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house in Boston where he worked for two years, and then, through the efforts of his mother, was placed in an academy at Meriden, New Hampshire, where he prepared for col- lege. He entered Brown University in 1842. In order to partly support himself by teach- ing, he left there at the end of a year, next fall entering Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1846. After graduating he studied law with Hon. Richard Fletcher, judge of the Massachusetts supreme court, at the same time teaching school, studying nights and vacations. The next two years he was in the Harvard Law School, and studying in the office of Charles G. Loring, Boston. In De- cember, 1851, he was admitted to the bar, and formed a partnership with Hon. Samuel E. Sewall, of Boston, in the practice of law, and continued with him for fourteen years. The partnership with Mr. Sewall was always a pleasant recollection of Mr. Angell in his after life, owing to its pleasant and harmonious character. He became the senior partner in the firm of Angell & Jennison, Boston, contin- uing in this relation several years.
From early childhood Mr. Angell was ex- tremely fond of animals. In 1864, two years before the founding in America of any society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, he gave by will (being then unmarried) a large portion of his property to be used after his death in carrying humane education into schools and Sunday schools. In 1866 the driv- ing to death in a forty-mile race of two of the best horses in the state, moved him to action for the establishment of a Massachusetts so- ciety for such education. He wrote to the Boston Daily Advertiser announcing his will- ingness to give both time and money to estab- lish such a society, and ,stating that, if there were any other persons in Boston willing to unite with him in this object, he should be glad to be informed. The next morning he was called upon by an influential Boston lady, Mrs. William Appleton, who told him that she had been trying to form such a society, and also by other prominent citizens, and he soon found himself engaged in a work which led him to abandon his profession and devote himself and his means, without any pecuniary compensa- tion, to the protection of dumb animals from cruelty, and to the humane education of the American people. He first obtained an act of incorporation for the new society from the Massachusetts legislature, and wrote and caused to be adopted the constitution and by- laws under which it has acted ever since. He
was elected the first president of the new so- ciety, and held that office until his death, March 16, 1909. With the aid of Chief Jus- tice Bigelow and Hon. William Gray, he pre- pared the laws under which the prosecutions of the society have been made ever since, and obtained their enactment by the legislature. These objects accomplished, he succeeded in getting the city government of Boston to put under his personal orders for three weeks, seventeen policemen picked from the whole force, to canvass the entire city, houses and stores, for funds to carry on the work; so, with the aid of gifts from various citizens, he raised about thirteen thousand dollars. Next, in behalf of the society, he started Our Dumb Animals, the first paper of its kind in the world for the protection of dumb animals, and caused to be printed two hundred thousand copies of the first number. These he distrib- uted through the Boston police in every house in Boston, and in every city and town in the state, through the aid of the legislature and of General Butler, then postmaster of Boston. He next caused twenty drinking fountains for animals to be erected in Boston, and by his ex- posures of the terrible condition of the Brighton slaughter houses, laid the founda- tions of the abattoir which took their place. In 1869, worn out by the day and night labor of the past year, he went abroad for a rest ; and while in England induced the Royal So- ciety there to start a paper similar to his own, and, with the aid of Baroness Burdett-Coutts, to establish the Ladies' Humane Educational Committee, which has done a vast educational work in England. He also visited the con- tinental societies, and was the only American representative at the World's Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1869. Returning to America, Mr. Angell went, in the fall of 1870 to Chicago and spent nearly six months in the founding of the Illinois Humane Society, at a personal cost to himself of about six hundred dollars. It would require a volume to record fully Mr. Angell's work from that time. He gave addresses and aided in forming humane societies as far south as New Orleans, and as far west as North Dakota. He addressed state legislatures, national and international con- ventions of educational men, agricultural and religious conventions, union meetings of churches, numerous colleges and schools all over the country. He made an address before the National Grange at Washington. also at Richmond, and once addressed eight hundred and thirty-six of the police force of Philadel-
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phia, and once about three thousand drivers of horses gathered in the Boston Theatre. In the winter of 1885-6 he addressed, during six- ty-one days. all the high, Latin and normal schools of Boston. In 1882 he started the American Band of Mercy, of which he was made president. From this parent band sprang over twenty-one thousand branches, with probably between one and two million mem- bers. In 1874 he was elected a director of the American Social Science Association, and from that time to 1881 gave much attention to the labor question and the growth and preven- tion of crime, particularly crimes against pub- lic health in the sale of poisonous and adulter- ated foods and other articles. He succeeded in 1881 in obtaining a Congressional report on this subject, embodying a vast amount of evidence he had gathered, and caused over a hundred thousand copies of it to be distributed in this country and in Europe.
