Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 44

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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(VII) Henry Blake, son of Deacon Alvah Raymond, was born at East Weymouth, Jan- uary II, 1841, died there June 29, 1908. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and learned the trade of stitcher and fitter in the shoe factory there. He then worked with his father, and was a manufac- turer on a modest scale, and when his father retired he succeeded to the business and con- ducted it successfully. He retired some years before his death. He was a member and for a period of forty years was tyler of Orphans Hope Lodge of Free Masons, declining re- election in 1905 on account of ill health. Hc possessed the gift of music, and for many years often sang with his wife at church and at many other gatherings. He was an attend- ant of the Congregational church, and a mem- ber of the Temple of Honor for twenty-five years. He married, May 12 1865, Cemira A., born August 25, 1845, at South Weymouth, daughter of Daniel Lawton. Mrs. Raymond is an active church and temperance worker, and has contributed much by her activity and labors to promote the increase of total abstin- ence in the community. She has been a mem- ber of some temperance movement all her

life, from the age of nine years when she sang in Tremont Temple, Boston, with the Band of Hope. She has been a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union for twenty years, and was county president of Norfolk county eight years, superintendent of the Loyal Legion work for fifteen years, and declined that office longer, although urged to accept it. She has been especially zealous in teaching temperance to the children. She has also taught singing to children, has taught the primary class in the Sunday school, given concerts with the children for over twenty years, and in fact for nearly four decades has taken an active part in everything pertaining to the welfare of the children. Probably no one in this section has accomplished so much good along temperance lines as has Mrs. Ray- mond.

Thomas Lawton, or Laughton, grandfather of Mrs. Raymond, was born in Hallowell, Maine, and settled in Patten, Maine, where he took up various grants of land. He mar- ried Mary Adams, a native of Groton, Massa- chusetts, who died at Patten, aged ninety- five years. They had eleven children.

Daniel, son of Thomas Lawton or Laugh- ton, was born in Hallowell, Maine, 1820, died at East Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1861. He removed to Patten thence to Weymouth, where he was a shoemaker during his active life. He was a member of the Congregational church at Hallowell, Maine, also Methodist church of East Weymouth, and sang in the choir of both. He married Ann Maria Bur- rell, born at East Weymouth, died August 29, 1890, in her native town. Children: I. Cemira A., born August 25, 1845, married Henry Blake Raymond mentioned above. 2. Maria A., born at Boston, 1850, married Henry H. Burrell, of Whitman Massachusetts. 3. Emma F., born Boston, 1855, married S. E. Burrell, of Brockton, Massachusetts.

More than a hundred years GANTER ago the Ganter family came from the Black Forest section of Baden and settled in the little town of Kenzingen on the banks of the Eltz river, some fifteen miles north-northwest of Frei- burg; and here they lived and have led the lives of good citizens ever since, being by occupation farmers. The Ganter family comes of a long line of representative Ger- mans whose self-sustaining qualifications made them worthy citizens in every com- munity where they resided. They were affili-

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ated for a great many years with the Lutheran church.

(1) Jacob Ganter, the eldest of five chil- dren, two sons and three daughters, was born in Kenzingen, Baden, Germany, about 1810, his father having come there from the Black Forest regions, and the two generations were successful tillers of the soil for many years. His father died at the age of sixty-five, and his mother at the age of sixty. In early life he gave his attention to farming, but was cut short in the prime of life dying in 1850, at the age of forty. He married, in his native town, Amelia Lieneman, born in Kenzingen, Baden, August 27, 1821. She survived her husband, and conducted the farm until her death in

December, 1895. Children: I. Child, died young. 2. Frank, born February 21, 1845, mentioned below 3: Elizabeth October 21, 1849, married, in Kenzingen, Carl Gulat, a native of the town. who became proprietor of the leading hotel, noted as a resort called "Rebstock" for more than a hundred years ; Mr. Gulat was known as a famous landlord and died there in March, 1899, and his widow survives him; children: Frank Gulat, came to the United States and resides on Danforth street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and has twice married and has three children; one other son and three daughters.

