, June 4, 1886, daughter of Amasa and Sarah (Crane) Murdock, of Bos- ton ; children : I. Sarah Murdock, born March 7, 1827 ; married, April 2, 1846, Ethan Weth- erbee, of Newton, and had children: i. Wil- fred Augustus, born July 23, 1848, married Elizabeth Holbrook of Watertown, and has: Frank Bigelow, married Effie Howard, of Watertown, and Edward Tyler, who married Cyrena Atkins, of Newton; ii. Frederick Adolphus, married Mary Norcross Lane, of Newton. 2. Adeline Fuller, born October 23, 1828, died August 24, 1894; married, Au- gust 18, 1852, George W. Hall; children: i. Frank W., born August 25, 1853, married, May 12. 1875, Eliza J. Titus ; ii. Lilly F., born


May 9, 1855; married, October 20, 1875, Charles Theodore Stetson, and had Frank, Clifford and Fred; iii. Stephen W., died Oc- tober 12, 1853; iv. Mary F., born April 10. 1858, died January 16, 1862; v. Louis Armit- age, born January 27, 1864; vi. Mabel T., born May 9, 1866. 3. Eliza Davis, born April 4, 1831; married, May 29, 1849, Benjamin Stow Wetherbee, of Newton; children: i. Charles Clarence, born July 15, 1853, died September 5, 1854; ii. Helen Frances, born July 25, 1855, married, June 13, 1877, Gilman Bradford Paine, of Holbrook, Massachusetts, and had Harold Clark, born July 18, 1879, died December 4, 1901 ; Nellie Gertrude, mar- ried, April 4, 1904, Edward Marcey Hill, of Boston. 4. Stephen Winchester, see forward. 5. Francis Mortimor, born November 10, 1839, died January 28, 1883 ; married, Febru- ary 18, 1863, Abbie Ann Learned, of Water- town. 6. Theodore William, born June 5, 1845, died February 8, 1905 ; married, Octo- ber 14, 1874, Almira A. Moulton, of Provi- dence, Rhode Island; children: i. Herbert Moulton, born July 5, 1876; married, June 8, 1904, Rosalie Wood, of Trinidad, California ; ii. Julia Moulton, born March 6, 1886, died April 15, 1888.


(VII) Stephen Winchester, eldest son and fourth child of Stephen Winchester and Sarah Emmons (Murdock) Trowbridge, was born at Newton, Massachusetts, October 5, 1834, and died there January 12, 1907. He attended the district school in Washington street and other schools of the town, and was then placed in the old Chauncey Hall School in Boston, then one of the best preparatory schools in the country. He was nineteen years of age when his father died, and he immediately took up the burdens and responsibilities of the fam- ily. He commenced as a grocery clerk in the store of Andrew Cole, of Newton, where he remained a year or two, and having perfected himself in accounting, entered the employ of Wetherell Brothers, wholesale dealers in rib- bons, laces. etc., in Boston. He served them faithfully for some years, then became identi- fied with the insurance business and located at Brighton in the interest of the Citizens' Fire Insurance Company of Boston, of which Ed- ward Sparhawk was the president. He was soon advanced to their Boston office as a book- keeper and a worker in other departments, rose by his energy and close application to business to the position of secretary, an office he filled for a period of sixteen years, was also treasurer for a time, and later served as presi-


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dent for five years. Altogether he was con- nected with the company for more than twenty years. He resigned the presidency about 1877 and engaged in the study of law, though he frequently expressed his regret that he lacked a college education. His ambition, however, led him to take up the study, and he entered the Boston Law School in 1876, and at the end of three years was admitted to the bar, hav- ing completed a four years' course in three years. He was graduated in the same class with William E. Russell, who became gov- ernor of the state, and who was a close friend of Mr. Trowbridge. He devoted his life hence- forth to the practice of the profession, estab- lishing his office in the Davenport Building, corner of Court and Washington streets, and living at the corner of Tremont and Brookline streets during his sojourn in Boston. He was appointed judge of the Brighton municipal court, filling the office with dignity. About the middle of the nineties he was obliged to relin- quish his practice, his health becoming impair- ed, his eyesight failing, and finally he became totally blind. This misfortune was thought to be due to overstrain while in pursuit of his legal studies. He died in his home on Brad- ford road, Newton Highlands, surrounded by those he loved. He was a stanch supporter of the Republican party, voting whenever he was able to do so, yet never accepting public office, holding that a good citizen's first duty was toward his family. Like his father, he was a sturdy upholder of temperance principles, and prominent in the Channing church of New- ton ; he possessed a fine baritone voice, had charge of the singing there for a long period, and also sang in the Park Street Church and St. Paul's Church, in Boston, and the Uni- tarian Church in Cambridge. He affiliated with the Masonic fraternity as a member of Pequossette Lodge, at Watertown, from which he was demitted, and joined Dalhousie Lodge at Newtonville, June 13, 1861, of which he was worshipful master several years, and was elected honorary member May 8, 1895. Mr. Trowbridge was possessed of rare judg- ment and great foresight, qualities which en- abled him to attain prominence both in his business and legal career. While of a retiring nature, his genial and amiable disposition brought him a host of friends. He married, August 19, 1856, Mary Rebecca, born in Bos- ton, May 10, 1834, daugliter of Daniel and Rebecca (Clark) Baird, the former born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, December 23. 1776, and was a housewright in Boston. Mr.