In 1889 he founded the American Humane Education Society, the first of its kind in the world, and obtained its incorporation from the Massachusetts legislature, with power to hold a half million dollars free from taxation. For this corporation he has employed missionaries forming humane societies in the south and west ; has caused nearly two million copies of "Black Beauty" to be circulated in English and other languages ; furnished the paper Our Dumb Animals regularly to many citizens and all the American newspaper and magazine edi- tors north of Mexico. To this society he gave property valued at several thousand dollars, and he was elected the president. Mr. Angell's writings are circulated not only over the United States but largely in Europe and also in Asia. and some of them being used in places as far distant as China, Japan, and the public schools in New Zealand. He offered many prizes to American editors, colleges and uni- versity students, and many others, for the best essays on humane subjects.
Mr. Angell was very prominent in his col- lege society, the Alpha Delta Phi, which he founded at Dartmouth, and which was the only secret society he ever joined, except the Masonic fraternity. He was liberal in relig- ion and independent in politics. He died March 16, 1909, aged eighty-six years. His death was a loss to the whole country, and ex- pressions of regret at his death and of appre- ciation for his noble life and work came from all parts of the world. His name was a house- hold word, and stood for the finest instincts of human nature. The Congregationalist said of
him: "In recent years Mr. Angell has made his headquarters at the Hotel Westminster, going down to the offices for directors' meet- ings. Before the hotel lies Copley Square, with its palisade of churches and public build- ings. As the venerable president left its doors he could see the edifices of three sects, the public library, the museum of fine arts and farther on, the Institute of Technology. All these symbolize the agencies which he strove to interest and co-ordinate in his life-work. And now the keen eyes are closed, and the broad, clean-shaven mouth is set firm forever. Animaldom may well sadly chant, 'Le Roi est mort'. But, 'Vive le Roi'; his work goes for- ward in millions of homes and schools, scat- tered in many nations, a ceaseless agency for mercy and for love." Not only the religious press, but the secular press as well, gave ex- pression to the universal loss caused by his death.
Mr. Angell married, at Lynn, Massachu- setts, November 12, 1872, Eliza Ann Martin, born in Northfield, September 13, 1840, daughter of Warren and Lucy Augusta ( Proc- tor) Mattoon and widow of Charles W. Mar- tin. They had no children, but reared two- Mrs. Reuben Abbott, of Brookline, and Mrs. Elbridge P. Jones, of Newton Highlands.