(II) Frank, son of Jacob Ganter, was born in Kenzingen, Baden, Germany, February 21, 1845. He received a good education in the schools of his native town and some instruc- tion in the trade schools. He was a butcher by occupation, and ambitious to make the most of life. Learning of the opportunities for the young man in America, he decided to try his fortunes in a new land. He went to Boston, Massachusetts, and established himself in Roxbury. Being without other employment at first, he found work as a fresco painter and succeeded in a remarkable degree. He had never learned the trade, but was naturally of an artistic temperament, and his employer in- formed him that any lack of experience he had was made up by his natural ability. He worked for two months as a painter. At last he saw an opportunity to start in business, and September 28, 1872, opened a meat store on Boylston street, near Boylston station, Jamaica Plain. He succeeded so well that after three years he purchased a place at 187 Lamartine street, near the location of his first store. By attending strictly to business and by using honest methods he increased his trade and accumulated enough to build. In iii-32

1886 he built a fine substantial brick block upon his property, which is a credit to the business section. His business steadily pros- pered and at last he placed it in the hands of his son and retired from active work. He purchased a beautiful home at 39 Burroughs street, not far from Jamaica pond, and here he enjoys a well-earned rest. In 1891 Mr. Ganter visited his old home in Germany, mak- ing a visit of three months. He went again in 1898 and took his family, traveling for three months through Switzerland, France and Germany. Mr. Ganter is a man who has the respect of all his townsmen, and one who has taken an interest in the advancement of the community and of all that tends to better it. He is greatly interested in charities, and has always contributed liberally to all worthy objects and religious work. He married, May 4, 1875, Margaretha Dorothea Theresa Carsten- sen (see Carstensen III). Her mother, who was born September 26, 1823, makes her home with her daughter, and is still active, despite her years. Children : I. Child, died young. 2. Frank William, born October 28, 1876, succeeded to his father's business as a meat and produce dealer ; married Elizabeth Down- ing, of Maine. 3. Katherine, Februarry 14, 1878, married Jacob Helt, a successful com- mercial traveler in Boston, and had Dorothea Helt, born September 1, 1907. 4. Carl Emil, December 7, 1886, graduate of high school; unmarried, lives at home.

(The Carstensen Line).

The Carstensen family is of ancient German origin, tracing their ancestry back to the four- teenth century, to ancestors of noble birth. The family has always been prominent and held important positions under the govern- ment.

(I) Hans Carstensen lived in the northern part of Schleswig Holstein, province of Prus- sia, Germany, and was the owner of one of the largest and finest estates in the province. He married Margaretha Dorothea Petersen, who died in 1866, aged eighty-two. They had an only son, Claus Peter, mentioned below.

(II) Claus Peter, son of Hans Carstensen, was born in Schleswig Holstein in 1819. He received a good education and in 1838, at the early age of nineteen, married Katherine Mar- garetha Detlefsen, the handsome daughter of a neighboring land owner. The wedding was celebrated with much ceremony, the festivities lasting three days. He inherited his father's fine estate. He was a volunteer in the war

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with Denmark in 1848, and not being willing to accept the Danish rule was forced with others to flee, going to Panama. He lost his life the next year, at the age of thirty, from exposure, and his estate was confiscated with the exception of a small portion sufficient to provide a home for his widow and children and his old mother until 1864, when Schleswig Holstein again reverted to Germany. The Danish language had been used in the church and schools, and his mother, not willing to have her son's children learn the Danish tongue, had private tutors for them, and they were confirmed in the German Lutheran church. The children were: I. Hans Lud- wig, now a prominent coal dealer in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. 2. Ferdinand, deceased. 3. Theodore, deceased. 4. William Lawrence, now lives in Boston. 5. Margaretha Dor- othea Theresa, mentioned below.

(III) Margaretha Dorothea Theresa, only daughter of Claus Peter Carstensen was born in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, October 21, 1848. She received her education in private schools and under private tutors. During the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, she lost her betrothed. The following year she and her mother went to Boston to visit her brothers, who were in business there. The visit was prolonged and May 4, 1875, she married Frank Ganter, of Boston (see Ganter II).