and Mrs. Trowbridge had children: I. Mary Charlotte, born April 18, 1862; married, May 5, 1880, Charles Hall Adams, born March 6, 1853, son of Charles B. F. and Sophia (Hall) Adams, of Boston, and resides in Brighton ; children : Lawrence Trowbridge, born June 16, 1881, died February 3, 1882; Charles Lloyd, born March 19, 1887, is a member of firm of Lockwood, Adams Company, import- ers, No. 222 State street, Boston. 2. Caroline Winchester, born March 30, 1867, died March 27, 1892; married, February 9, 1891, Willis Clark Curtis, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3. Gertrude Wyoming, born April 9, 1869; married, May 30, 1894, Arthur Robert Tor- rey, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; now re- siding at Newton Highlands ; children : Abbott Trowbridge, born April 25, 1895; Katherine, May 29, 1897; Arthur Robert, Jr., October S, 1899; Stephen Winchester, October 2, 1901 ; Edith, September 27, 1903.


(For preceding generations see John Beals 1).


(III) Lazarus Beals, son of


BEALS Jeremiah Beals, was born i11 Hingham, September 7, 1661, and died August 18, 1723, aged sixty-two ycars. He was representative to the general court in 1719-20, and was selectman of the


town in 1701 and 1712. He lived on East street, near Hull street, Hingham. He mar- ried, at Barnstable, February 18, 1689-90, Su- sanna, daughter of James and Sarah (Lane) Lewis. She married (second) March II, 1728-9, Benjamin Eaton, of Kingston, Massa- chusetts. Children, born in Hingham: I. Lazarus, October 28. 1691 ; mentioned below. 2. Susanna. November 14, 1692. 3. Mercy, October 20, 1694; died young. 4. Sarah, April 4, 1696. 5. Rachel, October 15, 1697. 6. Leah, August 26, 1699. 7. Ebenezer, July 17, 1701. 8. Rachel, August 2 0,1703; died November 25 following. 9. Kezia, October 19, 1704; died September 2, 1705. IO. Oba- diah, June 5. 1706; died October 1, 1723. II. Jonathan, July 20, 1708. 12. Mercy, died September 4. 1716. 13. Hannah, born May 1, 1715 : died May 3, 178I.


(IV) Lazarus (2), son of Lazarus (I) Beals, was born in Hingham, October 28. 1691. He resided in the second precinct, and served as constable in 1732, and selectman in 1729-30-37-39-48. He was also deacon of the church. He married (intentions dated July 13, 1717) Ruth Andrews, born in Hingham, February 1, 1695-6, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Lincoln) Andrews. Children, born


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in Hingham: I. Abigail, June 1, 1718. 2. Mary (or Mercy), July 29, 1720. 3. Ruth, March 10, 1722. 4. Lazarus, April 6, 1725; mentioned below. 5. Susanna, March 30, 1727-8. 6. Obadiah, 1730. 7. Thomas, May 6, 1732. 8. Ephraim, April 20, 1735; died May 25, 1735.


(V) Lazarus (3). son of Lazarus (2) Beals, was born in Hingham, April 6, 1725, and died October 31, 1797. He was a physi- cian, and also taught school for several years in Hingham. He resided in the second pre- cinct of Hingham, also at Newton, and per- haps Weymouth. He married, about 1749, Lydia Wheat, born November 14, 1729, daughter of Dr. Samuel Wheat, of Newton. Children : I. Hannah, born March 16, 1750. 2. Lydia, July 6, 1751. 3. Lazarus Andrews, September 30, 1753; mentioned below. 4. Catherine, November 29, 1756. 5. Samuel, March 7, 1758. 6. William, May 6, 1760. 7. Nabby, July 6, 1762. 8. Martha, July 10, 1765. 9. Daniel, September 27, 1767. IO. Alpheus, born at Cohasset, June 1, 1770. II. Lueiranus, born September 15, 1772. 12. Je- mima, born at Cohasset, February 5, 1775.


(VI) Lazarus Andrews, son of Lazarus and Lydia (Wheat) Beals, was born Septem- ber 30, 1753. and died November 23. 1822, aged sixty-nine years. He was a private in Captain Job Cushing's company, Colonel Solo- mon Lovell's regiment, enlisted December 18, 1776, discharged March 17, 1777. He settled in Weymouth, and married, October 29. 1776, Bethia Lewis, born April 8, 1756. Children : I. Samuel, born August 29, 1777. 2. Jona- than. December 25, 1779. 3. Lydia, June IO, 1782 : died April 25, 1872. 4. Elizabeth, July II. 1785 ; died September 25, 1786. 5. Lewis, October 13, 1793 ; mentioned below. 6. Elias. November 13, 1796; died October 22, 1798.


(VII) Lewis, son of Lazarus Andrews and Bethia (Lewis) Beals, was born in Wey- mouth, October 13, 1793, and died May 10, 1882. He was a mason by trade. He married Sarah S. Harding, born November 1, 1796, died September 4. 1858. Children: I. Elias Smith, born October 20, 1814: mentioned be- low. 2. Mary H., December 17, 1816. 3 Sarah L., January 5. 1822 ; died September 16, 1896. 4. Son, born and died 1824. 5. Lewis A., born April 19, 1827 ; died Septem- ber 23. 1904.




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