Mr. E. H. Clement, in the "Listener", Bos- ton Evening Transcript, gave a beautiful trib- ute to Mr. Angell's noble life, in the issue of March 17, 1909, as follows :
"If there indeed were, as many believe, some subtle means of communication between the human and sub-human orders, as there surely is within the races themselves, we might fancy that the news of Mr. Angell's comple- tion of his labors here in Boston has flown far and wide by this time. It must have been received with genuine grief in hard-scrabble back towns of New England, where the pa- tient and faithful creatures of poverty-struck farmers shiver through the winter in barns full only of cracks and holes. It must have been heard with dismay on the far Western plains-where no shelter whatever is ever thought of for animals herded on the base cal- culation that there will be still some small profit off each wretched surviving walking skeleton to offset the lingering deaths of thou- sands of its mates from starvation, thirst and freezing. It would surely be carried by the pigeons spared through his laws and prosecu- tions from trap-shooting matches of marks- manship-to meet the returning songsters on their way, or so many of them as have escaped
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from the wholesale slaughter in the South for restaurant suppers in our cities. It would circulate most rapidly, through these cities where the lame and halt, aged and blind and broken-winded horses pass in many cases even on their dying day, from one conscienceless buyer to another worse one; where neglected or heartlessly betrayed dogs and cats are saved nowadays from lingering death by star- vation, or the worse 'death that nature never made'-thanks to the teaching and influence set in motion by Mr. Angell a generation ago. "Such a man had to be constituted different- ly, of course, from the common run of men. It certainly was queer to see an energetic, capable, strong, quick, brainy man, devoting himself to something that there was no money in for himself-only time, which is money to a smart lawyer,-and money out for years. Ordinary good, respectable business-minding people are content to pass by on the other side when a case of animal agony or misery con- fronts them ; most women turn and flee from such a sight and stop their ears at home to revelations of deliberate cruelties practiced. It takes an altogether singular courage to face the problems of diminishing the amount of misery about us. If some of Mr. Angell's singularities made the unthinking laugh, and others that he interfered with, rage, it must be taken into account that it is an appalling task to move the great mass of indifferent, sceptical, cold-hearted, self-centered, common- place people. Of course, a man to do this sort of thing must be unlike anybody else. But only the extremist moves the world, or ever has done it. Mr. Angell's forty years of unique work for mercy among us lives after him in constantly expanding reach and power and blessing for human society and every living thing."
ABBEY This surname is variously spelled Abba, Abbe, Abbec, Abbey, Abet, Abbie, Abie, Abbeye and Abby. The Enfield branch of the family has used the forms Abby and Abbey, while the Windham, Connecticut, branch has preferred Abbe as a rule. For convenience the spelling Abbey is used in this sketch. The origin of the name is doubtless from some location at or near an abbey from which some progenitor took a nickname that became a family name in ac- cordance with a common process. The Abbe coat-of-arms: Gules five fusils in fesse be- tween three scallop shells. Crest on a wreath
of three colors of the shield (gules and ar- gent) an eagle's head erased or.
(I) The first settler doubtless came from England, and tradition fixes his home in the old country at Norwich, or county Norfolk. There is a tradition that the Enfield family came from John Abbe, a native of Maryland, of Huguenot stock, but the records seem clearly to show that the Enfield and Windham families are descended from John Abbe, of Wenham, Massachusetts. Some remote an- cestor inay have been Norman French, but John was undoubtedly English. He was re- ceived as an inhabitant of Salem, January 2, 1636-7, and allotted an acre of land "for an house next beyond ye gunsmiths and three acres of planting ground where ye town hath appoynted beyond Castle Hill." He had ten acres more granted in 1642 in Salem, probably in the part that was later Wenham. He was mentioned first in Wenham records in 1643, was a prominent citizen, and constable in 1669. He and his wife May conveyed land at Wen- ham to their sons John and Samuel, and com- pleted the disposal of his real estate by deed dated August 3, 1683. He was at Reading, according to Savage, May 7, 1685, but records prove he left Wenham. He married (first) Mary , died September 9, 1672; (sec- ond) November 25, 1674, Mary Goldsmith. He died at Wenham about 1690, aged about seventy-four years. Children: 1. John, set- tled in Windham, Connecticut ; was admitted an inhabitant there December 9, 1696; dis- missed from Wenham to Windham church; died December 1I, 1700. 2. Samuel, men- tioned below. 3. Sarah. 4. Marah, married Killam. 5. Rebecca, married, May 13, 1667, Richard Kimball. 6. Obadiah, settled at Enfield; married Sarah Warriner, widow of Joseph. 4. Thomas, ancestor of the En- field family.