VINTON The revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a pernicious meas- ure for France, but it gave to America a valuable addition to its citizenry, the Bayards of Delaware, Chief Justice John Jay, the Bowdoins, the Dannas and Peter Faneuil, of Massachusetts, and Harry Lau- rens, of North Carolina. The part these played in the development of our political and judicial history is a no inconsiderable one The Vin- tons were another of the Huguenot stock who came over to America from sunny France to escape persecution for religion's sake. Vin- ton is a name rooted deeply in the geography of Britain. There is a Venton in Cornwall, a Winton in Suffolk and Allwinton in North- umberland. Vinton, Venton and Winton were convertible terms. Vinton Latinized was Wintonia as the Latins have no W and that was the Roman name of Winchester or Win- chestre. The monks changed it to Wintan. Wint or vint comes from went, Celtic for river. There was a Peter de Wintonia in England in 1275 and a Johanas de Wintonia in 1306. In France the name was Vintonne

and there was a Petrius de Vintonne in Rheims in 1326. In view of finding this as a geographical and family name in England some authorities assert that the family were originally attached to the soil of Britain as Celts, that they crossed the channel to France at some indefinite period and recrossed to England again. The family anyway are of great antiquity, being traceable in its elements . back to the time of Christ. John Vinton, of Lynn, was undoubtedly a Frenchman who did not speak English very well, and a Hugue- not refugee. He named his son Blaise and no true Englishman would so name his son with the bitterness then existing between the two countries. If his ancestors way back came from England, as no doubt they did, the name had become Gallicized and the family in habits and thoughts were decidedly French.

(I) John Vinton was in Lynn, Massa- chusttts, in 1648, when he had a child born. The next mention of him was in 1649 when he was fined five shillings in court for scold- ing a neighbor. This is nothing to his dispar- agement. Men were often arbitrarily punished for no offence at all in those old "blue law" times. Trivial matters that would be passed over as of no account were subject to severe penalty. John was quick natured, due to his warm Huguenot blood, and was probably glib of tongue. He could not speak the Eng- lish language, nor could he understand readily what was said to him and was in consequence imposed upon in some trade or he fancied that some of his rights were being infringed upon. This may have caused the eruption between him and his neighbors. There is an clevation in Lynn called Vinton hill and it was likely named after our ancestor. It is by some thought that John moved to Malden later in life. The forename of his wife was Ann. Their children: Eleanor, born in 1648; John, mentioned in this sketch; William, April, 1652; Blaise, April 22, 1654; Ann, April 4, 1656; Elizabeth, January, 1657; Sarah, Sep- tember 16, 1662.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) and Ann Vinton, was born in Lynn, March 2, 1650, died in Woburn, Massachusetts, November 13, 1727. He went to Malden in 1677. He was a "forgeman," a worker in iron. He was a man of capacity and energy and acquired quite a little property, holding a good position in society. In 1695 he bought land in Woburn consisting of orchard, arable and pasture. Also meadow lands and upland lying on both sides of the Mystic river, also twenty acres

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of woodland, also a mansion house and gar- den, also one-eighth of a saw-mill, also an- other parcel at Charlestown End, now Stone- ham. This indicates that he was a heavy land holder. He lived on the Mystic river, near Stoneham line and was near where Deacon Stephen Richardson's saw-mill and residence afterwards were. John is supposed to have lived in Braintree for a while. His name ap- pears in real estate transactions as follows : April 9, 1709, he bought land in Woburn of Isaac Richardson in consideration of six shil- lings. July 19, 1709, he bought of Nathaniel Richardson for fifteen pounds meadow and upland in Woburn. Same date is a quitclaim deed between Nathaniel and Benjamin Rich- ardson and John Vinton, "having had dif- ferences and contests and contentions con- cerning some certain parcels of lands now in their possessions and improvement and the said Nathaniel Richardson and John Vinton claim by virtue of a purchase from Jonathan Richardson et als, and while the said Benjamin Richardson by virtue of the last will of his honored father. Now to put an end to their differences the aforesaid parties severally re- lease and quitclaim to each other the lands severally in each others possession." John's will was dated January 15, 1721, and his son John administered. The inventory was one hundred and fourteen pounds. He married, August 26, 1677, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Green, of Malden. She was born February 24, 1659, died in 1741. Her will was dated April 21, 1729, and proved November 23, 1741, her son Thomas admin- istering. Their children were: John, men- tioned in this sketch; Hannah, born January 26, 1681; Rebecca, March 26, 1683; Thomas, July 31, 1686; Mary, August 20, 1689, died young ; Mary, January 2, 1692; Samuel, May 3, 1695 ; Abiathar, May 10, 1700.

(III) Captain John (3), eldest son of John (2) and Hannah (Green) Vinton, was born in Woburn in 1680, died in Dudley, Massa- chusetts, 1760. He was an active trader in real estate, there are over thirty real estate transactions in which he was interested on the Middlesex records. He resided within the present limits of Stoneham, then called Charlestown End, and his house was situated on the old road to Boston, near the outlet of Spot pond, and near the present village of Wyoming. When Stoneham was incorpor- ated the usual order from the general court was addressed to John Vinton as the prin- cipal inhabitant directing him to issue a war-

rant for the first town meeting. He advanced more money and did more than any other man for the chartering of the borough. He was on the first board of selectmen and held the office for the years 1726-27-31-34-35. He was moderator for a long time and was very often employed on public business and placed by his townsmen on all important committees. He was on the committee to build a meeting house, to select a site, also to procure a min- ister. He represented the town in the general court of 1734. He was the highest taxpayer in town and lieutenant of the trainband in 1720 and made captain in 1723. He was com- missioned a justice of the peace in 1734, and in March of that year was received into full communion in the church, November 20, 1738, he sold for two thousand five hundred and fifty pounds his farm of two hundred and seventy acres in Stoneham, where he had lived so long, where his children were born and some of them buried and also the mother of his children. He turned his back on all these associations, penetrating into the wil- derness in search of a new home, locating in what is now Dudley in Worcester county. It required a good deal of courage the sundering of so many ties and the loosening of the "silver chords of affection," to thus break away ; for he was getting old. The object of this move was to give his children a better chance in the world where land was cheaper. He bought of James Allen, of Boston, nine hundred acres in the new settlement. His abilities were soon recognized in his new abode, and in 1745 he was made moderator and again in 1749. In 1740 he was sent to Boston to address the general court to see if the province tax and fine could be abated. He continued to deal in land and we find his name in the Worcester records several times. In 1741 he seems to have mortgaged a portion of his Dudley possessions to James Bowdoin, of Boston. Whether reverses had overtaken the captain in his old age we do not know. Captain Vinton was a man of great ability and energy, a leader of men and affairs wher- ever his lot was cast. He was one of the town builders and founder of an enterprising race who inherited many of his manly qualities. He wrote a fair legible hand and this was quite an accomplishment in an age when few could write their name. He died intestate and the appraisal of his personalty was ninety- one pounds. He was thrice married. First to Abigail, daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Wyman) Richardson, and granddaughter of

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Samuel, one of the original settlers of Woburn. She died at Charlestown End and was the mother of nine children. Second to Abigail, daughter of Major James Converse, an officer of distinguished merit and reputa- tion in the Indian wars. She was but fifteen when Captain Vinton married her and he was forty. She died in Dudley. Third to Han- nah, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Rich- ardson, of Woburn, and relict of Timothy Baldwin, who was the ancestor of that Bald- win who grew the famous apple of the name. Children: Abigail, born December 28, 1704: John, June 26, 1706; Hannah, March 9, 1707; Mary, August 15, 1709; Melatiah, October 29, 1711; Joseph, July 24, 1714; Rebecca, March 15, 1716; Thomas, 1717; and Benoni, June 12, 1720. Children by Abigail Converse: Joshua, mentioned in this sketch, and Phebe, May 24, 1724.

(IV) Joshua, son of Captain John (3) and Abigail (Converse) Vinton, was born in Stone- ham, January 5, 1722, died in Dudley in 1772. He accompanied his father to Dudley in 1738, then a lad of sixteen. He died intestate, and the appraisal amounted to one thousand nine hundred and seventeen pounds, his widow Mehitable administering. He married Mary (Polly) -, of Dudley, in 1751, and (sec- ond) Mehitable Edmunds, of Dudley, April 23, 1762. Children: Mary, born December 29, 1751 ; Joshua, September 5, 1753; Abigail, October 13, 1755. His children by the second union were: Jabez, January 3, 1763: Sus- anna, August 23, 1764; Ebenezer, mentioned in this sketch: Patience, September 27, 1767; and Lucretia.

(V) Ebenezer, son of Joshua Vinton, born January 3, 1766, at Dudley, Massachusetts, removed to Wardsboro from Dudley ; he mar- ried and had a son Joshua Bliss, mentioned in this sketch.