(II) Samuel, son of John Abbey, was born about 1650, in Salem, or Wenham, Massachu- land in Wenham, March 29, 1675, and he was a surveyor there in 1676. He bought land of Lot Kilham in Salem Village in 1682 and he and his wife were dismissed to form the Sa- lem Village church November 15, 1689. He had other land transactions in Essex county. He sold his property April 3, 1697, to Zacha- riah White, of Lynn, and bought November 4, 1697, of Benjamin Howard, of Windham, Connecticut, for twenty-two pounds ten shill- ings, half an allotment of land (five hundred acres) being No. 2 at the Center, then at or setts. His father deeded to him ten acres of
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near Bricktop, with half the house, etc. He was admitted an inhabitant of Windham, De- cember 21, 1697. He died in Windham in March, 1697-8, before he was fairly settled in his new home. He married, at Wenham, Oc- tober 12, 1672, Mary Knowlton, and she mar- ried, after his death, April 27, 1699, Abraham Mitchell, an early Windham settler, by whom she had a son Daniel Mitchell, born and died December 10, 1700. Children, born at Wen- ham and Salem Village: I. Mary, about 1674. 2. Samuel, about 1676; married Hannah Sils- by, and died January 15, 1736-7. 3. Thomas, about 1679; died at Windham, April 1, 1700. 4. Elizabeth, about 1681 ; married William Slate. 5. Ebenezer, July 31, 1683 ; mention- ed below. 6. Mercy, March 1, 1684-5; mar- ried Jonathan Ormsby, of Windham. 7. Sarah, July 4 or 6, 1686; married John Fow- ler. 8. Hepsibah, February 14, 1688-9; mar- ried Samuel Palmer. 9. Abigail, November 19, 1690; married probably Joseph Ormsby, of Rehoboth. 10. John, June 4, 1692, settled in Hartford; died 1790. II. Benjamin, June 4, 1694 ; settled in Glastonbury ; married Mary Tryon. 12. Jonathan, born about 1697; set- tled in Willington.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Abbey, was born at Salem Village, July 31, 1683; was of Norwich, Connecticut, November, 1705, when he purchased of his brother Samuel fifty-five acres of land at Newfound Meadow in Wind- ham. He sold to Samuel at the same time, land in Bushnell Plain and Willimantic. He settled at what is now North Windham, and may have lived in later life at Mansfield ; was a member of the Hampton church in 1725. He married Mary Allen, daughter of Joshua, one of the early settlers of Mansfield, October 28, 1707, and he died December 5, 1758. She died in 1766. He mentions ten of his thirteen children in his will, the others having died be- fore. Children : I. Ebenezer, born July 27, 1708; mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, Sep- tember II, 1709; married Daniel Cross, of Mansfield. 3. Joshua, January 20, 1710-II. 4. Mary, September 21, 1712; married Jona- than Bingham Jr. 5. Nathan, May 6, 1714; settled in Mansfield; married (first) Silence Ames; (second) Lucy Hovey. 6. Gideon, February 13, 1715-6. 7. Samuel, October 30, 1717; died March 1, 1718. 8. Samuel, April 24, 1719. 9. Zerviah, March 17, 1720-1 ; mar- ried Elihu Marsh. 10. Jerusha, October 22, 1722; married Samuel Wood. II. Abigail, August 1, 1724. 12. Miriam, August 31, iv-20
1726; married William Cross. 13. Solomon, May 29, 1730.
(IV) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1) Abbey, was born in Windham, July 27, 1708. He married Abigail February 22, 1729-30. Children : 1. Mary, born March 26, 1731. 2. Isaac, July 25, 1733; mentioned be- low. 3. Abner, August 26, 1737. 4. Ebenezer, June 10, 1739. 5. Jacob, August 23, 1741. 6. John, August 23, 1743; married April 27, 1768, Dorothy Bugbee. 7. Samuel, June 21, 1747.