(VI) Joshua Bliss, son of Ebenezer Vin- ton, was born in Wardsboro, Windham county, Vermont, March 16, 1798, died in Northampton, Massachusetts, May 21, 1869. He worked on a farm at fifteen years of age for $5.50 a month. He came to Springfield in 1824 and entered the employ of Moses Chapman who then kept the Exchange Hotel. In 1826 he conducted the hotel in Brimfield built in 1808, and afterwards went to North- ampton as clerk in Warner's Coffee House, which property he purchased in 1831 and was its proprietor until 1840. That year he came to Springfield and bought the Hampden House. In the spring of 1842 he went to

Brooklyn, New York, and was engaged as a broker in Wall street. He later returned to Springfield and retired from business with a handsome fortune. He was one of the first directors of the Agawam Bank. Mr. Vinton gave $4,000 to the building fund of the Church of Unity. The course of his long life of un- tiring industry was regulated and controlled by manly uprightness and staunch integrity. Mr. Vinton was universally respected and his death widely and deeply regretted. He mar- ried Mary Ewell, of Chesterfield, Massa- chusetts. They had two sons: I. Edward Bliss, born August 21, 1833. 2. Charles Ewell, born December 9, 1838, died January 28, 1883. He married Phebe Adams, and they had two daughters: Mrs. Frank R. Mac- kenzie, who resides on a beautiful estate on Franklin street, and Mary Alice, died at twenty-one years of age.

Patrick Broderick was

BRODERICK was born in the town of Athlone, county Roscom- mon, Ireland, of an ancient and respectable Irish family. He received a limited educa- tion, and learned the trade of mason in his native parish. In the forties, when famine- struck Ireland poured a great host to the shores of America, he came with his wife Bridget and young children. He located in Jamaica Plain, now part of Boston, and fol- lowed his trade. He soon engaged in business on his own account as a mason and con- tractor. He was a good mechanic, a prudent, careful man of business, energetic and pro- gressive. He accumulated by his industry and providence a comfortable fortune for his day. He lived at Jamaica Plain the remainder of his life, and was more than eighty years old when he died in 1902. His wife died there in 1893, at the age of sixty-five years. Both were prominent members of the Catholic church, active in good works and generous in the support of the church and in charity. In politics he was a Democrat. Children : I. Thomas F., mentioned below. 2. Patrick Jr., a resident and business man of Lynn, Massa- chusetts. 3. Bridget, died unmarried.

(II) Thomas F., son of Patrick Broderick, was born at Athlone, county Roscommon. Ireland, and came when a young child to New England with his parents. He was educated in the public schools at Jamaica Plain, and learned his father's trade. In early life he became a contractor, beginning in a small way and increasing the extent of his work year by

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year. He has built many brick buildings in Bos- ton, including a large Roman Catholic church on Ashland street, Roslindale ; public school buildings ; extensive sewer work for city and state ; large sea-walls and much railroad con- struction. He occupies a substantial residence which he built some years ago on Custer street, Jamaica Plain. He has prospered in business and is one of the substantial citizens of Boston, of wide influence and highly esteemed. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a prominent parishioner of St. Thomas's Catholic Church. He married Katherine A. Dolan, born in West Roxbury, now part of Boston, daughter of Peter and Ellen ( Dolan) Dolan. Her parents came to the United States in the fifties, both being natives of Ire- land, and made their home in West Roxbury. Her father was also a mason and contractor and he has been in active business in that sec- tion to the present time. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Broderick: 1. Dr. Francis P., born March 26, 1875, mentioned below. 2. John H., educated in the public schools of Boston and associated in business with his father. 3. Mabel, died at the age of seventeen, an at- tractive and promising young woman. 4. Agnes, married William J. O'Brien, book- keeper in a Boston concern. 5. Thomas F. Jr., graduate of the Yale Medical School in the class of 1908, now on the staff of the Car- ney Hospital, Boston, a proficient student and a capable physician and surgeon. 6. Kath- erine, resides at home with her parents. 7. Josephine, resides with her parents, student in the high school.

(III) Dr. Francis P .. son of Thomas F Broderick, was born at Jamaica Plain, Bos- ton, March 26, 1875. He attended the public schools of Boston and graduated from the high school. He was a student for several years in Boston College, then deciding to study medicine entered Yale Medical School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1898 with the degree of M. D. He was an apt student and took high rank in school and col- lege. He went abroad and studied at Saint Thomas Hospital, London, England; at the City Hospital, Paris, where his excellent knowledge of the French language proved of great value to him, and finally at the Uni- versity of Berlin, Germany. He returned to Boston in 1901, and began to practice his profession. His office was on South street, Jamaica Plain, afterward in a house that he purchased at the corner of Custer and South streets in the same locality. He has acquired

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 44

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

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