(V) Isaac, son of Ebenezer (2) Abbey, was born in Windham, July 25, 1733. He lived at or near North Windham. He married, March, 1753, Eunice Church, and he died April, 1788. Children, born at Windham: I. Isaac, October 31, 1753. 2. Eunice, April 12, 1755; married Jonah Lincoln. 3. Anna, March 14, 1757. 4. Abner, November 5, 1758; mentioned below. 5. Susannah, November 15, 1760. 6. Zerviah, April 10, 1762. 7. Joseph, June 5, 1763. 8. Nathaniel, July 13, 1765. 9. Lucy, February 4, 1769. 10. Sarah, March 4, 1771.
(VI) Abner, son of Isaac Abbey, was born in North Windham, November 5, 1758. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Na- thaniel Wale's company, in 1778, from Wind- ham.
(VII) Abner (2), son of Abner (1) Ab- bey, settled in South Hadley, or was born there. He made the first brimstone matches in this country. He married Mary Brown. Children : Silas, Albert, Abner, Samantha, and Maria.
(VIII) Abner Brown, son of Abner (2) Abbey, was born in South Hadley, Massachu- setts, about 1812 and died February 24, 1891. He married Chloe Ann Root, born November 12, 1812. He lived in Chicopee. Children : I. Abner M., deceased. 2. Emma M., married Lucius D. Lech ; both deceased. 3. Arthur L., settled in Springfield, Illinois. 4. Charles Clinton ; see forward. 5. Sibyl A., married Thomas Devine, of South Hadley ; they live in Springfield, Massachusetts. 6. Silas A., lived in South Hadley.
(IX) Charles Clinton, son of Abner Brown Abbey, was born at Chicopee, April 17, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of Chi- copee. Since 1873 he has been engaged in the coal and wood business in his native town, and also conducts an extensive real estate business. His business is conducted under the name of the Springfield Coal and Wood Company. He organized the Chicopee Falls Wheel Company. and is its president and manager. He is a di-
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rector of the Springfield National Bank and of several manufacturing industries. He is also extensively engaged in the lumber business. He is one of the largest owners of real estate in Springfield, and also has large holdings in California. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Fairview Cemetery Com- mission. He attends the Congregational Church. He married December 23, 1875, Emily Frances Lombard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, daughter of George and Mary (Crosby) Lombard, descendant of an old Hampden county family. They reside at 170 Springfield street, Chicopee. No children.
BARBER Thomas Barber, immigrant an- cestor, was born in England, in 1614. He came in the Salton- stall party under Francis Stiles, in the ship "Christian," sailing March 16, 1634. He set- tled soon afterward at Windsor, Connecticut. He married, October 4, 1640, Jane ", who died September 10, 1662. He had a grant of land from Windsor in 1640, and was admit- ted a freeman in 1645. He was in the Pequot expedition of 1638, and later sergeant of his company. He removed to Simsbury, where he was contractor for the first meeting house. He was a carpenter by trade. The court at Hartford, March 28, 1637, ordered "that Mr. Francis Stiles shall teach George Chapple. Thomas Cooper and Thomas Barber, his ser- vants (apprentices) in the trade of carpenter, according to his promise for their term behind four days a week only to saw and slit their own work." Barber paid pew rent in 1659; contributed to fund for poor of other colonies June 11, 1676. He died September II, 1662. Children : 1. John, baptized July 24, 1642. 2. Thomas, born July 14, 1644. 3. Sarah, bap- tized July 19, 1646. 4. Samuel, baptized Oc- tober I, 1648. 5. Mary, baptized October 12, 1651 ; married Hale. 6. Josiah, born February 15, 1653.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Barber, was baptized October 1, 1648, and died at Wind- sor, March 12, 1708. He lived on the original homestead, which he bought of his brother John Barber in 1671. He married (first) De- cember 1, 1670, Mary Coggins, died May 19, 1676: (second) January 25, 1676-7, Ruth, daughter of John Drake. She died November 13, 1721. Barber owned the half-way cove- nant at Windsor, October 12, 1671 ; children of first wife: 1. Thomas, born October 7, 1671, died 1673. 2. Samuel, born January 26, 1673. Children of second wife: 3. John,
born January 25, 1676; mentioned below. 4. Hannah, born October 4, 1681. 5. Ruth, July 24, 1683. 6. Elizabeth, February 9, 1684; married Daniel Loomis. 7. David, May 12, 1686; married Hannah Post. 8. Joseph, 1688. 9. Sarah, August 2, 1698; married Stephen Palmer; (second) Phelps. IO. William, 1700; married Esther Brown. II. Benjamin, married, June 30, 1720, Hannah Lavis. 12. Midwell, died un- married, December 3, 1712. 13. Mary, mar- ried Peter Brown.
(III) John, son of Samuel Barber, was born January 25, 1676, in Windsor, Connecti- cut. He married, July 24, 1717, Jane Alford. Children, born at Windsor: I. John, June 19, 1718. 2. Jane, June 16, 1720; married David Thrall. 3. Naomi, January 27, 1721 ; married Daniel Barber. 4. Gideon, August 26, 1723; mentioned below. 5. Asahel, De- cember 6, 1725; died November 6, 1726. 6. Asahel, August 10, 1727 ; married Mary Col- lier, of Hartford. 7. Reuben, January 26, 1728 ; married Sarah Merriman. 8. Jerusha, September 26, 1730; married Jonah Barber. 9. David, March 31, 1733. 10. Noah, born May 8, 1735; married, October 28, 1761, Sybil Booth. II. Joel, October 22, 1736; married, November 23, 1758, Mary Drake. 12. Jerijah, 1738, baptized December 31, 1738. 13. Ruth, born November 10, 1740; married Titus Burr, of Bloomfield ; (second) Ebenezer Burr, of Bloomfield, Connecticut. (Joseph Barber (3), son of Samuel Barber (2), married Mary Loomis, May 6, 1708, and had son Joseph (4). January 28, 1708-9, who remained in Windsor. Joseph Barber (4). son of Joseph (3), was born in Windsor, and Joseph (5), son of Joseph (4), was born May 6, 1729, also in Windsor. We have found no proof that he went to Vermont.)
(IV) Gideon, son of John Barber, was born in Windsor, August 26, 1723 : married (first) November 9, 1744, Anna Gillett, at Windsor ; (second) August 17, 1760, Mary (Clark) Hos- kins. Barber lived in Windsor, where Wil- liam Shelton lived a generation or more ago (p. 52, Stiles's "Windsor," 2d. ed.). He re- moved to Vermont about 1770 and settled at Pownal. He was a soldier in Captain Gideon Ormsby's company, of Pownal, for one week in service in 1778, Colonel Warren's regi- ment (Vermont Rev. Rolls, p. 91). He died before the census of 1790, or left the state. Children : 1. Daniel, born June 15, 1745 : sol- dier in the revolution, from Vermont. 2. Shubael, September 8, 1747. 3. Joseplı, men-
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tioned below. (A child was baptized March 31, 1754.) 4. Anna, born March 27, 1751.
5. Tryphena, December, 1753. 6. Gideon, baptized July II, 1756. 7. Child, baptized May 13, 1759. 8. Naomi, baptized February 12, 1764. 9. Samuel, had two males over sixteen, one under, and four females, in his family.
(V) Sergeant Joseph, son of Gideon Bar- ber, was born about 1749. He was sergeant in the revolution, in Captain Eli Noble's company, Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's regiment, July, 1781 ; also sergeant in Cap- tain Benjamin Bates' company, from Pow- nal, October, 1781. In the census of 1790 he had two males over sixteen, four under, and four females, while his son Joseph Jr. also had a small family and lived next him.
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